Twilight, fully un-transformed from her previous Midnight form, was balancing in the air for a few seconds just like the way the would in cartoons. And then she started falling, and fast. The girls had kept their distance from her, and it was a good twenty yards away.
But they had Rainbow Dash.
"I've got her!" She yelled back, sprinting forwards to catch the falling girl. It was a rough landing, and they both ended up toppling to the ground, with Rainbow serving more as a cushion to the girl.
The rest of the students rushed over to the two, helping Rainbow Dash up after she had been squashed. They all circled around Twilight, who still lay on the ground. Sour waved her hand in front of the girls face, and got nothing. "Well, she must of blacked out during the fall." She crossed her arms and frowned, looking at her. "Great, now I feel bad."
Rainbow brushed all of the dirt off from her, and stood beside Sour who was still trying to wake her up. "Gosh, she's heavy," she said, rubbing her shoulder. "She's still not moving, do you think we -- killed her?" Her face turned pale as she considered it.
"No Rainbow Dash, I'm positive we didn't." Fluttershy smiled and put her hand on her shoulder.
Pinkie pushed her way through the crowd, and kneeled down next to Twilight, tears streaming down her face. "Why? She was so young!" Yet with that, Twilight finally woke up, sitting up in a confused daze. Pinkie grabbed her hand, and lifted it up. "See guys? I kept on telling you guys that I knew she'd make it!"
They all gave her their best unimpressed look.
"Oh, these jokers. You know how they are, right?" Pinkie pulled Twilight up from the ground, albeit slowly as she was still loopy from her transformation and fall. Twilight looked at her, eyes crossed. "You do know who they are, right?"
Twilight sighed, closing her eyes rubbing her temples to try to get back to earth. "Yes, Pinkie." She started to look all around her, kids avoiding eye contact when she glanced their way. She tried to step forward, and almost fell to the ground. "Though I'm not exactly sure what just happened here."
"It's probably because she's still dazed from the entire thing," Sunset said as her fellow Shadowbolt friends helped to get Twilight, watching as she limped. "She's not exactly from Equestria." And I'm one of the only ones ever to know how much it hurts to get hit with friendship. Now she has to endure it too, Sunset thought, looking at Twilight sadly.
The students who had regained their right mind started backing away slowly from her, to get out there as soon as possible. "What the heck is going on here?!" One girl said finally speaking up, probably voicing the rest of the student body's reactions.
Indigo Zap, wanting to protect her friends, grabbed the megaphone from Cadance whom was still standing there shocked. "Hey everyone, guess what?" They all turned to face her. "Get out of here! Scat!" She waved her hand at them, and none of them wanting to make the girl angry, all fled as quickly as they could from the area.
Even Principal Cadance and Shining Armor.
Luna and Celestia assessed the situation for a second. "We trust that you girls have got this situation in control?" Luna asked, the girls nodding. "You know the drill, don't report this to the police or hospital, or we'll get questions that we don't want. I already had to cover for the crater thing."
"Don't worry, we have this all under our control," Rarity said, waving as they left the school. As soon as they left, she turned over to Twilight and checked her situation. "Darling, you look terrible and must feel terrible!"
Twilight shakily put up her pointer finger. "Actually, I don't know what happened exactly?"
"She probably feels strange, just like I did when I was hit. Like a load of bricks hitting you out of nowhere." Sunset added, erasing any possible confusions from the others.
"Gee, I sure know how that feels," said Rainbow, still rubbing her arm. She suddenly took her hand off, and put on a pair of shades. "Though really, I feel aight."
"I'm sure a nice bath and hot tea would help, right?" Fluttershy said, sitting Twilight down on one of the nearest benches. She had managed not to destroy most of the school grounds, saving the school an extra bit of damage repair. Not that they would have needed the cash anyway, the school was rich and beautiful enough as it was.
"You said that this has happened multiple times now?" Sunny Flare asked, not even needing an answer. "It's really a wonder how nobody could realize or notice us, except Twilight." Little to know that there was their school janitor listening in on this.
"A lot to clean up tonight it looks like," he said, starting to sweep a bit of the ruins into a pile. "Looks like someone was forced into stealing otherworldly magic, tried to destroy the entire place, was saved by a few special girls, and changed back to normal." He looked at the girls, with shocked looks on their face that he could never understand. "But what do I know? I'm just a guy with a broom." He dissapeared around the corner.
"If this whole thing hadn't happened, I would have said that that was just really weird." Sugarcoat said, peeking around the edge and watching him continue his work.
"Actually, that's remindin' me a lot of Pinkie Pie here," Applejack said, pointing at her hyper cotton candy haired friend.
"Lemon Zest too," she said as the two similar girls started smiling at each other wildly. She stepped back putting up her hands. "What have we done now? Two Lemon Zests?" The girls from Canterlot High shared the same look with Sugar.
"Well, we're going to get going now before anyone starts asking questions," Sunny Flare and the Shadowbolts started to grab all of their bags and belongings. Sunny picked up Twilight, and managed to start dragging her along with them.
"Wait, you're just leaving all of a sudden?" Sunset asked, kind of annoyed.
"She'll be fine, we've got her. And well before we leave, thanks for all of this I guess. Oh, we're also sorry for trying to cheat multiple times, being rude to you guys, and kind of forcing Twilight into doing this." She looked up and smiled. "It was kind of weirdly fun in the end though."
"Oh yeah, we still haven't got them back yet," Rainbow said, cracking her knuckles for whatever was about to happen.
Lemon Zest jumped and grabbed her other Shadowbolts by the hand, pulling them away quickly. "OhyeahabouthathehehewellIthinkwecandealwiththatlaterrigh
t?" She started to run away, basically towing still dazed Twilight behind her.
"We have one more day left of the games, so we'll see you tomorrow still!" Rainbow yelled back at them, chuckling as she dreamed up some hilarious revenge prank that they would probably not end up doing.
Sunset yawned, sitting down and relaxing for once on the bench. "Well that could have been worse, right?"
Ding, ding.
The bell on the door rang as the six Shadowbolts headed to the nearest Taco Bell. It was a typical afternoon attendance; crying kids, unhappy janitor, and that strange blue girl who always camped out in the corner eating tacos. There was also virtually no line, and they got to the front quickly, scanning over the menu for something to eat.
"Six chicken quesadillas please," Sour Sweet said as the cashier rang in the order.
Out of nowhere, Twilight suddenly snapped up from her sleepy daze. "No, nononono!" She said, trying to run out the door before getting pulled back in line by Indigo Zap.
"Wait." Twilight said. She must have been loud, because the whole Taco Bell stopped to turn and look at her. "What just happened?!"