She wasn't paying attention.

She was sitting in the second row from the back, staring out the window she had the pleasure of being seated against.

This ordinarily wouldn't upset Ribbon Rush, an English teacher who had taken on what he now classified as the biggest mistake of his life. Being a high school teacher was absolute hell. He should have tried for middle school, gotten to the kids before they went all emo and such. At this point in their life, it was one big source of drama after another. And only a few of them ever really cared about learning anything, anyway.

What truly upset Ribbon Rush, was the fact that the girl was talking. Originally he had assumed she was just talking to herself, before he saw the sliver of a bluetooth headset sticking out of her left ear. Even this wasn't normally enough to upset him, he knew a majority of the students texted on their phones from beneath the lips of their desks, regardless of his policy on no phones during class. They didn't even bother to reclaim their phones, seemingly getting new ones as soon as he took them away.

What irked Ribbon Rush was the fact that this girl -he was at a loss as to her name, she had probably transferred in in the last two days when he had been out sick. The sub had left him with an abysmal report on what had gone on, and had apparently just slept while playing a movie for his classes- was staring out the window. To add to that, she was talking and disrupting the class,as well as regaling the rest of the class on how lame the class itself was. Did she really think she was being quiet?

Ribbon Rush stalked down the center of the aisle, shrugging off the hushed laughter of the surrounding students as they realized he was finally about to do something. The bushy pink haired girl beside her was frantically poking her, trying to get her attention to warn her of the approaching scolding. Pinkie Pie never did like seeing anyone get in trouble, most of the time defusing a situation before Ribbon Rush was forced to act. It appeared this time her efforts were unsuccessful, as the girl studiously ignored the constant poking.

Coming to a stop in front of her, Ribbon Rush stated as calmly as he could, "Your phone, miss? No talking in class."

She stopped her conversation and stared at him as if seeing him for the first time. She gave him an incredulous look, before hiking up her skirt and digging into a pocket in her shorts. She pulled out a flip phone, and handed it over. Ribbon Rush smirked, triumphant, before returning down the aisle to his desk at the front of the class.

"Yeah, he just took my phone. No, we can still talk. So as I was saying," Ribbon Rush heard behind him, as the girl started up talking once more. He looked down at the phone in his hand.

Off.

He returned to the girls desk and held out his hand once more.

"Miss, the phone you are currently talking on. And any others you may have on your person, please." He requested, once more interrupting her.

"You got my only phone, dude," she replied, gazing at him with an amused glare. Her scarf...was the eye looking at him? No, that wasn’t possible.

"I'm not in the mood to play games, I'm going to have to ask you to hand over the headset, and pay attention. This is a classroom, and I expect you to treat it as such. This is your only warning." If there was one thing Ribbon Rush was well known for, it was remaining calm even when his students tried to belittle him. It projected a sense of unease amongst the students, forcing many of them to bend before his tempter truly broke.

"Gonna have to refuse that dude, I'm busy talking to someone important. Buzz off."

Ribbon Rush hadn't had a student be so rude to him since the year previous. A teenager had thrown a bag of feces at his back, and then tried to laugh it off. Ribbon Rush had dragged the student in question through the halls by an earlobe, and deposited him at the principal’s office. The boys parents had tried suing, but Ribbon Rush had counter-sued them for destruction of property, among other things. Needless to say, he had won the case.

Ribbon Rush reached down and snatched the headset off her head. However, his arm inexplicably stopped before it had completed its return to his side, held in midair by the girl’s iron grasp.

She glared at Ribbon as he tried to break free.

"If you ever touch me again without my permission, I will break your arm in so many places you'll be able to scratch your elbow with your thumb," She finally stated, releasing Ribbon's hand.

Ribbon Rush massaged his wrist, trying to restart the circulation. He retreated to the front of the classroom, and tried to calm himself before he responded in an unprofessional manner.

"I dunno, I think everyone called him Rush at the start of the class, but I'm not sure." The girl proceeded to talk to herself once more, ignoring Ribbon Rush. It was humiliating, but he had no wish to pit wills against the girl once again. The entirety of the class did their best to tune out the girls prattling as well. At the edge of his peripherals, Ribbon Rush could have sworn he saw her shirt rustling, the eye on the scarf burning a hole in the back of his head.

What the hell kind of transfer student had he been stuck with? He was definitely going to have to bring his concerns to Principal Celestia…

"W-well, If you'll all turn to the next page in your books..."

Pinkie Pie stopped the ringing timer, setting it aside on the counter. She opened the oven, wincing at the searing heat that escaped into the mildly temperate classroom. Reaching inside, she withdrew an immaculately shaped cupcake. In short order, it was decorated to perfection, a light pink frosting with her specialty melting sprinkles.

Pinkie Pie made her way through the halls of Canterlot High, searching high and low for her quarry. The strange, black haired girl with the red streak through her mop of hair. Most curiously, she wore what looked like a Japanese school uniform, although she wore a pair of jean shorts under the skirt, and a leather jacket over her top. For the first time in weeks, Pinkie Pie was glad that Rarity was on a trip out of the country. If she had so much as glanced at this combination, she would have accosted the new girl to death. Or at the very least, major irritation.

She finally spotted the new girl walking aimlessly through the halls. She was talking to herself again, too. Pinkie Pie liked talking to herself, sometimes the other her's would come up with some truly awesome ideas! They always knew what to say to cheer her up too, if she happened to be in a slump.

Pinkie Pie slinked forward, and stopped in front of the new girl. "Hi! Welcome to Canterlot High! I baked a cupcake, just for you!"

"...Sorry Diane, but I really don't feel like having anything sweet right now," the new girl replied.

THAT was interesting~ How did the new girl know her middle name? She hadn't already met and forgotten her, had she? No! Impossible! Never in a million, billion kajillion years!

"That's too bad... I made it just for you...say, how'd you know my middle name, new girl?" Pinkie asked, placing the cupcake back on her head and bouncing on her heels.

The new girl looked startled, like she had been caught in a lie of some sort. She quickly recovered, launching into her explanation.

"I'm...friends with Maud. Yeah. I must have heard it from her."

Well that sounded like an okay explanation, but how come Maud had never told her that she had such a super special, ultra fantastic friend? Well she might as well ask her!~

"Hi Maud!" Pinkie called, flagging her sister from her route through a throng of tightly knit students milling about the corridor. "I was just talking to your friend? The one you didn't tell me about? How come you didn't tell me you knew the new girl, if I had known I would have thrown you a party!"

Maud looked at the new girl with a blank stare, before returning her gaze to Pinkie Pie.

"I just met her today," she stated in a bland tone that Pinkie Pie was sure was filled to the brim with happiness. "I was actually thinking about going to the museum after school to check out their geology section. Would you like to join me?"

"What? I...yeah, sure, I can't see why not. I didn't have anything important planned or anything. I was just gonna hang around the school, see if I couldn't sniff out any interesting rumors," the new girl stated, brushing her bangs out of her eyes. "Think we might be able to grab a bite to eat or anything along the way? I kinda skipped lunch..."

"I don't mind," Maud replied in a monotone, "Pinkie, can you let mom and dad know I'll be skipping dinner? The museum should take us a few hours or so, and I want to treat my new friend to a good meal."

The new girl looked slightly confused for a second. Pinkie wasn't surprised, Maud's inflections were kinda hard to follow at times, but she definitely sounded happier than she had in a long long while! And anything that would make her sister happy was something that Pinkie Pie would gladly get behind, 100%!

"Coolio, I guess I'll catch you after school then? How ‘bout at the statue thing in front of the school?" The new girl asked, relaxing into a slouch.

"Sounds good to me," Maud paused, once more looking at Pinkie Pie.

"Oh, yeah! I'll let them know, and maybe she could come over afterwards!"

"I...wouldn't want to intrude...But I wouldn't be against that either..."

"So your sister is friends with the girl that was talking to herself all throughout all of her classes? I guess like attracts like," Rainbow Dash snidely remarked, lazily strumming at the strings of her guitar.

"Rainbow! Just cause she's a little odd doesn't mean ya should just insult her like that!" Applejack berated her, grabbing the neck of her guitar to halt all sounds from it.

"Gah, fine, lay off will ya? I didn't mean anything by it, and it's not like I was insulting her...just commenting on how weird she is." Rainbow Dash wrestled the guitar away from Applejack’s grasp.

"I have to admit, she certainly is a bit odd," Sunset Shimmer stated, tuning her guitar slowly as she turned the keys. "Every time I saw her, she was talking to someone named 'Senketsu', but she wasn't talking on her phone or anything. The weird thing was… I could have sworn I saw her clothes move separately from her. Like, they lifted away from her skin and rustled about. The thing is… I never sensed anything 'off' with her...she just seemed kinda lonely." Sunset Shimmer stopped, looking around at the faces of her friends around her.

"Well then its good she was able to find a friend, especially on her first day of school," Fluttershy stammered, carefully polishing her tambourine.

"I second that, I'm happy for them! Maybe we should see if they'd like to play with us sometime? My sis has fingers like greased lightning when you get her behind a piano!" Pinkie Pie sat down at the drum set, masking her annoyance at the mistreated drums with a wide smile and a quick five taps at the snare. It wasn't their fault that most students at the school didn't know how to properly treat them. Most of all they were simply struck too hard, at simply too sharp of an angle. The skins were going to break soon, and the set couldn't hope to compare to her own personal set at home.

"That's assuming the new girl even plays something at all, Pinkie. She kinda struck me as an oboe blower though… something weird sounding, at the very least." Rainbow Dash returned her attention to her guitar, letting out a short solo.

"Hey, weird sounding ain't nothing to sneeze at!" Pinkie said with a satisfied nod. "Do I have to bust out the theremin again?"

Rainbow Dash took a second to mull it over, "Okay, so weird things can sound pretty awesome, I will admit. But she's gotta pull her weight if she wants to hang with a band as awesome as ours!"

She started an easy chord, and to her delight Sunset joined in and made it into a duet.

"Sweet!" Pinkie Pie trilled, joining in with a lively beat. "I'll ask her once she gets home tonight, and if new girl is with her I'll ask her too!"

With that the rest of the band joined in, and they jammed for the next hour, playing off of each other and having a wonderful time among friends.

"What’s the next objective?" She asked.

"Its a large, privately owned school called Canterlot High. They don't appear to have any defenses worth mentioning, but there have been...reports."

"Such as?" She asked, annoyed at the lack of information he had given her right off the bat.

"A few months ago, according to a fair number of people there was...some sort of demonic activity. One of the students turned into what was described as a demon and hypnotized the entire school. There isn't much information to be had after that, except that the demon was destroyed by a rainbow. And only a few months after that, some sort of song based demons -I think they called them sirens- turned the entire student body into an angry mob. Again, it was reported that they were 'defeated' by a rainbow. Most everyone we got a hold of was convinced it was some form of magic."

The young woman straightened in her chair, her irritation not reaching her icy expression.

"Demons? Magic? Rainbows?" She lowered her head, thinking deeply. Soon, she raised her gaze upon her loyal foot soldier, and gave him an order. "We don't know enough about the situation to make a complete decision. For now, assign a two star to scout and report back. There may be someone running around with access to life fibers or even a Goku Uniform. Magic?" she scoffed, "Only a fool would believe in such nonsense.”

The young man bowed deeply and retreated.

"Yes, Lady Satsuki. It will be as you command."

Author's Notes:

All right, here goes. Hoping to finally get a story into the 'something new' folder. Hopefully Equestria Girls will prove enough of a new setting to propel this story past my own shortcomings.

So welcome one, welcome all, I hope I craft a story you enjoy.