chapter 5: venting strategy

The next day

Sunset was not disappointed. From what Applejack told her, not twenty minutes after Sunset said she wrote the message, princess Twilight came sprinting out of the portal, saying frantically, “Where’s the danger?!”

Now they were all in Sunset’s room. Sunset had explained the situation in more detail along with some help from Applejack and now awaited a solution from the Princess of Friendship. Sunset was sitting at the edge of the bed in the middle, while the rest of the rainbooms had mostly gathered at the foot of the bed; in between it and the back wall. Pony Twilight chose to stand in the middle of the room and had been pacing back and forth there since she arrived and Sunset explained what had been going on

After about ten minutes of her pacing back and forth across Sunset's room, Pony Twilight stopped, and Sunset tensed. When Twilight didn’t say anything, Sunset opened her mouth. “Well?” she said, livid with anticipation. “Did you figure it out?”

The princess smiled. “Yes I did.” she simply said.

Sunset jumped to a stand. “Great. What spell do I need to do?” she asked quickly.

Pony Twilight held up a finger. “Actually, the solution is not a spell.” she said matter-of-factually.

Sunset shook her head. “Well, whatever it is I’ll do it.” she said. “I don’t want to become a she-demon again.”

Pony Twilight put her hand on Sunset’s shoulder. “If we work together, you won’t.”

Pony Twilight released Sunset’s shoulder and Sunset nodded. “Okay,” Sunset started, “what do I need to do?”

Pony Twilight smiled. “Simple. You need to vent your emotions.”

“What do you mean, she needs to ‘vent her emotions’?” Rainbow Dash interrupted.

“I’m mean Sunset needs to find a way to act on all the negative impulses she’s been repressing.” Pony Twilight elaborated.

Sunset lifted a finger. “Uh...I thought you taught me in Equestria that doing that was bad.”

Pony Twilight lowered her eyes almost in shame. “I did teach you not to act on negativity yes, but there was something I overlooked.”

Sunset and all her friends prepared to listen to Pony Twilight’s mistake.

Pony Twilight continued. “You see, in Equestria, emotions is a type of magic, or rather there is a type of magic that corresponds with each emotion. It is simple to get rid of any negative emotion magic. Just cast a spell and, poof. Gone.” Pony Twilight made an exploding motion with her hands as she said ‘poof’.

Sunset smiled inwardly as she was reminded of how simple everything was in Equestria. She snapped out of her memory trance and continued to listen as Pony Twilight continued her explanation.

“In this world however,” Pony Twilight continued, “emotions can’t just be expelled. They have to be acted upon. There is no other option. Knowing this, I’ve learned, people would usually find a way to act out their negative impulses in a non-dangerous manner.”

“This doesn’t exactly solve the problem dear.” Rarity pointed out while shaking her head.

Pony Twilight frowned. “I know. The big question here is what can you do Sunset,” she gestured over to Sunset, “to vent these negative impulses in a way that doesn’t hurt any of us, or anyone else for that matter.”

“Yeah.” Pinkie Pie intervened. “I don’t want someone else’s arm to be burned.”

“Or their bones broken.” Sci-Twi added, lifting her wrist for everyone to see the cast.

“She needs to hurt someone or something, without actually hurting that someone or something.” Applejack said, half asked.

Pony Twilight pointed at AJ. “Precisely.” she confirmed. “So!” Pony Twilight said, as she clapped her hands together. “Anyone have any ideas?”

Pinkie Pie was first. “She could punch a pillow!”

Then Rarity. “Go to a quiet place and yell.”

Then Rainbow Dash. “She could run around really fast.”

Then Fluttershy. “She could write angry letter and then rip it up.”

Then Sci-Twi. “Distract herself with a really hard math question.”

“Look guys, I appreciate the suggestions, but I don’t think it will be enough.” Sunset said gratefully.

“Um, ah have an idea.” Applejack spoke up.

Sunset turned to her. “Let’s hear it.” she said.

Applejack took a breath. “What if you played a violent video game? Whenever ah used to get mad with mah parents ah would take mah anger out on the video game characters. It still works wonders for me to this day.”

Sunset bit her lip. "Maybe..." she said, still unsure. "I mean, this is me we're talking about."

"Yeah!" Pinkie said in agreement. "Considering everything you've done, I would imagine there'd be a lot of negative emotions floating around in your mind with no way to leave, so it makes sense that they would run out of room. I mean think about it."

Pinkie began to count on her fingers. "You bullied us for years, broke into equestria..."

Sunset groaned in frustration at being reminded of her past. Normally, she wouldn't be bothered by it, as she had moved on from that, but with everything that's been going on, the last thing Sunset wanted was to be reminded of everything she had done. "Pinkie, we get it..." Sunset said, in an attempt to get Pinkie to stop. Her words fell on deaf ears however, as Pinkie continued to speak.

"Stole princess Twilight's crown, framed princess Twilight for wrecking one of my parties..." Pinkie said, completely unaware of how it was affecting Sunset.

"Pinkie, please..." Sunset said again, her frustration beginning to show as she began drumming her left hand fingers on her leg.

Pony Twilight, who was watching this, noticed small embers floating out of Sunset's left hand. At first she wasn't sure what was happening, and was trying to think when she suddenly felt a strong pulse of magic. She looked over to the desk beside Sunset's bed and felt the magic pulsing again, this time stronger...and very unstable.

Pony Twilight immediately put two and two together and suddenly got the feeling that if Pinkie didn't stop, Pony Twilight would get to experience what had been happening over the past week, first-hand. "Pinkie..." she said in a foreboding tone.

At this point, Sunset had just about enough. Her eyes were closed and her teeth were gritted inside her closed mouth. She barely paid any attention to the burning sensation in her left palm that was now beginning to spread up her arm and into her right hand; too focused on her desire for Pinkie's mouth to stop flapping. "Pinkie, shut up..." Sunset growled.

"...tried to raise an army of teenagers to take over equestria aaaand tried to kill us!" Pinkie said, taking a big gulp of air to signal that her had finished speaking.

"Pinkie stop!" the rest of the Rainbooms shouted in a last ditch effort to stop Pinkie before Sunset lost it.

But it was too late. Without warning, Sunset jumped up from where she was sitting, causing everyone to back away to the corners of the room. Both of her arms were completely ablaze, tendrils of flames swirling up and around her forearms all the way to her shoulders. Sunset's eyes were a raw black with turquoise pupils. She looked at Pinkie with rage and screamed, "SHUT THE FUCK UP!!!"

Pinkie squealed and fell down in fear, staring into Sunset's eyes as they bore into her own with hatred in them.

For a full minute, no one said a thing. Everyone just stared. The only sounds that could be heard was Sunset's heavy breathing, the light crackling of the flames on Sunset's arms and the rumbling of the desk by the bed.

After another minute, Applejack found the courage to break the silence. "S-sunset?" she asked quietly.

Sunset turned and glared at her. "WHAT!?" she roared.

Applejack didn't answer. Instead she gave Sunset a look that was a mix between anger, concern and pity. At first Sunset looked confused, but then she closed her eyes and shook her head. Her eyes regained their normal state as Sunset opened them again, and she blinked a few times. She looked around for a moment before her eyes fell on Pinkie.

Sunset's eyes grew wide and she gasped when she saw Pinkie's terrified face. Immediately, the fire swirling around Sunset's arms disappeared and the desk by the bed stopped rumbling. "Oh god..." Sunset mumbled in sadness as she fell down to her spot on the bed. "Not again..." Sunset put her face in her hands and immediately started sobbing.

Sunset looked up at Pinkie. "I-I'm sorry." she said. Pinkie didn't answer and instead just looked away, sniffling.

Pony Twilight noticed the desk by the bed had stopped rumbling and the unstable pulses of magic had ceased. She gulped and looked around at everyone in the room. Pinkie had clearly been frightened as she was visibly shivering and had tears in her eyes. "Woah..." she mumbled.

Pony Twilight looked over to the sobbing Sunset and walked over. She put a hand on Sunset's shoulder. "Hey."

After a moment, Sunset sniffled and looked up, tears running down her face. "We'll get through this." Pony Twilight said.

Sunset gritted her teeth. "How the hell can you be so confident?" she said in anger. "I mean look at me. I'm on a fucking hair trigger!"

Pony Twilight smiled, knowing that there was no anger towards her. "Well..." she began. "...while I don't know what a hair trigger is, I can say this; a solution, is a solution. If one doesn't work then we move on to the next, but most importantly, we don't give up."

"Yeah." Applejack spoke up. Sunset and Pony Twilight turned to her, Pony Twilight taking her hand off Sunset's shoulder. "Let me tell ya something Sunset." Applejack said as she looked directly into Sunset's eyes. "You can beat us, scream at us, or whatever, but so long as we have our friendship, we will never give up on ya. So don't you give up on us. Ya'hear?"

Sunset sniffled. "Y-yeah." she said while wiping her eyes. "You're right guys, I shouldn't give up. I'm just..." Sunset looked away again. "...scared."

Applejack nodded. "So are we, and that's exactly why we should deal with it right away."

"Face it, head-on." Sci-Twi added, smiling.

Sunset felt a small smile tug on her lips at remembering when she had said that. Sunset a breath to calm herself before saying, "Yeah...okay. You're right. We should face this problem of mine right away, before anyone else gets hurt." Sunset finished her sentence with a smile, her confident returning to her.

Pony Twilight smiled at seeing her friends' confidence return. "Excellent!" she began. "I think that video game idea of yours Applejack," Pony Twilight gestured to Applejack. "has the most promise, so we'll start with that. However I do have one question." Pony Twilight dawned a confused expression. "What's a video game again?'

Applejack looked to her. “It’s those things you saw me and Rainbow playin’ on when you were here last.”

Realization struck Pony Twilight as her eyes widened. “Oh yeah, those things.” she said. “They looked neat.”

Rainbow Dash jumped up, with an almost offended expression. "Neat!? NEAT!? THEY'RE THE BEST THING IN THE WORLD!"

Pony Twilight laughed at Rainbow Dash’s clear passion towards video games. “Okay haha. You’ll have to show me sometime but right now we have to help Sunset.” she said.

Then Pony Twilight's face changed to a more serious one. "Now, before we go, there's another matter that we need to address." she said, looking to Rainbow Dash, who was at the door of Sunset's bedroom.

Rainbow arched an eyebrow as she made her way back to where everyone else was. "Oh? What's that now?" she asked.

Pony Twilight didn't answer and instead looked to Sunset. "Sunset, can you bring out your pendant?"

Sunset nodded and went over to her desk, which at this point had moved quite a ways away from its original position, due to all the rumbling it did. She opened the top draw and a cloud of smoke burst out of the draw, making Sunset cough. Eventually, Sunset managed to grab the pendant. As Sunset went back to her spot in the room, pendant in hand, her friends caught a glimpse of the crack in it.

Everyone's eyes except Sunset's and Pony Twilight's widened in surprise. The room was silent for a moment before Rainbow Dash spoke up. "When did that happen?" she asked, in a shocked tone.

Sunset lifted the pendant in front of her face and examined the crack. "I'm not sure." she replied. "I just found it like this the night of the bus incident."

"How did it happen?" Sci-Twi asked next.

Sunset turned to Pony Twilight. "That's what I was hoping you figure out." she said.

Pony Twilight nodded. "The answer to that question it quite simple actually." she began. "It's no secret that you're very stressed out over your magic and personally, after today's um..." Pony Twilight git her lip. "...incident, I can see why."

Sunset lowered her head in guilt at what happened not even ten minutes previously, before looking back up to Pony Twilight as she continued.

"The stress has caused your pendant to strain." Pony Twilight said.

Sunset nodded in slight surprise. She honestly didn't expect it to be that simple. "I see." she said.

"Great! Can we go now?" an impatient looking Rainbow Dash asked.

Pony Twilight looked at her. "One more thing." she said while holding a finger up.

Rainbow rolled her eyes and groaned in complaint. "Ugh...come on!" she said.

Pony Twilight suddenly looked at Rainbow Dash with a firm face. "Rainbow Dash, this is something important that I'd like to get out now while I can. Something that will create more awareness for the problem in the future. It is also to help Sunset, not you. If you don't like it, then you are free to leave," Pony Twilight gestured the door. "otherwise, sit down and shut up.

Rainbow's eyes widened and she shut her mouth with an audible pop sound as her teeth knocked together.

Pony Twilight sighed, closed her eyes and took a breath. "I hate it when I have to do that." she muttered to herself. She turned back to Sunset. "As I was saying, there's one more thing I would like to say before we go."

Everyone listened for what the equestrian princess had to say.

"I'm glad you told me about the pendant as soon as you could. " Pony Twilight began. "You see, if you had waited, then the strain on your pendant would build and build and build. Eventually, it would, well...to put it bluntly...explode." she finished.

"Explode?" Pinkie piped up. "You mean like a grenade?"

Pony Twilight arched an eyebrow. "A what?" she asked in confusion.

"Here." Rainbow Dash said, getting up with her phone in hand to show Pony Twilight what a grenade was.

While everyone waited, Sunset thought about everything that had happened. She felt extremely guilty about what had been happening. No one deserved to be hurt like they did. Not Applejack, not Sci-Twi, not Pinkie, not even Trixie. 'Well, I mean...' Sunset stopped that train of thought in its tracks. 'Did Trixie deserve it?" Sunset asked herself. She bit her lip lightly as she thought. On one hand Trixie was arrogant and irritating, and that punch may have pounded into her head that she is no better then anyone else; on the other hand, breaking Trixie's jaw was a bit harsh. 'Whatever. I'll figure it later.' Sunset concluded as she saw Rainbow Dash and Pony Twilight finish what they were doing.

Rainbow took her phone back and returned to her spot in the room, while Pony Twilight dawned a look of understanding. "Okay, yeah. That's pretty much what it would look like if we waited and the pendant exploded, though with a little less fire. As for the magic released upon exploding, it would just go to the nearest stable storage space. Most likely one of you guys." she gestured the rainbooms.

"Now," Pony Twilight looked to Rainbow Dash with a smile. "we can go."

"YES!!!!" Rainbow shouted as she jumped up. She immediately sped for the door in a flash of multicolored light.

Pony Twilight closed her eyes and shook her head, a faint smile on her lips. "Alright girls. Let's go." she said, before everyone got up and walked out of Sunset's bedroom.

About a half-hour later they were all inside Applejack’s bedroom. They were all sitting in front of a TV while AJ prepared her playstation 4.

While AJ was setting up the game, Sunset looked around and took in the sight of Applejack's bedroom. The room was quite large, though this wasn't very surprising to Sunset, given that Applejack lived on a farm. There was a dresser on the far right with four drawers, presumably for each different item of clothing. Behind Sunset was Applejack's bed; a twin size, to be exact, with blankets layed somewhat neatly on top. As Sunset was observing the room, her eyes fell on Pony Twilight and she noticed something...odd.

"Princess?" Sunset asked.

The aforementioned equestrian princess blinked a few times before looking away from Applejack, who was still setting up the game, and looked to Sunset. "Yes?" she answered.

Sunset gesture Pony Twilight forehead. "Where's your crown?"

Pony Twilight arched an eyebrow, confused. After a second, her eyes widened in understanding. "Oh! I had to give the Element of Magic back to the Tree of Harmony." she arched an eyebrow again. "Didn't I write to you about it a while back?" she asked.

Sunset shook her head. "No, I don't think you did."

Pony Twilight nodded her head in acknowledgment. "Hmm. I must have forgotten, what with how busy I am as a princess. I'll have Spike make a note to remind me to write to you about it later."

Sunset nodded. "Okay. I'll look forward to it."

Both girls looked back to Applejack in time for her say, "Alright y'all. Ah got it set up. Let's play." Applejack adjusted her position on the floor so everyone could see and she was comfortable.

AJ pressed a few buttons on the controller and the system whirled to life. After a second a title appeared on the TV screen. “Grand Theft Auto 7” it read.

AJ began to play the game, explaining stuff about it the whole time. “This is easily one of the most violent video games out there. You can do whatever ya want.”

Sunset watched with rapt attention, as over the next five minutes, Applejack made her character place a bomb on a truck, steal a jet plane, then fly the plane into the truck, the ensuing crash making a loud explosion, AJ calling out, "YAHOO!" as it happened.

Applejack turned to Sunset, who was staring almost blankly at the screen. "With the amount of messed up crap you can in this game, Ah'm nearly one hundred percent sure you'll be able to act on all the heinous and destructive impulses you've been stomping down since the Fall Formal."

Applejack paused the game she Sunset didn't answer her. "Sunset?" she asked, waving a hand in front of Sunset's face. "Are ya okay?"

Sunset was not okay. Only now was she grasping what exactly her friends wanted her to do. Give up everything, and go straight back to her old ways. Sunset had had a vague idea of what was gonna happen when it was suggested back at her house, but never actually give it a second thought...until now. For a year now, Sunset had stomped down every, single, negative impulse. Stomped them down so hard she swore her ankles were hurting. Sunset had promised herself she would never go back to the way things were. Not just for herself, but for her friends. For Friendship itself.

But now...as Sunset fully grasped what she was being asked to do...all those backed up feelings, that she had stomped down for so long...Sunset could feel it clawing and crawling its way back up to the surface. This time however, Sunset was helpless to stop it.

At this point Applejack had backed away with everyone else, understanding what was happening in Sunset's head. They could tell almost exactly what was going as they watched Sunset's eyes go from the kind and caring eyes that they had come to enjoy, to the same cruel ones that they had feared for years prior, pupils shrinking to pinpricks.

Sunset was shivering. She felt at war with herself...and was losing. She could feel herself almost drowning, but at the same time, felt like she could dance around on the spot as if she had waited for a long time to go to an amusement park, and was about to go.

Then, a little voice made itself heard in Sunset's head. The voice sounded like her own, but it a teasing undertone to it. 'Come on.' the voice said. 'Stop fighting this.'

'B-but-' Sunset thought back.

'Come oooonnn.' the voice said back, almost whining. 'You've been fighting this for literally a year, and look where it's got you; so wound up you barely think straight without your magic going haywire and hurting someone.'

Sunset gulped.

'On top of that, your friends are asking you to do this.' the voice continued. 'This is to help you, and your friends know that. Besides...you know you want to...'

Sunset licked her suddenly rock-dry lips, and looked at Applejack; her pinprick eyes digging into AJ's. "Applejack?" Sunset asked slowly.

Applejack returned Sunset's rather frightening gaze and answered. "Yes?"

Sunset took a breath. "Are you absolutely sure that you won't be hurt by the things I will say, or do?" she asked slowly.

"Well," Applejack answered just as slowly. "we know that this is going to help ya in the long run. We're gonna try to ignore the things you'll be sayin', but..."Applejack leaned forward a bit. "...if ya could try and keep what ya say a little quiet, that would be, greatly appreciated...at least until we're outta your earshot anyway."

There it was...the final lock broken.

Without warning, Sunset jumped up, ran over to Applejack and grabbed her by the collar of her shirt. Everyone gasped in fear and shock at the sudden hostility. Sunset leaned close to Applejack's face. "Give...me...that...controller...now" she growled.

Applejack, thoroughly frightened and unable to speak, just dropped the controller and the ground, landing with a thud.

"Thank you." Sunset said, her voice virtually devoid of any emotion. "Now get...out."

Sunset let go of Applejack who fell to the ground. Applejack took one look at Pony Twilight, who looked to the rest of the terrified rainbooms and everyone immediately scrambled out of the room.

Everybody ran downstairs, eager to get away from Sunset, and gathered in the living room. Everyone was slightly out of breath from the sudden running.

Everyone sat on the couch and caught their breath. After a minute, Applejack spoke up. "That just happened." she said, adjusting the collar of her shirt.

"T-that was scary." Fluttershy said quietly.

"That's an understatement." Sci-Twi added.

"What do we do now?" Rarity asked as she looked to Pony Twilight.

"Well Rarity, we wait." Pony Twilight answered.

There was silence for a minute before it was broken by Pony Twilight. "So, uh, how has the Trixie incident affected the school?" she asked.

Rainbow Dash was the one who answered. “School is going on as normal, but Luna and Celestia aren’t going to let any new students in until we solve our issues. Doesn’t want Sunset to come back to school with new students, only to have one of their bones broken by Sunset. At least, that’s what she said.”

Pony Twilight nodded. "Hmm." she said in slight surprise. "That's a little much, isn't it?"

Rainbow nodded back. "True...but she's gotta think of everyone, not just Sunset. With Sunset's magic going going crazy Luna and Celestia didn't want to risk more students getting hurt. I guess it's...um..." Rainbow put a hand on her chin for a moment. "...the lesser of two evils."

Pony Twilight smiled. "I understand. I've had to make decisions like that before."

Over in the Canterlot safe house for the Assassins, Velvet Breeze was on the phone giving a status report the Mentor Steel Shine.

“Apparently there was an injury at school so new students aren’t getting in until the issue resolves itself.” she told her Mentor.

“I see. This is good. It gives you time to familiarize yourself with the area, as well as the P.O.E equipment. Detectors, analyzers, etcetera. Though you should have done that over the week.” Mentor Steel Shine replied.

Velvet nodded her head. “I did a little exploring when I first got here but just enough to find the kitchen and bedroom. I didn’t explore outside. I do know where the P.O.E stuff is, but didn’t use it.”

On the other end back at the bureau, Mentor Steel Shine arched an eyebrow. “Only a little? What have you been doing for the past week?” she asked, surprised that Velvet didn’t think to explore.

Back at the safe house Velvet was a little embarrassed by her Mentor’s tone. “I’m sorry! I just didn’t think to do so.”

She heard Mentor Steel Shine sigh. “Well, you should do that now before you get to school. Remember, you’re looking any sign of the Piece of Eden, so you need to get used to using the equipment.”

Velvet nodded her head again. “Okay. I’m sorry again.”

Steel Shine waved her hand. “It’s alright. This is your first mission, and a big one at that. I expected some mistake at some point. Remember what I said earlier?”

“Anticipate.” they both said at the same time.

Steel Shine smiled. “Exactly. I don’t expect you to be perfect, so don’t expect perfection from yourself.”

Velvet smiled back, as if Steel Shine could see her. “Okay. I’ll get exploring right away.”

Steel Shine nodded her head. “Right. Bye.”

“Bye.” Velvet said back into the phone before hanging up.

She put down the phone and sighed. “Well, I guess I’d better explore more.”

And with that, she began to make her way throughout the safe house. It was a nice looking building. Had to be at least two thousand square meters all around. In the living room there was a couch and a love seat, situated in front of a medium sized TV. plasma screen. There was a coffee table in between the seats and the TV.

The kitchen was standard, with a fridge and sink to wash dishes. There was a couple of cupboards to hold an average amount of dishes. Velvet continued to walk around. In behind a door in the kitchen, there was a computer room with at least three computers inside.

From the living room there was a set of stairs. At the top of the stairs there was a bathroom to the immediate right. At the top of the stairs there was a hallway with rooms on both sides. It was clear the safe house was meant to hold at least five people as each of these rooms were bedrooms. Velvet had picked the room closest to the stairs. It was convenient as it was also closest to the bathroom.

Velvet went downstairs back to the living room. The dining room connected the living room and the kitchen. There was a door at the far end of the dining room. Velvet walked over to the door and opened it, walking outside. In the back of the building was a small wooded area. A little to the left of the door was a small shed. Velvet entered the shed to reveal a bunch of wood and metal plates with targets on them. ‘Probably for a little bit of training.’ Velvet thought to herself. She would make use of that later. Supporting Velvet’s theory was that fact that the trees had holes in them. Too small to be bullet holes, so they had to be from nailing targets to the trees. There was also what was left of a target on the ground at the bottom of the tree.

Velvet went back inside and up the stairs to where all the bedrooms were. She entered one. The first thing Velvet noticed was a rug, partially lift up. A shape lay under it. Curious, Velvet lifted the rug the rest of the way and revealed a hatch. She lifted the handle on the hatched and opened it. Inside the hatch was a dark hole. Velvet couldn’t even see the bottom it was so dark. Velvet looked around the room and saw a small panel on the wall. She pressed the panel and it opened, revealing a small space with a piece of paper. She took the paper out of the compartment and looked at it. “These are blueprints for the building.” Velvet said to herself. She scanned the blueprints until she found the room she was in. She also found the hatch and her jaw dropped. It turned out that under the hatch, was a network of tunnels that extended all over the place; each leading to what Velvet supposed was other safe houses, but like a maze. Twists and turns and dead ends littered the place. The intent was clear. It was made to confused Templars or other attackers while the Assassin or Assassins escaped.

Velvet continued to look at the maze. “That explains why the training area is outside.”

She rolled up the blueprints and placed them back in the compartment. “I’ll memorize that later.” she said as she closed the compartment, hiding it once again.

Velvet looked down at the open escape hatch. She looked into the dark hole and shivered. “Fuck, that’s dark.” she said as she closed the hatch. She wasn’t normally afraid of the dark, but that hole was nerve-wracking, to say the least. She pulled the rug over it again, concealing from the world until it is needed.

Velvet exited the bedroom and made her way downstairs to the living room. She sighed. “Well, guess I’d better figured out how work the P.O.E equipment.”

With that, Velvet went to the computer room, opened a compartment and pulled out a small device with a screen on it.

The P.O.E energy detector and tracker, was simple to use and Velvet figured out how to work it in no time. What was curious about it was its shape. It sort of bore the resemblance of a handheld game system. ‘Probably a 3ds or something. Maybe XL.” thought Velvet. ‘Maybe I can use the look of it to my advantage. Make it appear like a 3ds. Then, civilians will be none the wiser.’ she thought while smiling at her cleverness.

Velvet put the device back in the compartment and closed it. She then stood up and stretched her back, sighing after hearing it pop.

“Well, that’s the entire property explored.” said Velvet finally. Not sure what to do, Velvet checked the time. After seeing that it was one o’clock she decided to get something to eat. Then she would check out that training area outside; see if she can get some training in before she started school.

Author's Note

Hello everypony! that's it for chapter 5! I know it was a little on the short side, but here's the thing: I have the next chapter already written, but it appears fairly long, quite possibly around my average of 5000 words. The next chapter and this one were at first one single chapter, but I had decided to split them because the chapter would have been really long and I know that can sometimes turn people away. So yeah, there's my explanation.

Umm...not really much else to say. Umm...like, or comment if you enjoyed. If you find any mistakes that I might have missed, reveal them to me in the comments and I will fix them right away...

Anyway...That's all I have to say for now! See you guys next update! (which will be coming sooner then this one!) BYEEE!!!!