Clockwork's adventure.

8 years later...

Clockwork awoke in his bed, and looked at the many clocks in his room. The time was 6:30 AM, and he remembered what today was. Today was Clockwork's first day of public school, as he was home schooled up to this point in time, and when he remembered this, Clockwork jumped out of bed, and as any foal would do, he rushed to his parents room and started to jump on their bed and say "Mom, Dad, it's my first day of school today, get up!"

Time Turner groaned at his son's abrupt appearance and Derpy moaned a bit, then told her son "Clockwork, it's 6:30 in the morning. Why are you up so early?" while yawning, which was caused by her sleep from the night before.

"Because it's my first day of school!" Clockwork repeated, getting his parents to remember this detail for today "And I'm just so excited! Come on, wake up!" Clockwork continued, while pushing against his mother's shoulders, then his father's shoulders.

Time Turner yawned, then said to his over excited son "Listen, if you wait another 15 minutes, I'll make you breakfast. OK?" hoping his son would allow the next fifthteen minutes of slumber that Turner wanted, and needed from pulling an all nighter trying to fix a broken clock.

"OK!" Clockwork said, as jumped off his parents bed then went down stairs.

"You know..." Turner began "I'm not sure how you convinced me to let our son go to Cheerilee's school."

Derpy turned on her side to face her husband, then got closer to him and whispered softly into his ear "Because you love me too much to say no!" Then moved back and turned her back t o her husband again to try to sleep, and lastly said "Plus Cheerilee owes me a favor, and this is that favor now, to let our son into her school."

After 15 minutes, Turner upheld his end of the bargain he gave to his son, and went down stairs to make him some breakfast, as well as everypony else some breakfast to start their day. Clockwork sat eagerly at the table and awaited whatever it was his father was cooking. Clockwork could smell the most amazing, tasteful thing he ever smelled in his life! As he sat and waited, he looked at the watch he slapped on his wrist when he left his parents room, and looked at the time. According to his watch, which was never wrong, the time was 6:56 AM by this point of time.

Whilst his son was distracted by time, Time turner took the chance to surprise his son by setting his plate down next in front of him. After the plate of food was placed in front of him, Clockwork realized what he was smelling.  He was amazed, awestruck, he couldn't believe what he saw. His father made him pancakes and hashbrowns, and Turner only made them on days that he deemed really important! Clockwork began to shovel down the amazing food that his father made, but quickly got a stomach ache because of his poor decision making.

After they were done with breakfast, Derpy came downstairs into the kitchen/dining room and sat down at the table and said "Well, today must be super important!" as she messed up her son's combed mane. "So, you ready for school?" Derpy asked her son.

"Yeah! I can't wait to make a bunch of new friends!" Clockwork began "I'm ready to go!"

"Whoa!" Turner began "Slow down son, we still need to get ready too you know?" He said to his son, as he went to the bathroom to comb his mane. After this, Derpy followed and went to brush her teeth, which caused Turner to brush his, and everything(almost at least) one did, the other did as well.

Clockwork went to his bathroom upstairs, and got ready himself, as he looked into the mirror, he thought to himself "I wonder if anypony will understand my love for time?" but shrugged it off, thinking that he couldn't be that hateable.

After some time, Clockwork got ready and headed out for the school with his mother, while his father stayed behind to tend to the shop. It took some getting use to, but Clockwork finally was able to start flying 5 feet off of the air, and was looking around the town, recognizing some of the buildings. "Hey, there's the bakery, where that one pink mare lives..." Clockwork began to think to himself "And there's the market place. Hey, is that the school over there?" He thought, looking at a red church looking house. "Hey Mom, is that the school house?" Clockwork asked, looking at the watches on his right leg.

"Yep!" Derpy said "Your teacher is Ms. Cheerilee, she's actually one of my best friends!" Derpy continued, as they got closer to the school house. Once they arrived, Derpy said to Cheerilee "Hey Cheerilee, this is my son Clockwork!"

The magenta mare smiled and said "So you're the colt I've been told about? Well, welcome to the school system! Come on, I'll show you to your classroom. It was great meeting you again Derpy!" Cheerilee said, as she brought Clockwork inside.

Once they were inside, the school bell rang, and every foal in the room ran to their desks for the school day to begin. "Good morning class!" Cheerilee said, eager to see all of her students "I'd like to introduce you to your new classmate, Clockwork!" The teacher said, waving a leg over to Clockwork, who looked pretty happy to be here.

"UGH! Not another Blankflank!" a pink filly wearing a tiara said "We had enough of those when Cloud Basher came, and later he almost destroyed Ponyville with that tornado he made!" The filly continued

A red pegasus colt with a blonde mane stood up and said "Shut up Diamond Tiara! I saved my family from that tornado, or did you forget that?!" The colt said, pounding his hooves together, symbolizing he wanted to fight the filly "Do I have to beat you up for spreadin' rumors?"

"Cloud Basher! What have we discussed about fighting other students and making threats to said students!?" Cheerilee said "Do i have to give you detention once more?"

"No ma'am...." Bash said "Stupid friggen Diamond Tiara." Bash muttered underneath his breath, then went back to his desk and started writing in a note book.

"He seems to be an awesome friend!" Clockwork thought. So, Ms. Cheerilee, where will I sit?" Clockwork asked.

"Hmm, good question...." Cheerilee said, then examined the room, then found a seat for Clockwork and said "Oh, why don't you sit behind Applebloom?" The teacher said, pointing to the seat behind a yellow filly who wore a giant red bow in her mane.

"Okay!" Clockwork said, and went to sit down behind the filly. Once he sat down, the school teacher sat behind her desk and said "I'm sorry class, but the clock in the room is broken, and I can't get it fixed until next Friday, so we'll have t figure out time on our own for the time being."

Hearing this, almost everypony in the room moaned in ager, especially Cloud Basher, who hated not knowing the time of day, so that when recess came he could take an afternoon nap "Ah come on Ms. Cheerilee! You gotta be kidding me!" Bash said. The teacher sighed and said "No Bash, I'm not kidding, the clock isn't working!"

The only foal who didn't moan, raised his hoof and said eagerly "I could fi it Ms. Cheerilee!" As his eyes glistened with hops of finding his special talent. "Are you sure Clockwork? It's gears seem to be stuck, and I'm not sure you can fix it." Cheerilee said, looking a bit confused as to why Clockwork offered his help.

"Of course I know how to fix it! I've been studying the mechanisms of clocks since I was 5, and learned how to fix broken clocks when i was 6, I've got this!" Clockwork said, as he flew up to get the clock, then brought it down to his desk. Clockwork opened the back panel, and began to fix the gears, and said a couple of times "OK, you go here.... You over here... You're not supposed to be here, silly gear!" And finally, after several minutes, fixed the clock to brand new condition. "Done! also, i took the liberty of making the clock correct now, no worries!" Clockwork said, putting the clock back in it's original place.

All the foals cheered for Clockwork, then the school day officially began. It started off with some math, then a history lesson, then reading, then language arts, then the school bell rang for lunch and recess. "Today's been boring! It's a good thing time flies when you're busy!" Clockwork thought, as he was walking outside for recess.

Once outside, Clockwork looked around for some of the foals to hang out with, more precisely he was looking for Cloud Basher. Clockwork looked high(kind of) and low in search for the potential new friend, but he couldn't find Bash at first. It took some time, but Clockwork finally found Bash, who was resting on a cloud that was near ground level, and he was talking with three fillies, and decided to go talk to them. Once there, he recognized one of the fillies as the yellow filly he sat behind, Applebloom, and said "Hey, I'm Clockwork! You guys are?"

An orange pegasus filly with a dark red and purple mane and tail said "I'm Scootaloo, and I'm gonna train to be like Rainbow Dash, the best flier in Equestria!"

Then, a white unicorn filly, with a curly mane and tail, which were lilac and light purple, said to Clockwork "And I'm Sweetie Belle! I'm going to be a fashion designer like my sister Rarity!" as she said this, she raised one hoof into the air.

"And Ah'm Applebloom! Ah'm gonna do anything that doesn't involve anything with working on mah family's farm!" the yellow filly with the red mane and tail, the mane being held by a giant red bow, said, hoisting her hoof into the air.

"And I," Cloud Basher began "Am Cloud Basher, just call me Bash! Also," Bash continued "I'm Sweetie Belle's stallionfriend, so don't do anything I won't like to, or WITH her!" Bash said, pounding his hooves together.

"Understood! So, are you guys a group or something?" Clockwork asked.

"Yep, we're th' Cutie Mark Crusaders!" Applebloom said "Wanna join?"

Clockwork stood there for a moment, thinking "Hmm, they seem like awesome ponies, but I think my special talent is fixing clocks.... Wait, that is my special talent!" As he thought this, his eyes grew and began to sparkle, then a flash from his flanks revealed his cutie mark to be a clock and hammer! "Huh, YES!" Clockwork exclaimed "I finally did it! Whoohoo!" He continued, jumping up and down.

"Wow, you got your cutie mark! What's it mean though?" Scootaloo asked, looking at the colt's flank "Can you build clocks or something?"

"Nope," Clockwork said "I can repair them like that! Remember how well I did with the clock inside?"

"Yeah, but we didn' think that ya'd get yer cutie mark right then 'nd there!"  Applebloom said, and began to think "Why does 'e seem so familiar.... Have Ah met 'im before?" but this was interrupted, as the school bell rang for the class to go back inside. "Come on, we gotta get back inside er Ms. Cheerilee'll be madder than a bull seein' red!" Applebloom said, as she ran towards the school house, with the rest of the crusaders, and Bash and Clockwork following her.