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// A Diamond Never Breaks 
// Story: Finding True Talents 
// by Rakoon1 
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	With Apple Bloom and Scootaloo getting their Cutie Marks, Sweetie Belle became the only one of the Cutie Mark Crusaders with the flank in blank. However, this does not prevent her from keep trying with the help of her friends. But the truth was that they were out of ideas.

In the treehouse that served as their clubhouse, the three were seated behind a desk looking for new ideas, but it was being difficult.

"Ya could..." Apple Bloom started. " No, we've done that."

"I know, you can..." Scootaloo started. "No, we've done that too."

"Or… No, that won't work."

"What if... No."

"Oh, this is pointless!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed, frustrated, rising up. "We will never find my special talent."

"‘course we will, Sweetie Belle" Apple Bloom said, while she and Scootaloo arose.

"Yeah, you just have to believe you're going to discover it" Scootaloo said.

"It's easy for you to say" Sweetie Belle replied. "You already have your Cutie Marks."

Realizing what she had said and how she said it, the young unicorn became contrite and said:

"Sorry, girls, but this not getting my Cutie Mark thing is driving me crazy."

"Don't worry, we forgive you" Scootaloo said.

"An’ ya can believe that we will find what yer talent is so ya can get yer Cutie Mark" Apple Bloom said.

"Thank you, you are the best" Sweetie Belle thanked.

And the three shared a hug.

It was then that moment was interrupted with the door of their clubhouse being opened and Pipsqueak entering exclaiming, looking in trouble:

“Cutie Mark Crusaders! Help!”

“What's wrong, Pipsqueak?” Apple Bloom asked.

“I'm running for student pony president” Pipsqueak explained, while he approached her friends. “I was hoping you three would be my campaign managers.”

Upon hearing that, Apple Bloom turned to Sweetie Belle and told her:

“Sweetie Belle, we've never tri’d gettin' our cutie marks in campaign managin'!” Apple Bloom realized. “Do ya know what this means?”

That made Sweetie Belle smile and said:

“That I can try to get my Cutie Mark in campaign managing!

Excited, the three Crusaders exclaimed:

“Yeah! Hoof!”

The three bumped their hooves. Pipsqueak tried to join them, but he couldn't get there and so Sweetie Belle helped him, levitating him with her magic.

The next day, at school, the Crusaders prepared everything to help Pipsqueak in that day of elections for the class president. When they arrived, Sweetie Belle dragged a crate to be Pipsqueak’s podium and Scootaloo put him on there. So, to call the attention of the other foals, Apple Bloom asked to Pipsqueak, using a loud tone of voice:

“So, Pip, how would ya help tha school if ya were elect’d student pony president?”

“Our playground equipment took quite a beating during the invasion of those witches” Pisqueak answered, while his colleagues approached, interested.

He was right. The playground was greatly mistreated. The accents of the swings almost fell and the merry-go-round no longer ran.

“If I'm voted in as student pony president, I'll go to the school board and right this wrong!” Pipsqueak announced.

That made his colleagues start acclaim him. But it was then that somepony stood out from the crowd, a pony that was not very nice to her schoolmates: Diamond Tiara, followed by Silver Spoon. She said, with her usual arrogant tone, approaching:

“Well, I think that's a ridiculous waste of money. It's just like when Twist proposed to repair the window that the Krylock mutants destroyed.”

She approached Twist and said, while making her feel uncomfortable, since Diamond Tiara was rather intimidating:

“She just wanted to repair it like a plain old schoolhouse window.”

She approached another colleague filly, saying turned to her, who was making a nervous smile:

“But you all know voting for me was the best choice because I convinced the school board to give that window visual appeal.”

And she pointed to the window in question that had the image of herself.

“'Course, it doesn't hurt that her mother Spoiled Rich is president of tha school board” Apple Bloom whispered to Pipsqueak.

“Exactly!” Silver Spoon exclaimed, having heard what she said, approaching. “Which is why when Diamond Tiara is voted student pony president, the school will be putting a statue of her in the center of our schoolyard!”

Diamond Tiara pulled Silver Spoon’s braid to turn her to her and told her between the teeth in a liver complaint form:

“Silver Spoon! That was my big announcement for when I won!”

“I was only trying to help” Silver Spoon defended herself, a little hurted by Diamond Tiara’s words.

“I don't need that kind of help!” Diamond Tiara answered, using the same tone.

Apple Bloom turned to all her colleagues and told them:

“Haven't we all had enough of Diamond Tiara?”

“Do we really need a big statue of her?” Scootaloo asked.

“Especially where our playground equipment should be?” Sweetie Belle asked.

That made everypony think of their words and, much to Diamond Tiara’s irritation, they were agreeing. Scootaloo helped Pipsqueak to put himself on top of the horseshoe-shaped arch that was in there and he announced:

“A vote for Pip is a vote for the playground!”

“A vote for Diamond Tiara is a vote for more Diamond Tiara!” Diamond Tiara exclaimed, putting herself in front of the arch.

And the Crusaders started singing, climbing the arc and also putting himself on the verge of Pipsqueak:





“It's time to make a change/This is our chance/Don't be afraid to do what's right”

They arose Pipsqueak and exclaimed:

“He's it! Vote for Pip!”

They put him down and sang, coming down from the arch and walking behind Pip:

“We got an opportunity/To have fun again/A vote for Pip, and you can join the fight/It's time for a new leader/It's time to make a change/We're here to fight for what we believe/Vote for Pip!/ It's finally time we beat her/And play a better game/'Cause when we vote together/There's nothing that we can't achieve”

Pipsqueak kicked the ball from the tetherball which was caught by Diamond Tiara who, not liking what they were getting, began to sing, telling to all her colleagues:

“I don't believe what I am hearing/I'm the only one you should be cheering”

She then noogied Pipsqueak singing:

“Pipsqueak? Try Pip's weak! Don't you think?”

Then, she returned to walk among her colleagues, singing:

“But a diamond is perfection/It's natural selection/So your vote better be for me, not the weakest link”

“We'll let tha votin' decide!” Apple Bloom answered harshly.

Diamond Tiara started walking and turning to her colleagues with her wicked air, singing:

"Everypony has their little secrets"

She turned to one of her colleagues and told him, making him uncomfortable:

"I know you do."

Then she turned to another colleague, passing the shell for your face full of dread, singing:

"A vote for me will help you keep them safe."

She then approached a colleague filly who was lifting the entire school to pick up the ball that was underneath and told her:

"Like your creepy super strength!"

Then she went through another colleague filly with a long mane and tail and sang, while passing the hoof by her mane:

"Or your mane extension/A little thing I won't mention"

Finally, she turned to another of her colleagues, this time a colt with big teeth, singing:

"Or those freakish large teeth in your face!"

"Come on now, ponies, don't listen tah her!" Apple Bloom exclaimed to everypony.

And she and the other Crusaders began walking with Pip by their side, singing:

"You've gotta vote for change/It's time for a new leader/End all the tyranny/Vote now and we can beat her 

Getting the time to vote, all the foal began to go vote in the voting booth with Cheerilee on the entrance to make sure that the foals don't vote more than once, while Pip and the Crusaders, on the porch of the school, encourage the others to vote correctly, singing:

"It's now another day/And we believe in what's right/Vote for Pip!/Vote for Pip!/Our victory is in sight"

Realizing that everyone was voting for Pipsqueak, Diamond Tiara said:

"Stop! Everypony who hasn’t voted, listen up!"

And she began to sing, while walking:

"Pip makes promises he can't keep/But I can do more"

She turned to a filly who was clumsy with a lot of books and I told her, while extending to her a bookbag:

"You could really use a new bookbag."

But when she went to get it, Diamond Tiara simply walked away from her and continued to sing:

"'Cause I'll make things happen/That none of you here can afford /To do, like, ever!"

She put in the mouth of a plump colt some candy, singing:

"Wouldn't you like a little something sweet?"

She gave a parasol to a filly, saying:

"Here's a parasol to hide you from the heat"

While walking, she went through by Mash Buttom, making the propeller of his propeller beanie hat rotate what made it fly, singing:

"Who says that I can't be nice?/But first there's one thing/An itsy-bitsy little string/And voting for me is the price"

And she pointed to one of the posters with her picture.

It was then that Silver Spoon approached her and sang:

"I've a tiny suggestion/That you should be aware/You could probably win this election/If you show them all you real..."

But before she could finish what she was saying, Diamond Tiara replied:

"I don't recall asking you to speak!"

That made everypony to gasp. Silver Spoon became disturbed by what Diamond Tiara said. With that, Sweetie Belle tell to her, addressing to everypony:

"Well, if that's how you treat your best friend, then I choose Pipsqueak!"

This time, with the help of all, the Crusaders sang, while they and Pipsqueak got down from the school porch and started passing by their colleagues who were saying Vote for Pip:

"Stand strong and don't be afraid, ponies/Let's free ourselves from the past"

They then began helping Cheerilee with the colleagues who were going to vote, singing, while everyone said Vote for Pip:

"We'll let honor win out against the tyranny/And make a change that will last"

They returned to walk through the schoolyard, with the Crusaders singing and walking behind Pipsqueak, who was being looked with admiration by his colleagues, including Silver Spoon who seemed to start to sympathize with him:

"It's time for a new leader/It's time to make a change/We're here to fight for what we believe"

"Vote for Pip!" everypony sang.

Pipsqueak then was raised in the teeter-totter by one of his colleagues to be seen by everypony, while the Crusaders sang:

"It's finally time we beat her/And play a better game/'cause when we vote together/There's nothing that we can't achieve"

"Vote for Pip!" everypony sang, ending the song.

After a while where Cheerilee was counting the votes from the ballot box, she got out of the schoolhouse to announce the results to her students:

“The votes have been counted! The student pony president is... Pipsqueak!

Diamond Tiara, who was immensely confident about her victory, was shocked when she heard the result.

“What?!” she asked.

Pipsqueak, on the other hoof, was immensely happy, as well as his colleagues who had rid of Diamond Tiara. With this, Apple Bloom said to her two best friends:

“Oh, mah gosh, Crusaders! Pip won!”

“I couldn't have won without the hard work of my campaign managers, the Cutie Mark Crusaders!” Pipsqueak congratulated.

“Campaign manager cutie marks!” Sweetie Belle exclaimed.

She looked to her flank, but there was no Cutie Mark.

“Nothing?” Sweetie Belle asked. “I can’t believe this.”

“Don’t worry, Sweetie, ya’ll get eventually yer Cutie Mark” Apple Bloom said to her friend.

“Guess you're not as good as you thought, blank flank” Diamond Tiara said to Sweetie Belle, turning then to Cheerilee. “In fact, I demand a recount!”

“Trust me, Diamond Tiara” Cheerilee said. “Pip won.”

“I'll be the judge of that, Miss Cheerilee!” Diamond Tiara answered, while getting in the schoolhouse to go recount the votes.

After a few seconds, it was heard Diamond Tiara screaming:

"What?!"

And she appeared at the entrance asking:

"One vote?"

She approached Silver Spoon, asking her:

“Silver Spoon! You didn't vote for me?!”

“No, I didn’t” Silver Spoon answered, firmly, leaving Diamond Tiara openmouthed. 

“But you're my best friend!” Diamond Tiara said.

“Am I?” Silver Spoon asked back “'Cause I tried to help by mentioning your surprise statue, and suddenly I wasn't even allowed to speak! You could have actually won this election if you just listened to me. You wanna know how? Sorry. I'm not allowed to speak.”

And with that, she boldly closed Diamond Tiara’s open mouth, who was still in shock that Silver Spoon turned her back to her. 

With the fact that she has lost the only friend she had and have lost her status as class president, Diamond Tiara let out a scream of rage and went off, heading inside the schoolhouse, closing door with force. Everypony looked at Silver Spoon who said:

"What? I don't have to follow her drum anymore."

And with that, she pulled away. Pipsqueak also moved away and so Sweetie Belle, who was surprisingly feeling sorry for Diamond Tiara, said to her two loyal friends:

"I know Diamond Tiara's been pretty awful, but... shouldn't we probably make sure she's okay? Just because she's never cared about anypony else's feelings, it doesn't mean we shouldn't care about hers."

"Ya're kiddin’, right?" Apple Bloom asked. "Sweetie Belle, have ya forgotten everything she did against us. By tha way, have ya forgotten that she just insult’d ya even now? "

"I know, but..." Sweetie Belle started.

"Don't worry about Diamond Tiara, Sweetie Belle" Scootaloo said. "She will be fine. She's like cockroaches, as much as we try, we can't get rid of her."

But Sweetie Belle couldn't help but feel that she should do something for Diamond Tiara. After all, she lost the only friend she had.

With the election over, the students returned to their classes. When the class was almost over, Cheerilee told to the foals:

"Listen, please. In order to evaluate your work as a team, I'm going to ask you to do groups of two or three to do a little task. I know it's boring, but it must be done. So, I want you to do it."

"We are together, right?" Apple Bloom asked to her two friends.

"Of course" Scootaloo answered.

But before Sweetie Belle answer, she looked to Diamond Tiara. She saw her trying to talk with Silver Spoon, but before she could say anything, her former best friend drove up to a group of two that was close and they accepted her. That left Diamond Tiara disappointed. It was then that Sweetie Belle had an idea.

"Actually, I have another group in mind for me" Sweetie Belle said to her friends.

"You have?" Apple Bloom and Scootaloo asked, confused.

And Sweetie Belle headed to Diamond Tiara and asked her:

"What do you want, blank flank? Did you came to laugh at my misery?"

"Actually, I was wondering if you wanted to be my partner in the task" Sweetie Belle said.

"What?!" Diamond Tiara, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo asked at the same time.

"Why should I work with you?" Diamond Tiara asked, crossing the hooves and turning her face.

"Well, I guess you don't have a choice" Sweetie Belle answered.

Diamond Tiara realized she was right, what was sad, and she sighed and said, returning to her arrogant tone:

"Do however you want. But we do things my way. Oh, and you’ll make the task at your house."

"As you wish" Sweetie Belle said.

And then the school bell rang and students started getting out. Diamond Tiara addressed also to the exit. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo approached Sweetie Belle and the former asked:

"Sweetie Belle, are you crazy?"

"Why did you invite Diamond Tiara to work with you?" Scootaloo asked.

"If I hadn't done it, Miss Cheerilee certainly would stick her to another group" Sweetie Belle said. "And I think, at this point, things would not be easy, nor for her or anypony else."

"Yes, but..." Apple Bloom started.

"Don't worry, I can handle her" Sweetie Belle said, confident.

Diamond Tiara appeared at the entrance and told to Sweetie Belle:

"Hey, blank flank, hurry up, I don't have all day."

And she left. Sweetie Belle sighed and said:

"I think."

After leaving school, Sweetie Belle and Diamond Tiara began heading to Carousel Boutique. While they were walking, Sweetie Belle asked to Diamond Tiara:

"So, Diamond Tiara, may I ask why you want to do the task at my house? Well, technically we're going to my sister's, but you got it."

"I don't want your filthy hooves of a blank flank messing my beautiful home" Diamond Tiara said.

"Yes, but..." Sweetie Belle started.

But she didn’t finish, because suddenly Diamond Tiara grabbed her and took her to the nearest corner, just in time to prevent the mare who was getting out of the store they were passing from seeing her. She was an earth pony with pale, grayish pink coat, a mane with two shades of moderate magenta and dark heliotrope and strong opal eyes. She had a diamond ring as Cutie Mark and a particularly upturned muzzle. She wore an expensive blouse and a gold necklace. She was Spoiled Rich, Diamond Tiara's mother, whose attitude was still more arrogant and futile than her daughter’s.

"Hello, Diamond Tiara" she said.

"Hi, mom" her daughter greeted her.

"I hope all went well with the elections at school" Spoiled Rich said.

Hearing her mention the elections, Diamond Tiara adopted a forlornly air and said:

"Well, you know..."

“Diamond Tiara, why are you making that face?” Spoiled Rich said, in a reproving way. “That is not the face of a winner.”

“Because… I didn’t win” Diamond Tiara confessed.

“What?!” Spoiled Rich asked, shocked. “You mean I hefted all these party supplies to celebrate nothing?!”

And she pointed to her maids who were carrying party products, one of which was trying to carry a large stone statue of Diamond Tiara.

“Sorry, mother” Diamond Tiara apologized, without looking to her mother.

“It's bad enough you lost to that transplant from Trottingham, but imagine if you'd lost to one of those blank flanks” Spoiled Rich said. “As a Rich pony, you must always think of your social standing.”

Fancy Pants and Fleur dis Lee passed nearby and Spoiled Rich waved to them, making a false smile. She then dropped it and then said to her daughter coldly:

“That starts here in Ponyville and reaches all over Equestria. Don't ever forget that, Diamond Tiara. Ever!”

Sweetie Belle, who had been watching how Diamond Tiara's mother treated her, was shocked by such a vision. She finally understood the reason for Diamond Tiara treat the others so badly.

Spoiled Rich pulled away and Sweetie Belle came out of her hiding place.

"Wow, your mom is horrible" she said. "No wonder you treat the others as you treat."

"It's not like I have a choice" Diamond Tiara said. "After all, it is my duty to follow her hoofsteps."

And, taken by the relief of finally share her pain with somepony, Diamond Tiara began singing while Sweetie Belle listened, accompanying her while they walked:





“If I'm a diamond/Then why do I feel so rough?/I'm as strong as a stone/Even that's not enough/There's something jagged in me/And I've made such mistakes/I thought that diamonds were hard/Though I feel I could break/Would you believe/That I've always wished I could be somepony else?/Yet I can't see/What I need to do to be the pony I want to be”

Seeing nearby Mr. and Mrs. Cake with their children, Pound and Pumpkin, and seeing how the two parents treated their children with love and affection, Diamond Tiara continued to sing:

“I've been told my whole life/ What to do, what to say/Nopony showed me that/There might be some better way/And now I feel like I'm lost/I don't know what to do/The ground is sinking away/I'm about to fall through/Would you believe/That I've always wished I could be somepony else?/ Yet I can't see/What I need to do to be the pony I want to be/To be the pony I want to be”

Diamond Tiara ended the song and then Sweetie Belle, who understood her pain now, said:

"Now, I realize that you want to change. You just don't know how. But, you know what, I think I can help you."

"How?" Diamond Tiara asked.

"I can show you how to figure out how to change" Sweetie Belle said. "After all, that's what friends are for."

"Friends?" Diamond Tiara asked. "Please, we were never friends."

"But we can be now" Sweetie Belle said, smiling, hoping that Diamond Tiara accepted her friendship.

"I'm sorry, but I don't think that's possible" Diamond Tiara answered, starting to take again her arrogant tone. "Furthermore, even if I accepted your help, what I don't want to, I don't think other ponies would believe in the change. It is best to leave things as they are."

"But..." Sweetie Belle started.

"Let's get this straight, okay?" Diamond Tiara said aggressively. "Remember that I said that I was the one who dictated the rules in our cooperation. So, I say that, after we're done with this task, we'll return to be the worst enemies, understood?"

Sweetie Belle nodded and Diamond Tiara continued the path towards Boutique Carousel. Despite the cruelty in Diamond Tiara’s words, Sweetie Belle wouldn't give up trying to help her.

The next day, after class, the Cutie Mark Crusaders left together the schoolhouse and Apple Bloom asked:

"Do you want to take some shakes at Sugarcube Corner?"

"I'm in" Scootaloo said.

"I’m not" Sweetie Belle said. "I have to take care of the task with Diamond Tiara."

"Seriously?" Scootaloo asked. "You're going to trade us for her again?"

"Diamond Tiara is not that bad, really" Sweetie Belle said. "Besides, the sooner we finish, the faster our forced friendship ends, right? Hey, don't you mind that we go to the treehouse? Don't get me wrong, it's just because my room in my house is being painted and Rarity and Shadow Claw turned Boutique Carousel in their love nest."

"What about her house?" Scootaloo asked.

"As if you have never met Diamond Tiara’s mother" Sweetie Belle answered.

"Do however you want, Sweetie Belle" Apple Bloom said. "You know where to find us."

And she and Scootaloo moved away and, when Sweetie Belle saw Diamond Tiara getting out of school, she told her:

"Diamond Tiara, I was thinking that we could continue with what we were doing yesterday" Sweetie Belle said.

"Well, if I have to" Diamond Tiara said. "It is clear that, thanks to you and your dear friends, I don't have any important class president business to attend to or anything."

"That sounds like a yes…" Sweetie Belle said, smiling awkwardly.

And so, she took Diamond Tiara to the Cutie Mark Crusaders clubhouse. Once they got there, Diamond Tiara looked around and then she approached the list of everything that the Crusaders had done, dropping her saddlebags and putting them in the corner, asking:

“So, do you just sit around here plotting out different ways to try and get your Cutie Mark?”

“Actually, yeah” Sweetie Belle answered, always smiling.

“You are...” Diamond Tiara started, making then a more sad face “really lucky.”

“I am?” Sweetie Belle asked, schocked to hear Diamond Tiara saying something like that.

“Yeah, you get to explore all these options, learning who you really are before you're stuck with something you don't understand” Diamond Tiara answered.

“I can’t believe you don’t know what your Cutie Mark means” Sweetie Belle said.

“I knew that… once” Diamond Tiara said. “But I ended up forgetting.”

Sweetie Belle wanted to say something to cheer Diamond Tiara up, but then she heard the Apple Bloom’s voice calling her from the outside:

"Sweetie Belle!" 

The unicorn filly opened the door and saw her and Scootaloo. 

"What's wrong?" she asked.

"Pip is in trouble" Scootaloo said.

“Tha school board didn't approve his request fer tha new playground equipment!” Apple Bloom said.

“Why not?” Sweetie Belle asked.

“There's no money in the budget” Scootaloo answered.

“We need tah help him find a solution” Apple Bloom said.

“Don't worry” Sweetie Belle said. “Just let me end the things here. I see you at school.”

“Okay” the other two said, moving away after that.

Diamond Tiara, having heard that, approached with her evil face and said:

“Oh, I already have a solution! Our new student pony president is gonna be kicked out of office, and I'll be reinstated!”

And, having said that, she started running, starting to go to school. Realizing what she meant, Sweetie Belle said:

"Wait, you're going to... No! Diamond Tiara wait!"

And she began to follow her.

Watching her follow her Diamond Tiara began singing while entered the village in the direction of the school:





"Give up, Sweetie Belle, get out of my way/Those ponies need to know the truth/And they'll hear it from me"

In turn, Sweetie Belle sang while chasing her:

"Stop. Diamond Tiara, this is not the way/You know you're better than this hostility"

Facing with a stallion carrying a cart full of apples, Diamond Tiara overthrew the cart to block Sweetie Belle’s path and continued singing:

"You don't even know me at all/Don't understand the meaning of my fall"

She then passed by her parents who were fraternizing with ponies of the upper class, singing, while her parents looked at her with disapproving stares, mainly her mother:

"What my family would think if I ever/Fail at anything"

She continued to run through the village, while trying to outwit Sweetie Belle, singing:

"I'm a diamond – that means you'll never break/No matter what be the cost of the path I take/Whatever I have to do to win in the end"

It was then that Sweetie Belle began to appear in front of her singing, while Diamond Tiara turned on and continued to run in both times:

"Stop! This is not the answer/ Wait! And it's plainly seen/Listen! You can redeem yourself/But by helping others, not by being mean”

Sweetie Belle, placing herself in front of Diamond Tiara again, started running backwards, while singing:

"I know you want friends who admire you/You want to be the star with all the power too/But there's a better way, there's a better wa-a-ay”

She then continued to run, but this time alongside Diamond Tiara, singing, while the earth filly listened and began to meditate in her actions and in her real talent:

"There's so much more still left to/Learn about yourself/See the light that shines in you/We know you can be somepony else"

Coming to a fork, Sweetie Belle put herself there, singing while pointing to the shining path that moved way from the school, instead of the dark path that would take her there:

"You can stop right now/And try another start/You'll finally free yourself from the dark/And see the light/And see the light of your cutie mark"

However, despite all the doubts that she was having, Diamond Tiara chose the path leading to the school where Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Cheerilee, Pipsqueak, Silver Spoon and all the others were. Once she got there, everypony turn to her and Diamond Tiara announced:

"Everypony, I have an announcement! "

Sweetie Belle, getting there, couldn't believe it. Diamond Tiara was about to continue the same dark path she was.

"Diamond Tiara, think hard about the choice you're making right now!" Sweetie Belle appealed. "You can be a better pony!”

Diamond Tiara was actually hesitating in regaining her title of class president using the petty and cruel methods that her mother taught her. Then she heard the front door of the schoolhouse opening and Spoiled Rich appeared, saying:

"Diamond Tiara! I just happened to be here for the school board meeting, and this is what I see when we adjourn?”

She approached her daughter saying, referring then to Sweatie Belle:

"My daughter associating with confused, insignificant lowlifes? Socializing with her kind is not how you move up in Equestria.” 

She started walking away saying:

"Come, Diamond Tiara!"

In that moment of truth, Diamond Tiara chose the path that she wanted to follow and not the one her mother wanted her to follow.

"No, mother!"

That made Spoiled Rich turn to her and ask:

“Excuse me?!”

“You've spent your life acting like a high horse and raised me to follow in your hoofprints” Diamond Tiara said to her mother, approaching her. “At first I thought this was fine, but then I finally realized I wanted something you don't have… friends!”

Those words from Diamond Tiara left everypony speechless, mainly because she was challenging his own mother, who she used to obey without questioning. Spoiled Rich was also quite shocked by that, but she kept her composure and said firmly:

“That's enough, Diamond Tiara! Step away from that blank flank!”

“This blank flank’s name is Sweetie Belle and she is my friend!” Diamond Tiara said, looking with a sincere smile to Sweetie Belle and then turning back to her mother. “You need to stop calling her such mean and hurtful names! She is working harder to get her Cutie Marks than anypony I've ever seen and the other Cutie Mark Crusaders also worked hard to get theirs! And she will get it exactly when she discover her true talent, which I guarantee will be amazing!”

Diamond Tiara approached her mother, who didn't even know what to say before what her daughter said, and asked her:

"Now, will you please deliver this to father?"

And she extended to her with the mouth a piece of paper.

“Yes, of course, dear...” Spoiled Rich answered, still affected by her daughter’s words, taking the paper with her mouth and moving away.

Diamond Tiara then turned to Sweetie Belle and told her:

“I have to thank you, Sweetie Belle. Obviously I've known since I got my cutie mark that my talent is getting other ponies to do what I want. I just asked my father if he could donate the money for the new playground equipment!”

That left Cheerilee and the students very happy and they began to talk to each other. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo, on the other hoof, were very confused.

"What just happened?" Apple Bloom asked.

"Did we get in some parallel world where everyone acts differently?" Scootaloo asked.

Sweetie Belle, approaching her best friends, told them:

"Let's just say that Diamond Tiara finally found herself."

Seeing the confused look of her friends, Sweetie Belle said:

"I’ll explain later."

Diamond Tiara approached Pipsqueak that momentarily feared that she was going to do something, but it didn't happen and Diamond Tiara said:

"I knew you were worried for a second there, weren't you? HA! Well, I think it's all going to work out just fine, Mister President!"

And she winked her eye, something that made Pipsqueak smile. She then began to walk, singing, while passing by her colleagues who started to follow her:





"We'll build a playground/For all of us to enjoy/So full of games/There's enough for each girl and boy/I want to help and do/Everything that I can/I'm here to show you I changed/Listen up, here's the plan"

When the stallion who brought everything to the new play park arrived, Diamond Tiara said, while taking him to the place of the old playground:

"Bring it in! That's right, keep it coming!"

She then approached the filly with immense strength and asked her: 

"Hey there, you with the amazing strength. Can you help them move that merry-go-round across the lawn? "

She pointed to two colleagues who were trying to drag the damaged merry-go-round. The filly with super-strength got to there and easily lifted the merry-go-round, starting to take it. 

"Thank you so much!" Diamond Tiara thanked.

She then turned to the colt with big teeth and asked him:

"And you with the super teeth, we need you to help with that teeter-totter."

He then went to the teeter-tooter that Twist was trying to take up, grabbing it with his teeth and lifting it easily. 

"You got it!" Diamond Tiara said. "That's the spirit!"

Diamond Tiara continued to sing, while all her colleagues cooperated to build the playground:

"There's so much I can do/To help everypony else/I see the light that shines in me/I know I can be my better self/I can free the past/'cause now the future's bright for me"

Silver Spoon was finding difficult to fix the fence of the playground, but Diamond Tiara helped her, while singing and making up with her:

"My cutie mark has set me free/To do what's right and be the pony I want to be/And be the pony I want to be!"

The playground was finished and Diamond Tiara finished the song, while sliding on the new slide:

"And be the pony I want to be!" 

Cheerilee and the other students went to Diamond Tiara, praising her for all the work she had done.

While they saw the way how Diamond Tiara was being praised, Apple Bloom told to Sweetie Belle:

"I guess you were right, Sweetie Belle. Diamond Tiara is not that bad."

"Yes, and thanks to you, I don't think she will come back to torment our life anyone" Scootaloo said.

"I just realized that a pony acts the way he or she acts for a reason" Sweetie Belle said. "When I realized why she was so mean, I just had to show her that she could follow another path. But you know what, this day belongs to Diamond Tiara, so let's go congratulate her."

And Sweetie Belle went to congratulate Diamond Tiara and Apple Bloom and Scootaloo followed her.

Watching the scene from a distance, were Purple Smoke and Melody. He asked to Melody:

"So, what did you think of it?"

"She has talent" Melody said. "The way she convinced that filly in following a new path through music was quite interesting. She has a lot of potential. But tell me, Purple Smoke, why are you asking me for help? Is the great General of Talent losing his own talent?"

"You can say what you want, my dear sister, you're so much better than me in music, I'm not afraid to admit that. That's why I think you're perfect to help Sweetie Belle."

"Well, then I accept the challenge" Melody said. "That's up to me, that filly will find her true talent for music."