The alarm clock sitting by a small desk woke up Twilight Sparkle, an intelligent bookworm who was once a student of Crystal Prep, only to be transferred to Canterlot High School.

The thought of that school brought her mood down instantly, it's not that the school was just as bad as Crystal Prep, it's even worse. At least everyone there are not targeting her like her old schoolmates did, but everyone in CHS? They're targeting against each other. And it all started with... Anon A Miss.

She never experienced with how bad the incident was a while, but what she heard on the news, it's horrible. Months ago, a girl named Sunset Shimmer was framed for the amount, everyone including the Rainbooms turned against, even one of her ex best friends, Rainbow Dash, set her up with Gilda and her goons, they had beaten her up, kidnapped her and intentionally left her to die in an abandoned factory. It was only because of those boys, Snips and Snails that she was still alive right now.

It ended in a tragic way, it turned out to be the sisters of Applejack, Rarity, and Rainbow Dash, the CMC. Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootalo confessed to be the culprits, and Rainbow Dash confessed to be the one who send a hit on Sunset, and Gilda and her gang are doing her dirty work. And Sunset allowed them to walk away free but to accept their punishments in being the bodyguards for the CMC, and for Rainbow Dash, just to make her suffer on her own.

And Sunset was done with them for good, ever since then, she's been cold and distanced to everyone including them, but except for a few, Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna, Snips and Snails, and now Twilight herself. The bookworm knew the girl since the news revealed about the incident, and with the Friendship Games canceled months ago, she was down to one option to study magic around CHS despite its violent nature since Anon A Miss, ultimately leaving everything she had in Crystal Prep and transferred there. Luckily, Dean Cadence got her covered and convinced Principal Cinch for Twilight's enrollment.

Her first week in CHS was when she met the girl, when the redhead and those two boys found her snooping around by the dark alleyway, looking for magic. And as time went on, she learned more about Sunset's history, especially the fact that she came from a magical pony world called Equestria, and to her early years in this world as a bully, and her defeat at the hands of the Rainbooms and her equestrian counterpart, saving everyone from the Dazzlings known as the sirens, and until Anon Miss.

Sometime ago, she even befriended the Rainbooms and learned their own perspectives about the incident, and the regrets they've been carrying ever since. As far as she saw, the people in this school are not bad people, sort of, they're just people who got so angry that they even resorted surprised violent attacks on one another out of hate, but deep down she knew they also regret for their part on burning hate on Sunset a lot, they just let their anger took over them to make up their mistakes.

At least Sunset and the Rainbooms are not pressuring her to hang out with either of them from time to time, even if they did, what's the point? Sunset was not a bad person anymore to do that, and the Rainbooms don't want to make themselves even worse than they are right now if they pressured Twilight to stay with them and not Sunset. So Twilight made an agreement that she can hang out with the Rainbooms if Sunset was not with her, the same can be said for Sunset without the Rainbooms on her side.

Enough dwelling on that for now, she should get ready for school. So she got up, finished her shower, get dressed and headed to Sugarcube Corner for breakfast.

Twilight crossed over one street away from the shop, every day, she expected either Sunset or the Rainbooms to be in there, or sometimes herself. The shop itself was almost empty since the incident ended, it seems not only the CMC's actions affected the student body but also the world. She didn't expect that this would affect everyone in Canterlot.

She pushed the door open at a soft pace and found the only customers of this shop she would expect, the Rainbooms. And as expected, they haven't smiled to bring light in the dark atmosphere, they only smiled when she was around, but Twilight knew they're just making her feel welcomed and comfortable. Yes, they made a terrible mistake, but she knew they're not bad people.

"Hey girls," her voice brought her with glances and instant warm smiles from the five girls as Fluttershy and Dash move over for Twilight to sit next to them.

"Morning darling," Rarity greeted, even her fake tone almost made her sound obvious that she's depressed about what happened, but at least it's still nice to see Twilight.

"Morning Rarity," Twilight nodded. Thoughts ran through her mind to know what to say to brighten the mood a little. "So," she clasped her hands together. "Is anyone up for a big test next week?"

Rainbow finished up her drink and let out a loud groan. "Really? Do you bring that up now? Especially that I'm still feeling suck even to this day?" She exaggerated.

"What Rainbow Dash means darling," Rarity said, giving Dash a brief glare before glancing to the bookworm. "is that she was dreading about this test and I'd be the same right now but not in the way how Rainbow dreads on it."

Twilight frowned, she can easily see it through them. It's been months since she transferred to their school, it shouldn't be too obvious at now at this point. They've been like this since she met them, sure it's just to make them feel welcomed but their actions with Anon A Miss still haunts them that they pushed their own guilt and feelings aside for her sake.

After a moment of silence, Twilight gathered up the courage to talk about them being like this whenever she's with her. "Okay, girls, I have to stop you right there. I can see how you've been hiding your guilt about what happened whenever I was around. I can understand that since you wanted me to feel accepted."

The girls sighed in defeat. They knew they couldn't this up much longer, they don't want to burden Twilight with their misdeeds, especially this is not the Twilight they knew. But this is still Twilight,

Appejack's smile faltered but she spoke up, "We know, Twilight. We don't want to failed yah as a friend like we did with Sunset. It's not just that," she looked away. "We missed her so much."

Pinkie lay her head down on the table with a sad expression. "Even though she's still in the same school with us, it is still not the same anymore. Whenever we saw by unlikely chances, I'm reminded of how I took her smile away and everything else that followed."

Rarity looked over at the window. The memory of ditching Sunset that day brought back with pain in her heart. "I can't call myself generous if I never let her speak her side of the story."

"And I can't call myself Loyalty if I ever did something so horrible to Sunset," Rainbow moped, placing her hands on her face, couldn't bare to replay that memory where she had Gilda to come after Sunset. And how her actions would've caused if Sunset never survived that night.

Twilight watched her friends moping, she's been helping them and Sunset to move on from this mess, and she did tried to bring everyone back together like her princess did once before. But far as she knew, this was severe than before with Sunset as a school bully.

"Look girls," Twilight began. "I appreciated how you made feel at home since I got here, but we all know you're pushing your own feelings aside." The girls lowered their heads down, but Twilight continued, "And I've been helping you girls and Sunset move on from that mess, but the thing is though," she stopped for a quick moment. "I'm not an expert in a situation like this. I never had a friend back in Crystal Prep, I'm not an expert in friendship like my equestrian double does."

"But sugarcube, yah did everything yah can to help us to move on from that," Applejack told her. "Even though it's hard, yah still did. Like yah even help Sunset as her body recovers, and yah help me measure some wood thanks to yer' amazing mathematic skills."

"You offered to be my new fashion model when trying new threads I made," Rarity added, smiling at that memory.

"Pinkie looked up to her. "You even helped me made Lily Pad smile when I couldn't smile on my own anymore."

"You assisted me to take care of the animals," Fluttershy said.

"And you agreed to let me teach you some football skills," Rainbow chuckled.

But Applejack frowned again. "But Twilight, ah, don't mean to be offensive but it's just that," she paused, knowing it's hard to say what she's meaning to. "Yah just reminded us of a very friend that we failed, and we don't want fail yah too. When Sunset spends time with us and how helpful she was since the Battle of the Bands, it reminded us that so much whenever yah gave yer time for us. And we're afraid we might make a mistake and we'll lose yah."

Twilight grabbed her hands for support. "I know, that's why I can understand why you have to put your fake smiles on whenever I'm around. But Sunset wouldn't want you girls lying to me saying you're alright, I wouldn't like that too. I keep you girls posted to know how she's doing, and I could tell her that you're lying to me saying you're alright and all, but I wouldn't. Because I get it, you don't want to burden me with your regrets, and you want things to go back the way it used to be. Now I admit it, I also wished things went back to how they were even I was never here to see it. And I dreamed of it every day."

The girls looked at her in silence. She's right, no more putting on fake smiles and pushing their guilt away. It would make them feel worse deep inside and they'll never move on.

"Yer' right, Twilight," AJ said, "Maybe it's about time we should be honest about what we're feeling right now but do our best to be the friends we never were for Sunset." The others nodded, agreeing with her.

Twilight now smiled and let go of her hands. "Thanks Applejack. That's all I needed to hear."

"Well, if we're about to move on, how about we should end this topic and get ready for school?" Rarity politely suggested.

The bookworm nodded. "I like the sound of that."

But before they go, a brick flung into the window, shattering it to pieces, but after adopting impressive reflexes and instinct skills, Rarity caught the brick without even looking before the hard object collided with the former athlete's head. Of course it's one of their vengeful classmates again who kept doing this to her if it weren't for Rarity.

"Monster!"

"Traitorous bitch!"

Rainbow breathe heavily, nearly being hit by a brick. Again. If Rarity was never here, how can she know someone will throw bricks at her at any moment?

Twilight shook her head. "They're still throwing bricks at you?"

Ever since Rainbow Dash's involvement with Sunset's kidnapping got out, she just got the worse of it from everyone. Everyone cornering her in every hallway whenever she's alone, calling her 'monster', 'traitorous bitch', and 'Rainbow menace'. Throwing bricks of every place she's in, destroying her locker, it was worse than what Sunset went through since the Fall Formal. There are times she thought about suicide and wishing to just stay in prison, she never considered suicide, it was a random thought.

In depression, she sighed and lowered her head. "It was more than I deserved..." she muttered. "Hell, I've been rejected from becoming Valedictorian upon graduation."

"Same can be said for half of the school," AJ added.

Twilight frowned. Despite their conversation, she really wished if there's a way for her to undo the casualties the CMC had caused. If only...

"Seriously Rarity, how did yah just did that?" Applejack wondered.

Rarity set the brick down and gave her a confident gaze. "I developed a very impressive reflexes and instincts, darling, remember how I used to catch hard objects from being thrown to Sunset ever since the Fall Formal? Outside of school, I knew every, possible angle where anyone can throw objects from."

"Well, that was mighty impressive especially when yer not even looking," AJ commented.

Another brick flung into what's left of the shattered window, only for Rarity to intercept it with her other hand. And again, she doesn't need to look. She kept her eyes on AJ while intercepting the object.

Having enough of this, Rarity stood up and threw the two objects out of the window before storming out. "Let's all leave now before word got out that Rainbow Dash was here."

Not wanting to have more bricks being thrown to Dash soon, they went stood up and followed Rarity to the exit. And once they went out, they kept their eyes peeled for any of their vengeful schoolmates throwing another object against the rainbow haired. They could throw fire bottles at her for all they knew.

For Twilight, once they get to school, she'll be meeting Sunset to see how she's been doing. She hoped she did everything she can to help Sunset recover.

Author's Note

So, yeah, I've been thinking about this fic when I thought the new Spider-Man movie and the forgetting spell reminds me of the Memory Stone. And then when it comes to Forgotten Friendship and Anon A Miss, I began to think about Dainn's version of Anon A Miss.

So then, I pieced all the three stories together into one, brainstorming, Anon A Miss aftermath fic.

And if you're wondering, no, this does not took place sometime or after my other Anon A Miss fic, The Alternative, that has been put on hiatus unfortunately. I'm sorry about that. This is a different universe where it deals the aftermath of Anon A Miss, much like The Alternative does, but this fic is where it deals with an even bigger problem that involves with magic. Well, when reading this, you obviously know what that is.

Anyway, I haven't written for a while now, so after all that thinking and planning, I feel like this fic was ready for a go. I'm still currently working on, Mane Mothers, Equestria Girls: Wondercolt Soccer of Friendship, and also The Alternative. I hope I have time to continue these. I should see if I do.

Anyway, see ya'll. Stay coolio. Peace.