This story is a sequel to Before the Friendship Games: Sour Sweet

Some people see Indigo Zap as obnoxious. Some see her as a prankster. This is the real Indigo Zap.

Sex tag is for one or two slightly raunchy jokes.

Book Four of the Crystal Prep Chronicles: Before the Friendship Games.

Part of "Not Just Any Old Continuity", which includes
Not Just Any Old Trilogy
The Anon-A-Miss Saga
TimberTwi Tales

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After the events of the Friendship Games, things with the Shadowbolts didn't just end there... Romance has bloomed between students from Crystal Prep and Canterlot High...

The competitive and athletic Rainbow Blitz finds an unusual competitor that challenges him to a race: Indigo Zap. He takes the challenge from the athletic Shadowbolt, but there's a little more to that...

(Canterlot High students are 63'd, Crystal Prep will be still girls.)

This story is a sequel to A Stellar Performance

Contains spoilers for "Friendship games"

After having become friends the five Shadowbolts from Crystal Prep Academy spent their first Friday night together. However, the distinct personalities of Sour Sweet, Sugarcoat, Indigo Zap, Lemon Zest and Sunny Flare make it hard to find common ground. In the end, they can only decide on something none of them is really eager to do: Play a table top role-playing game. At first the prospect of spending their Friday night with nerd stuff in a gloomy basement doesn't excite them very much. But the deeper they dive into the adventure, the more intrigued the nerdy game seems to catch their interest...

This story is a sequel to Dungeons & Dorks

Normally, history lessons equal naptime for Indigo Zap. But the lectures about the revolution which started their country managed to pick up her curiosity. Inspired by the tales about rebels and battles for justice she is eager to start her own revolution at Crystal Prep Academy. But in her fight for freedom at the elite high school she is facing a powerful opponent. Will she and the other Shadowbolts be able to stand up against their principal? Or will Cinch smother the revolution before it even began?

This story is a sequel to Revolution in Blue!

An act of villainy has left Crystal Prep Academy in utter chaos! As one of the few pleasures of their school is taken away from them the students seem to finally snap under the pressure of their hard education. When Dean Cadence fails to bring peace and order back to the noble elite school, Sour Sweet takes it into her hands to solve this mystery and bring down justice on the culprits. With the help of her fellow Watsons Shadowbolts, will the self-proclaimed Sherlock Holmes be able to solve this mysterious crime? Or is her ingenious mind actually just full of hot air?

This story is a sequel to Zest for Life!

An unfortunate chain of events leaves Sugarcoat from Crystal Prep Academy with a bunch of electric scrap and empty pockets. To refill her purse, she decides to earn some money by taking on a job as a babysitter: On a Friday evening, she is supposed to watch over a pair of twins in the neighboring town. Despite the warnings of her fellow Shadowbolts friends, she is convinced that watching over a pair of toddlers will be a piece of cake.

It soon turns out however being a babysitter requires a little bit more work than she first thought...

This story is a sequel to Piece of Cake?

On their quest to spread friendship at the strict Crystal Prep Academy, Sour Sweet, Indigo Zap, Sunny Flare, Sugarcoat and Lemon Zest decide to throw a party on school property. After all, what better way is there for the students to losen up and get to know each other than at a nice, fun party?

Though for the party planners themselves, the night might turn out to not be quite as nice and fun as they had wished...

This story is a sequel to "Let's go, Shadowbolts!"

Contains spoilers for "Friendship games"

Being an admirer of the classic arts, Sunny Flare loves the theatre. She has actually written quite a respectable amount of plays herself, aiming to be just as good as the greatest of their times. But no matter how brilliant and deep the hobbyist writer thinks her scripts are, the theatre group of Crystal Prep Academy refuses to play them. When an opportunity to actually perform and direct one of her works pops up Sunny is more than eager to take it. But as she tries to bring her vision onto the stage, she is not only confronted with the difficulties of transmitting that vision to the other Shadowbolts - but also with the flaws in her own script.

Contains spoilers for "Friendship games"

A few weeks have passed since the friendship games. After the students of Crystal Prep Academy had experienced magic going loose, things have slowly been returning to normal at their own school - meaning everybody minded their own business and tried their best to survive Principal Cinch's harsh education. Eager to reverse any damage caused to her school's reputation she has become even more strict, forcing additional lessons and homework onto her students.

Despite having had some cheerful and warm moments at Canterlot High, most students of Crystal Prep have returned to their selfish and smug attitude, seeing their fellow classmates as little more than rivals. However, a certain group of students seems to have enough of the repulsive behaviour of the other students, and seeks for friendship. Will these five able be able to cast their differences aside, or is even the magic of friendship not enough to warm up the hearts at Crystal Prep Academy?

A few months have passed since Crystal Prep Academy's formal defeat in the Friendship Games, the schedule has gone back to normal, including the traditional school trip for seniors. The destination? Eternal City.

However, not everything has really gone back to normal, because the Shadowbolts' direct exposure to magic has brought dangerous attention upon them, which will force them to stand united against a foe out to tear apart the city... and possibly the nation.

Credit to ChudoJogurt for the editing services.