How and Why?

"I never asked Sweetie when the party was..." I say to myself. And yes, I have a habit of talking to myself. It helps to feel less as a person when you had no one to talk to, not that I need anyone. I have myself, i'm getting off topic. It's the next and I realized that I didn't ask Sweetie the time of the fucking quinceaneras. Another thing is why is it a quinceanera? It's should be a party. Why you ask? Well, in mexican culture, a quinceanera celebrates a girls transition to a woman. And I don't think Diamond Tiara is that old yet. Anyway, I got to the boutique and walked. A little bell atop the door range.

"Welcome to Carousel Boutique, were- Oh! Hello Streak." We wave to each other.

"Hey Rarity. Do you know where Sweetie Belle is?" She nods.

"She should be coming down the stairs any moment. She told me you were taking her to the party, and she told me why you are doing it. That is very nice of you."

"Thanks Rarity." Just then Sweetie comes down the stairs from the second floor. "Hi Sweetie." She smiles brightly.

"Hi Streaky!" She gallops over to me and hugs my legs. "What are you doing here?" She asks as she lets go of my forelegs.

"Yesterday I realized you never told me when the quinceanera is. And I came by here to ask." She perks up a little.

"Oh yeah! Great timing! It's actually today."

"Huh, great timing indeed." *I think the universe made it a thing with me being in places at the right time...* "Then what time does it start then?"

"In about half an hour."

"Okay, you want me to wait here while you get ready?" She nods. "Alright, i'll be right here." Then she happily trots back to her room. *I think me going with her has boosted her confidence immensely. It's like it's just another party to her, or she's just hiding it. Yeah, probably hiding it, definitely. Oh!* At that moment I remembered something.

"Hey Rarity." She looks at me. "I just remembered, how's the suit coming along?" Her face lights up.

"Why don't I show you? Follow me." She leads me to her work room. And in the center there is what looks like a human mannequin with clothing on with one piece of clothe draped over it.

*I'm guessing that's the suit...*

"Here is one of my newest creations, your suit!" The cover is enveloped in her magical grip, and then pulled up to show my suit.... And.... I.... It's.... I can't even describe how magnificent it is. It is how described to her. But she went all out on it, It looks like your normal fancy suit that you see CEOs of big businesses use. But made out of gold. I didn't imagine it would look this amazing. And the reason i'm not yelling is that, I use the time I spent on earth, alone, honing in my skills of feelings and expressions. Basically, you can give me owner ship of the entire Earth. And all you'll get from me is 'cool', and that's it. While on the inside i'm screaming like a Justin Bieber fan girl. So if you see me react like that to anything, someone did something literally impossible. Anyway.

"What's wrong? Is there something wrong." I was apparently staring too long.

"Nothin's wrong Rares. In fact, it's even better than I expected, I am impressed, and it takes a lot to impress me. One of the finest suits I have ever seen." Her face brightens up. "And the good thing is that I don't want anything to be changed." She raises an eyebrow. "You'll see."

"Whatever you say darling." Just about then, Sweetie came back down, wearing nothing. Huh... I thought see would wear something. Cause you know, blank flank stupid shit. Meh...

"You all ready Sweetie?" It sounds weird saying that to a young filly.

"Yup!"

"Alright then, see you later Rares."

"Until then darlings."

At Sugar Cube Corner

"Wow, Pinkie does know how to throw a tame party, huh..." We already made it to the party. And it's already in full swing. If you're wondering, which i'm sure you are, the only reason i'm allowed in here without an invitation is because Diamond Tiara's father, Filthy Rich, he personally invited me here when he saw me yesterday. Bet ya anything he only wanted me here so he can get more money somehow. And I poofed to pony form to not draw attention, anyway, when we got there, Sweetie went off to hide from Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. And I just milled around, as a pony, didn't want all the attention to be on me. Even though I still got attention in the first place. Ponies really aren't good at keeping promises, at all. But away with that mess. The party went well, for about, ten minutes. The two bullies ran into Sweetie Belle, they talked, the two mocked. Sweetie stood her ground, and it was actually going well. Until her 'dress' fell off, showing her cutie markless flank. Diamond and Silver laughed at her for lying, and for not having a cutie mark. Then Scoots and Applebloom came to the rescue, but they could only stand their ground against two apex predators. That's when I decided to come to the rescue when Scoots said that not having a cutie mark could mean that your talent could still be anything.

"She's right you know." The ponies in front of me move to the side as I walk into view. It felt fucking cool to do that.

"Streak!"

"Hi Golden Streak!" I wave to them.

"As I was saying, not having a cutie mark at such a young age means you so much potential, just undefined at the moment. But it also means that any of these three fillies can become whatever they want, only time will tell."

"Why are you in their side anyway!?" I guess she like to ignore others when they make a point. I should mention, that Scoots and Applebloom showed that they don't have cutie marks either, and Diamond was about to say something else. Anyway,

"Because, I don't even know what my cutie mark means. It's worst than not having a cutie mark. So I can relate to them more than a snob like you. And these three are very lucky."

"Lucky? How can they be lucky?" Diamond says that with a shit eating grimace.

"Because, they can still experience the thrill of discovering their special talents, and that they have more time to do that than what little time you had." All the other fillies and colts surround the trio. Realizing how much potential they have compared to them. One filly even said she maybe got her cutie mark too early. The bullying duo huff and canter away.

I was turn around to head back to my seat, only for Aj and Twi to be in front of me. My eyes tint light red for a millisecond.

"You girls really know how to sneak up on me." They raise an eyebrow. "I may not show it, but you two scared the living hell out a me." They make an 'oh' in understanding.

"Either way, that was mighty fine of ya to defend my little sis like that."

"Anytime Aj."

"I have to say, I was really impressed you know what and how a cutie mark works." I give her a look. Her ears fold back and she blushes.

"Oh, right..." I'm about to say something but,

"Hey Streak!" I look over to where the voice came from, and the trio of fillies are at a table, Applebloom called me.

"I'm sorry m'ladies, but I am needed else where." I then dramatically turn around and head off to where I was summoned. I heard a few chuckles from the mares. "Watch'a girls need?" I say once I reach the table they sat at. Scootaloo is the first to speak.

"So, this the famous 'Golden Streak' that's been spreadin' around? I thought you'd be... taller."

"That's because i'm in my pony form." Scoots tilts her head.

"Huh..?" Applebloom perks up.

"Do tha thing!"

"What, 'thing'?" I smirk.

"This." I poof back to my human form. Sweetie and Applebloom giggle excitedly at Scoots face. It's in total awe. I wave a hand in front of her face. "Hello? Earth to Scootaloo? Anypony in there?" She shakes her head.

"How do you know my name?"

"I overheard you say it to the other two."

"Oh..."

"So, why did you three call me over here for?" Sweetie Belle. answers.

"We were thinking that you can help us come up with a name for our secret organization." Scoot and Applebloom deadpan.

"I guess not so secret anymore." I smile.

"You girls can trust me that I won't tell another pony about your little group. Now, what would be a good name..." I pretend to think for a minute. "How about 'The Cutie Mark Crusaders'?" They all make cute thinking faces.

"I like that." They said that in unison... Oh god.

"We are, THE CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS!" They really aren't doing a good job at secrecy.

"You girls aren't a good job at secrecy." They clam up, realizing what they did. "At least no pony heard you from what i'm seeing'" I look around, and it seems nopony heard that. You think they would hear something that is loud enough to break windows. Then again, we're at a Pinkie Pie party, so i'll let that one slide. And with that, the party went on like nothing happened.

---------->>>>Several Days later<<<<---------

"You girls mind if I join compete against you two in the Iron Pony competition?"

"NO!"

"Aw come on! Why not?"

"Because yer you!"

"Good point, fine. Hey Spike! Want to be an announcer?"

"Sure!"

"Alright." I open my inventory and spawn a microphone connected to one giant speaker. Before I give it to him I adjust the volume.

"Thanks!"

"Anytime." If you haven't guessed Skittles and Aj have challenged each other in the Iron Pony Competition. I wanted to join them but, they did have a good point. Meh... I'll join the running of the leaves then. "You two want me to keep score?"

"Sure we were going to ask Twilight, but knowing you..."

"Yeah, alright, just let go get the others." And I go collect the others. Then I come back with Flutters, Rarity, Twi, Pinks and Spike. Once they're all here, "Let the games begin!" I say in an amplified voice, the ponies and dragon cheer...

"First event, The Barrel Run! First up, Applejack" Aj trots to the beginning of the run. "Read? Set.... Go!" And she ran off, but not fast enough to be blur. When she reaches the second to last barrel, she nicks it. She then makes a jump to finish. When she catches her breath she walks up to me.

"Seventeen seconds." She smiles proudly. "But a five second penalty for nicking the second to last barrel."

"Dag, nabbit, well that was still fast. Try and beat that Rainbow!"

"Next up, Rainbow Dash." She trots up the beginning. "Ready? Set.... Go!" She literally bolts off, becoming a rainbow colored blur. She finishes in eighteen seconds. She trots up to me while breathing heavily.

"Eighteen seconds, no penalties."

"Aw yeah! I won." Before Aj can say it, I do.

"There are still more trials, Skittles, don't get your hopes up. For all we know, it could end up as a tie."

"Next event How Can Buck the Hardest!" By now a small crowd of ponies has formed. Skittles is the first to go, when she bucked the target, it didn't even look like she tried, but still hit the bell either way. So i'll let that one slide.

"Try and do better than THAT!" Aj remains cool as a cucumber. Without even saying anything, she trots up the... whatever you call that thing where you try to make the red thing hot the bell. When she bucks, holy shit. She fucking broke the target, and that red thing was sent flying into the air. Breaking the top of the game. Leaving the crowd cheering and Skittles in awe.

"Years of applebucking." She really just did that like a badass? Hah! As if anything can do better than me. And I think we all know what happens from this point. So i'll skip to a montage of them doing each event leading to a tie in the end. Once the events ended. Aj speaks.

"Yah wouldn't of won if you didn't use your wings tah cheat!"

"I cheated. Sounds to me like a sour apple." They both look to me for confirmation of both their sides.

"She's right Rainbow. It was implied that you can't use your wings."

“NOT cool.” I shake my head.

“What’s not cool is cheating and lying, and I value honesty more than you would expect. And if you were the element of loyalty, you wouldn’t be cheating in the first, but I guess not. Just shows how much you care about those close to you. For that, you are dis-” She interrupts me.

“WAIT! Wait… You’re, you’re right” Ok, didn’t expect for her to respond with that, or at all. “And i’m sorry.”

*...* I stand there for who knows how long, her last sentence kinda left me speechless. I expected that to happen later. WAY later.

“Ah accept yer apology Rainbow.” They spit into their respective hooves and hoofbump. Guess that they’re not the huggy type with each other.

--------->>>>Whatever fucking time it took for the race to start<<<<---------

“You girls ready to lose against me?”

“Come again?”

“YOU joined!?” Yeah, I did, but I turned to pony form for this. As if it would give them a chance.

“Yeah, why not?” I must be getting really good at pissing Skittles off. Because she was almost fuming. “Calm down Skittles, i’m running with Twi.” Aj and Skittles go bulgy eyed.

"WHAT!?" They yell in unison. It's funny when that happens. I think Twi may have heard them, because she's trotting over to us.

"It's true, i'm running with the group."

"But, WHY!?"

"For the scenery." Me and Twi say at the same time. We look at each other with a smile.

"Finally, another living being that loves nature as much as me. And to see such natural beauty."

"Thank you." She blushes, but it goes away when I she realizes what I said. "Wait, does that mean you have never seen anything like Whitetail Woods?" I nod.

"Most of my world is like Manhattan. I never had the chance to see what little we had left." Aj, Skittles and Twi gasp.

"Really?" I nod.

"Fillies and Gentlecolts!" It's Mayor Mare. We all lined up as she cantered to the podium. "Ready!? Get set! GO!" And we run off, with me and Twi walking along, and the two competitors in the immediate lead.

"Now that those two, and anypony else who might hear, are away. You want to know what happens?" She nods.

"Sure!" I smirk.

"Aj and Rainbow are end up dead last."

"Realy!?"

"Mmmhmmm. Now, lets enjoy the scenery."

"Agreed." And we then walk down the trail, in a little of a fast pace.

"How did we end up dead last!?" Wow, they really need stop being narrow minded.

"Wow, you two are really narrow minded. You two were so concentrated on messing each other up that you lost track of time, literally. Why do you think that is?" Twi giggles. It was a throaty little laugh that you hardly hear.

"Was it because I was trying too hard to win?" We all give her a glare.

"No, not that Rainbow. What it was supposed to mean is that we shouldn't let silly little disputes like that."

"Thank you Aj, Rainbow. You really need to get in tough with your touchy side." We all laugh at Skittle's flaw, except for her. And thus, another day went by and another lesson about friendship learned.