Amending (some seriously broken) Fences

A friendly game

With her image in a 3D printed hunk of plastic to her liking. We made our way into the next room over. It was one of the many training rooms the derelict passages had been converted to. We almost never saw the strange and bizarre Mr. discord especially in the areas where he wasn't needed. Never the less, there was this strange feeling he knew what we where up too and didn't mind maybe even wanted to help in whatever ways he could....After all; where do you think that six grand 3D printer came from? or how every now and then, excess equipment from the athletic department kept showing up in our training rooms with notes saying things like. "I hope these extra arrows and fencing gear comes in handy A friend?" My closest guess to why (If I may digress a bit) Is this. There's one room in the entire section of our little setup I've specifically asked people not to go into, why? I found in this room a tattered old mattress on a rusty frame; a hotplate and microwave, enough soup and canned food to last a century and not much else. Mr. Discord lives in the derelict passages and backdrops of our school...A living Rat man that does so much for us and we just keep the school a vandalized pigsty for him to keep running!

Yeah after I found that room, I made sure to clean the classrooms up a bit better than my peers at the end of the day, and kept a few tools on hand to fix some busted hinges and doors when I could. Anyway; The training room we entered was one specifically set up to practice fencing. A ring with two masked fencers where striking away at each other, while Rarity and Trixie stood on either end of the ring, keeping score with their magic auras. Trixie on the left had a bright blue 2 and the fighter on the right had a purple seven from Rarity. The fencer's swords clanging and snapping together as the fighters fought to score hits on their white uniforms.

"Come on!" "You only  need to catch up by five points" Trixie called out to fencer I could only guess was Twilight, I thought she may have been fencing her brother Shining Armor, what with a costume on a mannequin not far from Rarity that resembled a red knight's cuirass with faux chain mail (I say faux because it was actually the mesh material used to make shark suits and fish scaling gloves) colored with a shinny silver finish. Sounds fitting given his choice name. The other fighter expertly parried a thrust from Twilight before scoring a hit on her mask the sixte mark, quite impressive.

"Whoa Twi, you did pretty good but you're bro's been the champion at your old school Crystal Prep since before you where born or something like that, hasn't he?" I said as the competitor removed a mask, under which was a pretty boy face with a crop of wavy and blue water colored hair. Shining only smiled as he looked down from the ring at me.

"I'd be flattered if I had been the one who one this match dude." He said undoing his fencing armor revealing the white hoodie and sweats (which didn't look all that different from his fencing garb) and that weird logo of a shield and a few stars on the pocket.

"So you're sis finally surpasses the big brother Shy?"  I asked approaching the still masked and silent fencer.

"Not quite," a familiar voice called from under the mask before taking it off to reveal who it was under it. Starlight Glimmer blushed at me bright red as I could hardly believe it myself,

"She beat a five time Fencing champ like him on her first go?" It was at that moment however when Pinkie Pie dressed in a Deadpool costume burst through the door, pulled out a tv remote before anyone could notice her, and froze everyone in a state of being paused?!...What the?...Why am..How?

"Hiiiiea! " Pinkie said inside my thoughts while while we all frozen. No I seriously don't understand what's going on either.

"Oh I just thought I'd drop in since you made Shining armor a young (but not too young ) student like we all are." The Quote Unquote..."Pinkiepool" said to me while giving my head a few taps to unfreeze me. I looked at how everyone was completely non-moving and felt like something right out of the Adam Sandler movie (and R.L Stine story) Click.

"Oh funny you should mention that," Pinkie said holding up the very blue spoon shaped remote from Click and using it to Turn her own hair from pink to peach.

"Pinkie? I know magic exists in this world...but how in the nine circles of hell are you doing this?" I said to the clearly off the deep end Pinkie-Pool.

"Well Friendship Games established that Shining Armor in cannon already graduated Crystal Prep but for some reason you ignored that and reverse aged him into a student like us to make an obscure DC comics reference. HahI love playing with the fimfiction tools...ooops not allowed to say that word! " She said before taking a crayon out and drawing a mustache on Rarity's face.

"Pinkie I don't know how your're doing this...but can you just unfreeze everyone and get out of here before you make the universe divide by zero again?!" I yelled at her using a question and exclamation mark to show how serious I was.."See you're already making my thoughts as wild and nonsensical as yours!"

"Okay okay! Mr. meanie, I was only trying to explain inconsistency, the EG specials have a way of doing that you know?" She said as she rewound reality and hit play before darting back out the door everyone else none the wiser of the big lipped alligator moment (Dammit Pinkie stop crossing my brain with TV tropes!) That had just happened.

"She's quite a natural, Shinning said again as we all felt a sense of deja vu. "Hey is it just me or do you guys...feel funny?"

"Funny how Darling?" Rarity asked as she undid her magic score nonchalantly.

"Eh it must be something I ate, anyway, Starlight did pretty good for her first run."

"I just wish the others in school felt the same way." She said as no doubt a barrage of bad memories came flooding back to her...I felt for her as I looked over at the Shining Knight light knight's cuirass that had  no doubt been made for Shining. I picked it up and true to my assumption, It was modern shark mail, which was lighter then the medieval stuff and the cuirass plate was hard Kevlar as was the helmet.

"So I take it this will be you're Super M.O Shining?" I asked handing him the purple helm he threw on his head.

"Sure is!" He said pridefully. "I'm hoping it'll really serve to grow my image of the new age noble knight, not publicly a crime fighter but rather more for doing good the public will know about...they'll think it's all an act for an anonymous philanthropist."

"And what's you're first act in the costume going to be?" I asked handing it to him to try on.

"The dedication of C.H.S's new C.I.T after school day camp for toddlers and young children being dedicated in...an hour. Holy Smokes I gotta get going!" He said throwing his costume one in a hurry but i quickly held him back. (because really an hour? we're already at the school remember?)

"Whoa there Sir Panic had," "I think we can arrange something that can work in everyone's favor...Even your's...especially your's Star."

"What are you saying?" She asked with clear and present intrigue.

One plan formulation later.

"Darling? Are you sure this is the villain you want to use for this little horror show of yours?" Rarity asked as she applied another scar to my face. The plan was simple, Shining In his Nobel Knight gimmick, would be making his way across the parking lot where the day care trailers had been set up for the dedication, he bumps into a figure in a long coat and hat, tries to apologize but the "stranger" isn't quick to forgive. Only for it to be...Jigsaw!...No not the saw killer the OTHER jigsaw, the mob hit-man from The Punisher. which was why Rarity was applying some makeup and prosthetic's to my face.

"I't not big deal Rare," I said as she molded the misshaped eye, keep in mind we where going for a Dominic West Jigsaw look. "Once It looks like "Jigsaw's got shining on the ropes, Starlight with out any gimmicks, just a bow and arrow from archery practice and maybe a fencing sword, sticks me with an arrow, saves Shining, draws her fencing saber and says "leave now." like a bad-ass Katniss with a sword, I flee beaten and she's a hero." It always sounds so easy when you say it out loud does it not?

"Darling hun...How's Starlight supposed to shoot you with an arrow without killing you?" Rarity asks as she used brown blush with water to paint dried blood on my "scars."

"Easy, She'll be using blunt arrows which can't pierce skin at a distance but everything will happen so fast no one will notice, I'll pop this bag of stage blood under my coat not to mention my graphine armor, and no one will know the difference." I said my voice becoming more growly as I began talking in a Brooklyn accent. "So doll? What ya think?" I said as she handed me a mirror and I looked at the reflection. "Heh we thought Freud was scary, wait till they getta load a me eh babe?'' I said getting way too into character.

"Don't push it darling i'm still a proper lady."

"Hey c'mon cutie, its called bein in cognito!"

"Damn well better be."

The C.H.S Parking lot.

Everyone was gathered by the wooden walkway outside the trailer, The C.I.Ts (counselors in trainning for things like summer camp, big brothers/big sisters kinds a stuff.) the little kids they'd be takin care a for the afternoons once everything was in order, and a majority of the school. Shining in his knight outfit, made his was to the crowd, they hadn't seen him just yet, but I made my way acroos the lot to him he knew full well what ta do as he bumped into my when tha crowd was just at the other end too far us to see untill...well you'll see.

"Hey...pal watch were you're going will ya?! Oh and by the way the pride parades not till St. Paddy's day." I said which prompted shining to whisper.

"Hey can you let up on the insults a bit?"

"It's gotta be convincin, and rule one don't ever break character." I whispered back to him.

"Yeah well don't make my fighting be authentic too pal." He said before shifting to say. "My apologizes good sir, but I must make my way to a charitable and noble dedecation of the school's new after care for little ones program."

"No wonda people insulted superheroes by callin em...''gay" for so long, glad I never was inta that bullshit." I said with a growl and chuckle as the comic hero of the 50's was met by the villain from the 90's comics.

"I'm serious quit it with the remarks that a fourth grader would be embarassed by." Shining said glaring at me from under the helm

"I'm sorry, it's just as a villian there can't be anything to like about me and your audience has to want to see me beaten." I replied.

"What are you the writer?" He retorted back.

"It was my idea you know." I said drawing a prop switchblade. "I don't think you know who ah am pretty boy, I said lifting my face to allow him to see the fake scars on my face."

"Hey she did nice work." He said before switching to say, "Dear goodness man?! Are you okay?"

"I know," "I'm Billy Russo...NO! THAT MAN IS DEAD!...It's Jigsaw now...and I think we need to get..."better acquainted" heh heh heh." The crowd turned their heads to see my ugly mug and the pack of students ran over to see the super hero fight taking place on the the school parking lot. "You getta lot of dolls with that face pretty boy?"

"Only one that matters the most to me." He said drawing his fencing sword.

"How dull." I said As the prop wen right for his cheek. We fought for a bit and my prop swinging and slashing as shining gave me a few jabs with his round tipped fencing saber. It went on like this as the crowd drew in closer and closer drawn to the fight. I  decided to end the charade when I grabbed shining in a grapple and began kneeing him in the gut, his body protected by his Kevlar, but to everyone else he was only wearing a cheap Halloween costume. HE grabbed his stomach and did a good job in doubling over convincingly as he crushed the capsule of stage blood in his mouth and coughing up the shell casings to look like teeth. "Hah you little puss...this is too easy. Who can stop the hit-man the mob didn't want?" I said cackling happily as an arrow hit me square in the stomach. Like i said it was only blunt so it didn't punch a hole in my body but it made everyone turn their heads to see who had shot it.

"The next one's for you're head Jigsaw!" Starlight said as she stood with a well crafted steel bow in her hands. She was dressed in a black leather jacket and jeans. her hair styled up in a bun with a pony tail off to the side. She drew back her bow with another blunt arrow ready which reminded me i was supposed to look wounded. I held the arrow in my hands as I opened a plastic package of stage blood and let the "blood" drip onto the ground as I shrieked and gasped in "pain."

"Whoa...one a you tight wearin freaks grows a pair, and its a broad, who'd a thunk?" I said as she walked up to me and drew a fencing sword.

"Leave, before I make you into a pincushion." I heard among our crowd say things like 'Check it out, Starlight saved a hero with just some gym equipment.' and 'I think we may have been too hard on the girl.' 'Yeah, I mean this guy...I think this guy makes Starlight look like Fluttershy in comparison.' Starlight walked up to me with her sword still drawn. before whispering to me. "I think you should run now..before the real law shows up and hauls you off...and thanks Peter." She said winking at me as I took off, a little worried I broke up my illusion of being shot with an arrow.

A few Hours later

I pulled The scars off my face and put them back in the box of disguises, I wash the fave wounds and the stage blood from my costume as  the TV recaps.

"And police are still looking for the man known as Jigsaw, the assilant who attacked spokesmen for the Nobel Knight charity foundation Shining armor as he made his way to a dedication cermony today, the young man sufferred minor injuries and refussed medical treatment as he deliveved his dedication speech but the real hero was local student Starlight Glimmer, The heriess to the estate of one.." I watched her on the camera, laughing and smiling with tears of joy as they gethered around her and high fived her. Some even hugged her, and my lip reading could up more then a fe "We're sorrys." I may have been playing the villian that afternoon, but I was a hero to her and I made her one too.

A I Clicked off the TV, My phone began to vibrate. It was Starlight "Meet ME at the mall later?"  

"Why?" I texted back.

"Want to thank you properly for all you've done for me Peter...let's hang out the new Goosebumps movie starts today."

"You want to see that?"

"of COURSE! I loved the books as a  little girl!"

"Okay Okay! I just didn't realize you wanted to see it too." I texted her with a yes and said aloud to myself. "A heroes work is never done."