Cutie Mark(ed) Crusaders Prompt Tag Collab

by Frost Vortex

Rating: everyone
Tags: Random, Slice of Life, Comedy, Thriller
Length: 2315

A prompt tag collab for the Cutie Mark(ed) Crusaders group.

A collection of 100-1000 word mini-fics about the Cutie Mark Crusaders based on one-word prompts!

Authors will be linked at the beginning of their respective mini-fics.

Want to join in on the collab? Click here for the rules and currently available prompt!

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2015-12-06 05:20:23 UTC

Disaster - Frost Vortex

Written by Frost Vortex

Scootaloo groaned in exasperation. "Guys... I know it's great that we have our cutie marks now, but ever since we got them, every day is just so boring!"

Apple Bloom cast a sideways glance at the pegasus. "Well, Ah sure can' say that Ah'm not agreein' with ya. It has been pretty boring, y'know."

Sweetie Belle snorted, rolling her eyes. "Yeah, and our big sisters are too busy with their own stuff to let us help them. I'm happy for Rarity now that she's got a huge order to fill, but whenever she does do so, she completely ignores me!"

Scootaloo kicked at a nearby rock, sending it flying. "Rainbow Dash says she's too busy practicing some new tricks. She won't even show me, for Celestia's sake! I'm supposed to be her number-one fan!"

"Applejack and Big Mac's been busy with the apple harvestin', too. Even Granny Smith's up and about, dancin' all over the place now that Zap Apple season is getting near."

Scootaloo suddenly stopped as an idea came to her, her eyes lighting up.

Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom halted as well, glancing at their friend curiously. They recognized that excited look on her face; it was one they were too familiar with.

"We could go to Twilight!" Scootaloo squeaked excitedly. "She's bound to have something for us to do! I mean, she's the Princess of Friendship now! We could help her with her royal duties!"

The other two Crusaders exchanged glances with each other before smiles slowly crept onto their faces.

"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS ROYAL HELPERS! YAY!"

"Oh, hi girls! What brings you here today?" Princess Twilight Sparkle asked, opening the door for the three fillies.

"We want to help you with your royal duties!" Scootaloo responded with a huge grin.

"Our big sisters are busy doing stuff, so we thought you'd have stuff for us to do!" Sweetie Belle piped in.

"We're gettin' really bored. There aren' any ponies that need our help," Apple Bloom added.

Twilight smiled. "Well then, that's great! You can help me with reshelving the books in the library!"

"Girls! When I said reshelving the books, I didn't mean this!" Twilight's eyes were wide with shock as she inspected the scene in front of them. The library was in a state of disarray even worse than it'd been before. Books were scattered all over the place, loose pages were lying around, and most importantly, the Cutie Mark Crusaders themselves were standing on top of a hastily built book tower.

"Oh, er..." Apple Bloom chuckled nervously.

"This will take even more time to clean up!" Twilight groaned, facehoofing. "SPIKE! WHERE ARE YOU?"

"Coming, Twi!" Spike's voice called back from somewhere else in the castle.

Twilight turned back to the three fillies. "Girls, I really do appreciate your, erm... dedication, but I think you should go home now. It's getting pretty late and your sisters must be worried sick about you."

"But Twilight-" Scootaloo began, only to be silenced as Sweetie Belle placed a hoof over her mouth.

"Let's just go, okay? We've caused enough trouble for Twilight already!" Sweetie Belle hissed, releasing her grip only after Scootaloo nodded.

"Alright then, Ah guess! See ya later, Twi!" Apple Bloom hurried out of the castle, followed by Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo.

Twilight sighed. "I'm really in the mood for some ice cream right now..."

Scary - Fluttercheer

Written by Fluttercheer

All of a sudden, it became dark around them. They had not seen the sun going down behind the horizon, it was just like somepony had switched off the light. Besides, it was too early to get dark anyway.

And strangely, it wasn't COMPLETELY dark. There was a weird, green glimmer around them everywhere, that managed it to light up the town a little. It looked eerie and gave them shudders.

"Girls?" Sweetie Belle squeaked in fear. "What is happening here?"

"I don't know....." Scootaloo answered. "But I have no good feeling and I don't like that."

Like to confirm her feelings, a loud siren suddenly sounded across town.

The air flickered and slowly, the ground underneath them, the buildings, the fountain, everything around them changed. Where the town looked once nice and clean, everything was dirty now, like Ponyville had been abandoned for hundreds of years.

Then the creatures came. They looked like ponies, but their heads were growing out of their chests and where their heads should have been was just a open stump that allowed to look into the inside of their throats.

The creatures were all dirty and bloody and from their throats emerged gurgling sounds. It seemed like they tried to speak, but couldn't because their heads weren't connected to their vocal chords.

And as the fillies just saw now, their heads didn't even make any movements. They didn't turn them around and there was no blinking of their eyes. Instead, the eyes were permanently closed.

But somehow, the creatures could see the three fillies anyway, which became apparent to them as they suddenly started moving into their direction.

"No! No! No!" Scootaloo expressed in fear, then she pushed her two friends who stared in complete shock and dragged them along with her, until they suddenly started to move away from the demons on their own.

The three fillies began to run. They called for Discord to help them, but the draconequus wasn't here anymore and they received no answer.

Dashing as fast as they could and dodging several of the scary creatures, they saw a big building in front of them and ran up to it.

As they had reached the door, they quickly proceeded to open it, rushed in and slammed it shut behind them. There was a bar on the door and they put it down to prevent any of the creatures from coming in.

Turning around, they saw where they were. They had entered the Ponyville Hospital, once a nice, friendly place, but now it was as dirty and scary-looking as the rest of Ponyville.

A foul stench waved through the air. "Okay and what now?" Scootaloo asked. Her voice was shaking.

"We need ta find somepony ta help us. Come, girls!" Apple Bloom said.

Together the three fillies ventured ahead into the dark building.....

Nurse - PrinceUniversa

Written by PrinceUniversa

further into the building, they discovered some of the changes were getting more profound and the smell of death lingered within their nose. Around a corner, they heard a scream of a pony echoing through the hallways, one that sounded familiar to their ears, “Nurse Redheart!”

All three bolted pass through the swinging doors trying to find the elusive mare. Her screams echoed through the hallways getting louder as they closed in on the mare. One more scream was elicited from her and it was very loud. All three reached the room where the last scream was and saw the nurse sitting completely still, “Nurse Redheart, yer okay!”

Apple Bloom stood there seeing the nurse has made no movement to acknowledge that they were there. The silence was deafening for the three of them as they looked at the nurse, their heads tilting to the right wondering why the eerie silence, “Uh, Nurse Redheart, are you okay?”

Sweetie was worried for the nurse. Every few heartbeats the three made almost felt like hours as she just stood there motionless. She wanted to investigate what was causing this but the situation they were in what with the dilapidated environment, was not making this easy for them.

Scootaloo, despite her shaking voice, was offering to check the nurse out first, “I…I can check her out if you two. I mean.. I’m not afraid of anything at… all.” Despite trying her best to be brave for her friends, her body and her voice was shaking from the fear welling up inside her as she gulped.

Apple Bloom did not want her to investigate alone. All of this reminded her too much of what happened when she ventured off alone chasing after a ghostly filly and leaving Twilight side.  She did not want that to repeat to her friends, “How ‘bout we all check out Nurse Redheart? Ah’m afraid o’ all o’ this as much as ya three are...”

Both Scootaloo and Sweetie were silent as they look upon the nurse again. The utter silence and the loneliness of the three looking upon a still Redheart was enough to make them want to run away from the sight. Sweetie broke the silence wanting to end this morbid curiosity now, “I can’t take this anymore you two, can we just check up on her and go now? This whole place is scaring me…”

Both nodded silently nodded as they moved forward to scan the nurse. At first sight, upon getting close, her body looked as normal as it should be. Her coat had no signs of damage; her cutie mark was still there, and not a mess on her mane and tail. Those only made their worries escalate seeing almost no sign of a struggle.

Seeing the backside was in the clear, they went to check out the front of the mare. Upon seeing the front side of the mare, silence claimed all three of them as they saw what made the nurse speak no more.

Fun - Fluttercheer

Written by Fluttercheer

The Crusaders came to a halt as they had brought some distance between them and the castle. Now they allowed themselves to trot again. Twilight could be very dangerous if somepony did something to her books and while in the library, they already saw that risky glimmer in her eyes. She could barely hold herself together. But now, they were far away enough.

Scootaloo sent another stone flying. "Great, now Twilight gave us something to do and that turned out as so boring that we started to play with the books instead and now she threw us out and we have nothing to do once again!"

The other two fillies just nodded sadly. "I wish we could have some fun!", Scootaloo said groaning.

"Did I hear fun?", a voice suddenly sounded out of nowhere.

In the next second, Discord appeared at their side. Usually they were happy to see him, but now not. They were just sad and so were the looks they gave him. "Oh my, why are you making those faces?" he said, pretended to be shocked.

"Because we don't have anything to do and we're bored," Sweetie Belle answered.

"Oh, bored you say? Let's say if I can't change this!"

By a quick snap with one of his fingers, their cutie marks suddenly got detached from both sides of their flanks and the six symbols floated into Discord's claws.

As they had arrived there, he started to juggle them.

"Hey! Give them back!", Apple Bloom yelled at him.

"Oh, but why would you want that?" he asked. "Didn't you say you want to have some fun?"

"Yes, but that ain't funny!" she replied.

"Yeah, Apple Bloom's right!" Scootaloo added. "Do you really think it would cheer us up to be blank flanks again, or what?!"

Discord's face became pale. "Oh. I suppose that's right."

He snapped his fingers again and their cutie marks appeared back on their flanks where they belonged. All three of them did an instinctive look on their flanks to see if everything was alright.

As they had made sure that their cutie marks were really back, on both sides of their flanks, in the right colors and not suddenly upside down, they sighed relieved.

"I had better laughs than that....." Scootaloo said and crossed her hooves, still miffed by Discord's stupid joke.

"So, where's ya fun now?" Apple Bloom asked provocatively. " Ya claim ta be able ta do something funny for us and now we wanna see if ya really can!" She smirked.

"Oh, most certainly, my dear Apple Bloom!" With these words, Discord snapped his fingers again and when the Crusaders looked around, they couldn't believe their eyes.

Crush - PrinceUniversa

Written by PrinceUniversa

The Crusaders were watching somepony, specifically Lyra, on a wheelchair getting crushed by random objects. First a flower pot crashes on their head, then an anvil, then a hay wagon, and finally being crushed by a piano. They were rubbing their eyes trying to understand what Discord was showing them. Discord hid a smirk as he asked, “Well? What do you think?”

The three rubbed their eyes again before glancing at the Chaos Spirit at first very not pleased, before covering the mouth as they snickered. After some snickering, it erupted into laughter, “Ah said fun! This is not a’ all fun! This is just crazy awesome!”

Discord laughed seeing them, “Well if you look up you’ll laugh even more seeing who dropped those.”

The Crusaders indeed only to laugh out louder seeing Derpy scratching her head, “My bad Lyra! I just don’t know what went wrong!”

Lyra’s head popped out of the junk looking at Derpy, “Oh sure like you did not know! I seriously wonder how you became a mailmare in the first place.” Derpy just shrugged with a funny smile

The three fillies slowed died down their laughter as they looked at Discord, “Thanks Discord we really needed that.”

Discord still felt a bit mischievous, “Well then, you want to see another funny trick?”

All three stood up as Sweetie answered that question, “No thanks Discord, I think we’re good for now. We’ll just take our leave.” The fillies left him as they walked home. Sweetie still could not stop snickering a bit imagining that over again, “I never thought to see something like that!”

“Yeah! I don’t think I’d be forgetting that moment ever!” They continue up the route to see something they did not expect.