The Gift of Time

by Shadow Dragon

Sisterhoves Social & Cutie Pox

Author's Note:

Sorry about the name, I couldn’t think of a better one

We start in the CMC clubhouse where the CMC are having a meeting

Spike stood at the podium and announced “I call this meeting of the Cutie Mark Crusaders into order, our first objective is to welcome our newest members Moonlight Sparkle and Screwball.”

“I’d like to thank you all for letting me join you despite the fact I already have a Cutie Mark.” Screwball declared cheerfully

Spike replied “Well with your chaotic power the others can do basically anything to try and get their Cutie Marks and you can act as a safety net in case anything goes wrong.”

Applebloom and Scotalloo clapped enthusiastically but Sweetie Belle was far less enthusiastic which Spike was able to pick up on immediately

“Something the matter Sweetie Belle?”

Sweetie Belle sighed and admitted “Well if you must know, I’m staying at my sister’s house for a while, wale I am excited because that means I will be able to spend even more time with my fellow Crusaders than before, no matter what I do Rarity keeps getting mad at me! I tried making breakfast for my family but Rarity wouldn’t even try it, in fact she made it all over and I was barley able to help! So mine was a little burnt big deal right!?”

Spike, Applebloom, and Scootaloo cringed to themselves, they once made the mistake of actually trying Sweetie Belle’s cooking under the belief that it tasted better than it looked, it did not, even Spike couldn’t stomach it.

Fortunately for them Sweetie Belle changed the subject before they would have to respond “And she got angry at me not not cleaning up after myself, when I tried to wash some of the clothes but accidentally shrank one of her sweaters, I tried make a thoughtful gift for her she got mad again for using some of her gems! Later got angry at me for cleaning up her messy room! What’s up with that!?” Sweetie huffed in annoyance before signing In disappointment and declaring “I just wish we could do something special together that didn’t involve me goofing anything up.”

Applebloom gasped and declared “Wait the Sisterhooves Social! Applejack and I do it every year, you and Rarity could compete against other teams in all these neat events!”

Sweetie Belle gasped in excitement “That sounds like the perfect way to hangout! Rarity will think it’s a great idea! I am gonna go tell her about it now!” She ran out existed

After she left Spike bluntly declared “Rarity isn’t going to think it’s a good idea at all.”

“How do y’all know!?” Applebloom asked kinda offended

“She’ll think it’s uncouth.” Spike explained much to Applebloom’s confusion

Screwball turned to Moonlight and asked “So Moonlight, I heard about the social myself and know the rules, apparently you don’t have to even be related to compete in the social and it’s not just for girls, so I was wondering if you and Spike were gonna compete together?”

Spike and Moonlight looked at eachother awkwardly, the two didn’t really know what they were to eachother, Moonlight was especially confusing to Spike since just a couple of weeks ago she was a baby and now she was about his age

Before the awkwardness could continue they heard a zooming sound and a yell of “Incoming!”

Suddenly Rainbow Dash crash landed into the Crusader Clubhouse

“Sorry about that, but right now have any of you seen a filly by the name of Scootaloo?” Rainbow Dash asked as she got up and dusted herself off

Scootaloo stepped forward in complete disbelief and stuttered “I-I’m Scootaloo. A-and y-you’re Rainbow Dash!”

“Well Scootaloo, Twilight told me all about the Sisterhooves Social and about how theirs a filly almost as awesome as me that would love nothing more than the chance to compete alongside me to bring home the gold, and that filly happens to be you.” Rainbow Dash explained that to her

Scootaloo felt like she would explode form sheer excitement “I’m not dreaming am I?” She asked faintly

Just as she spread her wings to test if this was truly a dream or not Rainbow Dash stopped her by saying “Not a dream squirt, now come on we’ve got some practice to do.”

Scootaloo passed out and Rainbow Dash commented “Looks like we’ve got a bit of work to do but I do like a challenge.”

Rainbow put the passed out filly on her back before flying away to practice

Applebloom also left to practice with her own sister Applejack leaving Moonlight, Spike, and Screwball alone together

“So are you gonna compete with anypony Screwball?” Spike asked curiously

Screwball shock her head in disappointment and declared “Wish I could but they have a rule against beings with god-like powers such as myself, no I’m not kidding theirs actually a rule about that, I guess it was originally put in place with Celestia and Luna in mind as if they completed in the Social it wouldn’t be fair for anypony else. So I can’t compete because I’m more well known, but Moonlight can compete as barley anypony knows about the fact she’s an Alicorn, not even Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, or Scootaloo know yet.”

“And I would prefer to keep it that way for now.” Moonlight stated firmly

Screwball nodded in understanding before declaring “I understand, most of the ponies in town avoid me because they all know who my daddy is.”

Later Sweetie Belle told Applebloom and Applejack about how, like Spike predicted Rarity didn’t want to compete in the Sisterhoove Special because it was uncouth which Applejack explained to Applebloom meant uncivilized, or bad mannered, Applejack then told Sweetie Belle that Rarity would soon come around but she didn’t believe her so Applejack offered Sweetie to help with chores that Applebloom and Applejack turn into a game, Sweetie noted how the two were constantly much closer and had more fun than herself and Rarity

Meanwhile Rarity was finally noticing how Sweetie Belle was trying to do something nice for her, first with her room now organized she got inspired to make a whole new line, then she noticed that wale the shrunken sweater was too small for her it fit her pet cat Opal perfectly, and finally as the pièce de résistance she finally actually saw exactly what Sweetie Belle made for her with those gems and Rarity burst out crying for how she treated Sweetie Belle

Rarity tried to apologize to Sweetie Belle but Sweetie Belle wouldn’t let her and told Rarity how she wanted Applejack to be her sister instead, which also caused Applebloom to fight with her over Applejack as she didn’t like to share her family, yet

Rarity tried to get Sweetie Belle to come back to her but Sweetie wouldn’t listen especially considering Rarity wasn’t exactly considerate to what Sweetie Belle wanted to do

Applejack pulled Rarity aside and gave her some advice about how to be a better sister and Rarity left declaring she knew what needed to be done

It was the day of the social and Applejack approached with Applebloom and Sweetie Belle in toe

Sweetie Belle did miss Rarity deep down, consistently making remarks about what she would say if she were here

When it was time for the race event Sweetie Belle complained about not having a sister to complete with but then suddenly an all too familiar voice called out “Who said you didn’t?”

Sweetie turned around an couldn’t believe her eyes, it was Rarity and she was wearing a bedazzled bandanna and holding a matching one with magic

“Rarity what are you doing here? I thought you said this was uncouth.” Sweetie Belle declared in shock

“I did but after my talk with Applejack I realized that to be a good sister I should also do the things you like to do, I even had this whole big dramatic plan set up where you and Applejack would start the rase together but I would hide in the mud pit and that’s were Applejack and I would switch places and after the rase I would reveal my true identity, but then Twilight talked to me and got me to realize that simply talking to you about this was a better way to go.” She offered the matching bandanna to Sweetie Belle and asked “What do you say?”

Sweetie Belle looked up at Rarity for a moment before smiling and cheered “Let’s do it!”

Rarity smiled and wrapped the bandanna around Sweetie Belle’s neck and stated “Now I cannot promise we will win, after all we’re up against Rainbow Dash and Applejack in an athletic competition.”

“I don’t really care about winning, all I care about is spending time with you sis.” Sweetie Belle replied with a cheerful smile while Rarity fondly returned

The rase itself was fun, Applejack and Applebloom tied for first place along with Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo, Rarity and Sweetie Belle surprisingly coming in second

Rarity and Sweetie Belle became closer from the event, find a good balance between the messy more chaotic activities Sweetie Belle liked and the cleaner more orderly activities Rarity enjoyed

The next day started out as normal for the Cutie Mark Crusaders with another failed attempt to get their Cutie Marks Applebloom was extra disheartened by that and the other Crusaders did everything in their power to try and cheer her up, but nothing worked and she ran off to the Everfree Forest, fortunately for her after getting herself hurt she almost immediately ran into Zecora who fixed her right up with a potion, which gave Applebloom the idea to ask for a potion that could give her a Cutie Mark, but no such potion existed, instead Applebloom stole a powerful herb that could make one’s hearts desires come to life, and for Applebloom that just so happened to be the solution to her problem

By the next day Applebloom had a Cutie Mark, it would’ve been perfect, if not for one problem, in trying to shortcut her way to a Cutie Mark Applebloom accidentally caught a decease called the Cutie Pox’s, which constantly gave her more and more Cutie Marks and forced her to act out the talents the marks suddenly gave her

The only reason Twilight didn’t stop this before it happened was because she knew that even if she did Applebloom would learn about the Hearts Desire Herb some other way and used it, it was also a learning experience that the filly needed to find that using magic to force a Cutie Mark to appear never ended well, so instead of outright preventing it, she already had the cure ready to be used when Applebloom came to see her

Applebloom was almost immediately cured when she came, and fortunately for her she only had 3 marks at the time but that wasn’t the end of it as one thing Twilight forgot to account for that she honestly probably should’ve seen coming was Discord and/or Screwball wanting to have fun with the situation

Meanwhile across town the effects of that were being shown, specifically with Scootalloo and Sweetie Belle

It started similar to Applebloom, the 2 suddenly unexpectedly gaining Cutie Marks, at first they didn’t even notice getting them, until suddenly Rainbow Dash came to see specifically Scootaloo

“Hay Squirt, I see you got a Cutie Mark.”

Scootaloo looked to see Rainbow Dash was right, she did indeed have a Cutie Mark, it was of a purple lightning bolt

Rainbow Dash processed to explain “When Pegasi have lightning bolts for Cutie Marks that usually means that their talent has something to do with fast flying.”

Scootaloo gasped in excitement and spread her wings and took off, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo had fun raising across the sky’s, wale on the ground Sweetie Belle almost couldn’t stop speaking Prench (Pony French) much to Rairty’s excitement

But then the problems started arising, Scootaloo suddenly got a Cloud for a Cutie mark and began beating away clouds without meaning to and Sweetie Belle suddenly gained a Cutie Mark for Magic and disaster soon followed

Rarity and Rainbow Dash took them to Twilight’s to show her what was going on

“Okay I have good news and bad news, the good news is I know the cure, the bad news is I already used my only batch of the cure on Applebloom earlier, we need Zecora.” Twilight informed them

So get Zecora they did, and fortunately enough Zecora had just what they needed and enough for both but some pony needed to say a truth to the flower so Applebloom admitted to causing the Cutie Pox in the first place, then Screwball admitted that it was her fault it spread to Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo as she didn’t know Twilight only had enough cure for one

Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were also cured and they were grateful as they had at least 10-20 Cutie Marks each by that point

Comments

[Theresa hall]

I love these stories but in the original time applebloom was alone when she learned about the plant so what changed this time so she wasn't alone.

[Xalok]

Only the brave and the bold would eat Sweetie Belle's food. But they will not stay brave after though.

[Shadow Dragon]

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Sorry if it wasn’t explained very well but Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle weren’t with her, it was because of screwball that the two got the Cutie Pox

[Theresa hall]

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What did she do to make it so sweetie end up with applebloom when she took the plant?

[Shadow Dragon]

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Screwball has some of Discord’s magic, think of it like if Discord was the one to cause it, that’s basically what happens if I say Screwball caused something to happen

[Theresa hall]

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Could you be more specific regarding what exactly she did? Example discord releasing villains causing rumor mill causing 3 tribes to be divided from one whole group causing the windgos to return. This is the sort of information I was looking for.

[Shadow Dragon]

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Okay… I’ll try my best, keep in mind Chaos Magic
Applebloom caused the Cutie Pox to happen and Screwball caused it to spread to Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle as a prank

Please stop taking this too seriously I just wanted the Cutie Pox to be shared among the CMC and didn’t really think any further than that

[Theresa hall]

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OK that makes sense especially for mischief makers like screwball and discord. Those two are very good at getting into trouble.

[Max Stroberger]

Hey I was wondering why you didn't do Fall weather friends?

[Theresa hall]

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Partly because Celestia didn't really help her understand this fact instead she chose to use twilight and then use her to ditch the throne even though twilight certainly never agree to being an alicorn or staying in charge forever. Twilight wasn't treated with respect instead Celestia played games like with the tickets. Celestia wanted twilight to suffer from the tickets and wanted the girls there to cause problems. Pinkie and rainbow play harmless pranks that don't usually have long term consequences and certainly don't trick people who trust them into doing their jobs. Twilight would have never thought anything bad about Celestia back then and it was plain to see so Celestia probably saw that but chose not to cut the cord but use her love and trust in her for her own benefit.

[Supertoe]

Do u plan to update this story anymore?