My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games

Chapter 4

Sunset ran into assembly hall with some paint. She saw her friends and handed them the paint when she got a paintbrush. “Wow, I have never seen Canterlot High so excited for an event. Good thing Celestia is choosing the team today, I wonder who's going to be on it?” Sunset said out loud as she painted a C with gold paint.

Rainbow scoffed. “Well obviously I’m gonna be on it. I don't know if you noticed but I am the captain of every sports team here at CHS! And maybe even Applejack will get on.” Rainbow shuddered as she remembered that competition two days ago.

“Ya’ll still mad at me for beating ya at Archery?” Applejack smirked.

“I was SLACKING! If I was at my full game you wouldn't have won."

“Right.” Applejack rolled her eyes. Sometimes Rainbow had an ego bigger than the school and you can't stop her.

Fluttershy took a strand of her hair and whispered to the group. “If-if it will anybody feel better, I’m sure I’m going to be on the team too.” Fluttershy looked down and painted a heart.

Rarity shuffled over to Fluttershy and started to comfort her. “Oh come now, Fluttershy darling, you are one of the most amazing archers I’ve ever seen. You’re sure to make the team.”

“Um… thanks Rarity, and I think you’re an amazing rollerblader.”

Pinkie bounced up, “Hey doesn’t anyone else notice that when the writers need information we just talk about it normally. JOSH HABER, YOU WILL NEVER WIN!" Pinkie shouted, looking at the ceiling.

The girls just stared at Pinkie in confusion. Sunset cleared the annoyingly quiet silence.

“Well, that’s one way to make sure you’re here. Anyway I think we’re just about done,” she said.

The girls lifted the poster they were working on. It had a gold CHS in the middle and sports all around it. Principal Celestia asked for some pupils to create posters for the Friendship Games. Principal Celestia and Luna entered the assembly hall and walked up to the middle. Everyone stared at them, they would finally learn who was on the team.

“Good morning students as you all know we are in charge of choosing six of you who will be on the new Wondercolts representing us in this year’s Friendship Games. And the students will be… Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Sunset Shimmer. That is all.” Celestia and Luna left.

The girls were shocked. They knew Rainbow and AJ were going to make it, but the red was a total surprise. Especially Sunset, less than a year Sunset was a she demon, now she was going to represent the whole school.  Rainbow stood up.

“Well, looks like we go some practicing to do. Follow me, it’s time to whip you guys into shape!” she said.

Rainbow ran out and started heading to the field.

As soon as most of them we’re all gathered outside in the school field, the new Wondercolts team and gathered all the supplies they needed for each of the events they were all going to participate in. Rainbow and Sunset rolled out their motocross bikes, Applejack and Fluttershy had their bows and arrows and Pinkie was rolling around on her skates. Rarity was the only one not present, which frustrated Rainbow.

“Ugh! Now where is Rarity?” she asked.

“She had her skates the last I saw her, but then she said she forgot something else.” Sunset said.

“I think I know what it is…” Applejack muttered.

Just then, Rarity came bursting out the door while pushing a rolling coat rack onto the grassy field. “Oh, girls! I got us our new uniforms!” she sang.

“Knew it.” Applejack said, deadpan.

“New uniforms?” Fluttershy echoed, surprised.

“Ooh! You mean the ones we got thanks to the fundraiser?” Pinkie guessed, excitedly.

“The very ones, and they are quite the eye poppers, if I do say so myself.” Rarity said, proudly.

Rainbow Dash walked over and inspected them. “Uh, kinda girly… and please tell me some of them aren’t made of spandex.”

“Come on Rainbow, Rarity worked really hard on these, the least you can do is give them a try.” Sunset told her.

Rainbow sighed. “Fine… but only when it’s time for the games to begin.”

“Thank you.” Rarity nodded. “Now, how should we begin our training?”

“Well, now that we know who will competing in which events, the first one’s to go should be Rarity and Pinkie Pie, since their event is first.” Applejack said. “Remember, Rarity is the jammer and Pinkie, you’re the one attempting to score us some points.”

“Yay!” Pinkie Pie cheered.

“Alright.” Rarity nodded. “Shall we begin?”

“We shall!” Pinkie declared as she put on her blue helmet which had a star on it.

“Awesome, let’s head to the Gym now.” Rainbow said as they began to leave.

“Wait! But first… a quick change of attire.” Rarity added, which made everyone, aside from Rarity and Pinkie, stop and groan in exasperation. “Oh, come now, darlings. You have to admit we can’t exactly play roller derby in our skirts, can we?”

Pinkie picked looked at hers. “You have to admit, Rarity makes a very good point!”

Rainbow sighed. “Hurry up, we ain’t got all day,” she said, annoyed.

Later on, inside the Gym, after Pinkie and Rarity had gotten into their new roller derby uniforms, they both got to the starting point and readied themselves.

Pinkie’s had pink knee and elbow pads plus pink gloves and little pink rollerblades with gold wings on them. She wore light blue and pink tights under some blue shorts, a gold belt and a blue, light blue and pink t-shirt with a pink balloon in the center.

Rarity’s had a sleeveless purple and pink shirt, a purple skirt over a pair of black shorts like Rainbow, light blue knee and elbow pads and purple roller blades also with gold wings. She also had a purple helmet on with a white stripe .

Rainbow made a face at Rarity. “Seriously? You make a big deal about roller blading in a skirt and your ‘fabulous uniform’ has one?” she pointed out.

Rarity scowled. “Rainbow Dash! I’ll have you know that this skirt comes complete with a pair of biker shorts like yours, my other one doesn’t, so there!” she huffed.

“Fine, fine, whatever, can we just get started?” Rainbow asked.

“Indeed.” Rarity nodded as she and Pinkie readied themselves.

“But wait, aren’t roller derby team’s supposed to have five members?” Sunset pointed out.

“Yes.” The fashionista confirmed.

“Then who are going to be your extra three? And who will the team playing against you be?” The former Queen Bee pointed out.

“Glad you asked.” Rarity said before she whistled loudly. Just then, three students known as Babs Seed, her sister Sunflower and Derpy herself came out, dressed in attire similar to Pinkie and Rarity while three grungy looking boys known as Spot, Rover and Fido plus Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon came out wearing rollerblades mock versions of the Shadowbolts uniforms, with Diamond Tiara’s helmet having a star on it and Silver Spoon’s had a stripe, they would be the team their practicing against. Course, the dog like boys ended up tripping on their roller blades, much to Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon’s dismay.

Rainbow Dash’s voice became flat when she saw them. “You have got to be kidding me.”

“No, no I am not.” Rarity shook her head. Rainbow stared at them.

“What? It was hard to find some more on such short notice.” Pinkie Pie defended.

“Fine! Whatever! Just get ready, that means all of you.” Rainbow instructed, sternly as she gestured to Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon and the Diamond Dog boys, who grunt snobbishly and nod respectively.

They all then took their places at the starting point and got ready to dash for it.

“Ok, ya’ll! On your marks… get set… go!” Applejack cried.

And with that they were off. Pinkie then began to use all her pent up energy to race through and around the rest of the pack. Diamond Tiara’s group tried to stop and/or block her but Pinkie managed to somehow pop out and then pop in right in front of them, with that she lapped them.

“Ok! One point for the starting team!” Applejack announced while Pinkie Pie cheered, happily.

“Ooh, this event confuses me… how did they get point again?” Fluttershy asked.

“Easy, Pinkie’s are jammer and whenever she passes by one of the blockers in Diamond Tiara’s group, her group gets a point.” Rainbow explained. “Same thing applies to the other team though, that’s where Rarity and her group of blockers come in, they have to make sure Diamond Tiara doesn’t manage to get by them. Get it?”

“I… think so.” Fluttershy muttered.

Silver Spoon then tries to block Pinkie, but she quickly skated around her while Rarity bumped into Diamond Tiara before she, Babs and Derpy got in her way and prevented her from getting any further.

“That’s it, guys! Don’t let her pass!” Rainbow called out. She then noticed the Diamond Dog boys coming Pinkie’s way. “Pinkie! Behind you!”

“Don’t worry Dashie! They won’t stop me!” Pinkie promised.

But eventually they did manage to catch up to her and were beginning to get ahead of her in order to stop her from going any further but then Pinkie got an idea.

“Look! Something shiny!” she cried pointing somewhere else which distracted the three boys and made them slow down and cause them to crash into the approaching Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon. The others wince at this while Pinkie began to lap them multiple times.

“And that’s one win for the home team!” Rainbow declared.

“Yes!” Pinkie cheered, while the others began cheering as well.

“Way to go.” Fluttershy quietly cheered. The students that they asked to help them gave them a thumbs up before leaving.

Rainbow nodded in approval. “Next is archery,” she instructed.

Pretty soon after she said that, they were all outside again and Applejack and Fluttershy were both standing side by side with quivers on their backs and bows and arrows in their hands. In front of them were two archery target boards ready to be fired at.

“Alright, you each have three shots, the one who gets the most points wins.” Rainbow told them. “Applejack; your up!”

“Right!” Applejack said, as set her arrow, raised her bow and aimed for the board. She soon released it and hit the gold part of it, just near the bull’s eye.

“Ten!” Rainbow announced, as she marked it down.

Applejack did the same thing again and hit the gold part once more.

“Ten!” Rainbow repeated, while marking it and the others all cheered nearby.

“Go Applejack!” Pinkie Pie cried, happily.

“Keep it up!” Sunset encouraged.

“You can do it!” Rarity declared.

Smiling and feeling empowered by their faith, Applejack took the last bow and fired it, this time it hit the bullseye. Everyone yelled and cheered loudly after seeing this.

“Ten again!” Rainbow yelled, pleased. She quickly added up the scores. “Thirty points! Man, that’s even better then last time. Guess it was a good idea to make you one our archers.”

Applejack nodded. “If I do this well next time the Archery competition is in the bag!”

“Oh yeah!” Rainbow smirked.

“Uh-huh!” Applejack added as they clasped hands.

The rainbow haired girl then turned to their other archer. “Fluttershy! Your turn!”

“Uh… ok,” she said, timidly as she stepped forward.

“Take your time Fluttershy, you can do this.” Rainbow assured her.

“Yeah… I can do this… I can do this…” Fluttershy repeated as she prepared to fire her arrow as well. But when she did, her’s hit the lower part of the board, which made them all wince a bit.

“One…” Rainbow said, recording her shot before Fluttershy made another, but this one missed the board completely and got onto the middle of the road.

“I got it!” The rainbow haired girl marking them announced as she began to go out to get it only for a car to drive by and snap it in half. “Or not…”

Applejack put a hand on Fluttershy’s shoulders. “Come on Fluttershy, I know you can do this, just think about Twilight and how proud she would be if she could see you now.”

“Right, just think of Twilight.” Fluttershy nodded, sounding more confident as she readied her bow and arrow again and this time she hit the bulls eye, earning her an applause.

“And ten!” Rainbow declared,  marking down the last score. “Good work Fluttershy, just keep practicing and thinking of Twilight and you’ll win us the goal for sure!”

“Thanks!” Fluttershy said, smiling gratefully.

“Alright, next is motocross racing! Sunset! You and I are up next!” Rainbow said, as she and Sunset walked over to the motocross bikes parked nearby them.

“Great, been itching to try this thing out.” Sunset admitted as she put on her helmet and got on her bike. Rainbow did the same thing. They both drove onto large dirt circle, which was what the track team used for their running.

“You ready?” she asked.

“Ready!” Sunset declared.

Pinkie held up a flag. “On your marks!” she began as Rainbow and Sunset revved up their engines. “Get set… pause for effect… Go, go, go!”

Their engines roared and soon enough they both racing around and around the track, kicking up dirt and trying their best to get ahead of the other while their friends cheered them on from the sidelines. Nearby, the Principal and Vice Principal of Canterlot High; Celestia and Luna watched the girls’ progress and smiled proudly.

“They seem to be doing well.” Vice Principal Luna observed.

“Indeed they are.” Principal Celestia nodded.

“Are you sure they can win?” Luna inquired.

Celestia smiled. “After everything they’ve been through the past year, I’m sure that they can and I’m looking forward to it.”

Luna nodded in agreement. Just then a long black car, that looked almost like a hearse, appeared and pulled up nearby.

“Now who could that be?” Principal Celestia wondered, curiously.

They then noticed a tall, dark and somewhat creepy looking man step out of the vehicle. He has medium length, slicked back black hair and red eyes. With his black jacket, red waist coat and white dress shirt along with his black trousers and dress shoes, the man looking toward them was quite handsome, though seeing him made Vice Principal Luna shiver.

“It’s him… Principal Sombra…” Luna said, lowly as the aforementioned man approached them.

“Principal Celestia, and Vice Principal Luna, it’s so nice to see you again.” The man said in a charming yet creepy tone.

Celestia shook his head while Luna folded her arms. “Principal Sombra, a pleasure most rare.”

“Indeed…” Vice Principal Luna added, slowly.

“I trust that your Wondercolts are ready for the main event tomorrow?” Principal Sombra inquired.

Principal Celestia nodded. “They are,” she confirmed.

“Good, because we of Crystal Prep would hate to win so easily…” The dark haired man said, with a smug smirk.

“Don’t worry, you won’t.” Luna promised, with narrowed eyes.

“I suppose we’ll find out when our two teams go head to head, oh and speaking of which… my team just got itself a new member.” Principal Sombra revealed. “Would it be acceptable if I introduced her along with the rest of the team? It would be a nice chance to try and bring our schools together, after so many years of conflict.”

Celestia nodded. “I don’t see why not.”

“Excellent. I’ll bring them over here now, you should get your students ready, it’s sure be quite surprising, for some in particular I mean…” Sombra said, with a sneaky grin before walking away from the two sisters.

“I don’t trust him.” Vice Principal Luna confessed, seriously. “He is… what the students would call… ‘creepy’.’

Her sister put a hand on her shoulder. “Calm yourself sister, Sombra may be a bit… ‘creepy’, but he is still the Principal of Crystal Prep,” she reminded him. “We cannot let our emotions cloud us when we’re around him, things would be… complicated.”

“I know.” Luna nodded. “But still… I think we should keep an eye on him this time… just in case.”

“Perhaps…” Celestia agreed, as she and Luna watched Sombra walk off with a hidden smirk on his face.

Around the same time, Rainbow and Sunset had just completed the last lap of their motocross race and screeched to a stop after they both crossed the finish line.

“And Rainbow wins the motocross race!” Rarity declared.

“Yes! I rule the world!” Rainbow cheered.

“Nice work, Rainbow Dash.” Sunset congratulated her, while being a good sport.

“Thanks. So how fast was I this time, AJ?” Rainbow asked her cowgirl friend who checked the stop watch.

“Let’s see… looks like it you managed to do it a couple seconds faster then you did last time.” Applejack observed.

“Alright! We’re really making some progress now!” Rainbow Dash said, pumped.

“Yeah, I just know that this time, we’re sure to win against the Shadowbolts.” Sunset agreed.

“It’s only a matter of time until the Games begin and I can hardly wait!” The rainbow haired girl smirked.

Just then the P.A system turned on and everyone heard Vice Principal Luna’s voice.

“Attention students, please report to the Gymnasium immediately. Principal Sombra of Crystal Prep Academy has arrived and would like to present the newest member of Crystal Prep’s Shadowbolts, who will be competing in this year’s Friendship Gams.” Luna said. “Now we are well aware of your personal feelings towards the Shadowbolts, due to their history of defeating us every time we’ve faced them…”

As she said this, most of the students gained angry and bitter looks on their faces as they remembered the aforementioned Shadowbolts. The ones who lost against them last year felt particularly upset by it.

“But we cannot allow our anger to control us, it is time for us to end this feud, so I encourage you all to be the better person and save your anger for the games and also… have faith that this year’s Wondercolts will finally be victorious.” Luna continued.

Hearing that seemed to settle down most of them and cause them to cheer with excitement while they began to head to the Gym.

Outside, the new Wondercolts team had just heard the rest of the announcement and heard the faint cheers that were coming from inside the school.

“Ooh… everyone’s sure counting on us to win…” Fluttershy said, feeling the pressure.

“And we will! Don’t worry!” Rainbow assured her.

“Wonder who their new member is?” Applejack voiced.

“I didn’t even know they needed one.” Sunset admitted.

“Of course they did, didn’t you hear? One of their archer’s got suspended.” Rarity revealed.

“Ooh! What for?” Pinkie questioned.

“No one really knows for sure, they don’t even know her name.” Sunset said. “But they have a new member now, one we know nothing about.”

“And they apparently want to end the feud.” Rarity added, a bit surprised.

“That might be for the best…” Fluttershy voiced.

“I don’t know… I don’t trust those guys, never have, never will.” Rainbow Dash stated, firmly.

“Well we’re just gonna have to suck it up, look them in the eye and say ‘may the best team win’.” Applejack told her.

“And we plan to.” Rainbow Dash concluded as she began to walk back toward the school.

“Rainbow…” Fluttershy began.

“Let her go.” Sunset said to Fluttershy.

“But…”

“She just needs a little bit of space, you know how competitive she is.” Sunset pointed out. “Once she’s wrapped her head around it, she’ll try to fake it as best she can.”

“Well, I hope you are right…” Rarity voiced.

“Yeah… me too…” Sunset muttered, a bit unsure.

“Well, we’d better get moving before she blows another gasket.” Applejack told them all as they began to head toward the school. As the entered the building, the school bus from Crystal Prep had just arrived nearby and one by one the Shadowbolts all exited it, the last one being the human counterpart of Twilight Sparkle who looked especially satisfied to be there and dressed in her Crystal Prep uniform, just like them. Sour Sweet just snorted as she looked around.

“What a dump,” she commented.

“I can’t believe Principal Sombra told us to come here.” Indigo Zap grumbled.

“Believe it.” Sunny Flare sighed, very unsatisfied.

“Well I am not planning on mending ties with any of these losers… at least not when we’re alone.” Lemon Zest added.

“Hey, I don’t care about being here anymore then any of you.” Sugarcoat told them. “But… order’s are orders, we have to follow them.”

“Though we still can’t care about why we’re really here, right?” Sour Sweet inquired.

“Right.” Sugarcoat nodded.

Twilight stepped forward. “Oh, I wouldn’t say this is going to be a complete waste of our time,” she smirked.

“How do you figure?” Sugarcoat asked, interested.

“Let’s just say I have some unfinished business with school, and I don’t care what it takes, I will get answers.” Human Twilight said, firmly as she stared at the school with a determined look.

Around the same time, the girls were all continuing to head towards the Gym, with Sunset bringing up the rear. Though along the way she ended up bumping into someone, causing them both to grunt. Sunset looked up and was surprised when she saw that it was her ex-boyfriend Flash, who she had not really spoken to since they broke up many months ago.

“Oh! Hey, Flash!” Sunset said, smiling and waving nervously,

“Sunset Shimmer! Hey! Uh… long time no see, huh?” Flash shrugged.

“Yeah… it’s been a while…” Shimmer said, glancing away, blushing. There was a long period of awkward silence between the two before Sunset finally spoke. “So… how you been? You… still miss Twilight?”

“Yeah…” Flash nodded. “Have you heard from her?”

“You could say that, yeah.” Sunset Shimmer nodded.

“Great! She doing ok?” Flash asked, interested. “She still upset with me for saying all those mean things to her at the Battle of the Bands? I feel terrible about that…”

“I’m sure she’s fine and don’t worry she’s not the kind of person who holds a grudge, trust me, I know.” Sunset Shimmer assured him, comfortingly. “Besides, it wasn’t your fault, you were hypnotized, that’s all.”

“Oh, that’s good to know…” Flash said, relieved. “Is she… coming back to Canterlot High soon?

“I don’t know… I hope so.” Sunset confessed.

“Yeah… me too.” Flash nodded.

There was another period of awkward silence between the two as they glanced away and shuffled their feet a bit before Sunset Shimmer finally spoke again.

“Well… it was nice talking to you again, Flash.” Sunset smiled.

“Uh… yeah, it was nice.” Flash admitted. “See ya around.”

“Guess you will.” Sunset Shimmer nodded before she turned and walked away. As she left Flash reached into his pocket and took out a picture of him and Twilight dancing Twilight’s rather… strange dance at the Fall Formal and sighed sadly.

Later on, Flash, Sunset and the rest of the Humane Six were all gathered in the Gymnasium where Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna were standing on top of the stage ready to give their announcement.

“Thank you students for gathering here on such short notice.” Principal Celestia said to them all. “As you know, students from Crystal Prep Academy have arrived to introduce their newest member to us and hopefully… mend the ties between our two schools.”

“And now, for the one who will introducing Crystal Prep’s team competing in this year’s Friendship Games… Principal Sombra.” Luna added as she stepped aside along with her sister while Sombra stepped out from behind the curtain. Not a single sound came out of the students as they all stared at him with distaste, because he was from Crystal Prep, and fear, because he was so creepy looking, like Luna said.

He stood in front of the microphone and began speaking. “Greetings… children, it’s so nice to see you all again and I speak for everyone at Crystal Prep when I say that we are very much looking forward to competing against you once again in the Friendship Games,” he said, ignoring the glares he was getting from many of the Canterlot High students.

“So that’s Principal Sombra…” Sunset Shimmer mused.

“Yep, creepy ain’t he?” Rainbow remarked while Fluttershy hid behind her after seeing a slightly evil look in his eye.

“Yeah, I know, Twilight told me all about the other version of him back in Equestria.” Sunset informed.

“There’s two of him?” Rainbow questioned, surprised before shuddering.

“One Principal Sombra is more then enough for me, thank you.” Rarity huffed.

“That makes two of us.” Applejack agreed.

“I think he looks nice!” Pinkie voiced, which earned her a weird look from everyone else. “What?”

“I do hope that all of you are looking forward to some nice, friendly competition, I know my Shadowbolts are.” Principal Sombra mused, with a smile. “Speaking of which, let me introduce them to now!”

Principal Sombra stepped to the side while the room went dark and the spotlight shined on the middle of the curtain. Just then, Sunny Flare and Lemon Zest rolled out from behind the curtain on their roller blades.

“Participating in the roller derby event are the lovely and fierce Lemon Zest and Sunny Flare!”

Lemon Zest looked at them all snobbishly before turning her head and raising her nose while Sunny Flare made a face at them that angered some of the Human Six.

“Now girls…” Sombra warned them. He gave them a look and they both started smiling and waving.

Then Sour Sweet popped in next to them with her bow in her hand.

“Also, participating in the archery event is none other then Miss Sour Sweet!”

Sour Sweet also gave the students of Canterlot High and wave and smile, which was actually very fake.

“Hey, where’s the other archer?” Sunset Shimmer asked, confused. “The new one that just joined their team.”

“Their probably just setting her up for a ‘grand entrance’.” Applejack rolled her eyes while folding her arms.

“As the master myself, I have to agree.” Rarity nodded.

“Then in the tie breaker Motocross event, should it come to that, our racers are lovely Indigo Zap and the Shadowbolts leader; Sugarcoat!”

As their Principal said their names the two aforementioned girls came out onto the stage, rolling their motocross bikes along with them and stopped them once they faced the large crowd before standing next to the rest of their smirking teammates.

“So these are the Shadowbolts…” Sunset Shimmer mused.

“Yep. That’s them.” Applejack confirmed.

“Pfft, they still don’t look all that tough to me.” Rainbow scoffed. “I’ll bet their new archer is just some wimp too.”

“Maybe, but I don’t know…” Sunset Shimmer muttered. She was getting a bad feeling in the pit of her stomach. She couldn’t figure out why but something about the new archer seemed to unnerve her.

“And now… let me introduce to all… the newest member of our team… joining Miss Sour Sweet in the Archery division… please welcome… Twilight Sparkle!” Principal Sombra announced.

“HUH!?” Everyone said, shocked. They couldn’t believe their ears. He couldn’t be talking about the Twilight Sparkle, the Pony Princess of Friendship and the one changed everything and everyone upon arriving at Canterlot High. Could he?

As they all tried to process what he said and come up with an explanation, they noticed the Shadowbolts all backing up to make room for another girl walking down the middle and up to the front of the stage. When she finally stepped through the shadows and into the light to face the students of Canterlot High she was met with a collective gasp when they saw her face, a face they knew all too well. She looked at them all seriously and calmly as her glasses shined in the light while the Humane Six close by stared at her in complete shock.

“No way!” Rainbow exclaimed.

“Holy moly!” Pinkie said, stunned.

“It can’t be!” Applejack despaired.

“But why?” Fluttershy asked, upset and close to crying.

“Et tu… Twilight Sparkle?” Rarity questioned, looking almost as upset as Fluttershy.

Sombra smiled. “She’s quite the intelligent young lady as well as an excellent archer, we’re very lucky to have her on board,” he continued before turning to Twilight. “And I’m sure Miss Sparkle here is very eager to compete in her first ever Friendship Games, isn’t that right my dear?”

Twilight nodded. “Yes. I am.”

Sunset stared at Twilight, shaken by the fact that she was standing beside their school’s arch rivals and staring at them all indifferently and without any warm emotions at all. This couldn’t be real. How could Twilight betray them like this? Sunset just couldn’t figure it out.

“It can’t be… it just… can’t…” Sunset Shimmer muttered in disbelief and shock. Flash then stepped closer to her, looking almost as stunned and upset by this as they all were.

“Wait a minute… I thought you said Twilight wasn’t coming back!” Flash said to Sunset.

“So did I…” Sunset Shimmer admitted.

They all continued to stare in shock while most the Shadowbolts gave them smug and nasty little smiles. Princess Twilight’s counterpart just coldly glanced at the distraught Humane Six and narrowed her eyes at them.