Hey there everyone! Here's my second My Little Pony story!

For those of you who don't know, Ponyville Confidential is my most hated episode of MLP because I hated the way they treated the CMC after they were caught! They didn't mean to write those stories, not on purpose, and it was Diamond Tiara's fault anyway! And I was especially disappointed at Big Macintosh and Applejack for ignoring and snapping at the fillies, Rarity for being too dramatic about her diary (I'm actually mad at her less than the others but you get it), and Rainbow Dash for the way she reacted! A rain cloud?! REALLY DASHIE?!

Not to mention that Diamond Tiara got off way too lightly at the ending! Argh!

Sorry about that. As you can see this was not a great episode for me and this is why I wanted to do a remake of this and of at least one or two other episodes I think that should've gone better.

Sorry if this is kinda short but I did the best I could to get the idea out and to keep everypony in character, you know? After all, this is the second MLP story I ever did plus I haven't worked on fanfiction in a long while due to work.

Also, I want to thank Park Ryder and SailorMarble14 for their help. Thanks guys! :)

This story will contain at least four chapters: This one with Applebloom, next one with Sweetie Belle, then Scootaloo, and the last one will contain Diamond Tiara facing the consequences. I know this chapter is short but I mainly wanted to see some apologies to the CMC. Anyway, I hope you like this.

I don't own My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic or the characters.

Chapter 1: Guilt, Tears, & Forgiveness

The Cutie Mark Crusaders stood in sadness and guilt after Big Macintosh just told them off. Applebloom tried to reach a hoof out to her big brother...

"Hmmph!" Big Mac said as he turned away in a huff.

Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle already left the farm in deep regret as Applebloom turned from sad, to betrayed, and right to anger.

"Don't you think we know that?!" Applebloom said with tears running down her eyes, "Everypony knows about the gossip and they're shunning us! Do you have to rub it in?!"

Applebloom ran to the house crying as her older siblings were a little wide-eyed at what she just said. Granny Smith, who had just come back from selling the remaining jars of zap apple jam, over heard the whole thing and trotted over to her grandchildren.

"Don't you think you and your brother was a too hard on Applebloom?" she asked.

"But Granny, she and her friends wrote a bunch of lies about us and everypony in town!" Applejack said defensively.

"I know what they did was wrong, but do you honestly believe your sister would hurt you guys on purpose?" Granny Smith pointed out.

Applejack and Big Macintosh both opened their mouths but didn't say anything because they knew their granny was right. Giving a silent nod to each other, the two siblings slowly trotted their way towards the house hopefully to get some answers from their little sister.

Once the two had reached the top of the stairs the could hear loud sobbing coming all the way from Appleblooms room. After they reached the door, Applejack turned the knob and then entered the room to see the little filly lying down on her bed and sobbing into her pillow.

Giving each other one more regretful glance, the two siblings made their way towards the bed and Applejack placed a hoof on her sisters shoulder.

"Applebloom?" she asked softly, "Are you okay?"

"What do you want?" Applebloom sniffled without lifting her head.

"We just wanna talk to ya, sis'." she answered softly.

After the scolding and berating she received not too long ago, Applebloom had a hard time believing that her older siblings want to actually talk to her like normal.

"W-Why?" she asked sadly.

"Just to talk." her big sister answered again, "Nothing more, I swear."

The little filly wiped her eyes real quick and sat up to look at her big brother and big sister, "What is it?" she asked with a sniffle.

Big Macintosh took in a deep sigh before it was his turn to speak, "We just wanna know what happened and why you fillies wrote those stories about us. They really hurt us and everypony else and you know it, Applebloom."

"But we didn't mean, big brother!" Applebloom said with sad eyes, "We didn't even want to do this anymore!"

The two older ponies looked at each other again before turning back to the filly, "What do you mean, sis'?" asked Applejack.

"Well," Applebloom began, "we mainly wanted to write interesting things about ya'll but we had no idea it was gonna be this way. After we say eveypony get mad about the stories, we told Diamond Tiara that we didn't want to do anymore but she didn't listen." she looked away sadly, "She even blackmailed us."

"Blackmail?" Applejack said with wide eyes, "What in tarnation do you mean?"

That;s when Applebloom told her siblings about the embarrassng pictures of the Cutie Mark Crusaders and the threat of being posted in the paper if they didn't go with Diamond Tiaras demands. Applejack and Big Macintosh were in shock because she always acted like a sweet filly around her father, Filthy Rich, and had not seen her bully their sister or anypony else.

"I can't believe it!" Applejack said in disbelief, "That's the single, most rotten thing she has ever done!"

"Eyup!" her brother agreed with anger in his eyes.

"And that's not all she did." Applebloom added.

"What else sis'?" she asked gently.

She mentioned all the other times Diamond Tiara and her best friend, Silver Spoon, had mocked her, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo. The time Diamond got her cutie mark and mocked Applebloom at her Cute-ceanera; insulting her and Granny Smith on Family Appreciation Day at school; calling Applebloom and her friends "Blank Flanks" all the time, and anything else she had done to make Applebloom and her friends miserable for her own satisfaction.

"She did all that to you gals?" Applejack asked with concern.

"Mm-hmm." Applebloom nodded slowly, "And she never says sorry or nothing! She's been doing this ever since we met and I don't think she'll ever stop. What's even worse is that nopony ever wanted to help us stop her. We try to ignore her but her insults still hurt."

One thing her big brother and sister wondered was why Applebloom never told them about all this before?

"Why didn't you just-" Applejack stopped herself and realized something that made her heart sink even further. They never gave the little filly a chance to tell them about Diamond Tiara or the fact it was her fault that the Cutie Mark Crusaders were making all those stories. Not to mention all the times everypony brushed off Appleblooms claims of Diamonds teasing and tormenting.

"Oh Applebloom." she said nearly teared up, "We didn't know."

"We should've known that little rich filly had something to do with this." Big Mac said with a hint of anger in his voice.

Applebloom nodded softly, "We never wanted to post anymore stories after we found out the damage we've been causing. But she wanted us to do more and more!" she sniffled before continuing, "We didn't even know that we were doing something wrong! You have to believe me!"

"We know Applebloom." Applejack held her hoof up, "We know now that you, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo never intended to hurt us on purpose. And...we should've realized it before."

Big Macintosh nodded with his sister and moved a little closer to Applebloom.

"I-I am sorry, Applebloom." Big Macintosh hung his head, "I should've known better than to snap at y'all like that."

"And me for ignoring you." Applejack hung her head as well, "I'm really sorry sis'.

"It's not your fault." the young filly said.

"Yes it was." Big Macintsh began, "You fillies did make a mistake but that was no excuse for us to be so harsh on ya'. We should've listened to you instead of being so cruel to you."

Applebloom looked away as she laid back down, "Thanks but we still did something really stupid and now the whole town hates us."

Applejack got up on the bed and wrapped her hooves around her sister and stroked her mane, "They don't hate ya, sis'. They just don't understand the real truth behind all this. But, I can assure you they will understand once we tell them what really happened. Right big brother?"

"Eyup!" Big Macintosh nodded.

"No! Please don't say anything!" the filly pleaded and tried to pull away, "If Diamond Tiara finds out I tattled on her-"

"She won't do nothing to you." her big sister said firmly, "We can make sure of that. That little brat will never hurt you again, sis'."

"Really?" Applebloom asked.

"Of course." Applejack smiled and hugged Applebloom a little more, "Nopony hurts our little sister and her friends and gets away with it."

"Eyup!" Big Mac nodded and climbed to the other side of the bed to join his sisters, "We are going to tell Granny about this whole thing and we're going to have a word to Filthy Rich about his daughters behavior." he wrapped his hoof around his younger sister, "But first, we're going to let everypony else know about the truth about this whole mess."

A couple happy tears ran down Appleblooms cheeks as she smiled at her older siblings, "You guys are the best. I have the best family ever." she nested her head on her sisters shoulder, "Thank you so much, guys. I love you."

"You're welcome, little sis'." Applejack rested her head in Appleblooms hair, "We love you too."

"Eyup." Big Macintosh said and hugged his sisters tight.

Well Applebloom may be taken care of but what about the other Cutie Mark Crusaders? Will they be forgiven by their loved ones or will they forever be scorned by cold shoulders and glares? And will Diamond Tiara get her just desserts?

To Be Continued...