Equestria Girls HATRED Special

“Attention citizens! A curfew is in order! Everyone please go home and lock your doors immediately!” a police officer said through a megaphone while driving through the street in his cop car.

Everyone arrived at the motel and checked in. Most of the available rooms had only two beds so they worked out who would be roommates. Applejack, Apple Bloom, Twilight and Spike shared a room; Rarity with Sweetie Belle; Scootaloo bunked with Rainbow Dash; and Pinkie Pie shared a room with Fluttershy. Twilight asked the five human versions of her friends to meet her in the room she was sharing with AJ and Apple Bloom. She also asked Apple Bloom to go to one of the rooms with her friends; she wanted to have a talk with the older girls alone. The five noticed that Twilight was not having a good night. She was still thinking about Sunset Shimmer, the fact that she was still out there, and the fact that a deranged killer was on the loose didn’t make them feel any better. But the worst part was there was nothing they could anymore tonight, and that was the most frustrating. Twilight sat on her bed holding her head in one hand.

“Don’t worry, Twilight. We’ll find her tomorrow. I’m sure.” Fluttershy said trying to comfort her friend. Unfortunately, it did little to calm her nerves.

“I just can’t believe this happened. Poor Sunset.” Twilight said, obviously upset.

“I know how you feel, but please darling, Sweetie Belle and the others do feel bad about what they did and just want to make things right. So try not to be too hard on them.” Rarity said with sympathy.

“It’s not them I’m upset at, it’s you.” Twilight declared.

All five of them were shocked. They couldn’t believe what their friend had just said. “How could you do this Sunset Shimmer? Just turn your backs on her like that when she needed your support?”

“Now sugarcube, please let us explain. All the evidence was pointed at her; there was no way of knowin’ it was someone else.” Applejack tried to defend everyone.

“Yeah, you remember what she was like. You know what she was capable of doing.” Rainbow Dash interjected.

“That’s all in the past. Sunset Shimmer’s a different person now. She apologized for all the wrong she did.” Twilight argued.

“Well, how was she able to convince you she was innocent?” Rainbow Dash asked, she was getting annoyed with this conversation.

Twilight was dumbstruck; she couldn’t believe her friends needed to ask her that. “Sunset Shimmer has been working really hard to make up for her misdeeds to not only you, but also to me. She’s my friend. That’s all the information I need to tell she’s a good person. Why wasn’t that enough for you?”

This time, none of them could think of an excuse. Twilight had them beat. No one said anything; they just lowered their heads in shame. However, Twilight continued.

“What about all the good times you’ve all had, didn’t that mean anything?”

Nothing.

“Remember the Battle of the Bands and the Sirens? In the end, Sunset was the one ultimately responsible for saving everyone. Didn’t that matter at all?”

Still nothing.

“Remember if it weren’t for Sunset, I would’ve never met any of you and we never would’ve become friends.”

They still didn’t say anything, but they looked like they were on the verge of crying. Twilight had one last thing to say.

“I asked you to watch over her and teach her the magic of friendship. So when you turn your backs on Sunset, you also turned your backs on me.”

That was it. That was the breaking point. Fluttershy was the first to breakdown into tears, followed by Pinkie Pie. Rarity sat down on the other bed in the room and sobbed with her face buried in her hands. Applejack and Rainbow Dash just stood where they were staring at the floor with tears streaming down their cheeks. Twilight stared at her bawling friends and started regretting being so harsh. Spike poked his head out from under Twilight’s bed. He could only watch as the five girls cried their eyes out. Apple Bloom and Scootaloo had snuck into the neighboring room where Rarity and Sweetie Belle were to sleep that night. All three of them had eavesdropped on the whole conversation and could hear the older girls crying. They began to wish that they had never come up with Anon-a-Miss in the first place.

"You're right sugarcude, we've been horrible friends." a broken AJ tearfully admitted.

"We should've known better." Fluttershy sobbed.

Rarity finally regained enough of her composer to stop crying. Her eye makeup was ruined. “Twilight darling, we know now that what we did was wrong. But we promise we’re not going to give up until we find Sunset Shimmer and set things right.”

“I know we will.” Twilight said with a warm smile.

“And as long as we have each other, there’s nothing we can’t accomplish.” Rainbow declared proudly.

Twilight let out a sigh of relief. “All right, time for bed. We’ve got a big day tomorrow.” And with that everyone adjured to their own rooms to get some sleep.

Twilight lay on her bed with Spike nestled at her feet. Applejack and Apple Bloom shared the same bed and were snoring happily while hugging each other. Although it had been a bad night, Twilight felt newfound hope that they would be able to find Sunset Shimmer safe and sound.