Thursday came with a chilly wind and dark grey clouds, snow lightly falling outside, though it threatened to worsen throughout the day. A soft clicking could be heard coming from one of the two offices in the school. A dark-blue-haired woman was sitting at her desk typing on a computer. Vice Principal Luna reached over, picking up a hot cup of coffee and taking a sip before setting it back down next to a manila folder, going back to typing. While typing, she heard a soft knock at her door. Without taking her eyes off of her computer, she said, “The door is open.”

Her assistant Pearl Dusk walked into the office carrying in her hands a small stack of papers. Pearl set the stack of papers down on Luna’s desk and turned to leave, when Luna said to her, “I take it these are from Applejack Smith Apple's locker?”

Turning back around, Pearl looked at Luna before letting out soft sigh. “Yes and no. I found them on Ms. Apple's locker as well as other lockers. Some of them are, well,” Pearl shuttered a bit, something that Luna picked up on, “rather lewd, to say the least.”

“I see. Very well,” Luna replied, picking up her coffee cup again. “How many did you take down today, Pearl?”

Pearl looked at the stack of papers next to Luna, then to Luna herself before replying, “Fourteen so far.”

Luna continued to type without looking at the newly acquired papers sitting next to her. After a few moments, she stopped typing, picked up the papers and added them to the file sitting next to her. Looking at the file’s label, which read "Aj.S.A - L, 346", Luna let out a forced sigh then went back to work.

Pearl was about to leave, when she stopped, turned around, and said, “Vice Principal Luna, can I ask you something?”

“Of course, Pearl. What is it?

“Who do you suspect is this Anon-a-Miss person?”

Not taking her eyes off her work while she continued to type on her computer, Luna shook her head lightly as she said, “I wish I knew, Pearl. I have only yesterday just started my investigation, but rest assured that if it is whom I suspect it to be, that person will rue the day that this whole affair got started.”

“I see. Well, in that case, I'll leave you to your work, then.”

Pearl left Luna’s office, leaving the vice principal to continue her work. An hour went by without much else other than Luna typing away. Feeling the need to talk with her sister, Luna got up, stretched, then looked at the file again. Sighing, she picked up the file and headed out of her office.

Walking down the hallway towards her sister's office, she rounded a corner and stopped in her tracks when she saw a group of students who called themselves the Diamond Dogs taping pictures to Applejack's locker. They were laughing and snickering among themselves. Once they saw that she was standing in the hallway, they took off towards the school's entrance doors, leaving her to clean up the mess. Placing the file she was going to give to her sister under her arm, Luna walked over to Applejack’s locker and began to take down the pictures, stopping when she heard a stern yet calm voice from behind her.

“Luna, what are all these pictures? And why do they resemble Applejack?”

Turning around while holding one of the pictures in her hands, Luna looked at Principal Celestia with a steady look in her eyes.

“I take it you have not heard of the incident that occurred on Monday, sister?”

Looking at her sister with a confused look, Celestia stepped up to Applejack’s locker and began to help her sister take down the remainder of the pictures. While holding three of them in her hands, Celestia said, “What incident are you referring to, Luna?”

Taking down the last pictures, Luna handed over the file she was carrying to her sister as she replied, “I have been conducting an investigation into these pictures.”

Crossing her arms over her chest, Celestia gave her sister a stern look.

“What investigation? I have not heard of anything of this sort.”

“Apparently, one or more of the students here at CHS have created a MyStable account called Anon-a-Miss,” Luna replied.

“I see.” Celestia looked at the picture in her hands, then back up at her sister. “That doesn’t really explain why these pictures were taped to Applejack's locker or why they all say ‘Piggly Wiggly’ on them.”

Taking the pictures from her sister, Luna added them to the ones she already had, then handed the entire file over to her sister, who looked through it. While Celestia looked through the file, Luna said, “According to Ms. Apple, her family's nickname for her was and is Piggly Wiggly. She didn’t go into full details about it with me. So, because of the lack of information forthcoming from Ms. Apple, I looked it up on the MyStable account. Sister, what I found on that website was, well, rather disturbing. I am shocked, to say the least, that someone would find it amusing to post such private information about Ms. Apple online like that.”

“Please, Luna, must you keep referring to Applejack by her last name?”

“Well, how else would you want me to refer to her?”

“By her first name. Anyways, this is what I want you to do. I want you to continue your investigation and keep me informed of any new postings to this website. Also, I want this handled quietly. I don’t want a huge mess over this. Right now, all we have are a few pictures. I would like to speak with Applejack about this matter myself. Please have her come to my office.”

“You should know before you speak with her that I have already spoken to her, and she assures me that she isn’t going to let this bother her.”

Celestia handed Luna the file back and walked away towards her office. Luna also headed back to her own office. Getting there a few moments later, Luna set the file down on her desk, then sat down in her chair. She reached over and pressed the intercom switch, speaking into it, “Applejack, please come to the principal's office. Applejack, to the principal's office, please.”

Celestia had made it to her office shortly after she heard the announcement over the intercom. Opening her door and leaving it open, she entered, sat down, and waited for Applejack to show up. A minute or two later, Applejack knocked on Celestia's doorjamb. Celestia looked up and said sweetly to her, “Ah, Applejack, please come in, won’t you? And shut the door too, please.”

Applejack did as she was asked, closing the door and taking a seat in front of Celestia’s desk. She took off her hat placing it into her lap. Celestia smiled warmly to the seventeen-year-old farmer, who smiled back just as warmly.

“Applejack, the reason I called you in here today is because I wanted to discuss with you the pictures that both I and Vice Principal Luna have found on your locker.”

“Ah see. Ah can assure you that I ain't about ta let it bother me. Not one bit. Ah can handle a little teasin'.”

“While I am glad to hear that you are not going to let this bother you, you need to understand that while you are willing to let this slide, I, however, am not.”

Applejack looked down at her hat, then back up to Principal Celestia, who simply looked back at her with concern in her eyes.

“Ah appreciate you lookin' into this. Ah want you ta know that Ah ain't got no clue as to who set up that account.”

Getting up from behind her desk, Principal Celestia walked over to her office door and opened it, saying to Applejack, who also got up, “And I want you to know we will get to the bottom of this, Applejack.”

“Thank ya kindly, Principal Celestia.”

Applejack headed back to her classes, and Principal Celestia closed her office door, then went back to her desk. She turned on her computer and started going over MyStable for any and all information about the Anon-a-Miss account. While looking over the account, she didn’t see her sister walk into her office with a grim look on her face.

“Sister, we need to talk about the Diamond Dogs.”

Looking up from her computer, Celestia clearly was not pleased to have yet another problem to deal with.

“What have they done now, Luna?”

“I caught them tagging school property with markers and spray paint.”

“Oh, for God's sake!” Celestia exclaimed angrily. “That's it! I have given them more than a few chances. I want them in my office before the school day is over Luna!”

Luna smiled, turned, and walked out of Celestia's office, returning a few minutes later with all four Diamond Dogs in tow, one of which she had by the ear, the other three looked too scared to actually do anything. Sitting them down in front of her sister, Luna smirked slightly as Celestia glared at all four of them. Celestia let out a very slow, angry sigh as she looked from the three Diamond Dogs to her sister and back again.

“I hope you three know how much trouble you are all in right now. I have given each of you plenty of chances to clean up your behavior. But now, if what Vice Principal Luna tells me is even remotely true, all three of you will be expelled.”

Rover looked from Celestia, then to Luna who stood next to her sister. Feeling confident, he said, “You go ahead and kick us out if you want to, lady. We don’t need this stinkin' school. We can get by just fine without an education.”

“I would like to see how you ‘get by’ in jail for defacing school property, Rover," Luna said. "And that is 'Principal Celestia' to you, not 'lady'.”

Rover and his two friends suddenly had a look of fear in their eyes. Celestia saw this, yet said nothing to them as she picked up her phone. Looking at all three Diamond Dogs sitting in front of her, Celestia couldn’t help but feel sorry for them. Even so, Celestia called the police while her sister stared coldly at the three gangbangers in front of her and her sister.

A half-hour went by before three police officers walked into Principal Celestia’s office. As the police were cuffing the three Diamond Dogs to take them away and reading them their Miranda rights, Rover said coldly to Celestia, who simply stared back at him with sad eyes, “This isn’t over.”

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