//------------------------------// // Chapter 5: Reasons // Story: Spiders and Loyalty: Maximum Shadows // by Alvaxerox //------------------------------// For a while, Isabelle and Principal Celestia had been working on the synthetic shadow suit to test out it's functionalities. Isabelle borrowed some drones from Tira to help with it. "Konichiwa! Do anything different about me?" Spider-Tsundere said as she punches a drone. "Don't worry. I'm still the same old Spider-Tsundere. But this time... I can do this!" She morphed her hand into a whip as she hits the one of the drones. "And this!" She morphed both her hands into whips and smacked the other drone. "Wow Isabelle! This data from the drones is staggering." Principal Celestia said as she looks at her laptop. "Your response time, impact force... It's unreal!" "Aw yeah Celestia. I gotta say, mental control over this synthetic shadow suit opens up a world of possibilities." Spider-Tsundere said. "I love my webs and my stinger but they can never make one of these." She morphed her hand into a mace and bashed the first drone in half. "And one of these." Then she morphed it into a shield and slammed the second drone down. "Let alone one of these." Then she morphed it into a longer blade, as the drone created an electrical rod. "It's safe to say that the possibilities seemed limitless!" Principal Celestia said with excitement. Spider-Tsundere and the drone were having a sword fight. "Seemed. No no no, it safe to say that this suit has no weakness!" But as Spider-Tsundere grabbed the rod from the drone, it electrocuted her and the synthetic shadow was going wild in her as she got shocked. "Spider!" Principal Celestia shouted. "Try to regain mental control." Spider-Tsundere managed to concentrate hard enough for the shadow to go back on her. "Phew. That was close." "And that is why we do safety tests." Principal Celestia said. "It seems that the shadow has a weakness to electricity." "But 50% of my powers is electricity." Spider-Tsundere said. "Then it must be a certain type of electrical current. But the shadow's magic power, amplified with your Venom electricity created a shadow fire." Principal Celestia said. "But the important we do is continuing testing. Eventually we'll get it solved." Just then they both heard some police sirens. "Sounds like trouble!" Spider-Tsundere said as she gets ready to go to where the trouble is. "Spider-Tsundere wait, the suit maybe not be ready yet." Principal Celestia said. "Well I can't think of a better way to field test it." Spider-Tsundere said as she falls and then web swings. Some police cars were chasing a man who has turned a train into a run away train. "What's going on Celestia?" Spider-Tsundere asked on her comm link. "It seems that man has hijacked the train and made it go out of control. If it keeps going it will destory the train station." Principal Celestia said. "So all I got to do is stop the guy who's controlling the train at will. Got it." Spider-Tsundere landed down on the too of the train car and sees the guy. He's wearing a black suit with a grey hood and had electricity flowing through his hands. "I heard of you. Your Voltage! But I thought Cyber-Shark defeated you back in Forrestropolis." "He did, but I managed to escape, and this city seems be the nicest place in the world to hide out in. Might as well make it my turf." Voltage said. "Sorry, not if I can help it." Spider-Tsundere said. Voltage shot a lighting bolt at her but she dodged it by leaping over the bolt and kicked Voltage in the face. "Celestia, it's Voltage, he's a supervillain that can harness and control electricity. If I can stop him, the train will stop." "But he has electrical powers. Which is something we just discovered, that could damage the shadow suit!" Principal Celestia said in panic. "You shouldn't even touch him or let him touch you!" "Please tell me, is there any other way to stop this train without fighting Voltage?" Spider-Tsundere asked. "Ugh, no." Principal Celestia replied. "Then this is something I have to do, no matter what happens to me." Spider-Tsundere said as she charges at Voltage with all her might. Voltage summoned a bunch of electricity in his hands and shot it at Spider-Tsundere. And Spider-Tsundere morphed her hand into a shield as she takes to the pain both her and the shadow suit are feeling. She felt the pain as she walked up to Voltage with every ounce of strength she had. And gave a massive shadow punch to Voltage. "Isabelle! Isabelle! What's happening?!" Principal Celestia asked in panic. "... Call me Spider-Tsundere please. And to answer to your question... I feel okay. In fact I feel awesome." Spider-Tsundere said. "The suit didn't react to Voltage's electric powers at all." "But the testings indicated that-" "That we still have more testing to do." Spider-Tsundere said as she cuts off Principal Celestia sentence. "I'll explain everything I can in a moment. I'll just have to take care of Voltage." Spider-Tsundere ran to Voltage as he tries to shoot another lighting bolt at her, but she morph her into another big fist and punched Voltage off the train and webbed him up for the police. The train finally stopped as everyone cheered for her. Some passengers opened the door to see their hero and thank them. "Oh, thank you Spider-Girl. Wait, are you really Spider-Girl? Or a new spider?" Said one of the passengers. "Who cares. There are a lot of them now these days" Said the other passenger. "Don't worry. I'm only here for a little while. But I'm not Spider-Girl. Call me... Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Tsundere." Spider-Tsundere said to the passengers as she swings away. "Spider-Tsundere? She is a new one." One of the passengers said. Later... "Okay, first this shadow suit hates electricity, and now it doesn't. Make up your mind Yeesh." Isabelle said. "I'm sure the answer is in our data somewhere." Principal Celestia said. "And about this Voltage guy, do you know him?" "Not really. But I heard Bout him on the news. He comes from Forrestropolis, but he was defeated by Cyber-Shark, Flair, Knightfall and Ms. Montreal 4 years ago for trying to free all the villains at Lightweight." Isabelle explained. "Cyber-Shark?" Principal Celestia remembered that name from Twilight some time ago. "But isn't he from another dimension?" "No?" Isabelle said in confusion. Then she shook her head. "Anyways you plan to go public with this synthetic shadow substance? Ha, try saying that 5 times fast." "Not yet. We still need more tests. Equestrian magic still has a bad reputation at CHS. People could act emotionally to my work and not understand this version that is safe." Principal Celestia explained. "People's reaction will be worse if they knew you've been working on artificial equestrian magic in secret." Isabelle said. "Don't worry. I'll go public once I know the synthetic shadow is safe." Principal Celestia said. "But I do know one thing that should go public." "What is it?" Isabelle asked. Celestia raised a brow as he eyes went down a little and back up to face Isabelle's face. Isabelle looked down at her costume she's wearing. "Oh..." Isabelle realized what Principal Celestia was saying as she nodded. "No. No Celestia. That's not gonna happen." "But Isabelle, don't you want credit for the stuff you did?" Principal Celestia asked. "Like stopping that robot yesterday, or Voltage, or even saving that train?" "As much as I would like that. The answer is still no. It's called a secret identity for a reason." Isabelle said. "Come on, most of my students don't have a problem with it. Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Wallflower Blush, Rainbow Dash, all opened about who they are. And what their capable of doing for good." Principal Celestia said. "That's a big difference between them and me Celestia." Isabelle said. "They don't wear masks. And Canterlot City is the most friendlist city in the planet. I have powerful enemies back in Neo-Tech, and share my identity to my friends cause I trust them not to blab it to everyone... Let's just say... I didn't look like this." She points at her face. "What do you mean?" Principal Celestia was confused. "Here, this is the real me." Isabelle shows Principal Celestia a picture of a girl with normal skin and pink hair. "Whoa... What happened to you?" Principal Celestia asked. "It's a long story." Isabelle said. "But I have my reasons." Later... Principal Celestia and Isabelle walked into the hallway. Until they heard a familiar voice. "Principal Celestia? Ms. Parker?" It was Cinch, she noticed Principal Celestia and Isabelle walked out of a forbidden room. "I thought that room was off limits, the closed section." "Oh yeah... But I was uh... Doing some spring cleaning." Isabelle said. "It was very dusty in there. And I wanted to clean it up and turn it into a club." "A club?" Cinch asked. "What kind of club?" "It's a relaxation club, we ever wants to nap during the lunch break are available with my permission." Principal Celestia said to help cover up the lie. "Anyways, how is Microchips, I understand he took quite the nasty fall on the fall after the incident yesterday." "Hmm... Changing the subject. But in any case, Mr. Microchips has been in the hospital after that weird looking Spider-Girl destroyed his robot. And he's back at the gym cleaning up the mess he and that spider did." Cinch said as Isabelle raised a brow. "Isabelle, why do you go check up on Microchips. Maybe he can use a friend." Principal Celestia said. "Sure thing." Isabelle said as she skips away. "In the meantime Ms. Cinch, I have some papers to grade." Principal Celestia said as she walk passed Cinch. As Principal Celestia walked away, Cinch decided to sneak in to the off limits room Celestia and Isabelle were in. She took a hair clipper from her hair and used it to unlock the door and open it. "Eureka." Meanwhile... Isabelle went to the gym as she sees Microchips picking up the pieces of his robot. "Micro, you really don't have to do this." She said. "Well I have too. Ms. Cinch told me too. This is my punishment for letting my robot almost destory CHS." Microchips said. "Yeah but it wasn't your fault. I mean, a robot developing emotion. That happens movies all the time." Isabelle said. "Yeah. But it happened to for real. And so, Ms. Cinch and I had a deal, if I clean up my mess, all of it. Then she can raise my detention to only 2 days." Microchips said. "Well, let me help you." Isabelle said. "No Izzy, this is my mess, and besides you got hurt because of me." Microchips said. "It's okay Microchips. I forgive you. Besides, this is what a friend does." Isabelle said. She helped Microchips pick up all the pieces of the robot. And later... They got all the pieces and out them in the recycle. "Now that's what I call... Friendship is teamwork." "Thanks for helping out Isabelle." Microchips said. "You really are a good friend." Just then, Principal Celestia ran into the gym. "Isabelle! I need you right now!" Isabelle knows what it's all about so she followed Principal Celestia. "You think someone snucked into the room?" "Maybe, but I do know one thing I did install a silent alarm in case anyone, other me, goes in." Principal Celestia said. They both made it back into the forbidden science room and Principal Celestia was shocked to see who was in. "Cinch, what are you doing?" "Exposing your corrupt operations once and for all!" Cinch said as she holds on the canister that contains the shadow piece. "You made a secret lab into the forbidden science room, hiding these interdimensional relics containing the same magic that my former crystal prep used in the friendship games 5 years ago? And with a this lively substance that can be capable of mass destruction? What kind of monstrous experiments are going on here?" "I-its not what you think." Principal Celestia said in fear. "But you are right about that substance not being trusted Ms. Cinch. But please put down it down so we can talk about this." "You want me to let go of the very evidence that Celestia has been working on.?" Cinch asked. "Hah! I'm not a fool Parker. This will be proof that magic is going originating from this school, and as payback, I'm going to the schoolboard with this and shut down this school for good!" But the canister was shaking as the substance was moving, and Cinch freaked out and dropped it. But as Isabelle tried to catch it. It was too late. The canister dropped on the floor and the glass broke, and the shadow substance was free. It dropped to the floor and then... It latched on Cinch. Cinch screamed as the shadow took over her body. "Ms. Cinch, you have to fight it!" Isabelle said. But it was too late for that now. Cinch got up and now half of her body was covered by the shadow. It laughed as it turned around to face Principal Celestia and Isabelle. "The Pony of Shadows is back!" To be continued...