//------------------------------// // Chapter 2: The First Day // Story: Remake My Life: Highchool In Another World // by Mare Of Mystery //------------------------------// "I never would've imagined I would be the first brony in existence to be sent into a fictional world filled with beloved characters that I've been a fan of! I just got accepted into Canterlot High, where I'll be meeting, talking, and hanging out with said characters for the next few years. Well, my main objective is finishing high school of course, but that's only the tip of the iceberg. I was sent before the first film started, back when Sunset Shimmer was a selfish and greedy girl who only wanted power. If I'm not careful, I might make a fool out of myself when meeting my precious waifu for the first time. But feelings aside, I want to stop her from stealing the crown in the first place." It's currently Sunday, and Trede spent time at his new apartment home getting familiar with this new world. Just yesterday after he met with Principal Celestia, he went to the nearest grocery store to obtain every highschoolers choice of dietary substance; frozen pizzas, T.V. Dinners, and instant noodles galore. He couldn't ignore fruits, veggies, and the essentials in every fridge, so he bought some to fill up his fridge. Alongside groceries, he bought school supplies to go with it; pencils, erasers, notebooks, highlighters, and a one-strap bag for his stuff. Wearing nothing but some pajamas, he lazily layers horizontally on the couch and browsing through the channels on the television. "Everything feels just so unfamiliar to me, all the channels and shows I use to know are either gone or completely different." He said out loud, "It's almost bedtime, I better check on that pizza." His kitchen is equipped with a conventional stove-top oven, pretty convenient for a high schooler like him. He doesn't use it for homemade stuff, only for frozen or pre-made stuff ready to bake. He grab some oven kits and opened the oven door to reveal a crispy, bubbly pepperoni pizza hot to the touch. Gently grabbing the dish it laid on and placed it on a cooling rack behind him. Trede also remembered to separate the pizza from its dish to prevent any more cooking on the bottom from his pizza job. Waiting a few minutes to cool down the pizza and place it on a big enough plate. The last thing he did was grab the pizza cutter and slice at the middles to form its pieces. "Now, all the groceries I've bought came to a total of 82 dollars, which included with bus fare gives me $204 left. I need to make sure not to spend money left and right and save up for a car. I may want to get a job at a pizza place soon, something I'm familiar with at least." The morning came, and Trede was already at peak energy getting up and doing a few light stretches and checking to time. Just an hour before classes start when he came exiting out of his room and into the bathroom to do his morning hygiene routine. Once he got out of the shower and into his school clothes, he walked out with his satchel bag on his right and a banana half-eaten on his left and prepared to exit his home locking the key as well. He stared directly at his phone the whole time while tossing the banana peel at the trash can. "The email Celestia sent me of my class schedule says I have English first period. I may bump into familiar faces, and may even encounter the Queen B of the school herself, but the important thing to look out for in the Fall Formal this Friday. I'll just see how the first day goes..." The bus conveniently showed up as soon as he got his eyes off of his phone and saw much more people sitting inside. He doesn't mind standing on the ride to school as it was just two stops until he reaches it in the first place. The second the bus stopped in front of the school, A mass exodus of students on the bus walked out and entered the school property. This left Trede the last student out when he took a few steps forward to see much more students on the turf areas walking, starting, and chatting. He inhaled and exhaled the fresh air of the outdoors to take in as he trekked for the main entrance, "Let's get the show on the road..." His satchel was strapped along his shoulders and dangled down to his waist when he quietly passed the students who were staring at him intensely. Trede wasn't even close to entering and he already has people eyeing him, but he ignored their curious glares as he suspected being a new face around here. He knows how this goes; a New kid enters a new school, gets a huge audience looking at him, a bully enters the frame, tries to pick on him only to be saved by a potential long friendship. Typical high school antics he calls it. The students' constantly staring at him with a hint. "Hey, is he new here?" Whispered a girl to the right of the halls looking anxious over him. "I don't recognize him!" "A foreign exchange student, look at his outfit," another girl from the left side gossiped to her other friends. "Dude, we have to do something, or 'she'll' tear him apart!" A slight bit of worry from a boy to the right side contacted another guy to his right. He was almost halfway to the office, peeking with his peripheral vision at carious students engaging in small talk. But just when the moment couldn't get worse... "Hey! You there!" An immediate stop from Trede caused him to turn around to find out who called him out from behind his back. Trede kept his alert high, his breath steady, and his posture all confident when he stumbled upon an orange-skinned girl with two tones of red and orange with her hair and her piercing look strutting to his location. An indistinguishable grin formed with Trede's lips, hiding the Brony in him and containing the burst of excitement. The one who called him was none other than Sunset Shimmer, and he couldn't be so enthralled by her presence. Her posture was all sassy as Sunset leaned her hips to the right side and placed her right fist on her hip stopping just a few feet away from where Trede stood. The tension grew massively with every student in proximity giving them their full attention. If this was a regular high school, Trede would have immediately been frightened and swearing nervously over the school jock calling out for him. But this time, his whole heart started fluttering as he saw with his two eyes his all-time favorite character in the series. He had to keep his poker face to not show signs of weakness. "Mmm...you must be the new transfer student the Principal mentioned to me this morning. What's your name?" asked Sunset Shimmer, showing her devious smirk to catch a glimpse of this fresh face she could torment. "Yozora..." Nonchalantly answering his name straight up as Yozora began to pull up a large smile, "You must be the popular student a principal Celestia was talking about, Sunset Shimmer, is it?" "Heh, alright Yozora," Sunset chuckled a minuscule amount getting to the gist of her meeting, "You're the newbie here at this school, so I'll let you off the hook for now. However, there are a few rules you must understand for you to even get a slight chance to survive here; Anything I request from you, do it! Don't speak to me unless you have something important or if I speak your name, and anything to tick me off or I find annoying of you will give you a bad time here. You understand me?" "I have only one question, that's all." While Yozora requested a simple question from next she gestured her brow to permit him to speak out, "Where's the restroom?" "No, why did I just say that as my first few words to her! This is like that dating sim I've played that has those boring choices!" He hasn't received a verbal response at all, Sunset instead pointed her left finger over at the restroom doors just a few feet away from them. He friend around and spotted the boy's restroom sign. "Oh, thanks..." Yozora closely examined the direction she pointed and slowly walked over to the boy's restroom. With that out of the way, Sunset returned to her busy elsewhere while the students everywhere resumed their usual chatter. As for Yozora, he was still hung over his embarrassment of a first impression seeing his favorite character. The restroom itself was kept cleaned and pristine, way better than his old schools. He took this time to come to the sinks and washed his face turning the faucet to the cold water. "Oh man! I couldn't contain it much longer, she may be a total bitch in the first movie, but...SHE IS JUST SO DAMN CUTE! She's letting me off easy today, but that means she's plotting for more. Maybe I should just hold off changing events and just play things out like in the film." "Hey dude, you alright" A voice coming from the entrance of the restroom popped in, as Yozora finished wiping his face with the paper towel and saw who called him. It took him by surprise, but he knew quite well who called him out. Yozora sighed one breath of relief. "Oh, it's you..." "Um? You know me?" Flash scratched his head as he found. "Oh! I mean..." Scrambling to save this, Yozora quickly got his mind in check, "You're that Flash Sentry Sunset mentioned! Yeah!" "So she's talking about me now..." Flash angled his head down in total embarrassment, "We used to date, but it was less about love and more of being used to garner popularity. Anyways, what's your name?" Trede pulled out his right hand in an attempt for a handshake. "I'm Yozora!" As the moment Flash accepted his handshake reaching for his hand to exchange, he let his name sink into his mind, "Yozora? Sounds foreign to me, you're not from here are you?" "Well, yes, but I just change schools coming from a different state to finish high school." Yozora elaborated further, sleeping a somewhat straight face. "Finish? Are you saying you've dropped out?" Rather difficult to answer back as he stammered a bit. "Well...yeah...I happened to drop put during sophomore year, I just came back a year later to finish." "Damn, that sucks..." "Yeah, I have to relearn some of the stuff I've missed--" "No, I mean, it sucks that you had to choose THIS school." corrected Flash, "It was this or that fancy prep school across the city, but I'll take that place over here as long as she's here." "Oh? Is she that bad?" He pretends to act intrigued and clueless about the situation. "Yeah it is, your best bet is to just stick with me and I'll show you how things work around here." Flash suggested as he went closer in on Yozora, "What class do you have first?" Yozora answered whiled pulling up the phone of his class schedule. "I've got English with Ms. Cheerilee," "Oh wow!" he smiled, "You got the same class schedule as me, there's still time before "Sure, I'm down once I get my gym clothes from the office." "Ironically, we had identical schedules and it was very reassuring having a friend on the first day. It wasn't until later we exchanged contacts as I headed over to the office to pick up my gym clothes and assigned locker number. After staying in one spot to pass the time, I was greeted with a full classroom filled with students who stared at me like I'm in my underwear. English wasn't too bad at all, it's just reading and whatnot. Chemistry is where things take a roll on me, all these element memorization and formula. I didn't have to take notes that time because they had a quiz for the day, but tomorrow is where I'll start having to jot down notes. " At the halfway point was lunchtime, and Flash Sentry and Yozora were walking across the hallway making it to the cafeteria. It was a rather nervous experience for him, he never sat down at lunchtime in three years. Lunchtime was split into two sessions o control the abundance of students entering the lunchtime. Even then, when they entered the cafeteria from the double doors, the line to the left was pretty packed with students collecting their lunch. Both guys paitnetly waited in line and advanced for each student that left the queue. "You should sit with me and my buddies, I'll make sure to throw in a good word for you." nudged Flash, trying to get Yozora's attention as he stared deeply at the trays of food down the line. "It's fine, I'm perfectly capable of finding a place to eat,' he humbly rejected Flash's offer, "I'm just going with my gut and finding the first seat I find." "A-Are you sure you'll be fine? What if you'll bump into..." "No-No! It's fine!" Flash shrugged as to giving up on his generous offer, seeing him in front of the food line and grabbing a bowl of salad, a sandwich, and a carton of milk from the fridge. With Yozora however, he went straight for the wrapped-up chicken sandwich and got a small tray of fries placed on the main tray on top. After he exited the line, Flash went to his table with his friends all laughing. This left Yozora in a bit of a bind as he observed the vast room with students eating and chatting in their social groups. "Alright, the first challenge in every new kid's nightmares; is where to sit at the cafeteria. Each table is divided into its social groups and the outsiders are left with diddly squat. I'll make sure to not be that guy who humiliates himself on the first day. Now, where to sit...oh! There's a vacant table over there!" Rushing over the edge of the empty table and placing his tray of food on the end when Yozora finally marked his spot. He sat at the table placed his bag on his right side and began unwrapping his chicken sandwich. Cafeteria food wasn't the best-tasting meals he had, but this time was different. He took a few bites of the sandwich while panting vigorously over the spiciness of the breaded chicken patty. "This spicy chicken sandwich ain't half bad, but the excessive spiciness could use a bit of sauce to balance it out. Now then, while I enjoy my meal, I should just sit back and observe how this school functions with Sunset Shimmer in--" "--What do you think you're doing in MY spot?!" The voice interrupted his train of thought when a sassy voice walked came in front of him and stopped the indulgence of his meal. It was no surprise, Sunset Shimmer came with her tray of food. Her eyes were cold as ice, a signature look she uses to frighten the students into getting what she wants. However, to her surprise, Yozora was completely unfazed by her piercing smile, he stood with a blank expression on his face. "Hello there, care to join me?" he nonchalantly offered her a seat across from her, picking out fry and consuming it whole. "I don't believe you heard me correctly, but this is MY seat!" she angrily repeated, "Sit anywhere BUT here! That's the first rule of this school!" "I enjoy a good tsundere when I see one, but Sunset Shimmer isn't one in my heart. She's just so fueled with power and greed that it's getting to her. I'll just push her buttons a bit more to lower her authority..." One straight chuckle from him, Yozora took two fries and shove themed down his mouth, "I apologize, I wasn't aware of the 'Sunset Shimmer manifesto' in the school handbooks. Please, if you would, care to sit with me if you're eager to enjoy lunch. You don't have to speak to me or such, but there are six feet of distance in this empty spot." "Arrggh!" she gritted her teeth as her frustration grew immensely, "Have it your way! But tomorrow you stay away from this side of the table!" Nothing seemed to defeat his hard-boiled stare as he gathered enough courage to remain seated at the table. It was at the point where Sunset had enough of his stubbornness, she scurried off to the next table to take over. It wasn't easy, but Yozora finally surpassed the second time of her antagonizing day of torture. He should receive a medal for that, but couldn't feel so good about himself. He still had to figure out how to stop her from entering Equestria to steal Twilight's crown. "Perhaps the series doesn't need changing, I could just be that likable background character that people look in the background and say 'hey! It's that guy!' But, I just don't know what to --" "Wow, you handled Sunset Shimmer so well!" yet again, another feminine voice echoed right in front of him. Sounding to be coming from a frail girl with a softness in her voice. "You're that Yozora from my chemistry class, aren't you?" Yozora looked up from his seat and saw the most delicate-sounding and adorable face he could die for; Fluttershy. He knew well that the five were separated because of Sunset doing, but seeing an iconic character like Fluttershy in person couldn't make him so exhilarated on the inside. He slowly goes to greet the frail girl with a warm smile. "Hey there, you know about Sunset Shimmer?" he politely asked, "I just simply told her there was a lot of space around this table. She was pissed off for some reason." "Oh hello! I'm Fluttershy!" she returned the warm smile to him, treating herself with her sitting across from Yozora, "You're the first one I've met that could withstand her cruel demeanor. As for this seat, it used to belong to us..." "Us you say?" "I mean, my friends of course. Or perhaps I should say former friends..." she dragged her bowl of meat-free salad and stabbed a few bits of lettuce with her fork to twirl around, "This is where we used to hang out, but not after what they did." "I wonder what happened behind the scenes to make all five of them split up like that. It wasn't well explained, but I think it had something to do with text messages?" "That sucks, why did you ever separate in the first place?" He played coy, acting clueless about everything. "It's a pretty long story, I don't want to go into details," Fluttershy had a water bottle on her side when she opened it up and took a few sips of it, proceeding on, "I've got accused of something I didn't do and at the same time, my friend acted very irrationally when she threw a party at my animal care shelter. It turns out we were getting on each other's nerves until we just stopped becoming friends." "Hmm..." Biting another piece off his sandwich, and chewing for a good 8 seconds, he thought about her story, "That's a bummer, I thought you would be popular just like Sunset Shimmer." "Oh, it's fine! I don't need to be popular to get by high school," Fluttershy assured him that nothing seemed bleak for her, "I'm doing better without them, gives me more time to focus on my job. Are you aware of the Fall Formal this coming Friday?" Just when Fluttershy changed the subject, Yozora nodded, "Yes, Principal Celestia mentioned it a few days ago, why?" "I suggest you vote for Sunset Shimmer to be the princess if you don't want any problems," she gave him a fair warning, taking a big gulp, "....Err...not that it matters since no one is going to run against her..." "Lunchtime went as smoothly as possible, I've spent some time doing small talk with Fluttershy. Even though she says she's fine without friends, it doesn't bode well for me at all. I've got only a few days until the Fall Formal? I know, Discord said I didn't need to change stuff, but I can't turn a blind eye to this. Princess Twilight does not even need to come here if I'm here. After lunch, I went straight to my gym class where I was given a locker number and its combination before heading out to the track to do a mile. The rest of my classes were math, history, and art class at the end. It was fine, I'm pretty good at drawing and sketches. When classes are done, I'll just roam the school for any of the four girls affected by Sunset. I have a feeling I know where to find Rainbow Dash, so I'll head out to the fields after this." He finished cleaning up his station gathering the used paint brushes and tossing them into the sink for rinsing and storing them in the appropriate cups. The last bell rang just a few seconds after cleaning up the table as most of the students began walking out of the art room one by one. Yozora calmy inspected his portrait of a fruit bowl on its easel, proud as ever on the inside. But, he wouldn't expect a slight amount of pressure that felt like a finger tapping on his shoulder which made him turn around to see a girl with luxurious violet hair and glistening eyes over his flawless painting. "My-My! That is the most gorgeous creation I've ever seen coming from this classroom!" she happily gave him her honest opinion. "Rarity, so I have art class with her and Chemistry with Fluttershy. Sad to not get the rest of the girls in the same class. I'll use this time to try to get more info on Sunset." He scratched behind his head, chuckling over her compliment. "Hehe, well I should say you're the most gorgeous thing I've seen in this classroom." "Oh... that's not the first time someone said that to me..." the girl's cheeks showed a bright red after she mewled, "I haven't even properly introduced myself, I'm Rarity, and you are?" "I'm Yozora, I just recently transferred here today," he gave Rarity a welcoming smile on his face, preparing to wear his satchel bag on his shoulder, "You're the third girl I ran into today, I must be getting lucky with the ladies!" "Is that so? By any chance one of those girls were to be Rainbow Dash?" Rarity's expression grew peeved, seeing the boy shook his head in silent, "Good, she may be the captain of the sports team --which may sound impressive-- but well let me give you some dirt on her; she's a no good, sneaky little, lying brute! Don't waste your time on her!" "Geez! when did Rarity show this much hostility in the show? Even in the main series, the unicorn Rarity gets this insane when it's about her dressmaking." "Woah there! Settle down..." he calmly tried to get her to cool off, "Why not we just walk around the halls while you tell me all about what this Rainbow Dash did to you?" "Yes...that would be appropriate..." Rarity recuperated herself from her little breakdown, "I would like to get to know you better," "We walked a respectable 3 feet distance from each other to prevent anyone from getting the wrong idea while Rarity vents out her frustration over Rainbow Dash. She texted her that her dresses were always terrible and poorly made followed by a few combinations of emojis that form something only girls could decipher. All of this has Sunset's name written all over it, but I can't just accuse her without hard evidence. My best bet is to speak to Applejack and Pinkie Pie, they seem to be on good terms still." The frustrated groan came from Rarity as she walked along the hallway with Yozora next to her. She grunted, "Ugh, I just can't forgive what that Rainbow Dash said about me and my dresses! I've painstakingly crafted each one of them!" "Well, that does it." He reluctantly agreed, "Why aren't you still friends with your other friends?" "Well we all started to get on each other's nerves, so we all agreed to stop hanging out. That was just last year." She answered back in a pout, "it's recommended that you don't speak--" "I told you! I didn't send you that text!" "Uh oh..." Yozora mumbled. The rainbow-haired girl approached the two, coming out of the girl's locker room entrance with her arms carrying a soccer ball as she persisted to convince Rarity of what happened. But Rarity refused to believe her, mocking her, "Oh! It's the sports queen herself! Let's give a ripped-up potato sack to wear because that's way better than my dresses!" "Rrrggh! You're so irritating! Breaking our long-time friendship over a stupid text!" Rainbow Dash barked at her, dropping the ball to the ground and letting her right footrest upon it, "I didn't even have my phone at the time! Someone else used it probably!" "There's no way I'm going to trust you after that!" Scoffed Rarity, "You were always saying my dresses were too flashy or they weren't up to your liking!" "Well, they are, but I would never ridicule how hard you work on them!" Rainbow Dash used her foot to raise the ball back to her arms. "I don't care what you make, as long as you're having fun doing it!" "God damn it Rainbow Dash! Why did you have to work it like that?! Their constant fighting kept going on so long that I had to dip when they weren't looking. Sunset messed up their friendship, I plan to fox it before the Fall Formal. But I just have no idea how to approach this" After taking his leave, he went straight to the front entrance and approached the bus stop. But, before he could walk past the statue, his phone began to ring out. It was from Trede's 'supposed uncle', so it was probably something important. He went to the side of the entrance as he checked for any observers in his way. Son as Trede found no one looking at him, he answered his phone and lift the speaker to address his uncle. "Yo uncle! How's the 'family business' doing for you?" Trede casually answered with a playful smile. "Yeah! It's going smoothly as ever! How's the new school doing for you champ?" "It's amazing, met a few faces I've seen before, including Fluttershy. But don't worry! I'm not doing anything with her. We just spoke to each other at lunchtime." He sighed, "Let's just cut to the chase, why did you send me back to the beginning of this series? Won't it affect the timeline of future events?" "Good question my dear boy! Yes, while you changing events from the past may affect the future, I just wanted to see how a Brony would change things up after knowing every single bit of what happened." "Alright, I'm having trouble trying to fix the five girls' friendship because of Sunset Shimmer. I know she's going to go back to Equestria and steal the crown. But I just don't know when." "This could be the perfect time for you because she steals it on a Thursday morning, plan accordingly and you may be able to thwart her. Be very careful, because I'm not assisting you with that. Everything you do there will be up to your own accord." "Okay then, I'll be sure to think long and hard about what I'll do." The second Yozora responded to Discord's warning, the phone call hung up on itself as he turned off the screen and placed it back in his pants pocket. One more scan around the area before he walked over to the bus station and waited for the upcoming bus. The sudden realization that he only had 3 days before Sunset Shimmer steals the crown. Tension grew on his forehead, he only had this we'll to stop her from doing so. Not only that, but he also wanted to rekindle the five girls' friendship as well. Even though he doesn't have to do anything, he wanted to remake the series his way. "Tomorrow is when Sunset Shimmer will go all out trying to torment me being the fresh meat of this school, so I have to mentally prepare myself for anything that she does. I know how her character is, I just need to exploit that somehow..."