Apple Bloom Gets Her Cutie Mark

## Synopsis

*Apple Bloom Gets Her Cutie Mark* is the tenth story of The Muffins Saga. It’s Applebloom’s turn to lead the baking and she is excited to spend some quality time with her big sister, Applejack. After all, blood is thicker than water right?

## Story

**Pinkie Has A Surprise!!!:**

Applebloom runs up to her big sister, Applejack, who was bucking apples in excitement. Applebloom tells her that Pinkie has a surprise for her at Sugarcube Corner. Applejack follows her baby sister to Sugarcube Corner. When they get there, Applejack notices the whole place was closed, not even The Cakes were there. Applebloom led her behind a counter and opened a very well hidden nook under the floorboard. There was a button, and Applebloom pressed it with her hoof, making a secret door swing open. Applejack was so confused. Applebloom goes into the secret room and tells Applejack to follow her. Applejack follows her sister into the secret room and closes the door behind her. As Applejack walks down the stairs, something hits her in the back of her head, and she falls unconscious.

**My Sister’s a Killer!?:**

When Applejack comes back to consciousness, she notices she’s in a strange, dim room. The room was decorated with party decorations, the kind Pinkie Pie would put up, but they didn’t look right. They were dark and covered in some sort of crusty grind. She also noticed there were shelves of lots of pony skulls, and there was a single skull with a beak. Just then, Pinkie Pie hops into Applejacks view, wearing strange clothing. Applejack attempted to move, but when she did, she cried out in pain. She noticed that she was chained down, and the chains were going through her limbs. There were also chains strapped over her hips and neck. Then, 5 other ponies came into Applejack’s view. Derpy, Blinkie Pie, Inkie Pie, Minkie Pie, and her baby sister Applebloom. Applejack noticed that the other 5 ponies were wearing strange clothing like Pinkie was. Derpy and Pinkie tell Applejack that Applebloom told them that she was one of the strongest ponies in Ponyville, so the team decided to use chains instead of straps to hold Applejack down, but Applebloom told them she’d still get out, so Minkie Pie suggested they should put the chains through Applejack’s arms and legs. Applebloom walks up to her sister and takes her hat off of her head and places it on her own head and tells her the hat is her’s now cause she won’t be needing it anymore. Applejack asks her baby sister what’s going on, and Pinkie asks Blinkie to bring Rainbow Dash into Applejack’s view. When Applejack sees Rainbow Dash, one of her best friends, she begins to sob. Rainbow Dash had been missing for months, and she was taxidermied right before Applejack’s eyes. Applebloom, with the help of her friends, then proceeds to tell Applejack about Pinkie’s special ingredient and how she got wrapped up in the baking business with her. Applejack couldn’t believe that her sister, Derpy, Pinkie(one of her best friends) and her sisters were the ones behind the disappearances. Applejack tried to argue with the bakers, but it only ended up making Derpy angry, and the other bakers just laughed at her. Applejack then tried to reason with the bakers, mainly her sister Applebloom, but none of them wanted to take her advice. The team then decides to start their fun, and that they should play dress up with Applejack. Applejack then tries to break free from her chains. The other bakers watch her in concern, but Inkie Pie reassures them that no matter how angry she is, Applejack can’t break free from her chains. Inkie Pie was right. Applejack couldn’t break free, and only ended up breaking her arms and legs.

**Dress Up:**

After Applejack’s “show,” the team decides to begin to play dress up with Applejack. Applebloom starts off the fun by using a scalpel to cut off Applejack’s cutiemarks. When she finished, she took the hat from her head, set it down, and put both cutiemarks in it. Derpy holds up a rusty razor blade and asks Applebloom if she can give her sister a haircut, which Applebloom lets her, but reminds her to be carful and to not cut herself. Derpy fills her mouth with Applejack’s mane, but before she cuts it, she slices Applejack’s cheek and slices the tip of one of her ears off and pretends she accidentally did those things. Derpy then cuts off Applejack’s mane and tail, and Pinkie and Applebloom compliment how great Applejack’s haircut makes her look now. Blinkie tells the others that she has some left over fish hooks, and Inkie Pie suggests that they would make lovely earrings. Blinkie Pie carelessly shoves the hooks into each of Applejack’s earlobes. Applebloom and Pinkie manage to make a messy crown made out of razor blades tied together with twine. Applebloom handed the crown to Derpy, who flew over to Applejack and jammed it onto her head as hard as she could. Holding up a box of nails, Pinkie then suggests that they should stick nails though the links of the neck chain. Applebloom thinks its a great idea and takes the box of nails Pinkie was holding and walked over to her sister. Applebloom sticks nails into the chain links, and pushes them right into Applejack’s skin. When Appleblooom was done, she stood back to admire her work. She then titled her head, and then yanked the chain on her sister’s left leg, detaching the chain and breaking Applejack’s left leg clean off. Applebloom asks the mares if they have any wooden sticks she can use as a peg leg for her sister, and Pinkie tells her she has a bone. Pinkie then grabs what looks like a femur bone and hands it to Applebloom. Applebloom then grabs some duct tape from the tool box and uses it to attach the bone in the place Applejack’s left leg used to be. Derpy then grabs a screwdriver and gams it into one of Applejack’s eyes, and manages to pop one of her eyes out. Blinkie then suggests that Applejack now needs an eyepatch. Unfortunately, the girls can’t find an eyepatch, so they decide to improvise. Applebloom decides to use a large cocktail umbrella as an eyepatch. Applebloom uses super glue to glue the umbrella into Applejack’s eye socket. One the umbrella was glued into Applejack’s eye socket, Applebloom tells the others that that’s what’s she calls a pirate, and they all applaud. Applejack once again tries to reason with Applebloom, but no matter what Applejack says, Applebloom, nor none of the bakers will turn around.

**The Fun Never Ends:**

Applebloom then suggests that she and her friends should wrap things up, and then Derpy suggests that they should sing their new song for Applejack. They all agree to, and Applebloom runs across the room to grab an acoustic guitar. She tells her sister that she’s been learning to play the guitar. As Applebloom tuned the guitar, Inkie and Blinkie each give Applejack a shot, one in her abdomen, and one in her chest. Then, the bakers began to sing.

Raise your hooves up in the air, If you dare,

Remember how, you should smile now,

The fun never ends not even when you're dead!

Hey, don't worry, it's okay, put that frown away

This is your last day last day to smile

Ohh,

what will you do when you find your heart has stopped beating?

And you're dead now come on let's have some fun we won't stop until we're done

And you're dead it never stops not even when you're dead

the fun never ends

Never

Not even when you're dead

By the time the song finished, Applejack could no longer feel her body. Applebloom then proceeded to use a scalpel to make an incision on her sister’s abdomen. Minkie Pie asks Applejack what she thinks of their song, and Applejack sadly admits it was great.

**Applebloom’s Cutiemark:**

    Applebloom now knows it’s time for Applejack to go. She opens up the skin flaps she made on her sister’s belly, and Blinkie Pie brings a bucket for her to put Applejack’s organs in. Applebloom slowly disembowels her sister as the mares hum their song they sang for her. The humming of the mares slowly started to fade into an echo, and Applejack’s vision began to blur. Though it sounded like she was underwater, Applejack heard her sister say “Bye Bye Sis I Love You.” Then Applejack’s head went limp, and she moved no more. Just then, a bright flash illuminated the room, which almost blinded the girls cause they were so accustomed to the darkness. When the light disappeared, the mares all stared at Applebloom’s flank in shock. Applebloom then looked at her own flank, and saw at last, she got her cutiemark. It was a shiny red apple with a single green leaf and a kitchen knife stabbed into it. Killing Applejack gave Applebloom her cutiemark. Applebloom was so overwhelmed with happiness, she was crying, and she rushed to her friends, crashing right into a group embrace. The mares were so proud of her. Then, Pinkie Pie breaks up the group embrace and asks her team how they’re gonna explain Applebloom’s cutiemark to everypony. Derpy tells Pinkie that’ll be easy squeasy, as they can tell everypony that Applebloom’s special talent is cooking with apples. The gang laughed and began to clean up.

**Applebloom’s Cupcakes/Something’s Not Right:**

The bakers, Rarity, Fluttershy, and Twilight were all at Sugarcube Corner enjoying Applebloom’s freshly baked cupcakes. Applebloom was going off about her cutiemark, Twilight and Rarity were enjoying the cupcakes, and Fluttershy was looking at the bakers. Fluttershy asks Applebloom where Applejack is, but Applebloom tells her she thinks she went off to go pick up barrels of hay from another farm. Rarity tells Minkie that her name is so long and lovely and that she must let her style it sometime. Applebloom adds that Rarity could make a cute little dress for her as well. Minkie Pie blushes and agrees to let Rarity dress her up. Pinkie then suggests that they can all dress up. Twilight and the others agree that they can all go to Carousel Boutique after they finish their cupcakes. The girls all continued to chat, except for Fluttershy. She noticed that the bakers were all sharing evil smirks. Something was wrong.

## Characters

* Applejack
* Bakers
* Rarity, Twilight, Fluttershy (minor)