Groups of two to three students gathered in the gym, glaring daggers at eachother. A girl with a cape and wizard hat remained quiet looking at them cursing eachother mentally, another one from a trio of young girls also kept an eye out when they weren’t looking. It wasn’t hard at all, but she had to include them since they behaved as stupid as everyone else was.

On the end of the gym, the new girls with the shiny red necklaces walked into the building. The blonde one smiling wide as if she fed on the negativity coursing through the air.

“Oh, no! No one’s mingling!” She took on a mock tone before her smile returned “It’s like there’s some kind of underlying tension that could bubble to the surface at any minute.”

“It’s the fruit punch, isn’t it?” The ponytailed girl holds a cup, eyeing it carefully “I knew I used too much grape juice!”

The purple pigtailed girl besides her rolled her eyes while the on in front of her slumps on her feet and facepalm “It’s not the fruit punch, it’s us!”

“But the punch is awful too.” The pigtailed girl remarked to her not-so-bright companion besides her, who stared back as she brandished her cup.

“What do you know about good fruit punch?”

“More than you.”

“Man, and here I thought I found myself some cute girls in here.” A voice none of them recognized made them freeze in the spot, quickly turning behind them they saw yet another new face. This new guy ran his hand through his styled blond hair, adjusting his open tan colored jacket with a white undershirt. Wearing pants that matched the color of his jacket “But I must have confused these two with children.”

“Ugh, I know what you mean.” The lead of their group looked at her friends annoyed, while they’re unamused and interested in this guy “What do you want?”

“I’ll introduce myself, I am Glyde Loath. I suppose you don’t mind introducing me to your dumbwitted friends, don’t you?”

“Listen here loser,” She tapped his chest with two fingers “We don’t care about what you want or about your whole pathetic existence. So get lost!”

Glyde narrowed his eyes at her, grabbing her hand with enough force to make her scream and retract it. His gaze turned ice cold while the other two attend to their leader.

“Adagio! Are you okay?” The ponytail one got pushed back by her colleague before she could get any closer.

“Back off Sonata, I’m fine!” Adagio held her nearly broken hand, glancing back at Glyde quickly averting her gaze back to her hand almost in a flash “Something is wrong here Aria…”

“No kidding, our amulets are going out of control.” Aria nudged her to their amulets, all of them shining brightly than when the first discovered the equestrian magic in this world.

“Anywho,” Glyde called attention back on to him, his stare softened “I heard there will be some sort of competition going on here, I don’t see any reason why I shouldn’t participate.” He shrugged walking past the trio waving a hand as he walked further in the gym.

The glow faded once he was far away enough, Adagio’s wide smile returned as she gave a sinister chuckle “I think we may have found what we’re looking for. Or rather, it found us.”

Closing the steel door behind her, Twilight adjusted her glasses and keeping a glare on her lookalike that was sitting on a chair in the interrogation table. She took a seat on the empty seat across her, her impostor is clearly unnerved by how her eyes scanned around the room.

“You waste your time,” She started to get her attention “You’re not out of here until I’m done with you, not like you can go anywhere with those handcuffs anyway.”

“Couldn’t you have them be a bit more loose?” She winced feeling the handcuffs dug in her wrist uncomfortably, looking up at her human counterpart whose gaze hasn’t faltered one bit “Look, we don’t have time for this!”

“I am the judge of that, now tell me what I need to know faker.”

“Where are my friends?”

“Your accomplices? They are going to be locked away for a while, unless you cooperate with me.”

Silence had followed, the Equestrian Twilight thought over about the situation at hand here. Not only she and her friends would rot in jail if she chose to keep everything secret to her human counterpart, but also the sirens and Vaati would be free to do whatever they wanted with this world. Looks like there’s no other choice.

“Miss Sparkle!” A man dressed in a tuxedo barged in the room before any of the two could say anything.

“This better be important, I was in the middle of an interrogation.” The human Twilight stood up, groaning as she got closer to the man, her doppelganger leaning in worried at what has happened.

“It’s an emergency, you have to see it to believe it.” He dug in his pockets to get a picture, handing it over to the human Twilight who’s harsh glare broke completely into despair.

“This is impossible!”

Taking another swing, Rainbow’s leg clashed against the prison bars. Needless to say that she ended up almost breaking into tears while laying on the floor holding his bruised leg. The canine Spike pawed around the floor searching for a way out, Rarity comforted the sobbing Fluttershy, Applejack laid down with her hat over her face, Pinkie Pie struggled against the straightjacket and gag on her mouth. And Sunset remained leaning on the wall, looking downcast and remaining quiet.

The human Spike kept close eye on them from outside of the prison as the illumination from the windows barely seeps in, despite holding a comic book on his hands “You thought we’re not dumb enough to make the prison bars weak, right?”

“Come on dude, you’re making a mistake!” The canine Spike pleaded to him as he turned to face him.

“Sorry, but I’m not the one in charge here. Plus I kinda don’t like you.”

“Come on, pleeeease?” He gave his human counterpart literal puppy eyes, who in turn winced and shuddered.

“Okay no, that’s just creepy.”

“Come on Spike, there’s something you can do, we have something really important to do.” Rarity continued.

“I already told you, I can’t do a thing.” He crosses his legs and returned back to his comic book.

“Wonderful,” Rainbow Dash groaned “Not only my leg is broken, but our families are gonna know we got arrested for something stupid. My dad is gonna kill me.”

“Not to mention the sirens will be free to control everyone and we can’t do anything about it,” Sunset added, tracing her gaze at the ceiling “What do we do…?”

Everyone’s attention turned to Pinkie, screaming against her gag and trying to point with her head to the window. A slight reddish light came from the window, catching the attention of the human Spike who went to check out the window too.

Clouds covered the sky, thunders striked occasionally and a giant crimson red orb hung menacingly in between the clouds. Surrounded in an orange glow that it’s as if glowed as bright as the sun, instilling immediate fear on each of them.

Whatever was happening, it didn’t looked good at all.

Author's Note

Yes, that giant orb is Bahamut Prime if you're wondering.