[Ponyville] Class Is In Session (Open to Ponyville Fillies and Colts)

[brianblackberry]

Cheerilee smiled when Haywire announced that her team of herself, BeBop, and Snails were ready to drop their tomato, "great work my little ponies! I'll go let Dash know; just decide which one of you are going to go up with her." She looked at the rest of her class inside with some concern though, "I hope you all will be ready very soon, the school day is about to end! No dilly dallying" If worse came to worse, they would go latter in the week, she wasn't going to fail any student just because they were a little slow with the project.

The purple school-mare trotted back outside to look for Dash and spotted the CMC, "girls, since your assignment is done, if you like, you can just play out here in the school yard until the bell rings to go home, 'kay?" No reason not to award them with extra recess for the remainder of the hour, they had done very well.

Cheerilee turned to speak to Dash when she spotted that Haywire took it upon herself to get on top of the schoolhouse with the blue pegasus' assistance! Oh no, what if she fell?!! "Miss Haywire, you come down this instant! You know you are not supposed to be-". Before she could finish her sentence, the little red filly dropped the box; Cheerilee watched with trepidation and curiosity as the box bounced wildly off the ground as if it was a rubber ball. Clever! Still, she needed that filly off the roof!

Cheerilee was about to ask Dash to fly up and get Haywire down when the box continued to bounce her way. The next bounced landed it right in front of the surprised school teacher when it suddenly bounced back up and smacked her right in the base of her chin! Cheerilee went reeling backwards and the box bounced off the ground and pogoed right back at her again, smacking her right on the muzzle! Stumbling around, Cheerilee's eyes were temporary crossed as imagined little birds and flowers swirled around her stunned and confused mind as she stumbled before falling back on her haunches, "whaaaaa….who… Whaaaa?"

[SilverSwirl]

Timid nodded to Guiding Light, that would be absolutely acceptable. He gazed at the piles of the material, before taking his half in hoof. Smiling softly, he began to fill the void between the outer wall of the box and the inner shell. Even as he did so, he jumped at the sound of the falling boxes. He glanced up and smiled as he saw Rainbow Dash was helping Cheerilee with this little activity. Maybe he could ask her some things about maybe helping him to be a little tougher in the physical sense? In any event, he had a box to finish.

"Just a bit more here and there...", he mumbled as he evenly distributed the soft materials in the void. Giving it an experimental jab with a hoof, the box gave a little but returned to it's original shape. Satisfied with the result, he could now turn his attention to Cheerilee. "Guiding, Snips, you are cleared to handle the tomato.", he said with a smile as he trotted off to the aid of his beleaguered teacher.

[Lux]

Scootaloo was pleased by the fact that the box she and her friends made was a success. So what if it didn't yield a cutie mark for the three? It still was fun, and that was a great thing for the Pegasus.

"We did it! High hoof Crusaders!" she said raising her hoof in the air.

Meanwhile...

The team Guiding Light was on worked feverishly to finish their box. It was by far the softest most squishy thing the yellow colt had seen, perhaps more than the pillow on his bed at home. He wondered if this fact would make it more apt to being damaged as it would crunch on impact or would it stay firm enough to cushion the blow. Well there was one way to find out.

Before he could announce the team was ready, Guiding watched as another box seemingly bounced from the roof of the schoolhouse, not seeing his fellow classmate Haywire from where he was standing. There was something strange about this one as the box seemed to bounce like a ball each time it struck the ground. The colt let out a gasp when the ball like tomato box hit Ms. Cheerilee right in the face!

"Are you ok, Miss Cheerilee?"

[Bramble Rose]

Sweetie grinned happily to her two best friends. "Oh, the Crimson Flash could have sailed down from the clouds above with no damage!" She agreed with Apple Bloom. "He's the greatest daredevil fruit in the history of daredevil fruits!" But at Scootaloo's reminder she quick twisted around to check her own flank. "Awwww..." she sighed. But still! He was safe and sound, and that's what really mattered!

But at Miss Cheerilee's suggestion that they SLICE UP Lord Lycopersicum?! Her eyes got really big and she pulled back from Miss Cheerilee, hugging the Crimson Flash more protectively than ever! "Miss CheeriLEE!" she squeaked, her voice cracking, and a faint off-white fwash sparking from the tip of her horn. "How could you even suggest that after he narrowly avoided death so daringly! He's been through an ordeal!"

Understandably - and thankfully - Cheerilee was distracted from thoughts of vegicide by getting smacked in the chin by a bouncing box. No, wait! That was bad! "Miss Cheerilee!" Sweetie squeaked again, horrified! "Quick, girls! Apple Bloom, you go inside to get the first ice kit! Scootaloo! You get your scooter and hurry into town to get some aid from the aid vendor! No, wait, reverse that! you know what I mean!

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Rainbow Dash looked up at Cheerilee's scolding, and before the teacher could even ask - and without noticing the trajectory of the box heading in the teacher's direction - Dash was off like a shot. Before Haywire could even notice, she was held protectively in Dash's hooves, gathered up safely as Dash circled around more sedately. They were already several blocks away - Dash having gotten a bit carried away in the moment. "Oops!" she said, giving an embarrassed little laugh. "Didn't mean to end up all the way over here. Sounds like you're in for it now, kiddo. Why didn't you wait for me? Don'tcha like flying?" Her wings flapping slower, she started back towards the school - not wanting to go at those 'unsafe speeds' that she'd been warned were unsuitable for foals. OK, that was a lie, she REALLY wanted to go at those 'unsafe speeds' because that's what made them fun, but she was TRYING to be responsible here.

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[Mojo]

Suddenly scooped up by Rainbow Dash, it took a few seconds for Haywire to get her bearings. When the rust colored filly realized she was now airborne, she heard the rainbow maned mare's staunch warning.

"Nevermind all that!" the blank flank filly neighed, "we gotta stop that thar bouncin' box before... too late! Miss Cheerilee got knocked coo-coo by it! Quick! We gotta go help her an' help mah teammates Bebop and Snails off'n the roof too! Mah rope ladder's still up, so I hope they kin both climb down the same way we went up!"

Still held in Rainbow Dash's grasp, Haywire could, for the moment, only watch as the wooden box her team created continued bouncing all around the school.

"Um, Miss Rainbow Dash, could ya set me down now, please?"

[SteelEagle]

That tickled Apple Bloom pink! The Crusaders actually managed to get an A for once during a group project. They deserved it but they very often didn't get what they deserved or worked for. Something always seemed to sabotage and played into the general feeling that they either weren't good enough or were doomed to failure by a very angry school-sabotaging ghost. A failed ghost hunting cutie mark meant that the second option likely wasn't very true. Getting a good grade wasn't the most important thing in the world to Apple Bloom but doing right by her friends and showing Miss Cheerilee that the Crusaders were the smartest and best students she ever did teach was. Too bad about not getting their cutie marks but heck, tomato droppin' would have been an awfully odd cutie mark to have. Almost as odd as whatever Diamond Tiara's meant, and nopony could make heads or tails of that one.

Pretty soon, Cheerilee couldn't make heads or tails of anything. Haywire's group had made a bouncy box to protect the tomato which was pretty ingenius. Apple Bloom wpuldn't have wanted to do that because as much as it may protect the tomato it could easily be lost or run out of control and sack into somepony. And as the sun would have it, such was the outcome. The box bounced a few times and the only vaguely aware Cheerilee was smacked in the face by it! Apple Bloom winced and opened her eyes only after a few seconds as Cheerilee played the part of a prize fighter on the ropes, rope a dope and out of it. And to add to the sense of low-key chaos and general foalishness, Sweetie Belle got her orders confused. Of course it didn't take a scientist to figure out what she meant, so Apple Bloom shot her a salute.

"Aye aye, cap'n!" Apple Bloom replied, snapping the salute and charging in to get the first aid kit. Her teacher wasn't about to go down on her watch, no way no how!

[Lux]

In her celebration which consisted of the orange Pegasus dancing to a tune in her head that only she knew, Scootaloo was oblivious to the fact that Cheerilee had the audacity to have their prized tomato get cut up like some ordinary fruit. If she payed attention she would protest the the fruit was to have a place of honor, right in the Crusaders' clubhouse! It would be a shining example of the three fillies victory over gravity and their string of bad luck, at least until the fruit turned rotted and smelly forcing them to throw the Crimson Flash away.

Suddenly the uproar broke her out of her dancing as Cheerilee looked like she got hit by something, looking dazed. Sweetie Belle then began giving orders to others for help. While Scootaloo's head was still spinning as to what exactly happened to her teacher, there was no time to think.

"I'm on it," she said before turning to her teacher, "Don't worry Miss Cheerilee. The Crusaders will help you."

The filly made a mad dash inside the classroom where her prized scooter was parked. She dashed out of the building her wings making a buzzing noise like some big bee as they propelled her to town and hopefully to where some much needed medical supplies were.

[Bramble Rose]

Sweetie Belle carefully set Crimson Flash aside where he hopefully wouldn't get squished or chopped up or fried into an afternoon snack, and then grabbed his flying box and emptied out all the crumpled newspapers that Scootaloo had so carefully prepared. She made a little pillow and said, "Here, Miss Cheerilee! Lay your head here, it'll be all right!"

She looked up to see how her friends were doing, and smiled in relief to see Apple Bloom approaching with the first aid kit. "Good job, Apple Bloom! Don't worry, I got this!" She opened up the kit and pulled out the bandages. She couldn't remember all of the first aid, but she knew that ponies that got their heads bumped got bandages! And Miss Cheerilee had gotten bopped under the jaw, so in two shakes of a pony's tail, she had Cheerilee's jaw bandaged shut - and most of the rest of her head bandaged, too, so that the only thing left of Cheerilee that one could see was a single lock of escaped mane and one eye looking out through a gap in the white gauzy mass.

"Don't you worry, Miss Cheerilee! Scootaloo will be back with ice, soon!"

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Rainbow Dash blinked at Haywire's words. She recognized the attitude - everything was too slow, hurry hurry hurry faster faster! Yup, seemed awfully familiar! But Haywire was also right! She played the brief flight back in the back of her head, doing the quick calculations. Cheerilee just got a minor bump, so she should be all right, and the two foals she'd skimmed past seemed relatively far away from the edge, so unless they were just horribly clumsy ...

Then she connected that one of them was Snails.

Unsafe speeds it was, then! She dashed down to the schoolyard, depositing Haywire carefully in the nice soft sandbox on the way by, then zoomed up in an arc around the schoolhouse, hovered a moment in mid-air as she lined up her approach, and then darted forward again. One hoof slipped each around Snails and Bebop, scooping them off the roof and, before they knew it, they were being let down into the sandbox next to Haywire.

She hovered in mid air there for a moment, then, wiping at her forehead and letting out a "Whew." OK. Now what? She looked around quickly.

Oh no. Was she the only responsible adult still conscious?!

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[brianblackberry]

Cheerilee laid there for a few moments, her mind swirling with visions of tomatoes and book reports, which for some reason in her confused mind, were all mistakenly written as poorly done seedy romance novels. It didn't take long for her to sit back up, her mauve body bobbing back and forth as her eyes spin around, but other than the momentary dizziness and disarray, she was unharmed. "What? Huh? What happened?! Where?"

Her mind was still swimming in the choppy water of the incertitude sea, uncertain what was really happening or where she even was. She could hear and understand Sweetie Belle's adorably friendly voice urging her to lay down though. Even if Cheerilee still wasn't sure who was suggesting it; still the soothing and caring voice put her at ease. Besides, laying down sounded good right about now, "umm.. alright, if you think so?"

Cheerilee's mind felt fuzzy as the dutiful little unicorn filly wrapped her head in bandages so thoroughly, only a single eye and a locket of her mane was still visible. Then it suddenly all came back in a blaze of clarity! The school, the class, the tomato drop!! The purple mare forcefully sat back up on her haunches, "mhmmm uhhmmmm mhm mhmmm!"

She had to get these bandages off stat so to regain control of the situation. Before she could begin to untie the mess of gauze around her head, the bouncing box came back around and whacked Cheerilee fight in the back of the skull, causing her to faceplant back into the dirt and knocking her silly once again.

Certainly one for the memories; if she manages to remember anything.

[Lux]

The approaching buzzing sound growing louder every second signaled the return of Scootaloo as she pulled into the schoolyard, her scooter making a sort of squealing noise as it kicked up a cloud of dust.

"I'm back," Scootaloo said hoping her entrance was as epic as what she imagined it to be in her mind. Yet the dust cloud broke all hope of that as the Pegasus started coughing until it cleared.

"I got the supplies girls," She said after finally regaining her composure. Reaching into her saddlebag, she dumped rolls of gauze, band-aids, a jar of some white cream that Scootaloo had not idea what it was other than it magically helped heal wounds, and ice carefully wrapped in a cloth. Sure it wasn't the most sanitary thing to do leaving these items on the ground, but desperate times called for desperate measures.

"How's Miss Cheerilee doing Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle," she said but before getting an answer looked to see their teacher face down in the mud.

"Oh no! This is worse than I thought. The patient doesn't look too well. It's time for...."

With a flourish she placed nurse hats on her and her two friends.

"CUTIE MARK CRUSADERS FIRST AID GIVERS!"

[Pretzelparty]

"HAY Y'ALL! LOOK OUT DOWN BELOW! HERE COMES MAH TEAM'S TOMATO CAGE THINGIE!"

"Uh oh!" the rust colored filly neighed to Bebop and Snails. "That thing wasn't supposed ta do THAT! We better git down thar and stop it before it gits me inta big trouble!"

"Nevermind all that!" the blank flank filly neighed, "we gotta stop that thar bouncin' box before... too late! Miss Cheerilee got knocked coo-coo by it! Quick! We gotta go help her an' help mah teammates Bebop and Snails off'n the roof too! Mah rope ladder's still up, so I hope they kin both climb down the same way we went up!"

Their tomato drop went wonderfully at first. All according to plan the tomato holding apparatus bounced off the ground harmlessly like one of those rubber toy balls. The good part only lasted so long as the ball soon began bouncing higher and higher and around the schoolyard. Eventually it even nailed their teacher on the muzzle, from the looks of it Miss Cheerilee was pretty rattled from it too!

Bebop was getting ready to climb down when she was suddenly snatched up by the rainbow maned pegasus who had given her trouble earlier. Rainbow would find this filly didn't appreciate being picked up off the roof and flown around. Not really thinking about what she was doing the filly squirmed and wiggled against her fellow passenger and their carrier all the way down to the sandbox to voice her protests. Once she was set down she set her eyes on the bouncing box, dead set on catching it.

She saw the box once again bouncing it's way to a colt with blue eyes, a white mane, and a yellow coat with a lantern for a cutie mark. If he didn't pay attention he was gonna get beaned on the head by a safely held tomato. The brown filly galloped out of the sandbox and leapt towards the box just as it was seconds away from bonking the colt on the head. As the little blonde filly flew threw the air, one could almost frame the scene in dramatic slow motion as her magic aura engulfed the bouncing box, ceasing it's descent. Unfortunately her magic failed to stop her own descent and she soon collided with Guiding light and the two foals wound up tumbling together until they both hit miss Cheerilee's side.

[Lux]

In an instant the entire class project erupted into an uproar! Cheerilee was hit not once but twice by the rogue bouncing tomato package, something that the colt couldn't figure how exactly it managed to keep bouncing around and more importantly if anypony would be able to stop it from hurting others. The yellow pony ran towards Cheerilee to see i there was anything he could do to assist. The Cutie Mark Crusaders already sprung into action fixing the first of Cheerilee's injuries, so Guiding light was confident that the teacher was in capible hooves. Before he could do anything else, the colt heard the all too familiar bouncing noise o the box, one that sounded coming closer to him!

He turned as his eyes went wide confirming the truth. As much as hid brain wanted to run or use magic to slow or attempt to stop the box he might as wee have been a statue. Before facing utter annihilation by a science project, Bebop suddenly jumped up and grabbed the box with her magic. But then she didn't stop her movement, getting ever closer to the colt until.

Thump!

The two collided and rolled until they came to a stop by something, unbeknownst that that something was his teacher. As his eyes snapped open, the colt found himself staring an inch away from the cute brown filly.

"um... I... um..." Light babbled on before saying, "Uh thanks for saving me Bebop. You're not just a cute pony but smart too!"

The colt, feeling dizzy and butterflies in his stomach, unsure what would or should happen next being in such a position with a cute pony that just saved his life.

[Mojo]

Now that Haywire was safe on the ground, be it landing in the playground sandbox, the rust colored filly quickly began to access the current situation. First, looking over at Cheerilee, it looks like other ponies were trending to her needs. This left the problem of stopping the still bouncing wooden box.

"I gotta stop that thar thingie somehow," the blonde blank flank neighed as she galloped after it. She had to think of a way to stop its bouncy rampage before more ponies got hurt. Finally, she came up with an idea, it was a longshot, but it was better than doing nothing. Coming to a stop, Haywire took out her trusty slingshot and took aim at the fast moving box.

"If'n I kin hit it jist right, maybe I kin git that thingie ta ram into the stone wall over yonder!" the rust colored filly neighed as she aimed and fired. The first rock struck the crate and made it spin out a little, enough to avoid colliding with any more of her classmates. Then two more subsequent rock strikes changed the bouncing crate's direction. Haywire cheered as it bounced out of the schoolyard and over towards the stone wall where it struck and broke apart.

"PHEW! Good thing Bebop already rescued our tomato. I'll clean up this mess later, now I need ta git back to the group!" the blank flank filly cheered as she galloped back over to her classmates.

"Good thinkin' ta save our tomater thar, Bebop! At least the three of us orta git a good grade fer this. Of course, I'm probably gonna git detention cause the dumb box bounced around. Hope mah big sister don't ground me fer too long fer this one..."

[Bramble Rose]

Sweetie Belle whimpered in protest as Miss Cheerilee started to get up again, and started to scold her. "Now, Miss Cheerilee, you lay back down right-" *wince* She ducked and let out a pained noise as she watched Miss Cheerilee get bonked in the back of the head. "Now, see! That's what happens when you don't listen to your nurse!" She tsked and moved the crumpled paper to be under the new position of Cheerilee's head, and then smiled to Scootaloo and took the ice, wrapping it up in a cloth and setting it atop Miss Cheerilee's head. "There! That should fix things up."

She turned to the class, and proceeded to interpret Miss Cheerilee's muffled mumbles. "You heard her, class! She values our education too much to let this get in the way! We need to continue the tomato drop!"

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"Ummmm..." Rainbow Dash said, uncertainly, "I'm not sure that's what she was saying..."

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Sweetie Belle raised an eyebrow. "When have you ever known Miss Cheerilee to put herself over the education of her students?"

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Rainbow Dash nodded. "Good point," she said. She stepped over to Cheerilee and gave her a quick once-over, but it just seemed to be a bump on the head. Dash had knocked herself silly more than a few times. She'd be all right for just a little bit, till they could get a professional to look at her. The safety of the foals had to be the first priority.

"All right, fillies and colts! NO MORE CLIMBING ON THE ROOF. And no dropping tomatoes without me! You follow instructions! When you're not on the ground, SAFETY is your number one concern! You have to be aware of EVERYTHING around you! So only controlled drops from here on out!" She floated over to Haywire, Bebop, and Snails. "And the first thing we need to do is deal with you three. Why did you three decide to climb up on the roof and throw a wooden box down at the ponies below? Were you trying for a prank or did you just not care if you hurt anypony?"

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[brianblackberry]

Hit by a runaway bouncing box, head wrapped up by the Crusaders, hit by the same runaway box again, what else could possible go wrong today? The purple earth pony pushed herself back up to a sitting position with her forelegs. She needed these bandages off now before the confusion caused classroom anarchy among the students. Before she could undo the first wrap, two of the foals collided with her, knocking Cheerilee back on her side.

*Siiiiiigh* Perhaps it is time to send in a written request for a vacation, a long vacation, maybe to Marelia, she never been to Marelia before, heard it was nice, with warm relaxing saunas…

Before Cheerilee could contemplate further on the joys of vacationing, Sweetie Belle helped her back up, only to lay the still somewhat confused Cheerilee down and place a cloth filled with ice on her head. While the ice pack was soothing and it was very kind of the Crusaders to "help", Cheerilee sat right back up when the little white unicorn decided to be the teacher's "interpreter".

Before she could get the bandages off and speak for herself, the bell that stood atop of the red school house rang, it only meant one thing: The school day had ended. They had run out of time for the tomato drop, and only with two managed to be ready. How did she loose track of the time so easily?

Cheerilee quickly pulled the bandages off her head, her mane a large wavy mess but otherwise she looked lucid with no observable injuries. "I'm sorry class, but I'm afraid we'll have to cut our tomato drop short as the school day, and week, is over. We'll be able to continue it Monday for those students who have yet to finish theirs."

She turned to the two groups who managed to finish their drops and offered a reassuring smile, "for all of you who managed to drop your tomato, you all have been very… Inventive in your boxes, I can assure you that you all got an A, even if one of the boxes got a little out of control." Sure the bouncing box hit her a couple times on accident, but it was very clever!

No pony was going to be in trouble for being inventive. Being on the roof of the schoolhouse of the other hoof.. "Haywire, I will require you stay after school today for clean up duty again. What have I told you about climbing the schoolhouse?"

With that all said and done, there was one thing left to say, "class dismissed!"

Because some people have effectively dropped out for various reasons, I feel this thread has gone as far as I could take it with Cheerilee. It was an excellent run, two years and 17 pages in the making. I thank all who participated. Feel free to continue to post if you feel your character has more to contribute, but the thread is effectively done.

[Mojo]

(feel I need to make this last post)

Listening to Rainbow Dash's sharp rebuke of herself and her friends, Haywire bravely stepped forward and looked the rainbow maned Pegasus mare eye to eye.

"Don't ya go blamin' Bebop an' Snails fer all this. I'm the one that done it all! It was MY idea ta climb the roof of the school. Ain't so hard, I do it all the time. It was MY idea to go ahead without ya cause you were so busy and this here wasn't no prank! Believe me, I've pulled some real doozies in the past, but this were no prank! The three of us worked hard together to build that thing. And fer yur information, Miss Rainbow Head, them's MY bands'a rubber that made it bounce! So, if'n yur gonna throw the book at us, throw it at ME! Leave Bebop an' Snails outta it! I'm the one responsible an' I'll take all the blame an' punishment too!"