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My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Better Together (Season 3)

by Gusta

Chapter 8: “Overpowered”

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“Overpowered”

Resume: Overpowered is the eighth Better Together fan-short. The fan-animation focuses primarily on the Equestria Girls as a whole.


“Overpowered”

in to a busy hallway inside Canterlot High. A very worried Sunset Shimmer walks along, wearing a pair of purple earmuffs on in pain whose band is set with small studs, and an otherworldly hum of background noise plays through her mind. She freezes in her tracks near Sandalwood, who is rummaging in his locker, and hears a familiar young voice loud and clear.

“My science project is gonna be overdue!” Voice of Sweetie Belle saying.

The underclassman in question scrambles past on this line, toting an armload of books, and Sandalwood smiles—but his words in Sunset’s head set off a fresh twinge.

Sunset Shimmer covers her ears in pain.

“Hey! Jellybean!” Voice of Sandalwood saying.

He bends down to do some more digging; now Trixie struts past. Where “Queen of Clubs” showed her new boots for the first time, this shot presents the knee-length blue socks she has chosen to pair with them.

Sunset Shimmer keep walking annoyed.

“Trixie is great, Trixie is powerful…” Voice of Trixie singing.

Clapping her hands to her covered ears, Sunset hurries toward the camera.

“La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-laaaa!” Sunset covers their ears and keep walking.

Dissolve to one of the music practice rooms, where all the Rainbooms save Rainbow and Sunset have gathered. Applejack and Fluttershy are sitting on the risers, Pinkie on the piano, and Twilight and Rarity stand near the drum kit. The camera is positioned at ground level a few feet ahead, and Sunset’s boots step into view in time with her frustrated sigh; cut to her, removing the headgear, on the start of the next line.

“Well, the earmuffs don’t work. I’m now hearing everything everyone’s thinking without even touching them! (crossing to others) Is anyone else experiencing a sudden, uh, surge in their powers today?” Sunset groans.

“Uhhhh…” Others hesitantly; Pinkie o.s.

Sunset’s eyes widen in unexpected shock; zoom in quickly as they blaze white and her pendant starts to burn red. The screen fills with the swirling colors that accompany the use of her telepathy, then clears to present a magically enhanced memory of Fluttershy walking through the school, her pendant glowing yellow. She stops and puts a bemused hand to it; within moments, a multitude of happily chirping birds have congregated around her. A longer shot discloses the dogs and cats that have started to follow her as well, not to mention a few incredulous students who have witnessed these proceedings. She offers a sheepish grin.

A flash of white shifts the view to Twilight riding a bicycle down the block and properly helmeted, with Spike riding in its front-mounted basket, during the evening. They are framed from the seat up; the bike is painted in a shade of violet slightly darker than her skin, and the basket is decorated with her cutie mark and a pair of wings. The pendant set in her collar’s ribbon tie ignites, and a glimmer of magic lifts vehicle and riders off the pavement incluing setting Spike's properly helmeted and Twilight's properly helmeted, blue blouse with short sleeves, dark pink vest with a matching bow tie, purple belt with a white buckle, purple skirt with slightly lighter purple stars and with her pony counterpart's cutie mark and a lighter purple frill at the hem, sky-blue knee-high socks, purple mary jane shoes with a belt and a decorative badge, sky-blue bra, sky-blue panties and glasses into the air as well, so that they end up silhouetted against the full moon. This motion exposes a cutie-mark design set into the spokes of both wheels.

“Whoooaaa!” Twilight said fearfully and embarrassed by being stripped naked again, but this time, she's being stripped naked by your own geode.

Flash to Applejack, inadvertently tearing the door off her school locker as her pendant goes off. Onlookers gape and murmur among themselves.

“Uh…” Applejack said worriedly.

She tries to jam the door back in place, but only succeeds in crumpling the sheet metal. Flash to a close-up of Pinkie Pie in the cafeteria, idly tossing an apple in one hand. It goes an incandescent shade of pink in time with her pendant’s flare, and its next trip up and o.s. is marked by a room-shaking blast. Down comes a spurt of brand-new puree that soaks the magenta curls and leaves her thoroughly confused.

“Huh?” Pinkie said confussely.

Zoom out slightly. Bon Bon sits to one side of her, DJ P0N-3 to the other; both have been caught in the splash zone and are not at all happy about it. One last flash shifts the view back to an extreme close-up of Sunset’s face in the here and now; zoom out as her eyes and pendant return to normal. She is no longer holding her earmuffs.

“So you have!” Sunset said smugly, catching herself. “Sorry. I just heard all of your thoughts.” Shrugging. “Can’t help it.”

Cut to Twilight, adjusting glasses. “Fascinating! I wonder what’s causing it.”

The one missing girl is at her side in a fragment of an instant, pendant blazing blue. Her next three lines and accompanying actions look and sound as if she is stuck on fast forward with some black marks on her clothes and on her shoes.

“Hi, guys! I just ran here from the soccer field in three seconds! Wait, hold on!” Rainbow Dash said as she clears out and returns in a trice, now carrying a backpack and more black marks appears more on Rainbow Dash's red, yellow and blue wristbands on her wrists, blue short-sleeved sweatshirt over a white shirt with a black collar and her pony counterpart's cutie mark on it, pink and white skirt with tight-fitting black bike shorts underneath, socks of the same color as her wristbands, and blue and white knee-high boots. “Forgot my backpack!” She digs out a sandwich and takes a bite, disliking the taste. “Yuck. This needs mustard.” Off she goes again, dropping both items; she returns carrying a bottle of the condiment and snatches the sandwich out of midair, and more black marks appears at her clothes and on her boots as Twilight’s pendant kicks into gear. “Super speed is where it’s at, am I right? It’s like, I can’t stop ’cause I’ve been getting so much done!”

She squirts mustard onto the sandwich and bites down, leaving a smear across her lips, as the egghead notices the glowing stone at her own collar. Cut to Fluttershy/Rarity and Applejack/Sunset in turn, each pair seeing that their own pendants are chiming in.

From o.s., and back to Twilight and Rainbow. “Okay. I may have a theory about what’s going on with our magic.”

Pinkie leans into view toward the pair, her pendant lit up like all the others, and gives Rainbow a penetrating look and a clothing look. Dissolve to a close-up of a stretch of blackboard that shows an annotated DNA molecule and a set of line graphs.

“Our geodes are all connected.” Twilight said from o.s., pointing to board.

Zoom out. She has set the board up in the practice room and covered the rest of it with further diagrams and sketches, including a set of bell-curve graphs in the girls’ signature colors. Her pendant has gone dormant; the same will be true of the others when they are seen next, and Rainbow is back to normal speed, sandwich gone, face clean and her clothes and her boots goes completely black.

“So the more each of us use our magic for everyday tasks, the more all of our powers become supercharged and go...” She waving hands. “…haywire!”

Cut to Sunset, now sitting on the risers in a much better mood. “Since Rainbow was using her super speed for everything incluing making her own clothes and shoes burning completely, all of us experienced an uncontrollable boost.”

She and all the others are seated, and she glances smugly toward Rainbow.

“Ohhhh!” Rest of the Rainbooms glares at Rainbow Dash.

These four pairs of eyes swivel toward the athlete with perceptible annoyance for having set this minor crisis in motion.

“Whoopsies.” Rainbow chuckles abashedly.

“Oh, so long as we use it in moderation, our magic should stay under control?” Rarity said.

“And our geodes will go all glowy if it’s about to get whack-a-doodle-doo?” Pinkie lets her eyes spin in their sockets on this last.

“It seems that way.” Twilight said.

The audience of six nods and murmurs approval, with a “Yeah!” from Pinkie mixed in.

“Hey, Rainbows!” On the end of this, cut to Zephyr Breeze lounging at the doorway. He wears his blond hair in the same messy topknot as his pony counterpart, Fluttershy’s younger brother—see “Flutter Brutter”—along with a fringed brown/blue paisley vest, no shirt underneath, blue jeans with lighter trim at the cuffs, and brown moccasins. A beaded bracelet is on each wrist, and a medallion set with Pony Zephyr’s feather/wind-gust cutie mark hangs on a cord around his neck. The chin is dotted with stubble. “There you are. Do you want to go to the mall with me?”

Back to her on the start of the next line; she shoots to her feet in a sudden panic.

Rainbow sputters, ready to run off. “Uh, I forgot I have to be at a…” Then suddely Rainbow Dash's red, yellow and blue wristbands on her wrists, blue short-sleeved sweatshirt over a white shirt with a black collar and her pony counterpart's cutie mark on it, pink and white skirt with tight-fitting black bike shorts underneath, bra, panties, socks of the same color as her wristbands, and blue and white knee-high boots got completely burned by her Geode of Super Speed, them turns into black dust, them separates from Rainbow's entire body, leaving black crumbs on the ground and leaving Rainbow Dash completely barefoot and naked in the progress, her face turn into red like tomato as embarrassment by seeing herself completely naked again for the third time, and she deflates upon seeing the frantic/disapproving/angry looks from her six friends. “…a…a thing.”

Realizing that magic will not get her out of this jam now that she's completely naked in front of Zephyr Breeze, she covers her naked body with her hands and with her rainbow hair, plods toward the door and throws them a “help me” glance. Zephyr plants an arm on the doorframe to block her exit.

“Okay.” Zephyr said very smarmy as he's so enchanted by Rainbow's naked body.

She blushes more and moans wearily, but outsmarts him by ducking under the arm and is out in the hall to wave goodbye with a big stupid grin.

Zephyr confusedly. “Okay.” He clears out. “That’s cool, I don’t care anyways. Oh by the way, i always love Raimbows's naked body, just to remember her.”

Off he goes. Fluttershy covers her face with her hands, mortified at her brother’s shameless flirting, as the other five laugh themselves silly. Dissolve to Sunset standing uneasily in the middle of a teeming hallway and wearing the earmuffs. She removes them, hears not one word from the minds of the students around her, and voices a sigh of relief at the abatement of her telepathy. Fade to black.

Next Chapter: “School of Naked Rock” Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 13 Minutes
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