Start of Winter Break 5:33 Sweet Apple Acres

It was a terrible day for Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. They had just revealed themselves as Anon a miss and received detention for the rest of the school year. They knew they deserved it. But as they all sat together at Applebloom's (seeing as their clubhouse had been snowed in) they just couldn't help but hate themselves.

"Girls," Applebloom sighed.

"What?" Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo asked.

"We've done some pretty stupid things before." Applebloom said, "But this is bad for us."

"Why didn't we just stop when we reached our goal?" Scootaloo said.

"Because we're terrible people who got carried away in our work." Sweetie Belle cried.

"I just want to kill myself." Applebloom cried.

"Me too." Sweetie Belle whined

"Me three." Scootaloo choked out.

"M-m-maybe we should." Applebloom whimpered, "Everybody at school hates us now and we deserve to be dead."

Applebloom started to cry, then Sweetie Belle joined her, after a minute Scootaloo did so as well.

"What's going on in here?" Applejack asked walking into the room with Big Mac.

"We feel bad." Scootaloo cried.

"And you should." Applejack said.

"Yup!" Big Mac said.

"We want to kill ourselves." Applebloom whined.

"Girls," Applejack said, "I know what you did was wrong but I don't want you girls to kill yourselves over it. It's in the past now."

"Yup!" Big Mac Said.

"You," Sweetie Belle said.

"I what?" Applejack asked concerned. But Sweetie Belle couldn't finish her sentence, all she could do was cry.

"Just leave us alone!" Applebloom demanded.

Applejack and Big Mac Walked out of the room as the three cried until they were sure they had no more tears in them.

"We," Scootaloo sobbed, "We can't- live- like- this anymore."

"Well Girls," Sweetie said, "It's clear what we have to do."

The Three girls were walking out of the barn to the outside where it was freezing. One with a knife, one with a rope and one with... well, nothing. They walked a long way until they came up to their supposed death spot on a cliff outside of Canterlot. Preparing for their deaths, Applebloom pulled out the knife that she took from her kitchen as she debated if this was really what she wanted to do. She couldn't live with herself any longer. Her friends who all had different ways of taking their lives couldn't live with it either.

Sweetie Belle took her rope tied one end around her neck and tied the other end to the base of a tree about to jump off that cliff.

Scootaloo started to undress. She took off her jacket and her body temperature dropped rapidly. She removed her boots and socks and stood freezing in the snow, she then removed her sweatshirt, then her pants, then her other shirt, and lastly her bra and panties were removed making her now completely naked, this way she would literally freeze to death as soon as possible. When she was done she threw her clothes off the cliff and dropped herself into the snow. Burying herself in the snow so only her hands and arms were visible. She waited for the cold to kill her completely.

Applebloom was next, with the knife in her right hand, she removed her jacket and traced the knife over her blood veins she pressed it down on her arm. Then she cut herself completely across her wrist and opened the wound so it would draw even more blood and finally, Pulling up her shirt and shivering from the cold winds she put it on her chest in an attempt to bring it across her heart and end her life, she was about to break into mournful sobs, just as a hand grabbed the one holding the knife.

"That's enough of that, Sugarcube." A very distressed Applejack said. But her sister didn't bother to look up to see her standing there.

"Go away." Applebloom cried, "I can't live on this earth anymore. I just want to die!"

"Sweetie Belle please stop. Don't do it!" Rarity cried holding on to her sister.

"No, let me go! Please just let me go." Sweetie Belle sobbed fighting the embrace.

"Don't do it!" Rarity cried once more.

"Again with that?" Applejack asked.

"I don't know what else to say." Rarity cried.

Rainbow Dash and Sunset were there as well. They both looked horrified at what they were witnessing. Rainbow looked down and saw Scootaloo's arm. She unburied Scootaloo and took note that she was naked and cold.

"Scootaloo!" Rainbow Dash screamed slapping her hands on her cheeks.

"Scootaloo, Scootaloo can you hear me?" Sunset cried trying to pick her up, "Say something!"

Scootaloo mumbled, "Leave us alone and let us die."

"Sis, it's okay," Applejack said, "I'm not mad at you there's no need to cry."

"I'm crying because I'm in extreme pain right now you stupid bitch."

Applejack ignored that remark saying, "Come on let's get you three home."

The crusaders had just been taken to Sunset's place. Scootaloo was wrapped in a robe borrowed from Sunset's room and Applebloom was getting her cuts cleaned by Applejack, flinching at the stings.

"How could you do this to yourselves?" Rarity cried. "For the love of insanity, we were so worried."

"Why should you care?" Asked Sweetie Belle bitterly.

"Don't say that." Applejack cried. "You gave us quite the scare when you pulled that stunt."

"We deserve to be dead." Said Applebloom, "You should be happy that we would have been gone."

"Don't say that, Don't you dare say that." Rainbow Dash yelled.

"Look," Sunset said, "I know what you did to me was wrong and now everybody is mad at you. But there's no reason to kill yourselves.

"We were all wrong to do what we did to Sunset as well darlings." Rarity cried.

"We HATE what we did." Applejack cried, "But we couldn't make it right by killing ourselves."

"We started it!" Scootaloo said, "We caused the worst chaos in school history. I'll say it again, WE DESERVE TO BE DEAD!"

"Okay, that's enough!" Rarity shouted.

"Why did you come back for us?" Scootaloo asked.

"All we do is cause trouble!" Applebloom said

"And we never learn from our mistakes." Sweetie Belle sighed, "You should hate us."

"Sweetie Belle," Rarity said, "Look at me."

Sweetie Belle looked.

"Don't you ever say that again!" Rarity scolded, hugging Sweetie Belle as tears started to form.

"We do NOT hate you!" Sunset shouted, "We hate what you did, that's a huge difference! We could never hate you, EVER and by the way I've been exactly where you were I know you three can get through this it just takes time and self confidence!"

"We need help!" Sweetie Belle bawled.

Applejack, Rarity and Rainbow Dash pulled their respective sisters in for hugs. Sunset joined them.

The Crusaders didn't know what to do. It was hard for them to try to go on with their lives. As they held their sisters, they began to cry, after the damage they caused, they thought all they wanted was death. But when they had been forgiven by their sisters, it helped give them the strength, the confidence they needed to survive the life of misery and hatred they would later face. The love they had received had made things all..... Okay.

Author's Note

I'd like to thank all the people and their stories who inspired this story to come together. This includes

MontyCS- Runaway Crusaders
Final Sunlight- Almost too late
Golden Flare- Private time on the Beach