//------------------------------// // Return (edited) // Story: Getting Back to Good // by FlufferNutters //------------------------------// As the new year starts and the students return from their winter break Peanut Butter and Sunset hangout in the main hallway. Peanut Butter hangs his coat in his locker as Sunset leans against the locker next to him. "Getting back into the swing of things P.B.?" Sunset asks. Peanut Butter groans and rolls his eyes at her. "I'll take that as a no." "Not even close." He shuts the locker and picks up his book bag and sees Moondancer coming down the hall. She quickly comes up to Peanut Butter and Sunset with a smile on her face. "Hey P.B.." She greets. "Hey Moondancer, how was your break?" "Pretty good, I went on vacation for most of it." "Awesome." "You?" "Stayed at home and spent Hearth's Warming with Luna, Celestia, and Sunset." "Not bad." "Yeah." "I have to get to homeroom, I'll see you at the club meeting." "Alright, catch you later." Moondancer runs off as Peanut Butter sighs. Sunset smirks at him. "I think she likes you." She says. "Why do you think that?" "No one just runs up to you like she did and also girls intuition." "Ah, if that's the case the feeling isn't mutual." "I can tell, you have your eyes set on someone else don't you?" "Not really." "That's a yes." "Fine." "Who is the lucky girl?" "None of your business, besides, I saw you eyeing Flash a few times." Sunset blushes. "Y-you're lying." She says in a flustered tone. "That proves my point." Soon they are joined by Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Twilight, and Rainbow Dash as they talk about their breaks and what they did. Peanut Butter looks outside towards the parking lot and sees someone get out of their car, he raises his eyebrow, but then looks away back towards his friends. Sunset looks at Peanut Butter. "What's up P.B.?, something wrong?" She asks. "Not really, just thought I saw someone that has a familiar vibe to them, like I should know them." "Ah." "Yeah, probably nothing." "Probably." Just then the class bell rings causing them to go their own way to class. As lunch rolls around Sunset, Peanut Butter, and their friends meet in the cafeteria. Peanut Butter looks and doesn't see Applejack. He looks again and then to Rarity. "Hey Rares, where's A.J.?" He asks. "I don't know, she went to go to the bathroom and haven't seen her since." "Probably went to the nurse's office." "Possibly." After lunch period was over the speakers emit a loud beep for a second before a voice is heard. "Please report to the office Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter, please report to the office." The voice says before the sound of a click is heard. "I wonder what for." Peanut Butter wonders. "Well go find out." "Okay." Peanut Butter heads towards the office with his backpack slung over his shoulder by one strap. He enters the office to be greeted by the secretary that is sitting behind her desk. "If you can please enter the room over there and wait for your interview to start." She says pointing to a room next to Celestia's office. Peanut Butter walks towards the room and enters it. Peanut Butter sits on a chair in the room as he waits for the interview to start as he taps his fingertips on the table and notices how bare the white room is outside of the table and two chairs, one of which he is sitting in. Just then the door opens as Proper comes in causing his eyes to widen before he glares at her. She sits down on the other side of the table taking out a folder and placing it on the table before opening it. She takes out a pen and looks at him with a small smirk. "So we meet again." Proper says. "That we do Proper, how long has it been?" "I say about three years since Manehattan." "Sounds about right, what are you and your sister up to this time?" "Living our normal lives, I became a social worker and Prim continued in education." "I remember what happened back then, what you two did." "Oh do you?" "Yeah." "Well let us not dwell on the past for too long, how has life been for you?" "It has been well." "That's good, eating three balanced meals a day?" "Yes." "That's good, your grades seem to be in good standing too which is good." "Why wouldn't it be?" "Don't know, but it looks like you are seeing Doctor Clear Mind for some issues." "What would you expect after what happened?" "This is true, though nothing would have went wrong if you didn't rear your head in." "I had to." "You could have been a part of something bigger, but you chose to stay at the bottom." "Better than living a lie." Proper takes a deep breathe and closes the folder up and puts it away before staring at him. "Since work is out of the way we can chat for a bit since you want to dig up what happened in Manehattan." "Like your experiment with that school?" "Getting straight to the point are we?" "Why wouldn't I?." "If it wasn't for you we would have succeeded." "For the cost of innocent lives, I wasn't going to let it happen." "Oh that is where you are wrong kid, you might have saved some of them, but you didn't save all of them little hero especially your little friend Cherry Blossom." Peanut Butter's eyebrows go down towards his nose as his nostrils flare as he glares at her with his fists clenching as he stands up. A small breeze blows, though neither flinch. Peanut Butter relaxes his fist and sits down. "So are we done here Proper?" Peanut Butter asks. "Yes we are, oh this is from Prim and I, don't open it for five minutes." Proper places a folded up piece of paper on the table and pushes it towards him before picking up her briefcase and walks out of the room. Peanut Butter picks up his book bag and the paper and walks out of the room before walking to the bathroom. He enters one of the stalls and locks it before opening the folded paper. The experiment will go on boy. His eyes go wide as his mouth opens as if his jaw is dropping as he drops the paper into the toilet. His breathing goes heavy and fast as he falls back, pressing his back against the door. "No, no, no, no, no, not again, please god, not again!" Peanut Butter shouts. Just then shouting is heard in the hall as Peanut Butter picks up his book bag and goes out to see Rarity in the hall as she rushes to him with her phone in one hand and being out of breath. "What's wrong Rares?" He asks. "P.B. there you are, Applejack is in trouble, look at this." Rarity panics as she shows him a text. Peanut Butter looks at it with eyes wide open. I have your little girlfriend, street rat, meet me in the dark hallway in the back of the school if you want to see her again. Peanut Butter's nostrils flare as he looks as Rarity. "Rarity, go get Celestia and Luna, I'm going after Blueblood, it's time this ended, once and for all." He says in a monotone voice. "It's a trap P.B., even you know that." "Just do it Rarity." "Alright, just try to not get hurt." "I won't." Rarity nods as they go their separate ways.