"What was I doing here, again?" Derpy asked out loud.
Though hours had passed she was still standing in the ally, uncertain of what to do next.
Realising she was getting nowhere, Derpy exited the ally and began making her way home.
"Maybe it was just a dream," she said to herself, "no way that all of that happened."
While walking home, Derpy passed by an electronic store, which had a huge crowd outside it.
They were all looking at one of the TVs in the shop's window which was broadcasting a news report.
"And in other news," the news reporter was saying, "a new superhero has appeared in Canterlot. Who is this mystery hero and where will she appear again?"
The news changed to footage of the jewellery store showing Starburst stopping the thieves.
"So I wasn't imagining things," Derpy murmured, as the footage played.
"That hero is so cool," a child bystander commented on the footage.
"Dinky and Sparkler are going to wonder where I've got to!" she realised.
Derpy's house.
"Sorry I was lost getting home" Derpy apologised, as she walked though the front door.
"Mum!" Dinky Doo cried, "did you see that robbery on the news?"
"Dinky won't stop raving about that new superhero in town," Sparkler explained.
"Good to see you back" Doctor Whooves greeted, as he entered the living room.
"Is everyone OK?" Derpy asked.
"Don't worry," Doctor Whooves replied, "everything is taken care of, dinner eaten, washed, dried and ready for bed."
"I'll read the bedtime story," Derpy smiled.
"Yay!" both Dinky and Sparkler cried together and dashed off to their bedroom.
Derpy, still smiling, followed behind her two kids.
Next day.
Derpy woke up to the sound of muffled explosion coming from Doctor Whooves's lab, which was a blue shed at the end of her garden.
"Great Scott!" the voice of Doctor Whooves cried from the shed, "note to self: never mix radiation and Eton Mess."
Derpy sighed to herself and proceeded downstairs to join Dinky and Sparkler for breakfast.
When she got to the kitchen, Dinky was still going on and on.
"Mum," Sparkler groaned, "can you make her stop?!"
"Look Mum," Dinky smiled, "I did a drawing of Sunburst."
Derpy looked at the picture for a moment, "What would you say if I told you that I'm Starburst?" she asked, finally.
Dinky and Sparkler both stared at their mother.
"Urrr," Dinky uttered.
"Ok," Sparkler responded, "no offence, but you don't look anything like Starburst."
"And if you had superpowers," Dinky continued, "we'd know about them already."
"I'm only joking," Derpy said quickly, before either Dinky and Sparkler could continue, "time for the two of you to finish your breakfast and get to school."
Canterlot High.
Derpy walked through the hallways of CHS. All around students were talking about the new superhero.
"She's so cool," one student was saying.
"Who do you think she really is?" another one was saying.
"Wow," Derpy thought to herself, "I really made an impression."
"Hey, Derpy" a voice called.
Derpy turned to see her friends: Lyra Heartstrings, Bon Bon, Vinyl Scratch and Octavia.
"I take it you have heard about that new superhero in town?" Octavia asked.
"Does anyone think it's weird?" Bon Bon commented.
"About what?" Lyra replied.
"That she just happened to show up right when that robbery started," Bon Bon continued.
Derpy was about to tell her friends that she was the hero, but then remembered how her kids had reacted and decided to keep her mouth shut.
"Maybe she was just passing through," she said, finally.
"If thats so," Octavia responded, "then which city has she come from? And why haven't we heard of her until now?"
All of them looked at Vinyl to see what she thought of the whole conversation.
"I don't know," Vinyl replied, "she seems pretty rad."
Before anyone could say another word the bell for classes rang.
"Better keep it a secret for now," Derpy whispered to herself, once her friends were out of ear shot.
All throughout the day Derpy kept thinking about how she had transformed into Starburst in the first place.
By the end of the day Derpy had decided to go back to the ally and try and prove to everyone that she was Starburst.
After school.
Derpy walked along the street until she arrived at the ally where the phone booth was located.
"OK," Derpy said, as she entered the ally, "if I can find Starburst's costume and show it to everyone then they'll have to believe me."
She searched and searched but found nothing.
"I've got to try and remember what I did before I became Starburst," Derpy murmured.
She remembered entering the phone booth and writing sentences using the rotatory dial in it.
"Hmmm," Derpy thought, "I wonder if....."
She began dialling all the words she remembered.
Idiot.....nothing, useless.......nothing and stupid......nothing.
Finally, Derpy was about to give up when she recalled another word she had dialed.
"Well," Derpy said, "here goes,"
With that, she began dialed the numbers 4376, which spelled out the word HERO.
Like before, there was a flash of light and a strange sound.
And like last time, the person that stood in the phone booth was not Derpy.
"Alright," Derpy said, "time to find the others and show myself to them and they will have to believe me."
Suddenly Derpy caught sight of her reflection and it wasn't Starburst's face that stared back at her.