Revelations at Mario and Luigi's
“Boy, she really tore that plan down huh?” Bon-Bon said with a teasing grin. “What’re you going to do now?” Bon-Bon looked over to see Lyra was staring off with a frown on her face. Bon-Bons grin faded. “Lyra?”
“Huh?” Lyra perked up and looked over. “Did you say something?”
“I asked what you were going to do next.” Bon-Bon leaned forward. “Sweetie, you ok?”
“Not really.” Lyra sighed. “I was really proud of myself for making that plan, I had thought of everything. But then Principal Celestia just rips it apart.”
“Yeah that was pretty brutal.” Bon-Bon nodded. “I find it weird she was saying it like it was a hypothetical situation, she clearly knew.”
“Technically she doesn’t know our plan.” Lyra replied with a huff. “We never told her. If we went through with it and it backfired she can plead ignorance with Sunset or her superiors. She probably learned that when dealing with the Schoolboard or something.”
“Well, she doesn’t have to worry about that. Clearly we can’t use the plan anymore.” Bon-Bon shrugged.
Lyras eyes lit up. “Or can we?”
Bon-Bon gave Lyra a confused look. “Uh, no. We can’t. You were there when she tore down every facet of your plan right?”
“Yeah, but the main problem with it was we were trying to recruit the school.” Lyra began smiling. “Of course that was a bad idea. Teenagers are terrible at keeping secrets, and the more people you tell a secret too the more likely it will come out, especially if it’s someone that still dislikes Sunset. Plus, she’ll hate the idea that the school was going behind her back to vote her Princess.”
“Uh Huh.” Bon-Bon said simply, waiting to hear Lyras point. “So?”
“So, we don’t recruit the school. Sunset will win the crown fair and square without manipulating the school beyond campaigning... mostly.” Lyra said excitedly. “We’ll have to keep the plan between as few people as possible while trying to push the school to vote for her, maybe we could even fix some of the friction among the student body while we’re at it. We’ll probably have to downsize how many people are running, but that’s out of our control.”
“Um… ok.” Bon-Bon just stared at Lyra for a few seconds. “While you did get rid of the school wide conspiracy part, that now leaves your plan vulnerable to a lot of factors. Not to mention we don’t know if Sunset will even run, she only ran the last few years because she was a bitch and won through sabotage.”
“Well, we’ll just have to have someone to convince her, and I’m sure people will vote for her. If not out of guilt than probably because she was popular enough after the Sirens.” Lyras smile faded slightly. “Maybe I could even run and be terrible at campaigning, help redirect the votes.”
“You’re gonna have to tell her what you did eventually, if she doesn’t figure it out first.” Bon-Bon pointed out. “And who knows how she’s going to feel about you manipulating events, even if just a little. The more you manipulate the angrier she’ll probably be, which could reflect on the rest of the school depending on how influential you were. But by not manipulating anything your plan could fail spectacularly and Sunset could get no votes at all, which might be even worse. All this is assuming that she’ll even run in the first place.”
Lyras smile had faded completely and she was left with a nervous look. “I know it’s not perfect, but I really do feel like it’ll help her. I’ll just have to be careful with how much I manipulate.”
Bon-Bon merely hummed. “So, your plan is to have Sunset voted as Princess of the Spring Fling by using a minimum amount of manipulation, among a minimum amount of co-conspirators, while sabotaging your own chances of being Princess, while trying to smooth things over among the student body, while trying to subtly push people to vote for Sunset, while trying to keep it all a secret, and all this is predicated on whether Sunset will even run or be thankful she was voted Princess?”
Lyra nodded, though her previous enthusiasm had disappeared. “Yeah…”
“Are you sure you don’t want a less ambitious plan sweetie?” Bon-Bon stared at her for a moment.
“I just… I just don’t know how else we could let her know the school trusts and accepts her.” Lyra was quiet for a long moment. “It could go very wrong, you should probably just leave me to do it alone, I don’t want to ruin your chances with Sunset if it fails.”
“Nun uh, there’s no way in hell I'm doing that.” Bon-Bon cupped Lyras face and stared into her eyes. “You’re my girlfriend, we do everything together. If you’re going down, I’m going down with you.” Lyra couldn’t help but smile brightly, placing a hand atop of Bon-Bons. “Besides, someone’s gotta keep you grounded.”
Lyra giggled. “You better not vote for me when I run, I’ll be angry if you do.”
Bon-Bon smiled deviously. “No promises.”
“So what’re you thinking about getting?” Sunset asked as she looked down at her menu. She looked up at Applejack when she didn’t answer after a full minute. She found that the cowgirl was looking every which way but her menu, studying every little thing in the crowded restaurant. “Applejack.”
Applejack looked away and stared at Sunset. “Oh, Ah dunno. Pizza?”
“You go to an Italian restaurant and you order Pizza?” Sunset Asked flabbergasted. “We can get Pizza some other time.”
“This place is new, Ah don’t know what’s good or not here. Pizzas the only thing I know for sure Ah’ll like.”
“You know it’s not going to be like the Pizza we order from a Pizza chain right? It’s probably going to be more traditional or whatever.” Sunset pointed out. “Look, this place is pretty busy, people wouldn’t be here if it was bad. Besides.” Sunset looked back to her menu. “It's Italian food, what’s not to like?”
“Ah Guess.” Applejack sighed in defeat. “Maybe Pasta or something. What about yah? Doesn’t dough use eggs?”
“I’m vegetarian Applejack, not Vegan. I only cut meat out of my diet. I eat everything else.” She peeked over the menu. “You did see me eat the sandwich earlier right? That had egg in it.”
“Yer horse diet makes no sense. Yah know horses die when they eat chocolate here right?”
“Daisies also kill horses here, but I’ve eaten plenty of daisy sandwiches back home.” Sunset said casually. “Also, I’m a Pony, not a Horse.”
“Where do yah all get milk anyhow? Yah told me the cows over there are sentient.”
“First off, it’s sapience. Second off, most milk is either supplied by cows, goats, sheep, or Mares for a profit, usually young mothers looking to make extra money.”
“Mares?” Applejack reeled away after Sunset said that. “Isn’t that kind of like-”
“Hi, are you two ladies ready to order?” A waitress said, walking up to their table.
"Uh, Ah’ll just get the Pasta." Applejack awkwardly said, handing her menu over.
"And I'll get the cheese Ravioli." Sunset said doing the same.
"Any appetizers for you girls?" The waitress asked.
"Bread is fine, thank you." Sunset answered as the Waitress smiled and walked off. Sunset sat quietly as Applejack started drinking her soda. "So does your brother know about the dozens of guys?"
Applejack spit out her soda and placed a hand on her mouth before she made a mess, Sunset laughing hysterically. She glared at Sunset as she wiped her mouth. "That's not funny."
"For you." She said with a wide grin. "But seriously, your brother seems like the type to beat the shit out of any guy who steals his little sister's innocence."
"Why? Cause we're country folk so he wants it for himself?" Applejack cringed and mentally face palmed.
"You said it, not me."
"How about we change the subject?" Applejack said embarrassed. "You said you only talk to Derpy and Vinyl right? What about Flash? I've seen you talking to him, and you didn't seem to hate him too much."
"It's… complicated." Sunset rubbed the back of her head. "Yeah I talk with him more than most of the school, but that's only because he 'wasn't sure' I was Anon or not."
"Isn't that better than thinking you were?"
"It is, but not much. He only believed it was possible I was innocent. Not exactly the kind of support I want right now."
“Yah need all the support yah can get right now Sunset.”
“I know.” Sunset sighed. “And I guess he deserves some lee way after how I treated him when we were dating, but… it still hurt. He knew me better than that.”
“Yah gonna have a long talk with him too?” Applejack asked curiously.
“I’m gonna have to have a long talk with everyone eventually.” Sunset said with a tired laugh. “Not looking forward to that.”
“Speaking of which, how often can Ah expect us to hang out? Probably shouldn’t get used to this right?” Applejack asked nervously.
“I’m… not entirely sure.” Sunset admitted. “I think I needed to relax after what happened at your farm, and I don’t really do anything during my free time anymore and I'm a bit lonely. But yeah, don’t think it’s going to be like before or anything.”
“Ah figured.” Applejack nodded. “What about the others? Ah’m not trying to push yah into doing something yer not ready for, but now that yer comfortable enough around me maybe yer comfortable reaching out just a bit?”
Sunset sat there for a moment, staring intently at her drink. “I don’t know.” She finally admitted. “It’s… it’s a process Applejack. I have different ways I feel about all of you and different ways I want to repair each relationship, but I guess I’m more willing to reach out to the four of you than I was a month ago.”
Applejack frowned. There it was again. “Uh, Sunset, you said ‘the four of you’.”
“I know.” Sunset stated simply.
“There’s… there’s five of us.” Maybe she had forgotten somehow?
“There’s five of you in the group, but only four of you I still consider my friend.” Sunset explained.
Applejack's breath hitched. It wasn’t a mistake. “Woah woah woah, hold on there. Ah know Rainbow was especially boneheaded during Anon, but-”
“It’s not Rainbow Dash.” Sunset said with a scowl, trying to indicate she didn’t want to continue talking.
“W-wha?” Applejack just looked confused. “If it’s not Rainbow and it’s not me…” She was silent for a moment. “What did Pinkie Pie or Rarity do?” Sunset merely glared, silently urging Applejack to let it go. Applejack however knew she was on the right track. “Was it Rarity? Cause Ah can’t imagine Pinkie doing anything to yah.”
“I don’t want to talk about this.” Sunset said with venom in her tone.
‘Bingo.’ Applejack thought. She reached a hand out and cupped Sunsets hand, the red head shaking furiously. “Look, whatever happened between yah and Rarity, it can be f-”
Applejack didn’t have the chance to finish as Sunset slapped her hand away and got up, slamming her fists on the table and screaming. “IT'S FLUTTERSHY! I HATE FLUTTERSHY!”
The entire restaurant turned to look at their table, the previous commotion and conversation among employees and customers dying down after Sunsets outburst.
Applejack meanwhile just sat there dumbly, looking up at Sunset's furious expression. “... What?”
Oh yeah, I went there.
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Wonder what the problem with fluttershy is?
Well that was unexpected.
My guess is that Fluttershy lashed out not just due to Anon-A-Miss but also the past personal bullying she endured at Sunset's hands, and while Sunset is understandably angry at her deep down she's also angry at herself for hating Fluttershy. Shy meanwhile must be feel devastated for falling for Anon and taking out her resentment on Sunset when she was at her lowest.
Long story short this is one friendship that's gonna take a very long time to fix.
OOOOHHH NNNOOO!!!
Oh got dammit what did Fluttershy do.....
....
"Beware the quiet man. For while others speak, he watched. And while others act, he plans. And when they finally rest… he strikes."
In other words, Shy must've done something earth shattering to Sunset.
WHAT!?
I thought you were joking or being sarcastic when you said, "It's definitely not Rainbow Dash". Still... I'm shocked!
What did Fluttershy do to cause Sunset to hate her?
On the side note: love the Mario and Luigi reference!
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I'm already taking guesses, but have to wait to see if I guess correctly.
Que paso porque sunset odia a flutteshy
Well... I did not see that one coming.
Then again, given how Fluttershy was bullied by Sunset, there was probably still quite a deal of resentment leftover that just came bubbling out when she fell for Anon-A-Miss.
Still, it is a nice twist instead of having Rainbow be the one on Sunset's shitlist like other Anon-A-Miss fics out there that has her be so Rash and even go too far, making any attempt of reconciliation with Sunset usually be either extremely difficult or downright impossible.
Anyway, I'm now very curious (and dreading) about just what did Fluttershy do that could ensure Sunset's hatred of her.
(... Okay, I'll admit, I was not expecting that. I am... intrigued to hear what has exactly happened that Sunset has come to HATE Fluttershy...)
love the story
So many asking what did Fluttershy do. Yet, what didn't she do?
For the supposed wielder of Kindness, she wasn't very kind was she?
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I knew it’d be funnier that way. Sounding super sarcastic but actually telling the truth.
I’ve had this planned for a while.
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I felt I was laying it on a bit thick with trying to make it seem it’d be Rainbow Sunset would have the most issues with; what with Rainbow declaring it over the phone with AJ, AJ herself thinking that’d be the case, and not mentioning Fluttershy much at all.
It worked though, everyone seems genuinely shocked.
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We’ll just have to wait and see
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... yeah, that’s it. You totally guessed my plan. Heh. I definitely had that all planned out. My audience definitely isn’t smarter than me.
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She killed her dog or something. Let’s go full dark.
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Well rainbow has always been the hot head of the group so the idea that in her anger she might go too far isn't hard to believe. As a pony she kicked a dragon big enough to squash her flat with one hand because the attempts to move it weren't working. She always acts stupid and doesn't think about stuff.
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“People ask ‘where is Gamora’,but nobody asks ‘how is Gamora’”
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Until rainbow forgives herself I don't think she will be talking with anyone besides her parents unless she has to.
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True
I'm just going to wait and see what the reasons are.
..........
That was a big twist
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I'll admit, you got me good!
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I agree. Not only it's a nice twist, it is also a breath of fresh air when it comes to Anon-a-Miss stories.
I am curious (and dreading) what Fluttershy had done to Sunset.
Oh shit, this story just took a turn. If I was invested before, I'm hooked now.
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She could've killed Sunset's gecko Ray?
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No...
Not Ray...
Is Sunset's bullying of Fluttershy outside of that one scene in the first movie everyone's head canon?
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Hairbrained schemes require careful execution their Lyra. Are you sure you're up to it. Because trying to force the issue can seriously backfire, as you've already seen.
And the little revelation at the end there has me curious as to why her specifically. Looking forward to seeing why.
Wauw... did not saw that coming
Logically it makes sense. Fluttershy is by in large the nicest and most accepting person in the group, so you'd naturally imagine if anyone was gonna believe Sunset wasn't Anon it would be her.
Though I'm gonna guess there's more to it then that.
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Ah a Paper Mario reference. A man of culture I see. Also excellent meme.
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Not to mention, very fitting... considering the name of the title of this chapter!
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I swear to God he used that picture specifically because of the mario reference
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That's... Actually kind of what happens in a chapter or two. A squat Italian man with a mustache asks what the hell is going on.
Great story so far, though I have to wonder if perhaps Sunset and Fluttershy were secretly dating before Anon which has Sunset this mad that her GF didn't trust her.
Walked right into that one, AJ.
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She doesn’t have Ray yet. Sci-Twi was in that short and Anon takes place before the friendship games.
I nearly ruined continuity in the first chapter when I wrote Sunset fed Ray, than remembered she wouldn’t have him yet.
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well I did not need that mental image
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you did change it, right?
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Didn't add it to begin with
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Dr Whooves? Is that you?
Fluttershy?
Ok, what did the sweet and innocent Fluttershy do to no longer be considered a friend to Sunset!? there's an odd feeling in me spine and it's telling me to shut up and just keep reading.
How did I call that?
I thought it was maybe Dash but then I was think that was too obvious the story would get dull and it’s anything but dull.
It’s a much more interesting story if Dash is beating herself up and punching her aggression away like we’ve seen. And to have someone else be the person Sunset is mad at.
Well I knew it couldn’t be Pinkie unless the characters we’re being OOC so that left Rarity or Fluttershy and based off what we’ve seen of Rarity I was like nah. But I also was like nah about Fluttershy but internally laughing at the idea of it being Fluttershy and guess who it is…
I'm happy you went there.
EEEWWWWWWW!!!!!!!
THAT IS DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!🤮🤮🤮
NOW I CANT GET THAT OUT OF MY MIND!!!
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Wasn't pizza invented by italians in Italy?
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is it because she said you are not their friend anymore?😳
FLUTTERSHY!? AYO!?