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so scootaloo's keeping petunia busy like
you asked what did you two want to talk
about
i'm sure you get these questions all the
time oh this is so awkward um you're the
expert so we thought you'd have some
insight into our daughter's new
cutie mark what's wrong
obviously we're both very proud of her
and her cutie mark despite its uh
unsettling nature
unsettling
i don't care what you mean her moc
doesn't bother you at all hey check out
what we found
look
a spiny-backed pony source in our own
backyard and i found him on my very own
how cool is that
she's an archaeologist
of course what'd you think she was gonna
be a pirate
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pirate
why would we think that
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my little pony my little pony
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a beautiful heart faithful and strong
sharing kindness
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another successful cutie intervention
you know crusaders i don't want to toot
our own horn
but we've helped a lot of ponies figure
out their purpose in life like blue nope
here nice that's the bone blunt
yep everywhere you look there's a pony
we've helped find a purpose
you've gotta admit we've had a pretty
good effect on every pony since we
discovered our destiny and started
helping other ponies discover theirs
could this get any better or what
scooter you do know there will always be
challenges
someday some point you might even come
to us with a problem that even we can't
handle like say
a griffin
exactly like a griffin but that's just
crazy talk or not
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is that really a griffin you're darn
tootin it is what do you think that
griffin wants
i guess we've got to ask her but aren't
griffin supposed to be kind of mean and
cranky
crusaders looks like we got to step
carefully
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the cutie mark crusaders i can't believe
it's really really you
this trip is not crazy
how in the blooming apples did you know
who we are
know who you are
but you can call me gabby since we're
friends now
pleased to meet you
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well howdy um gabby
i'm just about the most excited
that's ever been about anything
excited but whatever for
what for what for everypony in town
tells me of your amazing assistance how
you help ponies find their place in the
world
it's a calling but and that's why i'm
here i need help too
i want you to give me a cutie mark
um can a griffin even get a cutie mark
i don't know but i think we should
probably find out
gabriella gabby
gabby
why do you even want a cutie mark it
doesn't seem like a very griffining
thing to want
right right right
you're telling me i don't know if you've
heard but griffins can be a little bit
unfriendly
don't pay much attention to each other
and if they do it's not you know the
good kind of attention as for me i'm
just a little male delivery griffin who
likes to spread a little bit of griffony
sunshine on my round which always makes
me feel different from the other
griffins
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i do anything for any old griffin in
need
but it just always seemed like the
harder i tried the less i fit in
it wasn't until your friends came to
griffinstone then i realized some
creatures actually like helping each
other and i saw something so awesomely
awesome how helping spreads from pony to
pony and griffin to griffin
i knew then that i had to find out why i
was so different from the other griffins
and i knew the answer just had to have
something to do with those wonderful
amazing marks on the pony's clinics
and i admit
i became
maybe a little obsessed so first chance
i had to deliver a letter from gilda i
took it so i can find the perfect pony
to help me understand what those marks
are
everybody here told me one thing
i just had to see the cutie mark
crusaders they've helped everypony here
get their cutie marks and i knew i just
knew that someday i'd have one too a
cutie mark of my very own
that's why i flew all the way here i
want to find my own place in the world
and i know you can help me by giving me
a beauty mark so let's make with the
cutie
whenever you're ready
did it happen yet
uh
not exactly
how about now how about now how about
now
um gabi
i hate to break it to you but it sounds
like you might have heard some tall
tales about what crusaders can do
i mean we are kind of awesome and all
but no pony can just give you a cutie
mark it just sort of
happens
though i'm pretty sure it doesn't happen
to griffin's or if it does
we've never ever heard of it oh i hadn't
thought of that
sounds like a challenge and who could be
up to it but the world famous cutie mark
crusaders cutie marks it's in your name
and everything right right
now i have to deliver gilda's letter to
rainbow dash i bet by the time i get
back you'll have it 100 figured out
toodles for now
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what she wants
it's not possible right i don't know but
i know someone who just might
i've read every book on the subject and
i've never read a thing about any
creature other than a pony getting a
cutie mark but twilight gabby flew all
the way here so we can help her there's
gotta be something we can do
say
is there some kind of spell you can whip
up to make her mark appear um i don't
know if any of you remember but using
magic to get a cutie mark never really
works out all that well
oh
right
crusaders i'm sorry while i can't say
for certain that it's utterly impossible
the chances of gabby getting an actual
mark are
pretty slim
everything i've ever learned tells me
it's just not gonna happen
oh no for gabi what the apples are we
ever gonna tell her
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crusaders this is terrible
gabby really believed in us and now
we're gonna let her down
but what else can we do
hmm
you know what crusaders so what maybe we
can't help gabby get a cutie mark but we
can still do what we're best at we can
help her find her purpose
and i reckon doing that is the same for
griffins as it is for ponies or any
other creature in equestria all we have
to do is be extra special clear with her
like crystal empire clear
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you wonderful wonderful crusaders i just
know you figured out how to help me
because you're all so incredible
well
gabby we've talked it over and we think
we may just be able to help you out but
not exactly in the way you think
see
here's the thing about you getting a
cutie mark
you didn't let me finish
um i think maybe that could have been
clearer
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she's still going anypony know if
griffins ever get tired what do you
think my mark will be a lightning bolt
an erupting volcano i don't care if it's
a jar of marmalade i know i'll love it
whatever it is hold on just a hoof step
gabby there's something we need to clear
up we can definitely help you find your
purpose but that mark's probably not
gonna happen
what
it's true
twilight's never heard of a creature
other than a pony getting a cutie mark
oh
is that all you had me worried for a
second i mean there's a first time for
everything right and she didn't say it
was impossible right
well not exactly
well then if anypony can make it happen
it's you three i mean you haven't failed
yet
you know what gaby i promise we're gonna
do everything we can to help you get
your mark
it's gonna happen i can feel it
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and she's off again why incarnation
would you promise something that just
can't be done
i know what it's like to want something
that's out of reach
and just because it hasn't happened yet
doesn't mean it can't
maybe trying for the impossible isn't so
bad guess we'll never know for sure
unless we give it a try
all right but where do we even start
where we always do with a good
old-fashioned crusaders chart
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the first thing we gotta do is found
your purpose no pony gets a mark without
one oh right let's do this what are you
good at do you play any sports or like
to dance or how about singing i just
love to sing la la la
wow i kind of want to just try
everything i mean i don't even know what
to pick
don't worry that's what we're here for
like a racer at the starting line you're
chomping at the bit you are here to find
your purpose and a place you really fit
and until you find your place and laugh
you're never gonna quit we can help you
find the purpose in your life
a griffin mixes lion's strength with
winged eagles might when i finally find
my purpose then my cutie marks in sight
crusaders i won't let you down i've just
begun to fight you're gonna help me find
the purpose in my life
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got a job it's just no fun call on me
i'll get it done
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that's the sphere
i'll try anything to get my cutie mark
keep up with me crusaders we're just
getting our start rock your little ones
to sleep while hanging up the sheets i
can help you with your heavy load walk
granny cross the street
i'll run you round the faces bath it's
really no big feet can we help her find
the purpose in her life
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cheer you if you're feeling low plant
your garden make it grow write a piece
for your quartet filling in on clarinet
bake that cake as fast as lightning
she's so good at things it's frightening
cutie mark crusaders i think we've got a
problem
fill the boat and sail it out across the
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know that seas can count on me
cmc's you're gonna help me
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gabby's special purpose can't be
everything right it may as well be
i don't know how we find what she's
supposed to do when she can do it all
and if finding her purpose seems
impossible we can just forget about the
whole griffin getting a cutie mark thing
which is actually
i never should have gotten her hopes up
i did it oh so laid on me crusaders
what's my purpose and how do we get a
mark on these here punches
gabby
we
we don't
wait
what are you saying
we're saying that since you can do
everything so amazingly well
we just can't figure out what one thing
you're supposed to
gabby
we can't help you
but but you're the world famous cutie
mark crusaders i can't believe it i
i won't believe it
gaby wait
we're sorry we're so so sorry
this is just awful
for the first time ever the cutie mark
crusaders are cutie mark
failures
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i'm sorry crusaders i really thought we
could help gabby
i thought we could help anypony
maybe that's just it maybe we can only
help ponies or maybe we just plain
failed
then what do you call this
a cutie mark
what you got your mark after all even
though we couldn't find your purpose but
what
huh oh and what does it mean a cauldron
uh i don't know
maybe it means my purpose is uh helping
sakura with potions that was the first
thing i tried i guess it just took some
time to appear but here it is this is
awesome we're not failures whatever we
did worked i had a feeling we could help
you and we did oh we've gotta go see
twilight right away she'll wanna know
about this
correction she needs to know about this
i bet she'll want to write a whole book
about the very first griffin to get a
cutie mark of her own oh
totally um but you know a rainbow dash
asked me to pick up her answer to
gilda's letter i better take care of
that before i forget
here's an idea uh you head to the castle
and i'll meet you there cutie mark and
all
um
wow can you believe it we were able to
help her get her mark after all come on
crusaders let's tell twilight
gabby you just missed her she was in
such a hurry she didn't even come in
just drop this letter and zoomed away
dear crusaders i'll never forget you you
really are every bit as awesome as i'd
heard i'm heading home to tell all the
griffins how you did the impossible by
getting me my cutie mark toodles
wait a second cutie mark
you actually got a griffin a cutie mark
for the first time in recorded history
you know what this calls for a
full-scale research project
this makes no sense gabby didn't come in
and show you her mark you have got to
get gabby back here right away i have so
many questions oh i hope i have enough
ink and parchment to document everything
spy guess what just happened weird yeah
we didn't show twilight her mark like
she said she was gonna do
something in this here applesauce smells
kind of fishy we'd better find her and
find out what's going on come on
crusaders
keep your eyes on the skies ponies yeah
we can't have gone far she's not in the
air she's right there gaby hold up we're
in common
um
sorry and no time to chat i just stopped
to help this pony get out of the lock
and then i really gotta fly okay
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gabby we're your friends why in
equestria are you running away from us
we're running away oh i'm not running
away i'm just uh
excited to show my lovely new cutie mark
to everyone in griffinstone you mean the
cutie mark that's running right off your
flank
yep
that's the one
i guess the one thing i'm really not
good at is
faking things
wow gabby painting on a fake cutie mark
to make yourself feel better you must
have been really upset
sure i was disappointed but i didn't do
it to make myself feel better i wanted
to make you feel better
i couldn't bear you three thinking you
failed after you tried so hard to help
that's why i had to leave before your
twilight found out the truth
i'm sorry i wasn't honest with you
i'll just wing my way back to
griffinstone
thanks for trying
you don't need to apologize for caring
about how other ponies are feeling i'm
just sorry we couldn't come through for
you
hmm
maybe we can gaby clean up and meet us
at the crusaders clubhouse
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i know you all tried your very best but
i guess griffins and cutie marks just
don't mix maybe i don't even have a
special purpose
hang on a second
we were racking our brains trying to
figure out your destiny until we
remembered how every time you did
something new you tried to help
everypony around you even us
how did it feel when you showed up with
that fake mark and the three of us
thought we'd actually helped you
well
i was really glad i helped you feel
happier
so maybe helping is your thing you might
even say it's your purpose
but helping just feels good
it couldn't have anything to do with
what i'm supposed to do with my life
right
gabby finding your special purpose
doesn't have to be about being good at
something it's about feeling good about
something inside
and it looks like your destiny is a
whole lot like ours helping others and
you don't need a symbol on your flank to
know that but since we are the cutie
mark crusaders we meet you in anyway
behold
your very own beauty mark
we carved it to mark the moment we all
figured out what you should do with your
life but they look just like yours
you can't mean
you bet we do you're one of us now gabby
today we dub thee the very first griffin
you may not be able to get a cutie mark
but you're selflessly dedicating your
life to helping others anyhow i can't
think of anything more crusadery than
that
awesome
my very own
who lands six you sure have earned it
and so are we
scootaloo you're pretty amazing even
though things look bleak you still found
a way to help gabby in the end of course
helping's what we do right
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i'm gonna go home and do my very very
best to bring cutie mark crusader values
to griffinstone i promise
promise us one other thing too
come back soon
after all you're a crusader now
crusaders forever crusaders forever
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my little pony
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