The CMC's Terrible Kindergarten Graduation

Mick walked backstage after he finished his speech, Lavender Rush followed in tow. His happy and flirty nature faded as soon as he was out of the audiences gaze. "Make sure you don't buck this up you twats. Unless of course you want to visit the 'tank'."

The children shuddered as they remembered the terrible things they saw when it was first shown to them.

Lavender Rush trotted back onto the stage and grabbed the microphone. "Alright everypony let's get going! First up we have..." She grabbed a jar and picked out a random picture of one of the students. "Miss Scootaloo! Come on out sweet heart!"

The filly calmly walked out to the center of the stage and took hold of the microphone. Every instinct in her body was telling her to run, but she knew if she did that, if she rebelled against him, everypony in her class would pay for it. So she did her best to hide the fear she was holding in, and gave her speech as best she could.

"I am so happy to finally be moving to first grade, as I will finally be able to learn things that actually matter. No more ABC's, am I right everypony?" The cute attempt of a joke got a few chuckles from the crowd. Scootaloo did her best to laugh along, but her laugh ended up sounding more like a whimper of something trying to crawl away and hide.

"I just don't think I can express how glad I am to be out of this class, let me tell you I-" she suddenly felt a menacing pair of eyes staring at her, and she knew she was treading on dangerous ground. "I-I mean, not th-that there is anything wrong with the class, heh heh." She started to sweat and nervously laugh, trying to cover her fear as it began to boil even more.

"And now," Lavender began. "we wil have Scootaloo show you all what she has learned over the year in our class, by reciting her ABC's!" The crowd playfully cheered the young pony on, although most of them would probably be asleep in there beds at this point.

Scootaloo began singing the ABC song to the crowd, as they listened with smiles on their faces, the adorable little filly making it too hard to not smile. Scootaloo was at T when she heard somepony from the crowd cheer her on. "You got this squirt, I know you got this!" Rainbow Dash shouted as she hovered above the ground. Scootaloo began to freeze, she had forgotten that Rainbow was even here. She was too nervous to continue, but she began to realize what was on the line if she stopped and messed this up. So she continued and began to sweat more. She frantically sped for the end of the song and bowed before leaving on the side of the stage.

Her friends ran up to congratulate her on a job well done, when a blue field of magic picked Scootaloo up off the ground. "That was a close one my little pony." Mick whispered softly into her ear, causing her to shudder. Suddenly a hoof struck her in the stomach and sent her flying across the floor, as she whimpered in pain. Mick stood over her and glared down at her. "It seems that you believe your bucking idol is more important than making sure everything runs smoothly, hmm?"

Scootaloo began to cry as she waited for the next attack to hit her, but it never came. She looked up to see Mick Dagger staring at the rest of the class. "It seems as though you all need a reminder, I guess now is as good a time as any to prepare the 'tank'. Stage hand, I need you to raise the curtain back here please."

"Of course sir." A mare slowly walked past the students and towards the curtain, but as she passed Diamond Tiara, she whispered into her ear. "I'm so sorry for you." Diamond Tiara looked at the mare puzzled, confused by what she meant by that.

"Wait, who are you, and why are you sorry for me?" Diamond Tiara called to the mare. The mare turned around to face her and lifted her face into the light shining through the ceiling. "How could any pony ever forget the best party thrower in Equestria?" She giggled as her fluffy pink mane bounced with life. "And as to what I mean? Meh you'll find out sometime in the future chapters."

Diamond Tiara stood mouth agape. "Pinkie?! What are you doing helping a guy like him?! And what do you mean by chapters?"

Pinkie giggled again. "You will get it soon don't worry about it." She began to raise the curtain and the children backed away in fear.

A tank of water was exposed to them, filled with what could only be described as creatures from nightmares. The children began to sob in fear and the creatures sang their ghastly tune.

"Call upon the sea ponies, when you're in distress!"