Shine Like A Diamond

by MASTERMIND360

Laser Tag

Previous Chapter

The rest of the day is getting.... a bit crazy. For one, Diamond Tiara reluctantly agrees to try to turn over a new leaf or something in Sunset's request, but knowing her, she's only making things harder for not only Sunset but also herself.

Until Diamond crossed it when she intentionally blew up their chemical experiment while Sunset is her lab partner, then she was taken straight back to Luna's office, and she really recieved a good scolding from the Vice Principal. Sunset was told to wait out by the door, she just sighs in frustration, pinching the bridge of her nose. Diamond Tiara's behavior is getting real toxic than she thought it can get. But she always reminded herself that she's also this way back then, only difference from her and DT is that Sunset resorts to harassing other than violence, it is implied by most of the students that DT got into fights not too long after Silver Spoon cut ties with her.

She heard footsteps coming closer, she gaze on her left to see Rainbow Dash and Scootalo. They can tell that Sunset was waiting by Luna's office and the sound of her yelling can be heard from the inside, meaning that DT was back there, again.

"DT giving you problems?" Rainbow asked her with a concern.

"Yes..." Sunset admitted. "And what shocks me the most is that I keep hearing people here been saying that she got into fights a few times after Silver Spoon denounce her!" She let out a big sigh.

"I told you she's toxic," Scootalo reminded her.

"You guys are right but that doesn't mean I'm giving up," Sunset insisted with a determined look on her face. "I'm not resting until Diamond was fit to be redeemed. I know she can change, she just refuse to see it. Reminds me of myself when Princess Celestia had been telling me about Friendship and I kept on brushing it off."

"That's what I'm worrying about," Rainbow Dash replied. She gaze down to Scootalo, then for a bit moment she wear a smile on her face then stared back at Sunset. "You know that you could take Diamon Tiara to the Laser Tag at the mall?" She suggested. "It's the best place where all participants of the Big Sibling Program ever went to. I mean, I don't see why not. Seems the only option I could think of."

Sunset thought about the suggestion for a moment. Yes, it is true that most of the participants went their just for the fun of it, and believe or not, but Sunset herself was considered one of the best Laser tag shooters there, she visited their when her friends are busy with their own, her name has always been on the top of the leaderboards because of how many laser tags she got, all thanks to her Dead Eye.

"Sure," Sunset answered. "It may not sound optional but hey, it's the Big Sibling Program and everyone goes there!"

"And remember," Rainbow warned her, then she wears a grin on her face. "We're going to one shot you from every possible angle. Good luck, Shimmer!"

Sunset grinned back at her. "Oh, don't push your luck. I will one shot you in an instant! You won't even have time to react quick!"

"We'll see..." Rainbow replied back as she and Scootalo turned to leave.

Sunset liked the idea of this. Especially that this is also how the Big Sibling Program works. But for now, she must wait until Diamond's detention was served.


Earlier, Sunset asked Vice Principal Luna to soften the blow so she and Diamond still have time to joined the rest at the Laser Tag game at the mall. So Diamond's detention was ligthen up to an hour and a half.

She's waiting by the parking lot, the whole lot was empty except for her car still in park. She gaze forward to see Diamond Tiara walking out of the building towards her. The expression she's wearing is somewhat mean but Sunset didn't care, since she was giving her an icy glare that no doubt didn't make the rich girl flinch.

"You shouldn't have crossed it by blowing both of us up," Sunset told her sternly with her arms crossed. Diamond Tiara just sighs.

"It's your fault that you have to be my lab partner." Diamond accused her.

"You purposly blew up our chemical experiment!" Sunset scolded her.

"That was also your fault for adding up some things for this stupid experiment!" Diamond shouted back.

"Those were the ingredients the teacher assigned us to!" Sunset countered back.

But before this gets any further, Sunset takes a few deep breaths to calm down. She calms down but still wearing that strict look on her face.

"You got a lot of nerve, young lady," Sunset said. "You're lucky that I have to ask Vice Principal Luna to lighten your detention so we can have enough time to go to the mall for something fun."

Diamond crossed her arms and gazed to her left. "I doubt it'd be fun..." She muttered.

"Oh you'll see." Sunset told her.

As Sunset step aside and grabbed her keys from her pockets to unlock her car, Diamond Tiara was a bit surprised that the senior student's car was none other than the Aston Martin DBS Superleggera. It has her signature color painted on it, and a logo of her cutie mark was seen on the hood of the car.

Of course, she was half impressed half bored. "Oh wow," She sarcastically commented at the vehicle. "You got yourself an Aston Martin DBS Superleggera. Cool, nobody cares..."

"If you're that interested about supercars then just so you know, I have more supercars than just this one." Sunset gestured to her car. "I have to admit, I was pretty much picky to purchase any supercar I want so I used all of my savings I brought along with me from Equestria to buy all of these supercars that existed in the 21st century. The rests were at the parking garage."

"So you think impressing me with supecars is going to make me to willingly to trust you?" Diamond Tiara asked her sarcastically.

"I genuinely did not bought all of these supercars to impress anyone and you, but it's because I got so picky and those cars were so awesome that I have to waste all of my Equestrian savings in exchange for all of these."

"I can easily bought that myself," Diamond Tiara said. "But daddy said that you should always save money. Why bother wasting it for a Playstation 5?"

"Well, we better get going or else we'll miss out on the fun," Sunset said as she hops in. Diamond sighs again but she just freshed out of detention so she hops in the passenger seat and puts her seatbelt on.

Sunset drives the Aston Martin to the road that leads to the mall. The drive was silent but also quick that she's driving a frickin supercar.

Eventually, they made it to the mall, Sunset parked her car in an empty spot. She turns off the engine as she and Diamond stepped out of the vehicle and walked their way towards the mall.

When they're in the mall, they see a lot people around, walking, shopping, talking whatever. Diamond Tiara loved going to the mall, but without Silver Spoon and everyone hating on her, she doesn't have the love of being in this place, for now.

"So what are we doing here, exactly?" She asked Sunset.

Sunset look at her. ""Well, we're going for something fun to say the least. A game of Laser Tag." She announced.

The mentioned of that game came back to her. Sure, she used to have fun with it when Silver Spoon was around but without her... she's not having the feeling.

"I always loved Laser Tag," Diamond concede. "I used to love playing it with Silver Spoon. But now... I don't feel like it..." she turned her head to her right, ignoring Sunset's gaze towards her.

"Look..." Sunset begin. "When we're done, you're going to exactly tell of what you did to Silvr Spoon. No ifs no buts. I want the truth. Got me?" She added an icy tone at the last part of the sentence.

"Ugh, fine." DT grumbled.

They finally made it to the Laser Tag place, where they bought two passes for them to enter. They put on their Laser Tag vest, Laser Tag gun, and other gears. Ever since Sunset had gotten most tags single handed, the owner of this establishment decided to add something up, anyone can play Solo as they wanted, just to test their skills.

So recently, It was just Sunset Shimmer and Diamond Tiara, no one else. While the rests are either pair up, a whole team, some decided to go for solo, heck, even most of the students from Crystal Prep were here as well, and they were either of these option of play here.

So then, the game begins, and since it's just the two of them, they're basically outnumbered. Heck, Diamond Tiara had no idea on how did Sunset manage to one shot all of them single handedly. She and Sunset were starting with taking cover behind the pillars of their base.

"What now, Shimmer?" Diamond half sneered at her. "It's just the two of us and there's plenty of them."

"If you're going to know how I always win this in solo then you better watch me," Sunset told her.

She popped out of her cover and activates her Dead Eye mode, time slows down but her, so she taps an X at Octavia, Button Mash, Lightning Dust, and Flash, then she oneshotted all of them with her double Laser Tag pistols single handedly, and thus 4 players were out of the game immediately.

With 4 players out, Sunset did a brief exercise then goes for the flag from the oppositions, but not before she tells Diamond, "Guard the flag until I get back!" Then she quickly took off from her base and DT as she head for the flag.

As she was running as fast as she can, the others she passed saw going for any of the flags, so they quickly try to take a good shot at her. But thanks to Sunset's speed and agility, they ended up laser tagged each other. Sunset saw the enemy base but it was gaurded by Sour Sweet, Sunny Flare and Indigo, Sunset used her Dead Eye and oneshotted them in an instant, putting them off of the game. She entered the enemy base and grabbed the flag, but was immediately outnumbered the rest of them, she quickly take cover to avoid getting tagged.

"We got her outnumbered!" Rainbow Dash announced as she and everyone else begin to fire at her direction.

It seems that they have planned to outnumber her considering the fact that she has single handedly fired at all of them, however, this is not enough to put Sunset out of the game. So she quickly stood up and activates her dead eye mode, tagging Xs on Rainbow Dash, Scootalo, Sugarcoat, and laser tags them in an instant. She looks behind and activates it again, tagging Xs on Sandlewood, Micro Chips, Frosty Orange and GIlda, and tags them in an instant.

With them out, Sunset quickly grabs the flag and take it back to her base and place it there.

"Alright, now it's your turn to take the flag from some other's base," Sunset told her.

DT rolled her eyes. "Fine..." she muttered again and head on her way.

She went to the left, laser tagged both Snips and Snails who weren't careful enough to watch their surroundings. They left the field in disappointment as DT stuck out a tongue at them for being so dumb at this. She slowly went to the enemy base and saw the flag, she slowly let out a hand to take until...

"Oh... it's you." A familiar and dull voice spoke to DT.

Diamond Tiara turned around to see Silver Spoon pointing a laser gun at her, Diamond quickly aims the thing back at her as well. From the look on her face is pretty clear is that Silver Spoon isn't happy to see her at all.

"I'd never thought I'd see you here," Diamond sneered at her.

"I could say the same as you," Silver replied to her coldy.

A few moments of silence later, Diamond Tiara broke the ice. "Why Silver Spoon? Why? Why did you betray me?"

"Betray you?!" SIlver retorted, then she starts to get angry. "Me. Betray you?! You betrayed me! You never saw me as a friend but more of a personal business partner to you!" This yelling started to attract Sunset's attention, as she walks by to see where the commotion was coming from and stops where no one sees her and can see what's going on.

"You were always selfish, Diamond!" Silver Spoon continued. "Just because you're rich doesn't mean that you have to be rude towards everyone! Towards me! The girl who has been a true friend to you but you never returned the kidness!"

Sunset can't help but felt a bit bad for Silver Spoon, this makes her even more curious to find out what did Diamond Tiara did to Silver Spoon and wanted to patch things up between them so badly.

"You never treated me like a friend but you treated me like a business partner!" Silver continued ranting. "I AM NOT YOUR ERRAND GIRL! I don't like the way of how you treated me! The way how you treat others! Everyone here is a human for goodness sake and people might get hurt because of you and your attitude but you still don't get it!! And then you pulled the last straw when that stunt you pulled on the CMC, I HAD IT!! I HAD IT WITH YOU!!"

"SHUT UP!" Diamond Tiara yelled at her. "YOU WERE ALWAYS A BUSINESS PARTNER TO ME THAN JUST SOME FRIEND! IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, THEN YOU SHOUDL"VE SAY THIS TO MY FACE! IT'S NOT LIKE I CARED ABOUT YOU AT ALL!!"

Now her yelling has caused a lot of attention, Sunset was shocked but quickly run into them to intervene.

"Diamond Tiara!" Sunset scolded at her. "You should have not yelled at her that way! Silver Spoon doesn't deserved to be treated this way!"

"No Sunset.... she's right..." she gaze to Silver Spoon who was on the verge of crying, tears streaming down her cheeks as she begin to cry, then her sadness was mixed with anger "IF SHE DOESN'T EVEN CARED ABOUT ME, THEN FINE! I'M GOING HOME NOW WITH LYRA!!" She threw her laser gun on the ground with a fit and run away crying.

For Diamond Tiara on the other hand, doesn't seem to show some remorse of her actions. This unremorseful makes Sunset sick. Without thinking, she removed her vest, and put down her laser guns and yanked Diamond's hand as she pulled her away from the Laser Tag field.

"You are going home, young lady!" Sunset throw jabs at her as she angrily pulls her out of the mall, Diamond Tiara just didn't resist. She doesn't seem to care at all.

This is going to be a lot harder than how hard it was to make up my mistakes in the past. There's gotta be way to settle her down. while thinking deeply as she yanked her to the exit, an idea finally came in to her. Princess Twilight! That's it! Although I can't asked her to come here and help, all I'll be asking her for a Friendship Advice. She'll know what to tell me what to do.

She just hope it would. Just hoped.


Author's Note

Now, before any of you started throwing jabs at me for some reason, let me sum it up is that in this story is where Diamond Tiara was portrait into much of a bigger jerk than how she was used to be in the MLP universe. That's basically one of my biggest grips of this story.

Anyway, if you want to know exactly Diamond did, then make sure you slap that thumbs up ratings and leave commens about your thoughts of this.

Stay Coolio. Peace.:coolphoto: