The Big Heist of the Cent—... Actually, It’s Kinda Dumb.
Two weeks had passed since Soul had moved in with Sunset. Everything seemed to be returning to normal as Soul’s fear of his mother doing something to get him back was fading away, and he started to think that she didn’t care about him anymore. Sunset had been helping him cope with this new revelation, but his depression was slowly growing everyday.
They were all in the cafeteria talking with one another as they were enjoying their lunch. As the group was enjoying their time at their table, Zero came walking up and dropped a stack of papers on the end. The group looked up to him with confused looks.
“Zero, what’s with the stack of papers?” Twilight asked.
“My friends, it’s time to exact our revenge!” Zero proclaimed.
“On the cookie monster?” Treble guessed. “That bastard needs to pay for taking that last cookie!”
Everyone in the group looked at Treble with blank expressions.
“I… How is… No, not the cookie monster,” Zero replied. “We’re going to be going on a heist.”
“Yes! Finally!” Pinkie chimed standing up with her arms up. “I knew we would rob that ban—”
“Pinkie, we’re not doing that kind of heist! Stop guessing everyone! I’ll tell you what we’re doing!” Zero yelled before taking a deep breath. “We’re going to go steal the Crystal Heart from Crystal Prep!”
“You mean our formal rival school before we all became friends with them after the last Friendship Games?” Swift asked. “Aren’t we like, at a truce with them about not pranking or doing anything to each other?”
“Yeah, that’s the thing, our school is way behind on the pranking deal. In fact, that truce shouldn’t exist until we get even with them,” Zero explained. “They’ve pranked this school so many times, it’s just criminal to let them off that easy.”
“He does have a point,” Rainbow Dash said. “If we just let this go now, it could show the other schools that they can get away with anything that they do to us. And I am not going to let that happen!”
“So, what’s this plan ya have, Zero?” Applejack asked.
“Simple, I’ve been going over the schematics of the building and—”
“Wait, where did you get schematics for the school? They don’t just hand them out for anyone,” Twilight quoted.
“I stole them off of your desk when you weren’t looking,” Zero answered.
“You did WHAT!?”
“Anyways, I found this grate that’ll let us into the ventilation system. We can have someone go in, crawl around and open the door to the other side. Once that happens, we go in, find the Crystal Heart and I sell it to a pawn shop making millions of dollars in the process,” Zero finished with a toothy smile.
Everyone in the group looked at Zero with half-lid eyes.
“Be honest with us, do ya really think that’s a real crystal?” Applejack asked with a raised brow.
Zero pursed his lips as he looked at everyone staring at him. “......... Maybe?” he answered.
Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. “Well, besides Zero’s reasons, he does have a point,” she said. “We need to get back our school’s honor and pull this off. After this, than we can call it even with Crystal Prep.”
“Ah’m not sure about this,” Applejack said. “We called a truce with them, and after everything that happened at the Friendship Games, Ah think we shouldn’t push our luck on it.”
“Look, it simple. Instead of Zero selling the Crystal Heart, we give it back to them as a sign of good faith that we did it to get even with them on the pranking deal. After that, we call it even all together and the truce continues. Pure and simple,” Rainbow Dash explains.
“Well… Alright, Ah suppose we can do that if that’s the case. Ah’m in.”
Everyone in the group was in agreement as each one of them was into the idea. However, one of them wasn’t so into the idea.
“Naw, I’m not interested.”
Everyone in the group stopped and looked over to see that it was Soul, who was still playing with his food, who had said those words. It caught everyone by surprise; even Sunset didn’t expect him to say that.
“Woah, woah, wait…. Seriously?” Treble asked. “You don’t want to be a part of this? Sneak into a school and pull of a heist? Lots of stupid and crazy stuff that’ll more than likely happen? Not even if a couple of the girls’ clothes get ripped off because of this!?”
The girls looked at one another in worry from Treble’s last statement except for Pinkie and Sonata.
Soul looked up at Treble. “Um…. Yeah?” he replied. “I’m just not interested in the idea. Besides, I have some homework that I need to take care of anyway.”
“You sure? We’ll probably more than likely do this at night. You’ll have plenty of time to catch up on any homework,” Swift said.
“Like I said, I’m not interested,” Soul repeated.
As the group was beginning to worry about Soul, there was a small bulge in Fluttershy’s hair and Rainbow Dash sighed as she saw it.
“Fluttershy, is Greg in your hair again?” she asked.
“Oh, um… Yes…”
“And the reason?”
Fluttershy let out a sigh. “He was bored in his cage,” she answered.
Greg jumped right out of her hair and straight towards Soul.
‘I’m here you son of a—’
*WHACK!*
Soul backfisted Greg when he was close and the tarantula slammed against the wall. Everyone looked at Soul with wide eyes and some of their jaws dropped as Greg slowly slid down the wall. Soul got up from his seat and went to throw away most of his food that he barely eat.
“I’ll see you guys later,” Soul said before he left the cafeteria.
Everyone just stared at the unusual thing that had happened.
“What the f*** did I just see!?” Rainbow Dash asked. “Seriously, what did I see!?”
“I-I have no clue,” Swift said before he turned to Sunset. “Um, how’s he been doing in the ‘Him leaving his home because his mother is a wackado’ department?”
Sunset let out a sigh and looked at the others with a worried expression. “Not too good, actually,” she replied. “He keeps saying that he’s doing better, but… he’s been a bit distant with me and pretty much everyone around him. He doesn’t do much at my place and he just stares off through the window sometimes for so long. I’m really worried about him.” She crossed her arms and looked down feeling that she could do nothing.
Zero walked over to Sunset and placed a hand on her shoulder. “Hey, don’t worry. He just needs some time, that’s all,” he said. “Just keep on sticking with him and be there when he needs you. This whole crazy thing is still fresh to him and he needs time rethink some things. Trust me, he’ll be okay after a little while longer.”
Sunset looked up to Zero for a moment as she thought about his words. She then smiled and nodded. “Yeah, you’re right,” she said. “I’ll stick by him until he gets better… Heh, even then I’ll still stick by him. Guess this means I’ll be out of the whole heist thing as well.”
“It’s okay, I still have all of you guys to count on, right?” Zero said with a bright smile facing the group.
The group mostly wasn’t so sure about going for it and was saying ‘meh’ or ‘maybe, maybe not.’
Zero let out a sigh. “I’ll buy you guys pizza on the way back,” he offered.
The group cheered and said they were up for the task. Sunset got up and went out the door as she looked for Soul. After a moment of searching, she walked in the library only to see that there was no one inside.
“Hmm, he must be not here,” Sunset said to herself. Just as she was about to leave, she heard a sniff and what sounded like someone silently crying. She followed the noise of it down an aisle of books until she reached the end of it and peaked over to see Soul sitting by himself. His face was covered by his knees as streams of tears poured from his eyes. He looked to be trying to hold back his sadness.
In a instant, Sunset felt heartbroken to see Soul like this. While the reason for this was different, she couldn’t help but feel a sense of familiarity with the scene. She remembered last year when Soul came upon her crying to herself for fearing she would never get to see her parents again because of her dark deeds. She clutched her chest as she remembered him being there for her and holding her gently. Now everything had changed, and he was now crying while she stood helplessly to it.
Sunset walked out of hiding and stood next to Soul as she looked down at him with sadness in her heart. Soul noticed her standing there after a moment and he quickly wiped away the tears.
“S-Sorry, I was just… rubbing something out of my eye. It was really bad, heh,” Soul lied. He looked up to her with a weak, fake smile. “D-Did you need something, Sunset?”
Sunset kneeled down to Soul before she looked at his sad eyes for a moment. “Soul… please don’t be like this,” she said. “It hurts me to see you like this.”
“S-Sunset, I’m fine!” Soul yelled with a slight anger. “Why is everyone is worried about me? Oh yes, I left my mom and my family behind just so I could get away from the craziness and I’ve never been better! Yeah, I haven’t heard anything from her. Just my dad giving me updates that she’s sad and miserable but hasn’t come and talked to me about anything. You know, I bet this is part of her plan to get me back so she could weave her little strings around me just tight enough that I’d never be able to break them again! Well, you know what? Screw that bitch! I’m not falling for that trick! She can pretend to be sad all she wants, because I’m not coming back to her ever! She can shove all that up her—”
Soul felt his hand grabbed and he looked over to see Sunset tearing up as she listened to him. His eyes widened with what he was saying and the anger that came with it. “I-I… I-I’m sorry, Sunset,” he said, feeling awful. “I-I don’t… I don’t know why I’m saying that, b-but—”
“Shhhh.”
Sunset placed a finger on Soul’s lips. “I know this is… painful for you to handle and you need time to heal from it,” she said. “But please, don’t let this stay bottled up inside of you. Don’t be the person that pretends to be alright when you really need someone to talk to. If you feel like talking and need to let out any stress or anger, don’t hesitate to talk to me about it. I’m here for you and I’ll help any way I can like you have for me. Let me be the shoulder to cry on and help wash away your sorrow.”
Soul remained silent as he gazed into Sunset’s eyes. Despite the tears in them, they were still warm and welcoming to look at as ever, and he couldn’t have wanted more than to stare at them. Without any reasons, he leaned towards her and pressed his lips with hers. The pain and sorrow went away instantly as the joy of feeling her lips and the taste of her sweetness with it replaced them. Soul soon pulled away from the kiss and he laid his head against the end of the book shelf.
“Alright, I’ll talk to you more about it if I need to. I’m sorry about the way I acted,” Soul said.
“Don’t be. You have every reason to feel like this,” Sunset assured him. She laid her head down next to his neck and nuzzled underneath it.
Soul wrapped his arm around her as he pulled her closer to him. The two laid together for most of the school day alone with nobody noticing the couple was there the entire time.
“Okay, why do we have to use my Jeep? Don’t any of you guys have something to use besides my Jeep?” Warhawk asked, annoyed by the various people that were in his Jeep.
“Because your Jeep is the only thing that can carry all of us,” Straight said.
“What do you mean!? You all can barely fit back there!” Warhawk pointed out.
The entire group was crammed in the back of Warhawk’s Jeep as they made their way towards Crystal Prep School. Much to Warhawk’s annoyance, his friends were right about his Jeep being the only vehicle in their large group they could all fit in. Unfortunately, like Warhawk had said, it was still not large enough to hold all of them in. Each of them had on a black outfit that Rarity had made for the group or they had made themselves.
“Thank god Soul and Sunset pulled out of this. We would have died from lack of air,” Night commented.
“That reminds me, how big is the vent exactly, Zero?” Twilight asked. “The plans you showed me didn’t say how big they were.”
“Not a clue, but if they’re going to be anything like those spy movies, they’ll be big enough for one of us to get in,” Zero replied.
-Five Minutes Later-
The group looked up at the small vent that was outside of the building to see that it was high up and far too small for a normal-size person to fit in. Everyone looked at Zero with half-lid eyes and raised brows.
“.... Okay, we do not rely on spy movies for the duration of this mission,” Zero said. “So, anyone have an idea they’d like to share?”
“How about the one where I beat that brain of yours out for dragging me out here for nothing?” Warhawk angrily suggested.
“Eh, anyone else have an idea?”
“Hmm, I used to have a key that my aunt would let me use whenever I needed to get into the school before I started coming to Canterlot. But I don’t think she’ll let me use it anymore since I don’t come here now,” Twilight said.
“Maybe we should figure out who can fit in there. It’s not really that high up,” Pinkie said as she looked at the vent. “It looks small enough for a baby to get in there.”
Sonata’s eyes widened and an idea formed in her head. “Wait, I think I know how I could help!” she chimed. “Hawk, can you let me borrow your Jeep for a bit?”
“Huh? No way, I’m not taking my Jeep any more than—” Warhawk stopped as he looked at Sonata to see her puppy eyes and her lips puckered. He let out a defeated sigh. “Fine, where are we going?”
“I’ll tell you on the way. You guys stay here until we get back,” Sonata said.
“Maybe we should go with you in case—” Twilight didn’t have time to tell Sonata as she was already gone with Warhawk to some unknown destination. “... I really hope she doesn’t do anything too ridiculous.”
“Oh come on, what’s the worse that could—” Before Zero could finish, Twilight glared at him angrily. “U-Um, never mind.”
The group waited for Sonata and Warhawk to get back with whatever she had planned. After some time, the two came back and Sonata had something wrapped in her arms.
“Sonata dear, what do you have in your arms?” Rarity asked.
“The solution to our problems!” Sonata replied before she removed the cloth and held up Soul’s baby sister, Novel.
The group looked at Novel and Sonata with wide eyes and their jaws hung. Novel was still asleep until she woke up slowly and looked back at the group with a blank stare.
“Y-Y-You… Sonata, please tell me for the love of god that Mr. and Mrs. Writer know you have their baby?” Twilight asked.
“I don’t think so. They were both still asleep when I took her with me,” Sonata replied.
“YA BROKE INTO MY AUNT’S HOME AND TOOK MY COUSIN OUT OF HER ROOM WITHOUT THEM KNOWING!?” Applejack yelled.
“Warhawk, why did you even let her do this!?” Straight asked.
“I didn’t know she was going to do this!” Warhawk replied. “One minute, I was parked in front of a house I’ve never been to before and the next, Sonata was telling me to floor it! By the time I found out she had a baby with her, I was already halfway here!”
“How were you even able to get Novel!?” Twilight asked.
“Oh, it’s simple. I went to their house, got a ladder—Soul’s window was wide opened for some reason so I went through that—then Toby and Shella looked sad when I walked by them and I went into Dawn and Comet’s room where Novel was sleeping in her crib,” Sonata explained. “I picked her up, grabbed her baby supplies and came straight here.”
“Sonata… of all the stuff that you have pulled off in the time we have gotten to know each other, this has got to be the worse thing you have ever done in your life!” Rainbow Dash said.
“It can’t be—”
“It is!”
“But I have a good reason!”
“What could possibly be a good reason!?” Twilight asked.
“Well, Pinkie said that we needed a baby, so I went to get the smartest one around.”
“I didn’t suggest that we kid— Wait, what do you mean the smartest one around?” Pinkie asked.
“Isn’t it obvious? Babies are smarter than they look!” Sonata replied. Everyone in the group looked at her in confusion. “Babies act like they’re these cute little things that don’t know anything, but in truth, they’re geniuses that are plotting to take over the world! I mean, you can clearly tell that they use their cuteness to get people to do whatever they want and they speak their own language towards one another so they can plot under our noses while pretending to act like they’re learning how to speak whatever language we’re speaking in!”
“English?” Warkhawk added.
“Bless you.”
“What!?”
“That is absolutely the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life!” Twilight commented angrily. “And furthermore, you have to— Wait, where did she go!?”
Everyone looked around for Sonata and Novel before they noticed that she was on top of a ladder and had taken the vent cover out of the way. She placed Novel in it and Novel started crawling inside.
“Go Novel! You can do it!” Sonata said.
Sonata was then pushed off the ladder by Applejack before she tried to reach for Novel. However, Applejack wasn’t able to fit inside of the vent, and Novel was too far away for her to grab.
“Novel, wait! Come back here to y’all favourite cousin! Ah’ll give you a very juicy apple if you come back!” Applejack begged. Novel continued to crawl through the vent until she turned around a corner and was out of sight. “Oh lord, oh lord, oh lord, this is very bad!” Applejack looked over to Sonata with an angry expression before grabbing her by the collar and began shaking her. “WHAT IS WRONG WITH YA!? THERE’S A BABY IN THE VENT BECAUSE OF YOU!”
“I-I really thought it was good idea!” Sonata pleaded. “Please don’t hurt me!”
“Ah’m going to do a lot more than that to ya!” Applejack pulled her fist back and Sonata closed her eyes tight.
“Woah!” Straight grabbed Applejack’s arm. “Let’s focus on getting that baby back before we do anything we regret!”
“How!? Only a baby could fit in there!”
“Oh, what about someone that’s really small, skinny and covered in butter!?” Everyone in the group looked to see Pinkie had suggested it. “I have a bucket of melted butter right here!” She reached into her hair and pulled out a bucket, and when she opened it, it was indeed melted butter inside.
“.... Okay, that’s disgusting,” Rainbow Dash commented. “But it might work.”
“So, who do we send in?” Zero asked.
“Like Pinkie said, it has to be someone small,” Rivet said.
“And skinny,” Rarity added.
“And I suppose in this case if it’s a girl, she has to be flat-chested,” Treble added.
“Really, did you have to say that?” Rarity asked.
“Just saying.”
The entire group thought to themselves for a moment thinking of anyone in the group that would qualify. All at once, they looked over to Twilight with blank expressions as they examined her for a moment. Twilight looked at them with a confused expression before looking down at herself and she put two together.
“..... Oh, that is very hurtful, you know?”
Soul was lying on the couch watching TV while Sunset was taking a shower in the bathroom. Soon Sunset came walking into the living room in her stretch shorts and a pink shirt and sat down with Soul.
“Seeing anything you like, babe?” Sunset asked.
“No… not really,” Soul replied.
Sunset placed a hand on his hair as she went through it and looked at Soul. “Are you at least doing better?” she asked.
Soul looked up at her and smiled as he gazed up into her eyes. “Well, you’re here, so yes I am,” he answered before pulling Sunset on top of him and holding her.
Sunset giggled. “Glad to hear it,” she said before giving him a kiss. “Do you want to talk about everything that happened?”
Soul let out a sigh. “No, I think I got all that out today at the library,” he replied. “But I have been thinking about some things and I think I’ll go and talk to mom about all this.”
“Are you sure?”
Soul nods. “I can’t avoid this problem forever, Sunny, and it is something I have to do sooner or later, so why not do it very soon?” he said. “Besides… Maybe, when I think about it, my mom could be feeling so hurt that she feels too guilty to call or talk to me. So this is something that I have to do.”
Sunset smiled. “If that’s what you need to do, then I will support it,” she said. “Are you going to try to live with her and your family again?”
Soul rubbed his chin for a moment before looking back at Sunset. “I’m… not that sure,” he answered. “I want to see how this goes before I decide on anything else.”
“That sounds like a good idea,” Sunset said. “Though it would be lonely if you leave me here. I was getting used to having my boyfriend living with me and doing all sorts of things. Thing that I’m sure that he would love to do with me. Or should I say, to me?~”
Soul nervously gulped and blushed. “I-I… That is something to take into consideration,” he admitted. “Anyways, let’s head on to bed. It’s getting pretty late anyway.”
“Sounds like a good idea.”
The two got off of the couch and headed on over to the bedroom for the night.
“Okay, there are several things here that are just out of place,” Twilight said. “I can understand the butter on me, but why do I have to have only my underwear on?” She stood up as butter covered her entire body while she had on only her lace bra and panty. “Like, really, I need to know the answer to this.”
“Well, duh, you don’t want your latex suit to get ruined after all the work Rarity put into it, do you?” Pinkie countered. “Not to mention that your underwear is probably cheap to get.”
“Well…. Yes they are, but I feel very uncomfortable about this,” Twilight said. “Can’t we send anyone else in the vents? Or could I at least put my clothes back on and put the butter—”
“Twilight, could you please stop complaining!?” Pinkie asked. “We have a baby in there and she needs to be rescued now! We can’t let clothing stand in the way of this!”
“Girls, please help me out here?” Twilight asked the other girls of the group.
“Sorry Twi, but this is pretty hilarious to watch,” Rainbow Dash said.
“I would stand by you on this point, dear, but she does have a point about staining the latex with butter,” Rarity said.
“I’m sorry Twilight, but with a baby in the vent, I don’t really want to do anything that would delay this,” Fluttershy said. “Oh dear, am I delaying it now!?”
“Ah’d go in myself naked if Ah had to to save my little cuz, but you’re the only one that can fit in there, and we really don’t have time to question Pinkie’s method,” Applejack said. “Though Ah do agree that it’s unnecessary.”
“I think this would totally be perfect for a movie or a story!” Sonata said. “People do love fanservice!”
“SHUT UP, SONATA!” Twilight yelled.
“EEP!”
“At least we made the boys look away for a moment,” Fluttershy said.
“Right, Applejack, help me get Twilight in there,” Rainbow Dash said. “Because she’s going to be slippery and need I need another hand for this.”
“Ah’m on it.”
Applejack and Rainbow Dash lifted Twilight up towards the vent and she soon climbed into it. It was indeed a tight fit for Twilight, but the slimy material that she was covered in helped so that she could wiggle her way around. She climbed through, seeing that the vents were actually very clean and well-kept.
“Huh, I guess Cinch really wanted her school to be one hundred percent for her ‘reputation.’” Twilight air quoted before she kept on crawling. “Novel? Nooooveeel, where are you? Come to Twilight, sweetie!”
Just as Twilight was about to turn a corner, her eyes widened when she saw that Novel was a foot away from a fan that was going fast and crawling towards it.
“EEEEEEEEEEEEK!”
Twilight quickly crawled towards Novel as her heart beat rapidly and her adrenaline rush kicked into her system. Novel crawled slowly towards the fan as the air blew through her hair. She reached out towards the fan slowly and just as her fingertips were about to touch it, Twilight grabbed Novel by the leg and pulled her away. Twilight panted as she rolled on her back, holding Novel on top of her.
“Oh thank god for adrenaline!” Twilight said before looking at Novel in her arms. “Don’t you ever go near those fans again!”
Novel let out a giggle with her pacifier in her mouth.
Twilight let out a content sigh. “ Well, at least I can get you back to your home very—”
*CREAK!*
“........ You know, when people think about it, no matter how you see it, God has a very sick sense of humor.”
*CRASH!*
“AAAAAAAAHHH!”
Twilight held onto Novel tightly before falling towards the ground and landed on her back. She let out a groan before blacking out and her arms fell off of Novel. Novel looked at Twilight with a blank expression before she climbed off of her and crawled off towards a random direction.
After a moment, Twilight slowly sat up and rubbed her head. “Uugh… W-Wha—AAH! NOVEL!?” She looked side to side trying to find Novel anywhere but the little infant was gone and nowhere to see. “Oh god! Oh god! Oh god! What do I do!?... I have to get the others in here!” Twilight got up and quickly went to find an entrance to unlock for the others.
Novel crawled around the hallways exploring her surroundings. After a few moments, she came into a large, circular area of the school that had stairs. In the very center of the room was a pedestal with a large heart shape crystal within a glass case. Novel’s eyes sparkled from looking at it and crawled towards it. Just as she was about to get near it, she heard a voice shouted out.
“HOLD IT RIGHT THERE, CANTERDORKS!”
Suddenly, various students from the school came popping out of hiding and had paintball guns in their hands, which they aimed at the center of the room. Walking towards the center was the girl known as Indigo Zap. She strutted her way with her eyes closed and a smug smile.
“You thought you could just come here and steal the Crystal Hearts from under our noses, huh? Too bad that we still have a couple of own spies there keeping an ear out for you just in case you tried anything funny during this truce. Well guess what, we’re not going to just let you dorks do whatever you want just because we’re—”
“Indigo, they’re not there. Please open your eyes and actually see what’s in front of you,” the girl known as Sugarcoat said.
Indigo opened her eyes to see that there was no one near the heart. “Huh? Crap, we came out too early again,” she said. “Those spies better not have wasted our time coming here. It’s the freakin weekend and I would like to enjoy it and—”
“Um, Indigo?” a girl named Sunny Flare walked up to her and pointed down towards her feet.
Indigo pursed her lips and looked down to see Novel at her feet as she was looking up towards her.
“............ The f***?”
“Oh my gosh, it’s a cute little baby girl!” The girl known as Lemon Zest ran over to Novel and picked her up into her arms and hugged her. “Oh, I love babies so much!”
“Yes, we can totally see that,” another girl known as Sour Sweet said in an annoyed tone before looking at Novel and smiling. “Oh, but she does look so cute!”
Indigo let out a groan. “Okay, who brought their baby sister here?” she asked, waiting for a response from the other students. “Come on, we’re not going to make fun of you for bringing your baby sister here… well, not that much anyway.”
Everyone looked to one another as they talked quietly and shook their heads. Indigo raised a brow before looking to her friends who also were wondering who the baby belonged to.
“I... don’t think she belongs to any of us,” Sunny Flare said.
“Maybe she belongs to the group from Canterlot and they just misplaced her,” Sugarcoat said.
“Or maybe… she’s just a distraction so they could sneak up and GET THE CRYSTAL HEART! AH HA!” Indigo spun around and aimed her weapon at the pedestal to see that no one was near it. “....... DAMN IT!”
“Nice one, idiot,” Sour Sweet commented.
“Oh shut up,” Indigo said. “And we can’t keep the baby here. Can someone please take it and—”
“No! I want hold the baby!” Zest protested. “She’s so sweet and cuddly. Yes you are! Yes you are!” She tickled Novel’s belly as she giggled.
Indigo pinched the bridge of her nose and let out a groan. “Fine. Just keep her quiet and out of sight. We don’t need those Canterlosers to know what we’re up to,” she said.
“Yay!”
The group outside waited for Twilight to get back with Novel. As they waited, some of them were playing card games or looking up their cell phones. Applejack was the only one looking into the vent watching out for Twilight to get back. All of a sudden, a nearby door flew open and Twilight popped her head out to see where the others were until she laid her eyes on them.
“Guys, over here!”
The group looked up and went over to Twilight as they gathered around her.
“Twilight! Did ya get my cuz back!?” Applejack asked as she grabbed Twilight.
“I did for a moment, but I fell through the vents and was knocked out. When I woke back up, she was gone!” Twilight replied. “She’s somewhere in the school and it's too big of a place for me alone to look for her!”
“Then what are we waiting for? Let’s get our baby back!” Pinkie said before running past Twilight.
“Wait, can I at least get my clothes back o—”
“No time!”
Pinkie grabbed Twilight’s arm and pulled her. The others followed behind them as they ran down the hallways.
“We should split up. That way we can find her twice as fast,” Rivet suggested.
“I call dibs wherever Twilight goes!” Zero said.
“Like hell you are!” Twilight said.
“Just pick a partner and spread out!” Applejack said.
The group split up into twos and they started their search all over the school. Soon most of them had already checked out more than half of the school and it wasn’t long until they started to meet up in the center.
“Did any of you see her?” Rainbow Dash asked.
“Nope,” Straight answered.
“Naw ah,” Applejack replied
“El Nata,” Sonata confirmed.
“I did find this cool-looking bott—”
*CRACK!*
“Oh never mind,” Treble said.
“Oh man, I’m starting to panic here!” Sonata said. “I’m going to end up in jail! Or worse! Dawn is going to kill me! *Gasp!* Even worse than that! She’ll probably have my tubes tied and then kill me!”
“Sonata, there’s is just… so many things that are wrong with that,” Twilight said. “And this is your fault in the first place! What kind of idiot would steal a baby from her own home!?”
“I-I just did it at the moment! I never question what I do at the moment, I just go along with it and hope that it leads me to free tacos!” Sonata explained. “Can you blame a girl for having hopes like that?”
“Yes! Yes, I can!”
“Oh, that is just brutal, you know?”
“And I’m half-naked.”
“I’ll give you that.”
“Hey guys, is that the Crystal Heart there?” Straight said as he pointed towards the pedestal in the center of the room.
“Oh.... Well, at least this part of this day went well,” Zero said.
“Zero, there is a missing baby in the school and we could all end up in jail at this point. What does this in anyway make it well?” Twilight asked.
“.......... I… Nothing really.”
“Wait a minute, Zero is that you?”
The group looked towards someone that came out of hiding, wearing a Crystal Prep uniform. It was a very familiar person that walked up to them while holding a paint gun.
“Zephyr? What are you doing here?” Zero asked.
“Well, I’ve been coming to Crystal Prep for a few months,” Zephyr answered.
“What?”
“Yeah, since my grades were so good at Canterlot and I was making a lot of progress there, Principal Celestia recommended that I should come here and I decided that it would be a better experience for me,” Zephyr explained. “Didn’t I tell you all this before I left?”
“Uuuh…”
-Flashback-
It was a usual day at Canterlot as the students were at the cafeteria. The group was sitting at their table minding their own business until Zephyr came by.
“Guys, you won’t believe this!”
Nobody was paying any particular attention to him as they were busy making out, playing with their phones, chatting or reading in Twilight’s case.
“Principal Celestia said that I can be going to Crystal Prep since I’ve been exceeding my grades greatly! I can really have a future if I go to that school! So I decided to go there and begin a brand new life there,” Zephyr said. “I know we’ve become good friends and I really enjoyed our time together here, but this is something I need to do for my future. It was nice knowing you all and have a great rest of the day because I’m heading there now! Bye guys!”
Zephyr walked away without realizing that the group wasn’t listening to him in the slightest and was unaware of his presence. Just then Zero looked up from his phone and looked around him and the group.
“Hey, did you guys hear something?” Zero asked.
-End of Flashback-
“........... Of course! How silly of us! We were very happy to hear you were coming here, right guys!?” Zero asked the others as he made signs with his face to the others to act along with him.
“Zephyr! We’re suppose to stay in hiding!” A young man with green skin and combed white hair came out of hiding. He wore a thick green glasses that hid the color of his eyes.
“Oh sorry, Quill. It’s just that I know these guys,” Zephyr explained. “Well, some of them. A few of them are new to me.”
“Oh yeah, you went to Canterlot before—Hey wait a minute, I know some of you guys!” Quill said. “You’re the ones that chased me up on the Wondercolt Statute!”
“Yeah, after you came to our school and started insulting us,” Swift said.
“Not to mention spraypainted some of the walls,” Rainbow Dash added.
“Yes, while it was completely fair to gang up on someone with twenty as well,” Quill added.
“Hey, you come into our territory, you get what you deserve!” Zero retorted.
“So, I deserve to get beaten up for doing what I was told to do by my higher up? Oh, yeah I totally deserve to be beaten up for that,” Quill countered. “But I guess the foot is on the other leg now.”
“Wait, what do you mean?”
All of a sudden various Crystal Prep students came out of hiding and aimed their weapons at the group.
“Oh dear,” Fluttershy squeaked.
“Zero, if you have a plan for this, I would really love to hear it,” Night whispered to him.
“Uuuh… Well, eh—”
The group then heard giggling as they looked over to see Zest with Novel in her arms as she was tickling her.
“Oh thank lord, there she is!” Applejack said.
“Wait, that’s your sister?” Zephyr asked. “...Wait, how did you have another sister if your parents are—”
“No, no, she’s Soul’s sister, Novel. Weren’t you there when she was born?” Applejack asked.
“No, I was gone by then.”
“...Oh, right.”
“I’m beginning to think that you guys never noticed that I was gone this whole time.”
“.........We’re sorry, Zephyr,” Zero admitted.
“I promise to make you a ‘Really Late Congratulations’ party for you!” Pinkie said. “And I’ll combine it with the ‘We’re Sorry’ party so it’ll be a super big party!”
“I would like that, Pinkie,” Zephyr said.
“Now that we got all of that out of the way, we’re going to start shooting you now,” Quill said. “FI—”
“Hold it right there!” Indigo yelled before she stepped in front of Quill and looked at him with a glare. “I’m the one that gives orders here! Zip it!”
Quill gulped. “Sorry,” he said.
“Anyways, EVERYONE FI—”
“WAIT!”
“Oh come on, now what!?”
Twilight stepped in front of Indigo and looked at her with a pleading expression. “Look, it’s been a very crazy night for us and we don’t care about the Crystal Heart anymore. We just now want to take Novel back to her home because one of us is a complete and utter moron!” she explained before shooting a glare at Sonata who let out a squeak. “So if you could just give her back to us, we’ll leave peacefully and we can forget about this whole night. What do you say? As old friends?”
“......Twilight, why are you only in your underwear?” Indigo asked.
Twilight blushed as every male in the area looked away embarrassed or just stared at her as the admired her body and choice of underwear. “Uh… It’s complicated,” she answered.
“Right… What do you think everyone?”
All of the Crystal Preps students looked to one another and discussed it while the group waited for their response. Sugarcoat was listening in on the conversations and went over to Indigo before whispering to her their response. Indigo looked to the group and smiled at them.
“Nope!”
“Ah, son of a—”
*SPLAT!*
“GHAAA!”
Indigo shot Twilight in the chest, causing her to fall over.
“Oh, that has got to hurt,” Treble commented. “On that note, EVERYONE RETREAT!”
Paint balls started to fly towards the group before Zero quickly grabbed Twilight and they all ran off into the hallways screaming. They let out yelps of pains as they were hit while they tried to get to the nearest exit. Soon the group got through the front door and headed straight toward Warhawk’s jeep and took cover inside. The Crystal Prep students quickly surrounded the jeep and fired their guns at it, covering it with various colors of paint.
“Great! Now I have to deal with cleaning up my ride! Can it get any worse!?” Warhawk said before a rock was thrown at the front windshield and it cracked upon impact. “F***!”
“What do we now!? We can’t just drive off while the paints are blinding us!” Rarity cried.
“Forget that, I’m going to run every single—”
“Warhawk, we’re not going to run people down!” Sonata said.
“For once, can people just go with my ideas!?”
“That’s it! Ah’m going to call a couple of people!” Applejack pulled her cellphone out.
“Who are you going to call?” Straight asked.
“Soul and Sunset.”
Everyone’s eyes widened with horror.
“We’re doomed,” Swift said.
Over by Sunset’s apartment, Soul and Sunset slept peacefully in the bed until Soul’s phone started to ring. Soul reached over to his phone, at first having trouble finding it with his eyes still closed, and answering it.
“Hello?..... Applejack? It’s like two in the morning, why are you calling me so late?.......... Ah huh……. Ah…. Huh?.................................................. SHE DID WHAT!?”
Sunset was scared after hearing Soul’s sudden outburst and fell off the bed.
After a few moments, Soul and Sunset were driving down the roads at crazy speed in Sunset’s car as they made their way towards Crystal Prep. Soon they were nearing the front entrance seeing the Crystal Prep students banging on the doors trying to pry the doors open. They noticed that Soul and Sunset were coming up to them before Soul parked up to the sidewalk of the school and marched towards them. Soul’s expression was hidden as he had his helmet on still and saw his baby sister, Novel in Zest’s arms as the two were watching on the side.
A Crystal Prep student walked up to Soul and raised his gun at him. “Hey! I bet you’re with those Canterlot idiots that—”
Soul didn’t slow his pace down and grabbed the gun from the student before pointing it at the forehead and pulling the trigger.
*SPLAT!*
“AAAAAHH!”
Soul dropped the weapon on the ground while the student was in intense pain. The other students stopped and shook in fear as they didn’t dare stand in Soul’s way. Soul walked up to Zest before pulling his helmet off to show his rage filled expression. Zest heavily sweated as her legs shook from the very sight of Soul’s face.
“Give. Me. Back. My. Sister,” Soul said through his gritted teeth.
Zest noded frantically and handed Novel back to Soul. Soul held Novel in his arms and his expression quickly turned into a joyful one.
“Oh, I’m glad to see you again, sis!” Soul said as he hugged his little sister and kisses her on the head. “I was worried sick about you.” He then looked at Zest and smiled at her. “Thanks for taking care of my sister for a bit.”
Zest let out a sigh of relief. “S-Sure, it was no problem… She’s a real cutie there,” she commented.
“Yes, she very much is!” Soul said kissing Novel on the cheek.
Sunset walked up to Indigo and had her arms crossed. “You’re lucky that it’s her brother that’s here,” she said. “Otherwise, none of you would have lived long enough if the mother came. Maybe you should let the others leave before she comes along.”
Indigo gulped and thought to herself for a moment. “Eh… Okay everyone, I think they learned their lesson. Let’s pack up and go back to our homes,” she said.
Soon the Crystal Prep students started to depart from the school, leaving the group to themselves. The gang quickly left the premises of the school and soon parked near the town park to recover. The group stood together seeing that Novel was okay.
“Oh thank goodness that we were able to get her back,” Rarity said feeling relieved.
“Yeah, I would have felt terrible if anything happened to her,” Clyde said.
“Sonata, do ya have something to say to Soul?” Applejack said to Sonata as she pushed her towards Soul.
Sonata looked down at the ground with a frown. “Soul, I’m so sorry about what I did,” she said. “I-I never thought she would be in so much danger because of what I did. I understand that you would never want to be friends with me anymore and to stay away from your family as far as possible….”
Soul looked at Sonata with anger at first. But the anger soon faded away while he looked to his sister sleeping his arms and let out a sigh. “I would be lying to say that I am not pissed at you for taking my sister from my parents’ place without them knowing and putting her in a vent on the basis that she was smarter than she looks,” he said. “But she is okay now and I know you won’t do this again anytime soon. So, I’ll forgive you if you never ever ever use my sis for anything no matter what. Okay?”
“Yes! Yes! I promise!” Sonata responded gratefully. “Are we still friends, then?”
“Yeah, we’re still friends.”
“Yay!”
“Now, I gotta get her back to my old place and put her back to bed. I think she had enough excitement for one night, right sis?” Soul said as he rubbed her head gently making sure she still stayed asleep. “I’ll see you guys later.”
Everyone said their goodbyes and Soul and Sunset made their way towards the Writer’s home. Soul used the ladder to get into his old room and snuck around inside until he went into his parents’ room and quietly put Novel back in her crib. He raised a brow to see that his dad was in the bed but his mother wasn’t.
Soul decided to go look around quietly for her before running into Toby who was happy to see him and licked his face. After petting him, Soul went back to looking for his mom and went down the stairs. Just as he was halfway, he saw a figure sitting on the living room couch and tried to look closely. Despite the lack of lightning, he could tell that it was Dawn sitting on the couch.
Soul walked up to her and just as he was about to speak, he saw that Dawn was asleep with dried tears and was holding a picture of a younger version of himself, her and his dad in her arms. He frowned at the sight his mother was in. Suddenly Dawn’s eyes slowly opened and she jumped a little when she saw Soul was standing in front of her.
“S-Soul? What are you doing here so late?” Dawn asked.
“It’s a… A lot of crazy stuff happened that ended up me coming back here,” Soul replied.
“So… Is everything is alright with you and Sunset?”
“Yeah, everything is fine.”
“Oh, okay… I thought you were better off living with someone that trusted you than with me…”
“Mom… Do you.. wanna talk about this?” Soul asked.
Dawn looked up at Soul with weak eyes as she stared up at her son. After a moment, she smiled and patted the seat next to her. “Yeah… I would like that very much.”
Soul smiled before he sat down next to her. He knew that this would happen, but he expected it to be during the day. But at that moment, Soul was just glad to see his mother again and hoped that he could put everything behind him.
Though he did not expect the real reason why Dawn acted the way she did.