Twilight's Days at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns

It was Tuesday. Twilight's first day learning at the school for gifted unicorns. Twilight was looking really looking forward to that week. The days that were in her way to get to this moment felt like years and the closer she became to the moment, the slower they became. Shining Armor decided to leave home at a later time to walk with Twilight to the school. The both of them were talking about Shining Armor's experience in the school; he was one of the oldest students in the school. They were at the half way point of their journey to the school when Twilight's common Tsunami of questions hit Shining Armor.

"So, BBBFF. I want your opinion because all I've heard of the school came from ponies I only knew for one day, not even that. I do trust the teachers, but I want an opinion from somepony who I know I can trust to tell the truth of what they really think. How has your life at the school for gifted unicorns been since you started? Just put everything into one sentence." Twilight was desperate to know these things. She knew Shining Armor would never lie to her little sister... Or he would pay for his crimes.

"Uh... It's great! Teachers really help you the best they can, they keep things under control and the still give us a lot of freedom for us to do what we want. It's the best school I've ever been to."

"How long can you attend the school?"

"For five years. You can start when you’re eleven years of age, but you have to leave when you're sixteen."

"Why?"

"W-why? I-I don't know why. Probably because there wouldn't be much more to learn and because it's the law. You have to leave school when you're sixteen and then you have a choice to get on with your life and get a job or you can continue learning and go to College or University." Shining Armor knew her left something out. Something else could happen to a pony if they have good enough scores in their exams. "Oh, and one more thing. If you have good enough scores and if you're lucky enough, you can become Princess Celestia's personal student, but that is really rare."

"Tell me more about being Princess Celestia's personal student. Mrs. Spot said that she was once Princess Celestia's personal student."

"I don't know much about it, Twilight. If you have good enough scores in exams and if you're lucky enough, Princess Celestia herself will come to you and ask if you want to become her personal student and that's all I know."

"Oh, ok. It's okay if you don't know much. Anyway, back to what I was asking before I got distracted." Twilight thought back to try and revive her conversation with her brother. "Oh yeah, I remember now. So, you're older than me. How long do you have left in the school?"

"Twilight, you know how old I am. I'm fifteen years old. I have one year left in school and this is the biggest year that will affect my future the most. Twilight, the final year is why you should stick in all the way through. It is the hardest and the most important year."

"Don't worry; I'll be ready for it. Now, next question."

"Ugh!"

Twilight gave off a small laugh from her brother’s reaction. "Last question, I promise. What are other ponies like? Are they nice to you?"

"Well, most are. I don't have any problems with ponies in my year, put it's the ponies on the younger years that are evil little brats. For some reason, some ponies who are very small think they're the toughest things in the world and go round picking on the oldest. Pork Pie is a perfect example. If you don't know who he is, he is the one who asked if you were single yesterday. I find it weird."

"I agree, it's really weird." Twilight didn't really know what to say about that. A smaller and weaker pony trying to pick on an older and stronger one? Why was that? There was two reasons. Because he wants to act tough or he is generally just a silly filly.

Twilight and Shining Armor finally reached the school. They found their way over to their form classes. They entered the room and they both sat down in their seats. Twilight sat next to Vinyl Scratch and Shining Armor sat next to his friends who were also in their final year. When Shining Armor woke up today, the last thing he expected was to have the muscles in his mouth. He started chatting away with his friends while Twilight done the same with Vinyl. Vinyl was the one to break the silence immediately.

"Hey, nice to see ya again, Twi!"

Twilight smiled, she was surprised that a conversation had already started. "Uh... Hiya Vinyl. Nice to see you to. So what's going on now?"

"Not much, same thing as yesterday. Just gonna go to lessons after mornin' registration. But because you're new, I think you're gonna get ya time table this mornin'."

Mr. Brush butted in their conversation, carrying a single sheet of A4 paper with him. "Vinyl's right." Mr. Brush passed the sheet to Twilight. "This is you're weekly time table, don't lose it and put it in your saddle bag when you're not using it." Mr. Brush trotted back to his desk.

The timetable had five columns going down it for the days and six rows for the lessons. Twilight looked at Tuesday to see her lessons she would have today. "Brilliant! I have Magical Arts first!"

"Really? With who?" Vinyl looked at the time table and her eyes started to glow with joy. "With Mrs. Spot! Aww, sweet! You're in my class. Thank Celestia that I have a friend in there now. I'll ask if Mrs. Spot can pair us up."

"You have no friends in your classes?"

"No, I'm not a very popular pony in school. To be honest, my only friend is Octavia and we're only in two lessons together, music and PE. But now I can add ya to my list of friends. I've had many friends before, once I was popular, but I was accepted into this school and all of my other friends went to attend a different school. I was the only one who came here. But I don't think it's all that bad. This gives me a chance to start new. Rebuild my popularity."

"I'll let you in on a secret. My parents have always wanted me to open up and make friends because I was always inside reading books or studying. I have never had one friend. You are my first pony I have ever considered a friend."

"Wow, really?"

"Really."

Vinyl was silent. She didn't know what to say. Everypony she knew had at least one friend in her life. Vinyl was Octavia's first friend too. She was a very quiet pony and preferred to keep herself to herself until Vinyl came along. "Well... Uh... I'm glad that I was your first, Twi! Plus, if ya only have me as a friend at the moment, then you'll have another one on the way. I know you're in my PE class, so when PE comes along, I'll introduce Octavia to ya."

Twilight smiled at her reply, she knew that Vinyl didn't expect to hear what she said about herself, but she was happy to hear that she'll gain a new friend tomorrow. "Right, what do I have after Magical Arts?" Twilight looked down at the time table. "Ah, I have Math with Mr. Decago-" Twilight stopped mid-sentence when she was hit by a small, wet ball of paper. She looked up and saw Pork Pie holding a straw in his hoof, laughing hard with his friends. Twilight gave him a negative look and ignored him. She started to concentrate on remembering the lessons she had Tuesday morning and afternoon.

The school bell rang, indicating that it was the start of the school day and that all students needed to move to their first lesson. Twilight walked to Magical Arts with Vinyl, both chatting on their way to their classroom. As soon as they reached Mrs. Spot's room, they approached her before the lesson started.

"Mrs. Spot!"

Mrs. Spot turned to find the voice that shouted her name. She found the pony the voice was coming from and put a welcoming smile on her face. "Ah, Vinyl Scratch, pleasure to see you in my class again, please sit down and get ready for the lesson."

"I will, Mrs. Spot. But I wanna ask you a favor. Twilight Sparkle is new and she's in our lessons."

"Yes, Twilight Sparkle, I met her yesterday when she was touring the school. She seems like a lovely young filly like you." Twilight blushed at that comment.

"Thank you, Mrs. Spot, but I was wondering if you could place her seat next to me so she can be my partner when we're doing paired work. We've became friends in form."

"Sure, of course I can." Smiles grew on both of the young mare's faces. "Now, both of you sit in your seats and get ready for the lesson. Vinyl, lead Twilight to where she'll be sitting in her Magical Arts lessons."

Vinyl sat down next to a two pony table in the far right corner of the classroom. Twilight sat beside her. "Ya can tell that I don't really like doin' group work with ponies I don't know since I'm sitting here, can't ya Twi. I only like doin' group work with friends. Thank Celestia ya showed up." Twilight's only response was a smile.

Soon, everypony arrived at the Magical Arts lesson. Mrs. Spot closed her classroom door and greeted everypony. "Hello everypony! Now, this lesson we're going to continue with our basic spells like levitation. I know that most of you have mastered the levitation spell and for that, well done. But for the ponies who still haven't mastered it yet, we will go through it one more time."

Twilight was shocked. Is levitation really a basic spell? I mastered the levitation spell when I was five years old. That was six years ago! The only reason I learned it was because I wanted to get the cake from the top shelves and eat it without my mom knowing. Twilight thought. I wanted to learn something new and if we're starting from basic spells, this is going to be a huge repeat of what I've learned myself. Ugh! This is going to be a long and boring lesson. I can't wait until I learn something new.

The school bell went once again after Twilights second lesson. The bell indicated that it was break time and everypony could go out to the school yard or school field to meet up with their friends. Twilight stood in the center of the yard and looked at all of the exits of the buildings to try and find Vinyl. Vinyl emerged slowly behind everypony else who were taking their time to get out. As soon as she escaped the crowed, she spotted Twilight and ran over to her. "Hey Twi!"

"Hello Vinyl! I was just wondering why you couldn't introduce Octavia now?"

"Oh, she's had to go to the Music department for a meeting. She's gonna go to Manehatten in a few months with the school to perform in the Musical Artists Competition. It's where all the younger ponies who are good with music compete with each other. It happens every year and is advertised all around Equestria. This is her first time doin' it so it's really important for her."

"If this is for music, who don't you go?"

"It cost's money, a lot actually. My parents wouldn't be able to afford it. That's not the only problem stopping me; the competition is based around classical music. Octavia does classical, but I do dub step."

"Yes I know, you told me."

"I can introduce her to you at Lunch, earlier than PE. How about that?"

"I was planning to go to spend my time in the library at Lunch. I guess I have no choice but to meet her during PE. That's fine, I don't have a problem with tha-" Twilight was cut off by a fat yellow colt who was the school bully she recognized as Pork Pie.

He had a mischievous smile on his smug face. His two friends were behind him, not saying a word, like they didn't want any part of what Pork Pie was about to do. They were his cowardly sidekicks. "I swear, you two are always together when I see you. I bet you're lesbians!"

Vinyl immediately retaliated. "I'm surprised ya even have friends, Pork Pie. Are they really you're friends or did they get stuck in ya orbit?"

Pork Pie stopped arguing with Vinyl. Because of that remark, he knew that she wasn't going to lose. The cowardly pony moved into Twilight. He looked at Twilight's flank and came up with something to say. "Your cutie mark is stupid, sparklebutt."

"At least Vinyl and I have cutie marks."

Vinyl got involved at this point. "Maybe if ya would stop being such a douchebag, ya would be able to find ya special talent and get ya cutie mark."

Pork Pie was now desperate for something to say. "What if I get my cutie mark for being a douchebag and bullying you?"

Vinyl smiled. She came up with something to say as a comeback almost immediately. She was quite pleased with herself for coming up with in in such a small amount of time. "Then ya cutie mark will be a pony with his head up his own flank." This earned a loud, hard laugh from Twilight who was now tearing up at the remark.

Pork Pie realized what had just happened. He had just lost the argument of the situation he started. His face had a darker expression of anger and embarrassment, he had been humiliated. He turned around with his friends as quickly as he could and soon he was out of sight.

Vinyl spoke up again, pleased with the way the small, ridiculous and pointless situation had ended. "Heheh, he messed with the wrong lesbians."

Twilight was confused. "Vinyl, we're not lesbians, are we?"

"No Twi, we're just friends. Don't ever listen to a word he says. He's a sad 'n' pathetic pony who needs a good hard slap."

It was Lunch time. Vinyl was hanging with Octavia somewhere else in the school while Twilight was just entering the library. She just stepped in and Mr. Hardback was already trying to get on nerves. She had just passed Mr. Hardback's desk when he opened his mouth. "Oi! New filly. Um... Twilight. Put these books away in their right places."

"I don't know where they go, Mr. Hardback."

Mr. Hardback started to get angry at this point and raised his voice a little. "Then find out, mare!"

"Excuse me, Mr. Hardback, but this is the students Lunch time, their free time." Twilight immediately recognized the voice that said that. She looked over and it was her BBBFF, Shining Armor. "It's also your job to put the books away, not her job."

"Who do you think you're talking to, colt? I am a member of staff of this school. A fully grown stallion, you are a colt."

"I am a colt who has more authority in this school than you. You are the librarian who does nothing special in this school. I am the head of the school council."

"I am still a member of staff and I will report you to Mrs. Sparks for your lack of respect for the ponies who work here to educate you."

"How have you helped educate any student in this school? If anything, I should report you for your abuse to students. What you say can be classed as abuse or bullying foals and about reporting me to Mrs. Sparks; do you really want to do that? Compared to your relationship with her and my relationship with her, whos side do you think she's going to be on?" Mr. Hardback said nothing. There was a long silence when Shining Armor was waiting for a reply. When he didn't get one, he continued with what he was doing. "Now then Twilight, if you follow me, I will help you find what you need." Twilight followed Shining Armor as he asked. Mr. Hardback left his desk to put the library books away.

Twilight and Shining Armor were none of the floors in the library. Twilight was shocked at her big brothers defensive performance. "Wow, BBBFF. I have never seen you that angry at somepony before."

"Yeah, well Mr. Hardback really drives my patience off a cliff."

"Do you really have more authority over him?"

"Yes, he is the librarian. He isn't an important staff member. I'm the head of the school council and I was the one who decided to hire a librarian to make the library better for the students. That's what the school council does! It's just a shame that we ended up with him."

"Are you really going to report him to Mrs. Sparks?"

"Yes! Of course I am. He doesn't just try to get you to do his job, he does it to almost everypony. It was just lucky I was there when you showed up. Anyway, Mrs. Sparks doesn't like him either. He is way too full of himself, but Mrs. Sparks will believe me. If she needs a student to do something, she'll come to me first. She trust's me completely."

"Okay."

"Anyway, what did you come into the library for?"

"I'm getting the next book in the Daring Do series. I've finished the first one."

"Y-You finished the first one? You only got it yesterday!"

"Yes but I read it yesterday in bed."

"Okay, fine. I'll get it for you." Shining Armor and Twilight ran to the top floor of the tower that held the school library. It was like running a marathon. "I don't know why they decided to put the Daring Do series on the top floor; it's a very popular series. Why not the lower floors?" Shining Armor grabbed the book with his telekinesis and passed it to Twilight. "Here, go take this to the librarian from Tartarus and he'll check the book out for you."

"Okay BBBFF!" Twilight ran down the library staircases as fast as she could, the faster she checked the book out, the longer amount of time she'll get to read the book before Lunch ends. She reached Mr. Hardbacks desk.

"Oi! No running!" he shouted.

Twilight rolled her eyes. "He's going to try and complain about every little thing I do." Twilight thought. She slowed herself down and placed the book on Mr. Hardback’s desk to check out.

He pulled the book towards him and looked at his book of records. It held what books which students took out of the library and when. "You can't take this book out."

"W-Why not?" Twilight was starting to get watery-eyed. Saying Twilight couldn't have a book would put her in a state of depression.

"You have already taken a book out. You took one out yesterday."

Shining Armor appeared at the bottom of the staircase, next to Mr. Hardbacks desk. "I know the rules of the library and I know that every trusted student is aloud to take up to three books out of the library at a time."

Mr. Hardback gave them both a black look and checked the book out. He passed it over to Twilight. "Here!" he said with a negative tone.

Twilight left the library, smiling because she got exactly what she wanted. Shining Armor followed shortly after whispering to Mr. Hardback. "You're making it worse for yourself." Shining caught up with Twilight and walked out with her.

The rest of the day was very quiet; there was no more commotion with Mr. Hardback or Pork Pie. The school day was over fast after Lunch and Twilight decided to walk home with Shining Armor. They started to discuss her Twilight's first day.

"So other than Mr. Hardback, how was your day?"

"Pretty good. I was hanging around Vinyl for most of the day. Some time in lessons and I spent Break with her." When Twilight said Break, it reminded her of the argument she and Vinyl had with Pork Pie. Twilight didn't want to tell Shining Armor in case he reacted badly, but decided to tell him but say it as positively as she could. "I um... Also had some trouble with Pork Pie."

"What? Why didn't you tell anyone?" his tone showed concern.

"I didn't think it was that much of a big deal. It was only an argument I had with him during Break. Vinyl was with me and we won the argument." Twilight explained.

"Well at least you won, but I'd still tell someone he's trying to aggravate you. I would tell mom and see what she says and if he does it again, report it to Mr. Brush. He'll sort it out, he's done it before."

"Ok, I will."

Twilight and Shining Armor finally reached their house. They walked in and their mother was sitting on her chair reading the first book of the Daring Do series that Twilight took from the school library yesterday. "Twilight, you should of recommended this book to me. I love it!"

"I didn't think you would like it. It's for the younger crowd. I have the second book of the series here with me after you finish that one if you want to keep reading."

"I might just do that. So how was your first day?"

"It was great! I was hanging out with that Vinyl Scratch that I met yesterday, she's going to introduce me to one of her friends tomorrow, so that is something to look forward to."

"Well that's good. Anything else?"

"Shining said I should tell you. You know that stupid colt who asked if I was single yesterday. Well he tried to aggravate me today. I was pulled into an argument that he started, but I won and Vinyl was there too."

"Well, I would stay away from him and if it gets any worse, report it to somepony."

"That's exactly what Shining said."

"That's because your brother is good at dealing with this stuff."

Another thing came to Shining Armor's mind. He had to tell Twilight. "Yeah, uh... Twilight come with me to my room, I need your help with something." Shining trotted into his bedroom and Twilight followed and closed the door. Shining sat on his bed. "Twilight, I wanted to talk to you privately because if i told you with Mom listening, things would easily go wrong. I don't want her in this conversation."

"Okay," Twilight was a little confused by her brother. "But what is this about?" she asked.

"Pork Pie tends to try and bully everypony in school even though he is one of the youngest ponies in the first year. He tries to annoy me, you and everypony else he can get his dirty, yellow hooves on. But I want to warn you of another pony who will most likely try to annoy you. Unlike Pork Pie, he is sneaky. He will try to bully you, but he's cowardly, when you react he'll tell someone to get you in trouble. His name is Telltale. Clue’s in the name. I want you to stay away from him, you'll know what he looks like soon no doubt because his name is always passed around and almost everypony hates him."

Surprisingly, Twilight took all of the speech in. "Ok, if he's in any of my lessons then his name will be called out the registration and I'll know who he is. I'll stay away, I promise."

"Thank you. It's just so you don't get in trouble because of him. Be careful." Twilight was about the leave the room. "Oh, and Twilight! Don't tell Mom. We don't want her getting worried."

"I know what she's like, Shining. Of course I won't."

It was Wednesday morning and Twilight was once again walking to school with Shining Armor. They were talking more about the school, but something was buzzing around in Twilight's head and she wanted to know what it was. She saw it when she was having the tour of the school and assumed that the teacher left the school to work elsewhere, but she didn't know that for sure. She decided to ask Shining Armor since he might know more about it than her.

"BBBFF, on my tour around the school on Monday, I saw a room that was being emptied and redecorated. The sign said 'Mr. Guinness' room'. Did that teacher leave or something to work somewhere else?"

"Ugh... That was in the news and I was hoping you wouldn't find out about that. I even asked Mom not to tell you about it in case it ruined your confidence with the school. Look, I'll tell the truth. The reason that the room was being emptied was because the teacher that occupied it was fired for being an alcoholic."

"Oh... I wasn't expecting that."

"Yeah I know, right? He came into the school the next morning after heavily drinking; he was obviously drunk and decided to teach students defensive spells. He done a harming spells on the student, expecting him to do the defensive spell, but he didn't and said student was injured. The doctor's say he was lucky to be alive."

"Wow. I-I don't know what to say about that. What's he doing now?"

"Time. He's doing time in prison. He'll never be hired in any school ever again."

The day was very quiet. Nothing interesting happened except learning sums and calculation methods in Math that Twilight already knew. Everything was normal for Twilight until period four, her PE lesson when she met up with Vinyl and was introduced to a grey mare with a black mane. Octavia was sitting in a corner of the school field, waiting for her opponent, Vinyl to return with a pony that she was told will be her new friend and her name was Twilight Sparkle. Not much information was given; put Octavia was always open about meeting new ponies. Twilight and Vinyl walked to PE together.

"So, you up for meetin' Tavi, Twi?"

"Yeah, I've been excited for this. It's weird, before I came to this school I was always so quiet and to myself, but suddenly I've opened up. Is there a reason for that?"

"Not that I know of. Anyway, Tavi should be at PE already. She is always the first to her lessons and is never late!" Twilight and Vinyl reached the gates to the school field and turned the corner to reveal the rest of the class playing tennis. Vinyl could barely make out Octavia sitting in the shade under a tree, waiting for her friend to return. Vinyl spotted her and shouted her name for her attention. "Hey! Tavi! We've arrived!" Twilight and Vinyl ran towards her while she slowly stood up on all fours.

"I'm glad you were back sooner than I thought, Vinyl. I was starting to get extremely bored siting there." She turned her head to see a lavender colored unicorn standing beside her best friend. "And you must be Twilight Sparkle. Vinyl hasn't told me much about you but I was still looking forward to meeting you anyway."

"I was the same when Vinyl said she was going to introduce me to you. It's nice to finally meet you."

"Wonderful to meet you too."

Now, it was Vinyl that was starting to get bored. "Right, I'm starting' to get bored like Tavi was a few minutes ago. I'll get the bats and balls and we'll have game of Tennis, yeah?"

Octavia rolled her eyes. "I'm not as enthusiastic about sport, but if you wish, let's have a game."

Twilight and Octavia moved onto the court, Octavia moved to the center and Twilight stood by the side as she didn't want to play. She decided to keep score for the two ponies. Vinyl threw a bat towards Octavia and she caught it, she didn't look ready and Vinyl had her eyes narrowed at her ready for the game. "standard Tennis rules apply." she shouted. Vinyl threw the ball into the air and when it was coming back down she whacked the ball with the bat at full force, sending it flying towards Octavia's side of the court.

"Ahhh!" she screamed in horror as the small, green ball of terror flew towards her. She ducked just before it could hit her in the center between her eyes. She rose back up to her original height. "Vinyl! What are you playing at?!"

"Tennis." She responded with a smirk, slowly growing on her face.

"Tennis?" She asked, her voice was still had a panicked tone to it. "Well can you play sensibly, please? You almost took my head off!"

"Sorry."

"How to get a small bit of payback?" Octavia thought. "Ah, I know! She'll hate this!" She had her own smirk on her face now. She turned to Twilight. "Twilight, may I have a point for Vinyl's dangerous behavior?"

"Sure, why not?" Twilight turned to Vinyl. "You have to admit, it was slightly funny, but dangerous. Bonus point to Octavia."

Vinyl's expression on her face soon changed. "What?! C'mon! That's so unfair!"

Octavia started to deliberately tease Vinyl at that point. "What the referee says, goes!" She stuck her tongue out at Vinyl.

Twilight saw Octavia's little tongue action and knew away to make the situation funnier and the bickering continue. "Bonus point to Vinyl because Octavia was deliberately teasing her opponent."

"What?!"

Vinyl repeated what Octavia said a few months ago, copying the grey ponies posh, Canterlot accent. " What the referee says, goes!"

Octavia turned to Twilight and started begging. "I should get a bonus point now because she's teasing me! Please, please, please!"

"'Cos ya started it!"

Twilight interrupted the little friendly argument the two were having. "That is true."

"Ugh!"

Twenty minutes later, the two mares finally stopped their bickering and decided to play properly. Balls were whizzing by and completely missing where they were aimed to go. Some of them didn't even hit the opponent’s side of the court and hit the side lines instead. In a short time, the game was over and Mr. Shuttlecock came over to the trio.

"No offence, mares, but you have got to be one of the worst Tennis player I've ever seen. You've batted the ball to each other at least a couple of hundred times and you've only managed to hit the court only a few times each. But practice makes perfect, so keep trying!" Mr. Shuttlecock blew his lisle, indication that it was the end of their PE lesson. He raised his voice to address the class. "Right everypony! Get your sport's equipment into the box and get to your next lesson."

Everypony did just that and slowly trotted over to the exit of the school field. Twilight, Vinyl and Octavia were the last to leave as they were to distracted by chatting away to each other. Twilight was then distracted from her chatting when she could just make out the shapes of three ponies in a corner hidden from view under the shadows of the school building looming over them. She realized that it was Pork Pie and his two cowardly sidekicks. Twilight decided to bring it to her friend’s attention.

"Hey, look over there." She said, pointing her hoof in Pork Pie's barely visible direction.

"Is that Pork Pie? He was supposed to be in our PE lesson. Now we know where he was." Vinyl said without any signs of emotion. She wasn't bothered by him, not until Octavia pointed something out.

Pork Pie and his two friends had two long sticks in their mouths, they had smoke coming out of the ends pointing away from them and the orangey light they were giving off was very clear in the dark area they were in.

"And is he smoking?!" Octavia gasped. "Smoking is only for bigger ponies like our parents. That's not aloud is it?"

Pork Pie spotted the three ponies looking over at him. His expression changed quickly as his face started to show worry, but then changed to anger and used it to scare the three off.

"He's seen us. Oh Buck! Run!" Vinyl stopped for a second and realized what she'd just said. "Oh dear Celestia! I said a curse word. It just slipped out! I'm sorry, please don't tell my mom!"

Twilight started to get worried as Pork Pie started to walk slowly towards the trio, still with his aggressive expression on his face. "It doesn't matter, we won't tell anyone! Just go!" Twilight, Vinyl and Octavia escaped to their next lessons and didn't see Pork Pie for the rest of the day.

Twilight soon stopped running once she reached her Citizenship class. Twilight was on her own, Vinyl and Octavia had run off to their Music lessons. Twilight trotted through the door of Mrs. Cheerilee's classroom and noticed only Mrs. Cheerilee was in the classroom and Twilight was the first student to arrive. Mrs. Cheerilee was on her desk, sorting some files into alphabetical order.

"Twilight! You're early." She said with a smile on her face.

"Really? Oh, probably because I ran." Twilight responded.

"Why did you run?"

Twilight was planning to tell her, but decided it was too long of a story and was irrelevant. "Uh, no reason. I don't know why I did, but I just felt like running." Twilight wanted to change the subject, she saw Mrs. Cheerilee's frizzy mane and chose the subject on that. "I see you've kept your frizzy pink mane."

"Yeah, I said I might keep it. I was planning to change it back to the style it used to be, but decided to keep it, get into today's fashion for mare's my age. Please, sit, the rest of the class should be arriving soon."

It wasn't long before the rest of the class arrived and took their seats, getting themselves ready for their Citizenship lesson. Mrs. Cheerilee was calling out the names of the ponies on the register. No names caught the attention of Twilight, except for one she heard before, her big brother mentioned it before.

"Telltale?" Mrs. Cheerilee called out.

It was him, Telltale. He was in Twilight's class. She looked around the class, wondering who would answer and check whose lips would move to their name called out.

"Here, Mrs. Cheerilee!" He replied.

Twilight didn't expect it, but the voice came from somewhere she didn't think it would be. It came from the same two-pony table she was on. Telltale was right next to her. How could she stay away from him like her brother said to do now? Mrs. Cheerilee finished the register and most of the lesson was quiet. Twilight didn't have much trouble with him... until the end of the lesson. Telltale was nudging Twilight and throwing small wet balls of paper towards her face, trying to be as annoying as possible. He was only doing it when Mrs. Cheerilee was looking the other way and Twilight was getting real sick of it. Twilight picked up a small bit of paper and threw it back at him, unfortunately for her, Mrs. Cheerilee saw.

"Twilight, I saw that! Do not do that again!" Mrs. Cheerilee said with a huge frown on her face. "I would expect better from someone like you."

Twilight responded immediately. "But Mrs. Cheerilee, he done it first and he’s been nudging me! I have the right to defend myself!"

Cheerilee sighed. "Look, if I see anypony in the class throwing something just once, I will give them a detention, Is that clear?" Twilight and Telltale nodded their simultaneously. "Good." Cheerilee turned her head back round to face the board and continued to write. Telltale had a huge smirk on his face. He rolled up yet another piece of paper put it in his mouth and spat it on Twilight. Twilight's eye twitched. She had enough; she reacted to Telltale's actions without thinking of the consequence that Mrs. Cheerilee would give her. Cheerilee turned around just before Twilight shoved the paper up Telltale's nose. "Right Twilight, I've had enough!"

"But he did it again!"

"I don't care at the moment, Twilight. You have a detention tonight."

Twilight's mouth was opening and closing repeatedly and her eyes wide open with shock. She spoke again when she realized what just happened. "W-what?!"

"You have a detention tonight. Do not miss it. Also your parents will be informed why you will be late home tonight too."

Twilight screamed. "ARR!" She ran out of the classroom, angrily. She didn't bother to stay in that room any longer.

Cheerilee shouted after Twilight. "Twilight! Please get back in this classroom!" There was no reply, just the sound of her hoof steps getting quieter and quieter as she moved further down the corridor. Telltale was laughing quietly at the situation he caused. Unfortunately for him, Cheerilee noticed. "And don't think you are getting off easily, Telltale. I know that you've had a history of deliberately getting ponies into trouble. This isn't over!"

The school day was over and Twilight had managed to get through her detention. It was half an hour of absolute, pure boredom. Twilight didn't walk home with Shining Armor as he was already home, the detention held her back. All because of that pony, Telltale, she was told off, was forced to sit down for a slow half an hour doing nothing and now she couldn't walk home with her brother because she was late out of school. Walking home with her brother was one of her favorite things to do since she started schooo at the school for gifted unicorns. No pony takes time away from her and her BBBFF. Whatever it takes, Telltale would pay, one way or another. Twilight finally arrived at her house; she walked through the door and closed it again. She walked into the living room to see her mother and father, sitting in their chairs, waiting for her. Shining Armor poked his head round the edge of his bedroom door to see what was going on.

Night Light placed his newspaper down on his lap. "So, young mare. You had a detention today, why?"

"First of all, it wasn't my fault. This colt kept teasing me over and over."

"If he was the one doing wrong, how did you get the detention?"

"Because Mrs. Cheerilee didn't see the colt tease me, she only saw me do it and that is why I got the detention."

At this point, Twilight Velvet stepped in. "And who was this colt who caused you to retaliate the way you did?"

"Telltale. For some reason he kept doing it when Mrs. Cheerilee wasn't looking and Mrs. Cheerilee only turned round when I was about to do something back." Twilight replied. Shining Armor looked at Twilight when she said that, he knew he would have to have a talk with her about it.

"Well, we have no reason to believe you and what you did for a retaliation could be classed as bullying-" Twilight Velvet was cut off by her daughter.

"If anything, he was bullying me since he did it first!"

"Do not interrupt me, young mare! Now, as I was saying, we have no reason to believe you, if he started it or not, how you retaliated is frowned apron. You know better than to sink down to their level. You're grounded for the rest of the week."

Night Light sat back down and grabbed his newspaper again to continue reading. "We're very disappointed in you, Twilight."

Twilight had tears in the corner in her eyes, she only had to blink once for them to over flow and run down her face. She kept her eyes closed, ran to her bedroom and slammed the door as hard as she could. She sat on her bed and cried. "I was all him, it was his fault. Why should I get the blame?" she asked herself quietly.

About an hour later, Shining Armor came out of his bedroom and walked across the hallway to Twilight's bedroom. Just as he reached the nob of the door, his father called him.

"I would leave her be Shining, she's having her moment to calm down. She's just been grounded."

"Dad, I know, that was about an hour ago. She's having a bit more than a moment." Shining said, coldly. He was very concerned. "I'm going in to talk to her. I heard everything, and I want to talk to her about the colt, Telltale. I spoke to her about him yesterday and I want to know what he did. Literally everything. I know how Telltale works and I can get to the bottom of this."

"If you want to, fine, but if she uses her magic against you for interrupting her, it'll be your own fault."

Shining Armor decided to take the risk. To cheer her sister up, he would risk anything, even himself. She opened the door, walked inside and closed it quickly. He turned from the wooden door and looked over to his little sister. He barely had time to duck when a cup was thrown just above his head by Twilight's telekinesis. Shining rose to his usual height. "Twilight, calm down! It's just me, your BBBFF!"

"I don't care! Go away!" Twilight still had tears over flowing her eyes after crying constantly for an hour, they were blood shot and screamed anger.

"Are you sure you don't want to talk about it?"

"Yes! GO! AWAY!" It was very rare that Twilight would not accept help from her brother.

Shining knew that he had no chance to make Twilight co-operate with him. Even through it was very rare that she wouldn't accept help, when Twilight was this upset and she said no, she meant it, but Shining knew why she was upset, he knew what happened and because of that, he wasn't giving her a choice. She was going to talk to him about it. "That is tough luck, you're talking to me about it, whether you like it or not." Shining moved closer and sat on Twilight's bed beside her. "SO, where do you want to start?"

Twilight started crying again, probably because she had to remember and go through the events of that day once more. She had probably already done it many times in the past ours. "I-I don't know where to start. It was so... so... So rage filling. I didn't even do anything wrong!"

"Twilight, to be honest, you kind of did do something wrong. Even through Telltale was the one who started the problem, you were the one who reacted physically. In most cases, both students would be punished and if you had just told Mrs. Cheerilee, you wouldn't have gotten in trouble, but in this case, because Mrs. Cheerilee only saw you do something wrong and not Telltale, because of that, you were the one to get in trouble."

"That's so unfair!"

"I know it's unfair but, unfortunately, that's just how it works, but I know that you don't deserve the punishment you've gotten, so don't worry, I'll get to the bottom of this. I'll ask Mrs. Cheerilee to get you and Telltale together in a room with her to talk things out and come to a solution. I'll probably be there too since Mrs. Cheerilee knows I've also had troubles with that colt."

"Good! Because I don't see why I should be in this much trouble."

"Trust me, I will." Shining left the room and was about to enter his own when his Father spoke to him.

"No injuries then?"

"No. I managed to calm her down a bit and put some confidence in her. She should at least stop crying." Shining proceeded to enter his room and spend the rest of the night there.

Thursday morning and Shining Armor was already at the school for gifted unicorns. He was only in early for one reason, to set up his plan to avenge Twilight's happiness that was temporarily taken away from her because of the sneaky cowardly colt. He entered the school at its main entrance, immediately crossed the yard and into the building on the other side that held Mrs. Cheerilee's classroom. He approached the door and looked through the small window that was built in it. Luckily, Mrs. Cheerilee was already in her classroom, no waiting around for Shiny! He knocked on the door and heard a quiet voice to reply to the sound allowing him entry.

"Come in!" Mrs. Cheerilee sang. "Ah, Shining Armor, what a pleasant surprise. What can I do for you?" she wondered.

"Hello Mrs. Cheerilee. I wanted to ask you something. I understand that yesterday you gave my little sister a detention for throwing something at Telltale. I wanted to ask if you would gather Telltale and Twilight together so you sit down with them, like a meeting to resolve their issues. I want to be there too because you know the troubles I've also had with him. Just when you have some free time."

Mrs. Cheerilee thought for a moment, it was true that Shining had problems with Telltale and that he had the same situation time to time a week ago. Telltale was new in the school and he was already causing mischief, Mrs. Cheerilee was the one to sort those problems out, so no pony knew him quite as well as Cheerilee did. She knew he was mischievous, sneaky and clever. Maybe Cheerilee missed something during the situation. Cheerilee had finally come to a decision. She stopped looking at the ground and faced Shining Armor again. "Yes, ok I will. I'll do it later today."

Shining wasn't expecting her to agree to it in such a short amount of time. Maybe he didn't need to come in that early after all. "Uh... Great! Brilliant! Thanks’ Mrs. Cheerilee. Shining closed the classroom door on his way out and started moving again. "Now that she's agreed to the meeting, time to ask a unicorn to join the meeting, somepony who can perform the spell I want to trick Telltale." Shining thought, "I know, Mrs. Sparks!" Shining made his way to the headmistress’s office on the other side of the school. He moved quickly and arrived outside the office at record time. He raised his hoof and knocked on the door. He waited a few seconds and then Mrs. Sparks opened the door, she was standing in the door way.

"Oh, hello Shining Armor, what do I owe the presents?"

"Hello Mrs. Sparks. I came to ask you if you could do me a favor."

Thursday morning registration was chaotic and nerve-racking for the entire form group. The Royal Guard were in school that day investigating a situation where three students were reported smoking some type of drug, supposedly normal tobacco, either way, still illegal for minors. Shining Armor was once again sitting next to his friends in the classroom while Twilight sat next to Vinyl again; the entire class was silent, only the fly in the room dared to make a sound. One of them was speaking in a very serious tone. Almost scary and it would of been terrifying for the one who was smoking, but Twilight knew exactly who it was.

"This is the second time the Royal Guard has had to come into this school and believe me, it is much unexpected. Princess Celestia and her group of ponies who decide who gets accepted into this school work together to pick the best and brightest students out of the bunch. I never thought we were ever going to be asked to come in here to solve a problem, let alone twice in less than a week. Now, I want to remind you that the pony who was spotted smoking, we don't know who he or she is, but they will face consequences. We're going through every form class in the school and nopony has seen anything. So with this form, maybe we'll have some luck! Any of you want to own up?" The entire class was silent. Nopony said a word. Twilight glanced over at Pork Pie; he had a drop of sweat slowly running down his face from his forehead. Twilight could get revenge on Pork Pie for being a bully and a sad little pony by telling the Royal Guard that it was Pork Pie. Pork Pie saw her looking and it was as if he read her mind and what she was about to do. He started making threatening faces and actions, trying to scare her away. When he did that, Twilight wasn't too sure. She didn't want to get into any trouble again. The Royal Guard spoke again. "No? Fine, we'll keep trying, but we will find the student eventually." With that, the two Royal Guards walked out of the classroom. Mr. Brush shut the door behind them.

"Now then class, it's almost less-" He was muted by another knock at the door. "Ugh! What is it now?" Mr. Brush opened the door once again revealing Cheerilee. "Hello, Mrs. Cheerilee."

"Hello, Mr. Brush." she said with a smile and a calming voice. "Can I take Twilight Sparkle and Shining Armor? I need to speak to them."

"Of course you can." As soon as Mr. Brush said that, Shining Armor and Twilight looked at each other, stood up and followed Mrs. Cheerilee out the classroom. It wasn't a long journey to Mrs. Sparks’ office. It was only a few corridors away from Twilight's and Shining Armor's form class. The door was already open and all three wondered in with no trouble or waiting to get perdition to enter. Once they were in, they saw two chairs on the far side of a table. Mrs. Sparks was already sitting on one of them. On the other side, closest to Twilight and her brother, there were three chairs presumably for Twilight and Shining Armor since Telltale was already sitting in one of them. He saw Twilight and Shining Armor and gave them a evil look representing his hatred for the two.

Mrs. Sparks paid attention to the new comers. "Welcome to my office you two. Nice to see you again. Please, sit." she said. She would normally say something like that with a smile, but this time she said it with an unpleased face. Obviously, she didn't want or need to be here. Even though she did say to Shining Armor she would come, something more important had popped up, but a promise was a promise. "Now let's get this over with. I know I am supposed to deal with issues like this, but then the Royal Guard came into school saying that they had reports of seeing a student smoking! I would rather get this done as quickly as I can. I'm guessing you've all seen them coming into your form classes?" The three students nodded their heads while saying 'Yeah' simultaneously. "I thought so. Now, Mrs. Cheerilee will be asking the question since this situation occurred in her classroom at the time." Mrs. Sparks turned her head to her collogue. "Would you like to start this now?"

"Of course, Mrs. Sparks." She turned to Telltale. "Telltale, tell me, what was Twilight doing to you?" At this point, Mrs. Sparks lit up her horn.

"She threw bits of wet paper at me." Telltale simply replied.

Mrs. Sparks smiled at his response. "First answer not a lie." she thought.

Mrs. Cheerilee continued. "Was she the first one to do it.?"

"Yes. It was all her."

Mrs. Sparks read her horn again. "Second answer was a lie." she thought again.

"Have you caused trouble for Shining Armor before?"

"No. I wouldn't bother someone like him."

Mrs. Sparks didn't need to read her horn that time. "Even Cheerilee can work that one out and tell it was a lie without magic. She obviously knew he was lying because she was the one who resolved that situation too."

"And the last one, Telltale. Who was the first one out of you and Twilight to start aggravating each other? Did you start harassing her first or did she start harassing you first?"

"No. It was all Twilight, she was the first one to start all of the problems!"

Mrs. Sparks smiled; the results were in. "He is a filthy little fibber!"

Cheerilee turned back to Mrs. Sparks. "So, what are the results of the lie detecting test?"

Telltale’s eyes widened at Mrs. Cheerilee's question to the headmistress. "W-what?"

Mrs. Sparks smiled. "The results show that Telltale was a lying all the way through that test. He was the one who was provoking her, not vice versa."

"Well that makes it clear for me." Cheerilee looked over to Shining Armor. "Shining, thank you for bringing this to our attention." She then turned to Twilight. "Twilight, I am sorry that I blamed you and gave you a detention, I should have been more observant. I will make it up to you. You and your brother may go." Finally she turned to Telltale. "Telltale, for provoking a student and bullying her, you shall get a detention for tonight. You will also have one tomorrow night for lying three times."

Telltale said nothing; there was just extreme anger on his face. Twilight and Shining Armor left to go to lessons. On the way there, they had a little happy chat with each other. Twilight wasn't expecting what was about to come out of her brothers mouth. "You're welcome!" He smiled joyfully like a filly.

"For what? Why are you smiling with a wide grin on your face?" She asked in confusion. "That's something what Vinyl would do when bickering with Octavia."

"For getting revenge!"

"W-what?"

Shining Armor couldn't believe he had to explain it. It was pretty obvious and a bright filly like Twilight should have guessed immediately. "As you know, Telltale has caused me problems in the past too. You were punished because he was being a douche. I asked Mrs. Cheerilee to come to a meeting in Mrs. Sparks’ office and I asked Mrs. Sparks to be there and do a lie detecting spell so the truth was spat out. Everypony knew what the plan was except you and Telltale. Sweet, cheap and easy revenge!"

"Oh... Ooooh... You're the best big brother I could ask for, you know that?"

"Ha-ha, yeah."

"So do you think he'll stop teasing me now?"

"Chances are he won't because for some reason he thinks he can still get away with that stuff, even though he has been caught. It confuses me why he thinks that, but I'll ask Mrs. Cheerilee to keep a special eye out during your Citizenship lessons." They stopped when they reached the Science department. "Okay Twilight, I have Science now so I'll see you later, in form maybe?"

"Yeah, later BBBFF!" With that, Shining Armor rushed up the stair case to his lesson and Twilight continued her journey to her own.

After the situation with Telltale was over and dealt with, Twilight was a lot happier now that a worry had been lifted from her back. Coincidentally, Twilight had Citizenship period two and Telltale didn't even glance at her. He must have seen her as a threat to him and his fake reputation of being a suck-up with the teachers and decided to stay away from her. Even if he was his normal self, trying to get ponies into trouble, being cowardly and everything else he does, it still didn't bother Twilight from then on, but there was still a little worry Twilight had. Shining Armor said that he would make a comeback and he'll do something else. Twilight needed to watch out and see if she can spot him doing anything that could prove her brother right like, planning something to get her back because she got revenge on him. If that was the way it worked with him, then most likely he was going to get back at Shining Armor too for planning the whole thing and also getting his revenge.

It was break, Twilight, Vinyl and Octavia met up in the middle of the yard. It was strange though, Vinyl and Octavia didn't calmly trot over to Twilight like they normally would, this time they ran towards her and they looked excited. "Twilight! Twilight! Twilight!" She yelled. "Is it true?" They said simultaneously.

Twilight was actually quite startled by her friends’ behavior. "I-Is what true?"

"That ya got Telltale into trouble?" Vinyl asked with a wide smile on her face.

"Yes, it is! What's the big deal about it? How did you find out?"

Octavia spoke up with a little chuckle. "It's Karma! His sneaky reputation is crumbling like a chocolate chip cookie!"

Vinyl explained what was going on. "The big deal is that everypony in the first year is now teasin' him about it, especially the ponies who got into trouble 'cause of him. They're teasing him because you and ya brother got revenge on him for getting ya into trouble and if you know Telltale, you'll know that it is very hard to do that! Ya brother already did it once! It's incredible! Some ponies are even calling you the predators of the school bullies."

"Who said that?"

"Those over-dramatic nerdy colts, but that's not important. The thing is people are going along with the name and not only that, but Pork Pie admitted that we three saw him smoking and he's coming to see us about it. I don't know what he's going to say, but still, ponies are sayin' ya could bring him down two. Imagine how popular ya would be if ya brought down the two most hated colts in the school."

"Hey you!" a voice shouted.

Octavia turned her head round to the source of the voice. "Oh great! Speak of the son of Tirek and he shall arrive."

"Oh, shut your mouth you small minded Canterlot snob to be. We already have enough of your type and I think you should leave." Pork Pie said angrily.

Octavia quickly snapped back with; "And thankfully there are not many hypocritical, pathetic and good for nothing bullies and criminals that you are in Equestria. Thank Celestia that Equestria is nicknamed 'The Great Society'! If there was a lot more like you, this place would turn into an animal barn very quickly."

Twilight stepped in to say something at this point. "Don't you think you should leave, Pork Pie, before we humiliate you again?"

"Zip it! You didn't humiliate me! I don't care what anypony says!"

"Ya seemed to care when ya stormed off 'bout it." Vinyl smiled with a grin, knowing she had cornered him in the argument. He had no other excuse to give to shoot her statement down.

Pork Pie was already getting very frustrated by the three mares. "I-I don't care about that, that's not why I'm here!" He lowered his voice almost to a whisper so only the tree mares could hear him. "I know you three saw me smoking yesterday." He turned his head to Twilight and pointed a hoof. "And I saw you eyeing me this morning while the Royal Guard was in the room. I know you were planning on telling them. Some ponies in the school are now paying attention to you three. Your brother has gotten Telltale down once and the second time this morning because of the help from you. I know you were going to bring me down before I threatened you and scared you off. I-" Pork Pie was cut off when Twilight started to speak over him.

"Yes, it's true you threatened me. No, you didn't scare me. Maybe you should try harder next time."

Pork Pie continued. "You will not bring me down. I could get arrested for smoking and my reputation in the school for being a bad-ass in this school will be ruined!"

Octavia laughed at Pork Pie's words. "No pony here think's you're a 'bad-ass'. Everypony hates you, only your two suck up so called friends still like you for some reason."

Pork Pie ignored her and still continued to speak to Twilight. "You've proven that you're not scared. Have you told anyone else?"

"No."

"Are you planning too?"

"Yes."

"Ok. What I'm about to do I rarely do. I get twenty bits allowance per week. I am willing to give you twenty-five percent of it per week to keep your mouth shut." Pork Pie lifted his hoof ready to shake. "Deal?"

"And if I refuse?"

Two of Pork Pie's friends appeared behind him. "Then we'll beat you up."

A huge battle in Twilight's mind had been created. If she didn't deal, she would be hurt, beaten up badly. She obviously didn't want that. But yet again, she did lose this week’s allowance because she was grounded, so it would be good to have it back and even more if she kept the secret for longer. Yet again, Twilight was trying to be a good filly and didn't want to lie to her parents. She didn't want to get into more trouble and not only that, but she should tell them royal guard because lying to a royal guard is a criminal offence! But yet again, she could buy all of the books she wanted out of the book store, even the ones she couldn’t afford because they were to expensive if she kept it up long enough. One thought came to her head that immediately made her mind up; she could use the money to but educational books to study every subject and ace her exams in the future! It was decided.

Twilight rushed back to reality, lifted her head and said the one word that needed to be said. "Deal." She said simply. Pork Pie gave Twilight the five bits he had in his hoof.

"Nice doing business with you."

At this point, Vinyl and Octavia looked at each other and smiled in a way two best friends would when they knew they had both came up with the same brilliant idea. Octavia give a slight nod as if to say 'Do it!'. Vinyl stepped forward, closer to Pork Pie with Octavia just behind her. "And what's in it for us?" Vinyl smirked. "Ya haven't made any offers with us, who says we'll keep our mouths shut? Pay up!" Vinyl knew she had him cornered once again. There was no way out of this for him, once again he was trapped and could only do one thing to get passed the situation...

...But he still tried to escape with his words. “Why should I? Plus, I only have fifteen bits a week now since I'm giving a quarter of it to Twilight."

"Yeah. What's the problem? Five for Twilight, five for me and five for Octavia which will leave ya with ya own quarter of ya allowance."

Pork Poe glared at Vinyl and accepted his only option. "Fine! Here!" He passed five bits over to Vinyl and Octavia that rested in his saddle bag. There were only five bits left over and now he'll only get five bits of his own allowance per week to spend him. He wasn't happy about it, but it was the only way to make sure no pony would blab.

Octavia smiled at the result of Vinyl's little speech and then spoke to Pork Pie. "You know, sharing is caring, and you obviously care about not being caught. Thank you for the bits."

Pork Pie's voice had more anger in it when he spoke. "Yeah, yeah, whatever!" With that he turned to walk away and soon was out of sight.

The three mares’ looked at each other and smiled, which soon turned into jumping around with a lot of happiness. Twilight couldn't not start asking questions to her friends. "So girls, what will you are spending your bits on?" Twilight asked, still with a joyful smile on her face. "I'll be spending mine on more books."

Octavia was the next to admit what she'll be trading in the bits for. "I'll put mine towards my trip to Manehatten for the M.A.C. or the Musical Artists Competition if you'd like to know."

Vinyl was the last to admit to what she'll be spending her bits on. "I'll probably spend mine on some more Vinyl records or maybe a new turn table if I save up enough." After Vinyl stopped talking, the school bell went off, letting the students know it was time to go to next lesson. "Later, fillies. I'm off." Quickly, their conversation ended and they all proceeded to their next lessons.

Twilight was in the middle of her Math class; her attention was completely focused on Mr. Decagon's chalk board. He was teaching his class about angles and degrees. Everypony else looked lost and it looked like the information was going in one ear and out the other. One colt even asked the same question three times before he finally understood an easy piece of work. But Twilight remembered every word and took in every piece of information; she knew exactly what Mr. Decagon was talking about. It was a very peaceful lesson as none of the bullies like Telltale or Pork Pie were in her class, but unfortunately, neither were any of her friends.

"So, remember class, Acute angles are small and are below ninety degrees. I personally remember it by 'cute' because small things are normally cute. Right Angles are always exactly ninety degrees. Obtuse angles are over ninety degrees and below one-hundred and eighty degrees, and for the angles that are over one-hundred and eighty degrees, well, we'll get onto that another day as that is a bit more advanced for you lot." He rubbed the board clean of the chalk, moved over to his desk and picked up a huge stack of papers. "Now, I want to go over your Math exam you did on Monday. I have marked them and now I want you to correct any mistakes you made that I've pointed out to you. When you learn from your mistakes, you will get a higher mark next time." He started to read the names on the papers and levitate them toward the students of who they belonged to. He walked over to Twilight's desk and placed the exam paper down. "Well done Twilight, sixty-nine out of seventy, an A star! Best in the class. I knew you would do well."

Twilight picked up the paper and saw her score; she smiled to herself because of her achievement. She was always talented at Math, in fact she was talented in most subjects except PE, she never liked exercising. She looked over to Mr. Decagon and smiled. "Thank you, Mr. Decagon!"

Mr. Decagon turned back round to face Twilight and gave a friendly smile in return. "Don't thank me, Twilight. Thank your brain of yours. Without it, you wouldn't have that score. Also these results will be sent in the main to your parents so they can look at your achievement."

The rest of the lesson was relaxing for Twilight, the corrections on the exam were the last thing the class did, but Twilight only needed to correct one small mistake and then she rested for the rest of the lesson. The school bell alerted the students that it was time for forth lesson. Everypony stood up, grabbed their coats and saddlebags and began to walk out of the door. "Good job, everypony! See you lot next lesson!" Twilight was the last out and she was just about to pass the doorway when Mr. Decagon called her back. "Twilight! Please come here for a moment!" Twilight did as she was told and stood in front of Mr Decagons desk. "Twilight, I have noticed you are doing exceedingly well in your Math classes. Have you considered joining any Math tournaments?"

"What are those?"

"They're where P.C.S.G.U goes to competitions to win something, may it be more money for the school to spend for the better or a trophy. Something for the schools use and in one way or another, your use as well. Our school goes to compete with other schools to win. Honestly, if you join, you could really help us and could become one of our best contestants?"

Twilight thought about it for a while. Wondering if she should join their team. She recapped her teacher’s words. 'They're where P.C.S.G.U goes to competitions to win something, may it be more money for the school to spend for the better or a trophy. Something for the schools use and in one way or another, your use as well.' She had made her decision as soon as she thought about those words. "Yes, I'll join."

"Great!" Mr. Decagon passed Twilight a card with Information on it. "If you would like to come to this room as it says on the card on Monday lunchtimes to meet your team mates and do some other stuff, that'll be great."

"Thank you, Mr. Decagon!" Twilight quickly rushed over to her next lesson before she was late by being caught up by Mr. Decagon. The rest of the day was quiet, it seemed to Twilight that when Shining Armor got revenge on him and everypony could see who he truly was, he had become harmless to her, but Shining did say he would return someday to start his entire line of sneaky tricks again and now that she'd made that deal with Pork Pie, he was pretty quiet too. No pony else in the school had any reason to bother her and no other pony would since she was feared by the troublemakers of the school. The only other problem was Mr. Hardback, but Twilight rarely saw him and according to Shining Armor and Mrs. Sparks, he's on his last legs. The rest of the day was peaceful. Equestrian Language and Literature were fun to Twilight as well as lunch with her two friends, although Science with Miss Charge was quite depressing, it always was. Twilight knew there was something wrong with her ever since she met her. One side of Twilight told her to leave her alone while another told her to do the old Telltale sneaky tricks and try and find out, but Twilight thought it would be best to keep her big muzzle out of other ponies business.

Twilight had just left the school grounds with Shining Armor. They were once again walking home with each other. Shining Armor was trying to create a big, joyful conversation to pass the time while they walked home together, but Twilight didn't want to participate in them for as long as she was grounded. She was only grumpy about going home when she was grounded because she had to spend all of her time in her bedroom. She was only aloud out for food, or if she needed to go somewhere or to go to the bathroom. The more she thought about being grounded, the more she thought about Telltale, but she had to let that go since she was the one who was victorious in the end. She was beginning to like school more than her home. At home she had to be in her room when she was grounded, but when she was at school, she didn't even think about it. She was having too much fun to. She loved learning, having fun with her friends and now that the two bullies who teased her and aggravated her had stopped, school seemed perfect. Not to mention her five bits per week from Pork Pie.

Twilight had reached her home quicker than she thought she would. Thinking must have distracted her from the time to care. When she walked through the door way of the entrance of the house, she didn't speak to anypony. She knew the drill. Get in and go to her bedroom and stay there until told to come out. She emptied her saddle bags and completed any sheets of homework that was assigned to her. She now knew she couldn't forget any homework assignments. As soon as they were done, she picked up one of her books and started reading, helping her make the rest of the day pass by like a gust of wind.

A few hours later, Night Light knocked on Twilight's bedroom door. "Time for dinner, Twilight!" said the muffled voice from the other side.

Twilight placed her book down on her bed with a bookmark in place. She hopped down from her bed and onto the floor; she proceeded to the door and opened it to see her father was still there. "We're having hay fries with applesauce, your favorite. Quickly get to the table before it gets cold." Twilight didn't say a word, obviously still upset about being grounded. His expression didn't change when hearing hay fries with applesauce which meant she must really be in a bad mood. She would normally jump around with a big smile around the table when hay fries and applesauce was announced, but not this time. Not even a smile. Twilight walked slowly towards the kitchen table and sat on a chair. She started to eat the meal as quickly as she could, she didn't want to be with anypony while at home, everything was dull to her when she was grounded, she couldn't do anything fun but read and that was only in her bedroom. She didn't say a word while eating the entire meal. While her family spoke to each other, Twilight kept silent. Once she was finished, she jumped down from the chair and wondered off back to her own room.

Twilight knew that soon, one of her parents or brother was going to ask her why she was being so quiet, even though it was obvious. Twilight Velvet was the one to ask first. "Twilight, why are you so... mute?" Twilight Velvet asked with a bit of concern. Did she really not know?

"I don't know." Twilight simply replied.

"Don't you want to spend some time with your family?" Night Light asked. "At least talk to us properly or have a conversation with us. You're always chatting away throughout a meal."

"No. I want to go into my room and finish reading my book." Twilight proceeded into her bedroom and closed the door behind her.

"Night Light, how long do you think she's going to be this way? She doesn't have to be in her room all of the time because she's grounded, but she needs to be taught a lesson to not retaliate and tell somepony." Twilight Velvet asked.

"Don't worry, Velvet. This will all blow over once she's no longer grounded. We'll have our old Twilight back soon." He responded with a smile.

It was Friday! The second best day of the week, just before Saturday. Twilight was already at the school after walking with Shining Armor. She was about to head in the direction of her form room when she was stopped by Shining Armor. "Hey little sis’, where are you going?"

"To our form class... It's where we always go in the mornings." Twilight replied, slightly confused.

"Oh yeah, I forgot. It's still your first week and you don't know. Today is Friday which means it's Pegasus assemblies."

"What are Pegasus assemblies?"

"Now that is one thing I can't be blamed for. You've been here all week and you don't even know your house group?" Shining Armor was baffled by Twilight not knowing. As she was the brightest filly he knew, he thought that she would have noticed the big 'Pegasus A' sign in their form room. "Ok, well let me explain it to you. There are four house groups in the school and each pupil is assigned to a group as well as a class in those house groups. The four house groups are Pegasus, Unicorn, Earth-Pony and Alicorn. Our house is Pegasus and our class is A, that explains the big 'Pegasus A' sign that is hanging on our form room wall. It's also a way to help the school identify students." Shining finished his explanation and moved back onto the subject of what was happening at the moment. "So yeah, its Pegasus assemblies now which means we need to go to the school hall."

"Ok, BBBFF!" Twilight sand happily and trusted her brother to know what he was doing. She also remembered the information her brother had just given her. "How could I have been in this school for almost a week and not have the slightest hint that she was in a house group and what did Shining mean by big 'Pegasus A' sign in the form room? I never saw one. Either that or I didn't notice it because I thought it was irrelevant."

Twilight and Shining Armor made it to the school hall. She passed the double doors leading to it and was about to sit on the chairs that were designated to Pegasus A when she saw Vinyl's face hidden by a pair of oversized purple shades while she waved her hoof vigorously, mouthing 'Sit over here!'. Twilight smiled and walks forward towards to a free chair that was next to Vinyl. "Hey Twi! Do ya have any idea of what this assembly is about?"

"Nope. I only just found out that we had these 'assemblies' on Friday mornings. In fact, I only found out we were in Pegasus house."

"We'll find out soon, Mrs. Sparks should appear soon to introduce Princess Celestia."

"Princess Celestia?!" Twilight was shocked that the Princess would come out of her busy schedule and royal duties just to host a school assembly.

"Yeah! She always hosts the assemblies for every house group. She's higher in staff than Mrs. Sparks. Princess Celestia picked her for headmistress herself 'cause Mrs. Sparks was very close to her. She was once a personal student of the Princess and that's why Mrs. Sparks is where she is today. Long story short, Princess Celestia is Mrs. Sparks’ boss and is higher in power than her, but what do ya expect? This is her school, she created it and she's a Princess."

Just after Vinyl stopped explaining, Mrs. Sparks trotted on the stage at the front of the hall with a joyful smile as always. "Hello Pegasus house!" she shouted, gaining their full attention.

A small grumble and a weak effort of a greeting came from the tired students mouths. "Hello..." they all said at once.

It wiped Mrs. Sparks' smile right of her face and she gave out a small sigh. She tried again. "I said...." She took in a deep breath and was ready to shout. "HELLO PEGASUS HOUSE!"

A greater reply came from the students. "Hello, Mrs. Sparks!" they shouted back, getting the memo that the headmistress wanted them to wake up and pay attention.

"I hate it when ponies do that." Vinyl grumbled under her breath. It made Twilight release a quiet chuckle because of her reaction caused by Mrs. Sparks.

Mrs. Sparks continued with her speech. "Now students, once again, I bet you're all wondering what this week’s assembly is about. Well as you all know, it’s the twenty-second of October today, unless you're so tired you forgot the date, and it's only nine more days until Nightmare Night." As soon as the words 'Nightmare Night' left the headmistresses mouth, everypony's smile grew wide as they knew what it meant, free candy! They were now paying full attention of what was going on around them. "So, with no further delay, I introduce to you once again as I do every week, Princess Celestia!" With that, the students started to clap their hooves together repeatedly and some even stood up to stomp their hooves on the ground.

Princess Celestia heard the clapping of hooves, the stomping of hooves on the ground and the cheers from the crowd. She revealed herself from the red curtain that was built on the stage. She proceeded to walk to the center and sit down; she raised her hoof and started to smile and wave. She waited until the crowds excitement had disappeared before she started talking, once it did, she took in a deep breath to make herself ready for her first lines she had rehearsed. "Good morning Pegasus house." She said with a soft and welcoming tone. "As Mrs. Sparks said, Nightmare Night is in nine days. I bet you'll all be in costume, knocking on every door in the city, singing the famous Nightmare Night rhyme and getting free candy. Unfortunately for you, there is no such thing as a free lunch. As you eat bucket loads of candy, there will be something in those buckets to attack your teeth, those are cavities. Now some of you will whine when I announce these ponies as I bet none of you like to see them, but still try to give them the best welcome to my school for gifted unicorns. I introduce you to the ponies from Canterlot Pony Dental Care."

Vinyl moaned like everypony else in the room. She obviously felt the same way as the entire house. "The enemies of every colt and filly that has ever lived. They always become more of a threat near Nightmare Night, they threaten everything candy stands for. I shall not let them take it away from me because they think the candy will decay my teeth and I'll be in pain. The pain is worth it just it for the sweet, sweet taste of chocolate zombie ponies that are always given out." For some reason Vinyl was describing her rant as some type of prologue from an action story.

"Don't you think you're being a bit over dramatic? They're dentists, they're only warning us about the dangers of eating candy too much." Twilight replied to Vinyl’s rant.

Vinyl turned her head to Twilight and opened her mouth wide. She raised her hoof towards her mouth, more specifically, a badly damaged tooth. "This is why I don't like dentists. When my tooth was almost destroyed by candy, they put me through a lot of pain just to save it, I think it would have been easier to let it fall out."

"But there is no reason to hate them; they're only trying to warn us of the dangers of eating to much candy and not brushing our teeth." Twilight whispered. She knew her had to be quieter, ponies were starting to look at her and she knew it was rude to talk during an assembly.

Vinyl forced Twilight's head closer to her mouth. "Oh, I'm sorry Twilight. I don't think ya saw it properly, here, have a closer look." She forced Twilight to look at the decayed tooth. "This is why I don't like dentists." Twilight was about to be sick, the decayed tooth looked disgusting and she was about to throw up. Octavia was right; Vinyl did lack manners a lot.

"Eww! Vinyl! Get that away from me!" She screamed. Se forced her head away from Vinyl’s mouth, when she looked up; she noticed everypony was looking at the two because of the sudden scream that came from Twilights mouth. It was so random which made it worse for Twilight and Vinyl. They both gave nervous laughs and tried to hide themselves.

The assembly was very boring, even for Twilight and she was always willing to learn about anything. She was the first one out of the hall; she checked her time table that was written on a sheet of paper that was given to her on Tuesday. It read that her first lesson was an Equestrian Language lesson. It also read that she not only had Equestrian Language first lesson, but also last lesson. She quickly rushed over to Miss Turner's classroom in case she missed anything as the assembly ran a few minutes in lessons. When she finally arrived, she looked through the small window built into the door. She saw many other students writing on sheets of paper. She knew it would be so awkward for her walking into a quiet and peaceful class, disturbing the silence. Everypony's eyes would be looking at her. Twilight was very vunruble to stage fright, but she sucked up her courage, opened the door and walked in.

She walked in and found her seat, she managed to disturb the silence as little as she could with almost no hassle, but it was also inevitable that Page Turner would obviously notice her entrance and question her. Instead of asking Twilight from half way across the room and putting her on edge, Page Turner decided to get up from her desk, walk over with a few sheets of paper with her and ask her in a less noticeable way. She walked up to Twilight and asked her so she didn't make it an awkward moment for Twilight. Another reason for doing so is to not disturb the concentration of the class.

"Twilight, why were you late to class?" She asked quietly, not in an aggressive or stricken way either.

"Oh, sorry Miss Turner. It was Pegasus house assemblies today and I had to go." Twilight explained quietly. She didn't want to be the only pony talking or making noise, she had already walked in late. She felt so embarrassed, but Miss Turner soon ended the discussion so she didn't have to for long.

"Well we're revising for our exam that we have last lesson later in the day." Miss Turner placed the sheets of paper in front of Twilight as well as a pencil for her to write with. "Just write down the key words and what you'd need to know for the letter you're going to write as the exam entry." Miss Turner explained. She soon pondered back to her desk and continued with her own work. Twilight looked at the board and what was written on it, she then looked back down at the paper and pencil. She knew exactly what to do and started to write down her own revision sheet for the exam that was slowly creeping towards her in the near future.

It was a quiet lesson, although, her Equestrian Language lessons always were, especially with Miss Turner who loved her classes to be quiet. Twilight started to speed through the task assigned to her. She had written more than she needed as she wrote many things that weren't included on the chalkboard, but also everything that was on the chalkboard. Miss Turner praised her for it and she smiled. She knew she was ready for the exam and there was no doubt about it. Unlike the rest of the students who just put their papers back in their books and left them there because they were so desperate to leave their most hated lesson that they didn't even care if they failed, Twilight took her's with her. She put it in her saddle bag and thought she would take another look at it before the exam to refresh her memory. She was the last one out of the classroom which turned out to be an advantage since the rest of the class all barged through the door like animals, injuring them instead of taking their time.

It was forth lesson, her PE lesson with Mr. Shuttlecock. This time they weren't playing Badminton or Tennis. They were indoors, swimming in the schools pool next to the PE department. Students were asked to bring their own towel on Friday's. It was a good thing she remembered unlike Vinyl, who had forgotten hers and was punished with a fifteen minute detention straight after the lesson which went into lunch. Because of her forgetfulness, she had to sit out at the side wall of the room, sulking while other ponies had fun with their friends. It was a free lesson the students were enjoying, which meant they weren't asked to do anything or no tasks had been set for students. When there was a free lesson when they were swimming, they weren't forced to do any form of strokes or swimming related exercise, they were even aloud to get some inflatable balls out into the pool which was a disadvantage to Vinyl as she was missing all of the fun. The one time they get a free lesson, Vinyl forgets her towel. Students didn't even have to play with the inflatable balls if they didn't want to and could sit and do nothing. This was an advantage to Vinyl as her two friends decided to stay in the corner of the pool where she was closest to keep her company.

"Why are ya sayin' here with me? Why don't ya go have fun?" Vinyl asked. She didn't feel comfortable having her two friends with her and missing out on the fun when it was her who forgot her own towel. "It's my fault. Sure, I'm not happy about forgetting it today, but it was still my fault and ya shouldn't hang around me when ya could be having a bit of fun."

Octavia objected to Vinyl's statement quickly. She knew Vinyl was making herself feel bad when missing out on the fun didn't bother her or Twilight. "We don't care, Vinyl. We'd rather keep you company than for you to be on your own."

"Yeah!" Twilight butted in. "We'd have much more fun talking to you, our friend, than playing with a plastic ball. It wouldn't be much fun if it was only me and Octavia. It would need to be all three of us so it would be as fun as possible."

Vinyl gave a weak, but thankful smile towards her two best friends. "Thanks’ guys, I really appreacia-" She was cut off by a familiar voice. Twilight, Vinyl and Octavia recognized it immediately and by the sound of his voice that got their attention, he had obviously already forgotten about their deals with him.

"You! Mare who looks like she got struck by lightning!" Pork Pie yelled while he floated in the pool with duck themed arm bands around his shoulders. "How do you feel as the only one sitting out and missing out on all of the fun?" He mocked.

"I don't care, honestly. I have my two homies right here." She answered with a bit of confusion. "What are you doing?"

"Making fun of you three as I normally would. It amuses me much more than it should." Pork Pie kept himself on track with the subject. "Hey! Don't try to change the subject! Anyway, only two? What's worse is that when you say two, you mean these two losers! Lonely and a loser? Mare, thought life."

"Ya can't say anythin' against me when you're wearin' those ducky armbands in the pool." Vinyl shot back, making Twilight and Octavia laugh while Vinyl herself gave of a mild chuckle while she still attempted to look unaffected by Pork Pie's words.

"Hey! They're the only ones the school had for me to borrow in lost and found. At least I'm in the pool and didn't forget my towel!"

"At least we can swim."

"I can swim! Just not in the deep end of the pool because my hooves don't touch the ground and I can't keep myself above water. That's why I'm wearing these."

"If ya can't go in the deep end of the pool without somethin' to keep ya up for support like armbands, it means ya cannot swim. Stop tryin' to make ponies believe ya can when ya obviously can't."

"Vinyl! If you don't zip your mouth shut I will get my friends to beat you up!"

"Ya friends wouldn't do that because they have standards and know to not hit a mare, and why would ya even try to get them to beat me up? Are ya to much of a little filly to do it yourself?" Vinyl turned to her saddle bag and pulled out a bit bag holding five bits inside. She waved it in Pork Pie's face. "Remember this? The deal ya made with us to not ruin ya so called bullying carrer?"

Pork Pie's smile soon turned into a blank face and then a worried face and then a nervous face. "Oh, yeah... Now I remember heheh! Y-You know I was joking, right?"

"Didn't sound like a joke, and by the way ya sound right now, ya don't wanna break the deal. So I'm willing to keep the deal going as long as ya give me five extra bits as an apology." Vinyl smiled, knowing that she had once again trapped him with no other resolution for him to take.

He had to do it if he wanted to stay in this school and be cool. He didn't think about it because he immediately knew his answer as soon as Vinyl spoke her words, but the tone in his voice that was worry was replaced with anger that Vinyl had once again won another of his childish arguments. "Ugh! Fine! I'll give them to you after the lesson." he floated away as fast as his little ducky armbands could take him before anything else backfired for him.

Beside him were three mares dying to laugh at the embarrassing display by Pork Pie and the great victory that was won with words by Vinyl Scratch. Octavia was the first to calm her down from the contagious case of the giggles that was caused by Pork Pie's failure. "Great job, Vinyl! That was brilliant! He thought he could be clever, but sadly failed because of his forgetfulness."

Twilight was the second to cure herself from the laugh attack. "I don't think you'll ever be able to even attempt to insult someone when you're wearing giant yellow duck themed armbands. That's not the only way you made him look like an idiot either! He lost more money. There will obviously be no pastries from Doughnut Joe's for him this week."

As soon as Twilight's words hit Vinyl's ears, an idea came to mind. "Speakin' of Doughnut Joe's, the pastries from there are his favorite. I should go buy somethin' from there and wave it in his face."

Octavia's expression soon changed from happy to a disapproval-looking face. "Vinyl, you can't do that. You can only do something to him if he does something to you first. Otherwise it counts as bullying. Don't sink to his level."

Vinyl wasn't really listening to Octavia. She only heard what she said, but not the point of why she said it. Sure, she got something out of Pork Pie's failed attempt at bullying, but she was still angry. "Take his armbands off while he's in the deep end of the pool and he'll sink deeper." Octavia's face turned into an even more disapproving look. She shook her head in disappointment of Vinyl's words and decided to forget what had just occurred.

It was the end of Twilight's last lesson, her Equestrian Language lesson. Exam papers that they had just completed were handed in to Miss Turner and everypony began to talk out of the classroom door with happy faces for two reasons. The pressure of their exam was over and it was the start of the weekend. Two full days of freedom for the students, all but one, Twilight. She was still grounded till the end of the week. It annoyed her alot since she normally goes out to the stores in the center of Canterlot on the weekends. She lost five bits because of the punishment, so she didn't have much, but she did have those five bits Pork Pie gave her, but that wasn't the problem. The problem was that she wasn't aloud to go into the center of the city when she was grounded. She'll unfortunately need to wait till next week. The best part about next weekend was that it was the start of half-term. A whole week off for her, plus the two days off before the official half-term week started, but the week off wasn't the best part either. The best part was on the final day of the half-term week, it would be Nightmare Night and it'll be a whole night of Twilight's second favorite thing in the whole world, just before books, candy!

Twilight was the last to give Miss Turner her exam paper. Miss Turner smiled. "From what I've heard, this filly is meant to be super smart and could become a second Mrs. Spot. Now it's time to see if what some ponies are saying is true." she thought. "Thank you, Twilight." she said with another smile. "I'll mark them all tonight as fast as I can and the results should come to your door tomorrow in the mail with the rest of the practice exam papers, if you've done any."

"Thank you, Miss Turner." Twilight trotted through the door feeling extremely confident about her upcoming results. She ran out of the building and through the school gates where she met up with Shining Armor, at the ready to walk home with his little sister. "Come on, slow coach!" she shouted towards Shining Armor expecting him to quickly catch up.

Shining had a smile on his face, but it was a weirder out smile with a bit of curiosity mixed in. "You seem happy."

"That's because I am. It's also because I am awesome at learning things and completing exam papers."

"I'm guessing you had an exam today?"

"Yep. Just finished it final lesson."

"How do you feel about it?"

"Fine. I feel fine. Nothing else I can say about it."

"How do you think you did? Do you think you got at least over ninety-five percent?"

"I'm offended that you're doubting that I got below an A-plus." Twilight and Shining Armor started to make their way home, constantly talking about the exam until about one third of the way there when Twilight wanted to change the subject all of a sudden. "BBBFF?"

"Yes, little sis?" Shining replied. He noticed the sudden silence in Twilight's voice before she started speaking. He had a feeling something was either wrong or she was curious about something. Maybe even both.

"Can I ask you a question?"

He knew it. At this point he wasn't sure if he should be worried or not. But then he remembered. When he grew older, he wanted to join the Royal Guard. If he wanted that to be his future, he would need to get passed the worry of a question as he would face much worse. "Yeah, of course you can! Why would you think you can't? I'm your big brother!"

"I few days ago, Pork Pie was talking about a few things when trying to tease me. He-" Twilight was cut off by Shining Armor whose tone had become more serious.

"What!?" He shouted. His anger was quickly growing and rushing through his veins. "How long has he being doing it?!"

"Shining! I thought you knew about him already! But that doesn't matter. He's stopped teasing me and my friends now."

"Why?"

"W-what?"

"Why did he stop? Pork Pie doesn't just stop."

"He did just stop." Twilight didn't want to tell Shining about the bribe to keep her mouth shut. She knew she should tell somepony what she saw Pork Pie doing, but she didn't want to ruin her chances of getting more books. Twilight formed her straightest face she could and made herself look confident so it was hard for her brother to realize she was trying to lie. "I swear he did."

Shining Armor's eyes narrowed for a moment. He could swear he saw a trickle of sweat run down Twilight's forehead. "Alright... I believe you." He kept the same impression on his face while still glancing at her so he could see if she gave any signs of lying when she thought he wasn't looking. "So what was your question?" he added.

"What has Pork Pie said or done to you? I know Mrs. Cheerilee said something about you having problems with him before, so what did he do?" Twilight asked. Once again, Twilight's curiosity got the best of her, but there wasn't any harm in her big brother sharing with his little sister.

Shining Armor began his speech about Pork Pie. He struggled to think where he could start. "Uh... Pork Pie is a pony who gets a kick out of humiliating other ponies and bullying them. I don't know why he does it. He's never done anything to me physically, he's too scared to do that, but has called me names like he does with everypony else. There's not much to say about it. Maybe he has Little-Pony Syndrome or something. You know, just doesn't like bigger ponies. It would make sense since he likes to attempt to bully older and bigger ponies who attend the school.

"In other words, Pork Pie thinks he's tough when he's not. Also, because he's small, he thinks no pony will hurt him. I wouldn't hurt him, but somepony might and we will all shake their hoof for it." Shining smiled. Twilight thought it was because he was thinking about Pork Pie getting an unexpected hoof across his face, which when she thought of it as well, she couldn't help but smile too. Shining decided to continue with his explanation. "For some reason a lot of the younger students seem to act tough and think they're clever when they're hurting some pony’s feelings when they're not and it makes them look like jerks! It annoys me to think about it! Luckily, because it's the week end, I don't need to think about any of those jerks for another few days."

"Good for you, thank you for telling me that, BBBFF." Twilight pulled Shining closer hugged him. "Thank you for sharing." At that moment, everything was peaceful until a white and electric blue colored and hyperactive pony jumped in front of them.

"HEY TWILIGHT!" She yelled at the top of her voice before giving the purple unicorn the widest grin ever. It was starting to look creepy.

"AH!" Twilight was in shock. She didn't know it was physically possible to appear in front of somepony that fast. She shook her head, blinked twice and took a deep breath, allowing her to calm down. "Oh. Hello Vinyl, do you mind not doing that again? It scared me a tiny bit."

"Sorry, I didn't know you were a foal scared of her own shadow." Vinyl let out a small giggle while Twilight's eye's narrowed, eyeing Vinyl. "Anyway Twilight, I was wondering if you wanted to come with me and Octavia tomorrow? We're going to Doughnut Joe's."

"Sorry Vinyl, I can't. I'm grounded because I reacted in a bad way when Telltale was teasing me. I can't do anything fun except for read." Twilight’s face flashed with anger for a small moment, but then returned to normal. It was like a leakage of emotion when thinking about Telltale. Because of him, she was missing a fun time with her friends. "I really wish I could go, but I can't. If I'm lucky, maybe my parents might let me off early."

"That's lame!" Vinyl pulled out a small piece of paper out of her saddle bag along with a pencil. She started writing something onto it. "Look, if you do get off your punishment early, come along and meets us at my house at mid-day exactly. We'll wait for you a bit longer in case you do get a chance to come. My address is; seventeen, Hoofington Avenue, in the quiet area of Canterlot." She passed the piece of paper over to Twilight who grabbed it with her magic and popped it into her saddle bag.

"You live in the quiet part of Canterlot? I bet the neighbors despise you since you're always on your turntable with your records, especially since you’re so bad at what you do." Twilight let off a small giggle, knowing she'd gotten back at Vinyl for her scared little foal comment.

Vinyl wasn't pleased with her comeback. She knew she had to say something so she could have the last word. Luckily for her, she knew exactly what to say. "Oh, and Twilight? If you decide to come, don't forget to bring some spare diapers. We all know how easily you get scared. We don't want you to make a mess, do we?"

Vinyl trotted away happily, laughing at her brilliant comeback while Twilight stood there, gob smacked by the unexpected joke-intended insult. Shining Armor was also dying to laugh, he tried to be a good big brother and help her in this situation, but soon enough, he also burst out laughing and decided to mock her, making the moment worse for his little sister. He said it loud enough so Vinyl could hear him so she could have another laugh about it. "Hey Twilight, how does she know you wear diapers?!" He heard Vinyl laugh again in the distance. Shining moved his hooves to cover his mouth, muffling the laughs. Twilight slowly turned her head with an evil glare. Shining's laughter soon faded into a worried and terrified look. "Oh boy!" With those words, he ran home as fast as he could to escape the monstrous anger building up in his little sibling.

"Get back here you!" She yelled as she galloped after him.

"Twilight?" Night Light asked through the door, knocking it with his hoof. "Twilight!" He started to shout through the solid wooden door, trying to get his daughter up. "Twilight? Wake up; we want to speak to you. It involves your scores from the exams you did this week at school."

It was an early Saturday morning. At those words, Twilight's eyes snapped open, wide. She jumped out of bed and ran to the bedroom door, opened it and rushed out. "Coming Daddy!" Twilight teleported herself into the kitchen where her mother and father sat. "Hi Mom! Hi Dad!" She cheered.

Twilight Velvet cracked a small chuckle. "My, my, my! You're very hyperactive today."

Twilight moved closer to the table, pulled out a chair and sat down on it. "Only because Dad said it had something to do with my exam scores."

"Oh yes, your exam scores!" Twilight Velvet pulled out a piece of paper that was concealed in an envelope. "We're very impressed by the scores. I see that all of the worries we had about you having a hard time fitting into the new school weren't needed. 'A+' in mathematics and an 'A' in in Equestrian Language."

"We're very proud of you, Twilight." Night Light gave a bright pleasing smile. "So, as a reward we've decided to let you off your punishment two days earlier. You're no longer grounded."

"Really?!" Twilight asked with a squeal.

"Yes. Now go have some fun, you deserve it!"