The Unique

Crystal Prep

"I wonder if my car is out of the shop?"

Sour Sweet looked up from her desk and turned her head. The past few minutes she's been hearing people talk out loud, yet the classroom was completely quiet. She looked around to try to see which student was talking. The students were all sitting quietly on their desks, working on a test given to them. She narrowed her eyes and went back to working on her test. She concentrated on her test and solved a few answers before hearing someone else speak.

"Now i square root this... and I have answer C."

Sour looked up again and couldn't find the person who said the answers. Sour Sweet didn't like it when somebody says the answer to a question out loud, it annoyed her to no end.

She looked around the class and couldn't believe that not a single person heard that. She looked at the teacher who was reading a magazine, barely paying attention. She turned back to her test and went back to work.

Sour Sweet rubbed her head in pain. She had woken up this morning with a huge headache. She had taken pills for her headache, but they didn't work at all.

It didn't help that people were talking more than usual. It felt like the whole city was talking at once in school. When it did get quiet, there would still be a few people talking. The mysterious part about it was she could never catch the person talking in any of her classes. It was like she was the only one that could hear them talking.

She was then interrupted by the bell ringing, causing the students to talk again. The teacher sprang out of his chair and stood in the front of the class.

"Hand in your tests, we'll continue them tomorrow." The teacher said. The students formed a line and turned the tests in to the teacher who stood there looking uninterested.

"Daisy. Good answers." Sour Sweet heard the teacher say, or she thought she heard him say.

"Radio Wave, Excellent as always." He said. After Everyone had left the classroom it was just Sour Sweet left. She walked up to the teacher and gave him her test. She didn't care to look up at the teacher as she turned it in.

"Sour Sweet... horrible answers as always." He said. Sour Sweet groaned in annoyance and turned her head.

"You try working when other students are talking and you don't even do nothing to stop it!" She yelled at the teacher, leaving him confused. He wondered how she heard his thoughts about her test.

Sour Sweet left the room and headed towards the hallway. She stood there for a while, catching a break from all the noise. It was lunchtime at Crystal Prep, so all the students were at the cafeteria.

She rubbed her head again in pain. Her headache had gotten worse since this morning. It felt like she could hear a audible boom inside her head. She clenched her fists and tried to pull through, but it only made it worse. She dizzily walked towards a locker and held herself with the wall for support.

Then she heard a bang in the distance. She turned her head and saw a ball bouncing across the hallway. It was one of the students in the basketball team. He bounced the ball as he walked by, causing more pain in her head. Sour Sweet grew more and more agitated each time the ball made impact with the ground. The thuds intensified her headache each time. It reached a point where Sour Sweet couldn't take it anymore.

"Hey! Can you stop bouncing that ball!" She said, raising her fist in the air. As soon as she did that, a red wave of energy flew out of her arm and rushed towards the soccer player. The red energy made impact and pushed the student forward. He freaked out and yelled while in the air. He landed fifteen feet from where he originally was and broke his arm in the landing. His shouts of pain echoing through the hall. Students came to investigate while teachers rushed out of their rooms.

"Thunder Lane, are you okay?" His friend asked, running out a classroom with a teacher.

"No, ah man, I think it's broken." Thunder Lane said, as he cried out in pain.

"Alright, take it easy." A nurse said, slowly getting Thunder Lane up. Sour Sweet had witnessed the whole thing in shock and stared at her hands in fear. She quickly ran the other way and exited out the school. She reached the schools side doors and entered the parking lot.
She ran in circles and had her arms on her forehead. She had completely freaked out and wondered what was going on with her. She touched the rail really hard and held her head with one arm.

"What is wrong with me? Did I do that?" She thought to herself.

She let go of the guard rail and sat down on the concrete steps, unaware of the fist sized dent she made on the rail. She sat there for a minute before voices flooded her head again. Sour Sweet covered her ears as best as she could, but to no avail. She looked around her and saw no one in sight. Sour Sweet finally realized why school was so much louder today than normal. She was hearing the whole schools thoughts. Sour Sweet stood up and walked down the steps. Her slow walk turned into running as she tried to get away from the students, ditching school.

"And that is everything we know about Equestria." Sunny Flare said, turning off the projector.

"Any questions, Indigo? Indigo?" Sunny asked, turning around when she got no response. She narrowed her eyes and groaned at the sight of Indigo Zap sleeping on her desk.

"Indigo!"

"Wha, huh? The answers 42." Indigo said, looking around in a daze. She stopped and looked at a annoyed Sunny Flare and smiled.

"How much did you hear?"

"You were talking about the founding of horsey world?" Indigo guessed. Sunny looked at the ground and rolled her eyes in disappointment.

"Indigo, this is important." Sunny whined.

"You were talking about the founding of a horse nation. It's boring." Indigo said, honestly.

"Don't you like anything to do with aliens?" Sunny said, raising an eyebrow.

"Yeah, but it's all boring. I mean, come on, a Pegasus, Earth horse, and a Unicorn survive evil horse winds by hugging it out in a cave? That sounds super fake. Like, are you sure they weren't joking when they said this." Indigo said.

They, Indigo? I already said who told us this."

"You did?" Indigo asked, getting an annoyed nod from Sunny.

"Oh, well I think he/she was lying to you.

"Well, it's what happened. Sigh. You are so not helping my headache, Indigo." Sunny mumbled. Indigo heard that and agreed with her.

"Same here. I've had his huge headache since this morning." Indigo said, rubbing her forehead.

"You too, huh?" Sunny said, rubbing her forehead.

"Yeah. It's hard to describe how I feel, though. It's a ringing in my head, almost like it's -"

"Beating like a heart?" Sunny asked. Indigo looked at her in confusion and agreed with her.

"Yeah. Exactly like a heartbeat."

"I've had that too. I wonder what's going on?"

"Are we feeling this way because we're connected or something?" Sunny theorized.

"Connected, with you? No thanks." Indigo said.

"And what's that supposed to mean?"

"Maybe we're getting called." Indigo theorized, trying to get back on subject.

"Called by what?"

"I don't know, I'm just guessing." Indigo said, putting her hands up. The door to the classroom Sunny and Indigo were in opened, Tauren and Bright entered the room. Indigo stared at Tauren with anger. She was still mad at Tauren after what happened at the power plant. She folded her arms and stared at the two Agents.

"Hi, Bright." She greeted. indigo had no problems with Bright. Bright was Starlight's assistant as she later found out when she first met her. The young white brown haired girl seemed shy and barely looked Agent material. She remembered when she first saw her. She was staring down at the computer room on the second floor with a distracted eyes. She remembered walking right next to her yet she hadn't noticed. Indigo looked at bright and saw her staring at Ronin with a smile.

Indigo folded her arms and quietly leaned towards Brights ear, where she promptly said, "What's ya looking at?" The sudden voice in her right ear caused Bright to jump up in surprise, giving a tiny squeak.

Indigo remembered laughing at Bright's reaction and then helped her up. The encounter had made Bright completely embarrassed. She obviously didn't think they would meet like this. Indigo snapped out of her thoughts as Tauren tried to speak with her.

"Indigo, may we speak in private?"

"I don't know can we?" Indigo said, glaring at him.

"Indigo." Sunny whispered, demanding she respect him. She looked at Sunny Flare, who was nodding her head at her. She rolled her eyes and stood up.

"Fine." Indigo said. Tauren smiled and quietly thanked Sunny Flare. Bright had walked up to Sunny Flare and proceeded to hand her documents. They talked to each other as they left the room together, leaving behind Indigo and Tauren. Indigo had sat in her chair staring at Tauren in suspicion. Tauren had pulled up a chair and sat down, staring back at Indigo with guilty eyes.

"How much did Ronin tell you about the incident."

"...He told me you arrived from a portal to destroy the planet. That you tricked some guy who thought he was helping you save the world. You stole a bike, revealed yourself, tricked a guy and a nother alien into helping you, then get caught, and stopped. All in a few days." Indigo answered. Tauren had looked at the floor feeling even more guilt inside than before.

"Did he tell you that it-"

"That it wasn't really you? he did, but I want to hear it from you. I want answers. I know you're a Minotaur, but I want to know what's your deal and why you came here. Why Earth?" Indigo demanded. Tauren sat there thinking. He hesitated to answer, but eventually told Indigo the truth.

"The person that came to this world was a evil queen from a universe I have no knowledge of. You knew her as Behemoth, but her true name is Lilith. She had invaded my universe just like she did yours and killed anybody that got in her way."

"I was one of the lucky few that she kept alive to serve in her army of slaves. We conquered every country that failed to submit to her. When there was a few countries left to enslave, me and other army generals formed a secret resistance to fight her. Eventually, we made her entire army betray her."

"But you didn't stop her, did you?"

"No. She knew from the very beginning about the resistance. She chose to hide her knowledge until we attacked her castle. Eveything was working so well, we actually thought we were going to win. But she killed the entire resistance right infront of my very eyes. She turned them into dust."

"I'm sorry." Indigo said with sympathy. She had no idea what it was like to lose someone, but she still felt sad from hearing his story.

"When it was over, I wanted her to kill me right then and there, but she didn't. For whatever reason, be it cruelty or wanting to make me suffer, she possessed my body and took it over completely. I tried to fight back, but I was nothing compared to her strength. Using my body as a vessel, she destroyed my universe and travelled to others. Destroying every single one of them. I watched her kill families using my own body over and over again.I watched her kill people like me that were a major threat to her conquest . I still remember every detail about how she would kill them in every universe. Looking at it all, I truly thought I would be forever trapped watching innocent people die. Then your universe stopped her. I don't know how or why, but i'm greatful to be finally separated from that... demon." He said with venom in his voice. He looked at Indigo Zap and saw tears had fallen from her eyes. Before he saw it, he was trapped in a hug from Indigo Zap.

"I'm sorry, Tauren. I'm sorry for treating you so badly after the power plant. I-"

"You didn't know, I understand. I would've been exactly the same." Tauren admitted. She broke the hug and sat in her seat.

"If you're finally free from Lilith, why are you still pretending to be a human?"

"After everything she did with my Minotaur body, I don't want to see it unless I have no choice. I'm sorry if that wasn't the answer you were looking for, but I hope you understand, Indigo Zap."

"Alright, I understand." Indigo lied. She didn't fully understand why Tauren would think it was shameful to be who he was. She chose to ignore it for now and decided to move away from that depressing conversation they had. Indigo asked questions that went from helpful information to the strange. They went on like this for a few hours, both enjoying hearing stories that didn't involve death and destruction. That was when Sunny Flare had rushed in, looking freaked out.

"You won't believe what happened today on the news."

Earlier

Sour Sweet walked past street after street with a very uncomfortable feeling in her head. It seemed wherever she went, she still heard other peoples thoughts. She struggled to walk as the pain grew more and more unbearable. She clenched her teeth so hard that they were starting to hurt. She sat there on the sidewalk for half an hour. The pain she felt was slowly becoming more bearable. As she sat there, listening to peoples thoughts, one voice stood out the most. She could hear a little girl crying in the distance. Sour Sweet looked around the street and saw a neighborhood to her left. She stood up and slowly walked towards the source of the little girl's voice. Her crying started to get clearer and clearer.

She walked by the houses and slowly reached a house where the crying was the loudest. Sour Sweet looked at the house in suspicion. it was a normal brown two story house, but something felt wrong about it. She felt like the house was holding an unknown evil inside. She hesitated to go inside, but the cries of the little girl convinced her otherwise. She slowly approached the house and sneakily entered the backyard.

The grass in the backyard were completely dead and devoid of life. There were dead potted plants all over the brick patio leading up to the back door. Sour looked at the backdoor and noticed it was broken. It was like somebody had broken in through the backdoor.

Still hearing the sounds of crying inside the house, Sour stared into the house with determination. She took this moment to suddenly realize that only one voice was flooding her head. Sour had realized focusing on the little girl's voice had helped her block out the other voices.

Sour Sweet would have to thank the little girl for unknowingly helping her. She snapped out of it and looked at the door. She could easily go in without making a sound, but she didn't know who or what was inside. Other than the little girls voice, she had nothing to go by.

She gulped as the sweat from atop her forehead dripped down her face. The hot day and her nervousness had gotten to her. Still hearing the little girl crying, she hesitantly walked inside.

When she snuck in the house it was pitch black inside. Her eyes quickly adjusted to the darkness and started looking around. She could make out the furniture and noticed it was either broken or knocked over. She squinted her eyes and slowly moved forward. She tried to walk by the furniture as slowly as she could, then she made a wrong step and bended the wood floor.

She stopped her approach and hoped no one inside had her mistake. When she heard nothing for a minute, she wiped her forehead in relief and slowly moved again. As she listened to the girls thoughts she was able to get a location of her whereabouts.

Sour Sweet reached a corner of the house that had stairs leading up. She looked up at the second floor with fear. She didn't want to go up there, but she knew that girl was in trouble. She swallowed her fear and slowly walked up the stairs.

Squeak! The weak wooden stairs made, as it bent under her. Sour felt her heart stop at that moment. She waited once more for a whole minute, hoping no one heard that loud squeak.

When she heard no one, she continued walking up the stairs. She made as little sound as possible as she reached the top of the stairs. She reached the top and entered the hallway.

She looked at the hallway with hesitation. The doors were all open while one room in the back was closed. Sour knew that was the room the crying was coming from and slowly advanced.

As she walked through the dark hall, she looked inside the other rooms. She didn't want to get caught if somebody other than the girl was upstairs.

When she walked past all the other rooms she looked at the closed door infront of her with fear. She knew a little girl was inside, but she didn't know what to expect. She hesitantly opened the door and walked in.

Sitting on the floor behind her bed was a little yellow skinned girl crying. The little girl had heard her enter and cried more. Sour Sweet approached her and tried to calm her down.

"Shhh. It's okay, I'm not them. I'm Sour Sweet, and I'm here to help you." Sour explained. The girl had looked up at her with confusion.

"Don't let the monster hurt me." She pleaded. Sour Sweet looked at the girl with sympathy and tried to assure her that everything was fine.

"There's no monster here, it just me. What's your name?" Sour Sweet asked, trying to get through to her.

"Lemon Swirl." She said.

"Lemon Swirl, that's a nice name. I know a girl that shares your name at school.

"You do?"

"Yeah, she's funny... and kinda hard to talk to. She has really expensive headphones. Come with me, and I'll let you meet her."

"I want my mom and dad." She whined, tears falling out of her eyes. Sour Sweet gave her an assuring smile and spoke.

"If you come with me, I'll help you find your mom and dad."

"You will?" She asked, snorting her nose.

"Yes. I promise we'll look for your mom and dad. You just have to come with me." Sour Sweet said.

"....are you sure he's gone?" Lemon Swirl asked, hesitant to move.

"Yes, I'm sure." Sour Sweet replied, putting her hand out for Lemon Swirl to grab. Lemon looked at the hand with hesitation. She grabbed Sour Sweets hand and helped her up. Then wood on the stairs squeaked behind them. The girl dropped the hand and hid under the bed.

"He's here." She said, crying. Sour Sweet heart had stopped as she stood with fear. She turned her head and saw a man standing in the doorframe, holding a tire iron.

Sour Sweet looked at the man with fear. She stood her ground completely frozen. The man glared at Sour Sweet and gripped the tire iron he was holding.

"You're not supposed to be here. Why don't you run off back to school and you forget you were here." The man asked, with a rugged voice.

Sour Sweet gulped and turned her head. She looked at the little girl hiding under the bed and clenched her fists. She stood her ground and glared back at the man.

"I'm not going anywhere without her." Sour said, glaring at the man.

She watched him grip his weapon and harder and stepped out of the shadows. Sour Sweet could clearly see who the man was.

With his silver skin and orange prison suit still on him, Sour Sweet knew it was Silver Lock. She remembered watching the news the day he escaped. The channel had covered Silver Lock's escape for the entire day. Before every commercial they'd show his mugshot on tv. There are very few things Sour Sweet can say she's good at. But remembering faces is one of them.

Silver Lock looked at her with glaring eyes. He shook his head and started to speak.

"Fine. Looks like I'll have to teach you a lesson." Silver said, approaching Sour Sweet. Sour looked up at as he approached and backed up.

She backed all the way up to the wall and looked at him with fear. She clenched her fist and tried to punch him, but he easily caught her wrist. He said nothing and raised his left arm that held the tire iron, ready to strike. Sour Sweet looked at the tire iron in fear and instinctively covered herself with one hand.

Unintentionally releasing a red wave of energy out of her arm, pushing the tire iron off of Silver's grip. The tire iron flung away from his hand and hit the wall next to the door. Silver looked at his arm completely bewildered. He let go of Sour Sweet and turned his head. Stuck in the wall was the tire iron that had flown off of his hand. He turned back around at Sour Sweet with a confused look.

Sour Sweet had looked back at him with angered determination. She glared at him and delivered a punch so hard that Silver flew across the room. He landed on the floor with his shoulder and stood back up, rubbing his shoulder. He glared at Sour Sweet with hatred.

"No wonder you found her. You're a goddamn alien!" He shouted. He looked to his right and quickly pulled the tire iron off the wall. Sour Sweet looked at him in confusion.

"Alien? I'm not an alien." Sour Sweet said.

"Alien or not, I'm not letting you leave with her!"

"What do you want with her!" She demanded. He didn't answer and instead charged her. Sour Sweet jumped out of his way, and looked at her arm.

She looked at her arm and shook it, in an attempt to bring the wave out. Silver had recovered and glared down at Sour Sweet. He yelled as he raised his tire iron to hit her and dropped it down. She closed her eyes and concentrated as hard as she could. She held her hand out and grabbed the tire iron with a magical red hand.

She looked at the extra hand in amazement. had She struggled to make him let go because he held it with two hands.

"Not this time!" He yelled, slowlypushing through her magical grasp. Sour Sweet couldn't think of any and instead moved her arm to the right, bringing the tire iron along with Silver with it. Silver yelled as he was thrown out the room and into the hallway.

He groaned and slowly got up in anger. He saw Sour Sweet standing infront of the door way and roared. He picked up his tire iron off the floor and threw it towards her. The tire iron spun rapidly towards her. Sour Sweet stared at the spinning iron and raised her arm. Her action released a wave of energy that flung the iron back at Silver. Silver saw the tire iron fly back to him and couldn't react in time. The iron hit his forehead with a thud, luckily not piercing his head. The last thing Silver saw was falling down the stairs before his vision went black.

"Tonight, a two month search for escaped criminal Silver Lock ended last night when a student skipping school had followed him to a house where he had kidnapped the same girl that put her in prison a year before." A woman reporter had said on tv.

"Last year, Silver Lock had went to prison after getting caught by a girl named Lemon Swirl. She had notified the police which had then led to his arrest."

"After kidnapping her, a student named Sour Sweet, had happened to see him enter a house where she followed him. Her brave action led to her saving Lemon Swirl and stopping Silver Lock."

Indigo Zap had stared at the screen with her jaw dropped. Tauren looked at the screen with interest. Every news broadcast had covered the story for the whole day. By night time, the news had finished their reports and he went back to covering other topics. It was at this time where a few Agents were sitting alone in the lobby.

"So, Tauren, can you say without a doubt Sour Sweet has some type of magic?" Starlight asked.

"Looking at the police report and her account on what happened I can say without uncertainty that she has magic."

"Alright, me and Indigo Zap know her from school. If we can get to her through the likely crowd of students asking questions, we can tell her about the Agency."

"Are we sure Sour Sweet has magic? I mean she is very accurate in archery class. I'm pretty sure she can throw a tire iron at someone's head without killing them." Indigo said.

"The report said that Silver Lock had suffered bone fractures that indicated tremendous force was used. Nothing Sour Sweet had could've done that unless she had magic. The tire iron was also thrown with enough force to make a strong man fall unconscious. He's lucky he doesn't have a concussion." Tauren stated.

"Then its settled. You, ronin, and Sunny Flare will try to talk to Sour Sweet tomorrow at school. Understood?"

"Understood." Sunny and Indigo said.