Crystal Rose and Sunset Shimmer Sophmore Year

Sunset Shimmer opened her locker with a groan, she was running late, and she wasn't sure if she was late, late or fashionably late. Rarity claimed there was a difference but Sunset didn't know what it was. Suddenly someone shoved her hard in the back, causing her to stumble into her locker. She twirled around quickly, just in time to see the door click shut.

Despite the fact that the Fall Formal had been two months ago by this point in time, people hadn't forgotten what had happened, and her friends were the only ones to have forgiven them, well, them and the principals.

Most of the students were mostly no longer afraid of her, and that just made matters worst. To help minimize attacks on her Aunt Luna had rearranged locker assignments so that Sunset Shimmer was in the middle of her friends, and, because that wasn't enough, she also had a new security camera trained on her locker installed.

Too bad that Aunt Luna and Mom were no doubt in the gym with everyone else getting ready for the musical showcase that would raise the money to replace what was taken out of the budget to fix the school after the Fall Formal. She was probably stuck here. At least for now.

Suddenly she heard footsteps approaching out in the hallway. She started banging on the door to the locker, in the hopes that it was one of her friends, or someone who didn't have a mean bone in their body, like Marble Pie. The footsteps stopped and there was the sound of jingling keys. Only one person in the school had a key to all the lockers.

"Vice Principal Luna!" she called out, "I'm in here!"

"Yes child I know," Luna sighed, "You're lucky that I was in my office when the whole thing happened, I came as soon as I could."

There was the sound of the key scrapping in the lock and then Sunset was flooded with light as the door swung open, "Thanks," she offered.

"No problem dear," Luna said, her face stern as she looked ahead, "As soon as I escort you to the gym I will escort the hoodlum responsible for this to detention."

"No don't!" Sunset cried, "You'll just make matters worst!"

"What ever do you mean?" Luna asked, looking at the teenage girl.

"Everyone says that you are giving me special treatment because you and Principal Celestia are my legal guardians."

"Like what?" Luna asked.

"The fact you didn't expel me after I destroyed half the school and enslaved the student body," Sunset pointed out.

Luna shrugged, "That happened before we got custody, you were apologetic, That was what we cared about."

"Others don't see it that way," Sunset pointed out, "And there is the fact that I haven't attended detention hardly at all since the incident."

Luna gave her a look, "All the other students in detention these day are there for picking on you, it is my responsibility to ensure the safety of all the students, having you attend detention would be counter productive."

Sunset shrugged, "If you say so."

Luna shook her head, even though she had been against it to begin with, maybe that special assembly about bullying would help, but she, and Celestia feared that it might just paint a target on Sunset's back.

Apple Bloom, Sweetie Bell, and Scooterloo were busy working on their poster when Sunset Shimmer appeared next to them.

"Can I help?" she asked, trying to sound friendly, she had to prove to herself that she could make friends on her own, without the help of Princess Twilight.

"Nah," Apple Bloom said, "We're good."

"Sunset Shimmer," a voice called out from across the gym, "Over here!"

Sunset forced a smile and tried to ignore the dirty looks everyone gave her as she headed over to her friends.

"Look at our poster, isn't it great," Pinkie asked, holding up the poster they had designed, "It even smells like cake."

"It does?" Fluttershy asked softly which resulted in Pinkie shoving it into her face.

"I used frosting instead of paint," Pinkie explained, pulling it back to reveal Fluttershy having her face coated in frosting.

"Uh, Sugar Cube, you have a little something on your face," Apple Jack announced.

Fluttershy quickly wiped the frosting off one cheek, "Did I get it?"

"Not exactly."

Sunset pulled out a handkerchief that she had in her pocket and helped Fluttershy clean up.

By this point Celestia had stood up and was telling the student body how proud she was with how hard they were working to make this musical showcase happen, and that it was promising to be the most memorable school event since the Fall formal.

Crystal Rose glanced at Sunset, who had a pained expression on her face, "Mom shouldn't have said that," she muttered to herself.

The next day the seven friends were having lunch together in the cafeteria, "So how did showing the new girls around go?" Crystal asked. Sunset Shimmer had volunteered to show a group of new students around the school in the hopes to make a good impression on them before others could tell them about her less than perfect past.

"I don't know, they acted weird," Sunset confessed.

"Were they weird like this?" Pinkie asked, arranging her salad so that it looked like a beard on her face, "Or like this?" she asked, this time with carrot sticks for vampire fangs.

"Why don't we let Sunset tell us."

"I don't know, maybe someone told them about me, so much for making a good first impression." Sunset said with a sigh.

Just then the doors opened and the new girls walked in. Sunset and her friends watched in horror when they cast a spell on the student body causing them to fight with each other.

"Oh," Pinkie announced, "That kind of odd!"