//------------------------------// // Chapter 15 // Story: The Sun of My Heart 2: Love's Flames // by BlueSun52 //------------------------------// Chaos at Canterlot High! - Part III It was early in the afternoon in Canterlot and the temporary, former principal Celestia was relaxing in her own home. She was reading a romance novel as she lay on her reclining chair and sipped her herbal tea. She wore a simple bathrobe while underneath it was her designed undergarments which she didn’t want the world to see except for her future husband… or boyfriend, whichever came first. As she was reading, she heard a few knocks on her door. After adjusting the chair and putting down the book, she walked over to the door before putting on slippers. She double-checked her robe to see if she was revealing and made sure it wasn’t. She then grasped the doorknob with a twist and opened the door. After she opened it, her eyes widened with shock to see a familiar student from her school standing in front of her. Breathing in heavily, Soul was covered in leaves and mud with tears in his jacket. A few claw marks could be seen on his face and twigs in his white hair. Celestia covered her mouth with her hand as she was horrified to see her student in such shape. “Oh my god, Soul! Are you alright!?” she asked concernedly. “What happened to you?” “It’s a very long story,” Soul replied. “You see...” -Flash Back- It was in the middle of class and everyone was still shocked about what they had just heard. Discord was now going to to replace Celestia for good and that she would be teaching at another school while he would still be in charge. Even the teachers were terrified by this as they would be caught up in his pranks and hijinks that he would to pull on them. Discord at times would change the coffee to decaf and most of the teachers would be zombies for the whole day, or even put in pills that would do strange things to them, like make them fall asleep, have small hallucinations or even…. Well, after what had happened to Cranky Doodle, the teachers wouldn’t even dare go near the coffee machines anymore. They had to bring their own coffee from their homes or coffee shops. Being separated from the others, due to being in different classes or because of the assigned seats rule, the gang was texting one another in order to discuss the situation. Soul was texting down on his phone making sure the teacher didn’t notice. His phone vibrated and he looked over the text he received in the group chat they had set up. Sunset: What are we going to do? Principal Celestia is never going to be here anymore! Twilight: I don’t know, but we should do something. Zero: How? We’re just a bunch of teens who don’t know jack about anything about life outside of these walls. For all we know, we could be being led to our deaths when we graduate! Rivet:...... He actually has a point, crude but truthful. Applejack: Maybe we should try to contact Celestia and let her know about this. She may not know about it yet. Rivet: I doubt she would not know about it. They would have told her by now. Applejack: We're talking about Discord here. He probably told the school board that he would tell her himself only to wait at the last minute to surprise her with this! Rivet: True. Swift: Maybe we should go to Luna for advice. Maybe there is a way to stop all this. Clyde: Yeah, but no doubt Discord would be keeping a close eye on her. He may even prevent us from talking to her. Zephyr: We could go to the principal’s house and ask her about what should we do. Does anyone know where she lives? Night: I wish… Fluttershy: Why would you wish? Night: Um…. Reasons. Rainbow Dash: No clue. Sunset? Sunset: *Sigh* Afraid not. They may have a file on where she lives but that would be in either Discord’s office or the faculty room. Soul looked away from his phone for a moment before an idea had popped into his mind. He typed down on his phone his idea to the group. Soul: I have an idea! Sunset: What? Soul: Pinkie, do you have all of your gear from when we were spying on Sunset? Sunset: WHAT!?! Pinkie: Still have them! Soul: Okay, meet me outside of the faculty room, but be careful. Pinkie: Okie Dokey Loki! :D Sunset: Soul, what do you mean you were spying on me!? Soul: Explain later, love you! Sunset: SOUL, DON’T YOU DARE- Soul didn’t finish reading the sentence as he put away his phone and looked over to his teacher, Miss Rose. He was trying to come up with a way to get out of class and meet up with Pinkie, but he had to come up with an idea so clever and elusive that it would not make the teacher aware of his plan. . . . Or he could go with the direct approach. Soul raised his hand up and Rose saw it. “Yes, Mr. Writer?” “Can I go and get some files from the faculty room?” Soul asked, “So that I can find a way to get rid of Discord and hopefully bring back our principal?” Rose pursed her lips and blinked a few times. “Well um…… Would you be able to get back?” she asked. “I don’t think so,” Soul said. “Not because I’d be dead or anything, but if it works, I’ll be on my way finding a solution to this whole mess…. or detention. Whichever comes first.” Rose scratched her head for a moment before looking back at Soul. “Normally something like that would be crazy and I would say no, but given the circumstances…. I think I’ll allow it this one time,” she said. “Just don’t tell anyone I said you can do this.” Soul nodded happily and walked out of class. The classroom fell silent for a moment before another was raised. “Um, can I go and save, uh, the school too?” Snips asked. “I promise I won’t be cutting class or anything like that.” Rose eyes were half-lid before she placed her hand over her forehead out of irritation. Some time had passed and the faculty room was closed at the moment. Lurking around, Soul poked his head out. Following behind him was Pinkie in her tight black latex suit. Soul looked back at Pinkie before giving her a confused look. “Why did you have to wear that?” Soul asked. “Remember the last time you wore that?” “Well yeah, but don’t worry. That won’t happen again,” Pinkie replied. “I made sure that there was more butt room than last time. So that won’t happen again.” Soul rolled his before eyeing out the area. His eyes moved left to right of the opposite hallways before putting all his focus on the door itself. He motioned for Pinkie to follow him and the two tiptoed towards the door. “Pinkie, can you keep an eye out for someone who might be coming our way?” Soul whispered. “I’m going to see if I can open the door.” “Okie dokie loki!” Pinkie whispered back before turning around and looking out at the hallways. Soul pulled off a bag from over his shoulder and dropped it on the ground next to him. He reached into it before pulling a lock pick kit and started using them for his attempt to unlock the door. Just as he was doing so, Pinkie leaned in behind over his shoulder as she watched him. “Hey, Soul? I think the door maybe-” “Pinkie! I need you to be a watch out for me!” “But-” “Shush!” Pinkie made a pout before turning around with her arms crossed as she continued to keep watch. Soul was still working on the doorknob until all of a sudden, the pick broke off. Soul sighed and removed the broken piece from the doorknob before grabbing another pick and placing it in. Just like the first time, the pick broke off in a moment and he repeated the process. The same thing happened, and every time a pick broke, Soul’s frustration grew more and more. After several attempts, Soul was on his last pick. Just before he was about to put it in, Soul dropped everything and sat in a prayer position as he closed his eyes. “Oh Lord almighty from the heavens above, please let me break into this room so that we may be able to steal some files to find out where our principal is. I know that sounds very suspicious and raises some questions, but you already know what we’re planning to do. So please, give me the thievery skills to unlock this door. In your son’s name, Jesus, amen.” Soul picked up his tools before putting them into place. Just as he put the pick in the doorknob, it broke at the touch of it and he let out a loud groan. “Dangit God, you had one job!” Soul said to himself. Pinkie let out a sigh before turning back to Soul. “I think I know why all the picks keep on breaking,” she said. “It’s either that I have bad lock picking skills or that you brought terrible lock picks,” Soul guessed. “No.” Pinkie reached over to the doorknob and twisted it. The door opened when she pushed on it. She then looked at Soul with a sly smile. “It was open the entire time.” Soul’s eyes twitched. “R-Right….. We never speak of this,” he said. “Alrighty.” “Why would they even have the door unlocked?” Soul asked. “There are files in here that could put a student’s life in danger. Even the teachers would be in trouble.” “Maybe they have a trap inside?” Pinkie guessed. “Oh please, like they would-” Before Soul could finish, he pushed the door all the way open only to see a rope tied to the doorknob. A variation of contraptions went around the room before Soul and Pinkie laid their eyes on a catapult with a cat on it. It swung from the catapult right at Soul and clawed onto his face. Soul screamed and yelled as he flung around with the cat clawing away at his face. “AAAAAAAAAAHHH! GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!” Pinkie looked back between Soul and the faculty room. She shrugged before going into the room while Soul was still fighting off the cat. After a few moments, Pinkie walked out of the room with a folder in her hand. She flipped through the files until she came upon what they needed. “Hey Soul, I found out where Celestia lives,” Pinkie said. “Oh! I even know what her favorite type of cake is too!” “AAAAAAAAAAAAHHH! I’M IN TREMENDOUS PAIN!” As Soul was moving around trying to get the cat off, he was backing off towards one of the open windows. Pinkie’s eyes widened at this and she tried to get over to him. “Wait! Look out for the-” But it was too late and Soul tumbled backwards towards the opened window. Just before he fell through it, the cat jumped off at the last minute and Soul waved his arms around in hopes to not fall but failed. Soul let out a long scream as he fell from the third floor of the building before he crashed on top of some bushes. Soul moaned as he was in pain from the fall and dazed. After a moment, he sat up and rubbed his head. Pinkie bent over the window and looked down at him. “SOUL! ARE YOU OKA-” *RIP!* Pinkie’s eyes widened before she looked at the back of her suit to see that it had ripped in the same spot. The pants ripped, showing off her pink floral designed panties. “Dangit, not again!” Pinkie said. “My butt couldn’t have gotten any bigger…. Could it have?” Coming out from around the corner, Swift was running quietly as he headed over to where Pinkie was. “Guys, I was able to get out of class and I want to-GHAAA!?” Swift felt his face light up red as he saw Pinkie’s exposed backside. Pinkie blushed and turned around before giving Swift a embarrassed smile. “Hehe, I had a little accident again.” Swift felt his nose bleed for a moment before falling over to the ground. -Flash Back End- “You fell out from the third floor!?” Celestia concernedly asked. “Are you feeling okay?” “I felt sleepy a few times, but I’m holding up,” Soul replied as his eyes started fluttering. “Anyways, after I fell, security was nearby, so I had to make a run for it and get here as soon as possible. Luckily, Pinkie texted me the address.” “Mr. Soul Writer, while I am happy to hear that many of my students wouldn’t want me to leave, it was still irresponsible to leave your class and break into the faculty room to steal files. You should know that is a federal offense,” Celestia said. “But I am willing to let it slide after what you’ve been through. Plus, the thought behind it was sweet.” “Thank you.” “Also, I was very much aware of what was happening,” Celestia added. “... Wait, what?” “Yes, my sister already told me everything about Discord's announcement, and I’m already planning on talking to the school board about this sudden news.” “Oh… So, what you’re saying is-” “I’m afraid to say that everything you did up to this point was pointless, yes,” Celestia confirmed. “Ah… I see.” There was a long pregnant pause until Soul spoke up again. “I’m going to sleep now.” *THUMP!* Celestia watched as Soul fell face forward onto thefloor. Her eyes were half lid before she pinched the bridge of her eyes. With a sigh, she went to pick up Soul’s unconscious body and dragged him into her house and closed the door behind her with her leg. After an unknown amount of time had passed, Soul’s eyes began to flutter open. He let out a moan as his head was throbbing with pain. Soul placed his hand over to where the pain was in his head and slowly raised himself up. After sitting up, he discovered that he was lying on a couch and looked around to see photos of Celestia and Luna, as well as other photos of what possibly be friends and family. He felt around his face to feel bandages on where his cuts and claw marks were. Entering the room, Celestia was holding up a phone to her ear. With a sigh, she pressed the end button and sat over in her reclining chair. Soul looked at Celestia’s new outfit as she was now sporting blue jeans and a simple white t-shirt. Celestia laid back in her chair with a weary look. “Well, I just called or at least tried to call most of the school board, but apparently most of them are busy,” Celestia said. “This decision was more than likely made a long time ago and Discord just decided to give everyone the details today. He must have wanted to freak everyone out about this just for kicks.” “So is there anything we can do to stop it?” Soul asked. “Even if I could get some of the school board to change their minds, it is too late to stop the whole thing,” Celestia said with a frown. “I’m afraid to say that my days as Principal of Canterlot High are over.” “What!? But you can’t give up like that! We still have a whole week left,” Soul pointed out. “Surely there’s something we can do?” Celestia placed a finger on her chin as she thought for a moment. She snapped her fingers when an idea popped into her mind and looked over to Soul. “There may be a way you can stop this,” she said. “If you can start a petition, all you have to do is get enough signatures and give it to Discord before the whole thing is set. If there’s too many people dissatisfied with this, the whole school board would have to stop.” “Alright, I can do that. But why exactly should I give it to Discord?” Soul asked. “Wouldn’t he try to get rid of it or something?” “Discord may be cryptic at times, but he didn’t become superintendent by acting around…. Well, it was part of the reason, but the point is he is a very responsible man and he knows when he’s defeated. It’s just very rare for that to happen.” “Sounds easy enough,” Soul said. He got up from the chair and decided to make a pose. He placed both his hands over the sides of his waist and looked out in no particular direction with a determined eyes. “Don’t worry, Miss Celestia, I promise to get every signature of students, teachers and even the parents themselves to keep your job.” Celestia smiled. “I’m glad to hear that you are determined to keep me at the school. It makes me happy to see my students still want me there,” she said. “And I bet your parents would love to sign that signature… Just as soon as you explain to them about the whole ordeal.” “Yeah, I-..... Wait, what?” *Knock!* *Knock!* *Knock!* “Oh, that must be them,” Celestia said. She walked over to the front door and opened it to show Dawn and Comet standing there as they gave a smile for a moment before turning their glares right at Soul. Soul gulped. “Soul Benjamin Writer,” Dawn began to say with a low growl. “Why is it that your former principal just told me that you were SKIPPING SCHOOL, BREAKING INTO FACULTY ROOMS AND STEALING SCHOOL DOCUMENTS!?” Soul looked over to Celestia. “I thought you said you wouldn’t tell anyone!?” he asked. “No, I said I would let it slide,” Celestia corrected. “However, they’re your parents and have the right to know about this.” Soul looked back and forth between his principal and his parents in panic. He sucked in some breath before making possibly his last response. “..... Reasons.” “And they grounded you for life after that response?” Sunset asked. After the events that had transpired at Celestia’s home were finished and the others had gotten out of school, the gang had all gathered together at Sugarcube Cafe to plan out their next move. “Yes,” Soul replied with a low groan. “But they were the first to sign the petition, so that worked out.” “So that’s our only option?” Rivet asked. “Just go door to door until we have enough?” “We’ll go door to door to get the parents’ signatures. The rest will be easy once we go back to school and get the teachers and students to go along with it,” Soul explained. “Of course we need to keep quiet about it so Discord won’t try anything funny.” “Okay, why am I involved in this?” Zero asked. “Nothing personal, but I barely know you guys and I’m risking a lot if I go along with this.” “Because if you do, you get to be one of the most popular guys here at school and all the girls will be all over you,” Clyde said. “...... I’m in.” Everyone in the room rolled their eyes. “That didn’t take much,” Twilight commented. “I wish I could join in, but I have to get back home soon,” Zephyr said. “My mom gets worried whenever I stay out too long.” “Alright, then just sign this petition and you can go,” Soul said. Zephyr signed the petition and waved to the others as he left. “Does anyone else want out?” Soul asked. “Um, well, I was hoping that I wouldn’t-” “Fantastic! Let’s get to work on getting some signatures!” “Oh dear,” Fluttershy meekly said. “This is going to take a lot of guys and there’s no telling how long it will take,” Soul said. “But we need to do this quickly as pos-” -Thursday Morning- “Wow, the past two days went by fast,” Swift commented. “Yeah, especially with that thing that happened,” Pinkie added. “The random explosions, giant robots fighting each other, aliens invading-” “Pinkie, none of that happened,” Night said. “All we did was walk to people’s doors and asked to sign the petition. And pretty much everyone at the school wanted Discord out of here so they signed it.” “Well the readers didn’t know,” Pinkie said with a pout as she crossed her arms. The gang was heading up towards the school building and was about to enter it. Soul was holding a stack of papers that contained the signatures that they needed to stop Discord in his arms. As they were walking, Soul looked over the stack one more time before cracking a smug smile. “Alright everyone, this is it. Our troubles are over,” Soul said. “Once we give these to the superintendent, we get our good old Principal Celestia back and everything will be back to normal.” “As normal as this school can be,” Clyde said. Just as the gang had gone through the doors of the school, suddenly they shut violently behind them, which startled the group. The doors were soon covered by shutters that came down from the ceiling, blocking off the entrance. The windows, doors, and other means of entering the building were being blocked up by shutters and bars. There were people panicking at the sudden occurrence going on in the school until the voice of Discord could be heard throughout the school. “Hello my dear students and fellow teachers,” Discord’s voice boomed through the school. “It would seem that there are some meddlesome students that want to have me be gone from this heavenly place and have your precious principal back. Seeing as how many of you did in fact sign to have me gone, I’m going to make a proposition to all of you.” Everyone in the group looked up at the speakers with nervous glances. “To the student or students that find those papers and tear them apart for me, I’ll be granting them an immediate A plus in any one class they’re having trouble in, and a hundred dollars to go along with that. And for the teachers, they will be given a raise and will be given their own office. I hope you kids have a fun time.” The speakers went off and everyone in the group went silent as the air around them had darkened with the sudden dead silence of the whole school. They looked around the hallways to see them void of any life, and the growing tension wasn’t making things any better. Zero looked from left to right down the hallways before looking to the others. “I don’t think anyone is going to stop us,” he said. “I mean, come on, this is Discord we’re talking about… Right?” Pinkie’s ears started to tingle as she was picking up sounds of rushing footsteps. The others started to hear them too as they were getting closer. The gang looked down some of the hallways to see large numbers of students and teachers rushing towards them with looks of determination and anger. “GET OUT OF WAY!” “I’M GOING TO PASS SPANISH CLASS NO MATTER WHAT!” “I’M MAKING SURE THAT I NEVER GO TO THE GYM EVER AGAIN!” “LIKE HELL YOU ARE! IRON WILL IS GETTING THE RAISE HE DESERVES!” Several of the hallways were crowded with students and teachers as they closed in on them. Twilight glared over to Zero. “You had to say something, didn’t you?” she asked with a scowl. Sonata cleared her throat. “I say that for the good of all of us is that we RUN LIKE HELL FOR IT!” she shouted. “WHICH WAY DO WE GO!?” Swift yelled. “HURRY, THIS WAY!” Rarity said as she pointed her finger down an empty hallway before running down it. The others followed behind Rarity as they ran down the hallway with the large masses of the entire school body behind them. When they were able to get some distance from the mob, Rarity grabbed hold of a door swung it open. She motioned them all to go inside, and when the last member of the group rushed in, she closed the door behind her and raised her finger up to her lips to signal them to be quiet. The group stayed clear of the door and out of sight of the small window as the large mass of students and teachers rushed by it. They held their breaths a couple of times as students would check in on them but moved along with the rest of the crowd. They stayed quiet until the crowd had gone by and there wasn’t any more noise going on outside. Everyone felt a bit relieved and got out of their hiding places. “Nice save, Boo,” Clyde said. “Oh, it was nothing,” Rarity said. “What are we going to do!?” Pinkie panicked. “The whole school is after us! How are we going to stop Discord now!?” “Calm down, Pinkie, we can figure this out,” Night said. “All we have to do is get to Discord’s office and give him that petition to bring our lovely Celestia back.” Fluttershy raised a brow. “Why did you say she was lovely?” she asked. “Oh uh, I was just being nice is all,” Night said with a guilty smile. “We need a way to get this petition past all of the students and teachers. If they get their hands on this, we can say goodbye to Celestia forever,” Soul said. Sunset looked around the room for a moment before looking at Rarity. “Where are we exactly?” she asked. “We’re in the arts and crafts room,” Rarity replied. “Why do you ask?” “I have an idea,” Sunset answered. She walked over to a nearby cabinet and opened it. After going through the supplies, she pulled out to stacks of wrapped paper before placing them on the table and unwrapping them. “If we’re going to get to Discord, we need to outthink the entire school body.” “You have a plan?” Zero asked. “Definitely. We’ll split up into three groups,” Sunset said. “Two of the groups will head out and distract the mobs with fake stacks of papers. The group with the real petitions will go straight to Discord’s office. Hopefully the other two groups would keep the entire school body off of them.” “That sounds like a great plan,” Twilight said. “Soul, you’d better give someone else the petition. A lot of people did see you holding it.” “That sounds like it’s for the best,” Soul said. “Alright, pair off and let’s get going.” After a few minutes, Swift peeked his head out the door to see if the hallway was clear. He checked the three hallways that were in front of him before walking out and motioning the others to come out. Going down one hallway, Swift was leading Pinkie, Night, Fluttershy and Applejack with Fluttershy holding a stack of papers. Going down another hallway were Sunset, Soul, Zero, Twilight and Sonata while Sonata held a stack as well. The last group to come out and take the final hallway consisted of Clyde, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and Rivet as Rivet carried the last stack. As they walked down the hallway, Clyde was leading the way as he kept his eyes and ears out for anything that might threaten him, the group, and his precious gem. They kept on walking until they came across the entrance to the gymnasium. Clyde stopped in front of it before looking at the door for a moment. “What are we doing?” Rivet asked. “Did you hear something?” “No, but I think we should go through the gymnasium,” Clyde said. “There’s another passageway through the back of the stage we could take. It’ll be like a shortcut.” “That’s a marvelous idea, Clyde,” Rarity commented. “I can’t believe we didn’t think of that.” The group entered the gym quietly as they walked into the large room. The room was in complete darkness as there were no lights on and the windows were blocked off with shutters. “Man, it’s too dark in here,” Rainbow Dash said. “Does someone have a flashlight in their phone?” “Don’t worry, Miss Dash, Iron Will will take care of that.” They all froze up at the familiar voice when suddenly the lights came on. Standing in front of them was their coach, Iron Will, with many of the athletic groups of students that were behind him. Each of the students had different gear of sporting goods for various sports. “Is it too late to go back?” Rivet asked. *WHAM!* The group looked behind them to see the door was closed and blocked off by a few students. “Too late,” Rainbow Dash said. “Now why don’t you hand over that petition to good old Iron Will and you can all go without incident?” “Sorry coach, but I can’t do that,” Clyde said as he stepped up in front of the group. “We’re getting that petition to Discord one way or another.” “We are?” Rivet asked confusedly. “We are,” Rainbow Dash confirmed as she took a step and stood next to Clyde. “And what exactly are two students going to do against Iron Will and every athletic students here?” “That depends on how good you can count, old man.” Everyone turned their attention as several other students were now standing next to Rainbow Dash and Clyde. Standing in front of them with a smug look on was- “Tyrone?” Clyde asked. “You know it, dog,” Tyrone replied. “I’m not going to lie, the deal Discord made is sweet, but I’m never going to backstab you like that, man. So the entire basketball team decided to take your side.” “Thanks man, I really needed the help,” Clyde said. Tyrone nodded and looked at Iron Will with a determined smug looked. “Bring it on,” he said. Leading the group, Swift would cautiously look between intersecting hallways before moving on down the hallway they were taking. As they quietly walked, his group had stopped in front of the entrance towards the cafeteria. “Why exactly are we going through the cafeteria again?” Night asked. “Isn’t that more of a hotspot for an ambush or something like that?” “We gotta take the risk. On the other side of the cafeteria is a straight shot towards Discord’s office. Once we get though, it’ll all be over like a snake biting you,” Applejack explained. “That’s not a good thing, Applejack,” Pinkie said. “You made it sound like we’ll die the instant the snake bit us.” “Ah mean that we be quick as a snake would bite a person,” Applejack pointed out. “Ya know those scaly varmints are fast.” “Let’s just get this over with,” Night said. “The sooner we do this, the sooner we get our beloved, curvy principal back.” “Alright, why did you say she was curvy?” Fluttershy asked as she glared at Night. “Crap, eh…. Because have you seen the way her outfit looks?” Night asked. “Yep, her outfit is real curvy like and very snazzy.” Everyone looked at Night for a moment with raised brows. “Alright, fine! I think our principal is hot, okay!?” Night shouted. “Fluttershy, you’re very beautiful and I wouldn’t trade you for the world, but you have to admit that she is a looker, right?” “Oh, no no, I understand,” Fluttershy said. “I think Celestia is very lovely to look at. You don’t have to hide stuff like that. If you think there’s a girl that is good looking, you don’t have to hide that.” “Oh…. Really?” “Hmhmm,” Fluttershy simply replied. “I trust you enough that I don’t have to worry about anyone else coming between us, Night.” “Wow, that’s…. Wow, you really trust me that much?” “Of course I do. I do love you.” “Wow, now I feel like a jackass for keeping that a secret.” “We all feel like that from time to time,” Swift said. “But I don’t feel like that right now because we’re in the middle of a freaking war zone and I would really like to keep moving.” “Sorry,” Night and Fluttershy said at the same time. “It’s okay, let’s just go.” Swift opened the door and just as the group stepped in, food, trays and various utensils were being tossed at them. The group panicked and took cover behind a nearby table before Pinkie saw a piece of cake flying at her and she caught it in her mouth. The group hid behind the table and they peeked over to see Trixie and many other students were blocking their way towards the other side. “If you all don’t want to get humiliated by the Great and Powerful Trixie, you will give her those petitions and go home feeling defeated but less humiliated.” “We’re never gonna give y’all those petitions, Trixie!” Applejack yelled. “We’d rather die than give ya them.” “Woah, woah, let’s not get carried away here,” Swift said. “I’d really prefer to live through this and be a rich lawyer some day.” “We have you outnumbered three to one,” Trixie said. “What can you all possibly do against Trixie and her unstoppable army?” “Uh, you do know that we’re not really under your command, right?” “SHUT UP!” “What do we do!?” Night asked. “We could throw stuff back,” Pinkie suggested. “Like what?” “Ummmmmm, oh! I know.” Pinkie snatched the stack of papers from Fluttershy and stood up from cover. “Pinkie, what are you-” Before Applejack could finish, Pinkie threw the stack of papers over towards the other side of the room at Trixie. Trixie only had a few seconds to realize that the papers were heading straight towards her before it impacted, causing her to fall over. Several of the students surrounded her to see all of the papers were blank. “Pinkie, we were supposed to keep them distracted!” Swift said. “Well, they’re distracted now,” Pinkie said. “For only a few seconds,” Applejack commented. “Hey, these aren’t the papers we were looking for!” “If they don’t have them, then who does?” “I say we get those guys and make them tell us!” Everyone in the room glared over to the group. “Uh oh,” Night said. “Eep!” Fluttershy squeaked. “See? What did I tell you?” Pinkie said. “Ah’m going to make ya pay for this, Pinkie,” Applejack said glaring at Pinkie. “Looks like my life as a lawyer is never going to come,” Swift commented. “Don’t worry, bro! We’re here to help!” The group looked up to see Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle and Apple Bloom coming down from a hole up in the ceiling on ropes. They landed on top of the table and stood up as they looked at the group. “Scootaloo!? What are you doing here?” Swift asked. “We came to help,” Scootaloo replied. “Yep, we’re not going to leave you guys hanging with everything going on,” Sweetie Belle said. “Especially since my sis and cousin are in danger,” Apple Bloom said. “Ah’m always glad to see my family wanting to help,” Applejack said with a smile. “But when did you girls learn how to come in like that?” “Pinkie Pie taught me,” Scootaloo answered. “She showed me how to do it after she came over during the summer and I showed the other girls too.” “I was planning on teaching my kids that so I thought I would try it with Scootaloo,” Pinkie said before letting out a content sigh. “I’m going to be a great mom someday.” “So you girls have a plan then?” Swift asked. “Huh?” “You know, a plan to get us out of this?” The three girls faces went blank for a moment before showing embarrassed smiles on them. “Ah yeah, we may not have thought this all the way through,” Apple Bloom said. “We kinda thought it was going to be simple from here… but… that’s not the case,” Sweetie Belle said with a weak smile. “So, you came swooping in without a plan?” Swift asked with a deadpan expression. “Uh yeah,” Scootaloo replied shamefully. “But don’t worry, we have a backup plan.” “Like what?” “This, RUN!” Everyone in the group screamed as they ran back out the hallway while the other students chased after them, leaving behind an unconscious Trixie as she moaned in pain. The last group made their way towards Discord’s office as their plan had so far worked. Just like Sunset had hoped, the others were distracting the majority of the school body and had no difficulty getting towards their destination. Zero and Sunset were leading the group as they would look ahead for the the group before moving on down the hallways. Twilight volunteered to keep watch of the rear of the group to see anyone was following them. Sonata was carrying the real petitions while Soul walked alongside her. “Are we there yet?” Sonata asked. “My arms are getting tired from holding this around.” “We just need to go down one more hallway and we should see Discord’s office on the left,” Sunset said. “How are we doing back there, Twilight?” “We’re doing good. I haven’t seen anyone since we waited for the others start the distractions,” Twilight replied. “I hope that they’ll be alright.” “I’m sure they can handle it,” Soul said. “Clyde, Swift and Rivet have been through the worst parts before I came, so I’m sure they can handle this.” “Babe, it was either they weren’t there or they were under mind control,” Sunset said. “I don’t think that’s really much help for and from anyone.” “Well…. they’re still alive…. or not under mind control anymore,” Soul said. “That’s gotta count for something.” “I don’t think those times count, babe,” Sunset said. “Well, what about the time when Twilight had that magical amulet and she-” Soul paused before looking back at Twilight to see that she was glaring at him. He gulped before looking back at Sunset. “Right, I mean never mind.” “Wait, what’s this about an amulet?” Zero asked. “We’re talk about it later,” Twilight said. “We’re about to come on the turn anyway.” “At least we can finally get this day done and never have to worry abo-” Just as Zero was about to finish, the group turned around the next corner and came to a frozen stop. Right in front of them was the door to Discord’s Office and an end to their dellama. Unfortunately between them were Adagio, Aria and a large number of large strong boys standing behind them. “*****!” Zero cursed. “What did I say about you saying stuff like this!? Twilight asked. “Well, well, well, what do we have here?” Adagio said. “It appears that our friends here have the petition that we're looking for.” “Wants us to take it from them?” one of the students asked. “Now, let’s not be hasty. I’m sure we can work out a deal here,” Adagio said. “Sorry, but we’re not in the mood for talking,” Zero said. “Oh, really? What about it, Sonata? Are you in the mood for talking?” “Wait, me?” Sonata asked. “Of course, stupid. Why else would we be doing?” Aria answered. “If it was anyone else, we would just skipped to the beating up part and rip those papers apart.” “Aria, we talked about this!” Adagio said before looking back at the group. “We’re willing to make any kinds of deals with you if you would give me those papers.” “Like what kind of deal?” Soul asked. “Soul!?” Sunset asked worriedly. “What? I’m just curious, not interested,” Soul explained. “Well, I would be more than willing to ‘hang out’ with you boys.” “Pass,” Both Zero and Soul said at the same time. “Oh um…. What I mean by hang out is becoming more intimate with you two,” Adagio explained as she wiggled her brows. “How about it?” “Wait, what about your deal with us?” one of the students asked. “Listen, fellas, I agreed to give each of you a kiss on the lips if you’ve gotten me the petition and said that I did it myself with Aria. I know you were hoping for more but I’m sorry to say, I don’t play like that,” Adagio replied. The large students whispered and mumbled with one another before looking back at Adagio. “Will there be tongue kissing?” Adagio rolled her eyes. “Yes, I’m willing give you all tongue kissing,” she answered. “Okay, we’re still in then.” “Good,” Adagio said before looking back. “So, how about-” “No thanks,” Soul replied. “I’m faithful to my girl here.” “Awww,” Sunset coed. “And I’m not interested in one time flings,” Zero said. “The girl I want to get busy with is the one that loves me just as much as I love her.” Twilight looked over to Zero and smiled. “Fine, fair enough,” Adagio said before laying her eyes on Sonata. “But surely, you wouldn’t betray us now, would you, dear sis?” “Eeeeehhh…” “I mean, we are a close family, right Aria?” “More or less.” “Aria…” “Augh! Yes, we’re…. family,” Aria said with difficulty. “Elck, I’ve never felt so sick.” Sonata looked at her sisters for moment before looking at her friends as they looked at her with worry. Sweat poured down from her forehead as every second past by as time had slowed down her. Her mind was wrapped with so much fear that either she would lose her friends or that she would lose her family. They all were counting on her to make a decision. And she didn’t want to make it. Just before she could make up her mind, Sonata felt a hand on her shoulder before looking to see that it was Soul’s hand on her. She looked up to see him smiling at her. “Don’t worry, you don’t have to do this,” he said. “We understand that you would never turn your back on your family.” “Y-You would?” “Yep…. Because I’m going to take this,” Soul said before he grabbed the petition and ran the other way. “Wait, wha- GET HIM!” Aria cried out. All of the students chased after Soul before the others went up against the walls and they past by them. When Adagio, Aria and the large students had past, the group looked down the hallway. “Oh man, we gotta help Soul!” Zero said. “He’s never going to get past them!” “Don’t worry, he’s just putting plan B into action,” Sunset said. “Wait, plan B?” Twilight asked with a raised brow. Soul was running down the hallway as he could his pursuers getting closer to him. He quickly ran around the corner before going into a room and closing the door behind him. Soul looked around to see that he was in the Math Room. “I think he went in here!” Aria shouted from outside. Soul looked around the room for a moment and saw what he need to see to put his plan into action. After a few seconds, the door to the room was kicked opened by Aria and the she had entered the room with the rest of others behind her. They looked around the room to see that he had disappeared. “What the? I could have sworn that he-” Before Aria could finish, she saw that the vent on top of the room was opened with the cover removed and she could a few banging sounds coming out of it. “That piece of-” Soul quickly moved around in the vents as he crawled his way though knowing that Aria may have saw the obviously opened vent. Despite seeing so much cobwebs and dead bugs in the vent, it was surprisingly going well. He even questioned why the vents were so big and roomy, but that might have been something that the maintenance people needed to do if it was ever needed to repaired or something. Soul stopped for a moment before placing the petition in front of him and pulling out a map of the school’s venting system. “Alright, if I’m reading this map right, and God help me if I am not, I should be over-” *CREAK!* Soul’s eyes widen when he heard something cracking all around him. He noticed that he was slowly going down as the vent below him was giving out. “Ah crap.” *CRUSH!* “AAAAAAAAAAHHH-” *CRASH!* “OW!” Soul had fallen through the the ceiling and moaned in pain. He slowly raised his head up before looking to see that the petition was okay, even though some of the papers did fall out of the stack. He gathered up the loose papers before looking around to see that he was in a room with a man sitting at his desk. The man had a very stylish hair and a curly mustache and seemed oblivious that Soul had crashed through the ceiling. Soul looked around to see on the door that it said Discord’s Office where the title use to say Celestia's Office. Soul brushed off his shirt and coat before walking over to the desk with the petition in his hands. “Um, excuse me?” Soul asked. “A yyeeeessss?” The man behind the desk greeted. Soul raised a confused brow before speaking up again. “Are you… the secretary?” he asked. “Nooooo, I’m just a man that’s just sitting around here for no reason,” the man replied sarcastically. Soul pursed his lips before continuing on. “Well anyways, I need to get this petition to Discord right now,” he said. “I would like it if he could stop the whole thing with taking Principal Celestia’s job and hope that he could see that people are upset about this.” “Of course, lad. Let me just look at Mister Discord’s appointments.” The man pulled out large folder from under the desk and looked at it for a moment. “I believe that you can see Mister Discord within…. Three months from now.” Soul’s eyes widen. “WHAT!?” he cried. “THREE MONTHS!? ARE YOU KIDDING!?” “I’m afraid so, lad,” the man replied. “I need to give this petition now! The deal with him staying would be permanent after Friday!” “Would two tickets to the bullfight help?” “No!” “Ah good, because I didn’t have any tickets.” “Are you trying to get smart with me?” “Nnooooo, then we wouldn’t have much in common,” the man said. Soul groaned. “Well, you know what? I don’t care,” he said. Soul walked over to the door. “I’m going in whether you approve of it or not.” “Wait, you can’t go in there.” “Watch me.” Soul opened the door and before he could look, he rammed against a brick wall before falling backwards towards the ground. “No, I mean you can’t go in there, that’s the stunt door that Discord uses on people like you,” the man said. “Use the real one on the right.” Soul’s eyes twitched. Singing inside of his office, Discord was writing down on some important papers that needed to be done. His singing was cut off when his opened and he looked up to see Soul standing there with the petition in his hands and having cuts, tears and dust on his outfit. Soul walked over to the desk that kept them apart and Soul dropped the petition on the table, while he kept a deep glare on Discord. “Well, this is a surprise,” Discord said. “Tell you the truth, I didn’t think you or any of your friends would be able to do this. I have to say that I am very impressed with this. I bet it was very chaotic of you to get all the way here.” “Yes…. it was,” Soul replied with his teeth gritting together. “Now stop the whole thing and let us have our principal back.” “Beg pardon?” Soul’s minds snapped. “PRINCIPAL CELESTIA!” he yelled. “THE ONE THAT YOU WERE GOING TO REPLACE!? THE WHOLE REASON WE BROUGHT UP THIS PETITION!?” “I don’t- Ooohh! That whole thing,” Discord said with a chuckle. “I was just joking about that.” “....................... What?” “Oh, it was just a little one last prank I wanted to give everyone before I leave,” Discord said. “What, did you really think that the school board would let me run the whole school forever? I would practically ruined it with everything I’ve done and they would rather have me up there then have me run an entire school. At least when I’m working with them, they would be able to control me better.” “Wh- I- Ho- Eh-” “I better let all of the students and teachers know about the whole thing since you know about and post it on Hoofbook or something like that,” Discord said before returning to his papers. “You may leave now if you want, I’ve decided to make this a freed day for everyone with what has happened and all.” Soul felt anger rising in him as the thoughts of everything that had led up to this point was meaningless and pointless. Just as he was about to feel the need to kill, all the anger and frustration left him all at once, as he let out a sigh. He fell backwards towards the ground and blacked out. Discord looked down at Soul with a confused looked as he scratched the side of his head. “Wonder what gotten into him?’ he asked himself. It was now Saturday night as Celestia was getting ready to go out. She had on a fancy white dress as it sparkled and was applying on lipstick. She heard the doorbell rang and smiled before putting away her makeup and grabbing her purse. She walked over to the door and opened it to see her date had arrived. “Huh, I kinda thought you would be late for our date,” Celestia commented. “What? And miss out on being with you, Principal Celestia,” Discord said as he held up a bouquet of flowers. Celestia blushed before grabbing the flowers and smelling them. “Awww, you didn’t have to, Discord,” she said. “Nonsense, you deserve something that is just as beautiful as you are,” Discord commented. “You know, sometimes I wonder how we be able to go out with each other even though you drive me crazy sometimes.” “Because you and I have so much in common than you think,” Discord said. “Like how much we care for the students, treating our teachers fairly, more or less, and coming up with pranks and tricks to make people crazy. Just like you suggested that last prank I pull on them.” Celestia had a guilty smile plastered on her. “Well, I wouldn't have suggested that if all the things that had happened would occur,” she said. “Oh, don’t worry about that,” Discord said. “I’m sure that those students would get over it.” “Perhaps you are right.” “May I escort you to your carriage, my lady?” Celestia giggled and walked along with Discord towards his car. But they had stopped unexpectedly as they saw a familiar face. “Soul?” Soul was standing in front of them with his arms back and looked at the two of them a sly smile. “Um, what are you doing here?” Celestia asked nervously. “I didn’t expect-” “Me to interrupt your date with Discord for a moment?” Soul said. “Well, I just wanted to thank you both for putting me and my friends through a wonderful experience. Especially with that prank you pulled over us.” “H-How did you know about that?” Discord asked. “Scrubby told me,” Soul answered. “...... Is this about that raise I denied him?” “Yes, it is,” Soul answered bluntly. “Tell me, supernatant, have you ever played dodgeball before?” “Eeeehhh-” “Because it’s a really fun game and I think you should really join in,” Soul said. “That’s how everyone else feels.” “Everyone else?” Coming out of the shadows, bushes, cars and trees, several of Soul’s friends came out of hiding as each of them had dodgeballs in their hands. Standing on his right was Sunset and on the left was Sonata. Soul pulled out a dodgeball behind him and looked at the frighten adults with a sinister grin. “You know, it’s funny,” Soul started. “I’m normally a guy that would let things go on a whim and continue on with my life. But now? Not so much.” “A-Are you sure we can’t talk this over?” Discord nervously asked. “Y-Yeah, surely we can talk this over, Mister Writer,” Celestia said in a squeaking tone. Soul tapped his chin a few times as he held his dodgeball in his while he pondered on the idea. “Hmmmm….. No,” he replied. “GET THEM!” Before Discord and Celestia knew it, their entire night was ruined by dozens of red round balls.