It was a normal day for the Rainbooms and by normal, the narrator meant handling the occasional craziness that was rogue magic. This time, the victim of this uncontrollable plot device turned out to be a washed-out employee of the ‘Darks and Bleaks’ shop inside Canterlot mall.
The previously sad state transformed into some kind of ghoulish punk rocker with his own glowing guitar. His white and black painted face morphed into a maniacal grin as he proceeded to shred, guitar echoing with a song of despair and electricity.
The mall goers shrieked and ran away, but he wasn’t going to let normies get away without a listen to his masterpiece. Another riff and with one final strum, few people were encased by a red bind. A moment later, smoke erupted from various individuals and when it disappeared, the victims themselves were now wearing ripped jeans, shirts varying of all edginess and bleakness, and odd hairstyles that simply screamed ‘Get bent’ without a care for authority. The victims then proceeded to trash the mall.
Seven teenagers stood to the side, having watched everything happened so far.
“Alright girls,” Rainbow began as she punched her fist into her open palm. “You ready to save the day again?”
Sunset nodded first, crossing her arms as this baddie made a mockery of her tenth favorite store. Rebellion should only look and sound good, not actually try and pull through with it via property damage and public terrorism.
The villain seemed to have heard the athlete’s typically loud voice. He grinned with a sordid lick of his lips. “Wowza, six babes to join my army. Ain’t this my lucky day.”
Twilight blinked before she counted around. “Uh, don’t you mean seven?”
Punk’d Z, as he now called himself, stared at the nerd in confusion. “You will be spared. You’re a model of purity; plain, wholesome, and untempting.”
“Hey!” Twilight shouted, actually offended.
“Yeah, she could be tempting when she wants to be you friggin jerk!” Sunset shouted beside the purple girl who now blushed as she stared at her crush before promptly frowning again when the redhead added, “and anyone who’s not majorly tempted is too dumb or too oblivious!”
Six girls stared at her, unimpressed.
Punk’d Z blinked again as he tried to process what she said. “So…are you trying to pimp her off or something? Coz dude, that’s so messed up.”
“Maybe I am!”
Rarity pinched the bridge of her nose while Applejack simply smacked her forehead, Rainbow Dash followed suit while both pinkettes shook their heads in pity.
Twilight, blushing mode on, gripped Sunset’s shoulder as the previously running crowd stopped to take in the not so quiet words. “Sunset, I don’t think you fully know what pimping me off means!”
The redhead leaned back, whispering, “True but he doesn’t need to know that. This is just some kind of powerplay thing we’re doing, which I’m dominating, by the way. Trust me.”
“I don’t think I could with this, I mean, this potentially ended up spreading on social media if people managed to remember this entirely absurd and inappropriate conversation!”
The punk rocker themed villain grew tired of the chatter. “Enough, I won’t stand by while you yapping normies distract me from spreading the truth!” He rotated his arm with a flare before striking his guitar strings. A sonicboom erupted and started heading towards the direction of the girls. “The man can stick it! Yeaaahhh!”
Rarity thought fast and immediately conjured a diamond wall but to their horror, it didn’t reach Twilight and Sunset on time.
The redhead moved before thinking herself, pushing the bespectacled girl a good distance away as she took the full brunt of the attack.
Once the dust settled, standing over the gaping purple girl was a grinning girl dressed in a black skull tanktop and ripped jeans, her hair in a disheveled state and two black lines of ink trailing down her eyes…ending with a spiked choker.
Twilight choked on her spit.
“Oh come on! Is now really the time to be a disaster?” Rainbow asked, exasperatedly face palming.
Sunset grinned with a saucy lick of her lips, leering down on her easy prey but a burst of rainbow blur took hold of Twilight.
The athlete set her friend down in the safety of Rarity’s shield while Pinkie bounced over and shook the gay mess awake but to no avail. She sheepishly turned towards the others while Rarity conjured up another dome of crystals they were using to hide behind in as the baddie tried to break through. “I think she’s down for the count folks.”
Applejack sighed while the redhead a few paces in front of them laughed evilly, wrecking the trashcans and flipping over tables as the villain insanely cackles.
“YeaAAHHHAHAHAHHA!” He let out along with a manic smile, continuing his riffs while more and more of the watching crowd turned into his personal hot topic army. One beam made contact with a running Vice Principal Luna, much to the CHS students and the Principal’s horror. When the smoke cleared, maniacal cackling came and standing before them was a woman that was both hot and scary.
“I am so bothered on so many levels right now!” one student shouted, their friends nodding the same.
Tears flowed freely down Principal Celestia’s face alongside a pained cry of “My baby sister!”
“Damn,” Rainbow Crass exclaimed with a low whistle before Applejack thumped the athlete on the head.
“Land’s sakes that’s our vice principal for crying out loud!” She turned to the fashion designer. “Rares back me- oh for the love of-
Pinkie cut in, raising a fist in the air. “Whoo! Rocking that choker, V.P.!”
The woman grinned as she made the rock sign with her two hands before running up to a vending machine and proceeded to destroy it alongside her fellow victimized rockers.
“We have to do something!” Fluttershy cried out with tears. “Vice Principal Luna should be a good example to impressionable minds!”
Off to the side, Celestia ran away crying “oh the horror!” over and over again.
“She made an impression alright,” Rainbow nodded dumbly, still gazing at the older woman who was now flipping over the rest of the unturned tables alongside their redheaded friend. “Is it weird if I started looking forward to detentions?”
Appejack thumped the athlete once again. “We can talk about your sudden teacher kink later, right now we got a mall full of crazy people wrecking everything in their sights!” She turned to look down at the still passed out Twilight. “Shoot, with Twi and Sunset out how are we gonna do the friendship laser bit?”
Pinkie Pie scratched her head before a lightbulb lit up, only to frown when a stray shoe collided with it, destroying the idea.
Fluttershy turned to the side before raising a finger. “I got it. If this was the old Sunset Shimmer, then what is the one thing she always hated?”
The rest of the Rainbooms wracked their brain before Rarity, with a bit of blood gently dripping down her nose, answered. “Someone who is ordering her around?”
Fluttershy grinned.
Pinkie Pie giggled before cupping her hands around her mouth in order to shout, “Hey Sunset!”
The wrecking ball of angst and anger stopped mid-slam on a poor ice cream stand and turned to scowl at the pinkette.
“What do you want dork?” Sunset sneered before bobbing her head from the guitar riffs made by the villain. Yelling and cheers from her fellow brainwashed rockers sounded around her.
“We just want you to know, we’re very supportive of your attempt of expressing yourself through rebellion of authority and enablement of property destruction!” Pinkie began.
“But we find it counterproductive when you’re following through with the notions of an insane failed metal rocker who forced you into agreeing with his own sense of rebellion,” Fluttershy finished.
They all could see clearly how Sunset seemed to take in the words before her pupils shrunk to pinpricks. With a snarl reminiscent of her old ways, she whipped her head to the oblivious headbanger and glared. She pointed a finger at him with a growled out, “Hey! You’re telling me what to do!” She followed this off with a running start, taking a discarded potted plant and throwing it at the unsuspecting villain. It contacted with his head and the pot shattered upon impact. The previously floating person fell with a dull thud.
More cheers erupted, more so at the destruction than anything, before they resumed to breaking property.
Sunset raised both fists in the air as she cheered before grinning down viciously at the unconscious man, stepping on his back in triumphant satisfaction. “Heh, no one tells me what to do.”
“Except the magic of friendship!” Pinkie popped in, startling the redhead, before she took hold of the guitar. “Yoink!”
“Hey!” Sunset shouted, turning to the assembled Rainbooms. “Not cool, that’s mine dammit!”
Rarity gasped. “Sunset Shimmer! Mind your language!”
Sunset smirked before making the rock sign. “Heh, you ain’t my mom. Deal with it!”
Applejack simply shook her head in disappointment while Fluttershy giggled, much to the rest’s confusion. Pinkie Pie began tinkering with the guitar and cooing as it hummed but Rainbow Dash immediately took hold of the instrument and raised it high in the air. When fresh out of rainbow lasers, destroy the magical artifact instead.
“Sorry, Sunbutt but we prefer you as a good girl now and even though I’m so gonna regret changing our now controversially hot vice-principal back to normal, there’s still a ship we’re waiting to set sail.” Rainbow Dash brought the guitar down, smashing it effectively into smithereens.
The force pushed the athlete away, groaning from the pain until AJ and Pinkie helped her up. After a quick look around, she was glad the victims were slowly going back to normal at least.
One by one, the startled and confused people disappeared and returned to their loved ones. Off to the side, Vice principal Luna was tackled into a bone-crushing hug before she started prying away the comically sobbing Principal.
The Rainbooms turned to their friend, who groaned from her place on the floor. Once Sunset regained her bearings, she glanced up at her friends with a questioning frown. “Why do I feel like I just experienced my rebel phase all over again?”
The girls didn’t answer, choosing to tackle the redhead into a hug instead.
Off to the side, completely abandoned, Twilight continued to drool in a daze while her hormone driven mind reeled from the shock on unexpectedly seeing the form fitting outfit on her crush.