Nicole and the Cutie Mark Crusaders

The Cutie Mark Crusaders were busy wandering around the sheds, "Just think, crusaders, working here can lead to endless possibilities for finding our cutie marks." Scootaloo said with confidence.

"It's perfect." Apple Bloom agreed.

"But, girls, what could we possibly do around here that the adults will let us do?" Sweetie Belle asked.

Scootaloo was prepared to answer, until she sulked, "I have no idea."

Just then they heard the sound of a lot of cussing and the fillies could see Nicole taking Rusty back to the Skarloey Railway from the Dieselworks. Nicole had been pelted with eggs garbage paint balls and manure, "When I find the fucking grabastic pieces of amphibian fucking shit that did this to me in gonna give those fucking whores a fucking piece of my fucking piece of my fucking mind. Those fucking whores fucked up the wrong engine." Rusty who was the flatbed behind Nicole had never heard such foul language

"What was she saying?" Apple Bloom asked her friends.

"Something about grabastic pieces of shit." Sweetie Belle answered.

"Wonder what that means?" Scootaloo wondered.

"I don't know, but let's follow Nicole." Apple Bloom suggested.

Nicole arrived at the Skarloey Railway sheds still cursing up a storm where Duke, Skarloey and Rheneas were waiting, "Any of you getting tired of listening to her?" Skarloey asked.

Rusty who was on flatbed spoke, "I had to listen to her curse all the way here."

"How'd you survive?" Rheneas asked.

"By tuning her out."

"Nicole we're here." her driver said.

Nicole then stopped cursing, "Great now I can go get my fucking washdown and get this shit off of me."

"Now listen here, Nicole. Such language would never suit his grace." Duke said sternly.

"Oh, nobody cares about your Grace, Grandpuff."Nicole retorted.

"That'll be all Nicole. Let's get you to the Washdown." her driver said firmly.

Nicole agreed, as the Crane lifted Rusty to Skarloey Railway from the Flatbed before Nicole took the train away but what she didn't know was that she would have company.

"So far we've learned quite a few new words. You were right Apple Bloom following Nicole was the best idea we had yet." Sweetie Belle smiled.

"Maybe if we start using words like hers we'll sound like we're older." Scootaloo believed.

"And finally gain our cutie marks." Apple Bloom beamed.

"I can't wait." Sweetie Belle said in excitement.

So the Cutie Mark Crusaders followed Nicole in her goods trains all day hiding in the break van of the train and each time they heard Nicole curse they would file it away for memory to use later.

Meanwhile at the Crovan's gate Steamworks Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity were with Carl, Geoff, and Maggie as they were busy getting Henry's fire bars into place.

"Okay that should do it, Henry. Good thing my dad brought you in when he did otherwise it could've been worse." Carl said.

"Thanks, but I just know Gordon is never gonna let me hear the end of this." Henry replied.

"Surely he can't laugh over the loss of your fire bars can he?" Rarity asked.

"Actually he can," Geoff replied, "He lost his once yet he still triumphed in the end. Of course he had to be towed back by a diesel but even so you get the idea.

"That's just typical of Gordon." Applejack rolled her eyes.

"Be thankful I'm nothing like Maggie otherwise I'd bury you under ten tons of coal for that." Geoff replied.

"That is very unpleasant." Rarity shuddered.

Nicole came in pulling some supplies for the Steamworks and she had heard that and she was still completely filthy, "Don't say that in front of me, I still have to be washed."

"What the buck happened to you?" Rainbow asked.

Nicole snapped, "What the fuck do you think? I was fucking vandalized by a bunch of fucking grabastic pieces of fucking amphibian fucking shit!" The ponies were shocked by her language, "You got a fucking problem with my fucking language?"

Little did they know that the Cutie Mark Crusaders were in the Break Van and they had heard everything, "She even says it in front of our sisters." Sweetie Belle said.

"She's almost as cool as Rainbow Dash." Scootaloo said in awe.

"You think we should put it to the test?" Apple Bloom suggested.

"Yep and we 'll test it on Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon," Sweetie Belle said, "They're working with that steamroller whose been insulting our engine friends."

"Oh, we're gonna get them good." Scootaloo said mischievously.

So the three sneaked into Nicole's next train where she had to take some empty trucks to take away some of the old asphalt and to their luck George the Steamroller was there. They jumped out of the break van.

Diamond Tiara wasn't happy to see them, "Well, it if isn't the blank flanks. Why don't you go jump in a mud pit."

Silver Spoon laughed as if it was her job, "Mud pit." she laughed.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders weren't gonna take such shit from them anymore, "Actually, we think you should jump in a mud pit like the fucking pigs you are." Sweetie Belle retorted.

Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were shocked to hear such language from the cutie Mark Crusaders. George couldn't help but Laugh, "Oh, they got you good."

"How dare you say that about me you fools!" Diamond Tiara frowned.

"Actually you're nothing but a bucking unorganized grabastic fucking piece of fucking amphibian shit." Apple Bloom shot back.

Both of the snobby fillies' eyes started widening with each word thrown at them.

"I think we've made our point. Let's go." Scootaloo told her friends.

"And tell that stupid fucking Overgrown handroller that he's nothing but a fucking pile of shit." Sweetie Belle put in.

"More like a slagging piece of crap!" Apple Bloom finished.

The Cutie Mark Crusaders then jumped back in the break Van of Nicole's Train just before the C1 Small Boiler Atlantic puffed away with her trucks fully loaded with old asphalt. Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, and George were shocked at their final words, before looking at each other and burst into bawling.

In the Break Van of Nicole's train the Cutie Mark Crusaders were laughing to themselves about how they stood up to their bullies, "Did you see the look on their faces?!" Scootaloo was cracking up.

"Priceless." Sweetie Belle added.

Apple Bloom was laughing hard, "Oh, I gotta stop laughing or something's gonna come out my nose!"

"And we learned it all from Nicole. We really need to thank her when this is over." Sweetie Belle suggested.

"Right." Scootaloo agreed.

While the three of them were discussing ways to thank Nicole, said C1 Small Boiler Atlantic was busy puffing to the Asphalt plant to get the old asphalt turned into fresh asphault. She couldn't wait to get cleaned at last.

"Finally I'll be glad to have this stench off of me." Nicole said. She finally arrived and was getting ready to get to work.

Meanwhile back at the Steamworks, the last of Henry's repairs were made when Camille showed up on the back on a golden dragon. This was Camille's Dragon Partner Astral.

"Hey, there, Henry." Camille greeted him.

Henry looked suspicious of Camille's greeting, "You're not here to insult me, are you? Usually this is the part where you refer to me as a failed experiment."

"Camille what did you do to Henry and his friends?" Astral inquired.

"I've been a very bad girl." she admitted.

James who was there getting a new coat of paint couldn't help but hear that, "That's the biggest understatement of the century."

"Hey!" Astral called.

"No, Astral. He's right. I deserve it." Camille replied.

"You're serious? But you're a nice girl." Astral was confused.

"Yes I'm a nice girl now, but before that I terrorized the steam engines and pranked them on a constant daily basis during my days in Crime Incorporated and being under the wing of the Dragon League of Eight."

"You worked for the Dragon League of Eight and Crime Incorporated?" Astral was in shock.

"I did."

"Why?"

"It's a long story." Camille answered, and explained it all.

"Well, that explains it. Either way the past is in the past and you have a chance to move on." Astral said.

"I know."

"Anyway, why are you here Camille?" Rarity inquired.

"I just thought you'd might like to know that your sister and her friends have been using some very interesting language."

"What do ya mean?" Applejack wondered.

"I mean that a couple of fillies that look upper class and had marks on their flanks. One had a tiara and the other had a silver spoon. They said something about a mud pit and your sisters then responded by cursing them out. It seems that they were fed up with being mocked about being called blank flanks." Camille explained.

The three ponies looked at each other, before Applejack spoke up, "Where can we find them?"

"Last time I saw them they were in the break van of a goods train being pulled by a green steam engine." Astral spoke up.

"Anything else you remember about the engine?" Rainbow inquired.

"Well, I've never seen steam engines before but the engine in question had four wheels in front, four in the middle and two in the rear."

"Nicole!" the ponies called it.

Astral was confused, "How can you be so sure it's Nicole they were with? Remember, while I was here I did see another engine of that description only this engine was on the front of a Passenger train and had a large boiler."

"Any other specifics on that one?" Rarity asked.

"Her language was the big one. She was very polite and she detests taking goods trains citing that she wasn't built for it and that she's not a mixed traffic engine like Henry or James.

"Typical Natalie for ya. That girl never dirties her buffers with goods work nor does she dirty her mouth with foul language." Applejack said.

"Never the less we need to see our sisters." Rarity said.

"Last time I checked they're over at Knapford. Nicole should be getting her washdown by now." Astral said.

"Let's go." Rainbow said, as the three went to Knapford.

While in said place, Nicole was getting cleaned, while the CMC were still hanging out in the break van.

"Shucks, I thought we'd get a cutie mark for that," Apple Bloom sighed, "Oh well at least we know how to keep Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon from teasing us ever again."

They laughed, until the break van door was opened up. There stood, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity and they were looking pissed off, "Sis?" they asked.

"Don't you sis me, young lady, "Rarity began sternly, "Now what's this I hear about you using foul language?"

"Foul language?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"The language you just used against Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon." Rainbow enlightened them.

"Oh, that," Scootaloo said, "We were just using what we heard to tell them what we really felt about them."

"And where did yew three pick up such foul language?" Applejack inquired.

"Nicole." They answered.

Nicole was getting her washdown when she heard the Cutie Mark Crusaders, "What's going on back there?"

Camille and Astral arrived, as Camille spoke, "Apparently, A.J, Rarity, and Rainbow's sisters picked up your cursing habit and used it on others."

Nicole groaned, "By Henry Ivatt, of all the creatures to pick up on my cursing habit I hoped that a bunch of kids wouldn't pick up on it let alone use it."

"Well, they did." Astral answered.

"How did they even know where to find me? I wasn't anywhere near them."

"They've been hiding out in the break van you've been dragging with you." Camille explained.

"Well, that explains a lot. I have got to be more careful about my cursing habit." Nicole said.

"No kidding." Camille replied.

"Either way I have work to do so I'm gonna get going. I'm supposed to be taking some Stone to Barrow In Furness." Nicole said.

"Right, well if their sisters coming looking for you, be prepared for a lecture." Camille warned her.

Nicole then sped out of there with the Breakvan still coupled to her. The girls inside it lost balance and almost fell out.

Nicole managed to arrive at the Sodor Slate Quarry where Alana who was doing Derek's jobs till he was fixed was waiting, "Here you go Nicole. Your trucks are waiting. Just let me shunt the breakvan into position." Alana said.

"Thank you very much, Alana, but seriously you need to ease up before you blow your motor out again." Nicole noted.

"I'll keep that in mind."

Alana then shunted the brake van Nicole had brought with her into position, before the shunter fastened the couplings and when everything was ready the Guard blew his whistle and Nicole left with the trucks.

The ponies poked their heads out of the break van, "We're still attached to Nicole's train." Sweetie Belle noticed.

"But we can't get off until it stops." Applejack replied.

"I could get off any time." Rainbow noted.

"Then perhaps you can go tell Nicole that we want a word with her?" Rarity suggested.

"Right," Rainbow flew out to have a word with the engine. Nicole meanwhile was racing along as fast as her wheels and her driver would let her, "Hey, there." Rainbow spoke.

Nicole was taken by surprise, "Rainbow Dash? How the hell are you able to keep up with me? What the hell are you thinking?"

"I'm just that awesome. But we need to talk."

"I got work to do can this wait?"

"You and your mouth set a bad example for our sisters." Rainbow began.

"I already heard it from Diesel's Driver's daughter already I don't need to hear it from you."

"Well, you have to. It's our job to set good examples for them, and hearing that they picked up a nasty habit from another doesn't sit well with us."

Nicole gave it some thought as she continued steaming to the Barrow. When she arrived she was uncoupled from the train and turned round on a turntable before going to get a drink. This was the opening the ponies needed to Give Nicole a lecture about her potty mouth.

"Ms. Nicole!" Rarity called out.

"We got a bone to pick with yew." Applejack said.

Nicole saw the three older ponies and the CMC approach her, with the kids looking ashamed of what they did.

'Camille said to be prepared for a lecture. What have I got to lose?' Nicole thought.

"What the hay were ya thinking?!" Applejack started.

"I was thinking. How was I supposed to know there were gonna be kids traveling with me today? I was scheduled to do goods trains all day." she began.

"Besides that," Rarity interrupted her, "You have to watch where you run your mouth off anywhere. If you didn't know our sisters were around you, then this kind of thing could be likely to happen anywhere when you least expect it."

"But I don't curse around children. Everybody knows that." Nicole replied.

"Which is probably why Zuko gives you the jobs that involve working with children." Rainbow said.

"While we understand you had no intention. We expect you to tell our sisters about what you did was wrong." Rarity added. The three nudged their sisters forward.

"The language that you heard me use is not to be used by you. Even though I curse it's not okay for you to curse." Nicole told the three.

"But it works. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon won't bother us anymore." Apple Bloom replied.

"Yeah, even George bawled over it." Scootaloo added.

"For a while but it doesn't work all the time. If you're not careful then you'll end up in the hospital or in my case the Steamworks. Trust me I speak from Experience."

"Really?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Remember when Crime Incorporated attacked the gold train I was taking?" Nicole asked. They nodded, "I cursed out Crime Incorporated after they demanded my crew to surrender and they shot at me because of it."

"Ouch." Scootaloo cringed.

"Yeah. Fortunately as an engine I can be repaired. If you said that and they shot at you then you wouldn't be here right now," Nicole said. The three cringed knowing how lucky they were they didn't do it to someone who could shoot them, "Anyway we better get back to Sodor before the others notice you're missing."

The ponies all agreed with the Small Boiler Atlantic as they hopped in the breakvan of a goods train bound for Sodor while Nicole coupled up to the front of the train and puffed away.