Episode 1
"New Year, New Friends"
It's the start of a new school year at a new school, and three of the new students are excited at what was about to come. Well, two of them at least, but still ready for a new school year. Three freshman have recently entered and encounter a few familiar faces and names.
The three childhood friends have encountered the three new friends that they've made throughout the day. Everything seems to have built up to a nice first day. Until something happened. On the first day of school.
[Beginning of Episode]
"Well guys. This looks like the place to be," said a girl as she stands in front of a school.
The school is in an old architectural style shell. It consists of a large rectangle with two branches extending out the front. It is a multi-floor building with 2 floors and a dome at the top floor of the building central body. Facing the main entrance from the entrance courtyard, there is a sports field to the right and a tennis court to the left. The outer walls of the building are painted medium saturated pink, with ivory columns topped with gold placed at every corner.
Welcome to Canterlot High School, one of the most well-known schools of the horse themed city known as-guess-Canterlot City.
This place contains everything you would expect out of a typical high school. Classrooms? Check. Library? There is one. Cafeteria? Yep. How about offices? They got those.
Standing in front of the school is Rainbow Dash. She is just about to start her first year on this school as a freshman. With a great track record at sports, she will most likely beat some random person who dares to face her at any sport she plays. With her great prowess, Rainbow is one of the most talented young athletes in quite possibly in the whole world. Little does she know that she isn't all alone at the top. There are others out there who just might stand a chance against her.
Joining her are her two childhood friends: Thunderlane and Fluttershy. They have been friends growing up, though Thunder did spent some time away from the two girls before starting to hang out with them.
Fluttershy is the insecure girl. She is mostly quiet and talks rather infrequently. However, she is really kind if you could get into her bubble. It's just that a lot of people just use her as a doormat. That poor girl.
Thunderlane is Rainbow's second friend, who is a male. Like the other two girls, he too was often the victim of bulling, mainly from guys who mock his own name whenever he fails at a task that he can do. He is often called Thunderlane form the bullies, but nearly everyone else just calls him Thunder.
Going back on track, the three teenagers are staring at this new school. This place is where they will be studying until they graduate.
Fluttershy is shaking like a scared cat. "I'm so scared," she says. "I'm not very familiar with this place."
"Oh, chill out, butterfly," Thunder replies. "We did a little tour of this place during our last year of junior high. You should feel a little more comfortable with the place right about now. In fact, I'm kind of excited to see what my cooking classroom will look like!"
"Cooking class?" Rainbow asks. 'Why did you choose that out of all the possible choices?"
"My parents divorced, remember?" Thunder explains. "I now only have my mom around to take care of me and my brother, and even she isn't available to make the food all the time."
"...Okay..." Rainbow replies. "Now that I think about it, I should be considering to take that class. After all, adulthood is just a few years away. Better learn to make my own food!"
"Guys, aren't you forgetting something?" Fluttershy asks. "The first bell is about to start in a few minutes."
Rainbow promptly checks her watch. It reads 7:51. First period, and therefore the school day, starts in around nine minutes. "Eh," she said. "We've got enough time. Come on friends. Let's head inside!" Rainbow adjusts her backpack and gets ready to enter Canterlot High.
Thunder and Fluttershy look at each other for a moment before following Rainbow.
On route to her locker, Rainbow attempts to squeeze herself around the other students. The hallway is jammed packed, so there is little room to move around. Her locker should be around here somewhere, if those students could finish what they're doing and head off to class. Rainbow checked her watch again. It is 7:53. Still plenty of time, but Rainbow would like it if she would get to her first class a little early.
"Stupid students," Rainbow grumbles. "Couldn't they just get to their class? I would like it if they-"
Rainbow would like to get her thoughts out, but she is interrupted by a girl who is busy inspecting her.
"My goodness!" Rainbow heard a girl say. "Look at that beautiful hair!"
Rainbow is then greeted with a white girl with purple flowing hair. Who is busy looking at her. Rainbow felt a little uncomfortable.
"Uh, excuse me?" Rainbow asks.
The girl viciously inspects every part of Rainbow's hair. "Look at these locks," she said. "You would be perfect for my latest projects!"
"Excuse me, lady," Rainbow began. "But I have someplace to get to. I have no time for some fashion."
"Aww, darling," the girl groans. "You would look beautiful with that prismatic hair of yours!"
Rainbow feels a little more awkward. "So...what's your name?" she asks.
The girl then snaps. "Oh my! I did not even think about this." The girl then offers her hand out to Rainbow. "The name's Rarity, famous and rising fashion designer. Yours?"
Rainbow then shakes Rarity's hand in return. "My name is Rainbow Dash, sports superstar. Now would you please excuse me, I have some place to go."
This causes Rarity to freak out. "Someplace to go? Oh dear, I completely forgot! Better get to my next class!" Rarity then runs off into the hallway, making her way around the other students.
"Your first class," Rainbow corrected as Rarity runs away. She checks the time again. It is now 7:54. "Nuts," Rainbow grunted. "Shouldn't waste any more time." She readjusts her bag and proceeds to walk towards where her first class is.
Somewhere on campus, Thunder marched his way around the hallways trying to find his first class: foods. Taking an interest ever since he started, Thunder is excited to try out his first class as a beginning chef. Well, if he could find the specific room. Stopping in the middle of the foods hallway, he takes out his schedule and reads it.
"Room CUL-3," he reads. He takes a look at the walkway again. Facing towards the dead end, all the odd-number rooms are to his left, while the even-numbered rooms are to his right. The room that he attended is located at the left, back, with matching labels. Confident that he had found his first class for the day, he steps up to the door and enters it.
As soon he entered the room, Thunder is greeted with a blast of air and a pile of confetti.
"Welcome new student!" A girl enthusiastically yelled.
Thunder groaned in pain after landing on his back. "What was that?" he weakly asks.
"Seriously Pinkie, you need to tone it down," a southern cowgirl voice said. "This is the third time that you've done this today. Don't you think these poor students have seen enough from you?"
Thunder got up to his feet and tried to enter the room for real this time. "Alright," he says. "Time to get into this classroom for real this time. Not more random stuff blasting out of a doorway." He enters the room, this time nothing else happened.
The room can be divided up into two sections. One with all the desks, and one with all the kitchen equipment. At the front of the room lined four double-desks lined in three rows, housing a maximum of 24 students. At the rear, there are stoves and ovens as well as utensils, measuring cups, scales, sinks, and other stuff.
Thunder sat down at the desk behind the two girls. He takes the time to pull out his schedule once more while waiting for class to start.
"Sorry about what happened over there," the cowgirl spoke again. Thunder turns his attention to the two girls.
"Uhh, what do you mean?" Thunder asks.
"Yah have to excuse Pinkie over there," the cowgirl explained. "She has a lot of energy, and she's not afraid to expend it."
Thunder takes a look at Pinkie. She has messy pink hair and light pink skin, wearing a light blue jacket over a white shirt with a heart on it. She is smiling at him. Meanwhile, he has dark gray skin, a Mohawk, and dresses almost like a street punk except he wears a gold shirt under his jacket, almost like his eye color.
"Hey, the name's Applejack in case you're wondering," the cowgirl said, offering her hand out to Thunder.
"Uh," Thunder starts to talk. "Nice to meet you." He shakes Applejack's hand. "My name is Thunderlane, and I just starting on this new school year. You may call me Thunder. It's much simpler."
Pinkie offered her hand out for a handshake. "My name is Pinkie Pie!" she said. "But you already knew that, right? Anyway, nice to meet you!"
"Sure," Thunder replied. "Nice to meet you t-ahhhhhhhhhhh!" Pinkie shoot Thunder's hand wildly, before he pulled his hand back holding his shoulder. "Um...that was a little awkward."
"Aww man!" a student cried. "Who left all this confetti all over the floor? Someone clean this up before someone slips on it!"
"Coming through!" another student announced, before slipping on the confetti and falling on her face.
"Hey!" Applejack yelled. "He warned you!"
Things are looking good for Fluttershy. She is struggling to get to her biology class, but she kept getting shoved by all the other students. It was as if they think she wasn't there at all! Throughout the morning, she was repeatedly shoved to the floor, knocked into the lockers, and squeezed into the walls. She takes a look at the clock once more. It was 7:58, two minutes remaining. The hallways should clear up before 8:00, but the other students appears to be struggling with finding where their classes are.
"Oh, where is Rainbow where I needed her?" she wonders.
1 minute until school starts. The hallway is just about clearing up. There is enough room for her to get to class without being pushed and shoved by other people. But just as she got up, she notices that one of the students is laying there, unable to move. Wondering at what happened there, she went up to the student.
"Are you okay?" she asks.
"Oh man..." the student groans. "Why do I keep on getting shoved?"
Fluttershy had no time to waste. She had to get this student to where her next class is and get to biology class is as little time as possible. So she picked her up.
"Come on," she says. "I need you to get to your class as soon as possible. I'm escorting you there."
"Thanks a lot," the student says. "Say, what is your name? Who are you?"
"Doesn't matter," Fluttershy replies. "As long as you get there, we should be fine."
A few periods later (actually, this is 3rd period), it is gym class for some of the friends.
This year being her second year at this school, Applejack brought along her gym uniform for the journey, getting ready to receive her new lockers. Meanwhile, the freshman are being introduced to this field house, just so that they are familiar with this wing. While waiting to get her new lockers, one of the freshman, a certain rainbow-haired girl, caught her eye.
"Haven't seen this new face before," she said. "Who is this new girl?"
"Oh, she's Rainbow Dash, one of the new students," a female student answered. "This is her first year in high school, and she's brought along a few friends. In fact, I've even heard that one of them happens to be around here somewhere."
Applejack takes a closer look at Rainbow for a moment. There was something about this new girl that just captures her eyes. Was it the prismatic hair? Probably. She wants to walk up to this girl and talk to her, but at the same time she has a new locker to get, so she waits until everyone is at the field house.
Minutes later, Applejack got out of the locker rooms and start to search for Rainbow. She must be around here somewhere. After searching for a bit, she catches her near the bleachers talking with Thunderlane, a classmate of hers back at the cooking class. Could this be one of her friends? Definitely. She walks up to the duo, just for a talk.
"Hey, fellas!" she greeted.
"Oh, hey classmate!" Thunder greeted. "So, you have this class at this time too?"
"Yep," Applejack replied.
"Who are you?" Rainbow asks.
"This cowgirl is named Applejack," Thunder explains. "She's one of my classmates at the cooking class. And she hails from a farmer family. Can't get any more rough and tough than this, right?"
"Really?" Rainbow asks.
"I've told him all of that," Applejack said.
Then, something in Thunder's mind popped up. "Oh, and guess what, Rainbow?"
"What?" Rainbow asks. "What do you need from me?"
"One of the coaches of this school," Thunder begins. "He's your dad!"
"My dad works here?!" Rainbow yells.
"Hey! Sweetheart!" Rainbow's dad called out. "Good to see you here!"
Rainbow has this uncomfortable feelings about discovering that your parent works at the same school that she happens to attend. "Oh dear," she says, before running away.
"Hey! Dash!" Thunder calls out. "Where are you-"
Thud! Rainbow has crashed into a wall.
"Aw man..." Thunder groans.
"Well..." Rainbow's dad said. "That's my Rainbow. Best at smashing her face at the walls. Am I right?"
Applejack lets out a sigh. She walks up to Rainbow as sh eis rubbing her head after crashing into the walls.
"Look girl," Applejack said. "You don't need to fear your father very much. Even though he's a coach, he's kind of a nice guy, treating his class like they're his children that has a lot of potential. I think he's gone a bit enthusiastic when he saw you there." She then helps Rainbow get back to her feet.
Rainbow looked bit nervous. "Do you see this often?" she asks. "Do you see students whose parents work at the very school they're attending?"
Applejack lets out a chuckle. "Oh, don't worry about it," she says. "I pretty sure that there are several students out there who has parents who are staff members of the school that they attend. If there's one thing I have to say is that you're not alone."
Rainbow's dad and Thunder then walk up to the girls.
"Okay...this can be a little embarrassing," Rainbow says to herself. She turns to her dad. "Well father, I know that you're excited to see me attend this school, but please treat me like a regular student."
"Oh, don't worry Dash," her father reassures. "I'm going to make this the best school year you'll ever experience!" He then opens his eyes and sees that everyone surrounding him is giving an awkward look. Thunder is taking small steps away from Rainbow's father, and he looks like he was about to run.
"I think that's embarrassing enough for you," Rainbow's dad said. "Was it?"
After a particularly embarrassing encounter with her father, it's now lunch time. Rainbow and Fluttershy sit at an empty table, while Thunderlane tries to find a place where he could hand out with some of his old friends from primary school. Fluttershy notice that her best friend is feeling a bit down, ho she asks her something.
"Rainbow? Is there something wrong?" she asks.
Rainbow lets out a sigh. "It's my father," she responded. "I discovered that he works as a coach there. It was embarrassing."
"Wait, one of your parents works at this place?" Fluttershy asks.
"Hey look! It's Rainbow Dash!" they heard Applejack say. The two girls are soon joined by three other girls from earlier.
"Oh, hello again," Rainbow greets. "You three are friends, am I right?"
"Of course darling," Rarity answers. "The three of us attended the same school."
"Which one?" Rainbow asks, wanting more clarification. "Elementary or Middle?"
"Since middle school, I believe," Applejack replies. "Haven't seen you two-err-three before then."
"How about a little handshake?" Pinkie asks as she presents her hand.
"Sure," Rainbow says as she reaches out for Pinkie's hand. "Why no-uhhhhhggg!" She felt her arm being swung rabidly up and down. "Okay, girl. I think that's enough."
Applejack places her hand over Pinkie's arm, stopping the motion immetly. "Yeh have to excuse Pinkie for a bit," she says.
Rainbow holds on to her arm after that handshake. "Well that's nice to hear," she says. "Well hopefully we can get though our first day of this school year without something-"
A loud thud echoes though the school, silencing everyone. It looks like it came from the main office.
"What's going on over there?" Thunder asks. He begins to get up. "Keep an eye on my food. I'm going to investigate." He runs off towards the hallway.
Seeing her friend leave to investigate, this has made Rainbow a little curious as to what is going on. So she decided to get up and follow her friend. "I'm going to investigate," she says.
"What?" Rarity says. "Why, darling?"
"Something is happening on campus," Rainbow replies. "Stay right here girls. Including you, Fluttershy. I'm going to investigate." She hops from her seat and goes to the hallway. As she leaves, the other girls stared at each other, wondering what to go next.
Principal Celestia is the school's administrator. She is a a person with a warm heart, happily greeting new students as they came. She doesn't take bulling and harassment lightly, as the students expect this school to deliver a welcoming environment. Something that she wants to keep. When the freshman came here a week earlier, she told them that they will have an excellent school year here. She has a particular eye on Rainbow Dash the first time she came here, mostly because of her history and familial connection.
As a retired archaeologist, she hold several treasures that she keeps in her office. She politely asks visiting students to not touch the artifacts, due to them being precious and potentially powerful. In particular, a box of gemstones that she keeps under her desk.
This is not one of her days. When Thunder and Rainbow entered the crime scene, they were surprised to see Celestia laying on the floor injured. The office is a mess, with burn marks and debris everywhere, and the desk if chopped in half.
"What happened here?" Thunder asks as he investigates. "This office does not look like this when the day started. It looks like someone trashed the place."
Rainbow, meanwhile, has her sights on not the room, but the principal. She leans down on the school administrator. "Principal Celestia, are you okay?" she asks.
Celestia weakly gets up and coughs. "My students..." she manages to spit out. "This office...was attacked...My box is stolen...only the red gem remains."
"Red gem?" Rainbow asks, bewildered by this new information. "What red gem?"
Celestia reached down her pocket and pulls out a small, red stone. "Take it," she commanded. "Hold on to this. And don't...let them get a hold of it."
Thunder and Rainbow watched as Celestia struggled to get up. They have worried look on their faces.
That's when Vice Principal Luna, Celestia's sister, shows up. "Guys, we have a unexpected and suspicious visitor just outside campus grounds. I suggest you investigate while the school goes into lock down mode.
Rainbow seems confused at this non-standard act during an emergency like this. "Why?" she asks.
Luna points to the gem Rainbow is holding. "That gemstone of yours hold a great amount of power," she explains. "According to ancient texts, it grants the welder a superpower upon use.
"I'm not sure I'm ready..." Rainbow says. "I mean, I don't even know what these things are before! I don't know how powerful these things are! And what about the amount of power that monster who is waiting outside holds? What if I am unable to do it?"
Luna places her hand over Rainbow's shoulder. "Tell me, do you want to risk having your first day here at school ruined? Or are you willing to fight whatever's out there? It's your choice."
Rainbow took a moment to weigh her decisions. She could either ignore it, which could result in her school year having to be cut short. Not sure if the other students are willing to accept that. Or she could risk her life into doing what's best. This might hurt her. A lot.
After thinking about the situation, she makes her choice. "I'm going out there and confront whoever's waiting for us," she says. And then, the leaves the room and the building, taking her gem with her.
Thunder and Luna watch as Rainbow leaves the building. Then Thunder turns to Luna and says, "I'd better be taking evacuation measures." And then he runs off after Rainbow.
Outside the school, Rainbow runs toward the street just in front of the school. She runs for a few seconds, before encountering a horrifying sight: Four of her friends being captured by an alien monster. It has four tentacles, each holding one of her friends. Applejack, Rarity, Pinkie, and Fluttershy. Each girl is screaming an wailing as they are swung around in the air. Rainbow is frozen at the sight of this.
Thunder then came along. "Okay, what is going on out-" And then he sees the monster. "Oh my gosh! What is that thing?"
The monster lets out an evil laugh. It has a deep feminine tone. "Well, well. Looks like I have found you." She then glares deeply towards the two students. "Future ranger."
To Be Continued...
From the Author:
Welcome to Tomoden Sentai Equinger (Translated as Friend Power Squadron Equinger. Trust me, I did the research), where the characters we know and love get transformed into humans and encountered some Super Sentai elements. Kind of like the official Equestria Girls, except way different.
Why is Thunderlane here, you may ask? Well, let's just say that I encountered several stories that feature him as one of the central characters. I figure that we need a male character in here because of how much females there are in the parent show. He's a bit of a popular one within the fandom. Don't worry. He's not there for tokenism. He has an important role in the series that I haven't come up with. It's just not time for him to shine yet.
Also, where is Twilight, the main protagonist of the parent show? Well, the last time I saw her, she was attending a rival school and that's all I got. Blame the official spin-off for that feature.
Stay informed when the next chapter comes out. This is where the real action starts.
Edit from 11/2/2017: Fixed spelling errors. Previous version only got a minute of fame.
Edit from 12/23/2017: Changed first word of name from "Yuden" to "Tomoden".
Written by TheAPPstore
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Inspired by Super Sentai, property of Toei Compony.