//------------------------------// // Viral Propaganda // Story: Sonic High // by sonicdash759 //------------------------------// The next morning, Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles made their way to Canterlot High School feeling refreshed and ready to learn...or in Sonic’s case, think of a way to help Twilight win the crown. As groups of students made their way inside, got off their buses or parked their cars, Principal Celestia’s voice was heard over the intercoms throughout campus. “Good morning students and happy Thursday. Just a reminder to pick up your ballots for the princess of the Fall Formal today. They are due by the time the dance starts tomorrow night, so don’t forget to turn them in and make your voice heard.” Tails bumped Sonic with an elbow as the announcements ended. “You hear that Sonic? We only have until TOMORROW night! If Twilight’s gonna win, we have to get working NOW!” he said worriedly. As the 3 boys entered the school, a rather slightly nervous Twilight and Spike made their way out of the library only to be greeted with many students pointing and laughing at the now confused and scared ‘Princess’. As Twilight was about to turn a corner, she was suddenly grabbed and pulled into a vacant classroom. Sonic noticed this and decided to follow before nearly running into Applejack! “Hey! What in tarnation? Watch where you’re goin!” she warned in a rather annoyed tone. Sonic screeched to a halt. “Woah! Sorry!” He then noticed this person seemed rather familiar. “Applejack??” he blinked before noticing Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy following her. “What the? Fluttershy? Pinkie??” Pinkie Pie froze and looked back in surprise with a slight hint of joy. “How’d you know my name?? Well then again it’s a pretty obvious name since I wear A LOT of Pink everyday!” she exclaimed before looking back at the stranger. “So what’s YOUR name? Maybe It’s Blue? Bluey? Spike?” She quickly said. Sonic chuckled. [Yep...same old Pinkie Pie.] he thought to himself. “I’m Sonic! Sonic Th--erm...yeah. You can just call me Sonic!” he introduced, hoping Pinkie didn’t suspect anything. The frizzy-haired girl simply smiled and shook Sonic’s hand erratically. “Well it’s nice to meetcha Sonic! Oh! That reminds me! I’m looking for a friend of mine! I bet she’d love to meet you! She also reminds me of some other girl who looks just like her, lives in the city nearby, and has a pet dog named Spike just like my friend!” she explained before dragging Sonic off in the direction of the classroom. Tails and (I call him Dan Green) Knuckles saw this and decided to follow too. In the classroom, Twilight now had a complete change of wardrobe including a blonde wig, a green shirt, skirt, and legwarmers. Standing beside her was a rather satisfied Rarity. “Perfect! No one will recognize you now!” she happily declared. Twilight just stared, confused. “Why wouldn’t I want to be recognized??” She questioned. Rarity didn’t answer, too busy thinking about the purple dog poking its head out of Twilight’s backpack. “And I suppose we’ll need a disguise for your little dog too, which is too bad!” she said while scratching under Spike’s chin. The puppy just stared, entranced by Rarity’s beauty, not noticing he was pushing himself out of Twilight’s backpack until finally falling to the floor. Rarity turned away as she went back into her ‘designer’s drawing board.’ “I suppose I could whip up something along the lines of a white rabbit costume.” she pondered. Twilight just stared, confused even more. “Rabbit?” she asked. Suddenly, Applejack appeared at the door to the room. “There ya are Twilight!” Rarity frowned, annoyed that her clever disguise wasn’t so ‘clever’ after all. “So much for the disguise.” she said, looking away with her arms crossed. “Ah’ve been lookin all over for ya!” Applejack smiled as she walked in along with Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie who appeared ABOVE the door frame UPSIDE DOWN! “Me too…” Fluttershy quietly said. “Me three!!” Pinkie exclaimed before rushing over to Twilight and looking over her new threads. “I like your new look!” she commented, smiling. Sonic, Tails, and Knuckles also came in. “Us too.” Tails said. Rarity had her back turned to the group, still upset about her failed plan. “Again, I do have an eye for these sorts of things. Not that you’d seem to care.” she said. Twilight blinked. “Why do you think she doesn’t..” she was interrupted when she noticed Pinkie’s face turning red in anger. Applejack crossed her hands in front of her throat, motioning for her to stop talking. Fluttershy just covered her mouth, watching with a worried expression. The 3 boys just watched in confusion. Twilight decided to stop there and move on. “Nevermind. So why were you all looking for me?” she asked, unsure of what was going on. Fluttershy frowned as well as Tails and Knuckles. “Oh no. She hasn’t seen it yet.” “Seen what??” Twilight and Sonic asked. Pinkie Pie pulled out a pink laptop with her balloon cutie mark symbol where the company logo/icon would be. She flipped it open and pulled up the Youtube.com website where a video was already there, ready to play. “Oh it’s really not that bad!” she lied, hoping to lighten the mood as she clicked play. The 3 girls surrounded Twilight as she sat down in a desk with the laptop in front of her. Sonic, Tails and Knuckles watched from the side as to not get in the way. The video started. It showed Snips and Snails’ recordings of Twilight in the library. Meanwhile Sunset Shimmer’s voice came on through the speakers. “Twilight Sparkle wants to be YOUR Fall Formal Princess. But what does it say about our school if we give someone like THIS such an important honor?” Through the video, Twilight was seen in a certain angle, making her facial expressions seem rather goofy and dumb. Before it cut to the next scene, the faces of Twilight were zoomed in on as a negative color effect appeared. After 3 scenes, the video ended. Twilight couldn’t believe what she had just seen. The video made her look like a total idiot! “I...I-I..” was all she could say. Pinkie frowned before closing the laptop and putting it back in her bag. “I take that back. It’s pretty bad!” she whispered. Sonic fought the urge to laugh. Those faces were too funny! Everyone in the room noticed this and frowned. The blue haired adolescent cleared his throat and did his best to sound serious. “Er I mean…This is terrible!” he frowned. Twilight turned back to the rest of the group. “But that was all just yesterday in the library! Has everyone in the school seen this?? Is that why they’re all looking at me that way??” she asked, now scared. Her chances of fitting in were crushed! The girls looked away and ‘errh’ed’ Twilight put her head down on the desk with her arms crossed. “What am I gonna do?? Nobody’s gonna vote for me after seeing this!” she said with a nervous tone. Fluttershy approached. “Not that it’ll make any difference but i’ll still vote for you.” she assured, trying to cheer Twilight up. It was the least she could do. Twilight’s head dropped to the desk with a loud *Bonk* “It was so nice of you to stand up for me when Sunset Shimmer was picking on me yesterday!” she commented. Meanwhile, Sonic took a seat in another empty desk. “This could take awhile.” he said to himself as he put his feet up on the top of the desk, unaware that he along with the rest of the group was being watched from outside of the classroom door. Sunset Shimmer frowned. “Hmm...looks like everything’s going according to plan but I can’t help but feel that something’s not right…” she pondered before pulling out her cell phone once again. This time going to the camera app and snapping a picture of Sonic from the small glass window. She then dialed a number. “Hey….No not yet...I do have his picture and i’ll send it to you...you just make sure NO ONE goes near that portal!...WHAT?! Great. That little nerd has his eyes on the darn thing! Just make sure to keep it off limits...for now. We still have until tomorrow night. And be ready to take him on when I say so! ...don’t worry about Twilight. She’s MY problem. Yeah...yeah. Ok then. Later.” she ends before sending Sonic’s photo. “By tomorrow night, You two will be sorry you ever set foot into this world.” she whispers before going off to take care of other business.