New School
Today was a special day for Blueberry Blitz. The yellow earth pony clutched her saddle bags as she stood outside her new school. The white high school looked normal enough, and the ponies going in looked friendly, but still the teenager mare was nervous. What if nopony likes me? She thought. What if the lessons are much harder here, and I fail all my classes? She shook her head. No, I can’t think that! I’ll be fine!
After a few moments of thinking, Blitz had to go in. After making sure all of her books were in her bright blue saddle bags (For the tenth time), she went in.
The inside of the school looked normal, too, with cream coloured walls, green tiled floors and dark green, grungy lockers. Her first class was starting soon. She had to hurry. She was told what locker was hers, along with the combination, a week ago. She couldn’t remember any of them. The earth pony tapped on her forehead, hoping that it would get her to remember. But unfortunately, Blueberry Blitz couldn’t.
The final bell for the first class cut her attempts to remember short. Without hesitation, she galloped as fast as she could to math class.
Seemingly out of nowhere, an old mare appeared in front of the earth pony. “No running in the halls!” She cried as Blitz skidded to a halt. The mare was a pale purple unicorn with a neat, dark grey mane and tail. She had small, black framed glasses covering her dark blue eyes.
Blueberry Blitz moved her blue mane out of her pink eyes. “Sorry, ms… um…”
“Minus.” The old mare completed. “I believe I’m your new math teacher. Now, get to class.” The mare turned and walked off, revealing her cutie mark to be a white minus sign, surrounded by matching plus, multiply and divide signs.
The earth pony followed the old mare, realising she had no idea where her class was, and that she was just running in a random direction before.
The math class had white walls and a dark grey floor. There was a black board with various lengths of chalk on the shelf under it, as well as a white poster showing a list of numbers from negative twenty to twenty written on in blue. The desks were regular wooden ones with green stools bolted to them, and they were in five rows of five. Blitz’s desk was in the back right corner. She sat on the green chair and pulled out her maths text book onto the table. It was a blue book with ‘MATH’ written on it in big white lettering. She also put her cat-themed notepad and yellow pencil onto the table right next to it. The teacher (Who was indeed the old purple mare, luckily for Blitz) told them to turn the text book to page one.
“Starting a book at the first page, crazy, right(!)” The mare next to Blueberry Blitz whispered. You turn your head to look at her. She was a rather thin lilac unicorn with a perfectly styled green mane and pale green eyes. Her cutie mark was three gumdrops, one red, one blue and one green, surrounded by sparkles.
“Shh!” The earth pony whispered to her noisy class mate. “You’re gonna get us in trouble!”
The unicorn rolled her eyes. “Oh, lighten up! What’s high school without a little fun!” The purple teenager snickered. “Hey, I don’t think I’ve seen you before. I’m Gumdrop, what’s your name?”
The yellow pony glanced up at the teacher, who hadn’t realised they were talking yet. “Blueberry Blitz.”
“Well, Blueberry Blitz, I can tell we’re gonna be friends!”
“Right…” Blitz whispered, trying to concentrate.
“I’m gonna show you around the school after class.” She smiled. The two mares realised the other students were turning their pages. Not wanting to get in trouble, they did the same. “I’ve always said that if you’re new at a school, there’s one thing you have to do!”
The earth pony sighed. “What?”
The purple pony smirked. “Hook up with a stallion.”
“What?” Blitz gasped, covering her mouth as to not alert the teacher that they were talking.
“Oh, I’m sorry. Mare.”
“I’m not gay, I just don’t see how you think that’s the way to feel at home at a new school!”
The unicorn rolled her eyes. “All right. Suit yourself.”
The rest of the class went by fast. After the unicorn shut up, Blitz was able to concentrate. She didn’t have time for Gumdrop to show her around, because English was starting in only a few minutes, so they settled on rescheduling at lunch.
The earth pony knew where English was, so she didn’t have to follow a teacher or anything. And she knew not to run, encase she was stopped and slowed down even more. Not that it mattered, it was only one hallway away, but she thought she might as well.
The English classroom was pretty much identical to the math class, except for instead of a maths poster above the black board, the white poster had a list of describing words on it.
Blitz’s desk was directly in the middle this time. Talking would be pretty risky now, so she doubted anyone would try speaking to her. She got out her grey English text book and note pad and put them on her desk. When she found her pencil and put it on her desk, it just rolled off. While trying to pick it back up, her bright yellow hoof met with a bright blue one. She looked up and saw a stallion’s face. He had a messy green mane and purple eyes, covered with dark yellow glasses.
“Hi…” The yellow pony greeted, nervously. She suddenly realised her muzzle was inches away from his, and started blushing. She grabbed her pencil and sat back up. Obviously the stallions noticed it too, and did the same.
Now that Blitz could look at the stallions properly, she noticed he was a unicorn and that his cutie mark was a computer, with a crack in the screen.
The unicorn was blushing as much as the earth pony. “So… I’m Hack.” He reached his blue hoof out at the mare.
“Blueberry Blitz.” The yellow pony replied, shaking the stallion’s hoof.
Suddenly, the door burst open. An earth pony stallion burst through. “Sorry I’m late, class!” He cried. He had a brown coat, an orange mane with dark brown stripes, shining blue eyes and a cutie mark of an open book, which had a pen writing in it. He was clutching books and slammed the door behind him. “I was held up.”
After setting all his books onto his wooden desk, he wrote his name on the black board. Mr Write.
“He must get a joke about that a lot!” Blitz whispered.
Once again, the teacher told the class to open to the first page.
After the class ended, it was lunch. The earth pony quickly asked the stallion where lunch was, and after hearing the answer she galloped off. She thought Gumdrop looked popular, and she wasn’t sure what the unicorn would do to her if she blew her off.
“So, you met a stallion!” The purple pony slammed her hooves on the lunch table, after Blueberry Blitz told her about the events of English class. She was so involved in the conversation she had barely touched the food in her lunch tray, as apposed to her new friend who had nearly finished it all.
The earth pony started blushing again when she mentioned the pegasus. “Yeah, and he seems really nice.”
Gumdrop floated the contents of her lunch into the trash can by their table. “What’s his name?”
“Um…” Blitz looked confused. “Why did you just tip your food in there?”
“I’m not hungry.” She shrugged. “Name!”
“His name was Hack… And you barely ate anything!”
The unicorn rolled her eyes. “As much as I appreciate your concern, mom, I’m gonna be fine.”
“Alright.” The earth pony hesitated. She finished the last of her meal and took both the trays. “When I get back, you can show me around the school.” She trotted away to give back the trays, and went back to her friend. “So you gonna show me or what?”
The unicorn was looking horrified. “I just realised where I know that name from.”
“What?”
“That stallion is a big nerd!” She pointed her hoof at the earth pony.
Blitz stared at her, unimpressed. “So? You may care about that stuff, but I don’t. So just show me around like you promised.”
Gumdrop huffed. “Fine. I’ll show you my friends, first!”
She trotted off, and her new friend followed. She led her through the crowd of ponies and tables, into a small room. The walls were white and covered in posters of popular singers. The music room? No, couldn’t be. There was a football table in the middle. There were two stallions playing against each other on it, and one mare was watching.
“Guys!” Gumdrop said, causing the stallions to stop the game, and the mare to look at her. “This is Blueberry Blitz. She’s new to this school!”
The mare got up and strolled to Blitz. She was a light green pegasus, with a pink mane, with pale blue stripes running through it. She looked up and down at the earth pony, with her dark green eyes, then smiled.
“All right.” She finally said. “You seem cool.” She reached out her hoof to shake. “I’m Batter Batter. My friends call me BB.”
“I’m guessing a baseball special talent?” Blitz asked, not being able to see her cutie mark.
“Yup.” The pegasus smiled, turning to show the new pony her cutie mark; a baseball bat hitting a baseball.
The earth pony turned to the stallions. “What are your names?”
One of the stallions turned to her. “I’m Wicker.” He was a mint green earth pony, with a dark purple-red mane and tail, and deep purple eyes. “On behalf of all of us, I’d just like to say ‘Welcome to our school’!”
The other stallion scoffed.
“What?” BB narrowed her eyes at the brown stallion.
The pegasus stallion moved his neatly combed blond mane out of his eyes. “She comes to this school and she’s welcome in open hooves. I come and I pretty much have to beg to get friends.”
The mare playfully punched him. “Ah, lighten up, dude!” She laughed.
“What’s your name?” Blitz asked for a second time.
“…”
“What?”
“Fl…Flowerpower.”
He didn’t seem to want to answer.
“What’s his name?” Blitz finally asked the earth pony stallion.
He couldn’t help but giggle a bit. “Flowerpower.”
The blond stallion flapped his wings and pouted. “Thanks, man(!)” He flew up and sat on the end of the black football table.
Somepony started knocking on the blue door.
“Who is that?” BB asked.
“Why are they even knocking?” Wicker wondered. “It’s the game room, not a bedroom.”
The door opened, revealing Hack. “I thought I’d find you here.” He smiled.
“Hi, Hack!” Blitz greeted. She then realized she was being too eager. “Um, guys. This is-”
“A big nerd!” Gumdrop snickered. Her three friends started laughing, too.
The unicorn stallion used his magic to push up his dark yellow glasses. “If being talented with something that can move over 1000 bits into one account without them even knowing, then fine.”
The others looked at him weirdly.
“Um…” The unicorn mare mumbled.
Batter Batter pushed her friend out of the way. “Can you really do that?” She squealed.
“If I wanted to.” The stallion rolled his purple eyes. “But it’s illegal!”
“So the one thing your special talent is good for, you are forbidden by law to so?” Gumdrop yelled.
“That’s enough!” Blueberry Blitz screamed. “Look, you can’t get any where in life without getting along with ponies, so put a sock in it or I’ll give you something to complain about!” Everyone looked at her. “Now what do you guys say to him?”
“Um… sorry?” The four ponies hesitated to apologize.
“Good.” Blitz smiled. “Celestia, these ponies are so easy to control.” She whispered to Hack, who giggled.
“So, I guess that we’re… friends now?” Flowerpower questioned to the yellow earth pony.
Friends? Blueberry Blitz thought. I have friends! I guess this new school isn’t going to be so bad after all.
