Author's Notes:

Note, this takes place before Rainbow Rocks and a few weeks after Equestria Girls.

Sunset awoke to the sound of her alarm clock buzzing. She sat up and stopped the alarm. She stretched and made her way to the kitchen to have some breakfast. After finishing her cereal and washing the dishes she switched from her purple pajamas to her normal clothes and headed out of the door to her apartment. After locking the door she made her way to Canterlot High.

She looked around as she walked down the street, the sun was shining and there were very few clouds in the sky. She smiled and started humming a soft tune. "Hey there Sunset." She looked behind her to see Rainbow Dash pull up in her cyan sports car. "Need a lift?"

"Thanks for the offer Rainbow, but I think I'll just walk today."

"Suit yourself." Before Rainbow wound up her window, Sunset saw a pained look plastered on her face. "See ya at school." With that she drove off. Sunset looked concerned but continued walking. Deciding to question it later.

Meanwhile a boy in a grey tracksuit with his hood covering his head watched Rainbow drive by, after she drove around a corner he chuckled and walked towards the school.

Rainbow wiped a tear from her eye as she drove down the road, she looked at a photo of her years ago with one of her childhood friends and sighed. "God damnit I miss you Treble."

Sunset had noticed that over the past couple of days that her friends seemed to be getting worse, and she was going to find out why. She reached the school to find her friends sulking around the statue, even Pinkie seemed to have her hair slightly deflated. "Hey girls, what's wrong?" The girls looked at her and brightened up a bit.

"Oh, good morning Sunset, how was your weekend darling?" As Rarity asked that question, Vinyl and Octavia walked over to the group with saddened looks, they all shared a quick glance and nodded, then went on their way.

"It was good Rarity, thank you. What's going on, why are you all so down today?" They all looked to each other and nodded. Rarity reached into her purse and pulled out photo of the girls when they were younger. "I don't get it."

"There's a bit folded at the right side." Sunset looked to the picture and unfolded a section of it and revealed a young boy with electric red hair (much like Vinyls) with streaks of magenta through it. He had snow white skin and wore red sunglasses and had a huge smile on his face as he sat with the group in the photo. "Who is this?"

"That is our dear friend Treble Clef, you may know his sister, Vinyl Scratch."

"I thought his hair looked familiar." She looked up to the girls. "So who was he?"

"To put it simply, he was our sixth before Twilight came along. He brought us together, kept us from drifting apart from each other, but when he left, you know how that ended." The girls all nodded and Rainbow wiped a tear from her eye.

"He was a really cool guy, one of the only guys I knew that could match my own coolness." Rainbow choked.

"He always helped me with my animals." Fluttershy mumbled.

"He would always play music at my parties." Pinkie stated in a hushed tone.

"He would always get me to come outta mah stubborn shell." Applejack sighed and crossed her arms.

"And he was such a gentleman, always helping me when I needed him." Rarity finished and gave a small smile.

"What happened to him?"

"His parents got divorced, his mother got custody of Vinyl and his father got him. We don't know how that came to be but alas, he was taken away from us."

"If Vinyl is his sister why didn't you ask her for his number or something."

"That's the thing darling, her mother made her delete any contact details with her father and brother, and vice versa. We had no way to contact him." They all nodded and Sunset looked at the picture.

"Tell me more about him." Rainbow got up and motioned Sunset over. "Yes Rainbow?"

"I'll tell ya how I met Treble and a piece about him, then they will do the same." Rainbow started walking away and motioned Sunset to follow. "There's something you should know about him, he...didn't talk."

"What?"

"He's like Vinyl, he can't talk, but he's not mute, he can say things like his name and hi and stuff like that, but he couldn't actually talk, he'd listen and you could have a full on conversation with him, he'd just respond and you'd talk." Sunset nodded and wiped a tear forming in Rainbows eye.

"You really miss him don't you?" She nodded. "Tell me how you met."

"Okay, here goes..."

It was the second year of middle school, the young Treble Clef had a set of headphones on alongside his sister and her friend Octavia. "Alright Treble, Vinyl and I are going to go see our friends, we'll see you later." Treble nodded and hugged them both. "Alright alright, you go make some friends, you're new here remember, there should be someone around here you can befriend." He smiled and gave her his usual response to things.

"Aye." His voice was very childlike and his personality fit it, he had the curiosity of a young child and often got distracted, but that's what people loved about him, he didn't have a care in the world other than his friends. "Bye." Vinyl patted his cheek and walked off.

Treble looked around him and saw various students. He saw a bunch of groups that he knew he wouldn't fit into so he avoided them. He walked along the grounds, he had taken off his headphones and let the set rest on his neck. While he was walking he passed a small soccer pitch with only one student playing at it, she had rainbow coloured hair which fascinated him. He watched as she did various tricks with a soccer ball until she accidentally slipped up and the ball rolled over to him.

"Hey kid, could you pass the ball?"

"Aye." He flicked it up with his foot and bounced it on his knees before kicking it over to her while it was in the air. She picked up the ball and looked over to him.

"Hey, come here a second." He walked over to her and she tossed him the ball. "Do more of those tricks, but do something that'll blow my mind." He smirked and threw the ball into the air. He jumped onto his hands and started spinning, as he was spinning upside down he kept juggling the ball with his feet. When he was done he kicked it into the air and got to his feet, he held out his hand and the ball fell onto it.

He handed it back to Rainbow who looked at him with wide eyes, her astonished look soon turned into a smirk. "Stick with me kid, that kinda awesomeness deserves to be in my group of friends. Names Rainbow by the way." She held out her hand which he took.

"Treble."

"Well then Treble, tell me something about yourself." He frowned for a second before making a talking gesture with his hand and shook his head, she seemed to understand. "You can't talk?"

"Aye." She looked at him and smiled.

"That's fine, I prefer silent types anyway." He smiled and they continued playing and doing tricks with the soccer ball until it was time to enter the School.

"And that's how I met him. From that moment we always hung out and talked...well...I did." Sunset just looked at her friend in disbelief, she had never seen Rainbow Dash this emotional before. She placed a hand on Rainbows shoulder.

"He meant that much to you?" Rainbow nodded. "But if you guys missed him so much then why are you only sad now?"

"Because his birthday is tomorrow, it was also the day he was taken away." Sunset patted her on the back. "Thanks Sunset. By the way, if you ever tell anyone I got all emotional like this I will kick your butt." Sunset rolled her eyes and the school bell rang.

"C'mon Rainbow, we've got to get to class." They made their way into the building with the rest of the students.

When everyone was inside the boy in the tracksuit walked onto the grounds. He looked at the school and grinned while snickering playfully. He made sure to wait until everyone was in a classroom before making his way towards the principals office.

Along the way his hood slipped down to reveal his electric hair and red sunglasses. He was about to pull it up again when Sunset walked out of a classroom and saw him. He looked at her and put a finger to his mouth, she understood and nodded, she then made her way back into the room and he put his hood up.

Meanwhile Sunset was processing what she saw, after making sense of the situation she smiled. Yeah, that'll cheer them up.

Principal Celestia was filing some paperwork when she heard a knock on her door. She told the person to walk in and the boy walked in with his hood down. "Ah, mister Treble Clef, it is wonderful to see you again. I trust you've been well?"

"Aye." He smiled and took off his sunglasses and sat down.

They talked for awhile before Celestia handed him a form, he was joining the school and found a small place to stay with a friend. He filled out the form and handed it back to Celestia. "Thank you Treble, I look forward to seeing you around the School, you start tomorrow." He nodded and they shook hands. He walked out of the room and put up his hood.

As he walked out of the school his mind went back to the girl he saw in the hallway, he didn't know why, but he found her quite cute. He smiled and made his way over to his temporary home.

He waited until the school day was finished and watched the students leave for their homes from a bench. He looked through the crowd to see his friends all looking slightly better than they did this morning. He looked all of them over, they had grown into beautiful young women over the years and he was glad that they were able to put that whole cellphone thing behind them. He knew that it never would have happened if his dad hadn't taken him away from them, he could have helped solve the problem.

Years ago he was the glue that kept the group together and they all knew it, without him their arguments would had drove them apart many times. He knew about the cellphone incident by one of the last texts he ever got from Vinyl. He let his friends drift apart once, he wouldn't let it happen again.

He spotted his sister and childhood friend Octavia walking down the street. He chuckled and followed them.

Vinyl and Octavia walked down the pathway to their house, both slightly depressed about what the next day would mean to them. They walked in silence, Vinyl listening to her music while Octavia just shut the world out. On the way they were stopped by a boy in a grey tracksuit. At first the two thought it was a mugger and took defensive stances. He reached for his hood and pulled it down to reveal their lost sibling/friend. He held his usual goofy smile. Both the girls looked at him with disbelief. Octavia reached out her hand and touched his cheek to make sure he was real.

"Is that really you Treble?"

"Aye." Both of the girls tackled him with hugs and tears in their eyes. He chuckled and hugged them back.

"We missed you so much." Octavia cried into his chest. Tears started to form in his eyes as he held his siblings close, he spent enough of his childhood with Octavia to call her a sister. He held them close and let some tears slide out from his glasses.

Vinyl kissed his cheek and nuzzled it against hers and he did the same. He finally had his sisters back and soon he would have his friends back as well. And he wasn't going to let anything stop him from achieving his goal to be with the ones he loved.