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// Intermission 3 (CMC) 
// Story: Through the Eyes of Anon-a-Miss 
// by sonicfan05 
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"...unbelievable!" Vice Principal Luna sighed as she shook her head, disgusted from what she had heard. "Just... unbelievable!" She then glared daggers at Scootaloo, which caused the young daredevil to flinch. "Do you have any idea what you stupidly, yet inadvertently done!?"

As Scootaloo was shaking in terror from the Vice Principal's anger, Luna listed off some of Scoots' offenses. "You broke into all the Wondercolts lockers–which that and itself was a violation of our school rules, posted all of their private stuff online without their consent and posted even more private stuff online from your so-called followers online! What do you have to say for yourself?"

Shaken from the Vice Principal's harsh scolding, Scootaloo nearly burst into tears. "I'm... I'm sorry!" Scootaloo cried. "I get it, I screwed up! At the time, I did that just so we can make Sunset even more guilty and get us in the clear without drawing suspicion. I didn't think that this will get this bad!"

"Well that's your problem!" Luna yelled. "You didn't think! Did you ever think that maybe your reason of gunning after Sunset was too petty to do something so drastic instead of just talking to your sister-figure? Did you ever think that by posting all those nasty stuff online would bring huge negative consequences to Sunset, the students you attacked and yourself? Did you ever think at all!?"

When Scootaloo couldn't hold back her tears anymore, Principal Celestia quickly interjected. "Luna, that's enough! The kid felt bad enough as it is!"

Luna turned towards her sister with narrowed eyes. "Well tell that to some students who called in "sick" for the past several days and many angry parents over the phone!" Luna snapped as she pointed to three pre-teens. "Those three had no idea how their shenanigans could damage our students lives!"

"W-what! How?" Sweetie exclaimed nervously, flabbergasted from the revelation.

"Because you were posting their private stuff over the internet!" Luna answered coolly before facing the three pre-teens again. "With their information up on the web–so to speak, it could affect them both professionally and privately outside of our school! Like not being able to get jobs or affect their relationships with their families, friends and even their love ones!"

Apple Bloom eyes widened in horror. She knew what they did to the other students just to get to Sunset was bad, but after hearing possible consequences to these people from their Vice Principal, it was worse than she could ever imagined. This was not her intention at all.

"B-b-but... we c-c-can delete all the p-p-posts or maybe t-t-take down the MyStable page so that it'll be like it was not up there at all!" Apple Bloom suggested desperately, wanting to fix everything she and her friends caused.

"It's not that simple," Celestia sighed as she shook her head. "Once it's up there, it's up there! Even if you deleted those posts, one of your followers could already have their own copies of them and then re-posted them up on their own MyStable account or even on another website! It's like dumping oil in the river. No matter how much you clean the river up, the oil had already spread out into the ocean, making it impossible to get rid of it all!"

"And this situation is the same thing!" Luna added harshly. "MyStable is like a river, the internet is like the ocean..." Her eyes then narrowed. "And each of those nasty posts you've done... were like oil... gallons and gallons of oil carelessly dumped into that river and flowed into the ocean. Just as how you three carelessly posted such sensitive information on the open web where anyone could get a hold of them... and it's too late to clean it all up!"

The CMC lowered their heads in shame and guilt. They already realized that what they did and their reasons behind their actions were stupid and bad enough, but they never imagined that what they done could potentially ruined their lives, especially their sisters and Sunset. The thought that they gave both the students and their sisters so much pain made them feel like the worst group of people on earth. They all wished they had magic powers like their sisters to undo everything they've done for the past couple of weeks so that no one was hurt and everything will go back the way it was. But alas, the damage was done and there was nothing they could do to fix it.

Sweetie Belle looked back up with tears in her eyes and a look huge amount of guilt. "Does that mean... we ruined everyone's lives? I-including Soarin, Sunset... and my sister?"

Luna let out a long sigh, calming herself somewhat. "Aside from making them feel humiliated and caused some low self-esteems from students... we didn't get any reports of students feeling depressed, wanting to drop out of school... or worse." Luna than gave Scootaloo her stern expression. "But I digress. In light of your... appalling actions, you will be severely punished Miss Scootaloo!"

Scootaloo flinched from Luna's tone as if she was slapped in the face. Before Luna could berate her further, Principal Celestia stepped in.

"Now now Lu," Celestia spoke gently. "We'll get to that and Scootaloo's punishment in due time. But right now, we need to stay on track with their story without losing any more cool. Alright?"

Luna wanted to argue, but one stern look from her sister made her relented. "Fine," said Luna before giving Scootaloo her hard look. "But we will discuss your punishment later Miss Scootaloo!"

Celestia nodded her sister with appreciation before facing the CMC again, specifically Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle. "Do any of you two knew that Scootaloo planned this?"

Apple Bloom and Sweetie Belle glanced each other briefly before Apple Bloom answered for the both of them. "No... we didn't. If Ah had known, Ah would've stopped her before that happens."

"When did you found out?" Celestia asked.

"The very next day," Apple Bloom sighed as she rubbed her arm. "She told me about it during lunch. Ah... wasn't happy about dat to say the least..."