Ponywatching

by ThunderTempest

Prompt #507-Secret Meeting

“Order, Order!” Apple Bloom banged her hoof on the little podium in the Cutie Mark Crusaders’ treehouse, “This ultra-secret meetin’ of the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and Spike the honorary Crusader will now begin.”

“It’s not that secret, Apple Bloom,” said Sweetie Belle, “You and Scootaloo grabbed us in the middle of the market, yelling ‘Secret Crusader meetin’ right now!’”

“Well, it’s what we’re talkin’ about that’s secret, not the meeting,” retorted Apple Bloom.

“Okay, so what are we talking about?” asked Spike. Apple Bloom looked at Spike, and spoke.

“We need to talk about the fact that mah sister and Sweetie’s sister have been makin’ lovey-dovey eyes at each other.”

“We do?” squeaked Sweetie Belle, and Spike rolled his eyes.

“Heck yeah we do!” said Scootaloo, “Don’t you remember what happened with that love poison potion, with Big Mac and Miss Cheerilee? What if something like that happens with Applejack? Or Rarity?”

“Don’t be silly, Scootaloo. Rarity can’t pull a building,” said Sweetie Belle, confidant that that would end the discussion. It didn’t.

“Yeah, but you know what Rarity’s like. She’ll go all dramatic and wail and stuff. Blech,” Scootaloo started to pace around the treehouse, “and that’s not all-Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie have also been making funny faces at each other.”

“Oooh,” went Sweetie Belle, “I think I remember overhearing Rarity say something about that. Um, I think she said,” Sweetie Belle cleared her throat and went into her best Rarity impersonation, “why daarling, those two together would be absolutely adorable!”

Apple Bloom stomped her hoof, “Look girls, I don’t like the idea of mah sis making smoochie pie faces at Rarity. So we tried for our cutie marks in matchmakin’,” all three of the Crusaders (and Spike) shuddered as they remembered that Hearts and Hooves day, “ah was thinkin’ maybe there’s one for anti-matchmakin’. Like stopping ponies from gettin’ together.”

“Why would we want a mark like that, though?” said Sweetie, “Having that as a special talent would be pretty awful.”

[Time]

“Hey, at least Rainbow Dash isn’t making any goo-goo eyes at anypony. Dash is just too awesome for anypony to handle.”

“Yeah, and Twilight’s not dating anypony either,” said Spike.

“That’s because she’s an egghead.”

“Girls!” called Apple Bloom, “ah still think we should try and get our cutie marks in anti-matchmakin’. Who’s with me?” However, Apple Bloom’s call went unheeded, as Scootaloo had begun arguing with Sweetie Belle about why Rainbow Dash was too awesome to need a special somepony, and Spike was stuck inbetween them.

“Nopony ever listens to my ideas,” grumbled Apple Bloom.

Author's Note:

Written for Prompt #507-“They All Fall Down” (Returning Theme Week, Day Seven)
The prompt: Four Elements Down

Comments

[Themaskedferret]

Goofy and sweet.

[Malandy]

Again, I agree with the ferret. It's funny how Apple Bloom takes Rarijack as something terrible... But, then again, we don't know why... What's she so worried about?
When is this happening and when did Spike get inducted? Why did he get inducted, and who else has been?
Is this shipping SweetieXSpike? Why were they at the market? Just met up there? or what?

Again... typos... sorta feel like I'm nit-picking here... although, if you wanted me to stop, I'm quite sure I said you could tell me so... If you did, and I didn't stop... I guess I could be banned for... something...
I also think I missed a few, but I wanna read through all of them, so see you next chapter!

Name errors:
'Apple bloom' to 'Apple Bloom'
'Sweetie Bell' to 'Sweetie Belle'
'sweetie Belle' to 'Sweetie Belle'
'Cutie mark Crusaders'

Grammar:

Not capitalizing at the beginning of quotes.
' “why daarling '

Not punctuating at the end of quotes:
Example: ' right now’” ' I think needs an exclamation mark at the end.

Formatting:
Needs a new line before: ' Apple Bloom looked at Spike, and spoke.'

[ThunderTempest]

5381739 It's fine, really. There's bound to be a lot of typos in these- they were all written in 30 or so minutes, and while my internal editor is usually pretty good, it does miss stuff.

Assume that this is happening sometime after Hearts and Hooves Day (S2E17). As for Spike, I headcanon him at around the same age as the CMC, so they hang out sometimes.