//------------------------------// // A hateful alternative // Story: Another Chance // by Small Muffin //------------------------------// Twilight, Pinkie, and Fluttershy were sitting in an empty classroom, and Twilight was trying to come up with answers to Pinkie's rapid fire questions, while keeping the truth about Equestria a secret. "So... Where are you from?" she asked. "Uh... I'm from Manehatten. I just moved here last year, and I-" Twilight replied. "How long have you known Sunny?" Pinkie asked. "Well... we met a couple years back but we nev-" "Wait, she's from Manehatten?" Pinkie looking over at Fluttershy, who was sitting at the desk next to her, "Huh, never would have guessed that." Fluttershy shrugged. "R-really?" Twilight replied, nervously. "So why'd you move here?" Pinkie continued, turning her attention back to Twilight. "I... Me and my family just decided to is all, there isn't really a story behind it," she replied. "Though I have been living on my own for a while, an-" "What was she like back then?" Fluttershy asked. "Uh, what?" a confused Twilight replied. "Sunset, what was she like back then?" she asked. "Yeah," Pinkie continued, "you see Applejack said yesterday that it didn't make sense that she, being who she was, would befriend you." "So, was she nicer back then?" Fluttershy asked. Oh great, now what do I say? "She was..." Twilight was interrupted by the rooms door opening, as Pinkie immediately turned to the door, "Hey Sunny, we were ju-" she stopped when she noticed Lightning Dust walk in, with Snips and Snails behind her. "Oh... hi Dust. What do you want?" she asked, trying to keep her upbeat tone. "I'm looking for Rainbow Dash." Dust walked over towards Pinkie, "Know where she is?" "Oh, well you juuust missed her. She was here with us at break, but she has class now." she replied. "So where is she?" "Well, I can't remember what she said she had, buuut," Pinkie rushed out the door, and pointed down the hallway, "she went that way somewhere." "Oh please." Lightning began to walk back over to her. "No, wait." Pinkie lowered her arm, and pointed in the other direction, "She went that way... I think." Lightning raised an eyebrow, unamused, "No hang on, it was definitely that way." she changed direction again. As Lightning got more and more annoyed, Snips and Snails couldn't help but let out a small laugh, "What are you two laughing at?" she glared at them. The two of them forced themselves to stop, "N-nothing." Snails Gave a weak smile. "Idiots." Dust walked over to Fluttershy, "You." "Wha- Me?" Fluttershy asked nervously. "Where. Is. Rainbow?" she asked, angrily. "I-I really don't remember where she said she was going," Fluttershy replied, shaking a bit with fear, "honest." Lightning walked back over to Pinkie, who was still pointing down the hallway, "Alright, I'm absolutely extremely completely super duperly sure she definitely went that wa-" Lightning grabbed her shirt and pulled her back into the room, "Listen here you pink haired moron, rumour has it you've got a record saying where everyone is at any point in the day." Pinkie laughed, "And you believe them?" she asked, "Do you really think I would go around the whole school and actually take note of where everyone is for every day? Cus that would be rediculous." "She's got science now," Twilight said, "room A4." Lightning let Pinkie go, and turned her attention towards Twilight, "You, you're new here, right?" "That's correct." Twilight replied sternly. "Then, let me tell you something," Lightning walked over to her, "I'm the one in charge around here. Don't get me mad, and we won't have any problems. Am I clear?" "Understood. I heard you were also the vice captain of some of the schools sports teams." "Well what do you know, someone who doesn't seem like a complete idiot," she said, glancing at the other two, who were rather amazed at Twilight's cooperation, "so just to remind you, if I tell you to do something, you do it, if I want to know something, you tell me." she noticed Rarity and Sunset walk into the room, "Got that?" "I'll keep that in mind," Twilight replied, unphased. "Twilight, what's going on here?" Sunset asked. "Nothing, I was just leaving," Lightning said as she walked over to the door, only to stop at Sunset, "Nice eye patch." Sunset didn't reply, "You know these two idiots of yours, they're rather obedient aren't they?" again, she didn't reply. As Lightning left, Snips and Snails followed behind her, "You're with her now? Really?" Sunset asked. The two of them looked at her, rather confused, "You two are better than this." "Come on you two!" Lightning ordered, "Don't waste you're time with them." The two of them caught up with Dust, as Sunset closed the classroom door behind her. "So... what did she want?" Rarity asked. "She was looking for Rainbow Dash, but we all just refused to tell her," Pinkie said. "Then Twi-Twi gave her the wrong info." she laughed, before turning to Twilight, "You do know room A4 is a math room, right?" Twilight shrugged, "I just wanted her to leave, the last thing I wanted was for her to hit one of you. Though I'm surprised she didn't notice that herself." "Maybe she did," Fluttershy said, "but she just decided she had had enough of us, I mean she was getting a little, ticked off." "Anyway, never mind her," Twilight said, "What is it you wanted to talk about?" "Uh, um." she looked around at everyone else, "It was something about, back home, but I can't quite remember what it was." "Back ho- Oh, alright, well, just tell me as soon as you remember." Twilight smiled. "Speaking of back home," Pinkie said, "I didn't know you were from Manehatten!" "I'm from Manehatten?" "Yeah," Twilight replied nervously, "she was asking about when I met you and I told her about how we met in Manehatten all those years ago. Then Lightning came in." "Oh, right..." "Can Sunset Shimmer and a, Twilight, Sparkle please report to the principals office, immediately." "Did, did you just hear that?" Fluttershy asked, "I know," Rarity looked at Sunset, "since when have you been called to the principals office?" "Heres my question, how do they know about you?" she asked Twilight. "I'll explain on the way," she said as the two of them went over to the door, Sunset opened it, and they both left. "Well this is new," Sunset mumbled. "Huh?" "Well, I've only been called to the principals office one time before, and that was almost three three years ago!" "What for?" "I might've... It's something I've never really been proud of," she said, regretfully, "even before I changed." "You can tell me, I won't judge you, you know." Twilight giggled, trying to lighten the mood. It was rather clear it wasn't working. "Well, I was getting angry at Rainbow Dash, she was one of the ones who never really, did what I would tell them. Like Lightning." "So, you hurt her pretty badly?" Sunset shook her head, "I found out she was close to this younger kid, Scootaloo, she goes here now, but at the time I... I broke her leg, and told her it was Rainbow's fault, and that she should ask her why this had to happen. Dash never bothered me again." "Oh, I see," Twilight replied uneasily. "Apparently the reason they didn't throw me out right then and there was because I didn't do anything on school grounds." she shook her head, "It was the only time this place has ever tried anything significant against me," her regretful tone was slowly starting to turn to one of anger, "and it was only a simple threat of throwing me out! They have never tried anything else in the whole time I ha-" "Sunset!" Twilight yelled, grabbing her attention, "Are you alright?" "No, I'm not!" she replied angrily. "What is it?" Sunset looked at the 'Principals Office' sign on the door in front of them, "Come on, we shouldn't keep them waiting," she said mockingly, "Just don't tell them anything they don't need to know," she said as she opened the door. "But you were talking too her yesterday!" Luna said, "How can you say you do-" she and Celestia looked at the two girls as they both walked in, "Her, do you recognize her now?" "Take a seat," Celestia said, "Twilight, is it?" Twilight sat down, "Yes ma'am." she looked next to her as Sunset sat down, while looking like she didn't really care anymore, What's with her all of a sudden? "I believe we spoke yesterday, is that correct?" "Yes, we did. Is there something else you wanted too talk about?" Twilight asked nervously. "Well, I must apologize, but I honestly can't remember any such event, could we, go over what we talked about." "Well, you met me in the main hall, we came here, where we had to borrow the vice principals keys, since you had forgotten yours, and I simply asked you if I could stay here for a couple days, just untill friday." "I thought you were enrolling here?" Luna asked. "What, oh, nonono, I don't think I ever said that."Twilight replied nervously, "Did I?" "I'm pretty sure you did." "Anyway," Celestia interrupted, "how is it then that I can't recall a single piece of our conversation, and I'm completely sure I have never seen you before Miss Sparkle. Care to explain that?" "Well... you did say that you had recently hit your head just before we met," Twilight replied, "maybe it's just a tad bit of memory loss?" "You definitely did speak to her yesterday, there's no doubt about that," Luna said, "Maybe you really did just forget it all?" "Alright, but why was your voice over the intercom, and why was I in the gym when I heard it go off?" "Well... you see..." Twilight was cornered, with no idea what to say, "You..." "So you're a bit forgetful, leave the girl alone will you!" Sunset interrupted, gaining their attention, "How about we just skip to why I'm here, so you can stop wasting my time already. Because frankly, I have more important stuff to do." "Alright," Celestia replied, "this girl wanted to meet you at lunch, and you told me that no one turned up at the main hall. Is that the truth, Shimmer?" "Yes, she wasn't there by the time I got to the hall, but I met her after school anyway," she replied, sounding quite annoyed. "Anything else?" "No, you may both go now." they both stood up, "You may stay here untill Friday, but no longer, understand?" "Perfectly Miss." Twilight replied with a polite bow, as they both left, and Twilight closed the door behind her. "What was all that about?!?!" Twilight asked. "All what?" "The way you were acting in there, what was with you?" she asked. "You wanna know?" Twilight just gave her a stern look, "It's because I can't stand that woman," she replied. "What, why not?" "When I got here, I had no respect for Princess Celestia, and this Celestia is just a high school principal, so you can imagine that that I had even less respect for her." she looked behind her at the office door, "But even now, after I realize that Celestia was right all along, I still hate her in there." She sighed, and walked away from the office, "Celestia never would've stood for it, she never agreed with my way of thinking back then, and she wouldn't if she was here, but her? She doesn't even try to stop me, the most I've ever had is a small warning for breaking the leg of someone half my size." "I'm, I'm sure she has a good reason, Princess or not, this is still Celestia, right?" "Put yourself in her shoes, someone is going around causing havoc for every student in the school, and you could throw her out of here in an instant, yet you keep her in. Why?" Twilight had no answer. "The Princess refused to give me what I wanted, but she just sits back and lets me do whatever!" she slammed her fist into the locker next to her, as she took deep breaths as an attempt too try and calm down, "At first I thought it was hilarious, but now it just makes me sick that they share the same name!" "I..." "She didn't even touch what happened this morning, because I was involved." she took another deep breath "Sorry Twilight, you didn't have to hear that." Sunset had finally calmed herself down. "I think I need some air." she said as she ran on ahead. "Oh, I'll go-" "No, just leave me alone for now alright!" she said, her voice somewhat demanding, "I just... wanna be alone for now," she said as she ran off, leaving Twilight alone in the hallway. Flutershy walked down the virtually empty corridor, on her way too her next class. "Hey!" a voice called out behind her. As she turned around, she was thrown into the locker next to her, and a hand grabbd her shirt, she looked up to see Lightning glaring back at her. "Where's Rainbow Dash?!" she demanded. "W-wha-" Dust slammed her fist right next to Fluttershy's head, "Are you deaf? I said, where's Rainbow Dash?! NOW!" Fluttershy gave an inaudible mummble, "What was that?" "S-she has a free period fourth, she said she was g-going to go out to the field to practice!" she cried, cowering with fear. "Really?" Fluttershy nodded, "Are you sure?" she nodded again, "Alright, but if she's not, I'll be seeing you again real soon." She let Fluttershy go, "And I hope, for your sake, that she's there," she said as she walked off, and Fluttershy ran in the other direction towards her class, as the school bell went off.