"Mom! I'm hooome." Button Mash shouted when he arrived home from school. Buttons mom, Love Tap, appeared at the doorway and smiled. "How's my little Button doing?" She asked him, relieved he didn't have any bruises or scars.

Button smiled. "Well, it's just these three fillies-" He started but was cut of by his mom who was suddenly looking worried. "Did they bully you? Steal from you?" She asked. Before Button could answer, his mom gasped. “Oh did they use magic on you? Are you brainwashed?” And she kneeled down and started sobbing while hugging her son. “Noooo! Why Button! They should’ve taken me instead!!” She continued sobbing. Button smiled. He was used to this sort of reaction from his mom, but this was the first time she wasn’t right about any of her worries.

“No mom I’m alright.” Button said.

His mom stopped sobbing, got up and looked at him. “Really? Your not joking?” She asked.

“Ya, no joke, what I wanted to tell you was I’ve been invited to the a clubhouse by the three fillies.” He replied, joyfully. Love Tap’s ears perked up. “On your first day!”

Button nodded.

“Oh Button that’s great! You haven’t had a friend sin-since Canterlot!” She said proudly.

"Mom, they're not my friends yet."

Love Tap glared suspiciously at her son. "But your going to try to make friends with them, right?"

"Suuuuure." Button replied. "So does this mean I can go?" He asked his mother, happily. Love Tap smiled. "Of course you can go! Be back by five."

"Yaaaaaaaaaaaay." Button cheered and stopped. "Bye." He said and galloped away.

Love Tap closed the door. They grow up so fast she thought as she started into the living room when she heard a crash. "What the HAY!" She screamed. She looked back at the entrance and saw Button and a Button shaped hole in the door.

"Sorry, mom, I forgot my saddlebag." Button said, still joyful, and he galloped away again.

Love Tap smiled curiously. Maybe this is why the old home owner wanted me to buy an extra door she thought as she started into the living room. I wonder how she knew the door was going to break.

Meanwhile

"I'm back!" Said Button when he reached the tree that the Crusaders were waiting for him at. Scootaloo sat up. "She said yes, right?" Scootaloo asked Button, who nodded in reply.

"Good." Apple Bloom said. "Let's go then!" And the Crusaders started running but not Button, who was staring at something
with a look of horror on his face. Sweetie Belle noticed this and asked. "What's wrong, Button?"

Button shook his head. "Huh?" He said. Apple Bloom looked at him. "Well ya kinda blanked out for a second." She said slightly worried. "Oh. That's nothing let's just go." He said nervously.

Scootaloo looked at him suspiciously and said. "Ok then let's go!" She turned back and headed for the clubhouse followed by Button who probably didn't run a lot because he was pretty slow, but still fast enough to keep up with Sweetie Belle when she and Apple Bloom started running.

When the Crusaders reached their clubhouse, they realized they couldn't see Button with them. The Crusaders put their saddlebags inside the clubhouse, let Mittens out of Sweetie Belle's bag, and went back out to look for Button.

"Button where are ya!" Apple Bloom called out. No response. "Ugh! He's slow, I know, but is he really this slow?" Scootaloo asked exasperatedly.

Apple Bloom shook her head. "Ah don't think so. He was right behind Sweets the whole time" Apple Bloom said and then looked questionably at Sweetie Belle. "Right?" Sweetie Belle thought hard. "Yeah." She said slowly and she continued her normal paste. "But I do remember seeing a brown flash head to Sweetapple acres in the corner of my eye." She continued. Apple Bloom stared at her, and was about to say something when Scootaloo interjected.

"That was probably a squirrel or something." Scootaloo said, waving away that thought. "Button couldn't of ran that fast." Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle thought about this. "Yeah, ah think ya'll are probably right." Apple Bloom said. Sweetie Belle nodded and Scootaloo grinned (Apple Bloom rarely said she was right).The Crusaders sat, waiting for Button to just come them. After getting tired of waiting, Sweetie Belle had an idea, which usually never happened. "Hmm, maybe I could try a teleporting spell to teleport him to us." Sweetie Belle said. Scootaloo thought about it.

I guess that is better than getting some piranhas and threaten Button Mash to hurry up. "Yeah, I guess it's the best idea we've got." Scootaloo said and looked at Apple Bloom, who shrugged. "Ah guess so, lets go back inside." they all went back inside the clubhouse.

"Ok" Sweetie Belle started when they got into the clubhouse, and Scootaloo made a place for Button to appear at. "I don't remember very well. Maybe it's uhhhh-"

Knock Knock

The Crusaders looked at the door. "Wow! Sweetie Belle, I can't believe your uhhh spell actually worked!" Scootaloo said. Sweetie Belle beamed as Apple Bloom rolled her eyes and opened the door for-

"Aj?" Apple Bloom asked Applejack who was frowning. "What are ya do'in here?"

"Well, girls, ah found a colt in one of our apple trees." Applejack said and she dragged somepony by the tail into the clubhouse- Button Mash. He was in a hugging position as though he was still hanging from a tree. He saw the Crusaders, got up and smiled as Applejack left for Sweetapple acres. "Hi!" He said. Scootaloo ignored this greeting.

"Why the hay were you in a tree?" She asked.

Button started sweating through pressure. "Um.. I like trees." He said nervously. Scootaloo raised her eyebrows. Button was looking around for a distraction and then it hit him. He opened his saddlebag. "Video games!" He said as he raised his Joyboy into the air. His distraction worked.

Scootaloo stared at Button’s Joyboy. “What?” She asked, surprised by his sudden outburst. Button took a breathe of relief. “My Joyboy! It’s really fun!” He said, now excited. “Wanna try?”

Scootaloo was skeptical about this. She was more of an outside kind of filly, though Sweetie Belle perked up. “OOOH! I’ve never had my own! Usually I just go to the arcade!” Button smiled. “Here, you can have it! I’ve never had any friends to share with before!” Button handed his green Joyboy to Sweetie Belle, but she didn’t take it. She just stared at Button along with the other Crusaders.

“What! Ya never had a single friend! Ever?” Apple Bloom asked with a shocked expression Button frowned. “Well, I did have this one friend from Canterlot.” He said, thoughtfully. This statement barely reassured the Crusaders. “So, you mean, after all the traveling you’ve gone through, you’ve only had one friend?” Sweetie Belle asked, mimicking Apple Bloom’s shocked expression.

“Well yeah, I guess, most ponies think i’m weird and don’t wanna be my friend, so eventually, I just gave up trying.” He said, slightly less cheerful than before. Button noticed the Crusaders staring at him. “UM, do you still wanna try my video game, uhh?” He asked while he stared at Sweetie Belle. “I never really got your names, sorry.” He said apologetically.

“Oh!” Said Sweetie Belle. “My name is Sweetie Belle.”

“I’m Scootaloo.”

“And ah’m Apple Bloom.”

“We’re the Cutie Mark Crusaders!” The three of them all cheered together. Button smiled happily.

“Ok! So do you wanna try my Joyboy, Sweetie Belle.” Button Mash asked Sweetie Belle, again. "Sure, But first we have somethings for you." She said.

Scootaloo became excited. "Yeah! We wanted to thank you for the help yesterday so we got you gifts." Scootaloo said, not totally honest. They did want to thank him, but the gifts came for bribery.

"Really?" He asked.

"Yup here they are." Sweetie Belle said as she pulled out two boxes. One had air holes for Mittens.

When Button saw the presents his face was filled with glee. "Cool!"

Scootaloo smiled. "Okay, Button, take my present first." She said, handing him the photo of Rainbow Dash, who was flying through the sky. Button's face lit up. "WOW! Thanks Scoo-" He paused. "Wait, who is this?" He asked pointing his hoof at Rainbow Dash. Scootaloo gasped dramatically. "She's only the coolest Wonderbolt and big sister ever!" Scootaloo said, adoringly. Button stared at the photo for a bit longer. She does look pretty cool "Okay." Button said and he put the picture into his saddlebag.

"Anyways, here's my present, Button." Apple Bloom said handing him the box. He took out the green toy train with red wheels.

"Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!" Button screamed with delight as he put it down and pushed it. "Thanks Apple Bloom, this is a great trai-" he started but then the train burst into flames, which shocked everypony.

"Oh, um-umm okay." He stammered but then returned to his cheery tone and looked at Apple Bloom. "Eh it was fun while it lasted." which made Apple Bloom smile. She looked at a sour Scootaloo. "Hah!" She said. "Now ya have ta spend a whole day with 'im." which made Scootaloo groan. Button was befuddled.

"Uh, why does she have to spend a whole day with me?" He asked Sweetie Belle, who replied. "They made a bet." Button nodded showing he understood.

"Okay, go give him your present, Sweets." Scootaloo said to Sweetie Belle, slightly sour still, who nodded and levitated her box with her magic. "Here you go, Button." She said, putting down the box in front of him and smiled. "Go ahead and open it."

Button opened the box and held Mittens. His expression far from his usual cheery one. Sweetie Belle noticed this and said in a slightly disappointed tone. "Don't you like her?"

Button forced a smile. "Hehe. Yeah, why wouldn't I?"

"Ah d'no. Ya seem off." Apple Bloom said suspiciously followed by a nervous laugh. "Hehe. I don't know what your talking about." Button replied, nervously, and looked at Mittens.

'Meow'

And Button broke. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" He screamed as he galloped out of the clubhouse to Celestia knows where. He didn't even bring his Joyboy with him. The Crusaders were to shocked to do anything.

"Soo we're going after him, right?" Scootaloo half asked as she put on her saddle bag and shoved Button's Joyboy into it. The other two nodded and the three of them galloped after Button, leaving behind Mittens who might slow them down, which was no easy task as Button appeared to have super speed for some reason (Which worried and confused the Crusaders. I mean, he was so slow before) and they lost his trace in mere seconds.

Since the Crusaders had no idea where Button lived, they had no idea where to search for him, so they did the most reasonable thing to do- Ask Pinkie Pie.

After some running

The Crusaders arrived at Sugarcube Corner with their hearts beating as fast as Rainbow Dash flew. They opened the door and went to the cashiers area, where they found Pinkie Pie.

"Go straight to Carasoull buquet take a left from there and keep going until you see house number 16." Said the very high pitched, girly and bubbly voiced Blue eyed, pink maned and slightly lighter pink skinned mare. The Crusaders exchanged confused glances. "Um, what are the directions for?" Sweetie Belle asked. Pinkie Pie stared at her. "Well DUH! They're for you to find Button's house!" She said jokingly. Apple Bloom was only more confused.

"But how'd ya know we wanted directions to his house?" She asked. Pinkie Pie rolled her eyes. "Why else would you be here?" She asked.

Apple Bloom was about to ask another question when Scootaloo cut her of. "Come on, Bloom, lets just go, that's just Pinkie being Pinkie." Apple Bloom stared at Pinkie Pie for a little longer, turned back to Scootaloo, and then nodded and the three of them headed out to follow Pinkie's directions.

After MORE running

When the three of them arrived at house 16, they found the door had two hole in it, both suspiciously shaped like a young colt...

"Well this must be it." Said Scootaloo as she raised her hoof to ring the door bell.

After a few moments of silence

"Coming!" Said a soft and warm comforting voice of a mare. When she opened the door, the Crusaders recognized her as the mare who looked at the sky and ran of on Sunday. The mare smiled and said. "You three must be the fillies who Button was talking about earlier." She looked closer at them. "Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom, I think, right?" She asked.

"UGH! Is AJ telling everypony about us when they ask for apples?" Scootaloo asked nopony in particular. Apple Bloom ignored this. "Yeah, Mrs.Mash, we wanna check on 'im cause he ran away from our clubhouse earlier and we wanna know why." Apple Bloom said followed by a sad smile from Mrs.Mash. "Yes, i'm sure he'd like to see his friends, he's in a tough situation right now."

"Yeah, and maybe he would like his Joyboy back." Scootloo said.

"Oh my! If he ran away without his Joyboy than something really bad must of happened." Mrs.Mash muttered to herself.

The four of them walked into a nice and clean home and were lead straight to the staircase.

They walked up the stairs and were walked to a door which read:
Button Mash's room

"Button! Open up!" Mrs.Mash yelled, knocking on her son's door, roughly.

Silence

"Akkor egy hétig búcsúzzon a videojátékaitól!" Yelled Mrs.Mash in Hungarian.
(Say goodbye to your video games for a week then!)

A pause

"Soha nem kapod meg az enyémet Joyboy Button replied in a determined tone.
(You'll never get my Joyboy)

"Nekem már van." Mrs.Mash replied, smiling mischievously.
(I already have)

"Bírság!" He replied.
(Fine!)

This time with pause because Button realized right away that he forgot his Joyboy at the Crusaders clubhouse and that the Crusaders were probably with his mom too for some reason. The Crusader are here, huh! He thought to himself. All the more reasons why I shouldn't open the door but he decided he would anyways because one, he needed his Joyboy and two, he wanted know why the Crusaders were at his house.

After a few seconds of silence, the sounds of banging came, which made Mrs.Mash smile, adding to the Crusaders confusion.

"Um, Mrs.Mash, did he say yes?" Asked Sweetie Belle, puzzled.

Mrs.Mash turned to look at them again. "Yes, why?"

"Because of the banging." Replied Scootaloo which only made Mrs.Mash laugh.

"I'm sorry, girls, but the banging means he's cleaning the wall of toys and other things blocking the door."

Weird the crusaders were thinking when the door creaked open, signaling they could enter.

"Ok, girls, you may talk to him." She said and she left the Crusaders.

The Crusaders glanced at each other and marched in at the same time, which would've been cool if the weren't to big to all fit through the door way.

"AAAAAAAAAGH! We really need to learn to take turns when using the doorway." Said Scootaloo as they tried to budge themselves through the doorway. but before the others could respond, Button's head appeared out of a pile of cushions, toys and other stuff he had, wearing some dorky looking palace guard armor. Mostly dorky looking because he was waaaay to small for it.

"What are you girls here for?" He asked as he watched the girls struggle. The crusaders were ashamed of getting stuck in the doorway so many times and were grateful he didn't laugh.

"We'll tell you if you can get us out." Scootaloo said trying to free her wings.

Button got out of his pile and pulled at the girls hooves and bang! Button freed the girls and was launched backwards into his pile. "oof! Now tell me why your in my room."

"We were gonna check on ya after ya ran away from our clubhouse." Apple Bloom said as she rubbed her side (You'd think they'd have gotten used to it after getting stuck so many times).

Button looked ashamed of himself and he buried himself into the pile of stuff once more. "Nah, it's alright. You girls didn't have to check on me." His voice said, muffled because his head was fully submerged in the pile of stuff. "You girls should just leave."

Button expected the girls to leave or call his mom to him but didn't expect them to put up a fight!

"No!" Scootaloo said, determined to stay till they found out why Button was acting so weird today. Button's head popped out of the pile of stuff again, this was not what he was expecting. "We're not leaving until we get what we want!" Scootaloo continued.

Ok now this is defiantly not what I was expecting Button thought to himself. "What do you want?" He asked.

Apple Bloom stepped forward. "We want ya ta tell us why ya ran after we showed you Mittens." She said. "Yeah! And tell us why you've been acting so weird today!" Sweetie Belle followed.

Button bit his lip. "Okay, but promise you won't laugh." He said beggingly. The Crusaders exchanged glances and nodded. Button got out of his pile. "The reason I've been climbing trees and freezing is because." Button sighed, looked back at the Crusaders and started whimpering slightly.

"I'm scared of cats."

The Crusaders gapped at Button.

"Bu-but why?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"It's just their claws and teeth are so sharp." Button replied, shivering slightly at the thought of cats.

Scootaloo looked at Button in disbelief. "Yeah, but cats aren't scary, their cu-cool." Scootaloo said, catching herself just before she said cute because she knew that cute was only for girly ponies, and she wasn't one of them.

"So?" Said Apple Bloom. "Your scared of sp-" "Nothing because I'm a cool pony." Scootaloo said, trying to hide that she had a fear.

Button fell for it. "See. I'm just a looser pony who has such a silly fear and no friends." Button said as he buried himself in his pile of stuff again and waited for the Crusaders to leave, but, of course, he again underestimated the Crusaders when it came to good-byes.

"But we want to be your friend." Sweetie Belle said. Button took his head out of his pile of stuff (You'd think he'd have a million cuts by now) and stared at Sweetie Belle. "You do?" He asked

"Yeah! Of course we do." Scootaloo said. "Exspecially after the way you warded of Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon earlier today."

Apple Bloom smiled. "Yeah! And about some silly fear? It doesn't matter. Ah mean, we all have a fear." Apple Bloom said. "Ah'm afraid of cupcakes."

"And I'm afraid of the dark." Sweetie Belle said. Button smiled.

"Thanks!" Button said. "Sooooo, since we're friends now, what do you wanna do?"

"I d'no." Scootaloo replied. "Maybe we should go to Sugarcube corner." Scootaloo suggested as she rubbed her stomach. "All that running's made me hungry."

Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle and Button nodded and the three of them headed into the living room to ask Mrs.Mash if they could go to Sugarcube corner.

“Of course you can!” Mrs.Mash answered. “Yaaaaaaaaaaay!” Screamed Button with delight. The Crusaders smiled. How did they hit such a jackpot? Making friends with a pony like Button Mash will easily impress Twilight! Especially since he’s only ever had one friend outside of his family.

Button grabbed his saddlebag and put some coins into it. “Let’s go!” He said happily and he ran out of the house right through the Button shaped holes. “Wait for us!” Sweetie Belle yelled as the Crusaders started after Button.

And all together they galloped to Sugarcube corner, free from any worries. Well maybe one.

“How is he sooooo fast now!” Scootaloo asked, trying to catch up.

Author's Note

Yes, I actually translated the Hungarian from Google Translate! So go ahead and check, if you wanna.

Why'd I choose cats for Buttons fear? I don't know. It fell into my head and I couldn't change it.

I don't think the title for the chapter is really good. What do you think?