“Huh, hi. Guess I didn’t get your name when we first met at the music room.” Twilight said a little nervously and accepting the hand.

“So, are you enjoying yourself in Canterlot High, so far?” Pinkie asked.

“Well, there have been a lot of friendly faces, even though it’s for the wrong Twilight.” Twilight commented.

“But being here feels different than Crystal Prep, huh?” Pinkie asked again, knowing that this Twilight is not like the other Crystal Prep students.

“Yeah, I guess it does.” Twilight said with a small smile, but her life would be a bit different if she had come to this school instead of Crystal Prep.

“What’s that?” Pinkie asked about the pendant hanging from her neck.

“It's sort of a spectrometer. I built it to track EM frequencies, but it can also contain anomalies.” Twilight explained in her science talk, but she can tell that Pinkie has no idea what she just said and decided to make it simple for her to understand.

“It measures things.” Twilight said.

“Like the party?” Pinkie asked curiously.

“Yeah, though it doesn't look like much of a party to me.” Twilight commented on the party as she looks around, seeing the students aren’t having a good time nor doing much. Which even she knows parties are supposed to be a little more fun than this.

“I know. Something is definitely missing.” Pinkie rubbed her chin for a second and a fun idea came into her head.

“Come on!” Pinkie grabbed Twilight by the arm to drag her out of the party for her plan.

The only one who has notices them leaving was Flash who saw an exciting Pinkie Pie dragging Twilight away, probably to get something that can pump up this boring scenery of a party and maybe help lighten up the two sides from being so bitter with each other.

“You know, things could be a little more fun if everyone would open up a little.” Flash stated.

“That’s a little easier said than done, Flash.” Sunset said.

Then Celestia takes the stage with the microphone to get the students’ attention onto her to make the announcement.

“Hello, everyone! I'd like to take this opportunity to greet all of our visitors from Crystal Prep Academy and welcome them to CHS.” Celestia smiled, which made most of the students feel a little better.

That’s when Pinkie and Twilight came back in while pushing two large present boxes which Flash can already tell the pink party girl has something in mind with those boxes.

“What in the world is in these?” Twilight asked, grunting from pushing one giant present box.

“Party cannons, of course!” Pinkie answered with excitement in her tone.

“And lastly, I would like to recognize the twelve students that CHS has elected to compete. I don't think we could have chosen a better group to represent the excellence, sportsmanship, and friendship the games stand for.” Celestia explained with a warm and kind voice.

The music starts though no one is dancing and barely interacting with each other, but that’s not going to stop Pinkie who quickly got to work on using her awesome party skills to add some few extra additions to the party such as lots of cupcakes, turning off the lights for the disco ball to shine, and giving Vinyl a disc to play a new fun and wicked music.

And her efforts are proven to be very effective and when starts having fun, actually smiling and moving with the music, and even talking to each other.

“Whoa, when did everything start to feel groovy?” Lemon Zest asked surprise.

“I don’t know, but I’m not complaining.” Flash smirked and spins Lemon Zest to strike a cool pose.

“Might as well get in on this before we beat each other in the games.” Rainbow Dash shrugged before started dancing.

“I’m down with that.” Indigo Zap agreed as she performs her own cool version of the moonwalk.

Flash is dancing to show off a little of his skills to everyone then decided to kick things up a notch by performing some epic dance moves from the likes the one and only Michael Jackson, it was almost like the real deal was there himself and got several people to dance with him.

“I don’t know why, but I’m suddenly feeling that he’s hot for some reason.” Sunny Flare shocked at herself while her cheeks are blushing.

“He seems pretty cool in my book.” Moonlight Raven commented.

Moonlight Raven is a young woman with bluish gray coat skin, brilliant amber eyes, and long dark blue hair. She also got a tattoo of a purple heart and four outward-facing crescent moons on her right shoulder. She wears a purple shirt with no sleeves and her upper half back is expose with a ring around her neck holding the shirt, violet pants with one tear hole on each leg, black belt with small silver sparks and a crescent moon buckle, and brown-raspberry shoes with two purple stripes. She also got two purple waistbands on her left arm and two rings on her left arm. Breasts sizes: K-cup.

Pinkie can see that everyone is having a good time and knew the time is right.

“Hey Twilight, what’s with those two huge presents?” Mahkra asked, walking up to Twilight and Pinkie.

“I’m not sure, I was just helping this girl.” Twilight puzzled as well until she saw Pinkie lift the boxes away revealing the party cannons.

“Oh my!” Mahkra shocked.

“Um, are you sure this is a good idea?” Twilight asked worry.

“Absolutely!” Pinkie grinned and pulled the ropes to cause the cannons to fire some confetti and streamers that rain down on everyone.

Now the party is in full swing with everyone feeling happy and joy, and the two schools are being bitter toward each other like before, almost like all that negative emotions that were emitting from both sides have been washed away.

“Yay! Now everything is fun!” Sonata cheered.

“I’ll admit, this is way better than moments ago.” Aria nodded.

“Trixie has never felt so alive!” Trixie spin and dipped herself before started doing the robot with Fluttershy.

“Fluttershy! Trixie didn’t know you can do the robot!” Trixie surprised.

“I didn’t know either.” Fluttershy giggled.

While the partying was going on, Pinkie started to glow and float in the air which caught Mahkra’s attention as they became shocked of this.

“(Seeing this up close is something I didn’t want to see again, but I’ll have to keep my cool until the right moment.)” Mahkra thought steadied himself.

Then he looks over to Twilight who just got a streamer off from her hair and now her pendant device glows opening up by itself, then absorbing the magical energy unknowingly from Pinkie Pie who floats back down and started to feel tired now.

“Aw! Oh. I am party pooped.” Pinkie exclaimed.

The device finish absorbing the magic energy, but a tiny electric spark came out and open a portal from behind the bleacher sits and saw a dark spooky forest on the other side.

“What?” Twilight shocked and quickly closes her pendant that causes the portal.

Unknown to Twilight, Mahkra has been watching the whole thing and grin evilly with his eye glowing as he slowly moves away, so that Twilight doesn’t notice her.

“Just a little more, than my plan will be complete.” Mahkra smirked.

Then a finger tapping on the microphone causing feedback that hurts everyone’s ears and to turn their heads to face Cinch who is on the stage.

“(Oh great, now she’s going to make the mood sour and boring again.)” Flash thought unamused of what she’s about to say.

“I'd like to thank Principal Celestia for her unconventional welcome. It's been four years since the last Friendship Games, but it feels as though nothing has changed. Canterlot High continues to pick its competitors in a popularity contest and Crystal Prep continues to field its top twelve students. It is a comfort to know that even after so many years of losses, your school remains committed to its ideals, however misguided they may be. I wish you all the best of luck, regardless of the inevitable outcome.” Cinch said.

Her cold speech has gotten the students to separate themselves, being reminded of their rivalry and hatred toward each other.

“Or perhaps something different may happen.” Mahkra spoke up, getting everyone’s attention.

“Principal Cinch, while what you say maybe true, I do believe it is in your best interest to not take winning too much into yourself.” Mahkra advised.

“And why’s that, Mahkra?” Cinch asked.

“Because you fail to realize that winning has become boring to the students of Crystal Prep after doing so after many, many times. To the point that they don’t care about winning anymore.” Mahkra stated.

Few of the Crystal Prep students started to feel like he might be right.

“Maybe they expect something different to happen this year, who knows.” Mahkra shrugged.

“But what I do know is that this year’s Friendship Games will be unlike anything that has ever happened to us, and something we won’t ever forget.” Mahkra smiled.

“I can agree to that.” Flash walked up to Mahkra.

“I can probably do that unexpected thing you’ve been hoping for, but I fear you might be unable to handle this much awesomeness.” Flash smirked.

“Better be awesome as you claim!” Mahkra smirked back and held out his hand.

Flash saw the hand and took it shaking together which surprises the two schools, and they look at each other thinking they don’t have to hate each other in these games.

However, Cinch didn’t like this one bit with a death-glare though there was nothing she could do at this point since the games are gonna start soon.

“Pinkie, are you okay?” Flash asked as he runs up to her with the others.

“Yeah, just a little woozy.” Pinkie said in a slight exhaustion as Flash helps her up.

“I'm sorry, Pinkie. I thought your party additions were really swell.” Applejack said.

“They definitely broke the ice.” Fluttershy smiled.

“Yes. If only that Principal Cinch hadn't frozen it again.” Rarity glared at the principal of Crystal Prep.

“Yeah, she’s awful.” Pinkie nodded.

“But lucky for us, that dude made one big crack in that ice with my help.” Flash smirked, pointing a thumb at himself.

“Yet I can’t help but feel like I’ve seen that guy before.” Sonata said, scratching her head a little.

“By the way, Pinkie, I notice you look a little tired. What happened?” Sunset asked.

“I don't know. Everyone started having fun after Twilight and I fired the party cannons and I ponied up.” Pinkie explained.

“Of course, you did.” Sunset rolled her eyes.

“And let me guess, you suddenly felt tired from using your magic just like what happened with Rarity.” Flash guessed, starting to see a pattern here.

“Yeah, like it was drain out of me.” Pinkie stated how she felt moments ago.

“What do you mean by that?” Sunset asked.

“Did that happen to you, Rarity?” Adagio asked.

“I think so…” Rarity said, not entirely sure herself.

“Speaking of Twilight, where is she?” Trixie asked.

“Oh. She's right... Uh, well, she was right here.” Pinkie realized that Twilight is not with them anymore, guess she must’ve gone back to her group when Cinch did her speech.

“I’m starting to think Twilight might be the cause of whatever is going on here.” Sunset theorized.

“Not much we can do about it now. All we can do is get ready for the games to start tomorrow.” Flash advised everyone to be ready, which they all agree and will have to focus on the Friendship Games.

(Tomorrow)

The day has come, the games of the Friendship Games are about to begin through all of Canterlot.

“Good morning, students. I'm sure you're all thrilled to start the first day of the Friendship Games. Our competitors will face off in every aspect of the CHS curriculum, culminating in the elimination equation finale.” Luna announced through the speaker boxes.

The scene shows the students from both schools along with their principals standing as they are all in the middle of the lobby of the school.

Then Cadance spook up.

“Welcome to the first event, the Academic Decathlon! You'll be scored on chemistry, home-ec and everything in between. But remember, only the six students from each team with the most points will move on to event number 2. Good luck!” Cadance smiled.

“Oh yeah, this is going to be exciting!” Flash excitedly as he cracks his knuckles.

(Music: ACADECA (Academic Decathlon), MLP Equestria Girls Friendship Games OST)

The first challenge is chemistry with mixing the right chemicals together and getting the exact reaction as instructed by the teachers, few didn’t do so well like Derpy with her chemical blowing up in her face.

Moving onto the baking challenge, each pair must make a cake that not only tastes delicious but also presents itself to look amazing for the judges on the outside too. Everyone got to work on their cake.

Flash was paired with Sweetie Drop as they did the best, they could to bake a cake making it look like a big loaf of bread with strawberry and banana flavor on the inside. The Shadowbolts look like they were going to win with their amazing cake, but Pinkie made one taller and show the picture of the Mona Lisa inside the cake which got Wondercolts a big score in this challenge.

Cinch was not happy how her students lost the first round and the ones in the next challenge will do better.

The next challenge is building a birdhouse which some have done well, except for Micro Chip and Sandalwood with theirs looking pretty bad. Indigo Zap and Sugarcoat show theirs being a two-store birdhouse which impressed the judges giving them the win.

Indigo Zap and Sugarcoat do a little mocking to Micro Chip and Sandalwood for how pathetic they were with their birdhouse, but Fluttershy and Applejack calms them down.

Next is the spelling bee as some have tried their best to spell the correct words.

Scene showing both Twilight and Sunset climbing up the stairs from opposite sides as they are about to face each other in the next challenge.

Next Challenge is Twilight and Sunset solving a difficult and complicated math problem to see which one can solve it correctly.

“Incorrect.” Cinch pointed at Sunset; her solution was slightly wrong at the end.

“Almost there…” Mahkra chuckled evilly.

KO a new chapter is done and hope you all enjoy it!

The Friendship Games has begun with both the Wondercolts and the Shadowbolts going neck-in-neck with each other, but it looks like something else is about to happen with Twilight’s device and Mahkra being dark in secret.

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