Everfree Silence

The clock ticks as the rain is heard falling onto the roof of the schoolhouse. Everypony impatiently waits in anticipation for the bell to ring and finally, it does.

"Alright class you may now be dismissed, but don't forget the group assignment and your homework are due by Friday so have a nice day!" Cheerilee announced to the classroom which was now almost empty as students flocked outside.

It was a rainy Tuesday afternoon and one by one, colts and fillies made their way home as Applebloom caught up to her friends.

The rain definitely wasn't helping anypony's mood, and Sweetie Belle was no exception.

"Aww why did it have to rain today?" Sweetie Belle complained.

"Yeah it sucks. I mean, this day was going to be perfect!" Scootaloo chimed in as she was re-visiting today's plans in her mind.

"Well at least us Earth Ponies'll be gettin' water fir our crops. And ah' think a little change a weather is nice every once in awhile." Applebloom said, trotting closer to them so she could hear their voices better over the sound of the seemingly endless precipitation.

"I guess she has a point, I just wasn't planning on getting wet today." Scootaloo said, laughing it off.

The three then walked down the road for another minute or two, discussing things like homework and possible methods to finally earn their cutie marks.

Applebloom scratched her chin in thought.

"Hmm, maybe we should try drawin' or somethin, after all an artistic cutie mark would probably look real nice."

"What about gaming? Button Mash is into it all the time so it's got to at least be fun." Sweetie Belle added on.

"Oh, well I guess gaming is more of a hobby than something to live by, even if he doesn't think so." Scootaloo said, respectfully rejecting Sweetie's idea.

"Hey maybe we should try to write adventure books to impress Rainbow Dash!" Scootaloo excitedly wondered as her face lit up. Suddenly, they started to hear hoofsteps approaching from behind.

"Of course you would be the one talking about her!" Called a familiar voice from behind them.

"Oh no what now?" Scootaloo muttered as the group turned to see Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon holding fancy umbrellas with devious looks on their faces.

"Hey Silver look, it's the blank flanks with their nasty, soaked hair! How's the rain taste losers?" Diamond asked in a mocking tone.

Silver Spoon took a glance at the three fillies sides.

"Don't ask that Diamond since they obviously have no taste OR talents!" Silver Spoon teased as both foals laughed at them.

Scootaloo looked irritated, as she knew she had every right to be. Ever since the Cutie Mark Crusaders had even formed, Diamond and Silver were always there to put them down, and she and her friends have had enough.

"Ugh don't you have anything better to do with your fancy stuff?"

"Yeah for once in your life can you please just leave us alone? We didn't ask you to follow us." Sweetie Belle pleaded.

Diamond feigned looking like she was in thought.

"Now why would we do that if you're not even gonna do anything blank flank?" She replied with power in her voice.

Much like Scootaloo, Applebloom was to say the least, very ticked off at the actions of these two. Why couldn't they just mind their own buisness? The more she thought, the madder she got as well, and she thought of what her sister Applejack would do in this situation, so she proceeded to say something she would probably regret.

"Oh really? Well how bout' you get yer' spoiled rich flanks over here and Ah'll show ya what ah can do!"

The area fell quiet for a moment. Silver Spoon looked shocked, she had never heard them stand up like that before but Diamond was not phased in the slightest as she kept the same cunning, crap-eating grin as she whispered something into Silver's ear that nopony could quite make out.

"With pleasure." She said to the crusaders as Sweetie Belle gave a shocked look to Applebloom.

"What are you doing? I appreciate you standing up but I have a bad feeling that this is gonna end up even worse. "

Applebloom tried to keep her most cool, calm, and collected face but couldn't help it when they caught a glimpse of worry in her eyes.

"Ah don't know Ah'm just tryin' to get em' to back off. I thought puttin' some assertiveness into it would scare em away but we weren't prepared for this!"

"Well it didn't work, look." Sweetie Belle pointed her hoof at a rapidly approaching Silver Spoon.

Scootaloo heroically stepped in front of them at the last minute.

"If you wanna get to her you're gonna go through me!" Once again, everypony was taken aback by this sudden action but this time, it was their purple maned classmate who stood up.

The three fillies although not completely knowing what could happen next, held their ground as Silver got right up in Scootaloo's face that happened to be right above a mud puddle. What they didn't notice though, was that Diamond Tiara had completely vanished from behind her opposition.

"Kick her tail Scootaloo!" Applebloom encouraged from her right side, Sweetie on her left. They knew it was three on two and they could surely fend off the enemies of annoyance. Or enemy in this case as Sweetie Belle realized the tiara wearing bully was nowhere to be seen so she spoke up.

"Wait where did Diamond Tiara g-"

THWAP The sound was heard by all ponies on the dirt path as something hard hit Scootaloo the back of the knee as she screamed in pain and fell face-first into the mud. By the time anypony knew what has just happened, Diamond was already skipping away laughing maniacally. Silver however, stayed right in her place.

"That dirty little- OH MY GOSH SCOOTALOO ARE YOU OKAY?" Sweetie Belle yelled in concern for her friend. Applebloom stood there dumbfounded, that could've been them if Scootaloo didn't step in the way.

"What? You wanted a fight and we gave it to you!" Silver attempted to justify their actions as she got down to the fallen foal's level.

"Aww, Look at little Rainbow Dash junior, gonna cry?" Their eyes locked, one pair filled with evil, satisfaction, and even entertainment, the other pair filled with tears, anger, pain, and slight spots of brown mud.

"BUCK OFF!" Sweetie Belle suddenly screamed with a slight voice crack but she didn't care. As long as her friend was okay and those jerks were out of their faces.

"Whatever you say Squeaky Belle!" Silver Spoon emphasized while running off to catch up with her friend. Both Sweetie Belle and Applebloom sighed, part in defeat, part in disappointment. If those two had wanted to make a statement and get in their rival's heads, they found a good way to do it.

"Are you alright? Here, get up." Applebloom gave her hoof to Scootaloo who pulled herself off the ground.

Scootaloo slowly staggered to onto her hooves and was able to cough out a response.

"Yeah, yeah, don't worry girls, I've felt worse."

"Are ya sure? Ya fell pretty hard and you'll probably need a towel." Applebloom mused while giving the pegasus member of the Cutie Mark Crusaders a suspicious look.

"Trust me I'll be fine. But one things for sure, they won't be." Scootaloo said in a serious voice, with an evil smile creeping up below her nose.

"So how are we supposed to get revenge, if we even bother to?" Applebloom asked as they all headed down the path, still soaked as they felt the rain continuing to pour. At least it had slightly gone down and was more of a drizzle now.

Sweetie Belle pondered this, and turned to give her friend a modest look.

"Call me crazy but I don't think revenge is the right move here. Personally, I feel like we should just leave them alone and not give them happiness by reacting or anything."

"Ah get that, but we've been trying that forever, since it didn't work then it probably won't now. And those times they never touched us, just made us feel bad." Applebloom mentioned.

"At this point we could just call randomly hittin' em self-defense."

"What do you think Scootaloo?"........ "Scootaloo?"

"Oh sorry about that I was spacing out. I don't think I know."

"But you're the one who had this idea in the first place!" Sweetie Belle pointed out.

"I know that but I just wanna get back at them in anyway really. I told you they were going to pay and I meant it so much that I don't even know what I'll do." Scootaloo explained.

"Well ah think them hittin' you like that just ain't right. How bout' some good ol' fashioned karma, by any means necessary? You're mah friend Scootaloo and I hate to see you get hurt so let's make em' regret it!" Applebloom proposed.

Scootaloo was shocked, even slightly intimidated. She had no idea that Applebloom was capable of such aggression, but as she thought about it the more she liked her fighting spirit as she looked at her with a more understanding expression.

"I guess you're right. Like I said, as long as it makes them regret their stunt, and makes sure they'll never act like that again, I couldn't care less."

"Girls are you sure this is a good idea? You know after whatever we do they'll just find somepony else to get on their side." Sweetie Belle told them, slightly worried.

"Oh come on Sweetie Belle you've gotta be kidding if you think they don't deserve it. And even if we do get in trouble at least we'll be even!" Scootaloo proudly stated.

"Fair point but I just don't want this to turn out bad, especially since they're rich they could take us to court or something!"
Sweetie Belle said, her friend not easing her nerves very much.

Scootaloo thought of the possible situations they could end up in for this, but failed to see anything too bad that could possibly go wrong enough to halt her plans, and her rebellious attitude didn't help either.

"I missed the part where that's my problem- if anything it's our parents who get in trouble, and they'll probably be fine once they see why we did it."

Sensing her unicorn friend's nerves but also deeply wanting to get revenge with her pegasus friend, Applebloom got back into the conversation to tell them her true opinions.

"Well Sweetie, we don't wanna make ya too stressed from this here but ah just think you worry too much sugarcube," Applebloom stated. "So Scootaloo, Ah say as long as it gets em' outta our hair, we can do just about anything to em."

Sweetie Belle was reluctant at first, they didn't even know what to do for revenge in the first place! But she quickly realized that there probably wasn't anything she could do to convince Scootaloo otherwise, it was Scootaloo after all. And as risky as it was, it would also be pretty nice and feel even better to pay those two back for all the heck they have put her and her crusader friends through without even having a good reason.

"Fine. But you two are taking the blame if this goes south." Sweetie Belle bluntly replied with a quiet sigh.

"Yeah that's the spirit Sweetie!" Scootaloo enthusiastically exclaimed, happy that her pal finally came around.

"But this still leaves one question though." Sweetie Belle pointed out.

"What's that?" Scootaloo and Applebloom asked simultaneously.

"What are we even gonna do for revenge, put some dirt in their eyes?" She questioned, coming forth with what she had been wondering this whole time.

"Because I don't think we should hit them back, that'd just start up chaos." Sweetie Belle carried on.

Applebloom stated thinking harder about the subject, was there even a way to do this innocent enough to not have violence, but effective enough to really show em' who's boss? Then at that moment, she got a perfect idea that was too good not to suggest.

"Maybe we should try like a prank or somethin? It don't have to be dangerous, just as long as they start to know better and finally back off."

Sweetie Belle pondered this idea in her head for a moment. She knew Rarity hated pranks, but as she thought about the concept of a prank, she realized that she didn't totally hate the idea. It was definitely good enough to do to Diamond and/or Silver, and they could always just say they were having fun if they were told on. And, since the scariest holiday of the year was coming up, it would simply be to good of an opportunity to pass up! The idea was "simply divine!" she thought, mocking her sister's accent.

"That could work. Nightmare Night is right around the corner too so maybe we should spook the tiara and glasses right off their heads!" Sweetie Belle mentioned her thoughts to the rest of the group.

"A prank? Sweet Celestia how did I not think of that?!" Scootaloo responded. "Rainbow Dash loves doing them and it would be an awesome way to get revenge. You two are genius! Sweetie slightly blushed at the unexpected compliment as Applebloom nodded in confirmation. Everything was proceeding as they had foreseen.

"So maybe go to a joke store or somethin like that?" Applebloom wondered, questioning what they were even planning and where to get the materials.

"Actually, I was thinking of something a little more extreme.." Scootaloo informed them with a mischievous look, obviously already knowing her own full intentions.

"Like what?"