Humans Meet Ponies

by TwiPON3


26: A Self-Taught Lesson in Self-Defense

Fast forward several hours after everyone is awake.

Sunset Shimmer's Point of View


We all loaded up to go to Sugarcube Corner. It was then that I found out that Seth listened to some really weird music.
"What is this?" Rainbow asked.
"No damn idea."
"Then, why do you listen to it?"
"I just thought it was catchy, so I made a CD and a mixtape of this, and a bunch of other songs, because what the hell?"
"Oh."
It felt like we were really far away from Canterlot, but in reality, we weren't. It must've been because we weren't leaving from Sci-Twi's apartment on 4th Avenue. What was interesting was when we actually got to Sugarcube Corner.
"Okay guys," I said, holding my milkshake up for a toast, "Cheers to making it out of the hospital alive!"
"Back at ya," Seth said, "Even if it was hellishly disgusting!"
"You're really glad that you weren't awake," Sunburst said, "It was pretty weird, huh Starlight?" he nudged her.
"Tell me about it," she said, messily drinking her milkshake.
"Stahlight, yas got a little schmutz ahn ya face," Seth said, pointing to her cheek.
She looked at it with the front camera on his phone, then the three of them laughed as she cleaned it off, "Messy drinker here!"
"Hey!" a familiar voice from last night said, "I'd know that brand and hair anywhere!"
I was yanked up from the booth by Gilda, "I thought we did you off last night!"
Bitch.
"You're gonna take it, and you're gonna STAY down this time!" she said, throwing a punch that knocked me back onto the table (destroying it in the process), and left me with a black eye.
I noticed that Flash Sentry (my ex), Vinyl, Chrysalis, Judge Discord, Principal Celestia, Vice-Principal Luna, Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Ms Cheerilee, Shining Armor, Cadence, Maude (Pinkie's oldest sister), probably all of my other friends (more than likely), the former principal of CPA, and Mr & Mrs Cake all snapped their attention over to us. Several gasps and murmurs went around about what had just happened.
This is going to get very bad, really fast.
I stood back up and kept a stern look on my face, my gaze locked with hers.
"Oh, you want more?" she said as she grabbed the back of my shirt with one hand and my hair with the other, then proceeded to slam my head against the corner of the booth, then threw me down to the floor.
"Don't call the cops, Darlings! This has to work itself out on its own!"
That's it you fucking piece of garbage.
I got back up, then went into what Seth described as "attack mode". My eyes changed, fangs shot out, and when I noticed I was bleeding right under my left eye, I wiped some of the blood on my finger, then licked it.
"You're a fucking SICKO!!!!!"
I put a sinister grin on my now-vampire face, healed it, then took several slow steps toward her, "You think I'll go that easy?"
I noticed that everyone was scared frozen, but that didn't stop me from picking her up by her side.
"Wha-- what are you doing? Put me down!"
"Okay," I said, throwing a punch to her abdomen that sent her flying across the room, her landing on her back on Principal Celestia's table. She, Luna, Chrysalis, and Discord moved backwards into their booth just as Gilda made impact on the table.
"You have no idea who or what you're dealing with here," I said as she got up, took one of the table legs, and slammed it into my head. The only thing I actually felt was like when someone would barely hit their head on the wall. It still had enough force to make me lose my balance, which she took to her advantage by knocking me to the floor on my back and stabbing me several times with a large pocket knife, then threw several more punches at me.
"Through?" I said, healing myself again.
My shirt was pretty much covered in holes now, but with each time I healed and got back up, some more of her strength turned into fear.
"You think what I've done is all I'm capable of?" I said as Dumbbell, the school's #1 for the wrestling team came up behind me, "You don't even know," I pulled him over my shoulder and threw him on his back in front of me.
He's got to be at LEAST 300 pounds of muscle. If I can do all of this without a bead of sweat, they should run while they still can.
"What all I can do."
Dumbbell got back up and tried to get back at me, so I threw him backward, and evidently destroyed the booth that Flash and Vinyl were sitting at.
"How are you even--"
"Alive?"
"You're a... a..."
"Vampire? Fuck yeah, I am."
"One of us is going to die today, a--and it won't be me!"
"Really?" I said, picking her up and throwing her across the restaurant and behind the counter, almost in the back room. Dumbbell threw a few punches at me, and he met the same fate, albeit landing on the CMC's booth instead.
"Not one word of this."
I'm pretty sure that everyone was too scared not to agree with me.
"Now you can call the cops," I said, reverting back to my fangless, cyan-eyed appearance. I did heal myself to make it look like I had only been in the crossfire of what happened, along with keeping the brand marks (for whatever reason).
Sugarcube Corner now looked like a stabbing and a fight had broke loose: destruction, blood on the floor, the whole works.
When the cops showed up, Abacus singled me out.
"It was her!" she pointed at me, very shaken, "Miss Sunset Shimmer Solaire!"
"Is this true?" one of the officers said, coming over to me.
"I... I don't... no. I-it wasn't me."
"Then who was it?"
"I don't know. It... it all happened... just so fast."
"I'm required by Canterlot City and California State laws to, even though you were not involved, to ask for any alibis."
"She didn't do it, Darling. She's much too ladylike."
"I wouldn't word it quite like that," Seth said, "but, in essential, yeah. That's pretty much it."
"Celestia Solaire!" Abacus scolded, "You should control your child better than that!"
"I assure you that I have raised Sunset the right way."
"You most certainly have not!!"
"I think it might have been someone with orange hair," Vinyl said.
"Orange... hair..." the second cop said, writing the description down, "And you're positive, Ms"
"Vinyl Scratch."
"Ms Scratch?"
"Still alive," a paramedic said from behind the counter, "How's the guy?"
"Still alive."
After about a half hour, the cops finally left. Ten minutes later, two guys came in, then came over to Twilight: Blueblood and Manor.
"Pretty lame stunt you pulled, Sparkle," Blueblood said, "and now, you're gonna pay," he threw a punch that knocked her out. Seth and I both retaliated the same way I did when Gilda attacked me. Seth followed suit, but this time, he grew a pair of leathery wings.
"No mercy, these are the pervs," Seth told me, "I'll take Blueblood."
I smiled as my fangs shot out and my eyes changed color.
"Does the word 'horsey' sound familiar?" I said as a fight broke out between me and him. Seth's fight was over in about two minutes, but I like to draw mine out. Mine started the same way it had with Gilda: I let him slam me down a few times, then beat the living shit out of him.
"WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU!?"
"A bodyguard," I said, my foot on his chest, pinning him helplessly to the floor. Blueblood, by this time, was a mess. Unconscious, several ribs busted from the first punch he sustained, then the second one to his head knocked him out. That's when he started bleeding.
"I... I didn't... I didn't know you existed!"
"Of course vampires exist," I replied as he went to squeeze Maude with one hand and Abacus with the other.
At some point, Lyra, Sweetie Drop, Diamond Tiara, and Silver Spoon came in the corner-side restaurant.
"I don't want to see you within a hundred miles of Twilight EVER again," I said, pulling him off of the two girls and holding him up, "You wouldn't be thinking of molesting her again, wouldn't you?"
"No! Now please put me down!"
"You got it," I said, throwing him towards the counter and knocking him unconscious. When that was over and done with, I healed myself back up and went over to where everyone else was.
"Sunset," my legal mom said, stunned.
"Yes?"
"How?"
"It's a long story," I said, pushing some hair out of my eye.
"What happened to your face?" Sweetie Bell asked.
"That Anon-a-miss thing you three started," I said as I walked over to them.
"DON'T HURT US!!!!!"
"Gilda and her lackey Dumbbell got about 45 other students from school, kidnapped me at 10:00 last night, took me to a factory, and almost beat me to death. Part of that beating involved me being branded. They," I pointed to where my friends were, "tracked me down, rushed me to the hospital, and I died there."
"Then..." Applebloom started shaking, "How're y'all here?"
"I was turned into a vampire."
"PLEASE DON'T DO ANYTHING TO US!!!!!" Scootaloo begged.
"You've already done what you needed to after that online stunt you pulled, so I guess you're okay, just as long as you don't play shit like that again. Besides," I added, "you're not the ones who killed me."
"Ah thought we fixed it!"
"Gilda's a bitch," I said as I began to walk away.
"That DEMON!!" Abacus yelled at me.
I put my hand over my mouth and gasped.
"Abacus, that's enough!" Principal Celestia said, "She's as good as my daughter, and you talk about her like that!?"
"Your daughter is a demonic equine from another world!"
"Listen here!" Seth said, storming over to her in attack mode, "You stop calling my sister a demon! She's a VAMPIRE!!! And you want her DEAD because of THAT!?"
"Yes!! And you too!!"
"HEY!!" Vinyl stood up and took off her glasses, "Watch your fucking mouth!" she said, her eyes flashing from a moderate cerise to crimson, pupils going vertical, and fangs shooting out of her mouth, "You've got a HELL of a lot of us to take out!"
"Ms Solaire! You can't possibly expect me to let this go unnoticed!"
Luna stood up behind her, vampiric eyes, fangs, and leathery wings as well, "Leave. Now."
"I beg your pardon," she said, turning around to face her.
Luna was so pissed that she had a red aura coming from her eyes.
"Get out of here now, before I do something that'll land you in the hospital."
Abacus threw a punch at Luna.
"You did NOT just hit my aunt!" Cadence said, pissed.
The punch, while pretty hard, didn't do any damage. That fight was over in a hurry because Luna's returning punch knocked her down onto the floor, "Out. Now."
"Jesus!" Cinch yelled as she ran out of the restaurant as fast as she could.
"What just happened...?" Sunburst said as Sci-Twi came back to.
"There's four vampires in this rest'rant, an' two fights an' all hell just broke loose."
"Why are Blueblood and Manor on the floor? And why does Blueblood look like he has busted ribs? And why are they bleeding? And why does Ms Luna have fangs and wings? Am I safe!? And for the love of God, where is Ms Cinch!?"
"Quick answers," Seth said, "Blueblood hit you, so I busted some of his ribs."
"I took care of Manor."
Ms Luna came over, "Please," she said, "Just 'Luna', if you will. 'Miss' and 'ma'am' make me feel old," she continued, "But, I was born a vampire, while my sister wasn't. Abacus struck me moments ago, dealing no damage, so I returned the... favor, if it could be called that, and told her to leave, which is promptly what happened.
"Is... is it over?"
"I think so, Midnight," Indigo replied.
I didn't notice Mom, Auntie Moon, Princess Twilight, and Princess Cadence enter the restaurant.
"I tried to kill myself when Anon-a-miss was going on, Twilight, so why wouldn't I help you out with your problem?"
"You tried to..." Sugarcoat said.
"Yes. Doing it now would never work, seeing as how I'm a hell of a lot more durable and quick-to-heal now."
"Why?"
I cast a spell on a three foot-by-three foot area on the floor. Derpy had just come in, too.