//------------------------------// // Chapter 9 // Story: My Ponified Adventure // by VioletVixen77 //------------------------------// Once the rocket went out, thankfully I didn’t have a too painful landing as the straps of the harness got stuck on one of the branches of an apple tree not too far from the Crusaders Treehouse “At least it didn’t take me in the wrong direction away from Sweet apple acres” I said Relieved it was about 20 or so minutes before I heard somepony walking towards where I was. “What in tarnation is going on over here?!” Applejack walking over to me followed by the Cutie Mark Crusaders “What do you think you’re doing attached to a rocket?!” She said eyeing me hanging from the branch “It wasn’t my idea Applejack, I was coming over here when Discord had this rocket appear and the straps don’t have any release buttons or anything so…” I said, trailing off slightly, feeling dizzy from being upside down for so long “a little help here?” It took only a minute before Applejack snapped all the straps keeping me trapped and as soon as I was free the rocket disappeared “Well Ah’m goin’ to talk to Discord about this” Applejack said, walking away when Scootaloo thought Applejack was gone, she turned to us “I saw you when you came down, That was awesome! We should try to get our Cutie marks doing that!” Scootaloo said sounding excited   “No rockets you four!” Applejack called back “Aw” Scootaloo said, disappointed “Oh well, there is still a ton of things we could try to get our Cutie marks in!” “Don’t forget we still need to get Rose initiated” Sweetie Belle spoke up “Oh, right” Scootaloo said “Well, come on then!” Once we were inside Sweetie Belle stood behind the stand and began reading from a piece of paper that was there “We, the Cutie Mark Crusaders, elect Amethyst Rose to join as a sister, friend, ally, bossom buddy, gal pal, compadre, chum of chums” Sweetie Belle took a deep breath “Scootaloo, I thought you were going to revise this?” She said “Well, I was but… I forgot” Scootaloo said Sweetie Belle Sighed then continued “Homegirl, Amiga….. And fellow Cutie Mark Crusader! You are solemly sworn in this day, witnessed by your fellow Sister, Friends, Ally, Bossom, Buddy, Gal, Pal... “Congratulations Rose! You are now a member of the Cutie Mark Crusaders!” Scootaloo said then muttered quickly “I really need to write a note or something to revise that” “Alright, So Rose since you are a new member of the Cutie Mark Crusaders you may choose something we do to try and earn our Cutie Marks” Applebloom said I thought about it “How about karaoke?” I asked Scootaloo shook her head “Nope, already did that” I thought some more than said “Alright how about…. “ I winced slightly I’m probably going to regret saying this “How about…. Making Catapults?” I asked hesitantly "Yes!" Scootaloo shouted excitedly “CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS CATAPULT MAKERS! YAY!” We all shouted, then I was laughing afterwards glad that I was friends with them and excited for all the adventures I was bound to have with my new found friends. “So…. How do we make a catapult?” Applebloom asked I shrugged my shoulders “I don’t know…. Although I heard Twilight mention that Luna will be visiting and if anypony would know how to make a catapult it would be her…. That is if we don’t get in trouble for saying we are building a catapult..” Scootaloo shrugged “Sounds like a plan, we won’t be getting far anyway if we don’t know the basics of building a catapult” “Alright, so, When will Luna be here?” Sweetie Belle Asked “I think she should be at Twilight’s castle right now… Although we might not want Twilight to hear about us building a catapult though” They nodded “looks like it’s time for plan N” Sweetie Belle said “Plan N?” I asked “Plan Ninja,  I wonder if we can get our Cutie Marks as Ninja’s or would it be spies?” Sweetie Belle asked I shrugged “alright let's do it” “CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS NINJA’S OR SPIES! YAY!” _____________________________________________________________________ *Later, at Twilight’s Castle* “Is this really necessary?” I asked from behind the bushes with everypony else in Black camouflage clothes with black face paint as Sweetie Belle had a pair of binoculars looking for anypony that might spot us “Shh! Quiet I see Pinkie Pie” Sweetie Belle said “Don’t say her name! Names have power! We don’t want anypony to find us” I said now worried that she would show up “Don’t worry, she will be at a party she won’t be here much longer” Scootaloo said I stared at them “Are you trying to get her to find us? We have to stay hidden” “Ooh Who are we hiding from!” someone shouted in a whisper and I nearly jumped from the bushes and had a heart attack “Pinkie!” I Gasped “What are you doing here?” “Well, you four were calling my name silly fillies” Pinkie said “Pinkie please don’t tell anypony we are here alright” I said “Okie Dokie Lokie! Cross my heart and hope to fly stick a cupcake in my eye!” Pinkie Said Doing the motions to the Pinkie Promise “Thanks Pinkie” I said “Well, I must go my party is calling me! Also, you're clear to sneak into the castle no pony is around” Pinkie said bouncing away “Alright girls, let’s go!” Applebloom said, sneaking out of the bushes When we reached the nearest window Scootaloo motioned for us to lift her up higher to reach the window, Once she was close enough to the window she slipped a feather in between the lock and with a click the window opened and Scootaloo began quietly pulling us up and we slipped over the edge into the room and once everypony was inside I silently walked over to the door and peeked out into the hallway, I leaned my ear against the door trying to listen for hoofsteps or anything else when I picked up the faint voices of Twilight, Celestia and Luna’s Voices echoing down the hallway. After staying there for a few minutes I suddenly heard loud hoofsteps coming down the hallway when I suddenly spotted the pony we wanted to speak with and we slipped out of the room into the hallway to talk with Luna When she saw us she gave us a questioning look, “Why hast thou snuck into Twilight’s Castle?” Luna asked Nervously, I took a breath and began talking “Princess Luna, we were hoping that you could tell us how to build a catapult so we could try to get our Cutie Marks in Making Catapults” I said Luna Chuckled “We remember when we built our first catapult” She paused and took another look at me then asked “What is thy name? We know your friends names, but not your name” “My name is Amethyst Rose” I said Luna glanced behind her for a moment before saying “I will help thee with your catapult, but don’t tell my sister about this,” Luna said levitating over some paper and a quill and began writing instructions until we began hearing voices approaching and Luna spoke again quiet enough not to echo down the hallway “One last thing when you fire the catapult fire it away from ponyville” Luna explained “Thank you Luna!” We said quietly and slipped back into the room we came in from and quickly climbed out the window and ran off laughing to ourselves, Once we were back at the tree house We quickly took off our ninja/spy clothes “Did we get our Cutie Marks?!” Applebloom asked excitedly looking at her flank, getting us to do the same to disappointingly discover that we still did not have our Cutie Marks “Well, we could still get our Cutie Marks in Building Catapults, trying to get our Cutie Marks as spies/Ninja’s was just extra” Scootaloo said cheering us up “Now who has the instructions Princess Luna gave us! I’m excited to start building this!” Scootaloo added excitedly “I have them” Sweetie Belle said, laying the papers out on the table for us all to look at Scootaloo spoke up, “I don’t suppose any of you would know what she wrote would you?” We all shrugged "I have never been good at reading cursive, sorry" I said  Then Sweetie Belle pointed something out “She didn’t just write down instructions she drew some pictures as well, we could follow along using the pictures” “Well, we won’t have enough time to build it today, it’s getting late and we have school in the morning” Applebloom said “Yeah, you’re right, I should probably get home before Twilight starts worrying about me” I said “You want me to give you a ride there?” Scootaloo asked “Yeah, thanks Scootaloo” I replied We said our goodbyes and Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and I left the tree house to where Scootaloo parked her Scooter. *A Few Minutes Later* It only took a few minutes before we were at the castle, I was the first to be dropped off because where I needed to go was closest to sweet apple acres, so I said goodbye to my friends and went inside to see what was going on, When I walked inside I was greeted by Celestia and Luna while Twilight was nowhere to be seen. “Hello My Little Pony” Celestia said kindly Just then Twilight came back into the room “I found the book about-” She paused as she saw that I was home and looked as if she just remembered something “Oh, I’m sorry I forgot to mention that Amethyst Rose and her sisters have been staying with me in the castle since they came to Equestria, it’s just that lately things seem to have been coming up that it just completely slipped my mind and-” “It’s quite alright Twilight” Celestia said then turned to me “Hello Amethyst Rose, I am Princess Celestia and that is my sister, Princess Luna” Celestia said pointing a hoof in the direction of the Princess of the moon I gave a small bow and said “It’s a pleasure to actually meet you two in person” “There is no need to bow Rose” Celestia said, smiling slightly at me “Come have a seat, do you want some tea?” She asked I made my way to the table and sat down nervously seeing that everypony was looking at me. “Y-Yes Please, ” I said stuttering slightly Celestia finished filling a cup of tea and levitated it over to me and I slowly grabbed in my hooves and took a sip before setting it back into the table “Twilight, when did thou meet Rose?” Luna asked curiously “It was about a week ago after a few days after the magical backlashes and the first ponies began showing up in Equestria, I told my friends if they saw any new ponies Show up randomly to let me know so I could organize and find them a place to stay” Twilight took a sip of her tea and continued “It was working up until Rainbow Dash told me that three fillies showed up but no adults showed up that could watch them since I make sure that there is an adult to watch over any fillies and colts that show up, but since there was no adults that showed up and I don’t want to split up Siblings I started cleaning some of the rooms so that Rose and her sisters would have somewhere to sleep, But I don’t mind them staying here it gets kind of lonely here with only Spike, Owlicious and myself here.” Twilight finished “It was Great to talk with you Twilight and it was nice to meet you Rose, but my sister and I must head back to Canterlot” “Goodbye Celestia and Luna” Twilight said as Celestia and Luna left the room.