Every Dark Night Turns Into Day

Indigo Zap

I looked around at the mindless zombies I called classmates as we walked into the gym. Sugarcoat and the others were behind me as I sat down at the first empty seat and they joined me after hesitating.

“What do you think the assembly is about?” Sunny broke the silence quietly so no one else could hear us.

“Probably the furnace and where we’re going,” Sugarcoat answered softly. “We can’t really go to school with a broken furnace. Pretty sure it’s illegal.”

“It is pretty hot in here,” Sour admitted as she tugged at the top of her shirt. “And not because it’s crowded of people so don’t speak Sugarcoat.” Sugarcoat nodded and closed her mouth.

“It’s awful!” Lemon exclaimed and turned slightly red as some people glared at her. “It is pretty bad and that’s for cpa standards.”

“Noise Maker has a point,” Sunny agreed as she crossed her legs.

“Noise Maker?” Sour questioned as Lemon looked around in boredom.

“She’s super loud and listens to loud music,” Sunny explained. “Though it could work for Indigo too. She’s all about school spirit and random pep speeches loudly in the hallway.”

“Shush,” I grumbled grumpily as Twinkleshine stood in the center of the gym.

“Hello everyone!” Twinkleshine said with a surprisingly warm smile. “We have a few announcements. You’re all probably wondering what that explosion earlier was and I’ll readily admit our furnace did blow up earlier. And some of you may have reached the conclusion that we can’t go to school with it broken like this.”

Lemon and I grinned at each other as we high fived, cheering. Fuck school, it’s so boring man. I’d rather be out playing soccer or tennis.

“But I’m sad to crush your guys dreams,” Twinkleshine announced as she winked at us. “We will be continuing school elsewhere. Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna of Canterlot High have graciously allowed us to use some of their spare classrooms. Some of their teachers will be teaching you all along with us.” A bunch of booing came from the rest of our classmates as I exchanged shocked looks with Sour.

“Silence!” Moondancer shouted and everyone quieted down. As nice as the professor was, her yelling always got people to quiet down.

“Thank you Professor. It’ll take at least two months for them to get it repaired while I negotiate with the school board to do some other repairs around the school that Cinch neglected. I’ll be there at Canterlot High as well. You all represent Crystal Prep and we are guests there. I expect you all to be on the best behavior,” Twinkleshine said sternly.

“This should be interesting,” Sugarcoat muttered.

I looked around curiously at the gym of Canterlot High. For the second time today, I was at in another gym. Celestia stood in the center of the gym along with some of our teachers and Twinkleshine.

“This is a small ass gym,” Lemon noted as she glanced around too. I could tell Sunny and the others felt overdressed.

“For real,” I agreed.

“Thank you Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna for allowing us to use your classrooms,” Twinkleshine nodded to her counterpart as I noticed Twilight sitting on the other side of the gym with the others.

“Hey there’s Twilight,” I gestured subtly in her direction.

“Huh interesting,” Sunny mused with a raised eyebrow.

“It’s our pleasure!” Celestia announced warmly. “Friendship is our main goal here at Canterlot High and sharing our property with you temporarily is part of that friendship. Wondercolts, please give our guests a warm welcome!”

No one said a thing as some of the Wondercolts looked away or gave us cold glares. I bit back a snicker at it. If I was them, I’d have done the same thing back then. Celestia coughed nervously as she looked around.

“I personally welcome you all. My office is open to everyone from both schools as is my sisters,” Celestia nodded to Luna who looked at us with indifference and I got the feeling she didn’t care too much for us. “You’re all free to go to your classes. I’ve already handed out maps of the school to everyone so you won’t get lost.”

I personally didn’t think it was possible to get lost here. It was a small school. It was a nice gesture I guess. I stood up along with the others and climbed down off the bleachers.

“This isn’t going to go well,” Sour commented as we worked our way out of the gym ahead of everyone. “I should have stayed home.”

“Well it’s not gonna go well with attitude like that!” I exclaimed. “We are gonna make the best of this.”

“My sister goes here,” Sour reminded me flatly with a glare and I winced slightly. I had forgotten about that.

“Oh right. Well I doubt you guys will see each other!” I offered weakly.

“Indigo is right,” Sunny agreed as we kept walking. “It’s unlikely you’ll run into each other hopefully.”

“I’m in her science class,” Sour grumbled.

“I stand corrected,” I shrugged nervously. “Looks like you guys will be running into each other.”

“Indigo wait up!” Dean Cadence called out as I glanced backwards as the women ran up. “I’m glad I caught you guys.”

“Uhm why?” Sunny inquired nervously. “Did we do something wrong?”

“No of course not!” Dean Cadence laughed and shook her head. “You girls have been hanging out together a lot I noticed. I want you girls to learn a bit more about friendship while we are here. Me, Moondancer, Lemon Hearts and Twinkleshine are good friends of some of the staff here. Maybe you could learn some stuff that you could bring back to Crystal Prep to teach the other students.”

“This is friendship capital of the world,” Sugarcoat agreed after a moment of silence except for Lemons music. “It does make sense we would pick up some skills here to use in the future.”

“Getting the other Shadowbolts to change will be pretty damn close to impossible,” Sour answered grudgingly as she folded her arms. “I suppose we could potentially try though.”

“I know. Maybe them seeing you all together will change their minds!” Cadence suggested with a smile as she joined us in walking. “You never know. Twilight does seem to be fitting in very well.”

“That she is,” I admitted hesitantly. “It’s almost like she’s a different person.”

“Agreed. Now I have to run along and set up my temporary office. Remember what I asked!” Cadence waved cheerfully as she disappeared around a corner. I looked at the other girls and we all came to the same conclusion.

This was gonna be a interesting two months.