Sunset's human world origin

VP Waters’ office
Date: Sep 4th, time: 3:00 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

“Hello, Vice Principal Waters.”, Sunset said as she walked into his office.

“What can I do for you Ms. Shimmer?”, Waters said boredly.

“I need all the financial books relating to the clubs and stuff like that. I was told that I could get that from you.”

“And why do you need those?” Now Waters was sounding annoyed.

“Because I’m the student council president. Did you seriously already forget? It was just last Friday.” Sunset was getting annoyed herself.

“No, I didn’t forget. I just don’t see why you would need such things.”

Is he for real? “I need them because they are a part of my job. It’s not like I’m the first one.”

“Well, I’m afraid that you’ll need to get a permission slip from Principal Winters to get those records.”

At this point, Sunset was grinding her teeth and wanted to rip her hair out or what was left of his. “I don’t need a permission slip. I’ve been elected as the student council president. That’s all the permission I need to get those records. Now hand them over, or I’ll be calling Principal Winters so she can report you to the school board.”, Sunset said with clear anger in her voice.

“Are you talking back to me?”, Waters said angrily while standing up. His posture and tone were threatening, especially with his height. However, Sunset wasn’t scared. She was grinning on the inside as she was recording the whole interaction.

“Please don’t yell at me. You’re scaring me.” Sunset was purposely playing up the ‘scared little girl’ routine. “I just want to get what I need ta do my job.”

“Get out!”, Waters shouted.

Sunset immediately left Waters’ office, at which she dropped the act. She stuck her tongue at him before closing the door. Sunset stopped the recording and created a file on her phone labeled ‘VP Evidence’. There’s no way he’s not doing something illegal. Why else would he not want me to look at the books? With that done, she made her way to the principal’s office. Even though Sunset knew that Winters was fed up with Waters too, she wasn’t gonna tell Winters about her suspicions. For all she knew, Winters was in on it and was just trying to push Waters under the bus, or she might accidentally tip Waters off. For now, Sunset needed to keep this close to the chest.

Student council meeting
Date: Sep 11th, time: 3:00 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

Today was the first meeting of the CMS student council. It was in an empty classroom. The room belonged to Mr. Blightson, who was their advisor. As he said, Flash joined the council as its secretary. Secretary Sentry, try saying that five times fast. Sunset had yet to appoint a vice president. That was on the long list of things she needed to do. Rarity was the treasurer, and if Sunset’s theory on Waters was correct, the two of them will be interacting more. The meeting was attended by most of the presidents of the various clubs. The rest of the Friendship Five were there too, minus Flutterbug, along with a few other kids. At least with Rainbow being the president of most of the sports clubs, Sunset’s job will be a bit easier. Most of the meeting was rather mundane, planning fundraisers, talking budgets, that sort of thing. Things picked up when the topic of the ‘no hugging’ rule was brought up. The council decided to launch a ‘parent campaign’ against the rule. A ‘parent campaign’ involved having kids complain to their parents and the parents complaining to the school. It was simple but effective. Overall, it was exactly like when Celestia would hold court, attendees acting like children included. These kids might actually be more mature than them. Eventually they got onto the topic of the dress code.

“Now, I think that we can all agree that the dress code is sexist.”, Rarity said.

“It’s also unconstitutional, and I say that because it actually is, not like how people will say that about something that they don’t like.”, Sunset said. Everyone in the meeting gave Sunset weird looks. “What? That actually happens. Some people go as far as to try and sue the city over it.”

“Riiight”, Rainbow said sceptically.

“Grr, whatever. Fact of the matter is that the dress code should either require boys to cover up more or not require girls to cover our shoulders.”

“Yeah!”, all the female attendees cheered.

“There are so many outfit designs that I can’t use because of that dumb rule.”, Rarity added.

“Yeah, and what kind of distraction are shoulders anyway. I mean I’ve never been distracted by someone’s shoulders. What, do the administrators expect people to go all “oh, yum, shoulders, yum yum”?”, Pinkie said, acting like a real creep in that last part. Everyone else collectively decided to pretend that last bit didn’t happen.

“So then, once this meeting is over, I will take this to Principal Winters. She can be made to see reason.”, Sunset said. “Before we rap up, I want you all to write down whatever donations, fundraiser money, or anything else like that and what you spend and bring it directly to me.”

Everyone looked at each other confusedly. “Why?”, Jacklyn asks. “Doesn’t dat go through Vice Principal Waters?”

“I had to sick Principal Winters on him to get the books from previous years. I’d rather not have ta go through that again.” That was partially true but not the main reason.

“Okay, Ah guess.” Jacklyn didn’t sound convinced but didn’t protest.

With that, the meeting was wrapped up. Before leaving, Sunset turned to Mr. Blightson. “You were awfully quiet.”

“I’m just the advisor. I give you kids power while making sure you don’t go overboard. You were doing just fine.”

Sunset nodded and left to go to Winters’ office.

Anzhong’s office
Date: same day, time: 9:30 pm

*Anzhong’s perspective*

Sunset and Anzhong were going over the books. They had already scanned everything into Anzhong’s computer, and the computer was reading out Anzhong’s half for him. Sunset was reading her half the old fashioned way. As the two read, they found clear evidence of skimming and fund misdirection. Mr. Waters had been stealing funds from all of the clubs, except the football club. He would keep half of what he stole and give the other half to the football club. It was never enough to be noticeable on its own but when gathered all into one place.

“This is exactly why the schools stopped doing collective fundraisers. They tried having it so that the school would have one big fundraiser and the profits would be split up evenly between the clubs. Not only were those less profitable, but the funds were never split evenly.”, Sunset said.

“Hm, I’m no detective, but from the sounds of things, it would seem that Mr. Waters is pumping up his old team. I don’t think a guy like that would have a specific person he was trying to help.”

“I agree, but I don’t think ‘pumping’ is the right term.”

Anzhong shrugged his shoulders. “I’m not a financial lawyer for a reason.”

“I saw a lot of old football trophies and pictures in his office. From the looks of things, he played football all through his schooling. He seems to have peaked in high school. It’s kinda sad really.”

“Hm, so, what is your plan?”

“First, I have ta know my enemy. I know what kind of power he holds himself, but I also need ta know who he knows. Who knows who else is in on it. Although, given its nature, I wouldn’t bet on there being others involved. Second is evidence. I’ve got this and a video of him acting threatening towards me, but given what I’ve learned of the US justice system, I’m gonna need more.”

Anzhong nodded. “Very good. Now, I need to get to my work. Have a good night.”

“You too.” Sunset gathered up the papers and exited Anzhong’s office.

Sunset’s room
Date: same day, time: 10:30 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

Sunset glared at her computer in frustration. The information it currently showed might very well derail her campaign. Hours of work down the drain if she was in on it too. Amanda Waters, wife of VP Cloudy Waters, was the current head of the school board. Sunset was not sure if she was surprised by the fact that Waters had a black wife or not. Sunset was certainly not expecting that seventy-something asshole to not be racist. Then again, he never made a remark about her race. “I guess even some of the most shit people need some redeeming qualities.” If Amanda was complacent in her husband’s actions, Sunset could be sure that she would get nowhere with the board. “On the other hand, if she’s not, I could have him sacked by this weekend. Hm” Sunset contemplated the risks and benefits of presenting her evidence to Amanda. Ultimately, Sunset settled on ‘more data required’. She knew nothing of this Amanda, and her social medias were no help in that matter. She simply had nothing to go on. Sunset needed to come up with a battle plan, but for now, Sunset’s battle plan would be ‘bed’.

CMS lunchroom
Date: Sep 12th, time: 12:30 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

Sunset and Flash sat together, like normal, but ever since the Fall Formal, they had begun holding hands. Sunset had told him about what she had discovered and how important it is to keep this all a secret. Flash could keep their adventures into the high school a secret. Sunset was not worried about him knowing this. Once that topic was finished with, they began talking about more mundane topics.

“I’ve got a new guitar teacher. She’s really nice.”, Flash said.

“I actually don’t know what a guitar is. Can you describe it?”, Sunset asked. It was getting rarer, but Sunset still encountered English words she didn’t know.

“Oh, um, a guitar has a large, hollow body, a long neck, and six strings.”

“Oh, I know what that is. We call it a (Equestrian word for guitar) in my language.” The guitar, on Equoes, was invented by the minotaurs. Many of the instruments that they have in Equestria were invented by the minotaurs. It really was a shame that their reputation was that they were con artists or meathead barbarians. They did have those, but in reality, they were a people of inventors, artists, and scholars. Much of what Equestrians take for granted was first invented by the minotaurs.

“Oh, neat. Do you know how to play?”

“No, I never learned how to play an instrument.”

“Do you want to learn with me? My lessons are on Fridays.”

Sunset thought about it. She had student council meetings every other Monday, fencing on Tuesdays and Thursdays, hockey on Wednesdays, and witch studies whenever she could manage. Her schedule was getting quite full, but spending more time with Flash would be nice. “That would be nice. I’ll ask my parents.”