Escape

"I'll see you two later." Twilight said with a smile and a wave as Pinkie and Sunset left and closed the door behind them.

Twilight's face then immediately turned more serious as she made her way to the mirror room.

"Are you sure about this Twi, I mean what if she comes back early?" Spike asked as he followed behind her.

"She wont be." she answered confidently, "I asked Pinkie and the others to spend time with her today, so there's no chance she'll be back before I am."

As they enrtered the mirror room, Twilight put Celestia book on the pedistal above the mirror, thus opening the portal.

"Alright, but how are you going to find them without being bombarded with people asking about Sunset?"

Twilight then pulled out a blue hoodie that looked like it would fit a human, "I asked Rarity to make me this three days ago, and luckily enough it was done by yesterday."

"So you plan to just hide your face? Pretty sure that would also draw attention Twi."

"I thought about that last night, so I started looking through some of the books Celestia has been moving here, and I found this." she floated an open book over to spike, a certain spell circled, and then began to cast a spell.

""Mirage Veil, Hide in plain sight,"" Spike began, ""for one hour per cast you can remain practically invisible to those around you," you've got to be kidding Twi, how do you know this even works?"

"Well look at me." she responded.

"Alright I wil-" upon looking at Twilight all Spike saw was a purple blur, and his eyes kept drifting away from her whenever he tried to focus on her. "Okay that is wierd." he said as he rubbed his eyes.

Twilight on the other hand was clapping her hoofs, "Yay, it works."

"Alright, so it works, but what about the poorly crossed out part here that says "This spell is outlawed, anypony found using this spell will be-""

"Sorry Spike, I can't hear you, tell me later." she interrupted as she picked the hoodie and walked through the portal.

When on the other side Twilight took a minute to gather herself, before putting on the hoodie that had trasported with her, and proceeded to enter the school.

When she entered the building, and made her way down one of the school corridors, still not completely sure of the layout. She noticed that no one was taking any notice of her, and that they all seemed rather angry.

She smiled slightly, she always loved it when she was right, but that smile quickly disappeared as she overheared a particular group of people.

"Wonder where the school demon is today?"

"Probably out looking for something to spread."

"Who cares where she is?"

"It's best if she isn't here anyway."

"I wonder how long she's gonna play the crying innocent gir?"

"Heard she was seen running out the school yesterday."

"We're not falling for it, no matter how long she keeps it up."

"I heard Gilda and Lightning Dust were gonna jump her today, maybe they already got her."

Did she really have it this bad off everypony here? she thought, That message said Anon-A-Miss admitted who she was yest-.

Suddenly everyones phone began to ring, and everyone took them out to look at them. Twilight was able to get a look at the message over someones shoulder.

A message from Anon-a-Miss, telling everyone to be in the gym if they wanted to know who she was, everyone, Twi included, started making their way to the gym.

After about ten minutes of standing with a large, impatient crowd of people in the gym, Twi finally noticed the girls she wanted to talk to, all of whom looked rather depressed, walk in with Flash Sentry, the CMC, and a bunch of other people she didn't recognize.

She noticed Applebloom begin to walk around the gym. No one noticed her, that was until she stepped on stage and took her seat on the lone chair.

Applebloom then confessed that she was behind it all, and while some were not convinced at first, a text that was sent to almost everyone in the room made them think otherwise, and despite what she was saying, Twilight knew there was a bit more to it.

But they're right aren't they, this is to big for you to pull off alone. her gaze turned to the other Crusaders, as the realization hit her "Gabby Gu-"

She was cut off by a small magical shock go through her body.

What?! It can't of been an hour already, I should have at least fifteen minutes left. Right? she thought to herself in a brief moment of panic.

"EVERYBODY OUT! NOW!!" Luna yelled causing the majority of the crowd, Twilight included, to do just that.

When she was out of the gym she ducked into the first classroom to escape the crowd and waited for the five she wanted to talk to, who eventually walked by.

"Girls." she said to gain their attention, stepping out the classroom and taking down her hood.

"Yeah, wha- Twilight!?" Dash replied, wide eyed.

"We need to tal-" she was cut off by a crying Fluttershy grabing her arm.

"Please Twi, tell her we're sorry, we didn't know any better, and we can't believe we-"

"Calm down Shy," Applejack told her as she pulled her off Twilight's arm, "what have you got to say Twi?" she asked as she pulled her hat over her eyes in shame.

"I just want to know why you did it, why did you turn her away?" she asked them.

"Well...it all started happening on her phone," Rarity began, "so everyone assumed it was her, us included."

"Didn't any of the things you had been through together mean anything to you?" None of them said anything. "The battle of the bands and the sirens, didn't that mean anything to you?"

Still no answer.

"After the formal she needed somepony to turn too, and you were willing to help her then, willing to believe she could change, did that really mean nothing to any of you?" she asked, starting to get annoyed at them.

The conversation was also starting to gain the attention of the people around. "We wanted to believe her sugercube but, we just couldn't." Applejack finally answered.

"We know now we should of listened to her instead of treating her like we did," Pinkie continued "and we're all so sorry for doing just that."

"And we completely understand if she doesn't ever want to see us again." Fluttershy added, still sobbing lightly.

"Well from how she threw the book away when you wrote to her, I don't think she does." Twilight sighed.

"You cant just blame them Twilight."

She turned around to see the three Crusaders, and the two principals behind her, Applebloom being the one who talked to her.

"Everything here is my fault, so blame me, not them." Applebloom told her, her eyes fixated on the floor.

"You can't just do this witho-" Sweetie Belle started, but stopped as soon as Bloom gave her a quick elbow jab in her side.

"Yeah, you're not alo-" Scootaloo continued.

"You two go home. I reckon Twi will want to talk to me, and I my be a while." she purposely interrupted.

"But-"

"JUST GO! We'll... we'll talk later."

Sweetie and Scootaloo looked at each other and begrudgingly obliged, and began walking past Twilight, towards the other five.

"Actually I only have one thng to ask you Applebloom." Twilight said, bringing the two to a stop, and all three of them looked up at her, "Why'd you do it?" she asked calmly.

There was silence throughout the corridor as everyone gathered in in the crowd, Twilight's friends, and the two principals awaited  Appleblooms answer, while the other two crusaders just wanted to admit their involvement, and not leave their friend alone.

"I...I thought it would... be funny to see some peoples reactions to it, just as a joke, I never thought it would get this bad." she finally said, breaking the scilence, "I mean, what's the worst that could happen? Get caught, have detention for a few weeks, so what? It'll be worth the laughs until the holidays, there's only two weeks of school left until then. But if I had known this would-"

"Applebloom you can't just-" Sweetie began, but was cut off by her sister grabbing her arm.

"Now now Sweetie Belle. I understand that Applebloom is a good friend of yours, but you can't just go taking the blame for her." Rarity told her in a rather worried voice.

"But sh-" Scootaloo continued only to be cut off herself by Dash.

"She's right. You two don't want to get involved in this." she said as she put a hand on Scootaloo's shoulder.

Luna looked around at the crowd of people. "We said school is out for today, SO UNLESS YOU WANT TO STAY BEHIND TOMORROW AS WELL THEN I RECOMEND YOU ALL GO HOME NOW!!" she yelled, getting them to move.

"You can talk in one of the classrooms, take as much time as you all need." Celestia said, as she turned to walk presumably towards her office, while Luna made sure the crowd was moving.

They all entered the classroom Twilight had momentarily hid in.

"Why did you stop me there sis?" Sweetie mumbled to herself.

Rarity immediately hugged her sister tightly as she broke down in tears, "Because I dont want you to get hurt!" she cried.

"But...but I did this, not just Applebloom."

"I don't care if you did this, you're my little sister and I don't ever want to see you hurt, understand."

"I... I'm sorry sis, I didn't know you were worried about me." Sweetie said as she returned the hug.

"This place has hurt enough people recently, we don't need two more." Dash said as she sat on one of the tables.

"What was that about?" Scootaloo asked, ""Thought it would be funny", what were you thinking saying that?"

"I had to say something didn't I?" Applebloom answered, "The truth is I don't even know anymore." she sat on a chair and rested her head onto the table in front of her, "What would you have said?" Scoots didn't answer, "Thats what I thought."

"So you two are also part of this?" Twilight asked, already knowng the answer from personal past experience.

"Yeah but, Applebloom wants us to stay out of this, and I think I'm starting to see why." Sweetie answered as Rarity had finally let go of her and had calmed down.

"I'll be okay on my own. Us Apples, we're tougher than look." Bloom replied.

"Anything else you want to ask us before you go Twi?" Applejack asked.

"No, I think I'm gonna head home now, I'll tell her you're all sorry, and who Anon-A-Miss really is," she replied as she looked around at all her friends, "and maybe I can get her to come talk to you tomorrow."

"How is she?" Pinkie asked weakly.

"She... She's ok, I think it may take a while for her to adjust back to life in Equestria but, she's doing ok." Twi answered as she walked towards the door.

Pinkie smiled for the first time that day "That's good, she doesn't belong here anyway." Everyone, Twilight included, turned and looked at her, "She has friends she can actually rely on over there, she'll be better off over there, she deserves better than us. After all I've been a horrible friend to her."

"Pinkie you're being to hard on-" Dash began, but then just sighed to herself, "You're right, we're terrible 'friends' aren't we."

Pinkie then looked up at Twilight. "Take care of her ok." Twi nodded as she finally left the classroom.

"See you girls tomorrow... I guess." she told herself as made her way to the schools exit, and towards the portal.

"Do any of you think Twilight can actually get her to come back tomorrow?" Fluttershy asked.

"Doesn't matter, she's better off where she is, and thats all that matters." Pinkie answered as her smile started to fade, "Right?"

I've gotta talk to Sunset, their must be a way we can fix this. Somehow. Twilight thought as she walked back through the portal.