From An Enemy To A Friend...
By: Soarindash959
Chapter 3:Day One-A New Friend!
The next day came, which meant that they had one more day left to train before the first round of the games would begin. Some students spent their time wisely and studied, others... not so much.
The Cloudsdale High students spent the entire time studying together in some interesting ways. They were all running up and down the stairs in the soccer field as Spitfire followed them and asked them questions. On every wrong answer, they got hit by a water balloon.
"What is the slope of the exterior angle of a haptagon? Soarin,go!"
Soarin thought for a second before quickly answering "51 degrees."
Spitfire nodded. "Correct. Next question: factor x2-2x-24. Fleetfoot, go!"
Fleetfoot started sweating. "It's um...uhh..(x-4)(x-6)?"
Spitfire shook her head. "Wrong," she said, throwing a water balloon at her. "Anyone else know?" Only Soarin rose his hand "Yes Soarin?"
Soarin smiled. "(x+4)(x-6)"
Spitfire checked her clipboard of questions to see if the answer was correct "Right! Alright smarty-pants, let's see if you can answer this one! What is 6x2+17x+12?"
He thought for barely a second before smirking. "(2x+3)(3x+4)"
Spitfire rose her eyebrow. "Huh, correct...wow you are on a roll! Let's see if you can keep it up without getting wet! What is the line that passes through the two points (3,4) and (1,-10)?"
Soarin scratched his chin. "Y = 7x - 17"
Spitfire smirked."Right. Ha, you are good! Okay, let's switch things up a bit. Triangle ABC is similar to DEF. The length of EF is 7 inches, while the length of BC is 5 inches. If the length of AB is 16 inches, what is the length of DE?" she asked.
"22.4 inches" He answered immediately.
"Okay,one more. What is the volume of a sphere that has a diameter of 5 meters?" She asked the final question.
"Uhh..D. 20.8π meters^3!"
Spitfire smiled. "Correct! Wow, you keep this up and we'll win for sure! As for the rest of you, be half as good as Soarin here and we'll have this round in the bag!"
Fleetfoot groaned. "Yeah sure,whatever,can we just please take a break at math and try something else? It's just so complicated!"
Spitfire sighed. "Fine, we'll do science instead."
Fleetfoot gasped. "What?!That's even worse"
"Well too bad! Okay first question, Fleetfoot this one is for you: Which kind of waves are used to make and receive cellphone calls?"
Fleetfoot scratched her head. "I..umm......I don't know..."
Spitfire sighed and threw another water balloon at her. "Fire Streak?"
"Radio waves," he answered.
"Correct. Ya know Fleet, I'm beginning to worry about you. You really need to pick up a book! Anyway...Soarin, the loudness of a sound is determined by what property of a sound wave?"
He chuckled. "Easy, amplitude."
Spitfire nodded. "Correct. Wave Chill,which technological development came first?Is it -A telescope, B,telegraph, C, telephone or D, teletype?"
He took a deep breath. "Um...B, telegraph."
Spitfire shook her head. "Wrong, it's telescope," she said throwing a water balloon at him. "Next question. When was the first plastic made of artificial materials patented? Blaze, go!"
"I have no idea."
Spitfire rolled her eyes, throwing her fifth water balloon at her "Of course you don't. Soarin?"
"1909," he answered.
"Correct. Next question: Lightning, moths are a member of what order?"She asked.
"Octagon?"He guessed.
"Wrong. Misty Fly?"
She smiled."Lepidoptera," she answered.
"Correct. Okay last question before break. Soarin this one is for you: For what is the Jurassic period named?"
Soarin thought about it, and this time it was longer than his usual thinking. "I think it's a mountain range."
Spitfire nodded. "Correct. Okay, everyone take five," she said to them putting the board down.
Meanwhile, most of the Canterlot students were practicing on the field.
"According to new scientific knowledge, scientists thought that aside from solid, liquid and gas, there is a 4th state of matter. What is it?" asked Twilight. She was sitting on the grass near the goal asking questions from a science book as Rainbow was scoring goals from different angles while answering the science questions, giving Applejack, who was the goalkeeper, one too many bruises.
"Umm....Plasma?" she said.
"Huh,correct!" Twilight said impressed. "Okay, next question: If copper burns in flame, what will be the color of the flame?"
Dash kicked the ball in the net, scoring yet another awesome goal "Red violet I think."
"No, it's Blue Green," Twilight said. "How do we get the density of a gold bar?"
"Mass timed by Volume...?"Dash answered unsurely, kicking the ball.
"Nope, it's Mass divided by Volume.Tell me a kind of mixture that uses Tyndall Effect. Is it -A, Suspension, B, Colloid ore, C, Solution?"
"I'm gonna go with B," she said scoring again and leaving Applejack on the grass gasping for air.
"Right! Okay so that's 2/4. Not too shabby for this page. Now the next one--"
"Augh actually Twi, I'm all tuckered out. Can we come back in a few hours with Rainbow, and in the mean time focus on Rarity as she is making a dress on me something?" Applejack asked
Twilight chuckled. "Sure."
Applejack sighed. "Why are we doing quizzes and doing sports at the same time?" she asked.
"Because, as I said before, Cloudsdale High students are the best athletes there are, so we can never be too early to start practicing,and I intend to focus more when playing" said Rainbow picking up the ball. "I'm gonna go wash up." She said heading to the girl changing room.
"Finally," said Soarin as he put a towel over his neck. He was in the boys changing room, along with the rest of the Cloudsdale boys were there too.They were all washing up after the long practice for the first round of the games, and now that they finally got a chance to relax and take a break, they were not going to let it go to waste.
"Hey, we're all going to Sonic Boom,we hear that place is the best hangout spot in town! You coming Soarin?" Wave Chill asked him.
"No thanks, I have something to do."
"Well okay, but if you change your mind you know where to find us," Wave said as he and the rest of the boys all left.
"Now's my chance to make a move" he thought. He planned to use his break to become closer with Rainbow Dash and her friends. The games were way too close for fooling around, so he had to act fast.
With that he left only to be greeted with the best sight he could imagine. There before him was Rainbow Dash coming out of the girl dressing room at the same time. "Just my luck," he thought. "Hey," he said to her.
She turned around, and as soon as she saw him she smiled. "Hey! What are you doing here?"
"Well as far as I heard the field is open for training for both teams," he said, earning a chuckle from her.
"Yeah, I was wondering where all the noise was coming from, and by noise I mean screaming."
Soarin laughed. "That was my sister screaming after getting hit with an ice cold water balloon." Dash raised an eyebrow. "Don't ask," he said rolling his eyes. "So what are you doing here?"
"Same as you, studying. At least I think that's what you were doing..." she answered, ending with a small chuckle.
"Yeah we were, we were doing it in a weird way sure but yeah we still were studying."
Dash laughed. "Yeah, I' not that different either."
"Oh? How so?"Soarin asked curiously.
"I was answering some science questions while trying to score a goal, and might I add that I didn't miss a single shot and it came to the point where the goal keeper had to put on football protection to stay alive."
"Oh so you play soccer then?"he asked.
"More like own it! Probably not as good as you though," she said.
"Probably not, but you can be if you do it right," he answered.
"What do you mean?" she asked him.
"Well, it doesn't take just hard work and training. You can do that all you want to no avail whatsoever. The fact that you don't know this already means you need a new coach," he stated.
"Oh really? Who?"
Soarin thought for a second. "Someone like...like...me!"
"You?"
"Yes me! I could totally help you out," he said with excitement in his voice.
"And at the same time compete?"
He nodded.
"What about your friends? I don't think they'd like this so much."
"Hey they ain't the boss of me. And besides...who said they need to know?"
Dash rose an eyebrow. "You're not going to tell them?"she asked him.
"No,and trust me, it won't change anything! So do we have a deal?" he asked.
Dash chuckled. "Deal."
They immediately started training, and they were at it for a good couple of hours too. And boy was it fun for them, but to others... Not so much. Principal Shade was at the library, watching them. This may have seemed like Soarin was doing what he was told and was trying to find more things out. But...that smile on his face said otherwise... And Principal Shade didn't like it, not one bit.
"I have to go. See ya Soar," Dash said picking up her back pack.
"Alright, bye," he said as she headed out. Soarin sighed in a dreamy way.
"Quite the eye candy isn't she?
"Yeah I-wait what?" He turned around, and immediately shrieked in surprise. Principle Shade met his sight. "Principle Shade! W-what are you doing here?" he asked a little shakely.
"Oh, I just came by to see how our little plan was coming along," she said.
"Uh, yeah, everything's going swimmingly," he said.
"Good...," Principle Shade said, slowly starting to walk away, "...just as long as you're doing it for our team..."