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Even if you are lost in the dark…  
All you need is a single light…  
To find your way home.

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Trilby Pony

Apple Bloom had made it out of the Everfree Forest, but at great cost. She had been captured by the Blanks, changed into a living corpse by their foul magic. Could she even call herself a pony anymore? She wasn’t sure. Could she even be said to still be herself, considering what she’d become? Tears in her eyes as she dragged her body out into the moonlight, she saw a welcome sight appear before her eyes; Sweetie Belle, her friend, a familiar face, one that could offer comfort by her sheer presence.
 
Sweetie Belle didn’t say a word when she saw a mangled body that she could still identify as Apple Bloom rush towards her. She didn’t scream, nor did she ask any questions. Instead, she let her friend cry on her, holding her close so she could let out her tears. It was at that moment of contact that Sweetie Belle gained a clarity of mind she hadn’t possessed before. She wasn’t anymore alive than Apple Bloom. She understood love, she understood friendship, yet she only knew them due to someone programming her to learn them. She loved her friends, but how could she be sure that she really felt anything of her own volition?
 
Scootaloo was the last Crusader on the scene. She was just going to sneak into the Everfree Forest to temporarily drop her disguise. She was a Changeling drone, either somehow born far away from the hive, or abandoned to the elements and left to die as a pupa. She had no idea of her true origins, but she’d managed to invent an entire pony, and lived her life as Scootaloo. Whoever she was, she felt alone. It was at this moment in her ruminations that she noticed Sweetie Bell and Apple Bloom, her two best friends, both in sorry states. Apple Bloom looked like a corpse that was somehow still alive, and she could hear gears turning and pistons moving inside of Sweetie Belle, who had the look of one who had made a terrible discovery, yet still held Apple Bloom as if hr new appearance wasn’t the issue. It didn’t take long for Scootaloo to decide to show her friends her own true form. With a slow flash of green flame as she joined the duo, she revealed her real appearance.
 
The three fillies, all arguably monsters in their own rights, each took comfort in their friends’ presence. They were the Cutie Mark Crusaders, and, at the very least, they had each other.
Background Pony #1971
I like it. This has a fanfic feel to it. I love it. Btw, what’s Scootaloos issue?
Background Pony #8380
sooooo…
 
applebloom = zombiefied  
sweetiebell = sweetiebot  
scootaloo = changeling?
Spindizzy

And all my bizarre fanfic dreams come true: Appleblank, Sweetie Bot and Scootaling together in one amazing sequence.
 
Though their kinds may be hated and hunted by most ponies, these three show that friendship and love, no matter who you are, no matter what you are, can prevail.