Not too long later in the school library, Twilight and Spike where seen looking through a few books Sonic got for them, while said former hedgehog was using one of the school computers.
'It's a good thing I asked the Cheerilee of this world to show me how to use this so-called computer. Too bad Twilight doesn't know how to use her hands yet, otherwise, she'd probably be amazed at all the information she could find on this thing.' Sonic thought to himself before noticing a file that caught his interest.
After she finishing through the books she had, Twilight called out, "Hey Sonic, do you think you can help me get some more books?"
Having not received a response, Twilight looked over to where Sonic was sitting, and saw that he was head-bobbing while wearing some headphones that where connected to the computer he was using.
Walking over, Twilight saw another set of headphones that were connected to the same computer Sonic was using and after awkwardly picking them up with her hands and putting them on, she found that Sonic was listening to A Catchy Tune.
Although she enjoyed it, Twilight took off her headphones before tapping Sonic's shoulder, causing the former hedgehog to take off his headphones.
"Oh, hey Twilight." Sonic said, "Need more books?"
"I do actually, but what I want to know is why weren't you studying like I was." Twilight said.
"Sorry about that." Sonic apologized, "I was looking through the computer's files when I found a file labeled, S.T.H.G.H.Z.. I was curious of what it could be, so I clicked it, and the next thing I knew, I was listening to that song."
"I guess that's understandable, but please try to stay focused." Twilight said.
As Twilight was about to walk away, she failed to notice a nearby pile of books and ended up tripping over it.
"... I was about to say I already had some books ready in case you needed more, but it looks like you found them yourself." Sonic said as he walked to Twilight's side.
"Thanks." Twilight mumered before picking a book up with her mouth, earning a fake cough from Sonic.
Knowing what the cough meant, Twilight dropped the book from her mouth before picking it up with her hands.
Sonic shook his head at the sight before hearing some faint snickering.
Following the snickering, Sonic found the human versions of Snips and Snails in a nearby corner with their phones out.
Figuring that they were laughing at Twilight, Sonic sternly asked, "What's so funny?"
Sonic's question caused both teens to stop their snickering and to nervously turn towards Sonic.
"Uh, we were just remembering a joke that we heard earlier." Snips said nervously.
"Yeah! What he said!" Snails said quickly.
Knowing that they were lying, Sonic shook his head slowly before shooting them a glare and saying, "You two have nerve for laughing at my sister like that. And all I can say is that I don't like it when someone mocks my family."
Before the teens could react, Sonic grabbed them both by their shirt collar before pulling them close.
"Listen, and listen well." Sonic growled, "I don't want to catch either of laughing at my sister again, otherwise, I'll personally make sure you don't laugh at anyone again. Do I making myself clear?"
"Y-Y-Yes sir!" Snips and Snails both replied nervously.
After Sonic let them go, Snips and Snails bolted out of the library, not wanting to anger Sonic any more than he already was.
After watching them leave, Sonic let out an annoyed sigh as he thought to himself, 'I don't enjoy intimidating others like that, but when someone mocks my friends and family, there is no way I'll take it lightly.'
Throughout the rest of the day, the trio had stayed in the library but where doing poorly when it came to researching how humans live.
Since she still didn't understand how to use her hands (and technology), there were a couple of times where Twilight would end up making herself look like an idiot.
Sonic tried to get some information on the computer, but would get distracted when he found other files that led to music, such as S.T.H.S.Y.Z, and S3&K.F.B.Z.B.A..
After nothing Twilight fail at using a printer, Sonic was about to help her when he noticed Snips and Snails in a nearby corner with amused expressions on their faces.
Those expressions quickly were washed away when they noticed Sonic glaring at them, causing them both to bolt out of the library yet again.
As it came time for the library to close, Spike was able to lead Sonic and Twilight to a secluded section on the second floor of the library where he somehow made beds made out of books for them to sleep on.
As they layed down, Twilight found a book called a "yearbook" that she believed could help them.
As they looked through the pages, they found a picture of the Pinkie, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Rarity this world but unlike earlier, they appeared to be best friends with each other.
"No doubt Sunset had something to do with splitting the girls apart." Sonic said, "There's no way they would suddenly split apart on their own unless someone manipulated them to."
"I have a feeling that's the case as well." Twilight agreed, "But without evidence, we could only guess."
"Right." Sonic said before remembering something.
Noticing this, Twilight asked, "What is it Sonic?"
"Something that Sunset told us earlier that's got me thinking." Sonic replied.
"You think you know how she splitted the girls up?" Spike asked.
"No, but if my hunch is right, Twilight won't have to worry about using her hands as much as long as nobody sees it." Sonic responded.
"What is it?" Twilight asked.
As a response, Sonic took out a chaos emerald before placing it in Twilight's hands.
"Concentrate." Sonic simply said, "Let the emerald's energy flow through your body."
"Why?" Twilight asked.
"Just do it." Sonic responded.
Although confused about the command, Twilight did what Sonic told her until she felt the emerald's energy in her body.
"Now, concentrate." Sonic said as he placed the yearbook onto the floor, "And picture the yearbook being levitated."
Although still confused as to why Sonic was telling her to do this, Twilight listened and after a few moments of this, to Twilight's and Spike's surprise, the yearbook was surrounded by a purple aura before being levitated to the air.
"You did it Twilight!" Sonic cheered, "You lifted the book!"
"I'm using magic?" Twilight asked with great confusion, "But how?"
"You know how Sunset was mocking us for not bringing our own source of magical energy?" Sonic asked, "Well, the chaos emeralds are full of energy that boosts just about anything, including magic. And if one can't use the energy to boost magic..."
"Maybe they can create it." Twilight gasped in amazement before giving the former hedgehog a bone-crushing hug and exclaiming, "Sonic, you're a genius!"
"No problem Twilight." Sonic wheezed, "Uh, do you think you can let go? I'm starting to loose some air."
"Oops, sorry." Twilight apologized as she let Sonic go.
"Anyway, although you can use your magic again as long as you're holding one of the emeralds, it's still best if I hold on to them in case I for some reason need to turn into my super form." Sonic said as he took the emerald back from Twilight before putting it away, "But if I'm sure we're alone, I'll give you one of the emeralds so that you don't have to awardly try to use your hands."
"Thanks again Sonic." Twilight said.
"Again, no problem." Sonic responded, "But we should get some shut eye if we plan on persuading everyone to vote for you tomorrow."
Nodding in agreement, (although it was a bit uncomfortable) the trio layed down onto the book beds before finally falling asleep.
The next day, Sonic and Twilight made their way through the school halls (with Spike in Twilight's backpack), determined to get everyone's vote.
But as they passed by, they noticed all the students seemed to be snickering at them or were talking about them as they walked by.
"Why is everyone laughing at us?" Twilight whispered to Sonic, "We didn't get to talk to them yet."
"I don't know, but looking closely, they seem to be looking at you more then me." Sonic whispered back, "I have a feeling that Sunset must of done something to cause this."
This continued for a moment before the duo had let out a yelp when someone grabbed them by their wrists and flung them into a nearby room.
Once inside the room, the duo turned towards the girl that grabbed them. The girl had curled purple hair, was wearing a white blouse, and a short purple skirt with three blue diamonds on the front left side.
"Rarity?" Twilight asked.
About a second after Twilight said that, Spike popped his head out of the backpack, turning towards the human version of his unicorn crush.
Without responding, Rarity pulled out some measuring tape and began measuring Twilight's height, arm and leg length, her waist, every part of her until she got what she needed.
With a snap of her fingers, Rarity's designing genius kicked in as she pulled out a green dress from her bag. Sonic watched as she slapped the dress down over Twilight, given a complete wardrobe change wearing all green, including her shoes, even giving her a blonde wig that hid all of her hair.
'How the heck did she do that?' Sonic thought to himself.
"Yes. Perfect!" Rarity cheered. "No one will be able to recognize you now."
Rarity then turned towards Sonic and approached him before saying, "Hmmm...You, on the other hand, I'm not so sure. I didn't bring any outfits suitable for men. But maybe I can trim up that mess of a hairstyle and comb it down."
"No way! No messing with the hair!" Sonic exclaimed as he backed away from Rarity before asking, "And why the heck are you trying to disguise us?"
Rarity ignored the former hedgehog and focused on Spike, noticing that he was looking at her with infatuation from inside of Twilight's bag.
"We're also going to need a little disguise for your dog. He's so adorable!" Rarity said as she began scratching Spike's chin, causing the former dragon to pant as he leaned closer. "With enough work, maybe I can make him look like a rabbit."
Spike barked in confusion after Rarity headed back to her bags, wondering where the loving attention went to as he slipped out of Twilight's backpack and fell to the floor.
The door to the other entrance to the classroom opened up, Applejack stepping inside as she found Sonic and Twilight.
"Twilight! There ya are!" Applejack exclaimed.
"Great. So much for the disguise," Rarity pouted.
"Ah've been lookin' for you and your brother," Applejack said, Fluttershy poking her head into the doorway.
"Me too," she said.
"Me three!" Pinkie shouted as she somehow appeared upside down from outside the hall before noticing Twilight's new attire, "Ooh! Love the new look!"
As the hyper teenage girl flipped right-side up and skipped inside, Rarity seemed miffed at Pinkie's compliment.
"Well, I do have an eye for these sorts of things." Rarity boasted, because glaring at Pinkie and said, "Not like you even care about my creative genius in the slightest."
"WHAT!?" Pinkie exclaimed angrily, glaring back.
'Pinkie and Rarity are fighting as well?' Sonic thought to himself, 'Sunset definitely doesn't hold back.'
"Why were you looking for us?" Twilight asked.
"You mean you didn't see it yet?" Fluttershy asked, causing Sonic and Twilight to look at her with confused expressions, "Oh dear. They haven't."
Taking that as her que, Pinkie pulled out her pink laptop and placed it down on a desk.
"Well, it's not really all that bad." Pinkie said.
Pinkie then opened the laptop and played a video that was already set up to be watched, starting with a recording made in the library, and Twilight was in the shot "Twilight Sparkle wants to be YOUR Fall Formal Princess. Twilight and Sonic watched in shock as they heard Sunset's voice.
What was worse was that It showed all the times Twilight made herself look like an idiot the day before while it showed Twilight with a goofy face.
It soon switched to when she dropped all the books she dropped and tried to pick them up with her mouth. "But what kind of example will she give for our school if she doesn't even behave normally in a social environment." Then the video showed her getting spooked by the printer flashing in her face, going into slow motion with a closeup of her startled expression. "Make your vote count, and don't vote for a teenager who behaves like a toddler."
As soon as the video ended, Sonic slammed the laptop shut, not pleased by Sunset's "strategy" to win: slandering Twilight and mud-slinging while having recorded them and editing it to make her look dumb.
"Sunset!" Sonic growled.
"But how did this even happen!? We were alone in the library yesterday!...Right?" Twilight asked.
"So that's why those two were laughing." Sonic said before turning towards the rest of the girls.
"And I'm guessing everyone in the school saw this, right?" Sonic asked before receiving nods in response, "Perfect. And there's no way anyone's going to forget seeing something like that. There's no way Twilight's going to win."
"...Well, even if no one else will, I'll vote for you, Twilight," Fluttershy said. "After the two of you helped stand up to Sunset for me, it's the least I can do."
"Ooh! I'll help too!" Pinkie exclaimed happily as she bounced up and down.
"Don't ask Pinkie for help," Fluttershy said coldly, making the poofy-haired girl freeze in midair, "She never takes anything seriously."
"I can too take things seriously, and this is serious!" Pinkie defended.
"Oh, please, Pinkie Pie. You're worse than Fluttershy!" Rarity said, Fluttershy gasping in shock at the hateful comment, "Unlike you, Pinkie, I am able to offer my assistance to those who can actually appreciate it, unlike you, you party crazed child!"
Fluttershy, Pinkie and Rarity began bickering, making Twilight and Sonic back away. They were surprised at how spiteful they were to each other, nothing like how their pony friends were supposed to be. Sure, at times there were disagreements, but nothing like this.
"Will y'all just listen to yourselves?" Applejack asked, the trio of arguing teens stopping as they looked at her. "Just get over it and move on."
"Oh, sure! Look who's talking!" Pinkie exclaimed, "You still haven't gotten over what happened with Rainbow Dash!"
"She said that she would get the entire softball team to appear at a bake sale Ah was havin'," the farmer explained. "Ah tell everybody they're comin', and they never showed up at all! Rainbow made a liar out of me! That's completely different!"
"IS NOT!" Fluttershy, Rarity, and Pinkie shouted, all four girls now arguing with each other as they got louder and louder.
Deciding that he was seen enough, Sonic yelled, "That's enough!"
Once the four girls stopped, Sonic said, "Your fighting isn't solving anything, and it looks like it's up to me and Twilight to find out why you're so bitter with each other!"
Sonic then reached into Twilight's bag and pulled out the yearbook she stashed away. He placed it on the table in front of them and opened it up to the page showing them as friends when they were younger.
"Look at this picture." Sonic said, "This was all of you, together as friends. Even the school saw this and had to put your faces and picture under this title: 'Best Group of Friends'. You all looked like the best of friends back then, but now you're like enemies, always spouting hurtful words and spreading rumors about them over your anger toward each other."
Hearing this caused the four teens to look down in sadness, remembering the moment of that picture taken as they began to feel horrible for what they had done after they broke up.
"I think whatever happened to you five, it wasn't by either of you." Twilight spoke up, "Me and Sonic believe Sunset was the cause of your friendship ending like this."
"Yeah, just like she's been doing in this school: separating everyone, ruling with an iron fist, and even spreading false accusations like she did with Twilight in that video she made." Sonic said.
That was one thing all the girls agreed about Sunset as they recalled many of the cruel things she had done to a lot of students.
"Now, without shouting and blaming each other for anything, let's calmly discuss this and try to fix your friendships." Sonic suggested.
The girls were silent for a moment until Fluttershy spoke up.
"Well, I don't know how Sunset was the cause of Pinkie ruining the silent auction at the animal shelter," Fluttershy explained first. "It was supposed to be a serious event, but Pinkie ruined it by bringing noisemakers and fireworks, startling everybody and scaring all the animals."
"But I got a text from you telling me you wanted it to be a big party, not a silent auction!" Pinkie responded.
"I-I didn't send you a text." Fluttershy said, this caused Pinkie to pull out her cell phone scroll through her previous messages, finding the one Fluttershy had sent her about the animal shelter auction being a loud party, "W-What!? But, I never sent anything like that to you!"
"You didn't?" Pinkie questioned. "But it has your name as the sender on it."
"You don't think she's been sending me those emails too, has she?" Rarity asked, pulling out her own phone. "Every time I volunteer to help Pinkie out with decorating any school function, I get e-mails from you saying you've got plenty of volunteers and didn't need my help, but once it's done, I find out you've done it all on your own."
"That's crazy!" Pinkie exclaimed, "Why would I send an e-mail like that!?"
It soon became clear to the girls that Sonic and Twilight's theory that Sunset sent them fake messages to get them to break up was indeed true.
"Then, that must mean that Sunset..." Applejack lowered her hat over her face in shame, unable to believe she was tricked and had her friendship with Rainbow Dash end so harshly. "Consarn it, Ah'm a doggone fool. That's why she didn't show up at the bake sale."
"Did you even ask Rainbow Dash what happened?" Sonic asked, only receiving a shake of the farm girl's head as his answer. "Of course not. Guess now's a time to begin apologizing and figure out what happened between you two. Where is she usually at in the mornings?"
Later at the soccer field, Sonic, Twilight, Spike, Fluttershy, Pinkie, and Rarity watched from a distance as Applejack and Rainbow Dash talked to each other from across the field.
"They're actually talking! That's a good sign!" Pinkie exclaimed happily.
Not too long after Pinkie said that, the saw Rainbow Dash and Applejack hug each other.
"Hugs! Ooh, hugs are always good!" Pinkie exclaimed happily.
Once Rainbow Dash and Applejack separated, they made their way towards the group until they were right in front of Sonic said Twilight.
"So you're both lookin' to dethrone Sunset Shimmer and become Princess of the Fall Formal, huh?" Rainbow Dash asked.
"You bet!" Sonic said, "She's had enough glory if you ask me."
"I Gotta say, I'd really love to see that happen." Rainbow Dash said, "And I'll totally help you out! All you gotta do is beat me in a game of one-on-one soccer."
"Huh?" Sonic and Twilight both said.
"It's simple, first one to make five goals wins!" Rainbow Dash said before demonstrating by grabbing a nearby soccer ball before kicking it into a goal.
"If it's all that we have to do, then I accept!" Sonic challenged.
"Sonic, what are you doing?!" Twilight whispered, "What happened to 'not using your abilities while we're here?'"
"Don't worry Twilight, I'll just dial down the speed so that it's fair." Sonic whispered back before saying to Rainbow Dash, "I'm really when you are."
"Alright. First to five goals wins." Rainbow said as juggled the ball with her knees.
Deciding to get a head start, Rainbow Dash kicked the ball hard into Sonic's goal.
"One-" Rainbow Dash was about to say when she was interrupted when Sonic suddenly ran past her.
The others stared in awe as Sonic managed to reach the ball right before it could get into the net.
Rainbow didn't even notice he had disappeared until she turned to look at the goal, finding him standing there while balancing the ball on his head. Her jaw dropped, unable to believe the spiky-haired teen moved faster than how hard she kicked the ball.
"Nice try cheater." Sonic said, "Now, let's try this again."
Sonic then bounced the ball up into the air, and as soon as it fell down, he leapt up and gave the soccer ball a hard kicked it hard.
The ball flew faster than how hard Rainbow had kicked it, swerving through the air as it reached the other side of the field and slammed into the net, without even hitting the ground.
While most of the girls were stunned silent, Pinkie and Twilight cheered, the former not knowing about Sonic's true abilities as she moved the card down on Sonic's side of a tally board she somehow got, the latter worried about Sonic possibly showing off and accidentally using his speed.
"I'm pretty sure that's 0-1, right? Your ball." Sonic said before thinking to himself, 'I sure am glad that soccer exists in equestria otherwise I'd have no idea how this game even works.'
'I'll admit, I totally did not see that coming, but he was just lucky.' Rainbow Dash thought to herself, 'There's no way he could beat me.'
'HOW!?!' Rainbow Dash thought to himself.
Not only did she lose to Sonic a few minutes later after thinking to herself otherwise, he had managed to do it without her making a single goal, which has never happened before (let alone her losing a single game so easily).
"That was certainly fun." Sonic said as he walked up to Rainbow Dash, "Now, are you ready to help me and my sister beat Sunset?"
"Well, You did win fair and square, and I did promise to help if I lost." Rainbow said as she began recovering from her shock, "Then again, even if I did win, I'd still help you guys out."
"Good to know." Sonic said before his stomach suddenly let out a growl, causing Sonic to let out a nervous chuckle.
"Looks like someone is hungry." Rainbow Dash chuckled, "How about us and the girls go get something down by Sugarcube Corner. It's still a free period for me, and I need something to drink after getting my butt handed to me by the new guy. It's not that far from the school and we're allowed there for snacks or lunch."
"Sounds nice." Sonic said before following Rainbow Dash off the field.
With all the girls back together, they lead Sonic, Twilight, and Spike down to the nearby buildings toward the bakery similarly named like the one in Ponyville.
Unknown to all of them Sunset, Snips and Snails had been watching them from a distance.