Code Name: Zero-Zero-Eight
 
Real Name: Apple Bloom
 
Powers: Water breathing (cybernetic), electrical discharge (cybernetic)
 
 
008 is the younger sister of 005. After 005’s disappearance, their brother tried in vain to manage the farm by himself. When he was called away to help some family members in Appleloosa, she was left alone with their grandmother.
 
There was nopony watching when she went for a swim one hot summer day. While swimming in the pond, she became entangled in the reeds on the bottom and drowned. When 005 heard about this, she agreed to cooperate fully if 008 was saved. However, she was not allowed to return home either.
 
The Sun Princess is known for her cruel sense of irony, and so had 008 given mostly aquatic based powers. Her lungs can filter oxygen out of salt and fresh water which she can share with others, and her hooves deform into fins when she is under water. She can also send out a small electrical discharge but it has very low range out of the water and doesn’t do more than momentarily stun.
 
Since she had no friends and had been constantly the target of bullying, ponies assumed her death was suicide and blamed the bully, Diamond Tiara. During their short visit to the farm, 008 talked with Diamond Tiara and the two have started to become friends, though it may be some time before 008 can return home and clear Diamond Tiara’s name.