It was a beautiful, sunny day and Ponyville and we see the young colt Apple buck standing outside a building.
"Today's the day, Cutie Mark Crusaders! I can just feel it! Today's the day we are all gonna get our cutie marks in... bowlin'!" Apple Buck says he has a bowling ball near his front hoof as he and his friends stand outside of the bowling alley in Ponyville.
"Whoo-hoo!" Scooteroll cheers an he jumps up excited with his bowing ball attached to his side. "Whooo!" Silver Bell says but his voice is muffed from the bowling bag he had in his mouth. "I mean, yaay!" Silver Bell says as he spits out the bowling bag out.
"Why, after today, we won't even be the Cutie Mark Crusaders anymore! We'll be the... the Three Strikes!" Apple Buck says, as he hopes that he and his friends get their cutie marks. "That makes us sound like we've struck out." Scooteroll tells Apple Buck.
"Mmm. How 'bout the Pin Twins?" Apple Buck says he comes up with another nickname for their group. "But there are three of us." Silver Bell reminds Apple Buck making him think of another nickname for their group.
"Okay then... Um... the Bowlin' Boys!" Apple bucks as he finally comes up with another nickname, but in the other two seem to appreciate it. "The Bowling Boys! That's it!" Silver Bell says, as he approves of the nickname. "Perfect!" Scooteroll says approving of the nickname as well. "All righty then! Let's bowl 'em over!" Apple Buck says, as he and his friends head into the bowling alley to start bowling and hopefully earn their cutie marks.
Silver Bell stands in their lane and he pushes his bowling bowl And he his bowling balls starts off going strong in the center, but then falls to the side into the gutter. Silver Bell looks proud of what he had done and walks past his friends who give each other looks.
It is Scooteroll's turn and he kicks his bowling ball with one of his hind legs. However, the force of his kick causes his bowling ball to go all over the alley, bumping into other ponies' bowling ball almost hitting other ponies and causing a bit of a panic. When his bowling ball falls into the gutter of somepony else's lane. every pony looks at him and he chuckles nervously and runs away.
Apple Buck tries to pick up his bowling ball with his mouth, ending up him holding his bowling bowl and then he throws it down the lane. "Phpoo!" Apple Buck says as he releases his bowling ball.
The CMC all stare at the bowling ball and then see a bowling ball make a strike. "Cool! A bowling cutie mark!" A mare says making Apple Buck look hopeful. "I did it! I did it!" Apple Buck says excitedly and he goes to look at his flank., only to see nothing. "Blank?" He says confused as he looks at his flank.
Apple Buck hears cheering and then he sees a colt his age with a brand new bowling cutie mark. "But... but... what about my ball?" Apple Buck asks about his bowling ball. Then he and his friends see his bowling ball at the end of the lane, just about to tap the bowling pins. But as it taps, nothing falls over as it was too soft. At the sight of this makes Apple Buck look really sad.
After the CMC went bowling the trio of ponies walked down. through Ponyville and Apple Buck still seems like he is quite sad. "That bowling sure was fun, even if all I got was gutter balls." Silver Bell says as he enjoyed bowling even though he was not very good at it.
"Yeah, at least you were able to keep your ball in your lane. I don't think Mr. Kingpin is ever gonna let me play again!" Scooteroll says and he zips past his friends on his scooter making Silver Bell chase after him. Scooteroll jumps over a a rock that was in his way and skidded to a stop and Silver Bell caught up to him. "Hey, maybe I could get my cutie mark in demolition!" Scooteroll says to Silver Bell making them both laugh.
Silver Bell and Scooteroll see their friend Apple Buck looking sad. "Aw, come on, Apple Buck." Scooteroll says as he sees his friend looking down. "I know just what you need to put the buck back on your apple." Silver Bell says as he is determined to help his friend.
"A treat from Sugarcube Corner will cheer you up." Silver Bell says as he and Scooteroll Are at Sugarcube Corner. Silver Bell pushes a green frosted cupcake towards Apple Buck. "No, it won't." Apple Buck says as he pushes the cupcake away from him.
"A party will cheer you up!" Bubble Berry says as he throws a party to hopefully cheer up Apple Buck in the front of Sugarcube corner. Scooteroll and Silver Bell blow party horns behind Apple Buck but he still look miserable. "No, it won't." Apple Book says as he is still sad, his words make Bubble Berry freak out and crash onto the ground.
The trio went over to the Carousel Boutique where Elusive works and lives. "A lovely new chapeau will cheer you up." Elusive says as he puts a chapeau on Apple Buck's head. Silver Bell and Scooteroll look hopeful but the feathers on the hat droop down. "No, it won't." Apple Buck says as he is getting more and more upset.
The CMC and leave the carousel boutique. with Apple Buck still not being happy. "Come on, Apple Buck, it's just a cutie mark!" Scooteroll says, trying to cheer up his friend. "Or lack of a cutie mark!" Silver Bell chimes in. "Shh! That's not helping!" Scooteroll tells Silver Bell and they both notice where Apple Buck is heading.
"Apple Buck! Where are you going?! Apple Buck, come back!" Scooteroll yells for Apple Buck but he dose not listen and heads deeper into the forest.
~ {?Apple Buck POV?} ~
I hear Scooteroll call for me and I am too upset to even listen to him and I head. deeper and deeper into the Everfree forest. I was too upset I wasn't even paying attention to where I was walking, and I tripped over a root that was sticking out of the ground.
"Whoa! Ah! Ooh!" I shout as I tumble over the hill and land directly onto my face onto the hard ground. "Ow! Nnnn..." I say and I groan in pain for I did something to my mouth. "Well, who is it that we have here? Why, it's Apple Buck, my dear!" Zecora says and I look up to see her while holding my mouth in pain.
"Ow..." I say in pain as I sit up. "What has happened to you, youth?" Zecora asks me and I show her my mouth. "Ah, you've gone and chipped your tooth." Zecora says to me as I lick where I chipped my tooth. "Come with me, I have just the trick that will fix you up quite quick." Zecora says to me and I follow her to her house.
I am at Zecora's house waiting for her to make me something that would fix my chipped tooth. "I've tried everything, Zecora, and still no cutie mark! Well, I'm gonna be as old as Granny Smith and still have a blank flank!" I rant to Zecora with a lisp in my voice from my chipped tooth.
"Your frustration is well understood, but one must be patient for all things good." Zecora says to me making me groan. "I've heard that from every pony I know! And now from every zebra I know! I'm just too impatient to be patient. I just want my cutie mark and I want it now!" I practically shout at Zecora, making her drop her pot into her brew, making it poof up and explode slightly.
Zecora Looks at me with a disappointed glare, making me smile sheepishly at her and run away from her. "For your cutie mark, you will have to wait. We must fix that tooth before it's too late." Zecora tells me as she pours the liquid into a bowl. "Now drink down every little drop, and this mixture will mend that chip on top!" Zecora tells me and I pick up the bowl with my mouth and drink the potion she had made.
I finished the potion she had made me and turned around to see my reflection in a gold pitcher that she had and I saw the potion work its magic. "Oh my star apples, you did it, Zecora!" I say to her as my tooth is fixed.
"Golly, you have tonics that heal all sorts of ailments. Bad bones, bad back, bad breath..." I say to her as I look around at all of the potions that she has. "Yes little one, it is true, I have many a healing brew." Zecora tells me as I look around,
"And not only stuff that fixes the bad, but stuff that brings the good! Good health, good hair... good heavens! Hmm... I bet you can mix up a brew to fix... anything." I'm near her and wiggle my flank giving her a hint of what I would like her to do.
"There are many mixtures in this room, but none for what you want, dear Apple Buck. A magic potion does not hold the key. For a cutie mark, time is the only remedy." Zecora tells me making me disappointed. "Fine." I say disappointed and I see her work on another potion.
"Whatcha got goin' on there?" I ask Zecora. "I am brewing up another mix for a rooster and his chicks." Zecora tells me is she brings her head into a basket. "It seems the rooster has lost his crow," Zecora says as her voice is now muffled. "making mornings very slow." She says as she brings her head out of the basket holding a flower in her mouth.
"Hey, I've seen that flower bloomin' in Ponyville! What is it?" I ask Zecora and I see her hold a familiar flower in her mouth. "It is one we call 'Heart's Desire'." Zecora tells me as she shakes the flower into the bowl where three purple berries are in.
"A dash will ignite the rooster's fire. With Heart's Desire, his talent comes into view, and he'll give a mighty cock-a-doodle-doo!" Zecora says as she does the rooster call in my face making me look at her not impressed. "Zowie! Heart's Desire, huh?" I say as I look at the mixture she is going to make a scheme forming in my mind.
"Ay me, but what is this? I have run out of amethyst. I must go get this purple flower for my brew to have full power!" Zecora says as she goes to more amethyst. "Yeah, you go, you go." I tell her as I formulate my plan looking at the Heart's Desire.
~ {?Apple Buck POV Over for a bit?} ~
It was the next day, and every pony was playing at the Ponyville Schoolhouse Playground. "I'm so hungry." Silver Bell says as he stand right next to Scooteroll. "Yeah, I can't wai-" Scooteroll but then stops when he sees Apple Buck walk past them then Apple Buck shows off what is on his flank. "Aah! Apple Buck! You got your cutie mark!" Silver Bell and Scooteroll say as they see the cutie mark on Apple Buck's flank.
Apple Buck proudly shows off his new cutie mark and many of their schoolmates come over to see his cutie mark. "Um, Apple Bloom... what is it?" Silver Bell asks Apple Buck confused on his cutie mark. "Yeah! Is it an 'o'? Is your talent spelling?" Scooteroll guesses. "Or is it a ring? Are you a jewelry maker?" Silver Bell guesses. "Or is it a powdered donut? 'Cause that sounds delicious." Twist guessed.
~ {Apple Buck's POV} ~
"No, it's a loop-de-hoop!" I say to my friends and schoolmates and I spin a loop-de-hoop around my waist. "[gasp] A what now?" Scooteroll asks me confused. "A loop-de-hoop! 'Least, that's what I always called it. AppleJack made it for me from an old rain barrel when I was littler! Who woulda thought that loop-de-hooping would end up bein' my special talent?" I say to everypony.
"Wow, Apple Buck, that's amazing!" Silver Bell compliments me as I show off my talent. "That's it? That's your talent?" Diamond Tiara says not impressed. "Spinning a hoop around your waist? Puh-lease." Silver Spoon says not impressed either. "Oh, you ain't seen nothin' yet." I say to them and I start showing off
I stand up and I spin my loop-de-hoop up around my neck then I fling my loop-de-hoop off my rear legs and onto the flag pole and it spins around and around till it gets close to the bottom and I use the tip of my nose to fling it up off of the flag pole into the air and I jump through the loop-de-hoop and do a few flips in the air and land on the ground with my loop-de-hoop around my neck.
As I finished showing off my new talent everypony in the playground cheers for me. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon look at me jaw dropped. "Apple Buck, you're super-duper-loop-de-hooper!" Scooteroll says as he and the others cheer for me. "Thanks, everypony!" I say as I bask in the cheer of every pony in schooled watching me.
Just then the school bell rang signaling it was time to get back to class. However, all of the ponies in were watching me do tricks with my loop-de-hoop. "Apple Buck?" Mr. Cheerilee asks me with a stern look on his face as he approaches me. "I want you to take your loop-de-hoop into the yard..." He says making us look at him. "and give us all a lesson in your amazing loop-de-hooping!" Mr. Cheerilee says making everypony cheer.
I walked down the center of two lines of my classmates with my loop-de-hoop balanced on my tail. As I was bouncing my loop-de-hoop on my tail a loop-de-hoop bounced infront of me and made me and the others look at it and I saw it was Snips who lost his loop-de-hoop. He looked at me sheepishly and I tossed his loop-de-hoop back to him it landing around his neck and he blushed bashfully as he smiled at me.
I hear Diamond Tiara and Silver spoon struggling to use their loop-de-hoops. "Don't worry, gals. Keep at it and you might get to be half as good as me!" I say to them being a bit overconfident making them growl and glare at me.
I headed over to see how my friends were doing with their loop-de-hoops. "Great job, guys!" I compliment my friends. "You're too kind, Apple Buck." Silver Bell says, looking at me sadly. "Yeah, we stink." Scooteroll says with the same expression as Silver Bell.
"Nah, you just need a little practice. Soon you'll be able to... hoop and bop!" I say as I jump with my loop-de-hoop spinning around one of my hind legs.
"Hoop and hop!" I say as I throw my loop-de-hoop in the air and jump through it and I grab my loop-de-hoop with my mouth. "Hoop and skip!" I say muffled as I use my loop-de-hoop like a jump rope.
"And hoop and flip!" I say as I have my loop-de-hoop on its side and I jump on it flipping on it doing backflips with every jump. I jumped off my loop-de-hoop and landed on my hind legs and let my loop-de-hoop fall back onto me and everypony cheered for me at my tricks.
"Show us some more, Apple Buck." Mr. Cheerilee asks me as he laughs seeing his students so happy. "Well, all right, just a few more tricks. But be warned! These are advanced moves, not for beginners. Got that, Diamond Tiara?" I say to her getting into her face, and she growls at me after I leave.
"I call this one the hoop-la!" I say as I spin my loop-de-hoop around and around in a rapid pace till it lifts me off of the ground as I am high in the air a bright flash happens and I see another Cutie mark on my flank. The shock of seeing another cutie mark on my flank makes me lose focus on my trick and I fall onto the ground.
"Another cutie mark? Hah! I guess that last trick was a lot of hoopla. Those cutie marks are fake!" Diamond Tiara says as she sees the other cutie mark on my flank as I crash onto the ground.
Diamond Tiara's words make every pony gasp in shock. "What? No they're not!" I say defending my cutie marks even though I know they aren't real.
"Mister Cheerilee, have you ever heard of a pony with two cutie marks?" Diamond Tiara asks our teacher. "I must say that I never have, but maybe Apple Bloom has two special talents!" Mr. Cheerilee says defending me from Diamond Tiara.
"Oh yeah? Then let's see you do that!" Silver Spoon says, pointing to my other cutie mark. "Spin plates!" Snips says. "Yeah!" Snails says as they throw balancing sticks and plates towards me.
I close my eyes, waiting for the inevitable. but the sticks land on my nose perfectly, and the plates land on top of it as well and I spin the plates.
Every pony gasps at the fact that I have more than one talent. "Two cutie marks?" Silver Bells says looking at me astonished. "Two talents?" Scooteroll says in the exact same way as Silver Bell.
"Aw yeah!" I say excited to have more than one talent. "Our friend is the most..." I hear Silver Bell start. "...special pony ever!" I hear as both my friends say as I walk displaying my talents. "Alright, everypony, You ready for a real show?" I ask and I lead all my classmates plus my teacher throughout Ponyville, showing off what I can do.
As I lead my teacher and classmates through Ponyville, showing off my talents, this causes all the other ponies to stop and stare at what I'm doing.
I fling my loop-de-hoop in the air with my tail and toss the plates and sticks trough the loop-de-hoop jumping in the air catching the plates on my nose and catching my loop-de-hoop with my hind leg spinning it around.
I am on top of my loop-de-hoop riding it as I hold the spinning plates on my front hooves as I go past a point I turn around to show that I flipped my position to where my back hooves are holding the spinning plates.
I am on the ground, spinning the plates with my hoofs as I use my tail to spin my loop-de-hoop and everypony cheers for me as they see me do my tricks. Jump in the air with my plate spinning on my front hooves with my loop-de-hoop around my tail.
I see Rainbow Blitz sleeping on a cloud above us and I use my loop-de-hoop throwing it up into the air, cutting the cloud that he was laying on, leaving it perfectly circular and avoiding hitting him. As my loop-de-hoop falls down, I slide it from one leg to the other, spinning it around on the tip of my hoof.
I see Silver Bell has brought over his brother Elusive as well as Dusk Shine and Cupid. I'm fling my loop-de-hoop over towards dusk and. dusk as it styles his main to look identical to Elusive, making Elusive smile and Barbara looking at him with heart eyes and I hear Cupid giggle at this but Dusk doesn't look amused.
I follow Bubble Berry on my loop-de-hoop. When he sees me behind him, he falls down and I continue on past him. Then I ride my loop-de-hoop past my family whose watching.
I slide in right next to Granny Smith and my loop-de-hoop goes around both of our necks and the ponies watching cheer for us. My older brother, AppleJack whistles for me and kicks a picnic table with an apple pie and a bunch of plates on it causing them to fly high in the air.
I zip over to where the plates and the pie are landing and I catch the plates. on my hooves and the pie on my flank. I launched my loop-de-hoop and the apple pie in the air, as well as tossing the plates. The plates land on the tables and a slice of apple pie lands on top of the plates.
Ponies lineup on tables that the plates have land on, smiling at the pieces of apple pie and all the ponies who watched me perform my tricks all were cheering for me.
~ {Apple Buck's POV Over} ~
Overhead, Sweet Apple Acres. The apples are heading back home after a long day of Apple Buck showing off his new talents. "Yee-haw, little bro! Congratulations on gettin' not just one, but two cutie marks! We're mighty proud of you, right, Macareina?" AppleJack asks the eldest Apple sibling.
"Eeyup." Macareina says agreeing with her younger brother. "I've never seen anythin' like it. Have you, Mac?" AppleJack asks her as he looks at Apple Buck's cutie marks. "Nnnope." Macareina says agreeing once again with her younger brother.
"Why, the way you were a-hoopin' and a-hoppin' and kickin' and spinnin' reminded me of when I was a spry young filly." Granny Smith says then she strikes a pose, but then immediately regrets it. "Guh, charley horse, charley horse!" Granny Smith says in pain "Ooh, that's better." Granny Smith says as Macareina pokes her granny's hip making her feel better.
"Why, Apple Buck, I think you're ready to hit the rodeo circuit right now!" AppleJack says as he pokes his younger brother. "Actually, I'm ready to hit the hay right now. I'm plum tuckered. I'll see y'all in the mornin'. Night!" Apple Buck says, as he is exhausted from to day and he heads to his room.
"Night!" AppleJack wishes his younger brother good night as he Granny Smith and Macareina all watched the youngest member of their family go to his room. "Oh my, little Apple Buck has finally blossomed, hasn't he, Mac?" AppleJack asks his older sister. "Eeyup!" Macareina says once again agreeing with AppleJack
Several hours later, all of the apples were asleep in their beds until Applejack hears ale tapping noise. The repeated tapping noises makes him wake up and he goes to see what is going on.
"What in tarnation is that?" AppleJack says, and he goes out of his room to see where the tapping is coming from, only to see it's coming from Apple Buck's room. "Apple Buck, what is all that awful... tapping?" AppleJack asks as he enters his younger brother's room, and then he spots another mark on his brother's flank.
"[gasp] Three cutie marks?!" AppleJack says as he sees the third cutie mark on his brother. "Help me!" Apple Buck says as he is desperate to try to stop his tap dancing, but he cannot and AppleJack looks at him in concern and disbelief.
"C'mere, you!" AppleJack says as he goes over to his younger brother's tale but gets hit by his loop-de-hoop. "Ow! Ow!" AppleJack says, after he gets hit by his loop-de-hoop and then goes over to his brothers, who's to get him to stop moving. "Whoa!" AppleJack says, as he tries to get his brother's hoofs to stop, but he he gets pushed back by all the movement Apple Buck was doing.
"I'm sorry, AppleJack! I dunno how to make it stop!" Apple Buck says, as he apologizes to his brother. "Well, I know somepony who might!" AppleJack says as he looks at Apple Buck, who is struggling to keep himself still.
AppleJack manages to get Apple Buck over to the Golden Oak Library to get assistance from Dusk and Cupid. "Three cutie marks. Three talents. I've never seen anything like it! I was just reading something about unusual equine illnesses. What was it?" Dusk says as he goes to look for the book that he was reading earlier grabbing ones from the shelves with his magic and putting them back when it wasn't the right one.
""Perplexing Pony Plagues", perhaps?" Barbara says as she finds the book that Dusk is looking for. "Yes, Barbara, you're amazing!" Dusk says, as he catches Barbara onto his back. "Yes, well, I do have some talents." Barbara says while she rides on Dusk's back.
Barbara puts the book onto the lectern and Dusk uses his magic to Find what illness Apple Buck has caught. "Hay fever... the trots... [gasp] Cutie pox!" Dusk says as he finds the exact illness that Apple Buck has.
"Cutie pox?!" Cupid, AppleJack, Apple Buck and Barbara all say as Dusk found Apple Buck's illness. "Cutie pox. This puzzling pony plague afflicted a population of ponies back in the Paleopony Period!" Dusk says, as he reads about Cutie pox.
"Heh, say that ten times fast!" Barbara says making a joke, but Dusk does not find it funny, so he kicks her off his back.
"Random cutie marks appeared all over the ponies' bodies, causing them to perform all the talents that came with them!" Cupid says as she read where Dusk had left off.
"Just like me!" Apple Buck says as he hears Cupid's description on what the cutie pox is. "Yes, but what's the cure? What's the cure?!" Applejack asks his friends desperately to heal his brother.
Dusk reads the book trying to find a cure but could not find one. "It says here there's no known cure!" Dusk says to his friends as he could not see a known cure for the cutie pox.
"No known cure?!" AppleJack, Apple Buck and Barbara say as they hear Dusks words. "The cause of the breakout was never discovered, and the cutie pox disappears as mysteriously as they arrived!" Cupid says as she reads over Dusk's shoulder.
"Oh, no!" Apple Buck says as he hears this and then another cutie mark flashes onto his flank. "Sacré bleu! Plus de marques de cutie! [gasp] Qu'est-ce c'est?! Je parle Français?!" Apple Buck says, as he is speaking in French.
"My brother's speakin' in fancy!" AppleJack says in complete horror of the language his little brother is speaking. "He needs help!" Dusk says, as he states the obvious. "I know he needs help! We can't just wait for this to go away! We gotta find somepony to mix up a cure! And fast!" AppleJack says, as he is worried about his younger brother.
"Tout de suite!" Apple Buck says, as he really wants to get back to normal. "Not some pony... some zebra!" Dusk says as he knows who exactly could help with this. "Zecora!" AppleJack says as he knows who Dusk is talking about.
The two unicorns, Earth Pony and the Dragon all rush over to go find Zecora. "Hurry, hurry!" AppleJack says to his younger brother Apple Buck. "Dépêchez-vous!" Apple Buck says as he tries to hurry, but another cutie mark appears on his leg a chisel and hammer.
Against Apple Buck's will he goes and carves a statue. As he finishes his statue, another cutie mark appears on his leg again. A hat and a chimney sweep and again, Apple Buck goes over every pony's house and to clean their chimneys.
As he finishes cleaning the chimneys, another cutie mark appears on his leg and accordion, and he plays the accordion unwillingly. After a short while, another acute mark appears of a lion tamer and we see Apple Buck taming three lions with a chair and a whip.
Another cutie mark appears on Apple Bucks neck, this time of three chest pieces. Apple Buck wins a game of chess with an older stallion. and apparently Apple Buck had gotten another cutie mark of a fencing cutie mark he was fencing with another colt.
Dusk, Cupid and AppleJack look worried about Apple Buck as every pony watches what is going on with him. Barbara also watches this, but is eating popcorn as she is seeing the events going on.
"He's cursed!" Lily Valley says as she sees Apple Buck on a banner that was connected to two houses and was tightrope walking on it, "Hexed!" Rose said as she saw Apple Buck hang gliding. "Enchanted!" Daisy says as she and her friends hug one another.
"No, he's not." Barbara says as she hears what the three are saying, making them all sigh in relief. "He just has some weird mysterious disease with no known cure called cutie pox." Barbara explains as she stands on top of the hay bale to the other ponies.
"Cutie pox?!" All of the ponies who are around here's the name of this mysterious illness. And they all scream and run inside. "He's got the cutie pox!" A stampede of ponies say as they run out of town.
Cupid, Dusk and AppleJack are all standing in the empty town seeing the aftermath of every pony freaking out over the cutie pox. Just then, a certain zebra had arrived into Ponyville.
"I thought I had removed their fear the last time that I visited here. But doors are barred and shutters shut. Guess I should've stayed inside my hut." Zecora says as she arrives into town.
"Zecora! Apple Buck has cutie pox!" Dusk says to Zecora as he points over to the cutie poxed Apple Buck. "We were just on our way to see if you had a cure!" Cupid says as she gets closer to Zecora, hoping that the zebra has a cure for him.
"But magically you're here! Was your zebra sense a-tinglin'?" Applejack says as he is happy to see Zecora. "My 'zebra sense' did not bring me round, it was a special flower that I needed found. I thought I picked enough to fix all the potions I had to mix, but after my visit from Apple Buck, some had mysteriously left my hut." Zecora says and she heads over to Apple Buck.
"Apple Buck! What do you say? Did this flower just walk away?" Zecora says to the young colt as she glares at him. Another cutie mark had appeared on Apple bucks forehead. "I, um..." Apple Buck says as he rushes over to clean the windows as his new cutie mark was a couple of sponges.
"A cutie pox cure I have forsooth, for healing power is in the Seeds of Truth." Zecora as she reaches her into the red basket on her back, picking out 3 golden seeds with her tail. "Well, well then give 'em to him! Quick!" AppleJack says impatient to get his younger brother cured.
"These seeds must be planted in the ground. With the truth, they'll grow, and the cure is found." Zecora says to AppleJack. "Come again?" AppleJack says, as he is confused at her words.
"The Seeds of Truth do hold the cure, but one must speak words, true and pure." Zecora says and she glares at Apple Buck once again making him gulp and look at the zebra nervously.
"Well then let's get to it!" AppleJack said as he knocks the seeds off of Zecora's tail and plants them in the ground. "Alright, they're planted, now somepony tell the truth!" AppleJack says as he is desperate for any pony to tell the truth for the seeds to work.
Apple Buck is in walks right in front of Sugarcube, Corner and Bubble Berry looks nervous. Apple Buck gets another cutie mark on himself and it's a tornado "Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!" He says as he spins round and round and round like a tornado.
"Somepony! Anypony!" AppleJack says completely desperate for any pony to tell the truth, to help his brother. All the ponies that are watching Apple Buck with the cutie pox all look away and Silver Bell and Scooteroll look at their friend in concern.
Bubble Berry was sweating nervously, and then he finally blurted out the truth. "Yesterday I told Mrs. Cake that I ate two corn cakes, but I really ate three!" Bubble Berry admits and Cupid Dusk and AppleJack look at the seeds in hope, but then nothing happened and they looked worried again.
"Okay, six! I ate six corn cakes!" Bubble admits and the three look at the seeds again but nothing happened. "Make it stop! Oh, make it stop!" Bubble says as he cries.
"Wah, I can't stand it any more! It's me! I admit it! I didn't earn my cutie mark! They're all fake!" Apple Buck finally admits what he had done. Dusk, Cupid and AppleJack look at the seeds and to their surprise they started growing.
"I figured the Heart's Desire would help me get what I wanted most! So when Zecora left her hut, I mixed up a special potion and put the rest of the Heart's Desire in it!" Apple Buck finally tells the truth, and a beautiful flower grows from the seeds and everypony awes in its beauty.
However, that moment didn't last long as Apple Buck ate the flower and fell on the ground, exhausted soon after that, all of the cutie marks that had appeared all over his body had disappeared one at a time.
"Apple Buck!" Silver Bell said as he came up to his friend. "Are you okay?" Scooteroll asks him worried for his friend. "I'm great, and I've never been happier to be a blank flank. But I'm awful sorry I lied, 'specially to you guys. I was so desperate for my cutie mark, I just got carried away. And I'm really sorry I snuck those flowers from you, Zecora. Why, I wouldn't blame you if you never wanted me to come by again." Apple Buck says, as he apologizes to his friends and Zecora.
"Now, Apple Buck, do not be silly. You are always welcome, my little one. With each mistake you learn something new, growing up into a better you." Zecora says to Apple Buck as she accepts his apology.
AppleJack, Dusk and Cupid all look at Apple Buck proudly for him owning up to his mistake. And when they looked to their right, Zecora just disappeared.
"Apple Buck, would you mind writing to Prince Solaris and telling him what you've learned?" Dusk asks the young colt. "I'd be happy to, Dusk! Barbara?" Apple Buck says as he asks, Barbara, to write the letter. "Ready!" Barbara says as she rushes over to Apple Buck with a paper and quill ready to write.
"Dear Prince Solaris,
Waiting for what your heart desires can be really hard. So, you may try to take a shortcut. But this dishonesty never works, because you didn't earn what your heart desired. The only cure is being honest with yourself and others. And that's something every heart desires."
Apple Buck says and Barbara sends the letter over to Prince Solaris. "I sure am proud of you, bro. Seems like you finally learned the importance of patience." AppleJack says as he is proud of his younger brother.
"Yup! All good things come to those who wait. Well! I've waited long enough." Apple Buck says as and his words surprises the three older ponies. "Actually, that was way too long." Scooteroll says as the three colts run past the older ponies.
"What?!" AppleJack says in disbelief of how short that was. "So what are we gonna do today to earn our cutie marks?" Apple Buck asks his friends.
"Well, I was thinking, for a pony who's never mixed up a potion before, you sure stirred up something fierce." Scooteroll says to Apple Buck. "Yeah! So what if your talent is potion making?" Silver Bell asks him. "Oh my gosh, totally! Let's go talk to Zecora, now!" Apple Buck says and he and his friends go over to Zecora's house cheering.
