Twilight took a step back. "Woah, what's been going on here?"
"We've been making cupcakes, wanna try them?" Pinkie held up a tray of horribly burnt confections.
"No thank you... not that they don't look, eh, delicious."
Apple Bloom ran up in between the two of them. "Twilight, you have to help me!"
It sounded like something serious. "What's the matter?"
The little filly took a deep breath. "Tiara's cute-ceaƱera's today and everypony in my class will be there and they'll all have their cutie marks and I want to get my cutie mark but I'm no good at selling apples or hang-gliding or making cupcakes, but I wanna go to the party but how can I go to the party if I don't have my cutie mark, which Pinkie Pie says I can't just make appear, but I need it to appear, right now!"
Twilight stared at her, blinking. "Uh... I don't follow. How can I help you?"
"You can use your magic to make my cutie mark appear."
"Oh, right. Of course." Twilight shook her head. "Why didn't I think of that?" She called up her magic. Only time could make a cutie mark appear, but time was as malleable as anything else to magic. With a few modifications, an aging spell would do the trick. "Okay... hold on..."
A bright flash of light shot from Twilight's horn to Apple Bloom's flank. When it faded away, everypony could see the image of three apple flowers on the filly's flank.
"Oh my gosh! Yes! You did it, Twilight!" Apple Bloom bounced around the room uncontrollably, contributing to the mess.
Twilight grinned. "Of course... Now, how about you help Pinkie get this kitchen cleaned up a little before the party starts, okay?"
Apple Bloom looked around at the mess... but in this mood, nothing could get her down. "Okay!"
Ummm... but she still has no idea what her talent actually is.
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That's actually pretty clever. Only time can grant a cutie mark... so just use the spell that manipulates time.
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Blooming Apples maybe?
Of course, with the Apple Family, its always Bloomin' Apples...
Seriously though, I would think something along the lines of creativity, seeing as how inventive she is.
I also love how, at a stroke, this story has just unravelled a whole host of future plotlines for Apple Bloom & the CMC.
No cutie mark crusaders?
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That's going to happen a lot in this series.
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Not good, either.
But what can I expect out of a story I wrote out of sheer boredom?
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We'll have to save that for Show Stoppers.
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Yay! Cleverness!
Apple Bloom isn't going to be happy when she's 60 and her flank is 80, though.
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As the episodes go on and plots change... continuity may suffer.
This is more of an individual episode basis.
But, for the purposes of this... let's assume Apple Bloom still met Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle, and they still became friends, despite not all being blank flanks.
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Nah, they'll still be around. ^.^
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Thus the whole point of fact that it was done with magic instead of happening naturally once she realized her special talent. So now she -has- her talent in full force, I'd suppose, but still won't recognize it for what it is. At least until she finally does.
But without the CMC Sweetie Bot won't ever be born! Thrackerzod won't be able to properly emulate completely normal ponies. And worst of all Sweetie Belle will never make Rarity grow u and be a better sister... Wait not the Sweetie Bot one is the worst possible thing...
Anyway next episode! Fall Weather Friends! I'm going with, A.J. wins the initial Iron Pony thing due to her superior physical attributes from her earth pony magic. Like the flipping tug-of-war... really? A.J.lost that? Oh and Dashie wouldn't cheat. One more possible solution is they never get into the argument in the first place and just agree that each of them has their own strengths.
Okay I'm done for today, I'll see you at the next chapter.
No CMC?
I hope she did both sides. It would be kind of annoying to have a cutie mark on just ONE side.
Apparently Twist was just a figment of Apple Bloom's imagination. No wonder why she tells Apple Bloom to burn things and kill ponies. Also, never piss off Bon Bon.
KBO.
5064180 Yeah, how lame would that be to have a pony with a cutie mark on only one side?
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And then during the night, her cutie mark disappears.
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And how many of those can be retold as kids doing something fun and/or getting in trouble?
Ha! Cheeting
mh. her talent is not apple related, so moving time forward to give her an apple mark doesn't really make sense
Time paradox! Applebloom never met scootaloo and sweetie belle!
5378909 Colonel: "occalhoun! What have you done?! You've changed the future! You've created a time paradox!"
I hate to say it, but when you remove the needless drama, what you're left with is pretty boring. :/
7161874 Yep, I've been reading through these, hoping for a funny one, but it hasn't happened yet.
I can see this backfiring
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Horribly.