Sunset had told her friends what happened as they were making their way to the gymnasium. "What do you mean the portal's gone?" AJ asked.
"I mean it's not there anymore. It's gone. It's closed!" Sunset said as she pushed open the entrance doors and walked inside followed by her friends. "I'm not exactly sure how, but I think it might have something to do with that Twilight." she pointed towards Twilight who was busy trying to detect more reading from her device accidently bumping into a fellow CPA student much to her annoyance. Sunset approached behind Twilight. "Twilight, what have you been up to?"
Twilight jumped in surprised and turned around. "Me? I was just-"
"Who wants to know?!" Indigo Zap interrupted.
"Uhh we do?" Rainbow Dash fought back.
"Alright everyone, let's not get too competetive before the games even start," AppleJack reminded them.
"The games aren't really competetive since we've never lost," Sugarcoat said bluntly.
"*Cough three-zeroed *cough cough*" came a voice from behind. Indigo Zap quickly turned around.
"No one asked for you're opin-" her eyes widened when she saw who it was. Amber shine looked at Indigo with an taunting smile.
"You!" Indigo gasped.
"Come on, Indigo, talk like a big girl. What's my name?"
Indigo's eye's started to twitch. "You're that Amber girl from that damn Cloudsdale! You think you're so good huh?"
"Well I don't usually consider myself the aboslute best," Amber said calmly. "But I just couldn't help but hear how you never lose. You always win the district? That's cute."
"Damn that is brutal," Rainbow commented.
"Okay for the record, we didn't even try going against you guys. You just sweat too much!" Indigo snapped.
"Oh you wanna talk about sweating? Okay Miss, "I try so hard to beat CHS." Amber taunted.
"Shut up!" Indigo said sharply. "And what are you doing with CHS? You decided to join the losers now?"
"Wasn't really much of my choice, but why does it matter? You're not scared are you?" Amber asked with a smug.
"That's bullshit! I hope you enjoyed your times beating us before because now, we'll whoop your asses so bad!"
"Wow, that's what you said to me last time!" Amber said with fake enthusiasm. "Please tell me, Indigo, how did that went?"
"We weren't really feeling our best," Indigo quickly said. "You think you're gonna win? I hope you realize how bad we dog on CHS."
"We're not that bad..."Fluttershy quietly spoke up. However Indigo turned on her.
"Fluttershy, don't even talk with your god-awful skills. You missed your target five times in that archery!"
Fluttershy began to look down in shame. Amber gave Indigo a warning glare.
"Hey don't talk about how awful Fluttershy's aim is especially when I 3-0 you in every competition."
Indigo's face went red with embarassment and tried to think of a comeback but her mind came up empty. "You know what? You're not even worth it." she stomped away.
Meanwhile, Pinkie went up to Twilight to introduce herself. "Hi there, I'm Pinkie Pie!" she cheerfully said. Twilight gave a nervous smile as she shook Pinkie's hand.
"Oh hi. I'm Twilight,"
"It's super duper nice to meet you, Twilight even if you're from our rival school. And what's that?" Pinkie pointed at the device around Twilight's neck.
"It's sort of a spectrometer. I built it to track EM frequencies, but it can also contain anomalies. It basically measures things." Twilight explained.
"Like the party?" Pinkie asked.
"Yes but it doesn't really seem like a party." Twilight said looking around.
"I know just the thing to fix that. Come on!" Pinkie said excitedly as she grabbed Twilight by the arm and ran off with her, much to her surprise.
Principal Celestia came on the stage and tapped on the mic to gain the student's attention. "I would like to take this oppurtunity to welcome our visitors from Crystal Prep who have come all this way to CHS." she announced. She paused for a moment before saying, "And we are honored to invite three very special guest over for the games!" She gestured towards three other High School aged students that were not from Canterlot High or Crystal Prep. "Not only that, but they will be the ones hosting the games for today."
A series of slightly surprised faces spread across the student.
"I don't think I saw them before," Rarity whispers. "Did we just gain another 3 new students?"
"I don't think so. Principal Celestia usually asks me to give new students a tour," Sunset pointed out. Amber however immediatley knew who they were. The excitment in her eyes and expression did not go unnoticed by Sunset. "You know must know who they are huh?" she chuckled. Amber nodded as Sunset looked back at the three other students. Two boys and a girl. The first boy had light gray hair and sported a black jacket hoodie with dark blue jeans, tennis shoes and a silver wrist watch on his right wrist. The second one had light yellow hair and wore a black short sleeved t-shirt with matching shorts and casual shoes. He also wore a pair of glasses. The last one was a girl who had on a white leather jacket with a matching skirt. She had wavy brown hair that reached passed her shoulders and donned a pair of white tennis shoes with a black pattern on the sides. She was the first one to introduce herself to the students.
"Hi everyone! First off we'd like to thank Princiapl Celestia and Vice Principal Luna for inviting us over for the Friendship Games. While we're here. We'd like to take a quick moment to introuce ourselves. My name is Sapphire Rain. I'm the Field Leader over at Cloudsdale High. I help train and prepare the competetitors for the Friendship Games. It's a pleasure to meet all of you." She said kindly with a smile.
The boy with the gray hair was up next. Sapphire handed him the microphone and it was his turn to speak. "Hey everyone! It's great to meet you all. My name is Hydro Flame. I'm the Assistant Field Leader for the Cloudsdale team. Just like Sapphire, I also help train the competitors for the events. Before I became Assistant Field Leader, I had competed and helped Cloudsdale win the Friendship Games All Region. It's great being here and it's nice to meet you all as well." He said joyfully. Last but not least was the boy with light yellow hair. Hydro handed him over the microphone and the latter began to introduce himself.
"Hi there! Name's Error Code and I'm the Assistant Field Leader in training. Not too long ago, I just got moved up so here I am I guess hehe..." He chuckled. "Hydro and Sapphire thought it would be great to show me what it was like observing the different schools that competed in the Friendship Games. Nothing too special about me really but nontheless I think it's going to be great getting to know all of you," He smiled and handed the microphone back to Sapphire.
"And you're probably wondering what we're all doing here." she said to the students which some responded with a few nods. "Well after the games, we have a special offer for the winning team." She handed the microphone back to Principal Celestia and a few excited murmurs began to stir amongst the students.
"Thank you, Sapphire, Hydro and Error. We really appreciate you coming here today and I can assure you, that these students strive in excellence and pride."
Saphire and the other two stepped down from the stage to mingle with the students. Amber and her new friends went up to Saphire and the others. "Oh my gosh Sapphire I didn't know you were going to be here!" She said excitedly.
"Well we were invited so we couldn't resist," Sapphire said as she and Amber shared a hug.
"And it's so good to see you again, Mighty!" Amber said cheerfully.
"Mighty?" Rainbow asked.
"It's what everyone calls me," Hydro explained. "It sounded a lot cooler back then but I don't know if it has the same nice touch as it did before," he smiled sheepishly.
"Well I think it's cool." Rainbow said. "That is if you don't mind us calling you 'Mighty'"
"Oh thanks. If you really want to. I go by either Hydro or Mighty so I'm cool with either one."
"Alright, Mighty. We'll make sure we remember that name," Rainbow smirked. "Oh yeah and I'm Rainbow Dash by the way."
"Sunset Shimmer," Sunset said. "Pleasure meeting you," The other girls introduced themselves respectively
"Fluttershy."
"AppleJack"
"Rarity"
Mighty gave a smile and waved hi. Amber turned her attention to Error and smiled kindly. "And congratulations by the way, Error for getting moved up. How are you by the way?"
Error returned the smile. "I'm doing good and thank you. I just got moved up a week ago. And the reason for that is because..." his smile seemed to falter which Amber noticed.
"Oh is something wrong?"
"Amber, in one month, I'll be leaving Cloudsale High. Me and my family will be moving across the country." Mighty said with a sad smile.
"What? But everyone will miss you!" Amber gasped.
"I know, and I'll miss them too but some desicions aren't really my choice you know."
"That's why I'm in training. After a month, I'll be taking over Mighty's role." Error explained.
"If anything, this would be the last Friendship Games that I'd get to see." Mighty added.
"It's always the best players we have that move away," Sapphire chuckled. "First Amber and now we're about to lose Mighty. You were really one of our best players. It's no wonder everyone called you Mighty."
"Hey, Error, you must get pretty tired of Crystal Prep's ego, huh?" Rainbow asked.
"Oh yeah. There ego is higher than Mount Everest."
"Um, you don't think we're you know...lame right?" Rarity asked.
"Why would you think that?"
"Because we always lose to Crystal Prep and then there's people like you who comes in and just steps on them."
"Oh no, Crystal Prep is good, I'll admit but they like to overrexagerrated their accomplishments. Don't worry we don't think you're lame."
"Oh that's a relief. We were worried you'd think there was something wrong with us."
"Don't be so hard on yourselves. One day, you'll beat Crystal Prep," Sapphire assured.
"And I have a feeling this time, we will!" Rainbow beamed.
"Well good luck, because that school will certainly give it their all." Mighty said.