The Honorary Crusader

chapter 3

Derpy Hooves arrived at the door, pushing the Rich-Tiara house with her nose to alarm the doorbell.

Filthy Rich came to the door. "Yes?"

Derpy looked like an excited puppy and spit up a letter for him.

"Erm, thank you..." Filthy Rich took the letter.

Derpy barked suddenly, stuck out her tongue to show an ocean of drool and looked like an eager puppy. Her tail was even wagging.

"Huh? Oh, very well." Filthy Rich handed a wad of money.

Derpy sniffed the money and turned away, pouting like a child.

"Mr. Rich, your muffins are ready!" a female voice called.

Derpy eagerly rushed to the muffin tray and ate all of them. She licked her muzzle, burped, and flew off to deliver another letter.

"Farm ponies..." Filthy Rich mumbled, then opened the letter to see it was from school concerning Diamond Tiara. "Oh, what has that filly done now?"

"Sorry about your father's trophy, Apple Bloom." Silver Spoon spoke up, walking with the other crusaders outside of the school grounds.

"It's okay," Apple Bloom sighed. "Ah know someone who can fix it though."

"Really? Who? And why are we leaving school grounds?" Silver Spoon noticed they were farther away from the school-house than intended.

"Don't worry, we'll be right back before class starts again." Scootaloo assured her.

"This pony's a genius!" Sweetie Belle added, cheerfully.

The four ponies made it to the Sparkle house, home of Twilight Sparkle and Spike the Dragon. The Crusaders knocked on the door and stepped aside as they carried Apple Bloom's father's trophy in a bag.

Twilight opened the door and smiled. "Hello, my little ponies," she then raised an eyebrow at them. "Shouldn't you little fillies be in school?"

"We were, but something is in dire need of your attention, Twilight." Apple Bloom admitted, showing the shattered remains of the trophy.

"Oh, my, what's that?" Twilight stepped back, allowing them in and to get a closer look.

"It was my Daddy's golden apple trophy, but Diamond Tiara broke it!" Apple Bloom cried.

"She broke it? Well, I'm sure she didn't mean it..." Twilight tried to console them.

"No, she really did! Just because Silver Spoon wouldn't pay attention to her!" Sweetie Belle defended.

"Oh, that is rough," Twilight frowned, then spotted the gray pony. "I take it you're Silver Spoon?"

"Y-Yes ma'am, Miss Sparkle, your majesty, royal, pony, I love to read too!" Silver Spoon smiled nervously at the alicorn.

Twilight laughed slightly. "You don't have to kiss up to me, I love everypony."

"Can you fix Apple Bloom's trophy?" Silver Spoon asked, still sounding nervous and star struck to be in the presence of Twilight Sparkle.

"Sure I can, with the power of magic, of course." Twilight smiled, then shined out her alicorn horn. She then used her energy and magic to take the shattered pieces of the trophy and pieced them together and bonded them with magic without using any sticky stuff like glue. "There we go, good as new!"

"Thanks, Twilight!" Apple Bloom bounced, happily.

"You're very welcome, Apple Bloom, now why don't you put that somewhere safe?" Twilight suggested wisely.