Rumble and his brother moves to Ponyville. One week later after they finish unpacking in thier new home, Rumbles goes on his first day of school, he notices a certain orange pegasus filly.
Rumble and his brother moves from Cloudsdale to Ponyville. After a week of unpacking everything in his new home, Rumble goes on his first day of school, he plans to make new friends on his first day, but then on his first day he notices an orange pegasus filly with a purple mane by the name of Scootaloo. Scootaloo even notices him, will they confess on how they feel?
This is my first story, so you don't have to like it. But anyways, enjoy!
It's a nice and beautiful morning in Ponyville as Celestia's sun begins to rise up from the horizon, its vibrant golden light gradually replacing the darkness in the sky.
The blare of an alarm clock fills the silence of a bedroom, quickly being silenced as a left foreleg groggily reached over and a hoof slammed into the snooze button. Thunderlane slowly slides off of his bed, stretching his body and wings while exhaling a long yawn. Glancing at the overhanging clock, the pegasus reads it's 08:30. Bolting from his sitting position on the ground, Thunderlane darted to the cuarters of his younger brother Rumble to get him ready for his first day of school.
The two pegasus brothers had moved to Ponyville a week ago, and their welcome to the humble town was the same as many new arrivals: a touring around of the area, a welcome party courtesy of a bubbly pink mare, and settling in to a life with new friends.
"I really need to buy Rumble an alarm clock," Thunderlane remarked under his breath, silently approaching a bed with said pegasus filly still curled up on it. Softly prodding his brother in the shoulder, Rumble repeated this until the colt began to stir, "Come on, Rumble, wake up! You'll be late for your first day in school!"
Rumble groaned, turning away from his older brother and pulling his pillow over his head.
"Bro, I'm really in no mood for this right now. Get your flank up from this bed right now! You're going to make me late for my weather duties," Thunderlane sighed in exasperation, a stern expression clearly stamped on his muzzale.
"Just ... give me five more minutes," Rumble groaned,, voice muffled from beneath the pillow.
Thunderlane shook his head, "I am not waiting any longer; you have to get up now. Thirty minutes until it's late, Rumble. Get up! Do you really want to be late for your first day?
Rumble finally sat up and yawned while he extended his forelegs above him, as he stretched his upper body. His eyelids were only half open.
"Rumble, you slept late last night didn't you?" he asked blankly.
Rumble nodded his head.
"You should start going to bed earlier, it ain't healthy to sleep late and it's bad for your muscles. If you want to become a wonderbolt when you grow up, you should start sleeping early."
"Okay but do I really have to go to school in Ponyville? I want to go back to Cloudsdale with my old friends."
"Don't worry bro, you'll get used to it. Just try to make some new friends here there is nothing bad about making new friends," he replied. "From what I heard is that Ponyville has the nicest ponies you can find here. I heard you can easily make friends here." Thunderlane said with a smile.
"Well, I guess its worth a try." Rumble shrugged.
"Now hurry up!" he exclaimed. "We don't have time to talk, brush your teeth, splash some water in your face to wake yourself up, eat your breakfast, and pack your saddlebags so I can fly you to school." he commanded.
And with that Rumble quickly trotted to the bathroom and grabs his toothbrush to brush his teeth. Afterwards, he splashes water in his face to keep himself from falling asleep. He rushes out of the bathroom and enters the kitchen and he sees Thunderlane had cooked him sunny-side up eggs for breakfast, he placed the eggs on a plate and grabs it with his mouth and sets it on the table. Rumble stares at the eggs and completely devours them.
"Okay I'm ready lets go!" He exclaimed, and he quickly trotted to his saddlebags on his back and Thunderlane only chuckled, they trotted to the front door and Thunderlane twisted the door knob with his hoof and opens it and they found themselves outside in the middle of a bright sunny morning.
"Remember bro, make friends, do your work, and have a good time at school, let me know how was your day when you get back. Follow me, I'll fly you to the school house." and with that, Thunderlane spreads out his wings and starts to fly into the air, Rumble followed behind.
Thunderlane had taught Rumble how to fly when he was younger, not many young pegasus foals has the ability to fly yet.Rumble is one of the only few that can fly.
"So how are you feeling bro? Are you nervous for school?" asked Thunderlane, as he looks to his left towards Rumble.
"Ha! Nothing can make me nervous!" Rumble smiled with pride, Thunderlane tries to hold out his laughter. Rumble frowned, as he notices Thunderlane is trying to hold down his laughter.
"Hey! What is so funny?" he said with a frown.
"Oh nothing, bro!" replied Thunderlane, as he tried to hold down a laugh. After a few minutes of flying, he begins to see the Ponyville Schoolhouse in the distance.
"Rumble! We're almost there! Just follow my lead!" Thunderlane shouted, he slowly glides down towards the ground, Rumble follows him close behind. They gently landed in front of the schoolhouse and began to say their good byes.
"Well I guess this is good bye. Have a good time here at school, bro." Thunderlane makes a warm smile and wraps his left foreleg around Rumble, he returns the embrace by wrapping both of his around his neck.
"Okay, I'll catch you later."
And then with that, they broke apart and Thunderlane turns away from Rumble, and he spreads his wings but then he turns his head back around to get one last glimpse at Rumble who is running towards the front entrance of the Schoolhouse before flying off.
Rumble sees many colts and fillies making their way inside the school as they greeted a purple mare who is standing next to the entrance. The mare looks over towards Rumble and a smile formed on her face at his sight.
"Well hello there, you must be new here, allow me to introduce myself. You can call me Miss Cheerilee and I will be your teacher for now on." she said. "Can you please tell me your name?"
"M-my name is Rumble." he stuttered.
"Where are you from?"
"I moved from Cloudsdale a week ago."
"Don't worry, it's normal when a new student is shy. But I'm sorry that I'm going to have to introduce you to the class, just wait here just a minute until I call you to come inside. " Miss Cheerilee said with a smile. She enters through the front door to enter the classroom.
"Dang it! Does she really have to introduce me to the class? I really hate that." Rumble mumbled to himself under his breathe.
Miss Cheerilee enters the classroom and she looks over the entire classroom at all the colts and fillies that are talking and whispering to each other.
"Good morning everypony! Can I have your attention please! I have an important announcement!" the foals just stare at her with blank expressions in response. Miss Cheerilee clears her throat before she gives the announcement.
"Before class begins today, I would like to introduce a new student joining us today!" she turns towards the door. "You can come in now!" she called him.
"Okay, here goes nothing." Rumble thought to himself, as he enters the classroom. He gazed at all the students in the classroom and notices that all of their eyes are on him, as he stood in the front of the classroom.
"Okay students, this is Rumble," — she points her hoof at the gray-pegasus colt — "he will be joining us in class for now on, he just moved here to Ponyville a week ago, please treat him nicely." Miss Cheerilee then turns her head at Rumble.
"Now Rumble, can you tell the class a little bit about yourself?"
"My name is Rumble, I moved from Cloudsdale, I live with my big brother who works at the weather team, and my dream is to become a wonderbolt when I grow up." Rumble said
"Okay Rumble, you may have a seat now," — Miss Cheerilee points her hoof towards an empty desk — "there is an empty desk right there next to Scootaloo." Miss Cheerilee said as she points her hoof towards an empty desk and an orange pegasus filly sitting right besides it. Rumble walked towards the empty desk, he laid his eyes upon the orange filly as he sat down in his desk, the orange filly glances back.
"H-hi my name is Scootaloo." Scootaloo said sheepishly as she offers him a hoof shake, Rumble smiles back and grasps her hoof and shakes it.
"Hi Scootaloo, its nice to see a fellow pegasus here besides Cloudsdale." Rumble said as he broke apart from the hoof shake.
"So, Rumble is your name...right?" She asks and Rumble gave a smile before nodding, a small blush appeared on Scootaloo's cheeks but Rumble didn't seem to notice.
"I like the way he does his mane and the color it is. No! Bad Scootaloo! You just met him, you don't even know him that well. Plus all that mushy, lovey dovey stuff makes me less cool!" Scootaloo thought, she wasn't even paying attention in class, she just had put her head down for the rest of class.
After a few hours of learning and sitting in class, the lunch bell had finally rung and all the foals in the classroom immediately got up from their seats and exited through the classroom. Rumble was the last one to exit out the door. He was hoping that he would make one friend in his first day. He doesn't want to sit in a table with nopony to talk to.
He followed the other foals into an area that had tables for them to eat their lunch, they sat down on the tables next to their friends. Rumble looked around to find an empty bench, since he didn't have friends yet. He shortly spotted an empty table and slowly walked towards it, that was the only bench available for him while the rest had foals eating their lunch.
He made it to the empty table and right before he was going to sit down, "Hey, Rumble!" a voice called, Rumble's ear twitched as he heard his name, he quickly glances around him to look for who called his name.
"Over here!" another voice called and Rumble looked towards the right direction from where it came from and spotted two colts sitting together in a table. There was a brown-spotted colt and a cream-Pegasus colt, they were both gesturing him to come to their table. Rumble had a confused look on his face, he was wondering why they are calling him. He slowly turned from the empty table and walked towards the two colts.
"Come sit with us, Rumble!" shouted the cream-Pegasus colt.
"Okay," he blankly replied, and he did what they told him to do and sat next to the cream-colored Pegasus colt. Both of the colts had grins on their faces, and Rumble simply had a confused look.
"Hey there, my name is Pipsqueak," greeted the small, brown-spotted colt, .
"And I'm Featherweight," greeted the cream-Pegasus colt "Do you want to hang out with us?" he offered, Rumble instantly cracked a smile as he heard what he was offered and he nodded his head fiercely.
"Sure! I would love to!" Rumble exclaimed, "I was hoping to myself that I would make at least one friend today on my first day in this school." Rumble replied, he was relieved that he made two friends at school on his first day. Thunderlane was right, it was easy to make friends in this town. Rumble takes out his lunch from his saddlebag and sets it on the table.
"So, can you tell us some of the things you like to do in your life?" asked Pipsqueak, Rumble turned from his lunch and glances at Pipsqueak.
"Well, I like to fly, my dream is to become a Wonderbolt when I grow up. I've been practicing flying stunts with my older brother every weekend." Rumble said while his friends gave interested looks.
"Who is your older brother?" Featherweight asked with a curious look.
"His name is Thunderlane, he is a part of the weather team." Rumble slightly tilted his head with a curious look, "Why do you ask?"
"Oh nothing, I was just curious." Featherweight shrugged his shoulders.
"So what do you plan when you grow up, Featherweight? Since you're a Pegasus just like I am, do you want to become a Wonderbolt too in the future?" asked Rumble with curious look.
Featherweight shook his head, "No, I don't really care much about that. I've been focusing on photography all my life, I'm the Editor of the Foal Free Press." Featherweight replied as he continued on eating his lunch.
"Oh," was all Rumble can say.
Pipsqueak noticed that Rumble has no cutie mark on his flank, "Hey, I see that you're a blank flank too." Pipsqueak grinned as Rumble immediately turned his attention towards Pipsqueak with a confused look.
"What do you mean by that? Is it a bad thing that I don't have a cutie mark?" Rumble raised his eyebrow in confusion.
Pipsqueak shook his head and said, "No it's not, I'm a blank flank too. There are three fillies that goes to this school that will help you find your own special talent, they are called the Cutie Mark Crusaders." he continued, Rumble is certainly interested about these three fillies that Pipsqueak is mentioning.
"Yeah, they have an interesting past together," — Featherweight pointed towards another table where three fillies sat in — "they're sitting over there." Featherweights said, Rumble looks at the direction where Featherweight is pointing at, and he spotted three fillies sitting at a table not too far from their table. One was a yellow- earth pony wearing a bow on her head, the next is a white-unicorn, and last an orange-Pegasus that Rumble recognized. He sees the fillies giggling and talking about certain things, he turns his attention back to his friends.
"Hey, I know that orange one, her name is Scootaloo, she sits next to me in class." Rumble grinned as he glances back to look at Scootaloo. Something feels different about her than the other fillies, one that he couldn't put his hoof on.
"And the other two are Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle." Pipsqueak added.
"Yeah," a smirk grew on Featherweight's face, "Apple Bloom is the filly that Pipsqueak has been chasing lately." Pipsqueak had grown a small blush on his cheeks. "You want her to be your special somepony, right?" Featherweight teased, Pipsqueak's face turned from embarrassment to irritation.
"Stop it, you're changing the subject. " he retorted.
"Anyways," Featherweight shrugged as he went back to the subject, "Did you take a look at their cutie marks? They all have almost the same exact cutie marks." Featherweight said, Rumble made a look of disbelief.
"Really?" he said in disbelief and glances back at the trio of fillies and noticed that their cutie marks are almost, exactly the same. After a short amount of time looking at their cutie marks, he turned his head back towards his friends.
"Do they have the same talent or something?" Rumble said with a look of confusion, Featherweight shook his head.
"No, they each have their own special talent, it shows it in their cutie marks. They have similar cutie marks because of how strong their friendship is, I assume." Featherweight replied while Rumble looks at the fillies with interest.
"Yeah, they'll eventually try to help you figure out what your special talent is, including myself." Pipsqueak cracked a smile, Rumble's face turned into excitement.
"That's awesome! I hope my talent has something to do with flying or the Wonderbolts." Rumble said enthusiastically.
"Well, before the Cutie Mark Crusaders got their cutie marks, they were always going on crusading and such things to earn their cutie marks, they desperately wanted their cutie marks in no time. Especially Apple Bloom, she was the most impatient one out of the three. They'll even do dangerous things to even achieve their cutie marks, even if it almost kills them. But they always seem to fail on doing so." Featherweight continued the story to Rumble who had a look of interest.
"They also used to get bullied all the time by two other fillies. Not just them, all of us were bullied too." Pipsqueak stated, his ears flattened as he thinks about the horrible memories when he used to be bullied.
"There are bullies here?" Rumble asked as he raised an eyebrow.
"Their names are Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, they used to be total jerks to us all, thinking they're better than everypony else just because they are rich. They used to make fun of everypony who don't have cutie marks by calling them 'blank flanks', and they tell us what to do all the time. " Featherweight scowled at the thought of the memories when he was bullied and picked on almost everyday.
"But they're not like that anymore, they're cool now. They're even friends with the Cutie Mark Crusaders now." Pipsqueak said as he continues to eat his lunch.
After a few minutes of silence, Featherweight glances over the table around him for a moment and soon realizes that somepony is missing from their table, "Pipsqueak, have you seen Button Mash anywhere? I thought I saw him in class earlier," he asked Pipsqueak who shook his head for an answer, Featherweights quickly glances all around him to look for a certain colt.
"Who's Button Mash?" Rumble asked with confusion in his voice. Featherweight instantly turns his attention directly at Rumble.
"Only the greatest gamer in all of Ponyville." he responded, "He is a cool colt, he always invites us at his house to play video games with him every Friday. He's a cool guy but sometimes he can be a whiner and makes a big deal out of things that are not. He's probably sitting under a tree playing his Joyboy." Featherweight rolled his eyes.
"Hey guys!" a voice heard, and it catches the group's attention. They turned from their lunch and they spotted a brown-earth pony colt quickly walking towards their table. He wore a propeller hat on his head. The colt had joined their table by sitting next to Pipsqueak.
"Button, where have you been?" Pipsqueak retorted with an irritated look, Button chuckled nervously.
"Sorry guys, I got distracted while I was playing my Joyboy." Button said before he glanced at Rumble with a curious look for a moment, "Hey is this the new kid?" Button asked as he looked at Pipsqueak with an eyebrow raised.
"Yes he is, he's our new friend." he replied with a smile.
"Cool!" Button exclaimed and quickly turned back to Rumble, "Hey what's up, I'm Button Mash." he said as he reach his hoof towards him to shake his hoof, which Rumble accepted as he grasped Button's hoof and shakes it firmly.
"My name's Rumble, nice to meet you." he said with a smile.
"You too." Button replied.
After minutes of Rumble talking to his new friends, the lunch bell rang and lunch time has come to an end. It is now Recess time, all the foals immediately bounced off from their table, and they all eagerly ran towards the school playground. Rumble and his new friends all walked towards the playground.
"Hey, Button," Featherweight called and he grew a menacing smile on his face, "Are you finally going to ask Sweetie Belle out today?" he teased as he walked besides Button who had a light shade of red spreading across his cheeks.
"Uh, w-why would I do that?" Button stammered, trying his best to shrug it off to move on to a different subject. Rumble snickered, Pipsqueak cracked a smile and Featherweight's smirk has grew more menacing.
"It's obvious that you like her. Every time you're with her, you couldn't keep your eyes off of her." Featherweight retorted and now Button's blush has grown darker.
"I-I don't stare at her," Button retorted as he couldn't find the right words to say.
"You invite her to your house, I always see her there when you invite us to your house on Fridays. I think that shows proof to why you like her." he replied.
"Uh...I-uh," Button's face has been growing a darker shade of red each second.
"Just admit it, stop making a big deal out of a simple crush." Featherweight said calmly and Button had given up on trying to hide his secret. His heart was racing, he didn't want to be embarrassed about having a crush.
"Fine! I admit it! I have a crush on Sweetie Belle!" he shouted, "Are you happy now?" he said sarcastically, but he didn't realize that he said it out loud, which catches the attention of all the foals in the playground, and they all stared directly at Button. Featherweight, Pipsqueak, and Rumble notices the attention Button is getting.
"Uh, Button," Pipsqueak whispered.
"What," he replied calmly.
"I think you've said it too loud, I think every foal in the school knows your secret." Pipsqueak whispered and Button looked around him, his eyes widened and pupils shrunk, and a large blush appeared on his cheeks. What if Sweetie Belle knows it now? He sees all the foals giggling and whispering to each other. Some of them are swooning, giggling, and some had smirks on their faces. This is a position that Button never wanted to be in.
"Does Sweetie know how I feel about her?" he thought to himself as he looks through the playground to look for Sweetie Belle, but he couldn't find her anywhere there, but he saw her and the other crusaders in the distance. And to his relief they were too far to here him scream.
"OH THANK CELESTIA!" he shouted in relief as he places his hoof over his heart, which his friends gave him confused looks.
"What!? Everypony knows your secret, I thought you would be embarrassed." Rumble said in shocked and Button nodded his head.
"I am embarrassed, its just that Sweetie didn't hear me. If she did, it would make this moment far more awkward and embarrassing." Button replied, still in relief.
Rumble sees two earth pony fillies approaching the group, one was pink-coated who wore a crown on her head, and one gray-coated who wore glasses and jewelry. They approached the group, the pink filly had a playful smirk on her face. The group notices them approaching the group, they are known as Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon.
Button became even more nervous now, he knew Diamond Tiara could be a loud mouth and could accidentally tell Sweetie Belle his secret. He wanted to hit himself in the face for all the attention he is getting.
"So you have a crush on Sweetie Belle all this time, and you didn't even tell us about it?" said Diamond Tiara with a smirk on her face. Button's face had a faint blush, panic was all over his face.
"Please don't tell her!? Please!" he pleaded as he got down on his knees.
"Don't worry, your secret is safe with us." Silver Spoon grinned and Button sighed in relief.
"Thank Celestia," he mumbled under his breath.
"So when are you going to ask her out? Today or are you going to wait until Hearts & Hooves day?" Featherweight asked as he puts his hoof around button's neck.
"I don't know," Button shrugged, "How am I supposed to know?"
"It's better if you ask her out right now." Diamond Tiara suggested, but Button shook his head.
"What if she doesn't like me back? What if she already has her eye on another colt?" Button panicked, Diamond Tiara rolls her eyes and begins to hold Button's head and forces him to turn towards her, their muzzles are inches apart.
"Stop doubting yourself!" Diamond Tiara exclaimed, "Are you going to be a stallion and ask her out, or are you going to be a wimp and hide your feelings from her?" she shouted in his face, Button's eyes widened and tries to think of a way to get out of this.
"Uh-" he was cut off as Diamond Tiara places her hoof over his mouth.
"No excuses!" Diamond Tiara points over to Sweetie Belle who is playing with the other crusaders, "She right over there, if you don't tell her how you feel, then its going to hurt you." she said and the rest of the group nodded their heads in agreement.
"You won't regret it," Featherweight added, Button knew he was right, there is no way for him to run now.
"I would ask her out, but I don't think I'm ready right now." Button answered and both Featherweight and Diamond Tiara gave him stares of disbelief and confusion.
"What!?" they both shouted in unison.
"Come on Diamond and Featherweight, I think your pushing him too hard on this. How would you feel if somepony forces you to ask somepony out on a date? Just let him build his own courage by himself, he can do it." Silver Spoon scowled at Featherweight and Diamond, they both looked down in guilt.
"I'll do it some other day okay, I didn't plan anything yet, this situation just came out of nowhere and I think I came unprepared." Button said, and then he looked at the Crusaders playing with each other in the distance.
"We're sorry, Button. I promise that I will never do that again." Featherweight said in guilt, Button cracked a joyful smile.
"Yeah me too," Diamond added, "I'm still not used to being nice to everypony." she continued.
"That's okay. But if you excuse me, I have a game to beat on my Joyboy. If you need me, I'll sit over their under that tree." Button grabbed his Joyboy out from his saddlebag and waved his friends good-bye as he quickly trots out from the playground towards a tree in the distance.
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon notices the gray-Pegasus colt, "Hey aren't you the new colt in our school?" Diamond said which catches Rumble's ear to twitch.
"Uh, yeah," he replied as he looks directly at them.
"Okay, I would like to introduce ourselves to you," Diamond Tiara clears her throat, "I'm Diamond Tiara." greeted the pink-earth pony filly.
"And I'm Silver Spoon," greeted the gray-earth pony filly.
"Hey aren't you two the bullies that Pipsqueak and Featherweight were talking about earlier?" Rumble mentioned, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were dumbfounded that he already knows who they were. The two former bullies glanced at each other with guilt in their faces for a moment, and they glanced back at Rumble.
"We're not bullies anymore, we changed. I was basically walking on my mother's path this whole time, we are still making things up to everypony for all the things we have done to them." Diamond Tiara explained to him with guilt in her expression, Silver nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, we regretted it. But that's all in the past now. We've been helping other ponies lately, and we've been doing so much things to make up for." Silver Spoon grinned, Rumble grinned back.
"What was your name again?" ask Diamond Tiara with a curious look.
"Rumble," he replied blankly, "So does this mean we are friends now that we are talking?" he asked with an eyebrow raised.
"Well if you would like to be friends with us," Silver Spoon replied.
"Sure, that's fine by me." he said as he beamed a smile, the two fillies smiled back.
"That's cool, I've noticed that you don't have a cutie mark yet," Silver Spoon said, "The old me would've made fun of you right now." she joked, the group giggled.
"So would you mind if you tell us the things about yourself and what you do in your life?" Diamond Tiara asked with a grin on her face, Rumble nodded his head.
"Sure, why not?" he replied.
Rumble tells everything about himself to the group, including his family and his dream career. They all listened to him carefully, including Pipsqueak and Featherweight. Rumble told them that he was once bullied when he was in Cloudsdale, but that came to an end when he moved here in Ponyville.
"Oh so you used to be bullied?" Pipsqueak asked, and Rumble nodded his head.
"Those colts were annoying, there were saying that I don't have what it takes to be a Wonderbolt and that I'm untalented. But I did have good friends in Cloudsdale that believe I do." he said as he scowled at the thought of those bullies, but he still cared for his friends back in Cloudsdale.
"Did you ignore them?" Silver Spoon ask with an eyebrow raised.
"At first I was saying things back, but then later on I decided to ignore them. I didn't believe a word they said to me, I really think they were jealous."
"Well they weren't as bad as Silver Spoon and I when we were bullies, we messed with everypony's lives. We were spoiled, we were bragging to everypony about how rich we are, and we were causing trouble." Diamond Tiara commented, Featherweight had irritation spread on his face.
"Yeah, you two were really annoying back then, I couldn't stand you two. We had to deal with your name calling, bragging about being rich, and tormenting us almost everyday." he said, the two former bullies hung their heads. Pipsqueak and Rumble glared angrily at Featherweight.
"It's the past now, Featherweight. Put it behind you, they are our friends now. They both now know the important meanings of friendship." he said, Featherweight's face softened and he sighed heavily.
"I know," he replied.
Meanwhile, the Cutie Mark Crusaders are talking about who should they help to discover their special talent. Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle were arguing about who they should help to find their special talent first.
"Come on," Sweetie Belle began, " We should help Button Mash first." she said, Apple Bloom disagrees by shaking her head.
"No, we should help Pipsqueak first," she argued, "Button Mash doesn't care much about gettin' his cutie mark fer some reason."
Scootaloo was getting irritated with her friends arguing, "Uh, guys I don't really care who we help first. Could we just stop arguing now, it's starting to annoy me." they ignored her words and continues to argue, "We don't have to help the ponies that you guys have crushes on. There are many other blank flanks out there that needs help too you know." she stated but her friends still ignored her. Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom just stood glaring angrily into each other's eyes.
"Button is much more cuter." Sweetie Belle squeaked as she glowers at Apple Bloom, "Some ponies may call him a dork or a weirdo, but in my eyes he is adorable, he's sweet, and very funny. Plus, he has really cool hobbies." Sweetie Belle argued.
"Cool hobbies?" Apple Bloom pouted, "All he does is sit around an' play video games everyday. That is a cool hobby? Seriously?"
"That's not all that he does." Sweetie Belle replied, she turns towards Scootaloo, "Scoots, who should we help first? Button Mash or Pipsqueak?" she asks, Scootaloo gave a frustrated grunt.
"I really don't care who should we help first. I had to sit here for three minutes and watch you two arguing over something that isn't important. You two want to help them because you want to spend more time with them." Scootaloo said in frustration.
"Ya' would do the same thing if you have a crush too ya know." Apple Bloom stated, Scootaloo gave her a disappointed look.
"Well I don't at the moment, and probably not sooner or later." she replied, "We can help Button Mash and Pipsqueak later. Lets focus on somepony else." she stated, the three fillies went deep in thought on who they should help to discover their talent.
Suddenly Apple Bloom's eyes lit up, "Ah' think I know who we could help get his cutie mark!" she exclaimed which instantly catches Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle's attention.
"Who?" they said in unison.
"What do ya'll think 'bout that new colt who moved in Ponyville?" she suggested, but she puts her hoof on the back of her head, "Ah' forgot his name."
"Rumble?" Scootaloo guessed.
"Yeah him!" she quickly replied, "Ah noticed that he doesn't have a cutie mark when we were in class. We can help him find his special talent!" she exclaimed, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo beamed smiles on their faces.
"That's a great idea!" Sweetie exclaimed and Scootaloo nodded in agreement.
"Well girls, what are ya'll waitin' for? Lets go find him." she exclaimed, the three young fillies quickly trotted into the playground to search for the new colt.
After minutes of searching, the crusaders spotted a group of three colts. Colts that they recognized but the exception of one, which was the gray-Pegasus colt. They walked towards the group, they've gotten close enough for the colts to notice them, they smiled and waved.
"So how are ya' boys doin'?" Apple Bloom greeted, "Anythin' different goin' on with ya'll?" she asked, the colts shook there heads except for Rumble.
"No everything's been the same with us, except that we have a new friend here," Featherweight points his hoof towards the grey-pegasus colt, "His name is Rumble by the way." Featherweight said, Rumble gave an embarrassed smile as he waves his hoof towards the fillies.
"In fact, that's who we've been lookin' for. Me and the girls have-" Apple Bloom was interrupted by Sweetie Belle's squeaky voice.
"Actually what you mean to say is 'the girls and I' instead of 'me and the girls'." she stated, only to cause Apple Bloom to shoot her a flat stare at her, Scootaloo to roll her eyes, and the colts gave out quiet snickers.
Apple Bloom shrugged and turns back towards the colts, "Anyways, we've decided to help Rumble to discover his own special talent, so we came here." Rumble gave a look of disbelief and his friends all grinned at him.
"Really?" he said in disbelief.
"Yeah really," she grinned with an eyebrow raised, "That's what we're here for," she continued, "By the way my name is Apple Bloom, it's nice to meet ya'." she greeted.
"I'm Sweetie Belle," she added.
"You already know who I am because we sit next to each other in class." Scootaloo said shyly and nervously chuckles.
"I know," Rumble grinned, Scootaloo grins back.
"So when can we help ya'?" Apple Bloom asks she grabs Rumble's attention.
"Sorry I won't be available today because my brother is going to take me to see the Wonderbolts preform in Cloudsdale today." Rumble said, Scootaloo gasped in excitement out of nowhere which startled her friends. Except for Rumble which he expected that, he knew most Pegasi are the biggest fans of the Wonderbolts just like him.
"You're going to the Wonderbolts show today!? That's where I'm going today too!" Scootaloo exclaimed, Rumble grinned that Scootaloo was also a fan of the Wonderbolts.
"So who is your favorite Wonderbolt?" he asked with a curious smirk on his face.
"Rainbow Dash," she answered.
" The newest member of the Wonderbolts? Yeah, she is a cool flyer," Rumble grinned, Scootaloo gasps as she slightly widened her eyes.
"Cool? No! She's awesome! She is THE Rainbow Dash! The greatest flyer in all of Equestria! I also created the Rainbow Dash Fan Club! " she exclaimed, Rumble puts his hoof over his mouth to contain his laughter about Scootaloo's obsession over Rainbow Dash. "Well, would you like to join the Rainbow Dash fan club?" she suddenly asks after talking about how awesome Rainbow Dash is, Rumble rubs his head while thinking.
"Yeah sure, that'll be cool," Rumble smirked while lifting his eyebrow, "Wow, are you really that much of a fan of her?" he asks, Scooaloo shakes her head.
"No I'm not just a fan, she is kind of like a big sister to me. She is not really my sister, but we are like siblings." she answered which causes Rumble to widen his eyes as much as possible and his pupils has shrunk to the size of dots followed by a gasp.
"Wait, what?" was the next thing that Rumble can say, which causes Scootaloo to snicker, "Rainbow Dash is close to you!?" he slightly raised his voice with disbelief, Scootaloo bursts out her laughter as she clutched her stomach.
"What, jealous?" she teases with a smirk spread across her face as her laughter dies down, "Jealous that I have a Wonderbolt that is like a sister to me?"
"No, but my Brother knows her personally too and I met her once too" he playfully retorted.
"Well who is he?" she ask as her smirk has been replaced with a curious look.
"I'll tell you later,"
As Scootaloo and Rumble continue their conversation, Apple Bloom looks towards Pipsqueak who is smiling sheepishly. She smiled kindly towards the colt who blushes as he notices that she is facing the small colt. "Howdy Pipsqueak, why were ya' quiet through the whole conversation?" she asked, Pipsqueak shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't know, I guess I'm quiet sometimes." he smiles nervously as he rubbed the back of his head, Apple Bloom lightly giggled.
Sweetie Belle noticed that Button Mash is not around the group as she glances around to find him, but she couldn't spot him "Hey, have you boys seen Button anywhere?" she asked, Featherweight points his hoof towards a tree with a brown-colt sitting under it with a green device in his hooves.
"He's sitting over there under that tree, he's playing on his Joyboy." he responded, then a smirk grew on his face. "Why? Are you going to ask him out to be your coltfriend?" he teased, Sweetie Belle's face blushed, but then shot him a glare.
"No!" she squeaked, Featherweight finds this amusing. He knew both Sweetie Belle and Button Mash like each other, but he decides not to interfere between them, but he teases them often for his own amusement.
"Come on I'm just teasing," he retorted, Sweetie Belle furrowed her eyebrows towards him.
"Well it's getting very irritating. If you keep on doing that, I'm going to punch you" she threatened, Featherweight snickers quietly, Sweetie Belle rolled her eyes in irritation, "Ugh, some colts can be stupid these days," she mumbled to herself as she walked away from him
But then her irritated expression turned into happiness when she glances at Button and she slowly walks towards him, away from the group.
Button was playing his game on his Joyboy while he is sitting under a tree, and is completely unaware of his surroundings.
"Hi Button," he heard a cheerful voice which made him jump and he lifts he head away from his Joyboy.
"Ah!" Button places his hoof over his heart, "You've almost gave me a-" he stopped as he see a white-unicorn filly. A large shade of red appeared over his cheeks at the sight of her. "S-Sweetie Belle? W-what are you...doing here?" he stammered.
"Duh! I wanted to see you. I wanted to say hi to you, I never had a chance to get to talk to you before lunch and recess." she replied, Button nervously chuckles.
Button now realized that he is alone with Sweetie Belle, a chance that he rarely gets to have. Sweetie Belle is mostly with her friends when he sees her. His heart starts to beat faster than usual and chills start rushing through his body, "Okay Button, now is your chance that you can ask her!" he thought to himself as he gulped. Sweat starts forming out of his face, "Sweetie Belle?" he blushed madly when she blink and tilted her head.
"Yes, Button?" she asked curiously.
"Uh, will you-" he winced when the school bell rang which interrupted him. The other foals all gathered around Miss Cheerilee who will lead them back to the classroom.
"Oh! Sorry Button, I got to go, I'll see you later!" Sweetie Belle trotted towards the rest of the foals who are lining up.
Button just sat frozen for a few moments after she left, his eyes were wide, filled with frustration and disbelief, "Aw dang it! I was so close to asking her!" he whined, he groaned and moaned in frustration as he places his hooves over his face. Button slowly got up to his hooves away from the tree trunk. He slowly walked towards the foals, he spotted his friends who were in the back of the line.
Rumble spotted Button walking towards him and his new friends, he notices that Button had is head hung down towards the ground, "Button what's wrong? You don't look too happy." Rumble asked him, Button sighed with slight depression without even facing him.
"Just not happy right now, it's best if I don't talk about it." he said with depression in his voice, Rumble shrugged as he turns away from Button to give him alone time.
"Okay is everypony in line?!" Cheerilee's voice met Rumble's ears and his attention is focused towards her. Cheerilee glances around the group of students of her class who all have their eyes on her. "Okay then, everypony back to class! You got one hour before dismissal!" she turns towards the school entrance and walked towards it with the foals following behind.
"Hey Rumble!" a voice met his ears, his turned his head and found that Scootaloo was walking right beside him who was grinning.
"Scootaloo? What's up?"
"So, about the Wonderbolts."
"Yeah?" Rumble raised an eyebrow as she mentions that, "What about them?"
"How many shows have you been in?" she asked sheepishly, Rumble shakes his head.
"To be honest, this is my first time to come see them perform."
"Oh really? Wow, since you're a Wonderbolt fan, I'm surprised you haven't been to one of there shows yet. No offense though." she said.
"It's cool, none taken. It's just that I'm poor and my brother is too lazy to get a job, that's it." he said, Scootaloo then rolled her eyes, she is glad she doesn't have a sibling like that.
"Wow, your life must suck right now, no offense though." she commented, Rumble snickered.
"I know right, luckily he had enough bits to buy us tickets."
They entered the classroom along with the other foals and Miss Cheerilee, they took their seats next to each other as they began to continue their conversation.
The door bell rang in Thunderlane's front door, his ear twitched when the sound met his ears. He groaned in frustration while stretching his body as he got off his couch, "Oh great, what now? Just when I was going to take nice easy rest," his hissed while his voice was barely above a whisper. He lazily walked towards the front door, when he opened it, it reveals two grayish blue-pegasus mares. One of them wore a bow on her head while her mane is neatly done, the other, had a messier mane. Thunderlane jaw dropped in disbelief when he sees these two mare who he recognize very well.
"Flitter? Cloudchaser? What are you two doing here?" he said with a shocked tone filling in his voice.
"We just wanted to pay you a visit," Cloudchaser walked through the front entrance with Flitter walking beside her, "Woah, nice place you got here, Thunderlane." she commented as she glances around the living room. Thunderlane has been known Flitter and Cloudchaser for many years. Cloudchaser had been his marefriend for awhile now.
"Hey where is Rumble?" Flitter asked as a she turned to Thunderlane as he walked up to them.
"He's in school," he plainly answered, clearly his expression on his face is filled with boredom as he dropped his body on the couch.
"So anything going on since you've moved here?" Cloudchase asked as she places her hoof on his shoulder as she nuzzles his cheek.
"I'm feeling tired today, babe. After all that packing, organizing and all that crap! I think I need to rest for two days, I feel like a wreck right now." he complained, the sisters glanced at each other for a brief moment and turned back to Thunderlane. They knew that he could be a whiner and a complainer most of the time when he is tired, in pain, or in stress.
"Well you did say that you are going to take him to see the Wonderbolts perform in Cloudsdale, right?" she asked him and he nodded, but he didn't feel like taking his little brother to see the Wonderbolts right now. He just feels like sitting in his couch all day due to his tiredness.
"You know what, I have an idea," he sat up straight while the two sisters showed confusion and curiosity as he mentions it, he pointed his hoof at them, "How about both of you watch him for me in the Wonderbolts show?" he suggested, the two sisters both flinched and widened their eyes with shock and confusion. They didn't expect him to tell them that, not at all.
"Us?!" Cloudchaser exclaimed in disbelief, Thunderlane sighed and flattened his eyebrows.
"Yeah! Both of you, I'm feeling like a complete wreck today, and I don't plan on going anywhere!" he raised his voice which made them flinch in surprise by his sudden outburst. "Sorry, I'm just in a bad mood today."
Both sisters gave nervous glances at one another again and glanced back at him, both their eyes filled with concern. Flitter then managed to open her mouth to say, "But we don't have tickets to see the show. How do you expect us to take him since we can't afford it?"
"Don't worry about it," he got up on his hooves from the couch, "Hold up, let me get them from my room." he walked towards his room, the sisters waited for a few minutes until he came back to the living room, they noticed two golden tickets being held in his teeth.
"There is only two tickets, why not three?" Cloudchaser spoke up with a confused expression in her eyes, Thunderlane released the tickets from his teeth and holds them with his hoof so he can reply to them.
"My bad, so it means that only one of you has to take him to see the Wonderbolts perform. And that's going to be on me," he said, his eyes darted between Flitter and Cloudchaser for 10 seconds, it didn't take long for him to decided which one, "Flitter!" he pointed his hoof towards her as her pupils dilated, "I'm trusting you to take care of Rumble during the Wonderbolts performance." he gives her the two tickets as she grasps them with her hoof as she stares at the tickets.
Thunderlane glances at the clock, he gasps in shock as it shown that its currently 2:56 P.M. Its almost time for Rumble to dismiss from his first day of school. He turns to Flitter, "I'm having you to pick Rumble up from school, its almost time for him to come back. I'm counting on you." she nodded and she quickly trotted towards the front door and walks out.
"Thunderlane, I don't think Rumble is going to take this well." Cloudchaser said as she places her hoof on her coltfriend's shoulder, he looks over to see her face and sees that she was giving him a look of disapproval as she stares at his eyes. Thunderlane turns away and only sighed. "Thunderlane, you promised him that you'll take him yourself to see the Wonderbolts. Are you really going to break that promise?" she asks with concern and he didn't respond for a minute as she patiently waited for him to answer.
"Things have been really hard for me, babe. I can't do this all by myself, I'm almost broke. I had to spend most of my bits on those tickets. You have to understand me, I'm just doing this for my own good, even though all of my friends say I'm lazy. I don't even have a job yet." he complained once again, Cloudchaser groaned in frustration.
"Thunderlane cut off that crap, if you don't have a job then get one." she suggested, he had taken aback as he places his hoof on his chest.
"What!? But-" he was cut off as Cloudchaser shoves her hoof over his mouth.
"Thunderlane I swear, out of all the ponies I know. You make the dumbest excuses and laziest decisions, and this stallion happens to be my coltfriend!" she clenched her teeth with an angry glare, Thunderlane's eyes has widened and his pupils had dilated that can barely be visible. "Thunderlane if you make another lazy choice again for you own selfish reasons and if you don't get a job soon, then I'm going to have to break up with you!"
"WHAT!?" he yells in shock and disbelief, his heart felt like its going to jump out of his chest as he held it firmed.
"You heard me, if you really care about your brother and I, then its time for you to be responsible. You're going to have to drop your laziness and immature acts and act like a grown stallion." she said with a firm glare into his eyes, "I'm sorry but lazy stallions are not my type." Thunderlane sighs and hung his head down in defeat, he couldn't believe that Cloudchaser, his marefriend told him that, her words had hit him hard.
"Okay," he admitted defeat, a grin grew upon Cloudchaser's face and she wrapped her wing around her coltfriends shoulder.
"I'm sorry, Thundy, but its for your own good. I really don't want you to be like this for your entire life. That's why I'm giving you a chance if you really care about me." she tried to cheer him up, she frowned as she notices his depressed expression remains across his face, "How about we take a flight across town, okay?" she kissed him on the cheek and he nodded as Cloudchaser wrapped her left forearm around right forearm as they exited the house and took flight.
The school bell rang and it is time for dismissal, Rumble and the other foals stood up on their hooves and began making their way towards the exit. Rumble had enjoyed his first day of school, it was better than he expected, he made new friends in the first day of school. He couldn't wait to tell his brother about what happened, he is also looking forward to see the Wonderbolts perform in Cloudsdale.
Rumble walked besides his new friends Featherweight, Pipsqueak, and Button Mash. They all waited for their parents to pick them up, while Rumble waited for his brother to come by. "So Rumble, how are your parents like?" Featherweight asked with a curious look, as the others shared the same.
Rumble blinked, "They're back in Cloudsdale, I live with my brother here in Ponyville." he answered, then another thought came to Featherweight's mind, every time there is a pony who moves in to Ponyville, a particular pink, party pony usually greets them and plans out a 'Welcome to Ponyville' party for new ponies.
"Rumble, have you seen a pink earth-pony by any chance? Her mane and tail is all poof, and she is highly energetic. Does this mare is ring a bell to you?" he asks, Rumble shot up an eyebrow. He didn't answer, instead, he slowly shakes his head, having no idea what he's talking about.
Featherweight gave him a look of surprise, "Wow! I'm surprised you haven't met Pinkie Pie yet." he commented, then Rumble then gave him a look of curiosity.
"Who is 'Pinkie Pie'?" he simply asks, having no idea who he is talking about. Should he be worried? Did he miss something?
"You'll find out when you meet her," the colts began to snicker as Rumble just gave out a with a face filled with confusion and curiosity. "She is not like any pony you'd meet in Euquestria.
Who are they talking about? And who is Pinkie Pie? Am I missing out on something?
"Button!" maternal voice yelled through the schoolyard, Rumble and his friends darted their eyes to see a light tan colored mare with a long, brown mane tied up into a ponytail, who is walking towards the group. All the colts, except Rumble, smiled at her. She gestures Button for a hug which he accepted as they give a warm embrace.
"Hi Mrs. Mash!" called Pipsqueak.
"Hi there Pipsqueak, how are things going with you lately?" she then rubs her hoof against the back of his neck.
"I'm doing good, Mrs. Mash," the small, spotted colt replied.
The mare then darted her towards a gray colt, she gave him a warm smile, "Well, who are you? You're a new one, what's your name?" she asked. Rumble finds her voice to be comforting and calm, as if like talking to him like she is his mother.
"I'm Rumble," he replied, "Um, what is your name miss?" he asked politely with a questioning expression across his face.
"My name is Lovetap, but you can call me Mrs. Mash." she told to him, he nodded and Lovetap turned towards her son, "Button, I've made you french toast at the house, your favorite."
The brown colt's face beamed up in excitement, "Oh boy!" Lovetap smiles at her young colt's excitement, she turned to look at his friends and waves her hoof at them.
"Okay I guess its time for Button and I to go now, I hope I can see all of you sweet little colts at Friday night!" Lovetap
"Of course! Why wouldn't we come?" Pipsqueak exclaimed, the other colts agreed by nodding. Then the tan-mare began to walk away, followed by Button Mash who is waving his friends good-bye as they waved back.
A few minutes has passed since Button's mom arrived to pick him up from school, Rumble sees a gray-pegasus mare who he recognized very well has landed in the schoolyard. Rumble was confused, why did Flitter came to pick him up instead of Thunderlane? He shrugged it off, it must've not been much of a big deal.
"Flitter? What are you doing here?" he asked, Flitter sighed filled with disappointment.
"I don't think you're not going to like the news, I'll explain it to you on our way towards the house." she said, Rumble shot her a confused expression across his face. They took off into the air, Rumble could see the frown across Flitter's face. He wondered what just happened, did an accident happen or something?
"Rumble," she called out and he darted his eyes to her. She is hesitant on telling Rumble his brother's choice is, "Your brother decided that he doesn't want to take you to see the Wonderbolts perform in Cloudsdale." she hesitantly spoken, Rumble flinched with his eyes widened. Thunderlane had promised to him that he will take him to the show.
"What?! But why?" he asked, like she predicted, she can tell that Rumble is really unhappy about Thunderlane's decision.
"He just decided to be lazy again," she rolled her eyes in frustration, she then reached her hoof into her saddlebag and took out two tickets," He decided that I'm going to have to take you to the show."
A scowl has filled upon his face, and blowing through his nostrils, "But he promised me that he'll take me, he even said it himself! Ugh, I can't believe that lazy, big fat liar!" Flitter flinched as he raised his voice and hearing grunts of frustration from the young colt.
"Rumble, calm down please, it's not necessary to raise your voice. I know that you're upset, but I'm sorry." she said, Rumble shook his head without even looking towards her. Rumble is a pretty relaxed colt most of the time, and it take a lot to make him angry. But, for probably doing this for the 5th time in a row, Thunderlane breaking another one of Rumble's promises, has really made his temper go up. Rumble knew that being angry is not a solution, so he decides to close his eyes and takes a deep breath, and slowly exhales, his angry scowl quickly fading.
"No, Thunderlane should be the one who is apologizing, Flitter." he said as his voice starts to calm down, "I'm sorry, for yelling out at you. But this is like the millionth time he broke a promise, doesn't he care about me, or is he just being a selfish liar."
She gave a comforting smiled and put her forearm over his shoulder, "I know Rumble, but you can't deny that he loves you, he is a great stallion. My sister and I knew him since we were both teenage foals, back in high school, we get to meet back up with him in flight school. He's funny and really stupid most of the time." her smile has changed into an annoyed frown, "And at times, he can be a great big slacker, I can remember him being late almost every morning to school and always falling asleep when the teacher is giving a lesson about chemistry." she giggled, Rumble then looked at her and raised an eyebrow.
"Flitter, do you like Thunderlane? Have you ever been thinking about dating him before?" he said, Flitter's eyes widely increased in size and flinched as he mentioned it. The thought and memory of her young-teenage self, dating Thunderlane back in high school made her cringe.
"Um, actually I have, but lets just say that things didn't work out between us. Besides, he's dating my sister, he is not really my type of stallion to date, anyway. He is just a good friend of mine, that's all." she replied, she quickly spotted her destination, which is the new home of Thunderlane and Rumble. She motioned her hoof to the gray-pegasus colt as she pointed down towards the house and he quickly nodded. They stopped flapping their wings and spread them out as wide as they can, they are now slowly gliding down towards the surface of Ponyville.
As they land gently in front of the house, Rumble looked upon the structure, somehow he is still disappointed about his new home. Nothing like the houses they have in Cloudsdale, but of course Ponyville is a smaller and a less cheaper town than Cloudsdale, heck, it is not quite nearly as big as the other big cities of Equestria, such as: Canterlot, Fillydelphia, Las Pegasus, Cloudsdale, and Manehattan. But he also keeps hearing that Ponyville also has some of the most friendliest ponies you can find in Equestria. This village also houses the Princess of Friendship, who has saved Equestria, with the help of her friends, from multiple foes who has targeted this wonderful land of all ponies.
Rumble knew that he is in for quite an adventure, but suddenly a voice suddenly broke his train of though, "Rumble, its no time for daydreaming right now." Flitter called, Rumble blushed in embarrassment, he walked along with Flitter towards the entrance. Flitter knocked the door, but there was no answer. "Thunderlane! Open up!" she knocked again, but there was still no response. "Crap, Cloudchaser and him better not be making out or something at this time." she thought to herself.
She peeked inside the windows of the living room, there seems to be nopony inside. She checked all the other windows inside, and there was still nopony present. She growled in frustration, "Is he not home right now? Damn it, he is probably with Cloudchaser right now."
She returned to the front entrance when she meet up back with Rumble, "Sorry Rumble, but your brother is not home at the moment."
"What? Where is he now?"
"I'm figuring that he is on a date with Cloudchaser or something I don't know, its 3:20 p.m., and the Wonderbolts' performance only starts in three hours." she complained, Rumble rolled his eyes about her complaint.
"Well we got plenty of time, but why did we come here for anyway since we're coming to the show?"
"We need the money, just incase if you would like to buy some souvenirs, or order some food incase we get hungry." she responded, Rumble seemed to almost forgot about the money. Well even though Thunderlane could be a slacker most of the time, he has a job that pays him a decent amount of bits since he works for the weather team. But its not the most high paying job in Equestria, so he figured that Thunderlane has been saving up the bits to buy at least two tickets to see the show, and for the extra stuff like food, souvenirs, or to buy some VIP passes to get to go meet some of the best fliers of the Wonderbolts in the backstage area. Such as: Soarin, Spitfire, Fleetfoot, Rainbow Dash, and etc.
"Oh sorry, I almost forgot about the money." he rubbed his head as he blushed in embarrassment, Flitter giggled.
"That's okay, Rumble. That's why we came here, but I guess we're going to have to wait for him when he gets back from his date." she said as she sat down with Rumble in the porch as they both watched the other ponies in Ponyville as they go about their lives.
Meanwhile, somewhere in Ponyville, an orchard filled with many Apple trees that hold some of the most delicious apples you could find in Equestria. In a treehouse where it is known to be the 'hideout' for the Cutie Mark Crusaders to make their plans and start their own shenanigans throughout Ponyville. or just try to find out ways to help certain ponies to gain their own cutie mark. Or you could just say it is simply their every day hangout for casual things as friends. Right now, they seem to be planning how to help out a certain 'gray-pegasus colt to gain his cutie mark.
"So, how could we help this Rumble feller' out? Do we have any ideas?" Applebloom ask as she is standing behind her own podium with a blank sheet of paper as she is holding a pencil in her mouth so she could list the possible things that Rumble could be good at to get his cutie mark. Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle having their own seats.
An idea instantly came into Sweetie Belle's mind that she hopes her friends can agree with, "Maybe he is good at...baking cakes!" she shouted, Applebloom thought about it for a few seconds until she nodded in agreement and wrote it as 'Baking' in her checklist.
"Okay that is a good one." she commented, Scootaloo raised her hoof to get her attention, "Yes, Scootaloo?"
"Maybe he is good at doing cool stunts like I am, like with skateboards, scooters, and skating." Applebloom wrote 'Stunts' in her checklist, still not happy with only just two ideas in her checklist.
"Come on girls, we need more ideas."
"How about skydiving?" Scootaloo suggested, then Sweetie Belle raised her hoof as she comes up with another idea.
"What about designing clothes and outfits?" Applebloom quickly wrote these two subjects on her checklist. Maybe it could be possible for Rumble to work with Rarity in the Carousel Boutique. The orange filly raised her hoof for an idea, once again.
"Could he be good at dancing?"
"What about singing!"
"Rodeo!"
"Hoofball!"
"Could he be a doctor?"
Many ideas were being thrown out from both Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, as Applebloom writing every single idea in her list until it fills up all the way. Applebloom smiled at the checklist, so many ideas and there is a high chance for Rumble to earn his cutie mark from one of these. "Alright girls, ah' think Rumble has a guarantee chance to earn his own cutie mark, ah' bet he will have such a good adventure with us, right crusaders?"
"Right!" they both shouted in unison filled with excitement and joy. Then unexpectedly, the crusaders jumped as they heard a loud scream outside, curiously wanting to know who it is, they peeked out in the window. Only to see a pink party pony who they recognized as Pinkie Pie as she is asking many random questions to two pegasi who they don't know. One was a stallion with a dark coat, and a silver Mohawk mane who seems to be very startled by Pinkie's unexpected appearance, and the mare having the same reaction towards the party pony. The crusaders seemed amused about two new ponies getting surprised by Pinkie, good thing that the window is open so they can here what is going on.
"Just tell me what you want! How much bits do you want so you could go away!" the stallion pleaded, Pinkie giggled like she just heard a joke.
"Heehee, no silly! You must be new here! But I know you!" she exclaimed in excitement, Thunderlane flinched, desperately trying to find a way to get out of this situation.
"You do?"
"Yes! Rainbow sometimes told me how you used to work with her until she became a wonderbolt!" she replied, Cloudchase took on a look of irritation as he eyelids start to twitch. Then Pinkie Pie then started to blurt out many random questions in a speed that they could not understand, "Sowhereareyoufromdoyouhaveanysiblingsdoyoulikepartiesanyfriendshowisyourlifelikedoyouhaveafamilydoyoulikecupcakesdoyoulikeicecreamdoyoulikemilkshakesdoyou..."
"Ahhhhh! Get away from me!" Thunderlane's scream sounded similar to a filly's scream, and then he turned around and started to make a run for it. And then, out of nowhere, Pinkie Pie hopped out from a random bush and landed right in his path, which makes come to a halt, "What!? But you were-b-but-but....HOW!?" turning his head back to the spot where he ran from which she is not there, and then in front of him which is where the pink party pony is now standing, who has formed a smile on her face that is large enough that nopony could muster. Little did Thunderlane know, there was three little fillies in the nearby clubhouse who were laughing their heads off as they were watching the scene between him and Pinkie, both Thunderlane and Pinkie seem to be completely oblivious from the young audience watching the scene like it was their favorite show.
"Oh, you mean how I suddenly jumped out of a bush in front of you!? Oh it was nothing, just a normal thing I usually do!" she exclaimed, Thunderlane's irritation has replaced his frightfulness as he quietly growled.
"Seriously! Do you have to scream every time you talk?" he argued, then Pinkie's frown quickly faded into a worried face expression once she starts to see his anger filling up in his face. She didn't really mean to annoy him and make him angry, this is how she greets new ponies in town, nothing harmful. Even Cloudchaser dropped her jaw at how Thunderlane responded to her. As soon as the Crusaders heard Thunderlane yelled back at Pinkie, their laughter almost instantly stopped as they gasped in shock. This was the first time anypony has yelled towards Pinkie.
"Aww...did I really upset you?"
"Yes, but you don't have to shout all the time, I think you've almost got me deaf." as he starts to caress his ears, until he flinched when he heard a strong country voice calling out from a distance.
"Hey! What's goin' on over here?!" a voice that sounded like a southern country mare, he turned his head towards that direction. He saw an orange mare wearing a cowboy hat and has a blonde mane and tail, and standing next to her was a large red stallion who looked liked he goes to the gym every 24/7. Thunderlane felt intimidated by the stallion, hope he didn't make them angry or something.
"Oh, hi Applejack! Hi Big Mac!" she waved her hoof , which are the speed of how a fly flaps its own wings, towards the farm ponies who are waling towards the scene.
"Hey Pinkie, can ya' tell me who shouted? "she looked towards the dark-Pegasus stallion who seemed very wary of Big Mac "Um, who is this feller right here, and doesn't he seem familiar?" she pointed towards him as she eyes at the stallion very carefully with suspicion.
"Oh, that is Thunderlane, I actually found him taking a walk with his marefriend in this place, and I actually dropped by to say hello. The guy seems cranky though." she explained, "And I actually wanted to throw a 'Welcome to Ponyville Party!' for him too." Applejack tried to think if she actually knows him, after a few moments of thinking, she actually gets it.
"Oh, ah' know who he is,-" the orange cowmare turned towards the dark stallion- "Didn't ya used ta' work with Rainbow Dash when she was in the weather team with ya?" she asked him politely.
"Uh, yeah I did, but can you please keep your Pink friend at a calm level, please? She was all over my face and started asking me SO many questions, that I could not even understand a word she was saying" he said, the cowmare places her hoof over her mouth as she tries to hold down a giggle, Thunderlane got curious and asked, "Hey, what is so funny?"
"Oh, don't worry 'bout her, she's just Pinkie being herself, you'll get used ta' her eventually." she explained, "And ah see that you seem a bit nervous 'bout mah big brother here," she pointed towards the red stallion who was quiet through out the whole conversation, "Ya' don't worry 'bout him neither, he's actually pretty shy and quiet, he doesn't have a temper. He's good with ya," she cracked a smile towards him. Thunderlane breather a heavy sigh of relief, looks like he don't have to go to the hospital after all.
"Ok thanks, I guess Cloudchaser and I are going to go home now, I guess." he said as he wrapped his arm around Clouchaser's neck as he began to walk away from the group.
"Say, do ya'll ponies would like to drop by to mah' house for a visit? We got some delicious apple pie that mah' granny is cookin' up." Applejack called out to them, Thunderlane thought for a second, until the party pony popped up right in the pegasus couple's faces.
"Yeah, that way we can throw a 'Welcome to Ponyville Party'!" Thunderlane flinched, he could've swore she was with Applejack, but he shook his head as he reminded himself that Pinkie is different from other ponies.
"Um, no thanks! But it was a pleasure to meet you, but I think my little brother is waiting for me at home, so gotta go! Bye!" he ran quickly as he pulled Cloudchaser's arm as she yelped and struggled to keep her hooves at balance.
"Ow! Be careful with my-Ahhh!" she was cut off as she got tripped by a tree stump and is now being dragged by her coltfriend, who didn't seem to struggle to pull her whole body. But then Pinkie Pie popped in front of Thunderlane's way and he instantly came to a halt while Cloudchaser tries to breath for air.
"Hey don't forget to show up to my 'Welcome to Ponyville Party'! I planned it very special just for you!"
"No thank you, not interested!" Thunderlane said as he tries to make a way around Pinkie but she sidestep to block him.
"Please, there is going to be cake, music, snacks, food, and so much more fun! You might even make new friends, I know I'm already your friend."
"I said no," he simply answered and makes another attempt to get out of here, but Pinkie keeps preventing him from leaving, this time, Pinkie has a pleading expression as she continues to beg.
"Please?"
"No."
"Please?"
"No."
"Please!"
"No."
"Pleeeaaaaaasssssssee!?"
"Okay! Fine I'll go to your party, I just want peace and quiet right now." Thunderlane complained, Pinkie just squealed in excitement as she rapidly bounces up and down like some kind of bouncy ball.
"Yay! This is going to be so much fun! I'll see you tonight at the party!" she bounces away in joy and excitement as both Thunderlane and Cloudchaser continues to stare at he until she is out of their sight. And they both awkwardly stared at each other.
The orange farm pony followed by the large red stallion, walked up beside him and had a smug smile spread across her face, "Hey Thunderlane, ah' just want to give a heads up, ah' wouldn't make Pinkie angry if ah' we're ya', believe me you do NOT want to make her mad. Thunderlane just gave her a nervous smile as he walks away from the farm ponies as Cloudchaser waved goodbye.
Back with the Crusaders in the club who has watched the entire scene with that new stallion, which is one of the strangest and funniest things they have seen, all of them are exploding with laughter as they hold their stomachs and lying down on the floor. After a few minutes of laughing, Scootaloo thought about that stallion that Applejack and Pinkie have met, "Hey, I think that guy is Rumble's big brother," she said, Apple Bloom looked at her with curiosity.
"How do ya' know that?"
"Well, your sister did say that he used to work with Rainbow Dash when she was in the weather team, and Rumble told me that his brother worked for the weather team, and so I put two and two together, and I figured out that he is his brother. Not to mention that they've just move in to Ponyville so I guess that's kind of obvious."
"Oh, that makes sense," Sweetie Belle commented.
"Everything makes sense to ya', Sweetie Belle" Apple Bloom joked to have a few chuckles from Scootaloo and growl from Sweetie Belle. Once the laughter died down, Apple Bloom looked at the clock in the clubhouse and it read '5:30 P.M.' and then gazed at Scootaloo, "Say aren't ya' supposed to go to the Wonderbolts performance tonight at Cloudsdale in like an hour? Its only five thirty and doesn't it start at like six or seven o'clock?" Apple Bloom reminded, Scootaloo gasped in realization.
"Oh crap, I almost forgot! Thanks for reminding me girls! I'll see you both at school tomorrow! I have to go meet Rainbow Dash in town square in half in an hour. " she waved at her two best friends as she quickly grabbed her saddlebag and rushed out of the clubhouse.
Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom waved her good bye and good luck until she is out of their sight, "So what do you want to do now Apple Bloom?"
"Ah'm terribly sorry, Sweetie Belle but mah' sister told me to come back to the house for dinner at six, and ah' don't want to come back late or else she'll be worried sick." she stated as Sweetie Belle gave a simple nod.
"It's okay, I don't want to worry Rarity neither, so I guess I'll see you tomorrow then."
"You too, Sweetie Belle." they both exit the club house and said their goodbyes as Apple Bloom trotted towards the farm house, Sweetie Belle made way towards the exit of the orchard.
