Equestria Girls - Canterlot Court

Sunset was sure of one thing, well, make it two things. First, was that she was right now lying down in one of the school infirmary beds; she knew that because Nurse Redheart wanted to keep a nice and sterile place of work which made the state of the beds a secondary thing, focusing more in functionality and they were not something you would like to spend any time on them, it helped too since no student wanted to cut classes due to that.

Second thing she quickly found out was that every single muscle of her body hurt like a son of a bitch.

Canterlot Court

Game 04: Bedridden

Trying to get up had become quite the struggle for the girl, things haven’t been this bad since the first week she started running with Rainbow and Applejack, now it felt like those painful days all over again.

“SUNSET!” the exclamation of surprise and worry was something that Sunset wasn’t expecting, thankfully this time Pinkie nor Fluttershy decided to hug her, it seemed that they tried to contain their exuberance and their motherly nature respectively.

“Hey girls”

“Is that all you got to say? Rainbow Dash made it seem as if you were ready to keel over and die by how worried she sounded on the phone” the fashionista said not paying much attention to Rainbow’s rebuke “but nonetheless, just hearing that you fainted made me close shop and come to check up on you”

“She ain’t kiddin’, Ah think there are skid marks all over the parkin’ lot now when she arrived; Ah saw Rarity comin’ in paler than usual and Ah knew somethin’ was wrong” the blonde haired girl at Rarity’s side said making Sunset feel better already knowing that she had these friends.

“Thank you girls, but what happened?” she asked looking at the rather crowded school infirmary; there were Twilight and Cloudy, this one still dressed in the Canterlot uniform, the rest of her friends and also Principal Celestia for some reason.

“I think I speak for everyone present Sunset in that we should be asking you that question” the Principal said obviously worried about her, she knew she shouldn’t be this happy by the worry shown from this woman, but even if it was a kind of proxy for her it still meant a lot.

“I don’t know, all my muscles hurt like crazy”

“Do you often exercise in this way Miss Shimmer?” Nurse Redheart asked finally coming from her office at one side, the door quietly opening while they had been talking, how a school infirmary had an office for said infirmary nurse was something that Sunset didn’t understood, just like hundreds of things in this world.

“Besides running a couple of days a week with my friends, not really”

“Well, is no wonder you feel so tired, your body worked extra hard just to keep you in the game and with the amount of adrenaline in your body it all came crashing down at the end when you finally let the game stress behind” Nurse Redheart had always had a no-nonsense voice when it came down to the health of her wards "I recommend you to take this weekend to rest and to avoid any extraneous exercise, also I do not condone heavy usage of painkillers so it would be a better option for you to use a menthol muscle cream or any other you can find, they will relax the muscles and allow you to heal and soothe the pain in your extremities; remember, just let your body rest and you will feel fine by next monday” she said before nodding once to Sunset and another time to Celestia before going back into her office, it was obvious she had said everything she needed and she was giving the floor to Principal Celestia.

“Well Sunset, you’ve heard the instructions from Nurse Redheart and not even I have the courage to disobey her” the older woman said getting a chuckle from the group of friends, it was obvious she did it on purpose, probably to release some tension “but besides that, I didn’t know you had those athletic abilities, I would have asked you to be part of the school teams if I had known”

“Principal, believe me when I tell you that not even I knew I could do that”

“You sure did surprise us, but I bet North Canterlot is even more surprised... I don’t know how you did it but even though we won I feel kind of guilty about what happened to you” Cloudy Skies was usually the contrary to her name, usually full of energy and smiles so seeing her with a frown and a worried look in her face felt like an antithesis, like a Pinkie who didn’t want to make a party.

“Is not your fault, I’m happy that I helped you guys” seeing the cloud disappear from the captain of the team (figuratively) was something that made Sunset feel happy about the changes in her life and attitude in the school.

“Good to know that you are quickly gaining friends and helping this school in many ways, it shows how much you have grown not only as a Wondercolt, but also as a person, which sounds a little weird considering your home world” Sunset laughed alongside her friends, but she also fetl something a couple of years before she would have scoffed at, school pride; who would have thought it would be something she would have cared about now? “but unto a more serious topic, Twilight Sparkle has something to say to us” the usually quiet girl found herself the recipient of all pair of eyes in the infirmary and even thought she didn’t have social anxiety it still made her flinch a little.

“Well, is just something that I noticed through the game” Twilight said before showing everyone her now ever present tablet, it had been a gift from her parents after transferring to Canterlot High, it had been intended as a tool for classes but soon found more usage in practical tests and record tool for the magic abilities of the Rainbooms “can you tell me what do you find weird in this video?”

“You mean, besides Sunset dunking like a boss in front of North Canterlot?” Rainbow said with a voice full of pride before giving Sunset a brofist (or should it be a sisfist?) making everyone in the room groan at her antics.

“Umm, I’m not sure but… aren’t Sunset eyes usually blue?” Fluttershy’s quiet voice came clear while she looked at the video “but in the video they are golden”

“You are right Fluttershy, I’m not sure how but they became that color once she started to play, I’m not quite sure, and this is merely a hypothesis, but maybe Sunset’s innate magic gave a sudden jolt of energy to her nervous system increasing the reaction time and eye to hand coordination of her body to new levels while creating in the process an eidetic memory effect imprinting the body moves of her opponents” the silence that accompanied that long sentence didn’t surprise Sunset in the least, after expending more time with the human Twilight she knew very well how fast and how technical she could be with her explanations.

“Ah, I just have one question”

“Yes Rainbow?”

“Can someone please explain what she just said for those that don’t read quantum physics for light reading?”

“What she meant is that I probably used my own magic to be stronger and faster and also for learning stuff from other players by just watching” the collective AAHHH from her friends was enough for Twilight to grumble at the injustice of it all “and it could explain it but there are still questions”

“Like what?”

“A lot of things AJ, how was I capable of doing it? If it was magic then why didn’t I show pony ears? Why could I jump like that? I mean, I used to be a unicorn, earth ponies are the ones with that kind of physical power” it was a good thing she had explained all about pony differences and abilities in a previous sleepover.

“Oh oh oh oh, what if you turned into an alicorn and now you have all those cool powers like you did against Midnight Sparkle?” Pinkie said waving her arms on the air while Twilight blushed slightly at the mention of her ‘darker half’.

“Pinkie, if I had suddenly turned into an alicorn WE would already know, believe me, for what I have heard it is not a subtle transformation”

“So then how are ya goin’ to find out if ya’re gonna pony up or not?”

“The same way we find out things, field testing”

“Well, back to the drawing board”

“Come on Twy, I know you are aching to start with the experiments”

“Can you stop with your egghead flirting already?”

“Rainbow, that joke was in bad taste” the slap on the back of the rainbow haired girl’s head courtesy of Rarity was more than enough payback for the joke in Sunset’s opinion.

“Be as it may be, this news bring two things to the table Sunset” Principal Celestia quickly called for the attention of everyone just by talking “if it is indeed magic that will end up with you ponying up every time you play then you all have to be careful, but if it is a hidden ability of yours when it comes to sports then I believe we have found a place where you can shine as strong as you already do in academics”

“Wait, are you saying…?”

“I think what the principal just said is that if you are not suddenly going to sprout pony ears or something like that every time you step on the court I will be proud of calling you my teammate”

“You want me in the team?”

“Are you crazy? You are the only girl I’ve ever had who can dunk! It is perfect, we are barely starting the pre-season so we are basically gonna rebuild the team after older members graduated and you already know we lost some members last year, so what do you say? Do you wanna help me create a new Canterlot High team?” Cloudy finally asked while extending her hand to Sunset, this one took a glance around the room, watching all the faces smiling and supporting her, it was an easy question.

“Let’s do it” she said before taking the hand of her new team captain, and with that, the Galaxy Generation had officially started.