It was a wonderful day in Ponyville. The shun was shining, the sky was clear, and the bell for the final lesson of school finally rang.
"Ok, children, I hope you all have a good weekend, and remember to do your homework." Ms Cheerilee said to her students.
"Nice weekend miss Cheerilee!" Shouted three fillies cheerfully. The cmc were planning on definitely getting their cutie marks today, and nothing would stop them… Or so they thought.
"Ok gals, what are we gonna do this time?" Applebloom asked.
"Well first we have to visit Rainbow Dash." Scootaloo said.
"Not this again." Applebloom sighed.
"Ugh girls… I don't think we're going anywhere today." Sweetie Belle said.
"Why?" Asked Scootaloo.
"Look!" Sweetie Belle pointed at the center of the town, where almost every single building had a hole.
Flying through those holes,and making more of them, was a pitch-black colt with a short withe mane that looked like a hedgehog's spikes. However as they looked closer they could see that this was no ordinary colt. He had bat-wings, fangs that could be seen in his grin,red cat-like eyes, and a tiny horn on his forehead shaped like a hook upwards, kinda like King Sombra's.
"Stop doing this, or we will have to use force to prevent you from damaging Ponyvile even more!" A Pegasus stallion said while pursuing the foal. He had some friends trying to help him, but the colt always managed to escape.
"Force? HAH! Don't make me laugh! I'm the spirit of destruction, Deep Fear! And I'm as strong as you guys, plus I can do this!" The colt suddenly teleported himself behind the stallion and kicked him in the back.
"Ahahahaha! Well, I'm tired anyway. See ya tomorrow suckers!" Deep Fear laughed and flew into the Everfree forest.
The crusaders couldn't do anything except stare, until they finally managed to talk.
"What just happened?" Scootaloo asked.
"I don't know, but I'm glad it's over." Said Sweetie Belle.
"Do you think he would be interested in joining our club?" Apple Bloom asked.
"What?!" The other two crusaders yelled in shock.
"Well, he doesn't have a cutie mark, so I thought he would like to be a member." Apple Bloom said.
"Ehem eh. Ok Apple Bloom. You are my best friend but… Your nuts! That colt alms destroyed half of ponyville! Why would you ever want him to join us?!" Sweetie Belle yelled.
"Well, maybe he had a good reason." Apple Bloom answered.
"Like what?"
"Like ehm. eh…" Apple Bloom couldn't come up with a good answer.
"Thought so. Well, Guess we'll have to come up with new plans to get our cutie marks." Sweetie Belle said.
"Hey, how about we help in repairing the damage?" Scootalo suggested.
"Thats a great idea!" Apple Bloom said.
"So, first we go to Rainbow Dash and-"
"NO!" Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle shouted at the same time.
"Ok, ok… Geez." Scootaloo said.
"Alright! Hey mister! We wanna help repairing Ponyville!" Apple Bloom said to a stallion repairing one of the holes.
"Oh. Well, this might just be a little to much for you kids, but I know where you could help. Go to Fluttershy's cottage.
There you can help." The stallion responded and in no time the girls were at fluttershys cottage.
"Hey Fluttershy!" Apple Bloom greeted the shy pegasus cheerfully.
"Oh. Hello girls. What are you here for?" Fluttershy asked when she saw the crusaders.
"We're here to help you with the damage caused by the colt. What did he do here?" Apple Bloom asked, noticing the cottage was in no way damaged.
"Oh, that little brute. Look, I was planting some flowers in my garden and he suddenly appeared out of nowhere and ripped them apart." Fluttershy complained.
"Well… Shall we start with our duty girls?" The yellow filly said.
"Of course! Let's get this party started!" The other two crusaders answered.
"Good. We only need to fill the holes with these seeds. They're not as pretty as the ones I picked up, but they'll do it. Please do it while I calm down Angel. He got really scared during the attack." Fluttershy said softly and entered her cottage.
It wasn't long before the girls were done and looked at their flanks. Still nothing.
"Well, this isn't something hard to do anyway. We shouldn't have expected to get our cutie marks that easily." Sweetie Belle said.
"Yeah, that's true. What do you wanna try now girls?" Scootaloo asked.
"Actually I have to go home and help my sister with the apples." Apple Bloom said.
"And I have to go to Button's place. We're gonna play a new video game he bought." Sweetie said.
"Well, I guess I'll go home too then. Bye girls." Scootaloo said.
"Bye." The others replied.
*the next day*
It was another beautiful day in Ponyville. All the damage had been repaired. And a certain pink pony was preparing a party for a certain purple pony. No, it's not Twilight! It's Cheerilee. It was the local teacher's birthday, and as always it was Pinkie Pie who arranged everything for the celebration. However suddenly her front hoof punched her face.
"Oh no… Hitting myself… The Everfree forest is going to catch fire!" Pinkie yelled to herself and went to get all of her friends. After she got all of her friends, AND Cheerilee so she wouldn't see the surprise party, the 7 mares entered the forest, which already had smoke coming out of it. They followed the smoke and found the fire, which was fortunately small and near the river. However there were a lot of animals running away and many trees were burned out. In the end though, with the combined help of the pegasi making it rain, the unicorns to make waterfalls they managed to extinguish the fire, and the earth ponies removed some trees that had fallen over during the fire.
Suddenly something caught their attention: A group of squirrels had gathered around an especially thick tree trunk. They were all looking at something.
"I wonder what they're looking at." Pinkie said, and the mares went to look at the sight. What they saw made all of them gasp in shock: The black colt from the day day before wa stuck under that tree. next to him were a dead bird and a bird's nest filled with three eggs. T
he odd thing was, the colt seemed to have PROTECTED the nest and the eggs from being crushed during the fire. He had burning marks all over his body. He made a face of extreme pain and looked like he was about to pass out, which was understandable. After all there was a tree crushing him. In fact the surprising thin was that he was still alive.
"Hey isn't that the colt who went on a rampage yesterday?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Who cares?! We need to take him to a hospital!" Cheerilee shouted.
"I don't know sugar cube. He damaged a lot of my my apple trees and stole some apples. And you know the damage he caused in the rest of Ponyville." Applejack said.
"No, Cheerilee is right. We need to take him to the doctor. He is just a foal after all, no matter how much damage he caused." Fluttershy replied.
"I just hope his statement about being 'the spirit of destruction' is a lie." Twilight said.
The mares took of and just as they were about to exit the forest they met Zecora.
"Well If it isn't my friends here, carrying a foal, whose fur and ways to help are dark as coal." The zebra said.
"Oh, hey Zecora. What do you mean 'ways of help black as oal'?" Twilight asked.
"Oh, you don't know? All he does is to help but his good intentions he doesn't want to show." Zecora answered.
"What do you mean? All he did was cause damage to Ponyville and tear apart my newfound flowers." Fluttershy said.
"New flowers you say? Were those flowers the color of the first light of the day? And did the petals have shape of a ripe grape?" Zecora asked.
"Yes. Why do you ask?"
"Those flowers were filled with poison for your plants. If you had them bloom, they would have killed even the ants." Zecora said.
"Oh my. I had no idea!" Fluttershy 'exclaimed' horrified.
"Well, everything turned out alright darling. Well, Zecora, we would like to talk to you a little more, but we gotta take this colt and this nest somewhere to take care of." Rarity said.
"Oh right! The nest! What shall we do with it?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"Oh, don't worry girls. I can take care of those eggs." Fluttershy said.
"Alright. Everything is ok then. Well, bye Zecora!" Twilight said, and the girls went on towards the hospital. They finally arrived and had Deep Fear hospitalized, who had passed out right after having the tree lifted of his body.