It's Friday, time for another slumber party, only this time Gohan would be late.

Time to get some pterosaur eggs, some pterosaur meat, and...

A few more things to find in Break Wasteland.

Tomorrow, it's going down memory lane in Paprika Wasteland for some wild boars, and some other stuff if he's lucky.

Applejack and Rarity spent some time in the back of a car.

"Thanks for the ride." Applejack said.

"No problem, dear. I'm so glad you were able to come!" Rarity said.

"Yeah, but it's been rough. It'll be good to relax." Applejack said.

"People are still making fun of you...?" Rarity asked.

"Pfft. Every class I get oinked at." Applejack said.

"Ah, phooey. I don't care at this point." She said.

---

The two entered Rarity's room, full of mirrors, mannequins, clothes, closets and- Yeah.

Everyone sans Gohan is already there.

Hey, Sweetie Belle is there too.

"Hello girls!" Rarity said.

"Hey!" Rainbow Dash said.

"We were just chatting with Sweetie Belle!" Fluttershy said.

"She was telling us what her friends have been up to..." She added.

"Yes, well, I'm sure you've been lovely, but isn't it almost your bedtime, Sweetie?" Rarity asked, making her stand up.

She started pushing her out.

"What? Hey! No!" Sweetie Belle said.

"Come along, Sweetie, it's time for your big sister and her friends to spend time together!" Rarity said.

"Aw, come on! I can be cool!" Sweetie Belle said.

Rarity just shoved her out...

Sweetie Belle wasn't happy, but she had to deal with that.

"Alright, now that we're all alone..." Pinkie said, pulling a robe over herself out of nowhere...

She also pulled out a candle.

"Who's ready for scary stories?" She asked.

"...That doesn't really look scary unless the lights are off." Rainbow Dash said.

"We'll do that in like two minutes!" Pinkie said.

---

Well, now everyone is in their pajamas...

Same as last time.

Sunset had a purple shirt and orange pants, Pinkie had a blue nightgown, Rarity had a pink nightgown, Fluttershy had green pajamas, Rainbow Dash wore blue shorts, and Applejack had green pajamas

Pinkie is just hopping on the bed beside the door.

Sunset was filming for some random reason.

"Why are you making me record?" She asked.

"Shh! Shut up! This is gonna be good." Pinkie said, stopping the hopping.

Footsteps came closer to the door...

"My name is Pinkamena Diane Pie, and this is Jackass." She said.

"That's your full-"

The door opened, and-

"Hey guys! Sorry I-"

"DROPKIII-"

Gohan just grabbed Pinkie's feet, and hurled her into the closet on instinct.

CRASH!

"Oh, crap!" Gohan said, realizing how he just screwed up.

"My closet!" Rarity said.

That escalated quickly.

Now Rainbow Dash could be heard snickering in the background.

Sunset just stopped recording in that moment.

"I'm okay...!" Pinkie gasped, giving a thumbs up.

She had all sorts of clothes and accessories on her now, along with the closet wood.

"No you're not! Why did you do that!?" Gohan asked.

"Yes, why did you do that!?" Rarity asked.

Then Pinkie jolted back up, keeping the broken pieces of the closet in her hair.

"I dunno! I just wanted a recording of me being an idiot!" She said gleefully, as if the pain just disappeared.

"W-What? Are you okay?" Gohan asked.

"Of course! I just imagined the pain going away, and poof!" Pinkie said.

"That makes no sense." Gohan said.

"...And I'm sorry I put a hole in your closet." He said to Rarity.

"Don't worry, it isn't really your fault..." Rarity said.

"It was a bad respon-" "-It's alright! Don't worry, dear." Rarity said.

"...If you say so." Gohan said.

"What were you doing?" Applejack asked.

Considering Fluttershy was in the same room...

"...It's not really important, a few errands." Gohan said.

"I've overdone my 'slumber party allowance' or whatever my mom said, so until next year, I can't really go to these slumber parties." He said.

"Aw, that's too bad!" Fluttershy said.

Gohan put down his green sack, which had dinner and clothes.

"Yeah, well, you'll have more fun without me." He said.

"Don't say that... It's bunches more fun with you!" Pinkie said.

"I just hurled you into a closet." Gohan said.

"And it was funny!" Pinkie said.

"Do you have brain damage?" Gohan asked.

"Is she okay?" He asked.

"I thought you'd be used to Pinkie by now." Sunset said.

"We haven't even been in this situation yet, I am most certainly not used to it." Gohan said.

"Changing the subject..." Fluttershy said.

"Let's wear funny stuff!" Pinkie said, pulling out a Sherlock Holmes costume.

"Wha-"

Rarity just slammed a magician's outfit on Gohan.

Hat, suit, shoes and all.

"H-How did you just...?" Gohan asked.

"I don't like this already." He said, taking the hat off.

A bunny just stuck it's head out, to Gohan's surprise.

"Angel! How did you get in there?" Fluttershy asked.

"Wait... How did you get in there?" She asked.

Everyone looked at Pinkie.

"...I may or may not have done it." She said.

"...So you did it." Fluttershy said.

"Objection." Pinkie said.

"Sustained." She said.

"What?" Sunset asked.

"Overruled!" Pinkie said.

"This isn't a court." Gohan said.

"Guilty!" Pinkie said.

"Speculation?" She asked.

"Hearsay." She said.

"Are you just talking to yourself...?" Gohan asked.

"I rest." Pinkie said.

"I could totally be a lawyer." She said.

"...Yeah, she might have brain damage." Rainbow Dash said.

---

The whole night was filled with screwing around, acting like dickheads, taking pictures, and more.

Many shenanigans ensued.

You know, recording the bunch singing into hairbrushes, recording Gohan eat his dinner, putting on the weirdest shit to wear, and a lot more.

Once everyone else fell asleep...

Sunset decided to stay up late.

She pulled out the book to the pony world to contact Twilight.

"Hey, Twilight! Another slumber part with my friends, and it was better than last time. It's the holidays, but I haven't felt so loved and accepted in... well, ever! It feels like another family. Without you guys to support and help me, I'd be- Well, dead. Either that or depressed and shunned. Anyway, I should get some sleep, even though there isn't school. But I wanted to let you know, before I do, that I love you all.

Sunset Shimmer"

Sunset closed the book, smiling, almost tearing up for a moment there...

...Then Gohan just jolted awake, sitting up out of nowhere.

Scaring the crap out of Sunset.

She didn't say anything, but...

Definitely surprised.

He just stared at the door...

Not blinking once.

Why?

...

...Once he finally blinked...

He looked behind himself to see a confused Sunset.

"What are you still doing up?" He whispered.

"Why'd you wake up like that?" Sunset whispered.

"I woke myself up before I screamed in my sleep. What about you?" Gohan asked.

"Er... Uh, I just stayed up... Talking to Twilight." Sunset whispered.

'Man, that is still depressing.' She thought.

"She says hi, by the way..." She whispered.

"Oh. Also, I thought someone was at the door... Someone similar, I guess." Gohan whispered.

"Huh? What do you mean?" Sunset whispered.

"...You know what, it's not that important. Well, good night." Gohan whispered, laying back into his sleeping bag.

"Good night...?" Sunset whispered.

---

Ah, Monday.

Everyone fucking hates Mondays.

But the girls are especially pissed.

They all waited outside of Sunset's locker, waiting for her.

There she is, all fine and dandy.

She was surprised to see all her friends at her locker.

Well, all but one, but, yeah.

"Oh! Hey girls!" She said.

...They didn't look happy.

"...What's going on? Did something happen? Where's Gohan?" Sunset asked, assuming the worst.

"Nothing's wrong with him, but..." Rarity said.

"Did ya happen to lose your phone recently?" Applejack asked.

"Um... No?" Sunset asked, pulling it out.

"It's right here. Why?" She asked.

Now everyone looked even more pissed off.

"Then you need to explain this." Applejack said, handing her phone over to Sunset.

Social media, and-

"Wait, what!?" Sunset asked, completely surprised.

First off, Anon-A-Miss changed her profile picture to a bright silhouette of Sunset Shimmer.

So you'd have to be a dumbass not to see her in it.

"Why does the profile look like me?" Sunset asked.

"Look at the posts." Applejack said.

Anon-A-Miss posted all the pictures from the last slumber party...

"OMG! What a bunch of dorks! Hahaha"

And that video of Gohan hurling Pinkie was on there...

"What kind of moron does that? LOL!"

And a lot more crap.

All liked by 125 people.

"How'd she get our pictures!?" Sunset asked.

"They're not our pictures..." Rainbow Dash said.

"They're yours." She said.

"All those pictures and videos were by you." Applejack said.

"Wait, but... I've had my phone all this time! How did she...?" Sunset asked.

'Was that...? No... The door... But I don't get...' She thought.

Applejack started getting closer.

"Yeah, how did she? How'd she know about my nickname? How'd she get your pictures? It was you all along!" She yelled.

"You're Anon-A-Miss!" She said.

"What!? No, I...!" Sunset said.

"There's got to be some explanation for this!" She said.

"We trusted you, Sunset!" Rainbow Dash yelled.

"We thought you were our friend!" She yelled.

"How could you do this...?" Rarity asked.

"After all we've been through together?" She asked.

"Because I can't...!" Sunset said, actually starting to tear up a bit.

"You guys are my only family left... I could never hurt any of you! Not anymore!" She sobbed.

"But you did!" Pinkie said, pointing a finger.

"You must've just been pretending to be our friend, but you were just after our secrets! You... You secret stealer!" She yelled.

"Again! I didn't do it... I'm not this person!" Sunset sobbed.

"No, you're not!" Fluttershy actually yelled, sobbing herself.

"You're not the person we thought you were, you're not our friend!" She sobbed.

"No... No... I am...! I promise!" Sunset sobbed.

"That's it, Sunset. You're done taking advantage of us." Applejack said.

"Sorry, but you did this to us and yourself. Tell whatever secrets you want, but we don't have to listen." She said, walking away with the group.

Sunset was just stunned.

It made no sense...

How did this Anon-A-Miss get those photos...?

Why would she frame Sunset?

'I didn't do it... someone framed me!' She thought, sobbing to herself...

'I can still trust Gohan... Right?' She thought.

Well, her last hope, so...

Sunset raced across the hallway, trying to find him.

'Where would he be on a Monday? He's usually with them, but...' She thought.

She tried not to bump into people, but either way, they gave her the stink eye.

Word spread around that quickly.

Sunset was bumping into everyone...

And...

"Whoa!"

Eventually she fell down.

Everyone looked at her.

Staring...

"Who did that?" Some guy asked, referring to the fall.

"Maybe it was Anon-A-Miss." Some girl said.

"So she did it to herself." Some girl said.

"Yeah, the secret stealer wants attention." Another guy said.

"Way to go." Another girl said.

"How could you?" Another guy said.

See...

Now Anon-A-Miss has evolved to spread some really weird shit about other people.

They're pissed off as well.

The students all started crowding around her.

There's about 20 minutes until class. This isn't going to end anytime soon.

Sunset looked up at them with tearful eyes.

Now they were all hurling shit at her.

"You're a thief!"

"You ruined my life!"

"You traitor!"

Words are very much hurting Sunset.

It might get physical, jeez.

Now the hallway is just full of insults and crap that nobody can understand since everyone is talking at the exact same time.

Sunset couldn't even keep up with the insults at this point.

Either way, she was crying.

She could faintly notice the blue boot in front of her before-

"STOOOOP!"

Familiar voice...

Everyone stopped...

"I don't know what the heck you all think you're doing, but back off." Gohan said.

Sunset gasped, looking up.

Yep, the same gi and stuff.

"Why are you defending her!?" Someone asked.

"What kind of question is that? Leave her alone!" Gohan yelled.

"But she's a monster!" Another girl yelled.

"I just told you to leave her alone." Gohan said, very angrily.

Now, that's a look you don't want to see.

"Leave. Now."

...

"Are you gonna act tough and throw us through a closet?" Flash Sentry asked.

"What did I just say..."

Gohan instantly made his aura flare for a moment, and he went Super Saiyan.

Not even moving a muscle.

"Listening now?" He asked.

...Now everyone started leaving.

Their faces were priceless, and they all almost toppled each other trying to leave.

Once the final person left...

Damn, this hallway is much less crowded.

Gohan stopped making his aura flare and reverted back to his base form.

"Pretty sure I just went back on my promise..." He muttered to himself.

He turned around, and...

"Are you alright?" He asked Sunset.

She was still a sobbing mess.

She still managed to nod.

Gohan held out a hand, and she immediately grabbed it.

"What happened?" He asked.

"S-Someone's framing me... And they believe it...!" Sunset sobbed.

"Framing you?" Gohan asked.

Sunset wiped her face.

"Someone is trying to frame me as Anon-A-Miss." She said, with a slightly after cry crackled voice.

"The girls actually believe that I am... But I'm not!" She said.

"How could they believe it?" Gohan asked.

"The real Anon-A-Miss somehow got all the videos and pictures from the slumber party at Rarity's." Sunset said.

"She posted them, and now everyone looks like an idiot! Even you!" She said.

"I guess that explains how they knew the Pinkie incident." Gohan said.

"You believe me, don't you?" Sunset asked.

"I want to believe you, but I find it hard to believe that someone, somehow, in some way, took photos from your phone and put them on the internet." Gohan said.

Now Sunset was worried that even he would hate her.

"You wouldn't do something like this, though..." He said, rubbing his chin.

"You have to believe me..." Sunset said.

"...I'll learn the truth. Let me see what she put on the internet." Gohan said.

Sunset pulled out her phone, tapped on Anon-A-Miss's page...

"Here." She said, showing him a post.

A quick glance, and-

"Time to learn the truth." Gohan said, reaching his hand out.

Sunset expected him to take the phone, but instead...

He placed his hand on her head.

This familiar scene reoccurs.

And...

Gohan couldn't find anything of Sunset putting the embarrassing stuff on the internet, let alone even looking at them after the party.

"...You're definitely telling the truth." He said, taking his hand back.

"D...Did you just read my mind?" Sunset asked, putting her phone in her pocket.

"Yep." Gohan said.

"But how did you... You didn't even perform a spell...?" Sunset asked.

"My dad taught me this one. My only explanation of it is using ki to make neurons-" "-This sounds like it'll take a while." Sunset interrupted.

"...It would." Gohan said.

"How are we going to clear your name?" He asked.

"Ugh... I don't know... Can you at least somehow convince the girls?" Sunset asked.

"Sure. I'll try. But try to find me if something goes wrong." Gohan said.

"I'm sure a lot of people will have some sort of strife against you." He said.

"I'll be fine." Sunset said.

"I'll see you after school." Gohan said, walking away.

"See you..." Sunset said.

She smiled.

At least someone was on her side.

Time to get to class.

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