//------------------------------// // Enter of cutie mark crusaders // Story: Small Little Twilight // by SunshineNightfall //------------------------------// "Where in Equestria did she go? She was right in front of us just a minute ago." Rainbow Dash said. "She's a smart filly. I got to hand her that." Applejack said. "Now she could be anywhere. In the lake, eating a cupcake, snowboarding, *gasp* What if she went to mainhatten?" Asked Pinkie Pie. "Why would she go to mainhatten?" asked Fluttershy. "I know a really cool disco club there." Pinkie said. "Focus girls. We need to find Twilight." Celestia said. "I found her." said Pinkie. "What? Where is she?" Celestia asked. "She on top of that house with SweetieBell, AppleBloom, and Scootaloo." Pinkie said pointing at the top of the house. "What are you fillies doing up there?! Get down before you hurt yourself!" Applejack yelled. The three fillies just gave a slight giggle. Rainbow Dash flew up to get them but when she got there she saw that they were all holding pies in their hooves. Before she had time to react on of them yelled 'fire!' and they threw their pies at her making her lose control and fall. The four fillies started to laugh and Twilight quickly teleported them out of there. "Are you alright Rainbow?" asked Fluttershy. Rainbow just muttered something between the line 'dumb pranks' and 'get them back'. "This has gone too far. Now our sisters are pulling pranks too." Rarity said. "Princess, do you happen to know any favorite pranks Twilight likes doing? Maybe it can help us catch them." The princess thought for a second. "Actually, Twilight did really like water pranks. She would do most of her pranks near a lake or pond or anything that had a lot of water." She said. "Maybe she's at the lake." Pinkie suggested. "But what if she already set something up?" asked Fluttershy. "I say we send somepony to go first. That way when they're planning her prank the rest of us can catch them." Rainbow said. "Who would go be the be the bait?" asked Celestia. "Oh oh oh I will! I will!" Pinkie said. "You wouldn't care about getting pranked?" asked AppleJack. "It's just a prank. You have to learn to laugh at it not get mad at it." Pinkie said. "Don't you remember when me and Rainbow were pulling pranks on everypony? We just did it for a laugh, we didn't hurt anypony." "I guess you're right." Applejack said. "But it did take we a while to get all the apples clean though. How did you two manage to do that so fast anyway?" "I can't reveal our tricks silly." Pinkie said. "Let's get back on topic. Pinkie Pie, go ahead and go to the lake to see if they're there." Celestia said. "Oki doky loki!" Pinkie cheered as she skipped to the lake. She started to look around to see if they were there but didn't see anything. "The cost is clear" She said. She started bouncing back over to her friends, but before she reached them she saw a swing going towards her knocking her into the lake. Up on top of the tree you could hear the laughter of four fillies. Rainbow Dash tried catching them again but they teleported fast and the only one she caught before they did teleport away was scootaloo. She flew back down with the filly in her hooves and placed her down in front of her. Scootaloo looked around around and saw she was surrounded by very mad ponies. She gave a nervous laugh but then looked at the ground. "Why are you three pulling pranks with Twilight?! Do you know how hard it is just to catch her?!" asked an angry Rainbow. "Well, we saw Twilight when she was running away from you guys. We wanted to know what was going on so we help her get away. Then we started talking and we got to the point of seeing who could pull of the best prank." Scootaloo said. "So you four just decided that pulling pranks is the right idea?" Applejack asked. "um...yes?" said Scootaloo. "Well it wasn't nice of you to play pranks on us when we're trying to catch somepony. Even if they were kind of funny." Pinkie said. "Especially the Rainbow Pie one." "That one was my prank." Said Scootaloo with a proud smile but it soon disappeared when Rainbow gave her a disapproving look. "Do you know where they were going next ?" asked Princess Celestia. "umm...well...i'm not really supposed to say." Scootaloo said. "Squirt, if you don't talk I guess i'm going to have to let your mom know about what you've been up to." Rainbow said. Scootaloo eyes widened. "ok ok, they went to Rarity's shop." Scootaloo said. "What?!" Rarity yelled and started running to her shop. "What prank are they going to pull over there?" asked Rainbow Dash. "I don't know. But Sweetie Bell said that is was going to be really funny." Scootaloo said. "How do you not know what pranks their pulling? You were all together?" asked Rainbow. "But we don't really know what pranks we're going to pull. We just help each other. It's a contest. I didn't tell them what my prank was, I just told them what to do. And Twilight comes with us to teleport us out." Scootaloo said. "What, how does Twilight managed to teleport them all away? I've never seen a filly do that." Applejack said. "They can't. But Twilight is still an Alicorn. An Alicorn's magic is much more powerful than any unicorn's. Even a filly Alicorn." Celestia said. "Then we should be heading to help Rarity and catch them." Applejack said. "You guys go. I'm going to go take squirt home and catch up." Rainbow Dash said picking Scootaloo up and placing her on her back before flying off. They rest of them made their way to Rarity's shop to go and help her out. When they got to Rarity's shop and opened the door the first thing that they noticed was that all her clothes were gone. Then a very agree Rarity came down stairs holding a Sweetiebell. "What happened in here?!" Pinkie Pie asked. Rarity put Sweety down and gave her a death glare. Sweetie just tried to hide in a small ball and trying to avoid her sister's gaze. "That is what i'd like to know. Sweetie bell care to explain?" Rarity asked. "Um, not really..." "SweetieBell!" "ok ok ok. I hide all your clothes wear you couldn't see them to see how long it takes you to find them." Sweetie said. "But you came home to early." "Wear are my designs?" asked Rarity. "Their outside in the bushes." SweetieBell said. "What?!" Rarity yelled. She ran out of the store in less than a second to find her things. Princess Celestia bent down and looked at SweetieBell. "SweetieBell, where is Twilight and Applebloom?" she asked. "They went to sweet apple acres." she said. "Oh great." Applejack said. "What are we waiting for? Let's go get them." "You stay here. Rarity is going to want to talk to you when she gets back." Fluttershy told SweetieBell. When the group made their way into the farm they started looking for signs of the two fillies. Pinkie Pie was searching the fields, Fluttershy searched the barn and Applejack and princess Celestia looked around the house. "Do you think we'll find them soon princess?" Applejack asked. "They must be getting tired of running around. Especially Twilight since she's been teleporting a lot." Celestia said. "Maybe they're in the house." Applejack said. Celestia nodded and they made their way into the house. When they went in they herd small laughing. They looked around them and saw Granny Smith sleeping in her rocking chair. On top were two small fillies holding a water balloon about to drop it on top. "Twilight Sparkle. Don't even think about letting that fall." Celestia said in a stern voice. Twilight and Applebloom looked up and saw the princess and Applejack with a not so happy expression. Princess Celestia levitated the two fillies in front of them and put the water balloon down gently. "I hope you have a very good explanation young filly." Celestia told Twilight. "Applebloom, do you know what my friends and I have gone through to find you and your friends?" asked Applejack. Applebloom and Twilight looked at each other then back at the two ponies. "IT WAS HER IDEA!" They both said in union pointing at each other. "Applebloom go to your room. I'll talk to you in a minute." Applejack said. Applebloom nodded and made her way upstairs. "Twilight wait for me outside." Celestia said. Twilight slowly made her way to the door and left the two ponies. Well Granny Smith was there too but she was still asleep. "I'm sorry to have troubled you and your friends Applejack." Celestia said. "Don't worry princess, we're happy to help." Applejack said with a friendly smile. "And i'm guessing you're going to be taking Twi back to Canterlot." "Yes, it's probably best." Celestia said. "Tomorrow i'm going to start searching for some spells that could help Twilight turn back." "We could help you. I'm sure the girls will be happy to help. We can go to Canterlot tomorrow to help you." Applejack said. "That would be very helpful, thank you." Celestia said. "It's no problem princess. Twilight's our friend and we'll be happy to help her turn back to normal." Applejack said. "Well then, I will see all of you tomorrow. But I better get back to Canterlot now." Celestia said. Applejack nodded and the princess walked out and looked at Twilight who was sitting down on the porch. She levitated her on her back and extended her wings to fly. "Princess, are you mad?" asked Twilight. "Yes I am Twilight, you know better than what you did today." Celestia said. "I know, but I got mad at all the secrets. You never keep secrets from me. Why now?" asked Twilight. "I'll tell you what it's all about once we reach the castle." Celestia said. "Really?" "Really." Twilight thought for a second before her ears perked up. "Does this mean i'm not in trouble?" she asked hopefully. "You're in more trouble than ever." Celestia said as Twilight's ears flattened again. "Nice try though." "It was worth a shot."