Equestria Girls: The Witching Hour

As the first day of school at C.H.S drew to a close Sunset, Twilight, Megan, and Brianna are talking while exiting the building talking about their weekend plans.

"So," Sunset said "Twilight and I are going to catch a movie this weekend. What about you Megan? Any special plans with Brianna?"

"Well," Megan replied "Brianna and I are going out to have dinner at that new pizza place this Friday."

Twilight looked to Sunset "Oh I've heard about that place. Can we go before the movie Sunset?" Twilight said giving her best puppy dog eyes from behind her dark framed glasses.

Sunset smiled "Sure Sparky it'll be fun so you don't need to make that face okay?" Then Sunset stopped and looked thoughtful "Hey I've got an idea." She said looking at Megan and Brianna.

"Oh?" Megan said "What is it Sunset?"

"We should meet at the pizza place and have a double date with each other. Then we can all have dinner and see the movie and make a night of it. How does that sound girls?"

Megan looked at Brianna and asked her "Well what do you think Brianna? We've never been on a double date with our friends before, it could be fun."

Brianna thought it over for a moment "Okay." she said "We don't really have anything else going on so we can make a night of it."

Twilight looked at Brianna "Are you sure Brianna? You don't have anything else going on?"

"Nope." Brianna replied "I do have archery practice on Saturday, but that's not until the afternoon and you two can come and watch if you like."

"Oh!" Twilight said excitedly "I would love to see your technique Brianna."

Sunset laughed "You'd better be careful Brianna or she'll analyze your technique in six different ways at least." Sunset continued to laugh even as Twilight elbowed her in the side.

Brianna blushed slightly "Well I have won five field tournaments in a row over the last five years."

Both Sunset and Twilight's jaws dropped, they had no idea that Brianna was such a proficient archer.

"Wow Brianna I had no idea you were so capable." Twilight said

Brianna nodded "It really helped me get through the hard times I have been having. My friends and girlfriend helped more though." She said with a smile.

Sunset smiled "That's really sweet of you Brianna."

As the four girls took a moment longer to discuss their ideas Storm and Rarity came out of the building making some plans of their own.

Rarity was fairly animated as she was talking with Storm who seemed deep in thought about his latest project. "I feel ever so excited about this idea Storm darling. If this idea of yours works the two of us together we could revolutionize the entire fashion world and catapult it to new heights." Rarity squealed happily.

"That plus the medical and law enforcement use of it it should prove a very profitable to fund my work. Then that would make development easier." He said as he walked.

Rarity just looked at Storm "No doubt dear, but remember that you'll need reliable people to work with you as well. Still, it's amazing to think that you could leave your mark on the world in so many wonderful ways Storm. I dare say you've got a very bright future ahead of you darling." She said as they walked.

"Fortune favors the bold. As the saying goes miss Rarity." He said as he started to a school bus. "I will call you later when I have a base blueprints ready do find some frames to use before then." He said.

"Indeed darling, and we two are nothing if not bold." Rarity said triumphantly. "I shall await your results eagerly and see what we can achieve between us." Rarity then turned to Fluttershy "Shall we darling? I know you wanted to go by the shelter before heading home." Rarity said motioning to her car.

"Thank you Rarity." Fluttershy said quietly.

Brianna saw the exchange and laughed "It seems that Rarity and Storm have forged an alliance, I think we might be in trouble now."

Megan giggled "I don't think we are in any real trouble Brianna, we should get going though Wind Whistler is waiting. We'll see you tomorrow Sunset, Twilight."

"Yeah see you later." Sunset replied

"Come on Sunset we have that test to study for and I want to get started right away." Said Twilight as they headed towards Sunset's motorcycle.

As they got on the bike Brianna looked at Megan after they got into the back seat of Wind Whistler's car. "Megan what about your parents? They need to know that you're staying with me tonight, don't they?"

Megan finished buckling her seat belt and replied "I'm letting them know right now." She said sending her parents a text.

After a short bus ride Storm Wing walked into his home past his grandmother asleep in her chair, and into his room he shut the door and went to his work table.

"You need to be more diligent in your active scanning little brother because of our family's limited vision. So we must always look around us." Said a deep cold voice. Storm smiled and turned to look at one of his elder brothers. Shock Wave continued "You chose to leave Crystal prep. Why? It's a very acclaimed school."

"It's acclaimed for the wrong reasons at least from what I've seen. Image and winning are all that matters. I think that it was having a negative effect on my education." Said Storm as his brother locks his eye with his.

After a long moment of silence. "Then it is a controlled test our brother and I graduated from there but have met nothing but hurdles in our goals. If you should meet with more success then logically you have had a better education. You and I are now lab rats in a long maze. Let us see who gets to the cheese first."

"Agreed brother. Also thanks for stopping by. It's good to talk person to person. Though not as efficient it dose allow for clearer aided messages by added body language." Said Storm giving his brother a smile.

"I concur little brother. I can't stay longer however, I have a date." said Shock

"Really with who?"Asked a surprised Storm.

"A Friend of Shock Blasts' girlfriend, Chrysalis. Her name is Arachnid she is is a Geneticist, and studies arachnids, she is also interested in my work." said Shock

"Taking her some place nice I take it?" asked Storm

"Yes the museum has a new spider exhibit you should see it for yourself this weekend. It's quite fascinating." With that said Shock Wave left shutting the door with his prosthetic hook hand.

Across town Megan and Brianna have arrived home along with Brianna's adoptive sister Wind Whistler. As they walked in through the front door they found Brianna's other older sister Fizzy in the kitchen working on cooking dinner.

"Hi everyone." Fizzy chirped cheerfully "How was school Brianna?"

"It's gotten kinda interesting this year, we have some new students one of them is a transfer from Crystal Prep like Twilight. In fact they had a couple of classes together. And then there are those new girls Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze, and Sonata Dusk. Sonata seems nice enough but I'm not so sure about Aria, she has a bad attitude." Brianna said with a frown.

"Yes." said Wind Whistler "She is in one of my classes, she seems to be rather venomous for some reason. While Adagio seems to be rather highly intelligent but she also seems to be a little demanding as well."

Megan broke in "Sonata is very sweet though, but she seems a little lonely too."

Brianna smiled at Megan "We'll just make friends with her Megan, I'm sure she'll like Pinkie too." Brianna then looked around "Hey sis where is mama?" She said asking about their adoptive mother.

Fizzy just giggled "I see you forgot silly, she's upstairs getting ready for her date with miss Heart Throb tonight."

Brianna facepalmed "That is tonight." she sighed "Well there I go again." She said with a laugh as she headed into the living room to find her little sister Ember.

"Brianna." Fizzy called after her prompting Brianna to turn around. "Don't forget to do your homework."

"Don't worry Fizzy," said Megan "we'll get it done. Ms. Cheerilee didn't really give us much anyway."

"Okay." Fizzy replied as he turned her attention back to her cooking.

Wind Whistler went with Megan into the living room where they found five year old Ember sitting in front of the T.V. with Brianna.

As Brianna sat down Megan and Wind Whistler heard her ask Ember about the show she was watching. "What are you watching little sister?"

Ember cracks a wide grin and replies "It's a new show called Thundercolts. It's really awesome!"

On screen what looks like a light tank crossed with a spider smashes through a building a few seconds later another light tank follows behind drifting round the same turn it made out the whole before firing its twin cannons make which the spider tank duck causing the rounds to level a building.

"Ace what are you aiming at!" Shouted a voice.

"Quite B. This overgrown bug won't hold still to be squished. Now go faster or we will lose it." Shouts Ace frustration clear in his tone.

"Ok just get your boots out of my back, I'm not a gas petal!" Shouts his partner.

The turret spun round backwards revealing what looked like a gating gun. "Dodge my goo buggy!" The gun then fired laying down a spray of slime blobs that covered the bug tank jamming its wheels and half the street. "Ha! That got him now let's finish this!" The turret rotated back to the twin cannons. "Kablam!" Shouted the gunner as the tank unloaded a rain of shells causing several explosions and hinting at it having some kind of high fire rate feeding system.

The tank's pilot just said "That's Great but we have an issue, chief Luna is on the com and she doesn't look happy."

The new anthropomorphic equine, a mare just said "The two you will return to base at once and explain to me why four buildings were leveled during this latest incident."

The pilot swallowed hard and replied "Yes ma'am." While turning the vehicle towards their base of operations.

Seeing this Ember gave an "Eeeep" and dove behind Brianna prompting everyone else to laugh. "They are in a lot of trouble aren't they Brianna."

Brianna mulled it over for a bit and said "Yes Ember given what just happened I think they are in trouble."

Ember's nervous blue eyes appeared over Brianna's right shoulder as she watched to see what happened next.

"Only four? Hey that's a new record! The units collateral damage total had been six per chase this year!" Called Ace not seeming to care while two larger slower medium tanks roll by to recover the wreckage.

Brianna and Ember's palms met their faces in unison. "Well that was kinda predicable." Ember said flatly.

"Yeah," Brianna said with a giggle "you'd think he'd know how to shoot at least."

Megan and Fizzy giggled at their antics, Brianna had taken to being a big sister right away when Ribbon adopted Ember and she was very good at it.

On the show a slap of a palm could also be heard meeting a face. "Ace you're gonna get into real trouble one of these days." Said the tank's pilot.

"No worries come on let's hurry back I heard during the chase that team three caught a weapons dealer, and it's Charger's turn to interrogate. I don't want to miss her in the bunny suit or the first spin." Said Ace pushing a boot on his drivers back.

"If you don't stop that I'm going to get very grumpy Ace. I am not a gas petal, try to remember that will ya?" The driver replied as he continued the journey back to base.

Ember meanwhile cocked her head and looked at Brianna "Bunny suit?"

Brianna froze "Um, well you see it's a kind of costume some older girls wear to try and be cute and hot at the same time. It has a hairband with fake bunny ears that goes with it and even a little fake bunny tail on the back of the bodysuit."

Ember looked at Brianna "Oh!" and then she drops the bomb Brianna had hoped to avoid "Brianna, what's a bodysuit?"

Brianna deflated. "Too mature for you Ember." She said trying to deflect the situation with humor.

Ember pouted "Awww, I wanna know big sister."

Brianna winced "Just pay attention and you'll see it soon enough Ember." Brianna knew that it was a dodge, but she didn't want to explain it to Ember. Nor did she want to explain just how she knew about them, this of course brought some images to mind that she didn't want at the moment.

The scene changed to a guy strapped to a wheel of fortune type wheel with a grenade in his mouth the only thing keeping it from going off was the man's teeth on the spoon. A woman tall toned and sexy in the bunny suit walked up to him. "Listen I don't like wearing this thing but it's my turn to interrogate the prisoners so just tell us where these new weapons keep coming from." The man shook his head. "You saw it boys and girls now place your bets!" she shouted

"Thirty-nine credits says three rotations!" Said one character.

"One-hundred on five rotations!" Said another character.

"Three-hundred says he goes boom!" This was Ace shouting from a his seat on stack of explosives.

The girl grabbed the wheel and gave it a spin.

Ember looked at the screen and cocked her head. "Huh so that's a bodysuit."

Brianna nodded in confirmation and said "Yes, it is." Brianna shook her head and said under her breath "Anime is so weird." as she said this she was fighting off unwanted (and yet so very wanted) images of Megan dressed in a like fashion but with a pink bodysuit instead.

On the screen a dark brown stallion just sat down and asked. "Are we gonna get any information out of this one? Chief Luna is still mad about the last one, and the maintenance staff is still cleaning up from the last guy who tried to play it hard."

"Who cares? We can shake up the twins if he don't talk. Those two girls seem to be mixed up in everything." said Ace

"The wheel stopped. "Feel like talking yet sir?" Asked the bunny suited Amazon. He shook his head no. "Second rotation!" She called out before spinning him again.

"Chief Luna cares." Replied the brown coated stallion "She is not pleased with the lack of information we've been getting and has stated that we need to step it up so we can get to the bottom of this mess and get it resolved."

Ember facepalmed again "That guy Ace is not very bright."

"Some people are like that little sister." Brianna said with a giggle "He seems to be the one who is motivated to act rather then think about what he is doing. He reminds me of a certain little girl who thinks that she can fly sometimes."

"Hey!" Ember huffed indignantly "I can too fly, I just need to learn how first." She said before sticking out her tongue at Brianna.

"Touche little sister." Brianna replied having a very adorable image of Ember dressed as a pilot in her mind. Both girls giggled for a moment and then turned their attention back to the show.

"Hey I know, let's have Bone Saw throw some knives at him as he spins." The prisoner was on the third spin as a griffon looking man started throw scalpels at the target coming within millimeters of him.

"Don't squirm so much! I'll nick an artery!" Said the griffon as the others started to laugh.

Ember facepalmed again "You're right Brianna, anime is weird." This remark elicited a chuckle from the usually stoic Wind Whistler.

"This is actually quite tame compared to what it can be like." Wind Whistler stated "That is why this is one at an hour that younger viewers can watch it."

Ember just looked at Brianna who replied. "I don't fully know what she is talking about but I have seen some really weird stuff myself."

That caused Wind Whistler to giggle quite a bit. As if she was thinking of some private joke of some kind.

Ember looked at Brianna "I don't get it sis."

"That makes two of us squirt." Brianna replied

"I am not a squirt!" Ember said sticking out her tongue as Brianna giggled. Ember huffed and scratched her head.

Ribbon came down stairs to see her adopted daughters either giggling or in a state of confusion. "Well how is everyone doing?" she asked

Wind Whistler just looked up at her "Fine really," Her said her composure restored. "you look very nice mother."

"Thank you Wind Whistler." She replied causing Brianna and Ember to look in her direction.

Brianna just whistled at what she saw. "Wow mama, you do look really good in that black evening dress."

Ember said nothing and stood mesmerized at what she saw. Her mother was standing in the living room clad in a long black silk evening dress with black silk arm length gloves and black silk stockings and matching black high heels. Her hair was done up in a long braid and simple silver earrings were in her ears.

"Wow, you look great!" Brianna said

Megan came in from the kitchen "You look very nice Miss Ribbon." Megan said

"Thank you Megan." Ribbon replied "It's not too much is it?" asked Ribbon

Wind Whistler shook her head "Given that this is a formal date and the way Miss Heart Throb is I would say that you look perfect for the occasion mother."

"Yeah!" Fizzy chirped "You look great mother."

Ember nodded and Ribbon smiled warmly at her daughters "Thank you all so much girls." Ribbon turned to Brianna " Brianna I want you to make sure to take care of getting Ember to bed tonight, alright?"

"Sure thing mama." Brianna replied

As the evening passes homework is done, dinner is had and Brianna gives her little sister a bath before putting her to bed. As Ember laid down in her bed she asked Brianna a question. "Big sister do you think mama and Miss Heart Throb are gonna get married?"

Brianna pondered this for a moment, it was true that Ribbon and Heart Throb had been together for a couple of years now, but this didn't mean they would be wed. "I don't know little sister." Brianna replied in earnest "Not every dating relationship moves on to being a marriage. And before you ask I don't know why, that's just how it works."

"You and Megan are gonna get married though, right Brianna?" said Ember

Brianna smiled "Yes Ember I think Megan and I are going to get married, not soon but I do think It'll happen." Brianna's smile widened and she began to blush a little "I really can't see myself with anyone else."

"Yay!" ember exclaimed trowing off her covers. "That means Molly will be my big sister."

Brianna smirked as she replaced Ember's blankets. "Yes but that also means that Danny will be your big brother too Ember."

The five year old stuck out her tongue "Ewww, Danny is icky." She said before giggling.

"Oh he's not all bad," then Brianna leaned in to her little sister "besides Surprise has got him wrapped around her little finger." They both giggled at that.

"Now go to sleep Ember, we all have a lot to do this week." Brianna said as she stood.

"Big sister?" said Ember

"Yes? Brianna replied

"Will you sing me a lullaby? Please?" Ember asked with the biggest, cutest puppy eyes she could manage.

Brianna smiled again "All right Ember." Brianna knelt down at Ember's beside and began to sing.

Hush now, quiet now

It's time to lay your sleepy head

Hush now, quiet now

It's time to go to bed

Drift, drift off to sleep,

Exciting day behind day behind you.

Drift, drift off to sleep,

Lets the joy of dreamland find you.

Ember listened to Brianna sing and slowly closed her eyes drifting off to sleep and dreaming of the day when Brianna and Megan would get married. It was her favorite dream.

Brianna smiled and kissed Ember on the forehead whispering softly "Goodnight little sister." Brianna exited Ember's room and quietly closed the door and found Megan standing there waiting for her with a smile.

"Come on," Megan said softly "let's get ready for bed."

Brianna nodded and followed Megan to their room. "I thought you handled that really well Brianna. I'm proud of you."

Brianna blushed at Megan's compliment and replied "I had a good example Megan."

Megan returned the smile and said to Brianna "Okay sit down and I'll brush you hair before we go to bed."

Brianna sat down in front of the mirror on her vanity and Megan grabbed a brush and proceeded to brush Brianna's hair. She richly enjoyed these quiet moments they would have together. She just relaxed as Megan ran the brush through her long dark hair and lost herself in the moment, she found herself wanting for nothing more at this time. She truly had all she needed was how she felt.

The next couple of days passed by rather quickly and Brianna began to notice some odd behavior from Storm over that time.