After being escorted into the courtroom, Neighsay was ordered not to shout. He rolled his eyes at Brandon in irritation.
"I do not want to give you this, but I have to. I have a feeling you will try to remain silent.", Brandon explained as Ariel injected Neighsay with a truth serum.
Neighsay calmed down instantly, and his face softened into a state of sorrow and defeat. The trial was started on schedule, and Celestia only had to tap the gavel instead of slamming it. She did not yell at Neighsay either. The other races' representatives were there as well and explained what they had been told. Twilight asked him to apologize for doing this.
"Twilight, Everyone, I am sorry about what I had been doing to them. I had let my anger take control.", Neighsay confessed to Twilight.
"I forgive you, Neighsay, but you need to apologize to each of the students, and to my sister-in-law for capturing my niece.", Twilight calmly responded.
"I must also suspend your EEA rank, but you will get it back and you need to do a conference with your comrades and these reps.", Celestia said before adjourning the hearing
Neighsay did not retaliate, nor did he get out of line. He was actually HORRIFIED when he saw what had happened to the students. Almost all of them were recovering quickly and steadily. Those that were, had trouble breathing and had masks that delivered a mix of oxygen and a gas to help keep their throats open. Ocellus was back in a normal heart rhythm, but she was being monitored closely. Yona was bandaged heavily because she'd had surgery to remove broken ribs from spots where her lungs had been pierced, and her hooves were in traction to keep her legs straight. Sandbar had ice packs on his back to cope with the welts he had from being struck with the rubber bands. Silverstream had multiple bandaged areas where she had been severely burned. Gallus was in worse condition than Yona, because he had absorbed some of the acid. So, he was kept in an isolation room during his recovery. Smolder, on the other hand, was breathing on her own. However, she was having a hard time with recovery. She was still discolored and shivering from her hypothermia. Thankfully, she was sitting upright, but she had wrapped herself in a thick blanket to try and keep warm. She knew who she was looking at, but she warned him to keep distance.
"I...f-f-forg-g-giv-v-ve...y-y-you,...N-N-Neighs-s-say. AAACHOO!!", Smolder said through shivers before sneezing.
Neighsay realized this meant she had a cold. Three weeks later, all of the students were discharged and went back to the school. Neighsay volunteered to bring them their homework while they were in the hospital, which Twilight applauded warmly. The meeting that Celestia ordered was held the following week. Brandon sat in on the meeting in case anything went wrong. He was glad that nothing went wrong, and the EEA's doctrine was successfully adjusted to only look at students' safety and that teachers could use their own style. Twilight was in the meeting as well, and they elected to combine the new doctrine with her private book. Twilight agreed, and also came up with a rank scale for accreditation. A gold seal was full accreditation, silver was nearly full, and bronze was that they needed improvement. Since Twilight met all of the new doctrine, Neighsay gladly gave her a gold seal for an EEA accreditation.