//------------------------------// // Chapter 16 // Story: The Sun of My Heart // by BlueSun52 //------------------------------// Battle of the Couples! Part 3 And The Fires Turn Into Raging Flames! It was now Tuesday for everyone at Canterlot High as every girl at the school started duking it out with one another. They would trick one another, sabotage, upstage and anything they could do to win their chances at the Couples contest. All the guys that were dating most of the Rainboom were trying to set up a meeting to see what they could do to stop their girlfriends from killing one another but because of them, they were being kept close and watched over by them while attempting to win. One thing was for sure for the guys and that was it going to be a very long week for them. -Tuesday 7:45 A.M.- In front of the school, Sunset and Soul walked together side by side as they were holding hands. It was part of Sunset’s plan to get people to notice that they were a couple and to show how great of one they are. “So we’re really doing this?” Soul asked. “Yep,” Sunset simply replied. “And I suppose it’s not too late to reconsider all this and make up with our friends?” “Nope, it’s too late.” Soul let out a sigh. Not far behind them, Rainbow Dash saw the couple walk down the trail leading to the school. With a smug smile, she placed on sunglasses and got ready to put her plan into action. “Ready, good looking?” Rainbow Dash asked. Rivet also put on a pair of sunglasses and let out a weary sigh. “As if I have any choice,” he said. “Then let’s show them what an awesome couple we are,” Rainbow Dash said. Rainbow Dash wrapped her arm around Rivet’s while he had his hands in his pocket. The two then walked down the trail acting like they were cool and awesome in everyway possible. The two walked up next to Sunset and Soul. Both Sunset and Rainbow Dash glared at one another while the guys looked at each other and let out sighs. Then coming out of nowhere, Fluttershy and Night walked up on the other side of Sunset and Soul. Night wrapped his arm around Fluttershy closely to him like she wanted him to and gently held her while they walked. “Um Night, can you pull me in a little closer?” Fluttershy asked meekly. “If you don’t mind that is.” “Sure,” Night said as he pulled Fluttershy closer to him. Sunset and Rainbow Dash saw this and shot glares at Fluttershy who only ignored them and hid behind her hair. After that, coming up next to Rainbow Dash and Rivet, Clyde was holding Rarity in a bridal position. Clyde was kinda annoyed that Rarity wanted him to hold her like this but yet at the same time, he enjoyed it immensely. “Looks like me and Clyde have this race in the bag as they would say,” Rarity mocked as she looked at the other couples only to receive glares right at them. “Might as well give up while you all have the chanc-” “I need you all to move now!” Swift yelled. “She’s heavier than she looks!” Everyone pursed their lips and looked behind them and hung their mouths wide opened at what they saw. Carrying Pinkie over his shoulder and holding her arm for balance, Swift was walking down the trail carefully as he tried to hurry to get inside while at the same time not losing his balance and dropping her. The two walked pass the couples and inside the building while everyone was cheering and hooting for them. The others stood in place dumbfounded while Applejack watched the whole thing behind them with Big Mac. She let out an irritated sigh and took a bite from her apple. She munched and gulped down the bite before she spoke. “This is going to be a long week,” she commented. “Eeyup,” Big Mac said in agreement. -Tuesday 8:30 A.M.- Class had already started and everyone in the class was doing silent reading. Rarity read her book silently to herself as she was unaware that something was about to happen to her. Pinkie was a few desks behind her as she was aiming her eraser at her. After a few adjustments and accounting for the wind, Pinkie flicked the eraser away and it landed on the back of Rarity’s head. Rarity felt a small bump on the back of her head and looked behind her to see what it was. All she could see was everyone reading and looked down to see only a lone eraser on the ground. She looked around for a moment more and shrugged it off as she went back into reading her book. Pinkie hid behind her book to make sure Rarity didn’t know she was there. She peeked to see Rarity was back at reading her book again and grabbed another eraser from her desk. She aimed it once more and flicked another one at her. It did the same thing and hid behind her book once more. Rarity felt the same bump again and looked behind her quickly with an angry glare. Once again, she saw the same result as before as she didn’t see anyone suspicious of doing it. She let out a humph and got back at reading her book. Pinkie snickered behind her book and quickly flickered another one at her. This time she didn’t look back as Rarity was trying to ignore it and continue on reading. Just as Pinkie was hoping for Rarity to do. She continually kept flicking dozens of erasers at Rarity until a vain could be seen on Rarity forehead. Rarity shot up in her chair and looked back behind her with an enraged expression. “WOULD YOU STOP DOING THAT!?” she yelled as it got everyone jumping from the sudden outburst. After a moment of catching her breath, her expression turned blank when she realized that she was still in the middle of class and all the students were staring at her. She turned around to see the teacher with a raised brow. Her cheeks were tinted bright red and she put on a sheepish smile. “Hehe, sorry,” Rarity said. -Tuesday 10:45 A.M.- Sunset scribbled down her answers as she was answering a question on a math equation. The whole class was writing down their answers as time was seemingly slowing down for them. A few desks away from Sunset, Fluttershy peaked over her hair as she spotted Sunset. She quietly went into her bag without anyone noticing and pulled out a round ball. She opened it and clawing its way out was Greg. She then lowered the small taranchula onto the floor and whispered to it. “Okay, just scare Sunset,” she whispered. “Don’t bite her or do anything that might hurt her.” The taranchula gave a salute. ‘Don’t worry about it,’ Greg said. ‘I can totally do this in my sleep.’ Greg quickly crawled its way over to where Sunset was sitting while making sure he wasn’t spotted. As soon as he was got to where she was, he was about to climb on her boots until she moved it. Without realizing it, the boot smushed down on him and he was trapped in between Sunset’s boot and the floor. Fluttershy winced when she saw this. ‘Great, now what do I do?’ Greg thought. ‘Wait, is that gum on my back? Gross.’ Sunset raised her hand. “Miss Harshwhinny, can I go to the bathroom?” she asked. “If you must, but don’t take too long,” Miss Harshwinny replied. Sunset got up and started to walk. ‘Sweet, all she has to do is get off of me and-’ Before Greg knew it, he was now stuck to the boot because of the gum attach to his back. ‘Ah oh.’ Greg’s eyes shrunk as he saw that he was about to be crushed to the ground. ‘AAAAAAAAAAAAA-’ *CRUNCH!* ‘-AAAAAAAAAAAAA-’ *CRUNCH!* ‘AAAAAAAAAAAAA-’ *CRUNCH!* ‘AAAAAAAAAAAAA-’ *CRUNCH!* Each time Sunset took a step, she kept on crushing Greg without evening knowing about it. Half way towards the bathroom, the gum came loose and Greg fell of the boot as he curled up upside down with some of his limbs twitching. ‘.....Ow.’ -Tuesday 12:15 P.M.- As usual around this time of the day, it was lunch time for everyone at Canterlot High as they all enjoyed one another’s company. Except of course for the Rainbooms as the girls and their boyfriends sat far away from one another as they would take bites from their food and glare at one or two of the others while watching for anything suspicious. Soul took a bit from his sandwich as he sat next to Sunset on his right and Applejack on his left. Applejack let out a sigh as she was getting more and more irritated by what’s happening to the group and all the things they have done so far. “Okay, Ah know Ah sound like a broken record but here goes,” Applejack said. “You girls are taking this whole thing too far. Is it really that important?” “Eeyup,” Sunset replied bluntly as she took another bit of her sandwich. Applejack then looked to Soul. “Don’t you agree with me, cuz?” she asked. “Eeyup,” Soul replied. “Ya see? Soul disagrees with this,” Applejack pointed out. “So, can’t you just forget about this whole thing and we all just get back together?” Sunset paused for a moment and tapped her chin. “....No.” Applejack let out a sigh. Sonata was walking by with a tray of food in her hand. She noticed the three and walked over to them. “Heya guys, can I-” Before Sonata could finish, Sunset glared at her with raging fire behind her eyes. Sonata gulped as she took a few steps back. “-Um...sit far, far away from you?” she finished. Soul rolled his eyes. “Sunny, there’s no reason not for Sonata to sit with us,” he said. “She’s not even part of this contest anyway.” “Y-Yeah, what he said,” Sonata said before making a frown. “Oh right, I’m not part of this contest.” Sunset let out a sigh. “Fine, but she has to sit next to me,” she said. “I don’t want any funny business.” Sonata weakly nodded and sat next to Sunset. Everything was quiet at the table as Sunset was glaring at the other girls at their tables. Sonata was feeling more and more uncomfortable with the silence so she decided to talk. “So, how is your day going, Soul?” she asked. “Kinda good,” Soul replied. “You?” “Doing good,” Sonata replied. “Have you and Sunset gone on any dates yet?” “Well, we’re planning on having one tonight,” Soul said before making a frown. “But only because we’re going to where most of the students are going and she hopes that showing off some affection for me would help raise our chances of winning.” “That…. sounds kinda fun,” Sonata said awkwardly. “More or less,” Soul muttered to himself. “So, what do you think the others are doing?” Sonata asked. “Ooohh, they must be scheming,” Soul said sarcastically. “Since it seems like all they’ve been doing all day and night now.” “Nope, they’re not scheming,” Sunset said, which earned her a few looks from the others. “They’re plotting, there’s a difference.” Sonata nodded. “It’s true, there really is a difference,” she said. Soul and Applejack rolled their eyes. “Well, I’m done eating so I’m going do some things while we’re on lunchbreak,” Sunset said. “By that, you mean you’re going to set up some traps and tricks for the girls?” Soul guessed. “Aww, you know me so well,” Sunset said. “And that scares me,” Soul commented. Sunset ignored that comment and started making her way out of the cafeteria. Some of the girls saw this and both Rainbow Dash and Pinkie quickly left their spots and ran out through the cafeteria doors as well. Both Rivet and Swift looked at each other from opposite tables before they shook their heads. “I’m going to put away my tray since I’m done,” Sonata said. Sonata got up from her seat and started making her way towards the counter. But she didn’t notice that a banana peel was on the ground and when she stepped on it, she started to slip. Noticing Sonata falling towards the ground, Soul quickly ran over to her and caught her mid way towards the ground. Soul let out a sigh of relieve and lifted Sonata back on her feet. “Are you okay?” he asked concernedly. “Yeah, thanks to you,” Sonata said. “I never knew you could go that fast!” “It must have been my old taekwondo training,” Soul said. “Glad to see that’s still holding up.” “Me too,” Sonata said. She looked behind Soul and her expressions turned into a worried one. “Ah oh.” Soul looked behind him and saw that Sonata’s tray was on the ground but the content that had the leftover food and trash on it was now on Applejack. Pieces of napkins were on her shoulders as well as some parts of a sandwich. And what was chocolate milk was dripping down from her stetson. She looked over to the two with an irritated expression. Sonata let out a sheepish laugh. “Sorry,” she meekly said. -Tuesday 2:00 P.M.- Everyone was now preparing themselves for gym. As usual everyone would be changing into their gym uniforms while those who already had them on would stretch and get ready for whatever nightmare that Coach Iron Will had planned for them. As everyone was getting prepared, all of a sudden, the doors to the girls bathroom was slammed opened as a pair of footsteps came marching out of there. Rainbow Dash was enraged as she stared down every student that was in there. Everyone looked at her and their eyes were widened with surprise at what she was wearing. It was an all pink version of her gym uniform. “WHO DID THIS!?” Rainbow Dash yelled as she was looking for someone suspicious. Everyone in the room stood silent as they were staring at Rainbow Dash. For moment, someone snickered but was cut off when she stared at them. And then another. And another. And another. Until the entire room started to laugh at Rainbow Dash as her cheeks were red from both embarrassment and anger. Rarity let out a laugh as her plan for Rainbow Dash was now complete. “SHUT UP!” Coach Iron Will walked into the room as the uproar of laugh was going. “What’s so funny here?” he asked. “Did something happen to Swift?” “WHY DOES EVERYONE PRESUME THAT!?” Swift yelled. Iron Will then noticed Rainbow Dash and her pink gym uniform. He looked at her with an awkward stare and coughed into his hand. “*Ahem* Miss Dash, I know that sometimes a girl like you wants to feel pretty at times but there are better ways than violating the rules about changing the gym uniform’s color.” “RRRAAAAAAAAAAHHH!” -Wednesday 9:30 A.M.- It was the next morning and everyone were in their respective classes. However, Soul was sneaking around the hallways as he made his way towards the janitor's closet. When he got there, he looked both sides of the hallway before he knocked on it a few times in a certain pattern. The door opened and he walked in. After Soul walked in, the door behind closed and he saw that it was Swift who closed it. “Glad you could make it,” Swift said. “Did you have any trouble getting out of your class?” “Not really, all I said was I was going to the bathroom,” Soul replied. “Dang, I should use that excuse instead of saying, I had boy problems.” Soul blunk a few times. “Well, it worked anyway,” Swift said. “Come on, everyone else is down stairs.” “Down stairs? I thought this was the janitor's closet?” Soul asked. “This school is a lot bigger than you think,” Swift said. Swift went down a set of stairs with Soul behind him and waiting down below them was the rest of the guys. Clyde, Rivet and Night were all sitting around chairs as there was a man in a grey uniform with a brown hat and white mustache as he was reading a magazine. Soul raised a brow. “Who’s this?” he asked. “I’m Scrubby...The janitor.” “How come I never seen you before?” “Schedule conflict,” Scrubby replied before licking his finger and turning towards the next page. “He’s been saying that for months,” Rivet commented. “So anyways, what have you guys been up to?” “Oh, just keeping my insane girlfriend together,” Clyde replied. “You?” “The same.” “Think we should come up with a plan to stop them?” Night asked. “I mean, they are our girlfriends, we should try to do something.” “Scrubby think that’s a bad idea,” he said. “Women don’t like it when a man gets involved in their war. It makes her think that the other women think she’s weak and needs a man to protect her and it makes her think they’ll come after her even more…. Also, women are complicated.” The guys stared at Scrubby for a moment before looking back to one another. “I think we should go with what Scrubby suggested,” Clyde said. “Even though the rest of it seems sexist. In fact, I think he got all that from the animal channel.” “Eeyup,” Scrubby said before flipping to the next page. “Meh, I’ll go with it,” Rivet said. “What exactly could we do to even stop them in the first place?” “Yeah, whenever guys try to fix things, it just keeps getting worse,” Swift commented. “So, we’re all in favor of hoping that things get better?” Clyde asked. Everyone nodded. “Good. Now we better get back to class before anyone suspects us.” -Wednesday 10:15 A.M.- Night was now in art class and was doing free drawing like everyone else in the class. Sitting next to him was Fluttershy as she was drawing a simple butterfly. He looked over to her picture and smiled. “That looks really nice,” he said. “Hey um, have you ever tried to talk with the rest of the girls?” “I did,” Fluttershy replied. “Really, how did it go?” “I threw a pie at Rainbow Dash.” “Oh.” “And it ended up hitting Pinkie.” “Eh.” “And then she threw it back at me,” Fluttershy added. “So, everyone at the cafe ended up throwing pies at one another last night. Although, I think Sunset got the worst of it when everyone teamed up against her. I guess there was still some tension from them.” “Well...At least you tried,” Night said. “Yeah, but they were already throwing pies at each other before I even had a chance to say anything.” “Okay, what even happened?” “I don’t know, something about Rainbow Dash’s uniform.” Night let out a sigh and got back to his drawing. -Wednesday 1:30 P.M.- It was now chemistry class and Mr. Hooves was letting the class use some of the chemicals that the school had while he kept a close on them and help them in anyway. While every student was experimenting with their chemicals, Sunset was working on something with her chemicals while Soul watched what she was doing while they both were wearing safety goggles like everyone else in the class. Soul rubbed his chin as he was wondering what Sunset was doing. “So, what are you trying to make, Sunny?” he asked. Sunset was carefully adding a dab of a chemical from a small glass into the flask. “I’m attempting to make a chemical that can eat through clothes,” Sunset replied. “Oh,” Soul said. He thought about what she said before he began to think of what she might have been planning to do with it. “Wait, you’re not going to use it on the girls are you?” Sunset let out a sigh. “I wish, but I doubt Mr. Hooves would let me,” she said. “I suppose there are somethings that are out of my grasp.” “That’s good to hear.” “But of course, if I can make it look like an accident since Rarity and Rainbow Dash are in this class too,” Sunset said. Soul pinched the bridge between his eyes while Sunset grabbed a nearby mirror and used it to see behind her. She could Rarity was with another student while she was observing what the other student was doing. She then turned the mirror to see where Rainbow Dash was doing but when she did, she didn’t see her there. “What the? Where did Rainbow Dash go?” Sunset turned her head and to see Rainbow Dash wasn’t anywhere. Soul felt a tap on his shoulder and turned to see that no one was behind him. Sneaking her way in between the two, Rainbow Dash quickly switched the flask and replaced it with another of her own. She crawled away from them before Sunset and Soul had a chance to notice her. “Well, I didn’t see her,” Sunset said. “I guess she must have went to the bathroom without anyone noticing.” “Probably,” Soul said before looking at the flask. “Is that thing safe?” “Of course it is,” Sunset replied. “Here I’ll show you.” She grabbed a dropper and placed it in one of the test tubes with a red looking chemical in it. “This thing will show us that this is a non explosive chemical. The ingredients that I use are not explosive at all and shouldn't be even when mixed.” Sunset held the dropper over the flask and squeezed the liquid right out of it- *BOOM!* Everyone’s heads turned to see the resulting explosion from where Sunset and Soul were. The explosion blew away all their equipment; leaving the table covered in black ashes while they were covered in ashes as well. The two stood there with shrunken irises and were stiff as boards until Soul let out a cough of smoke out of his mouth. He then started to lean backwards until he collapsed on the ground. Rainbow Dash snickered while she was watching the whole thing from a safe distance. “Wow Swift, you did a good job with that nonlethal explosion,” she said. Swift looked at her with a disapproved expression. “Thanks, but if I had known you would have done that, I wouldn’t have done it at all,” he said. “Yeah, yeah whatever,” Rainbow Dash waved her hand. “So, what was Bacon Hair trying to do anyway?” Swift let out a sigh and looked through a microscope as he was observing a small sample of the chemical that Sunset made. “If I had to guess, I say that this was made to actually eat through clothes,” he replied and raised a brow. “Wait, we can actually make stuff like this here at school? You think they would have made sure we didn’t have stuff like this.” “Huh, a chemical that can only eat through clothes,” Rainbow Dash said with interest. She started to have a devious smile on her until she thought about it some more and shook her head. “Naw, that seems too extreme,” she said. “I’ll just use a different method.” Swift raised a brow. “What are you talking about?” he asked. “Oh, you’re going to find out soon,” she replied with a renewed devious smile. -Wednesday 2:00 P.M.- Once more it was gym class and everyone was getting ready for more of Iron Will’s unorthodox exercises. While in the dressing room, Rarity was getting undressed and was getting ready to put on her gym uniform. She opened her locker and grabbed her uniform until she took a close look at it. Her expression turned into shock when she saw that her usual gym uniform was smaller than it was. ‘What happened to my uniform?’ she thought to herself. ‘I better put back my clothes back on and tell Mr. Will that I can’t participate gym with this.’ Rarity turned around to grab her clothes. But when she did, she saw that they were gone and her expression turned into horror. ‘MY CLOTHES! WHERE DID THEY GO!?’ Rarity frantically yelled in her mind as she searched the entire dressing room for them. ‘No need to worry, I’ll just text Clyde and he’ll-WHERE DID MY CELLPHONE GO!?’ She saw that her bag was gone along with her cellphone and other things. Rarity gulped as her mind had an awful idea on how to get out of this mess. ‘I can’t go outside with just my underwear on and let everyone see me like this.’ She let out an irritated sigh. ‘I will make whoever did this pay!’ Everyone was chatting and exercising while they waited on Coach Iron Will. Clyde was talking with his pal, Tyrone until they both started hearing some of the other guys whistling. “What do you think their whistling about, C?” Tyrone asked. “I don’t know,” Clyde replied. He then looked around for a moment. “Hey, have you seen Rarity around?” “C-Clyde?” Clyde hear a very familiar timid voice as he looked to see where it was coming from and when he found out, his eyes went wide and his face was bright red. “R-Rarity!?” Clyde was seeing Rarity wearing a smaller version of her uniform as it was hugging her body tightly and would be showing off her cleavage if she wasn’t covering it with her arms. Her shorts were very small as it showed off most of her legs and a bit of her panties could be seen on the back. “I-I n-need you to get me some of my clothes from my locker,” Rarity said, timidly. “I-I would really appreciate that.” “Y-Yeah, I’ll head get you something real quick,” Clyde said and started to run off. “Make sure that it matches!” Rarity shouted as Clyde ran out the door. “I’ll be in the bathroom if you need me.” “Oh come on, you got plenty of skin to show-” *POW!* “OW!” “You leave Rarity alone,” Tyrone said as he punched one of the boys in the face. “This my main man’s girl, you better stop with the whistling and staring or I’ll start busting some heads.” All the guys headed Tyrone’s advice and looked away from Rarity as some of them didn’t really want to see her in that situation and the others were scared of Tyrone. “I’ll let C know that you went to the bathroom,” Tyrone said. “Thank you, Tyrone,” Rarity said. “And in the meantime, can you find out who took my bag? Someone took it while I was-” “Here you go.” A bag was thrown in front of Rarity and she looked up to see Rainbow Dash with a large smile on her. “Everything is in there, except for you clothes,” Rainbow Dash said. “That’s for putting me in a pink outfit.” Rarity growled. “I’m going to make you pay for that,” she hissed. Rainbow Dash stuck her tongue out and placed a finger under her eye as she pulled her eyelid down. Rarity grabbed her bag and stomped her way back into the dressing room. Tyrone looked at Rainbow Dash with a glare. “That was not cool, Dash,” Tyrone said. “Pffft, like I need your permission to do that,” Rainbow Dash said. “Like I said, that was payback. And with my man here, we’re going to crush our way to the top of the Couples Contest.” Tyrone rolled his eyes and over by the crowd, Rivet let out a sigh. Soul was sitting by the bench by Sunset as she had her cell phone up and took pictures of Rarity’s situation. “Now this is going to take Rarity down a few pegs,” Sunset said. “Once I upload these to the school’s news post, they’ll spread like wildfire.” “Sunset, no,” Soul interjected. “This was bad from the start and you won’t be any better than Rainbow Dash.” Sunset let out a sigh. “Fine, I won’t do it,” she said. “Why do you have to be such a let down?” “Because I still want to be friends with everyone after this,” Soul said. “Whatever,” Sunset said before she got up. “I’m going to go to the bathroom.” “To comfort Rarity and hope to bring this whole thing to an end?” “No, to make sure she or any of the others don’t get to my stuff,” Sunset replied and walked off. Soul let out a groan. “She is the most stubborn woman I have ever met,” he said to himself. “.....So, why do I like that so much?” -Wednesday 3:00 P.M.- It was now time for everyone to head back to their homes and rest for the day. Clyde had given Rarity his goodbye kiss and headed off to his ride. Just as he was about to open his door, he heard Rivet coming up behind him. “Hey man, wait a minute,” Rivet said as he ran over to Clyde. “Look, I’m sorry about what Dash did to Rarity, that was uncool of her to do that.” “It’s okay, man, I don’t blame you,” Clyde said. “But I do blame Rainbow Dash and this stupid contest. I think the girls are just about to kill each other.” “I agree,” Swift said as he walked by. “I feel scared whenever Pinkie keeps on watching over me like a hawk. I mean, I didn’t mind the attention before but now I can’t take it anymore!” “I know what you mean,” Night said as he stepped in the conversation. “Fluttershy has me on edge. I feel like she’s a ticking time bomb that’s about to explode.” “Kinda like your anger management problems?” Swift asked. “God damn it, I don’t have anger issues!” Night snapped. Rivet rolled his eyes. “Sure, you don’t,” he said, sarcastically. “Anyways, we need to get them to stop.” Then walking by them was Scrubby the janitor. “Scrubby has formality a plan to end this,” he said. “You need to have all your girlfriends to gather at the end of the school tomorow and have them talk out their feelings while hopefully remind them on how much their friendship means to them.” “Why would we do that?” Clyde asked. “And how do you know what we’re talking about? You weren’t even here for most of the conversation.” “Either that or suffer for months,” Scrubby replied. “Scrubby has experience with women and if you don’t get them back together again, they’ll never let this down and will drag this out on other events.” “He’s right,” Swift said. “If this event got them all riled up, they’ll be fighting over who’s princess over the other dances and not mention the other events that this small town holds.” “Oh god,” Rivet said as the sudden realization had gotten to him. “We’re doomed if we let this go on any further.” “Alright, we’ll go with Scrubby’s idea,” Clyde said. “Thanks, Scrub-....Where did he go?” The guys looked around to see that Scrubby had disappeared. “Huh, he must have left,” Clyde said. “No, I didn’t.” “AAAAHH!” Clyde jumped as he saw that Scrubby was right behind him. “I just moved because I didn’t feel like standing there anymore,” Scrubby said. Everyone looked at Scrubby with puzzled expressions. “Ooooookay, this is getting weird,” Night said. “Hey, where’s Soul?” Swift asked. “We better let him in on the plan.” Over by the driveway, Soul was walking with Sunset to her car as he held her bag over his shoulder while holding his with his other hand. “Only two days to go until everyone votes,” Sunset said. “I really hope that all that effort I put into our campaign works.” “We have a campaign?” Soul asked. “Oh right, I guess you didn’t hear,” Sunset said. “Principal Celestia is letting all the couples try to win people’s votes by convincing them to. I already have some of our campaign worked out and I got the art club to make us some slogans.” “We have slogans?” “Thanks for walking with me,” Sunset said as Soul handed her her bag. “I’m got some big planning to do for tomorrow, see ya.” “Alright, mind giving me a goodbye ki-” Before Soul could finish, he saw that Sunset was already in her car and drove off. He let out a sigh. “You’re are so lucky that I’m a very kind and understanding guy,” he said to himself. “....And I still find this somewhat attractive!” “You find what attractive?” Soul looked behind him to see Sonata standing there with a puzzled look. “Oh hey, Sonata,” Soul said. “I was just talking to myself.” “Oh okay, I do that with myself sometimes,” Sonata said. “It’s better because you don’t end up arguing with yourself….Well, I do it anyway but it is kinda fun that way.” Soul chuckled. “I guess it is kinda fun,” he said. “So, what do you have plans for today?” “Oh nothing much, I was just going to stay home and whatever,” Sonata replied. “Huh, I see,” Soul said as he scratched his chin. “Would you like to come over to my house today? I’ve been wanting to show Sunset that I had a new game but she’s pretty much busy right now.” “Really, that would be awesome!” Sonata asked. “What is it?” “I’ll tell you on the way there,” Soul replied. “Plus, my dad is making tacos tonight.” Sonata had a large toothy smile on her. “I so love your dad now,” she said. -Thursday 3:00 P.M.- It was now the end of the day at school and students were starting to walk out the building. As they were walking out, Sunset held out a microphone and spoke into it. “HEY EVERYONE! VOTE FOR BOTH SOUL AND SUNSET FOR BEST COUPLE!” Everyone looked over to Sunset as she stood on top of a table that had a sign that was written, with her name at the beginning and Soul at the end of the sign and having a heart in between the names. “Oh my god, she really did have slogans,” Soul said as he walked out of the building. “YOU KNOW WE’RE THE BEST COUPLES AROUND SO VOTE FOR US AND-” “FORGET ABOUT THOSE LOW CLASS LOSERS!” Everyone looked over to where the loud voice was to see that Rainbow Dash was also on top of a table with all of her fliers and a slogan that read. ‘RainbowDashXRivet Rocks!’ “WE’RE THE AWESOMEST COUPLE AROUND SO VOTE FOR US!” “NO, VOTE FOR US!” Pinkie shouted through her megaphone. “ME AND MY, SWIFTY ARE THE FUNNEST COUPLE! SO VOTE FOR-” “ME AND CLYDE DESERVE THAT TITLE!” Rarity yelled in her microphone. “WE BOTH HAVE BEEN A COUPLE LONGER THAN ANY OF YOU, SO WE WOULD LIKE ALL OF YOU TO-” “Me and Night just as much deserve to win,” Fluttershy shouted in her microphone. Though it wasn't as loud as the others were. Everyone looked at her and she let out a squeak before she tried to hide behind her hair. “Oh, no you don’t!” Rainbow Dash shouted as she jumped off the table and started marching towards them. “I’m going to win!” The rest of the guys were able to get in front of the crowd of students. “Do we have a plan on how to get the girls together?” Swift asked. “I think they’re going to do that for us,” Rivet said as he saw the other girls starting to march towards one another. “Oh boy,” Clyde said. “No, I am!” Sunset shouted back. “No, I will,” Rarity proclaimed. “Um, I will,” Fluttershy meekly said but still had an angry on her. “Nuh uh, I’m going to win!” Pinkie yelled. The girls came together in a circle as they stared each other off. They all glared angrily at each other as the whole group of students started to back up a bit. “Why don’t you all go home with your good for nothing excuse of boyfriends!” Rainbow Dash said before she shoved Sunset. Sunset stumbled backwards until she came to a stop and looked at Rainbow Dash with intense hate. Rainbow Dash held up her hands. “Oh um, that might have been too much,” she said sheepishly. “How about we just talk this over and-” Before she could finish, Sunset jumped right at her and caused both of them to fall to the ground. Sunset and Rainbows Dash’s hands were clapped to one another as they rolled around on the ground. When Rainbow Dash was on her back, she placed her feet over Sunset’s stomach and kicked her off. Sunset was about to get back up and make another assault Rainbow Dash until she saw her with mud in her hands and threw it at her. She quickly ducked and the mud hit Rarity in the chest. Rarity gasped as the mud ruined her shirt and she angrily looked at the two. “That. Is. IT!” she yelled and jumped at the two as they were locked hands with each other. Fluttershy started backup off from the fight. “Maybe I shouldn’t get involved,” she said. “I should try and-” “Cannon ball!” Pinkie shouted as she grabbed on Fluttershy’s wrist and dragged in her into the fight. The fight had escalated as dust and smoke appeared all around the girls in a cartoonist way with only their limbs and heads showing at certains time around it. “Okay, we got to stop this!” Clyde said in panicked. “Already on it,” Rivet said as he ran up to Rainbow Dash and grabbed her around the waist. The other guys did the same and rushed over to their respective girlfriends. They grabbed hold of their girlfriends as carefully as they could. The girls struggled to get out of boys’ hold on them while they were kicking and screaming. “Let me go!” Rainbow Dash yelled to Rivet. “I want to kick their asses!” “Clyde, as uncouth as I am right now, I demand that you let me go this instance!” Rarity demanded. “I really don’t like hurting someone, but they were asking for it,” Fluttershy said to Night. “So, let me go!....Please?” “Come on, Swift!” Pinkie said. “I was winning!” “Pinkie, they had you on the ground,” Swift pointed out. “Yeah, that was me winning!” “How could you have been winning?” Rainbow Dash asked. “I was kicking your ass the whole time!” “Nuh uh!” “Besides, I was kicking your ass, Rainbow Crash!” Sunset shouted. “Soul, let me go!” “No!” Soul replied. “You had enough for today. I’m taking you back home.” Sunset let out a growl. “I’m sorry I have to do this to you, babe,” she said. “What are you-” *STOMP!* “AAAHH! MY FOOT!” Sunset stomped on Soul’s feet and got free from his hold. The other girls did the same as they too stomped on their boyfriends feet and collide with one another again. They went back into fighting one another while the boys just watched. “I vote we stay out of this,” Rivet said. “I second that,” Swift said. “I’m in,” Night said. Clyde let out a sigh. “Yeah, I had enough of this,” he said. “What!? We can’t just leave them like this! We have to-” *WHACK!* “AAAHH! MY EYE!” Soul was hit in the eye with Sunset’s boot as it landed next to him. “Okay, screw it, I’m done with this,” Soul said as he was rubbing his eye. “Anyone up for some ice cream?” All the guys nodded and agreed. “Applejack, you want some?” “Naw, Ah’ll just watch,” Applejack replied. “Ah want to be there when Ah say, ‘Ah told them so.’” “Fair enough,” Soul said. “Sonata, you want to come? I’ll buy.” “Sweet!” Sonata said as she hopped with excitement. All the guys and Sonata were walking around the fight as they made their way towards the cafe. “We’ll be back soon,” Swift said to the girls. “But we can’t promise to bring back ice cream.” -Thursday 5:30 P.M.- “Do you give up yet?” Rainbow Dash weakly said as she grabbed hold of Sunset’s leg but didn’t much to it. “Never,” Sunset replied weakly as well while she laid on the ground. All the girls were laying on the ground while they still fought with one another but in a more slow and sluggish way. They mostly were huffing and puffing out for air as sweat bead down their heads and their clothes were ruined with grass stains and mud while they were ripped on certain places. “I….I….Oh, who am kidding?” Rainbow Dash said to herself. “I can’t move anymore.” “M-Me too,”Fluttershy said as she laid on top of Pinkie with her head right next to hers. “I can barely move my fingers.” “My Pinkie senses are too tired to do anything,” Pinkie said. “My clothes are such a mess,” Rarity said as she attempted to get up from her spot but failed. “It’ll take forever to get them out.” Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna had just watched the whole thing transpire. While they knew they had to stop the girls from fighting, they also saw how dangerous it was to interfere. So, in a rare decision they stood out of it and waited for the girls to exhaust themselves until they could do something. Luna looked over to her sister with a raised brow. “So, nothing bad would happen, huh?” she asked, sarcastically. Celestia put on sheepish smile. “I said nothing extremely bad would happen,” she replied. Luna pinched the bridge between her eyes and let out a sigh. “Sometimes I wonder if we really are related,” she said to herself. While the girls still laid on the ground, the guys and Sonata came back and had ice cream in their hands. The guys looked at the the girls with raised brows. “Wow, how long have they been at it?” Swift asked. Rivet looked at his phone. “Just about over two hours and thirty minutes, I think,” he replied. “That’s gotta be a record of some kind.” “Hey Applejack, did any of them win?” Clyde asked. Applejack was sitting on top of the statue and was flipping through a magazine about farming. She looked up at the group with half lid eyes. “Eenope,” she replied. “They all pretty much gave up at the end.” “So, no one won at the end?” Night asked. “That’s actually kinda sad.” “Have you guys finally learned your lesson?” Swift asked. All the girls murmured at once as they either were agreeing with what Swift said or were still numb from the fight to say any real words. “And that y’all will stop with the fighting and we get back to being friends again?” Applejack asked. The girls responded in the same way to Applejack. “That’s good to hear,” Luna said as she walked up to them. “Because you all are going to be together in the next few weeks in detention.” “Yeppy,” Rainbow Dash sarcastically cheered. Luna let out a sigh. “Would you all please get them home safely?” she asked the others. “We don’t want to leave them like this.” “Sure thing, Ms. Luna,” Clyde said as he walked up to Rarity and picked her up in a bridal position. The guys did the same as they too picked up their respective girlfriends. Soul picked up Sunset and carried her on his back while Applejack walked beside him. “How about you drive Sunset back home with her car and Ah’ll follow y’all on the way there,” Applejack suggested. “That sounds like a good idea,” Soul said. “Soul?” “Yeah, Sunny?” “I’m sorry for what I did,” Sunset said. “I guess there’s still bad in me after all.” “No there’s not,” Soul countered. “You were just acting like any normal teenage girl.” “But my plans were much more crueler than theirs.” “That’s because you're smart.” Soul pointed out. “Anyways, I know you didn’t mean it. You were just angry because they made fun of me. Even though you knew better that they were just as crazy about this whole thing as you were.” Sunset lightly giggled. “Yeah, I really was crazy,” she said. There was pause between the two until Sunset spoke back up. “Soul, I didn’t spend as much time together with you the whole time and for that, I’m sorry.” “It’s okay,” Soul said. “Like I told you, you’re lucky that I’m such a kind and understanding guy.” “Wait, you told me that?” “Yeah, but you weren’t around to hear me say that.” Sunset blushed as she was embarrassed by her recent actions. “I’m sorry,” she said. “Like I said, it’s okay,” Soul said. “I love you.” “I love you more, babe,” Sunset said before planting a kiss on Soul’s cheek and nuzzled against his neck. Soul smiled as he continued to walk Sunset towards her car.