Chapter 15: Familiar Faces (Edited)
Twilight started to grow more accustomed to her human body and closely observes the inhabitants of the strange new world she's in. She passed new and familiar faces all the while holding Sam’s hand, which was an adorable sight. As they walked down the hallway, they could hear a conversation between two girls. One girl sounded considerably cruel and verbally abusive to the other, who sounded familiar.
"Oh... I'm really sorry," the familiar voice said which made Twilight stop in place, "I didn't know you had dropped it..."
“That sounds like…” Twilight said to herself, “no, no it can’t be.” She, Sam, and Spike peaked around a corner and saw the two girls talking.
"Well I did, and I would've gotten it back if you hadn't ruined everything! You shouldn't pick up things that don't belong to you," The red and yellow haired girl stated.
"It... Doesn't really belong to you either..." The pink haired girl said quietly.
"Excuse me!?" exclaimed the red and orange haired girl causing the pink haired girl to recoil and lower herself down.
"N... Nothing..." she squeaked.
“That's what I thought. It's as good as mine, and you know it,” the girl grinned evilly, she was making Twilight cross, as Sam sneered and Spike growled, “you really are pathetic. It's no wonder your best friends are all stray animals.”
“That does it,” Twilight remarked as she came around the corner, and stood her ground, “How dare you speak to her that way!”
"What did you say?" the orange skinned girl asked, turning around walking to Twilight.
"I said how dare you speak to her that way!" Twilight shouted walking to her as well and getting in her face.
"Hmph... You must be new here," the orange girl smirked, "I can talk to anyone any way I want..." She quickly glared at some boy who hid in his locker and walked away.
"I can't believe you did that," the pink haired girl said as she stood up.
"Well I couldn't just stand there," Twilight said, turning to her.
"Well, it's just that nobody ever stands up to Sunset Shimmer,” the girl said.
"So that’s Sunset Shimmer!?" Twilight said.
"You've heard of her?" the girl asked.
"Sort of..." Twilight replied.
"I don't think I've seen you around before," the girl added, "did you just transfer to Canterlot High from another school?"
"Um... yes! Another... heh, school!" Twilight replied, smiling nervously, "My name's Twilight."
"I'm... Fluttershy..." The girl whispered.
"I'm sorry, what was that?" Twilight asked.
"It's Fluttershy." She said even quieter.
“It sounds like you're saying Fluttershy,” Twilight said, as Sam and Spike came up beside her, Fluttershy looked up from behind her hair and saw Sam and Spike, “but how can that...?”
“Oh, my goodness!” she cried as she dashed past Twilight, and kneeled in front of Sam and Spike “who are these sweet little guys?”
“That's Spike, my, uh... dog,” Twilight said, “and that’s… Smokescreen, my, uh… little brother.”
“Oh, he is just the sweetest boy I’ve ever seen!” Fluttershy said as she patted Sam’s head, making him blush, and pulling out a dog biscuit, “go on, eat up, little pup!”
Spike sniffed the dog treat and took a small bite. He surprisingly liked it and ate the whole thing at once.
“Oh, wouldn't ya just give anything to know what they're really thinking?” Fluttershy said as she watched Spike eat the dog treat.
“He usually just tells me,” Twilight said.
“Oh, what do you mean?” Fluttershy asked turning away from Spike and Sam, who motioned Twilight to not say stuff that reveals that they’re not from this world. She turned back to them, and Spike barked to show that he talks by barking.
Oh, uh, nothing! Never mind,” Twilight chuckled, “Sunset Shimmer said you picked something up. Something that belonged to her. It wasn't a crown, was it?”
“How did you know?” Fluttershy asked surprise, as she got up.
“Uh, lucky guess?” Twilight nervously chuckled, “do you still have it?” Fluttershy shocks her head. “But you know what happened to it.” Fluttershy nodded her head.
“Mm-hmm. This morning, I was passing out flyers for the animal shelter like I do every Wednesday,” Fluttershy told her, “when it suddenly banded me in the back of the head. I have no idea how it got there. But I didn't want anything to happen to it, so I decided to give it to Principal Celestia.”
“Principal Celestia?” Twilight questioned, “she's the ruler here?”
“You could say that,” Fluttershy replied, “technically, I guess she and Vice Principal Luna do make the rules.”
“Where is she now?” Twilight asked.
“She should be in her office,” Fluttershy said as Twilight, Spike and Sam ran off, only to come back to Fluttershy as they didn’t know where that was, “third door on your left."
“Thank you,” Twilight called to her, just as she was about to run off again, Fluttershy called to her.
"Oh wait! You're really not supposed to have pets on school grounds," She said referring to Spike, "might wanna tuck him into your backpack... That's what I do." As a cat, dog, bird, and hamster jumped out of her bag. “They just get so lonely when I'm in school all day.”
“Oh, okay,” Twilight replied, “Thank you.” Suddenly the bell went.
“Oh, no! I'm late for class!” Fluttershy cried. She scooped up her animals and dashed down the hall to go to her class. When she and most of the other humans were gone, Sam finally spoke up.
“Smokescreen,” he said, giving Twilight a deadpanned look, “that’s the best you could come up with.”
“What, I could tell you your name is Sam, you’re a human from another world and you’re my son,” Twilight argued.
“Still, Smokescreen,” Sam retorted, “I don’t even have them on me.”
“Should we be getting to Celestia’s office?” Spike asked with a mused face.
“Right, come on,” Twilight said, as Sam placed Spike in Twilight’s backpack, and holding Twilight’s hand, they walked to Principal Celestia’s office.
It didn’t take long for Twilight and Sam to get to Principal Celestia’s office, they stood outside and prepared to go in.
“Now remember,” Twilight said to Sam, “you’re my younger brother named Smokescreen.”
“And you’re not a princess from another world,” Sam remarked.
“And that I have to stay in here, and not speak,” Spike said, poking his head out of Twilight's bag.
“Yes,” Twilight responded, as she knocked on the door.
“Come in,” came a voice on the other side. Twilight shoved Spike back into her back and opened the door. Using her head. Sam just face planted and followed her. Principal Celestia had her face in a folder and didn’t look up at Twilight, “How many I help you?”
Twilight put her back on the ground, as Sam closed the door properly. “Um, uh... Whew,” Twilight stuttered, Celestia put her folder down and looked at Twilight with a raised eyebrow, she waited for Twilight to speak.
Sam stood next to Twilight, He thought it would be best for him to not say much. Twilight just smiled at Celestia before shaking her head to focus.
“My name's Twilight Sparkle, and that over there is my little brother Smokescreen. We’re new here, and... Well, I understand that Fluttershy found a crown this morning and gave it to you.”
“Yes. I've had Vice Principal Luna put it somewhere for safekeeping,” Principal Celestia replied, getting up from her seat and putting the folder back into a drawer, “no idea how it ended up in the front lawn. Were you interested in running for Princess of the Fall Formal this year?”
“Uh, no. Not exactly,” Twilight replied, “the truth is... Well, the truth is I... You see, the crown is actually... Princess of the Fall Formal?”
Sam perked up at what Principle Celestia had said, “What’s the Princess of the Fall Formal?”
“It's Canterlot High's big Fall dance,” Celestia replied as she walked over to a calendar and marked the day.
“Like the Grand Galloping Gala,” Twilight said before Sam pulled her down to his level.
“She’s not going to know what that is,” Sam whispered, “Heck I don’t know what that is.”
“I’ll tell you later,” Twilight muttered back.
“Uh, Grand Galloping Gala?” Principal Celestia asked, never hearing of anything like that.
“Oh, uh, it was a big deal at our old school,” Twilight replied, Spike Poked his head out of Twilight’s bag, but she shoved him back in.
“Yeah, and it was pony themed,” Sam spoke up, before getting a smack around the head by Twilight.
“And was there a princess?” Celestia questioned.
“Yes,” Twilight replied, “but she wasn't exactly a student.”
“Here at Canterlot High, the students select one of their peers to represent them,” Celestia said, jesting them to the wall with three photos of Sunset Shimmer with a fake crown, looking more evil towards the third picture, “she receives her crown at the Fall Formal.”
“Has Sunset won all the time?” Sam asked.
“Sadly yes,” Celestia replied, “other’s had tried by Sunset wouldn’t let anyone pass her.”
“Hmm. You asked me if I was interested in running for Princess, can anyone run?” Twilight asked.
“Yes. You just need to let the head of the Fall Formal planning committee know you'd like to be on the ballot,” Celestia replied as she opened the door for Twilight to leave, “was there anything else?”
“Um, nope! That was it!” Twilight replied.
“Well, if you do need anything else, my door is always open,” Celestia said as she closed the door.”
“Twilight, why didn't ya just tell her the crown was yours and ask for it back?” Spike asked.
“Because she really can’t,” Sam spoke up.
“Yeah, I was going to, but imagine if one of them showed up in Equestria saying they came from a place filled with tall, fleshy, two-legged creatures with these!” Twilight said, making herself look crazy, as a boy saw her and backed up, “we'd think they were crazy!”
“Yeah, because no one would believe it unless they saw it,” Sam remarked. Twilight then realised what Sam was referring to.
“Oh, sorry sweetie,” Twilight said, as she gave him a kiss on the forehead.
“Hmm. You make a good point,” Spike emitted.
“Looks like if I want my crown back, I'll have to become Princess of the Canterlot High Fall Formal,” Twilight announced, “so that's what I'm gonna do!”
“And how exactly do you plan on doing that?” Sam asked.
“I have no idea!” Twilight said, as the bell rang, and the students came flooding out their classes.
Lunchtime came around and Twilight and Sam met up with Fluttershy again. They met her at the cafeteria and got lunch with her.
“I know we've just met, but I was wondering if you might be able to help me with something,” Twilight asked her, as she reached for a burger and Sam reached for a hotdog.
“Of course!” Fluttershy replied as she reached for a bowl of fruit. Twilight also reached for one.
“I've decided to run for Princess of the Fall Formal, and…” Twilight said, but Fluttershy gasped and dropped her fruit bowl, causing it to splash onto Twilight.
“Oh! Oh, gosh! Sorry,” Fluttershy apologised, as she grabbed a stack of napkins and cleaned Twilight off, “It's just, oh, running for Fall Formal Princess is a really bad idea.”
“Why?” Sam asked as he added a burger to his lunch.
“Sunset Shimmer wants to be the Fall Formal Princess, and when she wants something, she gets it!” Fluttershy replied, as a human Granny Smith placed an apple on her tray, “she'll make life awful for anyone who stands in her way. Just ask the girl who ran against her for Princess of the Spring Fling.”
“I have to try,” Twilight said as she too was given an apple.
“You got any pineapple?” Sam asked the human Granny Smith.
“Oh, I don't think you understand,” Fluttershy said, “you'd have to convince everyone here to vote for you instead of her: the athletes, the fashionistas, the dramas, the eco-kids, the techies, the rockers...”
“Why is everypony…” Twilight said before Sam smacked her with his tail, “Uh, everybody separated this way?”
“Maybe it was different at your old school, but at CHS, everybody sticks to their own kind,” Fluttershy emitted as she took a seat, “one thing that they do have in common is that they know Sunset Shimmer is gonna rule the school until we graduate.”
“Not if I can help it!” Twilight declared as she sat down and munched on her apple like a pony. Sam just sighed and face planted again, while Fluttershy just looked at her confused, “So, uh, where would I find the head of the party planning committee?”
“You’ll find her in the auditorium,” Fluttershy replied, her voice sounded a little annoyed, only Sam caught that but thought nothing of it.
“Sam, please tell me that this is vegetarian,” Twilight whispered to Sam about her burger.
“Nope, it’s meat,” Sam replied, gagged, and then gave her burger to Sam, who was even happier.
Twilight, Sam, and Spike enter the school auditorium, which was in the process of being decorated.
“Fluttershy said she'd probably be in here,” Twilight said.
“But where exactly is she?” Sam asked.
“Incoming!” cried a voice, Twilight, Sam, and Spike looked up to see streamers fall from above towards them.
Twilight grabbed Sam ducked to the floor to protect him, as the streamers covered them from head to feet. Twilight as Sam stood up and saw a girl with big, puffy hair. She pulled a balloon off her dress and blew it up.
“How does that work,” remarked Sam, as Twilight went over to greet her.
“Hi, my name's Twilight Sparkle and...” she said, but then the girl spun around, and Twilight saw her face as well as ducking under the balloon, “Pinkie Pie?”
Pinkie stopped blowing her balloon, shocked that this new girl she just met knew her name. The balloon she was holding deflated in her face, and she suddenly appeared behind Twilight.
“Are you psychic?!” Pinkie gasped.
“Uh, no, I don't think so,” Twilight replied, “unless of course that's something you can do here.”
“Not usually,” Pinkie sighed.
“Wait what?” Sam questioned, as Pinkie blew up another balloon.
“Fluttershy said this is where I'd find the head of the Fall Formal planning committee,” Twilight responded.
“Fluttershy, huh?” Pinkie frowned, “don't let the whole ‘shy’ thing fool you. She can be a real meanie.”
“You two aren't friends?” Twilight questioned.
“What?! Why?! How?!” Sam asked.
“Waited a bit to get your name on the ballot, huh?” Pinkie asked, returning to her happy personality, “dance is the day after tomorrow.”
“I'm brand new here,” Twilight replied.
“Oooh!” Pinkie said before having a closer look at Twilight, “I thought you didn't look familiar. Though, now that I'm really looking at you... Do you have a twin sister who lives in the city, has a pet dog named Spike that looks just like that one? But I don’t think she has a younger brother like him.” She pointed at Spike that was biting at a balloon, and then to Sam who was throwing one up in the air and catching it.
“Uh, maybe?” Twilight replied, a little unsure.
“Thought so. Anyhoo,” Pinkie said as she pulled a clipboard and opened out her puffy hair, “just need to fill this out and you are officially up for the coveted Princess of the Fall Formal crown.”
Pinkie held the pen out in front of Twilight. Twilight gulped, this involved using her hands. She first bit down on the pen with her mouth, making Sam faceplant again.
“If I keep doing that I’m going to be in hospital for brain damage,” he remarked.
Pinkie just smiled and fluttered her eyes in a way that made her more cuter than she was, as she waited for Twilight to write her name down. Twilight tried to remember how Sam wrote and tried to copy how he held a pen. She grabbed it with her hand and wrote her name down on the clipboard. When she was done, Pinkie turned it back around.
“Wow!” she responded shocked, “you have really bad handwriting. It's like you've never held a pen before.”
“Hahaha,” Twilight laughed nervously, “is it?”
“Somebody order a dozen cases of fizzy apple cider?” called a country voice from the doors.
“Oh! Oh! Me, me-me-me, me, yeah, ha-ha, me!” cried Pinkie, she skipped over to where a human Applejack placed a crate of apple cider down on a table. Twilight gasped to see another one of her friends.
“Damn, I’m still too young to drink cider,” Sam remarked to himself.
“Can you bring in the rest?” Applejack called to her brother, as a human Big Mac came in with some more crates.
“Eeyup,” he replied, Applejack took one of the crates and spotted Twilight.
“Hey, I know you,” she said.
“You do?” Twilight asked.
“Sure,” she replied, pulling out a bottle of cider, “you're the new girl who gave Sunset Shimmer the what for today.”
“Twilight Sparkle here is gonna run against Sunset Shimmer for Princess of the Fall Formal,” Pinkie said, making Applejack spit her cider out, not realising that Sam was right in front of her.
“MY EYES!” Sam cried out in pain.
“Oops, sorry little fella,” Applejack said as Pinkie came over and her shirt cleaned Sam’s face, “I'd think twice about that. Oh, sure, she'll probably approach you all friendly like... ‘I sure am lookin' forward to some friendly competition,’” she spoke in an imitation of Sunset Shimmer’s voice while holding up balloon with her face on it, “‘That's so good to hear,’” she then spoke in an imitation of Twilight’s voice, holding up a balloon with a derpy Twilight face before speaking normally, “But then, here comes the backstabbin'.” She turned the Sunset balloon around, which had a nail taped to the back and popped the Twilight balloon, “About the only girl in this school you can trust less than Sunset Shimmer is Rainbow Dash.”
“Rainbow Dash?” Twilight asked, shocked that another friend of hers wasn’t friends with Applejack.
“She's the captain of, like, every team at Canterlot High,” Pinkie replied.
“She's also the captain of sayin' she's gonna do somethin' for ya, and then turnin' around and not even botherin' to show up,” Applejack complained.
“That doesn’t sound like something Rainbow would do,” Sam remarked, still rubbing his stinging eyes, “she’s meant to be loyal.”
“Well she ain’t,” Applejack replied to him.
“Thanks for the advice, Applejack,” Twilight said, “but this is something I really need to do.”
“Huh, suit yourself,” Applejack responded, “hey, how'd you know my name is Applejack?”
“Um, I uh... Hahaha,” Twilight laughed nervously, “Didn't you say?”
“Nnnope,” came Big Mac’s voice as he brought in another stack of crates.
“Well, it sure was nice meeting you both,” she said as shook Applejack’s hand and waved to Pinkie, “I'm sure I'll be seeing you around.” Then she and Spike in tow ran out the doors at the other end of the room and turned left. Sam was still rubbing his eyes, so he didn’t see Twilight run out. When he looked up, he saw that she was gone and ran out the door and turned right to try and catch up with her.
“That one's tryin' to hide a secret, but I am totally on to her,” Pinkie said then whispered to Applejack, “she's psychic!”
“Uh-huh, If you say so,” Applejack replied, as the doors to the auditorium were flung open to reveal an angry Sunset Shimmer, followed by human versions of Snips and Snails.
“This looks terrible!” she shouted, as she stormed in, “there should be more streamers near the stage and fewer balloons.”
“Yeah, streamers!” cried Snips as he tore one in half.
“And fewer balloons!” yelled Snails as he tried to pop one but couldn’t and fell to the ground.
“Fizzy apple cider? Ugh! This is my coronation, not a hoedown,” Sunset gagged in disgust as she dropped one of the bottles on the ground.
“Well, now, it ain't necessarily gonna be your coronation this time around,” Applejack shot back.
“Oh, is that so?” Sunset got right in front of Applejack, glaring daggers at her, she spun Applejack’s hat around and moved it in front of her face, “you country folk really aren't that bright. Must be why the other students say such awful things about you.” This made Applejack go red in the face and growl, “Obviously it's gonna be my coronation. I'm running unopposed,” Sunset replied in a cocky manner.
“Not this time,” Pinkie said, holding up the clipboard with Twilight’s name horribly written all over the page, “the new girl just signed up!”
“What?!” Sunset gasped as Pinkie gave her the clipboard.
“I know. Her handwriting is really bad,” Pinkie said, thinking Sunset was examining the handwriting.
“Where is this Twilight Sparkle?” Sunset glare and muttered to herself, before realising that Pinkie and Applejack were in earshot, she let off a nervous laugh, “I'm looking forward to meeting the competition!”
Applejack and Pinkie shared an uneasy look together and Sunset left.
Twilight walked down the halls of the school, passing unfamiliar faces. Spike was in her bag, but Sam wasn’t in sight. It was after Twilight and Spike left the auditorium that Sam wasn’t with them.
“Sam must have gotten lost,” Twilight sighed, worried for her son.
“Calm down Twilight,” assured Spike, “we’ll find him, or he’ll find us.”
“I’m sure you’re right Spike,” Twilight replied, “but this place is huge, and I’m worried he’s going to find something he doesn’t know.” She panicked as she quickly walked past a boy with white skin and purple hair and a girl with bright lilac skin and purple and black hair.
“What’s her hurry, Sparkler?” the boy asked.
“I don’t know, Ace,” the girl said, “But she does look rather cute.”
Twilight came to a dark empty hall that just led to a wall, it gave a creepy feel to it.
“Can't believe I didn't recognize you earlier,” Sunset Shimmer’s voice came from behind Twilight, she turned to see Sunset leaning against a locker, “shoulda known Princess Celestia would send her prized pupil here after my crown, and her little dog and sorry excuse of a son, too.”
“It's my crown!” Twilight snapped back.
“Whatever. This is just a minor setback for me,” Sunset replied, “you don't know the first thing about this place, and I already rule it.”
“If that's so, why do you even need my crown?” Twilight questioned “You went to an awful lot of trouble to switch it with the one that belongs here.”
“Pop quiz: what happens when you bring an Element of Harmony into an alternate world? You don't know? Seriously?” Sunset laughed, “And you're supposed to be Princess Celestia's star student? Then again, what were the chances she'd find somepony as bright as me to take under her wing after I decided to leave Equestria? It's a bit embarrassing that you were the best she could do.”
Spike popped his head out of Twilight’s bag and growled at Sunset, “Oh, and I'd keep an eye on your mutt and infant. Hate for them to be... taken away from you. But it looks like it’s already happened to your boy.”
“Is that a threat?” Spike snarled.
“Oh, of course not,” Sunset replied in an innocent tone, Spike barked at her annoyed, “But I'd cut down on the chatter if I were you. Don't want everyone to know you two don't belong here, now would you? You wanna be a princess here? Please. You don't know the first thing about fitting in.”
Sunset then walked off chuckling to herself, leaving Twilight and Spike annoyed with her, and more worried for Sam.
Sunset saw Snips and Snails walk out the auditorium, tangled up in streamers. “I want you to follow her,” she ordered as she grabbed the ends of the streamers and pulled, spinning Snips and Snails around and freeing them from the streamers, “bring me something I can use just like I did with that last girl who thought she could challenge me.”
“You got it, Sunset Shimmer,” Snips replied, as both saluted.
“When the crown and its power are mine, Twilight Sparkle will be sorry she ever set hoof into this world,” she spoke menacingly, “not that she would've been much safer if she'd stayed in Equestria.”
“Yeah, in Equestria,” Snips responded, trying to play along but clearly had no idea what she was referring to.
“What are you still doing here?! Go!” Sunset ordered. Snips and Snails panicked, ran into each other, and then ran down the hall. Sunset just snarled, “Oh why did I get those bozos, to work for me rather than, Hoops, High-Score and Dumbbell, or the Diamond boys.”
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Amazing chapter my friend!