Alright and finally getting to the Cutie Mark Crusaders! Hope you all enjoy!
Celestia's sun shone down on Equestria brightly as birds chirped and flew through the sky with the Pegasus ponies. Currently in the forest, there was a steep incline that lead to a cliff with the bottom showing a field of trees as well as a small pond in front of the cliff.
And currently on the inclined, three fillies were walking up with hang gliders strapped to their back. The first filly was an Earth Pony with a light-yellow fur coat and a red mane and tail with a big bow in her mane and orange eyes.
The second was a Unicorn with a light gray fur coat, dullish green eyes, and a mane and tail that were mainly a darkish purple color with grayish pink streaks.
The last of the fillies was a Pegasus with rather small wings. She had orange fur and feathers and a purple mane, tail, and eyes.
One thing these ponies had in common was that they all had no cutie marks on their flanks.
As they were walking, the Pegasus currently had an excited expression on her face as the other two looked rather nervous and unsure of the events they had planned. "Uh, Scootaloo." The Earth Pony said in a country accent very similar to Applejack. "Are you sure about this?"
The Pegasus, now known as Scootaloo, looked back at the two ponies behind her and asked. "Come on Applebloom, don't tell me you and Sweetie Belle are backing out?" She asked with a little disappointment and sadness in her voice.
"Well, no, but…" The Unicorn known as Sweetie Belle said as she chewed her lip a bit. "Couldn't we start somewhere a little…lower to the ground?"
"We are pretty high up." Applebloom pointed out as everypony looked down at the hill they were climbing and couldn't help but notice how…high up they were.
How, Scootaloo simply gave a 'Pfft' as she told her friends. "Come on everypony! We're the Cutie Mark Crusaders. We can't simply settle for second best. It's like my role model Rainbow Dash says, 'The higher you fly the higher you'll go!"
"When has Rainbow Dash ever said that?" Applebloom asked as she and Sweetie Belle gave their orange friend a deadpanned look.
"Not important!" Scootaloo said as she faced forward with a confident expression and pointed towards the top of the hill. "The point is she did say it. Now come on, we got some Hang-gliding Cutie Marks to earn!"
Applebloom and Sweetie Belle watched as their friend started running to the top of the hill. The two fillies looked down again at the bottom of the hill and made an audible gulp before reluctantly following the Pegasus up.
Once they were up at the top, Scootaloo stepped close to the edge and rose her head confidently and let the wind bow her mane and tail back. Meanwhile, Sweetie Belle and Applebloom poked their heads slowly forward and looked right down the cliff. Their eyes widened like dinner plates when they saw the long drop and quickly started backing up. "U-u-uh, S-Scootaloo. Ah take it back, ah am unsure about this." Applebloom said fearfully as she and the Unicorn started to back away from the edge.
"Y-y-yeah. Me to." Sweetie Belle quickly agreed as she backed up alongside the Earth Pony. "Isn't there something safer we can get our Cutie Marks in? Like knitting, or tap dancing?"
But right as they were backing up, Scootaloo suddenly appeared behind them and stopped them from backing away and causing them to flinch. "Come on Crusaders, you two promised it was my turn to pick what we do? We did Sweetie Belle's painting, and Applebloom's bug collecting, now it's my turn. Come on girl's pleeeeeeeeeease."
At this point, Scootaloo brought out her puppy dog eyes on her friends and proceeded to add to it with a cute pout. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle looked at each other before ultimately sighing and said. "Alright."
"Sweet!" Scootaloo cheered as she instantly perked up and started pushing her friends forward a bit. The Unicorn and Earth Pony gulped again as they stood lined up together. Scootaloo got into a running position as Applebloom and Sweetie Belle did so as well but a little more reluctantly with scared looks on their faces.
"Cutie Mark Crusader Hang Gliders...GO!" Scootaloo yelled as she and her friends started running towards the edge of the cliff at full speed. While Scootaloo looked forward with a confident and excited expression, Sweetie and Applebloom looked scared for their lives.
Which they were as Sweetie Belle said to Applebloom. "If I die, make sure Rarity gets all my arts and crafts projects!"
"Almost there!" Scootaloo yelled as they approached the edge of the cliff. "And...JUMP!" With that, Scootaloo and her fellow Crusaders jumped as high as they could of the cliffs.
"WOOHOOOOOO!" Scootaloo cheered as the wind blew against her muzzle.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Applebloom and Sweetie Belle scream at an insanely high pitch as they feared they would start plummeting to their deaths. They clenched their eyes shut, thinking they were about to experience the feeling of high speed free falling...but didn't.
"Woohoo! Look! We're doing it!" They heard Scootaloo's voice yell out to them. Applebloom and Sweetie Belle carefully opened their eyes and saw...they were gliding through the air
"Woooooah." Sweetie Belle softly gasped as she looked around while gliding through the air before she started to laugh happily.
"This is amazin!" Applebloom cheered as she looked down and couldn't help but admire the passing view of the forest below them.
"I told you so!" Scootaloo bragged, but her friends didn't really care as they simply enjoyed the experience of being in the sky. It may not be flying, but it was the next best thing.
For the next few moments they simply hang glided in peace and silence, not bothering to check their flanks until they landed. But just then they saw a couple of figures in the distance getting closer and closer to them. "Hey, ya'll see that?" Applebloom asked as she narrowed her eyes to see better.
"Yeah, it kinda looks like…" Sweetie Belle was saying as they got closer to the things in the distance until Scootaloo yelled.
"BIRDS!" The orange Pegasus yelled as they saw a small flock of birds flying closer and closer to them.
Eventually the birds saw them as well and panicked themselves but both parties were unable to dodge in time as they suddenly crash right into each other. While the birds were able to recover due to their natural flying ability, the Crusader's don't have that. The crash ended up damaging their hang gliders and cause them to start falling to the ground.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!" Sweetie Belle screamed as the ground got closer and closer.
"SOMEONE HELP US!" Applebloom begged as she sealed her eyes shut.
Scootaloo did her best to flap her tiny wigs to get some flight with them, but she no matter how much she flapped them, the tiny orange wings didn't even slow down her fall as she started screaming as well.
Just then an emerald flash could be seen from the forest they were about to fall into when-
"Crashhopper!" Suddenly a orangish-brown blur jumped high from the forest and the Crusader's found themselves being caught in midair before the figure that caught them started falling.
They screamed again as the ground once again started to get closer and this time at a faster rate. When it got really close, they all clenched their eyes short and feared for the worst. But then when they landed, still in the figures arms, they landed with a thud on the ground.
They all reluctantly opened their eyes and saw that they were still alive and safely on the ground as the figure set them down. Applebloom quickly started kissing the dirt and she said. "Oh Earth, precious Earth, I'll never leave ya again!" She said in relief.
"Me neither!" Sweetie Belle quickly said as she hugged a rock.
Scootaloo groaned as she rubbed her head, but then gasped when she looked at what exactly saved them. "Woah…" The Pegasus muttered as she looked up at the figure. It appeared to be a mix of a grasshopper and praying mantis. He had a light orangish-brown exoskeleton with green eyes. He wore orange overalls with three black stripes with non-other then the Ultimatrix symbol on his lower abdomen. This was one of Lincoln's transformations Crashhopper.
"Phew, that was a close one." Crashhopper said with relief. "Are you girls ok?"
Applebloom quickly stood up and rushed up to Lincoln and gave the transforming boy a smile and said. "Sure are! Thank a bunch Lincoln!" The small Earth Pony said happily. She was the first of the Crusaders to meet Lincoln due to him helping out at her family's farm every now and then. Sweetie Belle met him not to long after while Rarity was making him some clothes. And Scootaloo saw him from time to time while riding around Ponyville on her scooter.
"You saved our lives!" Sweetie Belle said as she clung to his grasshopper-like leg.
Crashhopper chuckled a bit at the small unicorns affection and looked down at all 3 fillies. "So why were all hang gliding in the first place?"
"I think the better question is, how did you know we were hang gliding?" Scootaloo asked with a raised eyebrow. Scootaloo told her friends to keep this a secret, so how was it that Lincoln was here to save them right when they needed.
"Applejack saw Applebloom leaving with a hang glider and asked me to keep an eye on you three." Crashhopper answered simply.
"Applebloom!" Scootaloo called out as she lightly glared at her Earth Pony friend.
Applebloom sheepishly chuckled and said. "Guess Ah'm not getting a Cutie Mark in stealth." Applebloom tried to joke as Scootaloo gave an unamused look.
Just then Sweetie Belle let go of Crashhoppers leg and gasped. "Our Cutie Marks! We almost forgot! Let's see if we got them!" All the Crusaders eagerly looked to their flanks for signs of a hang gliding Cutie Mark...but groaned in disappointment when they saw their still blank flanks.
"Dang it! Still no Cutie Marks." Applebloom groaned as she and the Crusader's looked down and sighed.
"Still no luck huh?" Crashhopper asked while scratching his forward.
"Uuuugh, at this point I'm starting to think we'll never get out Cutie Marks." Scootaloo groaned and yet another failed attempt to gain their Cutie Marks.
"Hey come on, don't say that. No one just finds their special talents just like that." Crashhopper explained to them while snapping his claws for emphasize. "I mean look at me, it literally took something crashing from space for me to find out what I do best."
"That doesn't make us feel any better." Sweetie Belle said as she and the other Crusader's gave Crashhopper a deadpanned look.
"Yeeeeah, that sounded better in my head." Crashhopper admitted sheepishly. "Come on, let's head to the Sugarcube corner. That should cheer all of up, right?"
The Crusader's looked to each other before shrugging and muttering in agreement.
The Crusader's and Lincoln were now seen sitting at one of the tables at the Sugarcube corner waiting for their order. Just then Pinkie Pie come up to then holding a try in her mouth and set it down on their table and gave them her usually happy smile. "There ya go everypony! One strawberry milkshake, one chocolate, and two vanilla!"
"Thanks Pinkie." Lincoln said as he reached for one of the vanilla milkshakes.
"Thanks…" The Crusader's said in a sad tone as Sweetie took the strawberry, Applebloom took the other vanilla, and Scootaloo took the chocolate.
"Hey, what's with the sad faces?" Pinkie Pie asked asked as she suddenly made a big sad face. "You should take that frown and turn it right upside down!" Pinkie then literally did that by somehow twisting her head completely upside down and making it look like she was brightly smiling.
At this point, Lincoln's just stopped questioning the antics of Pinkie Pie. His pony friends say it best. It's just Pinkie Pie being Pinkie Pie. Not to different from a good friend he had back home really. "It's fine Pinkie, they're just a little upset right now."
"Ooooh, another failed Cutie Mark attempt?" Pinkie guess as her head spun back to normal positioning. The Crusaders simply sighed and nodded their heads in confirmation to Pinkie's guess. "Aaaaw, come girls! Keep your chin high and don't give up! No one just finds their cutie mark over night, well unless somepony did get their cutie mark at night but you get the point."
"Uh, yeah. Thanks Pinkie." Applebloom said with a small chuckles. That pink pony just had a way of making anypony smile no matter what. She was the element of laughter after all so it made sense...well, as much sense as Pinkie Pie could make anyway.
"Thanks again Pinks," Lincoln said while holding up his milkshake. "I'll see ya later."
"Okie doki loki!" Pinkie Pie said as she went to go tend to other customers.
After taking a drink of her milkshake, Scootaloo sighed and leaned back in her seat and said. "Guess hang gliding Cutie Marks are a bust huh?"
At hearing this, Lincoln turned to Scootaloo and rose an eyebrow. "Hey scoot's, I've been meaning to ask you this but why were you specifically hang gliding?" Lincoln asked with confusion evident in his voice. "Wouldn't that be kinda pointless for Pegasus since they can fly?"
Scootaloo quickly stopped drinking from her shake and froze for a bit. Her eyes wandered to her back where her tiny wings were. Sweetie and Applebloom shot Scootaloo a concerned look as Scootaloo quickly spoke up. "I-I'm a l-late bloomer when it comes to f-flying alright! I'm still waiting for my wings to grow!" Scootaloo said in a bit more of a defensive tone then she intended.
"Ok, ok, I'm sorry. Didn't mean to upset." Lincoln while raising his hands in surrender. He knew there was something more to it, but it was obviously a sore subject so he would drop it again. Suddenly a beeping sound was heard that seemed to source from Lincoln. The white head rolled up his sleeve and saw the Ultimatrix beeping green.
"What's goin on with that watch of yours?" Applebloom asked as the Crusader's all turned to Lincoln as he twisted the dial and lightly hit the alien device.
"I don't know, this thing just does weird things from time to time." Lincoln said as he's experienced more than his fair share of glitches, screw ups, and universe destroying self destruct modes from this device and the previous one he had known as the Omnitrix. Finally after a minute of messing around with the gauntlet the beeping stopped. "Sorry about that."
"It's ok." Sweetie Belle said as she took a drink from her milkshake and hummed in delight at the taste before sighing and saying. "You know, you were right Lincoln. I do feel a little better now."
"See, what I'd tell ya." Lincoln said with a smile after drinking a bit from his. "When life gets you down, you just got show it your tougher and don't give up."
"Yeah!" All three Crusader's cheered as they stood up on their chairs.
"We can't go bellyaching over one failed attempt!" Applebloom said confidently.
"Our special talents are still waiting to be discovered!" Sweetie Belle added in with an equally confident tone.
"And why is that?" Scootaloo asked her fellow Crusaders.
"BECAUSE WE'RE THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!" All the fillies cheered in unison.
"Now that's the kind of confidence you need." Lincoln said with approval as he snapped his fingers. "Like I said, it's not something that's just gonna happen. Just keep trying, and trying and let your failures be the seeds to your success. Who knows, maybe your Cutie Marks will come from something completely unexpected."
"Yeah! They could be anything and look like anything!" Sweetie Belle said with excitement in her voice as a whole bunch of different kinds of marks appeared in her head. "And now it's my turn to decide what we try next."
"Alright!" Applebloom and Scootaloo said in unison. But just then Appleblooms eyes widened as she started to remember something.
And right as Sweetie Belle was about to take. "WAIT!" Applebloom quickly interrupted before Sweetie could speak up and made everypony look towards here. "We can't do that right now!"
"Aw, why not?" Sweetie Belle asked with a disappointed pout.
"Remember what tomorrow is?" Applebloom asked as the other two fillies tilted their head in confusion. Tomorrow? What was so special about tomorrow. The Unicorn and Pegasus put a hoof to their chin in thought as they tried to remember what was so special about tomorrow.
And then, it hit them.
"IT'S SHOW AND TELL AT SCHOOL!" The Unicorn and Pegasus shouted in unison as they remembered tomorrow would be when Miss Cheerilee would be holding a show and tell session at school tomorrow.
"We were so busy getting the hang gliders ready we forgot all about it." Scootaloo said as she faced hoofed.
"We can't show up with nothing! We'll be laughing stocks." Sweetie Belle pointed out as her friends nodded in agreement as they quickly drank up the rest of their milkshakes and gave a quick goodbye to Lincoln.
"Sorry to cut this short Lincoln but we gotta go!" Applebloom said quickly as she and her fellow Crusaders followed close behind.
"Alright, see ya!" Lincoln said as he waved goodbye.
"Come on everypony We gotta find something to show off for Show and Tell tomorrow!" Applebloom said as she and her fellow Cutie Mark Crusader's raced through Ponyville to find something interesting to show their class tomorrow.
"There's gotta be something cool around here to show off to everypony!" Scootaloo said as she looked around rapidly.
"Oh! What about that!" Sweetie Belle yelled as she pointed a hoof at something she saw. Applebloom and Scootaloo looked in the direction Sweetie was pointing at and saw a cart of a pony selling flower bouquets that matched Pony's manes and tails.
Scootaloo gave Sweetie a deadpanned look and said. "Everypony's seen flowers before Sweetie Belle. Like, everyday. Come on we gotta bring something awesome that'll drop everypony's jaws!" Scootaloo told her friends as they looked at each other.
"And uh, where are we gonna find that?" Applebloom asked as she scratched her head with her hoof.
"I...don't know." Scootaloo admitted as she lowered her head. But she quickly raised it as she shook her head. "But I'm sure we'll find it eventually if we keep looking! So let's stop just standing around!"
The Crusader's quickly got back to looking for anything cool to show off during their search. Scootaloo would point out things she thought looked cool, but Sweetie and Applebloom pointed out that it was either A. to big to fit though the doors, or B. probably stuff Miss Cheerilee wouldn't allow in the classroom…like the fire dancer pony they saw street preforming.
When Sweetie Belle pointed something out, Scootaloo would quickly dismiss it as 'not cool enough' or hardly anything special. Like things like clothing items or animals the Unicorn spotted.
So far, Applebloom hasn't pointed anything out. She's simply watched as her Unicorn and Pegasus friends tried to agree on something, only to ultimately fail and start the search all over again. As Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo got into a little argument, Applebloom decided to speak up. "Hey, why don't we head to Sweet Apple Acre's. Maybe there's somethin there!"
Sweetie and Scootaloo stopped their arguing and looked to Applebloom with Scootaloo rolling her eyes and saying. "What's gonna be over there? An Apple?"
Applebloom but on a bit of a hurt look at hearing the Pegasus say this and said. "Hey, there's no need to be so mean, I'm just sayin there's no harm in tryin."
"Yeah Scoots, who's so say there isn't something cool enough at the Apple family farm." Sweetie Belle said as she glared at Scootaloo right in the eye. "Maybe you should be more considerate to other pony's choices!"
"Sweetie, the last thing you point out was a sheet of paper that was full of scratch and sniff stickers." Scootaloo said with a deadpanned voice.
"And what's wrong with that?" Sweetie Belle said defensively. "You didn't even give any of those stickers a sniff."
"Nice smelling stickers aren't gonna impress anypony at Show at Tell tomorrow." Scootaloo pointed out in an obvious tone.
Applebloom watched as, once again, the Unicorn and Pegasus started arguing. Applebloom simply watched and sighed as the two went at it again. So much for trying to defuse everything. Applebloom slowly gained an annoyed look as the two arguing in front of her started to argue a little louder. And then…
"AHAHAHAHAHAHA! Look at the arguing blank flanks!" Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle quickly stopped arguing and turned to the source of the voice they knew all to well. They looked to see two Earth Pony fillies coming up to and laughing at them. The first one was a gray pony with a lighter gray tail and main tied up with a purple band in a braid and purple eyes. She wore light blue trimmed glasses and a pearl necklace, and her Cutie Mark was a spoon with a pink heart at the end.
The second filly had a light magenta fur coat, a purple mane and tail with a white streak through it and blue eyes. Her cutie mark was a tiara and she had an identical looking tiara right on her head.
This was Silver Spoon and Diamond Tiara respectively. Ponies that often bullied the Cutie Mark Crusader's at every chance they got. "Well now, what are the little Blank Flanks arguing about this time?" Diamond Tiara asked in a mocking tone.
"Uh, nothing!" Applebloom quickly said.
"The weather!" Sweetie Belle said right after.
"Politics!" Scootaloo instantly said after that leading to the Earth Pony and Unicorn giving her a deadpanned expression.
Diamond and Silver simply gave them cocky scoffs as the latter spoke up. "Ya know, it seems to me like somepony's are in a rush to find something for the Show and Tell tomorrow." Silver Spoon pointed out as the Crusader's tensed up and adverted their gaze.
"Oh, now is that so?" Diamond Tiara said with in a snarky tone. "I figured the great Cutie Mark Crusader's would have something amazing to shot off to the class."
"Wh-Who says we don't!" Applebloom said defensively with her friends backing her up.
"Yeah! Besides Diamond Tiara, what exactly do you have to show off tomorrow?" Scootaloo asked with a raised brow and a semi-confident expression.
However, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon gave their own confident expression's as Diamond said. "Oh, you'll have to wait and see tomorrow. But it'll obviously be better than anything you three have to show."
"Yeah!" Silver Spoon added in.
"You wish!" Sweetie Belle suddenly snapped as she stepped forward. "In fact, we have one of the coolest things to show off!"
"Yeah! It's one of the most awesome things in all of Equestria!" Scootaloo added in as she walked next to Sweetie Belle.
"Uh, girls…" Applebloom said as she tried to persuade them not to continue saying any more.
"Is that say?" Diamond asked with a confident smirk.
"Yeah! In fact, it's so good, it's something that's completely unique!" Sweetie Belle added as Scootaloo nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, it's something no other pony in Equestria has seen before!" Scootaloo quickly followed up as Sweetie rapidly nodded.
"Uh, I think maybe you two should stop." Applebloom quietly and quickly said so the two would stop over hyping their potential showing tomorrow.
"Is that so?" Diamond Tiara said while rolling her eyes at Silver Spoon. "Well then we look forward to seeing it."
"See you girl's tomorrow." Silver Spoon said as she and Diamond started walking away laughing.
Once the two bullies disappeared from sight, Sweetie and Scootaloo broke their confident persona's and looked back to Applebloom in a bit of shame as the farm pony glared at them. "Ok, I know this might seem bad." Sweetie Belle said slowly.
"Might?" Applebloom said sarcastically.
Later, the Cutie Mark Crusader were seen mopping around in their club house trying to think of something to show off to their class tomorrow. "Now we can't just anything off, now we have to show something no ponies ever seen before because someponies couldn't keep their mouths shut." Applebloom said as she glared at her friends.
"Uuuugh, how many times do we have to say we're sorry." Scootaloo groaned as she laid down on her back in the middle of the room.
"When we find something we can bring in." Sweetie Belle answered for herself and Scootaloo with her voiced muffled by the beanbag she was laying belly down on with her face buried in it.
"If we don't, we'll be the laughin stocks of the school." Applebloom groaned out as she leaned down in the chair she was sitting in. "Tiara's probably told all our classmates by now."
"Come on girls think." Sweetie Belle said as she lifted her head from the bean bag. "There's got to be something we can show that matches what we said."
"But what are the odds of that?" Scootaloo asked as she sat up from the floor. "I mean, something that nopony in Equestria has never seen that is completely unique?"
The Crusader's all groaned as they laid or sat back down where they were. They really over hyped their showing for Show and Tell and they didn't even have something planned for it in the first place! They all simply sighed as they tried to think of something, anything, they could show off.
Applebloom looked towards the roof of the club house and entered deep thought. "Come on Bloom, think." Applebloom told herself as she closed her eyes. "Something unique…cool and awesome…that nopony in Equestria has seen."
Applebloom was completely silent for a few moments. Her mind was going on overdrive as she tried to think of anything that met that description.
…
Unique…
…
Cool…
…
Somethings nopony has seen before…
…
Appleblooms eyes shot open as she jumped out of her chair. "THAT'S IT!"
"You want me to what?" Lincoln asked as he and the Crusader's were currently in the middle of Twilight's library. Currently, the Crusader's were explaining their situation to Lincoln.
"We want you to be our presentation for Show and Tell tomorrow!" Applebloom explained again as she and her friends gave Lincoln big toothy smiles.
"Soooooo, what would I do exactly?" Lincoln asked as he would like a little more information on this before he agrees to anything.
"You would just have to tell everypony a little bit about yourself, show off a few of your alien transformations, and give everypony a show. It's simple!" Scootaloo explained as she gave an excited smile to Lincoln.
"You fit all out descriptions on what we need! Your cool! You're unique! And noponies ever seen anything like you or your transformations before!" Sweetie Belle listed as she stood up on her hind legs briefly to look up at Lincoln more.
"Girl's, I'm not so sure about this." Lincoln said with uncertainty in his voice. "I mean, I've been in your position before, wanting to do something to impress other people, especially bullies, but I don't really think this is the best solution."
The Crusader's all frowned as they looked down. "We know, and this is our fault honestly." Sweetie Belle admitted as her friends nodded.
"We did kinda forget about it and then proceeded to overhype it just a bit." Scootaloo admitted while rubbing her hoof against the wooden floor.
"We're not asking you to rub yourself in other pony's faces or anything, just come in and maybe tell everypony about yourself and just a small transformation." Applebloom explained quietly. "Just, so nopony laughs at us when she show up with nothing."
"Pleeeeeeeeeeeeease!" The Crusader's all said in unison as they looked up at Lincoln with big puppy dog eyes and pouts.
Lincoln held a straight face for a few moments, but not even he could look at those puppy dog eyes for long without breaking. His resolve slowly broke as he sighed and said. "Ok, ok, you win. I'll do it!"
"Yay! Thanks Lincoln!" The Crusader's said as they all hugged the Loud boy's legs tightly.
Lincoln sighed, but couldn't help but smile and pat one of the filly's heads. Honestly, he would have agreed even without the puppy dog eyes.
PONYVILLE SCHOOLHOUSE
"Thank you Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon for your Show and Tell today." Miss Cheerilee, an earth pony with a dark cerise fur coat and a pink mane and tail and a light pink streak across them and light green eye with 3 smiling flowers as her cutie mark, said as Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon just finished showing off some jewelry they brought from home and describing it in great detail.
Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon bowed as the class clapped for them. "Thank you. Thank you everypony." Diamond Tiara said as she and her friend basked in the glory as they started to return to their seats.
As the two past the Crusader, who were the next and last to go up, they both said in unison in a cocky tone. "Good luck Crusader's."
The Crusader's gave Diamond and Silver a light glare as they stepped forward with their heads up high. When they were in front of the classroom and facing all their classmates, Cheerilee asked. "So girls, what have you three brought for Show and Tell today?"
The Crusader's looked to each other with smirks and then looked to their classmates and said. "Fellow classmates, today for Show and Tell we've brought you something truly unique today to show you all!" Sweetie Belle explained as most of the students 'Ooooooooed' in fascination.
"Something so cool and awesome, all your jaws will drop!" Scootaloo explained dramatically getting the classroom even more excited.
"And somethin that, until recently, no pony has ever seen before." Applebloom finished as all the class was smiling in anticipation for what the Crusader's brought today.
Meanwhile Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon simply rolled their eyes and crossed their hooves.
"Well that sounds amazing girls." Cheerilee said with a smile. She then looked around the classroom and faced the girls with a confused expression. "Um, where is it?"
"Oh, he should be here any second now." Scootaloo said confidently as her fellow Crusader's nodded with confirmation.
"He?" Cheerliee asked while tilting her head.
Knock...knock..,knock…
"Oh! That should be him!" Sweetie Belle said excitedly as she quickly went over to the door of the classroom. Sweetie Belle then opened up the door and-
"Hey-o everybody!" Lincoln said as the second Sweetie opened up the door, Lincoln immediately came in. Everypony wasn't prepared for the sudden entrance of the human and all screamed a bit with a few falling backwards in their chair. "Oops, sorry. Didn't mean to scare all of you."
Cheerilee put a hoof to her heart and took a few deep breaths to calm herself down before saying. "Lincoln, please, I don't mind you popping in, but could you maybe do it a little calmer next time?"
"Yes, sorry about that Miss Cheerilee." Lincoln said while scratching the back of his head. "Oh, and how did that package I delivered to you turn out?"
"Oh, perfectly fine, thank you for asking." Cheerilee said as she remembering Lincoln delivering a package to her a few days ago. Just then Cheerilee's eyes widened a bit as she realized something. "Wait, Lincoln, are you the girls Show and Tell presentation?"
"Yep!" Lincoln and the Crusader's said in unison.
"Now hold on just one moment!" Diamond Tiara suddenly spoke up as she raised a hoof up. "You can't just show off some other pony, or, whatever he is for Show and Tell."
"First off, I'm a person, not a pony." Lincoln pointed out while pointing a thumb to himself. "And second, says who? Is there some kind of Show and Tell rulebook saying a human from another universe can't be shown?"
"I, er, well...Miss Cheerilee?" Diamond Tiara gave her teacher and overly wide smile, hoping she would take her side in this. However, the school teacher ended up shaking her head making Diamond cross her hooves and pout.
"Alright, so I'm here for one reason, and one reason only, I'm here to tell you all about myself and show you a bit of what I can do." Lincoln said as he pulled up a chair from the side of the room and sat down on it in front of all the fillies in the classroom.
"Oh! Oh! Oh!" A blue unicorn with scissors as his Cutie Mark said as he raised his hoof. This was Snips. "Turn into one of those cool monsters we've heard about!"
"Yeah!" Said the amber unicorn next to Snips. He had a snail as his Cutie Mark with his name being...Snails. "Show us a cool monster."
"I'm more than happy to, but the correct term for my forms is Aliens." Lincoln told everypony as he stood up from the seat he was in and went for the Ultimatrix and activated it. "Alright, everyone cover their eyes, there's gonna be a bit of a flash."
Everypony did as told and either covered or closed their eyes as Lincoln found the alien he was looking for and slammed the dial down and was covered by a green flash. When the flash died down, what stood in Lincoln's place was a tall crystal alien. It's main body was similar to Chromostone's pale green crystals making up his arms, face, and with 6 crystal shards on his back and two on his upper chest.
"Diamondhead!" The Petrosapien announced as he struck a heroic pose.
"Woooooooah!" All the fillies in the classroom said in unison.
"That's so cool!" Scootaloo cheered as her and her Crusader's witness Diamondhead in his glory.
"Very impressive." Cheerilee commented as she walked up to the Loud boy. "Now what can this form do."
"Basically anything do with crystal, I can manipulate and control. Like this. Bam!" Diamondhead then raised his arm up and formed a crystal blade on it making all the fillies in the class gasp and look at it with sparkling eyes.
"That's so cool!" A number of fillies called out as Diamondhead made a few careful swiping motions.
"Yep, Diamondhead's an old favorite of mine. He's strong, durable, and reliable." Diamondhead explained as he retracted his blade. He then held out his hands and said. "And for being such a good audience, here's a small treat." Diamondhead that created small crystal pieces from his hands that fell to the floor until he made enough to create a small pile. "Help yourselfs!"
"Yaaaaaay!" All the fillies cheered as they went after the pile and started taking crystals for themselves.
"Oh, hehe, ok everypony make sure to leave some for everypony." Miss Cheerilee told her students as carefully dragged a few shards behind her with her hoof.
However Diamond Tiara didn't move from her seat and simply scoffed and looked away. "We're not interested in your body jewels, right Silver Spoon...Silver Spoon?" Diamond Tiara looked to the seat where her friend would sit and saw that Silver wasn't there. Looking forward she saw Silver Spoon also gathering up Diamondhead crystals. "Traiter…"
Once everypony, but Diamond Tiara, had gathered up a hoof full of Diamondhead crystals, the Loud boy changed back to his human form and asked. "Alright, don't be shy, anyone have any questions for me?"
"Oh! Me next! Me next!" A pony with a lisp said as she raised her hoof. She was a cream colored pony with a poofy red mane and tail and wore a pair of tick blue rimmed glasses. This was Twist. "When did you first get that thing on your wrist?"
Lincoln sighed blissfully as he sat down in his chair as he remembered when he first got the Omnitrix. "Well that's quite the story, see it started when I was 11 years old…"
Lincoln then went on to tell all the fillies in the classroom the story of how he got the Omnitrix back in his world. How it fell from space when he was camping with his father Lynn Sr and his older sister Leni.
He then went onto explain the events afterwards, the watch latching onto his wrist, the robot attack at the campsite and how he learned to use the watch properly. Of course he did leave out the more violent details and pretty much stuff that wouldn't really be appropriate for a classroom of fillies.
"Wooooow." The fillies all said slowly once Lincoln finished his stories.
"What was amazin." Applebloom told the whitehead slowly.
"Surely, but still…" Cheerilee said as she gave Lincoln a concerned expression. "To go through that at such a young age."
"Yeah, I did have to grow up kinda fast." Lincoln said as he lowered his head as the memories came into his head. "It was far from easy, and there were plenty of rough patches, but looking back on it now, I wouldn't have changed anything. Those experiences made me who I am today."
Lincoln then stood up and looked towards all the fillies and said. "And to close off today, I wanna say one thing to you all. Being a hero isn't just about saving people or stopping bad guys. Being a hero just means being there for others when they need it. Whether it's helping simply carry something, or cheering them up if their sad. If you see someone in need of help, whether with a task or emotional support, don't just stand by and watch, be a hero. Help others that need help."
Everypony took in Lincoln's words, until Applebloom started to clap. The followed by Sweetie, then Scootaloo, and then soon the rest of the class joined in. Even Silver Spoon. The only pony not joining in was Diamond Tiara who simply crossed her hooves and looked away.
"Thank you for the words on inspiration Lincoln." Cheerilee told the human gratefully as Lincoln nodded at her. Just then Cheerilee faced her class and said. "Well give it up to Sweetie Belle, Applebloom, and Scootaloo for their Show and Tell presentation, Lincoln Loud."
The four mentioned all stood next to each other and gave the classroom a bow. When that was done, Lincoln waved to everypony and said. "Well it was great to be here everyone but I better be on my way."
"Bye Lincoln, thanks again for coming in today as the girls Show and Tell." Cheerilee said in a bit of a joking tone making Lincoln smile and roll his eyes at the teacher. Cheerilee then turned to the class and said. "Well now that that's over class, we need to start working on decorations for the Summer Sun Celebration!"
Lincoln stopped as all the kids cheered at the announcement. He turned back to Cheerilee and asked. "Summer Sun Celebration? What's that?"
"You've never heard of it before?" Cheerilee asked with a tilted head. Lincoln shook his head in response and said. "Well, it's a holiday to celebrate Celestia's victory over Nightmare Moon 1000 years ago and Princess Celestia herself makes herself shown and raises the sun in front of everypony!"
"Oh...Nightmare Moon...that whole thing." Lincoln said slowly as he frowned a bit and scratched his head.
"Is something wrong?" Cheerilee asked with a bit of concern.
"Oh, uh, no, it's just...I gotta go." Lincoln said quickly as he left the classroom, not giving anypony a chance to speak up.
As Lincoln was walking through the hallways, suddenly somepony came up behind him and spoke up. "Hey Lincoln!" Lincoln looked behind him and saw Scootaloo coming up behind him.
"Oh, hey scoots, what up?" Lincoln asked. Unknown to both, the Ultimatrix started beeping under Lincoln's hoodie sleeve.
"Genetic damage detected. Shall we attempt at repair?" The Ultimatrix said but was muffled by the hoodie sleeve leading to the human and the Pegasus not hearing it.
"I just wanted to say thanks again for coming in for us. You really saved our flanks." Scootaloo said gratefully as Lincoln gave the kid a toothy smirk and thumbs up.
"Sure thing." Lincoln told her.
"Affirmative. Activating genetic repairing software." The Ultimatrix said in response to what Lincoln said to Scootaloo.
"I'm happy to help. But you better get back to class, don't want you to get in trouble." Lincoln told her as Scootaloo nodded.
"Alright, I'll see ya later Linc!" Scootaloo said as they started to walk away from each other. But as they were walking away, suddenly the Ultimatrix fired a green beam that leaked out of his hoodie sleeve and struck Scootaloo right at her wings.
The orange Pegasus suddenly stopped as her whole body shivered. She looked around to see if anything hit her, but simply shrugged when she saw nothing and just assumed it was just a simply shiver. But before Scootaloo started walking back to the classroom, she flapped her tiny wings a bit and said. "Huh, my wings feel tingly."
Later that night, Lincoln was standing on top of the Golden Oaks Library staring at the orange sky. It was the time where Celestia and Luna would start moving the sun and moon respectively. Or was it? As Lincoln thought. After hearing the story of Nightmare Moon, and the Summer Sun Celebration, he had to find something out for himself.
"Time to get to the bottom of this." Lincoln said as he activated the Ultimatrix and quickly found the alien he was looking for and slammed the dial down.
Standing in Lincoln's place was a manta ray like creature that was mostly red. He had gills underneath his arms and yellow patagia as well as yellow horns that connected to his nose and lips and green eyes as well as a tail.
"Jetray!" The Aerophibian announced as the second after he transformed he took off into the sky at speeds surpassing even XLR8. Jetray quickly passed the planets atmosphere and just like that, Jetray was looking down at the planet from space.
Thankfully the Aerophibian had the ability to breath and survive in space, so it was no trouble. "Now to see this for myself." The Loud boy told himself. The sisters should be working their magic any second now and…
Jetray let out a loud audible gasp at what he saw as he narrowed his eyes on the planet. "I knew it!"
SCOOTALOO'S HOUSE
In the house Scootaloo lived at, the orange filly tossed and turned in her bed, unable to get comfortable. "Ugh, what's wrong with the bed, it feels smaller all of a sudden." The Pegasus groaned as she sat up and yawn.
"Maybe I just need to go to the bathroom." The Pegasus muttered quietly as she sleepily got up and walked towards the washroom. She winced when she turned on the light. She looked at herself in the mirror...and froze at what she saw.
Her eyes widened and she changed her gaze to look behind her and at her wings and noticed a difference in them now from just a few hours ago.
They were no longer small.
