Bimbo-Lot High

“Make a noise in there and I swear I’ll find some new replaceable henchmen.” Sunset Shimmer threatened while her hand was holding onto the locker door. “Am I making myself clear?”

Snips and Snails returned a reassuring face. “Yes, ma’am! We read you as clear as a-“

SLAM

“Ugh,” she groaned, “starting now.” She said, irritated as she walked away from the locker, or more importantly: The Principal’s office.

“Were you interested in running for Princess of the Fall Formal this year?”

“Princess of the Fall Formal?” Twilight replied back to Princes- Principal Celestia.

“It’s Canterlot High’s big fall dance,” Principal Celestia said, pointing to the respective poster. “Students select one of their peers to represent them. She’ll then receive a crown at the Fall Formal.”

“Can anyone run?”

“Yes,” Celestia said warmly. “Now, was there anything else you need?”

“Um…” Twilight looked around the room for a bit. Not in search of things in the room but it was just some bad habit of hers to look around while clueless. “Nope! That was it!” She chuckled faintly.

“Well, if you need anything, my door’s always open.”

Twilight waved goodbye but when she grabbed the door, Celestia spoke again.

“Remember, the students want to vote for the ones who represent who they are.”

“So act and look like a role model. Got it.” She smiled. Principal Celestia returned a smile back. And with that, Twilight’s grip over the handle turned and entered the main hallway which was bustling with students standing and chatting, opening their lockers, and getting to their classes.

However, unbeknownst to her, hiding in the locker room right beside the Principal’s office were two of Canterlot High’s bumbling henchmen: Snips and Snails. Since the lockers weren’t exactly big enough for the two, they had to tightly pack themselves into it like a can of tuna. Speaking of which, Snips couldn’t imagine why Snails had a can of tuna inside his locker.

“Snails, why do you have an opened can of tuna just sitting in your locker!” Snips said, holding his nose.

“Because uh… uhhhhhh… tuna has mercury which is good for you. I learnt that in biology today.” He said, proud of that statement. For once, he felt smart. But when Snips moved his feet around on Snail’s back, the small victory was sidelined. “Why do you get to see through the openings? I’m the taller one.”

“Because you got to eavesdrop on the new girl and the principal.  So now it’s my turn to carry out our boss’ job so I can get equal credit. Besides, you have better hearing ‘cuz you never go to those rock concerts with m-.”

“Errrr- Quiet! It sounds like she’s talking to someone!” he quietly exclaimed, having placed his ear onto the surface of the locker’s door.

Both of them kept quiet with Snips trying to see who the new girl was talking to. Unfortunately, he could only see the new girl’s back while the person she was talking to was in front of the new girl. Suddenly, he caught sight of two pointy white ears coming out of the unknown person’s bag.

Snails on the other hand, heard the new girl talk about running for the Fall Formal.

Against their boss.

“Sunset Shimmer ain’t gonna like that.” Snails said, moving away from the locker door.

Snips turned his attention to Snails. “The boss ain’t gonna like knowing that the new girl is talking with others in this school. I say we ditch this joint and get to telling her about- “

But before he could finish, the two came crashing out the locker. Papers, books, and that opened can of tuna also accompanied them. The two, dazed and on the floor and smelling like tuna, saw a tall figure rising over the two and asked.

“Tell.me.what?”

And I thought girls took long to shower.

Snips and Snails, taking an eternity in the shower room, meant that she couldn't follow Twilight and at this rate, she probably met her at least most of her 'friends' already.

Finally, the two came out soaking wet and their waists wrapped in their towels.

Given the incompetence of the two, she wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even know how to properly wrap a towel around themselves.

…

She just had to think about it, didn’t she?

“Oh… sorry.” They both said, their cheeks red and covering their… areas in front of Sunset Shimmer who was covering her closed eyes with her arm.

“J- just tell me what you saw and heard!” Sunset Shimmer demanded, still covering her eyes. Because no one else was using the boy’s shower room at that time, not even the Wonder Colts, the school’s football team, she decided to just talk it out right here, right now, when no one was around.

“And put those towels back on as well!”

The two shrugged. They didn't really get why she was so disgusted by their abnormally well built figures, or at least, they thought of themselves as that. Regardless, they bent down to grab their towels and began their report to her. Snails went first.

“Well, your gorgeousness, the new girl was in Celestia’s office, and they were talking about the Fall formal.”

Sunset Shimmer opened her eyes and lowered her arm in surprise. “The Fall Formal?”

“Yeah!” Snails continued. “And when she left the office, she was talking to another girl-“

“Another girl?”

Snips then joined in. “I couldn’t see who she was talking to but she had two pointy white ears popping out of her backpack.”

Fluttershy, she thought. “So, not only is Twilight going to enter in the Fall Formal but she also is trying to unite her friends to stop me.” She started pacing herself back and forth, “By the time the Fall Formal begins, she would have united all her friends together, thus calling upon the Elements of Harmony to defeat me as they have done with Nightmare Moon, Discord, Chrysalis and others in the past!” She then punched the closest wall next to her.

Snails and Snips remained silent for a while, but not because of her sudden violent turn but rather…

“Wh- who’s Nightmare Moon?” Snips asked.

“And I didn’t go to Biology class today so I didn’t get to learn about butterflies and chrysalises.”

Note to self, she thought, covering her face with her palms, don’t mention the names of villains from Equestria. But instead of explaining or talking down to them, she instead walked up to them, wrapped her arms around their necks, smiled and asked:

“How ‘bout we just focus on preventing Twilight from winning the Fall Formal. Hm?”

The two anxiously nodded.