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Welcome to Ponyville High
High Flyer
Game On

Welcome to Ponyville High

Ponyville High was a place of greatness and going there was the biggest dream Crimson Fire could have, he longed to make more friends other than his mother and his teddy bear Mr Wiggles. Crimson Fire had a long, messy and red mane that stretched down to his back. His eyes surprisingly enough were a light crimson color with a hint of red while his skin was a nice light orange, Crimson Fire had wings and a horn but because his mother was an earth pony he didn't know how to use them. He also didn't have a cutie mark yet, but that didn't bother him. Their house was located just outside Ponyville, they had a great view of the town(which Crimson Fire was not allowed in) the only time Crimson Fire was allowed outside was when he could go in the backyard to have his lunch which would only happen if it were sunny out. Other than that he was kept inside all the day.

The time was roughly 7:30AM when Crimson started to wake up, slowly he started to open his well rested eyes and saw his mother standing there obviously waiting for him to get up for breakfast, she gave the awakening pony a warm, loving smile and said "Get up lazy-bones or you'll be late for breakfast and I know how cranky you get when you don't eat in the morning." She said in such a loving tone that made Crimson excited for just breakfast. She was wearing a large pink and yellow skirt with hair in a small bun. She had big blue eyes and a pink coat.

"OK mom, just give me a second and I'll be right down." he said as his mom gave him a big hug and left the room. Crimson then removed his duvet from his body, sat up and scratched the back of his head. The sun was shining through Crimson's open window and it felt great on the young stallion's body. His room was filled with toys and board games neatly put into drawers and chests, except for Mr Wiggles sitting right next to him. Next to his bed was a small cabinet with a lamp on top and inside was more toys and games that his mother had gotten over the years. He then shuffled himself to the side of the bed and put his legs on the floor so he was sitting upright, it started to slightly hurt his back so he lightly fell onto his forelegs and stood in the middle of his room for a few seconds before opening the bedroom door and go downstairs.

Crimson's mother was very protective over her son and was scared to let him go to public school for something had happened to her at school when she was a young mare, but she never told Crimson about it. To his mother Crimson was like a perfect little pony, for he had never heard a scary story before so he had nothing to fear nor does he know where filly's come from or anything in that category. But his mother wasn't thinking of how her little filly she had helped over his life would one day want some independence and meet other ponies his age, and that was exactly what Crimson was thinking and dreaming about.

Crimson now at the bottom of the stairs was just thinking of ways he could ask his mother today about going to Ponyville High, would he spell it out with fridge magnets or would he leave a leaflet for Ponyville High (which he found in the mail) in the book she was reading.

He made his way to the kitchen and found his mother sitting there with a brown hardback book. She averted her gaze from the book to her son getting on a chair opposite of her and with a smile she said "Enjoy your breakfast, honey." looking down Crimson saw his breakfast, a very healthy bowl of bran flakes, he didn't bother trying to eat it because he was going ask the same question he did every day

"So mom, is it OK if I go to Ponyville High and meet other ponies, please?" he was hopefully thinking that she would say 'yes' but of course the answer for the 100th time was 'no'.

"But mom a new year is starting at the school tomorrow and there will be ton of new ponies and I'll fit in with the rest, pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeease!" Crimson said getting annoyingly high pitched at the 'please' part.

"The answer is no again Crimson." she said in a new assertive voice that Crimson only hears when his mom starts getting mad.

"But why mom, WHY! You've never told me why, you just say 'no' or change the subject I don't see the downside to going to school, you make friends there, you learn more stuff, you go on trips, there are tons of things you can do and there all fun." Crimson's voice getting louder and angrier.

"Yes but you can also get called very nasty names and get beaten up" His mom raising her voice as well "and you can get flunked out of school and feel shameful and......and.......an-" she took her gaze away from her son and looked at the floor. She was thinking very hard of what to do, she was scared of letting her son go and what could happen to him at school. But she knew she couldn't control his life anymore, it was the day she had dreaded all these years, Crimson wanted to leave and see the world.

"You really want to go don't you." she said with a sigh.

This took Crimson by surprise and left him sitting there for a few seconds speechless but then he spoke "Yes I do mom, I feel alone nearly all the time now, I have never met anypony other than you before and I'm 14 years old, i want go out and meet other ponies and laugh with them and play with them.........................please."

The room was filled with complete silence for about 5 minutes, Crimson was very scared and very excited at the same time, he didn't know what his mother was going to say until she finally said something.
"Well son you have asked me a lot recently and you seem to know what you want, but you do know if I send you to Ponyville High you cant come running back to me saying you want to leave." Excitement rushed through Crimson's body as he heard the words he only dreamed of coming out of his mother's mouth.

"Oh thank you mom, I love you sooooooooooooooo much!" He ran over to his mom and gave her a giant bear hug. She let out a small sigh and said "I love you too son, you stay here and I'll go down to the school and get you registered."

They then let go of each other and Crimson's mom started to walk to the front door. She swung the door open, turned around and said goodbye. This wasn't the first time Crimson had been in the house by himself, his mother sometimes went out to buy food, clothes, toys and always came back with something for her son.

There were about a thousand different thoughts rushing through Crimson's mind like 'I wonder what lesson i'll have first' and 'What will they do since I'm an alicorn' but the biggest thought was 'I'm finally going to meet somepony else'.

30 minutes had passed since Crimson's mother had left and he was still very excited, he was sitting by the front door like a dog awaiting for it's master to arrive home. He was starting to get a bit frightened with thoughts of not seeing his mom again but those fears were put to rest as his mother walked into the house carrying a brown saddlebag. It had pockets all around and a Ponyville High logo on the front. She was slightly shocked at instantly seeing a very eager little pony sitting right in front of her but was pleased to see the house hadn't burnt to the ground.

"Hey there kiddo, how are you feeling." her voice was muffled due to the saddle bag in her mouth, but Crimson could still understand her.

"Yes mom I'm fine so what happened." the words fell out of Crimson's mouth so fast it took his mom a couple of seconds to understand what he had just said.

"Well firstly I opened the door and then started walking and then I breathed in and then breathed out..............." she giggled to herself after seeing a small, angry expression on her sons face.

"No about the school, I mean"

"Fine then my very impatient one" she slowly walked over to the living room, sat down and also offered a cushion to Crimson as well. He quickly ran over to the cushion and listened to his mother very carefully.

"When I got down to the school I met the principle, his name is Mr Stronghoof, we got to talking and he said that it would be great for another student to join but only on the condition that you don't cause any trouble or anything like that.

A thrilling feeling was shot through the body of Crimson Fire that had finally got what he was dreaming about all his life. He leaped into the air and cheered. Once he touched the ground again he put his hoof's around his mother and squeezed her tight. He was so happy he couldn't contain himself, he was jumping everywhere and laughing.

"OK Crimson calm down, you don't want to injure yourself on the day before school do you?" as soon as he heard that he sat back down, he didn't want anything bad to happen so he couldn't go into school.

"Oh umm sorry mom, I'm just so excited"

"It's OK son I just care about you so much" she gave Crimson the brown saddle bag and went into the kitchen to clean.

He opened up the saddle bag to see if anything was inside, there were a few pencils, a note book and another leaflet about the school saying 'Welcome to Ponyville High'. He then took his things upstairs to his room. Once in his room he looked around for something to bring with him. Crimson picked up his beloved Mr Wiggles and put him in his saddle bag holding back his excitement.

The next day Crimson woke up early (6:30AM) and rushed straight out of bed to his mother's room, almost tripping on the way there.

"C'mon mom, get up I have to get to school!" he began pushing his mother and she slowly started waking up. Crimson could hear a lot of muffled, tired noises but the only one he cared about was 'OK'. He ran back out of the room and down the stairs to the kitchen. Crimson probably set a record for fastest time to eat a bowl of cereal in the history of Equestria. Straight after he called for his mother to come down. He knew that school wouldn't start for an hour or so but since this was his first time in Ponyville he wanted to walk slowly and savoir everything. Crimson's mother was now in the kitchen too.

"Crimson, you do know that school doesn't start for another hour honey?." her eyes were slightly bloodshot probably due to her staying awake late at night.

"Yes I know mom its just that I would like to walk slowly and see the whole town." after hearing this she let out a small sigh and said "Oh very well my little pumpkin."

Crimson was ready to go off to school now, he had his saddle bag with all his things in, his mane was slightly combed and his tail was clean.

"OK mom shall we go now?"

"Only if your ready we will." she was fixing her hair in a mirror near the front door. Crimson quickly checked his bag again and said "Yes I'm ready."

They both walked to the door at the same speed and time. They then looked at each other, Crimson had a smile from ear to ear but his mom had a worried expression on her face. She slowly opened the door and a huge ray of light bursted inside making Crimson flinch and making him look away. His eye's had adjusted to the powerful light and he took his first step outside. The feeling of Crimson's hoof touching the gravel was amazing, he let out a small giggle and vaulted forward letting all his hooves touch the ground, he began to look around and saw a sign about 10 foot away saying 'Welcome to Ponyville'. He ran off to the large sign and touched it, still smiling like a 5 year old getting a puppy for Christmas.

"Hold on son, I thought you wanted to take it slow?" she said with a weak smile on her face.

"Sorry mom, I'm just so happy! Thank you so much!"

"It's alright son, I understand let me just catch up."

10 minutes later they were in Ponyville, Crimson had seen a bunch of new things for the first time like a bakery, a farm, a town in the clouds, a bouquet, a library in a tree and way more. He also saw a few ponies as well, they all seemed really nice and waved at him, some though looked quite shocked at the sight of an alicorn, Crimson didn't really notice though so he kept on walking and enjoying the day. He didn't understand why his mother didn't want him to come out here. When Crimson said he was going to take everything in he really meant it, he was looking at EVERYTHING, the ground, the sky, the ponies, the houses, the birds, the air, the everything and anything.

After a little while they finally arrived at the school, it was a giant building full with colors and shapes, windows were nearly everywhere so Crimson could still see the outside world once he was inside. There seemed to be a lot of different rooms in the school. Crimson looked around and saw a group of ponies sitting about 20 foot away (or is it hoof?), they were sitting under a large tree.

"Mom could I please go to those ponies over there please?"

"Ugh.......well.......alright Crimson, I'll go inside and tell the principle your here." Crimson's mom walked into the school and yet again Crimson was alone, but not for long.

He went on and walked to the group of ponies (3 to be exact) on his way over he got to see the back of the school, it was just like the front but with less windows and there was also a gigantic field with a race track and a place for hoofball. As he got closer to the group he could see them a little better. There were two young stallion pegasi and a very pretty unicorn. One of the stallions had brownish black skin and an army like haircut with a lightning cloud cutie mark. The other one had orange, spiky hair, yellow skin and a heart cutie mark. The very pretty mare had messy blue hair, white skin with a musical note cutie mark and also wore purple sunglasses.

Crimson could tell he was being noticed due to the whispering and looks, but that did not stop him from going over there. He was finally at the group bringing all his awkwardness with him, he totally froze up and couldn't say a thing, he was getting slightly embarrassed at the fact all of them were staring at him now.

"Um, hello?" the mare was the first to speak to him. "What do you want?"

"Oh, well ugh, I'm sort of new here and I just wanted to meet somepony before school started and well, I saw you guys so I just came to say 'Hi'....................hi."

Each of the ponies said hey or hi and Crimson felt a bit better.

"So can I like, sit with you ponies please?"

"Umm yeah sure, sit down." the two stallions parted and made room for Crimson.

"Thank you." he sat down and let himself get comfy, the grass was nice and soft. He was still felt blessed to be out here and feel the grass.

"My name's Crimson Fire, but you can just call me Crimson if you want." the mare smiled slightly and said "My name's Vinyl Scratch, but you can call me Vinyl. Hey your an alicorn! Cool. What does it feel like?"

"Oh thanks. Well for me it feels kinda normal really."

"I'm Thunderlane by the way." said the pony with an army haircut.

"And I'm..................Heartsworth." he put his head to the ground in shame, he must not like having a sort of girly name. "You can laugh if you like, I'm alright with it."

"Why would I do that? That would make you feel bad ultimately making me feel bad too." he lifted his head back up to see if Crimson was laughing, he wasn't, that made Heartsworth happy.

"Thanks dude."

"It's OK." Heartsworth looked at Crimson for a while until Vinyl broke the moment.

"Man you two love looking into each others eye's don't ya, Heartsworth are you gay?" he looked at Vinyl and shouted 'NO!'

"Okay dude, chill. What about you Crimson, are you gay?" Crimson didn't even know what gay meant let alone being it.

"Um well, I don't really know what that means" Crimson's face went even more red then before, but asking what gay meant was better than humiliating himself by saying the wrong answer. The group was giving him blank expressions, Vinyl started snickering to herself and told him what it meant.

"NO WAY, I LIKE MARES!, I DON'T LIKE...............guy's things." the three ponies started to laugh, not at Crimson just with him and even Crimson laughed as well. Crimson started to look around and saw loads of ponies starting to arrive, some went straight into the school but others talked outside.

"So guys when do we have to go inside?"

"In a few minutes I think." Thunderlane was the first to answer. Crimson was about to say thanks but he was interrupted by somepony.

"Looks like we've got another member in this little group of losers" the voice came from behind Crimson, it was a deep, taunting voice that made Crimson somewhat intimidated. Crimson turned around to find a large and tough stallion standing over him. He had a long blue mane and grey skin, his eyes were full of anger and pain (something Crimson hadn't seen yet) his cutie mark was what appeared to be a hoofball.

"So whats your name? Or do you just want me to call you Loser number 4?"

"My name is Crimson Fire, but you can call me Cri-" he was cut by the tall stallion.

"Yeah, yeah I don't care that much." the stallion rested his arm on Crimson's head, he could tell it slightly hurt Crimson due to his new facial expression."I'm RT and come to think of it I've never seen you around town before, where'd you come from anyway?"

Crimson didn't know what to say, should he make up a lie or would he tell him he was home schooled.

"I just ugh, moved here a few days ago." he was expecting RT to tell he was lying and show him up for it.

"Okay then, well I guess since your new here and everything there's a couple things you should know. Number 1, don't ever get in me or my gang's way or I'll destroy you. Number 2, don't ever hav-"

"Oh leave him alone RT, he's new." Vinyl was trying to stand up for Crimson. RT seemed ticked off, he was glaring at Vinyl with his terrible eyes but she wasn't backing down. "Will you please get outta here now, I'm sick of having to look at your ugly face."

RT was about to say something but didn't, he knew having a mare cry in front of everypony would make him look like an even bigger douche.

He then stormed off in a small strop, giving all the ponies around him dirty looks.

"Thanks for that Vinyl."

"Don't mention it dude, so where are you from anyway, oh wait let me guess." she put her hoof up to her chin and thought for a little while.

Wow, she actually stood up for me and I've only known her for about 5 minutes. Man I love the way she's done her hair, it's quite messy but it's also very nice.

"So am I right Crimson? Hey Crimson. CRIMSON!"

He snapped out of his little daydream to realize that Vinyl had been talking this whole time.

"Yeah, your absolutely right about..........that."

"Oh so you are from Manehatten."

"Yes I am, what did you think I wasn't listening or something?" the group laughed and Crimson felt happy, school hadn't even started yet and he'd already met some friends, laughed and found out what 'gay' meant.

"Hey Crimson isn't that your mom over there?" Thunderlane pointed over to the school and Crimson turned around to see. His mom was standing outside signaling him to come over to her.

"Yeah that's my mom, I think she wants me to come over there, well I guess I'll see you guys later." Crimson began to stand up and his new friends said goodbye. He turned and walked away still thinking about his new experience, mostly about Vinyl though. He was also thinking about his encounter with RT, he didn't realize it yet but RT was going to be Crimson's first ever bully. He was trying to concentrate on the good things though like the fact that there were dozens and dozens of different students now, some were depressed and just moped around not happy to be at school, some were excited and bounced everywhere, some were playing hoofball with each other.

"Looks like somepony made a few friends."

"Yep I sure did and there's tons of other ponies here so I'll make even more!" Crimson was getting more excited the more he talked.

"That's good honey, now the principle wants a quick word with you about your lessons OK."

"OK mom, I mean that is one of the reasons I came here."

Crimson and his mother walked to the front door of the school, the doors were huge, about the size of two fully grown ponies. Crimson insisted on opening the doors himself and his mother allowed it. Crimson pushed open the doors and saw his dreams come true. There were even more ponies in here than outside, again all of them different, lockers were also scattered around the place, the walls were painted a nice yellow and green. The school was like Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, twists and turns everywhere.

The two of them had finally made it to Mr Stronghoof's office, it stood out from the rest of the school because it was quite bland with photos of relatives and friends, but to say the least it was the cleanest place in the entire school, not a spec of dust in sight.

"Hello there Crimson, how ya feeling?" the principle spoke in a very kind, fun voice but Crimson knew if you got on his bad side he could really change. Mr Stronghoof was a quite tall stallion with a big grey beard and hair, he had dark orange skin and his cutie mark was a book.

"I'm feeling pretty good, sir."

"Well that's good Crimson, now down to business, this school prides itself to let students use all parts of there body and mind in education, meaning pegasi and unicorns have normal lessons such as Math, English, Science etc, but they also have lessons practicing there own abilities like flight and magic, we have taken in account that you can do both and we have created this very thought out times table." Mr Stronghoof gave the small timetable to Crimson and a big grin grew on his face. "It may be hard Crimson but if you accept, you will have the chance to learn, fly better and perform more advanced magic."

Crimson looked at his mother to see if she had anything to say, all she did was look at him awaiting for him to make an answer. For the very first time Crimson got to answer for himself and he was so happy to know it.

"Yes sir, I accept your offer. I will try my hardest to be the best student EVER!"

Mr Stronghoof laughed at how much excitement and happiness went into that sentence, his mother though only gave a soft smile to hide slight sadness of the realization that Crimson is starting to grow up.

"Well that's great Crimson, I hope you have a wonderful time at the school and remember, if you have any trouble come straight to me." Crimson smiled at Mr Stronghoof, believing that there would be no trouble at all. "If I'm correct, you have a flying lesson first."

Crimson looked at the timetable which was folded up into a neat square. He opened up the timetable and saw an array of different colors and blocks containing lessons, rooms and teachers. It seemed that the type of lessons were all color coded as well. The pegasi lessons were blue, unicorn lessons were red and normal lessons were yellow. It was a Monday so Crimson viewed the first set of blocks. Mr StrongHoof was correct, he had a pegasi lesson first.

Crimson and his mother were standing outside the principle's office looking at each other and smiling. Still there were ponies running around but there was a few getting to there lessons.

"Thank you mom, for everything. I love you." Crimson hugged her and she hugged him back.

"I love you too Crimson," she let go of her son and put on her serious face. "son I'll have to go now, but remember there is still time to change your mind and come back home with me."

"No way mom, I'm going to be fine here. I'm going to be fine and happy."

A loud bell rang out indicating that class was about to start. Ponies started to walk off to there lessons whiles others stood around a talked for longer.

"I hope you have a great day Crimson."

"I think I will mom."

They hugged one last time, a faint shout was heard from behind Crimson. Crimson turned around to see Thunderlane shouting him. He was smiling while saying it and made Crimson felt welcome.

"Yo Crimson! Do you want to walk to class with me!" Thunderlane shouted out.

"OK guys! Just give me a second." he turned back to face his mom.

"Goodbye mom, I love you."

"I love you too son, see you after school." she started to trot away, she felt like making Crimson come back with her, but she knew she had to let him go. He watched as his mother left the hallway, leaving Crimson by himself, he was happy.

"Hurry up Crimson! Were going to be late!" Crimson didn't want his new friends to angry with him so he ran over to them. The group wasn't that far away and only took a matter of seconds for Crimson to get there.

"So are you excited for the first lesson of this school ever." Crimson said. Thunderlane said 'not really' and Crimson felt a bit awkward.

"Oh, well I am."

They started to walk to the door leading them outside, they were heading to the field were they first met.

"I like your enthusiasm Crimson, your going to need it." Thunderlane nudged Crimson on the shoulder.

"Huh, what do you mean?"

"Well this school has a really hard flight course, with obstacles and hoops and way more dangerous stuff."

"Oh yeah I read about that in the leaflet, hey didn't somepony end up in hospital because of how tough the course was?" Crimson was starting to get worried.

"Yes they did, isn't it cool!"

"Well, if you say so."

Crimson was getting really scared now, he didn't want to be in hospital on his first day, he was also nervous by the fact that he couldn't fly yet. He knew he was scared but he was going to make himself try, he wanted to learn so badly. Crimson started to think.

OK well I'm really scared now, but I have to try, I mean really, what can go wrong?

Author's Note

If you have a funny idea or joke you would like to see in the story, mail me or put it in the comments and I may use it.

High Flyer

"What do you mean you can't fly!" Crimson and Thunderlane were standing just outside the field, it was surrounded by a giant, metallic net.

"I mean I can't fly, simple as that." Ponies were now starting to arrive at the field for there first pegasi lesson.

"Why can't you fly?" Crimson couldn't tell if Thunderlane was angry or confused, he kept changing the tone of his voice, not knowing how to tackle the situation.

"I don't know I just didn't really get around to it."

"What do you mean you didn't get around to it, it's not like a book you didn't get around to reading, it's being able to feel the wind rushing through your mane and seeing the world in a new way, it's just like the best feeling ever."

Crimson was thinking of what to do, it took him a little while but he came up with an idea.

"Hey! Why don't you quickly teach me!" Thunderlane was left speechless for a moment.

"What?!"

"You could teach me just how to hover for now, I'll figure out the rest later."

"Did you not hear me a few minutes ago? They have one of the hardest flight courses in Equestria!"

"Oh please Thunderlane, it'll only take a second, please."

Thunderlane was considering what his answer would be, he didn't want to be late for the first lesson of school but he also didn't want his new friend to be humiliated by all the other ponies in the class for not knowing how to fly.

"Well.........OK. But we have to be quick."

"Thank you Thunderlane!" Crimson went for a hug but was pushed away.

"Whoa dude, let's just hoof bump."

Thunderlane extended his right hoof out to Crimson and at first he didn't know what to do, he remembered seeing something like this in town. Crimson accepted Thunderlane's offer and softly punched his hoof.

"So the first thing you want to do is focus, focusing is the most important thing you have to do, no must do." Thunderlane opened up his wings and started to flap them. He began to lift himself of the ground, he was then floating just above Crimson.

"You know, that does look pretty fun."

"What did I just say about focus?"

"OK, sorry."

Crimson started to really focus now, he closed his eyes and concentrated.

"Go on, continue."

"You must let every bad and scared feeling go, you must think hard of only the good things in your life and focus them into your wings."

Crimson started to have good, happy thoughts. He was thinking of things like his mom, school, dreams and memories. He began to feel a tingling sensation in his stomach, but it was only small. Out of nowhere a new thought appeared in his head, he was thinking of Vinyl Scratch, the feeling inside of him grew, and also moved from his stomach to his heart. He had never felt such an emotion before. Crimson's wings were starting to erect and grow larger, they were nearly fully upright now.

Crimson opened his eyes to see Thunderlane smiling at him.

"Yeah Crimson! You did it!"

Crimson turned around to see his wing's, they looked strong and powerful. A large smirk grew on Crimson's little face.

"I did it, I can't believe it!" He then tried moving them, he was successful, moving them was just like 2nd nature to Crimson now. He could flap them in different ways, only the left, only the right, both, he could move them in anyway he desired.

"I want to try and fly now. Am I ready?"

"Yeah, yeah sure, you just have to be quick." He was peering over the tall net. "The whole class is nearly there."

Crimson proceeded to move his wing's at a growing speed, they were getting faster and faster, Crimson was starting to feel lighter as well, his hooves were beginning to float of the ground. Crimson was now completely off the floor but was still focusing. He was about 5 feet of the ground now and was still rising, after a few moments he was at the exact height of Thunderlane.

"Dude, hurry up there waiting for us." Thunderlane cocked his head to where Crimson was standing to see if he was flying yet, he was amazed and startled at seeing Crimson flying right next him. He had a massive smile stretching from one side of his face to the other.

"Oh jeez, you scared me!"

"You were right Thunderlane! It does feel good!"

"That's great Crimson, now we just have to sneak in with class."

Crimson gazed off to the middle of the field and saw about ten students lined up in an orderly fashion, in front of them was a tall mare talking to the class, it seemed the students were afraid of her, none were talking, none were messing about, they were like soldiers in the army. She started to walk to a nearby shed to get equipment for the activity they were about to do.

"Look, there's our chance. Let's go!"

Thunderlane put all of his hooves on the top of the gate and vaulted forward, he sped to the class and Crimson was left alone (yet again). He did as Thunderlane had and put all of his hooves on the gate, he jumped forward and his wing's sprouted and begun to flap. Crimson nearly fell to the floor but pulled himself up just in time. He kept his balance and flew towards the class. Crimson felt the wind rushing through his mane, it was the best feeling ever.

Crimson didn't want to be in trouble and tried to fly faster, he was gaining on Thunderlane, who was only fractions in front of him, they could see the teacher coming out of the shed with a strange cannon like device, the two stallions looked at each other knowing they would be caught, luckily though she went back inside to grab something else. Crimson and Thunderlane sped up and were so close to the class now, Thunderlane went full throttle and was now way in front of Crimson.

Thunderlane slowed down and safely landed at the class, the entire class glared at him, they all promised to not say anything to the teacher. Thunderlane looked back to see Crimson coming closer and closer, he couldn't react quick enough and was directly hit by an incoming Crimson Fire missile, the two toppled over one on top of the other. They were in a lot of pain but swiftly put that to one side when they heard the teacher getting closer. The class were still watching and giggling at the sight of two large stallions lying on top of each other.

"Dude, get off me!" Thunderlane pushed Crimson off and they both hastily lined up with all the other ponies.

The teacher trotted out of the shed and gave Crimson and Thunderlane odd looks but shrugged them off. They were trying to hide the fact they were lightly sweating and were heavily breathing. She was carrying a big brown bag with green tennis balls inside.

With Crimson and Thunderlane now here the class contained twelve students, some had taken their attention off the two late studs and were once again focused on the teacher, but others were still amazed at the sight of an alicorn. The teacher had a dark blue coat and was wearing a purple jacket, the jacket had a name tag on and said 'Mrs Ports', her cutie mark was a white hurdle.

"Now class, you may know this already but this right here is a tennis ball machine and that over there, is the finish line." Mrs Ports pointed to a white line painted on the ground quite far away. "Your objective is to reach it before one of these tennis ball's do." The teacher was met with mixed reactions, some were excited and were ready to go but others groaned and wanted the lesson to be over.

5 minutes later the class were standing 50 feet away from the finish line awaiting there name to be called. Crimson was looking at all the students in the class and thinking how different they all were. On his right was Thunderlane preparing himself and on his left was a light blue mare with a multi colored mane and tail, her eyes were a mix of red and purple and she had a lightning cloud cutie mark, the lightning bolt was also multi-colored.

Crimson didn't know it but while he was glaring at her cutie mark, she was looking at him too.

"Um dude, do you mind not staring at my butt please?" Crimson instantly brought his eye's the the mare.

"Oh no! I'm not staring at you I was just looking at your cutie mark."

"OK well, that's understandable. I mean it is pretty awesome isn't it?"

"Yes it is. How did you get it?"

"Well the story's way too cool, it'll probably blow your mind by how great it is. I'm Rainbow Dash by the way." Crimson was quite happy by how fast he had got a new friend without even trying.

"My name's Crimson Fire, but you can call me Crimson if you like." They both extended their hooves and hoof bumped.

Crimson and Rainbow Dash talked for a while until they noticed nearly everypony in the class were 50 feet away, at the finish line. The two ponies begun to stretch and get ready, they heard different name's being shouted out followed by large bang's from the tennis ball machine.

"Rainbow Dash!" Mrs Ports screamed. "3....2....1.... GO!"

The tennis ball machine spat out a small green circle and Rainbow Dash leaped forward with tons of power and speed, she was obviously faster than Thunderlane and Crimson. For a couple of milliseconds the tennis ball was in front of Rainbow Dash, but she pulled through and made it to the finish line first. The rest of the class were applauding her and patting her on the back.

Crimson and Thunderlane were the last two ponies to go.

"Thunderlane! 3....2....1....GO!"

Thunderlane shot through the air and tried his hardest to reach the finish line before the tennis ball. He was speeding through the air, fighting the wind, but sadly Thunderlane made it to the finish line after the ball.

Crimson knew it was his turn now since he was the last one there, he was once again worried but like last time he just focused.

"Crimson Fire! 3....2....1....GO!"

The ball shot out of the machine and flew to the finish line where everyone was waiting. He extended his wing's and jumped into the air like all the others, his wing's started to move up and down, Crimson was picking up speed at a good rate and was gaining on the tennis ball.

The tennis ball hit the ground with a loud thud and followed was Crimson, he was sad that he didn't get there first but was still happy he didn't crash this time. He got to the finish line in great time though, he was even slightly faster than Thunderlane.

"I have to admit Crimson, that was pretty good." Thunderlane offered a hoof bump to Crimson and he accepted.

"Well done guys." Mrs Ports had walked up to them. "I do think you would've have gone faster if you arrived on time though."

"Sorry Mrs, I had to help Crimson."

"It's alright guys, just don't do it again."

For the rest of the lesson, they talked about things like how to fly faster and without getting tired and stuff like that. Another bell rang out and the class was dismissed, the next lesson they had was a red one, it was Math. Crimson walked with Thunderlane to there next lesson and on the way there they got to know a lot of thing's about each other; there hope's, dream's and past. Crimson didn't tell Thunderlane about being home schooled though, he was sort of embarrassed.

Crimson and Thunderlane were lining up outside their next class, Music. Once again Crimson looked at the array of different students. While he was eyeing up the class he noticed Vinyl and Heartsworth at the back of the line. Crimson decided to go talk to them, he casually stepped out of the line and walk to his friend's. They saw Crimson and gave him warm smile's.

"Hi Crimson. I was just telling Heartsworth about my time at a Knife Pony concert, they played some sick song's like Destroy Them With Laces and Campfire, oh and not to forget Mail Friends." Crimson didn't understand a single word Vinyl said but still pretended he did.

"Yeah I uh, love those songs."

"Oh you like dubstep?" She was happily surprised at Crimson's little white lie.

"Yeah definitely, I just love, dubstep."

"You know I dabble a little in the mystical ways of dubstep." Vinyl was talking about dubstep as if it were a holy gift and the more she went on the more Crimson got interested.

"Maybe I could show you if I get the chance?"

"OK, that would be grea-"

"Settle down now class, it's time to go inside." The teacher unlocked the door, opened it and the class were allowed in. The teacher was standing outside still, examining everypony. When Crimson walked past he saw the teacher fully. He was a unicorn with long brown hair and a yellow coat, his cutie mark was a guitar, he was also wearing a green, flowery shirt.

Inside the classroom were about thirty different instruments ranging from drums to pianos to trumpets. there was a large whiteboard at the back of the room, there were some table spaced out around the room also, everypony went with there instincts and sat on a table with their friend's.

Crimson went to a table on the far left of the room, on his table was Vinyl, Thunderlane and Heartsworth. Crimson noticed Rainbow Dash on another table as well. She was sitting with very different ponies; one looked shy, one was laughing, one was reading. They were all different.

"OK class, my name is Mr E and I know some of you may be a little scared since it's your first day here, so I think we should break that fear and just have fun!" The pink mare on Rainbow Dash's table screamed 'Yay'. "Just for today, you guys can just try out all my lovely instrument's." The entire class copied the pink pony and screamed in happy delight.

The whole class got up and ran to the instrument they most desired, Crimson looked around and saw a lonely drum kit, with no one on it, sitting in the corner, he decided to go and have a try.

Crimson arrived at the instrument and sat down, he was completely clueless of how to play but he did see two drum sticks with small dents in them. Crimson put two and two together and thought about whacking the sticks on the drum. He put one of the sticks vertically in his mouth, lifted his head and slammed it down. An awesome sound occurred as the stick made contact with the drum.

Crimson was about to smash every part of the drum kit but a familiar face appeared.

"Get lost, I'm going on those drums." It was RT, his eye's were still full of anger.

"Well this lesson lasts for an hour so I think we'll both be able to have a go."

"I don't care care. Get off." Crimson was getting scared.

"I've only been here for like, five seconds though."

"Again, I don't care! Buck off!"

"What does that mean?"

"What!? Are you 'special'?"

"Well yeah, I kinda think I'm special. You probably are too." Out of nowhere Heartsworth ran over and tried to help Crimson.

"Whoa! Crimson, I think I've found you an even better instrument than this crappy old thing. Come with me."

"But I was here first."

"Please dude, just come with me." Crimson slowly stepped away from the drums and went with Heartsworth. RT stared at Crimson with his evil eyes while claiming the right to the drums.

Crimson and Heartsworth were standing in the middle of the room talking.

"So Heartsworth, wheres this cool instrument you we're talking about?"

"There isn't one, I just didn't want you to have you're face smashed."

"What?"

"Look. I went to middle school with RT, so just trust me when I say 'Don't mess with him'." Heartsworth walked away, leaving Crimson in the center of the room.

Crimson didn't want to be lonely so he went over to Vinyl who was messing around with a giant set of turntables, they were attached to huge speakers, but it seemed that Vinyl was wearing headphones.

"Hey Crimson, how ya doin'?"

"I'm fine." He didn't want to tell Vinyl about him getting forced off the drums. "What about you?"

"I'm alright. Hey do you wanna hear this quick mix I made." She took off hear headphones and offered them to Crimson and he took them, he placed the headphones over his ears.

Vinyl begun pushing buttons and turned dials. Crimson could hear some quiet noises and a beat, slowly the sounds got louder and louder until they stayed at a calm pace. The sounds were quite relaxing but they were beginning to get angrier and then everything went silent, Crimson couldn't hear anything, but that all changed when the bass drop kicked in and Crimson got a taste of real dubstep. Crimson had never heard anything like it before, it was so angry and violent. Crimson's ears were nearly bleeding so he took the headphones off.

"So what do you think?" Vinyl asked.

What Crimson was thinking: "Oh my Celestia! My ear's! It hurts so much!"

What Crimson said: "That was amazing, you should be a professional."

"Aw thanks, that's really sweet." Vinyl was now trying to stop herself from blushing. She put her headphones back on and proceeded to 'work'.

For the rest of the lesson Crimson went around watching everypony play their instrument's and even got to join in sometimes.

It was now recess and Crimson, Vinyl, Heartsworth and Thunderlane were walking around the school. They came across RT stuffing two ponies into trash cans. Once they were fitted in tightly RT walked away, no pony did anything, they just kept their head's down and walked away.

"How terrible." Crimson said. "What did they do?" Vinyl was the first to answer.

"Dude, how would we know? We all arrived at the same time as you."

"Well I'm going over there to help."

Crimson walked over to the two trash cans, the weird thing was neither one of the ponies were struggling to get out.

"Is he gone yet?" They were obviously talking to each other.

"How am I supposed to know?"

"Well you could have like, super senses or something."

"Oh shut up dude." Crimson had finally arrived at the trash cans.

"Do you guys want some help? RTs gone."

"If your offering, we would like some help."

Crimson managed to get both ponies out, one of the stallion's had a blue coat, long olive like hair and didn't have a cutie mark. The other had a dark yellow coat and was wearing a red woolie hat covering his hair and ear's, he also didn't have a cutie mark.

"Thanks, Crimson. My name's Rail." The one with the woolie hat said. Vinyl, Thunderlane and Heartsworth had walked up to see what had happened.

"Rail? What's that short for?" Heartsworth asked.

"It's short for Railby, which is short for Railby Getsum, which is short for Railby.P.Getsum, which is short for-"

"OK Rail, we don't need your entire family tree. My name's Jet."

"What did you do to get RT angry like that?

"I didn't do anything." Jet said. "It was Rail's fault."

"No it wasn't!.................OK maybe it was. I accidentally bumped into his girlfriend, Lyra Heartstrings."

"You got stuffed into a trash can because you only bumped into her?"

"I kinda bumped into her from behind." The group was confused.

"What exactly do you mean 'from behind'."

"Well my head was facing the ground 'cause I was looking at the patterns on the ground and she was standing up directly in front of me, so my head kinda, hit her in the butt."

The whole group understood and even laughed a bit.

"Geez, this makes me think of so many questions." Vinyl said. "How deep did you go? Are you gonna wash that hat? What did it feel like? What did she say?" None of the questions were answered due to Rail being slightly embarrassed.

Yet another bell went off and everypony went to their lessons, Crimson went to his next class which was Math and he actually caught on quite fast, he learned how to divide fractions by their common terminator or something like that. The lesson went really fast considering it was Crimson's first ever Math lesson, before he knew it, it was time for lunch and Crimson was lining up to get some.

The cafeteria was situated in a massive hall where teacher's make big announcements and for indoor sports. The walls were full of posters telling ponies how to eat properly and stuff. The hall was full of ponies and was very noisy, there were also tables everywhere with ponies sitting by them. There was a stage at the end of the hall as well, preferably for Drama. There were two lines to get food in, there was the 'normal' line which served anything and then there was the 'healthy' line, which served salads and water. (That line was basically empty)

Crimson was standing in the 'normal' line with Rail, they were talking about things like lessons, music, life and food.

"Hey I was wondering." Rail said with a soft tone. "Are we friends?"

"Yeah, of course we are."

"Cool! I've never had an alicorn friend before. Well to be honest, I don't really have a lot of friends."

"Oh, why not?"

"I don't really know, ponies say I have the attention span of a goldfish or something like tha- oh look pizza!"

Crimson and Rail were now at the front of the line and they could see all the food; pizza, cakes, chocolate, slushies and more junk food that'll make you obese in seconds. Crimson hadn't really eaten food like this before, his mother always gave him very healthy foods and rarely had any junk.

Crimson grabbed a plate and begun ordering food from the lunch mare.

Five minutes later Crimson was sitting down at a table with all his friends, Heartsworth was probably the only one with salad. The entire table was surprised to see an average sized stallion have enough food to feed a family of ten.

After their lunch, everypony went and waited for their lesson due to boredom. Crimson and Vinyl were standing outside English class talking about important things.

"Hey Crimson, did you know, some frogs can be frozen, thawed out and still survive?"

"I did not know that."

"Well you two surely are early birds." The teacher trotted up behind them and gave them a small shock. She was a tall mare with large blue hair curled neatly pulled back with a bobble. She had a pink coat map for a cutie mark.

"You do know there's still ten minutes of lunch left, right?"

"Yeah, but there's nothin' to do." Vinyl said not trying to be rude.

"Well if you want, you two could help me get all the books ready." She said it in a way which didn't sound like a question but a demand.

Crimson and Vinyl followed the teacher inside and placed work books around every table. The room was full of posters with witty phrases you would only find in an English class. The teacher went to sit at her desk, her name was on the front, it said 'Miss Starlet'.

The good thing about putting all the books on the tables was that Crimson and Vinyl could choose where everypony sat. They put RT's book on a table full of whiny mares and Crimson put his book on the table with all of his friends.

The lesson went quite smoothly with Miss Starlet being funny and nice. In the lesson, the class went around reading a book called 'The Pony Whisperer'. A weird thing that Crimson noticed was that ponies that chewed gum would sometimes stick it under the table. Well at least it's another lesson he learned today, never to feel under the table.

The next lesson Crimson had was Geography, he learned about the seven wonders of Equestria, it was all beautiful. At one point Crimson noticed a large map of Equestria, when Crimson saw it, he felt happy to know there was still a huge world to explore and enjoy.

Once Geography had finished Crimson started to walk out of the class with Vinyl, there was a large crowd of ponies leaving the room and Crimson accidentally knocked into Vinyl, her skin felt warm and soft, she always acted tough but Crimson knew she was a softie underneath. When he bumped into her, he also knocked her glasses a bit, he was pretty sure he saw some red.

They reached the safety of the hallway and went to History class to pick up Thunderlane and Heartsworth. After they were all together they went back outside to walk home.

They were mixed in with all different sorts of ponies while walking to get out of school, there were ponies that could easily blend in with teachers and then there were ponies that looked about five years old. After nearly drowning in a sea of ponies, the four friends made it out of Ponyville High. They were all standing just outside the school.

"So I guess I'll see you guys tomorrow then." Crimson exclaimed.

"See you later Crimson." Heartsworth said. Vinyl and Thunderlane said bye as well, they walked off together.

Crimson looked around for his mom and saw her standing by the school gates; she looked kind of worried. Crimson ran over to her and said hi. Before she said anything, she put her hoof to Crimson's face and checked for bruises or cuts, she was relived when she couldn't find any. Once her little search was over she hugged Crimson.

"Did you have a good day at school, honey?"

"Yeah, I had an amazing day!"

"That's great Crimson, now if anypony hurt you today, you would tell me wouldn't you?" Crimson was thinking about telling her about RT but he didn't want her to worry, so he didn't.

"I promise, mom."

On the way back home, Crimson told his mom about his day and also showed her his new ability to fly. She was so proud of him, for a split second she thought of school being a good thing, but she remembered her secret and the thought was pushed aside.

Crimson walked in the front door of his home and gently placed his saddlebag in the closet. For the rest of the day Crimson talked about his day again, cleaned his room and went in the backyard for a while.

Crimson was now in bed and his mom was standing over him. She was kissing his forehead and tucking him in.

"I love you Crimson, I'm happy you had a great day."

"I'm happy as well mom. I love you too by the way." She kissed him one last time and left the room.

Crimson was lying in bed reflecting on his day, he was so happy.

Wow, that was a great day. I can't wait for tomorrow. I get to learn more new things, go outside and even see Vinyl again. I really like her.

Author's Note

If you have a funny idea or joke you would like to see in the story, mail me or put it in the comments and I may use it.

Game On

In his bed, Crimson slowly opened his eye's, he cocked his head to the left to see his mom sitting a few feet away, holding one of his toy's; she looked sad.

"Mom?" Crimson said with a gravely voice.

"Oh! Morning honey." She quickly put the toy down and walked over to Crimson's bed. "I was going to wake you up, sorry."

"It's OK mom, I love you." She put her right hoof on Crimson's head and softly brushed his hair; he smiled. Crimson removed the bed sheet and hopped out of bed. Crimson and his mom walked downstairs. They didn't rush as much as yesterday, they slowed down a bit and ate breakfast together, once the both of them had had their cereal and a quick wash, they begun to walk to Ponyville High.

Unlike yesterday, the sun wasn't out at all, there were dark clouds hovering above Ponyville; it was probably going to rain. Crimson was still extremely happy to be outside. Since Crimson had left the house later this time, he could see more ponies walking to school. He felt just like one of them, he felt like he wasn't that different anymore. In the distance, Crimson could see Vinyl walking to school; all by herself. It was quite sad to see somepony being all alone with all these ponies around.

Crimson wanted to go over there and give her company but was slightly embarrassed about being with his mom while everypony else was with their friends.

"Mom, do you see that mare over there?" He pointed to Vinyl.

"Yes I see her. What about her."

"Well she's my friend and she's all alone. So is it alright if I walk with her to school?"

"That's fine dear. Let's go over there right now." Before she could take one step forward, she was pushed back by Crimson.

"No mom, I mean like, just me and her." Crimson felt kinda bad for his mom when her smile turned to a frown. She looked down to the ground.

"Oh, are you sure?"

"Yeah, mom."

"OK honey. I'll see you after school, then. I love you."

"Oh, mom. Would it also be alright if I could walk back home with my friends too?"

"Well............Fine, but don't be late."

"I promise, mom." Crimson hugged his mom and she hugged back. She then turned and begun her travel back home, she was fighting back tears; she didn't want Crimson to feel bad.

Unknowing of his mothers feeling's, he ran off to see Vinyl. He quickly caught up with her and said 'Hi'.

"Hey Crimson. How ya feelin'?"

"I'm doing good. Is it all right if I walk with you?"

"Sure. Are you excited for your first game of hoofball today?" Crimson had heard of hoofball before but never played it.

"I've never really played it."

"Then your in for a real treat, it's really fun. Too bad I can't play, I have to go into the girl group where we do boring stuff."

"Why can't you just come into our group?"

"I dunno. They're probably just sexist or something." Not knowing what 'sexist' meant, Crimson just nodded his head in agreement.

On their way to Ponyville High they met up with Thunderlane and Heartsworth. They all talked about what they did after school. Vinyl had listened to music, Thunderlane read some of his comic books and Heartsworth went to see his grandmother.

"What did you do Crimson?" Heartsworth asked. Crimson hadn't really done anything so he quickly made something up on the spot.

"Oh, I ugh, listened to music while I read comics at my grandma's............." It was hard for Crimson to talk about his grandmother because he'd never seen her, hell he didn't even know if he had one. The only family he knew was his mother. They all gave Crimson confused looks but quickly shrugged them off.

They had arrived at the school now and the group were just in time for their first lesson. They headed to the field where Crimson had learned to fly. It was covered in mud. Mrs Ports was teaching the class again which was good since she was kind and Crimson found her funny.

Most of the class was already there, Crimson saw that they were all helping Mrs Ports set up the hoofball match. The game looked quite strange, ponies were moving around and standing in specific places wearing colored T-shirts showing which team they were on: Red team or Blue.

Crimson looked around and saw all the mares situated to the far right of the field, they were wearing cheerleader costumes and dancing around. Crimson noticed a very embarrassed mare that wasn't joining in with the rest, it was Vinyl. (She was still wearing the costume though). All the stallions were whistling to them as well, Crimson tried copying but only got evil looks from the studs.

Seeing all the mares dressed up like that made Crimson feel kind of strange; something that he hadn't felt before. He couldn't explain it, but he did know it felt sorta good. He didn't know what to do with the feeling so he tried to ignore it.

It was beginning to rain and Crimson didn't know if they were still going to play, he went to Mrs Ports to ask. She was going into a small shelter with a long bench inside, she was accompanied by a smaller pony who's leg was in white cast. The small stallion had a light blue coat and long yellow hair. His cutie mark was a yin-yang symbol.

"Oh, hi Crimson." Mrs Ports said. "Would you mind looking after Cross for me?"

"Oh, Sure." Crimson took a seat next to Cross, he looked sorta sad. Mrs Ports seemed to be going off to split up two stallions that were fighting.

"You don't have to sit here if you don't wanna, I don't really care."

"Nah, I don't mind. How did you do that?" He pointed to the cast. He seemed like he didn't want to talk about it.

"My name's Crimson Fire, but you can call me Crimson if you like." He extended his right hoof for a hoof bump. Crimson was left hanging, all Cross did was nod his head.

"I've never seen you around Ponyville before, where ya from?"

"I'm, uh, from Manehatten."

"Cool, I've always wanted to go there. I was born here." Crimson and Cross were watching Mrs Ports shouting at RT and somepony he was fighting. The scary thing was that they had fought for ten seconds and RT had given the other pony a black eye and a nose bleed; RT was unharmed.

"I hate RT." Cross said depressingly.

"C'mon Cross. I'm pretty sure you don't hate him."

"No, I really do. You didn't go to my middle school."

"What did he do?"

"A lot of things really, they were all bad. I don't know why but anytime he does anything to me I just let him. I can't stand up for myself."

"Why don't you tell somepony? Like a teacher."

"There's no point. All the teachers say that they'll fix the problem, but they don't." Crimson was finally realizing what school was like, it wasn't all sunshine and daisies. It was a tough place.

"Why does he do things like that anyway?"

"Well he makes fun of me because this one time in middle school my mom came in drunk. I felt like dying that day, it was so embarrassing."

"OK class! Come here please." Mrs Ports screamed.

"Looks like you have to go now." Crimson slowly got up and begun walking to the teacher. He turned around while walking away to say some final words to Cross.

"Don't worry buddy. If anything happens, just call and I'll try and help." Cross said goodbye and even smiled as well.

Crimson made his way to Mrs Ports like the rest of the class, it was now raining and to Crimson it felt great. The small drops of water splashing on his body and hair making him drenched made Crimson happy. The other students didn't think the same as Crimson, even the mares had gone under a shelter like the one Crimson was in.

Everypony was now standing near Mrs Ports, Crimson was standing with Heartsworth.

"Alright class today were playing a little hoofball." She had to slightly raise her voice due to the rain and wind. "I'm going to explain how to play just in case somepony doesn't know." Mrs Ports looked at Crimson when she said that.

"Aw c'mon, everypony knows how to play." Thunderlane said from the crowd.

"Thunderlane. Shut it." Everypony laughed at Mrs Ports little comeback.

"The aim of the game is for a single pony to take this hoofball," She lifted up a hoofball with both of hooves. It was a perfect circle with the colors red and blue. "and try and get it into that hole over there." Just like when she pointed to the finish line yesterday, she pointed to a small hole in the ground a few yards away. "The only rule is that if you have wings or a horn, your not allowed to use them.

"How do we get the hoofball off the other pony?" Crimson questioned, a couple ponies chuckled at him.

"Good question Crimson. You can get the hoofball by any means necessary." She gave a little evil smirk once she had said it. Mrs Ports took ten steps away from the group and shouted 'Are you ready?!'

"But wait, what if one of us gets injured?" Crimson's question was unanswered. Mrs Ports blew her whistle and threw the hoofball, it went flying towards the hole at the end of the field. It respectfully landed at the halfway point.

"Go!" Suddenly everypony started running to the hoofball. Crimson was left behind.

"Well go then!" Crimson was shocked and quickly looked at the herd of ponies running from him. He didn't want to make Mrs Ports angry so he decided to just try it and play. He sped off, trying to catch up with the other ponies. Surprisingly, he caught up with them pretty fast.

He was now a part of the herd and he saw the hoofball only a few meters away, everypony was determined to grab the hoofball. They were all shouting and drenched from the rainwater.

Somepony dived for the ball and successfully managed to scoop it up, but that success lasted for about a nanosecond as another pony tackled him straight to the ground.

"Thunderlane!" Crimson yelled. Thunderlane was running next to him. "I don't think I can tackle somepony like that."

"Well your gonna have to if you don't wanna get tackled yourself." He quickly charged into the pony with the ball and it went flying into the air. There was a scramble to get but the one to catch it was RT, no pony tried to take it from him. He just stood there holding the ball with a smirk on his smug face.

"So, which one of you wimps are gonna try taking this ball from me?" No pony did anything, they all just stood there staring at RT. They were all afraid.

RT threw the ball straight up in the air. He took his eyes of everypony and just gazed at the high flying ball. Bad mistake. He wasn't paying attention and got tackled by a certain orange alicorn. RT got knocked back and the ball had smashed back into the ground, it took the rest of the class a moment to confirm what Crimson had done, once the moment was over they went back to fighting for the hoofball. RT was pissed.

Crimson and RT slowly got off the ground and looked at each other, Crimson hadn't realized what he had done.

"Sorry about that." Crimson said calmly. "Thunderlane said I should if I didn't want to be-"

"You just made a bad choice, dickhead." RT ran off to get the ball again, he knocked into Crimson on the way making him fall to the ground. When he hit the ground, he just quietly laughed at the fact that RT had said 'dick'. Crimson stood up and ran towards the crowd of ponies.

The ball was thrown into air again and Crimson went for it, he dived through the herd and snatched the ball. He was squeezing the ball close his chest. Crimson was stoked that he had easily got the hoofball, in fact he was just stoked to have had the ball. The hoofball felt hard, if it was thrown at somepony it would really hurt.

"I got it! I got it! I got i-" RT slammed straight into him and he was struck into the ground. RT got up and stood over Crimson.

"Sorry about that." He said sarcastically. RT had obviously put more power and strength into his tackle than Crimson had. For the first time at Ponyville High, Crimson was in pain, nothing too serious, but still pain. RT's shoulder had directly connected with Crimson's stomach and he got slight whiplash from smashing into the mud. The herd ran off and continued to play their game, leaving Crimson to wallow in the mud. Crimson coughed and tried to block out the pain, he didn't want to play anymore.

Crimson slowly got back up and wiped some of the mud of of him, he looked around and saw all the mares under a shelter, some dancing around and others just sitting down and talking. He saw Vinyl sitting on a bench; alone. Crimson was kind of scared of RT right now and didn't really want to 'meet up' with him again so he decided to go and see Vinyl.

Crimson begun walking across the field, his hooves were now completely covered with mud, he liked how soft and wet the mud was, it was nice. The only bad point was that he was slightly limping. He noticed the male teacher talking to another teacher outside the shelter, they were speaking of confidential things like test results, new students and which teacher had the best ass.

Crimson arrived just outside the shelter and was given confused looks from everypony, except for Vinyl.

"Hey Crimson, d'you wanna sit with me?" Crimson took Vinyl's offer and trotted inside the shelter, most of the mares moved out of the way, not wanting to get wet or muddy. He took a seat next to Vinyl who made room for him on the bench.

"So, why aren't you playin' hoofball?"

"I got knocked over by RT."

"Is that it?."

"Well some stuff happened and I think he's ticked off with me."

"Oh he's ticked off with nearly everypony."

"So why aren't you dancing?"

"I don't want to! It's degrading." She pulled the skirt down a bit covering more of her hind legs which was weird because about ten minutes ago, she wasn't wearing anything. "This outfit is so stupid."

"I think you look beautiful." As soon as the words left Crimson's mouth, he blushed bright red. It must have embarrassed Vinyl too 'cause she blushed as well. An awkward silence occurred between the two ponies because they couldn't think of anything to say to each other. Crimson tried to break the silence by asking if it were going to stop raining. He didn't get an answer.

After a terribly awkward fifteen minutes of sitting with Vinyl, the bell rung out. All the mares went inside to take off the cheer leading costumes. Crimson managed to slip out without being noticed by the teacher. He sneaked into his group without anypony noticing. They were asked to quickly wash the mud and dirt off of them before their next lesson, they had Home Economics.

The locker room was full of ponies, the whole place was quite large so they had enough room to move around. While inside the locker room, Crimson met up with Heartsworth, he wanted to talk about what he said to Vinyl.

"You said she looked, what?!"

"Beautiful, I said she looked beautiful. It just slipped out!"

"Something like that doesn't just slip out."

"Yeah well it just did."

"She'll probably forget about it."

"Really?"

"Yeah. It's not that important."

Crimson felt slightly better, he was happy that Heartsworth didn't laugh at him, well not a lot.

Crimson and Heartsworth arrived at their Home Economics class late by just a few minutes. The class was quite large with small counters for people to cook on. At the front of the classroom was a large blackboard with a recipe on it. There was a big drawn picture of a drink next to the ingredients. Next to the blackboard was the teachers desk with a little sign that read: Mr Hectare. He had short black hair and a beard. He had a silver coat and a bunch of numbers as his cutie mark (I guess his destiny was wrong).

"Good morning class, My name is Mr Hectare. Today we're going to be making a fruit punch, there are a few fruits and a juicer on everypony's table. As a small test today, I want to put you students into pairs at random so you can make some new friends." Most of the class groaned and whined, but Crimson thought it was a great idea. "I'm going to call out the pairs now and I don't want any moaning."

"OK Carrot Top your with Vinyl Scratch, Derpy Hooves your with Noteworthy, Thunderlane your paired with Bon-Bon, Crimson Fire your with Rarity, Caramel your paired up with Lyra and finally Heartsworth your with Colgate."

The class moved around to there partners and got there fruits ready, Crimson was the only one without a partner, he didn't even know what Rarity looked like. Crimson looked around the classroom and saw that everypony was beginning to make their drinks.

While he was looking around, Crimson didn't notice a mare walk up to him. She gently tapped him on the shoulder. Crimson turned to see a white coated mare, her face was covered in zits and spots, she was also wearing braces that gave her a lisp. Her hair was quite messy and she wore glasses.

"Are you Crimthon Fire?" She pronounced her 'S's as 'Th's.

"Oh, uh, yeah I'm Crimson Fire but you can call me Crimson if you like. Take a seat." He politely pulled out the chair next to him. Rarity took the offer and sat down next to him.

"Which fruit do you want to uthe?" Crimson was trying not to smile. It was terrible of him but he couldn't help finding it funny.

"I don't really know. What about the oranges?"

"Oh I don't really like orangeth." Crimson couldn't help himself, he accidentally chuckled. "I'm so sorry."

"It'th OK, I know it thoundth thilly."

Crimson felt really bad, he had an idea of how to make her feel better but didn't want to do it. He looked at her, she was frowning, it made him feel ten times worse.

"OK, so I've made you feel stupid so I guess it's my turn." Crimson dug around in his saddlebag which was by his hind legs. He took Mr Wiggles out and put him on the table.

"This is my teddy bear Mr Wiggles, I've had him since I was two and he goes anywhere with me. Sometimes when I can't get to sleep I cuddle up with him and pretend he hugs me back." Rarity put on a large smile and giggled, she had a cute little giggle.

"Really?"

"Yep. You wanna hold him?" Crimson gave the teddy bear to Rarity and she begun playing with it, she made it walk and made it wave at Crimson. They both laughed, Crimson and Rarity felt better.

"C'mon, let's make some fruit punch." He took Mr Wiggles back and put him in his saddlebag.

Crimson and Rarity made a fruit punch with strawberries, apples, kiwis and grapes. It tasted like crap, but they had fun making it.

During recess, Crimson played and talked with his friends, in just two days he had gained eight friends, he was definitely proud and joyful. His next lesson was Art, in it Crimson was asked to draw an image of a perfect day. Crimson drew a picture of him and his friends playing. Most of the students laughed, but Crimson still got an 'A'.

It was now lunch and Crimson was sitting at a table with all his friends. Like yesterday he had nothing but crap, food like ice cream, muffins pizza etc.

"Dude, if you keep eating like that, your gonna have a heart attack pretty soon." Vinyl advised. Crimson just laughed it off, he knew the gift would wear off, he wanted to make it last. He was sitting at the same table he was at the day before, but this time it had more ponies on it. Yesterday, he was sitting with Vinyl, Heartsworth and Thunderlane, but now Rail, Jet and Rarity had joined. Crimson felt like he was missing somepony.

Crimson looked around hoping to take away the missing feeling, he couldn't really see any other pony though. He tried to push it out of his system.

"Hey, does anypony know where the bathroom is?"

"It's over by the Science department, but I'd recommend waiting till you get home." Vinyl answered.

"Oh um, thanks." Crimson said. He left the table and went on the search for a toilet. He was happy to know that Vinyl had forgotten what he had said.

There were a few signs scattered around the school showing where lessons where found, Crimson saw one outside the cafeteria that read 'Science'. He went the way the sign pointed and after a little while he was standing outside the Science department, it was a long corridor with different rooms on the left and right. At the bottom of the corridor were two large blue doors.

Suddenly the door on the left slammed open and RT walked out, he had an evil smirk on his face.

"What are you lookin' at fag?" The fag he was referring to was Crimson.

"Oh me? I'm not looking at anything."

"Keep it that way." RT pushed past Crimson and walked back to the lunch room. The bathroom door opened again and Cross came out, his hair and face was dripping with water.

"Oh, hey Crimson." He didn't really make eye contact with him when he said that though.

"What just happened?"

"Um, nothing. Don't worry about it."

"Oh, well OK. If your going to the cafeteria your welcome to sit with us if ya like."

"Really?"

"Yeah sure! It's the table with Vinyl and Thunderlane on it."

"Thanks Crimson." Cross smiled and walked off.

Crimson looked at the bathroom doors, he went through the door that Cross came out off. The inside of the bathroom looked like a bomb had recently been dropped, the walls were covered in cracks and slime, the floor was covered in water (well Crimson hoped it was water). Some of the stall doors were hanging by their hinges and the ceiling was full of wet paper towels.

Crimson wanted to leave but was now extremely desperate. He trotted over to a stall and closed the hanging door, he stood and lifted up the toilet bowl with care. Suddenly a large and soggy paper towel landed on his head and went straight through his horn getting it stuck.

"Ew ew ew! Get it off! Get it off!" He begun batting his head trying to knock the paper towel off, but accidentally slipped on a puddle of water and fell head first into the toilet. The room was filled with gurgles and splashing. He swiftly swung his head out of the toilet and made a hard collision with the stall door, it came flying of it's one hinge and slammed to the ground. A large vibration went around the room making more wet paper towels fall off the ceiling. Crimson was now covered in wet paper towels.

Crimson ran backwards towards the sinks whacking all the paper towels off of his body. After more panicking and screaming he had presumably got all of them off. He went under the blow dryer and dried off, he still hadn't 'gone' but didn't want to try again. Crimson gave up and left the bathroom.

He re-entered the Science hallway, it was empty. Crimson started walking back to the cafeteria. It wasn't that far away and he was there in a minute or so.

Cross had joined Crimson's table making it now have seven ponies on, not counting Crimson. There was still ten empty spaces though. Crimson took his seat next to Rail and finished his lunch.

The last two classes Crimson had were Math and English, Math was great because Crimson had had a pop quiz and did pretty well, English was kinda bad because Crimson was caught talking and had to read from a book of poems in front of the class.

The final bell rang out and everypony was allowed to leave, Crimson was walking through a huge sea of ponies, he was getting hit in every direction. Crimson accidentally bumped into a mare and knocked her books on the floor.

"I'm so sorry!" Crimson lent down and picked all the books up, his eyes came up and met with the mare's, Crimson couldn't help but notice her's being, out of place. One was looking in one direction, while the other was looking at another. "Oh, cool, How do you make you're eyes do that?"

"Excuse me?" Her voice was a bit deep and she seemed offended.

"Your eyes. How do you make them do that?" She was standing in complete shock by how unknowingly rude Crimson was being. "Could you teach me how to do it?"

"Jerk!" She brought up her hoof and slapped Crimson's cheek, hard.

"Ouch! What was that for?" The grey mare angrily strode past Crimson, leaving him with a confused expression and a red cheek. He watched the strange mare walk off, the huge crowd of ponies had left and Crimson was standing alone in the hallway. Or so he thought.

"Hey Crimson, what just happened?" Crimson turned around to see Rail and Jet walking towards him.

"Oh, nothing. How's it going for you."

"Fine." Rail answered. "Except for numb-nuts over here spilling our fruit punch everywhere."

"Dude, you totally saw RT knock me!"

"Sure. Whatever you say."

"Hey," Crimson said. "do you guys wanna walk up to my house with me?"

"Sure. I''ll come." Rail answered.

"Me too." Crimson, Rail and jet left the school and walked up to Crimson's house, Crimson thought it was great to walk home with his friends, he got to know more about as well, like their ages, likes, dislikes, family and other stuff.

Crimson and his friends were now walking past Sugercube Corner, for some reason Rail and Jet were looking at the candy coated building strangely. Once they were done looking at the building, they looked at the clock tower to see what time it was.

"Hey, Crimson." Rail said. They both stopped walking.

"Yeah, Rail?"

"Do you wanna see something cool?" Crimson was confused but intrigued.

"I kinda have to get home."

"Oh, well alright. But me and Jet are gonna stay here for a sec." Crimson looked around to try and find his house, he could see it in the distance, it wasn't that far away, if he flew he could possibly get there in a few seconds. He looked back at Rail and Jet, they were walking around the back of Sugercube Corner. They turned a corner and Crimson couldn't see them anymore. Crimson decided to go with them, they couldn't take too long.

Crimson went behind Sugercube Corner and saw them pushing a small window open.

"Hello, again." Crimson said.

"Oh, decided to join us then." Jet replied.

"Well, yeah. What are you guys doing?"

"Well," Rail begun "we found out that every time it's 3:05, the employees that work here take a break."

"So?"

"So, if we're super quiet we can take some candy without 'em noticing."

"But, isn't that like stealing?"

"No, it is stealing. But it's only candy so it's probably OK."

"Mmm, well I guess you're right." Crimson still had a bad feeling but he didn't want to seem like a wuss, so he walked up to Rail and Jet and prepared to steal. Crimson went up to the window and peered though, he could see two ponies leaving the room, he looked around more and saw a pile of multi-colored candies sitting on a table just under him.

"OK, you guy's ready?" Jet asked.

"Yeah." Rail said.

"M-me too." Jet slowly opened the window and reached in, when he returned he had a small pile of candy in his hooves. Then it was Rail's turn, he also reached in and grabbed some candy. He put it all in his hat which was still on his head. And finally it was Crimson's turn, he cautiously eased himself through the window and was now looking at the candy in close-up.

There was a ton of candy in all different shapes and sizes, no pony would realize a bit of missing sweets. Anyway, Crimson reached down and grabbed some. A moment later, Crimson noticed a long piece of cotton candy, he loved cotton candy, Crimson dropped the candy he had already picked up and went for the pink cloud. But when Crimson tried to pull it, it didn't move, he pulled harder but it still didn't move.

"Ow!"

"What the!?" Crimson yelled. He looked up to check if the employees had heard, but no pony came down. He looked back at the talking cotton candy and only just noticed that the strip of pink fluff was leading of the table. On the edge of the table was a huge ball of cotton candy. Crimson grabbed the ball and pulled, he had more success, he managed to pull out an unknown pink mare. In fact, she wasn't unknown, Crimson had seen her at school before.

"Hi Crimson!" The pink mare screamed.

"H-how do you know my name?"

"I know everypony that goes to our school, Crimson. You gotta know me too." Crimson tried too remember her name, he knew he'd heard it before.

"Um, aren't you Pinkie Pie or something?"

"Yeah! You got it!" Crimson had to smile at her happiness. "What are you doing anyway?"

"Oh, I wanted to, uh, make a donation?" He lied.

"Why didn't you just come through the front door?"

"I, um, was shy."

"Oh, you silly!"

"So, what are you doing anyway?"

"I sorta help out around here."

"Cool." Her eye's weren't leaving Crimson's, she just kept staring and smiling. "Well, I'd best be going now."

"OK then! I'll see you tomorrow!"

"Oh, by the way, would it be alright if you don't tell anypony, remember I'm shy."

"Don't worry Crimson, I won't tell no pony, cross my heart and hope to fly stick a cupcake in my eye!"

Crimson smiled at her and she smiled back, she turned around and began to hop off. Crimson was watching her walk away when he accidentally moved his eye's to her posterior, he got that same strange feeling he had when he saw the cheerleaders, he couldn't explain it, but like last time it felt good.

Crimson took his head out of the window and realized that he was completely alone, Rail and Jet must have gotten bored and left. He didn't mind, the entire experience turned out pretty well, he didn't have to steal, he made a new friend and he was late.

"Oh no, I'm late!" Crimson quickly sprouted his wings and took off to get back his house.

Crimson arrived home at 3:30, he was running towards the front door, he slammed it open.

"Oh Crimson!" His mom was sitting in the kitchen, she looked worried. She got up from where she was sitting and hugged Crimson tightly. "Are you alright!?"

"Yeah mom I'm fine, just a bit late." For three straight minuets, she hugged Crimson. Refusing to let go. "OK, mom you can let go now."

"I was really worried."

"Seriously, mom. I'm fine."

"Alright." She slowly let go. "So how was you're day?" Crimson told his mom all about his day(leaving out the part about the school toilet and the near theft). That evening Crimson had dinner with his mom, finished his homework and read a comic book.

Crimson was lying in bed talking to his mom.

"So, you like this girl then?"

"Yeah. She's really cool, I've never seen her eye's though."

"Oooooh, my little Crimson's got a crush!" She teased.

"Mom!" They both happily laughed.

"You know I'm only joking, honey."

"Yeah, I know. Goodnight mom, I love you."

"I love you too, sweetheart." She gave him a hug and left the room. Crimson closed his eyes and slowly drifted to sleep. He had a strange dream that night, he had a dream of the cheerleaders, Pinkie's posterior and Vinyl Scratch.

Author's Note

If you have a funny idea or joke you would like to see in the story, mail me or put it in the comments and I may use it.