Applejack
"Ooh... This is super... Ah guess..." Applebloom wandered around Sweet Apple Acres, looking at the many, many, many apple trees littered throughout the West Orchard. Applebloom sighed, "Ah'm so bored! Ah HATE bein' grounded from mah friends! Scootaloo, this is all your fault!" she shouted to herself. "Ah'm sure of it." She nodded and sat down, leaning against an untended apple tree.
"Yea, well you're no prize, either, Applebloom! No sane pony talks to trees!" Scootaloo said, falling out of the tree onto Applebloom. Applebloom pushed her off. "Oof! Hey!" Scootaloo glared at her earth pony friend.
"Scootaloo! You can't be here, don't ya 'member? Ah'm grounded from ya! And if AJ sees-" Applebloom was cut off by Scootaloo shoving an apple in her mouth.
"Calm down! She won't! Sweetie Belle's on her way over right now, and then we can do some crusading!" Scootaloo grinned.
"Well, how'd ya even get outta yer house? Ah thought you were grounded! An' so is Sweetie Belle!" she sputtered, spitting out the rotten apple and the worm who'd made its home within.
"Hey, girls!" Sweetie Belle appeared in a bright purple flash, but unfortunately, she was about 10 feet in the air. She fell promptly on her face. "Ooooh... Maybe not my best idea..." She sat up and shook her head, dispersing the birds that had begun to circle.
"Sweetie's been staying with Rarity, and she's way too busy to be constantly checking in with her!" Scootaloo walked over to help Sweetie up, and when that failed, she grabbed onto Sweetie's tail and drug her over to where Applebloom was still sitting. "And my parents are outta town!"
"Scootaloo, your parents are always outta town!" Applebloom argued.
"Yea!" Sweetie piped in, her off-white coat was covered in dirt, turning it a mottled-brown color. She was lying on her back and her eyes were still swirling around and around, until she blinked, that is. The filly jumped up, and stood next to her friends. "So what crusading are we gonna do today?"
The Cutie Mark Crusaders stood around and chatted for a while, but it quickly escalated into an argument between Applebloom and Scootaloo.
"Cutie Mark Crusader skydivers!" Scootaloo shouted, shoving her nose into Applebloom's face.
"NO! We already did that! Ah say Cutie Mark Crusader matchmakers!" She yelled and shoved back.
"No, we already did that!"
"Nuh-uh!"
"YOUR BROTHER WAS THE ONE WE MATCHED!"
"WELL, WHY DON"T WE JUST TRY AGAIN?!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"NO!"
"YES!"
"Oh, my! How delightful!" a third voice laughed. Discord popped his head out of a nearby tree, grinning wildly.
"Discord?!" the fillies cried in almost-perfect unison. Applebloom glared at Scootaloo and punched her. "Mah idea was better," she whispered.
"The one and only!" he sang, rather overdramatically.
"What in tarnation do you want, Discord? Last time you were here, you flooded tha farm!" Applebloom said, and waved her front legs around for emphasis. The other two fillies nodded in agreement.
"Yes, well, I was pretty sure I apologized for that... Maybe... Yes, well, anyway, I came to help you with your crusading! Doesn't that sound just peachy?" He disappeared, then reappeared staring Applebloom directly in the eye, with visible sparkle. He was biting his lip, trying to contain his excitement. He was making an audible "squeee" sound, and bounced on his mismatched legs.
"Uhhh... Whadya mean by that?" Applebloom asked, pushing him back.
"What I mean, is that I heard of your last attempt at 'crusading' and I came down to Ponyville to tell you to not give up!" Discord smiled mischievously. "At least don't give up Cheerilee's 'role model' advice," He laughed. "It was probably the most productive thing she ever taught!" He fell onto the ground rolling with laughter.
"Wait, so we gotta wear those awful 80's clothes again? UH! BUMMER!" Scootaloo groaned and fell back.
"No, you don't have to dress up in that horrid attire once again. But, you could find a different pony to be your role model! Perhaps... Applejack?" He grinned a showed off a portrait of Ponyville's most hard-working mare. Applebloom took it from him.
"Hmm... Mwadya fank, galsh? Shoob we trush 'im?" She said, her mouth full of Applejack's face.
Scootaloo nodded, "Sure, why not? I mean, I'm pretty sure he's never actually directed any danger to us."
"Yea! Why, not?! This could be fun!" Sweetie Belle smiled.
Discord laughed and hugged the small filly. "Well, of course it will be fun, my dear! It will be most fun, indeed!"
"Well... Alright, Ah guess... But Ah'm watchin' you!" Applebloom threatened, dropping the picture.
"No, need! I will be departing shortly, my dear fillies! Enjoy your crusading!" He laughed maniacally, and disappeared with a colorful flourish and a wave of his claw.
The fillies coughed at the smoke he left behind. "Well, alright! Let's get to it, gals!" Applebloom smiled, and coughed some more. "Dear Celestia! What is that smell?"
Scootaloo inhaled deeply and shuddered. "Eew! It smells like really, really potent cinnamon! Mixed with, I dunno, skunk maybe? Uch! Totally, skunk!" Scootaloo sputtered and coughed, spitting out the taste it left her with.
"I don't smell anything!" Sweetie Belle grinned. "But that could be a side effect of my concussion!" she laughed wildly. Scootaloo and Applebloom exchanged looks. "What?"
~~~
Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, and Applebloom sat under their thinking light in the privacy of their clubhouse. They were gathered around the small, wooden table they'd set up. They were literally wracking their heads trying to find a way to make Applejack their newest role model. After hitting her head several times with her hooves, Sweetie Belle jumped up. "OHOHOHWOWOWOWOW! I KNOW!"
"Well?!" the other two asked.
"Well, what? Oh, right! Well, we can just do what we did with Ms. Cheerilee! Just do what she did to get her cutie mark! So..." She motioned with her hooves.
"Well, AJ said that she got her cutie mark when she ran away an' follered ah rainbow home, where she realized that tha farm was her love! But, does that mean that we gotta run away an' foller a rainbow? 'Cuz tha rainbow might just lead us ta some angry, pony-hungry dwarves protectin' their gold!" Applebloom panicked and hid under the table.
Scootaloo rolled her eyes and pulled the filly back into her seat. "No! Dwarven cannibals don't live at the end of a rainbow, Applebloom!" Applebloom relaxed into her seat. Scootaloo continued, "They live in closets around Ponyville!" Applebloom jumped out of the chair and hit her head on the ceiling, then quickly scurried under the table. She refused to come out until somepony murdered the cannibalistic, closet dwarves that were sure to be infesting her and everypony else's closet.
Sweetie Belle facehooved. "And I thought I was the psycho of the story..." she mumbled. "APPLEBLOOM!" She was impossibly floating in mid-air until she ceased screeching. Applebloom popped out from under the table, and sat wild-eyed in the chair, staring at Sweetie. "Thank you. Now, yes, we do have to follow a rainbow, but we're following it to our destiny! AJ's was an apple farm, so I wonder what ours is gonna be! Also, I think it would be smart if we acted like AJ on the way! That way, maybe we can trick fate into thinking that we are her, and fate will lead us to our true destiny BY WAY OF RAINBOW!!! How cool is that?!"
The other two fillies stared at her for a short while. They contemplated the many words she'd spoken, and were trying their best to safely piece them together without an explosion like last time. Applebloom was the first to speak,"Uhh... M'kay? Ah guess... Should Ah be worried that Ah'm so desperate for ah cutie mark that Ah'm listenin' to Discord an' Ah'm goin' along with a plan thought up by Sweetie Belle?"
Scootaloo thought for a moment. "Nah."
"So..." Sweetie Belle grinned and trotted to the ramp leading out of their clubhouse. She stopped and looked back at her fellow Crusaders.
"CUTIE MARK CRUSADER IMPERSONATORS!" the three screamed and ran out of their clubhouse into the tree line.
"But first we've gotta get out of here without being seen. How?" Sweetie Belle asked once they were hidden safely in the apple grove.
"Oh, oh, oh! I know! Cutie Mark Crusader Ninjas! All we gotta is sneak to the gate and find a way around it! Then we're home free!" Scootaloo laughed, quickly quieting herself.
"Yea! Let's unleash our inner ninja again! Ah've practiced since last time!" Applebloom whispered.
One five-second costume change later, and the three ninja fillies were tip-hooving towards the front gate. They'd tried to think of a way around it, but they couldn't find one, so instead they conceded to just running through it as soon as the coast was clear.
~~~
'Dash' spoke through her three-way radio, "Lil' Red and Snow, do you copy? Over."
'Snow' looked across the path at 'Dash'. "Snow copies. Over," she whispered into the device.
They let four minutes pass, but they still hadn't heard a word from 'Lil' Red'. "Lil' Red, do you copy? Over," Dash asked with more urgency. She couldn't lose another teammate! Not again! "Lil' Red! Do you copy?! Over!" she shouted into her transmitter, not even trying to be quiet anymore. She just wanted her friend, her teammate. She just wanted Lil' Red to copy. She had to copy, it had been fifteen minutes! Time was of the essence, at least it seemed that way. "Lil' Red?! Do you copy?! OVER!"
Dash stared at the transmitter for a few minutes, awaiting Lil' Red's eventual response. It beeped, but Snow's voice came on, "I... I don't think she made it, Dash." Dash looked across the dirt path, expecting to see Snow, but she didn't. "We both knew that this could happen... And it did. And, I'm not sure we can bust her out this time. I'm sorry... Over."
"Snow, where are you?! Over!" Dash shouted into her transmitter, but forgot to push the 'talk' button. "Oops." She pressed it and repeated her question.
Snow's high-pitched voice popped online, she was worried and her whispers were rushed. "I... I'm sorry! I went back! I just had to find her! And now I'm lost and Big Red's just a yard away, so I'm staked out in a tree. I'm... I'm so sorry, Dash. I'm so sorry... Scootaloo... Over."
The transmitter emitted a high-pitched buzzing sound, signaling that nopony was online. "NO! SWEETIE BELLE! GET BACK ON, DAMN YOU! I'M NOT LOSING YOU BOTH! SWEEEETIE BEEELLE!!! OVER!" Scootaloo cried into it, knowing fully that nopony could hear it, or her, as she was completely alone. She'd done it again. She'd lost her teammates, only this time she lost them both.
And it was all her fault.
They'd wanted to stampede the gate, but Scoot had offered up a better suggestion. She'd offered up a plan, but it was apparently too risky for beginners like them.
Scootaloo stomped her hoof in defiance. "I am not going down without a fight! You want a battle? Well, I'll give you a war!" she growled and ran off towards the Apple house, keeping an eye out for her fallen comrades and their treacherous foes. "Over!"
She trotted through the orchard for at least 10 minutes before reaching the small farmhouse that the Apples' called 'home'. Scurrying up a nearby tree, Scootaloo looked into the window of Applebloom's room. She wasn't in there. Not wanting to dive in without a plan, Scootaloo attempted to radio her once more. "Lil' Red, do you copy? Over." She listened to the static for several seconds before she just went on with her 'plan', if you can even call it that.
The space between the tree and Applebloom's windowsill was about 15 foot across, and if she fell it would be a two-story drop. Scootaloo wasn't worried. She flapped her wings furiously and jumped as far as she could, just barely managing to catch the windowsill in her mouth. She pulled herself up, and through the open window. As soon as she got in, she collapsed to the floor. Slowly, she managed to crawl to the door and put her ear to it.
Scootaloo listened as intently as she could, but couldn't hear anything other than Granny Smith snoring during her nap. She peeked her small head out of the door, but upon seeing nopony, she walked into the hallway. Suddenly, her transmitter buzzed to life. "Scootaloo? Sweetie Belle? Where are ya? Ya ain't in tha meetin' spot, over." Scootaloo stared at the device in awe.
Scootaloo wasted no time, and swiftly pressed the button to talk, "Applebloom? YOU'RE ALIVE?! Over."
"Well, duh! Ah ain't gettin' caught! No way! Now, get on over ta tha meetin' spot with Sweetie Belle!" She replied.
"Aye, aye, sir!" Scootaloo literally jumped out of the window and raced towards their prearranged meeting spot. Halfway there, she realized that Sweetie Belle was still very in need of a rescue mission. "Applebloom! Sweetie Belle's been caught! Over," Scootaloo shouted, but again she forgot to push the talk button. She repeated the urgent message into her radio, this time pressing the button first.
"Well, what are we waitin' for! We gotta organize ah rescue mission, now!" Applebloom replied. "Umm, wait. Where is she? Over."
"Um... She's in a tree near Big Mac! Meet me there, over," Scootaloo planned and rushed off towards her cornered companion. Upon reaching said companion, she saw Applebloom gallop through the bushes, dragging them along with her until she rammed right into a tree trunk. Seconds later, a squeak came from above her and Sweetie Belle fell directly onto her.
"Hi, Applebloom! Thanks for catching me," Sweetie Belle chirped and hopped off her friend's face and neck area.
Applebloom raised her head for a second and slurred, "Pigs're useless on vegan diets..."
Scootaloo jumped up and punched the air, "Mission successful!"
~~~
"In order to get our cutie marks, we're going to have to think-"
"NOOOO!!!! WHY?!?! WHAT DID I DO TO DESERVE THIS?!" Scootaloo screamed, stopping Sweetie Belle mid-sentence.
"AHEM!" Sweetie growled in the direction of the overdramatic pegasus. "As I was saying, we're going to have to think like Applejack and act the way she does, right?"
"Right" Scootaloo and Applebloom agreed.
"So..." Sweetie motioned with her hooves.
"Oh! Right! Well, Applejack's whole attitude is generally brutally honest-" Scootaloo began.
"An' real stubborn!" Applebloom cut in.
"And she believes that running away will solve all of life's problems!" Sweetie Belle finished. "So let's do that!"
"But ain't those traits, um... I dunno, undesirable?" Applebloom asked.
"Yup! Wait... what would a mean, stubborn, and flightful cutie mark even look like? Ya know what? I don't even care. Let's just try this out of pure desperation!" Scootaloo raced off towards the edge of town with her friends following close behind.
~~~
"Honesty, honesty, hmm... Oh! Applebloom, you know those cupcakes you brought us yesterday?" Scootaloo asked.
Applebloom narrowed her eyes at the pegasus. "Yea...? What about mah delicious cupcakes?"
Scootaloo opened her mouth to speak, but Sweetie Belle sang over her, "They were burnt!"
"Not even like golden-brown, but burnt to a fiery, black death!" Scootaloo emphasized by jumping up, but she hit a lamp post and fell onto her back.
"But y'all said that ya loved mah cupcakes!" Applebloom argued.
"We lied!" Sweetie Belle lifted Scootaloo off the ground with her magic and flipped her back onto her hooves. "C'mon, girls! We're almost there!" She skipped a little faster towards the train station.
Applebloom yelled the start of a race before speeding off in front of Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. "You're so on!" Scootaloo shouted and flapped her wings to gain momentum. She managed to race ahead of the earth pony, but only by a nose. Applebloom quickly gained on her and it went on like that, with Applebloom getting ahead, then Scootaloo, and then Applebloom. Unbeknownst to the racing fillies, Sweetie Belle had teleported and was awaiting her friends' eventual arrival at the ticket counter.
Several minutes later, Applebloom and Scootaloo arrived and collapsed onto the wooden platform. "I-" Scootaloo said between breaths, "-so-" She exhaled deeply, "-won."
"Nuh-" Applebloom attempted to argue, "-uh."
Sweetie Belle skipped over to her panting pals, sipping from a soda she'd ordered a few minutes before. "Actually, I won! Now, hurry up! We're gonna miss the train! It was supposed to leave 3 minutes ago, but my adorable face was able to get the conductor to wait an extra 5 minutes." Sweetie Belle dropped her drink on Scootaloo's head and rushed off, patiently waiting at the door of the train. Somehow, the two fillies were able to get up and stumble into the train, with Sweetie Belle getting in last. She dropped a gem into the tip jar, and practically drug her friends into the last train car.
The conductor stared at the fillies rushing into the back of his train and thought of kicking them out because he hadn't gotten a ticket. Looking at the gem given to him by the white unicorn he thought better of it, and went off into his captain's quarters.
~~~
"Does runnin' away count if ya take a train, or does it count as travelin' away, or maybe trainin' away?" Applebloom asked.
Scootaloo thought for a second, then replied, "Nah! I still think it's running away even if we take the train!" She jumped up and ran all around the train car, bumping into several baggage mountains along the way. She stopped short when realization hit her like the bag of rocks that had fallen onto her from a particularly wobbly mountain. "Hey," she asked, rubbing the bump that realization had given her, "Where is this train even going?"
"My brother's house, of course! We can go live with him until the rainbow shows us the way home where our cutie marks will await us!" Sweetie Belle chirped and bounced in her seat, in turn causing Applebloom and Scootaloo to bounce, too.
Applebloom hopped onto the bench facing Sweetie. "Wait, so you've got a brother? Since when?!"
"Solar Spell has been my brother since, I dunno... Forever? I told you about him last week after Rarity snooped through my saddlebag!" Sweetie Belle stared intensely at Applebloom. Applebloom quickly looked out the window and whistled innocently. "Honesty, Applebloom!" Sweetie growled.
Applebloom sighed, "Well, Ah can't be expected ta listen ta everythin' you say, Sweetie Belle! You just talk SO MUCH! So, Ah just politely pretend ta listen, so Ah can spare your feelin's...Heh."
Sweetie Belle was about to forgive her, as she did have a tendency to ramble on and on about some things, but she couldn't because Applejack is stubborn, thus she must be stubborn as well. "Even if I do ramble, you should still listen because it's only nice! YOU just aren't a nice pony, Applebloom!" Sweetie argued.
Applebloom gasped, and the two fillies bickered back and forth for several minutes until Scootaloo shouted, "QUIET DOWN!" Sweetie Belle and Applebloom turned to look at her. "Now you're both awful ponies, but in a good, "friendly hatred" kinda way. Alright, already? Sheesh!"
The silence lasted for hardly a second before the argument began anew, this time with Scootaloo joined in. It continued for the entirety of the train ride.
~~~
"Solar Spell lives here?!" Scootaloo gasped as the Cutie Mark Crusaders strolled down the shimmering streets of the Crystal Empire. Ponies bustled about, constantly bumping into the three fillies who were making their way to the Crystal Palace. It took endless amounts of weaving and ducking just to get there, but they managed despite the turmoil.
The three fillies made an attempt to enter the palace, where two guards blocked their path and would not allow them to enter. Sweetie attempted to persuade them with her adorable face, but to no avail. Applebloom stepped up and made her legendary 'Sad Applebloom' face, but even that didn't work. Scootaloo grabbed her friends and pulled them into the crystal bushes beside the palace.
"Alrighty, girls, now that you know that your plans were a total bust, so let's go with mine!" Scootaloo whispered. Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo exchanged glances, this could not be good.
~~~
(Scootaloo P.O.V.)
I threw on my ninja outfit and ran out to see Sweetie Belle and Applebloom ready to go. I pull my muzzle mask down, so that I can talk, "Remember the plan! Stick to it, and DO NOT stray from it! Got it?" They nodded, and I pulled my mask back up. I signaled phase one of my awesome and totally foal-proof plan. We dispersed to our places to initiate it. This was DEFINITELY going to work, and nothing was going to change that.
I peeked out of the crystal bushes and looked down the royal path. An array of crystally, color bombs exploded and created a mass of color-potent fog. As I had expected, the two guards exchanged glances of "Wow, really? Is that all they've got?" thus giving me the perfect distraction to really get them out of my way.
I.
Blew.
A bubble.
The bubble did exactly as I had expected, and floated towards the stallions guarding the entrance. It floated past the crystal one's eyes, and then past the green one's. They both immediately chased it, yelling that they should be the one to pop it because of something they'd done earlier. I thanked the wind for blowing the bubble down the path and away from the palace.
I whistled a short tune and ran through the gates, my fellow CMC following me in. Each of us found a hiding space where nopony would ever think to look, all before the guards rushed back to their stations, with a rather embarrassed look on their faces. Time to initiate phase two.
I glanced out from my hiding place and scoped the premises. I saw that the hallway branched into four, just like Sweetie Belle said. In each hallway there were two guards walking it. Possibly a buddy system of some sort, but I didn't have much time to think about it if I wanted the mission to go without a hitch. According to Sweetie Belle we needed to go down the far left hallway, so I watched as the guards paced their hallways and quickly found a pattern.
I signaled Sweetie Belle by stomping my hoof twice, then whistling four notes, and then motioning with my eyes which hallways she had to do. She nodded, and I clicked my tongue 3 times, telling her how many seconds we had to get into the hallway before the other guards could spot us. I waited until the timing was perfect, and then I whistled. Sweetie Belle went right to it, and threw out four balls, two down one hallway, and two down another. As I'd expected, the guards chased the balls down the hallways, leaving an opening for us to slip down the one we'd needed.
I'd estimated that we'd have about 7 seconds before the guards returned, so we ran down the hallway and hid behind the first door we came across. I ran in first, swiftly followed by Sweetie Belle and Applebloom, who just barely made it in time. I looked around, and apparently I had just ran into the bathroom. The staff bathroom. The stallion's staff bathroom. This was not expected, but luckily I had planned for it. I pulled a long overcoat out of my pocket, along with a lavender, handlebar mustache. "Event SBR, girls!"
Seconds later, we had transformed into a stallion leaning against the bathroom wall with yellow legs and an orange head with an awesome mustache. Sweetie Belle had said that Solar Spell's quarters were down this hallway on the left, and that it would be labeled 'D/N' on the door. I had to wait for the few stallions in the restroom to clear out first, but as soon as they did we transformed back into CMC ninjas. I peeked out of the door, and saw that the guards in the hallway were back on duty. Time to initiate phase three.
Applebloom pulled four, red apples out of her pocket and passed them to Sweetie Belle. Sweetie Belle used her magic to levitate the apples down the hallway while I watched to make sure she wasn't noticed. If she was, I had a backup plan for it. Luckily, she wasn't caught, and the guards didn't notice her set the apples by them. I released my breath and made one, short whistle, and the guards looked over and saw the apples. The mare was curious, but the stallion was hungry and didn't question the appearance of some lunch.
With the guards now focused on food, we made our way out of the bathroom and silently rushed down the hall. I noticed the door immediately, and peered through the small window. The room had nopony in it, so I opened the door and walked in, glancing around. Sweetie Belle and Applebloom walked in as soon as I gave the all clear. I shut the door after Applebloom before examining the room closer.
~~~
Solar Spell had just finished a long day's work, and was hoping for the quiet embrace of sleep...
His hopes quickly vanished as he opened the door to his quarters and saw three small fillies bouncing on his bed. "Sweetie Belle?!" He gasped as his younger sister tackled him into an embrace. "H-how did you even get in here?!"
She looked at her two friends, wondering whether or not it was safe to break the vow of secrecy she'd taken regarding their plan. Scootaloo shook her head. "Umm... We walked in?" She giggled, not completely lying, but not telling the whole truth either. "That's Scootaloo and that's Applebloom. Umm... You wouldn't mind if we stayed with you for a while, would you?" She looked at him with an innocent smile on her face.
Solar Spell facehooved. "Of course you can. Does Rarity know about this, and what about their parents?" Solar Spell pointed at Scootaloo and Applebloom, who were at a table trying to act dignified by sipping tea and wearing whatever fancy clothes they could find, including, but not limited to: a monocle, reading glasses, a black, tailed overcoat, a top hat, a fedora, a bowtie, a tie, a glass slipper, and a pair of white leggings.
Solar Spell had to do a double take and wondered how in the hay they were able to do a costume change so quickly. Sweetie Belle answered, "We ran away, so no. They have no idea."
Solar Spell's mouth fell open. "YOU DID WHAT?!" He yelled, and Sweetie backed up some.
She chuckled nervously, "Yea... Heh. Funny isn't it?" She bumped into the table where Applebloom and Scootaloo were arguing over how many lumps of sugar were too many. Scootaloo pulled off her fedora and Applebloom pulled off her monocle and they placed them on Sweetie Belle.
"Sweetie Belle, you know that you can't just run away from your problems!" Solar Spell said, and sat down to look at her.
"I know, but I only ran away to get my cutie mark!" Sweetie jumped up, knocking her top hat off, to the dismay of Scootaloo.
"What?! That doesn't even make sense!"
"Well, if me and my friends aren't welcome here, then we'll just go somewhere else! C'mon girls!"
Scootaloo and Applebloom shed their fancy clothes and marched out of the room with Sweetie Belle. "Where are we going now?" Applebloom asked.
Sweetie Belle shrugged, "I dunno. Wanna visit Shining Armor and Princess Cadence?"
Scootaloo smiled deviously. To get to the princess, they were going to need a plan...
~~~
(Scootaloo P.O.V.)
I sat up and rubbed my head. Everything felt groggy and for the first few minutes I could hardly think, and moving was definitely out of the question. All I could really do was sit on the cold, crystal floor and rub my head. When the pain abated, I raised my head to see Sweetie Belle sitting in the corner next to an unconscious, pale-blue, unicorn. Who was that again? Oh! Solar Spell. Wait, why was Solar Spell passed out in the corner? I looked to my left and saw Applebloom staring wide-eyed at me.
"What? Where are we?" I tried to stand up, but I fell down almost immediately.
Before Applebloom can respond, Sweetie Belle does. "We're in the Crystal Dungeons," she calmly states.
"WHAT?! HOW?!" I jumped up, but too quickly and I fell back. Luckily, Applebloom was there to catch me.
Sweetie Belle looked at Applebloom, who only sighed. "Well... In short, Ah got caught an' you came ta rescue meh which only got you caught an' you got hurt 'cuz tha guard didn't see ya comin' and thought ya were ah big threat an' all, so he kinda bucked ya inta ah wall, an' then when Sweetie Belle an' Solar Spell came ta get us, she got caught an' tha guards thought Solar Spell was ah traitor, so they threw him in here, too an' he was so stressed out that he passed out an' now we are in so, so, so, so, so much trouble all 'cuz of meh!" Applebloom took a deep breath, and sighed. "An' Ah'm so, so sorry, Scoot! We didn't even find tha rainbow, so this was a huge disaster for nothin' 'cuz we don't even have our cutie marks!"
I stared at her for a second, just trying to process everything that she said. "All... For nothing?" I asked. Applebloom sadly nodded.
A bright burst of blue appeared, and Discord walked out of it. "Helloooo!" he sang. "My, my, my! Why so blue, little ponies?" he snapped his claws and turned us all blue, except for Solar Spell because he was already blue.
"Knock it off, Discord! We're not in the mood. Too many failures, I guess," I groaned.
"What do you mean, little ponies? Think of the successes you've had today!" He laughed. We all stared at him, causing him to literally roll his eyes. "Fine, very well. For starters, you broke into the Crystal Palace without detection! Now, tell me that isn't impressive!"
Sweetie Belle nodded, a small smile forming on her face. Her blue hue faded a bit. "Yea! Scootaloo, your plan worked perfectly!" At that moment, I smiled a bit.
"Ha, ha! Now, don't you remember sneaking out of your punishments! Not every foal can do that, you know!"
Applebloom laughed, "Eeyup! An' without gettin' caught, too!" Her shade of blue lightened.
"And to think of the magnificent chaos you wrought along the way! As I so often say-" Discord snapped his claw and appeared in a teachers dress and wig eating an apple, "There is nothing better than well defined-chaos!"
Applebloom and Sweetie Belle were laughing and completely back to normal, but I was still blue. "But, we still failed. We couldn't even finish our journey..." I kicked at the floor of the cell. Discord appeared behind me and put a paw on my shoulder. I looked up at him. He snapped his claw and made a rainbow from this side of the cell to the other end where nopony was sitting. I stood up, beside my fellow Crusaders and walked to the end of the rainbow. I felt the blue drip off of me as I held my head high and looked at the small, but beautiful rainbow Discord had made for us.
I saw him tearing up at the other end, so he blew his nose in Solar Spell's mane, "Oh, they grow up so fast! Yesterday you were arrested for drinking with Pinkie Pie, and today you're being held in a dungeon for being a potential threat to the princess! It's beautiful, isn't it, Spell?" Discord looked to Solar Spell who only groaned in response. "I agree completely," Discord sighed.
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Guys, seriously, don't read it. THIS IS NOT A CHALLENGE. I'M NOT QUESTIONING YOUR AUTHORITAY, I SWEAR. Some things will just ruin you, so watch out. I mean, as I read this, I was all like-
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And afterwards I was all like-
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So remember, kids, SafeSearch is your friend!
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made this with paint the other day in like, five minutes. i was bored
...
...Well, that happened
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Yes. Yes it did.
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OK... Not sure what to say...
That's me
Reverse psychology Works like a charm xd
This is the best life motto ever!
So, this should definitely be continued one day...