Sunset didn't like being stuck with needles. Not one bit. Needles, while they weren't rare in Equestria, weren't as common. Most vaccines in Equestria were ingested or Doctors used magic to determine if someone had a disease or an illness. Sure, there were Pegasi and earth pony doctors but either they did extract blood and it got tested via magic or they had a Unicorn Doctor or Nurse to assist them. It was a step above Human medicine but it wasn't perfect and Humanity managed to out do Equestria in many places. Like moon travel; No pony in Equestria had been on the moon before [Unless you counted Princess Luna but that was a different matter] or any other species for that matter. Nor did they have cars, internet, cellphones, computers and the beginning of android life. Humanity was quite amazing in it's own way.
Sunset squirmed as Dr. Screwball stuck her arm again; the energetic doctor had been searching for a vein for five minutes and so far had been unsuccessful. It was a painful time with Sunset wanting to scream at the woman and tell her to ' Just fucking take my blood or fuck off!' but she bit down on her tongue to stop herself from speaking ill, even if she was starting to taste a bit of blood.
"There we go! Finally, a nice juicy vein!"
Sunset was tempted to look as the needle entered her arm but she knew better as she was squeamish when it came to blood and gore. Fake blood in video games? She could take it. But when it came to the real stuff or even the stuff in modern day movies, she always felt a little faint. She shouldn't look, she would regret it. Curiosity got the better of her and she took a glance and instantly she felt quite light headed as she watched her blood fill the large syringe.
"H-how long till we're done?"
Her gaze was fixated on it, and she felt the muffin in her stomach beginning to come back out the way it went in. Luck seemed to be on her side because Dr. Screwball removed the needle. She gave Sunset a cotton ball and instructed her to press it against the injection hole. She left to get up, eager to flee but Dr. Screwball stopped her.
"We still have to do your pelvic exam."
Sunset Shimmer absolutely hated doctors.
-
Being suspended was boring. No television, no computer, no cellphone, no video games of any sort. Sunset was essentially left with only her books and school work. Her computer, cellphone and Wii had been confiscated and Celestia had disconnected the cable boxes for all of the TV's. She had left the DVD player however, but Sunset didn't really want to watch any of the movies they had. Of course the rest of the family had their own computers and Luna had a bunch of gaming systems but 1)The computers were all locked and 2) To touch Luna's stuff was to invoke her wrath. Besides, she would know that Sunset touched her consoles if she tried. Game consoles tended to display the users most recent gaming history and all log in attempts to the user.
She spent the morning napping, well she had gotten up when everyone else had but then had promptly went back to sleep when they all left. When she awoke again around eleven am, she found herself extremely bored. She attempted to read a book or rather several books but she found herself unable to sit still. She cleaned the house excluding the bedrooms and Luna's cave but by one o'clock she had finished and the house was practically sparkling. She considered tackling the bedrooms briefly when she realized she had nothing left to do but she dismissed it for the same reasons as before. Not to piss any one off by touching their stuff. When one-thirty came around, she was practically ready to bang her head against a wall just so something interesting would happen.
"There is nothing to do!"
Sunset sprawled out on the living room floor, staring up at the ceiling. She was so bored. She whined and sighed as she desperately thought of something to do. There had to be something to do in the house. Maybe sh-
The familiar muffled bang of a car door closing attracted Sunset's attention. She got up from the floor and made her way to the front door and pulled back the curtain that covered the small window next to the door and glanced out. She saw Scootaloo and Luna in the driveway, Scootaloo storming towards the house enraged and Luna following behind her, unamused. Sunset backed away from the door and just in time because Scootaloo threw open the door and stomped inside, kicking her shoes against the wall. Her face was puffy and red, the clear indication that she had been crying. Her lip was also busted and she had several bruises beginning to form on her face. When she set her eyes on Sunset she began crying.
"This is all your fault! You ruin everything!"
She lunged at Sunset and attempted to push her over. However, Sunset managed to stop her from doing so; The duo became locked in a scuffle, one trying to harm the other with feeble kicks and punches and the other trying to push away her attacker. Their fight ended as quickly as it started as Luna entered the house only a moment after her niece.
"What are you two doing?" she demanded, setting her eyes on the two fighting sisters.
Luna's voice was calm yet there were undertones of aggression and a deep coldness. Her eyes narrowed and swept over the pair who stopped their scuffle.
"That's what I'm trying to figure out. I have no idea whats going on but Scootaloo seems to want to fight."
"You know exactly what you did!" stated Scootaloo, stomping her foot and crossing her arms like a young child.
"No I don't! You came in here and started hitting me!"
"Enough!"
Both the girls froze and turned towards Luna. Though not scary as Celestia when enraged, Luna was by no means a push over and was in fact quite stubborn and imposing.
"Scootaloo, go to your room. I need to go back to school. Your mom will be home soon to speak with you. Ms. Shimmer....just don't cause any more problems."
The older teenager took offense to that. It's not like she was deliberately causing problems! Besides, she didn't start the fight if that was what Luna was suggesting! Sunset sighed and nodded and made her way upstairs, intending to retreat to her bedroom and maybe reorganize her closet but instead she found herself outside Scootaloo's shut door, pressing her ear against it to listen in. She heard nothing but the soft sobs of a sad little girl.
Feeling a tad awkward but concerned, Sunset knocked on the door in front of her. Only seconds later was the door thrown open by a still crying and angry Scootaloo.
"Leave me alone!"
"You know what? I came to be nice and ask you if you were okay but you seem more interested in screaming and crying at yelling at me for some random reason that I still don't understand."
"You know exactly what you did!"
"No I don't! How would I know? I've been home all day and then you come and start attacking me! Am I supposed to be a mind reader?"
"Fine, you want to know? I'll tell you!"
-
Scootaloo knew something was different when she walked into Canterlot High School. There were the glances, the frowns, the whispers. And each one was directed towards her. She tried listening in on conversations and even asking why everyone was looking at her but each time she got even remotely near or asked everyone would hush up or exchange looks with their friends and silently walk off. It was only the students that seemed to be looking at her like you would an animal in a cage. The teachers seemed ignorant to the gossip and whispers.
Scootaloo entered her first class of the day, Eight-grade art and found herself all by herself at one the large art tables where she was usually in company of Applebloom, Sweetie Belle, and occasionally Twist. Instead she found all her friends at another table, sitting with Pipsqueak, Rumble and Berry Pinch. It honestly looked a tad crowded. She approached their table and the once animated chat that was going on between them ceased.
"Uh hey guys. Uh, is something wrong? Why aren't you sitting at our usual table?"
Glances were shared between the members of the group. It went over Scootaloo's head but she could see that something was wrong and that something was her.
"Guys?"
"Uh look, Scootaloo. We're sitting here today." Applebloom stood up from her chair and spoke to her spunky friend, who looked back at her confused.
"Okay?"
"Not you Scoots, just us. It's nothing personal." said Sweetie Belle interjecting quietly as Scootaloo put her bag down on the table. She didn't meet her eyes or look up, she just stared at the surface of the table. Scootaloo picked her bag up and hugged it to her chest. Her lip was beginning to tremble. She didn't understand, what was going on?
"I don't understand, did I do something wrong?"
"Look Scoots, don't make this harder then it is."
"But I...I....
"GO!" bellowed Applebloom. If Scootaloo wasn't on the verge of tears, she was now. Slowly she backed away from the table, any desire to fight or protest extinguished and went back to the other table. She was aware Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were making snide comments to her as she past and she was also aware that Ms. Silence, their art teacher attempted to speak to her. But she didn't hear a thing and she didn't speak a word. She just sat at her desk and stared into space and not even the force of an earth quake could move her. For she was focused on one thing and one thing only. Not crying.
-
The eight grade time table consisted of eight periods a day, one of those being devoted to lunch and the other seven being composed of classes which switched order everyday of the week. Each class ran for roughly forty-five minutes however sometimes the seventh and eight graders would have a duo class in which two periods were used such as English or Gym. There were two classes Scootaloo had to get through before lunch, Art and a double period of Math. When Art ended she went to math and like in Art, she didn't say anything or do anything for the entirety of the class. She was lost in a whirlwind of emotions and the real world ceased to exist. Before she knew it the lunch bell was ringing and she was briefly pulled back into reality when she realized that she didn't know what to do.
She still wasn't sure what the hell what up with her friends or why everyone was looking at her and if she was honest it was making her anxious. Usually she wouldn't act so sissy but the morning's events had taken her back. Slowly she got up from her desk and began putting her things into her back pack. As she left the classroom, she was greeted by the familiar rush of students heading towards the cafeteria. She followed them, not really wanting to eat but at the same time with nothing else to do. When she reached the cafeteria, she entered the line and slowly began edging towards the head of the line. When she finally got to the cafeteria lady, Applebloom's grandmother, Granny Smith, she was starting to feel a bit exasperated.
She piled a burger and fries on to her tray and allowed Granny to hand her a side of macaroni salad. As she left the line, she was faced with the problem of where to sit. Her friends didn't seem to want to speak with her and outside of them she had no other friends really. While cafeteria tables were not reserved and you could sit wherever you want it was taboo to sit where another group of people already occupying it were. Still, what else was she to do? So she located a nearly empty table and sat down on the opposite side of where a trio of three girls, Roseluck, Lily and Daisy all sat. She paid them no mind, instead choosing to play with her food.
"Kid."
Scootaloo looked up from her burger she had taken to staring at and turned towards the voice. The leader of the trio of girls Roseluck was speaking to her and she seemed quite unhappy with her arms crossed against her chest and her face covered in a sneer. Scootaloo blinked at the older students and cocked her head.
"What?"
Scootaloo was not in mood for small talk of any sort or just talking in general. What she really wanted was to just go home and crawl into bed but she highly doubted her mom or aunt was just going to let her do that.
"We don't want you sitting here, leave."
Scootaloo blinked and looked the older student up and down. She said nothing, instead turning back to her meal and deciding to push around the fries with her fork. The silent dismissal seemed to enrage the girl further because she stomped her way over from her side of the table and tried pulling Scootaloo off of the cafeteria table bench. Two things happened. One, anger that had been building up since the early morning exploded, the other was that Roseluck suddenly found herself with a new temporary tattoo.
"Fuck off!"
Everything seemed to slow down as a resonating slap echoed through the air. Almost everyone in the cafeteria ceased talking and their attention focused on Scootaloo and Roseluck who was now wearing a red hand print on her face. Scootaloo got up from her seat, her fists clenched and anger radiation from her.
"I've had enough. All day you people have been whispering and pointing and staring at me. I've had enough. What's so funny? I have shit on my face? Are you all so cowardly that you can't say anything to my face? What the fuck have I done to deserve your shit?"
"Your sister. That's what."
A student a few tables away from Scootaloo's stood up and addressed the eight grader. Scootaloo recognized her as Trixie Lulamoon, the schools aspiring magician and a girl known to have an ego that rivaled that of Rainbow Dashes. Scootaloo clenched her fists tigher.
"I don't know who you're talking about. I don't have a sister."
"Oh please! Trixie and everyone else now knows that Sunset Shimmer is your sister and you're probably just as bad as her."
Scootaloo froze. How did anyone figure out that Sunset Shimmer was living with her? Did that mean they also knew she was Celestia's daughter? Her blood began to boil even hotter then before. Fueled by anger, she turned and climbed onto the cafeteria table and stood up so all could see her.
"SHE. IS. NOT. MY. SISTER. She is a stupid, pathetic, cunt that my mother decided to take pity on and adopt! AND I'M NOTHING LIKE HER!"
Scootaloo kicked her lunch tray on the ground, sending it flying to the ground and the contents splattering against the ground. Trixie pointed a finger at the girl.
"See? This is exactly what I mean! She is clearly acting exactly like Sunset Shimmer! She's no better then her sister!"
Scootaloo was honestly not sure what happened after that. All she knew that one minute she was in the cafeteria, seeing red the next was that she was in the Principal's office having her face tended to by her mother.
"W-what happened?"
Scootaloo was quite confused and found herself growing excited as she tried to figure out what had happened and why she was suddenly in the nurses office. Celestia shushed her as she pressed a ice pack to the young girls face.
"It's okay."
"I don't understand, what happened mom?'
Celestia sighed and used her free hand to pinch the bridge of her nose, a thing that was starting to become a common thing. She stared at her daughter for a moment, torn between two moments. On one hand she did not condone what Scootaloo had done but at the same time she was didn't like to see her child in pain.
"From what the other students told me, you jumped off a cafeteria table and ran at Trixie Lulamoon and well.....let's just say you pack quite a punch for your age. You attacked her and while the other students managed to pull you away in the short time that you had, you broke her nose and did some damage."
Celestia paused and shook her head. All of them. All of her children were acting out and whats worse was....
"I'm going to need to suspend you."
"What?!?!"
Scootaloo stared at her mother, mouth agape, both confused and angry. She still couldn't believe she took on Trixie and at the same time she felt like she shouldn't be punished even if she had attacked the girl. She had started it with all her nonsense!
"You don't seriously expect no consequences do you? You beat on another student! Honestly I don't know what I'm going to do. You and your sister are just causing me all sorts of problems."
"She's not my sister! She's a stupid retard!"
"Scootaloo! That's not the kind of language I expect out of you!"
"I don't care!
"Well you should!"
Celestia growled and robbed her temples, feeling a migraine coming on. What was she doing wrong? Why were her children all running around punching people and starting fights? She used to think she was lucky that she had daughters because it meant she wouldn't have to worry about any sons she might have had from getting into fights and problems. It's seems she was sadly mistaken. Celestia turned towards her child and began addressing her but a sharp knock on her office drew her attention. She glanced at Scootaloo and decided she wasn't going anywhere. She took a few long strides to her office door and opened a bit.
"Uh hey Principal Celestia....Can I...talk to Scootaloo? It's kinda important...."
Scootaloo perked up but at the same time froze, recognizing the voice as her idol, Rainbow Dash. She did not want Rainbow to see her crying. Crying was totally not cool. She rubbed her face and tried her best to remove any traces of crying. Celestia munled something under her breath but allowed the student to enter her office.
"You have two minutes. You're supposed to be in class Ms. Dash."
"Yeah yeah, I'll be back in class before you know it.....Uh hey kid."
Rainbow Dash approached Scootaloo, however her normal confident attitude was gone, instead replaced by a girl who seemed incredibly awkward. It was odd to say the very least. Rainbow Dash sighed and rubbed the back of her head.
"Uh look kid, I just came to say sorry."
"S-sorry for what?"
Scootaloo was confused and beginning to get a bad feeling in her stomach. This couldn't be connected to the way she had been treated, was it?
"Uh I...look....um...Principal Celestia do you-"
"No." said Celestia, interrupting her student. She had an idea where this conversation was going and at that moment she was Scootaloo's mother and not her Principal. She wanted to hear what the girl had to say and she wasn't about to eavesdrop on her own office. Rainbow Dash opened her mouth to reply but closed it under the intense glare of Celestia.
"Uh right....Look, I may or may not be the reason why everyone is treating you like crap."
"What!??!"
"I uh figured out you were Celestia's kid yesterday when I was in detention with Shit...Shimmer. Principal Celestia appeared at the end of it and said she had to take you to to the doctors or something? So I put two and two together. Anyway I kinda told the girls and one thing lead to the next and Applejack and Rarity were saying they didn't want Applebloom and Sweetie Belle to hang out with you because they were worried that you were going to turn out like Sunset and then Pinkie Pie started texting everyone because she couldn't keep her mouth shut and well you know the rest."
Scootaloo felt tears beginning to fall and her lip was trembling. Of all people, it was Rainbow Dash who went and let the cat out of the bag?
"Why would you do that? My friends don't like me any more!"
"Hey I didn't do it intentionally! It just happened!"
"I HATE YOU!"
Scootaloo was now sobbing, she pushed herself out of the chair she was sitting on and launched herself into her mother's arms who wrapped her arms around her.
"I suggest you head back to class Ms. Dash. You've caused enough problems." she said, looking up at the older teenager. Rainbow Dash clenched her fists in response and straightened up, ready to retaliate but Celestia silently yet assertively pointed towards the door, motioning her to leave. The girl walked out angrily, slamming the door closed behind her. Normally she would give detention to anyone who would dare to do that but she was just more concern with her daughter. Celestia sighed, it seemed things were just getting crazier in the Solaris Household.
-
"And then let me guess, Celestia got Luna to take you home correct?" guessed Sunset as she finished listening to Scootaloo telling her day's events. It was sad that the girl was facing backlash for her actions but she wasn't the one who had went and told everyone that they were related...technically speaking. Sunset attempted to state her point but Scootaloo merely slammed the door in her face.
"This is all your fault! If you hadn't tried to enslave the school, none of this would have happened! I wish you would just leave!"
Maybe she intended for it to sting or maybe she didn't, but either way it hurt and at the same time Sunset knew that it was probably true and that Scootaloo's suggestion was pretty valid.