Dear Twilight Sparkle,

A lot has happened since I last wrote and not all of it has been good, but it is getting better. After the last time we wrote each other...

Flash Sentry stepped up to the microphone as him and his band took a break from practicing love songs in the garage for the try-outs for the Valentines Day Dance.

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Sweetie Belle sat in the room with her parents, District Attorney Twilight Velvet, and the public defender/child advocate attorney assigned to her, Mrs. Lovetaps. "Your daughter will have to plead guilty as part of the deal for her testimony in not just this case, but the 57 other criminal cases stemming directly from the information shared with her and the other two children as Anon-a-miss. By doing this she will be placed on probation, be fitted with a ankle monitor, and have her access to the internet and social media heavily restricted and monitored as soon as the cyber crimes division finish modifying both her laptop and cell phone. She is also agreeing to aiding any law enforcement agency that are working on Anon-a-miss related cases. For her full cooperation your family will also be given immunity to civil prosecution, but she will have to testify in any and all 129 civil suites that have been filed and requests her testimony both fully and honestly." With that District Attorney Twilight Velvet pushed the agreement across the table towards her with a pen.

"I have already read it Sweetie Belle and it is exactly as she says and is the best deal you will be able to get, but this is..." Lovetaps tried to explain but Sweetie Belle just picked up the pen and signed, knowing she was going to be seeing the inside of a lot of different courtrooms for the foreseeable future.

In her hospital room, Gilda sobbed in Gretchen's arms as Gunther looked on.

Scootaloo rode in the bus as it took her to the Everfree Juvenile Detention Center along with Fido, Spot, a dozen other Diamond Dawg Boys, Suri Polomare, and Vapor Trail. She watched the others as she remembered how Sweetie Belle had just left her there and ran to the police. What hurt the worst was Silver Spoon had told her it was going to happen and she had believed her friends would stay by her, but in the end they left her to save themselves. As she watched she saw Fido, Spot, and the other Diamond Dawg Boys as they eyed Suri and Vapor with hungry smiles. Then Fido gave her a smile before moving over next to her, "First time kid? Just stick with Diamond Dawg Boys. Dawgs been here before. Dawgs know what to do. Dawgs just have to wait for Rex to get us out." With that he put his hand between her legs and said. "If you play nice with Fido others not bother you and we take you with us." Looking up at the large 16 year old, she thought about it and then smiled up at him as she spread her legs.

Behind the bus was a giant of a man on a motorcycle with the word Rex across the back of his black vest. If asked, he would say he was feeling nostalgic and decided to ride out to Camp Everfree, but in reality his destination was about 5 miles down the road where there was a nice overlook with a good view of the camp, juvenile detention center, and the lake. Unlike his little brother, Fido, he was smart enough to plan ahead and think things through first. Once he figured it all out he would call in the rest of the Hell Dawgs.

Zephyr Breeze looked at the padded walls of the isolation room and glared as he sat there. He had calmed down after they had loaded him into the ambulance and then after Kijo had taken over every computer in the city the cops had begun asking him questions, but he had been smart enough to see the opportunity he had and began screaming about the 'Evil Blue Pony'. Now he sat there pretending to be insane and going crazy whenever they mentioned the blue pony, but inside he was seething as he went over it again and again in his head, trying to find any clue in the blue pony's words or actions that would tell him who had done this to him.

Outside of the isolation room the bored orderly, Larry Shadowfright, lead Gabby to the next isolation room. Her and Glenda would have already been transported to the Tartarus Maximum Security Mental Institution, but some kind of paperwork mix up meant they would have to wait in isolation rooms until it was all worked out.

Senator Victory Valencia Orange sat looking across the table at her 2 nieces, well one was actually her grand niece, with a frown on her face. Behind them stood 2 of her nephews, Big Mac and Northern Spy, to make sure they stayed seated. In front of her was two files that were almost the exact same thickness. Granny might be the matriarch of the family, but after her father had passed away Victory Apple became the enforcer of the family while her mother grieved and got her first taste for her only real addiction, power. Everyone in the family knew you had really screwed up if she had to take time out of her busy schedule to get involved and these two had screwed up by the numbers. "My father, your Grandpappy, Arkansas Black Apple loved his little countryism sayings about everything. He actually collected them in little notebooks he carried around with him and when he died they allowed him to continue to provide for his family because they were still being published as 'Arkansas's Little Black Book of Country Wisdom'. He was never a business genius, but at least the meager royalties kept the farm afloat and his family fed until the sales dropped and they stopped publishing them, but by then we were back on our feet. That is what it means to be family, we take care of each other, like he did and like I did later when the farm had another rough patch after Bright Mac and Pear Butter died."

She paused before continuing, "The two of you remind me of two of the sayings in the book, 'One bad apple spoils the whole bunch'" With that she looked directly at Apple Munchies before turning her gaze towards Apple Bloom. "and 'The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree'." She let that settle in before tapping the files and saying. "The only other family member with a thicker police file than you two is Rotten Apple and I helped put my brother away for a good reason. Now I find myself still dealing with the fallout from him in the form of his daughter and granddaughter. Personally I would wash my hands of both of you and be done with it, but you are family. One broken inside from what her father did to her and the other acting like a petty little child throwing a temper tantrum because her big sister wouldn't play with her." Leaning forward she then said. "Before I explain what is going to happen I want you both to know that Granny doesn't like it, but she and the entire family have agreed to this. I'm not just talking about the Apples, but the Oranges, Peaches, Grapes, and the Lemons. After this there will be no more chances and if you screw up again I won't bail you out of the hole you dug yourselves into. There will be no more phone calls to the police to let you go when you get caught with a john, Apple Munchies. There will be no more payments to fix a neighbor's window when something goes wrong, Apple Bloom. There will be no more money for doctor's bills when a client gets to rough or your latest pimp hurts you, Apple Munchies. There will be no more late night phone calls to talk people out of pressing charges after whatever crazy new stunt you and your friends try and fail at, Apple Bloom. You both have lost all of our trust and it is going to be a long time before you earn it back. I want you to think on that."

Getting up she opened the refrigerator and frowned at her young 17 year old face on the carton of Orange Juice before the now 45 year old women grabbed an apple cider and took a drink before sitting back down. "You, Apple Munchies, can either agree to go into a private medical clinic on an isolated island where you will undergo treatment for your addiction, your mental issues, and spend the rest of this year relearning how to be a productive member of society to my satisfaction or you can go to jail due to the warrant for your arrest on drug charges I can make disappear with just one phone call. If you go to the clinic you should know it is out side of U.S. territory, some of their treatments are not legal here in the U.S., and you will only be brought back once I am full satisfied with your rehabilitation. If you decide to take your chances with jail and spend the next 10 years minimum in prison and I will make sure you go to the women's section of the same maximum security prison your father is in. Now while you decide I will explain your daughter's choices to her." She then turned to and said. "You, Apple Bloom, also get a choice. You can either agree to go to be sent off to the same reform school my daughter, Babs Seed, is currently in and the two of you can reconnect while learning to be proper well behaved young ladies under Head Mistress Helga's extremely strict tutelage or you can agree to move into your father's new home and be under the strict supervision of one of the most dangerous men I have ever met. He has assured me that since he is also your new history teacher he will be driving you to and from school, a school you tore apart with your friends by the way, and that he will also insure that you will have a strict training regime that will push the very limits of your mind and body when not at school since you will not have much of a social life between now and when he is satisfied and then heavily restricted by him. I should point out he will also make sure you have no access to the phone and heavily restricted access to the internet for school purposes only, but absolutely no social media. Both Helga and North will be brutal, but your choice is what type of young woman will emerge. The prim and proper young lady with a sharp mind and a knowledge base for entering either the business or political world or a practical, intelligent, and strong young woman with a sharp calculating mind, excellent reflexes, and skills that would insure you a very good career in the military or the law enforcement." Getting up, she then said, "I will give both of you an hour to decide, but remember once you make your decision there will be no going back or changing your minds. What you decide today will effect the rest of your lives so I suggest you really think hard about it." With that she left them in the kitchen to think.

Diamond Tiara sat at the piano as her mother and father argued down the hall over Spoiled Rich running in the emergency election to fill the vacant seats on the school board. She then began playing their song and the arguing began fading as they listened to their little girl and remembered what was important.

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Rainbow Dash panted as she ran around the track yet again, AJ's words going through her head. She angrily gritted her teeth as she remembered the humiliation of it being Scootaloo just because she had been hanging out with Sunset Shimmer. Tears running down her face and being lost in the sweat as Sunset's words of how the Dazzlings had been more loyal than her went through her mind again. All of it just kept going around and around in her head the same way she kept going around the track. Then she heard the sound of feet behind her and glanced over her shoulder and saw Lightning Dust racing to catch up before falling into step with her.

"Hey" Lightning Dust said as they ran together.

"Hey" Rainbow responded.

"Rough week?"

"Yeah."

"Told you that Scootaloo girl was starting to act like a stalker."

"I know."

"Friends still not talking?"

"Flutters just cries, Pinks just mopes, and Rarity is 'Terribly busy for the foreseeable .'"

"And the others?"

"AJ hasn't said a thing to me since that day and Sunset made it perfectly clear what she thinks."

"That's harsh."

"Yeah."

They ran on in silence for a while.

"Have you talked to any of the Dazzlings about it?"

"No, not after I attacked Sonata."

"Maybe if you apologies for that she will talk to Sunset for you."

"Why are you trying to help me with them?"

"...It wasn't Harshwhinny."

"What?"

"I could have cared less if I got kicked off the team because of my grades. I did it because of you." Lightning Dust said as they stopped in the middle of the track. "I did it to be with you okay and now this crap with your friends is hurting you. So if it means I will lose you to them then I will do it. Just grab some extra tacos on Tuesday and offer them and apologies to her and see where it takes you."

Rainbow Dash stood there for a moment thinking about what she heard and then said, "I'm going to hit the showers." and then began walking away as Lightning Dust just stood there looking down at her feet. "Well are you coming or do I have to wash all those hard to reach places by myself?" With that they walked together back towards the gym and the showers.

Tree Hugger swept the floor of the Animal Shelter when she heard the bell ring and found Sonata walking in with an owl peaking out of a blanket. "Hi, I found this little guy in the front yard under Aria's window and he didn't fly away or do anything really and Aria said she heard a thump last night. So I think maybe he might have hit her window a little too hard, but I'm not sure."

"Whoa that is harsh, but I'm not really that good with birds." Tree Hugger said. "I can call my girlfriend, dude, since she knows how to take care of them better, but there would be like a wicked bad situation going on with her being here because of a video going around and all these people hating on her over it."

"But if she helps the little guy out wouldn't that be like a good thing and then you can tell them to take a hike since she helps take care of the animals and they probably could use the exercise." Sonata said.

"Hmm... But they could try and shut down the shelter." Tree Hugger pointed out.

"Umm, Hello! Your the only shelter in town and your privately funded through donations and animal supply sales." Sonata said, "You can tell them to get bent if they don't like it."

"Dude, as radical as that would be, we still need their donations to take care of the animals." Tree Hugger said.

"Here, hold Mr.Owl for me." Sonata said as she shoved the owl and the blanket into Tree Hugger's arms. Then she pulled out her check book and wrote a check before taking the owl back and handing Tree Hugger the check. "There, $500,000 dollars should cover any problems with donations and if they still give you any shit just call me and I'll sic our lawyers from King, Lord, and Ram on them. So can we call your girlfriend so she can help Mr. Owl."

Tree Hugger just looked at the check in shock, it was more than the shelter had made last year. Then she snapped out of it and reached for the phone. "Flutter bunny, I need your help at the shelter... Don't worry about it, we just got a check that will cover everything from a private donator... I'll see you in five minutes."

Pinkie sighed as she pulled up in front of the mansion on her moped. She needed another job after the cake's had to fire her over the fight in Sugar Cube Corner, unfortunately almost no one was hiring. Then Maud had found an ad for a house keeper, twice a week, after school only, and double what cake's paid her every week. The only thing was there was no name, just an address next door to the Rich family. If this didn't work out she would have to work at the Rock Farm quarry on the weekend as an errand runner like Limestone and Maud did to have some spending and gas money.

Walking up to the door she had that strange tingle-tickle feeling in her tummy that she got around really old people who told funny stories about the wars they had seen, like the guy who got mad at the land mine he had seen an enemy tank run over and thought it was defective and then threw it at the tank blowing it up. She rang the door bell expecting an old man and was surprised when Adagio answered the door.

"What do you want?" Adagio asked looking at one of the Rainbooms on her front doorstep.

"Umm... I'm here about the house keeping job." Pinkie Pie said.

"Well seeing as your the only person to answer the ad, I guess I can give you an interview." Adagio said as she eyed the girl. "follow me." She then lead Pinkie Pie to the office where she managed the house hold finances from. "Have a seat please Miss Pie. I want you to know I hold no ill will towards you and would have attacked anyone who attacked one of my friends as well. Though I do have to point out that attacking a couple of thousand year old immortal who has been known as the Dusk-bringer was not the smartest thing to do. Now, if I hire you I want you to know this job comes with a non-disclosure agreement and is also why the pay is higher than normal for just two days of work. As you know we were immortal, but are now mortal and wish to avoid the kind of trouble that kind of information getting out can cause. I would like to also point out that you will be seeing Sunset Shimmer and some others around here a lot, since they are primarily why we now need help maintaining this home..."

Trixie, Applejack, Sunset Shimmer, Fuji Apple and 20 other students and adults sat in a classroom after school as Principal Celestia sat at the desk while Aria wrote on the black board in both Japanese and English. "I wish to welcome all of you to the first Japanese/American cultural and language exchange class. Here we will be helping you learn how to speak Japanese or English and to understand the cultures that the others are comes from." Celestia said before Aria turned around and said repeated what she had said in Japanese. "You will learn not just each others languages, but a bit about the history and society that has shaped both of them. Miss Blaze and I will help you, but you will also be helping each other and enjoy a good laugh as you mangle each others native languages." Once again Aria translated and there was laughter. "So with no further ado, Hello and Kon'nichiwa."

...And that is were things stand right now. Us taking over the school acted like dumping an entire lake on top of a raging forest fire all at once and now we are just putting out the few remaining smoldering embers just to make sure that someone else doesn't pull another Anon-a-miss or Kijo. Me and Applejack are talking again thanks to Aria and Applejack's cousin Fuji Apple and I might give Pinkie and Fluttershy another chance now, but I'm nowhere near ready to forgive Rarity and Rainbow Dash. Also Sonata wants me to invite you over for a tea party so you can get to know them in a better light than last time.

Your Friend,

Sunset Shimmer.

Tamamo no Mae walked down the gang plank of The Royal Blood as Blueblood Prince laid dead, naked in his bed on board. She paused for to look at her reflection in the water that briefly became that of a white and gold nine tailed kitsune before become that of a tall elegant young Japanese woman in her twenties with long flowing white hair and flawless gold skin. Around her neck was a simple gold necklace with a beautiful white and gold ball that briefly glowed with an earthly blue flame. She then put her earbuds in as she continued walking down the gang plank, amazed at all the wonderful new toys the humans had invented for her during her little nap. She couldn't help but smirk as she passed the harbor master and the U.S. Customs agent with tiny blue flames in their eyes as her new favorite song began playing.

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She walked towards the limo waiting for her as her servants disguised as the ships crew scattered to do her bidding. An Oni adjusted the drivers uniform before opening the door for her. She briefly licked the blood of original driver from his lips before getting in as the fire set by some of her tengu engulfed not just the boat, but part of the docks as well. From inside of her dress she pulled out a picture as the limo pulled away.

Her little sister's tanuki girlfriend had tipped the balance during their brief family reunion, but she had an ideal where to find an interesting new friend to more the even the playing field. She had never heard of a pony spirit similar to kitsune and tanuki's, but the beautiful young woman with purple hair, white skin, and pony ears and tail was just to lovely to ignore. It didn't hurt that her patron had had a small legal misfortune recently and she would be more open to getting to know 'Lady Duckweed'. She couldn't help but laugh at how perfect the silly 'childhood' nickname that Japanese couple had given her lent itself well to the types of names around where she was going to.

Feeling a bit hungry she tapped on the glass and a minute later the limo pulled over and a tengu walked up with a bundle. Driving away she unwrapped the bundle. "Hello little one. Don't you look just good enough to eat." she said as she looked down into the eyes of a green skinned, black haired baby girl.

Author's Notes:

Well here it is. It is finally done and I even gave you a good teaser for the next story. Also yes, the baby at the end was Filly Fem Anon.

Tamamo no Mae is one dangerous kitsune and now she is coming to Canterlot.