Unmarked

Apple Bloom was escorted back to her dark and gloomy room, lighted only by the small amount of sunlight that could seep through the small window high within the room. The reason the windows were so high in the rooms were to prevent any sort of escape from being possible. She just sat, staring at the window along the edge of her bed, seeing that was the only sunlight she'd ever see for the rest of her life.

There was a light switch in her room, but Apple Bloom preferred to remain in the dark, seeing the light only made her feel angry, usually leading to a reckless act on her part. She had already smashed the mirror, and there was indentations in the wall in a corner she liked to sit in from her banging her head and hooves against the wall. Streams of blood were also visible from the idented areas, and she even had a scar on her head from the impact she had caused herself.

She only hurt herself as a punishment for all that she had done. Her life used to be full of joy and happiness, despite the times when Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon mocked her for being a "blank flank." She grew angry at the thought of those two, but once she remembered what she had done to them, along with Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle's help, her angry tone changed to a much more sinister one. She let out a sinister laugh, along with a smile that glew in the pitch-black darkness.

"They deserved it," she said in a low sinister tone. "They taunted us. They made us feel different. Now, they are equal to us. IT'S FAIR NOW!"

She continued to laugh, as her mood changed again. Her laugh fell to a cry, as tears streamed from her eye sockets, and she fell to the floor. She sat on the floor, supported by only her knees and sobbed uncontrollably, repeating the words what have I become over and over. She pounded her hooves against the hard concrete floor, her own guilt consuming her. Through her struggle, she started to hear the voices of Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon echo in the darkness.

The voices were not of Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon taunting her, but only of them pleading for mercy when the CMC finally decided to perform the unthinkable to the two. The night that the CMC performed their first "unmarking," when everything would change for the CMC. Apple Bloom's mind started to remember that day, and what had finally made the CMC snap.

Flashback #1: The Spark

The day was like any other, as the recess bell rang, and every filly and colt rushed out of the school onto the schoolyard. The CMC were the last out, seeing they had to gather some things for recess. The three had been planning on an easier way to determine how to get their cutie marks, seeing they were doing repeats on how to get their cutie marks. They rushed out of the school, and sat at an empty table, where Sweetie Belle unscrolled the scroll they planned on using as a guide. All three took a seat next to each other, while creating a chart outline. Everything was going fine, until the CMC's biggest rivals decided to intervene.

"What are you blank flanks up to?! Planning how to fail at getting your cutie marks?!" said Diamond Tiara in a sarcastic tone.

The CMC had become used to Diamond Tiara's constant insults, and usually ignored her.

"I asked you three a question!" snapped Diamond Tiara, getting annoyed.

"We don't have time for your insults, Diamond Tiara," stated Scootaloo. "Why don't you and Silver Spoon get lost, we're actually doing something with our lives."

Diamond Tiara retracted, feeling offended by Scootaloo's statement.

"What right do you blank flanks have to tell somepony like me with an actual cutie mark to "get lost?!" she asked, growing angry.

Scootaloo had grown tired of Diamond Tiara's attempts to get them angry, seeing that's what she wanted.

"Hey! We asked nicely!" snapped Scootaloo. "Now, would you and your lap dog please leave us alone!"

Diamond Tiara had grown angry, along with Silver Spoon, and they immediately invaded their personal space.

"Fine. If you blank flanks won't answer us, why don't we just see for ourselves," said Diamond Tiara, looking at the graph that the CMC had been working on for weeks.

"Hey! This is classified Cutie Mark Crusader information only!" snapped Apple Bloom.

"Seriously?! This looks like a load of garbage, so allow me to dispose of it," said Diamond Tiara as both her and Silver Spoon grabbed the large graph and ripped it in two. This immediately caused the CMC to become infuriated.

"What did you do that for!?" snapped Sweetie Belle.

"Yeah! We didn't do anything to you!" added Apple Bloom.

Diamond Tiara just laughed.

"We were simply saving you the trouble of failing once again at getting your cutie marks!" said Silver Spoon.

"What do you know about us gettin' our cutie marks!?" questioned Apple Bloom.

"Diamond Tiara and I both know that you blank flanks will never get your cutie marks for anything, because you are best at failing," she replied coldly, followed by a sarcastic laugh.

Scootaloo had grown tired of Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's careless acts.

"Why I otta!" she yelled, approaching Silver Spoon.

Before she could make any sort of impact, Scootaloo was pulled back by Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom.

"Let me go!" commanded Scootaloo.

"It's not worth it," persuaded Sweetie Belle.

Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon just continued laughing, causing Apple Bloom to become more angry, seeing all the hard work they had endured for the past weeks was destroyed, all over them being blank flanks, which was completely unnecessary. She continued to hold Scootaloo back from the two ignorant fillies, hearing the recess bell ring.

"Later, blank flanks," said Diamond Tiara in an ignorant tone, infuriating the CMC.

Once Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were out of sight, Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle released Scootaloo. She was still angry, but Apple Bloom had a plan that would ease Scootaloo's anger, and make things even.

"Girls, meet me at the clubhouse after school," said Apple Bloom in an unlikely tone. "It's time to even things out with those two once and for all."

And so it begun.

Apple Bloom returned to reality, snapping out her state of insanity. The sounds of Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's pleas and screams faded away, as she carefully settled herself back onto the cold bed, staring into the darkness. She didn't feel any emotion, and as a way to keep herself stable, she started counting until she would be called out for lunch.

The sound of her counting created an eerie feeling within the dark, cold room. She seemed like a drone within a sleep mode, only her eyes were wide open, not blinking once in the entire series of counting. It was strange that the only time she didn't have nightmares, was when she'd enter a sleep through counting, and her eyes were wide open, as if she were daydreaming. Was that the case? Nopony knew.