//------------------------------// // Wondercolts - Part 1 // Story: Wondercolts // by Alain Dreamer //------------------------------// It was Monday morning, Twilight and Spike were still asleep and the sunlight hasn't touched their room yet, it was all darkness when someone enters the room and turns on the television, going through the channels until it stops in the News channel. "Today marks 5 months that the former mayor of Star City, Oliver Queen, was taken to Slabside Prison for confirming himself as the..." Sunset mutes the television and Twilight wakes up, yawns a few times, she looks to the side and sees Sunset looking at her. "Sunset? What are you doing here?" She asks yawning. "Oh, hi, good morning. It's just I came here to wake you up for today's class... you're late." She says calmly. "WHAT"? What time is it?" She sits rapidly, agitated. "It's 7:50 AM, I think." Sunset responds. "Oh, wow!" Twilight breaths, calming herself. She ts up from the bed and goes to her bathroom. "I have to change, make my stuff, get things..." She said nervously. "Calm down, Twilight, I've done all this for you and what you need to do is to change." Sunset says back. "Thank you." Twi said. Sunset closes her eyes and ends up unmuting the television. "Now we have recieved an early news of an urban legend which has spread all over the internet in the last year." Said the news reporter, Sunset opens her eyes and looks at the TV news. "It looks like these blurred and censored will be unveiled to the public this afternoon." The news reporter notifies, and Sunset's eyes widens after seeing these photos on it. "Er... T-T-Twilight..." Sunset calls ,trembling and scared, for Twilight. "... as well as it's source and true nature..." said in the news. "I think he have a little problem." said Sunset. "Huh?" Twilight comes around, wearing her glasses and looking at the television. There it was, 3 bright and censored bodies, they seemed to have wings and very enlongated hairs. Twilight ends up getting out of breath. CANTERLOT HIGH As always, there was a whole tide of students coming in Canterlot High and around the corners, Twilight and Sunset get inside with their heads down, without saying any word to anyone and they walk to where they are used to meet with the others. "We shouldn't let people take photos of us." She says a little sorry and frightened. "Do you think?! I don't know what to do." Sunset scratches her head of nervousness. "We have to tell it to the others." Says Sunset. "You're right, we have to make plan.", Twi. "True, this might be the most serious thing we ever... faced." She turns to Twilight. "..." Twilight shrugs. When they get to the end of the corner, they find Pinkie Pie, RD and AJ leaning on the wall, Fluttershy messing with a bird and Rarity seeing her nails. "Hello, good morning Twilight, good morning Sunset." Said Pinkie with a smile. AJ turns her head to them. "Hey'up, how are yah?" AJ gets closer. "Twilight... did you brought my geography summary?" Asked RD to her as she runs to them. "Oh, well, in fact I'know... I..." She scratches her head. "Eh-ehm!" Said Sunset to Twi, poking her arm with her elbow. "Sunset, you seem stressed out, what is it?" Asked Rarity to Sunset. Twi and Sunset glanced at each other. "Oh, it's mimic! What does that mean!? Are you tired, isn't it?" Said Pinkie, playing with them. Sunset lifts a finger and Twilight gets her cell phone. "Here. " Said Twilight, showing the newspaper story on her cell to them. "It's a story." She said. All of they read it. "Huh... my God..." Says Rarity. Spike puts his head out of the backpack and watches. Rainbow leans against the wall and Twilight turns off her cell phone. "Alright, let me see if I get it ... we will be revealed to the public?" RD asked with lots of worry. "Yeah, what we did was documented, and now..." Twi says worriedly. " UH... WE'RE GONNA GET FAMOUS!" Pinkie rises up her arms and says it out loud. "Think on it, we're gonna be famous, besides fabulous, they will follow us to anywhere." Rare says daydreaming. "Ah! That sounds terrible!" Says Fluttershy, lowering her head and putting her hands on her face. " For you. I will be recognized by people and fans will nickname me "Incredible Dash"." Said Rainbow. " Oh... you're dreaming..." Spike says to Rainbow, turning his head. "It's in the news, does not seem like a good idea." AJ said, looking down. "Why not? As Rarity said, we will be celebrities." Rainbow and Rarity touches their hands. "Vignette Valencia, you know the star life of her social networks..." Says AJ, trying to explain to Rainbow Dash. " So what?" Asks Rainbow to AJ. "Folks, we wouldn't have a normal life." She said to all of them. " Yeah, it's a tempting life, more of a lot of work..." Said Rarity. "It all seems like a nightmare to me..." Said Fluttershy, trembling in fear. " This is all awful actually." Concludes Twilight. "Mhm." Fluttershy concurs. "Oi?" Rainbow slips off the wall. "Hm." Thinks AJ. "Why?" Asks Pinkie. "Huh?" Rarity waits for an answer from Twilight. "It's just... they have our picture in that shape... you know?" Answers Twilight. "Wait. But how?" Asks Rarity. "I can search it later, but..." Twilight is paused by the bell ringing. "It's class time, we'll see it later." Says Sunset."...", Fluttershy. AJ presses her lips. "Let's talk about this in the break." Says Twilight to all of them. Later, the bell rings and the flow comes back, Fluttershy comes out of her room and talk to her friends in a private cell phone group, she goes to the cafeteria, to where the rest of the girls are sit and she sits on the edge. "Ok, are you ready?" Asked Twilight as they all finishes their snacks quickly. "Why wouldn't we be?" Asked Rarity ironically. "Look... I know you desire to be recognized, popular ... I desired this 1 year ago, but ... we already are and this is a severe situation. They have photos of our ponified forms, of us using our powers. They will spread it all over the state, if not the whole country ... and when they do that there's no coming back." Explained Sunset Shimmer. "Just give me time to hack those images and find their source." Said Twilight. "With Sunset saying like that, it seems more scarier." Said Pinkie finding it not so funny. "I agree with Pinkie, we will be ... well ... famous." Said Fluttershy in fear. "I really don't care about being popular, but revealing our powers, what the hell!!?" Said Rainbow. "We have to do something , if the world see what we are capable of..." AJ says, concluding. "... you cannot tell what might happen." Said Sunset. "If we are going to do something, we'll have to think on it fast!" Said Twilight. "But no... it can't be so terrible like this." Rarity closes her eyes, trying to make them feel the other way. "Of course it is! It's about us!" Said AJ. " Can't you see it? People will talk about us, we will be ostentation." Rarity looks to the ceiling, daydreaming. " The people here already talk about us." Said AJ about their school friends. "The whole world will be able to meet us!" Says Pinkie, making Fluttershy shrink. "It's all so horrible..." Says Fluttershy. "Er... guys?" Says Rainbow, trying to call their attention. "Rarity, accept it." AJ turns to Rare. "Do you doubt me?" Asked Rare to AJ. "What? No. I just want you to see the responsability we would have." AJ persists. "ENOUGH! No, no and no!" Shouts Sunset to all of them." Guys, they are gonna show the Equestrian magic to the outside world, how isn't this problematic!? Your world would never be the same, there would be no return, stop thinking only about us. The people's life, the governments , the midia ... everything would be different." Explained Sunset. "It's true, imagine what it would be like if mankind controlled anotherworldly magic." Twi supports Sunset. "This will sound clichet, but everything that sustains this civilization is in danger, and it can fall to the ground." Said Sunset. "Well this ... we don't know which impacts and consequences would have in our world, so we have to do something." Twilight lands a fist on the table. "Let me get it ... this revelation can threaten the world?" Asked Rainbow. "Ok, so cool, we will have to save the world." Says Pinkie. "My goodness." Said Rarity in front of this situation, hitting her forehead in the table. "But what are we gonna do?" Asked AJ. "Y-y-yo-yo-yo-yo... iiiiiiiiiiiiihhh" Fluttershy slutters. "Fluttershy, would you like to drink some water?" Asked RD to her. "O-o-o-o-o-okaaaaay..." Fluttershy trembles. "Uh! I'm coming with you!" Said Pinkie. Fluttershy gets up and is supported by Rainbow Dash, Rainbow gets up and takes her there, Pinkie runs after them. "This is bad! Too bad, w-we have to do something." Rarity gets up, nervous. "Calm down. There's still much time." Said Twilight. "Eeergh, I'll take some water." Says Rarity as she goes running. "So, how are we gonna solve this?" Asked Sunset. "We will have to stop the transmission." Says Twilight. "We have untill 2 pm." Said AJ. "I'll hack first the images and take away the censorship, later I search for the source." Explains Twilight. "So let's follow this path." Concurs Sunset. Sunset looks at the television up on the ceiling and sees the image of an object falling to a city. "To this day we do not know what happened 6 months ago in Central City, when the scarlet ..." Saying the news reporter, as Sunset looks down. "So, let's get started." Says AJ. Twilight takes her tablet and the bell rings. "Damn... Twilight, could you try doing this during class?" Asks Sunset. "Course I can." Answers Twilight. Twilight gets to her classroom, she puts the booklet refering to the class they were gonna have, history, and puts the tablet on her lap and begins to do stuff with it. Twilight searchs for the image's source, she downloads a program that takes away the censorship and waits for the download to end, after a right amount of time, she takes the image saved in the tablet and takes it to the censorship remover, when a new image loads , it shows her, Rainbow Dash, AJ and Rarity in the top of a stage and ponified. "..." Twilight takes off her glasses and puts her hands in the forehead, later , in the second break, the flow returns and Twilight meets Sunset in the hallway. "Twi, did you find something?" Asks Sunset. "I did, we have to tell to the girls." They get to the cafeteria with RD. "Guys, we've found something." Said Sunset to everyone. "How to end this antics?" Asked AJ. "Yes, I've found the source of those images." She answers. Sowing them ponified in the cell phone. "B-But this was last week when..." AJ couldn't believe it. "... we were at Disneyland facing Vignette Valencia..." Concludes Rare. "Off course, a lot of people filmed and took pictures of us that day.", Sunset. "So... it's our fault.", Twi. "It may be, but we have to sort this out. We are Canterlot Wondercolts, we've faced worse." Says RD, confidently. "Rainbow Dash is right, it's our duty to prevent from these images from leaking." Says Fluttershy, firmly. Sunset gives a smile. "We still have 3 hours." Said Pinkie. "We have to plan something since then.", AJ. "Lucky I'm an excelent hacker. " Says Twilight of herself. "Ok, so what can we do?", AJ. "...", RD. "We have to hack the news and delete all information and scripts of these images." , Twi. "But can we?" Asks Sunset. "It depends, they can send the police after those who hacks those sites, right?" Warns Rarity. "You know what? I think we should skip class, it's worth the risk." Suggests RD. "WHAT !?" Asks Twilight, braked. "Alright, let's finish it and get to the computer room" , AJ. And so, they finish their snack and head for the computer room there, they turn on the lights and closes the door, the bell rings. "You can start, someone has to stay in the door.", RD. "I'll do it." Said Spike. "How long this will take?" Asks RD. Twilight goes to a computer and connects her tablet to it. "It depends." She answers. She turns on the PC. "I'm only going to hack a computer from the news and I'll be in their system. Then I'll go to another PC 'till I get to the one which has the news." Says Twilight. Sitting, pulling the keyboard and acessing the internet. " I'll delete all of their documentation and there will be no news." Says Twilight. Pinkie begins to turn on all the computers. "And how does that solve the police problem?" Asks Pinkie. "I know a program that fake IPs, they will detect another computer." She answers. "Ok, let's go." Said Sunset. As time goes by, Twilight goes hacking, Spike and RD stand against the door, Pinkie plays on a computer and Rarity moves in the cell phone when it hits midday. "Got it to their system, now I just have to find the right PC.", Twi. "Very good." Said Sunset. "This is it.", Flutt. "Yeah... uh..." Says RD, a bit sleepy. RD sleeps on the door and it beats 1 PM in the afternoon. "I-I'm getting hungry." Says AJ. "Me too." Says Flutt. Fluttershy dismounts on a chair. "Twilight, darling, it's too slow." Says Rarity. "Ok... FOUND IT! FOUND IT! What they wrote!" Said Twilight. "Awesome." Says Pinkie playing Pacman. AJ, Flutt, Sunset and Rare gets closer. "It's here, dye for dye.", Twi. She had acess to the computer containing everything that was written, all the material was there, until the girls started reading ... ""The girls taken in this photo are Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, Twilight Sparkle, Rarity ..."Cites Fluttershy. ""... they live in the town of Bellwood, located in the part ..." ... huh ... " Cites Rarity. ""Teenagers, 15-16 years old, Canterlot High School students ..."" Cites AJ. "Did I hear my name in there?" Asked RD, waking up. "What is it?" Asks Pinkie. "Girls, they know who we are, and about our lives ..." Twilight's eyes widen. They could see details of themselves, academic information, almost everything. " That's it, we cannot let them know this." Says Rarity quite serious. "That ... looks like a criminal record from the FBI or the CIA, that's all the details." Pinkie Pie compares. "I have to find the source." Says Twilight. "Twilight, it's better you delete it, there are 106 pages." Suggests Sunset. "The source is more important!" Said Twilight. " It's going to be one-thirty, the newspaper has started!" RD alerts. "Can you delete it?"AJ presses. "I do not want to read any more, it scares me, delete it, for pleasure." Asks Pinkie Pie. "Twilight, they can do it the time they want." RD presses. " All right, then ... I'll delete everything.", Twi. It selects all pages with a shortcut and deletes everything. "Did it." Says Twilight. "That's it!" Shouted Sunset. "Phew.", AJ. She lowers her head and sighs. "Case closed." Says Spike. "But the writer of this search can send it back if he has a backup." Alerted Twilight. "Yeah... come on, what?" Asked RD. Suddenly, the computer's screen turned all dark. "Huh... disconnected from the system...", Twi. "How so?"Asks Sunset. She turns her head to the screen and it appears on white words: "Congratulations." ""Congratulations"?", Twi. In the screen: "You did well ... but it doesn't end here. Here is the epilogue...". All of them got closer to the screen. " But what the...?" Asks AJ. "Must be the search's source." Says Twilight. In the screen: "All truth must be revealed, don't you think?". Then, it's released in the screen by the average of 50 images of them using powers and ponified, from the last year to that moment. "Holy shit!" Exclaims Twilight. In the screen: "Good luck XD". The images are now gone and it shows for the last times: "6 hours until the next great revolution. Bye bye.". Everyone gasps. TO BE CONTINUED