//------------------------------// // 6.- The Sisters at Plesantview High School // Story: Canterlot High's Sports Challenge // by LiQuiD //------------------------------// - CHAPTER 6 - THE SISTERS AT PLEASANTVIEW HIGH SCHOOL (BGM) A few days have passed and the event is getting closer and closer, today’s a beautiful and sunny Tuesday, and you are all on the soccer field waiting for Rainbow Dash. Classes have ended for the day and you’re excited to train a bit more, Pinkie has kept the team’s morale way up! The girls are stretching their perfect and beautiful bodies while you and the guys are doing laps on the soccer pitch, you are glad that you're getting along with your teammates really well. Rarity was right; everyone here is very friendly. ”Ready to win on Saturday guys?” Some girls from the art club say as they walk walk by your group. ”You bet!” Brawly Beats replies. ”Good luck everyone!” Pixel Pizazz and other members of the photography club say. “Thanks! We won’t need it though!” You reply. ”That’s ze spirit! Ze passion!” Photo Finish says as she lifts her camera and takes a photo of your group with a very bright flash, leaving you all blind which causes Brawly Beats to bump against you, you bump against Flash Sentry, and pretty much everybody bumps against each other, eventually causing you all to fall on the grass; instead of feeling embarrassed or shouting at each other you all share a good laugh. It’s been quite a while since you’ve had such a nice time, joining this team was a great idea. Minutes later Rainbow Dash makes her appearance. “Hey Captain…what took you so long?” You say with a big smile on your face, however she looks somewhat nervous. ”Oh nothing…Principal Celestia and I had a long talk.” Rainbow Dash says. “Really? About what?” You ask. ”Well…She basically said how none of you have improved since we began our training…so I think we should check up on the other teams to see what we are dealing with,” Rainbow Dash suggests. ”Huh?” Your team says, looking quite baffled. ”You mean, as in…spying on them?” Applejack asks. ”Think of it as a…reconnaissance mission; let’s get going; first stop: Pleasantview High! The school bus is ready and waiting for us!” ”Is Principal Celestia okay with this?” Applejack asks again, feeling uneasy at the unethical proposal Rainbow Dash made. ”Duh!” Rainbow Dash replies, “she really wants us to win so I arranged transportation for us. Let’s get going then! Pleasantview town is not that far away.” You shrug and follow Rainbow Dash, the rest of the team does the same. (BGM) Half an hour later, you’ve arrived to Pleasantview Town, quite the peaceful little town, located right next to the ocean; populated with friendly-looking people and many small critters Fluttershy would love to cuddle; the school bus driver stops the school bus and asks you to get off, then she drives away to find somewhere to park the bus away from Pleasantview High’s students. ”I’ll call the driver to pick us up in this very same spot once we gather all the info we need on the players,” Rainbow Dash says, “the school should be two blocks away from here, and you better hurry up! Pleasantview High’s classes almost end for today!” After a few minutes of walking in this beautiful little town and once your team crosses the street a red and tall looking building catches your attention, it is Pleasantview High School, home of the Llamas. ”There it is! Pleasantview High,” Rainbow Dash says as she points at the cozy looking building, ”well team, we have to focus on their weaknesses and strengths if we want to ensure our victory this Saturday. Any mistake they commit we can use it to our benefit! But for now…we better find an appropriate spot so we can ‘peep’ on them.” ”I still think we shouldn’t be doin’ this Rainbow…” Applejack says, “it just ain’t right.” ”Come on Applejack, even professional teams do these sorts of things. You don’t see ‘em complaining!” Rainbow Dash says. ”Yep, that’s true…” Heath Burns says while looking at an old video of a basketball match between Pleasantview High and Crystal Prep Academy on his phone, “this Sandy girl looks quite tough on the videos I’ve seen so far. Last term her team managed to win the third place in basketball, all thanks to her. It’d be pretty exciting to actually see how she trains her team for this tournament!” “Whoa, she’s pretty good…” you say after watching some of her dunks in the video Heath Burns is playing on his phone. ”Maybe she’s gonna be in the relay-race team…” Sonata says by looking at her speed. ”Who knows? Look, let’s hide behind those bushes!” Tennis Match proposes; five minutes later, the high school’s bell rings. ”Yep, we made it on time!” Rainbow Dash says. About fifteen students make their appearance on the pitch, joined by four more students afterwards. Then she finally appears accompanied by a messy-haired teen wearing glasses and sporting a messy beard like the one you shaved off last Friday. ”Wow…she’s even more beautiful in person,” Heath Burns says under his breath. ”You sound like you’re her biggest fan…” Lyra says with an annoyed tone of voice. ”He he he…me? Come on, don’t be ridiculous!” Heath Burns says; Sandy kisses the messy haired teen on his cheek before running to the pitch with the rest of her team. ”Oooh…looks like she’s already taken Heath Burns!” Trixie mocks your heartbroken teammate. ”Ouch…” Heath Burns barely manages to say. The messy haired teen sits on the bleachers and yells lovey dovey support messages to his girlfriend Sandy. Sandy blows him a kiss before talking to her team. ”What a shame…” Sandalwood says, and the rest of the guys agree, even by calling it a tragedy. ”Whoa! Look at that blondie with the ponytail and pink highlights! She’s not kissing anybody!” Brawly Beats says, “beautiful ain’t she?” ”Eeeyup!” Big Mac says while looking at another blondie, this time it’s a shy-looking girl with green highlights and wearing a black headband on her hair. ”Perhaps I should study the next term in this school,” you jokingly say. ”Anonymous! That’s not polite thing to say!” Rarity scolds. “I’m just kidding Rarity,” you apologize to Rarity, letting out an uncomfortable chuckle. ”We’re here to study the team people, not creep on those girls! Focus!” Rainbow Dash scolds you and your male teammates, “those two girls you mentioned are Sandy’s sisters…and quite a dangerous combo as well.” The Prattle Sisters huh? The first thing they do is stretch their bodies, and a few seconds later you feel something warm landing on your hand. Ugh…some of Heath Burns’ drool fell on the back of your hand. Even Big Mac is flustered from looking at the girl’s warmup session. ”They are…quite flexible,” Flash Sentry says, trying to hide a smile from Twilight’s gaze. He obviously fails, and you can see how Twilight is judging him with that big stare of hers. ”Anyways…they look kinda fast,” Twilight comments, “but it’s not like you cannot overcome it right Rainbow Dash?” Rainbow Dash looks unsure after taking another look at you all. “Tell us more about that Sandy Prattle and her sisters Dash…what else do you know?” Sandalwood asks. ”What for? To date any of them? Forget it guys!” Rainbow Dash replies. “Not that! We came here to study their performance, not ask their phone numbers…yet.” Heath Burns says, Rainbow Dash gives up and lets out a sigh. ”The tall girl is called Mirage, she’s the eldest of the three and the most popular girl in this high school…when it comes to swimming she’s the fastest. And the short one is called Nelly; she’s the youngest of the three. She’s quite shy and is afraid of everything. She doesn’t like sports much; however! She can run quite fast, she’s even faster than Sandy…especially when she’s scared.” ”I call dibs on Mirage!” Brawly Beats says. ”Not if I ask her out first!” Ringo says. ”You wanna fight for her or what?!” Brawly says as he pushes Ringo. ”Guys! Shut up!” Lyra and Sweetie Drops say as they push Ringo and Brawly away from each other. ”Hmmm…what about Sandy?” You ask. ”She’s the captain of the team, a jack-of-all-trades, loves sports just as much as I do. Her favorite sport is basketball.” Rainbow Dash replies. “How do you know all of this?” You ask. ”We’ve faced off in quite a few times in different events. However, since none of you but Cloudy Kicks, Tennis Match and I are enrolled in sports programs-” Rainbow Dash says. ”What are you talking about? I’m in the fencing team!” Sunset Shimmer interrupts. ”And Sunset as well…we’ve faced off in a few times so I thought of bringing all of you here to see what you’re gonna do this Saturday.” Rainbow Dash says. The Prattle Sisters along with their team are running on the track as a warm up exercise. ”Pfft…they don’t seem that hard,” Zephyr Breeze says, “I totally can beat that Mirage girl in the High Diving event!” ”Yeah, besides…” Twilight adds, “they’re somehow even slower than you guys!” Twilight says as she takes a look at her smartphone’s stopwatch. ”see? That Nelly girl is even slower than Derpy…” ”Twilight…they’re just warming up,” Rainbow Dash says. ”Oh…I totally knew that hehehe…” Twilight looks very embarrassed, she clearly hates to be wrong. “Alright, I think we’re done enough warming up!” Sandy says to her team, “this time we’ll finally beat Crystal Prep Academy!” Sandy asks for four of her teammates, including her sister, to walk to the track. “Could you please take our times sis?” Sandy asks to Mirage; Mirage nods and gets her smartphone out of her backpack. “Nelly? Where are you sis?” Mirage asks. Nelly emerges from the back of the group. Sandy smiles and comforts her nervous little sister. “Y-you really want me to run in the Relay Race event sis?” Nelly shyly says. “Of course sis! Why do you doubt yourself so much? I know you can do it! You’re faster than all of us!” Sandy happily says. “V-very well then! I’ll do my best sis!” Nelly replies, clenching a fist. Everyone pays attention as the two sisters and the other four members of the Relay Race team get in position, Mirage takes a whistle and places it near her lips. ”Hah, with that weakling in their team we’ll win in no time, we have Rainbow Dash and Applejack in ours!” Tennis Match says. It’s Sandy’s turn to run first…it looks like she’ll be the first leg runner. “Ready? Mirage says as before blowing her whistle. You all gasp, after seeing how fast Sandy is running. ”What the-?! How?!” Brawly Beats fumbles to say. ”S-she’s fast!” Tennis Match says. Sandy runs all the way through the track. ”A-are you taking the time Twilight?!” Lyra frantically asks. ”W-what?! O-oh shoot! I missed it!” Twilight says and quickly starts measuring their times in her stopwatch as Sandy passes the baton to her other teammate, and she begins to run. She’s not as fast as Sandy, but…none of you are fast enough to match their speeds, then he passes it to the other teammate, and when she’s done, she passes the baton to the fourth guy and when he’s done he finally hands the baton to Nelly. ”S-she can’t be that fast now can she?” Trixie asks as a couple of sweat drops roll down her face. “WATCH OUT NELLY! A SPIDER!” The fourth leg runner yells, causing Nelly to freak out, which makes her run even faster than Sandy! Nobody in your team can believe your eyes. “Hahaha…spiders, what a baby!” The fourth leg runner mocks Nelly, causing the others to laugh at her. “Poor girl…” you say, feeling sorry for the cute girl who is running for her dear life, and as soon as Nelly reaches the finish line, she rejoins the rest of her team and finds everyone doing their best to stifle their laughter. “Don’t worry Nelly the spider is gone…NO WAIT! IT’S ON YOUR HAIR!” That annoying teammate of hers causes Nelly to yell even louder. “GET IT OFF! GET IT OFF!” She begs, scratching her head, hoping for the spider to bounce off her head, unfortunately everyone just laughs at her. ”Got you again Nelly! How can you be this gullible? Ha Ha Ha!” He laughs, however as soon as Nelly hears how that jerk played her she drops the baton and runs back into the school with tears rolling down her cheeks, witnessing such abuse Sandy slaps the guy as hard as she can. ”What’s your problem Artic Thunder?! Why can’t you leave my sister alone?!” Sandy yells. “Sandy! Calm down!” Mirage says as she keeps Sandy from hurting Artic Thunder, “Bell! Get over here and help me!” The guy sitting on the bleachers quickly stands up and runs towards Sandy to calm her down, well…you’ve all learnt something today. The sisters are pretty fast, and there’s quite some friction in their team. All of a sudden a very loud sneeze is heard behind you, causing Sandy and her team turn their attention towards the bushes you are all hiding at. ”Who…freakin'...SNEEZED?!” Rainbow Dash says under her breath, gritting her teeth. ”My apologies…” Zephyr Breeze says, “does anyone have a napkin or a hanky? My allergies kind of activated.” Sandy and the rest of her team are on their way to your location, looking quite upset. “You fool! Thanks to you our cover is blown!” Rainbow Dash says before hitting Zephyr Breeze on the head. ”Owww…I’m sorry,” he barely manages to say. ”You’re nothing but a setback Zephyr!” Rainbow Dash angrily says, pulling an almost knocked out Zephyr by his shirt. ”Rainbow Dash! Please! Stop hurting my brother!” Fluttershy begs Rainbow Dash while pulling her hoodie from the back. ”…Rainbow Dash?! What are you doing here?!” Sandy walks through some of the bushes you were all hiding behind. ”Uhhh…” Rainbow Dash doesn’t know how to reply, Sandy gasps as soon as she notices you and the others. ”EEK! W-who are you people?!” Sandy yells, and since the jig is up everyone including yourself stand up; no use in hiding anymore. ”We can explain Sandy!” Rainbow Dash yells, “we’re just-” ”-spying on us?” Sandy replies, “that’s a new low Rainbow Dash…even for you!” ”Now what did you mean by that Sandy?” Rainbow Dash squints at Sandy’s comment. ”The ‘best’ athlete at Canterlot High has to spy on her competition? HA! What a joke…What are you afraid of Rainbow Dash?” Sandy mocks Rainbow Dash. ”Afraid?! I fear no one!” Rainbow Dash replies. ”If that was the truth then why are you here? Just to imagine how you’ll lose against us this Saturday?” Sandy says with a smug grin on her pretty face. ”Grrr…I’m gonna teach you a lesson Sandy!” Rainbow Dash says, cracking her fingers. “Ladies, please!” You say to calm Rainbow Dash and Sandy, “no need to get violent!” ”Sandy! Don’t!” Bell joins in as well. You manage to pull Rainbow Dash apart from Sandy, they both stare into each other’s eyes. Man, if looks could kill…they both probably wish they could hate each other to death. “Come on Rainbow…let’s keep things friendly, these games are nothing but to enjoy ourselves,” you happily say to Rainbow Dash, hoping for her to calm down. ”More like to enjoy our victory over you losers!” The guy who mocked Nelly brags. ”How dare you insult your own teammate like that you big meanie?!” Pinkie Pie angrily yells at him. Things escalate into a very intense verbal fight, between them calling your team losers and yours calling theirs jerks, only you and Bell take a neutral stance and do your best to calm your teammates down, Rainbow Dash eventually frees herself from your grip and blurts out: ”MY TEAM CAN BEAT YOURS RIGHT NOW!” Everyone goes silent… ”Well then…show us,” Sandy says. Whoops. Yep, you’re now going to have a ‘friendly’ relay-race event, Both Mirage and Twilight get their stopwatches ready, Sandy and Rainbow go first. You’re the sixth and last leg runner, along with Nelly for her team; and right now you’re waiting in the designated spot. ”GO!” Twilight and Mirage yell. It’s a head on head race. “My goodness…look at them go!” You say to the shy blondie. ”My sister and Rainbow Dash sure are fast!” She replies. Rainbow gets a considerable distance ahead of Sandy and passes the baton to Big Mac. It’s time for Big Mac to run as fast as he can. “Not as fast as you are…seriously, that speed was amazing, there’s no way I’ll be able to beat you,” you say to Nelly, she lets out a giggle. ”Who knows? I haven’t seen you run yet…err-” ”Anonymous, but you can call me Anon,” you interrupt her. ”Nice to meet you Anon; I’m Nelly,” she replies with a bright smile on her pretty face. The Llamas’ second leg runner quickly catches up to Big Mac, both him and Big Mac hand their batons to the third leg runner and Applejack respectively. “Say, what was all that deal with that guy?” You ask Nelly, “you feelin’ okay?” ”Oh, you saw that as well…” Nelly says, feeling a bit embarrassed, “yeah…my sister Mirage convinced me to keep playing, and about that this guy-“ “Artic Thunder right?” “Yeah, him. He has been quite mean to me because I didn’t accept to be his Fall Formal date, and he’s been a total jerk to me ever since,” Nelly says. The third leg runner gets ahead and leaves Applejack behind for nothing but a few seconds as he hands his baton to the fourth leg runner while Applejack hands Sunset Shimmer her baton a few seconds later. “Pfft…and he’s bothering you because of that? What a baby, don’t let it get to you Nelly.” “Yeah, but why?” She asks. “It’s pretty obvious…he likes you and he wants to be with you. He probably thinks you’re very pretty but can’t find a way to say it.” “Please,” Nelly bitterly says, “…before he asked me out I overheard him asking Mirage out first, and only asked me out because she rejected him first. I also heard him say to his friends that I wasn’t as good as Mirage but I was acceptable and also that my sisters are much prettier than me.” Sunset Shimmer hands Cloudy Kicks her baton, and so does the other team. “Don’t say that Nelly, you know…my friends kept praising your sisters but as soon as I saw you, you stood out the most to me. I dunno why, but you kind of looked cute after I saw how you were hiding behind your sisters.” ”T-thanks Anon,” Nelly blushes, “I’ll keep that in mind…whoops, here they come!” Poor girl, that should give her a confidence boost, she’s literally experiencing what you went through back at Seacrest; the fifth leg runner gives Nelly the baton and she starts to run towards the finish line, you start to run after Nelly as soon as you get the baton from Cloudy Kicks. ”GO ANON!” Cloudy Kicks yells. You run as fast as you can, and for a brief moment you are able to pass Nelly…then she keeps up with her pace and passes you, it’s a very close race and everyone’s excited to learn who’ll win, your heart is beating like crazy; but you won’t give up! You pass Nelly again, however, you are starting to run out of air. A couple of Pleasantview High students are holding a long tape, Nelly does not give up either, that compliment you gave her must’ve encouraged her to do her best. Both you and Nelly go through the tape at the same time. ”…who won?” Sandy asks. ”And the winner is…” Twilight looks at the footage she managed to record with her phone in such short notice, everyone is nervous; finally Twilight lets out a sigh and announces the winner. (BGM) ”Pleasantview High…” Twilight says as Pleasantview High’s students cheer, mocking you and your teammates. ”What?! No way!” Rainbow Dash says as she snatches Twilight’s phone from her hands, ”how did she win?” ”Hey! Be careful with that!” Twilight yells. The footage reveals how Nelly’s breasts crossed the finish line first. ”Of course…” Rainbow Dash says as she looks at her own chest. ”Hah! Don’t be a sore loser Rainbow Dash,” Sandy says, “just be a loser!” You let out a sigh, you didn’t win…but you don’t care, because you know that you did your best and that’s all that matters, you approach Nelly and congratulate her. “That was fun Nelly…” you manage to say, still panting from the intense race. ”Yeah…it was,” Nelly says, taking short breathes, “for a moment I thought you were gonna be the winner Anon.” “Ehh, it’s just a friendly match…” you shrug, “besides, having fun is all that matters don’t you think?” ”You’re right Anon, good game;” Nelly giggles. You’re glad to see how she suddenly forgot about the trouble she had. You wish someone said something nice to you back when you lived in Seacrest. ”Let’s go people…” Rainbow Dash says before turning around and pointing her finger at Sandy, “just you wait; things will be different this Saturday!” ”Yeah right…we’ll take you on! Isn’t that right Llamas?” Sandy asks her team, and they all reply with a thunderous ”YEAAAAH!” “Well then…I’ll get going, I’ll see you this Saturday Nelly!” ”Take care Anon,” she happily says.