"OW!" several voices rang out at once as seven girls landed - a little painfully, but not overly harmed.
Sunset Shimmer was the first up, and thus the first to notice the unfamiliar backdrop. They appeared to be on the roof of a business building.
"Uh, girls?" she said, somewhat worriedly, "I... don't think we're in Canterlot any more." She then examined herself and the others, "I... don't think we're entirely human any more, either."
Indeed, all seven girls had hooves, pony ears and pony tails. They also had different apparel from when they'd left.
Applejack and Rainbow Dash were wearing plain streetclothes, likw they'd usually wear, but somewhat more plain. On Rainbow Dash's shirt was her signature cloud and rainbow lightning bolt, while Applejack's shirt bore the familiar three apples. Looking at the rest of themselves, they found that their pants had the same marks. Applejack still had her iconinc hat, though. Also, Rainbow Dash's hair was cut short, but came with shades, for whatever reason. Applejack had a braided ponytail with a red ribbon tying it in place.(1)
Rarity and Fluttershy were wearing simple sun-dresses, one white with violet trim, one yellow with a pink trim. Rarit's hair was tied tightly with parts of it forming several circles at the back of her head. Fluttershy's hair was done in stylish pigtails.
Twilight was garbed in a schoolgirl outfit, with a mane of tight dreadlocks while Pinkie was wearing a sundress with pink everything. Her hair was briefly in a ponytail, but trembled briefly before a pop was heard and she suddenly sported a mane of loose dreadlocks.
As for Sunset, she was wearing a red and gold business blazer. Sunset's hair was in what seemed like numerous styles at once.
Twilight said, worriedly, "How did we get HERE?!"
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(Canterlot library, downstairs, about 10 minutes ago)
Five of the girls sat in comfortable chairs, reading or (in one case) playing a video game. Two were in one corner of the room, fiddling with various pieces of sophisticated science equipment.
Twilight turned and said, "Rainbow Dash? Could you turn that down a few notches? This is sensitive-"
Rainbow Dash instead turned the volume UP a couple of notches, causing Twilight to drop what she was holding from the surprise. With a muffled explosion, the girls were gone.
The librarian came down the stairs, looked around for the source of the disturbance, only to see nobody there. She scratched her head, shrugged and went back upstairs.
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"Oh, yeah." Twilight deadpanned before giving Rainbow Dash the evil eye.
Rainbow dash grinned sheepishly and said, "Heh. Sorry."
Suddenly, the door to the area opened amd a woman wearing overalls and a blue hat entered. "Hey!" she said, "Get back to work."
All seven girls raised one eyebrow.
The woman whispered conspiratorially, "Do you have a different reason for all of you being here?"
The girls looked at each other, then grabbed squeegees and got to cleaning windows.
Minigame Start: Squeegee Clean
With the seven of them working together on the surprisingly large and stable platform, they each began wiping down windows.
First they'd grab a brush they had in the bucket on the side of the platform. Wiping that on the window in question, it was soon covered in soapy water, and there the squeegee came in - and so did the birds.
The pigeons kept pooping on the windows, causing the girls to have to move and then clean the suddenly dirtied window. It only got worse as they went downward.
Getting annoyed at the winged rats, Suntet said, "Rarity? would you please?"
Rarity looked at the birds, nodded, summoned a force shield and, using it not unlike a pinball bumper, swatted the birds with it.
That done, the girls got back to work.
You've advanced to level 2: Streaker
Minigame End.
As they got back to the rooftop level, the woman from before came back in. "Sorry, girls. You're fired."
Rainbow Dash looked outraged. "We've only been employed for, like five minutes and now we're FIRED?!"
"It's the decision of the place's new owner, Daddy Bigbucks. I have no idea why, but that's the way it is. On an unrelated note; I'm Kris Thistle, by the way."
Sunset spoke up. "Well, Kris, I'm Sunset Shimmer. Here we have Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Rarity Belle, Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy."
"Nice to meet you girls. Either way, hand in your equipment. Then you can probably find space with your rep groups."
The gorls exchanged glances, then looked to Rainbow Dash. She wondered why they were doing so, but then got the idea. "OOOOOH. Rep groups are essentially the cliques you fit into. For example, Flutters, AJ and I are Streeties. So is Kris, there. Rares, Pinkie, you two are Artsies. Twi, Sunset, you are Nerdies."
Turning back to Kris, Rainbow Dash said, "Unfortunately, we're kinda new in town. We don't know anyone in our rep groups here yet."
"You can't find any space with them?"
Sunset said, "We... really don't have anywhere we can go, Kris."
Kris thought hard. "I've got it! on the fourth floor is an apartment that's being built. For now, you girls can sleep there. But you've gotta work to earn your keep!"
"Done and done!" Sunset said, the remaining girls nodding.
Kris said, "What say we get some pizza and get to know each other?"
Sunset said, "What do you say, girls?"
All of them were in agreement, so the lot of them went to the main lobby.
Only to discover that the door was locked for the night.
"Damnit!" Kris swore. "Daddy B appears to have alreasdy locked the door for the night. That means I'M stuck here too!"
An exclamation mark appeared above her head. "Double damnit! There's only one bed! I completely forgot!"
Twilight thought for a moment. "Aha! We may not need more!"
Kris looked confused. "Huh?"
"Just lead us to the 'apartment'. You'll see."
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Arriving there barely a minute later, the eight girls piled out of the elevator, only to discover...
"This place is a dump!" Pinkie Pie said. "Uh, no offense meant, of course." she amended.
Rainbow Dash said, "Yeah, talk about your fixer uppers. But it's better than nothing."
Twilight strode over to the lone bed in the room. Touching it, she flexed her magic and said, "Extend."
The bed suddenly stretched to accomodate ten people at max, its legs thickening to be able to support the extra mass.
Kris was thunderstruck. "How did you DO that?!" she exclaimed.
"I remembered that Rarity used some magic while we were cleaning the windows. It stands to reason that we still have our magic."
"Huh." everyone else said in unison.
"Either way, we might as well get some sleep." Twilight said.
Sliding themselves into the bed one after another, the eight girls went to sleep.