Anon-A-Miss: One Girl's Heroes

"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.