“Now Sweetie are ya sure about this?” Apple Bloom asked, looking at her friend apprehensively. Usually her unicorn friend was the one who would suggest the saner, more safer ideas the balance between Apple Blooms engineering hijinx, and Scootaloo’s more extreme shenanigans, but her latest idea was madness.
Sweetie grabbed ahold of Apple Bloom by the shoulders and gave her a playful shake as she answered, “Of course! Don’t you see with all the other ponies busy with stuff if we have Discord and Pinkie Pie watch over us then we can get so much more crusading done! And they are both pretty fun so we definitely won’t get bored.”
Scootaloo looked at the other two and with a grin shouted, “Best idea ever! Although it sucks that Dash can’t watch over us, but we never were foal sat with those two. So who’s going to ask who?”
“Well I’ll ask Discord, and you two can ask Pinkie Pie. We’ll meet up here afterwards to get our planning done for this Friday night.” Sweetie Belle answered as she trotted over to Fluttershy’s cottage.
“Alright, don’t forget this is going to be the best Sleep over in Crusader history! This Friday will be a night to remember.” Scootaloo said as Apple Bloom hopped into the wagon attached to the scooter hoping that this wouldn’t bite them in the butt.
Sweetie Belle arrived at Fluttershy’s Cottage seeing the pony and draconequus that she was looking for drinking tea in the front yard, sitting over a red and white checkered blanket. She sped up to a canter yelling out, “Fluttershy! Discord! Hi!”
They both looked up that the incoming filly and gave her a short wave before Sweetie asked the question she had been planning on asking since the idea came to her, “Discord, I have a question for you?”
“How may I help you?” Discord ask with a grin.
“Well the other Crusaders are going to ask Pinkie Pie, but I was wondering if you wouldn’t mind helping Pinkie Pie foal sit us this Friday? Our sisters and their other friends are all busy, and we haven’t had you two sit for us yet … so is it okay?” Sweetie replied giving the biggest puppy dog eyes she could manage.
“Oh! I don’t know. Are you sure that’d be ok with your sisters?” Fluttershy asked.
“Of course they won’t mind Flutters, After all you are always telling me that I need to learn how to use my powers responsibly. What better way than hanging out with one of your friends and watching over the Crusaders? What’s the worst that could happen?” Discord said.
“Well that’s true. Well if it’s okay with you … and you don’t mind then I think it could be a good experience for you.” Fluttershy replied.
Sweetie Belle turned into a little filly missile as she squeed and glomped into Discord at high speeds. As she landed into him they landed in an even more chaotic pair of limbs than Discord normally had. Sweetie gave Discord a nuzzle, “Thank you Mr. Discord! This is going to be the best Sleepover ever!”
“You are most welcome.” Discord said, ruffling of the mane. It was months after the incident where he went to shake up Equestria, and helped take out the avatar of Sombra, and Penumbra was firm on keeping him focused on learning on how to use his powers to help ponies rather than for his own pleasure. It had taken time to undo the insecurity and damage Celestia had caused by cutting him off, then imprisoning him without a friend in the world for a thousand years.
But now that he was allowed a degree of freedom, he was feeling giddy that the Crusaders were going to try getting him to foalsit for them. And even if Pinkie Pie still didn’t get along as well with him as the others it would be a good chance at a fresh start, and with the Crusaders, tons of chaos.
While Sweetie Belle was dealing with Discord, the other Crusaders were going to get Pinkie Pie to foal sit. Normally nopony would ever ask Pinkie Pie to foal sit the Crusaders, much less suspect that she might be willing with all the parties she threw and commissions she had. But the Crusaders were going to think outside the box and just ask.
They entered Cake’s Confectionery Emporium, the greatest sweetshop on Sugarcube Corner. They were swept up in a random Pinkie Party, a large banner read ”Happy Noodle Appreciation Day!”. Eventually they made their way through the maze of ponies where they walked into Pinkie Pie who was ponying the table with a tray of every imaginable type of noodle. Ziti, Spaghetti, Casseroles, Salads, among many others.
When she saw the Apple Bloom and Scootaloo her grin grew larger, “Hiya girls! Are you here to celebrate Noodle Appreciation day? Not many ponies fully appreciate noodles, so I thought I’d throw them a party.” Pinkie said with a pep in her voice.
“Who’s ‘them’?” Apple Bloom asked.
“Noodles of course!” Pinkie said bouncing in place.
“Well we didn’t come here to appreciate some noodles, but we did come here to ask you something important.” Scoots said.
“Okie Dokie Lokie! So what can I do for you two?” Pinkie lowered her head so that she was eye level with the Crusaders so they have to look up at her.
“Well we need foalsitters for this Friday’s Crusader Sleepover, and Sweetie Belle is askin' Discord. We wanted ta ask ya if ya wanted to join too?” Apple Bloom asked.
“Of course I can help, after all it’s not like Discord has experience foalsitting ponies, and I think it’d be fun watching ponies a little older than the twins. So you can count on me!” Pinkie exclaimed happily.
The Crusaders ran up and hugged Pinkie Pie, each grabbing a foreleg and thanked her before running off to meet Sweetie Belle with the good news.
“What!?” Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash yelled simultaneously.
“Pinkie Pie and Discord agreed to watch over us this Friday.” Sweetie said with a grin.
“You do know how bad of an idea this is right?” Twilight said in exasperation.
“But aren’t ya the one who told us that Discord is supposed to be reformed and needs ta be intergration-ed into pony society?” Apple Bloom asked
“Integrated, and yes I did say that. But this is a really big responsibility, both from Pinkie Pie and for Discord. Don’t you remember that he not only caused chaos the first time around, but when Penumbra was trying to reform him, sided with Trixie? Yes he ended up playing a long con to save the three of you, and stop the Alicorn Amulet possessed Trixie from becoming Sombra’s eternal avatar.But still doesn't change the fact that he did it.”
“But isn’t Pinkie already responsible? With all that party’s she organizes and watching the twins. And sis, didn’t you tell me that a pony learns responsibility by being trusted with it? That plus we’ve already forgave Discord since he did it to protect us from getting hurt.”
“Now don’t be draggin’ me inta this. But yes Ah reckon Ah did tell ya that.” Applejack responded much to Twilight’s chagrin.
“Well played Apple Bloom, well played. Well what do you girls think?”
“If they have already agreed to it, and it’s not too much of an imposition than I guess it would be alright to test this out. After all Pinkie Pie has surprised us with her level of maturity. So I shall agree to this.” Rarity said.
“Ah guess it won’t hurt to trust them with this responsibility for one night, and Ah think they are like big children themselves so it might be fun for the Crusaders.” Applejack added.
“Well I trust Pinkie Pie, but if Discord tries anything I’ll Sonic Rainboom him to the moon.” Rainbow Dash replied her wings flaring at the mention of Discord.
“Alright then thank you girls for letting us know. I’ll be letting Celestia know about this so that she can be kept in the loop with Discord’s progress,” Twilight said in slight exasperation.
The three fillies gave eachother a highhoof, “Cutie Mark Crusader Super Sleepover! Yay!” they said with enough force to cause the books in the library to fly off the shelves and nearly deafen the older ponies in the room.
That Friday seemed to take forever to roll around, and the day before the big night the Crusader’s sat in their clubhouse with the various items they would need to bring with them. Scootaloo was the first to put things in the pile, her wings held erect with excitement, “Alright! So I got Rainbow Dash to get me some liquid rainbow. I also got enough chocolate to put us in a food coma for a month, and Soda. What’d you get Sweets?”
“Well I brought rope, blankets, an axe just in case we need it, and we can’t forget mirrored glasses so we won’t get turned to stones by Cockatrices again. Or if we try getting our Vampony hunter cutie marks again. I never knew the Stare was able to freeze a pony like that.” Sweetie Belle said moving things with her fledgling magic from the pile that Scootaloo made to the blankets.
“And Ah brought a baseball bat to beat up anything that crawls out of the oven if Scoots tries cookin' again -,” Apple Bloom started to say when Scootaloo interrupted her.
“One time! One time! I accidentally transform a batch of gingerbread ponies, into living, ravenous, gingerbread ponies and you never let me live it down.” Scoots huffed before sitting heavily down on her haunches pouting.
“And you can’t forget the swarm of jellies, the flying apple fritters, or that one slice of orange that kept trying to poke our eyes out.” Sweetie chirped, much to Scootaloo’s chagrin.
“Exactly thus the baseball bat. Now as Ah was sayin' several potions Ah made with Zecora’s help, and some magic dust she made me just incase the baseball bat doesn’t work. Well Ah think that’s everythin'.” Apple Bloom stated.
Getting everything ready they transported their goods over to the Cake’s Confectionary Emporium where they’d be spending the next night. With Pinkie’s help they unloaded everything and got everything set up for the best night ever, “So Pinkie are you sure we can spend the night here tomorrow? Are the twins going to need their sleep?”
“Oh you silly filly, the Cake’s are taking them on a trip to see their grandparents over in Sleeping Hollow. So we have free reign here for the entire night. Oh! I have so much fun planned for tomorrow!” Pinkie said bouncing in excitement.
“What do you have planned?” Sweetie asked, shuffling her foreleg in a circle.
“Well your girls’ crusades are important so from after school, until sundown is time for that. Then we can have s'mores, candy, cupcakes, and a buffet of sweets and caffeine. After that I have something special setup, but it’s a surprise. Then we’ll wind down with some party games. Then it’ll be time for you girls to rest up for a really good morning,” Pinkie Pie explained.
“That sounds like it’ll be fun. Well we’ll see you tomorrow Pinkie,” Scootaloo said with a wave.
As the fated day rolled around the three crusaders were standing outside of the schoolhouse discussing the events for the day. Apple Bloom paced in front of the other two and lept into her speech,“Alright y’all today’s the day that we’ve been planning on for a whole week. Today is the day we have our first annual super sleepover. This means maximum output for our Crusading attempts before nightfall, and tonight we try again at getting our Cooking Cutie Marks. So I’ll leave the floor to Scootaloo who’s planned the events out for this afternoon.”
As Apple Bloom took her place in line Scootaloo walked out and brought out a map of Ponyville, “First things first. We know that a Cutie Mark is something a pony likes doing and does alot. So for this reason we are going to have some old, but fun repeats. We start with our Demolition Derby, and Crash Test Dummy marks as we race to the park. I got everything set up for us to go Hang Gliding, and then we’ll dive into the lake where I set up a floaty with Scuba Gear for our Diving marks.
On the bottom of the lake is three keys that’ll open a locker near the entrance of the park where we can change into spy suits. Then it’s up to us to track down our target, Pinkie Pie, We’ll see what her special surprise is as we work on our Ninja, Spy, and Pony Tracker marks. After that we’ll call it a day and head inside where Sweetie Belle will be up,” Scootaloo exclaimed waving over Sweetie Belle over to tell her part of the sleep over.
“Okay so after we get inside, I’ve learned where Pinkie Pie keeps all of her special ingredients, and the fuel for her Party Cannon. So tonight we sneak some extra ingredients and with a little bit of ingenuity make the best dinner ever. Since you all are worried that I melt everything I cook. I’m going to act as the chef, and helping get things in order,” Sweetie said with a hint of pride.
“So oh mighty chef, what’s for snacks?” Scootaloo snarked.
“Taffy, chocolate covered pretzels with nuts, and honeyed eggs using Nutella instead of butter to grease the pan.” Sweetie Belle replied oblivious to the tone of the comment. rivulets of drool were dripping down as she thought about the feast.
“Sounds good, now you two get in the cart and put on your protective clothing and helmets. Crash Test Demolition Derby Cutie Marks here we come!” Scootaloo yelled at her friends as she threw on her helmet and got prepared for one wild ride.
Scootaloo wings were flying with such speed that the buzzing could be heard from a block away as they rocketed away from the Clubhouse. As they sped to the park their surroundings were filled with screams and tossed ponies as the wake of their passing hurled everything around them away in a cacophonous storm of speed and chaos. As they hit the market place Scootaloo saw an impromptu ramp resting against the stall. With even greater force she rocketed towards the ramp oblivious to the collateral damage they were wrecking on Ponyville. As they hit the ramp they all enjoyed almost a whole minute of being airborne before landing with enough force to almost toss Sweetie Belle if Apple hadn’t caught her and dragged her back in.
Eventually they hit the hill leading to the park, gaining air time long enough to crash into some bushes that ended with them falling into the lake, “Alright girls did we get anything?” Scoots asked excitedly as they checked each others flanks.
“My flank is sore, does that count?” Sweetie asked.
“Nope. Well that was a bust. Maybe the next ones will work,” Scoots exclaimed pointing out to some Pony Launchers that Apple Bloom built for the occasion. “Ok everypony get in your hang gliders, pull the lever next to you and hang on for dear life. Our target is that floaty in the middle of the lake!” Scoots said happily. The CMC completely ignoring the cloud of dust, broken building parts, and still falling ponies that their ride had stirred up. That among other things is why Ponyville, and now Manehatten have Crusader Insurance to cover Cutie Mark Crusader related mishaps.
It wasn’t long before they were airborne, flitting through the skies. Apple Bloom angled her Hang Glider between her two friend and yelled, “So here’s the deal. Scoots you land on one end, and me and Sweets will land on the other end. This way it hopefully won’t tip over!”
“Sounds good, we dive on the count of three! One, Two, Dive!!!” Scoots yelled as she dived off her Hang Glider.
Apple Bloom and Sweetie jumped the gun and landed several seconds before Scootaloo did. Their side sent a large shock wave that hit Scootaloo just as she landed launching her up the air with the force of a Party Cannon Mark 3. As they watched their friend shoot into the air, AB said in amazement, “Ah never saw a chicken fly so high.”
“Bloom why do you keep calling her a chicken? You know she doesn’t like that,” Sweetie said to her friend as she watched Scootaloo squee, flapping her little wings with all they were worth.
“Ah’m just ribbing, honestly one of these days she’s gunna be a good flyer. Then Ah’ll have ta find somethin’ new ta tease her about”.
“You should apologize though, I mean, it’s a sensitive subject, especially with how Diamond teases her about that.”
“True, Ah’ll apologize when we get on dry land.”
It was a few moments later when a squealing Scootaloo dove into the lake. They fetched their gear and dove to the clear bottom of the lake, and made it to the shore. Shaking themselves dry with the keys in their teeth they made their way to the storage lockers.
“Hey Scoots?” Apple Bloom said softly, shuffling her right foreleg embarrassedly.
“What’s up?”
“Well Ah’m sorry that Ah call you a chicken so much. It’s meant to be playful ribbing, but Ah don’t mean to be mean about it.” Apple Bloom said.
“Don’t worry about it, yeah it get’s annoying, but I know you aren’t doing it to be cruel. Although it wouldn’t hurt to ease up on it a little.” Scootaloo said as she opened her door and brought out her ninja suit and groucho marx shades.
“Great now you two can kiss and makeup.” Sweetie said behind her Agent Apple Smith glasses and her CatMare skin suit giving her an even cuter expression as the cat ears moved along with her own.
“What!?” They both yelled.
“Well Rarity says that after two people fight they have to go kiss and makeup.” She explained.
“But I can’t kiss Apple Bloom, she’s a friend! Even if she doesn’t have cooties, it’d be weird.” Scoots said her blush red enough to show through the Ninja suit.
“Yeah! And Ah haven’t kissed anypony before, family doesn’t count.” Apple Bloom stammered nervously.
Sweetie grabbed them both in a hug and gave them a nuzzle, “You two are so cute when you're flustered. Now lets go spy on Pinkie Pie!” Sweetie said letting them go and trotting off as she slipped on her black tinted Vinyl Specs.
Apple Bloom hid her face behind her VamPony costume to hide the blush from her friends innocent, out of the blue statement. Scootaloo had no such defense and her costume turned red from the power of her blush as the air around them both gave a mirage like waver from the heat coming off of them.
After getting back to the Scooter and hiding it in one of many of Scootaloo’s hiding spots scattered around town, Apple Bloom asked, “Ah never asked, but why do you have all these cardboard boxes around Ponyville? There rather well hidden, but Ah always wondered why you got them.”
“Hehehe, well you see, its … well … Look a distraction!” Scoots yelled.
“It usually helps if ya don’t yell distraction when trying ta make a distraction,”Apple Bloom deadpanned, “But if ya don’t wanna say anythang then ya don’t need ta.”
“Sorry girls, I promise I’ll tell you all someday later.” Scoots replied.
“Alright, just know that we’ve got yer back whenever, whatever. Us Crusaders always have each other's backs,” Apple Bloom said as she put a foreleg over Scootaloo’s shoulder and pulled her into a hug, “Now lets go spy on Pinkie Pie.”
They spotted Pinkie Pie a few minutes later looking at a store window. Hiding behind a wooden crate Scootaloo’s head peeked out from the bottom, with Apple Bloom’s in the middle, and Sweetie Belle after climbing on top of them looked over the upper corner. Their antics drew muffled laughing from those walking by, but they ignored it as they watched Pinkie Pie doing what a Pinkie Pie does.
They followed her through the wreckage of the market place, past Bon Bon’s Confectionaries, and into an alleyway between the Cake’s Shop and Candy Express where Twist worked part time. They looked onwards where they saw nothing, only for Pinkie to pop out from behind them, “Hiya!”
This startled the three fillies Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle jumping into Scootaloo’s arms clinging to her seconds before they toppled her over in a pony pile, “Pinkie Pie, no fair!we were supposed to be spying on you! You aren’t supposed to scare us,” Scootaloo said, muffled by the fillies on top of her.
“Awwwww! Well I am surprised you found me, you must be super duper amazing spies to stay hidden for so long. I think you even fooled my Pinkie Sense for a while,” Pinkie said peppily.
Sweetie and AB got off Scootaloo, they each looked embarrassed for a second before what Pinkie Pie’s words registered, “Really we fooled your Pinkie Sense?” They said simultaneously.
“Yep it was saying Nightmare Night was coming early, so I was looking for party gear to celebrate. Then it switched to saying I was being watched by a VamPony, an Anti-Hero, and a ninja griffon. But then I said, why would a VamPony hangout with a Anti-Hero, unless it was the Moori, VamPony Blade? That’d make sense, but then I wondered why the ninja griffon’s League of Fluffy Kittens would hang out with them and I thought I must’ve ran out of bars and the Tachyon field was in reverse in this area so my Sense was on the fritz. Then when I went into this alleyway because VamPony’s and Ninja’s are allergic to magnetic candy waves, I figured it out, and knew that it was three fillies dressed up as those things following me so I decided to say hi!” Pinkie rambled, at the end of the speech the Crusaders eyes were rolling around in their sockets.
“Ok, so basically we tricked you with our cuteness?” Sweetie said trying to decipher all that at once.
“Basically yep! Now why don’t we go inside and get ready for the most awesome night ever!” Pinkie said bouncing in place.
After they got out of their respective spy suits, they were disheartened to find out that they didn’t receive any cutie marks, but cheered up as they talked about how awesome they were to have tricked Pinkie Pie’s Pinkie Sense twice. They walked down stairs to laughter, as they got to the bottom of the stairs they saw Discord rolling on the ground with tears streaming from his face.
“Hiya Discord! What’s so funny?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Why Sweetie Belle, I was just telling Pinkie Pie here of all the fun that my three favorite fillies in all of Equestria stirred this afternoon. So much chaos, I’m practically glowing with pride,” Discord said pulling on a cord that popped out of his ears causing his body to glow like a lamp,”See?”
The three crusaders laughed at his antics, and Apple Bloom was the first to speak up, “Ya know Discord, you’re not as bad as mah sister said ya was! Yer actually a really funny pony … dragon … thingy.”
“Why thank you, I’m glad at least some ponies appreciate my level of comedy, and it’s a draconequus” He said pulling on the cord again returning to normal.
“Yeah! That thingy. A funny draconequus.” She replied.
“Well girls first is going to be dinner, then it’s time for the great surprise.” Pinkie Pie sang.
“Oh! Pinkie Pie we want to cook dinner! We have everything needed to survive the outcome, and we think we can get everything done right this time!” Sweetie said pulling a chefs hat out from behind the counter.
“Okie Dokie Lokie!” Pinkie said leading the crusaders into the kitchen, even if she didn’t have triple the Crusader Insurance on the shop, she’d be happy to help her friends with their cooking. Discord on the other hand sat in the corner watching things unfold with a giant tub of singing, taffeed popcorn. Pinkie looked at Discord and said with a grin, “Don’t spoil your appetite we should have dinner ready in a jiffy!”
Apple Bloom was in charge of the Taffy while Scootaloo and Pinkie Pie worked on preparing the pretzel sticks. Everything was getting along perfectly and Scootaloo had just packaged the sticks into the refrigerator to cool while it came for Apple Bloom to add potions into the taffy for flavoring. The growth potion mixed poorly with the potion for healthy teeth and to help the metabolism. The resulting mix caused the taffy to boil and hiss before exploding and sticking everypony to the walls while knocking the potions out of the kitchen window.
“Hey is everyone Okay!” Pinkie yelled.
She was met with a muffled affirmations from around the room, and a loudly laughing Discord, “Oh I just knew that foal sitting was going to be worth it! This is positively delicious, and I don’t just mean this taffy.”
There was a flash of light and the taffy was laying on the table wrapped in little paper in a pile replica of Canterlot Castle. That resulted in all the others falling down mid munch from their attempt to escape their candy prison, “Wow Apple Bloom! Other than the explosion, this was delicious!,” Pinkie Pie said bouncing around the kitchen to examine the tasty fortress of sweets, “And good job on the Castle, Discord. This’ll be a help later.”
“Well I do aim to please,” He responded with entendres galore. Especially when I get first row seats to enough chaos to make me all warm and tingly inside. Who would’ve thought that helping ponies would be so entertaining. Best of all I have finally earned Pinkie’s and Penny’s permission to use my powers as long as it’s to help ponies.
After that little show Scootaloo knew that she had to up her game. Sweetie had injected the eggs with tiny amounts of Party Cannon fuel to help speed up the cooking process while Pinkie was distracted by Apple Bloom getting the defenses set up and getting things prepared for everyone to be armed for the upcoming battle.
All the while Discord was watching from the corner, a squee of excitement leaving him as he observed from the sidelines, he waved a banner with one hand that read, “Go Cutie Mark Crusaders!” with the letters written in singing rainbows, and the other a giant yellow, orange, and white colored foam finger, the #1 glowing in neon lights.
The first egg Scootaloo cracked open produced a duckling, trying again got her another duckling, sighing angrily she tried again, and this time a frog popped out, “Oh come on!” She cried out loud, “This time I’ll get it!”
Breaking open the next egg produced Gummy, Pinkie’s pet gator. Pinkie gasped as she grabbed Gummy, “Oh no! I have two Gummy’s?”
“Don’t break the defenses Pinkie! We never know what random event Scoot’s cooking will create!” Apple Bloom yelled in terror.
“Don’t worry girls, here I’ll get things ready and Discord, I need you to take my place while I go check on Gummy upstairs.” Pinkie said nervously, her hair twitching rapidly.
“I got this, you go get your pet.” Discord said with a mischievous grin.
“Okie Dokie Lokie! Thanks Dissy!” Pinkie said breaking the needed eggs for Scootaloo and getting the pan greased up with Nutella, “Alright Scootaloo you can do the rest.”
As Pinkie ran out of the kitchen and Discord armed with a giant rubber chicken, and a parasol took her place in line. Scootaloo started stirring the eggs. As she did an ominous orchestral piece started playing. As the music started a scattered rain of orange feather started falling out of nowhere, and the air itself quivered with a dark haze.
After beating the eggs she poured them into the skillet and a caterpillar that was crawling outside fell into the growth potion that had fallen outside from the earlier candy explosion. It grew into a giant Caterpillarzilla that roared at the crusaders as it crawled into the kitchen through the window.
“This is the moment we’ve been waiting for. Sweetie throw the eggs! Discord keep an eye on Scoots, we don’t know what else will happen!” Apple Bloom dictated.
Between the exploding eggs blasting the monster back outside and Apple Bloom’s batting it away caused it to run away crying. Just as it ended flames burst from the stove singing creepily. Then out of the flames came a dancing winged marshmallow the size of a young filly. Discord was so busy fighting that, that he failed to notice the army of winged spider monkeys that crawled out of the wall and began dancing in a conga line around the room.
When the stove was turned off everything disappeared other than a fine coating of flour that had suddenly appeared around the room, Scootaloo took out the brown eggs and gave them a small coating of honey, grinning with pride she said, “Well I’m done with my part, Dashie really is the best teacher for cooking in all of Equestria.”
Just then Pinkie arrived, “Well I don’t know how Gummy appeared in the egg, but there definitely aren't two of him. Well everything looks good. So I guess dinner is now ready, time to eat!”
After cleaning up the kitchen, fixing the random bouts of chaos caused by the Crusaders culinary skills, a pleasant dinner, and the basic party games found in a Pinkie Party, Pinkie Pie gathered everypony, and draconequus together, “Now it’s time to reveal the big surprise. We are going to prank all of your sisters, it will be epic!” Pinkie Pie said jittering with barely contained excitement, sugar, and lots and lots of caffeine.
“Oh pranks! Tell me, what about my sister? Can’t we prank her as well?” Discord asked.
“Two conditions, any pranks you help with have to be funny for everypony, not just you, and it can’t be anything that hurts anything.” Pinkie stated.
“That’s perfect. Now let’s go over how we’re going to go on this little quest.” Discord said his ears producing smoke from how fast the gears in his head were running with the ideas running through his head.
“Um … not complainin' or anythang but how do ya expect us ta prank Dash when 4 out of 6 of us can’t fly or aren’t pegasi?” Apple Bloom asked.
“I can fix that Apple Bloom,” Discord said with a snap of his fingers. After a bright flash of light there were two pegasi, and one horned pegasi.
Scootaloo pointed at her friend and said, “Sweets! You’re an Alicorn! Discord, why can’t you make the rest of us Alicorns?!”
Sweetie Belle hearing that she was an Alicorn, and to her mind a Princess pranced in place and squealed so hard that it came out as an excited, loud whisper, “I’m a Princess! I’m a Princess! *Squee*!”
Discord was about to say that it wouldn’t be a good idea when a good idea struck him, If I make them all horned pegasi, not true alicorns than it would still stir enough chaos to be fun. And I’d be helping my friends. Oh! I love working with loopholes!
With another flick of his fingers each of the others sprouted horns from their heads. With a squeal of joy they shouted in unison, “Cutie Mark Crusader Princesses! Yay!” Just as their hoofs touched one anothers an explosion of rainbows and smoke shot from them and when the light died down, and smoke cleared stood a speechless Pinkie Pie.
“Well … that wasn’t expected.” Discord whispered.
“What wasn’t expected,” Pinkie asked.
“Well I didn’t factor the power of friendship mixing with the powers of chaos like they did. I simply gave them wings and a horn without the full magic of the other races, they were simply winged pegasi. But now they actually are Alicorns, and …,” Snapping his fingers repeatedly, nothing happened, “I can’t undo it. Oh! This is amazing! Nopony told me Hearth’s Warming Eve was coming early! Quick Pinkie where is Santa Hooves and his army of little mules?”
“It didn’t come early, but this is going to take so much explaining later. At least nothing can go wrong, although I wonder why their change is immune to your imaginary friend powers?” Pinkie said looking her friends over to see if anything was off with the changes.
Sweetie looked at Scootaloo who gave a short nod, “Well we might not have been completely honest, and it’s a story for later. But Scootaloo was my imaginary friend, and I might have accidentally created her when I used magic for the first time while going on a valiant adventure, and Scootaloo’s chaos cooking was blamed of Rainbow Dash to hide the fact that we haven’t learned how to control her random chance power when cooking food.”
“Wait! If she’s an imaginary friend like Pinkie, Discord, or Penny, then does she live in your head too?” Apple Bloom asked.
“Nope, I couldn’t explain her living with me to Rarity, so she lives in cardboard boxes that lead to our magical worlds of make believe,” Sweetie answered embarrassedly.
“Well I wouldn’t worry too much about that Sweetie, I have enough to buy a house and I can take her in. If anypony asks I can just say Pinkie Sense told me about it,” Pinkie said, “and if you want to tell anypony we can throw a party for it.”
“Don’t worry Scoots, Ah still like ya, “Apple Blooms said wrapping Scootaloo in a hug, “Best friends forever, right?”
Scoots gave Apple Bloom and Sweetie in a hug, her wings wrapped around both their shoulders, “You two are awesome. I like you both too.”
“Well now that this grand reveal happened in a way that was more randomly chaotic than even I can pull off, let the pranking begin!” Discord said with the sound of cheering from an invisible crowd sounding behind him.
The first prank was on Rarity, who was closest to the Cake’s Confectionery Emporium. Sweetie Belle got the key hidden under a false brick near the doorway, and opened the door for everyone. When they got in they crept up the stairs as Pinkie Pie pulled out enough balloons for everyone to have two. Sweetie Belle used her fledgling magic to open up Rarity’s door.
As soon as the Balloons were set, they began using magic to charge the entire house with static electricity, and Discord to keep the house charged for a few hours. The plan was when Rarity woke up the house would be charged causing her hair and fur to stand on end, preventing her from getting her mane or tail to look fabulous and would walk out looking like Frankenstein's bride.
The next up was Apple Jack, with how busy the house was they needed a distraction, Sweetie ushered Scootaloo over. Pulling out one of her old character sheets for Scootaloo, she pulled out a dice and a pencil, “Alright time to roll a rogue!” She stated quietly, “Now it’s time for you to be our distraction okay Scootaloo?”
Getting a nod, Scootaloo put back on her Ninja suit and got on her Scooter. A few seconds later she was high tailing it away from the barn with Winoa chasing happily after her. With that out of the way, the rest of the Prank party crept inside carrying a chest of supplies.
As they got to the door leading to Apple Jack’s room Scootaloo spoke up from behind them, “So what’d I miss?”
Giving a jump Apple Bloom held a hoof to her chest, “Jeeze Scoots, give some warnin’ next time. And you missed nothing, now lets get started.”
For Applejack they plastered the most girly, fru-fru wallpaper imaginable, hung a bright pink canopy around her bed, and with much sneakiness Discord lifted her up as her bed covers and sheets were replaced with a filly level of girly bed covers and sheets. Her blinds were replaced with thicker, and more effeminate blinds, and for the final touch stuffed animals were littered throughout the room. Discord put up a magical camera so that he could immortalize Applejack’s reactions for her friends to see.
With two down, the rest were going to be a challenge. Dash was the best prankster in Ponyville, the only ponies better than her were Celestia and Luna themselves. While Penumbra was as hard as nails and hard to get a reaction from. Both would put their skills to the test.
The merry group of pranksters sat on the ground outside of Rainbow Dash’s cloud mansion, “Alright everpony, here’s the gameplan, we're going to replace her shampoo and shower gel. When we’re done she’ll be my color pink with bright blue hair. It’ll washout in a few days, or six baths. Nonetheless it’ll be awesome.” Pinkie Pie said excitedly.
Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom struggled to fly up, but managed to slowly but surely make it. Scootaloo on the other hoof made it up several pony lengths up before stopped being able to rise higher and fluttered to the ground. Looking up at her friends, she didn’t see Discord watching her. Well this isn’t any fun, I guess I could give her a little help. After all being flightless is boring.
“Oh Scootaloo!” Discord sang, “Come here, I’ll help you fly up there.”
“How? Not even being an Alicorn can get me airborne, I’m now even worse than a flightless chicken,” Scootaloo moaned.
Wrapping a rope around her and a giant reel in his hands, he said, “Now there! Just spread your wings and your good old friend Discord will help you get some air.”
As Scootaloo felt a powerful wind hit her, and Discord using her as a kite helped her glide up. Scootaloo gave a shaking dance of glee, when she landed on the cloud she danced and waited until Discord arrived before glomping him, nuzzling his chest, “Thank you Discord. Although it’s not what I thought my first time flying would be like, at least I was able to get airborne for a little bit on my own wings.”
“No problem Scootaloo, after all you can glide perfectly, you just have a problem getting up there. I’m glad to help a friend in need,” he said while ruffling her mane. He looked over at Pinkie Pie who was giving them the D’awwwws.
Seeing her standing on the cloud he thought to make a joking quip while leaning toward her, “I see you do have a bit of chaos in you.”
Pinkie Pie turned flicking her tail playfully at his nose, “Silly billy, you don’t proposition a mare on the first date.”
“Da-what?” Discord fall on his butt looking at the pink pony walking off to the inside.
The Crusaders looked at the foalsitters with a tilt of the head, simultaneously they muttered, “Adults are weird.”
The first thing they saw when they walked inside was the guardian of the castle, Tank the tortoise with his strap on copter harness. Flying around lazily, “Hiya Tank, were here to play a prank on Dashie okay?” Scoots whispered.
Tank gave a slow smile and softly bumped into her giving her a gentle nuzzle before giving her a gentle nip on the nose. He flew behind her and gave her a push to the stairs as if giving her a go ahead. She gave him a little peck on the cheek eliciting a blush, before whispering, “You really are the coolest pet Tank, thanks.”
Sweetie glomped Scootaloo from behind, “Hey Scootaloo, what’cha doing?”
“Hey! What’d I tell you about being weird? And I’m talking to Tank. I haven’t seen the little guy in a few weeks. I wanted to so hi.” Scootaloo said clutching Tank, wings having extended outwards after her friend playfully hugged her, her coat rubbing against Scootaloo’s.
“Well we’re done with the prank. We should go before Rainbow Dash wakes up,” Sweets said giving her friend another squeeze before flapping off her back, “By the way, you look adorable with Tank. I wish I could take a picture right now,” She said with a wink before trotting out towards the door.
Scoots watched her go thinking to herself, what’s up with that filly. I swear she’s been acting strange lately. Like really playful, and cute, strange. I’ll have to ask Dash what it means later.
Scootaloo sure enough found it easier to glide, catching updrafts and air currents now that she was high enough. Giving a mental thank you to Discord she glided in the direction of Penumbra’s workshop. She landed a few hundred meters away from the place, her friends had landed from the exertion of flight before the halfway point.
Apple Bloom and Sweetie cantered up to her, “Good job Scoots, yer no chicken any longer. I gotta say, ya were quite regal lookin’ up there. Congratulations Scoots.” Apple Bloom said her arms and wings wrapping around her friend, with Sweetie wrapping all of them in a wing hug as well.
“You girls are so weird lately, but you two are the best friends a filly can ask for so it’s all good,” Scootaloo said with a warm blush and a cheeky grin.
“Alright girls the last prank for the night, This was a surprise one, so I’m not that prepared for it. I’m thinking the Pie on a catapult prank, and coloring all of clouds with colored glitter. The glitter should be easy to get out of the clouds so no harm no foul. Dissy this is your game, I’ll get the pie set up you can color the clouds,” Pinkie exclaimed.
The Crusaders decided to follow them both around and talk a bit amongst themselves. Scootaloo spoke up first, “So girls I want to ask you two something.”
“Hmmmm.” They both commented non-commitally looking around.
“Well I was wondering, Sweetie Belle you’ve been a lot more affectionate than usual, and Apple Bloom you’ve been acting kinda strange these last few weeks around me and Sweets. Are you two ok?” Scootaloo asked.
“Well … ummm … Apple Bloom you can answer this one.” Sweetie Belle said, passing the verbal ball to her friend.
“Well, ummm, Ah just want ta say that we’re really good friends, and Ah don’t want nothin’ ta happen ta that,” Apple Bloom stammered.
"Alright, no matter what we’ll be friends forever.” Scootaloo replied nuzzling her friend innocently.
“Well Ah reckon that Ah might be quite fancied with y’all.” Apple Bloom said pawing the ground.
“And I might really like you two as well.” Sweetie Belle said.
“Why wouldn’t you I’m almost as awesome as Dash,” Scoots said with a nervous smile, “Seriously though … I like you two, but I don’t know if I like like you … it’s not a no!” She said as she saw their downcast expressions, “It’s just that … well … you both are almost as awesome as Dash to me, and I don’t want to lose that. But … just give me some time to think about it ok? I don’t know how I feel about that, but is it okay if I take time to figure all this out?” She said scuffing her hoof on the wooden floor.
“No problem Scoots, take as much time as ya need, and ya like me too Sweetie?” Apple Bloom responded.
“Yeah, I can wait as long as you want, no pressure, but yeah Apple Bloom. You two are the most awesome fillies I know, of course I’m going to like you too,” Sweetie added.
With a sigh of relief, Scootaloo was happy that this revelation didn’t come in between them as friends.
It was an hour later that had Discord carrying three little fillies on his back. Pinkie bounced along side him, “You know Dissy, after you got training on help on helping ponies you’ve really showed that you can be pretty ok. I had fun tonight.”
“I did too,” He replied looking fondly at his cargo.
“Hey, why don’t we go on a proper date later next week. I’d like to see more of you know that you aren’t trying to turn all of the world into a giant cake, and all who inhabit it into exploding gum drops or something,” She said giggling.
“Yep it was fun to be the hero,” Discord chuckled nervously, confused on to how this pink ball of chaos could go from barely friends, to asking about dating from out in the left field. Even by Discord’s standards.
“Yes it is, well tomorrow’s going to be fun, how do you think their sisters are going react to their being three new Alicorns? And one of them is an Imaginary friend. So awesome,” Pinkie said. Looking over at said Alicorns she saw Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle on either side Scootaloo each filly holding as much of Scootaloo as their bodies could hold nomming on her shoulders.
So the first annual Cutie Mark Crusader Super Sleepover came to a close, and as one chapter on their lives came to a close. A new story was just beginning.
Author's Note
ScootaBelle and DiscordPie friendshipping. Please leave comments, critiques, opinions, cupcakes (if you liked the fic enough). I hope everyone enjoyed this fic as much as I did writing this. By the way this cooking catastrophe is a sneak peak into the upcoming Golden Wings chapter (since similar chaos happens with Magic Muffin cooking). Which is taking ages to get through since I am running into a mountain of editing, on top of life stuffs.
And yes. The Griffon's dreaded Ninja clans is the Ninja League of Fluffy Kittens. And In my head canon Blade is a Vampony Moori
