Sparkling Sunsets

by Skyreads

Chapter 9. A Deep Dive into What The Fuck We Did

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The halls were quiet on a late Wednesday afternoon as most of the student body populating the school had gone home for the day. All that remained were students involved in clubs, and a five person group receiving an intense lecture from the princess of friendship.

The princess paced, raised her voice, pointed her finger and teared up. She reminded the five teenagers of their elements and how they betrayed them, involving evidence to her claims. Each and every one striking the girls with guilt deeper and deeper. The princess realized their feelings of guilt and how they knew they did wrong, but yet she found it difficult to feel bad for calling them out so severely. It reminded her of the gabby gums incident in her own world, though it had never gotten to such a catastrophic level, certainly not anywhere close to a life ending.

At the end the princess took a deep breath making eye contact with each individual girl. Applejack held her stetson low over her face, tears and a deep frown were all that could be seen, Rarity, curled into Applejack’s side, had a face covered in ruined mascara, holding a tissue over her nose and mouth. Rainbow Dash had her arms crossed and held her head down as anger controlled her eyebrows but sadness held power in her eyes as she stood against the wall, Fluttershy sobbing, her curtain of hair covering her face, as she hyperventilated. Pinkie pie, gray as the rocks sitting in her home's yard, sat with her knees to her chest, her forehead being held atop by her knees as her arms curled around her knees, soft whimpers being heard.

“I hope you all have learned a very important lesson.” The princess of friendship said, leaving the girls to sulk.

***

Princess Twilight waltzed into the human hospital feeling conflicted, she didn’t like having to lecture the girls, she didn’t like seeing them cry but the consequence of their and the other students actions had left her friend badly hurt. She also didn’t like that she would be limited to seeing and checking on Sunset now, but alas she had royal duties to return too. The news of her human friend being moved to a psychiatric hospital the following morning was also troublesome. The doctor found it necessary to make that decision after the struggling teen had had a night terror causing a panic attack that made the girl hurt herself with the IV lodged in her veins. The alicorn turned human did a bit of research to find the wards to be strict for their mentally struggling patients. The good news was Sunset would only be there for a week, Thursday morning to next Thursday morning… unless the doctors thought she needed more time.

Upon entering the hospital and making her way to Sunset’s room, the lavender turned human princess opened the door, seeing the two female humans in the midst of a conversation.

“It’s okay to be nervous, but know you’ll be okay. There are nurses, doctors and even officers who will be there are able to help you at all times.” The human counterpart of the goddess of the moon said reassuringly. Sunset gave a tired nod and looked up at the princess entering the room.

“Sorry I took a while, I had something to take care of.” Princess Twilight said, walking up to Sunset’s bedside.

“You didn’t have to lecture them.” The fiery headed teen said quietly. The indigo haired princess put her hands on her hips, “Yes I did, you almost died! The consequences of their actions ruined you and could have left them a terrible guilt for the rest of their lives. I still can’t wrap my head around it. Why had they been so quick to forget your friendship? Why act in such an extreme unusual, cruel way towards the situation? Why did they not stand by your side?-“ Princess Twilight started to ramble along with pacing the room. Sunset stayed silent staring down at her hands and banged arms with a quiet sadness. Luna noticed this in her new foster daughter, she began rubbing circles in between the teens shoulder blades; the woman found it usually helped calm the girl down considerably. “I’m not sure but rest assured the principal and I are going to have a long assembly with the school.” The vice principal said.

Sunset finally spoke up after five minutes of silence, “I’m tired, I think I’m going to go to bed. You guys should go back home.” The amber skinned teen said, laying down and curling into her blankets. The vice principal and princess of friendship shared a look towards each other. “Alright but we’ll be back first thing tomorrow morning before you go into the ward.” Luna said, with a gentle smile, hoping it would ignite some amount of brightness in the depressed teen. It didn't do much.

***

Exiting the hospital and heading to vice principal Lunas black Chevrolet, the pale evening colored woman unlocked the car with a sigh.

“Could drop me off at CHS? I need to go back home tonight, check in and update things, but I’ll be back in the morning.” The equine turned human princess said.

“Sure thing, should I pick you up in the morning at the satue?”

“If you could.”

Luna nodded, “Of course, thank you for your help in cleaning up the blood in that factory today. The girls offered to help move Sunset's things from the factory and into her room at my house this weekend. I'm glad we won't have to look at it the whole time.”

Princess Twilight nodded, she thought it was the least they could do.

Twenty minutes later the woman pulled up to the front of the school, letting out the interdimensional visitor, “Thank you, I’ll see you tomorrow morning, around eight thirty?” The lavender Princess questioned.

“Yep, she goes in at ten, so that gives us an hour with her. The doctor said they like to give patients the first day to settle in.” Luna replied.

Luna watched as the pony turned teenage girl nodded and left the world and to her own.

***

The students crowded into the auditorium in the early afternoon. The assembly had been announced and students became nervous as they heard their principal with an angry voice. They became evermore nervous as they noticed the principal, vice principal and the princess of friendship, they had grown to respect, held anger and disappointment in their eyes, looking down at the students.

“Afternoon students, I would address you as wondercolts, but due to your terrible display in the recent month- that privilege has been revoked.” Celestial eyes gazed over the crowd of students, many flinching away in guilt and fear.

“Your actions and words have caused much harm, not to just one student but to each other and even yourselves. This month has made both me and Vice Principal Luna very disappointed to call you wondercolts. Many of you here have taken part in targeting, accusing, bullying and harassment. We did a lot of investigating and know the identities of each person involved.” Principal Celestia said with stern anger. Luna made a step forward, claiming the microphone from her sister.

“Here I have at least a hundred worth of paper works, filing suspensions and other punishments, for vandalizing school property, bullying, and cyber bullying, never in all my years of teaching have I witnessed something so catastrophic. Every single one of you should be ashamed, and yes even if you did nothing. I used to pride myself and brag to others of how inclusive and friendly this student body was, sadly you all have proved me wrong.” The vice principal said, walking off the stage. Luna didn't need to say anything more, now all she could do was focus on how the red headed teen had go off to the mental aid hospital that morning on her own.

Princess Twilight now walked center stage with the human voice amplifier; henceforth she stood there for a moment, allowing the students to soak in the silence, and sink in the disappointment of the hero that had saved them twice now. After a couple moments the indigo haired princess spoke, her voice dripping with disappointment, “I truly don't have much to say. After all the fights I’ve fought, all the evil deeds I've seen done, after not only saving my world but also your world multiple times now, I've never been more appalled in my life. You've shown me a new light to the human race, given me a reason to not like it, given me a reason to never return to this world- if any dangerous magical problems ever come your way again, you'll be lucky to at least have Sunset Shimmer’s help. Don't forget it was her that defeated the sirens, and have amends with you. I know for a fact she worked hard to become the po- person she was meant to be. You all took that away from her, just like others in the past. Your actions have been disgusting. I won't return to this world, not for any of you as you all played a part in almost ending a life…” The room had become so quiet sweat droplets could be heard as everyone caught on to what the princess had implied. “Learn something from this and this is officially goodbye.” The Princess of Friendship handed the microphone to the principal and made her way backstage, preparing to leave through the portal at the front of the school.

“In addressing this atrocious ‘Anon-N-Miss’ account, while, yes, there was a specific group of people who started it, the account eventually became all of you. The investigation allowed me to see each and every account, paying the holders of account secrets, also the extra fibbed stories in comments of each post, making matters worse. In the end Sunset Shimmer suffered the blame that she did not deserve and the ones that framed her were every single one of you in here. Parents have received emails and evidence of your involvement as of earlier today, some of you may already know. This ugliness has changed the way I see this student body, which is a very unfortunate fact to admit.” The principal swiped eyes once again over her students, many held heads down, grimaced, cringed, and cried. Principal Celestia spoke again, “You are dismissed into your home rooms, We will be spending the next three hours left of today in bullying behavior fix lessons.”

The long aurora haired woman watched as her students left. The tall woman made her way backstage to discover the pony turned human princess had already left back home. An exhausted sigh left the woman's lips and she decided to make her way to comfort her sister.


Author's Note

Hiya!
Sorry this chapter is a bit shorter but we are now past the transitionary chapters!
Time to get to new friendships and love dovey shi, in which I'm very excited for.
Thank so much for reading amazing people!
Please comment and interact and its truely fun to know you thoughts and opinions :D

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