The Story of -F
Chapter 40: Game over, we win!
Previous ChapterSunset paced back and forth, hands of her face, having no idea what to say to Sugar Coat and Adagio. Adagio was still in the hospital bed, and she hadn't move sence she woken up. Aria haden't either. Sugar Coat was basically dragged there. And Scootaloo had forced Applebloom to come.
"Let me get this straight." Sunset finally said, stopping her pacing in circles. "Adagio and Aria kept it a secret that Adagio was in Noah's Dawn." She looked to Aria to see if she was getting this right, but Aria just nodded.
"It wasn't a big deal, and plus, this was after The Battle of the Bands." Aria retorted.
"Battle of the what now?" Sugar Coat asked, adjusting her glasses.
Sunset stared at them both. "You didn't even tell Sonata. And next topic, you, Dazzle, took papers from Twilight's office, and I had to sneak them back in. So you're welcome for getting you out of jail Sugar Coat." Sugar Coat nodded. "And finally, you fake join the Shadowbolts so you can get training from a lunatic from Noah's Dawn, who was best friends with Rainbow? Seriously!"
"I was so close to finding F!" Adagio hissed, sitting up.
"Who's F!!?" Sugar Coat screamed. Aria hushed her.
"Really? You did a hella good job." Sunset told Adagio, very rudely.
"And sending in our worse enemy to steal your files?" Scootaloo piped up, giving an annoyed look at Adagio. "Did you really think we wouldn't find out?"
"Guys! Look, I'm sorry okay! I didn't want to hide all this from you! But I had to! If you know, F will know, and I'll be in more hot water." Adagio apologized.
"Oh you're already drowning in hot water." Sunset said, nodding her head repeatedly.
"Sunset, did you feel oh so comfortable telling us you were F.5?" Aria said, crossing her arms.
"I'm done." Sugar Coat got up and left the room, with nobody stopping her.
Sunset nodded quickly. "Fuck! You're right. I'm sorry Adagio. But, who on earth did you think was F-"
"It's gone." Adagio panicked.
"What?" Applebloom asked, standing up from the chair her and Scootaloo were sharing.
"The box of papers Indigo had in her locker. There gone." Adagio looked up. "F took them."
"So you went in Indianas locker?" Aria deeply sighed. Scootaloo looked at her as if she just said Earth was flat.
"Yes, and this box was from Noah's... SON OF A BITCH!" Adagio screamed, throwing her bag to the ground. Well, this is why she was in Noah's Dawn. She picked up a chocolate bar she had on her bed and took a bite out of it.
"What?" Sunset asked, as Adagio got up and hopped over to get her bag. Then she grabbed a crutch and began walking. She scremed Sugar Coats name and before Sunset knew it, she was there.
"What do you need?" She said, in a very very sassy tone. Yes, that was worth two verys.
"Field Trip everyone, and you're driving Sugar Coat." Adagio demanded, turning to the door.
"I'm not going on a field trip, I gotta go back to my hospital room and show Sweetie and Applebloom there dresses for the dance. Which is tommorow unless one of you get killed." Scootaloo grabbed Appleblooms wrist and left the girls who were gonna do who knows what.
"Why am I driving?" Sugar Coat asked, now adjusting her bow tie on her school uniform.
"You know where Sunny Flare lives, right?" Adagio asked, not in a fool around mood.
"Yes-"
"Sunny was the last face I sare before I passed out. And I'm more then 100% sure she took the box. And you know where she lives so let's go!" She demanded again.
"The box probably has Teddy Grams.' Aria said, trying to stop her sister. But Adagio just kept walking with her clutches, and to Arias surprise, Sunset followed her.
* * *
Sweetie Belle and Applebloom sat in the two hospital chairs Scootaloo had in her hospital room. Scootaloo threw the final outfit on the bed. There where three outfits, one black cloak with a sparkler knee long dress, then black tights and black wedges. Another one was a white version of that outfit, but with Sweetie Belles Talent Cloak instead of a plain cloak. The final outfit a was the same look as the first outfit, but it was a green cloak and dress, and black tights and Appleblooms Salvage boots.
"I am not wearing that to the dance." Applebloom demaded, picking the black cloak up.
Scootaloo nodded and ripped the black cloak out of her hand. "The black outfits mine, for Speed, the white ones for Sweetie Belle, Talent, and then green one is for you,Salvage."
"What? Sence Vice Principle Luna is letting us 8th graders crash the Seniors Prom, we're gonna crash it looking like that?" Sweetie Belle asked in disbelief.
"You've picked anything better for the dance that is... tommorow!?" Scootaloo screamed, clipping her cloak on around her neck. She didn't look half bad, to Appleblooms suprise.
"Ofcourse not but-"
"But what if F is there, Applebloom?"
Applebloom shook her head. "F won't be."
"And isn't Misty F, who's in jail?" Sweetie Belle finished.
Scootaloo walked over to a wall, which was covered by a curtain. She moved the curtain so her fellow Crusaders could see the wall. The wall, which usually was white with purple flowers, now had huge writing in a red substance on it. Obviously, Scootaloo had tried to scrub it off the walls, but failed.
Keep calm bitch and enjoy your last dance. Didn't you here? I got an invitation. It's no Grand Galloping Gala, but it's just as well. You all in the same place. Pfft. Easy as defeating. -F
"Oh my god." Applebloom gasped in shock.
"Shit." Sweetie Belle mumbled, her pupils smaller then a grain of salt.
"See what I mean?" Scootaloo said, putting the curtain back over the message.
"So F's gonna be there? Great." Sweetie Belle sighed in disbelief.
"And I think F's gonna throw you under the bus Applebloom." Scootaloos face solomomed, and her arms crossed. Appleblooms face forced confusion. "The kidnapping. F is gonna show its a lie."
"F can throw me under a roller coaster as far as I'm concerned." Applebloom said, anger in her voice. "No one will find out."
"I don't know about that." Sweetie Belle said, biting her lip.
"Thanks for the help." Scootaloo smiled in sarcasm, as she slowly put her hoodie up.
* * *
"Hey! Hello?" Sunset, Adagio, Sugar Coat, and Aria knocked repeatedly on Sunny Flares door. No answer.
Arias sighed. "She's not home. Lets go."
"No!" Adagio shrieked as she grabbed Aria, who was already half way down the four stairs on the pourch. "We can't leave!"
"Adagio! She isn't here! Those letters mean nothing! And I don't want you to break another leg trying to get that box back! Especially for the Prom tommorow."
Sugar Coat walked down all the stairs. "I'm with Aria. This is dumb. And if Indigo sees me with you guys, I'll be the next lunch special." When she spoke, her arms kept crossed and her voice was bored.
"Didn't think this was dumb five minutes ago." Sunset said, siding with Adagio.
"There was a jackass driving like SpongeBob SquarePants." She exclaimed, getting a strange look from Aria. "What? Some people don't deserve there driving license."
"Cough cough you." Aria coughed.
"Funny. I was looking for you." A voice inturuppted. It was Sunny Flare. She had the box in her hand.
"You took that from my bag." Adagio hopped down the stairs and took it out of the girls hands.
"It's fine because my friend Indigo has something to tell you ladies." Sunny stepped away. Indigo walked over, crossing her arms as if she was cold, and a very sad look on her face. She had obviously been crying. "Tell them."
"I was close friends with Rainbow Dash in Noah's Dawn." Indigo said. Sunny Flare nodded, clearly unaware what else would come of her mouth.
"And I helped her fake her death."
* * *
"Is Dagi going to be okay?" Sonata asked Rarity, who was measuring her for a dress. Them two, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Pinkie Pie were picking out outfits or clothe they wanted in there prom dress.
"She'll be fine." Fluttershy anwsered, clicking butterfly earrings, not knowing perfectly she was going to be fine.
"Yeah don't worry Sugarcube." Applejack assured, throwing a scarf on and modeling with it in the mirror.
Sonata nodded. "Okay, if you say so."
Pinkie Pie stood up from trying to make a little hat and walked over to Sonata. She put a hand on her sholder. "What's wrong?"
"F's gonna ruin this. I know if." Sonata said as tears slowly creeped down her cheek. "I don't want this to be ruined. I don't. One peaceful day. But that will never happen. Ever. Ever!" She fell to the floor and began to ball. "And my own sisters didnt even tell me that one of them was in Noah's Dawn!"
"Just because they didn't want you to freak out and be scared for her." Rarity told her, handing her a tissue.
"But... but..." Sonata stuttered. She looked up hopelessly and sadly. "And I that weak?"
"No! No you're very strong! You survived The Maze with us! You survived that pain! You're so strong I bet you could lift a car!" Rarity smiled, and yelled the whole thing aloud.
"But don't try that." Applejack assured, watching Sonatas frown turn to a huge smile. She quickly stood up and hugged all of them.
"Thank you guys." She said with a joy. In 8 seconds, according to Rarity, Sunset, Aria, and Adagio all stood at the door, big eyed. And what was obviously gonna happen? Trouble Applejack thought.
"Dagi!" Sonata cheered as she embraced her sister. Adagio hugged her back, and she quickly sat on a seat.
"What's going on?" Pinkie Pie asked, standing up.
"Rainbow Dash dipped when F came around, that's what happened!" Aria exclaimed. Sunset slapped her in the chest.
"Rainbows Dash faked her murder, or was going to." Sunset accurately repeated.
"What?" Fluttershy yelled.
"Sonata found out Rainbow was in Noah's Dawn, and so when I went on a tour of Crystal Prep to find more information, F went into Twilight's office. And of course I went in and she had pictures of the battle of the bands and a book so I took them. And then Sugar Coat, who was my only friend in Noah's Dawn sare me and told me to not go here. Then, she and her ex, Dean, got arrested for taking the pictures. And she told me the girl who lied and told, Indigo, was in Noah's Dawn and room mates with Rainbow. So, I faked being a Shadowbolt and brought a knife to a session of motercross me and Indigo were gonna have. I went in her locker a found a Noah's Dawn box. Then she found out I had the knife and attacked me. Then, Sunny Flare put a dart in her neck and took the box. She read the letters that were in there, and they were letters between Rainbow and Indigo planning her death."
"Slow down," Applejack demanded, "And she came to you and told you this?"
"No, Sunny forced her too. But she didn't know she would say something about the murder." Aria said.
"So she's not dead?" Rarity asked, putting her tape measure away.
"For all we know she could be in Hawaii under the name Lela Andrews." Sunset took a deep breath.
"Or she could be under our feet right now," Applejack said, "how will we know if she's dead or not?"
"If F is at that dance tomorow, we might find out." Sonata suggested.
"We have one advantage, F doesn't know we known this." Adagio said.
Fluttershy took a deep breath. "Do The Crusaders know?"
Adagio nodded. "Not yet."
* * *
"What's going on? And we're Scootaloo?" Sweetie Belle asked. Her and Applebloom were at Pinkie Pies apartment, waiting to see what Aria, Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie Pie had to say.
Rarity lifted a plate of scones to the two with a nervous smile. "Scones?"
"I hate scones." Applebloom told them, sipping her tea.
Aria stood there, annoyed that the other three hadn't said anything. "Rainbow faked her death."
Applebloom spit the the tea in her mouth back into her cup and then wipped the rest of the tea from her mouth. "What!"
"A buddy she had in Noah's Dawn told us." Pinkie finished, Rarity glancing at her.
"What the hell are you talking about?" Sweetie Belle said nervously.
Applebloom put some hair behind her ears and explained it all. All of it. It took about five minutes, but they understood. Barely.
Applebloom nodded. "No. She wouldn't do this. Leave when F was coming around?"
"Indigo could have easily faked write those." Sweetie Belle suggested, biting into a blueberry scone.
"No." Applejack nodded. "That's not the case."
"Scootaloo will be devastated is she finds this out. She thought her dying was all her fault!"
"Applebloom, cmon, don't be like that! Look on the bright side!" Pinkie exclaimed with joy that was not needed in this situation.
"Bright side?" Aria asked, starting at her.
"Well don't ask what the bright side is!" Pinkie said, eating a scone.
Aria sighed. Rarity looked at the girls in sorrow. "At the dance tommorow night, we need to find out who F is."
"You better be hiding a gun in your poofy dresses." Sweetie Belle said.
"F will tell all!" Pinkie Pie yelled, eating yet another scone.
"F kidnapped you. Unless you want to be in that maze again, you either need a weapon or you need to protect yourself."
"Applebloom, F is dangerous. That's stamped in our brains. But let's face it, you won't be any safer there, and unless you want F to out fireworks off during Sweetie Belles valedictorian speech, we need to find out who F is." Applejack retorted, her ears annoyed with what they were hearing.
"Fine," Applebloom stood up and began to walk away.
"And Applebloom," Rarity said, making Applebloom turn her back. "Don't tell Scootaloo."
Applebloom turned away and began to walk out the door. "Aria your phone is ringing." Rarity told her.
"Hello?" Aria picked the phone up.
"Aria!" It was Sunset. "It's confirmed."
* * *
"We both agree we need to tell her!" Applebloom asked Sweetie Belle. The two were waiting in Appleblooms bed room for her.
"Yeah, totally." Sweetie Belle paused. "But maybe not."
Applebloom sighed. "Either way, Scootaloo needs to know Rainbow Dash faked her murder and she could possibly be alive." Sweetie Belle paused and looked away. Appleblooms mind quickly went to the word Fuck. "She's right behind me isn't she."
"Course I am." Scootaloo peeped out sounding upset.
* * *
"What's going on?" Rarity asked, as her, Rarity, Aria, and Applejack walked into The Dazzlings house.
Sunset lifted up a doll. "This camera was placed by Rainbow Dash."
Pinkie Pie gasped loudly and clutched the doll. "It's a Ms. Melody Massey!"
"Oh jesus." Adagio mumbled, turning on her swively chair to the laptop on the video.
"A new one for my collection?" Sonata, who who was also there, asked.
Adagio nodded. "Can we please just watched the footage?"
Sunset nodded as she walked over to the laptop. She clicked the play button and they watched as a person in a Adagio wig, threw Rainbow across the room. It was just like the TV shows. Nothing special at all. But it ended right before the person stabbed Rainbow.
Sonata leaned over Sunsets sholder and pointed to to a button at the botton. "Click that."
Sunset did as told and it played were the old video played off. The girls all gasped in shock at what happened:
Rainbow Dash sat up as the person with the knife let got of her. She let put what sounded like a laugh. So did the other person. Rainbow Dash ringed some blood out of her hair and walked over to the camera.
"They're so gonna fall for this!" Rainbow laughed.
"Why wouldn't they?" The person took the hoodie off. It was Alison Grace. "This town is full of idiots. We're ' s that Indigo girl?"
Rainbow shrugged. "Late. I don't think she should help me with this. She'll just squeal."
"Didn't she always in Noah's Dawn?"
"Hey," she said in defense, "She's still one of my best friends."
"Whatever." Alison said.
The video stopped. The girls all stood silently in shock at what a betrayer she was
* * *
"Scootaloo," Applebloom quickly comforted her, but it was too late, she already had tears streaming down her face. "Look,"she put her hand on sholder. "Me and Sweetie Belle aren't even suppose to tell you, but I called you here to tell- ugh!" She swung her hands up in frustration.
"Anyway but this..." Sweetie Belle begged, showing the same frustration as Applebloom.
"Atleast I found out from you two." Scootaloo optimistically told them. "I wouldn't want to find out she dipped when F came around any other way."
"She didn't do that..."
"Then what else is it Sweetie Belle?" She asked in anger. "Rainbow Dash isn't in Rosewood or New York!"
"No," Applebloom gasped, "you don't think she's F?"
"That's exactly what I think." Scootaloo replied with a smile on her face. "She's a liar."
"She can't be F!" Sweetie Belle exclaimed, standing up and putting her hands up.
"Why else would she fake her death guys?" Scootaloo asked. "Simple, to get off our radar."
"Scootaloo, Rainbow was your idol." Applebloom said. "Why turn on her now-"
"Because she's a liar!"
"She cared about you!" Both Sweetie Belle and Applebloom screamed.
"Applebloom! Someone's here for you!" Granny Smith said as she walked to the door. "Me and Big Mac are heading out."
"Okay, bye." Applebloom said very politely.
As soon as Granny Smith was gone, Scootaloos purple eyes got wide. "Don't go down there!"
"And why not?" Applebloom asked.
"Who do you think is visiting you? The mayor?" Sweetie Belle asked, on the same thinking boat as Scootaloo.
"Guys," Applebloom walked past Scootaloo and down the stairs of her house. Then she swung around the cornor of the stairs and walked down a small hallway until she was in her dinning room, where Ms. Cheerilie was.
Your fucking kidding me, right? Applebloom said to herself.
"What do you need! I understand, you hate us!" Applebloom screamed without really thinking.
"Well atleast you know I hate you." Ms. Cheerilie smiled as she took her shades off.
"Atleast I can dress appropriately for the summer." Applebloom said as Ms. Cheerilie examined her normal yellow tee shirt, her shorts that were shorter then when she put her arms straight down, and white socks.
"Okay SpongeBob." She stated in sarcasm. "I didn't come here to talk about clothe."
Applebloom felt her temper blow. "Yes! You came here to talk about the baby and how did I know and how Scootaloo is a shit filled role model! Yes! Yes! Yes! I don't give a fuck! Please don't tell me things people have already told me!"
A moment of silence passed. Ms. Cheerilies face became read as she figured her finger near a knife holder. Applebloom knew that she had made the biggest mistake of her life time that hurt more people than herself.
Her teacher grabbed the knife and then with all her strength pinned Applebloom the wall. Ms. Cheerilies hand was held onto her neck so Applebloom could barely breath. She was trying to put the knife into her side, but Applebloom tried her hardest to push it away. She cried out many names many times, but nobody was coming.
Where were her two best friends during this? Oh, how she wishes this was upstairs in her room so she could grab one of Big Mac guns and... well, it was about her only choice. Her mind kept trailing off she forgot what was going on Infront of her. She had totally missed how she had pushed the knife back a little but not too much.
"Stop! Please!" Applebloom begged pulling the knife away. She closed her eyes to prevent tears.
"No, you little bitch!" She screamed, the knife going closer to Appleblooms stomach.
BAM! Applebloom opened her eyes so the tears fell out. She felt her heart jump when the noise went off, but jump even more to see that Ms. Cheerilie had given up. The knife was in Applebloom hand. Ms. Cheerilie had fallen to the ground for a strange reason. And her eyes were open and her skin was paler then usual. And there was a gun shot in her head.
"Are you okay?" Sweetie Belle, who she hadn't even noticed was there, asked. Applebloom once again looked down at Ms. Cheerilies dead body again. Then she looked over at Scootaloo, who she hadn't was there as well. She looked traumatized, tears streaming down her face. Scootaloo had seen many things worse then this, so Applebloom was confused on why she was crying. Then her eyes layed on the gun Scootaloo had in her hand.
Applebloom walked over to Scootaloo and took the knife out of her hand, then she put a hand on her sholder.
"I killed her," Scootaloo cried, not talking her eyes off the body. "I killed her."
"Scootaloo, you saved me. You did what you had to do. If she killed me, she would have killed the rest of us." Applebloom ripped the gun out of her hand and put it on the table. Then she hugged her. "Thank you."
"I would never let you die." She promised as Sweetie Belle walked over with a phone in her hand.
"Hide it or confess?" Sweetie Belle asked, giving her friend a life changing choice.
Scootaloo ripped the phone out of Sweetie Belles hand and then dialed a number.
"911 operater, how can I help you?" The person asked.
"There's been and accident." Scootaloo told the operator.
* * *
"Rainbow Dash knew Alison Grace. Wow," Aria sighed, looking at the window and the sun rays Shining threw it. Then she turned to Sunset. "Shes-"
"She probably was scared." Sunset defended, not knowing if it was the right thing to do. Especially after seeing that video.
"She's a liar Sunset. And she's F!" Aria shouted, a piece of her long bangs going in her mouth.
Sunset breathed heavily as if she might cry. "She can't be F."
Aria slammed her hands on her thighs in disbelief. "Then what is she? A potatoe?"
"A dead body."
"Hopefully." Aria sighed, tilting her head. She walked over to her closet and examine a green cropped Shiney tank top an her green skirt from The Battle of the Bands.
"That's really pretty." Sunset kindly said, ignoring her last sentence.
The Siren glanced at her. "Thanks. I was gonna wear that to the prom, but figured I wanna look more like me and less like... Aria Montgomery."
Sunset snickered. "Mine is purple and red, Rarity picked it."
"Cool." Aria smirked a little. She leaned against her closet and played with her charm bracelet. Her face began to turn red.
"Are you smirking, and blushing?" Sunset asked, pointing to herself.
Aria quickly nodded. "Nooooo!". She paused and looked out her door and paused. "Can... I talk to you?"
* * *
"So... what exactly happened?" Cadence asked The Crusaders, as she paced back and forth in front of the house, holding her notepad ready to write.
Scootaloo remainder silent and still, still not believing the life changing deed she'd done in the last hour. Sweetie Belle stared at Applebloom thinking She's not gonna speak and neither am I, so start talking Applebloom.
"Well, you see... um," Applebloom looked to her two friends for support, but Scootaloo was looking down at the pavement and Sweetie Belle all of a sudden began to look at the sky. "What did happen?" Applebloom asked as if Cadence was if she was a student and Applebloom herself was a teacher.
Cadence sighed deeply. "Your teacher was shot in the head. In your house. Not to mention you called 911."
"We were in Appleblooms room watching television, and then we heard a loud bang, a gun shot I guess, sound. So we went down stairs and there she was, dead. We're petrified and scared so I got a gun incase someone else was in the house coming after us. We have no clue why Ms. Cheerilie was in the house." Applebloom was too suprised to see this lie was slipping from Scootaloos mouth, and she was lying about murder! Murder!!!
"But, the gun you had was the same gun your teacher was killed with, how's that possible Scootaloo?" Cadence moved one of her eyebrows close to her eyes and one up high.
"Well, they had many of the same guns." Scootaloo told her. "And we'll I'm at it, are you sure the person wasn't Appleblooms kidnapper?" Scootaloo looked over to Applebloom, a light smirk on her face.
"Good theory." She scribbled that on her notepad. Then she turned and walked away.
Applebloom looked at Scootaloo, pretty sure that was she was a clone. "What the heck was that!" She screamed, waking her in the arm. "One minute you're crying your eyes out, the next you're saying lie after lie!"
"Applebloom, I lied for you. And me. But mostly for you. And maybe a tiny bit for Sweetie Belle." Scootaloo whispered, leaning in.
"You moron! Now Applebloom has no choice to say the kidnapping was real!" Sweetie Belle yelled a little to loudly, but nobody noticed.
"Oh... god." Scootaloo looked down in worry.
"Ugh!" Sweetie Belle sighed as she put her hands on her head and her elbows on her knees. "We're so screwed!"
Ring ring. The three froze. Damnit they all thought as they ripped there phone out.
Claps. I thought you'd snap. -F
* * *
Aria and Sunset layed next to eachother on there backs on Arias bed, staring up to the ceiling. Aria kept her legs crossed as Sunset blabbering on about questions she had for Aria, who had just told her her crush she had kept to herself for a hella long time.
"So," Sunset began, still looking at the ceiling. "you haden't told anyone you like Rarity?"
Aria nodded. "Ofcourse not."
"Did you ever talk to her?" Sunset asked, brushing her hair from her check.
Aria glared at her. "Again, ofcourse not!"
"Well you gotta, Aria." Sunset sat up. "Or it'll never happen."
"Well... ugh, it could ruin the tiny friendship we have!" Aria slammed her hands on the covers.
"True." Sunset admitted, walking back over to the outfit Aria had picked for the dance. "But, it wouldn't hurt to try."
"Yes it would."
"Aria-"
"Sunset, just stop. We should go downstairs and check up on the others." Aria demanded as she left her room.
* * *
The Canterlot High Prom. Seniors and 'soon-to-be-fresheman' were invited. It was four hours of dancing, talking, dancing, and girls fighting over a plastic crown that would probably snap in less then five days. Atleast this is how Aria sare it all. She couldn't care less about this dance. And the fact she needed to go made her regret dragging Adagio out of bed to go to the trail.
The day before, Misty had been released from prison. There was no evidence to keep her in. But, unfortunately there was evidence to keep Octavia Melody in. This brought a smirk to The Crusaders face. But not Scootaloo, who kept thinking about the moment her teacher fell to the floor dead, and it was all her fault.
The girls had agreed with the Shadowbolts- Sunny Flare, Sugar Coat, Indigo Zap, and Sour Sweet- to never see eachother as long as they lived. Indigo had confessed to Sour Sweet about helping Rainbow fake her death (she helped by planning with her, making that Mrs. Melody Massey doll and camera, and helping draw her blood), and Sour Sweet looked as if she could care less and that she should just run. They also agreed to never tell the Shadowbolts close friend, Lemon Zest, about any of the events that had happened.
Aria threw her flat ironed hair back and looked at Sonata, who was stuffing her face with the mini tacos. She glared at her, but Sonata threw another onto her plate. And Pinkie Pie, she kept eating the cupcakes. Aria roller her eyes at the two girls.
"Hey," Fluttershy whispered, walking over to Aria in a pink sparklely long dress. Her hair was in a bun. "Have you seen Sunset?"
"She told me she'd be here." Applejack informed her. Her blonde hair was curly and she had her normal hat on, and she wore the same dress from the fall formal.
"She'll be here. The party just started." Aria smiled as she picked up a brownie and bit into it.
"Yeah, ten minutes ago." Rarity inturuppted. Her hair was completely down and curled. Her dress went down to her knees. It was a blue match her eyes and it had a design on the front that looked like a diamond. Aria bit her lip so her jaw wouldn't drop.
"You-you look great..." Aria stuttered, knowing she was blushing. Fluttershy glanced at Applejack, Sonata and Pinkie Pie, and the four all smirked. Rarity smiled.
"Thank you dear, you don't look so bad yourself." She replied after a moment. Fluttershy, Applejack, Sonata, and Pinkie Pie all walked away and over to Adagio and Sunset who had just arrived. Clearly they wanted the two to be alone. Aria made her way to follow them, but Rarity grabbed her collar and turned her back. The two stood in silents.
Aria took a deep breath. "Is there a problem?"
"No," Rarity said, narrowing her eye towards someone in a black hoodie. F. Ofcourse F had arrived at the damn Prom. F smiled and leaned against the door.He or she waved and turned to walk down a long dark hallway. "Just... come with me," She let go of her collar and grabbed her hand and walked down the hall, following the figure.
Sunset, who had on a purple and red tie die dress and her hair down as normal, sare the two enter the hall. Shock filled her. But she shock the thought she had out of her head. She grabbed Applejacks wrist and began to head to the hallway.
"Hey," Adagio, who had her dress from the Spring Fling on, called. Something drove her off her focus for a moment. Adagio eyed a person who had complete purple on. They also had a purple veil over there head, so she couldn't see who it was. They were looking at her. As soon as Adagio looked at him or her, the walked away. "Where are you guys going?"
"Oh, to get punch for ourselves." Sunset lied. Applejack stared at her. Does this moron not know I hate punch? Applejack thought.
"Oh, okay." Sonata said as she ate a cupcake. She tucked on Pinkies sleeve. "Let's go dance!" She shouted to them all. Sonata, Pinkie Pie, Adagio, and Fluttershy walked over to the dance floor in the gym that was decorated just like the Fall Formal.
Sunset smiled until the four were gone. Then she quickly ran down the hallway, Applejacks wrist still in her hand.
"Sunset, what's going on?" Applejack asked, pulling her wrist out of her grasp. "What's going on?". Sunset didn't respond, she kept walking. "Sunset!"
"Rarity and Aria are going somewhere and I don't know what there doing so I'm following them." Sunset confessed, still walking.
Applejack stepped back and sighed. "Oh stop!"
"What?"
"If they're doing that, it's none of our business!"
"That?..." Sunset stopped and thought. "No! No!"
Applejack shrugged. "What?"
Sunset and Applejack walked some more, nothing was in clear sight. Applejack was getting tierd and Sunset was getting bored, and trying not to show it. But the two stopped as the lights in the dark hall flickered on. They both watched as F, in the normal black hoodie, made there way into the hall near the lockers.
"I think I know what Rarity and Aria were following." Sunset whispered, following F.
Sunset and Applejack walked down the halls, not in a rush sence F, who was not even 4 feet Infront of them, wasn't either. Sunset watched as Rarity and Aria swung around the cornor, so they were face to face with F.
A shocked, suprised, and... sad expression crossed Raritys face, making her dark eyeliner stand out more. Then Aria... she just looked plain confused.
"Rarity? Aria?" Applejack asked with impatiently.
"What do you see?" Sunset finished. Neither Aria or Rarity spoke up. They kept the same expression. "Is the mask off..."
The two nodded slowly, keeping there expressions the same. Sunset heard Applejacks high heel click as she stepped back. Then she relized F was slowly turning to face there direction.
Gulping down a whole lot of nerves, Sunset stood up a little higher on her high heels while F turned around. F was soon face to face with Sunset.
Applejack horroridly at F, the very familiar face. And Sunset, she looked at F in absolute shock.
The F that was Princess Twilight Sparkle.
* * *
Scootaloo, Sweetie Belle, and Applebloom walked into the gymnasium, where it looked beautiful, and identical to the fall formal. They three had the cloaks on, finally convinced F would show up. They, on the other hand, showed up fifthteen minutes late. Scootaloo headed towards the middle of the room and looked around for F, hoping he or she had showed up.
Adagio, Fluttershy, Sonata, and Pinkie Pie ran up to them as they got to the middle of the room. They looked more worried then ever. Applebloom tapped Scootaloo out of her search phase and she looked at Adagio.
"I know, these cloaks are ugly." Scootaloo rolled her eyes, continuing searching threw the crowd.
"No," Adagios voice sounded very worried. "Have you seen Rarity, Aria, Sunset, and Applejack?"
"Yeah, they're not anywhere!" Sonata exclaimed, biting her lip.
"Oh, um, no." Scootaloo nodded ripping a tablet out. She pressed a few buttons, then a map of the whole school came up. Rarity, Aria, Sunset, and Applejacks Cutie Marks came on the map in the main hall.
"What is this?" Fluttershy asked, anger filled her voice.
Scootaloo exhaled, a guilty feeling in her stomach. "After Rainbow Dash died, I chipped you all. Including Applebloom and Sweetie Belle. The day Flashes Blood was in Sunsets purse, and you got the text from F with the buttons, I sent the buttons. I chipped you all so you'd be safe."
"So we were chipped, you knew where we were kidnapped!" Sonata screamed.
"No. F hacked into the chips and he or she got to track you and locked me out. And in the kidnapping, F must have done something to send shocks from them." Scootaloo tapped a few more times and zoomed in on the Cutie Marks.
"But I thought you were locked out." Sweetie Belle asked, tapping the back of her neck to see if there was a chip.
"I got back in yesterday. F's code was Magic." Scootaloo rolled her eyes again. "Pretty pathetic."
"Yeah." The six agreed as if there passwords were any better.
"There in the main hall, let's go." Applebloom demanded, turning towards the exit.
* * *
"Twilight? No... this isn't real!" Sunset cried, looking at the tormenter who seemed to be a trustworthy friend who died because the Gem of good hope.
"Are you fucking kidding me? I don't even know you!" Aria shouted very fastly. Twilight crossed her arms.
"Why?" Applejack complaimed, her eyes filling up. "Why would you do-"
"You ruined everything! Everything!" Twilight exclaimed, her eyes with anger and sadness.
"We," Aria said from behind her. "Did nothing."
Twilight ripped a stick out and wipped it towards Aria. Raritys hand went up and ripped it out of her hand. "What did we ruin!" Rarity cried, her make up ruined.
"After the Battle of the bands, I went back, and everyone wanted to know what happened beyond that portal. It was stuff I couldn't explain. I told them that. And guess what! They thought I was lying! But I wasent! And then my five best friends began ignoring me." A sound echoed the walls. Twilight turned to it and then back. "And it was all your fault."
"That's not a damn motive." Sunset said solemnly.
"That's all you're-"
"Make something up!" Sunset shouted, as the echoing on the walls got loudly.
"You faked your death, to stay here. Didn't you?" Applejack asked.
"Just like Rainbow did." Twilight smirked.
Sunset felt rage flash inside of her. "Is she alive?" She hoped it came out as a wimper, but it came out as more rage.
"Oh, she had a fabulous plan. But the bitch didn't make it." She smirked again.
"Don't lie." Rarity lifted the stick above her head.
Twilight granted her teeth and turned to Rarity. "Exactly what you said to me on the other side of the portal. 'Don't lie'. Well," Sunset knew her voice would rise. And it did. "I'm not lying Rarity!"
"You can't lock people up," Aria began. "And torcher them."
"I can and I did!" She yelled. Noah's Dawn was created for her, Aria thought. "And let me say, Rainbow wasent the best in that maze."
"Why Adagio and Rainbow?" Sunset asked. "Take there bodies?"
"Because the elements of harmony, or the rainbooms wouldn't revive Rainbow, and so The Dazzlings and Crusaders, who I know are the elements of F, would revive Dazzle. If just one is missing, they both can't work."
"The Element of F? Huh?" Aria asked.
"Maybe you should have payed attention in class, Aria." And there, that evil smirk was once again back on her face.
"Maybe you should've payed attention in Anger Management." Aria raged, hitting Twilight in the face. Twilight hit her back without a care. Aria stumbled back and growled at her.
"Twilight," Sunset said more calmly. "I'm so sorry-"
"Don't apologize you moron!" Aria called.
Twilight turned back you Aria. "She can say whatever the heck she wants." She turned back to Sunset and smiled, then took her hoodie off to reveal her long blue hair. "She was always my favorite."
"I'm sorry Twilight, this isn't the solution. Torcher us-"
"No..." the faint voice of Fluttershy cried. The five turned and sare Fluttershy, Sonata, Pinkie Pie, and Adagio, who had a gun in her hand. The Crusaders stood in the front, showing no emotion.
"Oh look, the whole party's here!" Twilight screamed insanely. Adagio stepped back and held the gun a little higher.
"You... you were suppose to be our friend. And look! Look at who you killed! Hurt!" Pinkie Pie wipped tears from her face.
"You're suppose to be dumb!" Pinkie Pie gasped in shock at what Twilight had said. Pinkie Pie repeatedly nodded. "And who I've hurt! Please! You hurt so many-"
Pinkie Pie ripped the gun out of Adagios hand and shot it at Twilight. Being the first time she'd handled a gun, she missed horribly and hot the wall.
Twilight laughed. "You can't even shoot a gun?"
Rarity put the stick above her head and threw it at Twilight. The stick hit perfectly on the back of her head and made a crack sound. The Crusaders watched as her eyes went pail and she fell to the ground. They all stood silent as Sonata walked over to her and felt he pulse.
"She's dead." Sonata announced.
Rarity fell to the ground in tears. "I killed her." She mumbled as the tears streamed down her face. "I'm a killer."
Scootaloo put a hand on her sholder. "It's okay. You did what you needed to. It was self defense. I know how you feel."
The purple haired girl looked up. "You... Ms. Cheerilie?"
Scootaloo nodded remembering the moment that gun went off. "She would of killed us all."
"Guys," Adagio inturuppted, touching Twilight's pulse again. "We gotta hide the body."
"No, I'll confess." Rarity stated, standing up.
"You cant. Twilight's human counterpart is already dead, so..." Sonata looked to all her friends.
"Applejack, your farm is big." Scootaloo began to whistle after stating the obvious solution.
"I know where to put it." Applejack stated. "Let's go."
* * *
"I remember this." Rarity said as she huffed for breath. The 11 had climbed up a hill that was the highest point at Applejacks farm. It was a 10 minute climb, and most of them had heels or long dresses. And Applejack carried a shovel while Sonata and Rarity carried Twilight's limb body.
The two dropped the body near a tree, which sat on top of the hill. It was the only tree on the hill. Pinkie Pie gasped, turning all eyes onto her. "This tree. Remember? We were beginning High school. Rainbow Dash wanted us to all come up here before she left to wherever she was going for a long time. Me, Fluttershy, Rarity, Applejack, and me. It was before Sunset arrived."
Applejack let out what sounded alot like a laugh. Then a little whimper, as if she was a dog. "I remember like it was yesterday. She came and sneaked up us. Then she called this tree our special tree. And she made us all carve our names in them."
Pinkie Pie ran her fingers over the five girl signatures. She had a warm smile on her face. Fluttershy, on the other hand, only showed anger. She took the shovel out of Applejacks hand and put it behind her head as if she was going to hit Pinkie Pie. The words no barely slipped Sunsets mouth when Fluttershy hit the tree. Right where the signatures were. She did this multiple times, until her anger became tears. She put her arm on the tree and sobbed.
"Fluttershy..." Sonata stopped as Aria put her hand on her sholder.
She nodded. "Twilight killed Rainbow. And she tried to leave-"
"Fluttershy." Sunset put a hand on her sholder. "Please don't."
Sunset took the shovel out of Fluttershys hand and began to dig into the moist soil. Her breath huffed and puffed as she let some tears out. The Dazzlings and The Crusaders, who barely knew her, felt tears warm in their eyes. Scootaloo nodded, not being able to watch this. She kneeled down in the dirt next to Sunset and put her hood from the cloak, then she used her hands to dig.
Adagio grabbed a small plastic shovel and did the same. Sunset looked up at Adagio, who hated getting dirty. "What?" She commented as she caught her glance. "We're all in this together."
Sweetie Belle and Aria grabbed a box of shovels and handed it to them all. Everyone but Rarity and Fluttershy digged. Instead, the two grabbed the body and threw it into the 4 feet pit they had dug. Raritys face looked brave, after it at first looked depressed.
"I'm sorry Twilight." She bravely told the girl now covered with bugs and dirt. "But you left us with no choice."
"And Rainbow," Fluttershy whispered. "You're a meanie."
Sonata stood over the grave and ripped the remaining necklace she had around her neck. She dropped it onto her chest. "To thank you."
"Thank her?" Sweetie Belle asked, glancing at her two best friends.
"Guys. Twilight is the Princess of Friendship. Looked what she's done. Damage, and goodness. She brought us together and created a friendship stronger then anything. So strong, you can lift a car." Sonata smiled as she looked at her friends.
"Yeah. Your right. You guys, I was horrible to you, and... now I'm dating a girl I said that would be forgotten." Sunset smiled at Adagios blunt comment. "And you three risked everything." She pointed to The Crusaders, who locked arms. "And... you guys are my best friends."
"And we'll always be." Applejack promised. Scootaloo moved to the edge of were Twilight was burried.
"Game over," she kicked dirt in the grave. She looked at all her friends and they all said, "we win."
* * *
The Rainbooms, Crusaders, and Dazzlings all re-entered the dance, cleaned up and having no evidence of what had just happened. Vice Principle Luna walked over to the girls quickly. She smiled, which suprised Scootaloo because she thought she hated her guts.
"Where'd you go?" She kindly asked, moving her hips to the music.
"We helped them begin to clean the lockers." Applebloom said. "There going off to Collage soon."
"I know. You girls were something. You changed alot at this school. Rainbow would of loved this all." Luna smiled again. So did them all has another thought trailed there minds. "I'm very excited thought to have you girls back in August for The Friendship Games."
"The what?" Sonata asked.
"You'll see soon. Bye ladies!" Luna concluded, running away.
The girls all walked to the dance floor. The light seemed to be Shining brighter. And the weight they all had on there sholders seemed to be gone.
"You know, there still some things I just don't understand about the whole F thing." Adagio stated, putting her arm around Sunset.
"Me too." Scootaloo agreed, smiling brightly. " "But some things should be left alone, for now." "
End of book 1.