What are you doing here?” Rainbow growled, walking towards Scootaloo threateningly.
She was stopped when Sunset got in her way and glared down at her. “A better question would be what are you doing here Rainbow Dash?”
Rainbow stopped, surprised Sunset was being so protective of Scootaloo. “Like I said, I need to talk to you.”
“Yeah? What about?”
Rainbow eyed Scootaloo, the girl wilting even further and whimpering in response. “I can’t tell you while she’s here, she already thinks I’m stupid.”
“I don’t think you’re-!”
“Explain ‘buoyancy of her head’ then Anon-A-Bitch!” Rainbow Dash yelled, holding up a finger towards Scootaloo.
Scootaloo recoiled as if struck and looked down to hide the tears welling in her eyes.
“Rainbow!” Applejack growled. “What is the matter with yah!?”
Rainbow didn’t get a chance to respond as Sunset grabbed her hand and pushed it away. “One more outburst like that, and you aren’t telling me shit. I don’t care how important it might be.”
“Why are you defending her? Shouldn’t you despise her or something? She practically ruined your life!”
“My super complicated relationship with Scootaloo is none of your concern.” Sunset placed her fists on her hips and glared at Rainbow Dash. “But fine, if you won’t tell me while Scootaloo is here, then perhaps she will talk to me first.”
Scootaloo looked up as Sunset turned towards her, an expectant look on her face. “I-I would but it’s rather… private. I’m not sure if you’d want anyone knowing.”
“Private? What the hell could be so private it needs to be discussed between you and Sunset alone?” Rainbow Dash asked suspiciously.
“Something so private, it’s none of your concern.”
“You don’t even know, do you?”
“Not a clue.” Sunset admitted. “But I’m not going to force it out of her just in case. At least, not in front of you.” She turned and grabbed Scootaloo's arm, dragging her away.
Scootaloo looked at Rainbow Dash and saw a sad look on the older girl's face as she stared after Scootaloo. She noticed Scootaloo was staring and quickly regained her composure and glared at her instead. Scootaloo merely frowned, not sure what to make of Rainbows sad look, and looked to Sunset when she stopped dragging her.
“Now, what is it that’s so ‘private’ you couldn’t say it in front of my friends?”
Scootaloo opened her mouth to speak, stopping momentarily in surprise at Sunset calling Rainbow her ‘friend’ before continuing. “It’s about the Valedictorian, I want to help.”
Sunset sighed and shook her head. “I thought we talked about this. It’s fair that they removed me from being considered for Valedictorian, you don’t need to do anything. Besides, how are you going to help me exactly?”
“It’s not fair! You’re a changed person, you’re one of the smartest girls in school, you’ve worked for this since freshman year. You should at least be considered!” Scootaloo declared defiantly. “And this is why I didn’t want anyone else knowing. I wanted to make sure you were ok with the rest of the school knowing before I did anything.”
“Rest of the school knowing? What are you talking about?”
“I’m going to tell the school what’s happening and try to convince them to not walk at graduation in protest. If we can get most of the school behind this, it should anger parents enough to light a fire under the school boards ass.”
Sunset sat there in silence for a few seconds. “Oh, Scootaloo, I really appreciate you wanting to help me, but I dunno. I don’t want you to get involved in my problems.”
“Plleeeasssee Sunset?” Scootaloo laced her fingers together and begged. “It would mean a lot to me if I could at least try to help. What’s the worst that can happen?”
Sunset bit her lip anxiously and looked off to the side. After a few more seconds she sighed in exasperation and looked back to Scootaloo. “Fine. But don’t do anything crazy, ok? I don’t want you to get in trouble just for trying to help me.”
Scootaloo beamed brightly and wrapped Sunset in a tight hug, which the older girl awkwardly reciprocated. “Thank you thank you thank you thank you! I promise you’ll be Valedictorian Sunset! Just watch!”
Before Sunset could say anything, Scootaloo let go and ran off. Sunset stared for a few more seconds before walking back to Rainbow and Applejack, the former being angrily berated by the latter. “Alright Rainbow, make it quick.” The two girls looked to Sunset. “What do you need?”
It was Rainbow's turn to wilt under Sunset's gaze, the sporty girl clearing her throat awkwardly and stepping forward. “Um… so there’s no easy way to go about this but… I need a tutor-”
“No.” Was all Sunset said as she began walking to her first period.
Both Rainbow and Applejack were rather surprised by how curt Sunsets response was, both girls running after her. “Now come on Sunset, can’t yah just hear her out?”
“Nope.”
“Please Sunset! I really need a tutor.” Dash begged. “If I don’t improve my science grade, I’ll be put on academic probation!”
“So?”
“So? Sunset! She’s captain of half the school’s sports teams! Our teams will suffer without her! She won’t be able to participate in the Friendship games!” Applejack grabbed Sunsets sleeve and forced the red head to look at her eyes. “Do yah really want those rich snobs to win again?”
“Well I never really cared about the Friendship games anyway, it just seems like pointless school rivalry.” Sunset answered before freeing herself from Applejack's grip.
Rainbow Dash and Applejack stared at each other, unsure of what to do as Sunset continued walking. “My college career could be affected!”
Sunset stopped. “What?”
“I said ‘my college career could be affected.’” Rainbow Dash walked up to Sunset. “If I can’t do sports until my science grades are up, then I might not be able to get a scholarship. Any scholarship. You know I’m not smart enough to get one of those egghead scholarships, and my family doesn’t have the kind of money to send me to college.”
“Can’t you just get someone else to tutor you?”
“Not one that knows me, won’t cost my family too much to hire, and could actually teach the subject so I understand it. Plus…” Rainbow shifted uncomfortably, Applejack coming up behind her. “I really want to talk to you again.”
“I’ll… I’ll think about it, Dash.” Sunset stepped forward to continue walking.
Rainbows head perked up at Sunset calling her Dash and she immediately got in front of Sunset before she could run off. “Look, I know you’re still upset with me, and rightfully so! So, I’ll do whatever you want to convince you to tutor me.” Rainbow smiled and held her right cheek out. “Look, you can even punch me to make us even.”
“Ah don’t think that’s-”
POP!
Rainbow Dash was sent flying backward and was left sprawled out on the floor after Sunset punched her, clutching her nose which began to bleed profusely.
“SUNSET!” Applejack skidded to a stop next to Rainbow. “Why did yah do that!?”
“She offered, so…”
“That does not make it ok! A good Christian would’ve turned the other cheek!” Sunset was about to point out the major flaw in that statement before Applejack beat her to it. “A good Faustian would’ve too!”
“She offered…” Sunset merely crossed her arms poutingly.
Applejack was about to continue berating Sunset when Rainbow Dash held up a hand. “No, it’s fine AJ, I did offer after all. It’s fair she gets a good right hook in after I did the same thing.” Rainbow Dash sat up, blood trickling from her hands. “So? Feel better?”
“I do actually.” Sunset nodded, earning an annoyed glare from Applejack. The warning bell rang and Sunset continued walking. “Meet me at lunch and we’ll discuss the details. I’m assuming you want to get started immediately.”
“See?” Rainbow smiled and looked at Applejack cockily. “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.”
“Yer hopeless.” Applejack groaned and helped Rainbow Dash up. “Let’s get yah to the nurses office and get yah cleaned up, Ah hope yer gonna tell them what Sunset did.”
“What? And rat out a friend? Hell no! I offered, remember? It wouldn’t be fair for her to get in trouble for doing exactly what I asked.”
“She shouldn’t have done it anyway!”
“And I shouldn’t have punched her in the first place!”
“Two wrongs don’t make a right, Dash!”
The two bickered the whole way to the nurses office, students staring at Rainbow's bloody clothes and hands, wondering just what Applejack did to Rainbow Dash.
Lyra angrily applied the last of her makeup in front of the little mirror in her locker. She thought about what happened between her and Bon-Bon yesterday, furiously thinking over what she had learned.
“Hi Lyra!”
“What do you want!?” Lyra slammed her locker shut and was met with an extremely startled Derpy. Lyras anger immediately faded and she put a hand to her mouth. “Oh Derpy I’m so sorry! I’m just… going through a rough time right now.”
“That’s… alright.” Derpy seemed confused but straightened herself out. “Is everything ok Lyra?”
“No.” Lyra flattened her back against the lockers. “Me and Bon-Bon are going through a rough patch.”
“Really?” Derpy tilted her head and flattened her back against the lockers next to Lyra. “What happened? She cheat on you or something?”
“No, she’d be dead if she did that.” Lyra huffed. “Turns out she was the one who gave my secret to Anon.”
“What?” Derpy's head snapped towards Lyra. “She framed me?”
“No… well, not intentionally.” Derpy stared at Lyra expectantly, waiting for her friend to continue. “She thought she was helping me by revealing my secret to the school. Turns out those girls edited it to make me look worse. She didn’t frame you, but she didn’t clear your name either.” Lyra looked at Derpy guiltily. “Guess I have yet another thing to be sorry for...”
Derpy looked away and rubbed her eyes as she let out a long breath. “Ok, something else to talk to her about. Explains why she’s been the nicest to me…” An awkward pause fell between the two girls. “So what happened after you found out?”
“I yelled at her. Told her she lost me and broke up with her.”
Derpy gasped. “You broke up with her!?”
“No! I just wanted her to think that!”
“Lyra!”
“She hurt me so I wanted to hurt her back! Don’t know why you’re not angry with her too.”
“I am angry with her, furious even. But you went way too far.” Derpy got in Lyras face with an angry scowl. “You are going to go up to Bon-Bon and tell her you didn’t mean what you said.”
Lyra awkwardly looked off to the side so she didn’t have to face Derpy. “I mean, I’m going to in a few days-”
“Not in a few days, now. You can’t just put her through emotional distress out of revenge.” She got even closer to Lyras face. “I worked too hard to get you two together.”
“I’m not doing it out of revenge! I just… need her to simmer a bit with guilt so she doesn’t do this to me again.”
“Lyra…” Derpy grabbed Lyras shoulders and shook her lightly. “You can’t just do that to someone you love. What Bon-Bon did was wrong, but you leaving her to hurt like that is also wrong. It might even be considered abuse.”
Lyra looked down in shame and shifted anxiously. “You really think it’s abuse?”
“I’m no expert, but lying to your partner to hurt them and leaving them to hurt doesn’t sound very loving to me.” Derpy let go of Lyras shoulders. “She may also hook up with someone else while you two are on your ‘break’.”
“What? No she won’t!”
“And why not? She thinks you broke up with her, what’s to stop her from hooking up with someone else for a rebound? It probably wouldn’t even be considered cheating.” Derpy saw she was getting to Lyra and pushed onward. “Hell, Maybe she’ll like this new person so much, she’ll actually break up with you when you try to clear things up with her. Wouldn’t that be an ironic twist?” Derpy said innocently. “It might even happen today-”
“ItwasnicetalkingtoyouDerpyIneedtofindBon-Bon.” Lyra said sloppily as she turned around and sprinted through the halls.
Derpy smirked happily as she watched Lyra run out of sight. “Derpy, you’ve done it again.” She turned on her feet and pulled out a container of bubbles, taking out the bubble wand and blowing into it to create a trail of bubbles as she walked. “Note to self: kill Bon-Bon at lunch.”
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And Elden Ring-
Looking at it closer, they did seem to change a few small things.
That would’ve been awesome.
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That his name? I don’t actually watch the Walking Dead.
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I love how it’s Twilight doing it too.
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Considering how in that episode Spingbob and Patrick make an insane amount of noise in the box, I imagine Screwball would do the exact same thing.
Oh hey you found it!... in much better quality then me!... and it’s not a Kazoo!? Dang it! Now I look like a liar.
Whatever, I’m keeping it a Kazoo. That’s funnier.
Why is DERPY of all characters suddenly the most concerning to watch?
Daaaawww that was nice of Derpy to get them back together......
Before she MURDERS her later.
You know?
I had the feeling Sunset Shimmer would punch Rainbow Dash one of these days (chapters, in this case). And she did it.
Now I fear Rainbow will loose Scootaloo if she can't fix up herself first. As for Applejack: Just like you turned your cheek for Sunset when she plead for innocense?
Note apart, Derpy Hooves for President.
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Pre-emptive last request.
No they make a Right Hook.
Sweet! A new chapter!
I've been wondering when Sunset finally punched Rainbow Dash for how she treated her during Anon-a-Miss. At least it was because Rainbow offered.
But something tells me that Dash letting Sunset punch her in the face was only a "start" of making things up with her.
Oh? By Sunset or someone else?
And I'm glad that Derpy talked some sense to Lyra about "breaking up" with Bon Bon just to hurt her. What Bon Bon did was wrong, yes, but what Lyra did to Bon Bon was way too far. I hope things worked out between the two of them.
I'm not sure if I find this scene of Derpy calmly blowing bubbles while being furious at Bon Bon adorable... or scary.
Anyway, great chapter!
Huh, I didn't think Sunset would be able to knock Rainbow down or back. Sure she's not Sci-Twi levels of weak but Sunset has always favored her brain over her fists. Kind of expected her to hurt her hand after that. It's still funny, though with the title including "Taste the Rainbow" was kind of expecting something else.
Is Derpy really going to kill Bon Bon? Cause I love seeing Lyra and Bon Bon together and I don't want Bon Bon to get killed by anyone but other then my question great story so far
To be honest, if I were Sunset, I would've taken Rainbow up on the chance to punch her, too. Element of Loyalty, my ass.
Sunset has a mean right hook
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I know for a 100% fact that there is a story buried somewhere on this site about Derpy being a villian. And I really want to read it.
The longer you write Derpy the more and more I like her~
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if Trixie hadn't stopped Sunset, Sunset might have done a number on Wallflower
Lyra gets back together with her girlfriend only for her to watch Derpy kill her. XD
One wrong doesn't make it right either Applejack no matter how angry she was. 😜
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Sunset might have gotten what she wanted with brain power and charisma doesn't mean she can't get physical.
After all as the famous quote says "speak softly and carry a big stick".
Interesting plan. Whether it will work or not remains to be seen. Or if it will have other consequences that Scootaloo has not foreseen.
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Plus turning the other cheek can only work so long before you run out of cheeks. Rainbow must have been really aggressive for sunset to agree with punching her.
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She wouldn't have been a very good bully if all she had were brains considering her campaign for the crown stunk. Mud slinging plus cheap photoshopping.
Loved that use of comic book sound effect for Sunset’s punch.
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All part of Derpy’s revenge.
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Rainbow's guard was relaxed. She probably didn't actually expect it to happen. Then again there's no real way of telling how strong Sunset actually is so...
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Never really cared about the "Two wrongs don't make a right" thing myself. If someone wrongs me I don't usually look to make a right.
Why does Rarity, the biggest rainboom, simply not eat the others?
All of Applejack's talk about turning the other cheek is driving the hypocrisy meter off the charts. I wonder if she lectured Rainbow Dash the same way when she hit Sunset.
I'm gonna guess no.
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Cause I made her vaguely threatening in this fic for some reason.
Cute and bubbly 90% of the time, threatening 10%.p of the time.
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Scoots may just snap after a while and disown Rainbow herself the declare Sunset is her sister instead, putting Sunset in a super awkward position.
Technically turning the other cheek means you’re not supposed to avenge a slight against you, probably cause you’re just perpetuating the violence (and the Jews at the time might’ve been criticizing the Babylon)
Though the full passage also states to love your enemies, and I’m like pretty sure there’s something about mercy and trusting your friends somewhere in the Bible.
Better then all the candidates we have these days...
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I wish there was a way to save comments on Fimfiction.
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It’s a good start, that was probably one of the main points of contention Sunset would have.
Be no fun if I revealed it now, would it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgk-lA12FBk
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Wouldn’t be surprised if she worked out a bit, but not lot to be especially strong.
Plus Rainbow had her guard down, Sunsets fist was like right there, and she probably punched as hard as she could.
She probably did, but she did run off immediately so we never got to see it.
I could have skittles spill out of Rainbows bag if you want.
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Oh yeah, I’m going full dark and having Derpy murder Bon-Bon in cold blood in front of everybody. We’re switching to horror suckers!
Maybe as some April fools thing but there’s no plans of killing Bon-Bon... yet.
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Pretty good for a girl who got hands 2 years ago.
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We need to find it.
Wth would an evil Derpy look like?
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You like intimidating Derpy? I’m glad, cause that’s like all improvised.
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Wouldn’t that be quite the twist.
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If by charisma you mean intimidation then yes.
Also, love your pfp by the way.
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That’s how you know it was a really loud and strong punch.
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Thank you kind sir/madam.
Until I write the inevitable Anon story that’s a prequel to this. That’ll be more straightforward.
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Friends reference?
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Something to find out in the inevitable Anon prequel story.
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A dark twist.
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Hey as long as you don't delete the story that comment isn't going away.
I love that Sunset cares enough that despite being angry she starts to accept that she’s gonna do it or help somehow when Dash’s future might be dashed.
That’s legit me when my family offers a free hit
Gaslighting is the technical term I believe!
Derpy is lowkey kinda scary in this story
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Nah, I'm pretty sure gaslighting is different. To my understanding, the consensus is that gaslighting is lying to your partner in order to get them to question their own understanding of events in order to get them to rely on yours.
To use the origin of the term, your partner has just finished making dinner, and they used a gas stove. Gas stoves have a light that is flipped on when gas is running, as it could potentially be toxic hazard if allowed to run through the night or a fire hazard if ignited, and the light is generally enough to grab attention. They turn the gas off, but later on you turn the gas back on and then either yell at them or "gently remind them" that they left the gas on. Evetnually it builds up to bigger things, but that seems to be the gist.
What Lyra did was petty and hurtful, and many would call generally manipulative/abusive, but it isn't gaslighting, to my knowledge anyway.
but......wh....bu......
NO HESITATION!!!!?
🙂🙂🙂😐😐😐😐😐😶😶😶
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Derpy can be so sweet, but so manipulative!
The cutest are always the most dangerous.