My Little Pony Friendship is Magic: Call of the Cuite

A/N: (Dede42 is in the writers studio and she checks her watch before she calls out a certain name.)

Dede42: Discord!

Discord: (appears before her) Yes, Dede42?

Dede42: I have a question for you.

Discord: Go ahead.

Dede42: Yesterday while I was recovering from that insane trip in the TARDIS, did you tamper with the Dr. Whooves chapter I posted? Because it was darker then when I originally wrote it and I'm pretty sure that the story didn't run away with me.

Discord: Why would I do something like that? I know better then to mess with someone's work.

Dede42: (rolls her eyes) You know that I have security cameras in here right?

Discord: You do?

Dede42: Yes, and I was checking the footage from yesterday and found something interesting.

(Cutscene to security footage, where Dede42 is fast asleep on the couch in the writers studio. Discord sneaks in through the front door, goes to the laptop, and does some quick changes to the chapter before he disappears with a cackle.)

Dede42: Well?

Discord: That footage has clearly been tampered with. I would never do anything like that to you.

Dede42: I don't believe you and that footage doesn't lie.

Discord: I insist that I am telling you the truth.

Dede42: Fine, we'll do this the hard way. Wonder Woman!

(The Linda Carter version of Wonder Woman enters the studio and lassos Discord with her golden rope, which starts to glow.)

Wonder Woman: Tell the truth and you won't be burned by the Lasso of Truth.

Discord: I am telling the- (the lasso glows brighter) Ow! Ow! Stop it! Fine! I tampered with the chapter! I confess! I confess!

Dede42: (shakes her head while Wonder Woman removes the lasso, and Discord pouts) I've gotta get this place magic-proofed. Shame on you, Discord.

Discord: I'm sorry and I won't do it again.

Dede42: Promise?

Discord: Promise. (He disappears and Wonder Woman leaves.)

Dede42: (turns to the camera) So, it turns out that Discord messed with that chapter, Roleplayer48, and I went back and did some serious editing on it, so it shouldn't be so dark like before. Hopefully you'll like it better. ;)

Read, review, and enjoy!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything from My Little Pony: Magic is Friendship. I just own any and all characters that I just happen create.

CHAPTER THREE: APPLE BLOOM'S NEW FRIENDS

The moment that Apple Bloom realized that she was at the cute-ceañera, she duck behind a chocolate statue shaped like a rearing unicorn. "How could I have forgotten the time?" she moaned, peering around at the ponies and fillies celebrating, plus one pony biting a cupcake and spitting it out since it was one of the burnt ones. "How could I have forgotten Pinkie Pie was hosting the party? How could I have forgotten it was at Sugarcube Corner?"

Pinkie Pie plopped a party hat on the filly's head. "Don't forget your party hat, Forgetty Forgetterson!" she advised and bounced away, wearing a party hat of her own.

Apple Bloom removed the party hat and looked around frantically. "I have to get out of here before anypony sees me," she muttered and found a hiding place behind a cake, only to have Snails walk up and take large bite out of it, forcing her to find a new hiding place.

"Hey!" Diamond Tiara snapped. "It's my cute-ceañera, I'm supposed to get the first bite of cake."

Apple Bloom ran across one of the counters and duck behind a bunch of balloons, which were then popped by a unicorn dancing nearby with his eyes shut. She dropped to the floor and hid herself under a table that had a bowl of punch and cups on it. Peering out from under the table cloth, she spotted the open front doorway. "Okay, Apple Bloom, almost there," she whispered and then carefully made her way across the floor, pausing every now and then, allowing one pony to get a drink, and then she stopped just a foot away from the door.

'Made it,' Apple Bloom thought, coming out from under the table and retreated through the doorway-

Only to be shoved back inside by Applejack, who was happy to see her little sister. "Apple Bloom, you made it," she said cheerfully. "After I heard about Twist, I was afraid you wouldn't show up. I sure am glad you came to your senses about this whole cutie mark thing. These things happen when these things are supposed to happen. Trying to rush 'em just drives you crazy. I'll let you be, looks like your friends want to talk to you." And she trotted off to talk with Twilight Sparkle and Sunrise Blossom.

Realizing that Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were heading toward her, Apple Bloom quickly grabbed the table cloth off the nearby table and tied it around her waist, hiding her blank flanks.

"Well well well, look who's here," Diamond Tiara said snidely.

"Nice outfit," Silver Spoon added, also in a snide manner.

Apple Bloom thought quickly. "Just sumt'n I, uh, pulled together last minute."

"It really shows off your cutie mark," Diamond Tiara commented in a mocking tone. "Oh wait, that's right, you don't have one."

"Uh, I have a cutie mark," Apple Bloom lied.

Silver Spoon blinked, confused. "Eh, what? Since when?"

Apple Bloom thought quickly before answering. "Since… Um… Earlier today."

"Oh really? Let's see it," Diamond Tiara demanded, not believing her fellow filly for a second.

"I shouldn't. I couldn't," Apple Bloom refused politely. "My cutie mark is so unbelievably amazing, I'm afraid that if I show it off, everyone will start paying attention to me instead of you. Outshined at your own cute-ceañera. Can you imagine how embarrassing that would be?"

Diamond Tiara was taken aback by this and snorted. "Uh, forget it, I didn't really want to see it anyway."

"Okay, well, I'm gonna go mingle," said Apple Bloom and she walked away. "Enjoy your party." She kept walking, only to end up tripping on the edge of the table cloth and crashed into the table holding the record player, scratching the record, and everypony looked at her. She got back onto her hooves and realized that they could see her blank flanks. "Oh no."

"Wow, that is an amazing cutie mark," Silver Spoon said with a cruel sneer.

"Nice try…" said Diamond Tiara, and she was joined by Silver Spoon, "Blank flank!"

Sunrise Blossom frowned and started forward when a voice rang out.

`"You got a problem with blank flanks?"` And then the owner of the voice, a young light orange pegasus with purple eyes and pink/purple mane and tail, came out from under one of the tables with a young unicorn, who had light gray skin like that of Rarity, pale green eyes, and mulberry purple mane and tail with pale rose streaks. "I said, you got a problem with blank flanks?"

Silver Spoon snorted. "The problem is, I mean, she's like, totally not special."

"No, it means she's full of potential," said the young unicorn and she went to Apple Bloom's side, along with the young pegasus.

"It means she could be great at anything," the young pegasus agreed. "The possibilities are, like, endless."

The young unicorn nodded. "She could be a great scientist, or an amazing artist, or a famous writer," she suggested. "She could even be mayor of Ponyville someday."

"And she's not stuck being stuck-up like you two," the young pegasus added, and many of the gathered ponies and fillies agreed.

Diamond Tiara glared at the two fillies who were backing up Apple Bloom. "Hey, this is my party, why are you two on her side?" she demanded angrily.

"Because…" and the two fillies revealed that they had blank flanks.

Apple Bloom gasped. "You don't have your cutie marks either?" she asked, amazed. "I thought I was the only one."

"We thought we were the only two," the young pegasus admitted.

Twilight Sparkle walked over to them. "I for one think you are three very lucky fillies," she told them, smiling.

"Lucky?" Diamond Tiara repeated, confused and frustrated that the three fillies were getting attention instead of her. "How can they be lucky?"

"They still get to experience the thrill of discovering who they are," Twilight Sparkle reminded her, "and what they're meant to be."

"And they got all the time in the world to figure it out," Applejack added, hugging her little sister, "not just an afternoon."

"And that there isn't anything wrong with not having your cutie mark just yet," said Sunrise Blossom, also joining them. "And being a bully to a fellow filly about not having his or her cutie mark is also wrong."

Diamond Tiara opened her mouth and then flushed in shame when the orange unicorn fixed her with a stern look. She then looked at the trio, who were now being joined by the others fillies, and she became jealous since they weren't paying attention to her. "Hey, what's everypony doing?" she demanded. "This is my party, everypony is supposed to be paying attention to me."

Silver Spoon tried to cheer her friend up. "Whatever. We still think you're losers, right, Diamond Tiara? Bump, bump, sugar… lump…" she trailed off when her friend didn't take part in their friendship routine.

"Not now, Silver Spoon," Diamond Tiara grumbled and walked away, her friend following her.

"Name's Scootaloo," said the young pegasus, introducing herself.

"And I'm Sweetie Belle," added Rarity's little sister.

Apple Bloom smiled at them both. "Apple Bloom."

Some time later, the party was back in full swing with ponies and fillies laughing, chatting, eating, drinking, and even dancing. Everypony was having a good time except for Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, who were sitting on the staircase, glowering at the happy ponies and fillies.

"This song is so super!" Twist called out, dancing.

Apple Bloom was sitting at a table with Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. "So I was thinking, now that we're friends… I mean, we are friends, right?" she asked.

"How could we not be? We're totally alike," Scootaloo remarked. "We don't have cutie marks, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon drive us crazy-" and she rolled her eyes in a crazy manner.

"Totally crazy," Sweetie Belle agreed.

Apple Bloom knew what they meant concerning Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon driving them all crazy. "Well, now that we're friends, what if the three of us work together to find out who we are and what we're supposed to be?" she suggested.

"Ooh! Ooh! We could form our own secret society," Sweetie Belle suggested eagerly.

Scootaloo nodded. "I'm liking this idea."

"A secret society. Yeah," Apple Bloom agreed. "We need a name for it though."

"The Cutie Mark Three?" Scootaloo suggested.

"The Cutastically Fantastics?" Sweetie Belle suggested.

Apple Bloom thought for a moment. "How about… The Cutie Mark Crusaders?" she suggested.

"It's perfect!" Scootaloo exclaimed, liking the name.

"This is gonna be so great!" Sweetie Belle squealed.

"We're gonna be unstoppable!" Apple Bloom declared.

Scootaloo grabbed a nearby cupcake. "What do you say we celebrate with some of these delicious cupcakes?" she suggested.

Apple Bloom kept her from biting it. "Not the cupcakes. Trust me."

"Let's see if there are any cookies," Sweetie Belle suggested and her friends agreed. They ran over to a table and helped themselves to some cookies before joining the other fillies in dancing to the music, having one of the best days of their lives.

Twilight Sparkle watched the fillies having fun and wrote a letter. "Dearest Princess Celestia,

I am happy to report that one of your youngest subjects has learned a valuable lesson about friendship. Sometimes, the thing you think will cause you to lose friends and feel left out…"

"…can actually be the thing that helps you make your closest friends and realize how special you are,"Princess Celestia finished reading and smiled at her own cutie mark, which she received the same day as her sister. "Hmm…"

A/N: I hope you like this and I will post the final chapter for the Dr. Whooves story next. Later! ;) R&R everyone!