Well, today got interesting!
Rainbow sighed as she sat back in her chair. Frankly, math was a bore to handle let alone to learn. However no matter how much Rainbow willed her hate towards the board, the class wouldn't stop. She had to just stick it through… great.
Turning her head to the side, Rainbow watched her egghead friend stay glued to the board with pure faciantion. Beside her a fellow athletic farmer sat with her hands over her eyes, mostly likely asleep or bored as all hell. Honestly, the ladder was most likely for her. However her precision did strike Rainbow as odd, yes she covered her eyes a lot but she never twitched to the extent she was then. Bits of pink dots flooded around her parted fingers like raindrops of tears. If Rainbow knew her friend, she KNEW she never cried. So why wasn't Twilight noticing? Surely if someone was crying they would make noise right? Wimpers or anything! But it was like Twilight heard nothing, or AJ was making no noise at all. Finally there was something to catch Rainbows attention other than math, a mystery.
Leaning her head to face her friend Rainbow tried to catch a reaction of any kind, she knew AJ well enough to know the farmer had great spacial awareness. So what better way to get her attention than to drop something very loudly? Frankly, it was risky but Rainbow was never one to care for risks. Lifting her hand to her water bottle, the rainbow haired athlete swatted the water bottle off the side of the desk. A loud crash followed, metal hitting the floor causing curious and bored heads to turn to her, yet Applejack didn’t move an inch.
Growling to herself Rainbow once again faced the front of the class, only to notice the teacher glaring at her. Giving a sheepish grin the athlete quickly grabbed the water bottle off the floor, causing the teacher to look away pleased. She had to think of something more, but what? AJ should have reacted, hell she usually scowls at Rainbow when she purposely yeets a bottle off the desk! But she did nothing. At Least the pink bubbles went away. Preparing to write a note and throw it to AJ, Rainbow quickly caught a glance towards the already peeved teacher. She would have to continue this mystery later it seems.
There was always lunch.
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And it was lunch.
Lunch was filled with hungry students awaiting a bite to eat, Rainbow being one such kid. Stepping towards the lunch line, Rainbow grinned as fresh food was plopped onto her plate. As much as she claimed the food here was like a prison, she did actually enjoy it. Something Sunset, a bacon haired girl, knew all too well.
Flopping onto her causally seat, Rainbow let out a happy grin. After lunch things usually got more interesting with the gym so that was exciting. However, first things first!
Rainbows magenta eyes scanned the area awaiting a certain blonde haired farmer to enter and sit at the table. Usually her seat was right across from Rainbow, something a lot of the friends knew. The two tended to compete a lot and frankly no one was willing to get in between that.
Rainbow boredly tapped her hand on the table's hard surface. Other friends sat around her in silent concern as students chatted behind them. Bright cafeteria lights shined down as the tapping continued, causing a certain fashionesta to flinch.
The 6 friends sat at the table under an umbrella of uncertain fear. Many held a frown as a pink party person tried to smile her worry away. A seat sat abandoned which usually contained a blonde haired farmer, causing the distress to rise. It wasn't like her to be late.
Taking a deep breath, Rainbow forced herself to smile. Applejack was fine, of course she was, she was the strongest after all (besides Rainbow of course). The stone, the rock, the glue. The same girl who forgave Sunset even after getting the worst.
Turning to her friends, Sunset watched as Rainbow in particular seemed the most nervous. Frankly, that was to be expected from the rainbow-haired jock. Loyalty and all, even if in this world they didn’t have elements.
Nevertheless the worried mood remained even after Rainbow attempted small talk. Little to nothing was helping and it didn’t seem it would in the future. Who knew one missing friend could cause this eerie mood.
Once again resorting to tapping her fingers on the table as a way to distract her mind, Rainbow scanned the full cafeteria for any resembling figure of her farmer friend. For a while, nothing came up… until.
Rainbow shot up in her seat when her eyes landed on a familiar brown stetson across the room. The head it belonged to was lowered as if unhappy, blonde locks of hair sat dismissively upon the owner's back. The weirdest part, however, was those she was sitting with. Three rock-styled outfitted girls sat beside her, each with a history of world domination cravings. One, however, had her hand around the limp farmers back, something that struck Rainbow as odd.
The sirens have shown little to no contact with the Rainbooms since their defeat, let alone approach them. How suddenly they seemed all buddy-buddy with the farmer set a dark mood in the jock girl's mind.
“What is it?” a shy voice squeaked from Sunsets right, causing the previously distracted girl to break out of her mind.
“It’s AJ, I see her but… She’s with the sirens.” Rainbow answered, causing the rest of the table's eyes to face her. Some seemed surprised as others just seemed unamused. “I know you said we should try to be friends with them but, this sudden change is wired right? It's not just me?”
“It's not just you, darling.” Rarity remarked, tossing her purple locks to the side.
“I do have to admit it is weird, though I still feel we should try to be friends-” Sunset began before Pinkie but in.
“WAIT!” The girls turned towards the pink party parede as she suddenly snapped. “What if it's a good thing that AJs hanging out with the sirens? maybe this is just a plot development!”
“A quick development,” Rainbow hissed before turning her head to where she was looking before, “I mean only yesterday they called her a… well” Rainbow attempted the last part but no words came.
“A redneck.” Rarity but in, her expression sour and dark. “We should ask what's going on.”
Sunset toned her friends out as she watched the farmer in silence. An odd feeling of some sort of magical energy seemed to be radiating from the farmer's form. Applejack herself seemed fine to the eye but Sunset knew better than to look at the big picture. A hazy pink fog seemed to flutter over the blonde's head as she took no notice of the world around her. It was like she was in a trance of some kind, but what.
“Let's go.” Sunset muttered, standing up causing a few of the girls to stare at her. “Somethings not right, I can feel it.” the former unicorn turned to her friends, clutching her chest in a worried manner. The girls all turned their heads to one another before following Sunset's example one by one.
Silently and slowly the group made their way to the sirens table, trying to bring no attention to themselves. However, they were popular at the school, eyes followed them like hawks eyeing their favorite rat. Usually the attention never bothered Sunset but right now, it was highly unliked.
Eventually reaching the table, the Sirens turned with an unamused smirk. Adagio kept her arm around the farmer's back, said farmer making no attempt to look at her friends. Sonata just was busy eating away at the tacos on her plate as Aria glared daggers at Sunset especially.
“Well, if it isn’t the Rainbombs. What could you possibly want? Rubbing your victory in more?” saying the last part, Adagio turned to meet Rainbow's gaze. Rainbow weakly made an attempt to laugh before smiling sheepishly to the rest of her friends. Sunset simply rolled her eyes.
“No actually, we are here to ask AJ some questions.” Sunset started, adopting a apologetic grin, “alone.'' The three formor sirens eyed one another before Adagio finally spoke again.
“Fine, you won't get anything anyway.” before Rainbow, or well anyone, could question what she meant the sirens stood up and sashayed out of the cafeteria. Rainbow quickly took the chance to sit opposite of AJ, the others following suit.
Rainbow shuffled in her seat as the others thought of what to say, AJ remained silent. In all honesty AJ looked almost possessed. Her eyes were glazed as she sat down with little to no words, simply staring into the distance as if watching for something. Her hair was a mess as her hand held her chin.
“So darling” a familiar feminine voice spoke up, purple curls turned to the dazed girl, “what happened? You look like you didn’t have your beauty sleep last night.” The only response from the farmer they got was a grunt as she laid her head on the table. Most of the girls looked to one another as Rainbow just felt tempted to take the farmer's hat. Taking the hat would cause a reaction, the same reaction she was searching for.
“Applejack? Please talk to us- we are worried about you.” Sunset attempted, only getting a twitch from the farmer as a response. The table fell silent for a bit before Rainbow finally obtained her prize, snatching the hat off the farmer's head and placing it on her own.
That got a reaction! Knowing too well taking the hat will cause some sort of action from the farmer Rainbow wasn't too surprised when an orange hand grabbed and yanked the hat back. However, Rainbow was surprised about something.. Bright pink eyes glared back at her as bits of pink blobs dripped from her eyes. Rainbow wasn't the only one to take notice as well.
“Applejack! Your eyes are as pink as Pinkie's hair!” a sudden voice cut out of the small table. “Wait, I'm Pinkie… Applejack! Your eyes are as pink as my hair!” the voice repeated with a giggle. Said voice belonged to a bubblegum colored, pink party person, with long locks of bouncy hot pink hair. Applejack didn’t react as she laid her head back on the table, completely ignoring her food once again.
“Something definitely isn’t right…” Fluttershy muttered, her long pink hair draping over her eyes, “She's not even eating the apple.” as if to respond another grunt came from the farmer.
“Ya, that's for sure…” Rainbow muttered, waving her hand in front of the farmer's face. As expected, no reaction. “What do we do?”
“I've seen this before in equestria. It was in a book I believe! Some potion book…” Sunset mumbled, scanning her brain for any case of understanding for the situation. “Seeing as it's taking a pinkish affect to her… I need to ask Princess Twilight.”
“We don't have time! What if it gets stronger by the second?” Rainbow growled. Rarity nodded and turned to Sunset with a small smile.
“You should ask, but we shouldn’t wait for an answer.” Fluttershy added, tapping her chin as she stared at the motionless farmer. “Whatever this is should be checked out before we just sit back and wait.”
“Why don't we just send her to equestria? Maybe there's a spell that can help!” Pinkie squealed, Sunset sighing at the party person's positive outburst.
“We can't just send her there alone!” Rarity interrupted, flipping her perfect purple locks, “someone should go with her.”
Honestly listening to all of the ideas tired Rainbow. So what better to do than to annoy the very friend they meant to help? What could go wrong! Well ok, maybe a lot of things but that didn't matter to Rainbow at the time.
Poking the farmers forehead with the beat of an unheard drum, the athlete grinned. More and more of an angry look crossed AJs face. Once she was about to poke again an orange hand slapped the jocks hand away. Adagio stood over Rainbow as AJ stood.
“Poking her won't fix anything” Adagio growled, before grabbing the farmer's hand. “I thought it was obvious, she's under a love potion.”
“A love potion? HEY- I bet you made it!” Rainbow pointed a finger at Adagio who again slapped her hand away.
“No, I'm trying to help your friend. Out of your entire pathetic ‘friend’ group AJ is by far the best.” Adagio started, eyeing each girl at the tale, “Unlike you guys she actually asks what WE want to do and not just force us around the town.”
“So you didn’t do this to her?” Sunset asked, Adagio only scoffed and nodded.
“I found a few things that will help cure it, but I need help.” the former siren gagged, “so i have to ask for help. So if you idiots really want your friend better, do as i say and don't mess things up. Now come on.” before anyone could talk Adagio turned and began to walk out of the cafeteria, holding AJs hand the entire way. Most of the girl group stood up and followed, leaving a rainbow haired jock and pink parade behind.
“She's bad at asking for help huh?” Rainbow huffed, Pinkie simply giggled. At Least that day wasn’t boring.