//------------------------------// // Freshman Fair Chronicles // Story: Equestria Girls JT // by MrBiteo //------------------------------// "Well, if you insist. But this'll probably be a long one." Applejack told Twilight as it flashed back to the freshman fair with Applejack stopping by some booths. "Oooh, a gardening club? Where do y'all meet?" Applejack asked the two club members of said club at their booth. "Uh... Thursdays after school." One of the club members answered with an uninterested look on her face. "Thanks! I'll see you gals there!" Applejack told the club members taking a slip from their booth and walked away to find more clubs to sign up in. Applejack looked at all the slips in her hands and couldn't help but smile for all the time she'll spend at all the clubs she'll attend before thinking to herself, "Gosh, look at all these activities... I should find out what Sunny does after--" Her thoughts were cut short as she bumped into someone in front of her while she wasn't paying attention. As a result, Applejack stumbled backwards and landing right on her rear. "Hey, are you all right? Sorry if I was in your way." The stranger in front of her apologized. "Naw, s'my fault. I wasn't watching." Applejack reassured the person in front of her where she looked up and saw that the person who apologized was her young cousin, Babs, who was roughly the same age as Applebloom. "Why, hey, there, Babs. I never thought I'd see you in a place like this. Though, I think you're still a little ways off from being a freshman at the moment." "Oh, hey, Applejack. Uh, no, I'm just waiting for my sister, Sunny." Babs explained. "She's talking to someone about the other clubs here." "Hey, Applejack!" Another voice called out to Applejack offscreen, who turned out to be Babs' sister, Sunflower (or Sunny as Applejack and Babs call her) as she joined the two of them and turned her attention to Babs. "Sorry for keeping you waiting, sis. That girl I was talking to just wouldn't stop talking about what activities she suggested. But, anyway--" "Hold on there!" Pinkie then interrupted cutting back to the present. "Your cousin wouldn't happen to have blonde hair and wore a red and black striped shirt, did she?" "Uh, yeah. Why?" Applejack asked confused. "Because I was the one who was suggesting those activities to her!" Pinkie explained. "Don't believe me? Let me tell you my story." "But I wasn--" Applejack tried to say, but Pinkie then pulled in the flashback to her story (literally), covering the screen. "Just before you bumped into your cousin, her sister was looking for some clubs to sign up for. So, I thought I'd help her out." Pinkie narrated through the flashback as it showed both Sunflower and Babs walking through several booths when Pinkie popped up from a nearby tree, much to the sisters' surprise. "Hi, I'm Pinkie Pie!" Pinkie greeted the sisters. "Uh, hello, there." Sunflower awkwardly greeted Pinkie. "Oh, you're looking for the Gardening Club? They throw some kickin' parties!" Pinkie asked. "Oh, so, you're a member?" Sunflower asked Pinkie. "Nope! I'm just helping people find clubs!" Pinkie explained, to Sunflower's confusion and annoyance. "Ooh! Sports! I bet you'd be great at sports! Where's the soccer booth!" "And that's when you showed up." Pinkie narrated showing Applejack bumping into Babs, which Sunflower soon noticed and saw an opportunity to get away from Pinkie. "Uh, gee, that's super great, Pinkie, but why don't you show me around the fair? I'll follow." Sunflower suggested to Pinkie. "Okay. Follow meeeeeeeeeeeeee!" Pinkie said zooming off in the direction Sunflower was pointing towards, which was forward from where she, Babs and then Applejack were walking in. Pinkie then pushed her flashback away. "Huh. Guess you really do know my cousin." Applejack said amazed about that fact in Pinkie's story, to which Pinkie nodded yes in response, "Anyway, as I was sayin'. As much as I wanted to make friends here at CHS, I also wanted to get in touch with my cousin, Sunny..." It then flashed back to some time later after Applejack ran into Sunflower as they were entering the cafeteria together. "So, Sunny, how long is Babs going to be staying here?" Applejack asked Sunflower. "Only for today." Sunflower answered. "She's here for high school orientation. So, I'd thought I'd show her around while she was here, to show her what it's like." "I get it. You want to get her ready for when she comes here." Applejack said seeing why Babs was at school with Sunflower. "Bingo. That way, she'll know how to become popular like me." Sunny said to Applejack as they reached the counter where Granny Smith, who was the lunchlady, was serving the food. "However, I soon noticed that out of all the people Sunny talked to around her, she hardly spent any time with Babs." Applejack narrated as her past self saw how Babs tried to talk to her sister, but Sunflower was too busy talking with other people to even pay attention to her. "Eventually, she talked to me about what's been goin' on an' she told me that she had been havin' bullying problems lately." As Applejack explained, it showed her talking with Babs, who was now wearing new clothes following an incident during lunch, about her bullying issues. "So, I decided to go talk to Sunny about what Babs was going through..." Applejack was with Sunflower and Babs at the first soccer game of the season sometime later. Sunflower was surrounded by and was talking to her admirers, who were blocking Applejack and Babs from her. Applejack then tried to talk to Sunflower through the circle of admirers, but alas , it wasn't working. "Hey, Sunflower! Sunflower! I gotta talk to you about something!" Babs called out to Sunflower trying to reach her. This got two of Sunflower's admirers to take notice of Babs as they stood up to confront her. "I'm sorry. Are you talking to Sunflower?" One of them asked Babs in an intimidating voice. "Yeah, she's my sister." Babs pointed out. "Could you maybe move over so I can talk to her?" "She's already talking to someone: us." The other admirer told Babs. Behind them, Applejack was witnessing the whole thing before her very eyes. "You freshman are so desperate, wanting to be popular so bad that you actually go as far as to claim you're related to someone like Sunflower." "So, why don't you do her a favor and scram." One of them told off Babs shoving her away. Applejack was furious at what she saw. Not only seeing Babs being mistreated by her sister's admirers, but also because Sunflower focused more on talking with her admirers to take notice. Applejack rose from her seat to take action at last passing by Sunflower and help out her cousin, Babs, to which she turned back to confront Sunflower before the same admirers who bullied Babs earlier stopped her. "Hold up there, who are you?" One of them asked Applejack. "The name's Applejack. I'm Sunflower's cousin." Applejack told off the admirers, who didn't believe her. "Yeah, right. And I suppose you're--" One of them almost said to Applejack, only for the both of them to be moved aside by the latter, who finally reached Sunflower. "Well, you got some nerve! How can you let your sister get bullied while you talk to the very people who are bullying her?!" Applejack told off Sunflower, who took notice of what the former said to her. "Babs's been getting bullied?" Sunflower asked Applejack her cousin turning her attention away from her admirers. "You darn right she has." Applejack answered. "In fact, she's been wantin' to tell you since then." Sunflower then turned towards her sister, Babs and came over to her passing by the admirers. "Babs, is all of that true?" Sunflower soon asked Babs in concern, who nodded yes. "Oh, my gosh! Babs, I'm so sorry! I had no idea!" She then gave her sister a hug to comfort her, to which Babs hugged back. She then turned to her admirers, giving them a scornful look to show how displeased she is of their mistreatment towards Babs. "And as for you people, if you're going to outright attack my sister, then you don't deserve my respect." Taking her words, the admirers then walked away from Sunflower left with only their shame. "I didn't want to do that to Sunflower, but for Babs, I knew I had to step in and knock some sense into her." Applejack narrated while her past self smile seeing Sunflower and Babs making up with each other. "Since then, Sunflower's been spending more time with Babs and I couldn't be happier. After that, that's about when I first heard about all y'all. Well, except you, Twilight." Applejack's flashback faded back to the present. "Thank you, Applejack." Twilight said to Applejack before turning to Pinkie. "Pinkie, you shared a bit of your story during Applejack's. Would you like to go next?" "Sure thing!" Pinkie agreed as she continued her story flashing back to when she zoomed off from Applejack, Sunflower and Babs. "I wanted to show Sunflower all the clubs at the fair, but when I stopped to show her around, she didn't seem to follow. I initially thought she might've been trying to catch up to me, so I try out the clubs while I waited for her." "So, did you find a club that suited your interests?" Twilight asked Pinkie. "Actually, I tried them ALL!" Pinkie said, to everyone's shock. "All?!" Twilight exclaimed. "Yep." Pinkie replied as it cut to her past self at the tennis club, where two of its members were impressed. "Please join! Your backhand is amazing!" One of the members insisted to Pinkie eager to have her in the club. "We need more players like you!" The other member insisted as well. Before Pinkie could give her answer, it cut to her this time at the jazz club, where two of its members had similar interest in having Pinkie in their club. "Pinkie, you are one swingin' cat!" On of the members praised Pinkie for her jazz skills. "Won't you stick around and help the jazz club jam?" The other member asked Pinkie wanting her to join. And much like earlier, it instead showed Pinkie at a different club, that being knitting club, with two of its members, of course, asking her to join. "Wow, Pinkie! You're a natural knitter!" One of the members applauded Pinkie's knitting skills. "I didn't know it was possible to knit a skateboard." The other member said astonished. Pinkie thought about it for a moment, but soon gave out her honest answer, "No thanks." This was her exact response to all three clubs, viewed in a splitscreen as they were all disappointed with Pinkie's answer when it flashed back to the present. "You didn't join any clubs? Why?" Twilight asked Pinkie confused. "Well, let me ask you this, Twilight: why did you ask me, Applejack, Fluttershy and Rarity about where we heard about each other?" Pinkie answered Twilight with another question. "Because I want to help figure out what is causing you all to be against each other." Twilight answered genuinely wanting to help clear the misunderstanding rumors surrounding them. "You know that, Pinkie." "Exactly!" Pinkie responded revealing her answer to Twilight. "I wanted to help make the clubs fun for everyone. But then I thought what about the rest of school? How could I help everyone else have fun at school? It was a tough problem and I was still thinking about it all day." Throughout the rest of the day, Pinkie tried out other clubs, including the goth club and one where she was having tea with a ferret in a waistcoat... Wait, what? "Oh, right, the ferret teatime never actually happen." Pinkie remembered as it then showed her in class thinking about how to make things fun for everyone at school. "Good morning, everybody. Take your seats." Pinkie's classroom teacher, Mrs. Harshwhinny told her class. "First, the paper's looking for more help. And lastly, players have been picked for all the sports teams." "And that's when it hit me. Maybe I could help lift everyone's school spirits at the upcoming soccer game that day." Pinkie narrated as her past self developed interest in what Mrs. Harshwhinny said and was already thinking up her plans for the game. Later that day, Pinkie was talking with Vice Principal Luna underneath the bleachers during the soccer game. Pinkie was also holding a duffel bag in her hands while she talked with Luna. "And I spent all my money getting every one of these today! I only had the idea for them last night!" Pinkie pleaded with Vice Principal Luna. "You could have asked me about this earlier, Miss Pie." Vice Principal Luna pointed out to Pinkie. "Still, it's awfully short notice." "I know, I know, I know, but the school needs this! We all need this!" Pinkie continued. "I've been looking for something like this for so long and I just know that this is it!" Pinkie's face then changed into a puppy eyes expression. "Pleeeeaaase?" Pinkie was truly hoping that Luna would understand her idea and so, after a moment, Luna sighed and took out her phone. "Fine, but after the game, you, me and Principal Celestia will talk about what comes next." Luna informed Pinkie as she called her sister, Celestia about Pinkie's idea, who immediately beamed at Luna's answer to her. "And you'll need volunteers." Pinkie soon got to work on her plan, first looking for volunteers to help her. Her first choice was Fluttershy, who was sitting by herself watching the game. "Excuse me." Pinkie asked Fluttershy, unintentionally catching the latter offguard. "Oh, uh... can I help--" Fluttershy almost asked Pinkie, who cut her off. "You sure can! Hold this and follow me!" Pinkie told Fluttershy handing her her duffel bag. Fluttershy rose from her seat and followed Pinkie around the bleachers as they handed out headbands with pony ears and fake pony tails to everyone. After having handed out all the headbands and tails, Pinkie was ready to bring her newfound school spirit to the test as she stepped down to the bottom of the bleachers and brought out a megaphone. "Okay, everyone! WHAT! ARE! WE!" Pinkie asked the crowd through the megaphone. "WONDERCOLTS!" The crowd cheered. "All of our cheering helped us win the game. Before I came to this school, I never realized I could make people laugh until that day. But it took me a while to realize that laughter can bring people together like nothing else!" Pinkie narrated as it then flashed back to the present. "And then after the game, I learned about all of you guys." "Interesting." Twilight remarked on Pinkie's comment. "Who would like to go next?" "Actually, I've had some interactions with Applejack's family. Would it be alright if I go?." Rarity volunteered. "Me, too. Though, it wasn't much." Fluttershy spoke up. "Um...actually, I was wondering if I could go first. What do you think, Twilight?" Twilight saw that both Rarity and Fluttershy wanted to share their stories and after she spent a minute thinking, she thought of a solution. "I think maybe you two should tell your stories together. That way, you'll both share your experiences with Applejack's cousins without having to wait on each other to finish." "Is that alright with you?" Rarity asked Fluttershy, who nodded yes in respond and so, they took Twilight's advice. "Alright, then. Now, let's see. How did it go? Ah, yes. I had a splendid new outfit I wanted to show off." It flashed back to Rarity walking through the halls in her aforementioned new outfit (which was really her regular outfit), catching the attention of everyone she passed by. "But I knew that not everyone was so optimistic." Rarity entered her next class, where she spotted Babs standing by one of the desks and so decided to approach and talk to her. "Excuse me, Miss?" Rarity asked Babs, catching her attention. "I couldn't help but notice that I seem to recall seeing you at the freshman fair earlier this morning. Is that correct?" "Uh, yeah. I was there." Babs answered just as her sister, Sunflower was coming back to her desk, when the latter spotted Babs talking with Rarity. "You see, I was with my sister and we--" "Well, what do we have here?" Sunflower appeared and introduced herself to Rarity. "Your outfit caught my attention and I just had to know where'd you get it!" "Well, actually, I made it myself! Thank you!" Rarity thanked Sunflower flattered by the latter's complimentary to her. "Oh, where are my manners? I'm Rarity." "Sunflower." Sunflower informed Rarity. "And I see you've already met my little sister, Babs." "Oh, you two are together. Well, that's a relief. I almost thought your sister was at the wrong school all by herself." Rarity said relieved. "You know, I'm always on the lookout for new friends. Wanna join us for lunch?" Sunflower offered to Rarity. "Why, yes, thank you. I would love to." Rarity replied accepting Sunflower's invite. It then transitioned to Rarity in the cafeteria having gotten her lunch. She then spotted Sunflower with Applejack, Babs, along with her admirers and then headed over there to have lunch with her. However, a few of the admirers noticed Rarity approaching them and without anyone looking, one of them moved their leg in front of Rarity and she ended up tripping over it, causing all the food on her tray to fall on top of Babs. "Oh, my! I-I'm so sorry, I wasn't looking where I was going." Rarity apologized to Sunflower. "It's okay, are you alright?" Sunflower asked Rarity. "I am." Rarity said before turning to see Babs covered in what was supposed to be her lunch. "Oh, sweetie! Your clothes!" "Here, let's find you something else to wear." Rarity suggested to Babs. "Ooh, that's so generous of you." Sunflower thanked Rarity touched by her generosity as she dragged Babs from the table. "But, what about lunch?" Babs asked. "Don't worry about that. Right now, we need to get you cleaned up." Sunflower reassured her as they left the cafeteria. Sunflower's admirers were visibly displeased by this. The three walked through the hallways until Rarity stopped at her locker. "My locker's right over here." Rarity told Sunflower and Babs. "Guys, it's okay. Really." Babs assured her sister and Rarity. "I think I have something in her size." Rarity turning the dial on her locker to all the combinations. "You sure you have spare clothes in that tiny locker of yours?" Sunflower asked Rarity a bit confused and skeptical. Rarity opened her locker where a clothes rack extended from within it, much to both Sunflower and Babs's shock and surprise. "Wow. You really come prepared!" Sunflower told Rarity astonished by all the clothes hung from the rack, which included various shirts, skirts, and dresses. "Why, thank you. It's just that I'd hate to see your sister looking like that for the rest of the day." Rarity said to Sunflower taking off a shirt off the rack and holding it over Babs's to see if it would look good on her. "Besides, a change of outfit can do wonders for one's outlook! I think this one look better on her, don't you?" "You know, Babs, I think she might be on to something. Maybe you need to update yourself a bit. What else do you have?" Sunflower told Babs before asking Rarity as she now wanted to update her sister's current attire. "Wait, what? Don't I get a saying in this?" Babs asked, though neither Sunflower nor Rarity heard what she said. Rarity and Sunflower looked through all the clothes on the rack to see what would fit well with Babs. Babs, however, wasn't really that into the girly stuff that her older sister was into and so, the two settled on her wearing a white top and skirt, much to Babs' dismay as she changed into it in the girls' restroom. Rarity felt proud about having helped someone out with a situation that she was familiar with. "Eventually, Sunflower returned the clothes I loaned to Babs the next day." Rarity narrated as it flashed back to the present. "Uh-huh. But how did you learn about Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash and Applejack?" Twilight then asked. "Oh, I was told about them after the game." Rarity answered. "Alright, that leaves only Fluttershy left to tell her story." Twilight said turning her attention to Fluttershy. "Thank you, Twilight." Fluttershy thanked Twilight as she soon told her story. "Applejack, I know you think Rainbow Dash is this troublemaker, but I want to say that's not true." It then flashed back to her with this world's version of Rainbow Dash at the freshman fair. "You see, I already knew Rainbow Dash before I learned about all of you. We met at Cloudsdale Junior High and so we went to the fair together." Fluttershy then narrated while her past self and Rainbow Dash were passing by the booths. "You see the soccer team booth yet, Fluttershy?" Rainbow Dash asked Fluttershy. "Um... sorry, not yet." Fluttershy replied back. "Hey, while we're lookin', maybe we'll find a club for you." Rainbow Dash suggested wanting to help her friend. "Oh...um...maybe?" Fluttershy asked warily about the idea. "I guess they've got *voice gets quieter* clubs for... everything..." Eventually, the two found the booth for the soccer team that Rainbow Dash had been looking for. "And I believe I saw Pinkie run right past us at that moment." Fluttershy narrated just as Pinkie's past self ran past the two when she zoomed off from Applejack, Babs and Sunflower in the previous stories. "Hey, that's me!" Pinkie exclaimed excitedly somehow spotting her past self in the flashback. "Uh... as I was saying..." Fluttershy said continuing her story transitioning to her in class where panting was heard outside the classroom. It turned out to have been Rainbow Dash, who was running in the halls to try to prevent being tardy. She skidded to a halt having managed to make it on time before the bell rang. "Safe!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed just as Mrs. Harshwhinny entered the classroom. "You're not late if you get in ahead of the teacher, right Mrs. Harshwhinny?" "Well, you're not late yet, but the day's still young." Mrs. Harshwhinny told Rainbow Dash nonchalantly before heading to her desk while Rainbow Dash went to hers. "All right, everybody, settle down. I'm Mrs. Harshwhinny and some of you might also have me for social studies. Let's start by taking attendance..." "I don't know if you all know this, but...I'm a very shy person." Fluttershy narrated. "I...couldn't tell." Twilight said offscreen. "Oh, yes! Even back then!" Fluttershy confirmed. "So, it was hard for me, even when I had Rainbow Dash as my friend. I was still looking for what I wanted to do here. Rainbow Dash, however, already knew what she wanted to do her at this school. She was really wanting to join the school's soccer team that day and it was all she could think about. In fact, I don't think she heard a single thing in class that day." Fluttershy narrated as Rainbow Dash just sat at her desk not really paying attention to what her teacher was saying until she heard about players being picked for the soccer team. After class, she immediately exited the classroom and ran over to the bulletin board to see if she made it on the team, in which she did, to her delight. "Rainbow Dash was looking forward to playing on the team and as a loyal friend, I wanted to be there for her." It then faded to Fluttershy walking with Rainbow Dash, who was now in her new soccer uniform, to soccer practice. "Well, I'm off to practice. You gonna watch me play at the game later today?" Rainbow Dash asked Fluttershy. "Of course. I'll be sure to be there rooting for you and your team." Fluttershy assured Rainbow Dash. "I'll see you then." "See ya." Rainbow Dash greeted Fluttershy goodbye before walking into the soccer field to meet her teammates. Fluttershy then headed off back into the building to get to her next class. But before she could, she came across Sunflower, who was talking with her admirers as usual while her sister, Babs stood next to the group shown to be a little bored. "Ugh, this year's freshmen are so lame." Sunflower complained to her admirers. "I know, right? I can't believe we were that bad!" One of the admirers agreed with her. "And their fashion choices, augh!" Another admirer agreed. Fluttershy then noticed Sunflower's pet chihuahua with its head poking out of Sunflower's purse. The chihuahua appeared to be getting neglected as it looked sickly and coughed a bit. Seeing that it needs its owner's attention, Fluttershy decided to step up close to Sunflower and inform her of her dog's medical needs. "Um...excuse me. Miss. But your dog seems to be--" Fluttershy tried to say to Sunflower, only for the latter to give her a cold glare followed by two of her admirers to hiss at her, causing her to flinch. Fluttershy merely stood whimpering in fear along with her eyes almost tearing up as Sunflower and her admirers continued on with their conversation as it nothing had happened. "After that, Sunflower's sister, Babs, came over to me and said that she would recommend my advice to her sister for her dog. Then, the next day, Babs must've been able to convince her sister to come to the animal shelter to have her dog looked at, which I was all so happy to help." Fluttershy narrated as it transitioned to Fluttershy working at the shelter just as Sunflower came in with her chihuahua in her arms. Babs was by the door smiling at Fluttershy, which the latter smiled back as she helped out Sunflower. "That was definitely the toughest time of my life, but I learned something valuable: everyone deserves kindness. Oh, right, you want to know how I know Pinkie, Rarity and Applejack. Well, I learned about them just sometime after the game." After they had heard each of their own stories, the girls soon realized something didn't add up. "But, wait, Pinkie Pie, I was told you would force people like me into a party that was full of people." Fluttershy said realizing that what she was told about Pinkie didn't match the one she heard about just now. "What are you talking about? I was told you would unleash your own army of animals onto anyone you didn't like!" Pinkie then explained. Fluttershy was left without words after what Pinkie just said. "But-But I'd never do that." "You wouldn't?" Pinkie asked confused. "So, you don't have animals that would potentially rip and tear any outfits I worked on?" Rarity then asked Fluttershy. "No! Of course not!" Fluttershy responded appalled by even the thought of what Rarity just said. "And I was told Pinkie Pie would stain my winter lineup. I spent months getting it just right." Rarity then stated. "But I wouldn't do that." Pinkie said. "Do you all know who it was that told each of you about each other?" Twilight asked wanting to know the culprit behind the rumors. They all remembered and realized who the person that told them all the rumors about each other was. "SUNSET SHIMMER!" All four of the girls answered in unison. Twilight saw that all this had been Sunset Shimmer's doing, but why, she didn't seem to have the answer to. For now, she felt that she had to help clear the misunderstanding between these girls. "But why would Sunset say all that about us?" Applejack wondered. "I'm not sure, but I think we should probably talk to Rainbow Dash. Sunset Shimmer's probably done the same thing to her." Twilight said.