A young man with blue hair is drinking coffee as a rushed shuffling noise is hear coming from upstairs.

"Come on Teeny!" he calls as a irritated bark echoes through the house, "You're going to be late for your first day of school if you don't hurry up!"

Hurried footsteps come down the stairs along with shouts of, "I'm ready, I'm ready!" Into the kitchen runs a teenage girl with purple hair, follow by a purple and green dog. Sitting down to breakfast she takes a moment to catch her breath and then punches her brother in the shoulder, "I told you to stop calling me that!"

Feigning injury the young man continued to drink his coffee while his sister tried to finish her breakfast as quickly as possible. "Slow down," he cautioned, "you'll make yourself sick if you keep eating like that."

Chugging down the last of her juice, the young girl took her dishes to the sink for her brother to wash later. Rushing back up the stairs with her dog, the young man finished his coffee and waited by the foot of the stairs to see his sister coming down the stairs rummaging through her bag.

"Pen? Check. Back up pen? Check. Back up back up pen? Check." she muttered and not watching her step slipped, but was steadied by her brother catching her in the nick of time. "Thanks Seth." she said blushing at her own obliviousness.

"Careful now," he chuckled, "wouldn't want your first day of spoiled by broken leg." Opening the door he turned back on his sister, "Are you sure you don't want me to give you a lift?"

Shaking her head, "No its fine, Candace said she was going to give me a lift already." As if by magic a black Sonata pulled up driveway. "See? I'll see you after school." She then hugged her brother before crouching down to her dog she petted him on the head, "and Spike be a good boy while I'm gone okay?" Spike just gave a happy bark in response.

Running out the door with her bag, she hopped in the car where a young woman her brother's age, Candace, waited. "Excited for your first day at Canterlot High, Talia?" she asked as she pulled out of the driveway.

"Yeah!" nodded Talia, but then a contemplative look came over her, "but I also want to find out who posted those videos."

Candace gave a light laugh, "Yeah, that was weird," on seeing Talia looking a little dejected she patted her shoulder comfortingly. "don't worry about it, I'm sure no one at your new school is going to even recognize you."

Jerking, Talia began to, in only the most generous terms, visually spaz, "Don't worry? Don't worry!? I have a mystery twin who can't figure out a computer and dances worse than I did at homecoming! Do you know what Miranda said when she saw that!" Candace again put her hand on Talia's shoulder.

"Talia, honey," she said calmly, "breath. I'm sure you're just overreacting." When she saw her young friend had visibly calm down Candace continued, "That was months ago, Principal Celestia has assured me that the entire matter has settled among student body. No one will even notice you." Driving up to the school, they noticed the rather large amount of scaffolding above the main entrance. Upon seeing it Talia muttered, "Bad sign number one." While Candace just offered a nervous smile.

The moment the new transfer student walked into the main hall with the new student teacher, every eye turned to them and then the whispering began. Talia turned to Candace, "No one will notice?"

Understandably embarrassed Candace quickly and as quietly as possible ushered Talia to the Principal's office. In their hurried pace they did not notice a pink haired girl gasp, rather loudly too, and run off.

Once there they were met with the Principal, who seemed amicable enough to Talia.

"Ah, Miss Candace Amritzi I presume?" she greeted shaking Candace's hand. "I'm glad that you can join as here at Canterlot High, and to you as well, Miss Sparks."

Nervous, Talia eventually took the Principal's hand with a muttered thank you. The Principal explained to Talia the expectations and code of student conduct at Canterlot High as well as giving Talia her schedule for the semester. After explaining all of this the Principal asked, "Do you have any questions Miss Sparks?"

"Just one," Talia twiddled her fingers before asking, "There's a student here...who..who looks a lot like me. May I speak to her? Its about some videos online." Talia was nervous because to her Principal Celestia held this air of authority that made you want to try you hardest to avoid disappointing her.

Raising her eyebrow, the Principal examined Talia closely before answering, "I'm afraid that particular student is no longer attending this school." Talia deflated a little, "However, I can assure you that the entire matter related to the videos has been settled and the students responsible have been sufficiently punished."

Talia sputtered, "B-but, shouldn't I at least hear it straight from them? By all accounts that is me in those videos even if it is supposedly a different person."

Fixing her gaze on Talia, the Principal sighed, "Very well, though not directed at you I can see that, indirectly, you have been affected." Writing three names on a slip of paper, Celestia handed them to Talia, "But I must warn you Miss Sparks, as the school considers the matter closed, I must ask that you settle accounts after school hours, is that understood?" When Talia nodded the Principal adopted a much more relaxed and friendly tone, "Good, now if I'm not mistaken, your first class will be starting in five minutes. Run along."

It was lunch time and the entire school was already abuzz with the news of the new transfer student, who is the exact twin of a earlier transfer student. The school's own famed "Sailor scouts"* showed the most interest in the transfer, but by some crazy twist of fate, none of them shared classes with her. This drove no one more crazy than Paulina who was always eager to make a new friend. Leading to our current scene in the cafeteria.

"Oh come on!" exclaimed Paulina raising her arms, "You mean none of us shares a single class with the new girl?"

"Its freaky, sugarcube," admitted Amelia, "But what are we gonna do? Walk right up to her and say, 'Hi, we're friends with an alternate universe pony version of you and thought it be swell if we were friends with you too?' I'd chuck anyone who said that to me in the loony bin for that!"

"But its true!" protested Paulina, "Everyone here saw it!" She then pulled out her puppy dog face, "Besides, she's new here and if she's new, that meant she hasn't met anyone yet, and if she hasn't met anyone yet, she must not have any friends, and if she doesn't have any friends then she must be lonely, and that made me so sad, then I had an idea, and that's why I went huuuh! I must throw a great big ginormous super-duper spectacular welcome party and invite everyone in school! See!" The four backed off slightly as Paulina ran off into another party rant and pulled out extremely detailed party plans to be held at the Cake's Bakery, "Then she'll have lots and lots of friends!"

Roxy just rolled her eyes at her remade friends antics muttering, "Yeah that won't scare her off."

Rowellina gave a chastising look to the resident tomboy before turning to Paulina, "Paulie darling, maybe we should just treat her as someone we don't know yet. Instead expecting her to act exactly like Twilight?"

"What makes you say that?" asked Paulina still going over her plans for this party.

Gently, Rowellina looked over the plans before pointing at a draft menu, "Well for one thing, I doubt that, unlike Twilight, she would like to eat hay."

Any further planning was put to a halt when Faith gasped, "Look!" pointing to a secluded corner of the cafeteria. Turning around the "sailor scouts" saw that subject of their conversation was talking with Susan Shelby, formerly Sunset Shimmer, it seemed they were talking for quite a while and were long finished. The transfer left the cafeteria while Susan just kept eating her lunch, but much more subdued than earlier. Looking at each other the five made their way over to their new and rehabilitating friend.

It was Faith who asked, "Um Sun-Susan?" gently laying her hand on the former pony's shoulder, "Are you okay? Did she say something?"

"Oh," Susan began somewhat dejected, "yeah, she just wanted a explanation for those videos I had Steve and Stan take in September."

"She didn't say anything to hurt your feelings did she?" asked Rowellina, joining Faith on Susan's other side.

Surprised, Susan looked at both Rowellina and Faith, "Wait, your worried about me after all I did, I-I thought you would take her side, you are her friends."

"That's where you're wrong sugarcube," offered Amelia taking Susan's hand, "Twilight's our friend and she asked we take care of you."

"Yeah!" smiled Paulina jumping in front of Susan with her infectious smile, "She's not our friend until I throw her a super awesome welcome party!" She gasped again as an idea popped into her head, "We should totally throw a "Welcome to Canterlot High/We forgive you Sunset Shimmer" mega party for the both of you!" The Pinkette was soon off deep into more party plans leaving Roxy to pick up the slack.

"Amelia's right! No one says Roxy Dodgers doesn't look out for her friends!" and looking directly into Susan's eyes, "And you're our friend Susan."

Teary eyed, Susan just choked out a "Thank you." After drying her eyes she asked, "But what are we going to do about Talia? She want's me to meet her after school with Steve and Stan." She then gazed down into her lap and twiddled her fingers, "I'm afraid she won't be as forgiving as Twilight."

Smiling it was Rowellina who took both of Susan's hands, "Don't you worry about this, Talia was it, just take her somewhere that we can watch out for you. Like the Cake's bakery. We'll even get Felix to help out." She looked around to the rest of the girls who nodded in agreement. For the rest of lunch and the day they, with the help of Felix, prepared Susan for her confrontation with Talia Sparks.

Author's Note:

* Well what would you call five girls who transformed in elaborate sequences set to music from no where? "Pretty cures"?