In the last row of seats on the computer labs during the class of Informatics, Twilight Sparkle and I were about to start a conversation. With grace, dignity and the proper parley worthy of a high school student, I was the first to speak my mind.
“You fucking screwed us over, Twilight!” I whispered with anger.
“What!? Twilight answered me with surprise. “What do you mean?”
“If you didn’t have that habit of yours of opening your mouth and bombarding the teacher with questions, Calculus’ tests would have been easier to answer! This is the first time I ever got a ‘D’ and it’s your fault!”
“My fault!?” Whispered Twilight in awe. “You and the others should have studied harder instead of goofing around!”
“What did you say, you little-!”
“Language!”
“Dam-… ugh! Fine! At least I managed to score an ‘A plus’ in Literature and Professor Gizmo gave us the same grade as well.”
“Don’t worry, Nitpick! Like I told you before, with my study methods, you’ll ace any test in a matter of days! I’m the living proof of it!”
“We normal living beings don’t have your genius intellect to manage that kind of feat, Twilight! You should consider not speaking in classroom!”
“…umm.”
“Why did you put the long face, little twinkle star?”
“Tee hee! Little twinkle star!?”
That adorable face!
“Fucking sorry!” I whispered in an apologetic manner. “I didn’t mean to say that!”
“Nitpick…!” Whispered Twilight with a sublime and childlike silhouette. “I don’t mind you calling me like that!”
“Uh… ok!”
What’s wrong with me when I’m around you?
“But I just have a complaint.”
“Which is?”
“Language!”
“Damn it!”
“Nitpick!”
“What!?”
“Shh! You should consider not speaking in public!”
“Why you little-!”
She gave me a scolding frown while crossing her arms. Who does she think she is to give me the looks!?
“Ok, ok! I’ll behave as I promised you!”
“You didn’t promise me anything, you just said that you’ll try to behave for me…”
“Oh… good!”
“But since you consider it a promise now…!” Twilight looked to the roof while playfully putting a finger on her lips. “Perhaps I can-!”
“Don’t test your luck on me, Twilight Sparkle!”
“Just kidding! Right, Spike?”
The little guy made a soft bark while getting his head out of the bag. Who is a good boy? Yuh are a good boy!
“Nitpick! Since we’re already finished with the main code and programming and we still have some time before classes end, I was meaning to ask you a favor!”
That sounds so beautiful! Hearing from her that we finished with the main code and programming meant that the project was practically over! But the problem was the other part of her talk.
“Uh… first let me hear what this favor is about. I don’t make promises I know I can’t guarantee its fulfillment.”
“It’s easy! We will have so much fun together while at it!”
“Define ‘fun together’”
“Don’t try to be silly, Nitty! You know the meaning to that!”
NITTY!?
“As you know, the sport classes are having an overhaul next week and we need to organize all the schedules! Since the girls are busy with the schedule and location management, they asked me if I can give them a hand in the team’s organization! We just have to assist to the sport classes during this week and plan ahead which students are more athletic than others and allocate them in the same groups! That way, we’ll maximize efficacy and focus the training according to their weaknesses of each group! Doesn’t that sound like fun?”
“Your consideration of what you believe is a fun activity we can enjoy together is inspiring.” I whispered sarcastically.
UH!? THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A THOUGHT AND NOT A PART OF OUR CONVERSATION!
“Oh! I knew you and I would agree in this! Even in Crystal Prep, you always helped me in our projects!”
“That’s because I-!”
I closed my mouth instantly. I nearly said something crude.
“Yes?”
I hate it when you make happy faces like that!
“Well, you were a pain and very demanding in our projects but… I have fun.”
I said the truth in a certain point of view.
“So… Will you me help in this starting tomorrow?”
“Well…”
The theme of the Ancient Scrolls rang from my phone. Lightbulb was texting me.
“Excuse me for a moment, Twilight.”
“Ok, I’ll research about athletic categories while you finish your business!”
‘Sigh’
-Lightbulb: Let’s meet at the exit!
-Nitpick: I’ll meet you there.
I’m starting to have mixed feelings right now. Help Lightbulb and betray Twilight’s expectations or betray her and help my friend? If Lightbulb is my friend and he takes priority between the two, why I am having doubts right now?
“I’ll give you an answer tomorrow, promise!”
She nodded with a glimpse of expectation and we spent the last seven minutes researching whatever it came to our minds. The bell rang and it marked the end of another day of classes. I quickly left the halls of the school and Lightbulb was outside, alone, and that was weird.
“Where is Dancer?”
“She already left because today she has an especial sale in her part time job.”
“I can’t believe she works in the flower shop near the Town’s Hall! The owner is a bit meticulous with her designs. I’m somewhat glad that she told me in our chat group during Literature classes… I was going to sleep with Cranky’s speeches”
“Hahahaha I understand that! Let’s go to Sugarcube Corner and discuss how to gather the students to support us!”
“You really think we can pull this off so that’s good enough for me”
I followed him to the Cafe near the town center. The aromas of fresh baked goodies and sweet coffee are as welcoming as the first time. The Cake’s family was always a humble and that virtue of theirs rewarded them with a successful local with a healthy income. We ordered some of their famous slices of cheese cake and I ordered a chocolate milkshake while Lightbulb ordered a simple, black coffee.
We started to exchange ideas on how to convince people to join our cause but to no avail. We clearly weren’t the social types and our methods were somewhat lame and straightforward for the likes of CHS. We needed some help and we needed it fast.
“Lightbulb! Good to see you around here!”
“It’s weird seeing you with somebody who isn’t Dancer. At least it is your old friend and not another girl!”
“Very funny, Lyra! And she is in her part time job.”
“How did she take the news about this new change of schedules?”
“Yeah! This schedule totally clash with her work hours!”
So even Lyra and Bon Bon knew about it before me… damn…
“Bad. It’s not that she needs the money but she doesn’t want to be a bother to her parents. You know how it was for her last year. Nitpick and I are discussing how to change things in school and oppose the Idol-”
“Shh!” Lyra gently put her hand in his mouth. “This is part of their tour! Somebody can hear you!”
“So this is how far the fear of those girls has gone. Not even outside of the school you can speak out your mind.” I said with seriousness.
“You don’t like them?” Asked Bon Bon.
“No.”
“What exactly do you want to achieve both of you?”
“We want the guys in the school to have a mind of their own instead of Sunset and her friends running the show for us! Besides, I hate Spitfire and how bitchy she is!”
“I don’t think that the right way to express about someone, Nitpick!” Said Lyra with a bit of concern. “I mean, there are rumors that you, uh, made a lot of boo-boos”
“Is this about Pinkamena, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash and the soccer team? No offense but I don’t think it’s fair that I receive a bad treatment while all those girls have a kind of fault to it in those events! Nobody touches them because they are the popular gals and I am just the evil piece of shit bringing terror to the school!”
“That’s not true, yo! I believe you are a nice guy!”
That voice!
A pair of hands suddenly obscured my vision and without trying to struggle, I decided to play their game.
“Guess whooooo?” A beautiful, singing voice was heard.
“Sweetie Belle.”
She released me from her playful game.
“How did you know?”
“Applebloom and her ‘yo’ is unmistakable and the way you sang is eerie similar to Rarity!”
But cuter.
“I knew I should have spoken instead” Bickered Scootaloo.
“Come on, Scoots'! Our voices are famous by now with that video we released last year! Bub-in-law is a smart guy after all!”
What the hell is a Bub-in-law?
“That doesn’t matter, girls!” Said a suddenly angered Bon Bon. “Haven’t your elders taught you to not barge into other people
conversations?”
“Sorry!” The three girls said in unison.
Oh, they are so adorable, especially Sweetie Belle. Wait! They are sisters of three of the Idol Six! This is bad.
“You’re going to sell us to your sisters, aren’t you?” I said with resignation.
“No!” Replied Sweetie Belle with panic.
“We still remember what you did as Anon-A-Miss, kids!” Exclaimed Bon Bon.
“We aren’t gonna stab you, promise!” Replied Scootaloo with a bit of fear.
“We want to help you, yo!”
“What!?” The girl’s duo, Lightbulb and I said in unison with disbelief.
“I don’t believe you!” Replied Bon Bon.
“Girls! They are your sisters!” Said Lyra witch confusion. “Aren’t you supposed to help them?”
“Yeah, but…”
Applebloom suddenly rubbed her shoulders while The Cutie Crusaders looked to each other’s eyes. Finally nodding in agreement, Applejack’s sister continued.
“But Spitfire and the sports team became meanies! At first it was fun and really challenging until we heard some people in our grade complaining about this sudden change and I don’t want mah sister to be hated because of it! It feels horrible to be despised by the school and we don’t want our family to be disliked by everyone!”
‘Sigh’ Why all of you keep saying ‘everyone’ that lightly?
“We don’t like to be called wimps on something that is supposed to be fun… I’m not a wimp!” Said Scootaloo in frustration, her clenched fist were trembling in anger.
“And my uniform always gets dirtier than usual with those trainings!”
You’re truly Rarity’s sister, but far more adorable.
“Oh gosh, Sweetie Belle! The uniforms are the least of our problems!”
“You don’t wash your own things, Scoots’! You don’t know how frustrating it is to clean those filth stains from the cotton!”
“Our parents will buy us new uniforms if they get ruined! No big deal!”
They may not be real sisters but Scootaloo is following her idol’s steps and that’s troublesome.
“Girls! We are wasting our time, yo! Let’s tell them what we have in mind so we can save our sisters and make the school as friendly as before!”
No comment, Applebloom is truly an Apple.
“What do you have in mind, kiddos?”
“If you wanna convince everyone in school, you must become one of the good guys first, yo!”
“Yeah! Make something awesome and everyone will help you!”
“Maybe a change of look and sing a song in the cafeteria of the school! Everyone loves songs!”
“YEAH!” The trio exclaimed in unison.
Silence… The wind of the streets roared with gentleness. If this was the old west, a ball of dead bushes would have passed beside us by now.
“Why I should sing a song in the cafeteria?”
“Because that’s something Princess Twilight did to win the Fall Formal last year!” Answered Sweetie Belle.
“Princess… Twilight?”
“Twilight’s cousin, Bro!”
“Ah yeah… Seriously? She won the event with a song?”
All of them nodded in agreement.
“Impossible! I mean, in Crystal Prep Academy, for students to overthrow the rule of a Champion leader, they must elect a new candidate so they can openly challenge face him or her in a competition to see who is the best suited for the position! If CHS has a similar system, Twilight must have gathered all the school with more than just a song. How many days it took her to convince most of the school?”
“Two days!” Scootaloo answered.
Just two days? Not even Sugarcoat who obliterated the previous Champion of the middle class did that feat so quickly! It took her a month to become the new leader during our first year at the academy. Twilight’s cousin must possess unmatchable charisma.
“Do you have a photo of her?”
“If you have seen Twilight without glasses, you have seen the Princess, Nitpick! But she is far more social and her songs are really good!” Informed Lyra while doing a small dancing with a strange tempo in her mind.
“That doesn’t make sense! A song in the cafeteria of the school is not something worthy of approval for the whole school to stand beside her! What else did she do? That can’t be the only thing she did to convince you!”
“Well, she also cleaned the gym hall so the event wouldn’t be postponed, yo!”
“And also she made our sisters and her friends, uh, back to be friends again!” Remarked Scootaloo.
Oh! So she also did busy work? That sounds nice. A worthy leader must be able to do dirty her hands in the harshness of labor and social activities.
“What else did she do? Perhaps I can emulate some of her feats in the school”
“Umm… That’s it!”
…
…
“…Seriously?”
“Yeah!” The Crusaders said in unison, their big smiles and shiny teeth were blinding.
“Seriously!?”
I focused my sight on the girl duo. Lyra was blushing while Bon Bon looked to the outside trying to hide her shame on the matter.
“Seriously, Lightbulb!?”
“Don’t look at me. I don’t want to remember how stupid we were.”
“She didn’t do electoral campaigns?”
All of them shook their heads.
“No clash of supremacy?”
Again they shook their heads.
“Not even a cat fight!?”
“There was a cat fight in the end, if that’s of any consolation for you.” Bon Bon replied with skepticism.
“ARE YOU SERIOUS!? JUST A SONG, MENDING RANDOM FRIENDSHIPS AND SOME HOUSE CLEANING IS WHAT IT TOOK YOU TO JOIN THE SIDE OF A COMPLETE STRANGER IN JUST TWO DAYS?”
“And a cat fight, Bro, don’t forget the cat fight.”
“Those were desperate times, Nitpick!” Lyra started to massage my shoulders. “We wanted to overthrow Sunset and Princess Twilight was our best choice?”
How lame is this school in reality!?
“It doesn’t matter! I can’t do a song or something flashy! I’m not likeable enough to pull a show and move the hearts of the students!”
“And that’s exactly why your plans are not gonna work!” Said Bon Bon with a crushing intent. “Instead of daydreaming and have delusions of rebellion, it’s better to leave things as they are.”
“But Bon Bon!” Exclaimed Lightbulb. “If I don’t do something, Dancer could lose her job! You don’t find a part time job where they are generous with the pay-hours ratio and legally allow underage students to work”
“I know you are doing this for her and I admire that!” Said Bon Bon reassuringly while resting a hand on his shoulder. “But the harsh reality is that you can’t change things now! Sunset and her friends run the show and no matter how good your plan is, in the social pyramid of the school you aren’t that popular… especially Nitpick! Dancer will have to look elsewhere, Lightbulb. I can help you in looking for another job for her!”
Damn it! One of the most popular girls in school just crushed our dreams to change the status quo.
“But we can’t just give up and leave things as they are! This isn’t only about Dancer! I’m sure many students in the school have a similar problem like her and if we don’t do something now, eventually we will be dragged to bigger and bigger things and CHS will come to a point of no return until Sunset Shimmer and her friends graduate! We can allow them to ‘suggest’ us what is good and what is bad for us all of the time!”
“I’m sorry to burst your bubble but you two are simply not good enough to make a change, Nitpick.”
“How can you be so pessimistic about this, Bon Bon? When you teamed up with Flash during the Friendship Games, you said that you wouldn’t accept defeat and you gave your best shoot in the cooking event!”
“That was different, little Apple! If you are so worried about your sisters, why don’t you tell them what is really going on right now instead of telling us?”
That’s a very good question!
“Because we are scared…” Answered Applebloom with a gloomy face.
“We don’t want to ruin how things are right now with our sisters! Rarity and I became closer than ever! We even make some dresses together and I don’t want to lose that if she gets angry for saying something bad about her efforts in school!”
“Rainbow Dash will think that I’m not as awesome as she thinks I am if I start to complain!”
“And you expected to use Nitpick as a scapegoat in the event that he fails to convince the sports team new reign, right!”
“NO!” The trio yelled with negation.
“We really wanna help, yo! Honest! Bub, you must believe us!”
“…I see.”
My sixth sense didn’t tingle. These girls were saying the truth.
“Perhaps we can think on something together!” Expressed Lyra with thoughtfulness. “We may not convince the soccer team but we can help Dancer! Why don’t we think a plan of sorts on our homes and tomorrow we can exchange our ideas! We may convince Principal Celestia to make an exception for Dancer so she can keep her work! She is a very nice Principal and I know she’ll understand her situation if we explain it to her.”
“That makes sense…” Said Lightbulb thinking in the alternatives.
“Also…” Lyra continued. “Girls, can you please keep this a secret? You aren’t supposed to know that Dancer has a job so I need you to promise us that you won’t say a word of this!”
“Cross My Heart, Hope to Fly, Stick a Cupcake in my Eye!” They did the chant together and-
‘Splurt’
WHERE DO YOU GET THOSE CUPCAKES OF HELL? At least it wasn’t my eye.
“What do you think of this, Bro?”
“You know better the school’s way of thinking than me. I’ll help you in whatever I can, Lightbulb.”
“Thanks, Bro!” He rested his hands on my shoulders. “I knew I could count on you!”
“Then it’s decided! Let’s meet together during lunch tomorrow and speak this thoroughly!”
Having devised our plan, we went our separate ways. Lightbulb went ahead and walked to the bus stop, the Cutie Crusaders, Lyra and Bon Bon stayed to buy some treats and talk about their stuff. I decided to buy a frappe and drink it on my way home. The Cakes have this magic touch that allowed them to make their orders quickly but with great quality.
“Coming cappuccino, ice tea and a chocolate frappe!”
My beverage was ready. Now I must-
“Meet me at Milani Pizzas at six!”
Bon Bon was grabbing my arm and whispered to my ear with a strange voice. As I looked at her face, she winked her right eye with a small, sweet but ominous smile.
I felt… cold.
When she took her drinks, she joined Lyra’s side and both of them started to enjoy each other’s company. My sixth sense tingled with subtleness. However, unlike other times where I sensed a kind of danger, this time it was one of those rare occasions where it told me to obey the flow of things. The clocked ticked its way to six in the evening and Milani Pizzas was having a lot of traffic today.
“Over here!”
It was Bon Bon and she looked… cute.
“I like when people arrive on time!”
Bon Bon praised me, but something was out of place. Her attitude right now is…strange.
We went into the local and there were some available spaces to eat in comfort. Unlike Ensaladas Caseras, this place was a little more modernized and although the chairs were of good materials, the quality of wood and the tender aromas of nature were missing. I don’t mind, though. I love the smell of melting cheese coming from the rustic ovens of the kitchen.
“Okay, what do you wish to eat, Bon Bon?”
“A middle size pizza with extra cheese!” Said Bon Bon in an unsettling, casual manner. Most of her attention was focused on her phone and those nimble fingers were texting with great speed.
“What specialty?”
“Prosciutto Italiano”
“Oh! You have a good taste!”
“The imported Prosciutto ham and the mozzarella cheese of this place is the best!”
I raised my hand to the waiter and ordered our food and drinks. Impatiently I was playing with my fingers while she was texting in her phone. Although her cerulean eyes were focused on her screen and her smile was one of the beautiful things I have seen in days since I admired Sunset and before her, Twilight, the overwhelming pressure she exerted to me was scary.
But I’m not going to go far if I sink to the depths of despair. I must ask her the reason for this sudden date.
“Bon Bon, with the danger of sounding rude, why did you want to meet here?” I asked while swallowing a bit of my fears.
“I thought you would never ask me that!” Said Bon Bon while tapping her phone at a high speed. “Give me a sec to tell Lyra that I’m here with you and we’ll talk serious business in a moment.”
It was not long before Bon Bon finished texting to Lyra. She safeguarded her phone on her bag’s pocket and hanged it to the side of her chair. I shuddered when she gazed upon me those cerulean eyes. Like black holes pulling the stars to their demise in her chaotic embrace, her big pupils were draining my courage with each passing second. She is not the Bon Bon I met the first day of school during the welcoming party.
“Well.” Said the unknown girl in front of me. “How did we get from a tyrannical Queen with a rule of terror to one where her rule changed to be more suitable to the Kingdom of Canterlot?”
“Excuse me?”
“Are you a slow starter to these kinds of things?”
“No but I’m confused with the question? What this has to do with the reason why you ask me to meet you here?”
“Everything, Nitpick!” Said Bon Bon while resting her chin in the comfort of her hands. “Have you ever heard the story Discord the Madman and his kingdom of Order?”
“Yes. Once long ago, in the land of Buckgypt, a Pharaoh-King called Discord conquered everything in his path. The tale marks that he was relentless and his reign of terror became legend among the neighbor countries. He nearly destroyed the world of old.”
“He was a maniac, a slayer, the King of Chaos! Murder, rape, you name it, were his art and madness, his dark joy. But all of the sudden, a beautiful maiden of the forest appeared in his life one night. Marveled upon her silk-like beauty and enchanted by her merciful spirit, the Chaos King put down his ways of tyranny and became the King of Order, bringing forth light and a Golden Age of Peace in his lifetime!”
“That’s just a legend! A tale of hope that teaches us how any source of ‘Good’ can bring back someone to the path of virtue!”
“Or also a tale hypocrisy! A legend that teaches us how weak and easy to manipulate are the hearts of the people! The tyrant allowed himself to be changed by the Forest Maiden and the people forgave the former Chaos King from his dark deeds! They showered him in praises and songs for something he didn’t deserve!”
“You are reflecting Sunset Shimmer with this tale.”
“Clever boy! I like that!”
“Tell me what is in your mind, if you would!”
“I’m pleased to oblige!”
The pizza and drinks arrived when she finished her words. The feast upon us sated our hunger and the sweet glass of lemonade brimming with ice cubes sated our thirst. We didn’t eat quickly, we just enjoyed the moment. I was starting to feel less anxious and more curious. Talks like this… are a weakness of mine.
“Well” Said the young woman in front me with an empty mouth and sultry delicacy. “Sunset Shimmer, the Dark Queen! Bully, blackmailer, you name it! Corruption was her art, and power… Oh, that was her darkest joy!”
I was enchanted in the way how she softly put her index finger on the border of the glass. Artistically drawing the circle with her finger, a subtle song of echoes emerged from it.
“What is forgiveness, Nitpick? Why people speak of it so lightly? Why people enforce the meaning of that word with shallow thoughts alone? Is a question that I asked myself long ago during my ninth grade of school! My reason, you may ask? I won’t tell you. My friend you are not! We are acquaintances enjoying the pleasures of a high calorie dinner with an artificial beverage that resembles lemonade. Nothing more.”
“At least we can agree on that!”
“Excellent! We are going to get along just fine! Now, let’s go back to the original question, shall we? How did we get from a tyrannical Queen with a rule of terror to one where her rule changed to be more suitable to the Kingdom of Canterlot?”
“The Queen is Sunset, the kingdom is CHS and her rule of terror morphing to the new and suitable land is her transformation to the girl she is now.”
“And everyone adores her for that! Just like the Chaos King turned back to good! He had the Forest Maiden and she had her Princess!”
“Twilight’s cousin.”
“Cousin…” She did a cold pause, but her constant and ominous smile was there. “Yes… you could consider her a cousin from the Twilight we have at school. But that doesn’t matter to our little talking. What matters is the way things are now in school!”
“Which are?”
She relaxed her position and her hands were resting on the table.
“A lie.” She whispered with...
I don’t know.
“How similar are the tales of our protagonist, don’t you think? They came from a faraway land. They started as nobodies without a sense of belonging but with an inner desire to have everything in their hands. They rose from the dust, gained followers, overthrow the previous, stale rule and once they were on power and had everything on their grasp!”
A sudden stab from her fork to her pizza was made.
“They backstabbed their allies and the whole world fell.”
”And then their spiritual guides came and changed their worlds in a matter of seconds, marking the start of their path to rectitude. They were reformed.”
“Oh yes! Yes, they were! But did the problem ended just like that?”
“No. The tale says that Discord had to make amends for his sins but deep inside, even after his reformation, the lust for power and corruption was present. He didn’t leave the throne to a young successor and he never touched the Maiden’s purity in fear that he could anger the heavens. He saved the world from himself but the kingdom was in disarray after his passing. The Eternal Forest Maiden disappeared in his death and never came back.”
“Sunset made amends for her sins and tried to change herself on the eyes of the school. She asked for forgiveness, did busy work and eventually everyone was singing songs for her. Praises are still showered to her for even the silliest of deeds.”
“I can feel that this isn’t about jealously… what are you trying to make of all this?”
“During her path of redemption, she did a lot of mistakes. One in particular wasn’t her fault at all. The Anon-A-Miss created by those three trouble makers from earlier nearly destroyed her ever growing reputation as the good girl.”
“Gossips are dangerous and uncomfortable. Not even in the academy I ever felt so oppressed and alone during the pairing incident with Twilight!”
“That’s why that day I stumbled with you I didn’t give you the looks like everyone else did! How easy CHS forgot the damage the Crusaders did to the school’s morale. They whispered on your back for something they don’t even know at heart and blame you for it. But let’s not hate that trio of trouble makers, they are good kids deep inside… a little misguided if I must say”
The last remark she did was comfortable. She warmly smiled and looked out to the plaza’s streets. Once focusing her sight again on me, the uncomfortable presence she exerted in the beginning finally was gone.
“Well, back to the topic!” Said she while taking a quick bite of her last slice of pizza. “The mistakes she did; ruining friendships, giving the school a sense of individuality in a bad way, blackmailing people and so on and so on. The Princess came during the formal, blasted her to the ground with her friendship’s might and some artificial explosives that destroyed the main door of the school took place. The silliest thing is that we danced in the gym hall after the explosion happened instead of going home to safety”
She drank some of her juice through the straw on her glass.
“After that, she apologized to everybody, tried to participate in school activities, sang a few songs against some new girls on the school and boom! Everyone is happy! Later on she tried more demanding task and she decided to help her new friends to make some school uniforms! How could something go wrong? Let’s see… AH! She nearly ruined the training of the soccer team because she gave Rainbow Dash a sport watch and she became obsessed with it, she indirectly humiliated Rarity on the web, ruined the cakes of Applejack, made a mess on the shelter where Fluttershy works and so on. And I find that ironic”
“What is ironic?”
“That everyone hated her for trying to do good things. And when she fixed the mistakes that she created in the first place, everyone praised her! You made similar mistakes and you have good reasons to be mad at them, but everyone hates you because you are not friendly! Because you are not part of the team! You are a not the good guy! And everyone forgets that Sunset Shimmer was actually way worse than you! That’s why the Chaos King and Sunset are so similar, their neighbor countries were more humane but they received the end of the stick anyway.”
“But if I must give credit, Sunset didn’t want to conquer the land and slave everyone, right?”
“Perhaps we may never know! The only thing I know right now is that the school hypocrisy is sickening me now! After the Friendship Games I noticed it! Winning games for the soccer team? A sense of belonging between the students? Let’s be real for a change! This isn’t the Friendship Games anymore! Everyone is just excited because we managed to tie with Crystal Prep and now they want to keep building up victories for the school but now that is no longer fun for them, they started to complain like before!”
“And I thought ‘everyone’ loved the school”
“Don’t misunderstand me! I love the school! I love the friends I have there! But what I don’t like is the way this is going! If the students started to talk on the backs of everyone again, then it means that the school was never that united in the first place! But it was, Nitpick! And I need your help to restore it!”
“Why me? I just barely know you and vice-versa! Who says I won’t end up betraying you?”
“Because I can see in your eyes that I can trust your capability on be silent on the matter! I won’t lie to you! I’m gonna use you to ignite a cleansing fire! We need to give back to the school the capability to have second thoughts before deciding something good or stupid!”
“How!”
“Coming back to square one! Breaking the mirror of lies!”
“Why do you really want to do this? I can see that this isn’t only about the school.”
“Personal reasons! My friend you are not. I don’t trust you to share them with you! Suffice to say, this may save Dancer’s job immediately and make the school friendlier to you in the long run”
“What I must do?”
She frowned in a way that resembled an evil spy with a maleficent plan in mind.
“Find a way to make the soccer team mad at you in public!”
“You want me to be executed in public?”
“If you play your cards right, you can do something positive with that!”
“I need to get closer to the team to even start to-“
Twilight!
“It seems you already found the solution!”
“But it would mean using someone in the process!”
“Then don’t use him as a scapegoat! Just make sure he or she opens the door for you and put her away of danger immediately! I know you are resourceful! You beat Wind Rider after all!”
“How fast gossips extend their evil tentacles!”
“They are useful sometimes when you need to give false information to your enemies! Anyway, you have this week to decide what to do! If you let this week die off, our friend will lose her job, remember that. The quicker you do things, the better! For now, we should go! Lyra is waiting for me outside!”
She pointed her finger at one of the benches of the plaza and Lyra was walking quickly to it! She sat down in a way that tells to people ‘Back off! This is my bench, bitch!’. When she focused her sight on us, she waved her hand with a smile filled with youth.
“She surely is energetic!” I praised Lyra. In school she is always so easy-going and likeable.
“She always makes some kind of ruckus at the school but…” She sighed with content while seeing her friend, making the most pure facial expression I have ever seen in a while. "I try to be a voice of reason for Lyra, but her enthusiasm is just so infectious sometimes that I end up doing crazy things with her… I love her.”
“She really is your friend, isn’t she?”
“Yes... yes she is... If this plan of ours works, another lie will be destroyed between us.”
Another lie?
“…Who are you?”
“What do you mean who am I?” Asked the Bon Bon I knew from school. No trace of the strange girl I was talking to was there anymore and her eyes had the form of a normal teenager. “I’m Bon Bon! Lyra’s best friend and one of your buddy’s on school! Why do you ask that?”
“When people say there are lies between them, sometimes it means something darker!”
“What is a lie, Nitpick? And what makes a lie… a real one?”
“…!”
“That’s another topic for the next time we hang out together. Anyway, let’s go! She is waiting for me and I don’t like to leave people waiting. Especially if it’s her!”
“Because if I hate being made waiting for something already scheduled, I despise to make someone wait in the same sense, isn’t it?”
“Tee hee hee! We truly are going to get along just fine!”
We equally paid for our food and left the appropriate tip on the table. We joined with Lyra outside and Bon Bon sat at her side, sharing a lovely hug afterwards. I on the other hand excused myself and went on my way home. Bon Bon gave me a good idea of what to do, but the problem will be…
A common ringtone was heard from my phone. It was an unregistered number but something tells me that it was a familiar one so I decided to answer the call.
“Good evening.”
“Nitty? Is that you?”
Just my luck. This was Twilight’s phone number. I didn’t back up her entry the last time and I never asked for it again. Rarity texted me when Spike was lost in the school and I believe is the only number that I have from a CHS student besides Lightbulb and Dancer. I’ll save Twilight’s number after the call is over.
“Yes. Do you need something?”
“I was testing our project for the school with a debugging application and I found a bug in it! It seems that every time we exceed the number of entries that the database can hold, it crashes the system and when it restarts, all the information links are mixed, leaving the application useless.”
“So we need to fix the bug. How do we do that?”
“We can’t! The source comes from the database program tool itself! We need to start over with a new and better database called Concert!”
“ARE YOU KIDDING!?” I yelled to the phone in a safe distance so Twilight didn’t get hammered by my voice.
“Don’t worry! I already bought it during the last semester’s Computer Sciences competition so I’m glad I can use it again! Tomorrow I’ll bring my lap to the school and we can work on it during lunch! Doesn’t that sound fun?”
“I can hardly wait!” I answered with sarcasm.
“Good!”
“Your enthusiasm for busy work is inspiring.”
AGAIN!?
“Great! You can check our now-obsolete application if you want but you’ll see is buggy in the end… so much work was put into Spike’s voice as well, but this new program will be bigger and better!”
BUT WE WERE DONE WITH IT ALREADY!
“Oh gotta go! Dean Cadence and my brother will come to have dinner with us and I must help mom prepare the table and meals!”
“Alright, Twilight... Good evening.”
“Have a good evening, Nitty!”
…
“Wait!”
“...Yes?”
Twilight… You’ll become my Horse of Troy and I’ll give you my kingdom in exchange.
“…Is the offer to help you in the soccer team business still open?”