Despite still having more than an hour before the first bell rings, Twilight was already being hard on herself for not getting there earlier. With a heavy bag in tow, she rushes towards the school with urgency for winning the Formal. Since the dance is but a day away, Twilight feels that she needs every available second that she has if she wants to win.
When the school is within her sight, Twilight stopped to catch her breath. But as soon as she does, she suddenly heard a certain little dog that seems to had followed her to school again.
"TWILIGHT!" barks the little puppy as he running up behind her.
Usually, there's a tiny part in Twilight's mind that's glad to see Spike following her to school, knowing that she has at least somebody to cheer her up. But this time, with everything that is on her mind, seeing Spike only upsets her. "Go Home Spike!" she yells at him. "I don't have time babysitting you again today!"
"No!" thought Spike, disobeying his master's command. "After everything that happened yesterday, no way I'm letting you doing this alone. You need me."
When she sees that her dog was ignoring her orders, Twilight gave him her most intimidating and stressful face that she can give. However, Spike's was not swayed and he stands his ground. As they were having their staring contest, Spike could tell that his stern look wasn't going to persuade Twilight. So instead, he uses his ultimate weapon... his puppy dog eyes. Changing his tough hound expression to an innocent puppy's face, Twilight vigour slowly saps away from her. Battling with a stern face against one that is sweet and endearing; Twilight finds it impossible to keep on fighting.
"Damn It Spike! You Know I Can't Win Against That Face!" Twilight yells, frustrated that had she lost yet again. Spike, feeling satisfied with his victory, hops into her bag and let her carry him. When she sees how cheery Spike was, Twilight remarks: "Hm... Maybe I can use you for my campaign."
The two return back to Canterlot High. As Twilight walks pass the horse statue, she recalls meeting Fluttershy and wonder how she is doing right now. She also remembers being hit by the mysterious crown and was confused on where it came from. The last memory that pops back into her head was when she was about to climb up the steps. Looking down at the dirt, she imagines Flash, still looking for his pick. But after she climbed the stairs and pushes open the school doors, the only thing running through her mind was focusing on today.
As Twilight walk through the school, she was glad to see a few students coming in early. Not only because it shows their willingness to learn but also an opportunity to talk to them, convince them to vote for her. But as she was walking by some of them, a few of them began to giggle. It was like they're telling a joke to each other and she just can't hear it. However, Twilight pay them no mind as she assumes that they were telling jokes.
The first thing that Twilight got plan for was plastering her face all over the school. Before arriving home last night, Twilight went to a poster shop and had them make a ton of copies from a poster that she made. It was a portrait of herself and list several of qualities about her that would make her an ideal princess. The added pink and purple made it look a bit girly, but it goes well with her natural body colour. She put one on the bulletin board and several walls across the school. It was a sure way to get people to notice her quickly.
However, as she was putting one poster up, Twilight overheard some students whispering behind her back.
"Hey, it her *giggle* *giggle*"
When she turns around, the students pretend that they said nothing at all. But as soon as Twilight went back to her poster, she heard them giggling again. Twilight did not like the sign of it but she ignored it.
Once she felt that she had put up enough posters, Twilight then proceed to talk with the students. She spotted one group of music dudes talking amongst themselves and she worked up enough courage to go and talk to him. When they spotted Twilight coming towards them, she says to them:
"Greetings, I was wondering if..."
But as soon as she got close to them, they all began laughing and walk off into a different direction. Seeing the bad signs becoming more and more obvious, Twilight turn around at Spike and asks out loud: "Ok, just what the heck is going on?" When she tried approach another group, this time the drama kids, they didn't laugh at her but clearly whispering about her. Twilight wasn't so sure if she wants to go and talk to people anymore and walks off.
Twilight quickly figured that something has happened that is making the students laugh at her, getting her the centre of their attentions but in a wrong way. She decided to lay low, at least until classes start and hopefully the students will calm down. However, as she was walking a hallway, she began feeling that everyone was looking at her, talking about her. Some looked concerned while some looked like they were about to laugh. This kind of attention was slowly eating away at Twilight, making her feel that the student body was against her.
As soon as Twilight thought about hiding in a nearby bathroom, she heard one girl shrieking "TWILIGHT!". When she looks and sees who it is, she was surprised to see it was somebody that she recognizes.
"Rarity!?” Twilight yells in surprised.
"Rarity!!" thought a delightfully surprised Spike.
Rarity, looking slightly dishevelled, ran towards her. Twilight asks: "Rarity, what's going on?"
But Rarity responds: "There's no time. Just come with me." She then grabs Twilight's wrist and pulls her down the hall. Twilight didn't know what was going on, but she's glad to be getting out of there.
About a minute later, Rarity took Twilight to an unoccupied classroom. As the two girls catch their breaths, Rarity peaks outside the door. "Ok, I think nobody saw use entering here" Rarity remarks before turning her attention to Twilight.
Twilight response was: "Well that's great Rarity, but can you please tell me why we need to be hiding in a classroom?"
Rarity explains: "Because you do not want to be seen in the public eye right now." She then shows Twilight a bag full of clothes and says: "I brought some outfits that you can use to disguise yourself. Here, try these on." Rarity then gave Twilight a green dress and a blond wig.
As Twilight was left confused on what was going on, Spike got out of her bag so he can meet the target of his affection. When Rarity saw the little dog, she went: "Ooh! Spike!" and picks him up. Thinking he was about to be bathed with love and care from his crush, Spike was not prepared when she put a bunny costume on him.
"There! I knew you would look good in a bunny outfit" Rarity remarks as she hugs him tightly in her arms. Twilight, upon seeing her dog in an adorable yet embarrassing outfit, forget her worries for the moment and burst out chuckling.
Spike, seeing what Rarity has done, shakes restlessly and screams: "GET ME OUT OF THIS THING!"
And then suddenly, Fluttershy appeared through the door on the other side of the room. When she sees Rarity and Twilight inside, she call out to other people outside. "This way everybody! Rarity has already found her." However, the instant that she saw Spike, she quickly becamed charmed. "Oh my gosh Spike! You! Look! So! ADORABLE!" Fluttershy then snatches Spike out of Rarity's hands and hugs him even tighter.
When Rarity and Twilight realized that Fluttershy has appeared, Applejack, Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie soon enter the room as well. But as soon as they saw Spike, they became distracted as well. While Dash fell to the fall laughing, Pinkie Pie jump-up and squeals before running over and try to play with him. Applejack half-heartedly remarks that: "Well I'll be... you do look well suited to be amongst the rabbits there Spike."
Spike now feels that he can relate to Twilight; receiving attention but not the kind that he wants. After being messed with both Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie, Spike shakes himself free from their hold and screams: "THAT'S ENOUGH!" Once he is on his own 4 feet, he storms to a corner and tries to get the bunny suit off.
As the last bits of laughter were leaving her body, Twilight slowly realizes who is in the room. "Fluttershy! Pinkie Pie! Applejack and Rainbow Dash!? What are you all doing here?"
Rainbow Dash explains: "Once we all saw the video, we thought that you might need some help." However, she adds while looking at Applejack: "And unlike SOME PEOPLE, I'll be there to actually help out."
"Not the time, RD" Applejack says back to her, grinding her teeth as she does it.
Twilight yells: "Video! What Video!? Is this why everybody has been laughing at me!?"
"What! You haven't seen it" Fluttershy asks. Twilight just nods her head side to side.
Despite not saying a word, Twilight was glaring at all five girls and was saying that she want to see the video. The girls, afraid from the glare, were understandably hesitant showing it to her. Pinkie tries to tell her that: "You know... you don't really need to see the video to know that it's bad. You just need to..." However, Twilight gave them an even stronger death glare that made them give into her commands. Fluttershy then got out a laptop and began setting it up on one of the desks. Once it was, Pinkie asks Twilight: "Are you sure you want to watch it?"
"I'm sure" replies Twilight as she sat down on the desk that has the laptop. When she press a button and the video began to play, a recognizable voice was heard which none of them liked.
"Let’s meet the person who wants to be your Fall Formal princess: Twilight Sparkle" says the voice as it shows an image of Twilight walking down a hall. "She would say that she has all of the qualities on being your princess, but does she really? Watch these clips and you decide for yourselves." The video then shows Twilight finding the library and follow her inside.
The Twilight in the video was initially start struck upon seeing the library. She rushes to a shelf of books and pull several titles. But then, the voice says: "A princess needs to be generous and share things with others." With that said and showing Twilight hugging and running away with the books, it depicts Twilight as greedy and is unwilling to share.
The video then changes over to a scene with Twilight trying to use a photocopier. As she put in a poster that she wants to use, the voice says: "A princes needs to be kind and patient and always show integrity." The video then shows Twilight trying to work the copier, but it wasn't working. She then try a bunch of buttons, growing more and more frantic as she does it, but nothing happens. As Twilight opens the lid and sees what's wrong, she gotten blasted by a blinding light which cause her to stumble over and she made a goofy face.
The scene then shifts to Twilight doing some work by a computer. The voice didn't say anything this time, but a figure appears and was hiding under a green hoody. The figure then sticks a piece of paper on Twilight’s back that says “Dork” on it. The figure would have gotten away with it… if he hadn’t turn towards camera to gives a thumps up, revealing himself to be one of Sunset’s lackeys (the scrawny one). He was snickering to his accomplishment, but was soon chased away by Spike. However, Twilight was completely unaware to any of this, despite Spike barking and growling really loudly. She even didn’t notice the librarian walking by and pulling the “Dork” sticker off of her. The only thing that made her jumped out of her seat was when a stack of book fell off the table.
The Video then shows the poster that Twilight made as the voice speaks. “Remember; when you decide on who you want to be your princess, remember the qualities on makes a princess special and ask yourself if Twilight really has them?” The video then ends by taking the face that Twilight made in the copier scene and pasting it over the poster.
When the video finished, Twilight was left mortified to what she had just watched. Not only did she lose any chance of winning, but she had also been humiliated and slenderized. She didn't know what to think no more other than her school like has just died.
The rest of the girls watched as Twilight crumbled before their very eyes. No longer able to stand seeing Twilight like this, Applejack tries to comfort her and says: “It’s alright sugar cube, it’s not the end of the world. We just… We just need to work out a way on how to turn this thing around.”
“And how do you suppose we do that Applejack?” asks Rainbow Dash.
When AJ was having difficulty coming up with an answer, Pinkie jumps and yells to everybody: “Oh I know! We throw a giant PARTY!”
“That’s you answer for everything Pinkie Pie?” Fluttershy replied, unhappy with her idea.
"Well I Don't See You Coming Up With Any Good Ideas!" Pinkie says back to her.
"Speaking of which" says Rarity as she buts in. "I don't see why you're involved in this Pinkie Pie, or how your connected to Twilight in any way?"
Offended, Pinkie told them: "Twilight is my friend too you know. Yesterday, she put her name on the Ballard just so Sunset would leave me alone."
Upon hearing the news, Rarity reactively says out load: "So YOU'RE responsible for all of this. If it wasn't for you, Twilight wouldn't even be in this mess."
Shocked, Pinkie yells: "WHAT! WH-WH-WH-WH WHAT!"
Seeing that the argument is going into a different direction and was getting dangerous, Applejack jumps in the middle of the two and says out load: "CALM DOWN YALL! Screaming and blaming each other isn't going to salve anything."
However, Rainbow Dash added herself in and added: "Yeah, we have to tear down this video and go after the one who made it." She says this while grasping her fist and looking like she's ready for a fight.
"And how is that going to help" Applejack rebutted. "Everybody had already seen the video. Tearing it down isn't going to make them forget about it."
"So not like the time where you stood me up while I had brought the softball team?"
"No... like when you stood me!"
And like that, everyone in the room started arguing. They were throwing accusations at each other, start saying insulting at one another. The room became so filled with load shouting and hatred that Twilight couldn't hear herself think. Twilight, who witness the death of her social life, slowly becoming even angrier than the girls who were shouting. Eventually, it reached to a boiling point where Twilight says:
"Would you please... SHUT UP!"
As Twilight voice echoed throughout the room, everyone else had stopped and spotted and infuriated Twilight was. Consumed in hatred, Twilight yells to everyone: "I Don't Care What You Girls Are All Arguing About Because It Doesn't Involves ME! I Was In That Video And Everyone Out There Is Laughing At Me! And Do You Want To Know Something;... IT'S ALL OF YOUR FAULT FOR GETTING ME INTO THIS MESS!" As Twilight grabs her bag and began leaving the room, she yells to them: "If I Had Never Met ANY Of You, My Life Would Have Been So Much Better Then It Is Now! But Instead, It Was Been Ruined Because I Decided To Get Involved With All Of You!" And when she was at the door, she told them: "I WISH I HAD NEVER MET ANY OF YOU!"
When she left and slammed the door behind her, everyone who was in the room was shocked. Even Spike had just seen a side of Twilight which he'd never seen before. Each was frozen like statue and none even attempted to go after Twilight. Everyone... except for Spike.
"Twilight! Wait Up!" screams the little dog as he tries to chase after his master. When he reached the door, he just barely reached the door handle and opened it by himself. When he got the door, Spike ran out of the room and was about to look for Twilight... until he ran right into her.
When he recovers, he looks up to see what cause her to stop. But when he did, he saw Sunset Shimmer, leaning by a wall toying with one of Twilight's posters.
"It's a shame to see such good friends to start fighting like this" she says sarcastically. "But if friendship can be torn apart so easily, I don't see the point in making friends to begin with."
Twilight, seeing Sunset as a target for her anger, says to her in a calm fury: "It was You! You were the one who made that video."
"I don't know? Maybe it was me?" she replied nonchalantly, almost like she thinks that she will have no consequences for what she did. Sunset then get off from leaning on the wall and toys with Twilight a bit closer. "But that not important anymore. You no longer have a chance in winning your crown back and returning it to Equestria." She says this while tearing up her poster in front of her face. And while Twilight was exposed by her confusing word, Sunset strikes a blow to Twilight currently fragile heart by telling her: "And speaking of which; go home Twilight. This world no longer wants you. You should go back to where you came from with the thought that I am better then you."
Twilight was in shock. Not has Sunset pulled the cruellest prank one could make on the new girl, but also said words that questions if she was even human. In a sudden jolt of anger, Twilight raised her hand, looking like she could either slap Sunset... or possibly even bunch her. The hand was raised so fast, that even Sunset flinched and was in fear of being hit.
Sunset was expecting a hit... but didn't expect to hear the sounds of sobbing. As Sunset was on guard for a hit that never came, she began hearing the sounds of someone crying right in front of her. When she let down her guard, she saw Twilight, so broken up by everything that happened that she had broken down into tears. The hand that was raised that looked like it was about to hurt her was now being used for a cover to hide Twilight's tears. Sunset was so surprised by all of this, she didn't know what to think of it.
Twilight, feeling a great desire to leave her current position, runs away down the hall. Sunset did nothing to stop her or her dog that chases after her. Left so shocked by her own actions, Sunset asked herself: "Did I go too far?"