Chapter One
"Sweetie! Sparkie!" Rarity called up the stairs to the shared bedroom of Sweetie and Sparkie, "Time to go! You don't want to be late on the first day!"
"Coming!" the two fillies replied simultaneously.
Two sets of hooves were heard hurriedly coming down the stairs. The door to Rarity’s workroom opened and Rarity saw the two near identical fillies out of the corner of her eye. In order to distinguish the two fillies, Sparkie wore her mane up in a tight bun while Sweetie kept hers down in the style she had always kept it in. Sparkie had a metallic pink saddlebag over her back and Sweetie had done the same with her light violet one.
“Your lunches are on the kitchen counter” Rarity said, refocusing her eyes on her work.
The twins, understanding Rarity needed quiet to finish a large order for next week, left the workroom without another word and headed into the kitchen. After grabbing their matching pink and purple lunch tins and placing them in their saddlebags with their copious amount of school supplies, the two fillies left the boutique and made their way to the schoolhouse.
“Good morning class, and welcome back!” Ms. Cheerilee greeted the entirety of her students as they sat restlessly, “We have a new student joining us this year. Why don’t you come up here and introduce yourself?”
Sparkie got out of her desk behind her sister and made her way up to the front of the classroom. As she walked, all the foals besides her friends and sister kept on shifting their gaze to the robotic filly and her sister, very curious about how similar their appearances were and if that had any indication that they might related.
“Hi, I’m Sparkie Belle.” the robotic filly introduced herself cheerily, “I’m Sweetie’s sister.”
The young filly then returned to her desk. The students wanted to ask her questions but they knew that this wasn’t the right time to ask.
“Alright, to kick off the school year,” Ms. Cheerilee started up again, “Over the next two weeks we’re going all going to write a paper on what we did over summer vacation.”
Ring! Ring
The recess bell rang and the schoolyard was full of playful foals in a matter of seconds. Among those were Apple Bloom, Scootaloo, Sparkie and Sweetie, the Cutie Mark Crusaders. They dashed and pranced around the schoolyard they enjoyed a friendly game of tag.
Sweetie Belle was “it” and chasing Scootaloo. She was within a foot of her pegasus friend. She reached her hoof out to tag her and-
Whomp!
She tripped over a tree root.
Sparkie, seeing her sister had fallen, ran to her side, as did the other crusaders.
"You okay, Sweetie?" the sentimental robot asked as she helped her sister to her hooves.
"Yeah, I'm fine. I just tripped, is all." her sister and best friend replied as she dusted some dirt off her knees.
"So how's are little infiltration bot doing?"
"She’s made great progress."
"Really?"
"Yes, she’s not only gained contact but also has gained a certain level of trust from the ponies."
"That’s wonderful! Our plan is far ahead of schedule!"
"Yes, if she keeps this up we can terminate the elements of harmony in just a few months."