"So, which sport shall we compete in first?" Windlash asked smugly. She and the Shadowcolts now stood opposite of the Mane 11 outside. All unimportant students stood on the sidelines, watching.
"Hello?" Silver Arrow waved her navy bow in the air. "Archery, of course!"
"Be quiet," Flash snapped at her.
"I think I have a way out of this," Twilight whispered to Rarity. She stepped closer to Flash. "Uh, Flash, sweetie? These girls - and guy - seem like bad news. Can you please tell them to stop whatever they're doing? For me?" She batted her eyes, hoping he'd agree. Flash folded his arms.
"It isn't gonna be like that, Twilight. I don't even know what I saw in you in the first place!" he snapped.
"Flash, stop speaking to the enemy," Windlash directed. Flash immediately turned to her.
"Right away!" he replied. Glasses smirked.
"Girls," she murmured so only the friend group could hear, "I think Flash is smitten with Windlash!" Rarity and Adagio rolled their eyes. Everyone else giggled at the hilarity of that.
"Enough talk!" Rainbow Dash announced, smashing her fists in an excited manner, "let's just go already!"
"Your pick," taunted a member of the Shadowcolts with a long black braid.
"Pinkie! Sport!" Rainbow commanded.
"Cricket!" Pinkie replied confidently, pulling a cricket ball out of her rainbowfied hair.
"Cricket?" yelled a nearby student named Zero in disbelief. "Nobody understands cricket! You gotta understand crumpets to understand cricket!" Pinkie Pie grinned and waved the ball in his face.
"Oh, believe me!" she replied, "I know everything about crumpets!"
*~*
"How did they beat us at cricket?" Rainbow Dash panted when the game was over. She wiped the sweat off on her red mask. "Man, why couldn't they be good guys?"
"Aw, don't give up!" Adagio encouraged them sarcastically. "We still have all day to show them up!"
"Archery!" Silver Arrow interrupted. Fluttershy and Applejack gripped their bows in hands.
"Not now," they told her. Silver Arrow rolled her eyes and stomped off.
"You guys are mean girls!" she called over her shoulder.
The Mane 11 looked back at the Shadowcolts. They all were in a triumphant pose. Windlash wore a gloating smirk.
"She reminds me of me two months ago," Adagio muttered, folding her arms, obviously reluctant to admit the fact.
"So, what else do you wanna play?" Descent asked. "Cheer leading?"
"Hey, you don't insult cheer leading!" Pinkie screamed, jumping in the air. "I challenge Descent to a one-on-one cheerleading competition!" Everyone gasped. Descent's eyes dilated.
"W-what?"
"Hey, these are team sports!" Windlash interrupted. "Not individual challenged!"
"What? Are you scared?" Pinkie taunted, twirling a lock of hair around her finger.
"N-no!" Descent retorted, stomping his foot in protest. "Let's have this contest!"
Three minutes later, Descent was dressed in a miniskirt, his hair tied up in two ponytails. Pinkie stood across from him, dressed in a similar outfit, a pair of pom poms in her hands.
"Soooo? Do you forfeit yet?" Pinkie asked sweetly, doing a couple triple flips around her enemy.
"I know I'm supposed to be mad at you for losing," Whiplash giggled, "but this is too funny!"
"You shut up!" Descent shouted at her.
"I'm leader," Whiplash retorted, still smirking.
"So, I'd say the score is tied one to one," Glasses commented. "And I think Twilight here should pick next."
"Why, thanks!" Twilight smiled. "I know the perfect sport-
"Rainbow, she ain't gonna say ninjistu!" Applejack snapped. Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes.
"Okay, fine," she grumbled.
"As I was saying," Twilight continued, "we should have a contest in..."
"I cannot believe you decided on motorcycle racing, Twilight!" Rarity exclaimed crossly.
"I can't believe Pinkie Pie and Fluttershy are the only ones good at this!" Applejack retorted. Her arms were wrapped around Fluttershy's torso, and Rainbow Dash's arms were wrapped around hers.
"I used to ride a motorcycle," Sonata commented from behind Aria. "Then I lost my licence."
"That also might be the reason she's a few notes short of a chord," Aria added.
The 11 girls were split across four motorcycles. Pinkie rode on her own, her large hair taking up most of the space on the cycle. Glasses and Twilight rode behind Rarity, the Dazzlings, led by Aria, were on another. Rainbow Dash and Applejack sat behind Fluttershy, who was gripping the handlebars tightly.
"I learned from my ten older brothers," she explained to her friends, "but these kids are good."
"You're telling me!" Pinkie replied. "Even Descent recovered enough from his humiliation to beat me!"
"Another race?" a young Shadowcolt called, winking at the group.
"Ya win this round!" Applejack shouted. "Can we please just get back to school?"
"I was thinking the same thing," Aria agreed.
"Why does Adagio have to sit in front of me?" Sonata wondered. "All that hair is getting in my face!"
"That's exactly why," Adagio answered smugly as the group returned to school. Sonata muttered something inaudible.
When they got back to school, Rainbow Dash hopped off and ran into the bathroom.
"What?" Fluttershy asked. "Why'd she go?"
"Motion sickness," Applejack answered simply. Twilight cocked her head in confusion.
"Weird, considering she's a pegasus where I come from," she noted.
"Uh, guys, we have bigger problems!" Pinkie commented. "I'm kinda feeling tired!"
"That's your problem?" Glasses asked.
"No, not really!" Pinkie shrugged.
"We still have the Shadowcolts to deal with," Rarity reminded them as Windlash came up.
2 hours later, the Shadowcolts had beaten the Mane 11 at a jillion sports. Rainbow was especially humiliated because the entire school now doubted her sports skills.
"I think it's safe to say we've won here," Whiplash commented after a rather satisfying volleyball match. "What do you think, Flash?"
"You've definitely won!" he told her eagerly.
"My heart, that is," he added so quietly only Rarity heard him.
"Wait, one more contest!" Twilight pleaded.
"Wait, why are we doing this again?" Aria asked.
"Archery!" Silver Arrow cut in. Everyone looked at her.
"Oh, why the heck not?" Rainbow Dash agreed.
"Sounds good to me!" Fluttershy added, high-fiving Applejack.
"Oh! We'll need special archery outfits!" Rarity clapped her hands together in excitement. "I can model them off my multi-colored Barbneigh dolls!"