Wednesday morning arrived and Twilight was feeling pretty good (aside from the usual nightmare). She decided that while having those girls spreading the word was helpful, the best way to garner votes was to convince people herself. She had even compiled a list of various talking points she could discuss with her potential voters. Maybe she could include Spike on her posters and win the animal lovers vote. The formal was two days away and she didn't have a second to spare.
As she headed towards her locker however, she could hear students giggling as she walked by, pointing at her and whispering. What is going on? As she was asking herself this she felt someone grab her and pull her into a nearby classroom. Twilight turned around and found the culprit to be Rarity, who immediately closed the door behind her.
"Rarity!? What are you..." Before Twilight could properly get a question out, Rarity pulled out a bag and began pulling out various articles of clothes before finally settling on a few. She snapped her fingers and two flashes of light filled the room for a second. When it was over Twilight was now wearing a new outfit.
Twilight now wore a light green shirt with a green skirt with a light blue belt accessorized with a star. The oddest part was that she was wearing a blonde wig which covered her dark hair. Rarity examined her work.
"Perfect! Oh, yes. This is good! No one will recognize you!"
"Why wouldn't I wanna be–"
"And we'll need a disguise for your dog, which is too bad." Rarity began petting Spike who definitely looked like he was enjoying himself. "He really is so adorable!" Rarity stopped petting hime. " Y'know, with the right charm, I think I could make him look like a rabbit instead." This left both Twilight and Spike very confused.
"A rabbit?" Before Twilight could question her further, the door slammed open revealing Applejack, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie (who was somehow hanging upside down).
"There ya are Twi!"
"So much for the disguise..."Rarity grumbled to herself.
"What is going on?" Twilight wanted answers. Fluttershy's eyes widened in surprise.
"Oh, you haven't seen it yet..."
"Seen what!?" Twilight was more confused than ever. Before anyone could answer, someone else appeared at the door.
"There you are! I was looking all over for you." Rainbow Dash entered the room. When her and Applejack's eyes met, tension filled the are as the two glared at each other.
"Applejack." Rainbow said bluntly.
"Rainbow Dash."
They just continued glaring at each other for a minute until Twilight finally had enough.
"ENOUGH! What is going on here?"
Suddenly remembering why they were here, Rainbow and Applejack looked around nervously. Pinkie pulled out her laptop from her bag and began to uploading a video of some sort.
"Um...I'm not sure she needs to see it..." Fluttershy quietly tried to stop her but it was too late.
"Oh I'm sure it's not that bad." Pinkie laughed nervously, trying to reassure them. As the video began to play with a voice that non of them liked.
"Twilight Sparkle wants to be your Fall Formal Princess. But what does it say about our school if we give someone like this... such an important honor?" It began to play clips of Twilight being tripping, trying to open her locker when it got stuck, and trying to use the photocopier yesterday. Each time stopping and zooming in on the goofy faces she was making. It went on like that for a few minutes until it finally stopped, leaving the room in silence.
"I take that back. It's pretty bad!" Pinkie was the first to speak after a moment of silence.
Twilight was mortified and humiliated. Not only did this ruin any chance of winning she had, she was now the laughing stock of the school! Twilight closed the laptop and covered her face with her hands. Applejack put her hand on her shoulder and tried to comfort her.
"Hey, it's gonna be alright sugarcube. I'm sure we'll think of something."
"Like what?" Twilight asked skeptically. Applejack was struggling to come up with an answer when Pinkie spoke up.
"Oh! Oh! I have an idea!" she volunteered enthusiastically, raising and waving her hand as though she were in class.
"Let me guess: a wild and noisy party?" Fluttershy retorted sharply. She turned to Twilight. "Want my advice? Don't accept any help from her. She never takes anything seriously!" Pinkie's face turned from pink to red.
"What! I do do take things seriously! It's people like you who don't know how to have fun that are the problem!"
"Oh! Pff. Kch. Ts! Don't play innocent, Pinkie Pie! You are no better than she is!" Rarity spoke up. "At least she appreciated what I have to offer when I want to help!"
"At least Pinkie won't invite you to a party then cancel it at the last minute without telling you!" Rainbow declared.
"Why you...! At least when I make promises I stick to 'em and don't go lying behind the other person's back!" Applejack retorted, getting in Rainbow's face. The girls continued to argue loudly with each other until Twilight reached her boiling point and had enough of this.
"SHUT UP!" The other become silent as Twilight began ranting.
"I have had enough of you girls arguing about 'who did this..' and 'who said what..'. Right now I'm the laughing stock of the school and you know what! IT'S ALL YOUR FAULTS! If I hadn't met any of you this wouldn't be happening! I only entered this stupid contest because you were too scared to stick up for yourselves! But you know what? I'M DONE! I'm sick of getting involved in other people's lives just for them to hurt me! I never should have come to this school and I never should have tried to help people! So do yourselves a favor in the future and just LEAVE ME ALONE!" Twilight stomped out of the room, tears streaming down her face as everyone else just stood there, stunned at what just happened.
Spike quickly followed after his owner, leaving the other girls just standing there and looking at each other in silence.
Twilight walked away from the classroom, wiping tears from her eyes. How could she have trusted them like that! They didn't care about anything but themselves! She was better off alone, just like before. Twilight turned a corner and found Sunset Shimmer down the hall vandalizing one of her posters with a black marker.
"Well well well, look who it is. Did you see the video? Pretty funny right? I wonder who made it..." Sunset smirked. Twilight was furious. Magic was boiling up in her clenched fist as she stared down Sunset.
"Dont lie! I know it was you!" Sunset merely raised an eyebrow at the accusation.
"Now why would I do something like that? It's not like you have any proof or anything?" She asked, mocking innocence. This just added fuel to Twilight's growing anger and the magic in her hand began to flare as a result.
"THAT"S IT!" Twilight then aimed her hand at Sunset as a magenta beam headed out toward her. Startled, Sunset fired a similar opal bean. Just before the two beams intercepted, Spike jumped between them in an effort to protect Twilight and both beams collided with him. A flash of light later and Spike was lying on the ground, unconscious.
"SPIKE!" Twilight rushed over and cradled her precious pup. How could she be so reckless? Even Sunset looked a little worried about Spike.
"Spike are you ok!?" Twilight asked worriedly as Spike began to open his eyes.
"Um...I think so..?" Twilight was relieved until they both realized that her dog had actually spoken to her!
"AAAAAAAAHHHHH!" They both screamed and Twilight ran off.
"Twilight! Wait!" Spike called out as he chased after her leaving and stunned Sunset just standing there, wondering what just happened.