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// Class  2 
// Story: Miss Millet's Class 
// by Chrome Masquerade 
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Millet entered the classroom, reflexively erasing whatever was on the chalkboard without even looking at it.

Just then, the first bell went off. "Class will be starting soon." Millet mused.

As expected, Dawn came in first, placing an apple on Millet's desk. This one was different from the last one. MUCH larger this time. Curious, Millet levitated it and took a bite out of it. 

Her eyes widened. This was the sweetest apple she'd ever tasted, bar none! In short order, the apple was consumed.

"Thanks for that, Dawn." Millet said.

"You're welcome, ma'am. You might want to thank the Apple family next time you're in Ponyville." Dawn replied with a smile.

The rest of the class filed in shortly thereafter. This time there was an extra student. Oddly, she couldn't tell much about him, aside from the fact that he was related to Maroon. His cutie mark was of a black spiral galaxy. Trying to be relatively subtle, she said, "Ah, it appears that there's a new student in the class. Can anypony tell me who he is? Maroon?"

"What."

She tried again. "Maroon?"

"What."

'I'm sensing a pattern here.' she thought.

Dawn rolled her eyes and answered, "Ma'am, that's Maroon's cousin. His name is Enigma."

"Thank you,, Dawn. Enigma?"

""What."

"I see the resemblance." Millet deadpanned, to the class's amusement. "Why don't you tell us a bit about yourself?"

"Not much to tell, really. I'm Maroon's cousin. I've been transferred between several schools. I'm smarter than I look."

"Good to know. " Millet said, opting to begin the class properly. "Alright, class; finish this sentence: Great minds...."

"Think alike!" everypony said in unison.

"Now finish this one: Greater minds..."

Dawn and Engma answered this one, "Think for themselves!"

"Gold stars for the two of you." Millet said. "Yes, indeed. There have been many great minds throughout our timeline. Let's discuss some of them."

For the next half hour, they discussed inventors, scientists, the princesses themselves, the Elements of Harmony (or at least the bearers thereof)... Singers, dancers, athletes, farmers, wizards and magic-makers, and more. All of whom had their own accomplishments.

After that, the bell rang, giving the class their cue to move on to their next subject with the next teacher.

Millet cleared the chalkboard, which had seen liberal use during the class.

Suddenly. with a flash, Princess Celestia apparated into the classroom. "Millet! Doing well, I presume?"

"Surprisingly so, Princess." Millet answered. "The class is... colourful, I'll give them that." She looked over to the  sheet on the wall with the names of the students on it. Many of them had gold stars beside them. Most belonged to Dawn, but they each had some.

"So I see." Princess Celestia said, raising her eyebrows.

"I'm planning on taking them on a field trip in a future session. All I have to do now is consider what I'm going to have them do." she said.

Princess Celestia considered briefly and then said, "May I offer a suggestion?" She got closet to Millet and whispered into her ear.....