After everypony heard about the Gabby Gums newspaper knowing that it was AppleBloom, Scootaloo and Sweetie Bell who wrote all the gossip on everyone, the citizens were incredibly angry with them. It soon became a horrible day for the three of them everywhere they went, they wanted to say they were being blackmailed by Diamond Tiara, but everypony either ignored them, told them to go away, even Rainbow Dash rained on them with a storm cloud.

They were still trying to look for a gossip story to write, but no pony, not even a filly would give them an article. After learning there was no chance what so ever as well as Big Mac delivering the killer blow by scolding them earlier, they decided to give up and went back to their treehouse and after crying their eyes out for a while, they did nothing whilst looking back through all that followed earlier today.

"We ruined all our friendships and we certainly didn't get our cutie marks from it, either." Sweetie Belle said as she shed a few tears.

"We shoulda never volunteered to do those stories in the first place, but now, all our friends and families hate us." Applebloom cried

"Oh yeah, wait till Diamond Tiara posts our most embarrassing photos which could be anytime from now." Scootaloo said.

"Ah think it's time to face the facts. They're not going ta forgive us so we'll have ta make a tough choice." AppleBloom said in a sad tone.

"We need to make a secret newspaper article about us." Sweetie Bell said.

"And when it's done, we'll then go and find a tall cliff to look down and say our farewells."

After a little talk later, they went to the school around 10:00 PM. They started making only six copies for the Mane 6 only saying that Diamond Tiara dragged them into doing this. They secretly put a newspaper at each house, well, except for Rainbow Dash, because her house is in the clouds and Twilight, who has a forcefield.

Then tried to find a nearby cliff. They found one named "Killers Edge". The CMC walked up to the edge of the cliff, and looked down. Sharp rocks were pointed at the bottom following with ice cold water that anypony could freeze to death in. They took a step back and said their last goodbyes.

"We're sorry to everyone we've hurt, especially our families." AppleBloom whimpered.

"We didn't mean for this to happen, we were forced to write them because of Diamond Tiara." Sweetie Bell cried.

"Now we'll get rid of this once and for all and that bullying should never be ignored." Scootaloo cried, still trying to be brave.

The fillies went up to the edge of the cliff, took their final breath that they'll ever take in this world, and jumped for their lives. As they fell down about 50 mph downwards, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle fell onto the sharp rocks, which killed them instantly, whilst Scootaloo plummeted into the freezing water and started freezing to death.

"Goodbye..." Scootaloo could only muster as she drowned in the ice cold water...

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The next day, Rarity seemed to ask to herself, "Why isn't Sweetie Belle back yet? Where could she have gone?"

She decided to step outside of the boutique until it was stopped by a newspaper stuck under the door. Rarity looked down, saw the paper, and picked it up. She saw the picture of the CMC and she was assuming that they were working overtime, until she saw the article title. "Three Fillies = One Suicide"

"To the citizens of Ponyville, for some time, you have been reading this newspaper to get the latest news, but this will be my final piece. You see, we're three fillies, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo. As the popularity of our column grew, we got swept up in the hype. We knew what we were doing was wrong, but we ignored the guilt cause everypony seemed to enjoy what we were writing. We wanted to apologize for the pain and embarrassment we've caused, but we didn't want to face our boss, printing embarrassing photos of us. Diamond Tiara forced us to write those stories and we couldn't face the humiliation, so we went to "Killer's Edge" and said our farewells. To Rarity, Applejack and Rainbow Dash...we are sorry for hurting you and your friends, please forgive us for committing suicide. So by the time you read this article, we are no longer alive and we hope that you'll remember us for the good times and not the bad. Signing off the very last time, XOXO, Gabby Gums.

PS: Bullying should be brought to major attention in Ponyville so this doesn't happen to anypony again.

After reading the article carefully, her eyes welling up with tears. Then looked up and shouted "SWEETIE BELLE!" at the top of her voice. "WHY?"

Rarity ran to the nearest home of the mane 6 in tears, when she got to Twilight's home, she slammed her hooves on the bubble and screamed "TWILIGHT!"

"Rarity?" Twilight opened the door and used her magic to evaporate the bubble to nothing. "What's wrong?"

"Sweetie Belle...*Sniff*...is...*Sniff*...GONE!" Rarity exclaimed as she threw the front page by Twilight's hooves.

Twilight read the article and felt shocked at what she's seen. "Oh no...the Cutie Mark Crusaders...they died by committing suicide!" She gasped before starting to cry. "How could I have been so stubborn and not let them explain?"

Shortly afterwards, when Twilight and Rarity were walking across town, trying to comfort each other with the crying, they saw Pinkie Pie with her mane down and straight instead of the normal curly style, looking down at the paper whilst holding a tissue to wipe her tears with. As Twilight and Rarity got Pinkie to walk with them, they then went over by the lake to see Fluttershy sobbing away in the grass with her bunny Angel, trying to cheer her up. The four of them were about to share an upsetting hug until they spot Applejack running towards them with tears in her eyes.

"MAH APPLEBLOOM! I'M SORRY FOR YELLING AT YA! IT'S MAH FAULT!" Applejack shouted as she continued to cry.

"Applejack..." Twilight whispered as she hugged Applejack whilst she was still crying "We all should've been more supportive and open-minded about the issue."

Rainbow Dash was the last of the mane 6 to hear the news as she heard a lot of crying when she flew down to the lake. "So it's true, they're really gone?" she asked whilst trying not to cry. But the looks on their faces confirmed it to be true. "I know it's all our faults, but I deeply regret shoving the raincloud on top of them, making it rain on their heads. My biggest fan...Scootaloo..." she started crying until the others moved around here to have an emotional group hug, sharing their tears all the while.

When the news broke out to the rest of Ponyville, the citizens were shocked and then later felt guilty for being ignorant and unhelpful the day before. Spike was devastated and wasn't able to focus on his cleaning job around the library. Miss Cheerlie took the news badly, knowing that she was the one who appointed Diamond Tiara as editor of the Foal Free Press in the first place.

"Why did I choose her in the first place? I would NEVER have done so if that was going to happen. What kind of a teacher am I?" she sobbed.

Diamond Tiara was then removed shortly afterwards and replaced by Featherweight as the new editor of the Foal Free Press, but that was half of the punishment. Tiara was then expelled permanently from school and she and her Dad, Filthy Rich moved to Fillydelphia, vowing to never return whilst Cheerlie took time off from education and Mayor Mare promised to have bullying awareness set to an all time high in hoping this will never happen again.

Soon enough, the event began to spread beyond Ponyville, Princess Celestia was indeed saddened by the news and even she couldn't hide her emotions, nor could Princess Luna who deeply wished she had known so that she could've saved them during the night.

A closed-casket funeral was held inside the Town Hall since their bodies were never found, everypony was incredibly sad and they blamed themselves for all that transpired and Mayor Mare walked on stage to the podium and spoke. "Citizens of Ponyville, we are gathered here today to mourn the loss of three wonderful fillies who never meant harm to any of us, but were forced against their will to save embarrassment. Applebloom, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo were known as the Cutie Mark Crusaders, a small group that aimed to explore Ponyville and beyond to find out what their talents were." she paused before continuing "Which brings us to another important matter. Bullying is something that Ponyville has not raised awareness of and after this tragedy, it was now our job to rise the awareness to an all time high, in order to ensure that this never happens again." she paused once more before finishing "We accept that this will not bring them back, but let us remember that from this day forward, no filly will ever be bullied again. May Celestia bless the Cutie Mark Crusaders as they embark their journey to the afterlife."

The Mane 6 who were in attendance all cried as soon as the funeral ceremony was over, they were given loads of support by the citizens of Ponyville with gifts and hugs, they all learnt that it was going to take a very long time for the ponies to move on from the tragedy.

Soon, the day went from light to dark and as the Mane 6 walked through the night slowly together around Ponyville, they find themselves wondering if there was anything they could've done to prevent such a tragedy happening.

Pinkie was the first to speak when they stopped, "No more parties with the Cutie Mark Crusaders...they were so happy...now we'll never know what cutie marks they would have." she then started to cry whilst holding a tissue.

Rainbow Dash tried not to cry but even she couldn't control her tears for long, "Scootaloo was my biggest fan and I pushed her away without asking her why they did it, what kind of an idol am I?" she then let her tears out.

Fluttershy was too depressed to say a word as seeing the fillies gone, broke her heart as she covered her face behind her mane, sobbing away.

Applejack looked immensely depressed as she wiped away her tears "My poor Applebloom, ah wish ah and Big Mac could've said sorry to ya for shunning ya out, but ah don't know if ah can keep cryin' when you're no longer with us, you're with Mum and Dad now and I know ya'll be watching over me..." she said as she sat down and cried again.

Rarity tried to speak between her cries "My Sweetie Belle! My one and dear sister...you were a wonderful family member to me! I loved you for who you were...you had a fabulous future ahead of you..." she cried once more whilst looking to the sky.

"If only we had given them a chance to explain and tell us the real reasons, this wouldn't have happened. But Spike and I didn't...now we'll never get to see them again..." Twilight spoke as she cried too.

Since the laws of time could not go back, they all accepted the harsh reality and mourned in deep sadness at the lost lives of the three fillies, the families and friends that knew them so dearly, learnt that life as they knew it would never be the same again...