"Heeeeeeeey, what's-your-name!" Greeted Slash, sprinting over to me as I cried internally. WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME, REALTA?! She tackled me to the ground but, before she could do anything, I quickly slid away from her with some help from a small Shield Bash. I stood up as fast as I could but she somehow stood up faster and dived at me again. I just barely dodged out of the way (I actually felt her scrape against me slightly) and ran out of the cafe. I didn't have to look back to know she was chasing me.

How the hell do I escape this?! Incoming alleyway on my right! I dived into the alley, breaking her line of sight, then summoned a Support Circle and flew as fast as I could to the top of one of the parallel buildings just in time for my magic to run out. I collapsed onto my back, breathing heavily.

"Why is it," I gasped to myself, "that when I finally have mares chasing after me for all the right reasons, they're not the right species?"

I was at the counter of the Sugarcube Cafe ordering another drink.

"And can I get mine with extra oats?" I asked. The mare behind the counter looked confused.

"Oats?" She asked back. Oh, I guess Primotaurs don't eat oats... I chuckled nervously.

"Uh... Scratch that! However you normally make it is fine!" She shot me a look before putting my drink onto the counter. I turned to walk back to the girls and Cloud. I need to do more research on this world so I don't make so many- I crashed into a male Primotaur, making me spill my drink all over him and the floor as well as drop my mug entirely. The Primotaur wiped some of the drink off of his shirt, looking a bit embarrassed.

"We've got to stop bumping into each other like this," he said awkwardly. I frowned in confusion.

"This is the first time we've-"

"Heeeeeeeey, what's-your-name!" Shouted a voice from nearby. I looked towards where it came from to see Slash Fentry sprinting at Cloud. She tackled him to the ground only for him to slide away and run out of the building. She quickly followed. He can probably deal with that... I turned back to- Oh. The Primotaur I was talking to had vanished. He must have left while I was looking away... I walked back over to the girls and sat down. Darn, I forgot how thirsty I was...

"Don't even think about it," said Rarity.

"Don't think about being thirsty?" I asked. Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie and Applejack snickered as Rarity rolled her eyes. "What?"

"You're already trying to get her crown, Sunset Shimmer would do horrible things to you if you start dating her ex-boyfriend, Flash Sentry." Flash-? Wait! "Hopefully your brother got away from his sister, she'd probably take it the same way."

"Slash Fentry is the sister of Sunset Shimmer's ex-colt-?! Er, ex-boyfriend?!"

"Yes."

"Oh." Slash is weirdly obsessed with Cloud, so maybe... "Do you think Sunset could be manipulating Slash? She seems really obsessed with Cloud." Rarity chuckled dryly.

"Slash Fentry is... Not exactly normal. She likes to act out different stereotypes rather than face things normally. It wouldn't be a stretch to think that she just has a normal crush on your brother and doesn't know which stereotype... Erm... 'Fits'." I scratched my chin. Maybe not, but I should still tell Cloud my idea just in case... It was a few seconds before the conversation resumed.

"Why did Sunset break up with Flash?"

"She didn't," replied Fluttershy, "he broke up with her a few weeks ago. I can't believe she hasn't done something awful to him yet..."

"Maybe she's just waiting to do something really awful..." I muttered. Applejack stood up.

"01010100 01101000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000," she said. "01000101 01110110 01100101 01110010 01111001 01101111 01101110 01100101 00100000 01101100 01101111 01110110 01100101 01110011 00100000 01110011 01100101 01100011 01110010 01100101 01110100 00100000 01101101 01100101 01110011 01110011 01100001 01100111 01100101 01110011." Everyone agreed. But how can we do that in such little ti-?

"I'VE GOT IT!" Rarity screamed to the heavens with the power of Princess Celestia. Everyone in the country looked in the direction of the sound that ruptured eardrums, making Rarity blush in embarrassment. She cleared her throat and tried again. "I mean, um, perhaps I have a solution." She reached into her bag. "Now this may be an absolutely preposterous idea, but what if we all wore these as a sign of unity?" She pulled out fake, blue and yellow Pony ears and matching tails. "Freshman year they were very, very popular. A way for everybody to show their school spirit! You know? 'Go, Canterlot Wondercolts!'" She bounced up and down before looking a bit depressed and clearing her throat. "I haven't sold any in ages.

"I mean, the five of us are obviously very different," she hoofed them out to all of us, "but deep down, we're all Canterlot Wondercolts! Sunset Shimmer is the one who divided us, Twilight Sparkle is the one who united us. And we're gonna let everyone know it! What do you think?" One by one, the girls showed that they agreed. Rarity nuzzled me in joy. There was an awkward silence as she continued rubbing her face against me for far too long to be comfortable.

"Why were you carrying these around?" Asked Rainbow. Rarity stopped nuzzling me and suddenly looked nervous.

"Erm... N-No reason!" She grinned unconvincingly. Rainbow looked slightly concerned.

"Right..."

"So, we're just gonna wear these and not do anything else?" Asked Pinkie. "That doesn't seem like a good way to buy anyone's vote." Buy... Memories of two certain sales-Ponies flooded back to me.

"Guys?" I asked. "I think I have an idea..."

After about half an hour, I lowered myself down from the roof of the building and made my way back to Nerdy's place. I found Twilight and Spike inside, sitting on our bed.

"Hey," I greeted.

"Hey, Cloud," replied Spike. Twilight seemed to be in deep thought and didn't hear me. So basically how she normally is back home. "What happened to you?"

"I hid on a roof for a while. Where's Nerdy?"

"I think he's in the shed."

"Okay." In an attempt to break Twilight out of her trance, I licked one of my fingers and rammed it in her ear. Twilight had made a sound similar to a cat being stepped on and fell face first onto the floor. Now that's what I call success! Spike and I laughed as she glared at me.

"Cloud!" She scolded. "Don't do that!"

"I'll make it up to you later!" I laughed. Her glare turned into a devious grin.

"Oh, I know how you can make it up to me..." Spike and I stopped laughing instantly as dirty thoughts flew through my mind. Dammit, brain! I get enough of that from Luna!

"Uh..."

"Just before the invasion, you said that you could play guitar, right?" She told me her plan.

"That sounds terrible. I'm in!" I grinned back. Tomorrow's gonna be fun!

Author's Notes:

Over exaggeration is fun!