Short Hand: The Cutie Mark Crusaders 1 · 10:53pm Aug 29th, 2020
Applebloom: "So Shepherd, what's your cutie mark?"
Shepherd: "Huh? I don't have one."
CMCs: GASP!
Applebloom: "Ya mean... ya don't have one?"
Scootaloo: "At all?!"
Sweetie Belle: "Not even a little one?"
Shepherd: "Nope. Humans don't have cutie marks. Never have."
Applebloom: "So that means..."
CMCs: "YER A CUTIE MARK CRUSADER!"
Shepherd: "No I'm not. I don't want a cutie mark, girls."
Applebloom: "Wha... You don't?!"
Shepherd: "Nope."
Sweetie Belle: "But-But why not?!"
Shepherd: "Why would I want one? I'm happy without one. And you guys will get yours in time, too. So you don't have to worry."
Scootaloo: "Can you still be part of our club? Because we only have a few members and we're running out of money."
Applebloom: "SCOOTALOO! YA WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO TELL HIM THAT!"
Scootaloo: "OOPS! I-I mean we DON'T need money! For things!"
Sweetie Belle: *sighs* "We just think you could give us new ideas for Cutie Marks, Mister Shepherd. Since yer an alien and all."
Shepherd: "Well..."
CMCs: "Pleeeeeaaaase?"
Shepherd: *sighs* "... Fine. What's first on the agenda?"
Later... Shepherd is lying on a table in the CMC Clubhouse, while Scootaloo adjusts a camera, Sweetie Belle is dressed as a doctor, and Applebloom is dressed as a military officer.
CMCs: "Cutie Mark Crusaders Alien Autopsy and Cover Up Specialists! YAYYYYYY!"
Shepherd: sighs "Technically since I'm still alive, it's not an autopsy."
Scootaloo: "Should we fix that?"
Sweetie Belle and Applebloom: "SCOOTALOO!"
Scootaloo: "What?!"
Scootaloo, you worry me.
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Eh, by little kid standards, that's barely notable. Plus, let's face it - much as we love her, you just know that Scootaloo's the kind of kid who, if going through the mirror, wouldn't have fingers for ten seconds before she picked her nose with them. This is just par for the course with this kind of filly.
AB: "Ya can't jus' kill him, Scoots!"
Scoots: "Why not? He can come back from the dead, right? Isn't that what he told us about that Cheese Crust guy?"
Shepherd: "His name is Jesus Christ and and wasn't human!"
Scoots: "Ooooohhhh... my bad."
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Shepherd: "Well He was but He was also God-Look, point is, He is the exception! Every other human dies without a respawn!"
Applebloom: "What about Dragonballs?"
Scootaloo: "Dragon's what?"
Shepherd: "Do you have those handy?"
Applebloom: "Well no-"
Shepherd: "Then no!"
Crusaders In Black!
Scootaloo is right! It should be "Cutie Mark Crusaders Alien Vivisection and Cover Up Specialists"