The bell rings. The Main 6 enter the hallways, seeing the other students greeting Twilight with open arms.
“Good morning, Twilight!” one of them says.
“Good morning!” Twilight says back, waving.
“Lookin’ good, Twilight!”
“Thank you!”
Rainbow Dash chuckles. “Twilight’s got this in the bag. Just look at them! There’s no way they’re not gonna vote for Twilight now!”
Applejack looks forward and her smile instantly drops, seeing Sunset Shimmer and her two henchmen walking towards them, Sunset with a smile of her own.
“Don’t know what she’s smilin’ about,” says Applejack. “Twilight’s gonna be the one who’ll be Princess of the Fall Formal.”
The girls stop walking to see where Sunset is heading off to. She heads over to the office door that belongs to Vice-Principal Luna and knocks on it. Celestia’s sister quickly comes out, with a look of confusement. Sunset pretends to be upset as she speaks up.
“Vice-Principal Luna! Something terrible has happened!”
The gym looks a complete mess. Decorations are splattered all over the ground, the chairs are knocked down and all over the ground, balloons are popped with their remains splattered on the ground and even the mirror ball is destroyed and laid over on the ground. Honestly, it’s like a tornado went through here or something.
“Isn’t this just awful?” Sunset Shimmer tells Vice-Principal Luna. “And after Pinkie Pie worked so hard to make things so perfect! Why would Twilight Sparkle do something like this?”
“Why do you think Twilight had something to do with this?”
“Because I have proof!” Sunset then hands Luna a file containing several incriminating photos.
Unbeknownst to Sunset Shimmer, two boys are spying right behind the door, seeing everything that is going on, one of them being her ex-boyfriend Flash Sentry. They look at each other and nod before heading off.
Twilight is currently in the vice-principal’s office, having just heard of her accusations.
“But… but I don’t understand!” Twilight speaks up in complete shock and disbelief.
“This is clearly you in the photographs, is it not?” Luna asks handing Twilight the file she got from Sunset. It was currently open and showing several pictures of Twilight doing such tasks as kicking a chair to the ground, which overall make it look like she was the one who destroyed the gym.
“Yes, but…”
“I think it should be fairly obvious that the school can not allow someone who would do something like this compete for the Fall Formal crown.”
Twilight looks completely shocked and doesn’t know exactly what to do. She covers her face with her hands. If only someone would do something...
Luckily, someone comes to her aid.
“Objection!”
Twilight and Luna look towards the open door, seeing John in front of it, arm extended and finger pointed forward. Twilight could have sworn she heard music coming from somewhere.
“What is the meaning of this?!” Luna speaks up. (And by speak up, I mean yell extremely loudly.)
“Sorry, sorry, I just always wanted to do that. I played a lot of Call to the Turnabout lately, I’m addicted to that game. Anyway, we found evidence that proves that Twilight was not the one who destroyed the gym. Flash?”
Flash Sentry enters the room, holding some cut-out photographs in his hands. “We found these in the trash can in the library,” he says, handling the photos to the vice-principal.
“We thought you should at least see them before you make your judgement,” John adds.
Soon Luna carefully viewed the photos John and Flash found with focus eyes studying carefully what she’s looking at. Sunset’s photo showed Twilight kicking a wooden table to knock a chair down, but the other shows a hole of Twilight kicking a soccer ball.
“Someone obviously combined these photos to make it look like Twilight was the one who trashed the gym,” Flash explained.
“And I think I know who it was…” John speculates.
Placing the photos on top of each other, Luna noticed that they matched clearly, making it look like the girl wrecking the gym was only a picture from the other photo edited to make somewhat of a forgery.
“I appreciate you two bringing this to my attention.” Walking towards Twilight, Luna speaks up. “In light of this new evidence, you may of course continue your bid to become princess of the Fall Formal.”
Twilight’s smile instantly brightens up. She gets up and starts hugging Flash Sentry.
“Thank you! You have no idea how much this means to me!” she says.
“What was I gonna do, not prove you're innocent?” asks Flash. “Wouldn’t be that much of a Canterlot Wondercolt, now would I?”
John starts discreetly cracking a smile. “I’ll leave you two lovebirds alone… wink wink!” And with that, he leaves the room.
“I’m afraid that with all the damage that’s been done to the gym, we’ll have to postpone the dance until tomorrow night,” Luna informs. “Quite the shame really, I was really looking forward to seeing the lunar eclipse during the dance.” Getting up, she starts to walk towards the door. “Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to let my sister know about this latest development.” Luna then leaves the office, leaving Twilight and Flash alone in the room.
“So… I was wondering…” starts Flash. “If you weren’t already going with someone, wanna go to the Fall Formal with me tomorrow night?”
Twilight stares at Flash, cheeks as red as tomatoes. “That would be…” It is just then that Twilight realizes that the dance is postponed until the following day. “Tomorrow night?! Oh no! No no no no no no no! This is bad! Bad bad bad bad bad! I need to let the girls know about this right now!”
Panicking, Twilight quickly exits the room and starts running off. Flash Sentry starts to exit too.
“One no would have been fine!”
We cut to another section of the school, where Rarity, Pinkie, Applejack and Rainbow Dash are waiting for Twilight. As if on cue, she shows up, panting.
“Twilight, what happened?” asks Rainbow Dash.
Catching her breath, Twilight speaks up. “The Fall Formal isn’t happening tonight.”
“What?” Pinkie yells.
“It had to be postponed because Sunset Shimmer had Snips and Snails ruin all of Pinkie Pie’s decorations.”
“What?!” Pinkie yells again.
“But the Fall Formal has to happen tonight!”
“Wha-” Pinkie starts to yell again, but Applejack covers Pinkie’s mouth with her hand.
“Right, the Nibiru. It’s happenin’ tonight,” says Rainbow Dash.
Suddenly, Fluttershy barges into the area, panting as hard as Twilight did a second ago.
“Oh great, another one. What’s the problem with you, Fluttershy?” Rainbow asks.
“I… saw Sunset Shimmer... coming my way… luckily she didn’t see me, so I quickly jumped into an empty locker. Snips and Snails showed up a bit after that. Luckily I was able to hear what they said.
“So what did they say?” asks Twilight.
“It was no good, Sunset. Our attempt to get Twilight out of the running for the crown failed.”
“But hey, at least the dance is being postponed until tomorrow night. That’s good, right?”
“You bet it’s good! If the dance is being delayed, nobody will be in the school tonight. So we can just sneak in and steal the crown. Our master plan will still be able to commence without anyone stopping us!”
I then heard the three of them laughing as they walked away. I’ve been rushing around the school trying to find you girls to let you know about this since then.
“If no one will be in the school tonight, Sunset will succeed with no one to stop her,” Twilight speaks up. “Then the dance must happen tonight, so the crown will be safe!”
“I simply can not believe they did all this!” Rarity speaks up as the girls look at the gym.
“If only I had some kind of party cannon that could decorate everything super fast!” Actually, you do, Pinkie. Kinda.
“I know this seems like an impossible feat,” Twilight speaks up, “but if we all work together, maybe we can pull it off.”
“Now that’s the can-do spirit I’m looking for in the Fall Formal Princess!” Applejack agrees, placing her hand down for the others to pile upon. “Let’s do it, y’all!”
Soon the rest of the group agrees with Twilight’s proposal, their hands piling up and forming a circle. Twilight looks at them, smiling and placing her hand too. The six all cheer while raising their hands up. Let’s do this thing!
The rather large group has outdone itself. The gym looks even better than it did before! And in such a short amount of time, too!
“This… looks… so… GOOD!” Pinkie exclaims.
All the students shift attention to Principal Celestia as she enters the room clapping. “Alright, everyone! The Fall Formal is back on for this evening!” she says, followed by excited cheers from the students.
“We all have Twilight Sparkle to thank for this!” Pinkie speaks up, raising Twilight’s arm. “She’s the one who inspired us to come together and work as a team!”
Rainbow then takes the opportunity to start chanting Twilight’s name. The rest of the Main Five also start chanting, shortly followed by the rest of the students.
“Hate to interrupt your chanting,” Celestia interrupts, “but you better get out of here and start getting ready. And don’t forget to cast your votes for the Fall Formal Princess on your way out.”
So with that, the students start to leave the room, but not before telling Twilight who they’ll be voting for.
“You got my vote, Twilight!”
“Mine too!”
“Mine too!”
“Mine too!”
Safe to say most of the students are voting for Twilight to be Princess of the Fall Formal.
But unbeknownst to them, Sunset Shimmer had been spying on everything from a nearby closet. Snips and Snails were together with her inside.
“Bummer…” Snips speaks up. “Guess we won’t be able to sneak in and steal the crown tonight after all…”
“There’s no way you’re going to win it too…” Snails adds.
“Shut up!” Sunset snaps. “This changes nothing! It’s time for a change of plans…” And with that, Sunset closes the door, a new plan set in motion.
Back in the pony world, Twilight is being thought some of the more advanced types of magic. And let me tell you right now, it’s not easy. You thought Twilight had trouble turning an apple into an orange before? Well, multiply that by 10 and you get… well, what’s happening right now. And that was before Twilight gained her wings, mind you.
Princesses Celestia and Luna were right next to her, just like when pony Twilight was a filly. Well, kinda. Luna wasn’t there, but Celestia clearly was.
“You can do this, Twilight,” Princess Celestia speaks up. “Remember, true magic comes from the heart. Pour your heart into your magic and you’ll clearly do it.”
Twilight nods in approval and starts channelling her magic again.
All of a sudden, a crystal guard enters the room the three were in. “Princess Celestia!” This startled Twilight and caused her magic to launch unexpectedly into the air.
“Yes? What seems to be the problem?” asks Celestia, focusing her attention to this new message the guard would be carrying.
“I come bearing an urgent message from Canterlot. There’s been a robbery at the castle! Apparently some unknown somepony has breached into the secret vault within your bedroom.”
“Oh dear, this is serious. My secret vault holds many powerful and even dangerous items that I’ve procured over the last thousand years. We must return to Canterlot immediately.”
The rest of the Mane 6 overheard her. “Hey, you’re goin’, we’re goin’ too!” Rainbow Dash speaks up. “That’s OK with you, right?”
“Of course,” Celestia agrees. “We’ll fly ahead and get you a chariot to Canterlot immediately.”
And with that, the princesses take the skies, Twilight more confident in her flying skills.
Destination: Canterlot.