It was our tenth day within this universe. And things were going surprisingly well. I'd hate to see how somebody in human form could cope with being summoned here without seeing no more than Season One of the series. But thankfully, we had watched four of them.

It has been 7 days since we returned from the library, and we have been studying relentlessly, Damon and Ryan only leaving the house to go and work. Ollie has been practising like mad ever since he got back, challenging himself with more difficult spells every time. He's getting more powerful as time goes on. Damon and Ryan are actually able to fly now. All they need is experience so that they can be more agile in the air. As for me, I have been working with the recycling plant down the road. They pay me so that I create inventions for us and them. I have almost finished scanning my 'micro-technology' book so once I finish that, I will be able to try electronics, such as computers, fabrication and wearable technology for the average pony.

Although what has still stumped me is that all four of us still don't have any sign of a cutie mark. I managed to get hold of that book I have mentioned The Cutie Mark Crusaders were trying to use. But they clearly had a bit of trouble with it, so I have borrowed it instead. And since we are four adult ponies with no cutie marks, they demanded that we become Cutie Mark Crusaders along with them. I tried telling them that we were too old but it was no hope. Besides, seeing their cute faces go all sad if we rejected them would have been enough to crush my heart. So we agreed to join them. The three of them come round occasionally as well, which was a 'mandatory rule'.

I will be fairly honest, I have been focusing most of my research on the discovery of our cutie marks, so that it looks a little less awkward. During observation, I have come to some guesstimates about where each of our talents lie.

Through personal experience, I have mastered technology development on a small scale for now, but I achieved it in little under 5 days. Which I believe is remarkably quick. So I believe my mark's affinity lie along the line of technology. But cutie marks seem to appear after some sort of significant event that happens to that individual. Or so the book tells me. So my estimate is that I have to complete a large project, and use it effectively.

I have studied Damon closely and shadowed him a little and I have noticed he has very high accuracy and is particularly ingenious towards creating projectiles. He built a functioning crossbow out of forest materials the other day, which was only sticks, vines and sharpened twigs. So I believe his affinity lies along the fabrication of projectile weapons and firearms. Perhaps he needs to make his first real firearm and take a faithful shot?

Ryan has been on his wings more than his hooves, similar to Rainbow Dash. But I don't believe that it lies with speed. On my few times of me watching his gradual performances in the sky, I have noticed some traits that are unique to Ryan. One day, Damon and Ryan challenged each other to a race and they were neck and neck for nearly the entire race. But close by, there was Pegasi that was creating artificial tornadoes that were directly in the path of Damon and Ryan. I saw Damon's speed slow to nearly a stop, as he was going no faster than a hovering speed. Ryan however, did not slow down the slightest bit. There was no strain pushing through the tornadoes, nor did he avoid them. It just seemed that they did not affect him in anyway. The other thing was the other day, it was remarkably hot in Ponyville and most of us were sweating all day and were quite dehydrated. Some Pegasi had to stop flying and rest. But Ryan, oddly, seemed to work faster. He was not sweating, nor complaining about the immense sunlight coming from the freak heatwave. So I believe that he has a very high tolerance to hot temperatures and can resist turbulence extremely well. So I think exploration in unique areas will be Ryan's best bet.

And as for Ollie, I have noticed that sometimes he is not able to do a spell correctly. After a few minutes at being at his desk with a pencil, he comes back again and tries a new way of doing the spell, which either works first time, or he is simply not powerful enough yet. He even has a list of types of spells that he crosses off every time he casts one of them. He also plays chess with some of the older ponies in clubs. He had a nearly perfect record, apart from when he knocked his king over on his first game. I can give him that. He has also created techniques for us studying our books and that he said that these ways of doing them "is the most efficient and effective way". And quite surprisingly, he was right. Damon and Ryan completed their flying book, we have all done the mouth-writing book and I have nearly completed the huge book of Micro-Technology. So I think that he is a wizard prodigy and a master strategist. Perhaps he needs to complete a certain spell and have a great victory or success?

I need to come up with a way of us all earning our marks. And if possible, at the same time. If not the same time, in close proximity to each other. A Cutie Mark Quest if you will.

So in the end, I need to complete and test a large project, Damon needs to construct a firearm and take a faithful shot, find somewhere unique for Ryan to explore and get Ollie to cast a certain spell to lead him to a substantial victory or success.

I step down from my research desk that I constructed and gave my writing a rest. As I went to sit down on the couch in the living room, there was a few small knocks on the door. I have a feeling who that is.

I walk over to the door and peep through the tiny glass viewer. Three little fillies are stood outside my door. The Crusaders.

"Give me a moment!" I say through the wooden door as I unlock the two locks and swing the door wide open.

"Goooood morning girls!" I say to the three Crusaders as they walk in.

"Morning Circuit!" All three say in unison.

"Who's at the door?" I hear Ollie shout from his desk in the other room.

"Our fellow Crusaders! Coming to sit with us Star?" I shout back.

"Yeah man, just give me five minutes!" Ollie replied.

"So, how are my fellow Crusaders today? You guys make any progress?" I said as I walked over to my couch and slumped into it.

"No, we didn't get anythin' today." Applebloom replied back as she took a seat, giving a disapproved face.

"Well, what did you try? We still need to get you a list of things to try, so that you don't lose count on where you are and start repeating ones you have done once already." I replied back, trying to cheer the three up.

"We tried knitting, kayaking and even rock climbing. But still no luck." Scootaloo murmured.

"What about you? What have you and the other Crusaders tried?" Sweetie Belle asked, looking at me with hope.

"We haven't tried anything exactly, but I have a feeling of what we need to try.." I vaguely explain, as I want the surprise to be worth it.

"What are ya gon' try? Will it be all the same thing?" Applebloom questioned.

All three of them looked like they were about to burst with excitement.

"I'm gonna try and organise something... A Cutie Mark Quest or something along those lines.." I replied, bundling my own thoughts into a plan of action.

The little fillies almost exploded in excitement. Before they were able to squee about what I was planning, Ollie stepped into the room.

"Morning girls. Hey Circuit. How are you three doing this morning?" Ollie asked the fillies as he also sat down on the couch.

"Amazing! Circuit was about to tell us how you guys are getting your Cutie Marks!" Scootaloo shouted before any other pony could get a single word in.

"Oh really? And how does he plan to do that?" Ollie asked rhetorically, as he slowly pans his head to look right at me.

"Hey man, it was a idea. Nothing has been drawn up or anything... At least not yet. Unless you want me to work on something now?" I asked, because I could see that Ollie was extremely curious and The Crusaders wanted to see how we would get our Marks in the end.

"Go ahead if the thought and motivation is there dude! I can always take The Crusaders out for lunch while you work on it?" Ollie replied.

"Sure, I'll get on it and see what I can do. Bye girls! Have fun and good luck crusading!" I said as I left the room to return to my desk.

I slumped to my desk, pulled a new sheet of paper out and picked up my pencil. I pondered for a little while, thinking of a large project until I had that strange feeling again, like when I constructed the mechanical plough for Applejack quite a few days back. I just started drawing. I had no idea what it was. My mind was just telling me to do it. I did it previously and I ended up with a never-before-seen prototype and 250 Bits that landed me buying this place. So I decided to just keep going and not stop myself.

After about 30 minutes, my mind released me from my trance and I dropped my pen. I had drawn exact blueprints to some sort of vehicle. Looked like a spaceship. After I stared at intently, I realised that it appearance was very similar to a Puddle Jumper, which was a small spaceship from a TV series back on Earth.

A Puddle Jumper was capable of holding 9 persons at a time, it was air tight so that space exploration was possible, could activate space portals from a distance, had a very accurate weapons system, had cloaking abilities and could fly at 1.3x the speed of sound.

Was my mind seriously doing this to me? It wanted me to build a Puddle Jumper? Within the universe of My Little Pony? That was going to be a hard task. But after I flipped the page, my mind did the trance on me again and I started to write out diameters, measurements, materials needed and certain formulae to accompany the theory that the Puddle Jumper needed. I needed ship parts, a shell constructed, a energy weapon built, a electrical interface to control it, a efficient propulsion system, energy capable of powering it all and lastly, spacesuits.

That was it. It all clicked in my head. This was the project. This was the Cutie Mark Quest. Ryan could explore orbit, Damon could protect him from foreign bodies in space with a powerful enough firearm and Ollie could cast a shield spell that would encase the ship so we sustained no damage and if we explored it, returned with samples from orbit and landed safely, that would be completion of a large project from me. I looked at my list, and made priorities. It was time to start this Quest.

Piece of cake.

"CAKE!?" Pinkie Pie screamed through my small window.

"GAAAAH!" I shouted as I fell off my chair, scared half to death.

What was with this universe and all this fucking jumpscare bullshit?

"Oh, hehe! I didn't mean to get you! I just heard you talking about cakes and I absolutely love cakes!  I make cupcakes all the time! I even live in a ginger bread house! I just really want some cake right now, since cake is so spongy and delicious and-"  Pinkie was just firing out sentence after sentence and was struggling to breathe. She had nearly gone pink to purple.

"I got the idea Pinkie!" I interrupted her for two reasons. One, I could feel a headache coming on and two, she would have died from asphyxiation.

"Okie dokie lo- Hey! You know my name! But I don't know yours! How does that make sense? Did you come through a portal from a strange and dark dimension and you were turned into ponies by some kind of magic and now you are desperately trying to find a way home?" Pinkie said, even faster than the last sentence, accompanied by a squee and a ear-to-ear smile afterwards.

"No Pinkie, but thank you for asking. I do not mean to sound rude, but can you do a welcome party another time? I have a lot of work to unfortunately." I said, lying through my teeth. I could not let Pinkie know that, somehow, she was spot on. That would not end well. We all wanted our secret to remain a secret for as long as possible.

"Okie dokie lokie! Come on Gummy, let's go find Princess Twilight!" She cheered as she turned around and bounced away from my window.

Princess Twilight? She does exist in this universe. I am not saying she shouldn't  be here, but that I am not assuming particular ponies are here without hearing or seeing proof myself. And that was one of them. And Princess? We must be in the timezone of Season Four, as she achieved Princess status in the finale of Season Three. Anyway, enough pondering about other ponies, I needed to start this Quest, and fast.

First things first; Spacesuits.

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