5:00 p.m
The party at Twilight's Friendship School is booming with ponies and creatures alike. Scootaloo, Applebloom and Sweetie Belle are walking about in the school yard, exploring the school, even though they've checked everywhere for the fifth time. The three of them were there to congratulate Twilight and the others for their 200th day since the opening of the Friendship School.
"Y'know, this place is really huge... Ah' sometimes wonder how long it took to build this school..." Applebloom looked around, still amazed at how big the school is. "Ah' even wonder how the students don't get lost in this place... One time, mah' sis' Applejack told me that she got to her class late cuz' she kept going through the wrong hall leading to her class... Can you believe that?" All three of them laughed out loud, grabbing some attention from nearby ponies and creatures.
Scootaloo stopped laughing first, looking around, feeling a bit embarrassed, as she knocks Applebloom with her flank. "Well, where is Applejack anyways? Wasn't she supposed to be here at the school by now?" They walked into one of the doorways the school had, where a couple ponies and creatures were walking about, carrying drinks and foods in their hooves - or claws.
The area of the school they were in seemed as though it wasn't used for the party, as it isn't decorated as much as the other areas of the school they've been at. It also feels a bit deserted, not counting a few of the ponies and creatures staying here to get away from the noisiness of the party.
Sweetie Belle answered her before Applebloom could, "Well, she's with Twilight and the others, including my sis', Rarity, at the dance floor. It really is crazy that it's been more than half a year since they all opened this school -" Sweetie Belle sighed, rolling her eyes, "- well, technically, since they re-opened the school, after that jerk unicorn what's-his-name closed it down, just because a couple of the students were 'endangering' the other students... Can you believe him? Students who were having fun, were harming other students?"
"Yeah! Ah' didn't believe it at first, but sure enough, it was real! Ah' don't like that unicorn one bit! " Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle nodded in agreement to Applebloom's statement.
"You know... I think we should head back to the party... We've been exploring the whole school more than five times... Besides, I want to grab some more of that apple cider your sis' made for the party, Applebloom!" Scootaloo started walking in the general direction of where the party is located at, but turned around to see Applebloom and Sweetie Belle looking at each other, then back to her.
"Well... you go on ahead, we still want to explore the place out..." Sweetie Belle said with her ears flopped down, with Applebloom nodding to her statement at Scootaloo, "We'll be right behind you! Don't you worry!"
"Well... okay then, crusaders! See you later at the party!" Scootaloo said as she gallopped down the hallway leading to the party room.
As Scootaloo enters the doorway to the party room, the light suddenly switches off, accompanied with some panicked gasps, including Scootaloo gasping at the sudden darkness. Though, a few seconds later, Scootaloo could see a spotlight in the middle of the room, with the pink mane mare, Pinkie Pie and the magenta mane mare, Starlight Glimmer, standing there with a humongous cake there, with a sign saying... 'Happy Birthday, Twilight Sparkle!'?
"Huh... didn't know today was Twilight's birthday..." She mutters under her breath, as she starts walking at the edge of the room, hugging the wall, as she made her way to the foods and drinks table, dehydrated from exploring the school with her best friends.
Though, before she could make it to the table, she noticed a mysterious light green coat unicorn with an orange striped mane standing at the corner of the room, wearing a dark robe over her. Her expression on her face... looked as if she was planning to do something...
Scootaloo got rid of that thought out of her head, as she looked to the middle of the room, now noticing Twilight cutting the humongous birthday cake, accompanied with a loud clopping noise on the floor...
Though, before Twilight could finish cutting the cake, a feminine voice could be heard through the cheering, yelling “EVERYPONY GET DOWN!” and suddenly, a beam of green magic struck the birthday cake, causing it to explode.
"What the hay!? What happened!?" She looked back to where the green magic beam had came from, and it was no doubt, came from the mysterious unicorn mare she saw earlier, who was now trying to blend into the crowd of panicking ponies and creatures, running away.
<Oh, horseapples! S-She's getting away! I shou- Actually, no... Scootaloo, what are you doing... I should go get Twilight and the others first, that's the right thing to do!> She shook her head, frustrated, as she made up her mind, and gallopped to the middle of the room where the cake had exploded.
As soon as Scootaloo saw Twilight, who was with her friends, still covered with bits of the cake left, she shouted at the top of her lungs to overcome the sound of panicked screams of the ponies and creatures around her. "T-Twilight! You gotta hear me out! I got something to tell you!" Twilight immedietely turned around to face her, walking towards her.
As she stops galloping, panting, Twilight asked, "What is it, Scootaloo? We're trying to find out who blew the cake up just now, so be quick with it."
Scootaloo, who is still panting, looks up at Twilight with wide eyes, shouting. "That's just it! I think I just saw who did it! The one that blew your cake up!"
Twilight, now wide eyed, looks a bit speechless, before shaking her head, "Woah woah woah, hold on... you saw who did it? Who was it!?" Twilight's other friends, except Pinkie Pie, now by her side, are looking at Scootaloo, wondering the same thing.
"I-I don't know who she is, but she had a light green coat, with an orange striped mane... s-she was a unicorn... though, I never saw her before in Ponyville... she ran away through the crowd, from over there!" Scootaloo, still breathless, pointed to where she last saw the mysterious unicorn.
"Well, come on, girls! We've got to catch her, before she gets away! Scootaloo, if you can, follow us quickly!" Twilight and the rest gallopped towards the direction of where Scootaloo had pointed, with herself gallopping after them.
Once they exited the place, they scanned the area to see where this mysterious unicorn had gone, but can't seem to find her in the midst of the crowd... Though, something did catch Twilight's eye; a light green coat earth pony with a green mane, lying down at the end of the corridor, panting hard.
"Over there! Come on!" They all make their way to where the pony is, now realising who the pony is.
"Sandbar! Are you alright?" Twilight quickly stopped in front of Sandbar, helping him up. "What happened?"
Sandbar, still panting, looks at Twilight and her friends, including Scootaloo.. "I-I tried to chase the pony who blew your cake up, Professor Twilight! I-I was chasing her, when she had tackled me down!"