For the rest of the day until 8 p.m., Apple Bloom helped her big sister and brother with chores and apple bucking. She helped with cooking, cleaning up, and other chores.

Around 7:30, Applejack said to her sister, "Welp, the time has finally come. Do what ya gotta do. Come back to us in one piece, okay?"

Apple Bloom nodded at this implication, and trotted out of the house. The Weather Patrol had a schedule to make it rain at 8:00 p.m., right around the time of the rumble. The rumble was to happen at a field near Ponyville. There were a lot of fillies Apple Bloom didn't know, such as Dinky Hooves and Button Mash, but she couldn't find Scootaloo, who promised she would be there. Silver Spoon, best friend and cohort of the late Diamond Tiara, appeared with several other fillies with cutie marks, like Snips, Snails, and several others whom Apple Bloom wasn't familiar with.

Silver Spoon stepped forward. "So, you didn't chicken out. I'm surprised. I see a one-in-a-million chance you leaving this place without serious damage."

She threw a punch, and the brawl began. Each side started to yell battle cries. The blow hit Dinky first, and she retaliated with a stronger punch. Snips pursued Apple Bloom. He was about to combo her when Scootaloo showed up and roundhouse kicked him, saving her friend. Silver Spoon repeatedly struck Button Mash in several critical places until a dodge broke out from the video game master, gave a huge kick to her face, and moved on to duel another filly. Dinky was giving random, but effective kicks and punches to Snails, who didn't do much to retaliate. Snips and Snails both ran home about 5 minutes into the rumble. Scootaloo double-teamed Silver Spoon with Apple Bloom, and overwhelmed her. The cutie marked fillies fled the scene 10 minutes after the first punch, and the bares rejoiced in victory.

After three cheers, Apple Bloom and Scootaloo raced to the hospital to tell the declining Sweetie Belle the news. It was self-evident that she was close to death. Already, her two friends looked sad.

"Hey, Sweetie Belle. Guess what? We cleaned those snobs. Chased them away. We won!" Scootaloo implied.

"Useless... Fighting's no good... Hey... Apple Bloom...?" Sweetie Belle meekly said.

"Yeah?" Apple Bloom asked.

"I thought about this one poem... That Rarity taught me... Something about gold... But it was a metaphor... The author meant that you're gold... When you're a kid... I wanna thank you guys... For everything... Stay gold, Apple Bloom... Stay gold..." And with those final words, Sweetie Belle passed away. Although it looked like she just fell unconscious, after checking her pulse, Apple Bloom shook her head at Scootaloo, concluding Sweetie Belle's fatality. Scootaloo banged on the wall, tears showering from her eyes. She ran out of the room, leaving Apple Bloom with the corpse...

Author's Note

About 3 days after I made the last chapter. Good God. I went back against my promise, didn't I? Oh, jeez...