Back to the Friendship Games second event, Rarity and Pinkie Pie have a few more laps until they are finish, but Sunny Flare and Lemon Zest are catching up to them.
"Canterlot only has two laps to go! But it looks like Crystal Prep is making up for lost time!" Dean Cadence announces through the microphone.
The two teams are at neck and neck with each other. The two girls from Crystal Prep are able to skate right past them and they both need a few laps to go. The crowd cheer in excitement of the event.
As they race, one of the skaters hit Twilight's device and it unleashes sparks. When tries to grab it, a portal opens up an a plant tentacle comes out of it. It tries to grab Twilight, but ducks her head.
On the track, both teams need to finish their last lap so they can continue with the past part of the event.
Rarity turns back to Pinkie as she skates, and says, "Come on!"
Rarity lifts her leg back, and Pinkie grabs hold of it. Then Rarity swings her leg and Pinkie. Pinkie let's go and skates really fast across the curve. It's enough to get past Crystal Prep and cross the finish line, and get the laps they need to start the last event.
"What a finish!" Dean Cadence shouts with excitement.
CHS cheer with excitement seeing the results. Pinkie and Rarity are able to finish with their event first with Crystal Prep finishing second. The light poles from both side flash up at almost the same time. Now Sun and Rainbow Dash race against Crystal Prep for the last part of the event. Both teams start their bikes and race on the dirt ramps, unaware of what is going on.
Twilight tries to gab her device, but can't because one of the tentacles grab her ankle. She tries to break free, but it's too strong.
On the motocross track, both teams race neck and neck to get to the finish line. They are not aware that purple portals are starting to open up on the race course.
Rainbow jumps one of the ramps as she shouts with excitement, "Awesome!"
Everyone from the both schools cheer with excitement, and can't wait to see the results. The two pair of racers continues to speed race on the bikes, but they notice a strange portal appearing on the track and giant dark blue green plant creatures come out of it.
Rainbow sees them and slide under the vine. Sun speeds up to catch with Sugarcoat, until another portal
"What is that?!" Sugarcoat asks.
"Dodge it!" Sun screams.
But it's too late, one of the creatures grab Sugarcoat with the bike and lift her up in the air. Sun tries to slide under it, but falls off and hits the ground. The students from CHS gasp seeing Sun falling off. In fact, everyone including the adults are shocked and worried to see the event becoming dangerous. Indigo Zap, being an athlete is able to use the vines and stems as a ramp and flies in front of Rainbow Dash.
Rainbow Dash turns back to see that Sun has fall off the bike and the monster is still over there. Rainbow stops the bike and turns to have the engine roaring. She then zooms back the race to save Sun. Sun is able to get herself focus, and see that Sugarcoat is being chomped by the plant monster. Ir chews on the bike dropping Sugarcoat. Luckily she slides on the stems to the ground. The plant creature opens its jaws and head straight towards Sun, but Rainbow Dash drives fast on the bike, grabs Sun, and save her just in time. Sun looks to see she is riding on the bike with Rainbow
"Dash, you saved me!" Sun exclaims with glee, and being saved by her friend.
"I wasn't about to let my friend become plant food," Rainbow replies with pride.
Just then Rainbow starts to glow a bright blue color. Rainbow stops the bike, and takes off her helmet to see she is transforming too. She gains her pony ears, wings, and extended tail. Principal cinch, Dean Cadence, and Shining Armor, along with the students of Crystal Prepe are speechless to see Rainbow's transformation. Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna know there is no getting out of this. Back on the track, Sun and Rainbow are seeing the monsters coming out of the portal.
"What I want to know, is where all these plant creatures come from?" Sun asks looking concerned.
"We can worry about that later, right now, we got a race to win!" Rainbow Dash says.
Sun nods her head, and instructs,"Rainbow, you need to make sure that those plant creatures don't attack anyone else."
"On it!" Rainbow salutes.
Sun rides on Rainbow's moto bike while Rainbow flies off to stop the monster. Sun notices that Sugarcoat is still on the track, and can get hurt if she doesn't move out of the way. Sun then grabs Sugarcoat on the hand and puts her on the bike. Sugarcoat is shocked from the unexpected rescue.
Sugarcoat asks with a shock, "Can you tell me what is going on here?"
"No time to talk, those plant creatures are coming fast, and our only way to get out is to cross the finish line," Sun explains.
Sugarcoat may not want CHS to win, but seeing that getting to the finish line is their only way of escape, she nods her head, and continues to ride with Sun on the bike. Back on the ground, Twilight tries to get the tentacle off of her ankle, but it's too strong to break free. She is unaware that another portal open up and is about to grab her, but Spike grabs it with his teeth.
On the motocross track, Indigo Zap race on the bike and tries to get to the finish line, but falls in the ditch created by the plant monster. Rainbow Dash flies over to see the plant monster is about to get Indigo Zap, but Rainbow is able to get it's attention, and starts chasing after her.
Sun stops the bike to see Indigo on the ground and asks, "Do you need a hand?"
"I got this," Indigo answers.
Sun then starts the bike again, and leave the ditch. Indigo is able to escape the ditch and race on the track against Sun.
Indigo asks as she shouts, "Hey, what in the world is going on here?!"
"Race now, talk later!" Sun answers loudly.
Indigo and Sugarcoat agree to wait until the race is over to get some answers. The two are busy racing that they are not aware that one of the plant creature is heading towards them. As they jump the ramp, Rainbow Dash slams the monster before it can attack, and she pummel it to the ground. Indigo Zap and Sun race on the track, neck and neck. At the end of the race, Sun is the one who crosses the finish line first.
"Canterlot wins!" Dean Cadence announces through the microphone.
The students of CHS cheer with glee while the students of Crystal Prep are not believing the results of the event, especially Principal Cinch and is not liking it at all. Seeing this Dean Cadence decides to do something that involved with getting the students to calm down from the event.
Dean Cadence grabs the microphone and announces, "Attention, students, please proceed to the gym."
Back on the course, Twilight is able to break free and grabs her device. She struggles a bit, but manages to close it. When that happens, the portals with the plant creatures disappear with the portal closing up.
Back at the finish line, Indigo Zap and Sugarcoat are long gone when they hear the announcement. Applejack and the other friends come over to see if sun and the others are okay.
"Is everybody alright?" Applejack asks.
"Better than all right! We won!" Rainbow cheers with excitement, landing on the ground.
"Yeah, and let's not forget that Sun almost became plant food," Adagio says with sarcasm.
"Yeah, and someone could have been seriously hurt! The magic is going haywire and none of us have no idea how to fix it!" Sun says, feeling more stressed than ever.
Just then, they hear Twilight's voice saying, "Um, excuse me..."
Sun and the others turn to see Twilight and Spike with her. She looks very guilty, scared and worried about something, and is holding the device in her hand.
"... I didn't mean for any of this to happen. I just wanted to learn about the strange energy coming from your school. I didn't know that it was magic or... how it works," Twilight sadly explains.
"That's okay. Neither do we," Rainbow replies.
"And it's a working process," Aria mutters with an annoyed look on her face.
Before Twilight can say anything, Twilight's device lifts itself on the air, opens up, and begin take Rainbow Dash's magic.
"Oh, no! Oh, no no no! Not again!" Twilight exclaims in fear.
Rainbow sees this and her magic is being taken away. She becomes weak and tired that she falls to her knees,and changes back. The girls are in shocked seeing this happening, and that they need to do something.
"Twilight your device is going nut!" Arai says coming over to help Rainow.
"I'm sorry! It just started absorbing energy on its own! But I'm not sure how!" Twilight says, freaking out.
"What do you mean you don't know how?!" Falling Star asks, not believing what Twilight just say.
Sun comes over and try to help Twilight closes it, but then unleashes a strange blast up in the air. It creatures apotal in the process. What they're not aware of is that Principal cinch just happens to be walking by. She sees the portal along with Twilight, Sun and all of her friends, and decide to listen in on the conversation.
"It also causes these corresponding rifts to appear! I don't know how that works either," Twilight says with concern, as she is and Sun are able to close it.
"Is there anything you do know, like how to make it stop?!" Falling Star asks sounding furious.
"I don't know. Ever since it sucked the magic from the statue and apparently from you and your friend, it's been going crazy," Twilight explains, looking scared of Falling Star's fury.
"Sucking the magic from the portal much have caused a surge and it cause portal from Equestria to open every time it absorbs magic," Sun says
"Well we got to do something about that thing! That device is dangerous!" Applejack says with shock look.
"I'd say we smash that thing into pieces!" Rainbow suggests, hitting her fast on hr other hand.
"No!" Everyone else exclaimed in anger at that idea.
"Are you insane Rainbow?! Destroying that thing could cause all the magic to come out at once and nothing will stop it!" Adagio angrily replies.
"But what can we do?" Fluttershy asks with concern.
"I don't know, but Twilight…" sun says looking at Twilight with a worried look.
"Yes?" Twilight questionably replies.
"Why were you so itching to learn about the magic from your school?" Sun asks.
"Well, I want to learn more about it, and understand it more,"Twilight sadly answers.
Sun sighs sadly, and says, "I understand that you want to learn, but you don't fully understand the action you're doing is not good, especially when it making my friends feel weak every time that happens. Plus, you don't understand that sometimes…"
"Magic can be very dangerous if not handled properly!" Falling Star adds
"Dangerous!" Twilight exclaims with a shock.
Yeah. I'm sorry for not telling you this, but I know all the phenomenon that's been coming from the school because my friends and…" Sun sadly says.
Falling Star comes over, and sadly says with regret, "I'm the reason why magic was here to begin with.
"You… you are?" Twilight asks, unbelieving what she is hearing.
"Regretfully yes, and it's my fault that magic showed up in this world to begin with," Falling Star sadly says.
"Twilight, until the games is over, I'd strongly suggest that you keep the device close to you and not let it out of your sight, and try to keep it away from my friends and I when we pony up," Sun informs.
"I'll… I'll try. I just… I just need to be a long for a little while," Twilight says, at the point of crying.
"Take your time," Sun says with a reassuring smile.
Twilight nods her head with a sad smile. She then leaves to go sit on the bleachers and hopefully will be more calm by them. Aria and Falling Star are starting to think that now will be a good time to tell sun and her friends about what Twilight's situation she is in.
Back at the entrance of the school Principal Cinch shows a rin and has come with a aplan. She turns to see Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna come over to talk to her.
"You can't possibly call that a fair race," Principal Cinch frmly says.
"Principal Cinch, we all saw what happened. You can't think CHS had some kind of advantage," Principal Celestia calmly says, trying to reason with her
"Can't I? Even without your trained attack plants, your students have wings!" Principal Cnch angrily says.
"Well, the race certainly had some... extenuating circumstances. Perhaps we should end the games now and declare a tie," Principal Celestia suggests.
Hearing this, makes Principal Cinch angry, and says, "A tie? Was this your strategy all along? To force us into accepting you as equals? I think not. The games will continue and Crystal Prep will prevail despite your antics and whatever performance-enhancing regimen your students are on,"
"Are you nuts?!" Rainbow exclaims, hearing this.
The three turn to see sun and her friends are there. Rainbow is in front of the group looking very angry.
"First on, we didn't do anything that is remotely unfair! Second, me and Sun were able to save two of your students from those plant monster! We had nothing to do with any of this, and if you think we should continue the games when all these crazy things are happening…" Rainbow Dash says with anger.
Sun stop Rainbow before she can do anything else, and calmly says, "Principal Cinch, maybe it will be best into postpone the last event until tomorrow. After what happened with the second event, it will be a good idea to help the students get calm, and see if your students are alright from the attack."
Principal Cinch firmly stares at Sun for the longest time, but she can tell that Sun is being honest about it. Even though she wants the games to continue, she does believe it will be best to wait until the next day.
"Alright, we will continue the last event tomorrow," Principal Cinch firmly says.
She then walks away with a stern look leaving sun and the others with sad looks.
Sun says feeling ashamed, "I'm sorry I couldn't stop all this from happening,"
"It's not your fault, Sun," Principal Celestia says calmly.
"She's right Sun, all of this is entirely my fault, Even though we should know how to control the magic, but I'm the one who brought here. I let everyone down because of my mistake. And now Principal Cinch thinks Canterlot High is cheating." Falling Star says in dismay.
"It doesn't matter what Principal Cinch thinks," Principal Celestia replies.
"But it does. The students here at CHS don't just wanna win. They wanna beat Crystal Prep. It isn't gonna count if the other side doesn't really think they lost. Crystal Prep is never gonna believe we won fair and square if there's magic around," Sun protests.
"And that magic is only around... because of me," Falling Star says, feeling ashamed of all this. She believes that all this is entirely her fault.
Seeing this, Aria sees her chance to sneak away and see if Twilight's alright and that she needs to talk to her about something very important. She finds Twilight to see her sitting on the bleachers crying with her dog sitting next to her with a worried look.
Aria sits next to Twilight, and calmly says, "Twilight we need to talk now,"
"About what?" Twilight asks, wiping the tears from her eyes.
"About what Falling Star and I heard from earlier," Aria answers.
Twilight sighs sadly, and says, "I was afraid of this."
Aria remains calm and says, "Twilight, you're Sun's friend, despite of everything you did with our magic."
"I guess," Twilight replies
"And we're her friends too, and she told us a lot about you, so you should tell us what Principal Cinch is holding on you that's making you look scared," Aria says, urging Twilight to be honest.
Twilight starts to feel scared and is not sure about telling her.
Spike sits on her lap, and calmly says, "Twilight, you need to tell her."
"Okay," Twilight says in defeat.
Twilight begins to get tears in her eyes, and trying to say, "Principal Cinch is… is…"
Before Twilight can say anything else, Aria calmly says, "Hearing what Principal Cinch said to you, I can only think of what you're trying to say… she was blackmailing you wasn't she."
Twilight still feeling like crying, nods her head, and says. "Yes, she is. She's using my application of the Everton Independent study program."
"How did it happened?" Aria asks.
"She called me to her office and wanted me to be in the games, but I told her that my research project to Everton was important. Since Principal Cinch knew about it, she asked my brother and Dean Cadence together the application only… she had it in her draw the whole time. She made a deal with me, if I compete in the games and win, she'll fast track my application to be accepted, but it will be denied if I don't," Twilight explains.
Aria eyes widen after hearing what Twilight says, she then angrily shouts, "She can't do that!"
"She can… because since Crystal Prep has a reputation to be the best, we have influence on other people. I've always been treated like an outcast at that school…" Twilight explains sounding so upset.
"But for some reason… Sun seems to be the only one other than my family and Spike who kept me strong. She welcomed me when no one else would. Principal Cinch also believed that Sun is the key to Canterlot High's successes," Twilight sadly adds.
Aria takes a calm deep breath, and says, "So Principal Cinch is using your dream to force you into the games and win it."
"Yes," Twilight answers.
"And you're worried if you say anything, then your dream will be denied because of Principal Cinch's influence on others? And how the other students were treating you, it seems they cared too much about winning and the school's reputation to consider your feelings?" Aria asks, suspecting the situation
Twilight nods her head, still holding a sad expression, and say, "Yes. Do you know what it's like to have all that negativity within you from everyone around you, and don't know what else to do?"
"Actually, my sisters and I know the feeling too. Falling Star and Sun know that feeling too," Aria says.
Twilight is kind surprised and can't believe Falling Star and Sun know how it felt to be alone, and not knowing what to about terrible situation they come acros
Aria gets up from the bleachers, and says, "Come on, let's go find Sun and Falling Star."
Before Aria can leave, Twilight hold Aria by the wrist and quietly says, "Wait…"
Aria turns to Twilight showing a worried expression
"Maybe we should inform Sun and the others after the Friendship Games," Twilight sadly suggests.
"They'll want to know now, especially Sun," Aria clarifies it.
Spike comes over and says, "She's right. You're Sun's friend, and you need to tell her about this."
Twilight can see that there is no way of keeping this a secret anymore. With that, Twilight and Spike follow Aria to where Sun and the others are. Back to where Sun, her friends, and the principals are, they're trying to figure out about the situation with Crystal Prep
"I can't believe Principal Cinch thinks we're cheating, especially since we saved their neck" Rainbow says, angrily.
"What are we going to do?" Rarity asks.
"We need to think of something, and fast," Sun says.
"How, everyone from Crystal Prep saw the magic and believe what Principal Cinch is saying to them?" Sonata asks.
"Well, we need to think of something," Sun replies.
Just then, Sun and the others look to see Aria with Twilight and her dog. From the looks on Aria and Twilight's face, something must be going on, and it's not good.
"Sun, Falling Star, we kind of like a word… alone?" Aria asks.
Sun and falling Star look at each other with a confused look, and know something's up.
Sun turns to Aria, and answers, "Sure."
Sun and Falling Star leave the scene with the principals and the rest of the group behind.
"Let's try not to worry, and we'll see if we can try to convince Principal Cinch about this," Principal Celestia calmly suggests.
"Okay," the girls answer with concerned looks.
Back to where the four girls are, Aria and Falling Star explains to what they have hear earlier. Twilight is also forced to tell sun what has happened, and how she is in the games to begin with.
After hearing everything, Sun quietly exclaims in anger, "What?!"
"And that's the reason why Twilight was in the Friendship Games to begin with," Aria whispers to Sun.
Sun feels furious about this. Principal Cinch is accusing them of cheating, yet she is blackmailing her own student who is her friend.
"Twilight why didn't you say something? She will apologize!" Sun angrily replies
"I'm going to have a talk with…" Sun says as she is ready to confront Principal Cinch.
But Twilight stops her saying, "No Sun, I'm afraid once Principal Cinch made her mind on something, it's hard to get her to turn back on it."
Sun and the others are shocked to hear what Twilight is saying.
"But Twilight… you can't let Principal Cinch do this to you," Sun says with a sad look.
Twilight starts to cry again, and sadly says, "I know, but… I don't have a choice."
Twilight runs away crying and just want to be alone anymore. Sun knows that Twilight is in a worse situation that she and her friends are. To Sun, winning the games does seem worth it anymore, and it never matter from the very beginning.
"Oh Twilight," Sun sadly says in a quiet tone.