Inside the Cutie Mark Crusader Tree House late at night, three young fillies who probably should have been sleeping were wide awake, examining four letters they were now confronted with. The extra letter was for the yellow earth pony filly, Apple Bloom, and it served as a invitation for her family. It was in a pink envelope, but the other three were all in dark blue envelopes.
They were from Luna.
Luna had invited a whole class of fillies to a Gala in Canterlot. Of course, she made sure they would be chaperoned. You may ask why Luna would do that, and the answer is simple. The foals in the Ponyville School were her friends. She had sent enough invitations to her best friend in Ponyville, Pipsqueak, for him to hand out to any child in his class that would want to go.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders, Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Apple Bloom, looked over their letters one last time. "So, ah reckon we gotta bring 'dates'?" Apple Bloom asked, looking up from the letter.
Scootaloo put a hoof to her chin and thought. "I don't know. Princess Luna didn't mention anything about them here."
Sweetie Belle looked up from her letter, too. "I heard Rarity saying something about 'required dates' before she left. Does that apply to us?"
The Crusaders sighed together. "Maybe," Apple Bloom said.
Scootaloo's face brightened up. "Hey! You guys know what? We could get our Cutie Marks for finding dates!"
"Or findin' dates fer other ponies!" Apple Bloom added.
"Like matchmakers! Wait," Sweetie Belle said, a little sadness in her voice. "We tried that last year with Miss Cheerilee. Remember how well that turned out?"
"We won't use Love Poison this time," Scootaloo said with an eye roll.
"Even so," Sweetie Belle said, "we should stick to just trying to find dates for each other."
The other two nodded in agreement. "We need to find ourselves the perfect dates!" Scootaloo declared zealously. "They'll have to be cool!"
"And kind!" Apple Bloom added.
"And cute!" Sweetie Belle said, giggling a bit. Her comment received a giggle from her friends, too.
"So we each need somepony cool, kind, and cute," Scootaloo said with a nod.
"Ya'll got anypony in mind?" the young cowpony asked. Her friends stared back blankly.
"Not really..."
"No. Not at all."
Apple Bloom facehoofed. "Well, neither do ah. Ah guess we'll have to work pretty hard to find' our dates, then."
Her friends nodded in agreement. "Right," Sweetie Belle said, "but hard work never stopped us before!"
The group was interrupted by a loud crash of thunder and a flash of lightning. The three shrieked, and gale force winds blew one of their windows open. Rainwater was blasted into the tree house, soaking Scootaloo, who shrieked again. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Bell rushed over to the window and closed it.
"At least I'm not covered in tree sap and feathers," Scootaloo groaned. Her friends laughed.
This is a CMC short. I couldn't find a way to fit it into Ch2, so I made it a short. I wrote this in about ten minutes and just proofread it myself now. It may have many mistakes.
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Well I don't know who the CMC will find, maybe Sweetie Belle will fall in love with Spike but I don't know if he'll fall in love with her.
...Why are they in a tree house during a lightning storm?! That's like painting a giant bulls-eye on your back with an insulting picture of Zeus in the center.dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/sillyfilly_Rainbow_Dash.png
Oh and I liked it. Now post chapter 3!
three young fillies who probably should have been sleeping were wide awake (should have commas before/after the orange)
Sweetie Belle looked up from her letter, too.( I don't think the comma is needed)
1381648 It IS Big Mac, but... Plot twists. No spoilers. And as for Pinkie? I have a hint for you:
To figure out Pinkie's date to the gala,
Just make sense of this simple stanza:
Two earth ponies, who will never give into hate,
The distance between is far too great.
Originally here to help their friends,
But they'll be put on the other end.
Yes, a riddle. I like riddles. This is a good one.
1381656 since when did the crusaders think things out?
1381851 it is awkward the other way.
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...Um...Braeburn?
And hey the CMC very frequently think things through...they just rarely go through to the right conclusions.
1382032 They probably figured that a tree house was safe due to it's substantial structure. That or the author wrote the short in all of five minutes.
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Regardless I love it. I want more of everything!
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So I guess Braeburn was the wrong answer...Hmmmmm...
Cool and ignore my comment from the previous chapter then since it may be wrong and I guess Braeburn for Pinkie He just did not say anything about it Edragon
1382119 That seems more logical, but this is my fanfic, so I do as I please.
Rule Number One: Never Apply Logic.
Rule Number Two: Rule Number One is logical.
1382741 I fixed that part. It did seem a bit off. Goes like this now:
That does seem better.
1382796 What flame war? There isn't a flame war here. If there were to be one, I'd delete it. Anyway, I DO support F/F, and RariJack is frankly my second favorite shipping, and I also highly support FlutterDash and ViynlxOctavia (Dunno its funky name). However, I don't write homosexual shipping because I feel uncomfortable writing it. Doesn't mean I won't try it someday. I actually have a really good idea for a RariJack Fic.
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Yes. Yes I do.
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Rule number three:
Rules one and two are fked up.
This is getting good.
1391321 No, Rule Number Three is He Who Has Gas Travels at the Back of the Pack.
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Okay. Rule 647.
All above rules are lies.
I can't wait for you to post the next one
1474706 It's coming... Soon-ish... Don't worry. Also, very cool profile pic. Just wanted to point that out.
How soon is soonish? Because i really really really want to continue.
1480853 About 1,200 words through chapter three. Going for around 2,500. Other than that, no idea when it'll actually be done.
1480977 Well, that's good at least. At least we know you are working on it. It's just its taken so long for an update.
1481031 That's cuz I haven't had any time to work on it till earlier last week, and at that point I chose not to because I didn't have any inspiration for ch3. A lot of what I have written right now came to me in a dream two days ago. Until then I only had 200 words done.
Read this again just now. Personally, I've never liked Soarin' x Rainbow Dash, but this one is the exception. His insecurity with love makes this story a lot more believable than most. Great story, I hope you continue this soon.
1493517 Hopefully.
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Lest we forget the dreaded rule that shalt not be said
Thy rule
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