//------------------------------// // Chapter 15 // Story: Blaze of My Heart // by BlueSun52 //------------------------------// Sunday sat on the benches in the gym with her backpack by her side. She watches joyfully seeing Altair play basketball with his teammate practicing for their upcoming games for the season. Her eyes darted back and forth seeing him run around the court dribbling the ball and passing it. As practice went on, she looked around seeing other girls watching their boyfriends practice and cheering for them. She smiles brightly that now she’s a girlfriend to one of the players. Looking at Altair lovingly, she couldn’t help but let out a dreamy sigh. The game went on for a while before their coach blew the whistle. The coach was also known as Clyde, Altair’s father and Rarity’s husband. “Alright guys, I think that’s enough for today,” he said. “Go get changed and head on out for the day.” Altair smiled before he gave the ball to one of his teammates. He walked over to the the coach for a moment talking to him. “Hey dad, why so early today?” he asked. “Is mom getting impatient about practice again?” “No, not today she’s plenty busy with her store,” Clyde replied. “Just thought we’d end it early since you and your team are doing a great job with practice. Besides, just wanna help my boy out with his girl.” He points over to Sunday. Altair smiled and waved at Sunday. Sunday giggled and waved back at Altair excitedly. “Heh, thanks dad,” Altair said. He went into the boy’s locker room with his teammates. Sunday hoped down from the benches before getting on the floor. She waited for Altair for a few moments while she went up to Clyde. “Hi, Mr. Clyde!” “Oh, Hello Sunday,” Clyde greeted. “I take it you were watching the practice, but mostly Altair? chuckled.” “Ah huh! He was awesome today!” Sunday said. “I’m sure he’ll love to hear his number one fan say that,” Clyde said. “Although you might be more impressed during an actual game.” “Yeah, I can’t wait to see him for the big games!” Sunday said. “I even ordered in a shirt with his team number on it!” “Wow, you are his number one fan after all,” Clyde laughed. “But truth be told, Rarity did the same thing with me.” “Really?” “Yep. She made her own jerseys to wear to the games,” Clyde replied. “She still has them too but obviously she can’t exactly fit in them anymore.” “Hehe, it would be silly for her putting them on!” Sunday commented. Clyde thought for a moment and smirked. He let out a laugh. “It would be funny to see though,” he said. “Hehe, so you don’t really mind Altair dating me?” Sunday asked. “Not Really. Why?” “Well uh, my dad is kinda against me dating since I’m still fourteen,” Sunday answered. “I guess I can see his point,” Clyde said. “But I know Altair takes after me a lot, so I’m sure he’ll treat you as I treated Rarity during high school.” “Oh, that’s good to hear!…. How did you treat Rarity?” Sunday asked. “You’ll see yourself with how Altair hopefully treats you,” Clyde chuckled. “Oh, okay!” Clyde smiled. “It’s good to see my kids are starting to get into the romance topic,” he said. “Well, someone other than just Jade now. She still makes me worry.” “What makes you think that?” “Because whenever I see her walking in the hallways at school, I can’t help but notice many boys watching her,” Clyde explained. “I guess that’s what happens when your daughter is like a split image of your wife.” “Well she certainly likes the attention I can say that much,” Sunday said. “Yeah, as did Rarity... At least Seryn doesn’t seem to care about attention that much,” Clyde said. “Yup! She’s a chill girl!” “That she is.” “Anyway, I’m sure Altair will be out soon,” Clyde said. “Just don’t get impatient and run inside the locker room please.” “Oh please, like I would do that!” Sunday said. Clyde just looked at her with disbelief. “What? I won’t!” “Alright,” Clyde laughed. “See you later, Mr. Clyde!” Sunday walks over to the bench and waited for Altair. Clyde smiled before he walks out of the gymnasium for the day. Just as he left, Altair came out of the locker room in fresh clothes. Sunday smiled before she walked over to Altair and kissed his cheek. “Hey, baby!” Altair smiled. “How are you?” he asked. “I’m doing good! You were awesome out there!” Sunday commented. “Thanks, but just wait until an actual game,” Altair said. “Yeah, I can’t wait for it!” Sunday said. “I bet you would be way better at it than now!” “I am much better when an actual game is happening,” Altair chuckled. “I can’t wait for that! It’ll be a lot of fun seeing that!” “I’m glad at least you’ll be there. Other than my family, no one really comes to watch games.” “Really? Not even some of our friends?” “Nope.” “Awwwwe, I’m sorry to hear that,” Sunday said. She hugs Altair lovingly and rubs her cheek with his. Altair smiled and wrapped an arm around her. “It’s Okay I guess. People are busy,” he said. “At least you guys have cheerleaders to cheer you on!” Sunday said. “What cheerleaders?” Altair asked. “You know, cheerleaders!” Sunday repeated. “Girls wearing skirts and uniforms and use those pom poms as they dance around cheering!” “Iron Will got rid of cheerleaders,” Altair replied. “Our school hasn’t had any in years.” “What!? How come this is the first time of hearing of this!?” Sunday said “Because none of you went to football or basketball games.” “Oooooooh.” “But maybe since my dad is the coach, he can suggest cheerleaders be a thing again,” Altair said. “You know, for school spirit.” “Yeah, that would be awesome!” Sunday said. After a moment, her head started to tick. She tilts her head until an idea popped into her head and gasped. “I could try out on being a cheerleader too!” “Hmm... I can easily see you as one,” Altair commented. “Really?” Sunday asked. “What makes you think that?” “You’re peppy, energetic, and rather positive. smiled All good qualities of a cheerleader,” Altair explained. “Think you can do it?” “I sure can! Woo!” “Heh, I’m sure you’ll do great,” Altair smiled and poked her cheek. Sunday giggled. “So what do you want to do?” Altair asked. “Hmmm, go out?” “To a restaurant?” “Yeah!” “Heh, then let’s get on going,” Altair said. Sunday smiled and the two went out of the gymnasium. The next morning at school, Sunday hummed to herself walking down the hallway. She was on her way towards her coach’s office to talk about reforming the cheerleaders. She smiled brightly of the thought of cheering on her man while showing off her dance move to the entire school to see. Amidst those thoughts, she blushed as the idea of Altair holding her close and kissing her in front of everyone to see their blossoming love. Her walking quickly turned into blissful hops as she got lost within her own fantasies. However as Sunday hopped happily, she stopped and saw the coach’s office door. But what made her stop was when she saw a very unpleasant familiar person, Jazz. Jazz had just left the room before looking at Clyde. “Thanks again for letting me form my own cheerleading team!” Jazz said. “We’ll do our best to make the team spirit proud again!” ‘.... What?” Sunday thought. Clyde walked out his office with Jazz. “Now Jazz, like I said earlier I wanted to wait on Sunday before any decisions would be made,” he said. “Altair said she wanted to talk to me about it.” “Oh! But of course!” Jazz said. “I’m sure we can work something out that would benefit the both of us!” ‘WHAT!?” Sunday’s mind shouted. She shook her head violently before taking a deep breath. She walks over to the two and had her normal happy smile. “Hey Mr. Clyde! What’s going on here?” “Hey Sunday, I was wondering when you would be here,” Clyde said. “Anyways, Jazz here came to me wanting to form a cheerleading team as well. I thought that since you both wanted to that, I thought that you two would talk out the details about the team and who would be in it. And perhaps even work out who would be team captain.” “Ooooh…. I see. I can…. Get behind that idea,” Sunday said. “Alright then, you girls work things out and come back to me whenever you’re ready to form the team,” Clyde said. He walked off leaving Sunday and Jazz to themselves. Sunday waited for Clyde to be far enough away before looking at Jazz. Jazz only gave her a devious grin. Rarely does Sunday ever looked at someone with a serious expression but after what had happened to Blaze and Iris, she was not letting Jazz push her around. “What are you trying to pull here?” Sunday asked. “What’s with this sudden interest in forming  cheerleaders?” “Truth be told, the thought hadn’t come to me until I overheard you and your boyfriend talking about it,” Jazz replied. “And hearing that, I decided to-” “Wait, why were you in the gym yesterday?” Sunday asked. “It was after school and I didn’t see you anywhere…. Are you stalking me and Altair?” Jazz gave an irritated expression before pinching the bridge of her nose. “No, you fool. I heard you two talk about it when you were out eating at the restaurant,” she explained. “I just happened to be there coincidentally enjoying a nice hot wing.” “.... You eat hot win-” “Yes, I eat hot wings,” Jazz said. “Anyways back to the reason. When hearing upon your idea, I thought forming the cheerleader group would help my chances of being transferred over to Crystal Prep! So with your help, we can form a team in no time at all.” “Oh…. Well…. I mean, it does sound fair and-” “And I will be the team captain.” “What!? Oh hell no!” Sunday cursed. “No way I’m letting you be team captain! In fact, why should I help you along!? What you did to Blaze was mean and you traumatized Iris!” “Look, the only reason why I did that to Blaze was because he was merely a stepping stone. I was dared to so I can be part of a group I thought would get me in Crystal Prep,” Jazz explained. “Tch, what a waste though. As soon as that was done, I quickly found out they were lying just to have some fun. And I’ll admit, I regret that shy girl got in the way of my revenge but it was her fault for being part of it. My vendetta is with Eve.” “Well I suppose when you put it like that, it was kinda wrong for- WAIT A MINUTE! That’s still wrong for you to do!” Sunday said. “If you want to be part of the team, that’s fine by me! But you’re not becoming captain after what you did!” “Yes I will!” “No you won’t!” “Yes I will!” “No you won’t!” “Yes I will!” “No you won’t!” “Yes I will!” “No you won’t!” “Shut up!” “Make me!” “Fine then!” Jazz shouted. “We make a competition out of it! Whoever forms the teams first, gets to be the captain! The loser has to be the lacky of the team!” “I accept the terms of this challenge then!” Sunday said. “At the end of the day, we meet up at the school and see who has the most members!” “After that, the members form together and one of us will be the captain!” Jazz said. “And it will be me!” “No, it will be me!” “No me!” “Me!” “Me!” “Me!” “ME!” After an hour of arguing, it was lunch time and most of student body were in the cafeteria. The gang once more sat at their usual large table as they talked and laughed together. Amidst of all the joyous talk, Sunday came over to the table and slammed down her tray. This got the attention of the group as they were startled by it. “What’s wrong, Sunday?” Seryn asked. “Did you found out about that big butt joke everyone been saying about you?” “No, that- Wait what!?” Sunday said. “What big butt joke!?” “Yeah, I heard about it,” Star said. “Apparently people are saying you have a big butt. I asked where the joke came from and Jazz passed it around.” “That little sneak!” Sunday cursed. “I’m pretty sure she’s taller than you,” Seryn commented. “Whatever!” Sunday said. “Anyways I need a favor from all of you girls! I need you all to be in a cheerleading team pronto!” “Wait, you want us to be cheerleaders?” Eve asked. “I don’t think I would be that interested in that.” “Yeah and I can’t really join,” Seryn said. “I have basketball practice for the girl’s team.” “I’m not that interested in being in a skimpy outfit,” Camilla said. “Least not one that doesn’t make me look too girly anyway.” “I-I d-don’t r-really-” “No, no, no,” Sunday interrupted Iris. She hugs Iris gently as she pats her head. “You already been in enough trouble with Jazz and other stuff like that. You just rest and stay the innocent girl you are.” Iris blinks. “U-Um…. O-Okay?” “How about you Star?” Sunday asked. “Pleeeeeease help me!” “Sure! Why not!?” Star replied. “It actually sounds awesome!” “If I may ask, why does it sound so urgent that you have as many members as possible?” Jade asked. “I would think that you would take your time and-” “Jazz is trying to take my idea and wants to be captain of the team!” Sunday replied. “I am not letting her be team captain! And I am not going to let her win this stupid bet! I need all of you girls to help me! Please help me!” The girls looked to one another for a moment. They nod to each other and looked towards Sunday with smiles on them. “We’ll help you, Sunday!” Rhoda said. “But um, we’re not wearing anything too revealing.” “Of course! I promise it won’t be super creepy or anything!” Sunday said. “But Seryn, what about your basketball practice?” “Well I guess I can work both schedules in if it works for me. But I’ll have to put my basketball games first,” Seryn replied. “But while we’re at it, I do have a cousin here at the school that can help us out.” “Wait, you have a cousin here?” Sunday asked. “How come we never seen her over here?” “Cause she has friends of her own?” Seryn replied. “Plus she’s the lead singer of her own band so she’s usually busy. But I bet she would be willing the help out.” “She’s in a band?” Eve asked. “Oh yes! She very much is!” Jade said. “She can sing and play the piano quite magnificently!” “Alright then! She can join in!” Sunday said. She sat up and put her feet on the table making a pose. “We’ll gonna beat Jazz and form the greatest cheerleader squad of all time!” All the guys simply watched as the girls cheered. Nova scratched his chin for a moment. “Did the girls forget we’re here too?” he asked. “I mean-” “Shh!” Blaze hushed. “Do not get us involved in this!” “I don’t know, being around such beautiful women in such lovely outfits would be pretty- OW!” Kringle got punched in the shoulder by Blaze. “I’m just saying!” At the end of the school day, the students once more head on to their homes. Sunday and the other girls all walked together side by side. They made it to the front of the school and waited for Jazz to show up for their meeting point. They looked around for any sign of the devious girl and possible members of her own squad. Star tapped her foot impatiently before looking over to Sunday. “Hey Day, you said Jazz was gonna be here, right?” she asked. “She doesn’t seem to be showing up.” “Star, it’s only been five seconds,” Seryn said. “It hadn’t been five seconds.” “Okay fine, six seconds, whatever.” “And where’s your cousin?” Star asked. “Didn’t you say she would-” “Hi!” A random girl jumped up and tackled Seryn to the ground. “GHAA!.... Hey, Melody,” Seryn said. The girl known as Melody smiled as she sat on top of Seryn. She had brown eyes with long tri colored hair of magenta, light blue, and brown. Having light blue skin and bangs for her hairstyle. She had a snowflake design with a musical note over it. Getting off of Seryn and helping her up, she patted her skirt down and smiled. “It’s nice to finally meet all of my cousin’s friends!” she greeted. “My whole name is Winter Melody! They told me so much about all of you girls whenever we meet up!” “It’s nice to meet you!” Sunday said. “Thanks a lot for coming to help us out!” “It’s no problem at all!” Melody said. “So what are we waiting on?” “We’re waiting on Jazz to show up with her members,” Star replied. “If she even had any members. I bet she was all talk and no bi-” “Sunday!” All the girls looked over and saw Jazz walking up to them. Along with her were seven other girls that were on each side of her. They all stopped before glaring at one another especially Sunday and Jazz. They stared down each other while Star was counting everyone. She pursed her lips and scratched her head. “Um…. It’s a tie,” Star said. “There’s eight of you and eight of us.” “.... Crap, we did not say what would happen if we tie,” Sunday said. “What do we do now?” “Hmmm…. I win by defa-” “No!” “Fine!” Jazz shouted. “I guess now we do another contest?” “And I have the perfect idea!” Jade said. She jumped between the two rivaling girls. “I say that within a couple of weeks, we have a contest to see who would lead the team the most! By training and helping the other girls becoming the most marvelous and flawless cheerleaders!” “Very well, I accept those terms!” Jazz said. “But do not think I will play fair!” “Same as me, Jazz!” Sunday said. “Wait, I’m good at that, right?” “No, you’re not!” Star harshly replied. “I pranked you with that big butt paper on your back one time and you got back at me just by throwing an egg! And that wasn’t even me! That was Eve!” “Oh right…. But still we will win!” Sunday said. “We’ll have the whole school see what we girls can do!” “Then I’ll see you in two weeks!” Jazz said. Her eyes widen before she rubbed her chin. “No wait, we have science class together…. I’ll see you again within two weeks!” “I can’t tell if she’s dumb or smart,” Eve whispered over to Jade. “She’s kinda both to be honest,” Jade commented. “But is clever so do not underestimate her.” “Right, of course,” Eve said. “That reminds me of something,” Camilla said. She walks up to Jazz for a moment before she leans in at her. Jazz started to sweat as she gave her a scary smile. “I know it was you that dumped all that paint on my sister. And right now, I don’t care if I have proof or not. I know you did it.” “W-Well, u-uh- Hey!” Camilla picked Jazz up over her shoulder. She walked over to the dumpster and opened it. She raised Jazz over her head, drops her into the dumpster and slams the door down. She pats her hand before walking back over to the group and smiled happily. “Well what are we waiting for?” she asked. “Let’s crush that primadonna’s dreams!” All the girls blink until they smiled and cheered. They all walked away from the scene while Jazz’s teammates were helping her out of the dumpster. Jazz moaned for a moment and felt it was over until she heard Camilla shout out. “I will be doing everyday until we’re even!” Jazz gulped. “I regret so many things now!” she said. The next day, the girls gathered up together in the music room. They talked and discussed several things that needed to be done. Including the team’s new name. “I say we call ourselves, The Sundays!” Sunday suggested. All the girls raised their brows. “No,” they said unison. “M-Maybe we can think of something that we have in common?” Rhoda suggested. “Perhaps something that we can all agree upon.” “Yeah, that might work,” Eve said. “It’s gotta be something cool and memorable to everyone. Something that no has never thought of before until now.” Star looked around the room and taps her chin. As her eyes moved around, she saw a poster of a science project from last year. However what caught her attention was some of the wording the poster gave. The one that stood out the most was the word, stellar. Her eyes widen as she looked at all of the girls before she snaps her fingers and stood up. “I got it!” Star shouted earning everyone’s attention. “We call ourselves…. The Stellar Girls!” “The Stellar Girls?” Camilla asked. “That sounds like one of those early nineties cartoon shows…. I love it!” “I agree! It certainly fits this band rather well,” Jade said. “Most of our names seem to mostly do with a star or time of day.” “Then that’s what we’ll be!” Sunday said. “We’ll be The Stellar Girls! Savors of the galaxy and music!” “Wait, what?” Seryn asked. “I thought we were-” “That should be our slogan for our cheerleading team!” Sunday suggested. “Oh, she is still on track,” Seryn commented. “But maybe we should put away the slogan until we get the actual team together after we win the contest.” “Agreed. So let’s move on to the next point of this meeting,” Eve said. “How exactly are we going to learn how to be cheerleaders? I don’t think the coach knows anything about it so we might need outside help.” “Hmmm, I’ll see what I can do about that,” Star said. “In the meantime, Jade could you put together some uniforms for us?” “Oh please, I was on that five minutes before you asked that question.” Jade was at a table cuttin up fabrics and sewing together patterns. “Sweet! Guess that means we can all go home for now,” Sunday said. “We’ll meet up in the gym after classes and see if we can get ourselves an awesome coach!” The girls agreed and went on out of the room. The next day, they were in the gym stretching and getting ready for their first lessons. Star had yet to tell them who was going to be their coach but assured them that she was the best. Each of the girls had on uniforms were a combination of blue, black and purple. Their tops were blue with black stripes. On the back of them was a head of a horse and CHS letters right at the bottom. Having purple skirts with flying blue stars and purple shoes. “Alright, this uniforms look awesome!” Star commented. “You really outdid yourself with these, Jade!” “Oh it was nothing at all,” Jade said. “It took me a bit to think up the star designs but I’m happy that they turned out fabulous!” “Now all we need is our coach to get here!” Sunday said. “How long until she gets here?” They heard the doors opened and they looked back. A familiar pale blue skin woman stepped into the room with a cocky smile. Her hair having six different colors of a rainbow and wearing a flight jacket. This woman was no other than Rainbow Dash, the only famous sports captain for being the only one leading every sports team at CHS. “Hey there, ladies! My little niece Star told me you all were forming a cheerleading team,” Rainbow Dash said. “Well I’m here to help out!” “Aunty Rainbow Dash!” Sunday chimed. She ran up and hugged Rainbow Dash tightly. “I haven’t seen you in forever! Not since the last time you stole dad’s Harley!” “Sunday, good to see you again!” Rainbow Dash hugged Sunday back and gave her a nuggy. “It must have been about a couple of years ago when I last saw you!” “Aunt Dash, it’s a pleasure to see you again!” Jade said. “So you came to help us out with our team? But I thought you were in the middle of coaching your team at the NASL. At least that’s what my father told me.” “Heh technically I was but when Star contacted me about what you girls were doing, I thought I would pop by and help out,” Rainbow Dash said. “Besides it gives me an excuse to see all my nieces again! So tell me, do you girls still out number the boys here?” “We sure do! They just never stand a chance against us!” Star said. “Soon we will take over the world! Muhahahaha!” Rainbow Dash laughed and pats Star’s head. “That’s my niece!” she said. “I’m glad to see you again, aunt but how exactly are you going to help us?” Seryn asked. “No offense but it's kinda hard to believe you would be able to teach us about cheerleading when you mostly coach teams to play the games right.” “True but that’s why I came here with some help!” Rainbow Dash said. Just as Seryn was about to ask again, Pinkie jumped up right in front of her and hugged her tightly. “Hey girls! I’m back!” she said. She swings Seryn around before putting her down. “Aunt Pinkie! What are you doing here?” Seryn asked. “I’m here to help Dashie help you girls!” Pinkie replied excidelty. “I’m going to be teaching you girls how to cheerlead while Dashie does the exercises!” “Exercises?” Camilla asked. “Yup! When Star called me and asked for my help, I was kinda hesitant since I didn’t know much about cheerleading. But I know who did!” Rainbow Dash explained. “So I got to talking to Pinkie about it and we both agreed that she would help teach you girls how to be cheerleaders while I get you all physically trained for it! It’s going to be a lot of work especially for two weeks but I think we can pull it off!” “So how about it, girls!?” Pinkie asked. “Are you ready to rumble!?” All the girls cheered agreeing to the terms. “Time for some music montage!” Pinkie shouted. She pulled out a boombox out of her hair and sets it down on a bench. She pressed played and the music started with a familiar beat of Eye of the Tiger. “Oh, I love this song!” Star commented. “Pinkie no! We’re not doing that overdone cliche!” Rainbow Dash said. “Awww!” Pinkie frowned and pushed the stop button. “Alright…. Let’s get to work, girls!” Rainbow Dash said. Rainbow Dash had the girls doing sit ups as she was walking by them. Each of them were having no trouble doing them except for Rhoda as she had a hard time pulling herself up. But among all the girls, Jade wasn’t even doing any sit ups as she was polishing her nails. Rainbow Dash walked over her and looked at her with a raised brow. “What? My figure is fine just the way it is!” Jade chimed. “You can ask the football team about it!” The girls moved on to doing pushups. As they did, Rainbow Dash was eating an apple while she was sitting on top of Jade. Jade tried to do a pushup but to no avail, Rainbow Dash proved to be too heavy for the fashion girl. “Would you get off of me already!?” Jade demanded. “Not until you give me one pushup,” Rainbow Dash said. The girls ran around the gym as it was part of Rainbow Dash’s exercises. The girls panted heavily as they ran and Sunday started to slow down. But as she was the last one behind, a whip snaps at her rear and she jumped. “OW!” Rainbow ran right behind the group as she held a whip. “Don’t you dare slow down on me, Sunday!” she said and whips again. “AAH!” Sunday sped up terrified for her life and ran to the front of the group. Next the girls were doing jumping jacks over and over. Sweat poured down from their foreheads as the constant exercises were taking their toll. Melody loses control over her legs and fell over and bumps into Seryn. Seryn yelped before she fell into Camilla and she fell into Eve. One by one each girl fell on the other until Star fell onto Sunday and laid on top of her. “Augh! Get off of me!” Sunday cried. “Not until Jade gets off of me!” Star said. “Well it’s not my fault that- EEP!” Jade yelped. “Who’s hand is that!?” “S-Sorry!” Rhoda said. Rainbow Dash looked at the scene and slapped herself in the forehead. “We got a long two weeks ahead of us, Pinkie,” she commented. “Hey, that just means more fun for us!” Pinkie said. “How about you leave things to me now?” “Alright, but no cliche music!” “Darnit!” Pinkie grabbed her boombox and threw it into the trash can. After a moment of recovering and one checking to see her rear was intact, the girls lined up as they waited for Pinkie. The doors burst opened catching the girls attention. Pinkie came doing a cartwheel and stopped in front of the girls. She wore thigh highs with a little pink ribbons on the sides. She had a rather small pink skirt with a matching pink top with her midriff exposed. “Are you girls ready to lead the cheers!?” Pinkie asked excitedly. Camilla looked over Pinkie for a moment. “You’re outfit rather…. Tight,” she commented. “How old is that outfit?” “Cammy silly, it’s rude to ask a girl how old she is!” Pinkie retorted. “But that’s not-” “Anyways, let’s start off with the basics!” Pinkie said. “Who here can show me how to do a flip?” “I can do that easy!” Star said. She readied herself before she did a backwards flip. She lands on her feet and put on a cheeky smile. “Good job, Star!” Pinkie commented. “Now do multiple flips!” Star’s eyes widen and looked at Pinkie. “U-Um…. Multiple flips?” she asked. “Yeah! Just as this!” Pinkie readied herself and backflips. She flipped over and over moving around the gym with ease. She stopped back in the same spot she started and looked at the girls with a bright smile. “See? Easy!” The girls looked at Pinkie with wide eyes. They looked back over to Star waiting for her response. Feeling the pressure of the girls eyes upon her, Star gulped and took a deep breath. “Y-Yeah, I can do that too!” Star said. “Just um, give me a moment!” Star took deep breaths as she got ready. She readied herself with her legs bent and did a backflip. When she tried to get on her second flip, she got on her arms but slipped and fell right on her face. “AAGH!” The girls winced before they went over to help Star up. “It’s okay, Star! With plenty of practice we can all do super flips!” Pinkie said. “Now let’s work together and do some team tricks!” Sunday stood on Star, Jade and Eve’s arms holding her up in the air. They were suppose to shoot Sunday up in high before catching her. After she was okay to go, they shoot Sunday up and tried to catch her. However Jade got a text and she looked at it for a moment. Star and Eve tried to catch Sunday but she screamed and fell on the floor face first. “AAAH!” “Oh my! Nova just sent a cute picture of a puppy!” Jade said. “You girls must simply- OW!” Sunday slapped Jade in the back of the head. Rhoda took a deep breath and ran forward. She tried to do a forward flip as she got on her arms. However she had pushed herself back up to hard and she collided right into Camilla’s back. She groaned before she slides on her slowly and laid on the ground. Camilla blinks before she looks back. “Huh? Did something hit me?” Camilla asked. Eve ran up towards a wall. She stepped on it hard before doing a backflip and landing on her feet. She jumped up in triumph. “Woohoo! I did it!” she cheered. “Let’s see if I can do that!” Melody said. She runs up towards the wall and does a backflip. However she pushed herself too hard colliding right into Seryn. “GHAA!” Time went by as the girls practice several forms of cheerleading styles. They each were able to do a few skills that they were good at. However it seemed they had a long way to go of practicing before they were truly ready to be cheerleaders. After much brutal accidents and a busted rear end, the girls laid on top of one another as they groaned in pain. “My everything hurts,” Star commented. “And my other everything hurts more.” “I doubt that as I can’t feel my legs!” Jade said. “Now how am I going to go shopping tonight!?” “Can’t you have Nova do it for you?” Star asked. “Oh…. Then that works out perfectly!” Jade said. “My butt hurt…. So much,” Sunday said. “Are we cheerleaders yet?” “Not even close,” Camilla replied. “Not. Even. Close.” “Come on girls, I know you can all do it!” Pinkie said. “We can really put the work into this if you just believe in ourselves! Here let me show some of my moves again!” Pinkie started doing a dance as she flips and waved her pom poms. As she moved around, Blaze and Iris came into the gym. They stopped as they had raised eyebrows. “Um….” Blaze could not form the words to what he was seeing. “I-Is t-that s-suit a-a l-little-” “Yes Iris, it is a little tight on her,” Blaze said. “I’ve seen Pinkie in tight outfits before and it’s not really a big deal. Iris looked over to Blaze. She saw that he had a bright blush on his cheeks while he was trying to act calm. Her eyes half-lid and shook her head. ‘Boys,’ she thought. Pinkie danced and flips around before she landed in front of Blaze and Iris. “Blazey! I haven’t seen you a long time!” she chimed. “I missed having you at the cafe!” She reached out and hugs Blaze into a tight hug. His head was in her chest as his arms flinged around. “MMMH!” Blaze muffled cried. Iris blinks. Pinkie lets go and smiled brightly. “So what are you guys doing here?” she asked. “W-We w-were j-just w-wanting t-t-to s-see o-our f-friends p-practice,” Iris explained. “Well sure! You two can watch all you want!” Pinkie said. “Dash was about to take another crack at them!” The girls eyes widen and looked over to Rainbow Dash. Rainbow Dash snickered evilly. She held up a dodgeball. “Time for a small game called target,” she said. “And don’t worry, you girls aren’t throwing any balls at all.” “NOOOOOOO!” the girls screamed. “This is one time I do not want balls in my face!” Jade commented. “That reminds me, Rhoda did you ever get over your fears of ba-” “Shut up!” Rhoda shouted with a bright blush. The girls laid around on the benches exhausted from their first day of training. They groaned in pain as they had bandages and bruises. Rainbow Dash looked at the group and pinched the bridge of her nose. “Yup, a long two week we have,” Rainbow Dash commented. “You girls better go home and relax for the rest of the night. Cause tomorrow we’re working twice as hard!” “My life is over,” Jade said. “Let it be known that I love my sweet Nova and am saddened that we won’t be able to fulfill all of our wildest desires.” “And let it be known that I do not want to hear about what you do or plan to do with my brother,” Star commented. “So Sunday, got a rousing speech for us? You know, rally up the troops?” “Uuuuuuugh,” Sunday groaned. “Nice speech, Day,” Camilla commented. “Ugh, what was thinking when I agreed to this?” Seryn asked. She looked over to Sunday and the answer came to her head. “Oh wait, nevermind.” “Well despite the painful training and the more painful lessons and the extra more painful training, I still had a lot of fun with you girls!” Melody said. “My band would so love to hear how this is going! We can even play after we beat those other teammates that would soon be our teammates but until then we fight each other!” “What was the name of your band again?” Star asked. “We’re called the Songbirds!” Melody replied. “We’re a rhythmic band and only do rythmes!” “Why that sounds incredibly hard to do for a band,” Rhoda commented. “How many songs have you guys made that rhyme?” “.... That’s a work in progress,” Melody admitted. “But we’re still a good band, I promise!” “Who exactly is also in the band?” Star asked. “The current members are me…. And sometimes Seryn when she wants to,” Melody replied. “.... Yeah, I don’t think we have to worry about you bailing on us when it comes to cheerleading practice,” Star commented. “Unless…. Hey, let’s all join together to do a ban-!” “No! One thing at a time here, girls!” Sunday said. “Let’s focus on being Stellar and talk about it after that!” “Right, sounds like a good deal!” Star chimed. “Anyways I can move now so I’ll see you all tomorrow.” The girls said goodbye to one another as some limped or carried off for home. Blaze willingly helped his sister as he had her on his back. As they walked off towards their mother’s car, Blaze looked back at Sunday for a moment. “So I see that things went exactly as I thought they would,” Blaze said. “That we’d be at a great start?” “No, that you girls would get trashed on the first day of training,” Blaze commented. “That seems to be a theme for our entire group.” “Okay, I’ll give you that,” Sunday said. She groaned and laid her head on his shoulder. She contemplated to herself for a moment. A tinge of doubt and fear came over her thinking more and more about the contest. Her thoughts questioned whether or not that they would need to go on and just let her rival take over. But the thought of it would only make her feel worse as for letting someone that hurt her brother once and one of her friends. She looked up at Blaze for a moment before speaking up. “Hey Blaze?” “Yeah, sis?” “Do you think I should be captain of the cheerleaders?” Sunday asked. “I mean the only reason why I’m doing this is because Jazz wanted to be one. And I couldn’t let that happen so I pretty much did it because she hurt you and Iris. But would that make me any better than her? Should I just let her take the spot and just deal with it?” Blaze looked at Sunday before looking away to think. Sunday felt nervous thinking that her brother was made at what she just said. However when he looked back at her, Blaze didn’t have an angry expression but his usual plain expression. “I say just what you want to do, Sunday,” Blaze replied. “Yeah it would suck if Jazz became the captain but you should do what you want to, sis. Don’t worry about what others think and do what you gotta do to make yourself happy. And I know our friends and family would do whatever it takes to make that happen.” Sunday smiled warmly at Blaze. She wrapped her arms around him and hugged tightly. “Thanks, bro,” she said. “You’re the best brother ever!” “Heh, when someone has a sister like, they gotta be,” Blaze said. “One of us has to save the other’s neck all the time.” Sunday laughed while Blaze made a small smile. After a long night of recovering, Sunday walked up towards the school with a new determination in her heart. Now more than ever, she was going to go all the way and become captain of her own team. She bursted into the gym catching the rest of her teammates off guard. She jumped on the bench and smiled brightly. “Alright girls, here’s what we’re going to do!” Sunday announced. “First day of our training was a complete bomb no doubt about it! But you know what? We still made it through even when we sucked so horribly!” Seryn blinks. “Um Sunday, that’s not how-” “But that doesn’t mean we aren’t going to give up! That’s pretty much how most things happen on the first day,” Sunday explained. “We fall on our butts but we get back up on our feet and try again! Over and over until we get awesome at it! And that’s what we do! That’s how we do it all the time since we first formed together to make this awesome group of friends! We’ll help each other out, we pull through together and never ever turn down a challenge!” “That can go double for Star,” Eve said. “Nova dared her one time to drink down an entire bottle of hot sauce and she didn’t hesiated.” “Hehe, got my five bucks at the end!” Star chimed. “After of course I was taken to the hospital.” “You see!? We make the impossible happen all the time! It’s like we do all the most stupid impossible stuff like its our daily lives!” Sunday said. “So this what we’re going to do! We’re going to get our grooves on! We’re gonna be the best cheerleaders ever of the history of Canterlot High! And we’re going to kick Jazz’s big butt! Are you ready Stellar Girls!?” All the girls stared at Sunday for a moment. “.... Sunday, we’re not even here for practice yet!” Camilla pointed out. “We’re here for gym class right now!” Sunday’s smile swiftly went to a blank expression. She looked around to see other fellow students all watching with blank stares. Among them was Jazz who had an angry and bright red face. “My butt is not big!” Jazz shouted. “I’m gonna make your life horrible after school!” “Oh…. Then let’s tick you off more!” Sunday said. “Star, you will be my co-captain!” “WHAT!?” Jazz yelled. “Woohoo! I’m awesome!” Star cheered. “Oh god, we’re gonna die,” Camilla commented. As the time went on by, Sunday and her teammates improved slowly over the course of their training. They tried their hardest when Rainbow Dash test them towards their limits and beyond. And learned several tricks and forms from Pinkie about how to be true cheerleaders. They each performed teamwork, tricks and various flips and gotten better with each hour of the day. The last day before the face off with Jazz’s team had come and the Stellar Girls began their act together. They each followed Sunday’s lead as they all waved their pom poms in the air. They dipped down before looking up with smiles and jumped up high. They perfectly synced their dances and moves as they performed their tricks. They swayed their hips back and forth before they all did splits. They jumped back on their feets before forming coming together in the center. They soon lift one another up until they formed a tall tower with Seryn on the top and Camilla on the bottom holding the entire team effortlessly. Rainbow Dash claps happily while Pinkie bounces and cheers for the girls. The girls got back on the ground and hugged one another cheering for themselves. “That was so awesome!” Eve said. “We’re officially cheerleaders now!” “You got that right!” Star chimed. “We’re going to be the talk of the town!” “Oh! That would mean I would get more likes and shares on my social media accounts!” Jade said. “All the boys would be all over me after tomorrow! Though they would quickly be disappointed to find out Nova is with me but still the attention would be nice.” “I need to head on back home already but it was awesome what we just did!” Melody said. “We’re gonna win for sursies!” The girls waved goodbye to one another after they had changed out of their uniforms. Agreeing for the best, they left the uniforms in their lockers for the night so they would quickly change into them when they got back for the contest. However as the girls left the building with Rainbow Dash and Pinkie, they were unaware of the intruders in the girls locker room. Coming out of lockers, feminine figures in black went up to one of the girl’s lockers. One of them messed with the lock for a moment before having it snap open and opened the locker. The leader of the intruding figures reached inside and pulled out Sunday’s uniform. Smirking underneath it, she tried ripping at it but grunts and struggles doing so. She took a deep breath before pulling out a pair of scissors and quietly laughed. The next day had finally arrived and the girls were determined to win. After classes had ended and the whole school body gathered around in the gym, the girls went into the locker room together. They heard the cheers for their team name and smiled proudly of the school backing them up to win. However that proud smiling moment quickly vanished when they heard Sunday scream. “AAAAAAAAHHH!” Sunday screamed. She held out her uniform which was completely destroyed and shredded to pieces. “My uniform! My Altair pleasing uniform!” “What the hell happen to it!?” Camilla asked. The group heard a blood curl scream. They looked over to Jade as she was horrified beyond believe. She held up her uniform but unlike Sunday’s it was dyed completely in dark green. “My uniform is ruined!” she screamed. “This kind of green is not team spirit!” Star’s eyes half-lid before she pulled out the remains of her uniform. They were carefully cut so that they looked like bikinis. “Is this suppose to be a crack at me?” she asked. “Because if it is…. Damn, whoever did this, this is actually pretty awesome to wear at the beach.” Camilla looked in her locker and her eyes twitched. She held up a frilly dress as she angrily clutches it. “Whoever did this…. Is so dead,” she said. “And I already know who it is so they are dead!” Eve held up her uniform and saw that it was drenched in red paint. She grits her teeth as anger in her heart burned up. “Jazz….” she said. “She and her group must have came in here last night and ruined our uniforms.” “Okay, they are sooooo not being part of the team when this is over!” Sunday said. “After we win, we’ll-” “U-Um, Sunday? I hate to point this out but we have only five minutes until we have to walk out to perform,” Rhoda pointed out. “And with no uniforms…..” Sunday stuttered for a moment and looked around. She saw that her team looked down at the ground with defeated expressions. Except for Camilla who picked up her locker and threw it towards a wall which scared everyone for a moment. But the fear quickly went away before Camilla sat down and looked depressed. Sunday looked down for a moment to contemplate to herself again. However her thoughts were not about herself this time but about her team and friends. They were in a difficult situation and seemingly no options of going forward from this. But then again…. They always did the impossible before so it was the time to prove that again. She looked up at her team with a determined expression. “Our gym clothes are still in good shape, right?” she asked. They all looked up at Sunday with blank expressions. Star looked over to her locker before pulling out her gym uniform. It was unscathe and looked in perfectly good condition. “It looks like it,” Star said. “But I thought we’re supposed to-” “Well we never really did put down rules for uniforms only, did we?” Sunday said and smiled. With that realization, the entire group eyes widen and smiled brightly before they quickly started changing. Outside the changing room, Jazz and her team finished up their performance and some of the student clapped and cheered for them. Certain that victory was hers, she smiled brightly along with her teammates before they went to the side. Celestia clapped for them before she looked around for the Stellar Girls team. Scratching her head in confusing, she spoke into the microphone. “It would seem that our other team isn’t here at the moment,” Celestia said. “But I’m sure something might have happened to them so we can wait a few moments.” “Or maybe they had cold feet and decided to forfeit,” Jazz taunted. “Might as well just declare my team the winners and-” “We’re here!” “WHAT!?” Sunday and the rest of the Stellar Girls came running out. They all had their gym uniforms on raising a few brows and confused everyone. “Sorry guys, we had a few problems with our uniforms so we’re going to perform in these!” Sunday explained. “So are you all ready to get your spirits up!?” The gym boomed with the cheers of the entire school body and the teachers. Sunset and Soul cheered from the top of the benches for their little girl while Blaze sat around in the middle with Iris. Sunday smiles and nodded to Melody. Melody squealed with delight before turning on the boombox. Right off the start, the girls started to sing as they swing their hips back and forth. “We’ve just the got the day to get ready! And there’s only so much time to lose! Because today, we’re here to cheer yeah! So let’s get our spirits up today!” “We don’t know what’s going to happen! We just know what we’re here for! All our friends are here! So let’s cheer until we burst into flames!” The girls performs dances in perfect sync for the next verses. They turned around before showing they had small ponytails. “Shake your tail because we’re here to cheer today! Shake your tail! Shake your tail!” “Shake your tail because we’re here to cheer today! Shake your tail! Shake your tail!” Star took center stage and waved her pom poms. “So what if they didn’t get the first point?” Rhoda took the spot light. “Laugh it off! They’ll still win for sure!” Eve flipped and backwards before doing a split and the light shined over her. “We’re here for them! We’re going to win this fight!” Melody’s teammates fling her into the air before doing several spins around before landing back into their arms. She jumped out and landed on her feet. “So let’s go and win this game already!” The Stellar Girls quickly formed back in their places and started shaking their pom poms once more. “We’ve just the got the day to get ready! And there’s only so much time to lose! Because today, we’re here to cheer yeah! So let’s get our spirits up today!” “We don’t know what’s going to happen! We just know what we’re here for! All our friends are here! So let’s cheer until we burst into flames!” The girls performs dances in perfect sync for the next verses. They turned around before showing they had small ponytails. “Shake your tail because we’re here to cheer today! Shake your tail! Shake your tail!” “Shake your tail because we’re here to cheer today! Shake your tail! Shake your tail!” They repeated the last few verses  as they did tricks and dances for the crowd. Jade, Star and Sunday took stage before shaking their tails as them while most of the boys went wild. Jade could hear Nova whistling for her hard and cheering causing her to giggle. Eve slides across the ground before she was being lifted up by Camilla. She poses with her legs and arms up before being put down and twirling away like a ballerina. Rhoda and Seryn hit their hips together a few times before sliding away from each other and letting Melody slide between them. Altair smiles brightly as he watched Sunday dances her hardest and she winks right at him. The Stellar Girls came together before performing their tower trick to the crowd and finish off the last verse. “Shake your tail because we’re here to cheer today!” The crowd stood up as they cheered thunderously for them. The Stellar Girls got back on their feet and took a bow before the crowd and waved at them. Jazz snarled in anger before throwing her pom poms on the ground. Celestia clapped before she held the microphone. “Well this may be obvious to everyone but the Stellar Girls win the contest!” she said. “Today CHS has a new cheerleading team! Congratulations, Stellar Girls!” “Oh yeah! Who’s awesome!? We’re awesome!” Sunday said. She does a little victory dance before jumping up to her teammates and hugging as many as she could. Her team came together and hugged one another as the cheering went on. Celestia went over to Jazz and held the microphone to her. “Care to give the new team captain a few congratulatory words?” Jazz looked between the microphone and Sunday. Letting out a sigh, she held it and walked up towards the center of the gym. “I suppose that I can say despite all odds, Sunday has bested me,” she started. “So I will willingly let her take the leading role of being captain.” Sunday puts her hands on her hips and smiled proudly. “I hope that your family and friends are very proud of you today,” Jazz continued. She smirks before looking at Sunday. “Especially your boyfriend, Altair.” Sunday’s eyes widen and looked at Jazz. Suddenly a wave of nervous washed over her and slowly looked towards the stage. Her irises shrunk when she saw her father. Sunset gulped and looked over to Soul nervously. Soul simply stared at Sunday for a moment before his eye twitched. The shocking news to him caused his brain to shut down and process this unwelcoming information. Once his mind started to boot up again and stood up, he looked at Sunday with a angry expression. “You have a WHAT!?” The whole crowd winced from Soul’s shouting and a few scooted away from him. They all turned slowly towards Sunday. All eyes were on Sunday as she felt like a deer caught by headlights. Sunday stood silent for a moment before gulping. “Oooooooooh, boy,” she commented.