Lemon arrived at School and met up with her friends who looked very concerned.

“ Lemon I think we may have a problem,” Sunny said.

“ What's happening?” Lemon asked.

“ See for yourself,” Sunny said handing Lemon a copy of the school paper.

Lemon was shocked by what was on the cover.

“ Crystal Prep’s princess really a dude,” Lemon read with shock before continuing.

“ Local sources say that Turquoise dusk was really that cowardly wimp Silver Chance and claimed Silver gets some sick kick out of impersonating women and mooching off the benefits that come with it,” Lemon kept reading until she reached the name of their sources.

“ Blair she must have done this it must be payback for getting Ace expelled,” Lemon said.

Some of the male students approached Lemon and wanted to speak with her.

“ Lemon do you know where that transgender friend of yours is we want to see if it’s true or not,” one of the students said.

“ Depends are you guys going to hurt her?” Lemon asked.

“ Of course not we don"t mind if he wants to be a girl, in fact, we consider Turquoise to be a ray of sunshine in our school we just want to know if what the rumors say about her is true or not,” Another student replied.

“ Yesterday’s events really hurt her and Ace left a lot of scars on her heart so please be gentle if you ask her,” Lemon asked.

“ We promise so where is she?” The first student asked.

“ Her mom decided to take her to the Salon to fix the damage Ace did to her hair,” Lemon replied.

“ Do you know where we can meet with her this is important?” The same student asked.

“ You could try the Silver Mansion but I would not hold my breath for them to let anyone in,” Lemon replied.

“ Thank you Lemon it’s better to get it straight from the horse’s mouth know what I’m saying,” The student said before everyone continued to their classes.

As the day went on the news about yesterday’s shocking truth continued to spread. Most of the boys were shocked to see that their goddess was just a boy in drag while most of the girls began to gossip about a bunch of stuff about Silver that is not true. As the final bell rang Lemon drove to the Silver Mansion to check on her closest friend. The students from earlier decided to follow Lemon to get the follow-up scoop from Silver personally. Lemon approached the gate and hit the intercom button.

“ Miss Zest what can we do for you?” The butler asked.

“ I’m here to check on Silver is he home?” Lemon asked.

“ He and Miss Ruby just got back an hour ago,” The Butler said before letting Lemon in along with her tailgaters.

Lemon arrived and rang the doorbell. Bullet answered the door.

“ Hi, Lemon I assume you're here to check on Silver?” Bullet asked.

“ I am is he around?” Lemon asked.

“ He is in his room playing with his nerve gear,” Bullet said while showing Lemon to Silver’s room.

Lemon saw Silver laying on his bed with the nerve gear on. Lemon noticed that some new components were added to it and assumed those were the safeguards Silver was talking about. Lemon noticed that the open field from earlier was replaced with a fantasy style town and Silver dressed like a swordswoman was relaxing on the roof of the tallest building. Lemon grabbed the mic and spoke into it.

Silver got a notification that someone opened the voice chat channel and answered it.

“ Hi Silver how are you feeling?” Lemon asked.

“ Still hurt from yesterday but I recovered a little,” Silver replied.

“ No need to rush a broken heart takes time to heal but anyway mind logging off I have something to tell you,” Lemon said.

Silver logged off and woke up before taking the nerve gear off and putting it aside.

“ Silver your secret is out now and Crystal Prep is in a frenzy about it,” Lemon said.

“ This is bad and once mom and dad get wind of this Operation Relocation will start again and I barely survived the last time,” Silver replied frantically.

“It's ok Silver your not going anywhere once we straighten things out no one will care about your secret,” Lemon said reassuringly.

As Silver and Lemon kept talking the students from earlier were being chased by security and decided to hide in the closest room they could find which just happened to be Silver’s Room. As soon as the boys got their barrings they noticed they were in the room they were looking for.

“ Are you guys here to make fun of me, Maybe come to beat me up, or worse?” Silver asked while cowering.

“ We are with the school newspaper and our editor and chief decided to start this story without our knowledge so we came to find out the truth,” The leader said.

“ First question why do you dress as a girl?” The journalist asked.

“ Lemon showed me a world I never knew about and she and her friends welcomed me and it felt more natural for me,” Silver replied.

“ Second Question what do you see women as?” The journalist asked.

“ I see them as very beautiful and smart and I would never insult them I just want to be like them,” Silver replied.

“ Final question what do you like best about being a girl?” The journalist asked.

“ If I had to say it would be the friends I made who went out of their way to help me and care for me even now when things are at their darkest,” Silver replied.

“ We got what we need and I must say we’re glad that we got the truth your not as bad as that hatchet job said you were,” The leader said.

“ Are you coming to school tomorrow we think you will love our story,” The leader asked.

“ I will,” Silver replied.

Lemon decided to head home while the school reporters were escorted off the grounds and back to their car.

Ten minutes later the deadline for the next issue was drawing near and the reporters from earlier turned in their submission just in time to sneak it past the Chiefs radar.

“ Sorry for the long wait Blair,” The reporters said.

“ You boys are lucky I can be so forgiving,” Blair said.

As Blair went home she failed to notice what was written on her latest issue.

The next day Silver woke up and began his routine of becoming his alter ego Turquoise. Turquoise went downstairs and drove off to school. As soon as Turquoise arrived at the parking lot Lemon was waiting for her to show her the latest issue of the school paper.

“ Turquoise glad you could come your going to love this,” Lemon said as she showed Silver the paper.

“ Rumors debunked, Silver is a delicate person who enjoys being one of the girls,” Turquoise read along with the positive comments.

As turquoise entered the school she prepared for the worse only to be greeted with love and kindness from everyone. This really made Turquoise cry with joy.

“ Easy with the waterworks Turquoise you wouldn't want to ruin your makeup,” Love said.

“ I knew those rumors about you were wrong I just got swept up with everyone else,” One of the boys said.

“ Hope to see you back in our club after all you are our Ula,” Dark said.

Turquoise kept going feeling like the dark cloud that covered her has passed and only the grey skies remained. As the day went on everyone was happy to see Turquoise again. As lunchtime came Turquoise decided to join her friends and see what she missed.

“ Good to see you feeling better again Turquoise,” Indigo said.

“ I’m not completely better yet Ace left a lot of scars on my heart speaking of Ace does anyone know what happened to him?” Turquoise asked.

“ After his expulsion, his parents decided to send him off to a military school in Siberia odds are we will never see him again and before you ask about his partner Zach Inkwell he was a notoriously wanted pedophile and after this incident went public he was arrested,” Sugarcoat explained.

“ As for Blair well, Principal Cadence is dealing with her right now you know how she is, anything that falls under the category of bullying such as exposing secrets to everyone will bring upon her wrath,” Lemon said.

As Turquoise and her friends kept talking Blair came in after her long talk with Principal Cadence. She approached Turquoise and startled her.

“ What do you want Blair?” Turquoise asked.

“ I just came to say farewell because thanks to you I been expelled and Principal Cadence told me to say my farewells to you before my parents get here,” Blair said.

“ I don,t understand why you hate me so much,” Turquoise said.

“ Because you're a boy who thinks dressing like a girl will allow him to roll in all the benefits our gender gives us,” Blair said.

“ I will admit not getting hit by other boys is good and going first is great too but I don't care about any of that I just want to be treated with kindness,” Turquoise said.

“ You have no idea what our friend has been through before coming here she was a nervous wreck because of people like you attacking her,” Lemon said.

“ Why should I care about what happened to him he has no right to be in our domain he never had some creep trying to rape him or someone trying to treat him like crap,” Blair said before the door opened and an angry women came in.

“ That’s enough young lady you were told to say farewell before I got here and now you just dug your grave deeper, We were going to let you keep most of your stuff while we grounded you but now we changed our minds so now you will have nothing left, now lets go before you make things even worse for yourself,” Blair’s mom said before Blair followed her.

Turquoise felt bad until her friends told her to not pay any mind to what Blair said since she has every right to be who she wants to be and no one can tell her any different. The bell rang and everyone went back to class. As the day went on word about Blair’s expulsion spread. As the final Bell rang Turquoise and Lemon went to their club where everyone was waiting eagerly for them. As soon as they entered the meeting began.

“ Now that Ace is expelled from both our school and our country we have a crucial void to fill,” Dark said.

“ Agreed we need a new artist I hate to admit it but without Ace, our club is done for,” Flame said.

Just as flame mentioned that part a girl with white skin and blue hair came in.

“ Excuse me but is this the Anime Lovers club?” The girl asked.

“ We are but we are discussing a crisis we just lost our artist,” Dark replied.

“ That's why I’m here someone told me you were looking for a new artist I have some of my work on me if you want to see,” The girl said while pulling her sketchbook out.

Everyone looked through it and saw some of the same things Ace drew but better.

“ These are impressive I especially like your version of Ula,” Turquoise said.

“ Thanks, feels great coming from Ula herself,” The girl said.

“It's decided welcome to our club uh?” Dark said hinted for the girl to introduce herself.

“ I’m Snowy Canvas but most people just call me snow,” Snow replied.

“ That's one crisis averted but what are we going to do about the first installment of the Xenoblade Adventures series we need to give Ula a new driver now,” Flame said.

“ Have you released the first installment yet?” Snow asked.

“ Not yet,” Dark replied.

“ Then we still have time does the driver have to be male?” Snow asked.

“ That was Ace’s idea so no it does not matter which gender the driver is,” Flame replied.

“ Good because I have someone I know Ula will work well with,” Snow said as she showed everyone her sketch of what looked like a tomboy girl with short light blonde hair styled the same way as Haruka from Sailor Moon with blue eyes wearing a red riding suit with the same scarf Jet wore and a metal band with the same overlapping Xs engraved into it on her upper right arm. Everyone loved the design and decided to go with it.

“ What do you call her?” Turquoise asked.

“ Her name is Hikari and yes her design was inspired by Sailor Uranus,” Snowy replied knowing they would ask.

“ Now that we have that covered our next item of business finding someone to model Hikari, Turquoise can you whip up the outfit for Hikari?” Dark asked.

“ No problem I will stop by the fabric store and get the material,” Turquoise replied.

“ Snowy how good are you at drawing manga pages?” Dark asked.

“ I mastered it so hope you're ready for the best pages you ever saw,” Snow replied.

“ Perfect now before we adjourn for the day one last piece of business we need to get this done by Friday everyone is waiting for our first installment,” Dark said before everyone left.

Turquoise drove for the fabric store to get the leather needed for a riding suit. Turquoise arrived and entered the store ready to get what she needs. As she was looking around she bumped into Rarity who was also looking around.

“ Turquoise I did not know you shopped here too,” Rarity said.

“ This is my first time here I’m working on something for my club,” Turquoise replied.

“ Mind if I ask what it is?” Rarity asked.

“ A riding suit its for another cosplay I’m making for my club,” Turquoise replied.

“ Male or Female?” Rarity asked.

“ Female,” Turquoise replied.

“ Mind if I help I am intrigued to see what it looks like,” Rarity asked.

“ Sure,” Turquoise replied as she and Rarity stopped by the Leather Asle.

Turquoise gathered some black leather and a few other things she needed. After she paid for everything she left and was on her way to her car until some thugs ambushed her.

“ Hand over all your money before we show you something more painful than your period,” The thug said while pulling his switchblade out.

“ Trust me, girl you do not want to make the boss angry,” One of the underlings said.

As Turquoise was about to panic a girl that was slightly taller than Turquoise came in and beat the thugs up with some powerful punches and kicks. Turquoise felt relieved to be rescued by someone.

“ If its money you're after than earn it yourself otherwise get lost and don't ever cross my path again,” The girl shouted before the thugs ran off only to be captured by the cops that were patrolling the area.

The girl helped Turquoise up and Turquoise was starting to feel that same feeling she had for Ace.

“ Are you ok miss?” The girl asked.

“ I’m fine now thanks to you,” Turquoise replied.

Turquoise noticed the girl was bleeding from the fight and acted.

“ Hold still I need to sterilize the cut before it gets infected,” Turquoise said as she treated the cut the knife made before wrapping one of the pieces of fabric she bought around the gauze she placed over it.

The girl felt the exact same feeling Turquoise was having and did not know why.

“ My name is Turquoise by the way what’s your name?” Turquoise asked.

“ I’m Haruka Goldenburn very nice to meet you,” Haruka replied.

Haruka asked if Turquoise was doing anything later and she said she was working on something for her club at school. Haruka and Turquoise went their separate ways for now but Turquoise had a feeling she will see Haruka again sooner than she thinks. Turquoise drove home ready to begin working on her assignment.

Author's Notes:

was not easy coming up with the aftermath of my last chapter but I think I did it.