Flash's car drove through the city, Inapan in the passenger seat. Despite her commanding to go faster, Flash did his best to keep within the speed limit. He was already skipping school, there was no sense drawing attention to himself. That was until he heard the police sirens behind him.
"Oh no, oh nonono no, please tell me it's not-" Flash said as he pulled over. Much to his tremendous relief, the police car drove right past.
"Flash honey, what was that?" Inapan asked.
"Just the police, sweetie. They must've gotten an important call or something... uh, listen. We REALLY should be at school right now. I mean, I'm only seventeen so if someone catches us..."
"Seventeen? Flash you never told me you were still just a whelp!" she said, shocked. "You look a lot older than that!"
"A whe-whatever, that's not the point. We need to get back to the school." he began preparing for a u-turn. "We're in trouble enough, I don't want the law involved."
"Oh honey, but what about all the fun we had planned? You were going to take me to the carnival and this "shopping" you spoke so highly of sounded so interesting."
"I... we need to go back. I used up my get out of jail free cards when I was dating Sunset Shimmer."
"They make those?" she asked, looking confused.
"It's an expression." he began heading back to Canterlot High.
"Flash, I know you're worried, but I assure you, I have diplomatic immunity. They could not touch us if they wanted." Flash paused for a moment.
"What kind of inspector did you say you were again?"
"Oh Flash if only you knew. Come whisk me away to this "carnival". I wish to see what you do for fun."
It's hard to tell if it was the mind control or her own attractive, persuasive self. As they came to Canterlot High, Flash turned away, and leaving the watching Pinkie and Rarity to ponder what was happening in that car.
"Wait, how old are you anyways?" Flash asked.
"In your years or mine?" she responded, the boy unsure how to answer.
Rainbow Dash, meanwhile, was having a difficult time with the task of stalking the two. Mostly because they had a car and she did not. While this seemed a really painfully obvious oversight, she had actually planned for this. After the team had broken up. She saw Flash leave in his car, her first instinct was to "pony up" as they'd become keen to calling it and follow from the air.
Well the plan KIND OF worked. In the same way as a fox is KIND OF like a cat. Although Dash enjoyed flying and seemed a natural in a closed environment or in a duel to the death with a lunatic supervillain, she had not yet graduated from the Hawkgirl school of flying. She had no protection from the bugs and birds that often used the airspace above the city, and groups of people pointing and shouting removed any chance she had of stealth. It was not fifteen minutes, around the time Flash and Inapan had the previously mentioned discussion, and that she gave up and returned to the ground.
"Ah man, I'll never catch up to them like this, I need anothe-"
"Look!" a delinquent kid said as he and his friends ran up to her. "She's got wings and everything!"
"Scootaloo wasn't making it up!" Another said, holding his skateboard under his a- nope, never mind, I spoke too soon. Rainbow had already taken it before any of the kids could protest or take pictures.
As the kids shouted threats to her, she was already on Flash's tail, using her wings to speed herself forwards in a way some may recognize. Once she got close enough, she grabbed the bumper and tried to listen in on what the couple had to say, although it might be a bit muddled, what with the "having to listen through the wind of a moving vehicle".
"Oh Flash, you're so nice to me." a feminine voice said. "Why don't we discuss a plan?"
"Plan? I mean... well, I take you to the carnival, we play a few games, have a few treats, and go on a couple of rides," she could make out Flash's voice, despite the inconvenient location.
"No Flash, OUR plan. The plan for us. Why don't you tell me about your friends? Those girls who you seem to like?" Inapan asked, innocently.
"Well, there's uh... where to start? There's Twilight. She was my date at the Fall Formal, and uh, she's kind weird. She acts like two different people sometimes, you know? Sometimes she treats me nice and wants to know more about me and other times jus-"
"No no, Flash. I don't care about their personalities, do they have anything" she paused, "odd about them? Do they do anything or go anywhere unusual?"
"I-uh, well, they hang around the statue in front of the school a lot and um," Flash shook his head. "I think that's about it, really."
"The statue... interesting. Are you sure that's all?"
"Yes." Flash lied. "They just like hanging out around that statue a lot."
Dash frowned as she heard mentions of the statue, cursing the fact Rarity had lost her phone just when another topic came up.
"Oh, Flash. I found this in the woods." she took out a blue phone and passed it to him.
"Rainbow's phone?" he asked, confused. "Huh, she must've dropped it while hiking." Dash's suspicions were not only confirmed, but turning into a far, and a far worse realization: Inapan knew they knew.
The car stopped at the fairground's parking lot, where Flash and Inapan began getting out of the car. Thinking quickly, Dash flew into the sky, and out of their peripheral vision. Locking the doors and setting the alarm, the two left to enjoy the carnival. As Rainbow descended she looked through the car windows at her cell phone, which lay on the passenger seat.
Meanwhile, Sunset Shimmer sat in her study hall, staring at the book that gave her a direct line to the princess Twilight Sparkle. "Dear Princess Twilight..." she began. "We seem to be in a bit of a situation. I think that yo-"
"What're you doing?" Shimmer dropped the book and swung around, looking mortified as Tested stood over her.
"Tested! Um, hey! Uh, h-how was... um, I thought Pinkie and Rarity-"
"Locked me on the roof?" Tested asked, unhappily. "I understand if you don't like me, but at least be direct about it."
"What? They did what? Tha-that's terrible! We should go talk to them! Where are they now?"
"The roof." she said, going to sit in a chair across from Sunset. "But they'll be fine. Tell me about you."
"Me? Well, what about me would you like to know? There's a lot to learn... why don't we talk on the way to the roo-"
"How about this?" Tested said, picking up Sunset's book and skimming through it just as a response arrived. "Hm, interesting."
"No!" Shimmer said, taking the book back. "N-no, it's really not. It's just a journal. A diary, It's got nothing worth looking at, nope!" she hid the book in her backpack, and it vibrating as someone continued writing back.
At this point the entire classroom were looking at the two, most of them unhappy that they couldn't do their schoolwork in peace. Clearing her throat, Shimmer began heading to the door, and her bag still vibrating obnoxiously. Tested followed as the class returned to their lives, all ignorant of what was really going on.
Shimmer ducked and weaved through the hallways to get to her roof-bound comrades, but everywhere she tried to go she found herself blocked by Inapan's creepy twin.
"Where are you going?"
"We need to talk."
"I am growing annoyed." were just some of the lines the millstone would say when she appeared to block her. Finally, Shimmer reached the roof access and of course Tested was in the way.
"Shimmer. I am trying to understand, why do you not wish to spend time with me?" Tested asked, her voice having grown creepy and almost robotic after hearing it for so long.
"It's not you!" Shimmer said, trying to push the girl out of the way. "It-I just need to help my friends!"
"Shimmer, we can be friends. You can tell me all your secrets. Your favorite food, your favorite stories, the source of your energy, and which boys you wish to-"
Sunset Shimmer stopped, backing away from the girl as the thought finally struck her. "M-my energy?"
"Yes Shimmer... you and your friends energy levels are far more powerful than any other human's. Why is that?"
"How do you know what our energ- You ARE an alien!" she said, realizing she had backed into a wall as Tested grew closer and closer. "Or a robot o-or something! Get away from me!"
"I am not going to ask again, Sunset Shimmer. Tell me why you have this energy?"
The alien grabbed Shimmer's arm and, before either of them could react, a burst of energy had formed a cylinder around the orange-haired girl. Within the light, Sunset grew into her more powerful form, and fiery wings bursting from her back as her hair flowed wildly upwards. Backing away, Tested stared mortified at this sudden reveal.
"B-be you an angel?" the alien creature asked, realizing the mistake it had made.
"Neigh." said the unhappy Sunset Shimmer. "Or I would feel guilt for what I am about to do."
Pinkie and Rarity sat on the rooftop, staring at the clouds.
"Do you think she got our text?" Rarity pondered.
"I'm sure she's just busy with class." Pinkie replied.
With the base of her palms, Sunset shot out a large column of fire, completely engulfing her opponent and leaving a large, charred stain on the ground. Taking a deep breath, she lowered herself to the ground and realized what had just happened.
"Oh no. W-what have I..." she stared at her hands, magic coursing through her veins as she realized she had committed one of the cardinal sins. As she faced the existential realization of ending another life, students in the surrounding classrooms initiated emergency procedures and began hiding under their desks as teachers covered up the windows.
While all this happened, Shimmer would remain too flabbergasted to hear her opponent emerge from the ashes, very unhappy.
"That wasn't very nice." Tested's creepy voice said from behind her. As Sunset turned she found herself sucker-punched so hard it forced her into some nearby lockers, sending papers and flecks of paint into the air. Tested cracked her knuckles and walked up to Shimmer, tearing off the belt she wore and revealing two, dazzling, almost transparent yellow butterfly wings.
"You're-?" Shimmer asked, getting up.
"Alive, yes. And very upset." Tested lunged for Shimmer, but received another, fire-based column to the chest, sending her up the stairwell, through the locked metal door, onto the rooftop. Shimmer followed, flapping her wings violently to catch up, outstretching her fist and returning a sucker punch to her opponent, who'd gotten up just in time for a strike to the eye.
"So..." Tested said, bounding away from her competitor. "Humans can also fly... a pity they don't know how to fight."
"Sunset Shimmer!" Rarity and Pinkie shouted, about to join their friend in the battle but stopping when Shimmer raised her arm.
"No, get to safety. This is my fight."
The two powerful women stared at one another, waiting for the other to flinch, or back away. Finally, as if someone had hit a bell, the two began flying towards one another, Shimmer kicking while Tested tried to punch.
Or so Shimmer thought, Tested opened her hands just enough to let her opponent's foot slip in, and swing her around and around, spinning violently, Shimmer tried kicking with her other foot. After what felt like minutes Tested let go, sending Shimmer into the sky.
On the ground level, Principal Celestia, Vice Principal Luna, Applejack, Fluttershy, and the only school employee who'd been willing to listen to them about the alien theory; Time Turner, watched the battle rage on.
"Astounding!" Time Turner shouted, staring at the battle as Tested flew over to continue assaulting Sunset.
"What's happening?" Vice Principal Luna asked, flinching at Shimmer elbowing Tested in her mouth.
"It's Inapan! I told you she was an alien! That's why we were freaked out about the pod and metal building! She's come here to... well, OK, we don't know why she's here, but this is proof!" Applejack said.
"I'm sorry I doubted you two, how can I help?" Principal Celestia asked, turning away just in time to miss Tested be flung into a parked car.
"Not pressing charges would be a start..." Fluttershy mumbled, realizing exactly whose car had an unconscious alien in it.
After Shimmer spent upwards of a minute pummeling and brutalizing her opponent with her bare hands and fashionable boots, she crawled out of the wreckage, her wings fading away.
"Oh. H-hey there!" she said, panting as she brushed off her clothes. "I-I think there might have been a problem with the... uh..." She tried to think up an excuse but found none. "I'm just gonna lie down for a little bit."
Shimmer fell into Applejack's arms as the group watched a figure climb out of the twisted wreckage, breathing heavily, her wings bent and her hair mussed up. One of her eyes had gone from a soft blue to a pitch black. As the girls looked at the furious foe, it was clear the battle was far from over.
When the girl because walking towards them, Pinkie called from the rooftop what everyone was thinking: "RUN!"