(The group arrives and peeks out from behind a corner and their eyes widened at what they see)
Biscuit: Okay, if this wasn’t a serious situation, I’d say that is pretty funny!
(Dark Mikey is literally juggling Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash, laughing all the while)
Dark Mikey: (purposely drops them) Whoops! (Laughs like a maniac)
Apple Bloom: Alright, Crusaders, you know what to do?
Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo: Yeah!
Apple Bloom: Then let’s do this!
(Dark Mikey continues to laugh until he feels somepony tap him on the back)
Sweetie Belle: (off screen) Oh, pardon us, good sir?
(Dark Mikey whips around to see the Crusaders standing behind him)
Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash: Girls?!
Dark Mikey: Well, if it isn’t the Cutie Mark Crybabies!
Scootaloo: Ugh! This again?
Dark Mikey: What do you shrimpy little fillies want?!
Apple Bloom: Who? Us? Nothin’.
Sweetie Belle: Absolutely nothing at all.
Scootaloo: Except this!
(All three jump on him. Scootaloo clings to his head while Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle cling to each of his legs)
Dark Mikey: Hey! What are you doing? Get off!
Apple Bloom: We’re just enjoyin’ the view.
Scootaloo: Don’t mind us.
Dark Mikey: I said, get off! (Trys to hit Scootaloo, but she dodges and he ends up hitting himself in the head. He takes one of his clubs and tries to do the same with the other two, but they too dodge and he just attacks himself)
( CMCs Keep running around before Dark Mikey grabs Sweetie Belle and breathes on her)
Sweetie Belle: Ew! When did you brush last?
Dark Mikey: Never have. Never will.
(Dark Mikey is about to hit Sweetie Belle when Scootaloo slides between Dark Mikey’s legs grabbing Sweetie Belle resulting in Dark Mikey hitting himself where the sun don’t shine)
Applejack: Girls…. get outta here…… He’ll hurt…. you!
Applebloom: He’s gotta catch us first! (Keeps dodging)
Applejack: Applebloom! (Tries to get up but her leg stops her)
(The CMC run over and stand in front of something)
Sweetie Belle: (in sing song) Oh, Dark Mikey?
Scootaloo: We’re over here!
Apple Bloom: Come an’ get’us!
Rarity: (to Dark Mikey) You… stay… away from them!
(Dark Mikey charges at them, hollering like a maniac, until the CMC step aside at the last minute and he rams, face first, into a stop sign)
Dark Mikey: Rrrr! (Rips the stop sign out of the ground and tries to smashs them with it, but they keep dodging) Hold… still! So I can clobber yah! (Lifts the sign to find the CMC sitting on it)
Scootaloo: And why would we wanna do that?
(All three fillies collectively blow a raspberry at him. Dark Mikey tries to smash them on his head, but they jump off and bashes himself in the face, leaving his facial expressions in the sign. While he’s distorted, Sweetie Belle swipes his battle clubs with her magic)
Sweetie Belle: Yoink! (Runs off)
Dark Mikey: Hey! Give those back! (Chases after her, only for Sweetie Belle to throw them to Apple Bloom. When he goes after her next, she tosses them to Scootaloo) Get back here with my clobbering sticks!
(Scootaloo drops them by a billboard. Then she runs back with Dark Mikey chasing her and swinging his clubs, unaware that by doing so, he’s chopping down the supports. Then Scootaloo stops and points. Dark looks up just as the billboard falls right on top of him)
Megan: Yes!
(Suddenly, Dark Mikey tears through billboard)
Megan: Oh no!
Bright Eyes: They need help! (hurries to them)
(Dark Mikey then grabs a boulder and stomps towards the CMCs)
Dark Mikey: I have had it with you brats!
Applebloom: Look! it’s the other Mikey!
Dark Mikey: Where? (Drops the boulder on his head)
Bright Eyes: Now!
(All four fillies kick Dark Mikey in the gut)
Apple Bloom: Quick, Spur! We need to let Bloofy out!
Spur: What! No way!
Scootaloo: Please, Spur! It’s part of our plan!
Spur: The last time you let Bloofy out, he almost destroyed the Applelossan fair! So you can forget it!
Sweetie Belle: We know you don’t trust us around Bloofy, and you have every right to. But the only way we’re gonna get rid of Dark Mikey is if you trust us with Bloofy now.
Spur: Give me one good reason why I should?!
(Dark Mikey get’s up growling)
Dark Mikey: Now I’m ANGRY! (turns into his dragon form a roars out loud)
Spur: (wide eyed; tosses them the box) Okay, let Bloofy out!
(CMC open the box and Bloofy comes out. One look at him and Dark Mikey laughs)
Dark Mikey: (in a dark bellowing voice) Ooo! I’m so scared! What’s that tiny little purple fuzzyball gonna do?!
(Dark Mikey’s booming laughter get’s Bloofy excited and the ponies back away as the little critter turns into a whirling tornado)
Dark Mikey: What the?! (Get’s sucked right in and shot clear across the sky, Team Rocket style)
(Once Bloofy changes back, he hops back in the box)
Biscuit: Wow!
Bright Eyes: Yeah, wow!
(The Crusaders high-hoof, until)
Applejack: APPLE BLOOM!
Rarity: SWEETIE BELLE!
Rainbow Dash: SCOOTALOO!
(The CMC slowly turn around to face a very livid Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash)
Applebloom: Let’s get this over with.
(The CMCs put their heads down as Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow lectures them)
Applejack: What were you three thinking?!
Rarity: We gave you three scrict orders to stay out of trouble! And yet you still disobeyed us!
Rainbow: You could have gottan hurt or worse!
Megan: That’s enough!
Rainbow Dash: You stay out of this, Megan! They need to be taught a lesson!
Aunt Holiday: They’re not the ones who need to be taught a lesson!
Applejack: We told them to-
Megan: They just saved your lives!
Rarity: They can’t be trusted after that grown up incident!
Aunt Lofty: Haven’t you stopped to think that they DID learn their lesson?
Aunt Holiday: They’re still young fillies who need experience if they’re ever going to grow.
Aunt Lofty: And if you keep sheltering them, they’ll never grow experienced. You have to learn to let them go.
Aunt Holiday: If you want to be their sisters, you must let them learn from their mistakes, because they can’t get better if you don’t trust them. Or even give them a chance.
Aunt Lofty: Besides, just now, they warned you not to fight that ruffian, but you did it anyway. And look where that gotcha.
Applejack: And just where exactly are y’all going with this?
Aunt Lofty: Well, that must be exactly how they felt after their little grown up incident. Don’t you think…
(Applejack Rarity and Rainbow Dash are taken aback)
Applejack: Well, I suppose…..
(Everyone notices the CMCs are gone)
Rainbow: Where’d they go?
(Later, they find them at the clubhouse)
Bright Eyes: Girls? What are you doing here?
Apple Bloom: (sadly) We’re just one last meeting of the Cutie Mark Crusaders.
Sweetie Belle: Before we get grounded for the rest of our lives!
Scootaloo: Because after that stunt we just pulled, they’re never gonna let doing anything ever again!
Rainbow Dash: (off screen) I wouldn’t say that.
(The others come in, Applejack limping due to her broken leg)
(The CMC look ashamed)
Apple Bloom: Wait, before you say anythin’, we just wanna say we’re real sorry for disobeying y’all again.
Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo: Very sorry.
Applejack: Actually, sugarcube. We owe you an apology too.
CMC: Huh?
Scootaloo: For what?
Sweetie Belle: We’re the one’s who messed up before.
Rarity: Yes, you did. But you certainly didn’t mess up, today. We did. You tried to warn us about being outmatched by Dark Mikey.
Rainbow Dash: But we refused to listen. And paid the price. (Points to her broken wing)
Applejack: We understand we can be overprotective a lot, but at the same time we were foolish.
Rarity: Because we want you to be safe and hopefully avoid any trouble we had growing up.
Rainbow Dash: But we instead weren’t giving you the chance to grow so that you would have the experience for when you really do become grown up ponies.
Applejack: And you’ve proven yourselves that you can learn from mistakes. We were just too mad and upset to see that.
Rarity: And while you will make more mistakes, so will we. But from now on, we won’t hold you three back anymore. We’ll let you grow and learn from your mistakes. (Holds up a record player playing sad music) We Are So SORRY, dear sister!
Rainbow: Will you put that thing away!
(Music stops)
Applejack: Bottom line. We’re truly sorry. Can you ever forgive us?
(The Crusaders smile warmly at each other, then to their sisters)
Apple Bloom: (remorseful) Does this answer your question.
(All three fillies run up and hug their sisters, who return the gesture, while Aunt Holiday & Lofty watch the scene with happy eyes)
(Flashback to the present, where Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash are hugging the Crusaders)
Applejack: And that’s what happened. And speaking of apologizin’, we’re sorry we didn’t listen to you either, Megan.
(Megan smiles)
Mikey: (looking at all the damage) My evil clone did all this?
Rarity: He most certainly did.
Rainbow Dash: Yeah! And if I ever see Dark Mikey again, he’s gonna pay for breaking my wing!
Applejack: And my leg!
Raph: And I thought our evil clones were tougher the last time we fought them.
Donnie: Yeah, if Dark Mikey can cause all this destruction on his own, there’s no telling what the rest of the Dark Turtles will do the next time we meet.
Leo: So, we’ll have to be ready.
April: I do have one other question though, why did Dark Mikey want to capture you three?
Applejack: All he said was to bring us to his goat master, or somethin’.
Raph: His goat master?
Rainbow Dash: I know, how rediculous does that sound? (Laughs)
Rarity: Megan, darling, are you alright? You don’t look well.
(Megan has a look of horror on her face, as she suddenly remembers her vision of Grogar, until Casey snaps her out of it)
Casey: Yo, Megan!
Megan: Huh?!
Karai: You okay?
Megan: Oh, yeah. Just fine…
Mikey: Well, not to change the subject, but it looks like Bloofy’s getting along with Ice Cream Kitty and Chompy.
(The three are playing)
Donnie: Wait a minute. Spur, didn’t you say that when Bloofy got excited he turned into a whirl wind?