Anon-A-Miss: One Girl's Heroesby ChAoS pOnYChaptersChapter 0Chapter 1chapter 2Chapter 3Chapter 4Chapter 5Chapter 6Chapter 0"Okay folks, give me a run down of what we are dealing with here." "Well, mein freund, all of the fires are out and the girls told me the ship is still structurally sound, but we burned out several components we will need to return to the In Between, as well as materials we will need to repair the engines if you want her fly more that a couple hundred miles before they burn out. At least the cloaking and stealth fields are perfectly fine or the local government would be all over us by now." "That might be a problem since on this Earth it is mid december 2014, so the tech is pre everything...Like pre picotech, pre nanotech, pre Helium-3 or Thorium reactors, etc, etc. The point is tech wise these idiots are still burning fossil fuels and believe solar and wind will save them. Thankfully their pre true A.I. so their internet security is a joke, but otherwise we will either need build what we need or find a portal to call for help." "So science isn't going to fix this anytime soon. What about magic?" "Like mostly deadsville, but someone did set off two huge magic flares in the past few months and I can like feel a portal, but those flares are totally making pinning it down impossible. If we can get me right on top of it I can totally get either Damia or my dad to give us a hand." "Wait, you said two major flares in the past few months? Would one of them look something like this?" "Whoa, that's like high end mega level spell casting by an archmage or a demigod." "Where's that at?" "A high school in a city called Canterlot, about 50 miles from here." "Hmm... Okay, here's what we are going to do. 1) we scout out this city and find somewhere to put the ship. 2) We start figuring out how to repair the ship as a plan B. 3) We find a way into that school and find this portal as plan A. Any questions?" "Yeah, anyone besides me, this big lug over here, and our intrepid leader have teachers licences? I mean I am all for doing this, but finding the portal will take a lot longer if we have to break someone out of jail because someone called the cops on a strange pervert poking around a school full of kids." "Well we have several members of the 21,000 on board and they are all around the age of your average highschooler and then there is that kid we picked up on the last Earth we were on. She might be too young as a student, but as the kid of one of the ones going in would be able to wander around while 'Dad' finishes up some work. Maybe getting her out of the ship and doing something might help her get past what happened." "I'm not sure there is a 'get past what happened' when it comes to being the only person to survive global xenocide at the hands of an alien race, but maybe doing something might begin the healing process. Dammit, wish we had brought along one of the others who knows how to deal with this kind of thing." Chapter 1"Hello Mr. Corwin, this is Principal Celestia at Canterlot High School. I know you were not suppose to start until after the holidays, but could you be able to come in as a substitute history teacher? I know you were hired as our new science teacher, but 5 of our teachers are in the hospital with a bad case of food poisoning and we are a few teachers short... You will, thank you, you're a godsend... Oh. Well I can see how that could be a problem. Hmm... Well I guess we can bend the rules and I think I know the perfect girl to watch over your daughter... Yes, her name is Sunset Shimmer and I am sure she will get along well with your daughter Jenny... Thank you again and goodbye." Sunset Shimmer had just grabbed her books and was about to rush down the hall when Applejack called out to her, "Hey Sunset, can we talk fer a second?" "Can it wait until after I find out what Principle Celestia wants?" Sunset asked. "She kind of made it seem important, something about several teachers being sick and whoever our new science teacher is going to be." "Umm... Maybe we should wait until lunch to ask her if it's that important." Fluttershy said. "I reckon it can wait for a bit." Applejack said. "Thanks guys." Sunset said as she ran down the hall towards the Principle's office. "Pinkie darling, did you leave your cell phone on vibrate or something?" Rarity asked as she watched Pinkie Pie vibrate past her. "Noooopeeeeer Rooooneeeey!" Pinkie Pie said as the others watched her vibrate past them. "Whaaaat eeeeveeeer iiiit iiiis ~iiiit's aaaa doooozy~" She sang out before vibrating down the hall and around a corner. "Yeah, after that I vote we just let it be until lunch." Rainbow Dash said as the others just nodded in agreement. "I can't believe you fucking talked me into this shit and let you put a piss yellow dress on me." The girl said as she sat glaring at the man behind her in the mirror as he finished putting her long brown hair in a braid. "Listen Jenny, I know it's a lot to ask a 9 year old raised in a secret military base by scientist and soldiers to act like a sweet little girl who hasn't got a care in the world, but we need to find the portal and this is the best way to get you in there so you can help us look for it." John Corwin said as he looked back at her with the same blue grey eyes. "Besides, it was either this or leaving you here with Sherry." "Go fuck yourself and fuck that fucking cyber cunt with a split personality." Jenny Corwin yelled as she got up and stormed out of the room. "You do realize your me from another dimension and telling me to go fuck myself is basically saying you want me to fuck you right?" John laught as she began screaming before he got blasted into a wall by her. "Oww... Note to self don't try that again." "Hi." Sunset said to the 9 year old girl sitting at Ms. Cheerilee's desk. "Are you Jenny Corwin?" "Yes, Principal Celestia said I get to be the substitute librarian with someone called Sunset Shimmer." Jenny said with a somewhat forced smile. "Well good thing I'm Sunset Shimmer." Sunset said only to get a strange look from the girl. "What?" "You got the same hair color, but the girl in the picture that that girl name Trixie gave me looks like she was a total cunt one step away from going full on mad scientist with a doomsday device because she was on the rag." Jenny said as Sunset's jaw dropped as she just stood there looking at the little girl. Finally she closed her mouth, smiled, and asked "You ever spend time around a bunch soldiers?" "Four dozen badass marines with an asshole C.O. after my momma died, you?" Jenny asked. "Same, but there was one fucking shit for brains that was dating the base commanders niece. Heard he married her." Sunset said and it was technically true since Princess Celestia was the equivalent of the Commander in Chief of all of Equestrias armed forces and could be considered the base commander. "So what should we do?" Jenny asked. "Have you ever read Daring Do?" Sunset asked as she grabbed a chair and pulled it over while Jenny shook her head no. "Then how about I read Daring Do and The Quest For The Sapphire Stone to you the way the person who raised me read it to me. Trust me, it's much better if she is a pegasus pony than if she is a woman." Jenny smiled as Sunset pulled out her Phone and opened the book app. "Consarn it, where is she so we can ask her about all of this?" Applejack complained as her and the other girls sat at their usual table eating lunch. "Well she wasn't in English class this morning darling, but neither was Ms. Harshwhinny." Rarity said as they ate. "In fact Vice Principle Luna had to teach English class and told us that several of the teachers are in the hospital after eating some bad Mexican food." "Umm... Ms. Peachbottom was also out and there was this big scary guy with an accent named Mr. Von Ritter who taught us how to make red velvet cupcakes in Home Economics. " Fluttershy said while Pinkie Pie put a red velvet cake onto the table. "Yeah well.... I got a double dose of missing teachers..... since both Mr. and Mrs. Doodle are.... also in the hospital." Rainbow Dash said between bites of food. "Trust me... that guy taking over for..... Mrs. Doodle in history class.... must have radar.... Gilda was going to throw... a paper wad at him.... The guy not only caught it.... but nailed her with an... eraser right between the eyes." "Who's teaching math then Dashie?" Pinkie Pie asked. "Would you believe that it was the janitor?" Rainbow Dash said after she finished her lunch. "Turns out Discord was a college professor specializing in something called chaos theory before having a nervous breakdown after his wife left him for his sister, Eris, who is also the CEO and owner of the Cotton Candy Cloud brand chocolate milk company." For several seconds they all digested what Rainbow Dash had just said before finally one of them had to ask. "Exactly how do you know all that?" Rarity asked. "He wouldn't shut up about it." Rainbow Dash told them. "Seriously, he went on and on while teaching us an easier way of doing certain problem, ranting about the education system failing us by teaching us needlessly complicated ways of solving equations, grading our homework and explaining how we got the problems wrong and how to do it better next time, used a video of me playing soccer to show how everything he had explained to us was part of our every day life, and going on a tangent about how an anime called 'Kiki's Delivery Service' was one of the greatest movie he ever watched." She then began pulling her hair in frustration. "And the worst part is he did it in such a way that I understood everything perfectly, want to now watch that movie, and also find out if I really could kick a ball so hard that it would make a sonic boom like he said I could!" Once again the table fell silent as the girls tried to wrap their heads around what they had just heard. A minute later Granny Smith called Applejack over and handed her two trays of food. "Take these here to the library fer Sunset Shimmer and Mr. Corwin's kid since they're watching the library fer Ms. Cheerilee while she's out sick." chapter 2"And so, with Ahuizotl defeated, and the sapphire statue secured the world was safe and sound once again, thanks to Daring Do!" Sunset Shimmer read out loud to Jenny. "So what do you think? Was I right about her being even better as a pony?" "Yeah, but what are we going to do now?" Jenny asked as her stomach voiced it's opinion on the subject just as Applejack came into the library with the two trays of food. "Hi Applejack." Sunset said as she got up and took one of the trays from Applejack. "Jenny this is Applejack, one of my friends and one of the most honest people you will ever meet." With that she put the tray down on one of the tables for Jenny. "Applejack meet Jenny, the new science teacher's daughter." "She doesn't look like a fucking cross eyed, buck toothed, inbred, illiterate hick." Jenny said as she looked at Applejack. "Now wait a goldarn minute!" Applejack exclaimed only to stop when Sunset held up a hand and turned to Jenny. "Let me guess, Trixie again?" Sunset asked "No." Jenny said, "Some stuck up bitch named Diamond Tiara returned a book when you went to the restroom earlier and warned me about the Apple family. She said the grandmother is a drunken hillbilly who makes moonshine and wouldn't know real cooking if it bit her, the brother is so retarded that he only knew two words, the older sister is a cross eyed, buck toothed, inbred, illiterate hick, and the younger sister is actually the older sister and the brother's baby and would end up living in a trailer with a fat, beer drinking truck driver and a dozen kids." "Okay, but please try to not curse so much." Sunset told her. "That one girl checking out gardening books ran away in tears after you called her a cunt." "I'll try." Jenny said as she started to eat. The whole time Applejack had been fuming before Sunset pulled her over to the side while Applejack grumbled something about strangling Diamond Tiara before asking. "What in tarnation is up with that kid cussing like that?" "She grew up around soldiers like I did and she obviously never got the talk I did from the princess about not repeating what I heard them say." Sunset explained. "This is about the 3rd time I had to tell, but at least she has cut back to once or twice every few sentences instead of almost every other word." "Bullshit, ya told me y'all were practically raised in the castle by the princess." Applejack shot back. "The Canterlot in Equestria has a battalion of royal guards protecting the princess at all times. You think a little filly isn't going to hear some of them cursing especially when the princess decided I needed to learn hoof to hoof combat from their drill instructor. Trust me, I heard much worse and could throw full grown stallions by the time I was 12." Sunset explained before grinning at Applejack's stunned look. "What? Did you think I beat Gilda with my stunning good looks and a cheap uppercut?" "Fine," Applejack said. "I'll give ya that one." "Thank you." Sunset Shimmer said before asking, "Anyway, what was it you and the girls wanted to ask me earlier?" "Oh, we just wanted to know if ya done gone and lost your phone or something?" Applejack asked. "No, it's over there on the desk charging since I was reading Daring Do to Jenny all morning. Well at least when someone wasn't checking in or out a book that is." Sunset told her before asking. "Why?" "Ya remember that Anon-a-miss post the other day? Well they done gone and posted all of those there pictures and videos ya took at the slumber party last night." Applejack told her. "What?!!" Sunset exclaimed. "Yeah, just check it out and y'all see." Applejack told her. "That might be a problem, my mystable account got flagged and suspended before the fall formal." Sunset told her. "Why? What did ya do?" Applejack asked. "I may have threatened to shave Trixie bald and break Octavia's cello over her head if they didn't withdraw from the Fall Formal as well as shove Photo Finish's camera so far up her... well she would have had to hiccup to take a picture if she didn't get a good picture of me winning this year." Sunset laughed nervously as she rubbed the back of her head and glanced over at Jenny. "Yeah, that would do it." Applejack said before asking, "And ya haven't made a new account?" "I can't as part of my punishment after the Fall Formal and my deal for living in Principal Celestia's house." Sunset said. "I'm not allowed to have an account until after New Year's and Vice Principal Luna set it up so there is a parental block on most of the internet which means I'm mostly stuck with text messaging and sites they approve of until after the first. They even check my phone regularly just to make sure, so they would know if I broke my promise." She then sighed and said, "They might have eased up a lot after the Battle of the Bands, but I'm not going to risk a warm bed and a roof over my head just to stir up trouble." Applejack had sighed with relief and was about to say something when the warning bell sounded. "I gotta run, Sunset, but we'll talk later." With that she rushed off to class while Sunset joined Jenny in eating her lunch. "Alright class settle down." The very short, dark skinned woman in black yoga pants and a red, white, and blue sports bra said as she entered the gym. "Your Health and Physical Education teach, Iron Will, met a chimichanga that didn't agree with him and will be out until after the New Year's so I will be your substitute teacher until then." She quickly glanced around and noticed several girls who stood out, like the very pink colored girl with a huge grin and a tomboy with rainbow colored hair. "My name is Mrs. Gloria Shang Von Ritter or Mrs. Von Ritter, but you can call me Old Glory. And yes, before any of you can ask me, I am married to that blonde haired, blue eyed german giant filling in for your Home Economics teacher. As for what we will be doing today, I'm giving you a choice, a nice 10k jog around the school, dodgeball, or, if you are all feeling extremely lucky, all of you vs. me in a game of dodgeball and anyone that actually manages to hit me doesn't have to do a thing in this class until Iron Will comes back, but I should warn you..." With that she went into a dizzying series of cartwheels, back flips, front flips, and side flips that ended with her doing a one handed handstand, while grinning like a fiend, in front of the now very shocked students. "It might be harder than you think. So what will it be?" "Hi Sunset! Hi newgirlfromapost-apocalypticalternativetimelinewhoisnowtheadopteddaughterofanoldermaleversionofyourselffromyetanothertimelinewhereeverythingwentrightohandbothofyouhavesuperpowerswhoareherewithabunchofotherpeoplewithstrangepowersandsearchingforawaytogettoaplacecalledTheInbetween.Also,IamnotSunset'sdrugaddictedpsycopathicminionlikeSilverSpoontoldyouIwas. (Gasp!) Not that I am suppose to know any of that, but the readers might find it useful to know, so just forget what I just said because I know I have." Pinkie Pie said with a huge smile as she handed them both cupcakes and gives you, the readers, a wink. "Hi Pinkie Pie." Sunset said before looking at a very worried looking Jenny. "Jenny, this is another friend of mine, Pinkie Pie. As for what she just said, it's best to just ignore it since the last 4 therapists to try to figure her out are now in the insane asylum as patients." She then turned back to Pinkie Pie and missed the brief flare of rainbow flames in Jenny's eyes as she glared at the pink menace. "So what do you need Pinkie?" "Oh I just wanted to ask if your Anon-a-miss?" Pinkie Pie asked. "Pinkie, I Pinkie Pie Promise that I am not, have never been, and will never be Anon-a-miss." Sunset said before doing the hand motions while saying, "Cross my heart and hope to fly. Stick a cupcake in my eye...Ow!!!" Unfortunately she ended up poking herself in the eye. As she rubbed her eye she didn't see Pinkie Pie's colors get darker, her hair go straight, and her smile become razor sharp and sinister. Nor did she see Jenny's shadow split into 7 shadows, with only one belonging to a little girl while her eyes flared yet again as they glared at each other. Just as quickly they both went back to normal as soon as Sunset was able to see again. "Does that answer your question Pinkie?" Sunset asked. "Okie dokie lokie Sunset." Pinkie Pie said before skipping out of library and back to class. Chapter 3"We might have a problem with one of the students here." Old Glory said while her and John drank coffee in the teachers lounge. "Why? What happened?" John asked. "I did that thing with dodgeball and there was this pink girl who actually nailed me, Eric told me she managed to bake red velvet cupcakes in less than two minutes, and when I talked to Jenny in the restroom she said the girl actually physically changed for a brief moment when no one was looking." Old Glory explained. "So she might be a reality warper of somekind?" John asked. "She might be, but so far everything points to a very low end reality warper with a bit of clairvoyance tossed in for good measure after what she said to Jenny." Old Glory said before saying something else as a teacher walked in to grab a cup of coffee, "Anyways, Eric made some cupcakes for you and Jenny if you want them." "Sure and thanks for the heads up on one of the student... What was her name again?" John asked without missing a beat. "Pinkie Pie..." Old Glory started to say before the other teacher interrupted them. "Trust me, just ignore anything crazy you hear about the Pie girls. They are all a bit odd and Pinkie is the oddest one of them all." The teacher said before leaving with her cup of coffee. A woman in a darkened room answered the phone, "Yes?" "We have a problem." The voice on the other end said. "The big break up didn't happen the way we planned and now both Applejack and Pinkie Pie are convinced that she didn't do it." "Hmm... Then we will have to shift our focus to the other three and also specifically target those students that will either be very loud and vocal or lash out." The woman said. "I also have some good news on our little surprise. It took a little time, but it will be ready." "Good." Suddenly there was the sound of a bell. "I'll keep you up to date, but I need to go." "Then I will talk to you later." The woman then hung up the phone with a wick smile. "Sunset Shimmer! How dare you humiliate the great and powerful Trixie with that picture of her with her arm stuck in a vending machine!" Trixie yelled as she stomped into English class before looking around and yelling. "Where is she? Where is Anon-a-miss?" "She is currently running the library due to Ms. Cheerilee being in the hospital due to food poisoning as well as watching the new science teacher's daughter while he fills in for Mrs. Doodle in history class." Vice Principal Luna said from the door. "Also, Ms. Lulamoon, you now have detention this evening. I will not have you coming into a class room I am teaching and disrupt it with baseless accusations." See then glared at all the other students in the classroom. "That goes for the rest of you as well. Are we perfectly clear?" "Yes, I understand and thank you for trying... Yes and Merry Christmas to you to." Principal Celestia said before hanging up the phone. Sitting there at her desk she unlocked the bottom drawer and pulled out a stack of folders and looked at them. Each one had the exact same word stamped on them, 'Expelled'. She then went down the list she had written down and pulled out the files on the list before putting the rest back into the drawer and locking it. Calling her secretary into the office she handed over the five folders and said. "I have been informed by the school board that these five students will be returning to this school starting tomorrow." Raven Inkwell looked through the files and frowned before nodding. "Do you want them to have a standard schedule or do you have something in mind?" She asked. "I will leave it up to you." Principal Celestia said before Raven left the office. Somehow this felt off, but she couldn't put her finger on it. "Do you know who my father is? I demand to see the principle right now after what Anon-a-miss posted about me!" Oh joy, Celestia thought to herself as Diamond Tiara stormed into her office, as if I didn't have problems already. "Diamond Tiara, I am already not in the best of moods, so I suggest you apologies to Ms. Inkwell now or it's two weeks detention." She said in as calm of a voice as possible. "Yeah right, my daddy..." Diamond Tiara started, only to be cut off. "Raven, two weeks detention for Diamond Tiara." Principal Celestia said through the open door to the her secretary. "Also be ready to add another two weeks if her father shows up to complain about this." She then went back to working on her paperwork while Diamond Tiara just stood there just looking at her in shock. "I would suggest you get to class before you have even more days added to your detention." With that the girl rushed off to her next class while both Celestia and Raven laughed. Gilda punched the locker next to Fluttershy's head as she intimidated the girl. "Listen up dweeb, I want you to deliver a message to that Anon-a-bitch, Sunset Shimmer, I don't give a flying fuck...." Fluttershy blinked as Gilda got shoved to the floor by her younger brother, Zephyr Breeze. "Back off my sis skank." "Well if it isn't the return of the Y-boner." Gilda said as she got up. She then tried to punch Zephyr Breeze, but he just gracefully spun out of the way. "Hold still you little fag so I can pound you into the ground." Zephyr quickly ducked, weaved, and pirouetted out of the way of every single punch. "If you were a guy and talking about sex maybe, but you would have to buy me dinner first." He then slapped her after spinning out of the way of another punch. With that she screamed and tried to tackle him, but he just twisted out of the way while slapping her on the ass. The next thing she knew she had ran into another locker. "You are so dead." She grumbled as she got up and turned around. "Yeah right." Zephyr Breeze laughed as she saw a very angry Fluttershy and several members of the wrestling team and the swim team glaring at her. "Funny thing, big sis might not stand up for herself, but mess with her baby brother and all bets are off." He then kissed the captain of the wrestling team. "Also I thought everyone knew I was dating the captain of the wrestling and that I am a member of the swim team." He then smirked and said, "You done goofed." Five minutes later Lightning Dust was reading a text she got from Grubber while walking down the hall, only to fall flat on her face when she tripped over something that turned out to be Gilda's legs sticking out of a trash can she had been shoved into before it was tipped over and kicked down the hallway. It wasn't until later she remembered the text and read it with a huge smile. The student council sat in stunned silence after the text had been read out loud. Then one of them smiled, followed by another and another as they realized that she was coming back. At the head of the table the current student council president slumped in his seat and said. "Thank god, finally someone who can deal with all of this magical nonsense." Granny Smith grumbled as she hung up the cafeterias phone and grabbed her coat before heading for the back door. Of course that was tomorrow's lunch, it been the same for the past 10 years. With that she flipped the lights off and walked out to the truck where Big Mac was waiting. Chapter 4"Bring her in nice and slow." "Will someone get that damn bird off the top forward sensor pod so I can see how much clearance I have." "Hey! Someone run a check on rear cloaking and bottom stealth fields. I'm get a few odd color distortions and there's a odd whine comin... Yeah that got it, but the rear is now transparent neon green... Good that should do it, we'll shut them down once it's inside and out of sight and run a full diagnostics on them." "Hold up! One of the cannons is partially out of it's port... Okay, your good now." "Okay, lower the landing gear and bring her down gently... A little lower... A little lower... Good, cut the power." "Nice job everyone." "Hey sweety, how was your day?" Sherry Gatetree/Corwin asked as Jenny entered their quarters. "Fuck You! Fuck the Alien Artificial Intelligence inside of You! And fuck Everyone at that Crappy School, except for Sunset Shimmer!" Jenny screamed before heading to her room. "Well at least she finally met someone who doesn't warrant a 'Fuck You'." John said as walked in and took his wife in his arms as she broke down and started crying again. "Shh... It's okay honey, she's just lashing out at everyone." "Sh... She hates me an... and you should hea... hear the things Al.... Alphia whispers to m... me that it would d... do to her if I let i... it out." Sherry sobbed into his shoulder. "I... I'm a terrible per...person. I so...sometimes just wa... want to let it loose o...on her." "Shh... Your not a terrible person. You beat that thing and have never let it loose. Even when Deus Rex was torturing and raping you endlessly as his personal plaything and you could have let it take control, you didn't. We just have to make it through all of this and then let Damia or one of the others work with her and get her the help she needs." John told her as he stroked her head and being gentle enough not to accidentally touch the circuitry poking out of her bare skull where her hair use to be. With one hand he sent out several green disks that scooped up the metallic skullcap and her wig and brought them to him. Gently he placed it on her head and heard the click as it magnetically locked into place and he put her wig on her while leading her into the bathroom and making her sit in front of the mirror while he fixed her hair. Ignoring the angry flashes in her eyes when Alphia occasionally broke through, he proceeded to do the two things he loved to do the most in the world, love and pamper his wife while pissing off the ancient xenocidal machine imprisoned inside of her at the same time. "There's my pretty girl, still as lovely and beautiful as the day we met." "Liar." Sherry said with a smile. "We both know it's all just fake skin, wigs, and false teeth to cover up what's left of me after everything that has happened." Reaching out, john pulled her the skin that covered the lower half of her face off to reveal the greyish green flesh and partially missing lips and left cheek underneath and leaned in and kissed her. "Who said I was talking about your mask?" With that he tossed it on the counter and picked her up and carried her into their room. Just before the door closed Sherry giggled and snapped her fingers that caused the lights to flicker for a second before the music started. Tempest Shadow, she refused to even acknowledge that stupid name her parents gave her, reached up with her scarred hand and touched the eye patch where her eye use to be before grabbing her leather jacket and getting out of her car. Shrugging on her jacket, she then frowned as she reached back in, grabbed her cane, and made sure the tag was hanging from the mirror. Closing the car door she sighed as she looked at the reflection of the scarred side of her head while reaching down and touching one of her leg braces. Sad part was that it took the searing pain and the two years of humiliating therapy just to learn to walk, cloth, and feed herself again to not only make her realize how lucky she was not to have died with him in the car wreck, but also how screwed up their relationship had been. Finally she pulled up her hood, walked through the door of the school, and started down the hall towards the Principal's office. All around her the students suddenly stopped talking and just watched her. She was almost there when the whispering began and she turned to see Lightning Dust and the others coming towards her wearing their jackets, his jacket. "Tempest I missed..." She didn't even think as she smacked Lightning Dust hard enough to knock her to the floor. "Don't you dare." Tempest Shadow hissed at her. "Don't you dare act like nothing happened and that we are best friends. For two years I waited and only Grubber ever came to see me. Where were you when I was crying after seeing this?" With that she used her scarred right hand to pull off her hood. "Where were you when I went through painful treatments and humiliating therapy just so I could walk to the restroom and wipe myself afterwards? I took all the blame and was expelled for every single one of you, yet Grubber was the only one out of all of you who was there for me. So don't you dare wear those jackets and act like nothing happened. I can still feel the flames and hear the sound of Storm King choking to death on his own blood whenever I close my eyes. Do any of you even know what it is like to feel your eye being pulled out of your head when you force yourself to do it just to get free so you can live?" She then turned and just walked away while saying, "Just take those stupid fucking things off and let the Storm Kings die." "I could suspend you again for that." Vice Principal Luna said as she looked at the girl. "Will you?" Tempest asked as she pulled her hood back up. "Vice Principal Stygian didn't after I slapped the living daylights out of my sister, back when I still called myself Knightmare Moon, but only this once and because both Lightning and Tia deserved it." Luna said as she held the door open for Tempest Shadow. "Like he said to me, my door is always open and it helps to have someone who has been there to talk to." "I'd like that." Tempest said as she walked through the door. John walked out of the alleyway with a very angry Jenny behind him. Both of them were covered in band-aids, dust, and scorch marks. "'Let's use the telegate generator,' you said. 'It will be fine,' you said." Jenny said as she stomped past him towards the crosswalk. "Fuck you and that damn thing. How about next time we shove C4 and cans of hairspray into a microwave and see what happens?" With that she ran across the street and into the school. Shaking the dust off of his jacket and checking the band-aids on his face and hands in a nearby window before licking his fingers and putting out his still smoldering brown hair. Feeling he looked less front row seat to an explosion and more just a really rough morning he finally walked into the school. In the teacher's lounge Principal Celestia caught up with him and asked, "Mr. Corwin, could you tell me why you and your daughter look like you got into a fight with a wild animal?" "Would you believe in a bizarre series of events involving several squirrels, a ceiling fan, a burned breakfast, cracking open a window, toast, and an open jar of peanut butter." John asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee. "You too huh?" Discord asked as he walked in with a few less band-aids and a squirrel sitting on his head and eating a piece of toast with peanut butter on it. "I'm not sure what worries me more, the fact that both of you have the same excuse or that I actually believe it." Celestia said as the squirrel on Discord's head waved at her. Starlight Glimmer watched as her one time rival walked into the office after hearing what happened in the hall. For a brief moment they just looked at each other before Starlight just moved over and made room for Tempest Shadow on the bench as they waited. "I take it life decided to literally beat you over the head with a two by four to get you to listen?" Starlight asked. "Yeah." Tempest responded before asking. "You?" "Expelled for trying to recruit the student council and several dozen other students into my Aunt Starlight Shine's social/political/semi-religious brainwashing cult. Spent a year and a half in mental hospital that specializes in deprogramming brainwashed cult members." Starlight then lifted one leg and showed her the leg monitor on it. "Three more months until my 18th birthday and I can finally say goodbye to this." "So what happened with your family?" Tempest asked. "Mom went to jail with her sister and dad has gotten very clingy." Starlight said. "Yours?" "Parents disowned me after the accident and grandma cut them out of her will, paid for everything, and I'm now living with her." Tempest said. "Turns out she's loaded and even gave me a GTO for learning to walk again." "T.A.C.O. I love to eat them on the go!" Sonata cheered while holding a breakfast waffle taco as Aria grinned while driving them to school. Normally by now she would have yelled at her little sister but... "Oh god I want to die." A hung over and barely able to move Adagio groaned from the back seat while wearing a purple and green polka dot skirt and a brown and red plaid shirt. Aria wasn't sure where Sonata found them or how she got Adagio's hair up into one of the most impressive Afro's she had ever seen. Sure, she had to actually use her side mirrors and Adagio would kill both of them for this one, but this was going to be so epic that it was worth it. Chapter 5Aria had only gone along with Sonata's plan because it was hilarious, even if it was so stupid it couldn't possibly work, but fucking hot damn, it was actually working. The students were so distracted by Adagio that they barely gave the two of them a second glance. Sure they were so dead for this, but that was future Sonata and Aria's problem. Even better was watching the Principal and Vice Principal trying not to laugh while giving them and two other girls the 'make one mistake and they will never find the bodies' speech they had been expecting. After they got their new schedules she had expected the hilariousness to end there. Only the fashion club had heard about how Adagio was dressed and, lead by that whiny white girl with purple hair from the battle of the bands, they descended on Adagio like locusts. The last she saw of her through tears of laughter was her being dragged away to whatever fate awaited her. "That will teach you to throw away my taco mushroom farm!" Sonata yelled as the fashion club dragged Adagio away. "Wait, did you do this because she threw away that box in the basement you left tacos in for 4 months?" Aria asked. "My taco flavored mushrooms would have made millions!" Sonata declared loudly. "They were covered in poisonous mushrooms, mold, and maggots." Aria explained. "They couldn't have been that bad." Sonata said. "I looked several of them up to see if you could get high off of them and one of them was so poisonous that one bite can kill an elephant." She said while trying to get through to her baby sister. "But... but taco mushrooms." Sonata said weakly as her eyes began to tear up. "Fine, we'll look up if anyone has invented them yet and if not we'll hire a lab to create them, patent them, and you can be the first to eat them as a human test subject. OK." Aria said, hoping it would make her happy. "Like when I helped test that drug in England and had an orgasm every time I yawned?" Sonata asked before hugging her. "Yes! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Adagio said I couldn't test stuff like that anymore unless one of you said I could." "Good, now we need to get to class before the bell rings." Aria reminded her before watching Sonata take off at a dead run for home economics class while she headed for history class. John walked down the hall towards class as he looked around. Nobody noticed the odd blue glow in his eyes as he let the flow of time wash over him and saw everything that was about to happen. Whistling to himself an old ABBA song he watched as time slowed to a stand still and got to work making a few changes. First was the blonde haired girl who just dropped the muffin she had been eating and it was halfway towards the floor. Now it was back in her hand and he made sure to curl her fingers around it so she wouldn't drop it again. Anyone watching might have seen a very brief blue blur, not that it mattered. Next was the blue skinned girl dress like a magician turning a cheap wand into fake flowers. Now she was holding bouquet of roses and now turned so she was giving them to the former student council president. Somewhere in the city was a florist scratching her head over two missing bouquets of roses and $25 on the counter. After that was a light grey girl dropping her books and scattering her papers in the hall while being hugged by her over excited pink skinned and haired sister. Setting the second bouquet down and cracking his knuckles he quickly grabbed all of her books and papers and put them all back into order and tucked them back into her hands. For a brief moment he could have sworn that the pink girl had winked at him, but that was impossible with time a stand still while he was in the flow. With a shrug he grabbed the bouquet and looked at the last change he was going to make before he drained the last of this power for the day. The gangly boy with a snail on his shirt was holding a few sickly flowers out to an unimpressed girl wearing a tiara. He quickly tuck the boy's shirt into his pants, tied his shoes, and combed the his hair for him before tossing the old flowers in the trash and putting the bouquet in his hand. He then whispered in the boy's ear. "Show her a confident and sure side of yourself. Let her see the hidden depths within you and catch a glimpse of the man you will someday become." Moving over to the girl he then whispered in her ear. "He might need a little work, but there is something about him. Maybe it is the sudden confidence or perhaps you are seeing in this scrawny boy the tall, handsome, and intelligent man he will someday be. Besides, you know what they say, behind every great man is an even better woman. With you at the helm this boy could become a leader of men and the envy of women everywhere, only he would be your's and your's alone, but only if you take this one and only chance and let him in past that diamond hard exterior you try to project." With that he walked back over to where he had been when he started and let go of the flow and watched time start back up again. Derpy happily took a bite out of her muffin while heading to home economics, Starlight Glimmer was surprised by Trixie giving her roses, and Marble smiled as Pinkie's hug didn't cause her to drop her books like usual. The biggest shock though was when Silver Spoon and Snips watching Diamond Tiara said yes to going out with Snails and the two of them walking away with a smiles on their faces. The woman sat in her dimly lit office with the beings that seemed to be made from pure darkness. As always when speaking to them she felt an unnatural and bitterly painful coldness. "I assure you that we are in the process of obtaining what you desire, but has hit a few snags with assets under performing and events outside of our control." She said with a forced smile as she braced for the pain. "WE UNDERSTAND." The over loud multi voice said to her. "UNFORTUNATELY WE NEED FOR YOU TO ACCELERATE YOUR TIMELINE AND ARE ASSIGNING ASSETS UNAVAILABLE WITHIN THIS UNIVERSE." Blood began trickling from the corner of her eyes and from her nose. Around them appeared white transparent men and women as the coldness in the room dropped further. "THE WINDIGOS WILL INCITE THE ONES AT THIS 'SCHOOL' TO GREATER AND GREATER ACTS OF ANGER, HATRED, AND FURY." The woman couldn't help but groaned in pain as several more people wearing black leather armor appeared. No they weren't wearing armor, it was part of their skin. "AND THE CHANGELINGS WILL SPREAD CONFUSION, JEALOUSY, ENVY, AND SUSPICION AMONGST THEM. YOU NEED NOT WORRY ABOUT CONTROLLING THEM, WE WILL DO THAT OURSELVES." With that all of them disappeared and the woman broke down sobbing in pain. Finally she was able to reach over to her phone, dialed it, and spoke. "We need to talk... They were here and things have changed... Meet me after school at my house... Goodbye." "I can't believe she fucking did that in front of the whole school!" Lightning Dust bitched as she grabbed her books from her locker. "Yeah, well cry me a fucking river." Gilda said as she closed her locker door. "You ask me, this whole school has been fucked up ever since that bitch, Sunset Shimmer, showed up. I mean she just happens to luck out by showing up a few weeks after both Starlight Glimmer and Tempest Shadow end up getting expelled and is not only ruling the school few months later, but manages to snag the crown at the fall formal." "I told you we shouldn't have waited for Rainbow Dash join and taken over the school while it was still a fucking mess, but no, you were to busy trying to get into her panties to pay attention." Lightning Dust said with a smirk. "Tell me how well that worked out for you? Did she scream your name all night long or....urk!" Gilda saw red as she grabbed her by the throat, lifted her off the ground, and slammed her into the lockers. "Just keep pushing my fucking buttons and find out what fucking happens bitch." Gilda growled before dropping her. "Besides you didn't do shit either. You just sat around on your lazy ass and expected me to do all the work instead of grabbing all the other Storm Kings and doing it yourself." "At... least... I... didn't end up getting humiliated by that little fag, Zephyr Breeze." Lightning Dust gasped. "No, you just got bitch slapped by a cripple." Gilda said before turning to head to class. "Like I said, try dealing with it yourself instead of waiting for someone else to do it for you." Lightning rubbed her sore throat before saying, "Maybe I will." At first the girl had been gauging the reaction to the return of their little surprise, but they had been more of a fizzle than actually causing any trouble that could be used to oust the principle and her sister. That had been when she saw something odd earlier, Derpy had just dropped her muffin and then she was still holding it as if nothing had happened. She then started to pay more attention and she could have sworn Trixie had been facing the other way with fake flowers, only then she had real flowers and giving them to Starlight Glimmer. She also kept thinking of the color blue for some reason. As she walked to her next class she pondered it while wondering what her partner wanted to talk to her about. From the sound of her voice it most likely had something to do with their mysterious backers. She knew something about them scared her, but she refused to tell what it was and she had a bad feeling that she really didn't want to know. She also stop by her locker and grabbed her sweater with an orange rook embroidered on it since she was feeling cold. It and the thought of all of these idiots learning there place beneath her heel made her smile and just warmed her cute little heart. Chapter 6Both staff and students knew down to the exact second when the lunch bell was suppose to ring and normally there would be a mad dash to be first in line at the cafeteria, but today something caused almost everyone to pause in confusion. "SONATA!!!!!!" A female voice screaming in fury seemed to replace the usual bell. Principal Celestia stepped into the hall to find out what was going on when Sonata ran past her with a furious Adagio in hot pursuit. Normally seeing one sibling chasing after another wouldn't even phase the veteran educator, but the fact that the entire fashion club and photography club were chasing after Adagio with all sorts of outfits, makeup, and flashing cameras made her pause. The sight of Pinkie Pie, Derpy, Vinyl Scratch, Berry Punch, and the Crusaders chasing after them with a banner that read 'Yay! Your No Longer Evil!' made her eyebrow raise. It was the laughing Aria with a smartphone being chased by a smiling Discord yelling he wanted a copy of the video and several dozen boys and girls chasing after them yelling about wanting a date with her or her sisters that made Celestia facepalm. She had a very strong suspicion that that would soon become her new default gesture when it came to those three. "In a way it brings back old memories of when we use to prank each other when we weren't trying to kill each other and the ensuing chase that would often involve Principle Starswirl also facepalming." Luna said with a chuckle as she walked up as the other students headed for cafeteria. "Complete with one hung over sister finally realizing what the other one did, right party princess Daybreaker? Exactly how many times did you show up at school hungover and smelling of sex and booze? 40, 50, maybe even 60 times total?" "Oh your one to talk." Celestia said as they headed for the cafeteria. "Goth princess Knightmare Moon." Celestia shot back. "How many tattoos did mom and dad have to pay to have removed? How many detentions, suspensions, and one near expulsions did you get? "We were both idiots back then weren't we?" Luna asked as she put her hand on the cafeteria door. "Yeah, but Principle Starswirl never really gave up and look at us now." Celestia said as her and her sister shared a brief laugh before entering the cafeteria. "I'm just saying that the more I think about it the more it seems like a load of hogwash." Applejack said to some of her friends as they sat at their usual table and ate lunch while watching the 5 way taco eating contest going on between Sonata, Pinkie, Derpy, Snowflake, and Zephyr Breeze. "We all remember how it was when she was in control of the school and this is nothing like that. She was all about control and used the secrets she ferreted out to blackmail, threaten, and discredit everyone she could into doing what she said or to get them out of her way, but this is just throwing mud just for the sake of throwing mud and causing trouble and then pointing at Sunset to cover their own tracks." "Hmm... You know I can see that darling." Rarity said as she watched Derpy put down her taco and push her tray away. "There really isn't any obvious motive for this and even someone trying emulate her would have done more than change the color scheme to match Sunset. They would have matched her..." Rarity froze as something occurred to her. "What if they are emulating her, but we've been to focused on her usual tactics to think about another tactic she used?" "Huh?" Rainbow Dash asked. "What do you mean?" "Misdirection and distraction." Rarity said as she looked at the other two. "She also use to use secrets to misdirect and distract everyone away from what she was really doing. What if Anon-a-miss and turning the school against Sunset isn't the ends but the means and something else is the real target? They want us to focus on her and ignore something else." "Yeah right." Rainbow Dash said with a smirk. "All of this for what? This is a high school, sure we're an awesome high school, but still a high school." "One that has had two magical light shows in a two month period and a magical portal to another world." Applejack said as she pointed over to where Aria was recording the contest on her phone. "A portal that has been used to dump dangerous creatures into the one place they knew wouldn't have enough magic to make them truly dangerous. What's to say they only ever did it once or that something else around here didn't noticed and are now interested in this place. Heck, the only reason I don't think it's the government is because they would've just march in an take over the whole school and claim somekind of chemical spill or outbreak." "More than likely claim one of the magical light shows was a terrorist attack and make us all disappear by saying we died of radiation poisoning, darling." Rarity said with a frown. "It's all in the details dear. Chemicals and outbreaks would lead to either family members wanting answers and to see us, but radiation would give them an excuse to make it a closed lead lined casket funeral and explain everything away as it being a test run for a much worse attack that they foiled." "Yeah, I can see that since we hear about them stopping terrorist attacks, but never hear any real details due to 'National Security'." Applejack agreed. "So, that just means they are keeping us safe." Rainbow Dash pointed out. "We're not saying they are not dear, but who is to say everything is exactly as they say." Rarity explained. "I don't know about you, but I would rather not become one of those tiny details lost in the paperwork because of 'National Security'." "Of course whose to say they ain't watching us already." Applejack pointed out, not noticing Lyra and Bon Bon suddenly becoming very interested in their meals at a nearby table. "I mean, why screw up something that seems to be working and risk Twilight and the Equestrians on the other side washing their hands of us and leave us high and dry the next time something magical happens over here." "Then there is the whole risking a war with a world that has already worked out interdimensional travel." Rarity said as they finished their lunch. "I looked up some of the things both Sunset and Twilight have mentioned and we are nowhere near what they can do. Take that story about the Mirror Pool and then imagine if they took their greatest warrior and run him or her through it a few million times and you have an almost instant army. Then there is weather control and controlling celestial mechanics to the point that they could either fire lightning bolts through the portal to protect it or throw solar plasma through it and wipe out everything on this side. That doesn't even touch upon what we heard about their version of Discord. I highly doubt he couldn't tear the portal between our worlds wide open and do god knows what to us and we would be powerless against him if their version of Fluttershy doesn't intervene." "Hey, where is Fluttershy anyways?" Rainbow Dash asked as Pinkie Pie held Sonata's hand up and declared her the winner. "She brought her own lunch and decided to take Sunset and Jenny their lunch so she could eat with them." Applejack pointed out. Eric Von Ritter finished putting the final touches on setting out a nice little romantic meal he had brought for him and his liebling frau. They had long ago learned that with the lives they lived to make every single moment count in order to have a happy healthy marriage. That was when he heard the door open behind him and heard footsteps that were too many and too light for her's. With a sigh, he turned knowing what he would find. "Listen fräuleins, why don't you go to the cafeteria and find boys your own ages since I am happily married and am not interested." He then watched as the four girls left while looking dejected as they past his wife coming into the room. "Only four sexy young women creaming their panties to get into your bed this time? You're losing your touch meine Ubermensch." Gloria laughed as she leapt into his arms and then kissed him. "Use to be we would come home and find at the very least a dozen naked girls had broken into the house just to throw themselves at your feet." "Ahh, but my liebling frua is such a insatiable vixen that I no longer have the energy to bed a thousand frauen before breakfast like I use to." He joked. "Good thing to because I have no desire to dig a thousand and one graves after breakfast either, so I guess I will just have to keep you satisfied with just one woman in your bed from now on." She said as they sat down to eat. "Oh I'm not so sure about that since there is this one young lady that seems to enjoys being in my bed from time to time." Eric shot back. "Long blonde hair, exotic blue eyes, and umber colored skin girl in a white nightgown." Gloria said with a smile. "I bet my sweet, half black, half chinese ass that she has the voice of an angel and the body of a dancer." "She should with how much we pay for her singing, piano, and ballet lessons on top of her archery, horseback riding, and tai chi lessons." Eirc grumbled. "And you know you would invade hell if Mira crawled into your lap and asked 'Daddy can I have a hellhound puppy pretty please with sugar and kisses on top?'" She said while batting her eyes at him before they both broke down laughing and after a minute started eating. "So you're the one who fu... mmmph!" Jenny started to say before Sunset clamped her hand over her mouth. "Just ignore that part Fluttershy." Sunset said with a nervous laugh. "Some people thought it would be funny to tell her the wrong thing about us and our friends." "Umm... Okay." Fluttershy said as she sat down the trays and pulled her lunch and Angel Bunny out of her backpack.
Chapter 0"Okay folks, give me a run down of what we are dealing with here." "Well, mein freund, all of the fires are out and the girls told me the ship is still structurally sound, but we burned out several components we will need to return to the In Between, as well as materials we will need to repair the engines if you want her fly more that a couple hundred miles before they burn out. At least the cloaking and stealth fields are perfectly fine or the local government would be all over us by now." "That might be a problem since on this Earth it is mid december 2014, so the tech is pre everything...Like pre picotech, pre nanotech, pre Helium-3 or Thorium reactors, etc, etc. The point is tech wise these idiots are still burning fossil fuels and believe solar and wind will save them. Thankfully their pre true A.I. so their internet security is a joke, but otherwise we will either need build what we need or find a portal to call for help." "So science isn't going to fix this anytime soon. What about magic?" "Like mostly deadsville, but someone did set off two huge magic flares in the past few months and I can like feel a portal, but those flares are totally making pinning it down impossible. If we can get me right on top of it I can totally get either Damia or my dad to give us a hand." "Wait, you said two major flares in the past few months? Would one of them look something like this?" "Whoa, that's like high end mega level spell casting by an archmage or a demigod." "Where's that at?" "A high school in a city called Canterlot, about 50 miles from here." "Hmm... Okay, here's what we are going to do. 1) we scout out this city and find somewhere to put the ship. 2) We start figuring out how to repair the ship as a plan B. 3) We find a way into that school and find this portal as plan A. Any questions?" "Yeah, anyone besides me, this big lug over here, and our intrepid leader have teachers licences? I mean I am all for doing this, but finding the portal will take a lot longer if we have to break someone out of jail because someone called the cops on a strange pervert poking around a school full of kids." "Well we have several members of the 21,000 on board and they are all around the age of your average highschooler and then there is that kid we picked up on the last Earth we were on. She might be too young as a student, but as the kid of one of the ones going in would be able to wander around while 'Dad' finishes up some work. Maybe getting her out of the ship and doing something might help her get past what happened." "I'm not sure there is a 'get past what happened' when it comes to being the only person to survive global xenocide at the hands of an alien race, but maybe doing something might begin the healing process. Dammit, wish we had brought along one of the others who knows how to deal with this kind of thing."
Chapter 1"Hello Mr. Corwin, this is Principal Celestia at Canterlot High School. I know you were not suppose to start until after the holidays, but could you be able to come in as a substitute history teacher? I know you were hired as our new science teacher, but 5 of our teachers are in the hospital with a bad case of food poisoning and we are a few teachers short... You will, thank you, you're a godsend... Oh. Well I can see how that could be a problem. Hmm... Well I guess we can bend the rules and I think I know the perfect girl to watch over your daughter... Yes, her name is Sunset Shimmer and I am sure she will get along well with your daughter Jenny... Thank you again and goodbye." Sunset Shimmer had just grabbed her books and was about to rush down the hall when Applejack called out to her, "Hey Sunset, can we talk fer a second?" "Can it wait until after I find out what Principle Celestia wants?" Sunset asked. "She kind of made it seem important, something about several teachers being sick and whoever our new science teacher is going to be." "Umm... Maybe we should wait until lunch to ask her if it's that important." Fluttershy said. "I reckon it can wait for a bit." Applejack said. "Thanks guys." Sunset said as she ran down the hall towards the Principle's office. "Pinkie darling, did you leave your cell phone on vibrate or something?" Rarity asked as she watched Pinkie Pie vibrate past her. "Noooopeeeeer Rooooneeeey!" Pinkie Pie said as the others watched her vibrate past them. "Whaaaat eeeeveeeer iiiit iiiis ~iiiit's aaaa doooozy~" She sang out before vibrating down the hall and around a corner. "Yeah, after that I vote we just let it be until lunch." Rainbow Dash said as the others just nodded in agreement. "I can't believe you fucking talked me into this shit and let you put a piss yellow dress on me." The girl said as she sat glaring at the man behind her in the mirror as he finished putting her long brown hair in a braid. "Listen Jenny, I know it's a lot to ask a 9 year old raised in a secret military base by scientist and soldiers to act like a sweet little girl who hasn't got a care in the world, but we need to find the portal and this is the best way to get you in there so you can help us look for it." John Corwin said as he looked back at her with the same blue grey eyes. "Besides, it was either this or leaving you here with Sherry." "Go fuck yourself and fuck that fucking cyber cunt with a split personality." Jenny Corwin yelled as she got up and stormed out of the room. "You do realize your me from another dimension and telling me to go fuck myself is basically saying you want me to fuck you right?" John laught as she began screaming before he got blasted into a wall by her. "Oww... Note to self don't try that again." "Hi." Sunset said to the 9 year old girl sitting at Ms. Cheerilee's desk. "Are you Jenny Corwin?" "Yes, Principal Celestia said I get to be the substitute librarian with someone called Sunset Shimmer." Jenny said with a somewhat forced smile. "Well good thing I'm Sunset Shimmer." Sunset said only to get a strange look from the girl. "What?" "You got the same hair color, but the girl in the picture that that girl name Trixie gave me looks like she was a total cunt one step away from going full on mad scientist with a doomsday device because she was on the rag." Jenny said as Sunset's jaw dropped as she just stood there looking at the little girl. Finally she closed her mouth, smiled, and asked "You ever spend time around a bunch soldiers?" "Four dozen badass marines with an asshole C.O. after my momma died, you?" Jenny asked. "Same, but there was one fucking shit for brains that was dating the base commanders niece. Heard he married her." Sunset said and it was technically true since Princess Celestia was the equivalent of the Commander in Chief of all of Equestrias armed forces and could be considered the base commander. "So what should we do?" Jenny asked. "Have you ever read Daring Do?" Sunset asked as she grabbed a chair and pulled it over while Jenny shook her head no. "Then how about I read Daring Do and The Quest For The Sapphire Stone to you the way the person who raised me read it to me. Trust me, it's much better if she is a pegasus pony than if she is a woman." Jenny smiled as Sunset pulled out her Phone and opened the book app. "Consarn it, where is she so we can ask her about all of this?" Applejack complained as her and the other girls sat at their usual table eating lunch. "Well she wasn't in English class this morning darling, but neither was Ms. Harshwhinny." Rarity said as they ate. "In fact Vice Principle Luna had to teach English class and told us that several of the teachers are in the hospital after eating some bad Mexican food." "Umm... Ms. Peachbottom was also out and there was this big scary guy with an accent named Mr. Von Ritter who taught us how to make red velvet cupcakes in Home Economics. " Fluttershy said while Pinkie Pie put a red velvet cake onto the table. "Yeah well.... I got a double dose of missing teachers..... since both Mr. and Mrs. Doodle are.... also in the hospital." Rainbow Dash said between bites of food. "Trust me... that guy taking over for..... Mrs. Doodle in history class.... must have radar.... Gilda was going to throw... a paper wad at him.... The guy not only caught it.... but nailed her with an... eraser right between the eyes." "Who's teaching math then Dashie?" Pinkie Pie asked. "Would you believe that it was the janitor?" Rainbow Dash said after she finished her lunch. "Turns out Discord was a college professor specializing in something called chaos theory before having a nervous breakdown after his wife left him for his sister, Eris, who is also the CEO and owner of the Cotton Candy Cloud brand chocolate milk company." For several seconds they all digested what Rainbow Dash had just said before finally one of them had to ask. "Exactly how do you know all that?" Rarity asked. "He wouldn't shut up about it." Rainbow Dash told them. "Seriously, he went on and on while teaching us an easier way of doing certain problem, ranting about the education system failing us by teaching us needlessly complicated ways of solving equations, grading our homework and explaining how we got the problems wrong and how to do it better next time, used a video of me playing soccer to show how everything he had explained to us was part of our every day life, and going on a tangent about how an anime called 'Kiki's Delivery Service' was one of the greatest movie he ever watched." She then began pulling her hair in frustration. "And the worst part is he did it in such a way that I understood everything perfectly, want to now watch that movie, and also find out if I really could kick a ball so hard that it would make a sonic boom like he said I could!" Once again the table fell silent as the girls tried to wrap their heads around what they had just heard. A minute later Granny Smith called Applejack over and handed her two trays of food. "Take these here to the library fer Sunset Shimmer and Mr. Corwin's kid since they're watching the library fer Ms. Cheerilee while she's out sick."
chapter 2"And so, with Ahuizotl defeated, and the sapphire statue secured the world was safe and sound once again, thanks to Daring Do!" Sunset Shimmer read out loud to Jenny. "So what do you think? Was I right about her being even better as a pony?" "Yeah, but what are we going to do now?" Jenny asked as her stomach voiced it's opinion on the subject just as Applejack came into the library with the two trays of food. "Hi Applejack." Sunset said as she got up and took one of the trays from Applejack. "Jenny this is Applejack, one of my friends and one of the most honest people you will ever meet." With that she put the tray down on one of the tables for Jenny. "Applejack meet Jenny, the new science teacher's daughter." "She doesn't look like a fucking cross eyed, buck toothed, inbred, illiterate hick." Jenny said as she looked at Applejack. "Now wait a goldarn minute!" Applejack exclaimed only to stop when Sunset held up a hand and turned to Jenny. "Let me guess, Trixie again?" Sunset asked "No." Jenny said, "Some stuck up bitch named Diamond Tiara returned a book when you went to the restroom earlier and warned me about the Apple family. She said the grandmother is a drunken hillbilly who makes moonshine and wouldn't know real cooking if it bit her, the brother is so retarded that he only knew two words, the older sister is a cross eyed, buck toothed, inbred, illiterate hick, and the younger sister is actually the older sister and the brother's baby and would end up living in a trailer with a fat, beer drinking truck driver and a dozen kids." "Okay, but please try to not curse so much." Sunset told her. "That one girl checking out gardening books ran away in tears after you called her a cunt." "I'll try." Jenny said as she started to eat. The whole time Applejack had been fuming before Sunset pulled her over to the side while Applejack grumbled something about strangling Diamond Tiara before asking. "What in tarnation is up with that kid cussing like that?" "She grew up around soldiers like I did and she obviously never got the talk I did from the princess about not repeating what I heard them say." Sunset explained. "This is about the 3rd time I had to tell, but at least she has cut back to once or twice every few sentences instead of almost every other word." "Bullshit, ya told me y'all were practically raised in the castle by the princess." Applejack shot back. "The Canterlot in Equestria has a battalion of royal guards protecting the princess at all times. You think a little filly isn't going to hear some of them cursing especially when the princess decided I needed to learn hoof to hoof combat from their drill instructor. Trust me, I heard much worse and could throw full grown stallions by the time I was 12." Sunset explained before grinning at Applejack's stunned look. "What? Did you think I beat Gilda with my stunning good looks and a cheap uppercut?" "Fine," Applejack said. "I'll give ya that one." "Thank you." Sunset Shimmer said before asking, "Anyway, what was it you and the girls wanted to ask me earlier?" "Oh, we just wanted to know if ya done gone and lost your phone or something?" Applejack asked. "No, it's over there on the desk charging since I was reading Daring Do to Jenny all morning. Well at least when someone wasn't checking in or out a book that is." Sunset told her before asking. "Why?" "Ya remember that Anon-a-miss post the other day? Well they done gone and posted all of those there pictures and videos ya took at the slumber party last night." Applejack told her. "What?!!" Sunset exclaimed. "Yeah, just check it out and y'all see." Applejack told her. "That might be a problem, my mystable account got flagged and suspended before the fall formal." Sunset told her. "Why? What did ya do?" Applejack asked. "I may have threatened to shave Trixie bald and break Octavia's cello over her head if they didn't withdraw from the Fall Formal as well as shove Photo Finish's camera so far up her... well she would have had to hiccup to take a picture if she didn't get a good picture of me winning this year." Sunset laughed nervously as she rubbed the back of her head and glanced over at Jenny. "Yeah, that would do it." Applejack said before asking, "And ya haven't made a new account?" "I can't as part of my punishment after the Fall Formal and my deal for living in Principal Celestia's house." Sunset said. "I'm not allowed to have an account until after New Year's and Vice Principal Luna set it up so there is a parental block on most of the internet which means I'm mostly stuck with text messaging and sites they approve of until after the first. They even check my phone regularly just to make sure, so they would know if I broke my promise." She then sighed and said, "They might have eased up a lot after the Battle of the Bands, but I'm not going to risk a warm bed and a roof over my head just to stir up trouble." Applejack had sighed with relief and was about to say something when the warning bell sounded. "I gotta run, Sunset, but we'll talk later." With that she rushed off to class while Sunset joined Jenny in eating her lunch. "Alright class settle down." The very short, dark skinned woman in black yoga pants and a red, white, and blue sports bra said as she entered the gym. "Your Health and Physical Education teach, Iron Will, met a chimichanga that didn't agree with him and will be out until after the New Year's so I will be your substitute teacher until then." She quickly glanced around and noticed several girls who stood out, like the very pink colored girl with a huge grin and a tomboy with rainbow colored hair. "My name is Mrs. Gloria Shang Von Ritter or Mrs. Von Ritter, but you can call me Old Glory. And yes, before any of you can ask me, I am married to that blonde haired, blue eyed german giant filling in for your Home Economics teacher. As for what we will be doing today, I'm giving you a choice, a nice 10k jog around the school, dodgeball, or, if you are all feeling extremely lucky, all of you vs. me in a game of dodgeball and anyone that actually manages to hit me doesn't have to do a thing in this class until Iron Will comes back, but I should warn you..." With that she went into a dizzying series of cartwheels, back flips, front flips, and side flips that ended with her doing a one handed handstand, while grinning like a fiend, in front of the now very shocked students. "It might be harder than you think. So what will it be?" "Hi Sunset! Hi newgirlfromapost-apocalypticalternativetimelinewhoisnowtheadopteddaughterofanoldermaleversionofyourselffromyetanothertimelinewhereeverythingwentrightohandbothofyouhavesuperpowerswhoareherewithabunchofotherpeoplewithstrangepowersandsearchingforawaytogettoaplacecalledTheInbetween.Also,IamnotSunset'sdrugaddictedpsycopathicminionlikeSilverSpoontoldyouIwas. (Gasp!) Not that I am suppose to know any of that, but the readers might find it useful to know, so just forget what I just said because I know I have." Pinkie Pie said with a huge smile as she handed them both cupcakes and gives you, the readers, a wink. "Hi Pinkie Pie." Sunset said before looking at a very worried looking Jenny. "Jenny, this is another friend of mine, Pinkie Pie. As for what she just said, it's best to just ignore it since the last 4 therapists to try to figure her out are now in the insane asylum as patients." She then turned back to Pinkie Pie and missed the brief flare of rainbow flames in Jenny's eyes as she glared at the pink menace. "So what do you need Pinkie?" "Oh I just wanted to ask if your Anon-a-miss?" Pinkie Pie asked. "Pinkie, I Pinkie Pie Promise that I am not, have never been, and will never be Anon-a-miss." Sunset said before doing the hand motions while saying, "Cross my heart and hope to fly. Stick a cupcake in my eye...Ow!!!" Unfortunately she ended up poking herself in the eye. As she rubbed her eye she didn't see Pinkie Pie's colors get darker, her hair go straight, and her smile become razor sharp and sinister. Nor did she see Jenny's shadow split into 7 shadows, with only one belonging to a little girl while her eyes flared yet again as they glared at each other. Just as quickly they both went back to normal as soon as Sunset was able to see again. "Does that answer your question Pinkie?" Sunset asked. "Okie dokie lokie Sunset." Pinkie Pie said before skipping out of library and back to class.
Chapter 3"We might have a problem with one of the students here." Old Glory said while her and John drank coffee in the teachers lounge. "Why? What happened?" John asked. "I did that thing with dodgeball and there was this pink girl who actually nailed me, Eric told me she managed to bake red velvet cupcakes in less than two minutes, and when I talked to Jenny in the restroom she said the girl actually physically changed for a brief moment when no one was looking." Old Glory explained. "So she might be a reality warper of somekind?" John asked. "She might be, but so far everything points to a very low end reality warper with a bit of clairvoyance tossed in for good measure after what she said to Jenny." Old Glory said before saying something else as a teacher walked in to grab a cup of coffee, "Anyways, Eric made some cupcakes for you and Jenny if you want them." "Sure and thanks for the heads up on one of the student... What was her name again?" John asked without missing a beat. "Pinkie Pie..." Old Glory started to say before the other teacher interrupted them. "Trust me, just ignore anything crazy you hear about the Pie girls. They are all a bit odd and Pinkie is the oddest one of them all." The teacher said before leaving with her cup of coffee. A woman in a darkened room answered the phone, "Yes?" "We have a problem." The voice on the other end said. "The big break up didn't happen the way we planned and now both Applejack and Pinkie Pie are convinced that she didn't do it." "Hmm... Then we will have to shift our focus to the other three and also specifically target those students that will either be very loud and vocal or lash out." The woman said. "I also have some good news on our little surprise. It took a little time, but it will be ready." "Good." Suddenly there was the sound of a bell. "I'll keep you up to date, but I need to go." "Then I will talk to you later." The woman then hung up the phone with a wick smile. "Sunset Shimmer! How dare you humiliate the great and powerful Trixie with that picture of her with her arm stuck in a vending machine!" Trixie yelled as she stomped into English class before looking around and yelling. "Where is she? Where is Anon-a-miss?" "She is currently running the library due to Ms. Cheerilee being in the hospital due to food poisoning as well as watching the new science teacher's daughter while he fills in for Mrs. Doodle in history class." Vice Principal Luna said from the door. "Also, Ms. Lulamoon, you now have detention this evening. I will not have you coming into a class room I am teaching and disrupt it with baseless accusations." See then glared at all the other students in the classroom. "That goes for the rest of you as well. Are we perfectly clear?" "Yes, I understand and thank you for trying... Yes and Merry Christmas to you to." Principal Celestia said before hanging up the phone. Sitting there at her desk she unlocked the bottom drawer and pulled out a stack of folders and looked at them. Each one had the exact same word stamped on them, 'Expelled'. She then went down the list she had written down and pulled out the files on the list before putting the rest back into the drawer and locking it. Calling her secretary into the office she handed over the five folders and said. "I have been informed by the school board that these five students will be returning to this school starting tomorrow." Raven Inkwell looked through the files and frowned before nodding. "Do you want them to have a standard schedule or do you have something in mind?" She asked. "I will leave it up to you." Principal Celestia said before Raven left the office. Somehow this felt off, but she couldn't put her finger on it. "Do you know who my father is? I demand to see the principle right now after what Anon-a-miss posted about me!" Oh joy, Celestia thought to herself as Diamond Tiara stormed into her office, as if I didn't have problems already. "Diamond Tiara, I am already not in the best of moods, so I suggest you apologies to Ms. Inkwell now or it's two weeks detention." She said in as calm of a voice as possible. "Yeah right, my daddy..." Diamond Tiara started, only to be cut off. "Raven, two weeks detention for Diamond Tiara." Principal Celestia said through the open door to the her secretary. "Also be ready to add another two weeks if her father shows up to complain about this." She then went back to working on her paperwork while Diamond Tiara just stood there just looking at her in shock. "I would suggest you get to class before you have even more days added to your detention." With that the girl rushed off to her next class while both Celestia and Raven laughed. Gilda punched the locker next to Fluttershy's head as she intimidated the girl. "Listen up dweeb, I want you to deliver a message to that Anon-a-bitch, Sunset Shimmer, I don't give a flying fuck...." Fluttershy blinked as Gilda got shoved to the floor by her younger brother, Zephyr Breeze. "Back off my sis skank." "Well if it isn't the return of the Y-boner." Gilda said as she got up. She then tried to punch Zephyr Breeze, but he just gracefully spun out of the way. "Hold still you little fag so I can pound you into the ground." Zephyr quickly ducked, weaved, and pirouetted out of the way of every single punch. "If you were a guy and talking about sex maybe, but you would have to buy me dinner first." He then slapped her after spinning out of the way of another punch. With that she screamed and tried to tackle him, but he just twisted out of the way while slapping her on the ass. The next thing she knew she had ran into another locker. "You are so dead." She grumbled as she got up and turned around. "Yeah right." Zephyr Breeze laughed as she saw a very angry Fluttershy and several members of the wrestling team and the swim team glaring at her. "Funny thing, big sis might not stand up for herself, but mess with her baby brother and all bets are off." He then kissed the captain of the wrestling team. "Also I thought everyone knew I was dating the captain of the wrestling and that I am a member of the swim team." He then smirked and said, "You done goofed." Five minutes later Lightning Dust was reading a text she got from Grubber while walking down the hall, only to fall flat on her face when she tripped over something that turned out to be Gilda's legs sticking out of a trash can she had been shoved into before it was tipped over and kicked down the hallway. It wasn't until later she remembered the text and read it with a huge smile. The student council sat in stunned silence after the text had been read out loud. Then one of them smiled, followed by another and another as they realized that she was coming back. At the head of the table the current student council president slumped in his seat and said. "Thank god, finally someone who can deal with all of this magical nonsense." Granny Smith grumbled as she hung up the cafeterias phone and grabbed her coat before heading for the back door. Of course that was tomorrow's lunch, it been the same for the past 10 years. With that she flipped the lights off and walked out to the truck where Big Mac was waiting.
Chapter 4"Bring her in nice and slow." "Will someone get that damn bird off the top forward sensor pod so I can see how much clearance I have." "Hey! Someone run a check on rear cloaking and bottom stealth fields. I'm get a few odd color distortions and there's a odd whine comin... Yeah that got it, but the rear is now transparent neon green... Good that should do it, we'll shut them down once it's inside and out of sight and run a full diagnostics on them." "Hold up! One of the cannons is partially out of it's port... Okay, your good now." "Okay, lower the landing gear and bring her down gently... A little lower... A little lower... Good, cut the power." "Nice job everyone." "Hey sweety, how was your day?" Sherry Gatetree/Corwin asked as Jenny entered their quarters. "Fuck You! Fuck the Alien Artificial Intelligence inside of You! And fuck Everyone at that Crappy School, except for Sunset Shimmer!" Jenny screamed before heading to her room. "Well at least she finally met someone who doesn't warrant a 'Fuck You'." John said as walked in and took his wife in his arms as she broke down and started crying again. "Shh... It's okay honey, she's just lashing out at everyone." "Sh... She hates me an... and you should hea... hear the things Al.... Alphia whispers to m... me that it would d... do to her if I let i... it out." Sherry sobbed into his shoulder. "I... I'm a terrible per...person. I so...sometimes just wa... want to let it loose o...on her." "Shh... Your not a terrible person. You beat that thing and have never let it loose. Even when Deus Rex was torturing and raping you endlessly as his personal plaything and you could have let it take control, you didn't. We just have to make it through all of this and then let Damia or one of the others work with her and get her the help she needs." John told her as he stroked her head and being gentle enough not to accidentally touch the circuitry poking out of her bare skull where her hair use to be. With one hand he sent out several green disks that scooped up the metallic skullcap and her wig and brought them to him. Gently he placed it on her head and heard the click as it magnetically locked into place and he put her wig on her while leading her into the bathroom and making her sit in front of the mirror while he fixed her hair. Ignoring the angry flashes in her eyes when Alphia occasionally broke through, he proceeded to do the two things he loved to do the most in the world, love and pamper his wife while pissing off the ancient xenocidal machine imprisoned inside of her at the same time. "There's my pretty girl, still as lovely and beautiful as the day we met." "Liar." Sherry said with a smile. "We both know it's all just fake skin, wigs, and false teeth to cover up what's left of me after everything that has happened." Reaching out, john pulled her the skin that covered the lower half of her face off to reveal the greyish green flesh and partially missing lips and left cheek underneath and leaned in and kissed her. "Who said I was talking about your mask?" With that he tossed it on the counter and picked her up and carried her into their room. Just before the door closed Sherry giggled and snapped her fingers that caused the lights to flicker for a second before the music started. Tempest Shadow, she refused to even acknowledge that stupid name her parents gave her, reached up with her scarred hand and touched the eye patch where her eye use to be before grabbing her leather jacket and getting out of her car. Shrugging on her jacket, she then frowned as she reached back in, grabbed her cane, and made sure the tag was hanging from the mirror. Closing the car door she sighed as she looked at the reflection of the scarred side of her head while reaching down and touching one of her leg braces. Sad part was that it took the searing pain and the two years of humiliating therapy just to learn to walk, cloth, and feed herself again to not only make her realize how lucky she was not to have died with him in the car wreck, but also how screwed up their relationship had been. Finally she pulled up her hood, walked through the door of the school, and started down the hall towards the Principal's office. All around her the students suddenly stopped talking and just watched her. She was almost there when the whispering began and she turned to see Lightning Dust and the others coming towards her wearing their jackets, his jacket. "Tempest I missed..." She didn't even think as she smacked Lightning Dust hard enough to knock her to the floor. "Don't you dare." Tempest Shadow hissed at her. "Don't you dare act like nothing happened and that we are best friends. For two years I waited and only Grubber ever came to see me. Where were you when I was crying after seeing this?" With that she used her scarred right hand to pull off her hood. "Where were you when I went through painful treatments and humiliating therapy just so I could walk to the restroom and wipe myself afterwards? I took all the blame and was expelled for every single one of you, yet Grubber was the only one out of all of you who was there for me. So don't you dare wear those jackets and act like nothing happened. I can still feel the flames and hear the sound of Storm King choking to death on his own blood whenever I close my eyes. Do any of you even know what it is like to feel your eye being pulled out of your head when you force yourself to do it just to get free so you can live?" She then turned and just walked away while saying, "Just take those stupid fucking things off and let the Storm Kings die." "I could suspend you again for that." Vice Principal Luna said as she looked at the girl. "Will you?" Tempest asked as she pulled her hood back up. "Vice Principal Stygian didn't after I slapped the living daylights out of my sister, back when I still called myself Knightmare Moon, but only this once and because both Lightning and Tia deserved it." Luna said as she held the door open for Tempest Shadow. "Like he said to me, my door is always open and it helps to have someone who has been there to talk to." "I'd like that." Tempest said as she walked through the door. John walked out of the alleyway with a very angry Jenny behind him. Both of them were covered in band-aids, dust, and scorch marks. "'Let's use the telegate generator,' you said. 'It will be fine,' you said." Jenny said as she stomped past him towards the crosswalk. "Fuck you and that damn thing. How about next time we shove C4 and cans of hairspray into a microwave and see what happens?" With that she ran across the street and into the school. Shaking the dust off of his jacket and checking the band-aids on his face and hands in a nearby window before licking his fingers and putting out his still smoldering brown hair. Feeling he looked less front row seat to an explosion and more just a really rough morning he finally walked into the school. In the teacher's lounge Principal Celestia caught up with him and asked, "Mr. Corwin, could you tell me why you and your daughter look like you got into a fight with a wild animal?" "Would you believe in a bizarre series of events involving several squirrels, a ceiling fan, a burned breakfast, cracking open a window, toast, and an open jar of peanut butter." John asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee. "You too huh?" Discord asked as he walked in with a few less band-aids and a squirrel sitting on his head and eating a piece of toast with peanut butter on it. "I'm not sure what worries me more, the fact that both of you have the same excuse or that I actually believe it." Celestia said as the squirrel on Discord's head waved at her. Starlight Glimmer watched as her one time rival walked into the office after hearing what happened in the hall. For a brief moment they just looked at each other before Starlight just moved over and made room for Tempest Shadow on the bench as they waited. "I take it life decided to literally beat you over the head with a two by four to get you to listen?" Starlight asked. "Yeah." Tempest responded before asking. "You?" "Expelled for trying to recruit the student council and several dozen other students into my Aunt Starlight Shine's social/political/semi-religious brainwashing cult. Spent a year and a half in mental hospital that specializes in deprogramming brainwashed cult members." Starlight then lifted one leg and showed her the leg monitor on it. "Three more months until my 18th birthday and I can finally say goodbye to this." "So what happened with your family?" Tempest asked. "Mom went to jail with her sister and dad has gotten very clingy." Starlight said. "Yours?" "Parents disowned me after the accident and grandma cut them out of her will, paid for everything, and I'm now living with her." Tempest said. "Turns out she's loaded and even gave me a GTO for learning to walk again." "T.A.C.O. I love to eat them on the go!" Sonata cheered while holding a breakfast waffle taco as Aria grinned while driving them to school. Normally by now she would have yelled at her little sister but... "Oh god I want to die." A hung over and barely able to move Adagio groaned from the back seat while wearing a purple and green polka dot skirt and a brown and red plaid shirt. Aria wasn't sure where Sonata found them or how she got Adagio's hair up into one of the most impressive Afro's she had ever seen. Sure, she had to actually use her side mirrors and Adagio would kill both of them for this one, but this was going to be so epic that it was worth it.
Chapter 5Aria had only gone along with Sonata's plan because it was hilarious, even if it was so stupid it couldn't possibly work, but fucking hot damn, it was actually working. The students were so distracted by Adagio that they barely gave the two of them a second glance. Sure they were so dead for this, but that was future Sonata and Aria's problem. Even better was watching the Principal and Vice Principal trying not to laugh while giving them and two other girls the 'make one mistake and they will never find the bodies' speech they had been expecting. After they got their new schedules she had expected the hilariousness to end there. Only the fashion club had heard about how Adagio was dressed and, lead by that whiny white girl with purple hair from the battle of the bands, they descended on Adagio like locusts. The last she saw of her through tears of laughter was her being dragged away to whatever fate awaited her. "That will teach you to throw away my taco mushroom farm!" Sonata yelled as the fashion club dragged Adagio away. "Wait, did you do this because she threw away that box in the basement you left tacos in for 4 months?" Aria asked. "My taco flavored mushrooms would have made millions!" Sonata declared loudly. "They were covered in poisonous mushrooms, mold, and maggots." Aria explained. "They couldn't have been that bad." Sonata said. "I looked several of them up to see if you could get high off of them and one of them was so poisonous that one bite can kill an elephant." She said while trying to get through to her baby sister. "But... but taco mushrooms." Sonata said weakly as her eyes began to tear up. "Fine, we'll look up if anyone has invented them yet and if not we'll hire a lab to create them, patent them, and you can be the first to eat them as a human test subject. OK." Aria said, hoping it would make her happy. "Like when I helped test that drug in England and had an orgasm every time I yawned?" Sonata asked before hugging her. "Yes! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Adagio said I couldn't test stuff like that anymore unless one of you said I could." "Good, now we need to get to class before the bell rings." Aria reminded her before watching Sonata take off at a dead run for home economics class while she headed for history class. John walked down the hall towards class as he looked around. Nobody noticed the odd blue glow in his eyes as he let the flow of time wash over him and saw everything that was about to happen. Whistling to himself an old ABBA song he watched as time slowed to a stand still and got to work making a few changes. First was the blonde haired girl who just dropped the muffin she had been eating and it was halfway towards the floor. Now it was back in her hand and he made sure to curl her fingers around it so she wouldn't drop it again. Anyone watching might have seen a very brief blue blur, not that it mattered. Next was the blue skinned girl dress like a magician turning a cheap wand into fake flowers. Now she was holding bouquet of roses and now turned so she was giving them to the former student council president. Somewhere in the city was a florist scratching her head over two missing bouquets of roses and $25 on the counter. After that was a light grey girl dropping her books and scattering her papers in the hall while being hugged by her over excited pink skinned and haired sister. Setting the second bouquet down and cracking his knuckles he quickly grabbed all of her books and papers and put them all back into order and tucked them back into her hands. For a brief moment he could have sworn that the pink girl had winked at him, but that was impossible with time a stand still while he was in the flow. With a shrug he grabbed the bouquet and looked at the last change he was going to make before he drained the last of this power for the day. The gangly boy with a snail on his shirt was holding a few sickly flowers out to an unimpressed girl wearing a tiara. He quickly tuck the boy's shirt into his pants, tied his shoes, and combed the his hair for him before tossing the old flowers in the trash and putting the bouquet in his hand. He then whispered in the boy's ear. "Show her a confident and sure side of yourself. Let her see the hidden depths within you and catch a glimpse of the man you will someday become." Moving over to the girl he then whispered in her ear. "He might need a little work, but there is something about him. Maybe it is the sudden confidence or perhaps you are seeing in this scrawny boy the tall, handsome, and intelligent man he will someday be. Besides, you know what they say, behind every great man is an even better woman. With you at the helm this boy could become a leader of men and the envy of women everywhere, only he would be your's and your's alone, but only if you take this one and only chance and let him in past that diamond hard exterior you try to project." With that he walked back over to where he had been when he started and let go of the flow and watched time start back up again. Derpy happily took a bite out of her muffin while heading to home economics, Starlight Glimmer was surprised by Trixie giving her roses, and Marble smiled as Pinkie's hug didn't cause her to drop her books like usual. The biggest shock though was when Silver Spoon and Snips watching Diamond Tiara said yes to going out with Snails and the two of them walking away with a smiles on their faces. The woman sat in her dimly lit office with the beings that seemed to be made from pure darkness. As always when speaking to them she felt an unnatural and bitterly painful coldness. "I assure you that we are in the process of obtaining what you desire, but has hit a few snags with assets under performing and events outside of our control." She said with a forced smile as she braced for the pain. "WE UNDERSTAND." The over loud multi voice said to her. "UNFORTUNATELY WE NEED FOR YOU TO ACCELERATE YOUR TIMELINE AND ARE ASSIGNING ASSETS UNAVAILABLE WITHIN THIS UNIVERSE." Blood began trickling from the corner of her eyes and from her nose. Around them appeared white transparent men and women as the coldness in the room dropped further. "THE WINDIGOS WILL INCITE THE ONES AT THIS 'SCHOOL' TO GREATER AND GREATER ACTS OF ANGER, HATRED, AND FURY." The woman couldn't help but groaned in pain as several more people wearing black leather armor appeared. No they weren't wearing armor, it was part of their skin. "AND THE CHANGELINGS WILL SPREAD CONFUSION, JEALOUSY, ENVY, AND SUSPICION AMONGST THEM. YOU NEED NOT WORRY ABOUT CONTROLLING THEM, WE WILL DO THAT OURSELVES." With that all of them disappeared and the woman broke down sobbing in pain. Finally she was able to reach over to her phone, dialed it, and spoke. "We need to talk... They were here and things have changed... Meet me after school at my house... Goodbye." "I can't believe she fucking did that in front of the whole school!" Lightning Dust bitched as she grabbed her books from her locker. "Yeah, well cry me a fucking river." Gilda said as she closed her locker door. "You ask me, this whole school has been fucked up ever since that bitch, Sunset Shimmer, showed up. I mean she just happens to luck out by showing up a few weeks after both Starlight Glimmer and Tempest Shadow end up getting expelled and is not only ruling the school few months later, but manages to snag the crown at the fall formal." "I told you we shouldn't have waited for Rainbow Dash join and taken over the school while it was still a fucking mess, but no, you were to busy trying to get into her panties to pay attention." Lightning Dust said with a smirk. "Tell me how well that worked out for you? Did she scream your name all night long or....urk!" Gilda saw red as she grabbed her by the throat, lifted her off the ground, and slammed her into the lockers. "Just keep pushing my fucking buttons and find out what fucking happens bitch." Gilda growled before dropping her. "Besides you didn't do shit either. You just sat around on your lazy ass and expected me to do all the work instead of grabbing all the other Storm Kings and doing it yourself." "At... least... I... didn't end up getting humiliated by that little fag, Zephyr Breeze." Lightning Dust gasped. "No, you just got bitch slapped by a cripple." Gilda said before turning to head to class. "Like I said, try dealing with it yourself instead of waiting for someone else to do it for you." Lightning rubbed her sore throat before saying, "Maybe I will." At first the girl had been gauging the reaction to the return of their little surprise, but they had been more of a fizzle than actually causing any trouble that could be used to oust the principle and her sister. That had been when she saw something odd earlier, Derpy had just dropped her muffin and then she was still holding it as if nothing had happened. She then started to pay more attention and she could have sworn Trixie had been facing the other way with fake flowers, only then she had real flowers and giving them to Starlight Glimmer. She also kept thinking of the color blue for some reason. As she walked to her next class she pondered it while wondering what her partner wanted to talk to her about. From the sound of her voice it most likely had something to do with their mysterious backers. She knew something about them scared her, but she refused to tell what it was and she had a bad feeling that she really didn't want to know. She also stop by her locker and grabbed her sweater with an orange rook embroidered on it since she was feeling cold. It and the thought of all of these idiots learning there place beneath her heel made her smile and just warmed her cute little heart.
Chapter 6Both staff and students knew down to the exact second when the lunch bell was suppose to ring and normally there would be a mad dash to be first in line at the cafeteria, but today something caused almost everyone to pause in confusion. "SONATA!!!!!!" A female voice screaming in fury seemed to replace the usual bell. Principal Celestia stepped into the hall to find out what was going on when Sonata ran past her with a furious Adagio in hot pursuit. Normally seeing one sibling chasing after another wouldn't even phase the veteran educator, but the fact that the entire fashion club and photography club were chasing after Adagio with all sorts of outfits, makeup, and flashing cameras made her pause. The sight of Pinkie Pie, Derpy, Vinyl Scratch, Berry Punch, and the Crusaders chasing after them with a banner that read 'Yay! Your No Longer Evil!' made her eyebrow raise. It was the laughing Aria with a smartphone being chased by a smiling Discord yelling he wanted a copy of the video and several dozen boys and girls chasing after them yelling about wanting a date with her or her sisters that made Celestia facepalm. She had a very strong suspicion that that would soon become her new default gesture when it came to those three. "In a way it brings back old memories of when we use to prank each other when we weren't trying to kill each other and the ensuing chase that would often involve Principle Starswirl also facepalming." Luna said with a chuckle as she walked up as the other students headed for cafeteria. "Complete with one hung over sister finally realizing what the other one did, right party princess Daybreaker? Exactly how many times did you show up at school hungover and smelling of sex and booze? 40, 50, maybe even 60 times total?" "Oh your one to talk." Celestia said as they headed for the cafeteria. "Goth princess Knightmare Moon." Celestia shot back. "How many tattoos did mom and dad have to pay to have removed? How many detentions, suspensions, and one near expulsions did you get? "We were both idiots back then weren't we?" Luna asked as she put her hand on the cafeteria door. "Yeah, but Principle Starswirl never really gave up and look at us now." Celestia said as her and her sister shared a brief laugh before entering the cafeteria. "I'm just saying that the more I think about it the more it seems like a load of hogwash." Applejack said to some of her friends as they sat at their usual table and ate lunch while watching the 5 way taco eating contest going on between Sonata, Pinkie, Derpy, Snowflake, and Zephyr Breeze. "We all remember how it was when she was in control of the school and this is nothing like that. She was all about control and used the secrets she ferreted out to blackmail, threaten, and discredit everyone she could into doing what she said or to get them out of her way, but this is just throwing mud just for the sake of throwing mud and causing trouble and then pointing at Sunset to cover their own tracks." "Hmm... You know I can see that darling." Rarity said as she watched Derpy put down her taco and push her tray away. "There really isn't any obvious motive for this and even someone trying emulate her would have done more than change the color scheme to match Sunset. They would have matched her..." Rarity froze as something occurred to her. "What if they are emulating her, but we've been to focused on her usual tactics to think about another tactic she used?" "Huh?" Rainbow Dash asked. "What do you mean?" "Misdirection and distraction." Rarity said as she looked at the other two. "She also use to use secrets to misdirect and distract everyone away from what she was really doing. What if Anon-a-miss and turning the school against Sunset isn't the ends but the means and something else is the real target? They want us to focus on her and ignore something else." "Yeah right." Rainbow Dash said with a smirk. "All of this for what? This is a high school, sure we're an awesome high school, but still a high school." "One that has had two magical light shows in a two month period and a magical portal to another world." Applejack said as she pointed over to where Aria was recording the contest on her phone. "A portal that has been used to dump dangerous creatures into the one place they knew wouldn't have enough magic to make them truly dangerous. What's to say they only ever did it once or that something else around here didn't noticed and are now interested in this place. Heck, the only reason I don't think it's the government is because they would've just march in an take over the whole school and claim somekind of chemical spill or outbreak." "More than likely claim one of the magical light shows was a terrorist attack and make us all disappear by saying we died of radiation poisoning, darling." Rarity said with a frown. "It's all in the details dear. Chemicals and outbreaks would lead to either family members wanting answers and to see us, but radiation would give them an excuse to make it a closed lead lined casket funeral and explain everything away as it being a test run for a much worse attack that they foiled." "Yeah, I can see that since we hear about them stopping terrorist attacks, but never hear any real details due to 'National Security'." Applejack agreed. "So, that just means they are keeping us safe." Rainbow Dash pointed out. "We're not saying they are not dear, but who is to say everything is exactly as they say." Rarity explained. "I don't know about you, but I would rather not become one of those tiny details lost in the paperwork because of 'National Security'." "Of course whose to say they ain't watching us already." Applejack pointed out, not noticing Lyra and Bon Bon suddenly becoming very interested in their meals at a nearby table. "I mean, why screw up something that seems to be working and risk Twilight and the Equestrians on the other side washing their hands of us and leave us high and dry the next time something magical happens over here." "Then there is the whole risking a war with a world that has already worked out interdimensional travel." Rarity said as they finished their lunch. "I looked up some of the things both Sunset and Twilight have mentioned and we are nowhere near what they can do. Take that story about the Mirror Pool and then imagine if they took their greatest warrior and run him or her through it a few million times and you have an almost instant army. Then there is weather control and controlling celestial mechanics to the point that they could either fire lightning bolts through the portal to protect it or throw solar plasma through it and wipe out everything on this side. That doesn't even touch upon what we heard about their version of Discord. I highly doubt he couldn't tear the portal between our worlds wide open and do god knows what to us and we would be powerless against him if their version of Fluttershy doesn't intervene." "Hey, where is Fluttershy anyways?" Rainbow Dash asked as Pinkie Pie held Sonata's hand up and declared her the winner. "She brought her own lunch and decided to take Sunset and Jenny their lunch so she could eat with them." Applejack pointed out. Eric Von Ritter finished putting the final touches on setting out a nice little romantic meal he had brought for him and his liebling frau. They had long ago learned that with the lives they lived to make every single moment count in order to have a happy healthy marriage. That was when he heard the door open behind him and heard footsteps that were too many and too light for her's. With a sigh, he turned knowing what he would find. "Listen fräuleins, why don't you go to the cafeteria and find boys your own ages since I am happily married and am not interested." He then watched as the four girls left while looking dejected as they past his wife coming into the room. "Only four sexy young women creaming their panties to get into your bed this time? You're losing your touch meine Ubermensch." Gloria laughed as she leapt into his arms and then kissed him. "Use to be we would come home and find at the very least a dozen naked girls had broken into the house just to throw themselves at your feet." "Ahh, but my liebling frua is such a insatiable vixen that I no longer have the energy to bed a thousand frauen before breakfast like I use to." He joked. "Good thing to because I have no desire to dig a thousand and one graves after breakfast either, so I guess I will just have to keep you satisfied with just one woman in your bed from now on." She said as they sat down to eat. "Oh I'm not so sure about that since there is this one young lady that seems to enjoys being in my bed from time to time." Eric shot back. "Long blonde hair, exotic blue eyes, and umber colored skin girl in a white nightgown." Gloria said with a smile. "I bet my sweet, half black, half chinese ass that she has the voice of an angel and the body of a dancer." "She should with how much we pay for her singing, piano, and ballet lessons on top of her archery, horseback riding, and tai chi lessons." Eirc grumbled. "And you know you would invade hell if Mira crawled into your lap and asked 'Daddy can I have a hellhound puppy pretty please with sugar and kisses on top?'" She said while batting her eyes at him before they both broke down laughing and after a minute started eating. "So you're the one who fu... mmmph!" Jenny started to say before Sunset clamped her hand over her mouth. "Just ignore that part Fluttershy." Sunset said with a nervous laugh. "Some people thought it would be funny to tell her the wrong thing about us and our friends." "Umm... Okay." Fluttershy said as she sat down the trays and pulled her lunch and Angel Bunny out of her backpack.
