Sunshower

     The school had opened at Kaynor tech, and these strange yellow vehicles that were larger than the ones they saw before had approached. Twilight pulled out a pair of binoculars to investigate.

"I see movement in the things, but I can't quite see what they are..."

"Are they other ponies?" Pinkie said, butting her head in to see for herself.

"I dunno, Pinkie. Could be."

The yellow vehicles pulled up in front of the school. It was doors on the side and they opened.

"This is so exciting!" Cheerilee giggled.

Suddenly, a swarm of creatures poured out. Twilight listed every detail:

"They're standing on two legs, like griffons, they have...claws of some sort, they're all wearing clothing, I believe these are anthropini."

"Hubba, what?" Applejack slurred.

"Anthropini. I've read of them. Some notable Anthropini would be Apollo, said to have been the anthropic version of Celestia. Male too."

"Fascinating!" Cheerilee awed.

"I know. I'd like to gather a bit more information. There's only one way to do that!"

"Ask them quietly and nice?" Fluttershy wondered?

"No...Learn!"

"I'm afraid I don't understand, Twilight." Rarity stated.

"This is a school. Since the anthropous learn here, so can I."

"What're we 'sposed do all day while you learn?" Rainbow Dash said, annoyed.

"I guess you can go sight seeing as long as you don't get caught." Twilight opened the hatch into the building and began her decent down the ladder. "If anyone wants to come with me, they-"

Before Twilight could finish, everypony had left. She wasn't surprised.

     Twilight waltzed into the building and searched for a classroom. She found a suitable one at the end of the hall:

"Ms. Ognats's science class."  Perfect! Twilight thought. She quietly slunk into the room, for she saw who could very well be Ms. Ognats, sorting out paper work. Twilight had found a nice box to hide in that had a wide slit in the front to observe. She got a great view of the class. She smiled at how much fun she was about to have taking notes.

After the anthropini, Ms. Ognats, finished her paperwork, Twilight took notes:

At Kaynor tech, In Ms. Ognats's classroom on top floor. Class not yet in session. Ms.Ognats had picked up a device and began to speak to it after it made a bell sound. It must be for telecommunication, due to the fact she (If 'Ms' mean 'she' in this world) talked to it as if it were a being someplace elsewhere.

     Twilight ended that note there. A bunch of students came in and greeted each other the same way Twilight did in Ponyville. Twilight jotted that down as a note and continued to observe. Every little thing the anthropous did was very similar to the way things were done in Ponyville. Twilight sat there and waited for something else interesting to happen. Sure enough, that's just what came next.

Then, what seemed like a larger, louder anthropini talking, turned out to be an intercom, and it said:

"Good morning. Please join me in the pledge to honor America.."

Twilight watched as all the Anthropous stood up and put their claws on their torsos and faced toward one place on the wall.

"I pledge allegiance, to the flag, of the united states of America, and to the republic, for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. "

After what seemed to be a poem, they all sat down.

Twilight jotted the poem in Yahira's notepad. America, or a mare? She didn't understand that one part, but it was clarified when the intercom continued. It said something about Skills USA, Sophomore rings, girls’ basketball team, something about a place called Waterbury, and something about serving AMERICA. Twilight guessed Waterbury was a city in America, and her current location.

She looked around the room at the anthropous and tried to see how to tell which gender from which.

She concluded Ms. Ognats was an elder female, so she guessed all females had to look similar to her.

She found that females usually had longer hair, had qualities very similar to mares, such as make up and eyelashes and higher voices, and they also had two round teats upon their torsos. This differed from the males. She drew a picture of a female in the notebook and also drew a picture of a male. After she drew the pictures, however, her pencil tip was dull, and needed to be sharpened.

Dread reaped her face. She needed to take more notes. That’s when spied a sharpener right next to the box. She knew it would make noise, so she deleted that option from her brain. She decided she would only take important notes, and she'll skip small stuff. She waited for a huge breakthrough. But all the waiting made her anxious and the anxiety made her tired. Soon she drifted off to sleep.

Twilight woke up about an hour later to see a new class walk into the room. She shook her head violently to wake herself up.

"Xavier..."

One of the males said to another as they took their seats.

"Yeah..." Xavier, the other male, responded, nervously.

"I think we're boned. That test was today."

"Ooo..."

This made Twilight laugh, and she tried her best to hold it in. Test anxiety. She thought. She always found test anxiety funny during her time at school because she was always prepared and never had to deal with it herself. She continued to observe the anthropini throughout the day.

A couple hours later, Twilight had learned a bunch of new things.

Anthropini were called humans, or people.  Specifically, male humans were called boys, or men, or guys. Female humans were called girls or women or ladies or chicks or shorties… the list goes on for them and some of the words, Twilight would rather not think about.

     Also, this world wasn’t like Twilight’s in more ways than she thought. If Twilight wanted to buy something, to eat, that food would be made with care and put into a bag for her to carry home. She’d eat the food and throw the bag away, or recycle it. If it were thrown away, it would disappear.

     However in this world, things were different, and overpopulated. Things were made with haste to make profit. Therefore, there is no care. Also, when things are thrown away, they linger forever, and kill the environment here. Twilight also learned about war. She was aware of war, but the humans waged war over profit and other reasons she thought were dumb.

Twilight was disappointed, and was thankful to have lived in her world, and not this one.

“Hey, Amar,” Twilight heard, Xavier say, “When do we go back to C.A.D.D.?”

“Um… shop starts in eight days. Not counting the weekends.”

     The two people exited. Twilight was intrigued as to what shop C.A.D.D. was. She’d probably have all the questions she wanted to ask answered at her next destination, the library. Her stomach growled just as that thought came to mind. She figured food a bit more important.

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     Six mares wandered Ponyville in search of something they really don’t want to find. They walked and walked until they left the city and came across a deep trench. It was also very wide. Only a pegasus could traverse it.

“Urm, should I fly over there without you or should we work someplace else?” Cloudchaser asked, rubbing the back of her head.

“It’s seems we are at a loss. Without wings, how can we get across?” Zecora rhymed in worry.

Everypony thought for a minute. Then Trixie got a brilliant idea.

“Alright, shut up. Trixie knows how to solve the problem.” Everypony stared at her. “We take the trench,” Trixie used her hooves to illustrate actually grabbing the trench, “and push it somewhere else!”

Zecora face-hoofed and everypony followed.

Then Roseluck thought of a plan.

“How’s about the unicorns levitate each other and the earth ponies can be carried by the pegasus ponies.”

“Right on, Rosy, dozy!” Vinyl said in applause.

“Hmph!” Trixie huffed. “There is a flaw in your plan.”

Everypony looked at Trixie and Rose looked puzzled.

“If Trixie levitates Scratch, and she levitates Trixie, we will not be able to move forward because nopony is walking forward.  We’d be floating in place.”

Everypony then looked back at Roseluck who began pondering the gap in her solution.

“…Maybe the unicorns can be pushed by the earth ponies sitting on the pegasi.”

“Now that might work.” Trixie concluded.

“Well, then let’s get a move on,” Zecora cheered, “before the moon sets with the light we are upon.”

“You know,” Trixie said, hoof on her face, “You could just say: ‘let’s go before the night ends,’ but whatever.”

“Trixie, please, listen,” Zecora caught the mares attention and things got serious, “Don’t make fun of my rhymes, it’s a condition.”

“Fine.” Trixie sighed. “I guess I was outta line… DAMN! It’s contagious.”

Everypony laughed and they got into position to clear the gap ahead.

     They did so just smoothly. The act was like a striking symbol of teamwork. It was a bit uncomfortable for the Pegasi, but they were happy to have conquered a problem together.

“Good job, that was like a dream,” Zecora kicked her fore legs in the air excitedly, “and I’m now glad to be on this team.”

“Don’t let your guards down just yet, losers.” Trixie scolded as she scanned the dark horizon.

     Suddenly, the muddy ground that the team was standing on turned into a gooey substance. They lost their balance and fell upon themselves.

“Mmmm... Chocolate pudding.” Derpy said as she munched on the trap.

      Vinyl decided to taste the substance as well to see if Derpy was being derpy or if they were all, in fact, sinking in delicious chocolate pudding. Sure enough, Vinyl had the same reaction as her blonde pegasus friend.

“Man, this is some awesome pudding.” She took her glasses off and dipped them in the pudding, using them as giant spoons.

Just as Trixie were about to taste some for herself, a large, serpentine shaped figure slowly arose from the chocolate.

It giggled.

     If a few seconds, all of the chocolate pudding slid off the figure, like water off duck feathers, and revealed the sight the gang knew they were going to see soon enough. Discord.

“Ha! Look at you! Chocolate covered ponies! How rich!”

     Trixie grumbled at Discord’s taunts. She performed a simplistic, yet ostentatious magic spell to relieve her sea blue coat of the goop.  She then levitated out of the trap while the other ponies attempted to climb out.

     “Discord,” Trixie began her lecture with irritation, “Trixie has already had enough of your sinful foolishness! Put an end to this, or THE GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE will smite you with righteous powers beyond your comprehension!”

     Discord had a confused face that slowly transited into bellowing laughter. He rolled onto his back and cradled himself as Trixie watched, becoming more and more irate. Discord pulled himself together and wiped a tear out of his eye.

“Oh, and I thought you didn’t have a sense of humor! Honestly, you couldn’t vanquish an Ursa, which by they way are the most docile constellations, what in the hell makes you think you can vanquish me?  I don’t understand how a cute little poodle horse could possibly stand in front of me with her adorable little magician costume and bark threats at me as if it could do any harm. I thought it was just Celestia, but COME ON, do all you ponies have the Napoleon complex or something?”

     As soon as the word ‘Ursa’ ran through Trixie’s caballine brain, it simply stopped processing the rest, however, she could feel the words going through her, and they hurt. Trixie’s horn glowed vibrantly and quickly glowed bright enough to pour light throughout the entire area. It was brighter than daytime. Trixie dig her hooves into the ground and unleashed a wave of raw power into the air. The blast was blinding, and lasted a good four seconds until it dissipated, leaving dust where Discord stood.

However, when the dust cleared, Discord was still there, filing his nails.

“Are you done throwing your little hissy-fit, child?”

Trixie looked up, catching her breath with a look of pure trepidation. Her legs quavered beneath her.

“Good. I’d like to warn your girls about something.” Discord began, sounding serious, which the other ponies, which were still covered in chocolate, thought was strange.

“I’d like to tell you, that you can not always rely on those you love. They just might turn on you.”

     Derpy, who had just got finished licking the chocolate off her friends, looked up with her eyes crossed and her tongue out. One can’t tell, but Derpy was expressing fear.

“I’m going to the Everfree forest to collect some toys. While I’m gone, I’d like you girls to have some fun with those you love. I’m sure they still love you.”

“You’re not going anywhere, bastard!” Trixie screamed as Discord flew away, revealing six silhouettes where he had been standing.  When they all walked into the light, everypony else’s heart sank.

“Flitter? What are you doing here,” Cloudchaser yelled at on of the silhouettes, “you should be in Cloudsdale!”

“Pfft, I got tired of waiting for you,” Flitter yelled back, “actually, I got tired of you all together.”

Cloudchaser shook her head, hoping to fully understand what was just said.

Derpy attempted to focus her derp eyes to the other six ponies standing where Discord was.

She saw Flitter, Lily, Applebloom, and then her gaze fixed itself on the brown-coated stallion. Doctor Hooves.

“Hey, Doc!” Derpy waved her hoof high in the air.

The stallion gave Derpy a look that made her frown.

“Applebloom! What is this about,” Zecora ran to her young companion, “Don’t you know it’s too late to be out?”

“Why you gotta rhyme like that, loser?”  Applebloom asked, walking slowly away from the Zebra.

Zecora looked confused, and so did the rest of the team.

     Applebloom was verbally abusing Zecora, Flitter was treating Cloudchaser unfairly, and Derpy was being avoided by Dr. Hooves, Rose knew something was going on. She walked away from the chocolaty pit to speak to her friend, Lily, who was with the other six ponies, to possibly get some idea as to what the heck was going on.

“Hey, Lily, why’s everypony acting’ so-“

Rose was cut short with a heavy, and unexpected uppercut from Lily.

This is when Vinyl thought she had seen enough. She saw her good friend, Octavia amidst the crowd and wondered what she was doing out so late, and why she was HERE of all places.

“Octy! It ain’t safe here! You gotta go-”

Just before she could finish, Octavia clocked Vinyl in the snout, and laughed.

“This is just silly.” Trixie said, dodging a horse kick from an assailant that looked identical to her.

“The element of laughter belongs to me,” Zecora started, walking away from Applebloom, who had just growled at her, “so what could possibly be silly?”

“Don’t you idiots get it? Discord is stalling us by having us fight our loved ones, when really, these aren’t them.  Come on!”

“How do you know these aren’t really them, cause it just sounds like you running your mouth.” Cloudchaser shot at Trixie.

“Look who came to see yours truly.” Trixie said pointing her hoof at what would seem like a mirror at first. “Do you really think there could be another mare this magnificent?” Trixie boasted as she cartwheeled her way out a punch.

“Trixie is right,” Zecora sighed, still walking away from the false Applebloom, “so, do we run away or fight?”

“Pfft, do whatever pleases you, Zebra.” Trixie finally retaliated against her attack by leaping up in the air, turning around and dropkicking her in the face. The fake Trixie fell to the floor and puffed into magic.

“Yeah, anypony trying to be as amazing as Trixie has to fake.” Trixie smirked.

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     School had ended at Kaynor Tech, and Twilight found herself a nice and cozy office chair to lounge on as she munched on the wheat she found by the school and read the library’s great novels. The lighting in the library was almost non-existent, but the moonlight shining from the atrium’s glass roof snuck into the room giving it a lugubrious feeling.  Twilight used her horn’s light to read.

     So far, Twilight had read 67 books. She found out what C.A.D.D. was and it had intrigued her. She also read about ponies from this world and felt bad for them, but didn’t really think much of it. It just shocked her a bit. She was currently reading a few books about date rape drugs and such. She found this world to be much darker than she had anticipated.

      Twilight had assumed the Kaynor kids were going on spring break, so she became relaxed. Then, out of nowhere, the library door slams open. This shocks Twilight, and her magic vanishes off the books she was levitating. She searched desperately for a place to hide, but it was too late. A student of the school stumbled into the library and sat down by the bookshelf Twilight was in front of.

Twilight would have been afraid, but she smelled something strange on the boy, and studied his behavior.

“You’re high.” Twilight concluded. She had recently read 12 books on weed, alcohol and drugs. 4 of which were by the same person.

“You’re a talkin’ poodle.” The boy said and laughed.

Twilight also concluded he was drunk and wondered where he could have smoked and drank without someone noticing.

“Poodle. Okay. I’ll take that.” Twilight said, hopping off her chair, and stretching her four legs.

“I’m pretty upset.” The boy slurs under his breath.

Twilight finds it warm by him, and instinctively sits beside him.

“Mm… Why are you angry?” Twilight's voice was slightly weak due to fatigue. She yawned and blinked her large, purple eyes rapidly.

“I failed one of my classes.”

“Mm…whys that…” Twilight closed her eyes and sat her head on the drunken boy’s lap, knowing he’s totally delusional and assumes he thinks she’s just a part of his imagination. She was tired, so she tried to find sleep wherever she could.

“It's because I work very hard at my job and don't have time for school.”

“I think that's a lie.” Twilight said, drunk with fatigue.

“That’s what Mrs. Ognats said! Stupid poodle. What do you know.”

“I know…that I’m tired… and you’re strange…and you need to be more efficient.”

“Stupid poodle.”

“I’m a pony.” Twilight then found it quiet for a minute and drifted off to sleep.

     One minute, Twilight was having a dream about talking to a human scholar and the had conversations about dark matter, quantum theory and time travel when she woke up with a hard hitting headache and blood trickling down her head. She looked up and she saw the boy from last night and another man in an animal control uniform. He had a blunt stick in his hand and a camera.

“Why did you have to hit her? She’s waking up!" The boy looked concerned. "What do you suppose she is?”

“Nonie, shut up, your gonna spook her.” The man was fiddling with his camera.

“She’s already gonna wake up, take the damn picture, then leave her be.”

     Twilight’s eyes widened. She got up quickly and used her magic to throw the camera into the man’s face, breaking his nose, and the camera. Twilight ran as fast as she could and leapt out a window, hiding herself in the tall wheat grass. She found it hard to catch her breath. She didn’t do much; she was just scared to death.  She could hear the angry yells from the man in the background. Twilight hid herself professionally in the wheat as she nursed her head that trickled blood down to the corner of her mouth.

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     Back at the palace in Canterlot, Luna had just made herself some cookies. She quickly swaggered into the room where Celestia still lay and instantly began to kick the life out of her again. This time she was munching on cookies. Angrily. The sheer animosity in Luna’s motions could have given a mortal mare a heart attack just by witnessing it.

     Celestia remained on the floor, taking her beating, until a crumbled chocolate chip fell from Luna’s cookie. It landed on Celestia’s horn, and then plopped on the floor. Celestia glared at it as Luna continued to destroy her. She had an epiphany. Celestia stood up, making loud cracking sounds in her movements, for she had not moved in a long time. Luna began to quail at the sight, for she knew the amount of trouble she was in, however, Luna hadn’t gotten much sleep. She wasn’t thinking straight and couldn’t process the danger she was in right now.

     Without thinking, poor Luna stared at the cookie in her hoof. Celestia muttered something under her breath that made Luna’s lips quiver. She didn’t hear what she said, but she could tell it basically meant: “don’t you dare.” Luna acted on impulse and threw the cookie at Celestia’s face. As soon as the cookie made contact and a ‘thud’ sound was heard, Celestia teleported her and her sister to the sun.

     While on the sun, Celestia wasted no time in slamming her sister’s face into the blazing star. She grabbed some space rocks and smashed Luna’s head with them. Solar flairs busted randomly every so often, and Celestia just kept going. After about an hour, they went back to Equestria where they started. Luna fell flat on the ground and Celestia kicked dust in her eyes. They didn’t blink.

     Celestia used her magic and lifted the cookie off the floor. It floated into her mouth where she chewed it slowly.  “This cookie is horrendous.” Celestia chucked the cookie out the window.

     Just when Celestia left the room, Luna arose from her pain like a phoenix from its ashes. Celestia either didn’t notice, or didn’t care.  Either way, Luna was able to fly out the window without her sister following her.

Luna made it to the courtyard where she caught a few maids dusting the statues.

“Come here, friends.” The maids dropped their dusters and walked to Luna. They (The maids and janitors and such) all loved Luna, so they were happy to she her, and not her sister.

“Celestia has become agitated. She believes she may treat us how she pleases. She, of course, is incorrect. I’d like for you all to band and form a militia for us to lead. It’s will make your lunar princess very happy.”

“What are we gonna do in this militia, your highness?” One of the maids asked, huddling with one of the others.

“We’re going to batter her until she treats us fair.”

The maids all looked at each other. Luna noticed they sort of swayed in unison.

“Okay,” one of the maids volunteered, “I’ll rally up the rest of the workers.”

“We love you.” Luna said, hugging all the maids at once.

     Celestia surveyed the scene, atop on one of the high balconies. She watched the whole thing, and deemed it mutiny. Treason, even. She contacted the equestrian guard to come to her room immediately.

     Of course they followed her orders. ‘If you find a worker for the castle, take them into custody. Be prepared for a fight. If you see Luna, bludgeon her with a baton until all four of her humors have been spilled onto the floor. Then contact her to cast a reviving spell on the sorry corpse. Simple tasks.

The guard marched in order down the hallway. They stopped when they saw Luna leading her army of servants.

“Treasonous fools…” The lead pegasus guard pointed his hoof and his stallions went forth.