It was a couple of days after the whole situation with Tender Taps at the Cutie Mark Crusader clubhouse. Everything was more or less back to the way it was before that incident. Suddenly there was a knock at the door.

"Wonder who that is?" Apple Bloom asked, heading for the door. She opened it and saw Diamond Tiara there with Silver Spoon. "Diamond Tiara? It's been a bit. Thought you were avoiding us completely for some reason." Apple Bloom stated.

"Actually I was just making things up with Silver Spoon. Is it...okay if we come in?" Diamond Tiara asked.

"Sure thing. Not sure why your here." Apple Bloom said before letting the duo in.

"Diamond Tiara mentioned you guys had some drawings of the things you did to get your cutie marks before you three helped her." Silver Spoon said.

"Yeah...what happened to those?" Diamond Tiara asked.

"Oh, we put those in storage once we got back here with our cutie marks." Sweetie Belle said. "Does Silver Spoon want to see them or something?" She asked.

"If it's okay..." Silver Spoon asked. Sweetie Belle handed Silver Spoon a box.

"Help yourself." Sweetie Belle said opening the box for her. Diamond Tiara smiled. But then she looked nervous about something.

"Something up Diamond?" Scootaloo asked.

"It's just that...while I was making up with Silver Spoon, I did some thinking. And I know I had my cutie mark when you three started this but...with my background, I was wondering if it wouldn't be too much trouble to ask you three about something." Diamond Tiara said. The three crusaders looked at Silver Spoon.

"Don't look at me. I didn't say anything to her until after we made up." Silver Spoon said. "Thanks for allowing that to happen, by the way." She said.

"I was just wondering if it's okay with you three if...maybe perhaps..." Diamond Tiara said. "Shoot, I'm no good at this sort of thing, you three know this. I was just thinking...OH TO TARTAROUS WITH THIS!" Diamond Tiara said before suddenly grabbing Apple Bloom's legs. "OH PLEASE LET ME AND SILVER SPOON HELP OUT WITH HELPING OTHERS WITH CUTIE MARK PROBLEMS AND LET US BOTH HANG OUT WITH YOU THREE!" Diamond Tiara practically begged.

"You don't have to beg..." Scootaloo said. Diamond Tiara had a sheepish smile on her face.

"Sorry...I'm still trying to be better then I was." Diamond Tiara said.

"Well while you and Silver Spoon hang out with us and help us help others with their cutie mark related problems, we can help you out with the whole trying to be better thing." Sweetie Belle said.

"You'd...do that for me?" Diamond Tiara asked.

"Why wouldn't we? We're all friends now right?" Apple Bloom asked.

"You girls..." Diamond Tiara said before suddenly hugging the three crusaders. "Thank you...thank you so much. I really don't deserve this, not after everything I did to you three. But I'm glad you want to be friends even after all that." Diamond Tiara said.

"Never thought I'd see this side of Diamond Tiara again. Thank you three for that I guess. I suppose I might as well be your friend too." Silver Spoon said.

"C'mon Silver Spoon, it'll be fun." Diamond Tiara said. "I'm actually feeling excited about this. I can't wait to see what we do first." Diamond Tiara said.

"Well right now, we don't really have anyone to help. We should probably go out and do things while we wait." Scootaloo said.

"Hey, speaking of doing things, now that we're all friends, we should probably do things together. I know you three recently tried doing some things by yourselves but...me and Silver Spoon are still new at this. And speaking of...we should probably get something like a phone in here or something. Maybe you should ask Applejack about that Apple Bloom. That way you don't always have to be out of the clubhouse." Diamond Tiara said.

"...Now why didn't any of us think of that before?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"We were probably too worried over the way we were trying to go about helping other ponies..." Apple Bloom admitted.

"Well no need to worry about that. That thing with Tender Taps can be considered a dry run. But with my background, I think we can organize things a little better. I think it'll help." Diamond Tiara said.

"We could use some organization around here. Your the best Diamond Tiara." Scootaloo said.

"No need to thank me. Consider it a part of me doing my part." Diamond Tiara said.

"I don't think I've seen Diamond Tiara act like this before. It's actually refreshing." Silver Spoon said.

"Well I've never felt better then I do right now. Screw what my mother thinks, I'm going to hang out with the CMC." Diamond Tiara said.

"CMC?" Silver Spoon blinked.

"It Stands for 'Cute Mark Crusaders' obviously." Diamond Tiara said. "Now, lets get things organized around here." Diamond said and soon she and the three crusaders were organizing things. Silver Spoon couldn't help but smile.

"I haven't seen her this active since me and her got our cutie marks. Maybe this'll be a good thing after all." Silver Spoon said and soon joined the others.

It was nearing nightime by the time everything was done.

"Talk about hard work." Scootaloo said.

"It'll be worth it first thing tomorrow though. Just you wait." Diamond Tiara said.

"I agree. We did this for a reason." Sweetie Belle said.

"It's too bad we didn't really get to do any fun things." Silver Spoon said.

"This had to be done in order to make for a better clubhouse." Apple Bloom said. "But the best part about it is, we did it together." She said.

"I couldn't have said that better myself." Diamond Tiara said.

"We don't really have time to fully initate you two, but welcome to the Cutie Mark Crusaders Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon." Sweetie Belle said.

"Hopefully with the five of us together, we can really do some work." Scootaloo said.

"I have the same hope." Diamond Tiara said.

"We best get going now. Take care you three. See you soon." Silver Spoon said.

"Do you think Diamond Tiara is going to have trouble hanging out with us?" Sweetie Belle asked. Apple Bloom looked towards Silver Spoon.

"No. I don't think she will from here on out." Apple Bloom said with a smile.

Author's Note

This chapter takes place in the background of "Gauntlet of Fire". Also, I felt really bad that the show's writers completely canned Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon after the CMC got their cutie mark, so I took this story as the opportunity to give the former bullies some actual screen time.