As class resumed, Sweetie Belle ignited her horn to use the invisible strings to move Cheerilee’s body around to teach. She also quietly used her voice enhancer by barely opening her mouth and covering it with one of her front hooves to keep the other classmates from seeing her talk.
“Okay class,” she said in a tiny microphone, as he used the strings to make Cheerilee’s body get up from her seat and walk to the chalkboard. When Sweetie Belle spoke, Cheerilee’s mouth opened with the voice enhancer implanted under her tongue with her voice sounding exactly like Cheerilee’s voice. “It’s time to watch the movie. It’s a documentary known as, The Fise, Fall, and Revival of the Crystal Empire. Apple Bloom, can you turn on the projector, pull down the screen, and turn off the lights?”
“Will do,” Apple Bloom said, trying her best to act normal on the situation. She pulled the string on the screen to reveal it to the class, pressed the on/off button and turned on the projector, and then turned off the lights. “Okay, all set.”
As Apple Bloom took her seat, the movie played out. During the film, as the students took notes on the film, the Cutie Mark Crusaders were sweating. They were worried that their secret would be revealed after the movie. Nevertheless, they took notes on what they were learning about the movie and within thirty minutes, the movie was finished.
“Okay, class,” Sweetie Belle said through the microphone. “Time for the quiz. Scootaloo, can you turn the lights back on?”
“Okay, Miss Cheerilee,” she answered.
Once the lights were back on, Sweetie Belle used her magic to move Cheerilee’s body around, having her get up, pick the quizzes up using her front hoof, and pass out the quizzes to each student. She was then controlled to go back to her seat.
“You all have thirty minutes,” the body said. “Starting now.”
* * * *
When the quiz was over, Sweetie Belle used the body to take the quizzes back.
“Uh, Miss Cheerilee,” Pipsqueak said, as he rose his hoof to the air. “Why are you wearing sunglasses inside?”
Sweetie Belle began to sweat upon hearing the question.
“I just needed to rest my eyes,” she made the body say. “I’m very tired today.”
“I’m sorry to hear about that,” Pipsqueak responded.
All of a sudden, the bell rang and lunch began. As the students ran outside, the Cutie Mark Crusaders stayed inside. All three of them were sweating heavily.
“That was a close one,” Scootaloo said.
“I don’t know how much longer we can keep the sunglasses on our teacher,” Apple Bloom said. “Ponies will start to get suspicious if she keeps on wearing them eventually.” She thought for a moment and then turned to Sweetie Belle. “Sweetie Belle, can you make her eyes open and close using the magic coming from your horn?”
“Sure,” she answered.
Using her horn, she used her magic to move the body’s eyes. After a few tries, she was able to make the body blink.
“I think I got it,” Sweetie Belle said.
“Good,” Apple Bloom said. “How about we go eat our lunches and we’ll come back inside five minutes before class resumes. That way, we won’t look suspicious toward our classmates.”
“Good idea,” Sweetie Belle said.
The three fillies walked outside to eat their lunches.
* * * *
Scootaloo looked at her watch and saw that it was 12:40 PM. Class would resume in five minutes.
“Uh, girls,” she said, as she finished her sandwich. “I think it’s time to go back inside.”
“Is it time already?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“It sure is,” Scootaloo answered. “Class resumes in five minutes.”
The Cutie Mark Crusaders walked back in the classroom and were relieved to see that nopony was inside yet, with the exception of Cheerilee’s body.
“Phew,” Apple Bloom said in relief. “Let’s get started.”
The Cutie Mark Crusaders proceeded to get the body to move. Apple Bloom looked at Cheerilee’s list of lectures to determine what she needed to teach the class; Sweetie Belle charged her horn to make Cheerilee look like she was still alive; and Scootaloo graded the quizzes. Once they set the classroom up, the bell rang. The Cutie Mark Crusaders immediately took their seats upon hearing the bell ring, as the rest of the students walked back inside. Sweetie Belle opened her desk up slightly in order to not look too suspicious once she starts speaking through the microphone inside her desk, as it was connected inside Cheerilee’s mouth. Once the students were all seated, Sweetie Belle spoke through the microphone.
“Okay, class,” the body said. “I will now pass back the quizzes you took involving the movie we saw today. Most of you have done well.”
Sweetie Belle used her horn to make it look like Cheerilee was walking up to her class and used more of her magic to pass the quizzes back to each of the students. Many students showed various reactions—some looked amazed, while others looked upset.
“Okay class,” Sweetie Belle made the body say. “It’s time for grammar class. Now, take your grammar textbooks out and turn to page 70. We will be working on punctuations.”
The class proceeded. Sweetie Belle had pushed her best efforts to make Cheerilee’s body speak and move. Before long, the class moved on to spelling. Eventually, the clock struck three o’clock and the school bell rang.
“Well, that’s all for today,” Cheerilee’s body said. “Have a great weekend.”
The class left, happy to enjoy the weekend. Once all of the other students were out, Sweetie Belle discharged her horn and the body fell to the floor.
“Phew, that was close,” she said, as she rubbed her forehead, which was sweating at that point.
“At least the weekend is here,” Apple Bloom said.
“Come on girls, let’s go,” Scootaloo said, who was preparing to walk out the door.
“Wait a minute,” Apple Bloom responded. “We can’t just leave our teacher here. The janitor will show up in about an hour and will find the body.”
“What should we do with her?” Sweetie Belle asked.
“We bring her back to her house,” Apple Bloom answered.
“But we don’t even know where she lives,” Scootaloo said.
“Actually, Ah do,” Apple Bloom said. “Ah went there one time when Ah forgot to give her an apple on the first day of this school year. Just follow me. Ah’ll lead the way.”
“Hold on,” Sweetie Belle said. “What about bringing the body there? Won’t other ponies notice something wrong?”
Apple Bloom pulled Cheerilee’s sunglasses out of her desk.
“We’ll just have to make her wear these glasses,” Apple Bloom told Sweetie Belle.
“I don’t know about this,” Sweetie Belle said. “I mean, this just doesn’t seem right. It’s our teacher and she’s dead. We should just tell the police. It’s the right thing to do.”
“But we’ll go to jail,” Scootaloo said.
“If we do, it will only be a short time,” Sweetie Belle said. “The morticians will perform an autopsy on her and they’ll figure out that she died of electricution. It will all be fine for us. Besides, she’s our teacher.” She shed a tear. “She was the best.”
“Look,” Apple Bloom said. “It will only be for a short time. Then we’ll get the police involved. Trust me on this.”
“Fine,” Sweetie Belle sighed in defeat.
The three fillies picked up Cheerilee’s body and began dragging her outside using strings. As they walked across town, several ponies waved at Cheerilee.
“Hey, Miss Cheerilee,” Bon Bon said. “How’s everything going?”
“Everything’s great,” Sweetie Belle said, while using the microphone in Cheerilee’s body to make it sound like her own voice.
As they were approaching to Cheerilee’s house, a blue pegasus stallion with a green mane and tail and two purple feathers and a yellow star as a cutie mark was waiting right by the front door.
“Uh-oh,” Apple Bloom whispered in shock. “I have a feeling that this is going to be a rather long day.”