//------------------------------// // Chapter 16: Confrontation // Story: The Other Journal // by Ganondorf8 //------------------------------// Day: Monday Weather: Sunny Time: 8:20am I did it! I stole that upstart's crown! However, my plan didn't go exactly as I had hoped because of an unfortunate occurrence, and to top it all off, I've lost my stolen prize when it went through the portal after I was tackled by that infuriating Twilight Sparkle! I figured that I'd soon get my hands on the crown upon returning to the other world, so I returned to my new home, my heart was filled with glee over the prospects of having gained more power, but I discovered it wasn't where I thought it would be. In fact, it wasn't even anywhere near me, which made me wonder what could have happened. A crown just doesn't walk away on its own, and no one else would be here during such late hours! Urgh! So much frustration! Those were my feelings on Friday. On Monday, I discovered that someone had gotten their hands on the crown and given it to Principal Celestia. I'm right back where I started! I needed to know who did this to me and teach them a lesson about what happens when you get in my way! The Other Journal By Ganondorf8 November 22, 2015 Chapter 16: Confrontation. " Fluttershy found the crown!?" Twilight asked, shocked by this revelation. " Yeah, not even I was expecting her of all students to have found it, but she did. My plan was to get to school early Monday morning in the hopes of finding it before anyone else, but it turned out that Fluttershy arrived even sooner, because she was handing out flyers for the animal shelter. She didn't really do a good job, as she kept her distance from everyone, and those who walked by didn't hear her." I answered, turning the page in the journal, which had something else taped to it, so like before, I carefully removed the page to avoid damaging it. It took a few moments--the tape was more adhesive than I thought--but I eventually got it off. I unfurled the now-freed item before showing it to Twilight, who had a confused look on her face. " Yeah, I know it's weird that I'd have one of her flyers stuck in my journal, but it was a keepsake, if you will, just like those previous items that were between the pages." Twilight still had that same confused look, and I could tell that she was having trouble buying my claim, so I had to insist that I was telling her the truth, something which I've been doing an awful lot of since I first started reading from this journal. " After I was shown the error of my ways, one of the first things I did was go to the animal shelter Fluttershy worked at, but that's a story for later. I still need to tell you what happened when I came back from Equestria that night after stealing the crown." " What I don't understand is how Fluttershy could have discovered the crown on Monday morning when, according to the date you wrote down in the previous entry, it states that you travelled to Equestria on the Friday night prior? She must have been in the vicinity of the statue just before you came back and picked up the crown, deciding to keep it on her person for the duration of the weekend, and then delivering it to the proper school authorities." Twilight said, grabbing her bottle of apple cider and pouring herself a glass before drinking thirstily. While I found it cute that she had gone and done that, I was shaking my head, my eyes rolling in the back of my head, a sign that what she believed happened wasn't the case at all. " Nice theory, Twilight, but not exactly correct." I said. " So Fluttershy didn't find the crown?" Twilight asked. " No, she did find it that Monday morning, but she wasn't there that Friday night." I answered. " If she wasn't there, then surely you would have found it yourself if you had searched hard enough." Twilight said. " In my mind, I had everything figured out right down to the last detail, but even that wasn't enough to find the crown. Yet there was one more thing that I didn't take into consideration, and that was the wild animals that happened to have burrows on school grounds." I said. Twilight then removed her glasses before slapping herself in the face, groaning that she didn't see such a possibility as having played a factor, but then she noted that the only animals that could have made burrows were moles, gophers, badgers, raccoons, and snakes, though she didn't think that last one would have been logical. " I'd learn straight from Fluttershy herself as to how she acquired the crown, and let's just say that it wasn't my best moment. In fact, it was one of the cruelest acts I've ever had the displeasure of performing." I said. When I came through the portal after having said farewell to Princess Twilight and her friends, I immediately began to curse out loud, because my plan had been derailed because of a bunch of stupid mishaps. First, there was that baby dragon who tripped me up with his tail, which in turn woke both him and Twilight Sparkle prematurely, forcing me to make a run for it. Then, the upstart had the nerve to tackle me to the ground, which caused me to lose the crown through the portal, but, I figured, it would be in my possession by the time I returned. Finally, I was forced to search around school grounds at night, looking for what I stole, which made me feel really irritable, as I shouldn't have had to resort to such drastic actions. One thing that I knew for certain was that Twilight Sparkle and her friends wouldn't dare follow me through the portal, as they wouldn't know the first thing about this world, so at least I could take solace knowing that I could take my sweet time trying to find the crown. I began searching near the Wondercolt statue, in case the crown didn't bounce very far upon exiting the portal, but I found nothing, so I broadened my search to include the nearby lawn. Yet, still nothing came up, which made me start to freak out a bit. Then, in an act of desperation, I walked all the way up to the front door of the school in the hopes that, somehow, the crown bounced all the way there, but there was no trace of it. In frustration, I began pounding my right fist into the ground until my hand started bleeding, but I didn't care about that, as the crown wasn't here! My perfectly laid out plan, ruined at the last possible moment. But where could it have gone? A crown just doesn't get up and walk away. Then, an idea popped into my head. Could someone have come along and taken it mere moments before I came back from Equestria? I wasn't sure what the time difference between the two worlds was, but was that an actual possibility? " If someone did pick up the crown in-between the time it came through the portal and the time I did the same thing, then that person is probably long-gone by now, so attempting to chase after them would do me no good. Argh! I can't believe this is happening! Everything was going perfectly until that accursed dragon tripped me up! If I hadn't been in such a hurry to begin with, I'd have used my magic to punish that lizard accordingly, but that would have incurred the wrath of Twilight Sparkle." I said to myself. All of my tension reached a boiling point, so I let it all out in the form of a temper tantrum, jumping up and down repeatedly like a little brat, ripping out sections of grass along with pounding the ground again, using both fists this time. Eventually, my anger faded, and I regained my composure. I needed to come up with another strategy in order to turn things around. " There's no point in continuing to look for the crown now; it's getting really late, and I need some sleep, since all of this unnecessary excitement has really tuckered me out. I could search the school during the weekend, but the entire place is closed, aside from the front lawn, so that idea is a bust. Ugh! I'll have to come back here early Monday morning before anyone else and hopefully find it then." I said to myself. Since the gardener was still on vacation, I continued to reside in his shed, which gave me the perfect means of getting to school ahead of everyone else, as I was mere steps away from the entrance. The weekend went by quickly without anything significant happening. When that Monday morning came along, I was awake and ready to resume searching for the crown, only to discover that someone had managed to get here before I even began. I knew this was the case, as this someone had left behind what appeared to be a scrunched up piece of paper, but I ignored what was written on it; I was too busy freaking out over the possibility that someone had beaten me to the punch. Again! Searching around the statue again, in addition to the places that I searched on Friday night, I found no traces of the crown anywhere, and my anger had once again reached the boiling point that I've gotten used to, but before I could lash out in sheer frustration, I noticed that students were beginning to arrive, which would hamper my progress. Sighing, I decided that there was nothing else I could do besides go to class and go through my usual mundane school day. I didn't want to go inside just yet, though, as I still believed that the crown was still outside somewhere, waiting for me to pick it up. Who was I kidding, though? If I haven't found it by now, there was no way I was going to find it without a miracle. Good thing a miracle happened, then. I began hearing voices coming from the other side of the Wondercolt statue, so I quietly slipped on over until I was standing on the opposite side they were on so as not to be detected. I groaned ever so softly when I recognized the voices belonging to Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon. Of all the students attending CHS, those two always forgave one another whenever they had a fight, so I ended up not bothering to make their lives miserable, but I did the next best thing, making other students miserable at them, which was a hollow victory at best. Lyra and Bon Bon always had an upbeat attitude, and it always got on my nerves. They were just like those ponies I knew from my days at Princess Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns: They were students who had no futures. " Things around here have been getting pretty bad, huh?" Lyra asked. " It's been that way ever since Sunset Shimmer first came to CHS! Since the first day she transferred over from whatever school she said she attended, student morale has reached an all-time low, and most just stick to their respective cliques because there's so much strife going around." Bon Bon answered. " Are you accusing Sunset Shimmer of being responsible?" Lyra asked. " No; that wouldn't be fair to her." Bon Bon answered, quickly looking left and right as though she were looking for someone, or rather hoping that a certain someone wasn't within earshot of what she was about to say next. " You do have to admit Lyra that things around here have been going south since she first showed up, and isn't it also a coincidence that whenever we have a formal, Sunset Shimmer always ends up winning, and those who competed against her end up withdrawing due to their secrets being exposed for all to see?" Bon Bon looked as though she was about to blow her top, which would have been a new look for her, but she quickly calmed down before looking around again in hopes that I wasn't listening in on her. A shame neither of them were aware that I was listening to them, but I wasn't furious about what they were saying about me. No, I was just laughing in my head over how pathetic these two were and how they will never amount to anything. " Yeah... How does she keep on winning like that?" Lyra asked. " Beats me; I've never once attempted to try and win one of those formals." Bon Bon answered. " Me, neither. Why even try when Sunset wants to achieve the same thing? By the way, did you hear that Flash Sentry broke up with Sunset Shimmer a couple of weeks ago because he was tired of her attitude? I'm amazed he's still in one piece when you consider that girl has a real mean streak." Lyra said. " Really? He broke up with her? While I'm not a fan of her attitude, both Sunset and Flash were what everyone was calling a power couple, what with their dominance over the school. At least, that's how Sunset often portrayed it as, with the others just going with it." Bon Bon said. " I've got to give Flash's courage a lot of credit for wanting to end their relationship, but I don't think he was quite right in the head when he made such a decision. Maybe he should have done it after the upcoming Fall Formal, which, surprise-surprise, Sunset Shimmer is vying to win as well. That way, he could have avoided making her mad, which can be a pretty scary thought. I still get shivers thinking about the time back in Spring where she and I were paired together to complete a project for science class." Lyra said as she began to shake, even though it wasn't cold. I remember that incident, and it was awful; she constantly made mistakes all because she was afraid of me! I could have failed that course, which would have ruined my superior GPA, but luckily I managed to see us through by doing everything else while she just stood there, unable to say a word to me because she was just incompetent. " I would have made my contribution, but Sunset constantly intimidated me by demanding me to be absolutely perfect, and the slightest slip-up made her yell at me in frustration. Never do I want to be paired up with her again!" Lyra said. " Why does she get to boss everyone around?" Bon Bon asked. " She keeps winning all of the formals and becoming princess, which goes straight to her head!" Lyra answered, stopping short of going further with her weak, yet brazen, insults against my person. While I was seething behind the statue because she had the gall to call me out in such a fashion, she had taken notice of what Bon Bon was holding in her hand, and became curious about it. " What have you got there, Bon Bon?" " What, this? Fluttershy was giving them out earlier when she was advertising for the animal shelter." Bon Bon answered. " Really? I didn't notice her when I arrived just minutes before you did." Lyra said. " Fluttershy got here earlier than anyone else today, as she really wanted to get those flyers out, but I feel sorry for her that everyone just walked by without taking the time to actually take one of those flyers. So, out of the goodness of my heart, I took one and have been holding onto it ever since. I admire her for wanting to get here ahead of everyone else, but I'm guessing she sacrificed some sleep, since she must have woken up just before 6:00 am to get all the way down here and get those flyers ready." Bon Bon said. So someone did manage to get here before me, and it was that animal lover Fluttershy, of all students. Ugh! That girl always ends up getting in my way, but maybe this time she chose to keep her nose clean by sticking to what she did best: being too shy and meek to be of any real significance. " Guess we ought to get to class, huh?" Lyra asked. " Wait! There's one thing I just remembered!" Bon Bon exclaimed, her eyes lighting up. " What?" Lyra asked impatiently. " When I saw her earlier, Fluttershy had some kind of crown with her, but I only saw it for a couple of seconds. I thought it was weird that someone like her would carry around something that a diva would likely wear. It looked a lot like the crown Principal Celestia showed off a few days ago, yet I'm not entirely sure about it. Maybe she still has it on her, or maybe she did something with it." Bon Bon answered. They then started walking towards the front door of the school, and I punched the statue as hard as I could with my fist upon learning that Fluttershy had swooped in and taken the crown from under my nose, somehow. Pulling back my fist, which was bleeding from the impact, leaving a bloodstain on the statue, I began to pace back and forth, experiencing another temper tantrum over this latest setback, but I quickly recovered, as I knew who to speak to about what happened with the crown, and for Fluttershy's own sake, she had better give me an answer. " Argh! Why did she have to find my crown? Also, how did she find it, when I couldn't? None of this makes any sense! Of all the students who had to find it, it would be the one who had the most trouble talking because she's too shy to make a good conversationalist! Fate is just mocking me at this point!" I said to myself, my mind burning with frustration, but then I began breathing in and out as a means of calming down, as losing my temper would only make things worse for myself. " Okay! I've got to relax and approach this with a level head. I'll just find Fluttershy and demand she give me the crown! If she refuses to cooperate, then I'll need to get my hands dirty!" " Good thing that Lyra Heartstrings and Bon Bon revealed to you what you needed to know, or maybe that isn't good after all, since it meant you would be pursuing Fluttershy like she were an animal." Twilight said. Her analogy of likening me to the role of a hunter and Fluttershy to the role of an animal was well-founded, as I did act as though I were on a mission to find where she was no matter how long it took, and Fluttershy had been reduced to nothing more than a target who would receive the full brunt of my frustrations. Just thinking about it through Twilight's analogy made me feel bad, because Fluttershy had trouble talking to those she didn't know or who proved intimidating, and I treated her like some kind of trophy. " Was it a coincidence that you overhead them talking about her?" Twilight asked. " It could have been anyone who revealed what I wanted to know, but then those two did have pretty good insight." I answered. " You said in your journal that you never did break apart their friendship." Twilight said. " And it's true. Both Lyra and Bon Bon have a pretty strong relationship, yet some people say that they are more than just friends, but I don't see like that. I see them as two best friends who do everything together, and even when they do have an argument, they manage to resolve their differences and shrug it all off as though nothing ever happened." I said. " Fascinating, and quite possibly a new research project." Twilight said, her eyes twinkling with the thought of studying Lyra and Bon Bon. " Come again?" I asked. " I'm still inexperienced when it comes to friendship, and I have been needing to find ideal subjects to help me understand how it works. Those two seem like the perfect candidates, what with their positive attitudes and never allowing arguments and the like to break their friendship for good. I've got to write this stuff down. Otherwise, I'm going to forget about it." Twilight said. She then began to feverishly look inside of her backpack for a notepad and a pen, chucking out all kinds of things she packed, which made me curious; this was supposed to be a discussion of my past through a single night's experience, yet she had packed enough to last an entire week as though she were camping instead. " Aha! I knew packing a pen and paper would come in handy. Every waking moment is an opportunity to conduct research and write down something for research purposes." Twilight said, giggling with glee over such prospects, and all I did in response was slap myself in the forehead; I should have seen this coming from a mile away. " You always do rely on research, don't you?" I asked. " Of course. I'm always striving to acquire more knowledge in the pursuit of becoming a better scholar." Twilight answered. " Heh, I guess my time at Crystal Prep is still showing through. Sorry; this night should be about you, not me." She finished, catching my surprised expression. " I'm not offended in the least Twilight. You're just being you." I said. " I'll refrain myself from doing any kind of work until you've finished." Twilight said. " Lyra and Bon Bon revealed to me, inadvertently of course, that Fluttershy was the one who found the crown after it came out of the portal, but they never said where she was. That wasn't surprising; it's not like they kept tabs on everyone." I said. " So you had to find her?" Twilight asked. " It didn't take long for me to track her down, and when I confronted her in the hallway, I wasn't what you would call subtle about it. I remember that I was in a really foul mood when I began demanding she tell me what I needed to know, and I also remember the nervous fear in her face, as though she were looking into the eyes of death itself. The first answer she gave me, which took some time to get it from her, she was so scared, took me by complete surprise." I answered. " Right, the wild animals found it." Twilight said. " Just before I came back from Equestria, a wild gopher had discovered the crown and took it into its burrow, which is why I couldn't find it at first. After all, I wasn't about to start digging around like some kind of miner looking for prospects. What was even more surprising was how the crown ended up in her possession. Well, it probably isn't as surprising as I make it out to be, since this is Fluttershy, the girl who has such a strong connection with animals." I said. Knowing that I had to find Fluttershy because she had taken what was rightfully mine, I entered the front doors in my bid to track her down. The students immediately got out of my way because they could tell that I was on the warpath. All of the years I've spent intimidating them had paid off. They learned that, for their own safety, they had to avoid me at all costs, or they would feel the full weight of my fury crashing down on them. At first, my searching bore no fruit, as I had no idea where she could have been, and this frustrated me more and more, effectively making me a ticking time bomb. Thankfully, a chance encounter with a certain Captain Planet, one of the eco kids, a clique that Fluttershy was a member of, gave me the vital clue I needed. " Whoa! Why the angry face, Sunset Shimmer?" Captain Planet asked. " If you know what's good for you, you'll tell me where I can find Fluttershy." I answered. " Last I checked, she headed down that hallway towards her locker." Captain Planet said. " For your sake, you'd better be right, because I'm not in the mood for games!" I said, my voice growing angrier by the second. " No need to make threats, here. I'm just telling you what I saw when she came this way earlier, holding a crown of some kind. Now that I think about it, she might also have been making her way towards Principal Celestia's office. It is in the same direction as her locker, after all." Captain Planet said. " She... she took the crown... my crown..." I said, stuttering as I spoke. " You okay?" Captain Planet asked. " Out of my way!" I answered, pushing Captain Planet, who had a weird name for a kid, slightly aside before storming off down the hallway, and all he did was just stare at me for a few seconds before turning around and heading off in the opposite direction. I couldn't believe it! That pathetic animal lover had taken my crown to the one person in this whole school who could keep it out of my reach, Principal Celestia, and after having stolen the other crown from her last Friday without her knowledge. Gah! I was right back where I started: no crown in my possession, the supposed highest authority in the school having it stored away, and myself having no true power. All because of the curiosity of someone who shouldn't have interfered with my affairs in the first place. With every step I took, students avoided me like the plague; they knew their place was to fear my presence. Some even talked amongst themselves about who had crossed paths with me, a reminder that I ruled this school with an iron fist, and they were my pawns to do with however I saw fit. I turned around the next corner, and sure enough, there was Fluttershy by her locker. So, without taking time to think about what to say, I stormed over to her, and slammed my hand into her locker, which caused her to jump in reaction. " Eep!" Fluttershy screamed. " I've been looking for you!" I said. " Sunset Shimmer? I, um, that is, what can I, um, do for you?" Fluttershy asked, stammering in her speech. " I've been hearing rumours that you found a crown out on the front lawn this morning, so I was wondering if the rumours were true." I answered, speaking in a soothing voice so as to not show my true fury until after she told me what I needed to know. " Well, when I came here this morning to hand out flyers for the animal shelter, I noticed a family of gophers going in and out of their burrow, which was oh so adorable, but then, um, uh, one of them had something shiny, which didn't look right. So, I, um, walked over to investigate, and that's when I saw this beautiful crown. My first assumption was that it belonged to the gophers, but then I thought it belonged to someone else who had dropped it by accident. I asked the gophers if they could give me the crown, and they did so without any problems. Um, so that's how I ended up with that crown. I didn't know who owned it, so I thought, uh, the best person to give it to was Principal Celestia. Surely, she would know what to do with it." Fluttershy said. When she finished with her explanation, she noticed that my right eye was twitching like I had an eye tic, but that was simply because she had ruined my plans without even realizing it, and all of my hard work just went up in a puff of smoke. " Um... you don't look alright." " Did you seriously give it to Principal Celestia?" I asked. " Yes. I thought she would know who it belonged to." Fluttershy answered. " Why did you have to go and do something like that?" I asked, slamming my hand into her locker again out of frustration. " Does that crown mean anything to you?" Fluttershy asked. " You did not just say that to me. I surely hope not, anyway. If you did just say that..." I said, struggling to find the appropriate words to express how irate I was that this loser had denied me my prize, and she was one of those who I originally deemed as "special". Why was it that those five were always ruining my plans without even realizing it? I got so mad at what she had done, I slammed my fist into her locker, causing a slight dent, making her cower in fear. " That crown belonged to me! I dropped it outside last Friday, and I was going to find it this morning, until you went and found it first. You could have either left it alone in the hands of those rodents and allowed me to deal with them, or you could have come straight to me because you should have known that anything like a crown would be connected to me. Instead, you did neither of those things, and you instead chose to turn it in." I said. " The crown was yours?" Fluttershy asked. " Yes!" I shouted. " Oh my! I'm really sorry, Sunset Shimmer! Um, I thought the gophers had found something that belonged to someone else, and, um, my heart was telling me to give it to the right person, but I honestly didn't know that the crown belonged to you. Um, I'm really, really sorry." Fluttershy said. Her meek nature had really gotten on my nerves, and as she continued cowering in fear at my presence, tears began trickling down her face, but I didn't care about her feelings, as she had gone and wronged me by getting involved in my affairs. " I-I'm sorry! I didn't mean to take what was yours." " Well you did! That crown was rightfully mine, and you just had to swoop in and take it! You shouldn't take things that don't belong to you! Now I need to figure out how to get it back, because it holds more value than anyone around here." I said. " Um... " Fluttershy began. " Got something to say?" I asked. " I don't think that crown belongs to you." Fluttershy answered. " Excuse me!?" I exclaimed, slamming my hand into her locker once again. " Did I hear you say that the crown doesn't belong to me? I'm hoping that wasn't what you said. Otherwise, things could get ugly, if you know what I mean." Fluttershy's reaction was exactly what I expected from her, sinking down to the ground and saying nothing, like the coward she really was. I don't know how anyone would want to be friends with someone who constantly jumps at her own shadow and has proven to be unreliable. " Well? Did you just say that the crown doesn't belong to me?" I asked, and the girl kept her mouth shut tightly which prompted me to smile an evil expression before backing away slightly. " Good! That's what I thought! The crown is mine, and you know it, despite what you ended up doing. Just look at you, Fluttershy! I've never seen anyone so pathetic before in my entire life. But then again, your only friends are those stray animals that you see on a daily basis at the animal shelter." My ridicule of her confidence was about to continue going, but then someone spoke up behind which caught me by surprise. " How dare you speak to her that way!" " Who said that?" I asked. " I did!" I then turned around, and standing there was a girl wearing a purple dress. She had a serious look on her face, but there was something about her that felt... familiar, somehow. I couldn't put my finger on it. I then quickly scanned over this upstart who dared interfere in matters that didn't concern her, but again, I just couldn't picture in my mind who she reminded me of. She then continued speaking, showing disgust over what I was doing. " How dare you speak to her that way! You can't just treat people like dirt because you happen to be upset with them over something. If anything, you should be apologizing for lashing out in such a deplorable manner!" " Is that a fact?" I asked, walking towards this mystery girl. " Yes!" She answered, walking towards me until we were practically right in each other's faces. " You must be a new student here." I said, smiling smugly before flicking her nose with my finger, a sign of both dominance and arrogance. " Let me give you a piece of advice so that your experience here doesn't end up becoming a disaster. In this school, I'm the boss, and that means I can speak to anyone any way I want, because everyone here is beneath me. If you want to last long, you'll remember that. Next time, I won't let you off easy." I said, walking away, but not before glaring at another student, who subsequently hid himself in a nearby locker. I turned a corner and walked down the hallway. The image of this new girl continued to haunt my mind. I wanted to know who she reminded me of, but it wasn't too important, as I had someone else that needed my attention. I needed to pay a little visit to Pinkie Pie in order to see how the decorations for my upcoming coronation were proceeding. " Even now, I still feel bad about how I treated Fluttershy. She did the right thing by taking the crown to Principal Celestia, but I was so obsessed with wanting it that I became blinded by my own arrogance, and I took out my frustration on her. I'm glad that Princess Twilight called me out when she did. Otherwise, Fluttershy could have really suffered some serious emotional damage." I said. " Wait! Princess Twilight was there?" Twilight asked. " Yes." I answered. " Where was she during all of that?" Twilight asked. " She was the 'new student' who called me out." I answered. This caused Twilight's jaw to drop straight down, so I reached out with my hand before pushing it back up; she didn't look all that adorable with her mouth hanging open. Did I just think of her as adorable? Okay, I suppose she does have a cute charm about her, what with those glasses, her bunned-up hairstyle, and her desire to pursue knowledge, but we're just friends who have much in common, and nothing more. Twilight had since been looking at me with a confused look, because I had been staring at her since pushing her jaw up, and I blushed slightly before getting back to the subject at hand. " It's true that I didn't recognize Princess Twilight right away, as I never pictured she would look like that as a human, but this wouldn't be our only encounter with one another." " I'm assuming that she came to this world to get her crown back?" Twilight asked. " She told me once while responding to one of my Friendship Reports that she had been tasked by Princess Celestia to retrieve her crown, because without it, the other Elements of Harmony were useless, and Equestria was without one of its most important means of defence against evil, which I've mentioned before. She also said that her first experiences as a human were 'memorable' in that she stumbled about in a hilarious manner due to the complete change in anatomy." I answered. " Just like what you went through when you first came." Twilight said. " My reactions were ones of misery, while hers were more silly, yet her assistant Spike, who followed after her, got adjusted to being a dog without any problems." I said. " How did Princess Twilight plan on getting back her crown?" Twilight asked. " She had spoken to Principal Celestia in an effort to get it, because Fluttershy told her where she had taken it. Unfortunately she was informed that the crown was going be rewarded to the Princess of the Fall Formal, the same formal which I had won for the last three years in row. In other words, she and I would be pitted against one another. I was willing to do whatever was necessary to claim victory, and Princess Twilight would be given a crash course on how to survive in a school where I called all of the shots." I answered. " It sounds to me that you're stalling." Twilight said. " Can you blame me? After all, I was going to make Princess Twilight's experience at CHS a miserable one." I said.