It was a beautiful Friday morning and the students in Ponyville Elementary were ready for the weekend to come. Lots of fun was to happen soon, as the last day of school was next week. Nevertheless, the students walked inside, ready for class to begin.
Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo were known as the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Last year, they had earned their cutie marks after helping Diamond Tiara reform. They smiled as they took their seats. Within a few minutes, Cheerilee, their teacher, entered into the classroom.
“Good morning, class,” she said.
“Good morning, Miss Cheerilee,” the class answered.
“Take out your Math textbooks and turned to page eight,” Cheerilee said. “We will be working on fractions.”
The students did as they were told and the class commenced. As Cheerilee was teaching class, Apple Bloom turned to her friends.
“Are you girls available for the weekend?” she asked them in a whisper.
“Yes,” Sweetie Belle whispered.
“Yes,” Scootaloo whispered.
“Cool, because we should help some more ponies out with their cutie mark problems,” Apple Bloom whispered to them.
“We should talk about this during recess,” Sweetie Belle whispered. “Cheerilee’s teaching us right now.”
“Got it,” Apple Bloom whispered.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders turned their heads back to Cheerilee, who was continuing to teach. Within about ten minutes, she made an announcement.
“Okay, class,” she said. “We will now be taking a math quiz. It will last for fifteen minutes. Be sure to do your best.”
Cheerilee passed out the quizzes using her mouth and then walked back to her desk.
“The quiz starts now,” she said, as she set a timer.
* * * *
After the quiz, Cheerilee walked into the closet and pulled out a projector.
“Okay, class,” she said. “We’re going to watch a movie about how the Friendship School began. Then we’ll have a quiz involving the film that we watched.”
Cheerilee plugged in the projector and pressed a button to turn it on, but nothing happened. She pressed the button a few more times, but the projector wouldn’t work. All of a sudden, the bell rang.
“Uh, class,” Cheerilee said. “Go to recess. I’ll fix this while you’re outside.”
The class did as they were told. Cheerilee looked at the wires to see why it wasn’t working.
“Hm, it looks like the wires are all mixed up,” she said to herself.
Cheerilee untangled the wires.
“Okay, I think I fixed it,” she said to herself. “Now to plug it in.”
Cheerilee plugged in the projector. All of a sudden, the projector flashed and Cheerilee felt a big zap hit her. Her whole body convulsed to the ground as she was being electrocuted. Within a few seconds, the electricity stopped zapping Cheerilee and she lay still on the floor with her eyes wide open, as if she was shocked to see something disturbing coming towards her.
* * * *
Back outside, Apple Bloom heard the buzzing sound. She rushed inside.
“Miss Cheerilee, is everything alright?” she asked worriedly. “I heard some zappin’ sound!”
Apple Bloom found Cheerilee lying on the ground motionless.
“Miss Cheerilee?” Apple Bloom called out. “Equestria to Miss Cheerilee? Are you there?”
Apple Bloom waved her hoof toward Cheerilee’s face, but got no response. She then moved her hoof to try to get a response, but still got none. She began to get worried.
“Come on, Miss Cheerilee,” she said. “Please get up. This isn’t funny!”
Apple Bloom put her face toward Cheerilee’s mouth, but found that she wasn’t breathing. She then put her hoof on Cheerilee’s neck to find a pulse, but found none.
“Oh, Celestia,” Apple Bloom said in horror. “Sweetie Belle! Scootaloo! Come in here! This is a serious emergency!”
Her friends immediately ran inside.
“What is it?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Where’s the fire?” Scootaloo asked.
“It’s our teacher,” Apple Bloom answered. “She’s…dead!”
At that point, she began crying.
“Dead?” Sweetie Belle answered. “But how?”
“I think she was electrocuted,” Apple Bloom responded.
“What are we going to do?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“We got to call the police!” Scootaloo answered.
“No!” Apple Bloom said frantically. “They might think that we did it!”
“But we didn’t!” Scootaloo responded.
“But we found her body first,” Apple Bloom said in horror.
“So, what are we going to do?” Sweetie Belle asked. “We can’t just leave her here.”
“Nopony can know that she died,” Apple Bloom answered. “We’ll have to teach her class. Besides, we only have one week of school left until summer break.”
“But how are we going to convince others that she’s still alive?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“Simple, we need to use her as a puppet,” Apple Bloom answered. “We need strings that can be turned invisible and a voice enhancer placed in her mouth. Sweetie Belle, can you use your horn to produce all of what Ah had just said?”
“Yes,” she answered. “Rarity gave me some magic lessons and I’ve mastered all of the basics. I even learned a few spells of my own.”
“Good,” Apple Bloom said. “Class resumes in about ten minutes. We need to make sure that everything’s prepared." She turned to the projector and saw that it was on. "Fortunately, the projector seems to be working again. I guess Miss Cheerilee did manage to fix the projector before dying. Then there’s the quiz that she mentioned about. We need to find the copies and the answer sheet to grade them afterwards.”
“Got them,” Sweetie Belle said, as she raised her hoof up with the quiz papers and answer sheet set face down.”
“Good,” Apple Bloom said. “Don’t look at it yet. What about the first quiz?”
“The first quiz papers were already graded,” Sweetie Belle said, as she pulled the papers out. “I actually did pretty darn well. I scored a 90.”
“Cool,” Scootaloo said.
“I’ll make the strings and voice enhancer,” Sweetie Belle continued, as she used her horn to create them using some small pieces of string to lengthen them and a pencil to change into a voice enhancer. Within about thirty seconds, both were finished. “Okay, all done.”
“Good job, Sweetie Belle,” Apple Bloom said. “Now, let’s put the strings onto Miss Cheerilee’s hooves and neck and the voice enhancer in her mouth.”
Sweetie Belle did as she was told and then turned the strings invisible using the magic coming from her horn.
“One more thing,” Apple Bloom continued, as she opened Miss Cheerilee’s desk drawer, pulled out a pair of sunglasses, and put them on their teacher.
“Are you sure that’s going to convince the class?” Scootaloo asked.
“Trust me,” Apple Bloom. “On some days, Miss Cheerilee actually wore sunglasses in the classroom. Besides, there’s only six days left in the school year.”
Scootaloo sighed.
“Okay, if you say so,” she said.
“Now then, let’s put our teacher’s body on her seat,” Apple Bloom said.
The Cutie Mark Crusaders used all of their strength to drag the body to her desk chair and then had her sit straight to make it look like she was still alive.
“Alright, that settles it,” Apple Bloom said.
After the Cutie Mark Crusaders sighed in relief, the school bell rang and the students returned to their seats.
Well, here goes nothing, Apple Bloom thought, as she took her seat.