//------------------------------// // The Locker Room Incident // Story: MLP: Carrie // by efug25g //------------------------------// Deep within the old Castle of the Everfree Forest, there was explosions and blood-curdling screams echoing throughout the night. A female unicorn named Chris Hargensen was making run for it down the castle hallways, terrified. Behind her, she could hear a male pony scream and the next thing that happened was that screaming stopped in dead silence. Just as soon as she reached the ancient library, closing the door behind her, she frantically tried to find a place to hide. Despite her being armed only a spear and with her magic, Chris' heart started pounding in fear while hiding behind several bookshelves. After holding her breath with her hoof, Chris could hear the door slowly open with a creaking noise. A unicorn pony covered up in blood steps forward into the library, armed with a double-bladed Axe. "I know you're in there, Chris Hargensen." The bloodied female unicorn spoke in a scary tone. "You can't hide forever, bitch." After recognizing the familiar, hostile voice of her bullied victim, Chris could not tell whether she felt bad in mistreating her or that she still want to put her out of her misery. Despite that, Chris slowly sneaks through the shelves, unable to think straight, and attempts to approach the emergency exit when all of a sudden, she hears footsteps coming closer and closer from behind. Just when Chris turned around and raised her spear, she saw nothing. Upon feeling relived for one minute she turns around to face the emergency exit only to see the bloodied unicorn appear right in front of her face, glaring at her in anger. As Chris freaked out, she raised her spear up to her midsection and attempted to thrust it at the bloodied unicorn, only for her to dodge it. The next thing that happened is the female unicorn swung her ax from her left, decapitating Chris' horn off her head and the moment she swung her ax from her right, she struck at Chris in her left front leg, chopping half of it off with ease. As blood squirted out from Chris' leg, she started screaming in pain as she hit the floor on her side. As the bloodied unicorn circled around an injured Chris, she started taunting the female unicorn with her ranting. "What are waiting for, Carrie?" Chris screeched in pain while clutching her decapitated hoof. "DO IT! DO IT!!!!" The female bloodied unicorn raised her Axe way above her head, preparing to behead Chris. But before she can finish Chris off, the unicorn hears another pony shout out loud behind her. "CARRIE WHITE, STOP!!!" The purple pony shouted in a Royal Canterlot voice. The moment both Carrie and Chris turned around, they see a purple alicorn pony appear before them at the doorway entrance of the ancient library. She goes by the name Princess Twilight Sparkle. As the pony princess stepped forward, she started glaring at them intensely before the entire screen turned white. Two Weeks Earlier..... It was a bright sunny day out in and exercise training field outside of Celestia's School of Gifted Unicorns, the very same school that Twilight Sparkle used to study at as the sun princess' prized pupil turned Monarch. Unfortunately, not every pony was able to study good and made friends with the other unicorn students like Twilight Sparkle could. In fact, after one hour of working out, there is a young unicorn mare in her early teenage years. She had a peach fur coat and a yellow mane and tail that bears the cutie mark of a red heart that is broken in two. The reason why she had this cutie mark was because the poor mare had trouble trying to fit right in with the other students since she attended school during the first few days. She goes by the name Carrie White. Before Carrie went inside the fillies locker room, several other Unicorn started throwing fruits at her from both left and right, while others started laughing at her in silence. At first, she didn't think of it as a big deal. However, as soon as she went to the locker room to take a shower, the worse is still yet to come. After a few minutes of showering, Carrie heard some giggling coming from behind her. When she turned around, she saw nothing and went back to rinse herself off. But unknown to Carrie, a gang of several female unicorns are lurking in the shadows behind her. As soon as the unicorn gang emerged from the shadows, they armed themselves with all sorts of small objects, including lunch boxes, school bags, towels, books, and other school supplies. Out of the blue, they snuck up on Carrie and as soon as they got closer, they struck at the female unicorn without any warning. "STOP!!! PLEASE!!!" Carrie screamed as she is getting pelted by the objects that the unicorn gang is throwing at her. Despite Carrie's pleadings, more female unicorns joined in, except for one named Sue Snell who is a light-brown female unicorn with a red mane and tail that bears the cutie mark of a golden plus sign. Throughout her years in the School of Gifted Unicorns, Sue was unanimously promoted as the 2nd most popular student, ever to rival Princess Twilight for whom she worships as her inspiring royal patron. Ever since Sue heard about how Twilight Sparkle became the 4th Alicorn Princess of Equestria, she could not help but feel so excited in getting the new princess' autographs at Canterlot. After Twilight got a Castle of her own to live in and is promoted as the one and only Princess of Friendship, Sue became one of Twilight's biggest fans in secret. Upon seeing Carrie hurt under such bad circumstances, Sue slowly started to feel bad for humiliating her for over the past few weeks. In other words, Sue's popularity over the school didn't help her stop Carrie's bullies from harassing her in the showers. While the other unicorns continued to keep throwing objects at Carrie, Sue immediately reported the incident to one of the nearby teachers to disperse the bullying crowd. Unbeknownst to any of the unicorns, Carrie's forehead started bleeding after getting hit by a small metal lunch box. "EVERY PONY, THAT'S ENOUGH!!!" A royal white alicorn shouted in a Canterlot voice as she used her magic to restrain the entire crowd from causing Carrie's humiliation. Upon shouting in a royal voice command, the white alicorn appeared before every pony else. As she proceeded forwards to the source of the crying noise, every pony that wasn't afflicted with her magic bowed down before her from both left and right. She goes by the name of Princess Celestia, the sun ruler who lived for more than a thousand years of her lifetime. She bears the cutie mark of a bright sun, and has a flowing mane and tail of multiple, bright colors. The white alicorn wears a big, elegant golden crown and necklace with a purple diamond in the middle. When Princess Celestia approached the sobbing unicorn, she sees Carrie hurdled up in a nearby corner at the showers. The moment Celestia comforted the poor unicorn, she hears some more giggling behind her back but they immediately stopped when the white alicorn turned around to face them, staring at them in a threatening glare filled with anger and fury. "LEAVE THIS LOCKER ROOM AT ONCE!!!!" Princess Celestia barked loudly while ordering the students out of the area. While the rest of the female unicorns leave the locker room, one of them gave Celestia an evil smirk upon her face. The female unicorn, who is responsible for ordering the gang of female unicorns to pick on Carrie, is none other than Chris Hargensen. She is a female lightly-tanned unicorn with a dark-brown mane and tail, in which they're both in a mangled mess. Her mane was tied behind her back with a red ponytail holder. Chris bears the cutie mark of a black "X." According to the her historical family records in Canterlot, Chris happens to be the daughter of a wealthy unicorn lawyer named John Hargensen. Despite how much trouble she is causing at the school, John refuses to believe in Chris' wrongdoings at the school that Carrie was in. To make matters worse, Chris' father bribed most of the guards that witnessed Chris' misbehavior, preventing them from spilling any beans towards the public. "Are you okay, Carrie?" Celestia asked in a calm voice. "Let's get you to my office, to see if we can work this out." Before Carrie and Celestia left the locker room, Sue Snell appeared behind them. As Celestia started glaring at her, Sue protested against the incident that Carrie was in, saying that she doesn't have anything to do with Carrie getting bullied in the school. After giving it a few more thoughts, Celestia remembered how Sue became immediate friends with Princess Twilight, along with Lemon Hearts, Twinkleshine, Minuette, and Moon Dancer. Throughout her time, Twilight was able to gain Sue's trust in Canterlot. In return, Sue does her best to support the Princess of Friendship in any way possible. Unfortunately, because Sue almost humiliated Carrie by accident, Celestia told her that she, along with the rest of the unicorns that bullied Carrie, must be met with some intense disciplinary action later on. At Princess Celestia's office, the white alicorn is sitting across her desk going over the recent reports of Carrie's humiliation over the past couple of semesters in her school. Across from where Celestia is sitting, Carrie is sitting on top of a chair while still sobbing underneath her hooves, not knowing what to do. After several minutes of going over Carrie's paperwork, Celestia starts her conversation with Carrie. "You know, I wish I could do more than just subdue and disperse your tormentors Carrie." Celestia spoke in a calm voice. "However, I can't always protect you from them. I have more important stuff that needs to be taken care of outside my school. After all, I have royal duties that must be met with full attention. I mean, this is like the 550th time we have to go through incidents like that in my school." "Yes, I understand, your highness." Carrie sniveled while letting tears come out of her eyes, unable to look at the sun princess. "But how am I going to survive here if you can't help me anymore?? Why can't I make friends with any pony here??? WHY???" "It's alright, Carrie. Me and Luna have been talking about this for quiet a while." Celestia replied. "After going over your problems in the school, we decided to issue an agreement for you to start your friendship someplace else, instead in Canterlot." "Really??" Carrie asked as she looked up to face Princess Celestia. "We'll let you have a couple of days off from studying at the School of Gifted Unicorns. In the mean time, we have contacted Princess Twilight Sparkle from Ponyville." Celestia acknowledged. "She said that she'll be here to pick you up and will help you from here on out. Before that, however, she may need to request approval from your mother before we bring you into Twilight's castle."