The Queens of Mean
Code Word: #TheQueenofMean
An overnight slumber party at Princess Twilight’s castle has turned somewhat disastrous due to an unscheduled rain storm that has blown into town from the Everfree Forest. The castle itself has become a refuge for other ponies within the town, and everypony is pitching in to help them ride out the storm.
While you’re searching for supplies you come across a room of the castle that you’ve never seen before. Inside is a large standing mirror that appears to be glowing brightly. In the darkness you catch several dark forms suddenly darting for the mirror! They appear to be ponies and in the bleak light you see a floating withered old page being held in one of their hooves. You realize quickly that it’s one of the pages from the Book that everypony has been searching for.
Before you can say anything, the mirror glows even brighter as they pass into it. You reach out to grab the final form, catching onto them and being drawn into the surface of the mirror itself. Time and space seem to disappear and you pass out.
When you come to, you’re lying on the ground in front of what appears to be a large horse statue and you’re outside what appears to be a school. The statue is sitting in its courtyard.
“Great, you got caught, Juniper,” a voice says.
“It wasn’t my fault, they caught the edge of my jacket as I came through the portal,” another voice replies.
Your eyes dart up to see several tall forms standing around you. Their forms are definitely much different than your own, but you definitely recognize them as teenage girls.
The girl in front is a pale yellow and on her head a mop of pink hair with white streaks in it. She appears to be wearing a fashionable dress. And she’s the one holding the page.
You rack your brain for a few moments, recalling that Princess Twilight used to talk about another world that was accessible through a portal known as Canterlot High. You must have found your way there!
“Who are you?” you ask as you stand, feeling rather wobbly. “What happened?”
“Just push them back into the portal and let’s go already,” another voice says.
You glance about, taking in the five girls in front of you. Besides their apparent leader, there’s another pale green one with teal green hair in ponytails, a light green one with a rats nest of dark green hair, and two humans in sparkling outfits with big hair; one of them is blue and the other is yellow and both of them have hearts underneath their eyes.
“I don’t think that’s such a good idea, Vignette,” the girl with the rat's nest for hair says. “If they tell anyone there what they saw…”
“Oh you’re still here, Wallflower? I thought you disappeared,” the one called Vignette says. “You do make a point though. Seriously, K-Lo, you’re so violent.”
“Well we need to do something,” the one called K-Lo, the yellow-skinned human with the sparkling outfit, says. “We can’t just let them go, right Su-Z?”
“We could rewrite them out of existence with the page,” Su-Z, the blue-skinned human with the sparkling outfit, offers.
“That’s a bit dark, I like it,” the girl with the ponytails says. “We’d better make a decision soon here before someone comes out and sees us out here. Not exactly popular here at Canterlot High.”
“Yes, yes. I’m thinking,” Vignette says, putting a hand up to her temple. “Here’s the deal. We need this page so we can rewrite our own stories. So you can either help us or try to stop us. What’s it going to be?”
[CHOICE]
> Convince the girls to stop what they’re doing and give you the page for safekeeping. (Hero)
> Join the girls and help them achieve their goals. (Villain)
[ENDING A: HERO]
“Hold on,” you say, finally grasping the situation at hand. “You don’t know how dangerous that thing is. One stray thought and you could hurt a lot of people.”
“I think that’s the point,” K-Lo says.
“Seriously, K-Lo?” Su-Z says. “Not cool.”
“I didn’t sign up to hurt anyone,” Wallflower says from behind the one you’ve assumed is called Juniper. “Right, Juniper? We just wanted to make people like us again.”
“There’s a better way you can do that, you know,” you reply with a smile. “It’s called the magic of friendship, and if you’d like… I could help you with it. My name is [USERNAME], and I’d like to be your friend if you’d let me.”
Vignette scowls for a moment. “Do you really think you could help us become better people?” she asks.
“Princess Twilight always taught us to put our best hand forward to others, even to those who may have strayed from the path,” you say, extending one of your hands to Vignette. “Trust me?”
Vignette smiles softly before depositing the page into your hand. “Fine, you got me interested,” she says.
You smile as the other girls come over, clearly interested in being your friend.
(+1 pages for Heroes)
[ENDING B: VILLAINS]
“Join you? Sure,” you say. “That page has got a lot of power in it. I’m sure we could use it to rule here.”
“Excellent!” Vignette says with a grin. “Girls, gather around. It’s time we got our due.”
The others huddle about as Vignette holds the page up. It glows brightly and suddenly each girl has an Equestrian artifact hovering in front of them. You immediately recognize the Memory Stone and the Time Twirler, while the girl with the ponytails holds a magical mirror and Vignette’s phone suddenly glows with magical power.
You look down and feel your own body rejuvenated with magic and you grin widely.
“This is going to be lots of fun,” you say as you follow the others towards destiny.
(+1 pages for Villains)