Ninjas Are Awesome

After a few minutes of Luna comforting her overstressed sister, it would seem that Celestia has slightly calmed down and ready to continue their main topic conversation. Luna retreated to her favorite office chair while Celestia was standing near a window that had a clear view of the incident; although she can barely get a glimpse of Sunset under the crater.

"What are we going to do, Lulu?" Celestia muttered, her voice croaked a bit. Feeling completely miserable as seconds go by watching the aftermath. "This problem can't be covered under the carpets like last time. The Orga... Ahem, those horrible people will find out what happened here today."

"I know, I know." Luna moaned, placing her legs on her desk. "If we're really lucky, we can tell our students to not talk about this until the Agency can finish 'taking care' of their memories... maybe, the neighbors' memories as well. But what kind of cover story will convince them on what happened here today?"

Celestia took a deep breath and got up with a resolved composure. "I've already made the perfect cover-up story for this." She said.

"Wait... you did?" Luna said in utter disbelief.

"Yes." She nodded.

"You actually forged a cover-up story for this exact situation," Luna said.

"Yes." She nodded again.

"Haaaa... I'll humor you. What's this story then?" Luna sighed.

"Well, you said that the courtyard was blown into a large crater, right. So, we can just tell the public authorities that a gas pipe must have been broken and it exploded during the Fall Formal. The students are outside because they wanted to see what was going on."

"That's pretty... predictable." Luna facepalmed.

"And also the most possible and believable," Celestia reassured.

"But how can we explain about the school's front entrance?" Luna asked another question.

"Collateral damaged from the explosion." She said.

Luna shook her head disapprovingly. "It's the Aurora Borealis excuse all over again." She muttered to herself before speaking clearly at her sister. "I'm completely surprised that our school hasn't had a tragic scandal broadcasted on the news with that attitude of yours."

"Excuse me!" Celestia yelled in shock.

"Tia... You really really suck at lying." Luna rubbed the back of her head as she felt unease.

"How dare you, Lulu," Celestia shouted, slamming her hands on her sister's desk. "I spent hours arranging these plans that everyone might find reasonable. What's there to doubt my story?"

"Tia, you didn't witness what happened back there. Me, Sensei and a hundred other people in this block did. There was a large pillar of multi-colored light after the explosion occurred."

"You didn't tell me that." Celestia pointed out.

"Well, excuse me, Princess. You choked me to near death before I could tell you more of the news." Luna informed with a sarcastic tone. In response, Celestia felt awkward and sheepishly rubbed the back of her head."Besides, there were a lot of important things that I more focused on like I don't that the fact... that one of our ill-bred valedictorians turned herself and her lowly minions into literal Hellspawn."

"I couldn't argue you with that, I guess." Celestia awkwardly agreed.

"I swear, if we were in a more religiously sensitive neighborhood, everyone would think that the Rapture happened and go Biblical on Sunset by thinking that she is Satan himself."

On cue, both women heard multiple loud crash noises of glass and metal emitting outside. There was also an additional noise of outraged voices of the teen students.

"Kill that demon bitch, Twilight!"

"Go to Hell, Sunset!"

"Light the witch on fire."

"Don't let her touch anyone or you'll become a demon yourself."

"Everybody, please don't do this." A lavender girl whose name is Twilight loudly pleaded at the students. "Please calm down."

Celestia was in utter shock to see her students behaving so barbaric towards Sunset Shimmer. She understood that the fiery-haired girl had caused "trouble" to some... no, to all her students and the school faculty but she at least expected them to behave more like educated people, not like an angry mob in the old ages.

Luna put down her legs off the desk and her face formed a smug expression. "I might not be an oracle..." She announced. "But I called that shit."

"That's not funny, Lulu." Celestia scolded. "We have to stop our students from going... what did you say again, Lulu?"

"Going Biblical."

"Yes, that on Sunset. We have to save her."

Luna rolled her eyes as if it wasn't a big deal. She whirled her chair at her sister's direction. "Why?" She asked with a displeased look and crossing her arms.

Luna. have you no empathy for..."

"Yes. Sunset can just bury herself under the crater for all I care." Luna coldly said.

Celestia was beginning to lose her patience at her sister's attitude again. She stared daggers at Luna as she begins a stern lecture. "I understand that you don't tolerate people who might have strayed away from the path of righteousness but-"

"Which is why we don't even have to lift a finger." Luna interrupted her sister's explanation. "She'll have shoulder pain, humility, misery, and whatever horrible crap herself for the rest of her short existence. She has to face the consequences for her idiotic actions."

"Lu-Luna, that's really harsh, even for you to say." Celestia pointed out, raising her voice slightly. "We still have a chance to save her. Maybe we still have time to save her... unlike we did t-"

"Oh no no, don't compare Nora to that kid's show drama bullcrap antagonist," Luna protested. "Unlike her, Sunset truly deserved..."

However, before Luna could finish her comment, she and her sister suddenly heard something unexpected come out of Sunset's mouth.

"I'm sorry,"

"Hmmm..." Both ladies hummed curiously at what they just heard. The fiery-haired girl wept her apology out loud under the large crater and in front of the anatomically unusual lavender girl and her friends. Luna instantly got up from her chair and joined in her sister's outdoor observation of the courtyard. Strangely enough, everyone went silent after Sunset said her apology.

The women knew that it would be inappropriate to intervene during this scene, so they decided to settle on just observing from afar and listening to the confrontation.

Standing above her were six teens with anatomically unusual horse ears, tails, and wings; they were in dynamic poses like heroes who had a triumphant victory against the villain.

"I'm so sorry." Sunset continued, cowering in fear. Her voice becoming more quivering and depressed as her heart began to open up more. Tears were uncontrollably flowing out of her eyes as if she can't hold them back anymore. "I didn't know there was another way."

Twilight looked down at the girl. "The Magic of Friendship doesn't just exist in Equestria." She proclaimed, looking behind to see her friends. "It's everywhere. You can seek it out..." She lowered her head. "... Or you can forever be alone. The choice is yours."

Both the women finally see the fiery-haired girl, who was slowly crawling out of the crater; she looked badly injured and her face was filled with her tears, dirt, and ash.

"But all I've ever done since being here was drive everyone apart." Sunset sadly commented. "I don't the first thing about friendship."

When Sunset felt like all of her hopes and purpose in life were forever gone, Twilight extended her right hand towards the redhead. This gesture of compassion seemed like a beacon of new beginnings for the girl.

Sunset raised her head and stared at Twilight. She felt a sense of nostalgia as she slowly observed every single part of the lavender girl's figure. She felt no hatred or any sort of negative emotion towards the girl. In fact, she looked up at the girl with surprise and awe for some unknown reason.

She expected to only receive resentment and more pain after everything she did to Twilight and everyone else. Yet, here she is, someone extending their hand to someone who doesn't deserve any sympathy. Sunset believed that she had no choice but to return the gesture by gripping on the girl's hand, accepting her kindness.

Twilight's hands were warm and calm that it flowed through Sunset's heart. The girl pulled the injured teen out of the crater with all of her remaining strength.

"I bet they can teach you," Twilight replied with a sincere smile. She motioned her left hand towards her five friends, who were also looking at Sunset with the same expressions.

When both ladies decided to stop observing, Celestia looked back at her sister with a sincere smile. "So, do you still think Sunset deserves to be treated like a monster?"

Luna made a "hmmph" sound, still unconvinced that Sunset meant her apology and suspected that she was just hoping to receive a lighter punishment when Twilight forgave her.

While Luna was still in her thoughts, Celestia sneakily exited out of her sister's office and headed towards the school's courtyard to pass judgment on Sunset Shimmer.

Celestia halted for a bit as familiar emotions of worries and paranoia began to well up again. She hyperventilated and grasped the top side of her right chest as her heart was beating faster and faster. Dark negative memories of her past rapidly played out in her mind. Images of her sister being taken away, being betrayed by the one she loved and lastly, her holding the corpse of her only child.

"I hope I'm making the right choice this time." She quietly prayed to herself. She regained her composure, wiped away her tears and proceeded to walk outside to take care of the situation.

(A Few Minutes Later- Near the destroyed front entrance of the school)

After the conclusion of the battle, the six extraordinary girls, the rest of CHS' students and Principal Celestia went back inside the school building to continue their partying and dancing the Fall Formal with a new reason to celebrate. The six girls with supernatural abilities and fascinating virtues of Friendship have defeated a great force of evil and hatred.

While everyone was enjoying a fun night at the auditorium, Sunset was left on her lonesome on the clean up of the concrete debris that she caused. Her two former cronies; Snips and Snails, were gathering the trash left behind by careless students, ignoring the redhead to do the heavy manual labor on her own.

Luna was dissatisfied with the work ethic of these three teenagers. They were slow to pick up things and left them at random corners of the hallway. She had enough of supervising them, she made a decision.

"You two, Snips and Snails." She pointed at Snips and Snails who flinched when they heard their vice principal's stern voice call out to them. "You can stop what you're doing and go home now."

"Yes, ma'am." Both boys said while saluting, dropping the debris that they were carrying. They sighed in relief as they can get away from Sunset and return to the safe sanctuary that they call home.

"Wait," Luna said, halting the boy's tracks. "Make sure to come back to school at six o clock sharp to continue cleaning up the debris. Do you understand?"

"Yes, ma'am." The boys saluted again before bolting out of the school like the wind.

As soon as the boys were out of sight, Luna immediately slammed Sunset at the wall of lockers, rest her right arm on the fiery-haired girl's throat and slowly raised the girl up, lifting her off the ground.

"I could kill you right now and I make it look like a suicide." She snarled. Her free left hand twitching repeatedly as it inches closer at her concealed weapon, a pistol, on her backside. She pointed the barrel right on the girl's forehead. "I thought you were like her when you first came to this school but here you are, acting like a cliched high school queen bee who thinks she can rule the world by hurting and blackmailing others."

"M-miss Luna, I'm so-" Sunset was about to apologize but found it fruitless when Luna disrupted her by grabbing both her shoulders and tossed her to another row of lockers.

"What were you thinking when you came to this school?" She demanded. "Did you just decide that since you're smart and claim to have great looks that you should manipulate the entire school into obeying your every whim. Do you have any common sense or guilt at all?"

Sunset didn't... or rather, couldn't give the vice principal a verbal response. Instead, she just stared Luna with a saddened expression.

"My sister was delusional when she thought that she could change your stubborn attitude. She saw potential at you yet you spit on her face by making our school into everyone's hell."

"I-I don't know what I was doing," Sunset said.

"Exactly. You were acting an idiot. You could have succeeded if the entire student body was on your side but instead, you made everyone your enemy and only have two below-average freshmen boys doing your bidding."

Luna forcibly raised the girl back to her feet.

"And not only that, but you also brought in a dangerous supernatural phenomenon known as magic into my school and infected my students with it." She glared at the trembling Sunset. The redhead became completely paralyzed in fear when she made direct eye contact with Luna's. They appeared venomous and snake-like with an ominous emerald glow. Sunset could've also sworn that she saw an aura of pure darkness coursing throughout of the vice principal's body.

Luna concealed back her weapon. "I'm sick of looking at you." She hissed. "You better come back here to clean up your mess on Monday morning. Ten o'clock sharp, got it?"

Sunset swiftly nodded her head. That response was acceptable enough for Luna to depart.

As while Luna casually sauntered to the library, she muttered something that could easily hear Sunset and made her more disheartened. "I really hate it that you look exactly like her but act like a monster."

After Luna left the area, Sunset began to tremble even more while sobbing her apologize and regrets on her own... until...

"Hey, Sara."

"Sup, Sunny."

"Bo-Bonnibel? Laura?"