//------------------------------// // Chapter 5 // Story: Cutie Mark Powerpuff Ponies! // by RainbowDangerDash97 //------------------------------// "We've done everything we could, Twi!" Rainbow reported. "But we still don't know the cause of this hay fever thingy. Lend a hoof?" "Three weeks of hard work, and STILL we haven't found ANYTHING!" Twilight cried out. She sighed and said, "We'll never cure the Cutie Mark Crusaders now." "But Twilight," Rarity whined complained. "There HAS to be an explanation, darling!" "I dunno," Scootaloo said, staring at her lumps which were supposed to be hands. "We kinda got used to being humans though." "Scootaloo?!" Pinkie Pie shrieked. "So you LIKE being a freaky bug-eyed freakity-freak?" "We're not freaks," Apple Bloom argued. "We just miss bein' ponies - give us some space, alrahght?" Sweetie Belle groaned, "Second that." "Don't worry, girls! Maybe Doctor Colgate can fix that up!" Pinkie Pie giggled. "Besides - you look funny. No offence!" Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom crossed their arms, staring at her, looking offended. "Come on, everypony! Cheer up!" Pinkie Pie cried out. "Auntie Pinkie has it all taken care of!" "Auntie?" Sweetie Belle asked, in confusion. "Unless my dad married her sister," Scootaloo added. The girls burst out laughing. "Come on, girls! Your fate lies on Doctor Colgate's hooves," Twilight cried out. ----- "What the hay?" Apple Bloom asked, as the doctor examined her. "Listen, girls," Colgate said, a little nervously. "I don't do diseases? I do teeth. I have NO idea what this thing is, or how this thing even came to Equestria. I'm sorry." "But - but --!" Scootaloo protested. "I'm sorry," Colgate confessed. "I'm a dentist. You - have to live with it." Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom bolted out of the room, in despair. Twilight rushed after them. "Uh...bills?" Colgate asked, her hoof out. "You didn't tell me anything about them," Twilight argued, running past her. "I DID tell you it's incurable," Colgate replied. "WHATEVER!!! Take it, " Twilight said. "Four bits." She dashed away, before Colgate could shout, "It's five bits!" ----- Diamond Tiara burst out laughing at the sight of the three girls. Unlike the others, she wasn't at all laughing for fun. She was laughing - out of scorn. "So, Blank Flanks? Is morphing your cutie mark?" she asked. Sweetie Belle glared at them, "What's your cutie mark, huh?" "Yeah, you're good at wearing a tiara. Is that even a talent? And Silver Spoon's good at being rich," Scootaloo joined in. The new flaws her humanization gave her, the new anger, made her kick Diamond. The filly flew to the other end of the wall, bashing against it. "Cheerileeeeee!" Diamond said, trying not to let her tears fall - and make a laughing stock of her. The mare came over at once. "What's wrong, fillies?" she asked, before gasping and screaming. Apple Bloom, at the speed of light, zoomed behind a chair, her trail of faint yellow giving her away. Scootaloo, at the same time, did the same thing, only behind a desk. Sweetie Belle just grinned nervously, waved, and only THEN did she copy Apple Bloom. "What are these things?" Cheerilee asked. "Who's responsible for bringing them here?" Apple Bloom confessed, "Us. Ah'm Apple Bloom! Ah..Ah drank a potion back at Zecora's...and Ah guess Ah mahght have turned human?" "Yeah, we're awfully sorry for giving you a fright, teacher," Scootaloo said. "We won't do it again!" Sweetie Belle cried out. Apple Bloom added, "If we ever turn back into Ponies." The three sighed. "HaHA!" Diamond sneered, her nose stuck up. "Why - you little!" Apple Bloom shouted. She glared at Diamond, and quite surprisingly - a red laser came out of it! Diamond screamed, as she was hit by the laser. She flew back, furious. She threw her pencils and erasers at Apple Bloom. "Nopony hits my friend!" Sweetie Belle super-screamed, "Take THIS!!!!" She clapped her hands, and a huge tonado came out of it, nearly taking the top off the school. "Girls?" Cheerilee asked. The fighting continued, from tonadoes to ice breath to laser visions, and whatnot. "Girls!" Cheerilee muttered. "GIRLS!!!!!" she screamed. The fillies stopped fighting. "We're sorry, Cheerilee! We can't help it. Twilight said that humans have fiery desires, weak minds, and less love and tolerance. It's not our fault we became them," Sweetie Belle said. "I understand, girls. But what did I say about fighting in the classroom?" their teacher asked. "Uh...well..." Apple Bloom said. She turned to face her teacher. "But Diamond Tiara! SHE --" "Now, now, Apple Bloom," Cheerilee said. "We've been given super powers," Scootaloo replied. "You have to tame then, girls," Cheerilee scolded. "And until then, you must not use them again." "But --" Sweetie Belle protested. "No buts," Cheerilee answered. "It's who we are!" Scootaloo argued. "We can't change that." "No, but you can stop that," Cheerilee replied. "Let's - call it a day." The fillies and colts cheered, and threw their pencils in the air. ---- "What are we gonna do?" Apple Bloom asked Twilight, later that day. "We can't even Cutie Mark Crusade anymore. We're humans!" "That's easy!" Rainbow contributed. "Use your super powers!" The CMC gulped. Where did SHE learn about their powers? "We don't have any." "Fiddlesticks," Granny Smith laughed. "Ah could've sworn Ah saw that tornado." "That wasn't us," Sweetie Belle lied. "We..uh.." She crawled to Apple Bloom and asked, "Any ideas?" "Oh, you must mean that stimulator," Apple Bloom cried out. "Uh...Cheerilee showed us it a few minutes ago." "It's a weather stimu-la-stimuatur - whatever. It generates weather," Scootaloo added. "You're not alone," a voice said, from behind them, at the doorway of the library. "G?" Rainbow asked, eyes exploding. "You're not human too, now, aren't ya?" "It sucks," Gilda growled. "Whyddya wanna know? At least I'm not a stupid lame-o like you all are." Beside her, were Lyra, Derpy, Colgate, and Pinkie Pie - all Powerpuffs. Twilight gasped. "Pinkie? What's happen to you?" she asked. "Same thing what's happen to them!" Pinkie Pie squealed. "It's contagious!" Twilight screamed. "Princess, can you hear me?" Princess Celestia confessed "I - I've never known such a disease, in all my life. I'm sorry, Twilight." "But -- do you mean --?" Twilight asked. "Yes," Celestia replied. "Your friends are doomed."