CHS: No More Hiding
The two women sat with a stunned look, trying to process the information that was just imparted onto them, sharing looks of shock with the person sitting across the desk.
“Sorry it took so long to finally come through, but with Cyber Laws still in their infancy it took awhile to work things out with MyStable.”
The man sighed as he sat down, kneeling onto the table.
“I still find it hard to believe that three girls of such a young age would do such a thing.” He looked over the upside down paperwork, “What sort of motive did they have? By all accounts they are three well liked grade nine students.”
“I don’t know…” Celestia was lost at what to say. Of all the possible people, it was hard to say she ever considered them to be Anon-A-Miss. They even posted some of their own secrets after all! Or… maybe they were just fabricated?
“Lulu… what do you think we should do?”
Luna shrugged, “We don’t know what can be done,” She said solemnly, “Mayhaps you can assist us, officer?”
The man looked at the two women, before he shook his head. “Unfortunately there is not much that can be done.” He watched the two women slouch down, “They are all minor’s, are first time offenders, and this is a cyber crime, which would make things incredibly hard to try and get through.” He stood up, regarding the two sisters, “I’m not envious of your positions, but if there is anything I can do, get in touch with the station, they’ll know to patch you through.”
The door shut, leaving the two haggard women alone, contemplating on why these three girls would do such a thing?
“Sister?”
Luna had reached out and touched her sister’s shoulder.
“Sister, we need to work this through. This crime cannot go unpunished.”
“Well what do you suggest then, Lulu!?” Celestia yelled, at wits end over the whole thing. Ever since the assembly where they revealed that Sunset Shimmer was innocent, tons of student’s have come forward giving suggestions on who they thought was behind the account. Thing’s may have appeared to quiet down, but in the shadows everything had raised to a fevered pitch.
“What do we do!? They caused the entire school to turn on itself! To turn on Sunset Shimmer and drive her to the point of suicide!”
“Well… what options do we have?” Luna didn’t react to her sister’s lashing out, knowing how far she had been pushed, “Expulsion? But then where would they go? I doubt Cinch would take them and risk tarnishing her precious reputation, and this was their first ever incident.” Celestia had calmed down slightly as she listed to Luna, “I definitely think they should take the course on cyber bullying from the police department.”
Celestia’s mind started to piece together a plan. “Luna, I think I have it.” She stood up and started walking towards her coat, “Something that will hopefully solve everything!”
She dug through her coat, retrieving her cell phone and punching in a number. Slowly it rang, before being picked up on the other end.
“Hello, Cadence? We need to talk.”
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“Why did you ask to see us?”
Sweetie Belle looked around the office, Principal Celestia was seated behind her desk with Vice Principal Luna standing just beside. The curtains had been pulled shut, leaving only the lights in the room to attempt to illuminate everything. Around her stood her friends, Scootaloo and Apple Bloom, who also looked confused as to why they had been called down to the office.
Celestia had been studying the three young teens since they entered, trying to deduce as to why they would make the Anon-A-Miss account. What did they stand to gain? She sighed, raising up from behind her hands.
“We know it was you three.”
All three adolescents paused, a worried look starting to appear on each of their faces.
“W-what are you t-talking about?” Scootaloo asked, slowly attempting to back away in fear.
“Anon-A-Miss.”
Celestia’s tone was cold and level, freezing the girls in their places. They attempted to look around, but Luna stopped their wandering eyes as she spoke up.
“You may wish to continue to play innocent, but we just finished getting the paperwork not but a half hour ago that linked the MyStable account of Anon-A-Miss to your phones.”
“We didn’t mean for it to go this far!”
“Sweetie Belle!?” Apple Bloom watched in shock as Sweetie rushed forward.
“We just wanted out sisters back!”
Celestia stopped, her mouth open. What did she just say?
“Yeah! Rainbow Dash kept hanging out with Sunset and never had time for me anymore!”
She looked over at Scootaloo, who confirmed Sweetie’s statement.
“You. Were. Jealous!?”
Celestia could swear she felt her hair ignite! Of all the possible reasons, her school had been nearly destroyed by jealousy!? Because their sister’s wanted to spend time with their friend?
“What the actual-”
Celestia felt Luna’s hand clamp across her mouth, causing the woman to glare at her sister, watching as Luna shook her head.
“We want you to know that you are going to be punished severely for you actions.” Luna stated, her voice as chill as ice, “As well, there will be an assembly tomorrow morning, where you three will be presented as the ones behind Anon-A-Miss.”
The three girls had started crying, salty tears running down their young cheeks. Luna knew they felt sorrow at their actions, guilt of what they had caused. But this outpouring of emotion would not change what had happened.
“Yer gonna punish the other students though, aint’cha?”
Celestia turned to Apple Bloom, who was holding onto her sobbing friends.
“They ain’t innocent either.”
“There will be some restrictions placed, that is correct.” Celestia started, only to be cut off by Applejack’s sister.
“No, what I meant to say was, Yer gonna punish the student’s that sent secrets ta us to post, right?”
Celestia sputtered. “What!?”
Sweetie Belle rubbed her eyes, “Apple Bloom is right! We got tons of stuff from all sorts of different students!”
Scootaloo joined in, hoping to help alleviate their as of yet determined punishment, “Yeah! We can show you! Here!” She rummaged around in her pocket, pulling out her phone and opening MyStable. “Thankfully MyStable has an account recovery option, in case something were to happen.” She followed through on the instructions provided, before opening the message tab and showing her phone to the two heads of the school.
“Email accounts are all right there. All of them CHS student accounts too.”
Celestia and Luna looked at each other, then back to the three girls.
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What do you mean you want me to meet you at CHS!?
Because, they found out who Anon-A-Miss was, and they are going to have a big assembly to reveal what was found, as well as how they are being punished.
You gonna tell me who it is?
You probably aren’t gonna believe me…
Who. Was. It.
Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo…
…
Twilight?
Sorry Sunset, just thinking about how those three did something similar over here, though things were never as bad as what you suffered through.
I guess these worlds are more mirrored than we thought~
What time am I supposed to meet you there?
8:30am this world’s time, so 11 hours roughly from now.
Are we going to be talking to anyone?
I really don’t want to. I was promised that I could remain off stage, hidden from site. Heck, the only reason I’m going is because Cadence, Twilight, and Velvet insisted so hard.
I still find it funny that you are living with the me from that world.
Laugh all you want, but I think I know more of your habits then I ever should have.
She’s a total slob when she eats, isn’t she?
That’s just the start… You aren’t gonna come over as a pony again, are you? I don’t want to risk causing a major scene.
Oh, Celestia no! It was enough of a strain when I forced an apparition of myself through the last time!
You mean you didn’t physically come over?
Nope! You see, I’ve been studying the magic of the mirror, trying to find how it ticks! I’ve found out that you can stop the change of form, but only if you can find some way to anchor the aetherial-
Equestrian please. It’s been a long time since I had the joy of studying magic you know.
Sorry! Long story short, I anchored myself over here and forced magic through the portal. Think of it this way. I tied a bungee cable around myself and entered a lake that was blocked off by a dam. I created an opening in the dam to allow the water to suck me through, but only as far as the cable, my anchor, would allow.
So you are why magic is slowly coming back to me and the Sirens then.
Ehehe… I doubt much will come of it! Still, I can’t believe what the stories failed to tell about the Sirens! I feel kinda bad for them in all honesty…
Don’t worry about it, they’d love to talk with you face to face some day. But I gotta go Twilight, gotta be up early to meet you at the portal. Night night!
Gnight!