//------------------------------// // Other side // Story: True Friendship // by BlazingAngel //------------------------------// Chapter 3 Other side Red opened his eyes to see if he made it. Of course he did, he is laying on a concrete. He can feel his arms and legs again but having trouble getting up. Then, he saw a hand. "Need help?" It was Twilight. "Thank." says Red, accepting her offer. Twilight help him up and hold on to him until Red can balance himself. They are in the human world now. "Where Spike?" Red asked, looking around. "Down here." Red looked down and saw a dog. He was about to say something but Spike answered him with an expression on his face, "I know what you gonna say, 'How could a fire-breathing dragon turned into a dog' but look on the bright side! At least I can be carry around in Twilight backpack instead of you carrying a dragon." "He have the point." added Twilight. "Yeah but where are we?" Red asked, looking around. "We`re at Canter lot High." Twilight answered. This shocked Red. "You mean," he began, "We`re at a school?" When Twilight say yes, Red was dumbstruck. "How can a castle turned into a school?" he asked. "I don`t know," says Twilight, still looking at the school, " I thought of the same thing when I came here a few months ago." "Oh." said Red, thinking what did happened a few months ago. "Don`t just stand there," say Spike, " We got to go inside to find your brother and the Element of Harmony." "Right." said Twilight. Red watched her open her backpack, motioned Spike to hop in and put it on her back. When she finished, she nodded toward the school entrance and said, "Let`s go." and began walking. Red followed after her. When they were walking toward the door and up the step, Red noticed something. On the wall on top of the door, were cement blocks pile in a different position. Someone must have a bad job on putting the wall back together. But it look like someone or something tear down the wall. "It happened in the fall right?" Red said to Twilight. "What happened in the fall?" she asked. Red stopped and pointed to the wall around the door. "Oh that? Yeah, it happened on October," Twilight explained, " It happened while me and Spike were here. It was the night of the Princess Fall Festival. We were trying to get my crown back from Sunset Shimmer, the one Princess Celestia mentioned back in the pony world, who want to take the Element of Harmony to take over this world and my world and when she got the crown and wearied it, she ended up mind-controlling students on which she destroyed the entrance but me, Applejack, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Rarity, the one from this world not my world, team up and defeated Sunset Simmer. After that, she and her henchmen, Sip and Snail, have to build this wall and me and Spike went back to Equestria with the Element of Harmony and that it. So yeah, it happened in the fall. How do you know?" Red look at the cement block before replying , "Depend on what condition the blocks are in. If you look closely, you can see the stuff that hold the block together drying out. That how I came up with the answer." "Gee, you`re right." said Spike, impressed by looking at the blocks. "What are you? A expert?" Twilight asked Spike. "Maybe, just tell by looking at the blocks." "That what I said." said Red. This made Twilight laugh as she opened the door. Right before he go in, Red look back at the statue they just came out of. That statue just reminded me of someone I once knew, he thought and went inside. ... Ace woke with a start when he heard voices and laughter out in the hallway. Sure it school day but that why he chose it as a date for his mission. He got up, put on his shoes and climb up a ladder. He open the trapdoor, got out of it, close it and open the janitor door to peek out into the hallway. When the coast is clear, he close the door when he walk out and headed out the hallway. Sure thing that nobody notices him coming out of the janitor room since they are too busy texting or talking to each other. All I need to do is to find out where is the crystal, he thought, turning left to a next hallway. As he was walking, he spotted the same janitor he saw the night before, cleaning a water fountain. Walking up to him, Ace ask him, "Excuse me, have you ever seen a pink crystal that is about 4 inches long and 2 inches wide?" The janitor searches his memory before replying, "Yeah I did, I found it in the library last night and I turned it in to Vice-Principle Luna." So that where it went, Ace thought. "Thank." said Ace and took off down the hallway. If only I can get to the front office first, he thought. He slowed down his pace and turned into another hallway, heading right at Red, Twilight and Spike. In Red view, he was looking around the crown of students while trying to stay with Twilight and Spike. He couldn`t focus on one things right. He need to find Ace, no matter what, and bring him home. "Cheer up Red, it not like we`re going to find Ace fast once we got here. You still have someone you have." said Spike, looking back from Twilight backpack. "I know but I couldn`t stop wondering why Ace would do this." said Red, looking forward. When Red, Ace, Twilight and Spike went to the same exact spot, they pass each other very close, without looking at each other. The thing is that they all wasn`t paying attention to what they`re doing. After they past each other, Red noticed something strange. When he turned, he saw Ace walking down and disappearing among the crowd. "Ace?" Red said to himself. "Hurry up Red!" Twilight called out. When Red catches up to Twilight and Spike, they were entering a classroom. After entering, Red asked them, "Did you guys see that?" "See what?" said Spike, getting out of Twilight backpack. "When we were walking down the hallway, I think I saw Ace." says Red, sitting down on a desk. "Really?" said Twilight, sitting on a desk across from Red. "Yeah." "Why didn`t you go after him?" " I don`t know but seem to me that he not going to do anything. Probably he lost the crystal." said Red. "How can you lose the Element of Harmony?" this alarmed Twilight. "People can lose thing right?" Twilight signed and said, "I guess you`re right." Red got up and reaches into his pocket and pulled put a five dollar bill. "Here a five dollar bill," he said, handing it to her, "If he did lose it, I get my money back. If not, you keep it, Deal?" "Deal." she said, shaking his hand and put the money in here backpack pocket. Red asked her again, "What are we doing in a classroom?" "Waiting." she replied. "Waiting for who?" When Red finished his sentence, the classroom door flew open and came the five girls Red only knew from the castle. It was the rest of the Equestria Girls.