Scootaloo's Biggest Mistake

Chapter 1

It was an average day in the peaceful town of ponyville, the birds were chirping, the bees were pollinating the flows and the fillies were in school.

"Ok class, I think that will do for today, but just a reminder tomorrow we will have a test on the two princesses, so make sure you study for it," Cheerilee said as she picked up her papers and prepared to leave with her work.

Scootaloo picked up her own papers as did the rest of the students, but Scootaloo ended up tossing her papers out the window. She had no plans to even study. "Heh I got better things to do, like hang out with Rainbow Dash and go crusading," she said not aware that Cheerilee was standing behind her.

"Ahem" Cheerilee said, startling Scootaloo making her jump and look behind herself. "What was that I heard you say Scootaloo?" she asked, keeping a watchful eye on her pupil.

Scootaloo stood there frozen, thinking of ways to get out of the trouble she had just walked into. "Don't worry miss Cheerilee I'll study hard, you have nothing to fear," she said, though a note of annoyance crept into her voice.

Cheerilee smiled, though Scootaloo could be lying, she just shrugged it off. She started walking away but before she left she took the time to give Scootaloo one last warning. " Scootaloo if you don't study, I'll have to tell your mother, and trust me she won't be happy," she said walking out the door.

School completed, the three crusaders started their crusade for their cutie marks. This time Scootaloo had the perfect idea to go skydiving but it didn't end well; they fell right into a forest full of tree sap and were subsequently covered in it.

"Well that was a bust," Scootaloo said. Sweetie and Apple Bloom noded in agreement, "What should we try next?" Scootaloo asked.

"We could try and clean the mayor's office for her. When I was there I noticed it was a mess. Maybe we can get some type of mark for that," Sweetie Belle suggested.

Scootaloo wanted an awesome cutie mark, not some lame cleaning one, but Apple Bloom agreed with Sweetie. The vote being two against one Scootaloo really had no choice. Before they left they cleaned themselves off because having all that sap on would make a big mess in the office.

When they got to the office surprisingly nopony was around, so they did what they thought was necessary and cleaned up. Sweetie Belle picked up some papers and put it in a paper shredder, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom were both ripping papers apart and putting what they thought was not needed away in various drawers.

When the Mayor got to the office she was greeted to something she had hoped to not ever see; a clean office. She was very angry until she saw who did it. She held her anger in to spare the little fillies feelings. "What have you done?" she asked with a shocked expression on her face

"We just wanted to try and get our cutie marks in cleaning so we thought we try to get it here," Apple Bloom said as the three looked at their flanks only to still see they were blank. Disappointed, they told the mayor they were sorry and left. Watching the fillies leave, Mayor Mare shrugged and returned to her now cleaned office. As mad as she was she actually found things easier to find, "I'll thank them later perhaps."

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Scootaloo looked at her friends, they were a few steps away from the Mayor's office, "So what's next?" she asked.

Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle put on their metaphorical thinking hats and tried to come up with a plan. A few seconds later they came up with one but before they could say their idea they heard a voice calling for them.

"Apple Bloom Ah know ya got a test tomorrow its time to get home and study," Applejack said. She then turned to Scootaloo, "Ya should get home and do the same before your mom gets worried."