Sunset Shimmer: The Phoenix Knight of Canterlot High

by StarBlader


#4-I Scream for Potatoes

Phoenix Knight lets out a scream as she’s thrown harshly into a tree, causing it to tilt as she falls to the ground.

“Ow. that’s going to hurt...” She groaned as she picked herself up.

A large shadow covers her and she looks up to see the giant robot she has been fighting for the past few minutes. The robot tried to stomp her but vanished at the last second to leave a large footprint making it look around in confusion. But it didn’t last long as it found Phoenix Knight and chucked a large rock at her she sliced with her blade and then lunged at the robot but it did nothing as the robot grabbed her at the waist and then burped in her face.

“EWWW!” She exclaimed as she kicked him off and then gagged. “Robot breath! G-R-O-S-S!”

The robot tried to stomp her but she slid out of the way. She then eventually stumbles back in front of a cliff. Phoenix Knight sees a shovel uses her magic to grab it then swings it down. The robot’s head bobs around at the sudden attack, closing its legs and holding the attacked area. Then Phoenix Knight jumped behind the robot and kicked him over the edge of the cliff. Once it hits the bottom, it explodes, sending a pillar of heat and parts into the air and straight at her but she jumps out of the way.

“There’s stronger force the law of gravity!” She shouted. “A speaking of which I need to get to class!”

With just enough time, Sunset made it before the morning bell rang as she saw Rainbow and Applejack.

“Hey, guys,” Sunset greeted them at their lockers. “What did I miss?”

“Not much, just the fact I’m failing science. Ms. Breezeway didn’t like my science project,” Rainbow grumbled she remembered her project presentation to her did not go well.

“Maybe getting kicked in the face by a soccer ball is not exactly a project,” Applejack told her.

“And now I need to get at least in the top ten in the science fair to pass,” Rainbow said.

“That’s not so bad,” Sunset shrugged.

“I don’t even have a project to start and it’s tomorrow.”

“Oh yeah, that's a problem.”


“You better not be coming in here to tell me your robot failed to destroy the knight,” Drake warns Roland as the scientist enters the room then is followed by Sarah and Garble.

“Forget it,” He turns back and leaves the room.

“Get back in here! I’m not done yelling at you!” Drake shouted but he was already gone.

“Oh, Daruis. Inisdie voice,” Sarah says quielty.

“Yes, my little sugar knuckles.”

“Ooh, meatball sub,” Garble sees a fresh sub and eats it.

“Garble’s science fair is coming up, and I thought you two could do a little father-stepson bonding.”

“When is it?”

“It’s tomorrow,” She told him then he gritted his teeth.

“What the matter, couldn’t wait until the absolute last minute?”

“I know you’re busy with evil planning and so forth. But it sure would be well.”

“Anything, for my little butter face,” he smiled then Sarah took leave leaving the two men.

“Hey, don’t build me nothing dumb.”

“Densen, get in here!” He presses the intercom button.

“Only if you’re not going to yell at me.”

“I WON’T!”

The next day...

“Hey Rainbow, Pinkie what you have under the sheet?” Sunset asked.

“Only the winner of the science fair, Shimmer!” Rainbow exclaimed. “So don’t be disappointed when we win.”

“I believe it when I see it,” Sunset said under her breath.

“What’s your project?” Pinkie asked her.

“Oven less baked brownies. I’ve mixed the right chemical...”

“You had me at brownies!” Pinkie reaches for one, but she slaps her hand.

“Not until I get my grade.”

“Now, as you see, our students put a lot of thought into their projects,” Ms. Breezeway told Principal Celestia.

“Any chance one of them came with some sort of self-perpetuating artificial food?” She asked her.

“I don’t think so, why?”

“No reason. Certainly not because someone had diverted the semester’s cafeteria budget to reaping Mr. Dunlap's car.” Celestia said as they arrived at Sunset’s stand.

“Ah, Miss Shimmer, one of my best students, What is your project?”

“I’m glad you asked. Do you hate baking brownies and how much time and effort do they take? Well no longer do you have a messy kitchen because of my project! No oven brownies!” Sunset said showing her a plate to Breezeway and Celestia they took a bit and both of them smiled.

“My, god, these are delicious,” She exclaimed in delight and gave her an A.

“Yeah, I’m screwed,” Rainbow as she pulls her invention which came from a robot that Phoenix Knight destroyed.

She slammed the box on the ground then it started to shake, blasting a powerful laser that zapped a potato from Crash Clyde’s remote.

“Hey! My project!” He exclaimed as he fell on his butt as the potato mutating and coming to life.

“What the,” Sunset hears the roar, looking up to see the potato. “Okay, that something you don’t see everyday.”

It didn’t take too long for Sunset to spring into action as Phoenix Knight as she slice it only for two to appear she repeated the process until there was a small army of them.

“So much slicing, and I really don’t want to cause a massive fire,” She said then only her troubles got even worse as Roland had built a built a killer robot from Garble’s science project which got a C-.

“You have to be kidding me! Seriously!” Phoenix Knight exclaimed.

She jumped on top of the robot then the robot tried everything to shake her off and which squish the small potatoes till there was not a mutated potato left.

“Once again, gravity rules!” She said then looks to see the cat and as the animal tried to get out a small beeping sound.

“Oh crud.”

She jumps out of there just as it went boom. Once she landed, the cat landed on top her head as she let it down to the ground.

“Okay, this has been the weirdest day of my life,” She mummers to herself then headed out of the gym.

“Okay students, whose project caused the potatoes to mutate?” She asked them hoping for someone to spill as Sunset slides up to see everyone go silent. “Too bad, the person who just solve the school’s footage along with Sunset’s, would have shared first place.”

“Right her, ma’am!” Rainbow hold her hand up.

However, she later found her first place in the science also landed her cleaning up the gym.

“Why do I have to clean up?” Rainbow complains as she mops.

“Well, you created an army of mutated potatoes that almost overrun the school,” Sunset said to her.

“Last time, I hand in something else as my project. I’m so dead, when my parents find out.”

“At least you got a A.”