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// Chapter 5: The Relic Thief Revealed 
// Story: Sun Equestria Girls Adventure: Movie Magic 
// by Pinkie Pie Sweets 
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After the crazy event, and changing back to their normal clothes. The girls goes back to the Tricorner set to talk to Canter, Painter, Chestnut, and Juniper about the situation. They hand Cantert the costume that they found in the supply closet.

"You found this in a supply closet?" Canter questions.

"We didn't find the relics. But we don't think the thief has had a chance to take them off the lot yet. We wanted your permission to search the Tricorners Village set from top to bottom. Maybe we'll find a clue that would lead us to where they're hidden," Twilight explains.

Some of the people look to see Pinkie with a magnify glass and searching around.

"Of course." Canter answers.

He turns to Chestnut, and says, "Chestnut, I need you to get into hair and makeup. As soon as we get the relics, we're gonna start shooting again."

"Hmph. We'll see," Chestnut says in a huff.

Being distracted, Aria stares at Juniper and notices her her reaction to hear about the costume being found and the shoot is going to start. Soon, everyone begin to leave.

Before Juniper can leave, her uncle Canter call out, and asks, "Juniper, can you do a smoothie run? I'm sure all this sleuthing is gonna make everyone thirsty."

"Absolutely!" Juniper answers in a chipper voice. Then runs off.

After everyone leaves including Juniper everyone begin to look for the relics… or so it appears.

The mysterious person wears the cloak runs as fast as she can to reach a large crate. She looks inside to find the relics. 
The person is relief to see the relics are still there, but doesn't notices that a hand grabs the hood and is pulled down. The person under the hood is revealed to be… Juniper Montage, the director's niece.

Aria confirms, "I knew it!"

Then Rarity remarks, "I told you all it wasn't Chestnut!"

Juniper becomes stunned to see the CHS girls are all here.

Juniper tires to act innocent with a gasp, "Look! I found the missing relics!"

"Because you're the one who stole them!" Sun sternly confronts her.

Then Adagio says, "And we have proof."

Canter and Painter comes into the scene and shocked to see the young girl is the one who has committed the crime. Coloratura and her manager Svengallop are here too.

Shocked, Canter says, "She... She wouldn't."

"Hate to say it, she would. And she did," Aria says.

"She's right. Juniper is the only person who can pull this off," Sun says.

Then Twilight explains, "What she didn't expect was for Rainbow Dash to come to the Tricorners set before she was able to sneak them off to a safer hiding place."

Then Falling Star says, "So she was forced to hide them in the first place she could find. Probably at one of the stands at the set."

Flashing back to the Tricorner set while the Mount Venhooveus is being filmed. Juniper secretly takes the relics and has hidden them at one of the stands. Hearing soneone coming she hides there as well. She sneaks away from Rainbow who wants to see the relics again.

Looking at the case where the relics disappeared from, Rainbow shockley exclaims, "Ah! They're gone!"

Juniper runs over, and asks, "What happened?"

"But she knew she couldn't leave them there. So the first chance she got, she tried to sneak them away." Twilight explains.

Flashing back later on, Juniper uses the cloak and sit to cover her identity and goes back to get the relics from their hiding place. But hearing Applejack, Juniper turns around to see Twilight, Rarity, Applejack, and Rainbow.

Then Twilight adds, "Unfortunately for her, we spotted her!"

"However, Juniper didn't made things easy for us. Since she comes here to all the Daring Do films, she knows this place better than anyone. It was easy for her to trap us in the net and lose Rainbow easily," Aria explains as the scenes shows Juniper commiting the crime.

The scenes of the flashback continues at Twilight adds, "For a while. But when Rainbow Dash managed to figure out where she'd run off to, she locked her in a closet with a set of keys that gives her access to "just about every door in this place"..."

Then Sun says, "...which gave her the time she needed to hide the relics here."

Rainbow scoofs in shock, and asks, "When did you figure out it was her?"

"I started to piece things together when I unlocked the door to get you out of the supply closet. But Aria is the only who gave us a strategic clue that points her out," Twilight asks.

"And that is?" Coloratura asks.

"While I was struggling with Juniper, I end up getting a glimpse of the frame of her glasses along with a little bit of her hair that shows her flim hair bands. But we know that Juniper would never admit it," Aria explains.

Then Sun says, "Unless, of course, she was caught in the act of trying to move them again!"

Twilight turns to Canter and says, "Which is why I told you to send her on that smoothie run."

The girls are kind of amazed to hear this, and not their heads in reply.

Then Falling Star says, "So she'd think she had the opportunity to get the relics off the lot where no one could find them."

"But instead of searching the Tricorners set, you all were secretly following me here," Juniper admits.

"So then you were the one who broke the Mount Venhooveus set," Painter says.

Then Coloratura says, "And she was trying to damage my voice, but got Svengallop instead."

"Yeah. That's pretty much how it goes," Sonata replies.

Then Adagio says, "Caught like a mouse in a trap."

Canter comes to Juniper and asks, "Why would you do this?"

"I'm sorry! Okay? I'm sorry. I just can't stand Chestnut! She's always eating all the peanut butter praline crunch bars, which are the only candy bars I like," Juniper explains, sounding upset and angry.

However, Pinkie and Sonata blushes as she both hold out the wrappers of the crunch bars. And Pinkie eats one of them.

"That's hardly a reason to go…" Canter is about to says.

Juniper then glares at her uncle and angirly explains, "And I was mad at you for casting her as Daring Do! I mean, I have told you over and over again how badly I wanted to play Daring Do, and you just ignored me!"

"But, Juniper, you're too young! You don't have any experience," Canter says.

Juniper feels a bit bad, and says, "I know! But I thought if enough things went wrong, Chestnut would maybe back out of the movie and then... you would give me a chance."

Canter is not very pleased with his niece's actions, "Not only did you jeopardize the production, endanger the safety of the actors and the film crew, but you also lied to me and took advantage of my trust!"

"I know. A-And I'm sorry. I never meant to hurt anyone, and I was going to return all the props, just as soon as Chestnut quit. I hope you can forgive me," Juniper says.

"You're my niece, Juniper, so, of course, I can forgive you." Canter says.

But sternly says, "But I'm sorry to say you're no longer welcome on the set, and it'll be…"

Then he snaps, "A long time before I consider allowing you back here!"

The security guard comes over to take Juniper away.

Before she is taken, Canter firmly says, "Keys!"

Juniper gives her uncle the spare keys. The security guard takes Juniper away. She is very upset about what has become of her. But she is becoming resentment for for the girl for her plans feeling foiled. Aria remembers the time when she and her sisters has taken a path that she has done. Wanting something and doesn't care who or what happens to accomplish it.

Aria sighs and calmly speaks up, "Juniper…"

Juniper stops and turns around with a resentful glare, "What?"

"There's nothing wrong with wanting to be an actress, but you don't have any experience. What you did was so uncalled for because you were only thinking about yourself and end up not caring who you end up hurting in order to get it. And that all I got to say, " Aria calmly lectures.

However, Juniper is not phased by Aria's lecture at all and simply walks away with the security guard.

Just then Chestnut comes in to see Canter and happily says, "Canter, there you are!"

She laughs and explains, "So sorry I'm not in makeup, but I've just gotten a call from my agent. I no longer have to work on that ridiculous documentary about nests next month. Ha-ha! I swear, when they approached me, I thought they wanted to do a documentary about my organization for homeless animals."

She laughs again, and says, "Not on various "nests" around the world! Completely misleading! But no matter! That's all behind us!"

Falling Star asks, "Is that who were on the phone with when we came by?"

"Of course, sweetie. Sorry about not seeing you or your friends, but I had to take care of this. Now everything is all fixed up," Chestnut answers with a smile.

Canter asks, "Does this mean?

"No more scheduling conflict! I can extend my contract and continue filming" Chestnut says giving Canter a tap on the nose.

She turns to see Sun holding the relics, and asks, "Hey, are those the missing relics?"

"Yes! And I don't think we'll have to worry about them disappearing again. And it's all thanks to our visitors from Canterlot High. First you save Camp Everfree, now the Daring Do movie. Y'all are certainly on a roll," Canter says, feeling appreciated for the girls work.

"Heh, heh. Uh, speaking of roles... Don't suppose you've got any extra parts my friends and I could play? You know, heh, as a reward for saving the day?" Rainbow asks.

Canter looks at the girls think on the request.

After a bit of tinkering, Canter calmly smiles, and says, "I think we could figure something out."

Later on, at the Tricorner of Marapore, Daring Do is running with the sword in her possession. Mainly the film is being recorded. As Daring Do is running across the marketplace, Sun and the girls have been seen doing their part of the film. Sun, Rarity, and Adagio are working on the fabric, Applejack and Aria carrying , and Spike are juggling, while Nina is sleeping. Twilight and Falling Star are carrying books. Daring Do runs into Fluttershy and the man name Starwart appears. Fluttershy along with the citizens start running.

"You will give me the Sword of Altoriosa!" Starwart demands.

Daring Do looks down to see the sword glowing connected to the staff.

She answers, "I don't think so, Stalwart!"

"Have it your way!" Starward says, going to do force.

Starwart raises the staf up and begin to speak the enchantment, "Hostium prihobore…"

Daring Do becomes stunned to see Starwart using the staff's power.

Starwart says in triumph, "Give up, Daring Do! The Sword shall be mine!"

Starwart uses the staff and points it in front of Daring Do. With that, the sword escapes from Daring's possession and floats to the staff. Daring doesn't know what to do.

Just then, she hears a loud whistle, and Rainbow throws her the whip. Daring cracks the whip and uses it to knock the staff out of Stewart's hands. With that, the scepter and the sword falls to the ground.

However, Rainbow squeals in excitement, "This is so awesome!"

"Cut! Again?!" Canter shouts with a groan.

The girls including some of the actors and employees calmly look at Rainbow to see her with a exciting look on her face.
Realizing what she has done, Rainbow sheepishly says, "Uh, sorry."

Hours later in the night, Painter is driving the girls back to Canterlot City. Most of the girls have fallen asleep. Aria is the only one who is still awake. She can't get ver on what happened. Even though they catch the thief and save the production, Juniper is in huge trouble and paying for it. However, there is something going on in her mind.

Sun's voice appears, and asks, "Aria, is there something wrong?"

Aria turns her head to see Sun still awake. Seeing the look, Aria can tell that Sun is on the helping friends mode.

Aria sighs, "I was just thinking about what happened. I don't think Juniper took my lecture very well."

"Yeah. I can understand why you said that. You and your sisters when on the path that she took," Sun replies.

"Trust me, we did. Twilight and Falling Star end up making that mistake too. And we all paid the price for it," Aria says.

Sun nods her head.

Just then, a thought has come to Sun's head, "There is something that I can't seem to figure out."

"Really? What will that be?" Aria asks.

"Well, I know that Jupiter has gone through all of this so she can play Daring Do. But the question is that…" Sun explains.

Then Aria finishes the sentence, "Why did she go through all this just to play Daring Do in the film?"

Sun nods her head in reply.

"I wish I knew too. What she could gain by being a actress? From what I experienced, fans and adderations doesn't really give you the love you really want. You taught me and my sisters that. Fame and being adored don't really earn friends," Aria says.

Sun becomes a bit sad, "Yeah. I wish we know why Juniper has did what she did. Then we can help her."

"Maybe, but only if she wants to," Aria replies.

Sun nods her head agreeing to her statement. The two girls are feeling tired that they have gone to bed for the night.