I sat alone at a table in the cafeteria, eating a slice of pizza while wondering what Twilight and Cloud meant this morning. They'd said that they would meet me here and that they had to go to prepare something. They need to hurry up. Cloud only has half a day left to stop Suri as well as Lightning, and he'll need plenty of preparations for the latter: She may not have the brute strength of Gilda, but she's fast and smart about fighting. In fact, he might not be able to beat her at all without magic...

At that moment, I noticed the strange sound of clapping, crashing and stamping. For a moment, it almost sounded like 'We Will Rock You' until someone turned on a radio that played an actual drumbeat which mimicked the clapping and crashing. Suddenly, the five girls that Cloud, Twilight and Spike had gone off with starting dancing around in crude cosplay items and began to sing:

"Hey, hey, everybody! We've got somethin' to sa~ay! We may seem as different, as the night is from day! But you look a little deepe~er, and you will see, that I'm just like yo~ou, and you're just like-!" They were cut off by the main doors slamming open to reveal Cloud with a guitar strapped to his torso carrying a huge mound of what I could only guess was dog poop with one arm and a megaphone in his other hand.

There was about a second of silence other than the continuing drumbeat before he brought the megaphone to his face.

"PUBLIC HUMILIATION!" He screamed, before throwing the megaphone away, sprinting towards Suri Polomare and throwing handfuls of poop at her. Suri screamed as the shit hit her and the room devolved into chaos. Four guys from Dust's gang, likely trying to protect her, shoved past the people running around and ran towards Cloud. He spotted them immediately, as if expecting them. He dropped the poop he was carrying and grabbed the guitar just as they reached him.

The first of them threw a punch at him which he easily avoided with a spinning dodge, then used the momentum from the spin to smash the guitar into the first guy's head. He kept the momentum going and used the guitar against the other three in turn, hitting them hard enough to knock them out. After picking the poop back up, he continued sprinting towards Suri, who had tried to escape in the confusion. He threw an aimed shot of poop at her legs so that she tripped and fell face first to the ground.

He caught up with her, grabbed her by the front of her shirt and lifted her so they were eye level with each other. I could barely hear him over the chaos happening around me, but the small parts I didn't hear I could piece together in my mind.

"Stop working for Sunset Shimmer or I'll make you literally eat shit in front of everybody here!" He shouted.

"O-Okay!" She cried, tears streaming down her poopy face. "Okay! Just please leave me alone!" Cloud grinned before shoving her away from him and looking around the chaotic cafeteria. He quickly spotted me and pointed towards his megaphone lying across the room. I nodded in understanding.

I ran towards it, grabbed it and threw it over the crowd towards him. He had to jump, but he managed to catch it. He climbed up onto a table and brought it up to his face again.

"EVERYONE, SHUT UP!" He roared. The crowd surprisingly obeyed. He dropped the megaphone again. "Just like Gilda, Suri Polomare is no longer going to bully everyone! This will continue until Sunset Shimmer is dethroned and is all thanks to Twilight Sparkle, the girl who will be Princess of The Fall Formal!" He pointed to the doorway he'd come in from where Twilight was standing and gaping, seemingly in shook. There were confused murmurs among the crowd. "And now I'm gonna challenge Lightning Dust to a fight on her terms! When I beat her, there will be no one left to stand between me and Sunset!" He chuckled loudly, obviously trying to add a dramatic effect. "Unless of course Lightning Dust prefers the shame of running away to the shame of losing!"

"Fuck you!" Yelled someone from the crowd. I looked to see who it was to spot Lighting Dust herself. She climbed onto her own table. "You have no right to say that shit about me!" Cloud grinned evilly.

"I don't see you doing anything about it!" Dust growled.

"Fine! We'll settle this in the boxing club room in two hours! But if I win, you're gonna get the fuck out of this school and never come back!" Cloud laughed.

"Two hours it is, then!" He leapt from the table and rushed out of the room, which was silent. Trying not to draw attention to myself, I quietly followed. Well, that happened... At least it worked, I guess.

Author's Notes:

This chapter is shorter and took longer than usual because of writer's block.

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I was planning on having the song go on for a bit longer so I could have fun with Applejack's lines, but writing in five colours at once is hell.

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Nerdy's and Vesper's thought colours are the same because I'M RUNNING OUT OF COLOURS TO USE FOR INDIVIDUAL CHARACTERS OH REALTA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-
*Runs off screaming*

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In other news, chapters will probably take longer to come out than usual for a while.