Chapter 4

Pinkie Pie was running alongside the other Humane 5 towards the sound of conflict, they passed several unconscious injured students and torn up lockers, but have yet to actually spot Sunset Shimmer. Pinkie's hair started to droop again, just thinking of her name leaves the feeling of despair and guilt. Pinkie loves nothing more than making friends and making them happy, but this last week, she lost a friend and made her miserable.

"Um... Pinkie?" Rarity started, running right next to her.

"Yeah, Rarity, what is it?" Pinkie responded

"I'm starting to have second thoughts about running towards Sunset now." Rarity said, her eyes drooping further towards the ground.

"What, why?!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed as her head snapped towards Rarity.

"Well, we didn't exactly be nice to Sunset after we left her." Rarity said as the entire group slowed to a stop, Rarity's word having a more profound affect on some of them than others.

"Yeah, I tricked her to coming to the gym a couple nights ago, Gilda and her gang were waiting for her, though they didn't leave unharmed, they still beat the piss out of her." Rainbow Dash confessed, not mentioning that she was watching it happen.

"Mah brother got the football team together tah teach her a lesson for messing with me." Applejack was next to confess, her head hanging from the weight of her sins. "Ah even encouraged it when I saw it, Ah was hooting and hollering as if it were at the rodeo."

"I started the Expel Sunset Campaign." Rarity said, causing the other to go silent.

Rainbow Dash, who had led her friend into a sense of false security, only to throw her to the wolves, Applejack, who had her brother publically assault the same friend, looked at the woman who had done more harm than either of them combined. While the leader of the Expel Sunset Campaign was 'Anonymous', the strikes the put on outside the school had been shown on the local news, effectively destroying all chance of Sunset having a nice life or career, making it so that no matter where she goes, the shame of a crime she didn't do followed her.

By far, Rarity had done the worst to Sunset than the entire school had done tenfold.

Pinkie walked over to Rarity and slapped her across the face. Rarity didn't try to dodge or console Pinkie, she just took the hit, which was surprisingly harder than she had thought the pudgy girl could do. When she looked back, she saw Pinkie crying, not comically like she normally does, but real and realistic tears, effectively slamming the point home that Rarity had done a horrible act.

Pinkie felt Rarity hugging her, from the moist feeling on her head, she was crying as well. Another set of arms wrapped around them, the firmness of the muscle identified the cowgirl, Applejack, then another set joined, night and day, these, while they had some muscle on them, was squishy and soft, almost exactly like Rarity's but a bit softer, Pinkie immediately knew it was Fluttershy, and when the final one joined, Pinkie already knew who it was going to be, but feels like it would be leaving her out of the mix, the lithe firmness of the arm would always give her away.

"What happened to us?" Pinkie sniffed, tears still streaming. "How did we swoop so low that we'd applaud these attacks instead of condeming them?"

No one had an answer. How could they, what do you say to a question like that? They didn't have an answer and knew even if they did, it would only give a more negative than positive effect at the moment. The moment was shattered by a scream echoing through the hallway. The Humane Six immediately sprung into action, sprinting down the hall towards the noise.

The Humane Six didn't know what to expect when the arrived, but they certainly didn't expect an officer being held up by Sunset. Pinkie had recognized her hair, but also recognized the red skin, the black sclera, and the almost fire like red irises burning with rage, all the tell tale signs of the demon Sunset became, minus the wings and horn though. But by the looks of things, Sunset seemed to not need her magic nor flight capabilities as she hurled the police officer down the corridor like she was an empty soda can.

Fluttershy went to check on the officer, who was now in a nearby locker, while the rest of us continued forward, now more worried about confronting her.

"Sunset... I know your angry and you probably want to hurt- AHHH!" Pinkie Pie screamed as she just barely dodged Sunset's fist.

"Applejack, help me pin her!" Rainbow yelled at the cowgirl as she ran forward, slid underneath her, tackled Sunset. Rainbow managed to drag Sunset to the ground, allowing an opening for Applejack to jump on top of her.

"Raaaggghhh!" Sunset roared, pushing Applejack's arms back slowily.

Applejack was struggling to keep Sunset pinned, thinking about what would happen if she failed. Sunset would hurl her off, attack Rainbow then the rest of her friends, and while she may not have killed anyone yet, but with all the horrible things they had done to her, there was no saying she would be able to control herself. With that in thought, Applejack's body started glowing, a pair of ears sprouted out of the top of her head, her ponytail grew a ponytail, and her strength quintupled.

Sunset was pinned within a few moments, Rarity and Rainbow were both holding Sunset's lags down, with a large amount of difficulty, Pinkie Pie had placed Sunset's head on her lap, stroking her hair with one hand, rummaging through her hair with another.

"Shh, Sunset, shh." Pinkie tried to console Sunset, but only received animalistic grunts and screams in response.

As Pinkie ruffled through her hair, the others looked at her quizzically, while they had have experience with Pinkie's 'quirkiness', but this seemed a little out of left field, even for her. Their confusion only grew as she drew a brown bottle and a rag out. Pinkie stopped stroking Sunset's hair to pop the lid of then covered it with the rag, she tipped the bottle upside down and back, getting an ample amount of liquid on the rag, before mashing it onto Sunset's mouth.

This action had caused Sunset's struggles to double in feriocity, causing even Applejack to struggle keeping her down.

"Shh shh shh, it's time to sleep Sunset, and when you wake up, I'll make it up to you and we'll all be friends again." Pinkie said, tears in her eyes, as Sunset's struggles slowly died down, before stopping entirely.

"Whoa nelly, whatda' give her Pinkie." Applejack huffed, her ears and second ponytail disappearing in small flashes, as she got up.

"Chloroform." Was all Pinkie said, still stroking Sunset's hair.

"Well now that that is over with," Rarity said as she got up too, dusting herself off, with a grim expression. "What are we going to do with her?"

"What do you mean Rares?" Rainbow said, looking up at her, still having a death grip on Sunset's leg.

"What I mean is that Sunset just tried to kill us, had attacked other students and an officer, destroyed school property..." Rarity's rant died off as she saw that Sunset's body was gaining it's former color again, which was great but, there was another color returning as well.

"Rainbow, go get some bandages from the infirmary, Applejack an ambulance!" Rarity screamed as she and pinkie both put pressure on the hole through Sunset's neck, which had returned to bleeding. Rarity's scream had sent both Applejack and Rainbow Dash into action, but it had also woke up the unconscious officer.

"*snort* What, were am I?" The officer questioned, wondering how she got there and why. When she saw Rarity and Pinkie putting pressure on Sunset's neck, memories flowed back. "Hey get away from her, she's dangerous!"

The officer sprung up to try and save the students from the she-demon who had completely floored her moments ago, but had stopped once she saw that not only was Sunset unconscious but was seriously injured as well. The officer was shoved aside by Fluttershy, who was hold a large First Aid Kit.

"Alright, would some please explain what happened while I was unconscious." The officer said, rubbing her forehead in frustration.

"WellSunsetherewasgoingonarampagethroughtheschoolwhenwehadfinallycaughtuptoher,shethrewyouatus,bythewayareyoualright,youmighthavesomeseriousdamagetoyourback,andifthathappenedhowwouldyoubeabletopartyand-" Pinkie blabbered until the officer clamped her hand around her mouth.

"Besides Pinkie." The officer liked Pinkie, but in cases like these, she'd rather Pinkie just didn't get involved.

"Well, miss..." Rarity trailed when she realized she didn't know who the officer was.

"Sergeant Bright Badge." Sgt. Badge responded to Rarity's nonverbal question.

"Well, Ms. Badge, a few days ago, a cyber bully named Anon-a-miss had revealed herself, or rather themselves." Rarity said, tears starting to emerge in her eyes as she remembered the screaming Sweetie had thrown at her by her parents. "and the reason that is important is because they had initially framed Sunset here for all of it."

Sgt. Badge looked down at the dying girl, even as Fluttershy wrapped more and more bandages around her neck, blood still seeped through them, and for the first since she entered the school, she saw the broken remains of Sunset as who she truly was, a broken girl who had finally snapped.

"But what makes this even more shocking and horrifying is that in their confession video they had stated that they found her dead, in her makeshift house." Rarity's head hanged down, tears fell down from her eyes in a steady stream.

"Makeshift?" Sgt. badge question, she had a thought as to what that had meant, but had hoped she was wrong.

"Sunset is homeless, she was living in an abandoned warehouse somewhere in town, we still don't know which one as none of the three girls involved would say as to where it was." Rarity sobbed heavily.

Sgt. Badge was about to say something else but was cut off by her radio coming to life with erratic static and noise. "Yes, this is Sgt. Badge, could you repeat that. The reason why is because I was unconscious, no I don't need backup, the suspect is incapacitated but requires medical and bad, I understand, over out."

"So, why wasn't this reported to the police?" Sgt. Badge asked, not hearing about something like a student committing suicide was nearly impossible as the rest of her divion loved gossip and this had seemed like the tale that stood above them all.

"Principle Celestia wanted to get a confession from all three girls before involving police intervention, but wasn't going to wait too long, tomorrow would have been the deal breaker and Principle Celestia would have called the police, with or without Applebloom's confession." Rarity explained, sniffling and trying to gain control over her emotions.

"Sergeant!" A loud yell came out from behind the group. "Where are you, Sgt. Badge!"

"Over here sheriff!" Sgt. Badge yelled back, which was sooner responded in by a multitude of stomping feet coming in there direction.

"Badge, you alright?" The presumed sheriff round the corner with four other officers and a couple paramedics.

":Yeah, I'm alright, Shining, but I'd be careful if I were you, Cadance might get jealous." Bright Badge joked, her head injury was starting to catch up to her, but there was someone else in need of more help than her and her throbbing head.

"Jesus Christ, you crazy son of a bitch, here I was concerned that you had been killed by some crazy bitch attacking the school, but instead I'm reminded about how much I hate you." Shining Armor tried really hard to make it look authentic, but he smirk firmly placed on his lips ruined it.

"Hey!" Pinkie Pie suddenly exclaimed, pointing at Shining.

"Um, yes miss." Shining Armor questioned, not sure as to why he was being yelled.

"Don't call Sunset that, she's been through enough as it is." Pinkie said, hugging Sunset's head.

"Wait, that's Sunset, as in the girl who was bullying everyone via some website, that Sunset." Shining Armor questioned, not quite understanding why this girl was defending the one who has been bullying everyone for over a week now.

"It had come out that Sunset was actually innocent of it via a confession video by the actual Anon-a-miss." Fluttershy piped in, as she and Applejack helped the paramedics lift Sunset onto the stretcher, Rarity was holding Pinkie back cuddling with Sunset some more.

"..." Shining Armor didn't know how to respond, here he was, a man who held factual evidence above other things except for desperate situations, had just let gossip alter his view on someone he had never even met.

"Hey, Shining, calm down, there was no way you of all people could have known anything besides what had been shown." Bright Badge tried to console her friend. She knew that on the field or on an investigation, he was hell on wheels, but outside that, he's like a little girl, emotional and easy to squeeze a tear out of.

"I know, but I was judging her based solely on what I heard, not even considering-" Shining Armor was cut off by Bright badge clamping her hand around his mouth.

"How about we go and find Cadance before you turn into a sobbing pile of mush." Was all she said before pushing Shining Armor down the hallway.

Now that the five girl were alone, they looked to each other to find out what to do next. It was only when Pinkie came up with the idea of "Wanna go to the hospital?" was anyone of them moved.

And through the commotion, Pinkie failed to notice the book vibrating in her back pack. But if she had, she would have noticed that the words written on the previously blank page was...

'Sunset, I don't know what happened or what's happening, but I'm on my way, please be alright and not doing anything you might regret!'

Author's Note

Sorry for taking so long to post, I've just been buried under a lot of school work.

Though I would like to thank all those who have been through the story up to this point, and have patiently waited for the next chapter, I promise to try to not take so long next time.

-The Toaster Repair