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// AB's Gig Was Up 
// Story: Call Upon the "CMCpony" 
// by Matthais Unidostres 
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And now, we head over to the second part of the song.


Chapter Two: AB's Gig Was Up



Scoots in the shower, Sweetie in the tub
Thanks to Diamond Tiara's water balloon, AB's gig was up
A fish's tail one moment, but soon it disappeared
No one believed Tiara, now they look at her weird


It had been a few days since everypony had returned from their beach vacation, and once at Ponyville, things were business as usual. Why shouldn't they? Nothing earth shattering or surprising or irreversible had happened during the vacation, right? In fact, life would probably be really mundane in Ponyville, with Luna her old self again, the Parasprites safely tucked away in the Everfree Forest, Discord soundly defeated, and the Changelings banished back to the desolate lands of Taurtarus.
Indeed, things were quite ordinary. There's nothing much else to say, except maybe Rarity's annoyance at how Sweetie Belle was hogging the bathroom that afternoon.
Rarity and Sweetie Belle's parents had a vacation of their own planned a few days after everypony's beach getaway. It would be a romantic time, perfect for their anniversary. Thanks to the events of the Sisterhooves Social, Rarity was more than willing to have her little sister. Of course, that didn't mean that she wouldn't get a little frustrated from time to time, such as right now.
Sweetie Belle had once again tried her hoof at cooking. For reasons that were beyond her older sister, Sweetie Belle had mixed cornstarch, baking soda, and vinegar together. The mess that followed was almost unreal. After cleaning up the disaster area, Rarity had graciously allowed her little sister to bathe the muck off first. But now, she was beginning to wish she hadn't been so true to her element.
"Sweetie Belle! Honestly! You mustn't be so selfish!" Rarity called through the door. She received no answer. Rarity huffed looked down at herself, still covered in dried crusty white foam, "Oh dear, this is torture! Being dirty and unable to get clean! The horror!" Rarity suddenly stopped and her eyes grew wide. She began bouncing from hoof to hoof as her body began twitching, "And I have to go? Of all the worst things that could happen, this is The - Worst - Possible - Thing!" Rarity leaned against the door and moaned, "Sweetie Belle! You've been in there for 30 minutes! What are you doing in there?!"


What Sweetie Belle was doing was floating in the tub and staring at herself. Dead to the world, and only caught up in her own little world of surprise, shock, joy, and a dash of horror, she couldn't hear Rarity's voice at all. She hadn't even thought about what had happened during the vacation, what with her latest cooking disaster on her mind. Rarity had been quite understanding about it, by the way. But what mattered now was the pearl white fish tail that stuck out in front of her on the other side of the tub.
"SWEETIE BELLE!!!!!" Rarity shouted, pounding hard on the bathroom door.
Sweetie Belle squealed in fear as she jumped up and splashed back into the shallow tub, causing her tail to bend painfully. She gripped the side of the tub and began to pull herself out of the water.
"Sorry Rarity, I'm almost done. Just let me dry myself out, er, off, I mean."
Sweetie Belle pulled herself out of the tub, and landed on the bath mat with a thud. She then reached up and grabbed a towel with her teeth, and began to scrub at her tail to get it dry.


Rarity couldn't take it anymore. She couldn't take it anymore! She wasn't going to make it! She's was going to have to break the door dow-
Sweetie Belles opened the door and walked out nonchalantly. She smiled nerviously and said, "Sorry I took so-"
ZING! 
Rarity shoot passed her and closed the door behind her.
Sweetie Belle blinked, and took off pretty fast herself.
"I gotta tell the other Crusaders about this, fast!" she thought to herself.



"CRUD!" Scootaloo shouted, but then quickly pressed a hoof into her mouth. Luckily, no one had heard from inside her bathroom. Scootaloo groaned as she reached up towards the knob that controlled the shower head, which was still pouring water onto her orange tail. Scootaloo finally manged to arch her body up to the knob, and gave it a quick turn to the right.
"COLD! COLD!" Scootaloo screamed as she shot up into the air out of reflex and landed hard onto the tile shower floor. Scootaloo let out a long, deep sigh of relief. Miraculously, her hoof had hit the knob as she came down, turning off the water.
As pegasus filly wormed her way onto the bath mat and grabbed a nearby towel, she knew that she had to hurry and tell her two fellow Crusaders about this before they found their-selves in any awkward situations.



"Now remember Applebloom, ya can't force anypony to buy our apples and stuff, understand?"
Applebloom saluted to her big sister, "Yes sis, I'll make ya proud. I'll just tell everypony how mouthwateringly decadent the sweet caramelized smooth apples taste in the perfectly browned, crispy, flaky, buttery crust, dusted with tantalizing sweet cinnamon and-."
"Okay! Okay! That's enough Applebloom!" Applejack said laughing, playfully rubbing a hoof through the filly's red hair, "Gosh, have you been hanging around Pinkie Pie lately?"
The two ponies were interrupted by a brightly colored object that collided with the top of Sweet Apple Acre's food stand. It turned out to be a water balloon, which burst and soaked a bunch of the fresh, hot apple pies.
"What the hay-?" Applejack began, but was cut off when another water balloon hit her square in the face, knocking off her hat, where it slopped hard onto the ground, soaked.
"WHOEVER DID THIS IS GETTING BUCKED TO CANTERLOT AND BACK!" Applejack roared at the top of her lungs.
Applebloom's eyes widened as she turned to the direction of the attack. She quickly noticed a pink earth filly nervously walking away, carrying saddlebags bulging with the multicolored water bombs.
"YOU!" Applebloom shouted, pointing at the filly.
Diamond Tiara whirled around fast and gulped, "W-wait! I didn't mean to hit the stand or anything. I just wanted to get the blank flank, meaning you. Uh, I mean, that is. . . well. . . look, it was a joke! You can take a joke! R-right?" Seeing that the two sisters were rapidly approaching her with ugly expressions on their face, Diamond Tiara felt that running was the smartest move to make at that moment.
The Apple sisters followed Diamond Tiara around the corner and into some alley ways (Applejack was reminded of another certain chase scene through these alleys involving Rainbow Dash). The sisters wound up splitting up, each going in opposite directions in an alley.
Applebloom could see the town square at the end of the alley, but before she could get there. . .
SPLASH!
Diamond Tiara came out from behind some trash cans, laughing mockingly.
"Ha-ha-ha! I got you! You're not just a Blank Flank anymore! Now you're wet too! Do you know what you are! I'll tell you what you are, you worthless little. . . thing. You're a-."
Diamond Tiara's fountain of insults ran dry when her mind began to fully process what her eyes were telling her. She just stood there in shock for a minute, staring at the impossibility before her. But before long, her body regained responsiveness, and her legs sent her sprinting out into the town square, her water balloons falling out and leaving a wet trail behind her.
"Everypony! Listen!" she shouted at the top of her lungs, causing many ponies to stop what they were doing and turn their heads.
"Aha! There's the little missy!" Applejack said, approaching the filly with a dripping wet cowpony hat and Filthy Rich in tow.
"Dad! Dad! You're not gonna believe it! Applebloom-!" Diamond Tiara began.
"You are in big trouble young lady!" her father said sternly.
"Dad, there's no time for this!"
"Are you talking back to me?"
"She's a seapony!"
"Stop talking nonsense and-."
"Come see!"
Diamond Tiara ran back down the alley, and after a moment's hesitation, Applejack and filthy Rich followed. About a score of other ponies decided to come as well.
Diamond Tiara's eyes widened and her mouth formed and evil grin as she saw the little yellow seapony lying in front of her, like a wounded beached whale.
"Look! Everypony! Look at her!" she shouted to the crowd, smiling dementedly, "She's a freak! She's a creature! She's-!"
"Wet."
Diamond Tiara turned around, and her heart sank.
There sat Applebloom, looking normal as normal could be, except that she was now wringing out her red bow, which was now soaking wet.
"Water balloons? How low could you get!" Applebloom said angrily at Diamond Tiara.
Diamond Tiara's wide eyes were now twitching wildly, "Bu- bu- bu- bu- but, no! She's a seapony!"
The uproarious laughter and sarcastic comments that followed just made Diamond Tiara feel even worse.
"Yeah sure, that's a seapony!"
"Huh! I guess I'm a seapony too! Who knew?"
"Ha! That's nothing! I'm an Alicorn myself!"
"Hahaha! funny! But in all seriousness, it looks like somepony needs glasses!"
"Haha! Diamond Glasses! Haha!"
"Miss Diamond Magoo! Hahahahahaha!"
However, what really made Diamond Tiara feel horrible was what happened next.
Filthy Rich walked over to the pink filly's side and said in a cold hard voice, "Now, where were we? Oh yes, the part where I say the cost of those pies is coming out of your allowance, and that 'you know what' is waiting for you at home."
Diamond Tiara's eyes widened with terror as her father grabbed her by the back hoof and started pulling her in the direction of home.
"But dad!"
"I will not have a daughter of mind creating wet and wild chaos in the middle of town!"
"But Applebloom-!"
"Or making up ridiculous stories to keep from being punished!"
"I didn't make it up!"
"A successful business cannot afford to lie!"
"She's a seapony!"
"We are successful buisness ponies! therefore, we do not lie!"
"I know what I saw! I'm not a liar! I'm not crazy! SHE'S A SEAPONY!"
"NO BACK TALK OR THE 'YOU KNOW WHAT' WILL BE DOUBLED!"
As the Apple sisters watched the daughter and father move away, Applejack turned to her younger sister and said, "Heh, some ponies, right?"
Applebloom nodded with the innocent smile of an angel. "Right," she said, but in her heart, she was fearful. The magic wasn't done, and the secret was out.
"Oh boy!" she thought nerviously, "Boy do we have quite a problem, girls!" 



Diamond Tiara blinked back tears as she lay in her room. She had turned all the lights off. It was a certain custom for her. Whenever she plotted something big, she's always have the lights off, and would just sit and think. She had done it before her Cutescenera, thinking of names to call Applebloom. She had done it after seeing how kooky and crazy Granny Smith was, thinking of how to humiliate the little yellow filly. She had done the day she found out that she was the new editor and chief of the school newspaper, thinking of how to beef it up and redesign it in her own image. 
Of course she was good at planning. Her Cutie Mark represented leadership. Being the master, the ruler so to speak, of it all. A good leader needs to have good plans.
Diamond Tiara gingerly rubbed her sore rump from the 'you know what' she had just experienced. She snarled like a Timberwolf as she hissed, "You'll pay Applebloom. Oh yes. . . You'll pay for this. . ."




The Cutie Mark Crusaders, are all sea ponies now
Whenever they touch water, it happens, don't ask how
But now they must be careful, an enemy's watching them
Diamond Tiara is never giving in