Cutie Mark Cru-Saviours

It seemed like only yesterday when Rainbow and the other elements destroyed Tirek. I wasn't there, to be honest, I don't remember much of the whole ordeal. All I really remember is a strange horse-bull thing charging into Ponyville. But that's not the point. I bet Rainbow was so AWESOME when she became rainbowfied. Can you IMAGINE  a RAINBOWFIED Rainbow? I can...

We were in our Tree House. It was a beautiful Summer morning, and we were going to spend the whole day Crusading... This time hopefully actually gaining our Cutie Marks.. Due to the fact it was Summer, we had a special guest round to stay: Babs.. As a treat, she was staying the whole six weeks. When we found out, it was so amazing! We spent the first couple of days catching up and what-not. Today was her fourth day here.

On the list for today was: Apple-Bucking, Weather Controlling, Dress making, Animal Caring, Party Planning and... Whatever it is Twilight does. We decided on these since we've never figured we could have the same talents as the six Elements of Harmony.

We made our way to Sweet Apple Acres, where we found Apple Jack. "Howdy Y'all, what y'all doin' fer crusadin' t'day?" Apple Jack asked as we tried to creep past her.

"Huh... Oh! Erm, just you Apple Jack, well we're doin' cutie mark... A...a... ADVENTURIN'! Yeah, cutie mark adventurin'..." Apple Bloom smiled.

She signalled us to run. Apple Bloom slowly backed away, turned and ran, closely followed by us. We ran through parts of the Acres, almost getting lost in this world of fruity trees. Suddenly Apple Bloom stopped. Not expecting this, we all crashed into her.

"You'd be a get a great cutie-mark for being the best liar ever," I said sarcastically

"Nu-uh, she'd make a better Cutie-Mark Crusader: getting us lost in woods," Sweetie replied.

"Would not,"

"Would too,"

"Would not,"

"Would too,"

Babs and Apple Bloom stared at the strange argument Sweetie and I were having.

"Would not,"

"Would to-"

"GIRLS!" Apple Bloom shouted, "I'VE TOLD Y'ALL BEFORE, YER NOT GETTIN' YER CUTIE MARKS FER LYIN'!"

Sweetie and I stopped. We looked down and blushed.

"We're sorry," we said in unison.

Babs was the first to try harvesting apples.  She reached her legs up and kicked, narrowly missing the tree. She tried to keep her balance, but failed, falling into Apple Bloom and knocking her over. She scowled, but didn't say anything. Next it was my turn. I tried kicking the tree, but I did it a bit too gently. The tree only bent backwards, so I stopped pushing it. The tree sprung back, sending me flying, actually flying. That was until I crashed into a tree. I rebounded onto the floor and then stood. As I turned to face the others, five apples fell from the tree, all landing on my head. The others rushed over

"That's a mighty interestin' method y'all get there," Apple Bloom laughed. I glared at her then turned away.

The rest of the crusading didn't go too well either. The weather controlling caused an electric spark to hit Babs and for the rest of the day, she would have random electric shocks. In the dress making, we accidentally set fire to the boutique, causing Rarity to go into one of her meltdowns. How were we to know that dresses were highly flammable? By taking care of the animals, we accidentally bumped into an Ursa minor, that didn't seem to happy to see us. At least the party went well, until they found out the secret ingredient in our cupcakes... Which was worms. It was Babs' idea.

We entered the library, Twilight wasn't home. This was our last bit of crusading for the day. We didn't exactly know what it was she did, so we asked Spike, who was sleeping.

"Oh Rarity, I love you too... Oh you naughty girl.." He muttered in his sleep. We gave each other concerned looks then backed out of the room. We walked up to Twilights desk and saw a blank scroll.

"I know what she's good at: sending letters to the Princess. Why don't we do that?" Sweetie asked.

"Or," said Babs, "We can be Cutie Mark Crusaders: Prankers..."

We looked at each other, should we?  Apple Bloom grabbed a quill and we began writing:

"Deer prenciss celestiya,

I liyke yoor but; ile bee seeing yoo sooon, yoor faythal styudent,

Twilyte Sprkle"

We giggled and rolled the parchment up, then I held it in front of Spike's face while the others got something loud. They found a cymbal and crashed it together as loud as they could. I ran before they crashed it, they dropped the cymbals and hid next to me. Spike woke with a start, sending a fire in front of him, sending the letter. We hoof-bumped and ran away giggling.

At the tree house we were still laughing. There was a knock and we suddenly stopped.

"Only Cutie Mark Crusaders allowed!" Babs shouted.

"It's important," Came a deep toned reply.

"Big Mac, is that you?"

"Eeyup,"

What's wrong? Come in, come in,"

We opened the door and he entered. The house wasn't built for almost fully grown stallions, so he had to crouch. He sat down and took a deep breath.

"The Elements are gone, we've already put up a search party, I just wanted to warn you that you might not see them for a while, just in case,"

We stood there, unable to take it in.

"The elements... As in RAINBOW DASH? And the others... Are they ok? Will we find them? Are you part of the search party?" I said.

"Eeyup, Eeyup, Eeyup, Eeyup, nnope,"

"THEN JOIN IT," I shouted, "WE NEED TO FIND RAINBOW DASH... and the others,"

"Oooh," Babs said, "CUTIE-MARK CRUSADERS RESCUING ELEMENTS!"

With that we ran our of the treehouse and into Everfree forest.