A Tale of Three Fillies
Chapter 1: Realization
"Slow down Scootaloo! I don't want to get my cutie mark for being roadkill!" a red maned yellow pony called from the wagon behind a speeding scooter being driven by a orange pony with a purple mane. "Don't worry Applebloom" Scootaloo called back "I got this all undAAAAAHHHHHH!" she called back as she narrowly avoided a cart being pulled by a brown stallion. "See, told ya" an unfazed Scootaloo call back to her visibly shaking passenger. "Just g-g-get us to C-c-carousel Boutique in one piece...please".
Only a few minutes later the two filly's skidded to a stop in front of The Carousel Boutique and walked in. As the door open a small bell was rung and they were greeted by a white mare with a purple mane.
"Welcome to the Carousel Boutique! Oh, good morning darlings, Sweetie Belle will be ready in just a moment"
"Ok Rarity! So what are you working on right now?"She asked as she saw a dress dummy cover in what looked like armor plating painted dark blue.
"Oh that, I'm trying to design a new outfit for Luna's personal guard, the black and bats are sooooooo last millennium"
"And scary too!" a white unicorn filly called out as she came down the stairs "Sorry for making you wait, I was just brushing my mane" Sweetie Belle looked a lot like her older sister, but her mane had streak a pink running through it instead of being straight purple.
"Come on Sweetie Belle, we got another day of extreme crusading ahead of us!" Scootaloo said as she ran out the door and started up her scooter. The other two fillies followed right on her tail while yelling "Cutie Mark Crusaders Away!"
After speeding away from Carousel boutique and almost hitting only 2 ponies and a bunny, the Cutie Mark Crusader made there way onto Sweet Apple Acres, which was home to Apple Bloom, and in a corner of the farm stood the Cutie Mark Crusader's clubhouse. As Scootaloo came to a sliding stop all three rushed inside and Sweetie Belle grabbed a large scroll from the corner of the room and walked over to a a picture hanging on the wall with numbered tags stuck to it. It was a hand drawn map of
Ponyville that they had made when trying to get their cutie marks in cartography.
"I now call this meeting of the Cutie Mark Crusaders to order" Sweetie Belle said. "Let's start with marking any new crusades." Apple Bloom was the first to chime in "We tried to build that tower out of books in the library " Sweetie belle quickly wrote "tower builders" on the scroll she had taken out using a quill and her unicorn magic. She then wrote "266" next to it on the scroll and then wrote it on a tag and placed it on the library on their map, joining markers "27, 85, and 143"
"We also tried to get our cutie marks for being Pharmacy assistants" Scootaloo chimed in "I thought we had our cutie marks for sure that time"
"Granny Smith spent the next three days in bed talking about the gryphons who were in the corner knitting her sweaters with six legs!" Apple bloom cried out
"Okay, so maybe we weren't that close"
"I'll say"
As the two continued to argue, Sweetie Belle wrote "267- pharmacy assistants" on here scroll and squeezed a tag onto the map near the Clinic. As she stepped back to look at the map something caught her attention about it.
"Apple Bloom, Scootaloo! Take a look at this map, there isn't any space left to place new markers!" As the two friends stopped their bickering and looked at the map, they saw that as the purple and pink maned filly had said, the entire map was cover in markers, even the part of the Everfree forest they had added on. Sweetie Belle, obviously discouraged, looked at her friends.
"Is there anything left for us to try, I'm starting to thing we will never get our cutie marks" she said on the verge of tears.
"Come on Sweetie Belle, there is plenty of things for us to do still!" Scootaloo said in an attempt to cheer up her friend.
"Like what! We've done every possible thing there is to do in Ponyville!"
"No we haven't! We can still... and we haven't..." Scootaloo trailed off
"See! Even you can't think of anything! Face it, we are going to be blank flanks forever!" Sweetie Belle no longer held back the tears as they slowly slid down her muzzle. Apple Bloom had been looking at the map while her friends talked, and finally came up with an idea.
"If we have tried everything in Ponyville, why don't we leave?" Both her fellow crusaders stared wide eyed at her as she continued on.
"Why not? My sister went to Manehatten when she was a filly, and she might not have gotten her cutie mark if she hadn't. Why can't we leave Ponyville and search for our cutie marks somewhere else in Equestria?" Both her friends stood there thinking about what she had just said. Sweetie Belle was the first to speak.
"Are you sure that is a good idea?"
"Of course it is!" Scootaloo said with excitement, "I don't know why I didn't think of that! Apple Bloom, you are a genius!" This got Apple Bloom grinning from ear to ear.
"So should we do it? Should the Cutie Mark Crusaders leave Ponyville? All in favor?"
"Awww yeah!" Scootaloo cried out, pumping her hoof in the air
"You know, it does make a lot of sense... I'm in" Sweet belle said as she too raised her hoof in the air
Apple Bloom looked at her two best friends in the world and she too raised a hoof "Then it's settled, we're going to leave Ponyville. Now all we need is a plan."