//------------------------------// // Tuesday // Story: Equestria Girl. Wait, What's Equestria? // by Bysen //------------------------------// Twilight had absolutely no idea where her first class was. Hell, she’d already missed Homeroom, or ‘Form’ as it was called here. She was meant to have found them all yesterday but obviously that didn’t happen. The bell had rang almost an hour ago now and she couldn’t make heads or tails of the map. The scaling was all off to start with so even figuring out where she even was was hard. She had spent ages just wandering around and managed to find her next classroom at least. Of course she’d walked past it again twice since then so knowing her luck, she’d never be able to find it again once she needed too. She knew it had been a while at this point and began to wonder how lon…. she stopped wondering as the bell rang. Great, she’d missed her first class entirely. Now back to her second class: advanced mathematics. Knowing her luck she’d probably find the class she just missed now. But hey, whaddya know... she found the one she was actually looking for. And even managed to find her next two classes on the way. Things where starting to look up. Sure she was five minutes late to this class, but luckily the teacher wasn’t there yet either. And better yet, there were only about ten other students. That may sound like a lot but seems all the classes were made to fit thirty so students she had tons of space to herself. She quickly took a seat in the middle row on the far side. To picture it, there are five rows of desk with six in each row. She chose 3:6 As Twilight started to set up her set up she didn’t notice as the teacher walked in. He wore a brown coat, had short gelled back hair and oddest of all, wore a red bow-tie. But really, compared to the fez he wore last year it was actually pretty tame for this eccentric mathamagician. He walked up to the rather long waist high desk in front of the class. He pulled out a marker and wrote across the whiteboard ‘Professor’ then pulled out some chalk and continued on the blackboard right next to the other ‘Whooves’. “Good morning class.” he announced with a rather surprising accent. “Welcome to Advanced Numeracy and Physics. My name is Professor Whooves. You may call me Professor Whooves, Professor, Prof, Whooves or Sir. Though I also hold a PhD, anyone who calls me Doctor or any variation on that will be failing this class.” he said with glee. “Is that understood?!” “You can’t do that.?” Twilight said, raising her hand. “You have to grade us on purely academic criteria.” she wasn’t trying to talk back… she just didn’t realise that she was. “If you were to fail a passing test and your work where to be parsed by a reviewing body then you would likely be in trouble with the school board.” she said factually and accurately Whooves looked towards the girl who’d spoken up. “Well congratulations Twilight Sparkle.” he said, easily recognised the girl. Quite frankly; so did every other teacher at the school. To squash that however, Principle Celestia had sent out a memorandum to all staff informing them of this Twilight not being the same person and that they should treat her just like any other student. And so he did. “You’ve just volunteered to be my whipping boy this semester.” “But I… I… uh…” she lowered her voice and hand and muttered “Well I guess I might as well called you Doctor too then. Doesn’t really make a difference now I guess.” “What was that Twilight?!” he asked and she just sunk into her seat. Twilight had told Principle Celestia she’d make an effort to at least give this school a shot. It was apparent she’d gotten off on the wrong foot with this teacher to begin with. And if this guy was any indication as to the rest of the school, she was still planning on leaving by the end of the week. What did she have to lose at this point? “I said, well I might as well call you Doctor then seems it doesn’t really make much of a difference then.” “Huh!” he chuckled at her defiant act… he liked this girl. She had spunk! Of course he wouldn't show this and to hold authority with the rest of his class, he had to be a hard-arse, but he certainly looked forward to the semester ahead of them. Whether they liked it or not didn’t matter. “Well then! Now as our little ‘princess’ has pointed out I DO indeed have to grade you based on your performance. Long story short: day one test!” he practically shouted, which was just how he talked normally. He pulled out a stack of exams and began passing them around to the class. Twilight was actually surprised at how short it was at only ten pages. Then again this was only the first day and was likely more to just see who knew what. Of course it was a joint-years class so the students a year ahead of her who had been taking Physics last year had a distinct advantage. Twilight received her test last before Doctor Whooves returned to the front of the class. “You have fifty minutes. Go!” he announced but didn’t stop talking afterwards. “Each of you will be partnered up with someone depending on how well you do on this test. The highest score will be matched with the lowest to help balance out the difference. You will be partnered with this person for the rest of the semester. So I feel sorry for whoever is partnered with Twilight here!” Naturally Twilight finished the test with time to spare. Finally looking up she saw Doctor Whooves leaning back in his chair with his feet up on the table. You know, the way that any student would get yelled at for doing. He was reading some magazine, again they’d get in trouble for that. Looking from him to the clock she realised she still had… “Pens down!” he shouted a lot louder than he really needed to. “Papers up the front and you may go.” he finished right as the bell rang. “Tomorrow you’ll be paired with your partners and then we’ll start the first lesson, followed by your first assignment.” and he was out the door before any of his students were. It was his lunch time now as well after all. Twilight gathered her books and left the classroom. It was only the first lunch break of the day: twenty minutes long. So instead of heading to the cafeteria and eating, Twilight decided she’d try to ACTUALLY find the rest of her classes. She’d found three so far. Of course three of her classes were a form of science and were all in the same block which only left her looking for History and English. And her Form class too. After realising the class she'd missed was also a science class she found it right across the hall from those other too... four down two to go. The halls weren't as full as they were between classes but there were still plenty of other people just hanging out by their lockers or talking with friends. Twilight still felt their eyes on here as much as yesterday but at least she was ready for it this time. It still creeped her the frick out of course but she could handle it… for now. BATHROOM!!! She ducked into a toilets. THE toilets. Same one as yesterday. Correction: she thought she could handle it but thinking she could handle it made her think about it even more. And more, and more… and it quickly got overwhelming. It was quiet in here, no prying eyes. That girl… Fluttershy? had been right. This was a nice and quiet, and more importantly, empty bathroom. She planned on coming here a lot over the next year. Wait, year? She still had to choose. It wasn’t a hard choice so far. She absolutely HATED that last guy. That test had been SOOO hard. To give that on the first day? Twilight had aced it of course but if this was a day-one test she could only imagine how hard the end of semester exams would be. Just the thought made her giddy and shiver with antici……….pation! She loved challenge. In fact, that may be the best way to not think about everyone ‘knowing her’ like they did. She hadn’t even thought about how Doctor Whooves had known her name, and surely all eyes had been on her back in that class. This was meant to be the best school in the city after all. The hard work would likely keep her nose in a book for the majority of the year anyway and away from everyone else. Everyone… expect Silverspoon. They’d met in a library and she seemed smart. She was going to this school after all so she had to be smart. She wanted to see that girl again. Not to mention finding where the library was exactly instead of just randomly running to it wasn't a bad idea either. Twilight dramatically calm herself down without even noticing it. She now had a task to focus her attention as she stepped out the door and back into the hallway. The bell rang. Dang it. Looks like she’d have to wait to find Silverspoon. For now, it was on to her next class.