My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games

Chapter 3

Meanwhile, while the Canterlot Wondercolts prepared to sign up and try to qualify for the team that will face their rivals; the Shadowbolts a young teenage girl in a purple hoodie approached the somewhat scary looking school known as Crystal Prep Academy.

She walked through the front doors and soon approached the secretary’s deck in the office. The secretary had blond hair, purple skin and wore large purple glasses with a pencil behind her ear. She appeared to be typing away on her computer and not paying much attention to who was in front of her.

“Um, excuse me?” The girl spoke up. “My name is…”

“You here to enroll?” The secretary guessed, her voice sounded very flat and bored.

“Uh… yes! How did you know?”

“I remember you calling the other night.”

“Oh! Right…” The hooded girl said, somewhat embarrassed.

The secretary pushed a clipboard toward her. “Just sign these forums and then we’ll get some students to come show you around.”

“Oh, no need, I already looked up the schematics for the school last night, I know every inch of it now.” The girl said, proudly.

“Gee, you must be so proud.” The flat toned lady remarked, sarcastically.

“Very.” The hooded girl nodded, clearly not getting it. “So… where can I find the Shadowbolts? I hear a spot just opened up on their team.”

“You looking to participate in the Games?” The secretary inquired.

The girl nodded. “I am,” she confirmed. The dim lighting shined on her a bit and reflected off of what appeared to be glasses on her face.

“They’re in the Gym, training. Better hurry before they leave.”

“I will.”

The girl in the hood began to turn and walk away before the lady at the front desk spoke up again.

“Wait,” she said as the girl turned to her. “What was your name again?”

The girl pulled up her hood, revealing herself to be the counterpart of Princess Twilight. “Twilight. Twilight Sparkle,” she answered before she resumed walking towards the Gym to meet and hopefully join the Shadowbolts team.

Speaking of the Shadowbolts, they indeed were hanging out in the Gym and at the moment one of them was tossing little darts at a picture of Canterlot High over and over again and getting a bullseye every time. The thrower’s name was Sour Sweet, she had violet eyes, pale orangish-yellow skin and vibrant pink and blue hair plus freckles on both her cheeks. She laughed in a cute manner every time she hit the poster.

The others names were Lemon Zest, Sunny Flare, Indigo Zap, and Sugarcoat, their leader. Each of them wore a school uniform which was composed of a skirt a dark purple vest and white shirt but each had their own flare to it. Plus, each of the Shadowbolts were all doing their own activities such as painting they’re nails or playing cards and apparently not practicing at all, just slacking off like they didn’t have a care in the world.

Sour Sweet laughed again after her last hit knocked the poster off the wall. “Oh, I cannot wait to crush the Wondercolts again during the games, and when I say ‘crush’ I mean crush!” she said, her face gaining a nasty smile as she smacked her fist into her hand.

“Well, we can’t exactly do that without someone to replace… whoever-her-name-was.” Sugarcoat pointed out. She had blue eyes, pale purple skin plus long and wavy whitish-blue hair.

“Relax Sugarcoat, we don’t need her… or anyone else, we got this in the bag, we always do and you know why.” Indigo Zap reminded her as she narrowed her eyes. She had yellowish skin, gold eyes and hair with streaks of red, blue and indigo, just like her name.

“I know, but according to the rules we need six members or else we can’t play.” Sugarcoat stated.

“But who are we gonna find to replace… whoever-her-name-was on such short notice?” Lemon Zest inquired, curiously looking very lost and confused. She has long yellow and green hair and pink skin and dark yellow eyes.

“Don’t know, don’t care.” Sunny Flare said in a snobby tone as she flicked her purple hair and battled her pinkish eyes. She brushed off some dust off her light blue skin as she stood up.

“Well, we have to pick someone, I mean it’s not like our next recruit is just gonna… walk right through that door!” Sugarcoat told them while gesturing to the Gym door which suddenly opened. They all turned to it, wide eyed and a bit surprised. It was like Sugarcoat’s wish suddenly came true.

“Spooky!” Sour Sweet remarked.

Twilight’s Human Counterpart then entered the Gym and glanced at the legendary Shadowbolts, who were all staring at her and making her feel nervous. After getting over her initial shyness, Twilight cleared her throat and adjusted her glasses before finally speaking to them.

“Uh… hello, I’m Twilight and… I presume you’re the Shadowbolts?” she asked.

Indigo leaned close. “The one and only.” The dark haired girl said in a serious tone, making Twilight feel nervous until Sugarcoat pulled her back and stepped forward.

“Ignore her, everyone else does, I’m Sugarcoat.” The silver haired girl smiled as she shook Twilight’s hand. She then gestured to each of the Shadowbolts one at a time. “That’s Sour Sweet, Lemon Zest, Sunny Flare and… well you’ve already met Indigo Zap.”

The aforementioned dark eyed glare glared at the bespectacled, purple skinned girl, making her flinch a bit.

“Anyway, why have you come here?” Sugarcoat questioned, a little bit suspicious of her.

Human Twilight rubbed the back of her head. “Well… that’s kind of a long story… you see the thing is…”

“Ugh! This is agony! Just get on with it!” Indigo Zap groaned, frustrated, making Twilight flinch a bit.

“Sorry about her, Indigo’s always been impatient.” Sugarcoat shrugged.

“The statement still stands; let her say why she’s here! I’m not getting any younger!” Indigo pointed out.

“Yeah, and I have to be meet the Mayor! He’s giving me an award!” Sour Sweet boasted.

“And Sour Sweet here is a compulsive liar.” Sunny Flare added.

“Well at least I don’t have anger issues.” Sour Sweet said, practically rubbing it in her face.

Sunny Flare laughed to Twilight. “I don’t have anger issues…” she began before she very angrily shouted to Sour Sweet. “Now take that back before I shove our arrows up your nose!!!”

That made Sour Sweet stand there, wide eyed with fear while Twilight looked very surprised by her sudden outburst before turning to Lemon Zest.

“So… what’s your story?” she asked, a bit nervously but instead of an answer she was met with a snobbish ‘Hmph’ as Lemon Zest turned and walked away from her.

Sugarcoat answered for her. “Lemon Zest says ‘hi’.”

“Oh… nice group you’ve got here.” Twilight complimented her, somewhat afraid if she didn’t.

“Yeah, here at Crystal Prep we don’t worry about having to befriend or like each other. No, this team is all about getting results and nothing else.” Sugarcoat stated, firmly.

“That’s exactly what I want to get!” Twilight admitted, excited.

“Then you’ll fit right in.” Sugarcoat smirked.

“Whoa, hold on, she can’t be a member of Shadowbolts, we don’t even know her.” Lemon Zest pointed out.

“Like I already said, in this team we don’t have to like each other, we just need to win, which we have done at every Friendship Games event since the beginning and I say we make Twilight here… our first draft pick.” Sugarcoat declared. “Huh? What do you think of that?”

Twilight’s eyes widened as she smiled. “Really? You want me to be a Shadowbolt? Excellent!”

“But first…” Sour Sweet cut in, ending her excitement.

“You need to prove yourself.” Sunny added.

“Prove myself?” Twilight echoed, confused.

“As in show us which event your best at, after that if your good… we’ll let you join, if not… don’t call us, we won’t call you, understand?” Indigo told her.

“Really?” Twilight asked, Sugarcoat.

“Unfortunately yeah, and right now the positions for who be competing in the Motocross and Roller Derby events have already been taken.” Sugarcoat lamented. “But, we still need one more archer to join Sour Sweet in the archery event, maybe it’s you.”

“Yeah, let’s see whatcha got… newbie.” Sour Sweet smirked as she tossed her a bow and quiver, which she barely managed to catch.

“Uh… ok.” Twilight stuttered, before regaining her composure and narrowing her eyes with a steely focus. “If that it was it takes to earn a spot on this team and challenge Canterlot High, then so be it.”

Sugarcoat looked somewhat impressed. “Nice spirit, let’s see just how strong it is,” she declared as she turned to Lemon. “Lemon Zest.”

The yellow and green haired girl grunted before she walked off and then came back with a box with six tennis balls in it. Everyone backed up as Twilight went to the bark took an arrow from her quiver and began to line up the shot with her bow.

“Ok… calculating the length of the Gym and how far to pull back the arrow…” Twilight muttered to herself. “Length; 60’, string hand drawn towards the face, slowly but steady arrow nocked and…”

As Lemon Zest dumped the box of tennis balls and let them bounce she walked back while Twilight fired a bow at one of them, causing the ball to strike the wall. She then began to quickly take out and fire the rest of her bows one but one until all six balls were imbedded in the wall by her arrows. As Twilight lowered her bow and remained calm, the rest of the Shadowbolts were slack jawed and stunned beyond belief. Not only did Twilight manage to hit all her targets without missing, she did in it ten seconds flat.

Twilight then faced the team, looking hopeful.

“So? Am I in?” she inquired.

“Wow!” Sour Sweet gasped. “How’d you do that?”

“It’s simple, I just calculated the correct amount of power, the distance and angle of each of my shots.” Twilight explained. “No biggie.”

The five Shadowbolts exchanged looks and then all smirked together.

“Hmm-mmm.” They all said in agreement.

“What?” Alternate Twilight inquired.

“Congrats! You’re in!” Sugarcoat declared.

Princess Twilight’s Human counterpart looked surprised. “I am? I’m in? Does that mean…” she began, excitedly.

“You’re a Shadowbolt, girl!” Indigo Zap told her.

“Oh, thank you! Thank you!” Twilight said as she hugged them before backing away. “Oh. Sorry… just… super excited, doesn’t happen often.”

“It’s ok.” Sugarcoat assured her.

“But you just need to confirm one thing for us.” Sunny Day added.

“Which is?” Twilight questioned.

Sour Sweet leaned in close. “Can you commit?”

“Commit?” Twilight echoed.

Lemon Zest got close to her as well. “Are you prepared to do anything to defeat the Canterlot High Wondercolts? Are you?”

“If it means finishing my research and getting some answers, then for the sake of the future of Science I say yes, I am.” Human Twilight stated, firmly.

Sugarcoat smiled. “Glad to hear it.”

Twilight then walked over and put the picture of Canterlot High back up before walking back, taking out another arrow and lining up her shot again.

“Trust me… Canterlot High… is as good as finished.” Twilight said, a bit sinisterly as she fired the arrow, which struck the picture right dab in the middle.