The next day is officially the beginning of the games. Most of the student are in the classroom, library, and hallways doing their daily school routine.
Vice Principal Luna's voice comes over the speakers of the school, announcing, "Good morning, students. I'm sure you're all thrilled to start the first day of the Friendship Games. Our competitors will face off in every aspect of the CHS curriculum, culminating in the elimination equation finale."
Dean Cadence announces, "Welcome to the first event, the Academic Decathlon!"
In the main lobby, The principals of CHS and the principal and dean of Crystal Prep are with the twelve selectives from the two school. Everyone else, including, Screwball, Sun's other brothers and sisters, Falling Star, and The Dazzlings are at the sideline.
"You'll be scored on chemistry, home-ec and everything in between. But remember, only the six students from each team with the most points will move on to event number 2. Good luck!" Dean Cadence adds
Sun and Wondercolts:
Ho! We're gonna take you down
Ho! We're gonna take you down!
Take you down!
(Ho! We're gonna take you down!)
Take you down!
(Down, down, down)
The first event it chemistry, and everyone has their lab coats, and goggles put on.
Sour Sweet and Shadowbolts:
(Oh oh!)
We're here to take you out
(Aw aw!)
We're here to take you out
(Aw aw!)
Take you out!
(We're here to take you out!)
Take you out!
The students from both sides compete in completing the chemistry task. Everyone has finish with theirs and looking excitement. All except Derpy's because hers has exploded in her face.
Wondercolts:
We're not about to let you win, so get out of our way
Think you got us beat, but we're here to stay
United strong, yeah, we'll take you down
You're not so tough, now you're in our town
The next event is home-ec. Pinkie is all ready to go. Two of Crystal Prep students, Suri and Upper Crust are making a large cake. Fluttershy and Pinkie are also doing their very best to make a wonderful dessert.
Wondercolts:
All of the times we lost before
Not about to give up, we're only bringin' it more
When everyone is finished, Principal Celestia, Vice Principal Luna, and Dean Cadence are checking everyone's cakes. Flash and Bon Bon, along with Neon Light and Jet Set's are not very good.
Wondercolts:
We can smell your fear, we can see your sweat
Hope you didn't spend money 'cause you're losin' this bet!
They reach to Upper Crust and Suri's cake, and they give them a piece of cake. The judges try a piece and know that it's good. When they look at Pinkie and Fluttershy's cake, Pinkie cuts the cake in half revealing the mona lisa inside which take them by surprise.
Wondercolts:
You've got nothin' on us
Na, na, na-na-na, na
Let's go, Wondercolts!
Suri and Upper Crust are walking in their cake feeling a bit defeated, but they encounter with Principal Cinch and become very scared.
Wondercolts:
You've got nothin' on us
Na, na, na-na-na, na
Let's go, Wondercolts!
Seeing Principal Cinch's stern look in disappointment, make them both very nervous, that Suri drops the plate and the cake to the ground.
Shadowbolts:
Talk a little too much for a school that never wins
Maybe you should just stop 'fore you even begin
We are Crystal Prep High and we have a reputation
Every little moment is about our education
The next part of the event is carpentry, when the two students of the school make a birdhouse. They sketch measure the sizes of the wood. Cut it, and stack them in a pale. Then they nail the book and paints it.
Shadowbolts:
Put your ear to the ground
Listen to that sound
You're a house of cards
And it's about to fall down
(fall down)
When they are done, the judges look at the birdhouses everyone has made. Sandalwood and Micro Chips' birdhouse is not well made, so when Vice Principal Luna taps it with her pen, the house collapses in an instant.
Shadowbolts:
About to fall down
(fall down),
hit the ground
When they go to see Indigo Zap and Sugarcoat's birdhouse. The reveal it to be like a two story house with flames on it. That makes the judges drop their clipboard.
Shadowbolts:
You've got nothin' on us
Na, na, na-na-na, na
Let's go, Shadowbolts!
Sandalwood and Micro Chip can tell that they are not going to the next round.
Shadowbolts:
You've got nothin' on us
Na, na, na-na-na, na
Let's go, Shadowbolts!
The two boys are walking away when Indigo Zap and Sugarcoat rudely bump them on purpose and tap on the rest of the birdhouse dropping it to the ground. It makes the two a little upset with them, but Sun, Fluttershy, and Applejack comes over and show them a calm smile making them feel a little better.
Wondercolts:
Pressure's on, now we're gonna beat you
Step aside, it's time that we defeat you
Crystal Prep yourself 'cause you're about to go
Down, down, down, down
Next is a spelling bee, and an elimination round. Rainbow Dash goes on stage and try to spell a word she is given, but is wrong. One by one students from both side misspelled their words and been eliminated.
Shadowbolts:
Pressure's on, you know we're gonna take you
Just give up before we have to break you
Canter-not-a-lot, you're about to go
Down, down, down, down
Fluttershy feels a bit nervous being on stage and see both sides glaring at each other. More students have been eliminated from the round.
Wondercolts:
Take it up to the top
'Cause we know we can win
Climbing on stage from CHS side, Sun has make it to the final round of the first event.
Shadowbolts:
Maybe you should just stop
'Cause we've seen you give in
From Crystal Prep, Twilight Sparkle steps on the stage to compete, but is feeling nervous and unsure about it.
Wondercolts:
We believe in ourselves
And we've got what it takes
The two walk on the stage facing each other because they're competing each other in the last round of the event.
All:
And we're not gonna stop
Twilight Sparkle:
I can't wait 'til this is all over
There's so much more that's going on
Twilight feels sad and scared about all the things that's been going on at the school, and facing the chalkboard.
Sun:
Before these games are finally over
I'll find out just what she's done
Sun looks at her chalkboard and is not only worried about keeping magic out of the games, but is very worried for what Twilight is getting herself involved in.
All:
Can she do it? Will she make it?
Who will win it? Who will take it?
Twilight and Sun are competing on finishing an equation on each other chalk boards, and are being timed on it.
All:
Can she do it? Who will take it?
Did she win it? Did she make it?
Principal Cinch firmly stares at the two girls on the stage. Twilight and Sun keep writing their math equation on the board. The pressure is suspecting for both the competitors and the students.
All:
Who's the winner? Who's the reject?
How did she answer?
When the two girls are finished, Principal Cinch goes on stage to check the results from the two chalkboards.
She points to Sun, and firmly states, "Incorrect!"
Hearing that, Sun feels a bit disappointed that she lost. Photo Finish takes a picture of the last round ending, but shrinks in her chair when people stares at her.
Vice Principal Luna gets up, holding the clipboard, and announces, "That means the winner of the Friendship Games' first event is Twilight Sparkle and Crystal Prep!"
"Congratulations Twilight," Sun says, offering a handshake.
"Thanks," Twilight replies, and grabs Sun's hand for a shake.
They both give each other a handshake until they hear someone shouting, "Yay!"
Everyone in the room look to see that Sonata Dusk is the only doing the loud cheering, and really loud for that matter.
"Go Twilight! Go Sun! Woah hoo!" Sonata cheers louder waving pom pom.
Everyone start to stare at Sonata. Falling Star, Adagio, and Aria are looking a bit unsure about it.
Then Sonata continues to cheers for Twilight shouting, "Give me a Twi! Give me a light! Give a Spark! And give me a le!"
Hearing that causes Twilight to feel a bit embarrassed.
Falling Star speaks up calmly, "Uh Sonata, I think you can stop now?"
Sonata stops after hearing to see everyone staring at her.
"Oh… right," Sonata replies, feeling a bit embarrassed.
Then some of students from both schools starting to giggle soon after that. On stage, Rainbow Dash and the others run over to say congratulations to Sun and Twilight.
"That was awesome!" Rainbow shouts with excitement.
"You both did a wonderful job," Rarity complements.
"Even though you didn't win," Twilight shyly replies.
"True, but it's the farthest that Canterlot High has ever got," Applejack replies.
As they are talking, The other girls from Crystal Prep are looking confused as to why Sun and the others are being so nice to Twilight.
Dean Cadence gets on the stage with the microphone, and announced, "After a careful tally of the points, we'd like to present the students moving on to the Friendship Games' second event," Dean Cadence says, looking at the clipboard.
Hearing that and looking at her classmates leaving the stage, Twilight says, "I better get going."
Sun nods her head understand that she needs to go. Twilight then follows her fellow students off the stage, but encounters Flash Sentry, who has been waiting for her.
"Congratulations! You were really great!" Flash replies, feeling a bit embarrassed.
Just then Twilight becomes distracted by her device, and says, "I'm sorry. Excuse me."
She then walks away, leaving Flash behind.
"Okay, then. Aw," Flash replies, feeling disappointed.
Later on, Sun and the girls are at the statue talking to each other. After that most of them leave the statue, but not aware that Twilight has been spying on them. Twilight takes a peak from her hiding space to see Fluttershy heading to one of the bushes. When she knows no one is looking, she unzips her backpack and a gray cat with green eyes on it. She smiles and then cuddles the cat.
Sun goes out of the bushes with a smile, and says, "I knew it."
"You got me Sun," Sun replies with a giggle
"It's okay," Sun replies.
Sun sits down next to Fluttershy, unzips her backpack and brings out Nina the iriomote wild cat. The wild cat sits on Sun's lap and let's her and Fluttershy pet her. Just then, Twilight comes out of the bushes with her device in front of her. Sun and Fluttershy greet her with smiles on their face.
Sun happily asks, "Hey Twilight, wanna play with our pets?"
"Do you want to give them a treat?" Fluttershy asks with a smile.
Twilight looks at her device for a second, but decides to take a break and hang out with Sun and Fluttershy.
"I guess you're right when you told that I'm not the only one to smuggle our pets into school," Twilight says, as she sits down next to them
Fluttershy giggles and says, "Not just one."
Fluttershy unzips her backpack completely and some of her other pets come out. Including Angel Bunny. Seeing this amazed Twilight.
"Wow… all I have is Spike," Twilight says, unzipping her backpack, and her little dog comes out with a bark.
"And I have Nina,"sun adds, petting her cat on the head.
Twilight smiles seeing Nina, and happily says, "Hello Nina, it's nice to see you again."
She then scratches Nina under the chin, which she seems to like.
Fluttershy picks up Spike, shen says, "The resemblance is uncanny, does he talk?"
"Not that I know of," Twilight answers, looking a bit confused.
"Congratulations on winning by the way, but it doesn't look like anyone on your team is very excited about it," Fluttershy says, looking a bit curious about the other students from Crystal Prep.
Twilight becomes sad, and answers, "No one at my school gets excited about anything they didn't do themselves."
"That sounds awful," Fluttershy sadly replies.
"It's okay Twilight, you have me and my friends," Sun says, reassuring her.
"Yeah, thanks for earlier. I felt strangely, but I'm glad to have you and your friends around," Twilight replies with a sad and yet smile on her face.
But becomes sad again. Fluttershy and Sun can see that Twilight is feeling sad and treated differently from the other students. Just then, Fluttershy has an idea.
Fluttershy presents Angel Bunny to Twilight, and says, "Here. Hold this,"
"Um, why?" Twilight asks.
"Holding a bunny always makes me feel better," Fluttershy answers, passing the bunny to Twilight.
Twilight hold the bunny with an unsure look, and says , "Well, that's ridiculous. But…"
Just then Angel snuggles Twilight on the face, which makes her feel a lot better.
"Ooh. It actually kind of works," Twilight says snuggling the little bunny.
"I know, Angel is a very sweet bunny, even though he has a touch side," Sun adds patting Angel on the head.
Twilight wonders about something, and asks, "I'm on the other team and you just lost. Why are you both being so nice to me?"
"You looked like you needed it," Fluttershy answers with a calm smile.
Fluttershy gets up and notices that her body is starting to glow a bright yellow color, and is being lifted into the air. She then gains her pony ears, wings, and extended pink hair. Sun smiles seeing that Fluttershy has transformed.
"Whoa!" Twilight replied, astonished by this event.
Before Twilight and Sun can do or say anything, the device floats up, automatically opens, and absorbs Fluttershy's magic inside. As the magic is being taken, multiple small portals start to open up. A rabbit with antlers appears out of it. Spike growls at it and starts chasing it. Nina starts to chase them too through the portals and appearing out of another one.
"Spike!" Twilight shouts with concern.
"Nina!" Sun replies with the same expression.
Sun turns to Twilight and asks, "What is that thing doing?!"
"I don't know!" Twilight answers looking worried.
That is no the answer that Sun wants to hear. All they can do is try to close the device. Just then, Spike and Nina comes out of one of the portal, but ends up colliding with the floating magic that is going to the device
"Spike/Nina!" Sun and Twilight shockley exclaims.
Trying her best, Twilight manages to close the portal. The two little animals land to Fluttershy's arms. Fluttershy pases Spike to Twilgiht, but starts to collapse before passing Nina to Sun.
Sun manages to catch Sun and calmly says, "Got you."
"Spike, are you okay?" Twilight asks, worriedly and hugging her dog.
"Um, I think so," Spike replies feeling a bit drained.
Twilight and Spike look at each other with a smile, but screams realising that Spike has talk to her. Causing herself to fall and drop Spike, Twilight panics and runs away from the yard and back into the school.
Spike runs after as he calls out, "Twilight, wait!"
"Twilight come back!" Sun calls out, still holding Fluttershy, but Twilight and Spike are long gone.
Sun helps Fluttershy lies down as she says, "That's so strange."
Nina comes over, and bluntly says, "You can say that again,"
"No kidding," Sun agrees.
Just then, her eyes widen looking at Nina, and shockley exclaims, "Nina?!"
"Yes, it's me. I'm surprised as you are," Nina answers, nodding her head.
Sun becomes completely surprised and stares at Nina, and says, "Okay, this is getting so weird right now?"
"Don't worry, I'm sure we'll think of something," Nina replies.
Sun starts to become calm and say, "Okay Nina, but I don't know why, but… you kind of acted like that girl, Sugarcoat."
"That's who I am," Nina says
Sun giggles and says, "Right."
Sun then tries to help Fluttershy at her weak state and think Twilight's device is becoming dangerous for her to have around. In the hallways, Twilight runs away from spike still freaking out.
Spike runs after her as he shouts, "Twilight, come on! Wait for me!"
But Twilight continues to run away from her dog in a panic. She ends up bumping into someone and they fall to the ground. Twilight looks up to see two of Sun's friends, Falling Star and Aria Blaze.
Aria bluntly says, "That hurt."
"Sorry," Twilight apologizes.
"That's okay," Falling Star replies.
The three girls help each other up, and look to see Spike is with them and walks towards Twilight.
Twilight leans back against the wall as Spike asks, "Why did you run away like that?"
"Did your dog just talk?!" Arai asks with a shocked look.
Twilight is still scared and confused as she explains, "Um, oh, I don't know. Maybe it has something to do with the glowing girl, or the hole in space. Or my talking dog!"
"Yeah. Weird, right?" Spike agrees while scratching his ear.
The three girls are confused and wondering what is going on
Twilight kneels down to Spike and constantly asking questions, "Are you okay? How do you feel? What happened? Where did you go?"
Spike licks Twilight on the face, and answers, "Hey, one question at a time! This is pretty new to me, too."
"Sorry," Twilight replies with a calm smile.
"All I know is I chased that pointy rabbit through the glowy thing and then I was somewhere else. Next thing I knew, I was back in that nice girl's arms and I could talk! I don't really understand why I couldn't before. I mean, it's so easy," Spike explains, and seems to like being able to talk.
Hearing the answer, Aria and Falling Star can guess who is Spike referring too.
"Would that nice girl have pink hair and loves animals?" Falling Star asks.
"Yeah!" Spike answers, rapidly nodding his head.
"That's Fluttershy, and I'll bet Sun is with her," Arai says
"That's right," Twilight replies.
Before they can say anything, they hear a familiar voice calmly calling out, "Twilight."
The girls and the little dog turns to see Principal Cinch heading their way. The little dog knows that eh and the two other girls need to hide.
Twilight opens one of the lockers and quickly says, "Quick! Hide in here!"
Aria, Falling Star, and Spike jump into the locker, and Twilight closes it quickly before Principal Cinch can see them
Principal Cinch approaches Twilight, and asks, "Who are you talking to?"
"Um, myself. It's a nervous habit," Twilight nervously answers fiddling with her hair.
Then she asks, "Were you looking for me?"
"Indeed I was," Principal Cinch firmly answers
"Quite a coincidence that the CHS students moving on to the next event are the same nice girls who were so interested in you, don't you think?" Principal Cinch firmly explains.
"I'm not sure," Twilight replies, looking unsure.
"Perhaps you should get to know them after all," Principal Cinch says.
Twilight looks confused and says, "But I thought you didn't want me to?"
"Let's just say I'm covering my bases. Who knows? Perhaps they will reveal to you the secret to Canterlot High's newfound success, but I mostly want to be around that girl, Sun," Principal Cinch informs Twilight.
"Why Sun?" Twilight asks.
"I believed that she may be the key to Canterlot High's success somehow, and she seems to be quite fond of you," Principal Cinch answers
Twilight becomes concern as she says, "I dunno. Spying feels kind of... wrong."
Principal Cinch shows a firm look on her face as she start to walk way, and says. "Well, it's your decision, Twilight. It's not as if your application hangs in the balance."
Principal Cinch stops for a second and firmly says, "On second thought, yes, it does."
After that statement, Principal Cinch walks away. When she's gone, Spike, Aria Blaze, and Falling Star exist the locker. Spike looks upset and concern about it. Falling Star and Aria Blaze are concern but for a different reason.
"Man, she's awful," Spike replies.
"You can say that again," Aria agrees.
She turn turns to Twilight and asks, "What did Principal Cinch means when she said 'your application hangs in the balance?'"
Twilight starts to feel scared, and worried about what Aria is asking her. She then starts to shed a little tears from her eyes.
Twilight picks up Spike, and sadly says, "I need to go."
Twilight then leaves the hallway.
"Twilight wait!" Falling Star cries out, but Twilight is already gone.
Falling Star and Aria Blaze look at each other and can tell something is wrong.
Aria says, "Falling Star, I starting to think Principal Cinch has something against Twilight."
"You're right. We need to tell the others," Falling Star agrees.
But Aria suggests, "Let's wait on it, I think we should hear it from Twilight before we tell anyone else."
Falling Star nods her head agreeing to the idea, so they run off to find Sun and the others. At a different part of the school, Twilight is sitting down with her face on her knees, and sobbing. Spike does his best to comfort her, but no luck.
Spike nuzzles Twilight on the face with a sadl look as he says, "Twilight, I really think you should tell Sun and her friends about it."
"But… I… I can't," Twilight says while sobbing.
"Sun is your friend, and two of her friends overheard what Principal Cinch said. They have the right to know," Spike urges.
Twilight begins to cry a little, and says, "I know, but… but… I have to figure this out on my own."
Twilight continues crying a bit, and is not sure what to do about her dilemma. She really wish there is a way for her to get out of this.