From An Enemy To A Friend...

by Sunsetsparkle129

Chapter 4: In...

The next day came by fast. It was time for the games to begin. As time passed, questions were asked other than Science and Math. Unfortunately,the answers to those questions were only yet to be discovered , and that only made Sunset Shimmer look more into it, but with no avail...so she decided to ask a certain Alicorn Princess for help.

"So why are you so interested in this anyway?"Twilight asked Sunset.Both of them were walking in Ponyville while discussing the situation.

"Because when I heard that our school had competed against Cloudsdale High before, I looked more into it and found out we won! And other then that we had absolutely nothing in any book or the school computers!” Sunset Shimmer explained.

"And?” Twilight asked.

" And, it makes no sense considering that if this is true, it would be everywhere in the school record. But it's not! There is simply nothing about it! And when I asked Principal Celestia, she gave me a weird answer. The only thing that was related to the question was that it was extraordinary and that she was surprised that Principal Shade was still their Principal! Why? I don't know! And it really bugs me!" Sunset groaned in anger.

"This is definitely a hard case to crack. My suggestion is to calm down and slowly start working on it. If possible, only spend a little amount of time on this and focus on more important things." Twilight suggested.They entered the castle and went straight to the library, where the portal to the other world was.

"I have to say Sunset, what you're going through right now is something similar to what happened in a book I've recently read." Twilight smiled as she began lifting a few books from the shelf, looking for the one she was referring to.

"It's a mystery book, one of the Shadow Spade series, and the plot’s very similar to your situation. Maybe it can help? Ah! Here it is!" She said levitating a book off the shelf and towards Sunset.

"So you're suggesting I read how she cracks her case, and go by her actions to solve mine?" Sunset raised her eyebrows.

"Yes. Now, I'm not sure how much it would help, but it's better than nothing!"

Sunset eyed the book, picked it up with her magic, and put it in her backpack.

"I'll give it a shot, but I have to go now. The games start soon and I have to be there. Bye Twilight!" she said picking up her bag and gave her royal friend a hug before going through the portal.

Back at Canterlot High the Rainbooms, except Sunset, were practicing a new song that Rainbow Dash had recently been working on.

"That was great! But we can still do better, let's try it one more time from the top!" Rainbow exclaimed.

The rest of the girls all groaned.

"Seriously? Rainbow! We have played this song 20 times already!" Applejack grunted in frustration.

"It doesn't matter how many times we have to play it as long as we get it right in the end!" Rainbow said.

"I don't know what you're talking about darling, because I think we sounded great!" Rarity complimented.

"Yeah, well, great isn't good enough! There is always room for improvement! We need to practice one more time!" Rainbow pleaded.

"We can't play this song again even if we wanted to, because it's almost time for the games to begin!" Applejack said as she glanced at her phone to see what time it was.

"Ugh, fine! You guys go ahead. I'll catch up in a couple of minutes, I just have to change a few things in this song…" Rainbow said, picking up her guitar.

Applejack sighed. "Fine, but just don't take too long okay?"

"Yeah yeah. Don't worry, I won’t." Rainbow rolled her eyes as she flipped through the pages of her song book.

Applejack and the rest all turned towards the door and left while Rainbow began playing her part in the song with her guitar. Down the hallway, Soarin was walking towards the gum - where the games were held, but stopped as he heard guitar music coming from a door in front of him. He slightly pushed the door open so he could take a peek at what was going on. He didn't expect to see Rainbow being the one playing the guitar, but he didn't expect her to grow a pair of pony ears, a tail and a pair of wings even less!

"R-rainbow?!”

Rainbow Dash stopped playing the guitar and looked towards the door, where Soarin was standing with a petrified expression.

“Uh oh..."

Rainbow and Soarin were walking down the hallway while Rainbow was explaining everything about magic in the school and how it works.

"Twilight had done some research on the magic we have back when she was in Crystal Prep. She built this necklace-thingy that can detect magic and can take it away from its owner. Once the magic is fully stolen, the magic can be set free if she opens the locket. The magic does unpredictable things, and so far those unpredictable things brought serious damage. It's not really safe to be around.”
Rainbow said as she stopped In front of a door and reached her hand in her pocket, pulling out a key and started unlocking the door.

“If it's so dangerous, why are we going in here?" Soarin asked.

"Because it doesn't have any magic in there now, so even if you touch it, nothing will happen. If I touch it, on the other hand, it will cause a problem. Luckily..." She opened the door.

"...It's, how should I say this? Magic proofed." She said as both of them studied the necklace, protected by what seemed like a barrier of some sort. Soarin attempted to walk towards it but stopped in his tracks when Rainbow's hand sprung in front of him.
“Not so fast!" she glared at him. "You didn't think it was that easy did you?" She turned to face the wall, pulled a piece out and pressed a button hidden in the walls. Right after she pushed it, beams of red light appeared all around the room and pulled back towards small holes in the wall that Soarin had not noticed until now.

"There is an alarm system too, just in case." she said, walking towards the necklace with Soarin following shortly after.

"Wow!" he said as he took a closer look at it.

"I know, and to think, Twilight made this by herself...huh, can't believe she made a magic detecting device yet can't kick a soccer ball, seriously she is TERRIBLE!” Rainbow complained playfully.

Soarin chuckled slightly. “ So, how exactly does it take the magic from you?" he asked.

"Well I...I don't really know. Like I said, it detects the magic and when made contact with it, the necklace takes it and immediately starts acting in an unpredictable way, " she said.

"Interesting…" He took a closer look at the necklace from outside the barrier.
"Can I touch the beeri-OUCH!" he screamed as he got slightly electrocuted when he touched the barrier.

"Huh, didn't know about that." she said, rubbing her chin.

"Twilight must have added it later on..”

"Ugh...are there any other surprises?" he groaned, trying to get back on his feet.

"Not that I know of, although... I do remember Pinkie saying something about adding some finishing touches to the security system…" She said, walking towards Soarin to help him up.
But as she came a few steps forward, she stepped on what seemed like a red button which caused a strange noise to start coming from the floor.

"UH-OH…" Rainbow’s eyes widened.

At that moment, she was launched by a springing piece from the floor and hit Soarin, knocking him down and hitting the barrier. The necklace fell down, too. Unluckily, the necklace landed on Rainbow Dash and activated, sucking her magic in and formed a huge bubble surrounding her as she screamed.
Soarin rose his head up, feasting his eyes on Rainbow Dash as his pupils shrunk on the sight before him.
"What the…" The bubble rose and Rainbow's scream grew louder and louder when all of a sudden, it popped revealing what seemed like Rainbow, only...different. It looked like the magic had transformed her. Soarin was so confused, tears were running down Rainbow's cheeks as she struggled to loosen from the magic's grip.

“Ugh! NO!!!!” she screamed as a white glow surrounded her and blew up a seconds after, casing a huge explosion.

The explosion echoed through the halls of Canterlot High, managing to completely destroy the classrooms near and crack some of the walls as well. Through this process, Soarin's eyes were shut, he had closed them when he saw the white glow forming around Rainbow, and after hearing the noise that came after it ,he didn't expect to be alive...but he was. Out of curiosity of how he managed to survive, Soarin slowly opened his eyes and saw a blue light surrounding him in a form of a bubble. He spotted one just like it surrounding Rainbow, who seemed unconscious, lying on the floor just a few feet away from him. Soarin tried to get up and see how she was, but failed to do that, so he fell back to the ground. His right hand was injured due to the fall. It hurt, a lot. So did his head. The whole room seemed to spin around and Soarin felt like he needed to close his eyes and rest before it became even worse, but he needed to get up and call for help. He couldn't tell if Dash was just unconscious or dead. Luckily, he heard footsteps coming. He sighed and closed his eyes, now he could fall unconscious as well, knowing that they both would be rescued.