Cutiemark Coltfriends

Rumble sat on a chair in front of Miss Cheerilee's desk with diamond tiara sitting a few yard to the right of him. He was in a small separate work room where Cheerilee does most of her grading and other work before and after school. He looked over at Diamond Tiara for a second, only for her to return to him a glance that spoke "I will make sure you suffer every day of your life! Rumble showed no emotion towards her and turned his attention to Miss Cheerilee who began her interrogation of the colt.

"Okay Rumble." Miss Cheerilee began. "You know that I cannot allow such behavior to take place here at school."

"Yes ma'am" Rumble responded.

"And according to the information Diamond Tiara gave me, I believe that you attacked her and threw her onto the ground. Is this true Rumble."

"Well...It's partly true." Rumble responded.

"Then give me your side of the story." Miss Cheerilee said to Rumble.

"It started with Diamond Tiara picking on Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo." Rumble Began. "She kept making fun of them for being blank flanks, Sweetie Belle not being able to use magic and Scootaloo not being able to fly." Miss Cheerille gave stern glance to Diamond Tiara beginning to realize where this story was headed. "The whole Play ground was silent." Rumble continued. "Then Diamond Tiara pushed Scootaloo onto her back causing her to break her wing, so I pinned her on the ground because I was angry at her for hurting Scootaloo."

Miss Cheerilee turned her head toward Diamond Tiara with an angry and annoyed expression on her face. Rumble turned toward Diamond Tiara as well and noticed beads of sweat begin to slide down Diamond Tiaras face.

Cheerilee began to speak to Diamond Tiara ."Diamond Tiara is what Rumble just told me true?"

Diamond Tiaras eyes began to shift around as she thought of an answer. "Uh...uh..." She sighed. "Yes I did do all of that stuff."

Needing no further answer, Miss Cheerilee wrote down everything she had her on a sheet of paper and told the two their punishments.

"Rumble" Miss Cheerilee began. " You should know better than to bring any physical harm to any pony but I do understand your reasoning for doing so but you should still now not to put your hooves on anypony especially a filly, so as such you will have two days of one hour detention after school."

Rumble ears fell and sighed, not because of the detention but because of what he feared awaited him at home where he had to tell his older brother, Thunderlane, of what had happened.

"As for you Diamond Tiara." Miss Cheerilee continued. "This is not the first time I have had to talk to you about your bullying and you seriously injured another student, so because of that I have no choice but to suspend you from school for the next three days." Miss Cheerilee said to her trying to show little emotion.

Diamond Tiaras heart nearly stopped at the sound of Miss Cheerilees words, her eyes dilated to where it looked she was shocked to death.

"Am I understood?" Miss Cheerilee asked both of them.

"Yes ma'am." They both said unanimously.

Miss Cheerilee nodded her head and dismissed the two back to the classroom. They both quietly stood up and walked out the door, leaving Miss Cheerilee alone in her office. As the door opened and the two walked out into the classroom, everypony stopped their conversations and silently watched the two ponies step out the classroom.

Meanwhile.

The school's nurses office is like any other typical school clinic; the walls and ceiling are painted white with a whit tiled floor. The walls also had a few posters about health and personal hygiene. There were cabinets stocked with medicines and other medical supplies for all the patients that lied on the beds for the nurses to check on them. On one of those sat an orange pegasus filly by the name of Scootaloo being examined by one of the school nurses, Mrs. Heart Healthy.

"Hi Scootaloo. My name is Mrs. Heart Healthy." She introduced. " I am going to be looking at your wing today to see how badly injured it is." Mrs. Heart Healthy said. Mrs. Heart Healthy is a dark pin earth pony with a straight baby blue mane and tale. Her cutie mark was rose with a thermometer coming out the top of it.

"Yeah whatever, just make it stop hurting so much." Scootaloo groaned. Scootaloo isn't a big fan of nurses or doctors; she claims that doctor offices are too boring but really she's just afraid of needles.

"Oh come on Scootaloo, there's no need to be so stubborn." Mrs, Heart Healthy said.

"Sorry, I just really don't like doctors, all it is check your heart beat, listen to your lungs, test your reflexes and a bunch of boring stuff."

"Okay Scootaloo, the better you cooperate the faster you can get out of here and back to your friends. Besides being a doctor isn't so bad; you get to help people that get sick or help people that injure themselves on their scooters." Mrs. Heart Healthy gave Scootaloo a warm smile, Scootaloo blushed in response.

"Now I need you roll on your stomach so I can get a good look at your wing." Mrs. Heart Healthy said.

Scootaloo did as she said in hopes of getting her wing fixed and getting back to friends, her scooter and Rumble. Yes Rumble. Ever since Scootaloo saw Rumble stand up for her and the other crusaders, he's all that's been on her mind. The thought of him sent weird yet warm feeling throughout her body, it made her sick.

"Scootaloo, I need you to try to move your wing for me." Mrs. Heart Healthy said.

Scootaloo groaned when she tried to move her wing in any way. "Ugh! I can't my left wing hurts too much."

Mrs. Heart Healthy gently stretched out Scootaloo's wing and examined it. She gave Scootaloo an x-ray and gave her some other tests. All the while Scootaloo and Mrs. Heart Healthy talked about school, family and also about cutie marks. Scootaloo and Mrs. Heart Healthy had a conversation about special talents and cutiemarks.

"So Mrs. Heart Healthy. How did you get your cutiemark."

Mrs. Heart Healthy gave a slight chuckle as she began to wrap Scootaloos wing in a caste.

"Well." Mrs. Heart Healthy began. "I got my cutiemark during the annual running of the leaves in White Tail Woods. I was just a young filly trying to find her place, like you Scootaloo. I was the 23rd racer on that chilly fall day, I wasn't the fastest filly nor the best runner but I knew if I paced myself I would finish the race even if I don't win. Anyway, by the middle of the race most of the ponies ahead had tripped over an area of rocks and pebbles that couldn't' be seen from ahead of the path. Once a pony got to that section of the path they would trip, twists their ankles, get scratched or bruised."

"So what did you do?" Scootaloo asked.

"Well when I came across all of the injured ponies at first, I had no idea what to do. I was about to run and get help when I heard somepony. It was a young unicorn colt about my age at the time, he was lying on the ground crying with his hoof being held in his hooves. I knew it was better to go get help; yet I couldn't just leave him there injured. I ran up to him and sat beside him, I had always loved healing ponies and reading books on medicine; however I had never tried to heal an actual pony. I took his hoof gently into mine and asked him move, he groaned in pain at trying to move it. I knew the first thing I had to do was ice and wrap it but I had no medical supplies. I frantically looked at my surroundings in order to find something to wrap his hoof in, yet all of the leaves had already fallen. Then a sparkle of light caught my eye,a plant known as Aesculapius. It is a beautiful copper plant with a silver  flower on top when in bloom the magic contained in it can heal any physical injury if a pony truly wanted and cared for its healing power. I pulled the plant out of the ground and wrapped it around his hoof. I took his hoof, closed y eyes and asked to it to please heal him and all of those that were injured. I begged until tears began to flow down my face. Finally after 3 minutes, a beautiful, bright, white light had appeared and after the flash of light the flower was gone and everypony began to get up again. I was still holding his hoof and he wrapped in his hooves a great big hug. Little did I know that he would become my best friend and future husband. Suddenly a light flashed on my flank and my cutie mark had finally appeared. it was the happiest day of my life and i will never ever forget it."

By the time Mrs. Hearth Healthy had finished her story, Scootaloo's eyes were wide and practically glowing. Mrs.Heart Healthy could only laugh at the filly. Then her ears dropped and she looked down at the floor.

"What's wrong Scootaloo?" Mr.Heart Healthy asked.

"It's just that it seems everypony has some amazing story on how they got their cutiemarks; yet no matter what I do I never get my cutiemark. I'm starting to think that I don't have a special talent and that I'm destined to be a blank flank forever." Scootaloo said depressed.

Mrs. Heart Healthy put her hoof on Scootaloo's head, causing Scootaloo to look up at her.

"Scootaloo." Mrs. Heart Healthy started. "Everypony has a special talent of some kind, but sometimes our talents are so common to us that we don't even realize that they are our special talents. You will find out what your good at Scootaloo; however right now you should try to enjoy the freedom of being young and not having any responsibilities. Do not try to grow up to fast, you'll regret it." Mrs. Heart Healthy said warmly with a motherly smile one her face.

"Thanks Mrs. Heart Healthy." Scootaloo said.

Scootaloo looked around to make sure nopony was watching and then gave Mrs. heart Healthy a big hug. Scootaloo filled out a form for her to take to her parents after school, said her goodbyes and ran out the door to the class room to talk with her friends.

By the time Scootaloo got back to Miss Cheerilee's class, everpony was eating lunch during their final minutes of freedom until class started up again. She opened the door as if nothing had ever happened; only to freeze as everypony in the classroom halted their conversation to look at her. She was about to to her friends only to see Rumble along with three of his friends sitting with her friends at a desk looking at her. She had no idea what to do; so she let instinct take over and charged at the grey, pegasus colt who had stood up for her.

The front yard of the school house was quiet and peaceful during the school hours, nopony was out there except for the occasional janitor but there was some dragon in the front yard, Spike. Spike was given the day off by Twilight Sparkle. He was roaming the streets of ponyville looking for something fun to do, he could have gone to visit Rarity like he usually does but it was kind of early at the time and he didn't want to disturb her. Even though Spike had agreed with Applejack that he would stick to assisting Twilight he had nothing to do; so he decided to head for Sweet Apple Acres to see if there was any work for him to do.

On his way there, Spike had headed toward the Ponyville Schoolhouse. He was just reaching the top of a hill when he noticed some commotion going on in the schoolhouse playground. He couldn't make out to much of what was going on due to his distance, but he could make out the cutiemark crusaders and two other pink and silver figures. He concluded the two figures were Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon, he knew that those two picked on the cmc a lot but he never paid much mind to it. Though this time,by the stillness of the playground, he knew knew something big was going on. All he did was watch the commotion until his scales rose at the sound of a glass shattering scream from what sounded like Scootaloo, then before he could comprehend what was going on a grey blur quickly streaked right onto Diamond Tiara and stood over her. Spike's eyes were wide, he was actually pretty glad he didn't go to Sweet Apple Acres. After everypony had headed back inside he decided that he should wait for everypony to get out of school; so he could find out more of what was going on.

Spike sighed."Ugh, There's nothing to do out here." He said to himself. "I want to know more of what happened, I can't bare waiting. I also never really talk with the crusaders much; maybe they can find something fun for us to do, they're really good at that."

Spike was holding onto what little patience he had left to keep himself from bursting into the school and demanding information. Well he lost all of his patience when he heard a loud crash come from inside the schoolhouse. In a swift act of adrenalin , the baby dragon charged at the school door only to be graced by the sight of Scootaloo lying on the ground with a colt hugging him as tight as he can. All Spike could do was fall on his back laughing out all the air  contained in his lungs.

When Rumble had exited Miss Cheerilee's office along with Diamond tiara, everypony in the classroom turned their attention to Rumble and Diamond Tiara with nothing but curious expressions across each pony's face. Whispers and rumors such as "I heard they both to apologize and hug each other the hold time." or "Diamond Tiara is going to kill rumble tomorrow morning." and other such lies  began to spread across the classroom like a wildfire. The whispers and silence was heavy and awkward, Rumble gave the class a nervous smile and quickly trotted to his friends sitting in the far back right corner in the room. Diamond Tiara on the other trotted to Silver Spoon with an angry expression on her face.

Rumble got to his three best friends Featherweight, Pipsqueak and Shady Days. He was instantly bombarded with a barrage of questions from the three of them.

"What Happened? Did you get in trouble? What about Diamond Tiara? Is she in trouble?" The three friends ask Rumble in such a disorganized way that Discord himself would love it.

"Uh..I.." Rumble would try to say over his friends. "Quiet!" Rumble yelled at his friends. All of his friends immediately shut up and listened to Rumble.

Rumble sighed. " Diamond Tiara is expelled from school for three days and I have two days of detention.

Pipsqueak suddenly hugged Rumble in Joy. "You got Diamond Tiara suspended!" Pipsqueak exclaimed. "These are going to be the best three days ever!"

While in Pipsqueak's tight embrace Rumble noticed Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle glancing in his direction every now and again then going back to their conversation. Rumble was beginning to lose air in his lungs and tried to push Pipsqueak off of him to let him now to let go. Once released, Rumbled sucked in a huge sum of oxygen and then exhaled.

"Hey guys." He said to his friends. "I think Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle want to to talk to me, let's go talk to them."

Rumble was stopped by Pipsqueak who put his hoof on Rumble's shoulder.

"We can't talk to them." Pipsqueak Said.

"Why not?" Rumble asked back.

"Because they're fillies!" Pipsqueak answered.

"So..." Rumble responded.

"Fillies have cooties!" Pipsqueak responded with urgency in his voice. "I haven't even got my cootie shot yet!"

Rumble rolled his eyes then smiled at the small colt. "There is no such thing as cooties Pipsqueak."

"Yes there is!" Pipsqueak argued back.

"Oh yeah. Prove it." Rumble said back.

"One time a filly dropped her pencil so I picked up and put it back in her hoof then when I went t bed I woke in the middle of the night sick." Pipsqueak explained.

"Well did you go to bed with the window open?" Rumble asked.

"Yeah. What does that have to do with anything?" Pipsqueak argued back stepping closer to Rumble.

"Well that's why you got sick in the first place!" Rumble argued back stepping closer to Pipsqueak putting only a few inches between their faces.

"No it isn't!" Pipsqueak yelled back.

"Yes it is." Rumble yelled at Pipsqueak.

"You're stupid!" Pipsqueak yelled.

"No. Your stupid!" Rumble yelled back.

"No yo-" Pipsqueak was cut off by Featherweight.

"How about we go talk to them and if one of us gets sick then cooties are real." Featherweight reasoned.

"Yeah guys just stop fighting." Shady days said in agreement.

Rumble and Pipsqueak looked each other in the eyes and said "Fine." in unison.

"Let's go guys. Rumble said turning toward the two fillies.

Rumble, Pipsqueak, Featherweight and Shady Days all walked toward Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. Who were sitting at one desk eating lunch.

The way Rumble and his friends walked toward Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle would make a pony think they were greasers about to jump a couple of soc's.

Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle looked up at the four colts in front of them.

"Uh heya Rumble." Apple Bloom began with a smile on her face. "How ya doin'.

"Hi Apple Bloom. Pipsqueak, Featherweight, Shady Days and I were wondering if we could sit with you and Sweetie Belle." Rumble said. Rumble glanced at Pipsqueak who was shaking as if he were stuck outside of the crystal empire in the snow.

"Sure!" Sweetie Belle said instantly."I don't usually sit with colts it should be fun." Sweetie said with a bright smile on her face.

"Cool. Thanks Sweetie." Shady Days  said in response. Sitting across from her.

Rumble sat next to Apple Bloom and Pipsqueak sat next to him and Featherweight sat between Shady Days and Pipsqueak.

"It was really nice of ya ta stand up for Scoots like that Rumble." Apple Bloom said looking straight into Rumbles eyes, her smile beaming so much you'd think Pinkie Pie was about to come out of nowhere.

"It was nothing." Rumble said blushing.

"But why did you do it?" Shady Days asked Rumble.

"Yeah why?" Pipsqueak asked breaking out of his cooties fear long enough to speak.

"Uh well I..." Rumble said trying to come with a good reason or distraction.

All the while Sweetie Belle lost focus on the conversation as her eyes drifted to one particular colt sitting a couple rows down. He was a light brown colt with a dark brown mane and a lighter shade brown in the middle of his mane. His name was Button Mash. He didn't have a cutiemark yet but everypony knew what his special talent was. Playing video games. Little did Button know that he brought a dreamy feeling to Sweetie Belle.

"Uh Sweetie." Apple Bloom said to the dazed filly.

"Sweetie Belle!" Apple Bloom said in her ear.

"Huh. What." Sweetie said snapping out of her daydreaming.

"Ah asked ya who do ya think is crazier Pinkie or Discord?" Apple Bloom asked her with an annoyed tone in her voice.

How the conversation shifted from Rumble sticking up for Scootaloo was beyond her.

"I thought Rumble was about to tell us why he stood up for Scootaloo." Sweetie said.

"Gees Sweetie how long were ya daydreamin'?" Apple Bloom asked rhetorically . "He claims that he owed Scoots a favor and that standing up for her would be a quick way to get out of it, but ah think that there's a deeper meanin' behind it."

"Yeah. Rumble likes Scootaloo." Pipsqueak teased.

"Do not!" Rumble argued back

"Do to!" Pipsqueak teased back.

"Do no-" Rumble was interrupted by the opening of the front door. The classroom fell quiet as Scootaloo stood in the doorway. The next thing Rumble knew he was tackled by Scootaloo in a bone crushing hug. He saw his friends eyes wide only to be interrupted by the laughter of a familiar purple and green dragon that was lying down on his back in fits of laughter. Scootaloo stood over Rumble with a very shocked look on her face. Rumble began to wonder if Discord was in the classroom with him.

"How could thing possibly get worse." Rumble thought to himself.

At that exact moment Miss Cheerilee stepped out of her office only to see the chaos in front of her.

"I just had to ask." Rumble thought.