Twilight lowered her head and drew her arms into herself, trying to be as inconspicuous as humanly possible. This however meant she wasn’t looking forward, inevitably running into someone. “Watch it Dorkle!” The student rudely said, shoving her into the lockers.
“S-sorry.” Twilight fixed her glasses, the student having already left. ‘Not to self: look forward when you’re walking but make sure to avoid eye contact. They interpret eye contact as a challenge.’
She rubbed her arm and continued onward, ignoring the three paper balls thrown at her along the way and cleaning off the spitball launched at her. She finally made it to her locker.
SLUTLIGHT
ONE BOOK WHORE
COCK SUCKER
LOOSE CUNT
‘STUDY’ BUDDY
Twilight winced, looking away as she discreetly wiped her eyes of the tears welling in them, and began cleaning. She kept telling herself she shouldn’t care, they were just… teasing her, yeah that’s it. Friends teased each other all the time, they didn’t really mean it.
She stopped cleaning and looked at her locker. You could still clearly see the writing on it, though thankfully it was faded. It wasn’t enough but it’d have to do, she couldn’t be late for the first period.
Twilight opened the door and began grabbing her supplies. She closed her door and was immediately met with a hand crashing down on her supplies, scattering them everywhere. “Watch where you’re going, Slutlight!”
“S-sorry!” Twilight apologized, scrambling to get her stuff, wincing as another student stepped on her hand carelessly. She managed to gather all her supplies, just in time for the late bell to ring. “I’m late!”
She jumped up and ran through the halls, students yelling obscenities and insults at her as she nearly ran into them. She stopped at the door for her first period and frantically knocked on it.
A few seconds later, the teacher opened it and let Twilight in. “You’re late.”
“I know! I’m so sorry Mr. Finch, some guy was playing a joke on me by slapping my supplies-”
“I’m not interested in your excuses Ms. Sparkle.”
“But I-!”
“I’m giving you detention for after school.” They said unsympathetically, grabbing her and forcing her in front of the class. “Let this be a lesson to all of you. You can’t succeed in life if you aren’t punctual or reliable, Twilight here is neither. She seems to believe brains is all it takes to succeed, she is wrong.” He let go of Twilight. “Go to your seat.”
Twilight blushed furiously as the entire class laughed and whispered about her at her expense, shamefully walking to her desk.
She opened it only to find a very crude and vulgar drawing of her performing various… intimate actions with anonymous figures. She heard some snickering behind her, followed by the familiar sound of a high five.
Twilight ignored it and ripped the paper up. She closed her desk and looked up, briefly crossing gazes with a boy of about sixteen years old with blue skin, white and light blue wavy hair, and orange eyes. She smiled and gave him a small wave.
He merely frowned at her and looked away, causing Twilight's smile to disappear and look visibly hurt. She put her feelings to the side and focused on the lesson, the other students thankfully more focused on that then messing with her.
Twilight got up from her seat, packing up her supplies while the rest of the class did the same.
“Will Twilight Sparkle report to the principal's office?” Cadence's voice called over the intercom.
“Oooooooooooo!” The entire class said in unison, looking at her.
Twilight wilted under their looks, noticing half of them were whispering among themselves. Twilight looked down and shuffled out of the room, trying to make sure she didn’t run into anyone this time
She thankfully made it to Principal Cinches office without incident, opening the door and poking her head in. “Uh, Principal Cinch? You called for me?” It was always hard to see in here, Principal Cinch only had two lights hanging from the ceiling and they only illuminated a small area, far too small to reach the rest of the giant office. Was she trying to be mysterious or intimidating?
“Ah, Twilight.” Principal Cinch swiveled around in her chair to face Twilight, folding her hands on her desk. “Please, come in.”
Twilight hesitated for a brief second before complying, closing the door behind her. She nervously made her way to the desk and sat down, her eyes darting around. “A-am I in trouble?”
“Of course not Twilight, you’re one of our most well behaved students. Though I do hear it’s hard for you to make it to your first period class on time.”
Twilight cringed. “Uh, yes, I-I’m sorry. I’ll do better, I promise.”
“I’m sure you will, but that’s not why you are here.” Principal Cinch grabbed some papers and looked them over, adjusting her glasses. “I’m sure you’ll be glad to hear that we know who was responsible for making the vicious rumors that you had an intimate encounter with a boy.”
“You do?” Twilight perked up, looking excited for the first time today. “Who is it? Are you going to expel them? W-why did they do this to me?”
“I’m afraid Twilight that I can not expel them.” Principal Cinch lowered the paper and folded her hands together. “For you see, they are not a student here at Crystal Prep. They are a student at Canterlot High School.”
“Canterlot High?” The Same School She was currently investigating? “But… why? I haven’t done anything to anyone over there.”
“It seems that a certain Sunset Shimmer is responsible for spreading these nasty rumors about you.” Principal Cinch explained.
“Sunset Shimmer?” Twilight's eyes expanded. “The red headed girl with the foul attitude who wears a leather jacket?”
“Ah, So it seems you know her.”
“Well, I guess? She’s at most of the academic competitions I go to.” Twilight's brows furrowed together and her frown deepened. “She’s smart too, I always seem to get second place whenever she competes.”
“But not in science.” Principal Cinch added. “You see, this… girl has recently been revealed as a delinquent. She used to rule her school with fear, blackmailing and ruining anyone who stood in her way. From what I hear, she isn’t above cheating to achieve her goals. In fact, at one of the school's formal events, she caused the girl competing against her to have a wardrobe malfunction in front of the entire school, leaving her as the winner by default.”
“That’s horrible!” Twilight couldn’t imagine how awful that girl must’ve felt being stripped in front of hundreds of students, and all for some stupid competition for Sunset to stroke her ego? “But why would she go after me? She always won her competitions and I don’t go to CHS.”
“Think Twilight, it’s the only thing you’re good for.” Principal Cinch admonished. “What always happened in the scientific competitions when you were competing against Sunset?”
“Uh…” Twilight took a moment to think. “I always won. I always got first place while she got second.” Twilight's eyes widened. “She… she spread rumors about me cause she didn’t get first place?”
“Like I said before Twilight, this delinquent ruined anyone who stood against her. Why would you be any different?” Principal Cinch huffed. “From my understanding, she got tired of constantly losing to you at science and retaliated against you by starting those rumors among your peers.”
“But… she seemed nicer the last few times we were in a competition together. I heard some of the other students from CHS say she changed.”
“Nicer? Changed?” Principal Cinch laughed. “Twilight, don’t be naive. People like Sunset Shimmer never change. Why, just last month she started an account on MyStable that posted secrets and slander about everyone at CHS, including some of the faculty. She tore friendships apart, humiliated her fellow students, and, worst of all, framed it on three innocent middle schoolers.”
Twilight gasped. “She didn’t!”
“She did.” Principal Cinch nodded. “Those three girls are being punished in her stead and dealing with the brunt of the school’s hatred. All this was because some... transfer student had challenged her and disrupted her control over the school.”
Twilight's eyes welled with tears. She hadn’t done anything to Sunset or CHS, yet… yet she spread those rumors that she was… that she was a slut to her school. It was… it was no business of hers! “What are you going to do about her?” Twilight jumped up. “She can’t… she ruined my life. She can’t get away with that!”
“I’m afraid there’s nothing I can do, Twilight.” Principal said with mock sympathy. “She’s out of my jurisdiction.”
“You have to! Call up her principal, tell her what you told me! Have those poor girls exonerated! Clear these rumors of me! Get her… get her expelled! She’s a horrible person! She can’t just… call the school board! Do something! She…” Twilight collapsed to her seat, sniffling as she wiped her eyes. “I didn’t do anything to her…”
“Enough.” Principal Cinch rolled her eyes at Twilight's crying. “Tears will get you nowhere in life, they show you’re weak to your rivals.” Twilight nodded and wiped her eyes one last time. “I think it’s high time you considered joining the Friendship Games.”
“Friendship Games?” Twilight sniffled, looking up. “Why is-”
“Sunset Shimmer will be competing.” Principal Cinch interrupted. “She is, by far, the best student at CHS and the biggest obstacle we will face in the upcoming games. Especially if she cheats.”
“You… you want me to compete and stop her?”
“It only makes sense for our best student to go head to head with Canterlot High's best student.”
“But… but if I help the school win, Sunset Shimmer-”
“Won’t be able to do anything.” Principal Cinch smiled maliciously. “You see, I have no doubt she will try to cheat during the games and that her school is tired of living under her tyranny. They hate her more than they hate losing to us and we can use that to our advantage.” Principal Cinch got up and walked over to Twilight. “If you catch her cheating, probably with the other students help, then we can get CHS disqualified and Sunset will be expelled for cheating at an inter school competition. Her principals will have no choice but to expel her to save face with the school board.”
“Why didn’t they expel her before? It sounds like she was already exposed?”
“The Friendship Games and other competitions of course.” Principal Cinch answered. “She’s smart and formidable, they need her to win prestige for the school, even at the expense of their own students.”
That… did make sense. It was awful that these principals would be so selfish as to let their students suffer all for some dumb trophies, they were nothing like Principal Cinch. “I’ll… I’ll do it.” Twilight jumped up, meeting Principal Cinches look. “She can’t be allowed to hurt anyone else or cheat at the games. She needs… she needs to pay for what she did to everyone, what she did to me. She’s… she’s an irredeemable bully and.. and I won’t let her hurt anyone else.”
“Is that so?” Principal Cinch turned away, trying to act coy, but in reality she was hiding the huge grin on her face. “Very well. I’ll have Cadence bring you the admission papers later. For now, you should make a plan on how you will deal with this… obstacle and prepare for the games.”
“I will Principal Cinch.” Twilight nodded. “I won’t let you down, I’ll win the games and stop Sunset Shimmer. I promise.”
“Very good.” Principal Cinch made her way back to seat, “Now, get back to class.”
Twilight nodded and ran out the room, closing the door behind her. Principal Cinch waited a moment to make sure she was alone before pulling out a piece of paper titled ‘Friendship Games game plan’.
She crossed out the first item on the list titled ‘Recruit Twilight Sparkle and turn her against Sunset Shimmer’. “Perfect.” She said to herself, hiding the list in her desk, smiling gleefully.
Nice to see you active pretty often and I've been keeping up with your recent updates in this fic.
Quick question, what does Cinch has got against Sunset to begin with?
Very nice chapter.
Well, well, well...an interesting new wrinkle.
i hope you make Cinch die in an ‘Accident’ i hate that B*tch, like being torn apart falling into one of the portals or by falling rubble.
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I don't think that Cinch has a personal problem with Sunset.
I just believe that with Sunset being part of the CHS team in the Friendship games & with her being the smartest & most competitive in these kind of things,she is becoming quite hard to compete against.
And with Cinch wanting to prove that her school is "better" that CH, she can't have Sunset be around there.
Leave it to Cinch to try and be the worst kind of person alive.
Also, jesus, someone really doesn't like Twilight.
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Considering sunset is still trying to recover from the Anon-a-Miss incident this stunt could possibly get her trouble. Ignoring rape and falsely accusing another student at another school is not allowed. Schools can get in trouble for Ignoring rape. Plus damaging another student frail mental health for the sake of a game which isn't going to matter in the real world is definitely not allowed. If the slightest bit of harm comes to sunset because of this she will be in major trouble.
11366058 By someone, do you mean the author?
Yeah, we're going with 'Twilight wasn't simply ignored, as in canon, she was abused and assaulted on a daily basis at Crystal Prep, with the passive co-operation of the teachers', despite the fact that her babysitter is a senior figure there, and Cinch herself would want to protect her best student for purely selfish and practical reasons. I've read the authors note explaining why they went this route, and it still doesn't make sense.
Having her simply be ignored and rebuffed from the cliques un;ess they want to use her brains would be a far more realistic repesentation of how this would work. Physical abuse that leaves evidence would almost certainly be clamped down on, if only to protect the school's reputation.
Why not go the whole hog, and have the Shadowbolts lock her in her lcker with a hundred kilos of used tampons? For those who don't know I refereencing the web serial 'Worm', where the main character goes through a year and a half of similar abuse, for ridiculously contrived reasons,ending with the locker. Of course, in this universe, someone having the worst day of their life can end up triggering with superpowers, so there was a good chance that doing this would cause her to go 'Carrie' on the whole school. But common sense goes out of the window in Worm, and if a character has two choices they will automatically go for the one that causes the most drama, suffering and general badness.
But then the original Anon-a-miss story was equally contrived and full of plot holes.
Back to this story, up and till now I have been really enjoying it, with a realistic take on how Anon-a-miss would affect the EQG storyline going forward. However, this chapter is just weak. The way Cinch gets Twilight into the Friendship Games and turns her into an antagonist is actually pretty clever, if infuriating, and had it stuck to that I would have been applauding, but the whole Twi-abuse set-up leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
I don't know if the author has some personal hatred of Sci-Twi on top of needing some extra drama and suffering to make her more sympathetic, but it was pointless, un-needed and detracts from what is otherwise a pretty good story.
TL:DR: Good story, but this chapter has major problems.
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To which I agree.
I never watched the Friendship games or read any kind of fanfic specifically on it, but I do wish in this one that there is a scandal or some kind of leak for some scandal for Cinch so she can loose her career and school.
Interesting...
Didn't expect to see Sci-Twi in this story and I'm rather... torn about this chapter.
I feel sorry for poor Twilight as she was constantly bullied by her peers (as well as some Teachers too) and she was once again manipulated by Cinch to get her to do what she wants to complete against CHS at the Friendship Games just for the sake of their "reputation". I really hope Cinch, as well as everyone else at Crystal Prep, get comeuppance for the way they treated Twilight!
However... I'm not sure having Cinch falsely accusing Sunset for what she had done isn't going to fly well. She could get herself in big trouble for lying about the things Sunset has done, even as a authority figure. And while I felt sorry for Twilight being abused, shouldn't Cinch wanting to protect Twilight as her "trump card" for the games, not allowing other students to physically abuse her?
But my biggest problem in this chapter is Cadance. How has she not heard of any rumors about Twilight and know about Twilight being bullied? I'm sure Cadance, who is a Dean of the school and once her babysitter, will be all over their asses (especially Teachers) as soon as she heard Twilight being physically abused every day.
Maybe you have an explanation as to why Cadance never heard any rumors or Twilight being abused in a future story, but those are the things that bothered me.
Either way, I'm now worried for the upcoming Friendship Games with Twilight being horribly manipulated by Cinch, Sunset getting in trouble because of Cinch's lie (which is the last thing she needed after Anon), and how things are going to go during the games. I guess we'll have to wait for the sequel whenever that comes out.
Anyway, sorry for some criticism. I still enjoy the chapter. I'm just adding my own two cents.
Looking forward to the next chapter!
Great Fic I already hated Cinch and this fic is making me hate her more and her blaming Sunset when it was The CMC's for Anon A Miss that is a low blow but great fic
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Nothing, she’s just the smartest and most competitive girl at CHS and thus a pretty big threat to winning the games.
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I don’t plan on killing anyone in my stories in the future, but we’ll see.
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More like everyone doesn’t like Twilight.
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That’s exactly what happened.
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Twi was never raped, I will not go that far and Twi would never keep quiet about it.
And tach ically, half of what Cinch accused wasn’t false and everyone thought Sunset was behind Anon, so she can claim ignorance.
Everything else I agree with.
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Well twilight is still a minor so her being able to have sex legally is unlikely and that would still count as rape. And cinch knows about the cmcs and what they did because she mentioned they got in trouble for it. And she can't plead ignore that fact.
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Not much for her to do if Twi doesn’t report anything and she hasn’t implemented a policy of actively looking out for bullies. She may not even know that Twi is being physically bullied because she genuinely doesn’t care unless it’s brought to her directly and is clear Teilight has an issue and may be looking for other alternatives for schooling.
She is taking action against the other forms of bullying, mostly relating to the rumors and subsequent fallout of that, because Twi did report that and it was clearly messing with her. Of course Cinch didn’t do anything about it and framed Sunset (potentially) for it, keeping Twilight from looking for other alternatives and guaranteeing Twilight will join the games and take Sunset down.
She has, but there isn’t a lot you can do to stop rumors from spreading and disprove their authenticity. You can get students in trouble if they talk about the rumors in school, but they can easily do it out of school. Rumors are a vicious cancer that’s near impossible to get rid of, especially among elitist teenagers who already dislike the smart loner kid.
As for the physical bullying, Twilight never reports that, probably because she’s been burned by authority figures before, or her tattling led to bigger retaliation, or maybe she just doesn’t like to rock the boat and keep her head done. So if Twilight doesn’t report anything, there’s nothing she can do. She can’t punish anyone unless she sees them or Twilight reports them, at best she may catch one on camera while looking over footage for whatever reason.
Cadence does everything she can to help Twi, but the rumors are impossible to get rid of by this point and if Twilights not reporting any other bullying there isn’t much she can do to help her. Most of the bullying seems to happen away from the prying eyes of teachers, who would (in theory) be obligated to do something about it.
There’ll probably be a lot more animosity between Twilight and Sunset, and Sunset will have to wonder if she really did spread rumors about Twi.
nah dude, criticisms totally fine if it’s constructive and not overly mean, you’re entitled to criticism.
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You know teenagers have sex all the time right? It’d be statutory rape if she was still a minor and had sex with someone a lot older then her, but teenagers are allowed to have sex with each other (just try and stop them) and the Romeo and Juliet laws allow teenage couples to not get in trouble if one of thems an adult now and about 3 years older from the younger couple.
Technically all she said was ‘Sunset framed the CMCs’, it’s not her school, she can easily claim that she didn’t know or had reason to suspect a delinquent framed another student for her crime.
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And considering another school discipline decisions aren't much of her business in the first place and there is no record of sunset getting in trouble from the fall formal onward and there was never anything that proved sunset did it. She could be held accountable because she was the one that imply that sunset did it. Plus not every place has Romeo and Juliet laws and it doesn't matter to law if they agree as long as one person was legally underage they will punish everyone involved. You think they let people off when they lie about their age to have sex nope they go after them with everything they have and try to ruin their lives for it. Makes no difference to them as long you can held legally accountable it doesn't matter if technically it wasn't rape because they get points for each case they bring. More points more important you can be.
You really are on a roll with this story as of recent, keep up the good work. :)
Well, this chapter was indeed new, fresh, unexpected and dark. Really.
Not only Twilight/Sci-Twi life at Crystal Preparatory sucks in this version, but she's being bullied for something she'd never commited. Worse of all, it's a very elaborated lie from Principal Abacus Cinch and the young scientist believe her words.
I was looking to release my anger towards Rainbow Dash but now it have been redirected to that bitch and the Crystal freaks. I hope when human Twilight finds out the truth, she gathers enough magic to beat the crap out of Cinch as well the Shadowbolts.
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True, like holy hell.
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Wasn't referring to the author, but now that I think about it, the story in general has been incredibly great, but this chapter was kinda weak. It does have problems, but hopefully it'll be able to iron out these problems later on.
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Oh good. I was worried if I offended you.
For the record, I still enjoy your chapter. I only offer criticism to help out the story I liked. And you did a good job addressing my concerns.
I have faith whatever you come up for the Friendship Games sequel will be a good one.
Keep up the good work!
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Barring human Sunset having done something, the simple fact that Sunset, as gifted as she is, goes to CHS and not CP is enough.
Sunset's existence threatens CP's dominance. Chinch wouldn't be going to such lengths to get Twi otherwise.
As for the rumors, the timing seems off for it to be Sunset. It's possible it was one of the last thing she did before taking a rainbow to the face, but it doesn't seem to fit. Either someone at CP, or Chinch herself in a bid to get more control, as she used it here.
Well here hoping for Midnight getting revenge on her bullies, sure dangling over a rip with a volcano and dropping them before stopping them from enter the lava a few times will have them soaking their pants and panties with their waste be a start.
Ooooohh man I like this Cinch. Her plan is so much more clever than what she did in the movie! It makes her even more hateable and a more serious feeling threat.
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