*Yawn*
“If you’re not going to pay attention, why don’t you just leave class. There's only a few minutes left then you can bail out of here.”
“Shut up.”
While Sugarcoat is paying attention, Lemon Zest who was sitting next to her just lazily listens as she rests her head on the lab table. She looks at the wall clock and only a few minutes left before their last class for the day finishes. Even after Dean Cadence took over as the new principal nothing seems to have changed at Crystal Prep Academy, with some students changed and some still remaining who they were before. Nothing extraordinary since the Friendship Games happened here at CPA, until this day…
“Just a few more minutes” Lemon thought while still distracted at the clock.
What all of them in the classroom didn’t realize at the window at the back of the classroom that was opened, Equestrian magic entered through the opened window and placed itself on one of the classroom displays.
While Lemon still had her eyes somewhere other than paying attention to the teacher, she accidentally knocks her pen off the table as she starts looking for it. Her pen then shows up her left shoulder.
“Thanks man.” Lemon took her pen but upon looking to see it wasn’t Sugarcoat handing her pen but something else. “A-a-ah…S-Sugarcoat.”
“Not now can’t you see I’m busy.” Sugarcoat ignores her friend who won’t stop poking her and stuttering. “If you are going to speak like a monkey I simply won’t understand a single word you’re saying, so spit it out!”
“S-SKELETON!!”
Sugarcoat and everyone else in the room turned their attention to Lemon Zest to see the skeleton that’s displayed standing next to her as it waved to everyone.
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At the same time Principal Cadence was just passing by until she heard screams from inside the science room. It was until the door swung open making the CPA principal flinch and see everything.
“Wait, what is-?” Principal Cadence said as she saw the skeleton ran off with two things as two of her students went after it. “Ms. Lemon Zest, Ms. Sugarcoat what’s going on?”
“Sorry Principal Cadence, it's that magic stuff that’s on our skeleton. Call Twilight!” Lemon Zest yelled as she and Sugarcoat went after it and disappeared at the next corner of the hallway.
“Okay? Not what I’m expecting to see, but I better call Twilight Sparkle about this.”
At the same moment the bell rang and every student got out of the classrooms until the encounter and got out of the way of the running skeleton with Lemon Zest and Sugarcoat not far from it.
“We’ll lose it if you don’t hurry it up and stop clinging on to me four eyes!” Lemon said as her wrist is being held.
“Easy for you to say who should be deaf by now because you should know I can’t even see without my glasses and I won’t let go of you until I get my glasses back,” Sugarcoat said.
“...and my headphones.” Lemon added.
Not so far from them in another hallway are two of their friends who are at their locker doing their own thing
“Sorry to interrupt your fun, deary. But you’re supposed to be paying attention in class, not checking your phone on that date you two had.” Sunny Flare ignored her friends glare as she focused back on her cellphone.
“This ain’t your business because I’m planning on our next date,” Sour Sweet sang at first. “Unlike you, whatever you’re doing with that thing you’re wearing on your wrist.”
“It’s my schedule planner that Night Star made just to let you know. First I thought it would be in the way because on how heavy it is than a simple watch, but then I find it rather useful since this thing also has a watch and-”
“HEY, GET BACK HERE WITH OUR STUFF!”
The two ladies then heard a familiar voice to see their friends going after a skeleton to their surprise as they passed by them. Not what they are expecting to see but then realized that the things they had were also taken.
“MY PHONE!” Sour angrily yelled and went after them.
“That thing took my Pip-boy-I mean my schedule planner!” Sunny followed from behind.
They chased the skeleton from the second floor down to the ground floor of the school. Not being aware of what's going on the chase is being led to a group of students of the soccer club as they follow their team captain who was also the top athlete of Crystal Prep.
“Another day of practice means another day of training hard to win hard!” The obnoxious yet optimistic Indigo Zap said as she led the soccer club. “So who's the best?”
“SHADOWBOLTS!” The soccer team replies as they follow their team captain as she faces them.
“Not loud enough! Again, who’s-” Before she could finish something fast pass by in front of her followed by her friends until she realized the same thing that her signature goggles she wears on her head were just taken away from her. “...going to go after whatever that took my goggles-Nevermind, you guys go ahead I’ll catch up.” Indigo left the soccer club confused on what’s going on as she managed to catch up with her friends. “So, what did I miss?”
“Oh it's nothing important,” Sour Sweet sarcastically said. “Except for the fact that a skeleton stole our stuff!”
“It must have been affected by that magic Twilight others encounter, finally something strange is happening around here!” Lemon Zest said without even caring about their scenario. “Get back here because we got a bone to pick with you!”
“This is serious Lemon!” Sugarcoat scolds as she maintains clinging on to her. “We are not going to make the same mistake we did last time and try to catch it until Twilight and her friends do something about it and not a good time for puns!”
“On it!” Indigo ran faster to try to catch up with the skeleton. Not for long it entered a room. “We got you now!”
Indigo followed it inside with her friend behind her. They didn’t realize that the room they entered was full of boys. A lot of screaming came from inside as the girls immediately got out with their faces all red except for Sugarcoat who can’t even see but guessed what really happened.
“We entered the boys locker room and the one who entered first didn’t even get to read the sign. Well, how lucky of me that I’m not wearing my glasses,” Sugarcoat confidently blurted in relief.
“Yes, how lucky you are,” Sour Sweet said, annoyed as her eye twitched. “If it wasn’t for someone’s ignorance, forgetting what I saw won’t be that easy. I’m such a horrible girlfriend…NOW I CAN’T GET MARRIED ANYMORE!”
The skeleton then came out of the locker room wearing one of the uniforms it stole from the boys as they went after it into another room that’s next to the previous one.
“Hey wait a minute.” Lemon Zest stopped in front of the room as her friend went inside. “We can’t go in there, it's for girls only.”
“We are girls deary and this is the girls locker room, now get in here stupid and help us!” Sunny Flare yelled from inside.
“Oh, right.”
The sounds of girls screaming came from inside and just then, the skeleton came out and ran off. The five girls also came out of the room and went after it, not after one of the female students screamed that it stole something from her.
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Not wanting for it to go too far with or without the help of the Rainbooms, the five Shadowbolts must put an end to this chase before more things get stolen. Thinking that it would just be a running pile of bones that loves to steal stuff, they were wrong.
“Duck!” Indigo yells as she and her friends evade a book the skeleton took from a student as they resume the chase. “Duck!” The girls then dodged a basketball it threw after taking it from one male student. The skeleton exited through the main entrance of the school which is bad news once it escapes to the outside world, it will be long gone as it taunts the girls. “Moose!”
“Really Indigo?” Sugarcoat said.
“Look!”
If things couldn’t get any weirder as the skeleton moved to the middle of the road while busy taunting the girls, it wasn’t paying attention to the incoming moose as it got hit and was knocked into pieces. They were also surprised to see the ones riding on the moose are none other than Twilight Sparkle and upfront is Fluttershy.
“And here I thought we are playing duck duck goose-”
“NOT NOW LEMON!” Indigo, Sunny, Sour and Sugarcoat cut her off.
“Sorry if we were late. I had to drop by the animal shelter for a new collar for Spike until I got a call from Cadence and-” Twilight immediately approached her former schoolmates and then realized what she and Fluttershy’s ride just hit and used a device to detect Equestrian magic. “It seems like the magic was still there when the skeleton was whole but now it's in pieces, the magic wore off already.”
“So, I guess we don’t need to call the others then.” Fluttershy put her cell phone away and turned her attention to the moose she’s riding as she rubbed its neck. “Good job Eli, even though it was a happy accident.”
After a while Twilight and Fluttershy rode off on the moose and left the five Shadowbolts who are also confused on where they got the moose. Some gathered all the bones of the skeleton as the rest picked up the stolen belongings as they headed inside.
“Okay so headphones for Lemon, Sour Sweet’s phone, my goggles, Sunny’s pipboy-”
“Stop calling it a pipboy and give me that!” Sunny grabbed her schedule planner from Indigo who is handing everyones stuff back.
“Oookay? Next is Sugarcoat’s glasses.” The next belonging Indigo has is a male school uniform “I wonder who this belongs to?”
“That’s mine.”
Trenderhoof appeared from the crowd only wearing a towel to cover his lower area as the girls diverted their eyes away as he took his uniform back and returned to the locker room. As everyone else went back to what they were doing leaving the five Shadowbolts, there was also one last item that was stolen which is the most awkward of them all.
“Oh Sour Sweet why would you even wear something naughty like this especially if your-”
“That bra isn’t mine!” Sour Sweet yelled at Indigo Zap as she covered her chest area with her arms. “Seriously, that ain’t even my size.”
“I don’t think this belongs to Principal Cadence-” Indigo just held the piece of undergarment guessing who this belongs to until she felt someone tapping on her shoulder as she turned around. “Yeah?”
*SLAP!*
“Don’t hold it for everyone to see!” Fleur de Lis slapped Indigo in the face and immediately swiped the bra from Indigo’s hand and quickly walked away while her other arm was covering her bust the entire time.
“Well thanks for the slap, not even a simple ‘thank you’.” Indigo touched the part Fleur slapped. “OWW?!”
The rest of the girls held their laughter then went back to the part where they needed to reassemble the skeleton as they headed back to the science room.
“Hey, since this is the first time something like this happens here and got to admit, it was pretty fun. Let’s do that again,” Lemon said.
“NO!!” The four immediately disagree with her.