"NO, Pinkie Pie! For the last time, you can't have my bacon bits!"

"Aww..."

It was everything Trixie had ever dared to hope for when she began stalking the Rainbooms, hiding under their table in the cafeteria during lunch. She checked her phone to verify that she had, indeed, captured that incredibly perfect sound bite.

With the stealth of a ninja, she made her escape, eager to set her plan into motion.

"Here," Sunset Shimmer said, "you can have some of my croutons. And this dressing, I've never liked this kind."

"Bleah, the oil dressing?" Pinkie sighed and dumped croutons and oil dressing on her salad. "Oh well."

"So is anybody gonna talk about why Trixie was hiding under our table?" Rainbow Dash asked. "Because I'd really kinda like to talk about that."

"Nope!" Applejack said cheerfully.

"Couldn't care less, darling," Rarity said.

"I don't like talking about mentally ill people," Fluttershy said.

* * * * *

The next day, a lot of people Sunset Shimmer passed in the halls were looking at her and snickering, or refusing to meet her eyes. Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon took one look at her and burst into giggles.

During morning break, she was pulled aside by Rarity, who led her into an empty classroom. The rest of the Rainbooms were all there, and they all looked upset...and yet, at the same time, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie were smirking and clearly stifling laughter. "Alright, what's going on?" Sunset asked.

"You haven't seen it yet?" Pinkie asked. "She hasn't seen it yet!"

"Whoa, deja vu," Applejack said.

A feeling of dread seeped into Sunset Shimmer's soul. "Seen what?"

Rarity coughed delicately and pulled her laptop out of her bag. She pulled up a EweTube video. Sunset leaned in to watch.

The video was composed of clips of Sunset Shimmer, both before and after the Rainbooms befriended her, dancing, talking, and laughing. Playing over the video was a dance mix of Sunset herself:

You can't have my bacon bits, my bacon bits, my bacon bits
You can't, you can't, you can't, you can't have my bacon bits
My ba, my bacon, my bacon bits, my ba, my bacon, my bacon bits

Sunset's jaw dropped, her eyes nearly falling out of her head. After staring at the video for a full minute, she threw back her head, clenched her fists, and screamed angrily to the sky: "TRIIIIIIIIIIIIIXIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE!!"

A short senior with pasty skin, messy black hair, and bad teeth in a black T-shirt that said "JERK" on the front poked his head in. "That's MY schtick, bacon-bits!"

Author's Note

I may expand on this idea and make a third Sunset Shimmer story out of it later. For right now, I just don't have enough of a "and then what?" in mind for it to go beyond the joke itself.