“Pinkie, I already told you that the alleyway isn't a shortcut!” Twilight said in a frustrated tone into the earpiece as she looked over the railing of the high building trying her best to keep track of her very speedy friend.
“Anything is a shortcut if you make it Twi!” Pinkie laughed as she ran through the dirty alleyway only to run into the dead end wall.
Pinkie fell back as she rubbed her temple which was quickly bruising. She opened her eyes as she looked up at the wall, it wasn't that high up but too high for her to jump and reach the edge, that's when an idea struck her.
“Hey Twilight theoretically, my speed is fast enough to run on the wall right?” Pinkie asked into the earpiece as she backed up with a determined smile on her face already getting into position.
“Well last time I checked you might be a bit slow so I wouldn't try it- Pinkie!” Twilight was cut off with Pinkie already going for it. And she almost made it all the way up, almost. Right when she was about to make it, gravity kicked in and it was much stronger than her speed. But Pinkie was faster and grabbed onto the edge of the wall and pushed herself up right before she fell.
“Told ya” Pinkie giggled as she jumped off the roof onto another roof trying to catch the criminal.
Twilight sighed out of relief as she leaned her body against the rails. That had been close and risky, anything could have gone wrong, Pinkie could've lost her powers halfway up, or maybe missed the edge. Twilight hated how unplanned these missions were, and how things changed up halfway through.
“Caught him!” Pinkie yelled through the earpiece bringing Twilight out of her worried thoughts.
“Ah- good job be right there” Twilight replied. She let go of the button on her ear piece and started to focus on where she wanted to teleport. Turns out it's a lot harder than levitating things, it took her failing 13 times to finally give up and start walking towards them instead.
“Took you long enough.” Pinkie said, chuckling as Twilight's figure appeared.
“Don't remind me.” Twilight replied slapping a hand over her face
“H-hey where am I? What are you going to do to me? '' The criminal said, cutting into their short conversation.
Twilight and Pinkie turned to him with an unimpressed look before Twilight knocked him out with a punch.
"Maybe you're giving him amnesia with those punches." Pinkie theorized as she tied the criminal to a random pole.
"Last time I put him to sleep with a spell, he obviously doesn't have amnesia, he just doesn't know when to quit." Twilight replied as she rubbed her knuckles.
Maybe she should just stick with spells.
“Yeah I guess so- hey wasn't the moon just up a minute ago?” Pinkie questioned as she looked up at the sky. Twilight raised an eyebrow as she looked at the sky, her face fell as she realized they had spent a bit too much time on the criminal.
"Pinkie, what time is it!?" Twilight questioned as she shook pinkies shoulders.
"4am" Pinkie replied with a smile as she checked her watch.
Twilight's eyes widened as she opened one of her belt pockets for her phone only to see the message she was dreading already lighting up her screen.
Shining Armor: If you're not home in the next 10 minutes I'm telling mom - 2:30 am
"That big freaking traitor!" Twilight said as her eyebrows furrowed in anger as pinkie walked up behind her.
"He's probably just messing with you, you two are as close as two peas in a pod, he definitely didn't tell." Pinkie said with a smile.
"I'm not too sure, I accidentally broke one of his snow globes like a week ago, he hasn't let that go even after I fixed it." Twilight replied as she put her phone away, her tone annoyed.
"I wouldn't worry about it, but can I stay at your place tonight? I left my bag there and I don't wanna go home to change just to wake Mr and Ms's Cake." Pinkie asked as she pressed her palms together in a pleading motion, her usual big smile was now a pleading, small, smile now.
Twilight let out a giggle before giving her nod. The two went to Twilight's house to get some much needed sleep.
***
The morning after was absolutely dreadful in Twilight's words. Last night's patrol took all her energy, even Pinkie pie was a lot less talkative.
But somehow the secret superheros had managed to make it through half the day and to lunch time.
“I really hope it’s pizza.” Pinkie said as she rubbed her stomach.
Twilight chuckled, “Luckily for you I took a peak at the lunch schedule and-” Twilight was cut off by Pinkie shaking her by the shoulders.
“Is it pizza!?” Pinkie asked in an ecstatic voice as her smile and shaking grew.
Twilight smiled as she gave a thumbs up as a response, not even a second later Pinkie had literally zoomed towards the lunch line seemingly having gotten all her energy back just with the thought of having pizza.
Twilight let out a sigh as she too started walking towards the line, just then though, something had caught her eye.
Vinyl Scratch, or DJ as some referred to her as, didn't look well, even from far Twilight noticed the heavy breathing coming from the girl.
Something isn't right, Twilight thought to herself. Twilight kept her eyes on the girl, just when she was about to walk towards her she heard someone next to her take in a very shaky breath. When she turned her head she definitely did not expect to find Trixie also looking worried, apparently it wasn't just her who saw how weird Dj was acting.
That's when she felt it, magic, she felt magic, she sensed it and it wasn't coming from her, rather from Vinyl.
Twilight bit her lip as her nerves started to grow, and it seemed that Trixie was also nervous.
Suddenly Vinyl stood up and started her approach towards the door. Twilight leaned forward to start walking towards her but Trixie had beaten her to it.
Okay something must be really wrong, Twilight thought to herself as she followed Trixie who in turn followed Dj.
They walked down the halls of CHS, passing lockers and classrooms until they made it to the last 2 way hall. Taking a right would lead them to a dead end hall, taking a turn to the left however, would lead them to the side exit of the school. It didn't take rocket science to know what Vinyl was gonna take.
They had walked with a consistent pace throughout the little chase, but when Vinyl took one glance back, Trixie had taken that as her cue to start sprinting.
Twilight's eyes widened as Trixie tackled Vinyl to the ground. She cringed as Trixie elbowed Vinyl’s ribs in defense of Vinyl trying to kick her knee. As Twilight kept looking at the two girls on the ground she noticed that they were fighting for something that was in Vinyl’s hand. Twilight made a mental note of that and started to think about who she should help.
On one hand it seemed that any type of hit that Trixie landed, it didn't actually hurt Vinyl. Then with Trixie it seemed that she could doge almost every hit Vinyl tried. Twilight took one last glance at the two girls before deciding to not help any of them.
Twilight raised her hand up ready to shoot a beam in between them so it could separate them from each other. She looked in between them trying to get the best timing on when to shoot so it wouldn't hurt anyone but just scare them away from each other, that's when a figure moving further from them caught her eye.
Twilight raised her head and made sorta eye contact with someone in a shadowed cloak. White eyes stared back at her. It had a stare of a hawk not moving, keeping the eye contact without fail, not even blinking once. All in All it was a terrifying experience, so terrifying that when Twilight blinked just for a second the figure was half down the hallway behind her.
Twilight turned around ready to chase the figure only for a green gem that the figure had in their hand caught her eye. And suddenly the magic she felt from Vinyl was now coming from the figure. The figure turned to the right, out of sight.
“Damn” Twilight whispered as she stared at the hallway.
“Nice going Masked” Twilight stiffened as she heard the words fall out of Trixie's mouth.
Twilight turned around so furiously that she was sure that she heard her back crack.
“What are you talking about?” Twilight asked as she bit her lip in anticipation for Trixie's answer.
“Pretty obvious,” Trixie started as she stood up and stretched her arms. “You and your group of friends are the only ones with powers here, and when comparing Masked powers to yours I didn't exactly find a match. But back when you and Pinkie first started and your hood came off in that one fight, it wasn't hard to find a purple haired girl who had once tied up her hair like that.” Trixie ended as she crossed her arms and leaned against the wall.
Twilight had her eyes widened in surprise.
“Wait, you also know who Seconds is?” Twilight questioned.
“Well duh, I mean at first I thought it was Rainbow Dash, but with the pink suit, and that little poof of hair coming out of her hood when she fights, it wasn't really hard.”
“If you found out our identities when we first started out, it must've been before I put the identity spell on our suits. Do you think anyone else knows?.” Twilight asked, worry laced in her voice.
“Everyone except, the Great and very observant Tr-ixie, is absolutely dense.” Trixie declared as she went towards Vinyl Scratch’s limp body. “Also help me take her to the nurse's office, and no she isn't dead, and we’ll explain that she just passed out in the hallway and we found her.” Trixie added as she predicted every question Twilight was about to ask.
Twilight stared, mouth agape, at Trixie, dumbfounded. She only really started to help when Trixie gave her a pointed look of “what are you waiting for?”.
So here Twilight was, carrying an unconscious student, with a girl she doesn't even like, to the nurses office, while there's an intruder roaming around CHS. This, surprisingly, has to be one of the weirdest things she has ever done. And that's with her being a Vigilante.
“Hey if you don’t mind me asking,” Twilight grunts as she shifts her arms to get a better grip at Vinyl’s legs. “How’d you know there was something wrong with Vinyl?”
Trixie pauses, which in turn almost makes Twilight trip back and fall. Twilight looks up at Trixie after she gathers her bearings and notices that she looks nervous, why would she be nervous?
“Well um-" Trixie seems to go through a thought process if she should tell her or not, at the end she decides tell her. "Just like how you and your friends have powers, I have one too, it sucks though, half of the time I don’t even trust it.” Trixie says as she continues walking.
Twilight furrows her eyebrows, who doesn't trust their powers? Twilight pauses for a second, oh right me.
“Can I ask what your powers are?”
“I can sense danger I guess, it sometimes detects wrong though. I thought that was what was happening earlier until I saw that it wasn't coming from Vinyl, but the gem she was holding instead.” Trixie informed.
Twilight thought for a moment, overall it wasn’t a bad power. So why would she keep it a secret?
“Okay we made it and I'm tired so, here,” Trixie said as she shoved all of Vinyl's body to Twilight's hands. “You take her to the bed and I'll talk to the nurse, then you should probably catch the intruder that's still here.”
Twilight struggled with the sudden weight and hurried towards the bed.
She was tired, way too tired to be catching a random person roaming around the school without even knowing their motives.
But then again she had basically signed up for this. So she guesses that she'll deal with it, after she informs Pinkie and gets her help on it of course.
Author's Note
Yall Im gonna be honest, first time posting on here. Like highkey yo, anyways I hopped you enjoyed yea.
A Grilled Cheese Sandwich With A Side Of Planning
Yesterday was a bust. They had spent all of lunch and half their 5th period looking for the intruder only not to find them and absoutly no clues leading to where they went after.
“Maybe we should check the security cameras?” Pinkie had asked through the earpiece as she ran around the building for the thousandth time that night.
“Can't, they’re broken.” Twilight responded with a sigh as she laid her back atop of the building. She had gone with principal Celestia earlier that morning and overheard a conversation about the camera’s not working, and also something about deleting.
“Uh-” She dragged on the word before saying. “Maybe they were dressed for Halloween but forget that it wasn't Halloween.”
“Highly unlikely Pinkie.” Twilight responded with a sigh, turning her body over.
They were getting absolutely nowhere, and honestly Twilight was too tired to even theorize anything anymore. The whole thing about the shards was confusing, sure shed realize that they were most likely brain washing devices but who was controlling them and how random people like Vinyl got their hands on them was still a mystery.
“Let’s just rest for now, I don't think any criminals are going to come out tonight.” Twilight advised, closing her eyes.
“Good idea.” Pinkie agreed. “Be right up!”
A second later Pinkie was right by Twilight’s side, sitting up staring up at the stars as the fire escape door shut behind.
“Twilight I know you’re tired but can I ask you something?” Pinkie asked.
Twilight contemplated for a second.
“Sure”
“Since Trixie knows who we are, does that mean really bad people also know who we are? Like are we going to be hunted down now?”
Silence followed. Twilight didn't really know that no one else knew, but she felt no one else knew. And that's what she told Pinkie. They were a team and Twilight had to be honest almost every step of the way.
“Honestly I'm not too sure.” Twilight stated, which made Pinkie bit her lip nervously. “But I have a good feeling that no, no one else knows.” Twilight finished with a smile as she propped herself up. Pinkie smiled in turn seemingly having feel better with Twilights prediction.
“Were you holding that in since this morning?” Twilight asked with a brow raised.
“Yeah, I guess I was a bit scared, like I know it's silly since we defeat criminals every week, but them knowing who we really are makes me nervous.” Pinkie admitted as she stared straight ahead.
Twilight looked at Pinkie.
She looked lost but assured. Pinkie was always confusing. It was something that Twilight learned how to, not deal with it, but something she learned to understand about her pink hair friend.
“Well, thanks for telling me that Pinkie, but trust me, I won’t let them hurt you. I’ll protect you, I promise.” Twilight exclaimed as she held out her pinkie for emphasis.
Pinkie stared, wide eyed before a smile took over her features and she crashed into Twilight for a hug instead of a pinkie promise.
“Woah Pinkie!” Twilight laughed as she wrapped her arms around the pink haired girl.
The two laughed the rest of the night, and just like Twilight predicted, there were no new criminals that night.
***
“I hate my life.”
It was lunchtime once again and this time Twilight actually got food and sat with her friends in the bustling cafeteria. This time it was not pizza but a very sad grilled sandwich. Twilight isn't usually picky but she didn't want a grilled cheese that was barely even grilled.
“It’s just a history test, Rainbow.” Sunburst said with a smile as he bit into his, very grilled, very cheesy, grilled cheese sandwich”
Twilight looked on in sadness before sighing, pushing the tray away from her and laying her head on the table, she felt Sunset’s worried eyes on her.
“The test wouldn't be a problem if I could actually learn in that lifeless class.” Rainbow replied, holding her head in her palm.
“If I'm being honest ya'll, I’m also not a fan of the class.” Applejack admitted with an apologetic smile.
Rainbow Dash’s eyes widened in surprise before she smiled. “Aha! See I’m not the only person who finds that class boring, stupid, ultimately unnecessary, and boring.” She finished as she leaned back in her chair.
“You said it was boring twice.” Starlight pointed out with an unimpressed look.
Rainbow Dash raised a brow. “Want me to say it a third time?”
Starlight looked back with a puzzled expression.
“Rainbow, darling, using boring twice to explain isn't really, well, an explanation. Applejack, dear, why don’t you explain your hatred for the subject.” Rarity said with a smile.
“Ah well, it's not the subject itself, it's the teacher." Rarity raised her eyebrows a bit in surprise, Applejack immediately raised her hands in defense. "Now don't get me wrong everybody, she does help other kids, but she just doesn't help me, sometimes I can't understand a dang thing she says…respectfully." Applejack coughed.
"Well darling, that's understandable, some people learn differently than others, to say my opinion I think she's a delightful teacher, she helps me understand history a lot better than last year's teacher." Rarity admitted.
“I think she’s a little strict with deadlines.” Fluttershy added. “Other than that I like her.”
“I agree with Fluttershy.” Starlight said.
“She’s annoying, I'm not gonna lie,” Sunset said, taking a bite of her grilled cheese before looking up to find everyone looking at her, she rolls her eye’s. “but I do learn better in that class than any other class.”
“I think she does her job correctly.” Sunburst commented with a smile.
“Of course you do four eyes, you always think every teacher does their job correctly.” Rainbow dash sneers.
Sunburst gasps, clearly offended. ”Why am I the only one called four eyes, Twilight has glasses too and you never call her that!”
“That's because I call Twilight an egg-head.” Rainbow Dash responded with a smirk.
Twilight brought her hand to do a thumbs up confirming what Rainbow was saying was true.
“Continuing- Pinkie darling, what's your opinion?” Rarity asked.
“About what?” Pinkie asked as she turned from her game of tic tac toe with Rainbow dash.
“Our history teacher.”
Pinkie hummed in thought for a second.
“I don’t know,” She said with a smile.
Rarity sighed, turning towards Twilight.
“What about you Twilight.”
Twilight tilted her head up just a bit making her eyes the only thing that the rest could see, her arm hiding the rest of her face. She looked around the table, everyone taking bites of their very grilled, cheese sandwiches. Twilight narrowed her eyes before tilting her head back down.
“Same as Pinkie.” Twilight responded as she turned her head to the side.
“Okay then… what about we change the subject hmm? Talking about classes while were in lunch is a little of downer the way I see it.” Rarity suggested.
The table agreed and started talking about everything but school, but Twilight couldn't take her mind off of getting a grilled cheese sandwich. And that's when her eyes landed on a grilled cheese sandwich.
Twilight eyes widened as she raised her head looking straight at the tray that had what she desires most at the moment. She smiled as she looked up, ready to stand and ask the owner if she could have it. Her face fell as soon as she saw who the owner was.
Trixie Luluamoon.
You got to be kidding me. Twilight thought to herself.
Twilight slumped back down as her eyes stared longingly at the grilled cheese sandwich. Oh how she wanted the grilled cheese sandwich.
Twilight sighed, right when she was about to turn her ahead away she noticed Trixie straightening her posture and then, Trixie took in a shudder breath before forcing herself to sit still.
“Can I ask what your powers are?”
“I can sense danger I guess, it sometimes detects wrong though."
Well isn't her remembering that conversation now convenient. Her powers being flukes sometimes doesn't mean she shouldn't at least be a bit worried. Twilight thought as she sat up straighter and looked around the room searching for any possible sign of danger. She found… absolutely nothing.
Twilight frowned and turned back towards Trixie only to find a guy right behind her. Her was hovering over her milk in his hand slowly tilting it over.
Twilight narrowed her eyes and let out a scoff, is being a bully in a school with magical friendship girls really a good idea. “ Twilight thought as she raised her hands.
The guy had finally tilted the milk all the way and its contaminants all fell out, but right before it hit Trixie a purple magical glow had enveloped the milk.
The guy gave a confused huff, he looked around the cafeteria before his eyes met Twilight's. His gaze suddenly switched from anger to worry.
“You need something?” Twilight heard Sunset say behind her.
“Nope sorry.” The guy said as his eyes widened slightly, Twilight assumes in fear, turning tail and running towards his group of friends across the cafeteria. Only then did Twilight notice the phone that the other friends were pointing at Trixie.
Twilight took a deep breath before she got up and walked towards Trixie. Twilight rounded the table before sitting slightly across from the girl
“Hey” Twilight sang as she smiled a toothy grin.
Trixie gave her an unimpressed look. She sighed.
“You didn’t have to do that.” Trixie said as an embarrassed blush took over her features. Twilight looked down for a second.
Twilight remembered the first time she told Shining Armor about her getting bullied, how she felt when he went to Cadence in turn, how she felt when she had told the bullies to back off. Embarrassment every single time, pure embarrassment. Back then she spent nights wishing she had just dealt with it instead of getting special treatment from the school.
“I didn’t do it for you, I did it for the grilled cheese, speaking of, are you gonna eat it or can I have it?” Twilight asked her hand hovering over said sandwich as she looked up at Trixie.
Trixie raised a brow. “Uh sure?”
That was all Twilight needed to grab the sandwich and start digging in. She took a few more bites before remembering her manners and coughing into her fist.
“Thank you, anyways, that's not all I came here for. I was wondering if you would like to join me and Pinkies, uh, late night activities.” Twilight said, trying to find a way to say it without it sounding like she was a criminal. Which she isn't, well sorta isn't.
“Yeah no thanks, I don't wanna join your "late night activities"” Trixie said, using her fingers for quotation marks as she got up from the table.
“Ah- wait please just this one mission, I have a lead about the shards.” Twilight added as she too stood up to follow Trixie.
“Oh great and what's that?" Trixie said in a sarcastic tone.
"Well I noticed that the day before the intruder, the day me and Pinkie took down a criminal, he had a necklace on, with a purple shard." Twilight said.
"News flash the Shards that the intruder had were green-"
"I'm getting to that!" Twilight interrupts as she whispered yelled.
"Anyway but before that, when we first saw him, his necklace was green. And when we defeated him and the necklace turned purple, He seemed to get amnesia, y'know. He had no idea what was going on." Twilight finished with a smile, she had practically solved a case.
"Okay that sounds…"
"Odd I know."
"So you think it's…"
"Brain washing." Twilight said, finishing Trixie’s statement.
Trixie seemed lost in thought for a moment.
"Okay so what do you need my help for?" Trixie said a minute after.
Twilight's smile grew now as she realized Trixie was considering helping them.
"Well, with you being able to detect danger, me and Pinkie were wondering if you were willing to try and help us find a shard to run tests on.” Twilight said, linking her hands behind her back as she walked with Trixie as she threw her trash away.
Trixie sighed looking at the ceiling, once again she seemed lost in thought.
“Fine I’ll do it, but I'm not going to fight, or jump, or do whatever you guys do. I detect, then you do the rest. I’m not gonna risk my life like you weirdos.” Trixie finished as she rubbed her hands over the trash can, getting rid of invisible dust.
Twilight smiled in victory as Pinkie appeared behind Trixie with her own very excited smile.
“Ah I'm so glad you decided to help us, I love making new friends.” Pinkie exclaimed with a joyful smile. “Even if you used to be a meanie pants.”
Trixie jumped at the sudden appearance of the girl but slowly nodded after. She took a step back getting further away from Pinkie.
“I feel like I'm going to regret this.” Trixie started. “But whatever, I'll see you later weirdos.” Trixie finished waving goodbye, but before she left she stood by the door.
“Another thing, I think we should ask Princess Twilight, like pony Twilight, for help.” Trixie added as she went through the door.
Twilight’s eyes narrowed in thought, it wasn't a bad idea don’t get her wrong, but she just didn't want to bother the princess, hero, ruler, Twilight Sparkle over something so little. But she might give it a shot.
“What were you guys talking to Trixie about?” Sunset's voice rang out as she threw away her trash, taking Twilight out of her thoughts.
“Nothing.” Pinkie replied happily as she immediately went towards Rainbow dash.
“Just some cheese sandwiches.” Twilight replied as she smiled towards Sunset.
“Okay then.” Sunset laughed bringing an arm around Twilight as the group left the cafeteria getting ready for their history test that Rainbow dash was totally going to fail.
Author's Note
HOLLY MOLLY GRILLED CHEESE SANDWHICH GOLLY.
When I started this chapter I had no idea it would go from a cute wholesome moment to... Grilled cheese sandwich's.
