“Oh, Spike! That girl is scary!” Twilight whispered while walking to her destination.
“Really? I thought she was nice! Unlike Flash, I didn’t feel anything wrong about her!”
“Pets tend to see and sense things that normal human beings don’t… Let’s forget about her for now and go with Sugarcoat!”
“Right behind you!”
Twilight was in front of the door that leaded to Sugarcoat’s presence. She suddenly felt that her spirit was faltering, her hands shaking in fright with each breath she made. Spike saw his master’s doubts and scratched her legs to remind her that he was there.
Seeing that her loyal assistant will follow her to the Pits of Tartarus themselves, she armed herself of bravery and grabbed the knot of the door, slowly opening it as silently as a mouse sneaking for the cheese in the kitchen. She entered the room, and saw Sugarcoat working tirelessly on her laptop. Looking at her back firmly straight like a ruler, it brought her many memories from her time in middle school with her.
There was a time where the young Scientist looked from afar with admiration to the girl who always excelled in everything for the sake of achieving Excellency and Straightforwardness for Crystal Prep! Sugarcoat herself admitted that she wasn’t as smart as Twilight Sparkle in one of the chats the young scientist overheard between the future Champion’s social circles. But Twilight knew that what Sugarcoat lacked in intellect, she had a better all-rounded set of abilities. Almost like her brother, if Twilight was an S plus in intellect and an F in almost everything else, Sugarcoat was a well-rounded B plus in everything she did.
Now, years later, even after the numerous insults she received from her all these years, she still felt that she was out of her reach. That she was near perfection. Always secure! Always assertive! Always knowing what to do to make the job done on the school projects!
In that moment, one of her old sources of inspiration was working for the sake of Crystal Prep! Her right hand clicking on the mouse and tapping on the keyboard at lightning speed, while her left hand was-
‘Nom nom nom!’
Twilight snapped back to reality from her admiration and noticed something peculiar.
‘Nom nom nom!’
She noticed that Sugarcoat had in the desk a bag of cookies… a two kilograms bag of Cookie Crumble cookies opened. Her left hand was grabbing the cookies inside the bag as fast as a military grade computer would calculate how much was one plus one. She was amazed by the speed. It gave her a bad feeling of the situation. She tried to step back but-
‘SLAM’
The wind closed the door behind her!
Twilight didn’t move! Didn’t breath! Didn’t want to say anything at what she was seeing when her old role model turned around!
Her cheeks were brimming with red by the quantity of organic sweet that was inside her mouth. A single cookie was trapped between her lips. Her eyes contracted in horror when she saw that the young Scientist was at the door.
It was a monster! It was the bane of all cookies! IT WAS-
COOKIE MONSTER SUGARCOAT!
They looked at each other for long, stressful moment! Sugarcoat swallowed in one go the sweets that she had in her mouth! She slowly got up and walked towards the Scientist until she was in front of her, face to face.
Twilight would be done for if she says something stupid. But she couldn’t screw things up. The embodiment of Friendship herself gave her several teachings to solve any situation by now. She needed to remember her lessons and everything would be fine.
“Ah… those cookies look delicious, Sugarcoat! May I have... one? Hehe!”
Twilight Sparkle was done for.
….
“SPARKLE! LITTLE TROLL! WHERE ARE – !”
Gilda almost expected a scene like the one she was admiring right now when she went to look for her friend and see why she had a delay of fifteen minutes. Sugarcoat was pulling a rope that, little by little, was been raised to the ceiling a cargo that picked her interest. Said cargo was none other than Twilight Sparkle and her dog being pulled up, tied from the torso and their mouths silenced by tied bandanas between her teeth.
The obvious question to ask would have been how in the world Sugarcoat put a pulley system in the ceiling to try and murder her victim in such a short time… She thought it would be wise to ask that later.
“What are you doing?” Gilda stood there somewhat interested.
Sugarcoat was putting even more force to her labor. “She knows my secret! She must die!”
“HMMMM! HMMMMM!” Sparkle tried to break free but to no avail.
Gilda looked around and saw the package of cookies. She almost chuckled in amusement. “Wait a minute! Do you mean-?”
“YES! THAT! NOW SHUT UP AND HELP ME OUT, YOU OVERSIZED APE!”
Gilda approached Sugarcoat, got behind her back, took the rope, and stroke her skull with a karate chop. The Champion leader instantly fell to the ground dead cold.
“Don’t call me ape, you stupid brat!”
The griffonian freed the victims, much to their relief. She packed the belongings of her silly friend and carried Sugarcoat a la Soldier Carry. She pulled out from the ceiling the pulley system and saw something peculiar.
“Oh! Magic Glue! So that’s how! And this belongs to our school…” She packed the tool in Sugarcoat’s backpack.
Twilight, fearful that she would be assaulted once again when her old role model awakens, tried to escape with her dog on her arms. But Gilda gave her a paralyzing gaze, making her think again on her position… and her test of courage.
“Sparkle, you didn’t see anything! You never looked for her! You never stumbled with Cookielicious, the devourer of Cookie World! Understand?" Twilight and Spike nodded. "Now follow me!”
Twilight walked behind her like a little soldier. ‘Is this my punishment for nearly destroying the world a few weeks ago?' She thought a long while during her way back to Reem, looking at Sugarcoat’s sleeping face like if she was the closet monster ready to eat her as soon as she watches put her sight on her.
….
Twilight was looking around in awe while her dog was looking attentive to Sugarcoat’s unconscious silhouette in front of them. They didn’t expect to travel in limousine in their lives. Being transported in the family vehicle, the public transport or using Mrs. Peanut’s Taxi service was more than enough for them. Reem Oakwood was caressing the Champion’s soft hair while humming a rather beautiful song and Gilda had Sugarcoat’s legs over hers, resting her arms in the comfort of her seat.
“Uh…” Sugarcoat opened her eyes. “What happened?”
“Ah, you know. You pissed me the hell up and I put you down like a wild dog.” Gilda said casually while looking at the window.
Spike trembled at that comment.
“You fuc-“
“Shh!” Reem put her index finger on her friend’s lips. “Miss Sparkle is here.”
The silver haired girl looked at Twilight with a strange look. “Somehow I feel that I must be mad at you for something.” She started to massage her head, trying to remember what it was.
“Ah… Ahahahaha! W-why you should be mad at me, Sugarcoat? I would never do something that would bother you… right?”
The now conscious girl put a stern face. “You’re right! You are spineless!” She reincorporated and sat down. “Why are you here?”
“Miss Sparkle! Please say the magic words!” Reem smiled softly.
“The magic words…? Ah yes! Moonlight has come!”
“REEM!”
“My intellectual friend! It is time!” She raised her arms and waved them passionately with a slow and mystic manner. “A clash of powers! A battle of supremacy! A new teacher must come to aid the mouse to become the heroine of the tale!”
“Sparkle? A heroine? Ha! Well, nevermind! Let’s get this over with!”
“What’s going on?” Twilight had a bad feeling.
“Bittersweet. Teaching. I will tell you my tale in how I met him. Shut up.”
“But!”
“SHUT UP! Any questions?”
Spike and Twilight were in the corner of the seat. “Howdidyoubecomefriends?”
The Champion leader of the third class dreaded when she remembered on how she met her current friends.
“It was… humiliating.”