The Pounding Guilt

by Raconni

Rating: everyone
Tags: Tragedy
Length: 2526

when Pound , Pumpkin, and their best friend Destiny play a game of no-truth-just-dare, it doesn't go as smoothly as expected

Pound and Pumpkin Cake are now in kindergarden and are offical members of the Cutie Mark Cursaders, along with their best friend, Destiny. One boring friday, a simple game of no-truth-just-dare ends up worse than expected

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2013-05-18 08:50:02 UTC

It's Always Fun Till Somepony Gets Hurt...Or Worse

                Pound Cake woke up to the smell of cupcakes, since Pinky brought some over last night. He got out of his bed and got ready for another school day with cursading right after. He figured since cutie marks come by the name of the pony for some magical reson, he would obviously become a wresler and pound everythig in sight. After his daydream of fame and foutune, he went downstairs for breakfast, then met up with his best friend, Destiny, a bright yellow filly with an almost glowing orange mane and tail, at the playground outside the school.

                As he walked, he let his imagination go wild, he thought about what cursading he would be doing, and he hoped they would learn  about something exiting in school. As he walked, Pumpkin was doing her best to keep up. "Hey wait for me!" Pound knew if she really wanted to she could have caught up with him no problem, but he waited for her anyways.

                 "What do you think we will do after we are done cusading?" Pumpkin asked

                "Don't know"

                " Do you think we could play no-truth-just-dare? It is funner than normal truth or dare."

                "Yes, I know its more fun than the average you told me a billion times. Oh and its more fun not funner."

                "Well mabey its my favorite game Mr. Dictionary"

                "Hey look, I can see Destiny, come on Pumpkin"

                As they made their way toword the playground, Destiny saw them and ran up to them.

"Today will be our lucky day! i just know it!" she yelled exidily.

                 "No need to yell Destiny, we are right here"  replied Pound Cake

                 "Well sorry for being exided. Shesh" she responds, slightly irretated.

                  "He's been grumpy today he corrected my gramer on the way here" said Pumpkin

                  "Wow he is grumpy today" Destiny laughed

                   "Umm hello? I'm right here, I can hea- " Pound was interupted by the bell.

                   They all walked together to the large red building that replaced the old school, and sat in their usual spots, Pumpkin to the left, Destiny in the middle, and Pound to the right.

                   School seemed it took forever considering they were learing about the history of Star  Swirl The Bearded. The time eventually came when they were all let out for the week. "That took FOREVER!" complained Pound.

                  "I liked it" replied Pumpkin

                  "You would, you basically have a beard already" joked Pound

                  "Come on, no time for bickering, cursading time!" Destiny rushed them to the tree house near Sweet Apple Acres, which held about 15 other foals.The top foal, since Sweetie belle, Applebloom, and Scootaloo got their cuie marks long ago, was different. Her name was Petal Leaf, a pink filly with a light green mane and tail with darker green highlights.

                 "Ok everypony today is the day! Atleast one of us will graduate from this club today! WHO'S WITH ME?"Petal Leaf asked the crowd.

                  There were cheers around the room. And everypony soon calmed down to choose what they will do.

                 "We should ice skate"

                 "we should roller skate"

                 "Can we plant pretty flowers?"

                  "I wana climb a tree"

                  "There are poor animals in need for help!"

                  "Pigs are always dirty. We should bathe them!"

                   As everyone argued, a filly named Heartgrowth used her horn and spread happyness to everypony there. There was then a flash and on her flank was two hearts side by side. The bigger one on the left was red, and the smaller one on the right was pink, but she was too bussy spreading her happyness to relize what just happened. It was Pumpkin Cake that first saw.

                 "Heartgrowth! your flank!" Pumpkin yelled happily to her friend.Heartgrown looked over in a verry awkward position to be able to see it then the usualy shy pony screeched in delight.

                  Petal leaf, who was still at the front, chose to do her ceremony right then to save time. Petal Leaf motioned to a pegasus filly named Cloudchase, and she brought out bongo drums and pounded a beat to draw atention to the speaker, the beat may have gone for a little too long,

                  " We, as the cutie mark cursaders, bid our farwells to Heartgrouth, she was a sister, friend, confidant, alli ... bosom buddy ... gal pal .....converter .......chum of chums....."

                  "Ahem!" said a impatient Cloudchase

                  "Hey you were supost to revise it since Scootaloo never got around to it." Replied Petal Leaf

                  "Oh...Right"

                 Petal Leaf continued " Home girl........ amega......blahblahblahblahblah. Ha found it! AND FELLOW CUTIE MARK CURSADER! You were solemnly sworn in until this day by your sisters and brothers, friends....confidaunts.......bosom buddies....... compadres.......uhhhh......"

                  Cloudchase came over and took over "congrats you now have your cutie mark hooray!"

                  There were cheers then the cursaders all compromised to ice skate, roller skate, plant flowers, climb trees, save animals, and bathe pigs, and made a new rule that arguing was against the cutie law.

                   Ice skating didn't work because there was no ice, when roller skating they just crashed, when they planted flowers the flowers wilted almost instantly, they coulden't climb trees cause the trees had no branches to climb on, when they tried to save a squirrel by taking its nut away so it woulden't choke it atacked them, and when they bathed a pig it just got dirty again.

                 "Well...that was a bust" Destiny said glumly

                  "Yea tell me about it." replied Pound

                   Pumpkin just nods slowly then stops. "Wait!"

                   "What?" Pound Cake and Destiny said simultaneously.

                   "we can play no-truth-just-dare now, we have time! " The game was exactly what it sounded like, no choise in truth. all you could do is a dare.

                   "Hmm...ok im in" replies Destiny.

                  "Me too!" Adds Pound Cake

                 "Oh can i go first?" Asked Destiny

                  "Sure don't see why not" Pumpkin replied

                "Hmm, Pound, I dare you to crash your head into one of Applejacks apple trees" she said pointing her hoof to a nearby tree.

               "What? no way!"

              "What are you? Scootaloo?"

             "Hey! I'm no chicken I'm goin' I'm goin'" Pound said as he butted into a tree.

            "Oww. Ok my turn. Hmmm" as he thought he remembered Destiny's allergy to milk, then he remembered his cousin who got ichy lips when she drank milk and assumed it was the same thing.

             "I dare you to take a sip of milk from my milk container. Or are you to Scootaloo?" He dared

             "gimmie that!" she took his milk carton from him the moment she heard the insult. She opened the top using her teeth and took a normal sized sip.

                The moment she swollowed Destiny's eyes grew wider than Pound has ever seen them before. She started weezing, rashes coming all over her body, then fell to the floor, the milk being droped on the ground, forgotten. Pound and Pumkin instantly started screaming.

The Ponyville Hospital

Applejack was sick, so Big Mac had to work in Applejack feild aswell as his own. Applejack wanted to help but she was just to tired. She hoped into her bed and let herself drift to sleep.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

Applejack was awoken by a horrifying scream. Forgetting her aching legs and pounding head, she ran to her window, peeping out expecting to see a timberwolf or a dragon. She saw nothing, exept Pound and Pumpkin sitting there, still screaming. She wanted to assume nothing was wrong and the were just being foals, but those screams were from plain horror. She finally followed their gaze to see Destiny just lying there, not moving. Applejack soon realized she was unconscious.

She stumbled to the door, almost tripping over Winona, who was lying right in the middle of the floor. As Applejack ran towards the path that lead to Destiny, she realized she could never pick Destiny up in the sorry state she was in. She instantly turned back to find Big Mac.

                                                                 ~~~

Big Mac was on his way towards the south feild, in the exact opposite dirrection of Pound and Pumpkin. He assumed it was a normal day, besides Applejack being sick. He would have spent the first part of his day setting down the barrels for the apples, then bucking the trees, then set the next round of barrels and do it over again, then he would carry the barrels back home to sell later. But thats not what happened. He got one tree bucked as he saw none other than Applejack, running as fast as her weak and wobbily legs would carry her.

Applejack ran at full speed and shouted "Bic Mac!"

"eeyu-" Big Macintosh was about to respond but he was cut of by a bunch a jabbering from his sister.

"BigMachelpsomethingiswrogwithDestinyiwantedtohelpbuticantpickherupittookallmyenergytogetherean-"

Applejack stoped as Big Mac placed his hoof on he shoulder and gave her a reasuring look, he somehow managed to get all that. He ran the was Applejack had come, with Applejack struggling to keep up.

Big Mac could start to hear the continuous screams of both foals and wondered when they took a breath of air. He quickly lost the thought as he saw them up ahead. He ran faster than he had in his entire life. As he arrived he scooped Destininy up on his back and ran towards the town.

                                                                                  ~~~

"Big Mac?" Pumpkin started

"Eeyup?"

"You have no idea where your going do you?"

"Nnope"

"How do you not know where the hospital is?"

"Usually dont have any... uh, problems that we can't handle with a band-aid"

"We're never gunna find the place!"

"Isn't that it over there?" Asks Pound, as he points his hoof towards a large white building in front of them

"How did you find it?" replies Pumpkin

"It has a giant sign that says 'HOSPITAL' "

"Oh"

                                                          ~~~

A board-looking mare with a brown body, purple mane and tail, a hairbrush for a cutie mark, and a big, green bow that reminded him of Applebloom's was sitting at the front desk. "Hello, welcome to ponyville hospital, the best hospital in po-" she stoped as she looks up from a magazine she had in her hoofs. "- ny ville....."

"Si-sister?" she studders

"No time to explain, Meadowlark just help her!" Pound cries in anoyance

"O-oh, yes. uhh. room 35"

"35, got it, thanks Meadowlark" Pound said in a rush as Meadowlark pushed the intercom button and started speaking something into it.

By the time they all got to the room, there were already ponies getting a bed set up for Destiny. As soon as the Ponies saw Destiny, still on Big Mac's back, the took her carfully and put her on the bed. There were then a lot of things happining at once. One pony was putting some kinda lotion on all of destiny's rashes, another was taking a blood sample, atleast, Pound thought thats what they were doing but he wasn't sure, one more was placing all theese tubes all over her body. And it pained Pound to see his best friend this way. She looked so helpless and weak.

"Common Pound, she needs her rest" Muttered Applejack.

Pound assumed it was ment to be louder but she was still sick and she just had quite the run. Pound knew the nurses needed to focus on Destiny and shoulden't need to herd him out so he went with Applejack.

As he was about to walk out the door leading to outside, he stoped. ' Why do I have to leave entirly?' he thought. ' Im staying right here until she is better.'  And with that, he sat himself down at the nearest available chair.

His sister turned around. "Pound, are you comming or what?"

"Why do we need to leave entirly? I'm staying here until she is better, and when she is, i am never drinking milk again!"

"Hmm, I see your logic. I'm staying too." then she sat herself right next to him.

"Pound! Pumpkin! Hurry up" Applejack called, which was barley more than a whisper.

"No. We are staying here until she is better" Pumpkin replied

Applejack poked her head back in. "Staying? you cant stay! Ah gotta take you home. Its alretty late, Cup and Carrot will be worried sick"

"Umm. Yea. And we are worried sick about Destiny, so heh." Pumpkin replied back, feeling very smart at her remark.

At that moment, a deusional Applejack charged at Pound and Pumpkin preparing to drag then home if need be, only to be stoped by her own brother.

"Big Mac! Move!" begged a angry Applejack

"Nnope"

"Move!"

"They arn't either one of our kids, we have no right to touch 'em"

"Grr. Fine" Applejack trotted out, Big Mac trailing behind.

Pumpkin looked at Pound. "Pound?" she asked

"yea?"

"Do you think they will let us stay here all night?"

"Probobly not but it dosn't close for another two hours."

"I can't wait till she is better! I hope she dosn't miss too many cusading meetings."

"She wont, Pumpkin"

"I hope she isn't in pain"

"She's not, Pumpkin"

"Ok lets change the subject"

"Yes, please"

At that moment a dangerously familiar voice called out.

"Pound! Pumpkin!"

Pound looked towards the door and saw his parants and Pinkie Pie entering the waiting room

Pinkie spoke first "What are you doing? What are you here for? Is it a party? Oh no, no cake or balloons or streamers."

Pound was afraid to tell what they did, he knew it was an accident but it was all so fast and he truthfully didn't remember much of anything up to now. So Pumpkin spoke first.

"Well.....you see-" And thats when she started the entire story and Pound was grateful that Pumpkin did all the talking. His parents and Pinkie Pie just stood there, stunned from what they heard. It  bothered Pound much more than it should have because of Pinkie Pie, the normaly energetic mare he had known since forever-and-a-half was  uncharacteristically quiet, and that scared him.

"-And so, in conclution. Thats why we refuse to leave to go home!"

silence

"So....You wont come home?" His mother asked

"Yep" Pound and Pumpkin said at the same time

Their parents looked at them, then at each other, then back at them, then at Pinkie who was playing with the intercom button.

"Pinkie!" Cup Cake scolded "I alretty have to deal with two kindergarteners, I would assume I can turn my back without you causing trouble!"

"Oh. Your right sorry Mrs. Cake, but pushing random buttons is fun!"

Mrs. Cake just sighed

Pinkie chose to make it up to Mr. and Mrs. Cake by gathering Pound and Pumpkin home while they were talking to Dr. Stable

"Ok, Pound, Pumpkin, isn't it time to go home?"

"No"

"Common....Please?"

"No"

"I have cupcakes, and they arn't your mother!"

"Pinkie, you make no sence"

"Ok if thats how your going to play it, I will have to use force!" Pinkie grabed both their tails in her mouth and against their will, drags both of them home, skipping the entire way.