Meetings, Crystals, and Tengu and The Pirate

"Will the following students to please report to the principle's office instead of homeroom: Sunset Shimmer, Adagio Dazzling, Aria Blaze, Sonata Dusk, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy Shy, Applejack Apple, Rarity Belle, Snails Squirm, and Snipsy Snap." Principle Celestia said over the P.A. a few minutes before the first bell rang. She briefly wished she had taken informing the job of showing the video clips to the new faculty members and explaining things to them at the meeting, but Luna was better at reining in Dr. Hooves, who would want to study everything, Zecora, who would need to be reassured that it wasn't dark magic yet again after seeing some of the girls 'ponying up', and let Granny Smith deal with their current unknown factor, Northern Spy.

"Um... Principle Celestia," Sweetie Belle said from the table her and Apple Bloom had been doing their in school suspension by writing individual reports on why cyberbullying is morally and ethically wrong and hand written letters of apology to every single one of their victims that also explained why what they did was wrong as well as their regular school work. "Rarity didn't come to school today because she has the flu." She then dug out a note from her book bag and handed it to Principle Celestia.

"Well good thing you can take notes on what we will be talking about for her." Celestia said as she read over the note as the others entered the office. There were several scowls directed at Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle as the bell rang. "Okay, Aria has told me there is a magical situation coming our direction and this was the best way to gather almost everyone we needed to in one place." She said.

"Oh great," Rainbow Dash said sarcastically, "What type of 'I'm evil overlord wannabe so and so' was dumped here this time?"

"Actually this one is actually from this world and until recently was considered dead and buried for good." Adagio said.

"At least until her younger sister visited her grave to pay her respects and return her soul so her spirit could finally be put to rest." Aria picked up where Adagio had left off. "Turns out she had placed enough of her life force and magic into her kitsune star ball that when it was brought to her grave it had enough power to jump start her body and bring her back."

"Um... What is a kitsune star ball?" Fluttershy asked before adding. "If you don't mind that is."

"A star ball is a spherical piece of jewelry that holds a kitsune's soul and some spare magic." Sonata said. "Though how Tamamo no Mae figured out how to shove some of her life force into it is a mystery, but Koemi thinks it's because she's a nine tailed kitsune, since all nine tails are like someone playing a game in god mode with tons of cheat codes."

"OK, A) what in tarnation is a Kit-sue-knee?" Applejack asked, "And B) how do you stop one of them if they r a no good dirty rotten cheat?"

"Oh... Oh... I bet it's some kind of crazy ancient Japanese fox spirit with some kind of shape shifting ability and known for being a magical trickster with all kinds of freaky deaky powers and even with all of the cheat codes the really powerful one have enabled they are still vulnerable if you can get your hands on their star ball because then they have to do what you say until they get it back and then they go into a homicidal rage and try to make everyone all dead." Pinkie pie said while balancing a pencil on her nose and not noticing everyone looking at her.

Adagio started ask how before Sunset stopped her. "Trust me, Twilight warned me about this. Just go with it."

"Yes, but we're more like a race of polymorphic foxes that were fast tracked to sapience by magic and with an almost Immortality of sorts." An unnoticed potted plant said in the corner.

"Koemi, we're suppose to keep a low profile until Aria introduces us." What looked like the carpet grumbled before drawing in towards one spot and standing up to reveal a brown haired girl wearing glasses and wearing a brown dress and brown boots as well as having a bushy raccoon like tail and ears. "And I'm a Tanuki, not a Kitsune. We evolved from japans raccoon dogs, not raccoon's like everyone believe."

"Uh... Surprise?" Aria said with a nervous grin as the Rainbooms, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, Snips and Snails looked at Aiko in shock while Principle Celestia and Sonata burst out laughing.

"Koemi drop the disguise already." Aiko said to the plant in the corner before there was a shimmer with light blue flames and Koemi sat the where the plant had been before getting up while wearing her red and white shrine maidens outfit. Behind her was her seven tails red fox tails and she had fox ears.

"Miss Aiko Yamagata," Celestia said with as straight face as she could, "I hope you won't be exposing your balls around my school anymore, there are decency laws in this town you know."

"THEY AREN'T TESTICLES YOU HAIRLESS APE!" Aiko yelled. "I'M SICK AND TIRED OF hmuphmuhmph!"

"Not so loud." Adagio said with her hand over Aiko's mouth. "Your in a school and we need to keep a low profile until we figure out what Tamamo no Mae is planning."

"Which brings us back to our current problem and the fact that I think I know where she is going to be." Principle Celestia said as she pulled out two doctored student files and handed them to the two girls as they lost their ears and tails. "Wednesday Senator Orange and several other senators will be holding a press conference in front of the school when they announce that they will be introducing anti-cyberbullying legislation. Your sister's legend, Koemi Tamamo, is very clear about her gravitating towards people in power and the press conference will be her best chance short of heading to Washington D.C. to get close to people in power."

Snails then raised his hand and asked, "Why are we here?"

"Every single one of you, minus Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Principle Celestia have been exposed to Equestrian magic and been physically transformed by it." Sunset Shimmer said. "This means that you need to wear these until we can stop Tamamo no Mae due to the fact that you have the potential to be able to do Equestrian magic in this world." With that she began passing out gems on simple cords for them to wear. "These will protect you from magic for a short period of time and will begin to glow if someone tries to cast a spell on you." She then handed several more of them to Celestia. "You can pass these out to the staff and I'll stop by the bank later and grab more of my Equestrian gems from my safety deposit box to make something for the senators since Earth gems lack the ability to hold any magic."

"Um... Where did you get all of these gems?" Fluttershy asked.

"I brought my life savings with me when I came to this world and these were part of that." Sunset said. "Technically I was worth over $18,000,000.00 with all the the gold bit coins I brought with me alone, but that's now closer to $85,000,000.00 due to the Flim Flam brothers helping me create a legal identity and teaching me about investments and the stock market."

"What?" Applejack yelled. "Those two con men..."

"Are a good example of what not to do with the money you make off of selling your patents and avoiding bad investments." Sunset said with a smirk. "They would have been millionaires by now if they had kept the patents and not made some extremely bad stock market investments that wiped them out, but I'm sure their next invention will turn everything around for them."

"OK, great, but what magic?" Rainbow Dash asked impatiently.

Looking over at Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom she said, "Remember your deal with Principle Celestia..."

"Not a word about this to anyone and she will knock a week off of our nine week in school suspension." They both said in unison.

"Good." Sunset said before continuing, "I only found out yesterday how to make Equestrian Magic work in this world, but the real danger is a type of random magic known as a Heart Song. It can warp reality to make the world act like a Broadway musical."

"We've seen an entire town hit by a runaway tornado be repaired during a song and dance in minutes." Adagio said.

"And a single pony take on an army of thousands and win because of another one." Sonata said.

"Then there's the fact that we've seen villains use them as well and you have the potential for trouble since they are virtually unstoppable." Aria finished. "The Changeling Queen actually has a very good singing voice and has escaped several times from certain death because of them, including execution twice."

"Three times, she escaped again 237 years ago." Sunset said. "But the main thing is Tamamo no Mae is already dangerous enough without being given the ability to takeover the country with a single song on live TV."

"So these things will protect us from that song?" Rainbow Dash asked.

"No, nothing can stop a Heart Song, but they should protect you from other types of magic she can use." Adagio said. "The best you can do with a Heart Song is either get away from it, subvert it, or if your really lucky counter it with another equally powerful Heart Song, but you have to catch it just at the right time to pull that off and only two of the Princesses ever did that once."

It was then the bell rang. "Go on to class and you can work out what else to do at lunch." Principle Celestia said before saying to Aiko and Koemi, "Sunset can help you find your class and everything." With that they left her with Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle.

Rarity entered the house that Bobu had brought her to and lead her down the stairs to the tunnel in the basement. She couldn't believe how easy the sleep spell had been and had left her mother napping on the sofa while her father was at work getting ready for his sports talk radio show. The illusion would fool them if they looked in on her and the suggestion Lady Duckweed had taught her would have them leave her alone to sleep it off the rest of the week.

The tunnel soon gave way to a cavern that took her breath away. She followed him past pillars of multi-colored crystals across a floor of blue crystal. Over head was rock with veins of crystals radiating out from the tops of the pillars. "How can all of this be down here and nobody know about it?" Rarity asked as they moved through another tunnel and into another cavern with red crystal floors and more pillars.

"These crystals are very reactive to a kind of magic we never saw before." Aloe said as she studied a pillar with a strange device that made Rarity's skin crawl for some reason. "We've been here for centuries studying them as they reacted to something every few years, but until a few months ago they were mostly in one cavern and only started growing at an increased rate after the Fall Formal." She then changed to her Daemonic form while smiling at Rarity as the girl began sputtering. "Yes, yes, big bad evil demon who counts torturing the damned for all of eternity as one of her hobbies. Before you ask I'm here on behalf of Hell to studying them as a alternative energy source to using the souls of the damned since they hold magic like you wouldn't believe and just become plain ordinary rock once drained which can easily be recharged by just bring it back here. Now if you'll excuse me, I need to get back to working on taking readings on the growth ratio of these quasi crystal-gem hybrids and compare them to... WHOA!!!"

"I really could care less about what you are since I my definition of what people are has been expanded recently," Rarity said as she levitated Aloe with one hand and pulled loose crystals from the pillars and floor with the other and forming a beautiful yet very revealing gown around Aloe's body with them. "But I must insist upon a little decorum no matter what you are and not traipse around naked."

Aloe had been about to say something scathing, but then she saw the readings on the scanner as well as physically seeing the crystals around them reacting to her magic and actually growing. As soon as she was placed on the ground again she grabbed the scanner and was about to say something, but Rarity and Bobu were already gone. "Pit take it all! I finally had the answer in front of me and she got away." She then looked at the gown and walked towards the exit to the Spa. "I need to inform her majesty of this."

Pipsqueak got onto the school bus and asked the driver, "Where's Mrs. Dove?"

"She had an emergency." The man with a long crocked nose said. "Just take a seat and we'll be leaving in a bit."

Something about him seemed off and as soon as Pipsqueak sat down he heard Yellowbeard in his head, "Something isn't right about that one, keep a good eye out for trouble because I can smell a storm a brewing."

"He creeps me out too." Pipsqueak whispered as he looked around and noticed the other kids were all asleep and a that he was getting sleepy too.

"It's a trap!" Yellowbeard said.

Pipsqueak noticed the students in the other bus near by were asleep too as he said, "Us Yellowbeards are never more dangerous than when we're dead."

Buzzard Beak couldn't believe how easy it was to slip in and set up the plan to grab a bunch of kids. In a few more minutes he would be given the single by the clueless teacher and be the first bus to drive away with a whole school's worth of children for Tamamo no Mae. That was when he felt a tap on his shoulder and heard a man's voice ask, "excuse me guvnor, but do you know how to fly?" A second later he was screaming as he was thrown into the side of the bus next to his.

"Right, bird brains don't know how to fly." Yellowbeard said as he leapt out of the bus's door and onto the hood of the bus he had tossed him into. Pulling back a fist he punched through the windshield and dragged the next tengu from the driver seat and head butting him before tossing him to the side and then running down the roof of the bus to the next one as the tengu dropped their human disguises and left their buses to confront the problem as the human teachers panicked and screamed at the sight of bird-men type monsters fighting a pirate on top of the buses. "ARRGGGHHH! Finally a real fight to warm up the old bones after so long." As several of them tackled him off one bus and through the windshield of another bus Pipsqueaks phone began playing the drunken sailor remix Aria had downloaded for him.

Several teachers watched as the bus rocked violently back and forth as the kicking, biting, punching fight exploded out of the emergency door in back with Yellowbeard tackling a half dozen of the tengu out and onto the ground while beating them with the torn off feathery leg of one of them. Only for two dozen more to leap onto his back to try to bring the mad man down. They kept punching and kicking as they tried to hold him down. Then there came a mighty roar from within the pile before they were all thrown back and Yellowbeard caught his breath long enough to look at them and yell, "Well come on then if you think you're hard enough for old Yellowbeard the Pirate!" With that he threw himself back into the fight by punching out two of them while head butting a third. They quickly realized he was to strong and fast for them and grabbed the other tengu and fled with the crazed pirate in hot pursuit.

Only he ducked back into the school and a moment later a very hyper Pipsqueak walked out of one of the boys room just as the police and ambulances arrived. In all of the confusion he slipped past everyone's notice and walked home with his book bag over one shoulder. He even saw security footage of the fight from the school, but the reporter said the cameras on the buses had been disabled by the people wearing bird masks and that the authorities were looking for them and the heroic man dressed like a pirate in connection with drugging all the children on the buses with knockout gas. He didn't even get in trouble for breaking the rule about not walking home from school.

Author's Note

Rarity may have her priorities screwed up and what do you think the deal is with the crystals?

Finally Yellowbeard cutting loose and kicking ass.