I lay on the grass, gasping for breath. How... In Celestia's name... Am I supposed... To do this... Without magic...?! Rainbow Dash had just beaten me in a game of sports-ball, meaning she wouldn't help me stop Sunset. Rainbow leaned over me.

"That's game!" She declared. The rest of the girls leaned over me.

"I... Really thought you were gonna... Pull it off there in the end!" Said Rarity, chuckling awkwardly as Applejack and Pinkie Pie gave her the stink eye.

"So what's the plan?" Asked Rainbow as she helped me up. "How can I help you be the princess instead of Sunset Shimmer?" What?

"But..." I gasped. "But I lost!" Rainbow rolled her eyes and waved her... Thing dismissively.

"Of course you lost, I'm awesome! But I'm not gonna help just anybody try to beat Sunset Shimmer. The Fall Formal princess should be someone with heart and determination. You've proved that you've got 'em both!" She elbowed me and we hugged while the others cheered.

"Hey, Astral Ass!" Called a voice coming from the school. I turned to see Cloud walking up to us, followed by Nerdy. He must've recovered from- What in Equestria is he wearing? Down his arms ran wires leading up to a mesh of all sorts of things on his hands. I waved tentatively. He reached us and stopped.

"Hello, Cloud," I greeted. "What are wearing on your arms?"

"These?" He asked, looking down at his hands. "Long story. Although," he turned to Nerdy, "I probably won't need them for a while and they're kinda cumbersome. Can you take these off of me for a bit?"

"Okay," replied Nerdy, before getting closer to him to fiddle with them.

"Anyway," he turned back to me, "I need to borrow Spike for a while." Why does he need Spike? And why did he say 'borrow' as if he's an object or a pe-? Oh, right, Spike's supposed to be posing as my pet...

"Sure," I replied, "how long will you need him for?"

"I'm not sure yet, probably until the end of the day."

"Alright then." I opened up my bag and Spike jumped out before running over to Cloud.

"Shakalaka ding dong?" Asked Applejack. It was... Oh no, I can't remember the excuse Cloud used on Fluttershy!

"He's my, uh..." Come on! What was it?!

"Brother," finished Cloud.

"You're siblings?" Asked Rarity. "But you look nothing alike."

"I'm adopted," he said quickly. "Our parents were annoyed at Twilight for always complaining she was an only child."

"Why didn't they just have another kid the normal way?" Asked Rainbow.

"Have you ever exploded life from your genitals?" Exploded? The girls looked confused.

"No...?"

"Well if you ever do then you'll know why our Mom didn't want to have another."

"Did you ever find out what happened to your original parents?" Muttered Fluttershy.

"My, uh, Dad left my Mom while she was pregnant and then she died giving birth just as she named me after him." Nerdy's face lit up, as if he noticed something.

"Wait," he said, "isn't that the backstory of Vol-?"

"Oh, that's terrible, darling!" Exclaimed Rarity, cutting him off. "Why don't you come along to the Sugarcube Cafe with us? We were about to ask Twilight to come along too." He looked at me as if to ask whether it was okay. I made the slightest of nods.

"Uh, yeah," he replied. "Yeah, sure, why not?"

"Yeah, sure, why not?" Replied the apparent brother of Twilight Sparkle. Snips snickered, looking at his phone. I frowned at him. He'd better bucking- He showed me the pictures of Twilight on his phone. I grinned. Ha, never mind. These are perfect!

"Sunset!" Whisper-shouted Snails, running up to us. My grin slid off of my face.

"And where the fuck have you been?" I whispered back.

"I-I just heard some news about that guy beat up Gilda! Apparently she wanted a rematch and he beat her up again! They're saying that she's not gonna take orders from you anymore because of him!" What?! I growled.

"Who the buck is he?! Does anyone know who he is?! Or what he looks like?!"

"Nobody knows, he just showed up recently! People think he's trying to take over the school!" Of all the days this had to happen... Wait, what if he's connected with this? Could it be him? I glanced back towards Twilight, her brother and her bimbos, but they had already left. I need this dealt with quickly so I can focus on getting that crown...

"Get Polomare to set some of her gossip drones on him, they need to find out who he is and what he's planning. Then get Dust to set up some guards for her, it's likely he'll try to go after her or Dust herself next."

"Uh, but why would he-?"

"Just do it!" I shouted, making both of them run off in fear. I won't let this guy ruin my plans!

It's been such a long time since I spent time with everypbody, Primotaur or not. The seven of us (Nerdy had left, saying he'd catch up to me later) were having different variations of hot chocolate. Thanks to the portal's age changing spell, I was too young to order alcohol. It's doubtful this place would sell cider in the first place. Still, it's the principle. It didn't take too long for the subject to move onto Twilight beating Sunset.

"So how do you plan on getting everyone's vote?" Asked Rarity. Pinkie visibly had an idea by shooting confetti out of every orifice and making the sound of a party noise blower.

"Ooh!" She exclaimed, practically buzzing. "Why don't we throw a-?!"

"No," I interrupted, "just... No."

"Excuse me for a minute, everybody," said Twilight as Pinkie deflated, "I'm just gonna get another drink." She stood up and made her way to the counter.

"Maybe we could hand out flyers?" Muttered Fluttershy. I shook my head.

"That'd take too long to be effective," I pointed out.

"Shoo be doo?" Suggested Applejack. We all gaped in disgust.

"What the buck, Applejack?!" I shouted. "That's the most disgusting thing I've ever heard!" And I live with Vesper!

"Shoo shoo be doo..." I suddenly heard the sound of splashing and a mug hitting the floor. I looked to where it came from and saw- Dammit.

Slash Fentry was back.

Author's Notes:

'Cafe' seemed more fitting than 'corner', especially since it's more of a cafe than a corner in EG.

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Abrupt ending because I couldn't be bothered to finish the scene but I didn't want the chapter to take any longer.