After following Sunset Shimmer through the portal and becoming stuck in the human world, Princess Celestia struggles to adapt while blocking Sunset's ambitions with her own popularity. - A continuation of the original Cheer Princess by MythrilMoth
Alright, full disclaimer: THIS IS NOT MY WORK
The original story was written by MythrilMoth, who died back in 2019. He was well-loved by the user of FiMfiction and was regarded as one of the best writers on this website.
When I first found the original Cheer Princess story, I immediately fell in love with it. It broke my heart to see that MythrilMoth died and that the story would never continue.
Since nobody can get a hold of Zef, the best friend of MythrilMoth, nobody has gotten to finishing any of Mythril's stories. While I would have contacted Zef and asked if I can finish the work, he hasn't logged on in close to a year, and I don't know if he will come back. To that end, I will finish the story.
Now, this is not a re-write or a plagiarism story, it is a direct continuation of the story Mythril wrote. To give credit where credit is due, you would have to go to the original story, which I have linked, to read the start of the story and make sense of this one. I only hope that this story is accepted as a tribute to Mythril and his works. rather than be seen as plagiarism on one of this site's most known users.
In memory of MythrilMoth, the best writer this website could ask for.
She didn't think. She just jumped through the portal.
Then it closed behind her.
Stuck in the body of a human teenager, Princess Celestia finds herself trapped in the same world as her bitter student. Even as she and Sunset Shimmer both work to adapt to their new environment and bodies, Celestia is faced with an additional challenge: Sunset Shimmer is attempting to become the queen of Canterlot High, and the only way Celestia can fight back is...
...by becoming more popular.
(Original work by MythrilMoth, read the original chapters as I will not be putting them here)
In the three months of summer, Tia realized that she was never actually given a tour of the new school she would be going to, opting instead to stay with the Celestia and Luna of this world. Thus, when orientation began, and the freshmen all shuffled inside, with the youth and innocence of a child who hasn't seen the true world yet, Tia had no idea where the auditorium was.
Luckily, she had some friends to help her.
"Oh, Tia! Not that way, we're supposed to be heading to the auditorium." Rarity called out to her, pulling her back from the line of Sophomores and Seniors heading to the other side of the school.
She gave Rarity a puzzled look, "But then, where are they going?" She pointed over her shoulder, as they followed the stream of freshmen to the auditorium.
"To their homerooms, darling," Rarity said, cutting a swath of space for her and Tia through the teenagers, "We have orientation, so we have to meet the Principal and the Vice-Principal at the auditorium." She eyed Tia with a questioning look, "Did you not have an orientation in your prep school?"
She shook her head, "We were just given schedules and told to report to the first class there. Orientation came at the end of the day, where the Headmistress gave us a congratulatory speech."
As she and Rarity kept talking, they followed the stream of teens, until they passed through two large oak doors, and into the newly-built auditorium. Tia remembered how Celestia gushed that the school district finally gave them enough funding to build the place, and how they didn't have to keep on using the old Horseshoe Amphitheater anymore. They filed in one-by-one, eventually taking a seat right next to two of Tia's friends, Lyra and Bon-Bon. As the three of them kept talking about Cheesetopia or the other, Tia swore she saw a flash of red and orange hair pass the other side of the auditorium, right next to some pink-haired girl. Before she could dwell on the issue, a large blare from a megaphone silenced the room. On stage, they saw Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna walk up the stairs, Celestia being handed a microphone by one of the teachers present.
"Hello there, Freshmen," She called out, "and welcome to your first year in Canterlot High."
"My name is Celestia, and I will be your Principal for the years ahead." She began to walk back and forth on the stage.
"Here, at Canterlot High, we strive to make your learning experience a fun and enjoyable time here. I certainly hope that you all will respect that, right?" A chorus of agreement rang from the Freshman group.
"Good." She walked right next to Luna. "While I am your principal, I mainly oversee the Juniors and Seniors in their activities. To that end, my sister, Vice-Principal Luna will be overseeing you primarily during Freshmen and Sophmore year." She handed over a clipboard, and the microphone, to Luna.
"Hello there." She began, "I am Vice-Principal Luna, the sister to Principal Celestia. Here at CHS, we hope you will learn to grow into mature adults, and we are here to help you in that regard." She began motioning to the teacher present. "Now, before we begin anything, we must get you set up with your classes. When I call the letters in your last name, please come up to your respective teacher and get your orientation packet."
First, "Last names A-E, please come up to Mrs. Cheerelie and get your packets," Rarity and Bon-Bon both stood up.
Next, "F-L, report to Doctor Turner," Tia 'Lightbringer' stood, and made her way to the Physics Teacher.
"Name?"
She nodded, "Tia Lightbringer."
He looked up, puzzled, before acknowledging her hairstyle, "Oh, you must be the Principal's cousin, correct?" Tia felt the eyes of several people snap towards her, as is natural when seeing a person in a position of power.
She grimaced, before bringing her eyes back to Doctor Turner, and smiling, "Yes, I am Tia."
He chuckled, "I can see the resemblance between you two, especially the hair, very nice touch." He shuffled some papers around, before finding a packet with her name, picture, and class sheet clipped on it and handing it to her. "It seems you have me for the first period. I hope you enjoy your experience here, Tia." They both smiled at each other, before walking back to her seat. It seems news got around about the Principal's cousin, since every step of the way she got looks of curiosity and whispers with her name in them behind her back. She eventually made her way to her row and slumped into her chair.
"Why, darling, you look exhausted!" Rarity called out to her, ending her conversation with Bon-Bon, "Whatever happened to you?"
"Turns out word got around about me being the Principal's cousin," she half-smiled, "Now everyone looked at me like I was a princess or something." *Or something indeed*
"Well, I do hope you can work with it," Lyra said, coming back with her schedule, "Word around the room is that there's some all-powerful girl with connections to the Principals, as well as being friends to the most popular girl in the grade," She motioned to Rarity, "and it seems I'm staring right at her."
"Are you going to treat me like some goddess now, or try and use me for favors?" Tia raised an eyebrow.
"Oh, nothing of the sort, darling," Lyra said, "We'd just like you to know that when we became friends, we weren't going to use you like that."
"Oh, thank god," Tia said, whipping some imaginary sweat off her brow, "Glad we got that cleared up."
"That's not all I heard," Lyra said, taking a seat right next to Bon-Bon, "Turns out we have another newbie in the school."
"Oh, really? It wouldn't happen to be Sunset Shimmer, would it?" Rarity said while Tia grimaced at the use of the name.
"That's the one," Lyra said. "Turns out she has amnesia, so her parents set her up with Fluttershy as friends, and now she's also acquainted with Rainbow Dash, of all people." Tia detected a hint of disdain in the name.
"Who's Rainbow Dash?" Tia asked with a puzzled expression.
"Your all-around jock, basically," Bon-Bon rolled her eyes. "She was Captain of all of the middle school sports teams, and she's a shoo-in for the varsity soccer team."
"I don't understand, what's so special about Rarity and Fluttershy, then?" Tia asked. The concept of high school popularity went over her head generally.
Lyra sighed, "Not to toot your own horn Rares, but Rarity here is what you'd call the Queen, basically." She ran a hand down her face, "She's one of the most popular girls here and has connections to high-class places thanks to her parents."
Rarity shook her head, "And Fluttershy has the most...luscious body, should we say." Rarity said with a small hint of jealousy, "She has the largest... 'assets' in the school, and every boy here has dreamed of asking her out at least once."
Tia tilted her head, "Assets?' She reiterated.
"You know," Rarity said, a small blush creeping on her face, "A girls...well, to put it bluntly, her tits and ass."
Tia blinked at that, the words registering in her head. "So, it's like a power vacuum, basically?' Tia said, with a small hand wave, "Because of association, Sunset and I are now the new popular girls or something?"
"Yeah, basically." Lyra said with some distaste, "That's what we meant when we said we'd probably lose you to the popular girls this year."
"Well, any friend of Tia's is a friend of mine." Rarity said with a small smile, "How would you girls like to try and join Tia on that podium of popular girls, then?"
"Aw hell yes!" Lyra shouted, before being reprimanded by the teachers still handing out the class schedules. "Sorry," she said meekly.
"Wait," Tia said, remembering her conversation with Lyra and Bon-Bon in Sugarcube Corner, "Didn't you say there was another popular girl beside Rarity and Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie wasn't it."
She was given a look of horror by the three of them, "What? Was it something I sa-"
Sure, the school looked a bit larger than the buildings in Canterlot and was certainly bigger than some Town Halls she's visited alongside Princess Celestia in the past, but growing up in a literal castle, as well as being a student at the most proficient school in Equestria meant she already saw the largest buildings in the country, so this was fairly unimpressive to her.
Though she must admit, the interior looked a lot blander. Since unicorns can just magically hold their books, there was no need for lockers and more space for interior decorations. In CSGU, there were potted plants and nice little decorations on the walls, alongside lavish murals and nice trinkets from the castle, while here there were just...lockers. There were some motivational posters here or there, and a bit of school pride decoration, but other than that it was bland rows of lockers. *My magic kindergarten had more decor.*
Fluttershy, Rainbow Dash, and her were some of the last people to enter the building since they were one of the last people to be dropped off at school. As they followed the stream of adolescent teenagers, the three of them kept gushing about the year they had ahead. In the waning hours of summer, she had learned a lot about the pecking order of the grade, so she had some inputs about the popular kids in the school. The beauty of Rarity, the charm of Flash...
The mystique around Tia.
It seems, fortunate for Tia's case, being friends with the most connected girl in the grade, as well as the supposed cousin of the principals themselves earns quite a reputation in the grade. From what she can hear in the teenagers ahead of them, there were already rumors about this supposed 'mystery' girl in the grade who moved from overseas. *If by overseas you mean across dimensions.*
Of course, that wasn't the only rumors running circles around the halls, as it seemed her own up-and-coming story has gained some traction. An amnesiac, who somehow became friends with one of the hottest girls in the grade, as well as the team captain herself? Fate decided to give her a good hand once in her life it seemed.
The three of them passed through a large set of double oak doors, into a newly furnished auditorium. The place looked like it came out of an Art Deco magazine, with smooth lampshades, and clear-cut patterns across the walls that acted as placeholders for smooth, white lamps. The chairs were much smoother and plush than the chairs in the classrooms, though they weren't as soft as the ones in Canterlot Castle. They almost reminded Sunset of ergonomic chairs that she's seen in the administrative buildings. As they made their way down into the third section, Sunset saw a flash of white and rainbow hair in her peripheral vision. She looked back just in time to see Tia and Rarity, and for a minute the two of them made eye contact before she was dragged away by Rainbow Dash into the row.
Sunset and Rainbow didn't care much for the speech. It was a standard introduction speech for newcomers, and she and Rainbow have already heard it moving from the lower schools into the higher ones. As Principal Celestia began, the two of them just kept talking about the other cliques in the school. *If I'm going to live here for the next two years, I may as well get acquainted with all of the people here.*
"...And behind us is Micro Chips and his friends," Rainbow said, throwing a thumb over her shoulder and pointing to three boys, all reading the Physics textbook, "They're basically the nerds, though they prefer the term 'Youth Researchers'. "
"So, basically nerds who excel in English class?" Sunset joked, poking her head out again to see Micro Chips still reading the textbook, though he seemed to notice her and gave her a sideways glance.
"Yeah, basically." Then, as Rainbow pointed to another group, they saw that students began standing up and making their way to the front of the auditorium. "Hey Shy," Rainbow said, poking her pink-haired friend in the shoulder, "What's going on?"
"O-Oh," Fluttershy stuttered, "They're calling up kids now for their schedules. They just called kids with the last name A-E."
"Oh, that's me!" Rainbow called out, before jumping over Fluttershy's legs and sprinting down the staircase. When they heard Rainbow yelp when she ran into another student, Fluttershy and Sunset giggled.
"So, I don't suppose you know anyone else in the grade, do you?" Sunset asked, leaning towards Fluttershy.
"I mean, no, not really, why?" Fluttershy tilted her head. With Rainbow Dash being called up, the two of them could converse more clearly now.
"Well, I want to try and make friends with everyone before they search up who I am," Sunset admitted, "Easier to explain it to a friend instead of to a stranger."
"Oh, that's understandable." Fluttershy said, peering over to look at the rest of the auditorium, "Unfortunately, I don't usually hang out with other people, it's always been just me and Rainbow together."
"Well then," Sunset said, "Let's try and fix that this year. You need new friends, I need new friends, it's a win-win!"
"Well, I guess I can't argue with tha-"
"Now calling up last names M-S!" Vice-Principal Luna called, cutting off Fluttershy. The both of them shrugged, before going up and getting their schedules. The both of them made their way to Miss Cheerilee.
"Sunset Shimmer, I presume?" Miss Cheerilee said, raising an eyebrow.
"Um, yeah, that's me," Sunset said, a bit unnerved by the tone of the teacher.
"Yeah, I heard about you. An amnesiac, correct?" Cheerilee said, writing something on a paper, before handing Sunset her packet.
"Yep. that's about it." Sunset replied.
"Look, the school system over at Fillydephia gave us your transcript. I understand you may have lost your memory, but if you pull any of that stuff you did in the past, I will not hesitate to reprimand you." Cheerilee said with some disdain.
"Oh! Are you suggesting that I may try and go back to my delinquent ways?" Sunset said in a mock shocked voice.
"Just...don't pull any of that stuff you did and we'll have no quarrels here, understand?"
"Crystal, ma'am."
"Alright, will Fluttershy Rose come to the table now?" Miss Cheerilee said, waving off Sunset and calling Fluttershy to the table.
As Sunset made her way to her row, she saw Rainbow Dash with a look of annoyance on her face, "What's the matter, Rainbow?" She asked.
"It's my mom," Rainbow grumbled, handing her schedule to Sunset, "She signed me up for a bunch of high-level classes, like Chemistry II and Advancing Physics. She wants me to 'branch out more', and not stay at the bottom of the grade."
"Huh, take it you're not a fan of studying?' Sunset said, looking over Rainbows classes.
"Yeah. I plan on graduating out of here with a soccer or baseball scholarship, but if I flunk these classes, I may not get it."
"Well, it seems you and I have some of the same classes here," Sunset noticed, showing Rainbow her schedule, and finding all of the high-level classes lined up with hers. "I can help you study for them if you need."
"I appreciate the help Sunset," Rainbow Dash smiled.
When Fluttershy sat down with her schedule, the three of them compared classes to find they all had some classes together and began gossiping about the other students. Before they could continue their conversation, an explosion occurred on the other side of the auditorium.
*Fweet!*
A party horn sounded off on the other side, and the three of them, alongside the rest of the grade looked up to find Tia near the explosion site. She had a party hat on, with a small cake placed down in front of her. She and Rarity, as well as some of their friends, had confetti inside their hair. A bright banner was hung behind Tia, with the words 'Welcome to CHS!' written in a bright font. It also had Tia's cutie mark emblazoned on the ends of the banner.
Silence dominated the air surrounding the girls before Rarity spoke up.
"Pinkie Pie! That was uncalled for!"
"Sorry!" Pinkie Pie exclaimed, "I was just walking down the stairs when I saw the new girl and since it was a new girl I didn't know her and because I didn't know her I had to throw a welcome party so I went into the office found her file and began trying to find everything I needed about her then I went into the kitchen and spent a few minutes baking a cake while heading into the art room and making this HHUUGGEE banner then I finished took the cake set it all up only to realize that there was another newbie here and since I needed to throw a party for them I had to go all the way back into the office and find the new-new girls file to read it found what she liked and did everything AGAIN but while I was setting up the new-new girls party I tripped and set off the new girl's party by accident!" She smiled with a large toothy grin, somehow unfazed by that long rant she did, and yes, without a single breath or pause in between.
It took a while for everyone to process what Pinkie said, before Tia had a twinkle in her eyes, and spoke to Pinkie, "Miss Pinkie, it seems you forgot the celebration for the other new student!" She said in a mock voice.
"Oh yeah! I forgot!" Pinkie exclaimed, and before Sunset could do anything or call her out...
Pocketing her schedule inside her jacket, she made her way inside the classroom. It looked like she was the last student to enter the class, as all of the seats save for one near the front and the windows were taken.
"Ah, Miss Lightbringer, welcome to class!" The teacher exclaimed, clasping her hands behind her back. "Do you have an excuse as to why you were nearly late for class?"
Tia looked at her, shocked, she wasn't that late for class, was she?
Suddenly, the second bell rang, signaling that class was now in session. She glanced at the clock, then look at her teacher sheepishly.
"Sorry, my locker was on the other side of the school." That wasn't technically a lie. She and Rarity had spent about 10 minutes cleaning the confetti out of her hair after Pinkie's impromptu party. While the gesture was nice, Principal Celestia did not like how it was held on school grounds, during school time, so Pinkie had to shelve the large party she had planned for later (And it was large, Tia had seen Pinkie wheel away 3 separate party cannons from the auditorium). By the time they had gotten the last one out of her large (But admittedly beautiful) hair, it was 3 minutes to the bell. It was fine for Rarity, who had her German class the next hall down from the bathroom, but Tia had to run to the opposite end for her class.
The teacher tsked, "In any case, please take your seat, and pull out a pencil and a sheet of paper."
TIa did as she said, and took her seat. Right next to her was a boy, with blue, spiky hair, and one of those punk rocker jackets that Rarity told her about when they went shopping for school clothes one day. Right next to him, she saw that there was a guitar case on the floor.
Suddenly, the teacher rapped her knuckles on the desk. "Hello, my name is Miss Cheerilee," she introduced herself, "and welcome to English Literature I."
From then on, it was your standard intro speech to the class. Cheerilee spoke about Shakespeare, plays, operas, poems, old books from long-dead authors, and anything from the 16th Century that the stereotypical high schooler found 'boring', Tia included. When she was allowed to pick her classes for the upcoming year, she had chosen this class believing it would be about the history and books of human history and believed it to be beneficial to her adapting to this dimension. She was sorely mistaken.
Tia never bothered to listen to the intro speech, having given many of them from her teaching at Celestia's School for Gifted Unicorns (At least, until bureaucracy required her to forgo that in favor of running her nation). After Cheerilee gave her speech, she handed out a test for the class to do, to gauge their knowledge of the class material beforehand. Tia found it easy, remembering how the history and culture of this Equestria and her Equestria fit together almost to a T. Within 15 minutes, she had finished the sheet and turned it in for near-perfect marks (She thought it was 'Romero, Romero, where art for thou Romero', not Romeo).
"Alright class," Cheerilee announced, standing up from her desk, "It seems that all of you passed with solid marks." She then motioned to Tia, "And congratulations to Miss Lightbringer for having the highest grade in the class." While most of the class clapped as a gesture of goodwill, Tia heard a voice from the very back of the class.
"NERD!" Someone called out from the back. Tia recognized the voice, remembering it from when she went to Cheesetopia with Lyra and Bon-Bon. Scoot-eloo, was it?
"Hush now!" Cheerilee called out. "Now, without any further questions, please turn your notebooks to the first blank-"
BBBRRRIIIINNNNNGGGG
"Ah, it seems we have run our time already today," Cheerilee smiled, "I will see you all tomorrow. No homework for tonight!" As all of them packed up their bags to leave, Tia tripped on the desk leg and fell.
"AH!" She exclaimed, before being caught by some light orange hands. She picked herself up and spun around to meet the person who had caught her.
"Are you okay?" The boy asked. It seemed to have been the blue-haired boy she had sat next to in class.
"Um, yeah, I'm fine," She reassured him. She dusted herself off and picked up her bag. "Tia, Tia Lightbringer." She stuck her hand out.
The boy took her hand with stride, "Flash Sentry, ma'am. Nice to meet you."
Flash Sentry, huh? Tia thought to herself, Isn't that the name of one of the recruit guards for this year? Nice to see some faces I know for a change.
He rubbed his hand behind his back sheepishly, "So, you want to hang out at Suagrcube Corner after school?' He asked.
Tia giggled, "My my, so very forward Mr. Sentry. Do you plan on taking me home after that as well?" Crap, I think Rarity is rubbing off on me.
He stuck his hands out in defense, "No! No, not like that," He exclaimed, "I just wanted to meet some new people. First day and all of that."
Tia snickered, "Oh, I know the feeling. My cousin told me the same thing. Better to try and fail, than not try at all." She took some scrap paper from the paper bin and wrote her number on it. "Her, my number. I'll call you after school to meet with some of my friends, okay?"
He grinned, "You bet." He shot some finger guns at her, before running down the hall. Tia waved, then went the other way to her next class.
The next few hours passed by in a bit of a blur. In Home Ec, she had a sweet grandpa named Mr. Blush for a teacher, who always liked to talk about his granddaughter who went to the school herself. In Chemistry, she had a teacher named Mrs. Coral, who had a large affinity for diving and the ocean, even having her wetsuit and gear set on a mannequin set off to the side. Her last class for the morning was Gym, where she was met with a big surprise for the teacher.
Why in Faust's name is the teacher laughing at us sweating off from running? She huffed, having completed over 30 laps around the football field, as Disquord laughed at them from the finish line, while playing pranks on the kids who passed him. Airhorns, whoopie cushions, beanbags. She swore one time she even saw him load a water gun with chocolate milk and fired at the incoming students (She was on the other side of the field, so she was fine). Now I see where Disquord is in this world.
When she completed the introductory 40 laps without passing out (She was one of only 20, out of a class of 130 to not drop out early for the perfect grade), she grabbed her water bottle with Levi plastered on it (Principal Celestia opted to drinking liquor instead of dealing with the headache that would come from Luna introducing Tia to Attack on Titan) and headed into the gym room.
In Canterlot High, Gym students were allowed to be late to lunch by about 10 minutes because they had to wash off instead of entering the lunch room smelling like dirty rats. When she exited the changing room, she heard a familiar voice calling her from the other end of the hallway.
"Miss Lightbringer!" She spun around to find the school secretary, Raven Inkwell, calling for her. It was a pleasant surprise for Tia to find that her trusted assistant was her trusted assistant either way regardless of dimensions.
"Yes, Miss Inkwell?" She asked.
Inkwell stopped in front of her, and dug out of her jacket a envelope, with Principal Celestia's name on the front of it. She flipped it around, and borrowed Raven's letter opener to slice the top open.
Dear Tia,
Hello dear! How was your first day? I hope it wasn't to bad for your first time in a public school, Faust knows your mother stressed that to me when she asked me to take care of you. In any case, I am inviting you to my office for lunch. You are welcome to decline, I am only offering this to you should you decide you don't want to be overwhelmed in that room that we can legally call a cafeteria.
Your cousin, Principal Celestia
Tia smiled, than handed Raven her letter opener back before pocketing the letter. "Tell my cousin I accept, and that I will be around as soon as I head to my locker, is that okay?"
Raven smiled, "Of course darling. I have to make my way over to another student anyways on the other side of the school."
Tia cocked her head, "What for?"
Raven looked at her puzzled, "DId the letter not tell you that Principal Celestia would be inviting another student to join you two?"
Tia shook her head, "No, who else did she invite?"
Raven tapped her head for a moment, "The amnesiac, Sunset Shimmer I believe."
"Only 3 hours and I already hate it here, " Sunset grumbled, banging her head against her locker while Fluttershy was behind her.
It was the end of the first half of the school day, and she can't say she was impressed. French was easy enough to understand, as she had to study the Equestrian counterpart to converse with diplomats during official state visits in Canterlot, though she did note that the teacher seemed to be one of those french wanna-bees and not an actual french person, as evident by the only thing he knows about France was the flag color and copious amounts of breadsticks.
History was a bit harder, seeing as how the history of this world didn't line up perfectly with Equestrian versions (The best example is that the Wendigos are actually just some weird political group that once tried to take over the world before being destroyed in the 1940s). Luckily, the history section she found on her tablet's eBooks did help her when she took the preliminary exam. Fortunately, the teacher, a middle-aged man named Mr. Text Book, was actually quite understanding by her lack of knowledge of the world, owing to it to her supposed 'disappearance and lack of proper education. Though he did stress that he expected her to catch up quickly with the rest of the class.
Physics proved to be even more of a challenge for her. Owing to that they could levitate objects back in Equestria, the forces behind the movement and anything related to that were not really a field that was studied much back in Equestria (The unicorn New Ton had proposed the idea originally to the Princesses advisor several years ago, but was simply laughed out and joked around why he didn't merely catch the apple with his magic instead). She was glad she barely made it through the pre-test with a B.
And Geometry, the bane of her existence. It wasn't that the teacher was very bad, on the contrary, Mrs. Right Angle proved to be one of her favorite teachers due to her chipper attitude as opposed to the rest of her teacher's eccentric abilities. It wasn't even her classmates, owing to the fact that Rainbow and Fluttershy had the same period as her and they were grouped together at the back of the room.
It was just very tedious.
"How many formulas are there..." Sunset groaned out, throwing the arm-thick textbook into the back of her locker. Not even 20 minutes into the class and she was already swimming in unknown words like vertex, midpoint, and whatever perpendicular is. She had stopped listening in favor of starting out the window for the next 20 minutes. She ended up filling 3 separate sheets of paper just re-writing notes, formulas, and how to use them over and over again.
"Well, at least you learn something every day, right...?" Fluttershy quietly said, which was matched by a depressing look from Sunset.
"Fluttershy, stare at me straight in the eye and tell me when am I EVER going to need to know the formula to calculate a trapezoid? Stupid A = 1/2H(B1 + B2) crap." She muttered.
"Now, Mrs. Shimmer," an older voice called out to her, she stared up dejectedly to find it was the school secretary, Raven Inkwell, "You know we don't tolerate any form of swearing inside the school, right?" She raised an eyebrow.
"Yes...Mrs. Inkwell," Sunset sighed, and pulled herself up from the locker she was lying on. She knew what Raven could do, having been on the punishment end of her back in Canterlot Castle several times.
"Oh dear, I hope school hasn't already tired you out." She said with genuine sincerity. "Why, we've barely even begun your school life here at CHS."
"Tell me that after you cram 7 separate formulas into your head..." Sunset muttered. "In any case, do you need me for something, Mrs. Inkwell?"
She smiled and held out an envelope for the girl, with the principals' name on the front of it. Not bothering with the offered letter opener, she ripped the cover flap open.
Dear Sunset Shimmer,
I do hope you are acclimating to our school in a nice fashion. I understand your inability to remember your past may prove to be a bit difficult to work with, not including almost being missing for a full year should prove to be of some difficulty in what you are learning today, but I have every bit of faith that you will quickly catch up with the rest of your peers in no time. If it doesn't trouble you, I'd like for you to join me in lunch at my office today, that way I can get a better idea of how you've been adapting to school once again.
Best Regards, Principal Celestia
She mulled over the decision a bit. She would obviously have to miss the school lunch period, which she was told would have been a hotspot to make connections within the school, but she would be lying to herself if she wasn't curious as to the true nature of why the principal had called her. After all, you don't go ahead and call up the amnesiac on the first day of school just to sit down and have a chat about 'how you been' and all of that.
Making up her mind, she folded the invitation, and nodded to Raven, "Tell the Principal I said yes, will you?"
Raven nodded in return, "Do you need to go to the lunchroom to get your food?"
Shaking her head, she held up a paper lunch bag that was a bit soaked with oil at the bottom, "No thanks, I was already packed some by my parents. I just have to inform my friends I won't go to lunch with them."
Nodding in approval, Raven began to walk away. Sunset spun on her heels to face Fluttershy, who was trying to close the door to her locker. "Hrngh." She grunted, trying to slide the rusted door into the locker.
Rolling her eyes, Sunset waved her aside, and slammed the door into the locker, making a small dent where she had put force on the door. "Stupid cheap locker," she snarled. She flipped around to face Fluttershy.
"I was invited to the Principals office for lunch, can you tell Rainbow I won't meet you girls at the lunchroom?"
"Y-yeah, sure," Fluttershy mumbled, the sound of the door slamming into the locker was still ringing a bit in her ears.
"Sorry, did that hurt?" Sunset asked. She didn't exactly have friends before, and she didn't want to do anything to hurt her first friend.
"N-no, it was just loud..." Fluttershy said. She picked up the lunch box she had and waved at Sunset as she started walking towards the lunchroom. Sunset waved back and began walking in the opposite direction to the front of the school.
When she got there, she was about to open the door, before she caught the tail end of Celestia disciplining some kids.
"...and the next time I find your Crystal bloody asses near my school without permission, I will have the district deal with you, Cinch's reputation be damned!" She roared before Sunset flinched back at a loud *BANG* coming from the inside of the office.
Steeling herself, she walked inside the office and found Raven furiously typing away at her keyboard, a mug (or three) of coffee at her side. On the opposite end of the office, near the lounging couches reserved for waiting visitors, she found three girls sitting on it, their faces ranging from absolute fury to mild annoyance.
One girl, with neon green and yellow hair, sported the annoyance look and rolled her eyes at her two bickering compatriots. She opted for lounging back and just chilling while listening to some blaring rock music through her headphones (Sunset will admit, she enjoyed a good amount of AC-DC herself, but there is a limit and that limit is when you can hear the music through a pair of muffling headphones).
The other two girls, one with light blue hair and glasses, the other one with a pair of goggles and dark blue hair, were bickering. As Sunset was quickly waved into Celestia's office, she heard a snippet of their argument.
"...so I see no reason why you had to drag me along to this farce." The glasses one said in a monotonous voice, "The Games aren't for another 6 months, why would we need to 'get at them now?"
"Because we're freshmen!" The goggles girl yelled, arms waving around like it was obvious, "If we could do it now, imagine the amount of clout we'd get from all of the upperclassmen that usually do it themselves! Heck, even Captain Shining goddamn Armour didn't do it himself at the start of his year at Crystal Prep!"
The two girls bickered on and on, each time louder in effect as the other one tried to one-up their opponent. Deciding that hearing loss wasn't what she wanted to be known for on Day 1, Sunset quickly got to the door of Celestia's office and shut it behind her. Of course, she wasn't spared from copious amounts of harsh language herself once she got inside.
"I don't CARE about your goddamn reputation, Cinch," Celestia swore into a landline, seething, "I want to know why in the goddamn did I catch THREE of your students trying to deface our school statue!? It's not even six months until the Games and you want to start this pissing match NOW?!"
Sunset couldn't make out what the person on the other side of the phone said, but whatever it was, Celestia did not look too happy about it. "No, don't you hang up on me you loony old- SON OF A BITCH!" She swore, as the other person abruptly hung up on her. She slammed her phone down on the receiver, and dug out a bottle of wine, and poured herself a glass. Downing the drink, she noticed Sunset at the entranceway.
"I've been having to do this same song and dance for close to 20 years, Sunset," She groaned out, "There comes a point where it turns from funny to annoying, from annoying to infuriating, and from infuriating to downright stupidity." Another glass, "You going to tell on me?" She raised an eyebrow. Sunset quickly shook her head.
"No ma'am. I won't tell a word." She quickly answered. Sunset didn't want to anger anyone on day one, especially her principal.
"Good." She finished drinking the wine, and with the grace of an ox, simply stuffed it into the bottom of her desk. "Now that I have that farce tucked away, at least for a bit, we come to the nature of why you're here."
"I thought this was just supposed to be a catching up chat over lunch with you?!" Sunset paled. She didn't know if she broke any school rules unknowingly, but she was horrified if she had nevertheless.
Fortunately, Celestia waved off her suspicions. "Don't worry, that is what we're here to do. I just need to inform you that we're also going to go ahead and have another student join us as well."
"Who else-" Sunset began but was quickly silenced by the opening door.
"Celestia," Tia called out, "Sorry I'm late. I got caught up with whoever those troublemakers are outsi...de." Tia said walking into the office, but she stopped talking after being met by the eyes of Sunset.
"Oh, great." Both of them deadpanned.
*15 minutes later*
"Hey Celestia," Luna called, walking into the office with a clipboard in hand. "I just got done making First Day rounds. You will not believe what...Cheerilee...is...doing." Luna said, slowing down as she began to take in the sight in front of her.
In front of her sister's desk, a scene began to evolve. The two new girls, Sunset and Celestia, continued bickering with each other, their lunches on the floor next to them. Both girls seemed to have invoked the classic argument strategy of 'keep yelling higher and higher while spontaneously cutting off your opponent at every headway you give'. At her desk, she merely saw her sister, who looked too frazzled even for a single conversation, as she drank about half of their shared 'emergency B.S wine' bottle.
