> The fall of friendship > by Greenblaze > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Fun and games > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Well, the cutie mark crusader gem hunters ended horribly.” Applebloom said sadly. “I still don’t know how we managed to not find any gems. Even with Rarity’s gem finding spell.” Sweetiebelle said sadly “Maybe it was because we were looking for them in downtown PonyVille?” Scootaloo said flatly “Whatever, but this time I’m sure it’ll work. The cutie mark crusader weather patrol!” Applebloom said happily. “There are two things wrong with that Applebloom. One I’m a unicorn and you’re an earth pony, we can’t control the weather. And two Scootaloo can’t fly, let alone she too young.” Sweetiebelle said “Hey shut up! Just because my wings don’t support my body weight yet doesn’t mean I can’t fly!” Scootaloo raged “Yes it does.” “NEVERMIND CRUSADERS!!!” Applebloom yelled. “But she started it.” Scootaloo pointed her hoof at Sweetiebelle. “I don’t care who started it I’m ending it!” Applebloom hit Scootaloo’s hoof. “Great, now you sound like my mother.” Scootaloo rolled her eyes. Applebloom glared at her. “Never mind, can we get back to finding our special talents?” Sweetiebelle pleaded. “Fine.” Applebloom refocused. “Okay so what do we want to do today crusaders?” “Oh I got it! Cutie mark crusader scientists!” Sweetiebelle exclaimed. “I don’t know, sounds kind of lame.” Scootaloo said. “Oh come on, it’ll be fun!” Applebloom jumped. “Okay fine. What will we test?” Scootaloo gave a look of boredom. “Not sure. Oh maybe we can ask Ms.Cheerilee! She always has great science ideas. Plus I wanted to ask her a couple of things.” Applebloom suggested. “Yeah let’s go ask Ms.Cheerilee!” Sweetiebelle agreed. “Ugh fine.” Scootaloo sighed. *** “Ms.Cheerilee!” Sweetiebelle yelled from down the street. Ms.Cheerilee turned around to find the cutie mark crusaders. She gave a look of confusion. “Hi girls, why aren’t you at home studying?” Ms.Cheerilee asked. “Well we wanted you ask yo-… studying , why would we be studying?” Applebloom asked. “Exams are tomorrow. You do know they’re worth 70% of your grade, right?” “Exams are TOMORROW!!! I completely forgot!” Sweetie shrieked. “Sorry girls but I need to go study; rarity would kill me if I fail the exams! Bye Ms.Cheerilee. Bye girls.” Sweetiebelle galloped off. “I need to go too. Applejack would ground me for a month if I fail! Thanks Ms.Cheerilee! Bye Scootaloo!” Applebloom sprinted to sweet apple acres. “What they said.” Scootaloo dashed off too, leaving a very confused Cheerilee. ____________________________________________________________________________________ The next morning POV Ms.Cheerilee ____________________________________________________________________________________ “It’s nearing 9:05. I better begin getting the exams ready.” I thought to myself. I begin laying exams face down on the desks. I remembered the encounter from the crusaders yesterday. I prayed that they would make it through alright. Just then fillies and colts begin pouring into the classroom. I managed to find the crusaders. They’re in bad shape. Sweetiebelle’s mane was tangled and she was reciting equations to herself. Applebloom looked like she didn’t sleep nor eat. And Scootaloo looked distracted and out of the world. Not too big of a change there. “Good morning class.” I said in my normal happy tone. “Good morning Ms.Cheerilee.” I noticed when they replied most that where nervous and the crusaders all looked out of this world and into the land of studying… accept Scootaloo. I didn’t let it bother me too much. “As you all know, exams are today. I can easily tell most of you are nervous. But don’t worry, we’ve gone thought it all so it shouldn’t be too hard. As a quick reminder, I’m going to do a quick run over of the rules.” “Not again.” Diamond tiara sighed. I ignored the comment. “1. No cheating, If I catch you cheating I take your exam and give you a 0. 2. No talking, if I hear you talking you’ll be sent outside to finish your exam. 3. Once you’re done, you give me your exam and you may head home. There’s nothing else today so you may go home. You have 3 hours. Good luck.” ___________________________________________________________________________________ POV Sweetiebelle _________________________________________________________________________________ I begin feeling nervous as I look down onto the page. It looks hard, but I can understand it. As I wright my exam, time seems to slow down as I quickly do my work. Next thing I now, I’m finished and it took me 45 minutes to finish. I slowly stand up and trot to Ms.Cheerilee and hand in my exam. I trotted back to my desk, gathered my things, and began to Rarity’s boutique. “Oh wow, that was easier than I thought.” I thought to myself. I walk slowly and look around PonyVille, as if it’s all new to me. I think it’s because I’m not used to getting out of school so early. I finally make it back to the boutique, and the first thing I see when I walk in is rarity finishing the dress she’s been working on for the past two weeks. “Hi Sweetiebelle, how where your exams?” Rarity asked “Not bad.” I replied “That’s good. So Sweetie I just finished this dress and I have no other clients at the moment. So what would you say if we go to the arcade and have some fun?” Rarity smiled. I felt like I was going to burst with excitement. “What, really?!” “Well of course darling!” I hugged Rarity tightly. “Okay, let’s go then.” Rarity smiled _______________________________________________________________________________ The arcade is now is view! I jump around wildly unable to control my excitement. I look over to Rarity. She’s wearing a big smile. “Here we are. We’ll have to buy some tokens first, so be patient.” Rarity said as we walked into the arcade. Rarity walks up to the pony at the counter. “Good morning, my sister and I want to have a great time. Would you recommend anything?” He thinks about this for a minute. Then he shows Rarity a list of some activities. “I would recommend the alpha pack. It includes go carting, bumper cars, 250 tokens, and golf.” “It sounds good. What do you think Sweetiebelle?” Rarity smiled at me. “It sounds great!” I squeaked. Rarity giggled. “Okay so we’ll take two alpha packs.” The counter pony nodded and gave us two purple bracelets, and two red plastic cards. “That’ll be 40 bits.” Rarity opened her saddle bag and handed over the bits. ”Thank you and have a great time.” Rarity thanked the counter pony and we began walking into the arcade. “So Sweetie, what do you want to do first?” “Can we go to the bumper cars?” I asked “Of course we can.” Rarity smiled. We walked to the bumper cars area, showed the employees are bracelets and chose our cars. I chose a pink one and Rarity chose a blue one. I sat in my car waiting for the busser indicating to start. We were the first in the cars but it didn’t take long for the cars to get filled. Once the busser went off I went racing after Rarity. I caught her off guard and it startled her. Once she recovered from the sudden hit. She laughed and raced off to get revenge. Over all, we were in the bumper cars for about 5 minutes. But it felt like only a minute or two. Then we decided to race in the go carts. I barely beat her. And I was laughing the whole time. We then head off to golf. We played roughly 16 rounds then we got bored and went to spend our tokens. I wanted to play all the games with Rarity. And she liked the idea too. We bounced from co-op game to co-op game, from racing games to hunting games to bowling. I was enjoying every second of it. At one point Rarity went off to go get some food for us. I was looking around at the arcade and I found a karaoke corner. I galloped to Rarity and told her where I was going. She just nodded and continuing ordering the food. I galloped back to the corner. There was a small line, and a large audience. I waited in line for my turn. Next thing I know it’s my turn. I felt nervous and unsure but I couldn’t back down now. I looked over to the DJ she was a white coated unicorn with light blue and blue mane and tail with an eighth note for a cutie mark. I told her the song I wanted to sing she nodded and smiled. I walk to the microphone more nervous and unsure than before. The music started up behind me. I pushed all my thought and worries out if my head…and sang. I did my best to keep up with the beat and remember the lyrics at the same time. But with that aside I felt happy about being on stage. But the thought of everypony laughing at me was overwhelming. So for this sake I kept my eyes closed. And as soon as it came, the song was finishing. I sang the finishing lyrics and heard the song fading behind me. I waited until the song finished.Then I opened my eyes for the first time in the song. I see every pony in the arcade has stopped, and was looking at me. Every pony’s jaw had dropped. I felt embarrassed and started to walk off the stage with my head hanging low. Then a massive cheer came from the crowd. Clapping, cheering, and whistling came from the crowd. At that very moment with everypony cheering and clapping for me, I felt the happiest I’ve ever been. I walked off the stage as the clapping started settling down. I easily find Rarity, and she hugs me close. “Congratulation Sweetiebelle!” “You liked it!” I looked up. She releases me from our hug and says. “Yes, but that’s not why I’m congratulating you.” “What?” I questioned. Rarity giggled. “Look on your flank.” My eyes narrowed at the possibility, and quickly looked to my flank, to find a cutie mark has appeared! It was a microphone and a chord to show my love for singing. I screamed. “MY CUTIE MARK!!” Realising what I just did I blushed. Rarity giggled again. “Here let’s call it a day and go home okay?” I nodded and thought to myself. “I can’t wait to see what the crusader’s and diamond tiara’s reactions will be.” > agents and concerts > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- “Sweetie belle, hurry up! School starts in half an hour!” Rarity yelled to her younger sister. Sweetie belle looked though her closet quickly, throwing clothes all over the room. “Sorry Rarity, I just want to find something that can hide my flank.” Sweetie belle ran around the room looking for the perfect dress, or pants, or whatever. “Why, you already have your cutie mark. Why do you want to hide your flank?” Rarity rolled her eyes. “So I can get a better reaction out of Diamond tiara, Apple bloom, and Scootaloo. Oh this looks nice.” Sweetie belle found the perfect dress. It was pink, had purple lines covering the dress, with some decorative jewels on it. “I didn’t know you still had that. I made it for you like 2 years ago. I’m surprised it even fits you!” Rarity said. “I can explain later, but now I need to get to school as fast as possible!” Sweetie belle rushed. Sweetie belle ran downstairs, threw on her dress, then her saddle bag. “Don’t forget you have your science exam today.” Rarity walked down the stairs. “Thanks, I need to get going now. I’ll see you later.” Sweetie belle ran out of the door waving bye to Rarity. Rarity waved back until Sweetie belle was out of sight. Rarity closed the door and said to herself. “What I’m I going to do with that filly?” ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sweetie belle caught sight of Apple bloom and Scootaloo waiting outside of the school. She ran up to them and in between breaths said. “Hi Apple bloom, hi Scootaloo, you’ll never guess what happened to me yesterday!” “You made the dress you’re wearing, you got attacked by a manticore, or did you saw Hoity toity! Or maybe yo-” Apple bloom and Scootaloo listed different things before getting interrupted by Sweetie belle. “You two are bad at guessing, it wasn’t even close to ANY of those!” “Then why are you wearing your dress?” Apple bloom questioned. Sweetie belle inhaled to speak but got interrupted by Diamond tiara. “I bet it was to hide her blank flank!” Diamond tiara teased. Sweetie belle grew a wide smile. “That’s where your wrong Diamond tiara. I just got my cutie mark yesterday!” “Oh is that so? Then why don’t you take your dress off and show us!” Diamond tiara said, wearing an evil smile. “And get back at everything you did to me, gladly!” Sweetie belle started to take her dress off. Diamond tiara started to regret her words. Sweetie belle undid her last button and the dress fell off, showing a cutie mark has appeared. Diamond tiara’s jaw literally fell to the ground. “Sweetie belle, you got your cutie mark!” Apple bloom and Scootaloo screamed together. This attracted the attention of everypony outside. Then ponies began crowing around the filly. Snips was the first to say. “Good job Sweetie belle! What does your cutie mark mean?” Sweetie belle blushed and said. “It shows my love for singing and being on stage. When I grow up I want to become a singer.” Diamond tiara sighed. “How do we now it’s not a fake like Apple bloom’s?” Apple bloom blushed. And just then as if a sign from god himself. The news pony came by and threw the crowd a newspaper with the front page showing Sweetie belle and read. ‘Young filly rocks arcade and earns cutie mark!’ Diamond tiara pushed her way through the crowd, picked up the newspaper and read aloud. ‘In PonyVille a young filly dared to show her singing talents in front of a very large crowd. During her act everypony shopped what they were doing and looked at the young filly. After her song everypony cheered and clapped so loudly. It was reported to be heard from a block away! The young filly was overwhelmed and earned her cutie mark! Luckily, our reporter was at the arcade at the time. But sadly he lost the filly in a large crowd of ponies. We were unable to get an interview.’ Diamond tiara’s jaw dropped for the second time. She was about to talk again but was cut off by Ms.Cheerilee. “Come on inside my little ponies, the science exam will start soon.” Everypony walked inside but the cutie mark crusaders stayed behind for a minute. Apple bloom called out to Ms.Cheerilee. “Ms.Cheerilee, we’ll be inside in a minute. We just want to talk to Sweetie belle.” “Okay but don’t stay out too long.” Ms.Cheerilee turned to Sweetie belle. “Sweetie bell I read the newspaper today and congratulations on earning your cutie mark!” Sweetie blushed and thanked Ms.Cheerilee. Ms.Cheerilee walked inside leaving Sweetie bell, Apple bloom, and Scootaloo all by themselves. Apple bloom and Scootaloo turned to Sweetie belle. “I can’t believe you earned your cutie mark Sweetie belle! But that means we could still hang out, right?” Apple bloom looked sad. “Why would earning my cutie mark mean we couldn’t hang out anymore?” It was Sweetie belle’s turn to look sad. “It might ruin your chances of making it to stardom or being cool.” Scootaloo rubbed her hoof. “Scootaloo, Apple bloom, there will always be hater ponies, but there will always be somepony how doesn't care. I will NOT betray my best friends like that.” Sweetie belle gave her two friends a hug. Scootaloo tried to break free from the hug. “Sweetie belle, you know I’m not one to hug. What happens if Rainbow dash saw me?” Scootaloo looked around to insure Rainbow dash wasn’t in sight. In doing so, Scootaloo saw a stallion walking up to them. He was a unicorn with a brown mane and tail, had a white coat, green eyes, and a briefcase for a cutie mark. Scootaloo shot her wing up and glared at him. He ignored this and walked up to Sweetie belle, cleared his throat, and said. “Hello, are you the filly I saw in the newspaper today?” He looked at Sweetie belle. Sweetie belle looked a little nervous. “Yeah, why do you want to know?” “Allow me to introduce myself; my name is Vanilla satchel. I’m a graduate of the Manehattan agent school. I’m an agent for singers and dancers. I’ve been looking for somepony for a while now and when I saw your article in the newspaper and I thought you may what an agent.” “What why, I've only preformed in public once. Are you sure there isn't somepony else you can be your client?” Sweetie belle questioned. “Well what really got me was that you earned your cutie mark from the experience. That’s not an easy task. But it’s all up to you to decide what you what to do.” Vanilla satchel said. Sweetie belle looked to her friends for their advice. In response she got two nodding heads. Sweetie belle spoke up. “Let’s do this!” “Great!” Vanilla satchel stuck out his hoof, and they shook on it. ”Now, I’ve spoken to the mayor ahead of time. And she has agreed if you want, we could set up a concert right here in PonyVille! What would you say?’’ Sweetie belle grew a huge smile. “I would LOVE to! When would this be planned?” “We’re thinking maybe next week. But if you want that date changed it would be fine.” “Next week… yeah that should be fine.” “Great! I’ll go talk to Mayor Mare and get it started.” “Okay I’ll see you later!” Sweetie belle turned to Apple bloom and Scootaloo. They shared quiet high pitched screams showing excitement. Apple bloom spoke up first. “I’m so happy for you Sweetie belle! I can’t wait to see you sing!” “And show Diamond Tiara a thing or two!” Scootaloo laughed. The three fillies sat there laughing when they heard a familiar voice calling. “Apple bloom, Scootaloo, Sweetie belle, the exam is about to start now!” Ms.Cheerilee called out to them. The three fillies walked into class ready to start. Sweetie belle thought to herself. “So, I made Diamond Tiara look like an idiot, went into the newspaper, I’m the most talked about filly in class and maybe even in PonyVille, I got an agent in not even a day of getting my cutie mark, AND I’m doing a concert in a week! Nothing can go wrong now!” > shedding tears > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The night of Sweetie belle’s concert --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sweetie belle sat backstage shaking and breathing heavily, nervous of going on stage. “Okay, everypony is outside waiting for ME! Everypony I know and many more, all staring at me. It’ll be okay… I hope. I wonder what would happen if I messed up! Diamond tiara would make fun of me for the rest of my life, Apple bloom and Scootaloo may not what to talk to me do to major embarrassment, or Rarity may lose business, or maybe-“ Sweetie belle thought to herself before getting interrupted by Vanilla satchel. “Sweetie belle you’re on in 5 minutes. Is there something wrong?” “Yeah, just a little stressed from this all. Everypony is outside waiting for me, everypony is going to be staring at me. It’s just stressful, and nerve-racking.” Sweetie belle looked at the ground. Vanilla satchel placed a comforting hoof on Sweetie belle back. “Look I know it’s stressful, everypony out there, but you need to toughen thought it. Okay here are a couple of options: 1) I go out there and improvise for you while you build up the courage. 2) I go out there and make a fool out of myself to make you feel better. 3) Instead of the DJ introducing you to the audience, I could walk out there with you and introduce you.” Vanilla satchel suggested. “You would really do that for me, even #2?” Sweetie belle asked. “Of course, I’m your my client, and friend. If there something I must do to make you feel better, I’ll do it…even if it’s embarrassing.” Sweetie belle giggled. “I think I be fine, but thanks.” “No problem, I’m sure you’re going to be fine. Okay you’re on in 1 minute.” “Thanks Vanilla satchel.” Sweetie belle thanked. “No problem and just call me Vanilla. Oh by the way, take this earpiece; it makes sure you can hear me so I can tell you when it’s time to wrap up the concert.” Sweetie belle put the earpiece and put it in her left ear. She opened her mouth to speak but was cut off by the DJ. “Fillies and gentlecolts, welcome to Ponyville’s first official concert! I’ll take this time now to recommend turning off all cellphones. Pictures are allowed but flash must be turned off. And now without further ado, may I introduce Ponyville’s own… SWEETIE BELLE!!” The audience broke up in a fit of clapping, cheering, and whistling. Sweetie belle inhaled, and ran on stage. She found the microphone and ran up to it. Once she arrived to the microphone, she looked at the audience. There was easily a thousand (if not more) ponies there. She swallowed hard, and then spoke up. “Everypony, give it up for Vinyl Scratch!” The audience broke into another fit of clapping. “Hello and welcome to my first concert. I would like to thank you all for making it out here tonight!” The audience broke into a third fit of clapping. “And without further ado, let’s start.” Sweetie belle sang every song she knew, she meant to make her own music but never had the chance because of the exams. But it didn’t matter, everypony knew she was still starting and didn’t have any songs yet. She sang song from song everypony clapping in between songs. After about 1-2 hours she heard Vanilla’s voice coming from the earpiece. “Okay Sweetie belle it’s time to wrap up the concert. And don’t reply to me because I can’t hear you.” Sweetie belle inhaled and spoke into the microphone. “I would again like to thank you all for coming out to see the concert. I’m Sweetie belle, and I’ll see you all next time!” Sweetie belle said then ran off stage. The Audience quickly started booing and yelling. “Encore, Encore, Encore!” Sweetie belle ran up to Vanilla satchel. He spoke up to talk. “Great job Sweetie belle, I knew you were going to be great. So are you going to give the ponies what they want?” “I guess but there’s not very many songs I know left.” Sweetie belle thought for a second, then jumped when she thought of a song. “The Cutie mark crusader theme song!” “Well go up there and sing it!” Sweetie belle turned and ran back to the microphone. Ponies booed and yelled encore until she came into view. Then a large roar of cheering came from the audience. Sweetie belle ran up to the microphone and said. “You wanted and encore, so here it is! This was a song made almost a year ago by me and my two best friends.” Sweetie belle began singing their theme song. Every word reminded her of another experience she had with Applebloom and Scootaloo. From reporters to monster hunters, memorizes rose, and almost moved Sweetie belle to tears. But she stayed strong and finished the song. Everypony broke into a loud clap. Sweetie belle thanked the audience again then ran off stage to Vanilla satchel. The two talked for about 10 minutes. Then Sweetie belle decided to go home. It was late and she was tired. Sweetie belle walked out the back door to find Apple bloom and Scootaloo being bullied by three colts. Apple bloom and Scootaloo both began crying, Sweetie belle ran up to stop it but it was too late. Apple bloom and Scootaloo had run off, tears flooding their eyes. Sweetie belle began crying too. “WHAT’S YOUR PROBLEM!!!?” Sweetie belle yelled. The bullies turned around to face Sweetie belle. “Oh my god, hi Sweetie belle, I loved your show!” One of the bullies said “DON’T CHANGE THE TOPIC, WHY DID YOU MAKE MY FRIENDS CRY!!!?” Sweetie belle yelled tears flooding her eyes. “Those were you’re friends? But they’re just stupid blank flanks.” Another bully said. “THAT DOESN’T MEAN YOU NEED TO MAKE FUN OF THEM UNTIL THEY CRY!!!” Sweetie belle’s tears turned into burning rage. “Whatever let’s get off the topic of the stupid blank flanks. Could we could get some autographs?” The same bully said. “Maybe later, I need to go talk to my friends.” Sweetie belle said panting. With that she ran off to sweet apple acres. The whole time Sweetie belle ran to sweet apple acres she couldn’t stop thinking of the incident. It took her 5 minutes to run to sweet apple acres. When she arrived, she took a moment to catch her breath. Then she knocked on the door. A couple of seconds later, Applejack answered the door. “Oh hi Sweetie belle, first, great job at your concert, second do you know why Apple bloom is crying?” Apple jack asked. “First, thank you, second, Apple bloom was bullied behind stage and I arrived too late to stop it.” Sweetie belle said in between breaths. “She was bullied? Oh no… Maybe you can talk to her. She won’t talk to me, Big Mackintosh, or Granny smith!” Apple jack said. “Okay, I’ll give it a chance.” Apple jack opened the door for Sweetie belle. Sweetie belle walked in, she immediately heard Apple bloom crying, and ran up the stairs. She ran to Apple bloom’s room and knocked on the door. “Apple bloom, can I talk to you? It’s Sweetie belle.” Apple bloom’s crying stopped for a minute, and then the door opened slowly. There stood there, teary eyed. The pure sight of seeing Apple bloom crying made Sweetie belle sad too. “Oh Apple bloom, I’m sorry, I was inside talking to Vanilla and when I came out you had already run away. I yelled at the bullies and ran here. Are you okay? Do you want to talk about it?” Sweetie belle asked. Apple bloom wiped her eyes and replied. “Yeah, I guess.” Apple bloom said moving away to let Sweetie belle in her room. Sweetie belle entered slowly. She noticed the room was scattered with tissues and the lights were off. A clear sigh Apple bloom was under a lot of stress. Apple bloom was almost always happy. Although she is a pony and everypony (even Pinkie pie) gets sad at times. If it’s a small thing, Apple bloom would sit silent in her room. If it was serious, she would sit on her bed, her face in the pillows with the lights off. Sweetie belle learned to notice this sighs, and would immediately know when Apple bloom was sad. Scootaloo on the other hoof was very hard to know when something was wrong. She kept her emotions to herself, like Rainbow dash. Although there where small little things to see if something was wrong, like she would get more quite, lazy, calm, and slow. At many occasions Sweetie belle got mistaken Scootaloo was upset, but really wasn’t. “Oh um, sorry, just ignore the mess.” Apple bloom said blushing. Sweetie belle walked over to the bed and sat down. Apple bloom joined her taking a seat to her left. “So, um, do you want to talk about it?” Sweetie belle asked. Apple bloom took a deep breath, trying to hold back crying in front of her friend. “Well, where should I start? Okay well, Scoots and I were sitting in the crowd. When you finished, we both wanted to go backstage and talk to you. Then everypony started calling for an encore, then we saw you running back onto the stage. You started to sing the Cutie Mark Crusader theme song; both Scootaloo and I began to remember the adventures we had. We started to shed tears of joy (as cheesy as that sounds). Then we REALLY wanted to talk to you. So after the song, we went to the back entry were you went in. When we got there, there was a bodyguard at the door. We told him that we knew you and we were friends. He didn’t believe us. So we stood out there waiting for you. Then a crowd of colts came. They noticed our red eyes and they started calling us babies, stupid, blank flanks (*Apple bloom shed a tear*) they made me feel like I wasn’t special. And that nopony loved me. (*Apple bloom started to cry again, Sweetie belle wrapped her hoofs around Apple bloom*) Then Scootaloo tried to stand up for me, but then she got teased even more. She was called a blank flank, ugly, retard, and a chicken. Then that’s when we bailed.” Apple bloom had a stream of tears flowing down her face. Sweetie belle had also begun crying too. They just sat there Apple bloom in Sweetie belle’s arms both crying. Eventually Sweetie belle spoke up. “Just don’t listen to them Apple bloom, they’re just trying to be mean. And I will always be here for you…always…” “Thanks Sweetie belle … why don’t we get to a better topic. I really liked your show; I knew you were good but not THAT good!” So they’re the two sat, talking about Sweetie belle’s concert. After about 5 minutes Apple bloom felt better. “So Apple bloom, why don’t we go check up on Scootaloo, to make she’ll be okay?” Sweetie belle suggested. “Yeah let’s go, I REALLY think she’ll need our help.” With that the two crusaders ran out of Apple bloom’s room, down the stairs, out the door, and to Scootaloo’s house. Sweetie belle thought to herself was she ran. “Oh I really hope Scootaloo will be alright.” > A dark hold > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sweetie belle and Apple bloom ran off to Scootaloo's place. The whole situation was spinning in Sweetie belle's head. Both of her friends were made fun of at her own concert. She felt it was her fault. She forgot to tell the body guards that they were on the "Very Important Pony" list. And because of her silly mistake both her friends were made fun of and bullied. Why did his happen? Why did whose ponies do this? Questions spun though Sweetie belle's head. Sweetie belle and Apple bloom stopped to breathe. Sweetie belle looked up to the midnight sky. The moon smiled down to them, as bright as the Celestia's sun "How close are we to Scootaloo's home?" Apple bloom asked in between breathes "Maybe 5 more minutes, I'm not sure." Sweetie belle looked down the street to see the same bullies from earlier. Sweetie belle gasped at the sight of them. Apple bloom noticed them. She quickly took shelter behind a trash can. Sweetie belle quickly followed, not wanting to get noticed. The two crusaders overheard they're conversation "-yeah I agree. The concert was awesome! But I feel kind of bad for bullying those blank flanks." "Are you serious! They were stupid cry-babies!" Apple bloom grew tears in her eyes. “They thought they were 'so tough' but in reality they're cry-babies!" “Yeah, as far as I'm concerned, they could go die in a hole!!" Now Sweetie belle began to cry. ”Yeah, but Sweetie belle is rumored to be a very nice pony. I think we may have gone too far, being that she yelled at us” "Yeah whatever, you can be a cry-baby with them." "I'm not a cry-baby!" Was the last thing the crusaders heard. Apple bloom broke down in tears. About 2 minutes later Apple bloom got up and said. "Okay, we need to get to Scootaloo. She must have taken it hard." And with that the crusaders ran to Scootaloo's home **************************************** Sweetie belle and Apple bloom panted harder than ever. Running from Sweet Apple Acres to Scootaloo’s home half way across Ponyville is much harder than previously thought. “Here…we…are.” Apple bloom felt light headed. “Finally, that took forever.” Sweetie belle said in between breaths. “I know. Okay let’s just take a minute.” Apple bloom and Sweetie belle sat there trying to catch their breaths. Sweetie belle closed her eyes, but was shortly cut off by a certain orange Pegasus. “Sweetie belle? Apple bloom? What are you two doing here?” “Scootaloo! We’re here to talk to you about what happened earlier and cheer you up.” “Not now, I’m NOT in the mood to talk, especially not to Sweetie belle!” Sweetie belle’s eyes darted open. “Why don’t you want to talk to me?” “You could have done something ANYTHING to get them to stop. But NOOO you just had to stay backstage and do nothing!” “How do you expect me to know ANYTHING of what’s going on outside when I’m inside?” “Well your body guard could have done something!” “IT’S NOT MY FAULT WHAT MY BODY GUARD DOES OR DOESN’T DO!” “WELL YOU HIRED HIM SO IT’S YOUR JOB TO TELL HIM WHAT TO DO!” “VANILLA SATCHEL HIRED HIM. I HAVE NO CONTROL OVER ANYTHING!” “THEN TELL VANILLA SATCHEL TO MAKE SURE THE GUARD WILL STOP FIGHTS!” “OH SO NOW YOU’RE BLAMING THIS ON VANILLA SATCHEL!” Sweetie belle started to grow tears in her eyes. “NO, I’M STILL BLAMING YOU! HOW CAN YOU BE SO STUPID TO NOT THINK THIS THOUGH?” Sweetie belle kept silent. “YOU AND VANILLA SATCHEL SHOULD HAVE SAT DOWN AND TALKED ABOUT WHAT SHOULD BE IN HIS CONTRACT!” Scootaloo stopped for a second. “Rainbow dash said ‘A true, true friend helps a friend in need.’ Well you didn’t help me at ALL! If anything you made it WORSE! Friends HELP one another when somepony is sad NOT yell at them! Just stay away from me for a while. And I also want to tell you that… that we aren’t friends anymore.” Sweetie belle broke up into tears. She turned and ran to Carousel Boutique. Flying over Scootaloo’s house was a being with a goat antler, a snake tail, a bat wing, an eagle talon and stood a bit taller than Celestia herself. The being spoke aloud. “Chaos is a wonderful, wonderful thing.” Before despairing into thin air.