Twilight's Name Tag is Missing

Author's Note:

My try at a one-shotter. Enjoy.
Also, Canterlot Elementary is a place where I assume Twilight learned her fundamental smarts (i.e. Math, English, etc.), er, whatever.
"It's not a real place in the show!"
A.) I know.
B.) We don't know that for sure.
"Princess Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns?"
It's a side thing.

"Another day, another lesson!" a lavender filly happily implied as she made her way to Canterlot Elementary. Her name was Twilight Sparkle, quite the star student in the place of education. Twilight had quite some power, and was also accepted into Princess Celestia's School For Gifted Unicorns. However, this school was for her basic smarts. She sat down, awaiting her teacher's instruction.

"Alright, class! Today, we will not be here in this school. We will taking a field trip!" the teacher said.

A blue pegasus with black hair raised his hoof. "Yes, Sky Thunder?"

"Where are we going?" he asked.

"To Manehattan," she replied.

To this, the whole class went berserk. Nearly everypony in the entire room wanted to go to Manehattan. It was THE place to be in Equestria, with tall buildings that pierced the sky, parks, businesses, everything they had ever wanted. Twilight showed the least amount of enthusiasm of all. Even though she too wanted to go to Manehattan, she hoped it would be with her parents, or her BBBFF, Shining Armor, or her whole family. She didn't suspect it to be with her whole class.

"One more thing, everypony!" the teacher remarked.

The whole class stopped.

"You must wear name tags at all times, and try to be back before 4 o'clock. Stay safe, and have fun!"

As the class departed, the teacher handed out each pony's name tags, starting with Twilight's. The train ride to Manehattan would not be a short one. It was a roughly 200 yard walk to the train station from the schoolhouse. Of course, Twilight barely talked with anypony, not even the teacher. She could hear everypony else talking. The conductor yelled, "ALL ABBOOOOOOAAAAARRRRRRDD!!!" prompting everypony to board. Shortly thereafter, the train departed for Manehattan. About 30 minutes into the ride, Twilight began to feel sleepy, and it wasn't long until she was asleep. She wore her name tag the entire time she had it.

...Or did she?

When Twilight woke up, the train was 3 minutes from Manehattan. She noticed that everypony in her class was looking out their windows and at the gargantuan Maretropolis the city was. Before anyone knew it, the train stopped and everyone hauled flank for the exit. Twilight simply trotted. Everypony was amazed at the 50 stories of buildings above their heads.

"Hmm... I feel like something is missing..." Twilight thought. She looked at herself in a window.

"GAAAAAHH!!! MY NAME TAG!!!" she screamed. She searched high and low for one hour around the area where the train was. She checked trash cans, asked locals and classmates where it was, checked the ground in some areas, but to no avail. Twilight felt defeated, and sighed.

She spent her day enjoying herself for the most part. She looked at stores, played in the parks (even with other fillies), the kind of stuff one would think a 7-year-old filly would do in her first visit to a city. Sometimes, this happiness would be slightly interrupted when she saw the name tags of other fillies in her class. Either way, that didn't stop her. She decided to see a Cuttlefish concert, which she enjoyed (sometimes, her mother would listen to their music, and Twilight became immersed in their music). She looked around to see what everypony else was doing. She saw two colts who were in a Rock music shop, fillies who were in pet stores and flower shops, and many, many fillies playing in parks. Twilight saw a bookstore, and it felt like it was a black hole, pulling in her filly spaceship. She looked at a clock. 1:00 p.m.

"Good! I may as well catch up on my reading. What's the worst that could happen?" she said.

There were hundreds, no, THOUSANDS of books based in the shelves, and there was even a small library for ponies to read up on their books in. Twilight picked out several books; some were in series, and some were short stories. She read Diary of a Wimpy Colt, The Fire in Us, and many, many other books. Before she knew it, time was against her. 30 minutes, an hour, 2 hours. Twilight read a total of 20 books, end to end. She glanced at the clock, and her eyes grew as big as the table she was sitting at.

"Nonononononononononononononono!!!!" Twilight yelled. It was 3:59 p.m., and the train and all the other classmates were on the other side of the city. She swiftly put back every single book she read and bolted for the exit. She galloped with all her speed to the train station, occasionally yelling "WWWAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIITTTTTTT!!!!!" to see if she could get the train to wait for her. She dashed through a whole park through its jungle gym, its main play area, and right through the swings. Getting through was slightly painful. She saw the train in sight as the last filly got on board, and soon, Twilight made it.

"Pardon me, ma'am, but who are you?" the conductor asked.

Panting, Twilight replied, "My name is Twilight Sparkle. I'm with the school group here."

"The Ponyville one?" the conductor replied. Twilight could make out a yellow pegasus filly with a pink mane and tail looking at her from over one of the seats. When Twilight looked, the filly turned her head back.

"No, the Canterlot one," Twilight implied.

"Alright. Get to your car, now," he replied.

The train ride back wasn't short, still. Even so, everypony was sad as the silhouette of Manehattan vanished into the horizon. The train finally arrived back in Canterlot. Everypony was talking about how great Manehattan was; what they did, where they went, stuff one would expect young ponies to talk about after their first visit to a large city. Twilight, however, was still confused about her name tag.

"Twilight?" a white, red-haired filly asked.

"Hmm?" Twilight replied.

"You left this on the train when we got to Manehattan," the filly said, and showed a laminated card. It was Twilight's name tag.

With this, Twilight fainted.

"...And that is my scariest childhood memory," Twilight said.

"Twilight?" Pinkie Pie replied. "Your childhood was weird."

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