//------------------------------// // #2-Attack of The Killer Triangle Monster! // Story: Sunset Shimmer: The Phoenix Knight of Canterlot High // by StarBlader //------------------------------// It was late at Canterlot High had basketball game and the girls were the stands watching it until. "This stinks," The girls overheard Scootaloo as she, Apple Bloom, and Sweetie Belle and Spike were across from them with glum faces. "Why the sad faces?" Rainbow asked them. "We were trying to become the first freshmen to sit in the Colt Cage but our impression ended badly," Scootaloo answered. "The Colt Cage?" Twilight asked. "Only the coolest of the cool gets to sit there," Spike told her as both of them look to Crash Clyde tripped himself landing face first on the hardwood making them cringe a bit. "That gotta leave a mark." "At least we're not sitting with marching band, they have splash zone," Sweetie Belle shuddered. "That's not so bad," Rarity said. Sweetie Belle gesture to them as they got thrown food on them then out of nowhere a tire hits a band member. One of them, Tri Tip played excessively on the triangle only for the crowed to boo him. "Tri Tip!" Ms. Firecracker exclaimed at him. "What did I tell you about showboating?!" Tri Tip continued to play. "Tri Tip! Your triangle's writing checks your dinger can't cash! You're benched until further notice! Hand over the dinger!" "You can take the dinger," He placed it on her hand. "But you'll never take my pride!" He runs out of the gym with tears in his face. "That poor guy," Fluttershy sighed. "He just wanted to express his love of music." ... With Tri Tip, he was in the bathroom crying his heart out but what didn't know that below the school floors lies the lair of the sinister Shadow King (The human version of King Sombra) who sealed away by last The Phoenix Knight in the last 50 years. "Misery, with subtle notes of utter humiliation, and slightest of flip sweat. He will do very nicely." A surge of black mist surrounded him and Shadow King send through the pipes were Tri Tip was and his glowed yellow as his dinger turned pitch black. In the band room... "Nice performance out there. Your B flats and minor sevenths weren't bad either," Miss Firecracker said to them as one of them did the sad trombone music. "Gully, cool it with the trombone jokes." A growl is heard and transform Tri Tip burst into the room. He lets out a roar to the room. Sunset head for her motorcycle preparing go home until she hears screams from the band room, she look around to see anyone was in the area to wit no one was there. She pulls the necklace from under her shirt and transformed. Back at the band room, Tri Tip ripped apart a tuba, roaring at the band students. He picks up a piano with his bare hands. "It's Knight Time!" Phoenix Knight appear right in front of them. "Okay you, drop the piano!" Tri Tip heaves over her and heading the band team but Phoenix Knight slice it with her Phoenix Blade. Tri Tip throws a tuba at her but Phoenix caught it with magic and placed it on the ground showing much improvement from the first time. The band starting to take pictures of her and they snap out of it as a flute was thrown toward to them but Phoenix Knight caught it and gave the flute to its owner. Tri Tip grabbed two clarinets and twirl them around. "Hey, kid with the cowbells," Phoenix Knight looked a band player with cowbells. "Cowbell me!" He threw both cowbells at her with Phoenix Knight catching them spinning them around. "Time to drop the beat!" Tri Tip charges first, Phoenix Knight kicked him the face. He gets back up and counter the cowbells swings with the clarinets. Phoenix Knight spin around and slammed the cowbells on his face then magic blasted him into a wall. Phoenix Knight got a look at the monsters realized it was Tri Tip. "Okay, I have question, Tri Tip. What exactly happen to you?" She asked him. "If I can't play the triangle in the band , then nobody can!" Tri Tip said as he pushed on a self of instruments on a student with maracas is shaking with fear. Phoenix Knight got in front of him and use her hands to stop it from falling and pushed back into place as Tri Tip burst through a wall and left leaving a total silence in the band room with most of them trying comprehend what just happened. "Well, that just happened," Phoenix Knight mummers to herself before teleporting herself out of there. The next day, Sunset was in the libary feeling somewhat tiring as she spent all of last night finding Tri Tip hoping that he didn't hurt anybody in the city. "Never look for a runaway monster on a school night," Sunset moans before pulling her journal. "Princess Twilight? You there, we have a problem." I'm here Sunset was the problem? "Just the other night, I fought a monster that resembles Tri Tip, member of the Canterlot Band Team. I have sudden feeling there's more to this I mean you don't turn into a monster like that out of the blue. I was hoping you shed some light." Perhaps I can. He must've been transformed by the Shadow King. "Who's that?" The Shadow King, is a ruthless spirit who seek to rule your world. However the previous Phoenix Knight sealed him away. His magic can possess those who vulnerable using that which he holds dear. "Okay, if someone gets emotional, the Shadow King can turn them into monsters. How do I change them back." You have to destroy the thing they love the most to break the spell. "Okay, that one more question? What is the thing that Tri Tip love the most?" Sunset thought. In the lair of the Shadow King... "With my latest creation spreading chaos, I shall grow in power. And once I have enough I shall break the seal and escape destroy the Phoenix Knight and rule everything!" Shadow King said before laughing evilly. With Sunset she was at the courtyard planning how reverse monster curse from Tri Tip. "I need a way to get Tri Tip back here, but how can I do that," Sunset think about it then look at Vinyl Scratch and Octavia playing music to where an idea popped in her head. "And I think I know how." ... It's was another basketball game but this once game reached halftime a special performance by Vinyl and Octavia was going on as this was Sunset's plan. With them performing it draw out Tri Tip to where her alter-ego can take action. To her luck Tri Tip burst through the doors and roars making the crowd gasps as Phoenix Knight made her entrance. "Okay, Tri Tip, I do really feeling like beating a band geek, but..." A basketball hits her right into her guts. "But I willing to make a exception." "Okay, think how can I remove the Shadow King's hold him? Remember what Princess Twilight said, Destroy the thing they love the most. Which is the back-up dinger!" Phoenix Knight pulled out a rope and lasso the back dinger but Tri Tip stepped on the rope preventing her from retrieving it. Phoenix Knight blinded him with two flash orbs allowing her to grab it then she procced to slice the dinger in half by her blade turning the band player back to normal as the black mist disappear into the vent . "Go Phoenix! Go Phoenix!" The students cheered her as she saved the day again. "You're too kind!" Phoenix Knight said before leaping out of the gym.