//------------------------------// // Gotta start somewhere // Story: Another Chance // by Small Muffin //------------------------------// Sunset walked into the school with a rather annoyed look on her face, causing everyone to keep their distance more than usual. Why did it have to be her? Out of everyone on that wall, it had to land on her. She looked around the entrance hall, seeing if she could catch Trixie before she went to homeroom. How am I ever gonna get through to her? She noticed Trixies face on a poster on the message board, she approached the poster and read it to herself. Come one, come all, The Great And Powerful Trixie requests your assistance. She just shook her head, and continued reading. The Great And Powerful Trixie is running to be your Fall Formal Princess, and while my victory is all but assured, You told me the same thing two years ago, and how did that end again? your assistance would be greatly appreciated. If you would like to assist, come to room C3 at homeroom. "Guess I'll see you in a minute then." she said as she walked off towards the aforementioned room. Trixie sat in C3, waiting to see if anymore people would show, so far Snips, Snails, Pinkie and Rarity had showed up to help. "Is this really everyone? I expected more." Rarity said. "Give them time, they'll come. I mean why wouldn't they?" Trixie replied. "Everyone knows Sunset isn't running this year, I even asked her, so she wouldn't-" "I wouldn't what?" everyone turned to see Sunset enter the room, Snips and Snails looked at each other and nodded. "Um, look, Trixie, we'd love to help but..." Snails said, avoiding all eye contact with Sunset, "...we, we just remembered we've got, plans right now. So we're gonna have to go." "What kind of plans?" Trixie asked. "Well, we, we need to-" "Oh whatever it is this is clearly more important, otherwise you wouldn't have come here." they sat back down as Trixie looked over at Sunset, still in the doorway. "Hi Sunset, Trixie wasn't expecting to see you." Sunset walked in and took a seat between Pinkie and Rarity. "I mean, you said you weren't running, and you even said that if Trixie wanted to, she could run instead." "I know I said that, but I'm here because I saw the poster." Sunset replied. "Wait, you mean, you-" "Yep, I wanna help out. So what's the plan?" Sunset asked. "Oh you don't need to help us with this, it'll just waste your time." Trixie replied. "Well, I'm staying." she said leaning back in her chair, a clear sign she wasn't leaving anytime soon. "You, your serious?" Sunset nodded, "Well ok then." Trixie looked at everyones faces, none seemed too happy about this, but there was no arguing with Sunset. "We were just waiting to see if anyone else would show up, but I guess this is it, so if no one has anything to say-." "Ooh, I do I do, mememe!" Pinkie swung her arm in the air, "What's the point in winning peoples votes if no one is going against you?" she asked, tilting her head. "Trixie needs to be ready for any competition. Just because no one else is running now doesn't mean no one will. Anyone else?" No one said anything, "Ok. So, The Great And Powerfull Trixie would like you to help he-" "I'm sure we all know that dear, just tell us how we can help." Rarity said, much to Trixies dismay. "Right now all I really have are just a bunch of posters for you to put up around school today." she pointed over to a massive pile of posters on the front desk. "Trixie thought she would come up with something but, she hasn't." The bell went, meaning their little meeting was over, and everyone got up and ready to leave. Sunset was about to ask Trixie if she could talk to her for a minute, if not for her being the first out the room, so she instead turned to Snips and Snails. "Hey, you two." she didn't get an answer, "I just wanna say I'm sorry for yesterday, I went to far and I never should have lost it like that. I'm sorry." she immediately walked out instead of waiting for a response. Rarity and Pinkie just looked at each other, while the other two just put some posters in their bag to put up later. "So she was right." Rarity mumbled. "Who with what now?" Pinkie asked. "Nothing, I should get to class." she said as she got up and left in a rush. "Aaww come on!" Pinkie turned to the two at the front, "Sunset seemed a bit different today, you two know why?" They both just shrugged "No idea, she was extremely mad yesterday, and now she's the complete opposite." Snips said. "Mad? She seemed happy yeterday, I've never seen her smile like that before." they both looked at her, "Oh well, class time, see you two later." she waved goodbye as she too, left the room. When break came around, Sunset returned to C3 to grab some posters to put around school, it was better than doing nothing, and at least this way she wasn't just sitting around doing nothing. She walked in to find Trixie sitting on her own, writing something. I guess now's a good time. "Hey Trixie, you ok?" Trixie quickly looked up, "Ohwha, oh hi Sunset, the... the posters are over there if you wanna take some," she said in a rather nervous tone. Here goes nothing. "You ok, you don't seem yourself?" she asked. "Trixie's fine, you don't need to bother with her." she said, her tone unchanged. Sunset sighed, and sat next to her, "You don't have to be scared, I'm not gonna do anything." "Trixie isn-" she began quickly. "Yeah you are, I've seen it all before." Trixie laughed, and put on a clearly fake smile, "Trixie doesn't get scared, Sunset." "Then why is your hand shaking?" Trixie quickly moved her hand out of view, "Anyway, what are you doing here?" "Oh, Trixie's just trying to come up with ideas to try and win votes, thats all." Sunset looked down at the blank piece of paper in front of Trixie, "No ideas so far?" "Well, no." Sunset noticed her nervousness was slowly beginning to die down, "But Trixie will come up with something, don't worry." This is a bad idea. "How about a magic show? You did one two years ago." Sunset asked. Trixie sighed and set her head down on the desk, "Yes I did, but it didn't go well. Why do you think Trixie hasn't done one since?" "Well, actually, about that." she mumbled, Trixie looked up at her, "I... Nevermind, can we talk at lunch? I should probably start putting those posters up." she asked, getting up and walking to the front desk. "Sure. There's not many of them left though, Pinkie took over half the pile." Sunset laughed lightly, "Wait, we have class together next, right?" Trixie asked, getting up herself. "Yep. Maths with Cranky, can't wait to be bored out of my mind." she joked, bringing a smile to Trixies face. "Can you tell him Trixie won't be there, I'd like to just, stay here with this for now." "Sure, you need any help, just ask." Sunset walked out with a pile of posters and and a stapler. "Wait, one more thing," Sunset turned back around, "Trixie knows she asked this before but, why aren't you running?" she asked. "I'll tell you later." Sunset walked off. This is turning out to be easier than I thought it would be.