Ah bucking hate newspapers.

Newspapers are like the gossip plague. It spreads everywhere, ponies don' like it, (Well, dah sane ones.) and gossip is all that is in there. Poison in reading form, my dad always said.

But ah knew, sooner or later, ah had to become a newspaper seller.

"C'mon Babs!" Wind Waker said to me in the Tardis, his home. (Don't ask where he got it.) "Selling newspapers can get you some extra bits!"

"But ah hate newspapers!" I said and proceeded to tell the exact same thing ah told you earlier to Wind.

"Fine. Be that way." He responded. "But Frost likes newspapers. And you like Frost."

"How did you know!?!" Ah yelled at him angrily.

"I know pretty much everything that goes around in Equestria. I have my sources. But, still, would you do something you're friend and/or crush did?"

Ah sighed. "Yeah. I'll do it."

"Good. Go to the Foal Free Press, which is in the basement of the schoolhouse." Wind walked out of the Tardis. "Now if you'll excuse me, I am going to see a movie with my marefriend."

* * *

The basement of the schoolhouse looked just like a big newspaper office. A white Pegasus colt was sitting in a big, brown, leather chair. He kind of freaked me out a bit.

"Welcome." He said. "I'm Featherweight. You must be Babs Seed."

"Uh, th-that's me." Ah stuttered. "How do yah know about me?"

"Apple Bloom told me about you with the float incident. And I was there to see it happen." Featherweight paused, and then said, "So, what brings you here, Babs Seed?"

"Ah was wondering if yah need somepony to sell newspapers?"

"Actually, we had somepony ask that too!" Mah heart sank when he said that.

"Who?" I asked anxiously. Then I heard the two words Ah dreaded to hear the most.

"Diamond Tiara." Silence filled the room. I was scared.

"What?" I asked rhetorically.

"Uh, Babs Seed?" Featherwheight said. "Your pupils-"

"Became big. Ah know. I sometimes do that when I'm nervous or embarrassed."

"I see. Well, I guess you two will have to prove that you can sell newspapers better." Featherweight said. He passed a package of newspapers to me. "Diamond is selling newspapers in front of the Carousal Boutique. So, I guess whoever sells the most newspapers gets the job." Featherweight got out of his chair and walked in front of me. "I am going to send my intern with you." Featherweight turned his head. "Frost! Over here."

"Frost?" Ah muttered to mahself. And there was Frost.

"Hey Babs!" Frost said to me. "You ready to crush your mortal enemy?" I thought he was joking, but he wasnt.

"Definitely." I said with an evil grin.

* * *

There she was, I thought. Selling newspapers with Silver Spoon. We walked over to where they are.

"Well, well, well." Diamond mocked at me. "Looks like the blank flank's back for more."

"YOU!" Ah yelled at Diamond. "What ah yah doin' here?"

"I'm here to sell newspapers to get extra bits." Diamond replied. "And I guess you two are getting your cutie marks."

"Leave, Diamond. We had enough of your mockery." Frost said. Silver Spoon looked scared.

"Uh, I think my parents are calling me for lunch." Silver said. She bolted out of the scene.

"Stick with time traveling with your stupid brother, Wind Waker." Diamond mocked. And dat pissed me off.

"Say dat again about mah brother. Ah dare yah." Ah said with a serious look.

"I said, stick to time traveling with your stupid brother." Diamond repeated. I was so angry, I punched Diamond on the face.

"Daddy!" She whined as she tripped, fell, got up, and ran out.

"Good job, Babs!" Frost said. "And she left the newspapers here. We can sell them now!"

So that's what we did. We went everywhere, selling newspapers to everypony in town. Even Butterscotch joined. We got SOME bits, but not many. At the end of the day, we looked at our cutie marks, and nothin'! After all our hard work, we didn't get our cutie marks.

"Well dat sucks." I said to Butterscotch and Frost.

"I know." Frost replied. "But at least we got some extra bits. About 20 bits!"

"But what are we going to spend it on?" Butterscotch asked worried.

"Milkshakes." We all replied.

And those milkshakes were delicious. We went to Sugarcube corner and got 3 milkshakes for 12 bits. Ah got strawberry, Frost got vanilla, and Butterscotch got chocolate. Der was only 8 bits left, so we went to our clubhouse, which is an old, abandoned schoolhouse in Manehattan, (We rode on the Tardis from Ponyville to Manehattan.) and got a jar. We put the extra bits for safe keepin', in case we want to get a new clubhouse or somethin'.

And we slept in the clubhouse for the first time. We got sleeping bags and went to sleep. (I got to sleep next to Frost! Whoop-dee-bucking-doo!)

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