The sounds of gently moving water filled Twilight's head as her mind came to her. Opening her eyes shows a beach hidden in a cave with the waves gently lapping at the shore, the sun setting through the opening. "Oh for fucks sake." She groan, rubbing her head as she sat up.

"Nice to see you too miss sunshine." Came a darker version of her voice. Turning around to the dimmer section of the cave Twilight could see her rage form sitting in the shadows, the tendrils gently floating around as the form looked at her with it's strange eyes. "Been a while since you lost your temper and let me have a crack at the world. What gives?" It asked although it knew full well why.

"You already know Anti. He was insulting our family." Twilight bit back at the shadowy form, pulling her knees to her chest. "I couldn't let him keep talking like that but it was a bad idea to pull you out." She muttered.

Anti got up and walked up to Twilight, plopping down next to her letting her feet stretch out to touch the water. "Yeah, I am a bit overkill." She started with a chuckle. "But you and I both know no one gets away with dissing our family and besides Cinder showed up in time to stop us like she does all the time." She continued, slugging Twi in the shoulder lightly which made the woman whine slightly and rub her shoulder.

Twilight gave a sigh. "But what if she hadn't shown up? You and I can't control ourselves when we act like that." She complained now having flopped down flat on the sand. "We need to get better at not rampaging." She finished.

Anti looked down to her lighter counterpart with her strange shaped irises and smirked. "Then how about a deal?" She asked making Twilight look to her suspiciously. "Don't worry this isn't a bad one okay. Think about it, it's your body but my power so how about we see if mommy dearest can't get us something to help regulate power output?" She proposed to the still laying woman.

Twilight looked back up to the ceiling giving only a small hum. "You mean have something that limits how much you can pump out through my body and slowly build up control of higher values?" She asked back to the shadowy version.

A sharp smile broke out across Anti's face. "Exactly! You get a boost and I get to stretch out more bit by bit till eventually we both can walk around at the same time." She stated. "We both get an improvement without risking hurting innocents, plus I get more chances to turn those filthy monsters to paste." She growled the last part, her smile dropping for a brief moment before popping back on. "So what do you say, up to at least try?" She asked, standing up and stretching a hand out for Twilight to grab.

Laying there for a moment Twilight grabbed the hand which helped her haul herself up to stand. "Screw it sure. Can't be worse then what we already have in place." She agreed, giving a firm hand shake before turning to the water. "Well time to wake up now, who knows how worried everyone is." She said while taking steps into the water as it rose up to her knees. A white door opened up in front of her that brought her back into the land of the waking.

Lady Cinder burst into the medical wing to find Twilight's friends along with the princesses around Twi's bed. Celestia and Luna were in their own beds on either side of her while Rainbow, Applejack, and Pinkie Pie were on the opposite side of the room playing cards. Rarity was fixing up some of Spike's clothing while he sat shirtless next to Fluttershy who was gently applying ointment to some of his minor marks across his chest. "Has she woken up yet?" Cinder asked after assessing every ones location.

"Nope." Came the southern tone from Applejack. "Day two of sleeping leader and still not even a shift." She added.

"Two days huh." Twilight said sitting up from her bed. "You three must have done a bit more then expected." She laughed much to all other members in the room. "Miss me?" She teased which helped unfreeze her team as they jumped from their spots to pounce of top of her. "Ah, still sore, still sore." She complained from the sudden weight on top of her.

Once they removed themselves from crushing her Cinder walked up. "Young lady what have I told you about losing your temper?" She lectured, making Twilight hang her head.

"Lesson 43: A Jaeger must always keep a cool head ma'am." Twilight responded.

"And what did you do?" Asked Cinder, bending at the hips to put herself closer to the younger woman.

"Lost my cool..." Twilight answered, not even trying to defend herself. "I'm sorry mom." She added. Lifting up her head she looked with big puppy dog eyes.

Cinder grimaced while grinding her teeth. "Oh no you don't that won't work on me this time." She reprimanded. Twilight's lip started to give a small pout and shake making Cinder groan. "Ugh fine. I can't stay mad at you." She complained, scooping her adopted daughter into her arms. "Let me guess you had a chat with Anti." She pointed out noticing the fading pentagram iris in one of her eyes.

"Uuugghhh, who the hell is Anti?" Asked Rainbow, raising a small finger into the air. The others quickly voiced their confusion as well. Even Celestia and Luna were listening in.

Cinder gave a sigh, readying herself for a lecture but was stopped by Twilight. "I got this. So as you saw that wasn't like anything you all have seen me do." She began. Over the next hour she explained how Cinder found her and that the trauma had 'tainted' some of her magic creating a reverse of Twilight fueled by her negative emotions. Her other form was called Anti-Twilight. For the reason Twilight can stop herself from going too far while Anti will destroy any and everything that gets in the way of her target. "She's actually very nice once you get to know her. That is, if you are in my isolation place inside my mind. Then she isn't in a killing frenzy." Twilight finished nonchalantly.

"Huh, so do I make a party for your recovery or a party to welcome this new person I know about now?" Asked Pinkie Pie rubbing her chin in thought. Everyone else was now partially shocked at how calm she was taking this but chalked it up to Pinkie being Pinkie.

"Aaaannnyywaayys, I need a favor." Twilight said to quickly change the subject before it could devolve into chaos. "Is there anyway you could get me something to help limit Anti's power so I can use it more to better train with it?" She asked Cinder.

Celestia raised her hand in response instead. "I believe we can help better in this situation." She stated with Luna nodding.

"This would be a special version of a spirit cuff. Difficult to make but with your increase in rank we could pass it off without raising any suspicion." Luna further explained. "Which reminds me dear you don't know your new rank do you?" She added, looking to the purple haired woman who only shook her head. "With how soundly you defeated Blueblood and his awful actions to try and win we swapped your ranks so you are now rank C while he has been demoted to rank D." She said, a brief smile gracing her lips at the memory of how scared her nephew had been.

Rarity stepped up to show Twilight a newspaper with the headline saying. "New student blasts the competition away with hidden strength!" It then went on to talk about her fight against the three Jaegers as they held her off before ending with a stat piece showing Harmony had risen in popularity and to rank D. "Thanks to you and Spike team Harmony has gone up in rank. We all have already collected some of the benefits like better gear and even increase in rewards for missions though that last one we wanted you to take up first as the leader since it was your hard work that got us here." She listed.

"Give us two days to get everything together for your request miss Sparkle." Celestia said, stepping out of her bed and stretching while her sister used her magic to lazily float out of her own.

Cinder and the others waved their goodbyes to the princesses before making their own leave of the medical wing. After a while a doctor came and gave one more look over of Twilight before giving her the all clear to head back to her dorm. One the way back she noticed more students smiling and waving at her, a few even ran up and asked for her autograph talking about how much they enjoyed the fight she gave Blueblood. "Huh, weird how just one fight can change how people see you." She muttered to herself. In the back of her mind she could practically hear Anti howling with laughter at how stumped she was.

"So the prince breaker lives aye?" Came the familiar voice of Tempest behind her. Turning around Twilight saw the number one student strutting up to her in her usual leather jacket and punk vibe, her mohawk in a perfect arch down her head. "Care to tell me how you did all that cool but bat-shit crazy stuff?" She asked, slinging an arm around her roommates shoulders.

"Tempest! Aren't you worried about being seen with me." Twilight whispered in surprise.

Tempest looked around before ducking her head close to Twi's. "Thanks to your little power show and the fact you beat up one of the most despised students in the school you are now one of the top people in popularity. You even beat out Sweet Rock and she's considered a legit celebrity when she isn't hunting monsters." She explained.

"So what you are saying is this opens up the ability for us to interact outside of the room more without worry of blowing your cover?" Twilight said, starting to connect the dots.

"Bingo cutie." Tempest replied with a wink. "Now this doesn't mean full on hang out just yet but it does mean I don't have to always act like a total bitch during class some of the time. But let's talk more in our dorm okay? People might start thinking with how long we've been talking so far." She finished with, removing her arm from Twilight's shoulders and walking ahead of her. "Ciao." She said through their link.

"See ya." Twilight shot back, doing her best to look busy while making her way to the room as well. On the way in to the dorm building a kid dressed in a dark cloak with bottles of various liquids strapped to his chest bumped past her to get out. "Excuse me." Twilight complained but only received a middle finger back at her. "Dick." She muttered under her breath. Spotting Rainbow dash lounging on a cloud near one of the bars in the dorm she called out to her. "Hey Rainbow!" She shouted making the multicolor haired woman jump.

Once Dash located Twi she gave a lazy wave back before falling into the cloud once more. As Twilight walked up she gave a yawn and stretched. "Hey Twi how you doin'?" She asked, her eyes closed.

"Where can I find missions and bounties?" The leader of Harmony questioned, running her hand through the cloud with wonder at how it was in here along with how Dash was just napping on it.

"There." Was all she got back as the speedster raised a hand to lazily wave in the direction of a magic board changing the various missions and bounties currently open to collect. She noticed as she walked closer some faded out while others brightened up. The ones that got brighter had her rank on them while the dimmer one had higher ranks.

She came to the conclusion this was a feature to make sure students didn't take missions above their skill level. "Huh, that's actually pretty smart." She mused as a female student with mismatched clothes and a cap with a propeller took a rank A mission.

"It's how they limit how many students die." The strange girl giggled, turning back to Twilight with wide, twitching eyes. "The names Screwball! Pleasure to meet you!" She loudly stated, awkwardly putting out her hand and fidgeting in place.

"Nice to meet you... Screwball." Twilight replied, gently taking the weird woman's hand only to receive an electric shock much to the glee of the weirdo. "Ow, that hurt!" She exclaimed, shaking her hand to get feeling back in it.

Screwball giggled some more before leaning uncomfortably close. "Oh, there's more where that came from if you don't learn your place." She growled suddenly having a threatening tone in her voice, her eyes never losing that uncomfortable stare. Just as Twilight got ready to reply she popped back up with that weird smile and skipped away as if nothing happened.

Looking back to the board Twi shook her head. "I think I'll wait to take one of these." She muttered, still shaking her hand from the shock and heading for her room. Up the steps she went till a group of fine dressed students passed by her jostling her around. Her anger was starting to rise from all these students taking cracks at her but she stopped herself after noticing a few in the group watching her with smirks on their faces. "They want to get me angry. Well they won't have that." She growled in her mind. Straightening herself up she turned and waved with a big smile on her face. "Hope to see you in class Glitter Bomb." She said, singling out a student from one of her classes. This worked as it made the group looked to the individual who did their best to hurry away with the group following behind. Giving a sigh she continued up until she finally reached her door. Stepping inside she found Tempest hanging upside down on the couch, a ball of yarn unraveling in her magical grip, twisting and knotting into different shapes and styles.

"I see you've finally realize what happens when you catch peoples eyes." Tempest calmly stated after Twilight collapsed on top of her bed and groaned loudly into the blankets. "Want some ice cream?" She asked the nerdy girl, getting a muffled yes. Using her magic a small cooling container opened and out floated some rocky road along with two spoons, "Here you go." She said, one of the spoons hovering close to her friend.

"Is this what you have to put up with?" Complained the nerd, taking the spoon in her own magic and getting a big scoop. "People testing you and being assholes."

Tempest took a scoop with her own spoon and after swallowing the frozen treat she spoke. "Yes or rather I used to. Now people have to either work through the other nine in my group to have a chance at me or I have to be the one to give the direct challenge. When I was just starting plenty of cut throats tried to test me, seeing if I was up to snuff." She said, taking another scoop.

Eating more of the ice cream helped Twilight calm down and breath. "So basically I now have a large target on my back because of my increase in rank along with fighting the princesses and Cinder." She stated.

"Yep." Was all she got back.

"UUUUGGGGHHHH-!!!" She groaned, it being cut off when Tempest shoved another spoonful into her mouth.

"Oh relax! It's just another Tuesday for this school." Tempest casually said much to her roommates disappointment. "Now tell me about that weird shit you did!" She happily ordered, jumping over to Twilight's bed to sit closer.

Author's Note

It lives! IT LIVES!!!!! But in all seriousness I'm back into the swing of things boys and girls.