I should introduce myself before I dwell into this: My name's Cloud Sweeper. I've been a student at Canterlot District for as long as I can remember, and I love it here. I'm on my junior year with some friends to back me up, and things were going well. that is, until she showed up. It's been a month since Sunset Shimmer came out of nowhere, some kind of transfer student. All of a sudden, she has the whole damn school wrapped under her fingertips as if she was some messiah. But she wasn't as powerful as she thought, she was immature, sloppy, and to top it all off, she has Snips and Snails as her "enforcers".
I couldn't stop laughing when I first heard this.
I was in the library with another student when I heard the door open and not shut.
"Hey, Derpy! Sunset wants to talk to you." Snips said.
Derpy seemed panicked, but she was ready to oblige before I stepped in.
"Leave her be, chubby." I said, getting between them.
"Excuse me?" Snips asked loudly.
"I said leave her be, boy. I don't think you have the authority to determine what she does or doesn't." I said to him.
"And you don't have the right to get in the way of Sunset's word." Snips said.
We were silent. I stood in the way of them and I noticed that Derpy started moving away from both of us before running.
"You will regret this." Snips said as he paced off.
"Yeah, that'll be the day." I said back as I headed off.
Before I could make the door, I bumped into something.
That thing was Sunset Shimmer.
"Sorry, what was that?" She asked.
Not gonna lie, I felt slightly frightened, but I knew what I was getting into. She wasn't here long, and she doesn't know everybody yet.
She doesn't know me yet.
"I said: That would be the day." I said to her face.
She stared into my eyes, and I stared back--NOT in the romantic manner.
"Hmm. Fine, whatever. Let the whore run free." Sunset said cruelly.
"It wasn't her fault, she was practically raped!" I said.
"She was given a drink or two and she was game. She's a whore, and you know it!"
"Maybe, but I'm making sure everybody else doesn't know it." I said as I went off to check on Derpy.
I heard Sunset chuckle before walking off to parts unknown. I did the same, heading for the class I had next. I was heading down the halls when I saw everybody scatter by the lockers, and I knew Sunset was behind me. I felt a strong arm grab me and drag me across the hall into the dark hallway.
"Some scene..." I said, rubbing my shoulder from the pain of being dragged.
"Look, I don't think you know who you are, but you gotta stop. You're ruining my image, or trying to, and I'm sick of it." Sunset said.
"Well, welcome to CHS." I said.
"No, that isn't how it's going to work anymore. Look, I like you. You have charisma, and brains. Unlike... those two." Sunset referenced Snips and Snails.
"So what?" I asked.
"So, we should work together. You give me a decent image, and I'll leave you alone." Sunset said.
"Hmm, some deal. I lie and you don't smart-talk me? No deal." I said.
"Yeah, we figured you'd say no." Sunset said as she pulled out her phone.
She loaded up some photos of me.
"Here's you entering your shack of a house, here's you taking clothes off a telephone pole, and-- here's my favorite, here's you seducing Rarity."
Rarity, a close friend of mine. Yeah, I made a move on her and got shot down, but everybody knows that.
"Okay, everyone knows that last one." I said.
"I know. I'll start with that one, just to confuse people. Then here comes that part when you offered her to see your place. A pretty, modernized girl like Rarity, to such a dump like this? It would spread like a virus." Sunset said, getting closer to my face on the last part.
I backed away slowly.
"And if I say no to that deal?" I asked, noting how she was creeping closer.
"If that, then..."
Sunset pushed me into the wall, pinning my hands back with hers. She had an odd expression on her face.
It took me 5 seconds to put this together.
"Oh, no. No, no, no. Hell. No." I said, moving her off me.
"Ah, worth a shot. So, either you work for me, or everybody knows about this. Your choice." Sunset said.
I waited for a moment, still shocked by what just happened. I then decided to test her blackmailing skills.
"Let me make sure they're legit." I said.
"Sure, go ahead." She handed me her phone.
I resisted the urge of snickering as I went to the first picture, deleted it, and worked my way down.
"Alright, Sunset. You win." I said, handing her phone back.
She looked at the screen and saw that I deleted them all.
"Hey!"
"Word of advice: When you're blackmailing someone, never give them the evidence..." I said as I walked away.
"Yeah, keep acting so high and mighty. Makes it more fun..." Sunset chuckled.
What was up with that moment back there? Did she really think I'd-- after what she said to Derpy? Hell no.
Never.