"But Moom..." squealed the little lavender unicorn filly at her mother.. A passing mare smiled at the family scene, the ponies clearly related by their blonde manes and similar coloring, though her mother Derpy Doo was a duller color than the bright young filly.
"Dinky, just because I can, as you say, magically deliver you every toy in the world ever,' doesn't mean I will, or should, waste my energy upon conjuring up the new Robot Unicorn Attack action figure. Maybe I'll just Robot Unicorn Attack YOU!" laughed Derpy, taking Dinky by surprise in the tickle fight.
"Derpy! Hey how's it going down there?" exclaimed a certain rainbow-maned pegasus from above.
"Dashie! It's been too long!"
"I know! Keep up all this studying and I'll start calling you Derpy Sparkle!" teased Rainbow Dash.
"Ha-ha. What brings you around?"
"I was thinking little Ditzy here could use some quality time with her mom's favorite flying buddy." she smiled. The pegasus agreed that was a good plan and so did the eager young unicorn, and the two were on their way, leaving Derpy some practice with her planning techniques. She knew if she was just a little bit closer to finding the perfect delivery methods, she could unlock the secrets to ending famine for poorer Equestria.
Her focus was torn, though, when the very bush she was in front of ruffled in front of her.
"Woah" she exclaimed, jumping back from the foilage when Angel, of all bunnies, scurried out. If Angel's around, thought Minty, that means...
sure enough she noticed Fluttershy hiding out where the corners of her eye could see.
"Oh, no." Said Fluttershy in her usual tone. Where's dear little Dinky Doo?"
"With Rainbow Dash, why do you ask Fluttershy? Why do you seem so worried?" As if Fluttershy worried was a shocking thing.
"Keep her away from the other little ones....Applebloom, Scootaloo, and Sweetie Belle....they're planning something. Something very bad."
Derpy just cocked her head and gave Fluttershy a questioning glance.
"Oh, uhm, I can just tell. They're planning something." She looked around nervously, big a quick farewell and flew back to her cottage with Angel on her back.
"Well that was rather odd..." thought Derpy. "The CMC planning something is so normal, why would that cause alarm? Especially the night before Nightmare Night. They could be planning any sort of holiday trickery. "

When Dinky didn't come home that night to stay over with Rainbow Dash her sister was more worried than usual. Something spooked her about the warning she got. The CMC got into harmless trouble on the daily, and Fluttershy was an easily worried pony. So why the tinge of fear on everything I do? Minty asked herself.

Suddenly a flash of orange and blue left Derpy's eyesight as quickly as it came. ' Calm down, it's just your eyes." she unconvincingly insisted. Then the orange and blue was at her neck, a knife in the tiny filly's mouth dangerously close to the greyish purple pony's fur. The orange was little filly Scootaloo, and the red and blue was, 'oh god oh god oh god, Rainbow Dash's cutie mark!" Blood stained the little filly where the blue fur and skin stripped from Rainbow Dash's flank was crudely sewn into her own flesh. Derpy couldn't turn her head, but saw the other two CMC members on either side of her bed out the corner of her eyes. All three ponies had Indian style war paint streaks made of blood.
"Cutie Mark Crusaders Assassins!" giggled Sweetie Belle and Applebloom.
"Shut up, and leave this to me, scowled Scootaloo, directly at her victim, then smiled. "You took up all that time with Rainbow Dash as her, 'best flying buddy' " she voiced mockingly. You wasted her time and you wasted mine. You needed her help for flying lessons. Flying lessons?! She promised me those every time I saw her, but she 'never had time.' Especially with that dinky little filly always around her like her little sister or something. Well now she's in a place where only I can find her, and she's got all the time in the world."

"Dinky!" screamed Derpy in complete terror for the one she cared for more than anything. The second half came out with a choke filled with blood. Scootaloo had cut her open and was pulling out the mare's intestines, warm and steaming from the seconds ago they were inside the terrified mare's body. Laughing, she wrapped them around the pegasus' neck. "And next, the little filly." she laughed. Derpy's eyes were wide, for once both in the correct direction, that of her murderer. Scootaloo pulled tight and Derpy was gone.

[Scootaloo]
Look, here a weak little pony
Ready to die for this crowd
Listen up, 'cause here's the story
You're gonna scream
[Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo]
very loud!

[Scootaloo]
When you're a younger pony
And your life is very bare
Feels like the sun will never come
When your hero's never there

So the three of us will fight the fight
There is nothing that we fear
We'll have to figure out what we'll do next

[Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo]
Till your cutie mark's not here!

We are the Cutie Mark Creepers
On a quest to destroy who you are
And we will never stop the journey
Not until we have your cutie marks

[Scootaloo]
They all say that I am loved
Doing this isn't really right
But what are you supposed to do
When other ponies steal your light?

It's not as easy as it sounds
And that loving is hard to do
So I will send my love elsewhere

[Sweetie Belle, Apple Bloom, and Scootaloo]
round your neck til your face is blue!

We are the Cutie Mark Creepers
On a quest to destroy who you are
And we will never stop the journey
Not until we have your cutie marks

We are the Cutie Mark Creepers
On a quest to destroy who you are
And we will never stop the journey
Not until we have your cutie marks !