//------------------------------// // Chapter 6: Study Group // Story: My Little Pony Equestria Girls The Crystal Girl // by Pinkie Pie Sweets //------------------------------// At the cafe, Twilight Sparkle is reading some of her books, and studying for the next school year, even though she has months of studying, and is on break right now. As she reads her books and having her drink, Star and Rainbow comes walking into the cafe. Luckily it's easy for them to see where Twilight is sitting at. Star calls out, "Yo Twilight," Twilight looks at her friends with a smile and says, "Hi guys, how was band practice?" "Practice was great. Star and his friends even let me play a little song," Rainbow answers with a smile. "That's good," Twilight replies. "Are you kidding! That was amazing, and you are not going to believe what Rainbow Crystal did during practice," Star spats out in excitement. Twilight looks at Star and Rainbow with a confused look and asks, "What did she do?" "You'll see," Star answers with a grin. Star brings out his video camera and shows the clip to Twilight. As Twilight observes, she can see that Rainbow Crystal is a great singer. But when she sees Rainbow Crystal gem glows and causes her whole body to she, she is speechless. She has never seen anything like it. When the video is finished, Twilight eyes are wide and her jaw is wide open in a shock. Rainbow calmly asks, "What do you think?" "What… was… impressive, but so impossible. How were you able to do that?" Twilight answers, still stunned by the video. Rainbow giggles a bit, and explains, "It's a special defence that I used in my homeworld. They are also used for special events, so I thought the band could a little more excitement." "And it's exciting indeed," Star says. Twilight smiles and says, "Rainbow, you're amazing. I've never seen anything about. It makes me wish I could understand you more." "Maybe you can. I don't mind talking about myself, beside I have lots of stories," Rainbow says. Twilight smiles and says, "I think I would like that." "Yeah. I would love to hear what kind of stories you have," Star replies. "I'll be happy to, but first, I should probably get some studying down. It maybe summer, but I have a lot of work ahead of me," Rainbow answers. "You can say that again," Twilight remarks. After having their little talk, Twilight and Star begin to help Rainbow with her studies. She seems to be a fast learner, and loves to read about history. During the time, Rainbow Crystal talks to her friends about her home world, and all of her time and adventures living in that world. Sadly though, she has to explain to them about what happened to her during a terrible war in their kingdom. After explaining her story, Star and Twilight feels that Rainbow's life has been great until that fateful day. Star sadly says, "Gosh Rainbow, I didn't realized you've went through all that." "It must have been terrible," Twilight adds. "Yes, it was," Rainbow sadly replies. Then Twilight asks, "Rainbow why did we found you in that box, and how come you were in your gem." "Sometimes, when a Crystal Gem Pony becomes severely injured, we retreated to our gems so we can heal ourselves," Rainbow explains. "With you being a royal guard, you must have got into a lot of injuries," Star replies. Rainbow answers, "Not to much, it mostly happen when you have injuries are serious. However once you are in the gem, you are unable to get out until you're healed. It's best to be sure you're not at a disadvantage during battle because, you can be put in an object very easily so it will be impossible for you to get out." "So this King Sombra was the one who did that, and you did that to save your queen?" Twilight asks. "He did. He attacked her, so I had to defend her. Sadly though, he was able to stab me and I hurt my back hoof very badly, so I retreated to my gem. Since our gem are the source of our powers, they can't be destroyed," Rainbow answers. Star is astonished and says, "Wow, you must done your job well, sorry about you being stuck here." "It's okay. But since I'm here, I don't know what to do now," Rainbow replies. "Don't worry, once you've settled in more, and show everyone what you can do. I'm sure what your best interest will be shown, and what you get to do for a career," Twilight says with a calm smile. "Yeah. And you get to have a lot of fun here, and you don't have to worry about doing any royal works," Star says. Then Twilight adds, "It must be amazing that you were a royal guard to an actual queen." "Yes. Queen Moon Crystal is a benevolent ruler, everyone in the kingdom adores her. She also used to be friends with other princesses from neighboring kingdoms," Rainbow says. "Like who? Twilight asks. Rainbow tries to remember who the princesses are, then she answers. Well there's Princess Amore of the Crystal Empire, Princess Aquamarine from Merpony kingdom, and there's Princess Celestia and Princess Luna from Canterlot. Duchess Abacus Cinch of Shadow Kingdom... " "Celestia and Luna!" Star says with a shock. "And Abacus Cinch," Twilight says feeling stunned. Rainbow is looking very confused of what Twilight and Star are shocked about. For some reason, there is something that she is not aware of. Maybe the names are familiar to them, but not to Rainbow. Rainbow asks, "Is there something wrong?" "What's wrong? You're saying that Principal Cinch, Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna are rulers where you're from." Twilight says sounding surprised. Rainbow nods her head and answers, "Yes. I've seen them plenty of times when Queen Aquamarine comes to visit them. I had a feeling that I saw your principal appearance before, but I didn't realized that she has the same name as Duchess Abacus too." Star starts to think about it and suspects, "It's possible that the one you're referring to and the one we knew must be the same, but lived in very different lives." "That is possible," Twilight replies. "It might be," Rainbow adds. Twilight holds her head and says, "This is very confusing. It already strange enough that you've came from a different world, but now there must be ponies from your world who resembles everyone you might have known." "Yeah. It sounds like a science fiction movie to me. Something that have never been seen or heard in real life," Star adds. Rainbow explains. "I understand that must be very confusing to you, but there are something that are best to not be answered." "You're right. I think it's best to keep this part our little secret," Twilight suggests. Star agrees and says, "Yeah. The last thing we need is for someone to find out about all this. It could lead to all kinds of problems." Rainbow Crystal and Twilight Sparkle nod their head agreeing to the idea. They think it's best to keep this whole conversation to themselves, and not tell a soul about it. For the rest of the afternoon, Twilight and Star teach Rainbow Crystal whatever they can about their home world, and the kind of studies for school. After they finish, they all have gone home for the day, and can't wait for anything else to do for their summer before school starts. There will be more things that Rainbow will be showing, and some that will take some time to used to.