Discord

Bloom & Coconut & Gloom

[knocking]

Apple Bloom: Hear ye, hear ye! This meeting of the Cutie Mark Crusaders is now in session! Who wants to do roll-call?

[beat]

Scootaloo: I'm pretty sure we're all here.

Sweetie Belle: Yeah. Apple Bloom, what's this all about?

Coconut Harvest: Oh, nothin'... except this letter from Babs Seed sayin' she's got her cutie mark!

Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle: What?!

Apple Bloom: She says it's a pair of scissors!

Scootaloo: So... she's good at cutting stuff?

Sweetie Belle: Of course! She was always fussing with her bangs and tail! I'll bet she grows up to be a celebrity stylist!

Coconut Harvest: But if she spends all her time cuttin' hair, who's gonna run the Manehattan CMCs?

Scootaloo: Well, not Babs. She can't be a Cutie Mark Crusader if she's already got her cutie mark.

Apple Bloom: Oh, wow. I guess you're right.

Sweetie Belle: I'm glad she's happy, but I sure wouldn't want to be up to my flank in mane hair all day. Can you imagine getting stuck with a cutie mark you didn't like?

Coconut Harvest: No... or at least I hadn't...

Sweetie Belle: Don't worry, Apple Bloom. Most of your family has apple-related cutie marks. I bet yours will be, too. And what's not to like about apples? And your family has flowers or chaos cutie marks. What's not to love about flowers or chaos?

Scootaloo: There's the core, and sour apples, and rotten apples, and apples with worms in them and dead flowers and evil chaos— What?

Sweetie Belle: Not helping.

Apple Bloom: I guess I just spent so much time worryin' about how to get a cutie mark, I never even thought about what would happen after. There's just so many things I never considered.

Applejack: I'm sure there are, but you don't need to—

Coconut Harvest: What if I finally get my cutie mark and I don't like it? What if I get my cutie mark and nopony likes me?

Rose Light: Well, that's just ridicu—

Apple Bloom: What if the Crusaders drift apart? I mean, we won't really be the Cutie Mark Crusaders anymore! [gasps] What if it's not an apple?! Will I have to move out?! Where will I live?!

Discord: All right, that's enough, Coco. Those are way too many questions to answer all in one night.

Coconut Harvest: But—

Applejack: And nopony's gonna make ya move out.

Apple Bloom: Are you sure, Applejack, Rose, and Discord?

Rose Light: Of course, I'm sure. Now get some sleep. You'll see. Everything will be better in the mornin'. Hush now, little sister you're loved by all you know. You'll never lose their friendship no matter where you go. There ain't no call to worry so don't you cry or fret. A cutie mark won't change you no matter what you get.

[light clicks]

Coconut Harvest: [yawns] No matter what I get.

Apple Bloom: [snoring]

[rooster crows]

Coconut Harvest: Hoo-ee! Nothin' like a good night's sleep!

Discord: [muffled] Breakfast!