Cutie mark crisis

Chapter 1: Realization
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After few days Fluttershy meets Applejack selling apple pies at the Sugarcube corner.
‘’Are the pies selling well?’’
‘’Yup. I tried a new recipe.’’
‘’That’s nice. How much does it cost?’’
‘’I can give you a slice to taste.’’
‘’Thanks!’’
‘’So, how does it taste?’’
‘’Amazing! This is the best recipe you’ve done so far!’’
‘’Thank you kindly!’’
‘’By the way… Have you seen Rainbow Dash?’’
‘’No, not since the last time. I think we should try to visit her and ask about what is going on.’’
‘’That is a great idea!’
‘’Should we ask if the others would want to come?’’
‘’I think it is best that just the two of us go, maybe she won’t be so nervous.’’
‘’Okay, meet me at the farm at five?’’
‘’Okay.’’

Fluttershy and Applejack meet at the farm. Applejack borrowed Pinkie’s hot air balloon that they can get to Cloudsdale and Fluttershy got some powder from Zacora that Applejack can walk on clouds.
‘’Ready to go?’’ Applejack says excited.
‘’Ready.’’
The two ponies fly their way to Cloudsdale and walk to Rainbow Dash’s place. Applejack knocks on the door.
‘’How is there?’’ Comes a voice from inside.
‘’It’s me and Fluttershy. Can we come in?’’
‘’Sure.’’
They open the door and everything seems to be normal.
‘’So, what are you doing in Cloudsdale?’’
‘’We came to ask about the scene at the beach.’’ Fluttershy says and looks at the blue Pegasis who seems to be searching something.
‘’Oh. Well that was just nothing.’’
‘’I know something is wrong and you are trying to hide it from us.’’ Applejack says with a serious tone in her voice.
‘’We are your friends, you can tell us.’’
‘’Promise you won’t start to laugh?’’
‘’Why would we?’’
‘’Because…’’
Rainbow Dash turns sideways and Applejack and Fluttershy are shocked.
‘’Where is your cutie mark?!’’ Says Fluttershy and seems to start panicing a little bit.
‘’I’ve never had a one… I have tricked you all my life about my cutie mark.’’ Rainbow says and sounds pretty sad.
‘’That is not true!’’ Applejack says.
‘’I know you have real cutie mark. I’ve seen it and felt it!’’
‘’Sorry Applejack…’’
‘’Come on Fluttershy, Let’s go see Twilight.’’ Applejack orders.
‘’Hey! Can come with you? I got to borrow the new Daring Do from Twilight.
‘’Sure.’’

When they arrive at Twilight’s house, They see Pinkie reading a recipe book and Rarity and Twilight reading. Rainbow Dash runs inside the tree and seems to be really excited.
‘’Hey Twilight!’’ Says Rainbow Dash and scares Twilight a bit.
‘’Gosh! You scared me. What are you all doing here?’’
‘’I came to see if you would have the newest Daring Do book.’’
‘’Of course I have it. Wait a sec. Here.’’
‘’Thanks Twilight.’’ says Rainbow and goes immediately read it to the closest desk.
‘’What are you two doing here?’’
‘’We have a problem.’’
Applejack and Fluttershy explain everything to Twilight and she seems quite confused.
‘’Can you try to use the memory spell on her, maybe she’ll then remember what really happened?’’ Fluttershy suggests.
‘’I can, but I am not sure if it works.’’
‘’Give it try.’’
‘’Okay.’’
Twilight walks behind Rainbow Dash and says:
‘’Hey Rainbow. Look what I have here.’’
Rainbow Dash turns around and sees Twilight with her horn sparkling and suddenly everything goes black.

‘’Wha.. What happened? How am I here?’’ Rainbow Dash starts asking in shock.
Twilight, Applejack and Fluttershy explain everything to Rainbow Dash and she seems like she still does not understand it all.
‘’What is the last thing you remember?’’ Twilight starts asking.
‘’I remember a mare who came to sell me apples.’’
‘’Yes. and?’’
‘’She said that they have some special ingredient in them.’’
‘’Good. And what happened then?’’
‘’I remember that I bit one of the apples and then she started mumbling some weird words and my..’’ Rainbow Dash stops suddenly.
‘’Then what?’’
‘’My cutie mark! It rolled off my flank like as it would have been a sticker or something! Then my cutie mark flew into her backpack and then she ran away.’’
‘’Did you see anything anymore before everything went black?’’
‘’Hold on..’’ Says Rainbow and starts to rub her head.
Everypony is waiting impatient.
‘’I remember one thing… She dropped one bag accidentally but she didn’t pick it up! It might at my house!’’
‘’Let’s go find out.’’ Says Pinkie Pie and runs to get her balloon.

When they arrive at Rainbow Dash’s house, everypony start running inside.
‘’Here it is!’’ Says Rainbow Dash joyfully.
‘’Nice job. What should we do with it?’’ Asks Fluttershy and tilts her head.
‘’We should show it to Zecora and see if she know anything about it.’’
‘’Great idea sugarcube. Let’s get moving.’’ Applejack says and is already running towards the balloon.

They are at the edge of the Everfree Forest when Pinkie says that it would be safer to go on walking, because it is not easy to land in the middle of the forest. They start walking towards Zecora’s house.
‘’Oh. I forgot to tell you all one thing.’’ Says Applejack suddenly.
‘’And what is that thing?’’ Rarity says like she couldn’t take any more surprises.
‘’I found this yesterday from the lighthouse.’’
Applejack starts to search something from her backpack.
‘’This!’’
She is holding a sticker between her teeth’s. It looks exactly same as Rainbows cutie mark.
‘’I think this is what she was hiding from us when she said that she doesn’t want to go to water.’’
‘’Did I have a sticker on my flank so you wouldn’t notice?’’ Rainbow says and scratches her head.
‘’Apparently yes.’’
‘’Oh gosh.’’

Finally they can see Zecora’s house and run to knock the door. Zecora opens the door and the pony friends all rush inside.
‘’What are you pony folk doing here?’’ Zecora say confused.
‘’We need your immediate help!’’ Twilight says and hands the bag with some kind of powder in it.
‘’What is this?’’
‘’Let me see.’’ says Zecora and takes the powder.
‘’Oh my.. Has someone of you eaten this?
‘’Some mare gave me apple’s which had that in them and now I don’t have my cutie mark anymore and first I was in some sort of state where I thought that I never had a cutie mark but then Twilight used her memory spell on me and then I remembered everything! Well.. almost everything.’’ Rainbow Dash explains.
‘’This powder is called the cutie catcher. It works like this: Someone gives it to a pony with a cutie mark. Then the pony who gave the powder gets the eaters cutie mark in a storage cache what can be made out of dragon scales and phoenix feathers. Then the pony who ate it will lose her memories of having a cutie mark and remember only that she or he is trying to avoid getting seen without cutie mark.’’
‘’Is there any way then how I could get my cutie mark back?’’ Says Rainbow Dash and starts to look angered.
‘’Yes. You must find the storage cache which has your cutie mark inside. The cache must be with the owner whole time.’’
‘’So, where should we start searching?’’ Twilight asks and is starting to leave the house.
‘’Wait! I know that only one pony, actually a zebra, can make this powder.’’ Zecora says quickly before they leave.
‘’Do you know where she lives?’’ Rarity asks.
‘’I don’t know exactly but I know that she wanders around eastern Everfree Forest.’’
‘Oh no.’’ Rarity says terrified.