Rainbow Dash, sitting in math class, got her test back. She looked over it, happy to see a big, fat "C" slapped on the top. She cheered silently and waved the paper in the air.

"Miss Dash," Mrs. Harshwhinny said. "put that paper down. I know you must be proud to have such a high grade, but please wait to show your enthusiasm. Grades are posted online."

The bell rang and Rainbow Dash hopped out, heading to her next class. As she passed Rarity, she leaned in and said, "Look at my test!"

Rarity smiled. "Oh, that's… good."

"I know! And I didn't even have to study!" Rainbow Dash continued running through the halls, sprinting past Principle Celestia, who only glared at the student.

"Scootaloo!" Rainbow Dash skidded to a stop. "I got a C on my test!"

Scootaloo tried to smile. "I know. We're in the same math class."

"Eeee!" Rainbow Dash continued to sprint. Just as she rounded a corner, she was stopped by Scribble Dee.

"Rainbow," Dee whispered. "Rainbow!"

"What gives? I'm on my way to class." Rainbow began to run, but Dee held a tight grip on her shoulder. "Hey!"

"Look, what happened outside of the diner… did you really try to be hurtful?" Dee was shaking slightly, her knuckles white.

"Of course not. I just had to look cool," Rainbow Dash explained. "I'm sorry if anything came across as hurtful."

"Adam takes what people say about him to heart." Dee looked down. "I was really hoping we could surprise him with you at the light show."

"Does he like me?" Rainbow asked, raising an eyebrow. "Because I'm not interested."

"He wants to be friends," Dee replied. "You should really talk to him."

"Where is he?"

"Not here. He's not at school today." With a sigh, Dee began to walk away. "Maybe you should text him, or something. I better head to class."

"Oh. Okay." Rainbow Dash shuffled around a bit, then began walking to her next hour class. On her way, she passed by Fluttershy who was talking with Bulk Biceps.

"There's a game on Friday?" Fluttershy asked.

"YEAH!" Bulk Biceps flexed. "You should go!"

"Oh, but I need tickets…."

"GOT 'EM RIGHT HERE." Bulk Biceps slammed several tickets into Fluttershy's cupped hands.

"Oh. Thanks!"

The bell rang. Fluttershy just stood with Bulk Biceps in an awkward silence. Then, Fluttershy spoke up by saying, "Aren't you going to be late for class?"

"YEAH!"

"And you've been late before?"

"YEAH!"

"And if you're late again, you'll get in trouble."

"YEAH!"

And with that, Bulk Biceps went running down the hallway to Cooking Class.

"Oh, Rainbow! Here's a ticket to the football game. I'm excited to see it. I heard the light show is going to be amazing." Fluttershy began to head to her class.

"Wait," Rainbow Dash said.

Fluttershy stopped, turning around. "Yes?"

"Did you talk to Adam about friendship?"

"Uh…" Fluttershy didn't know how to respond, so she decided to say, "I showed him that with friendship, magic is real. He wanted to see my pony ears."

"You showed him magic?"

"We've shown it lots of times before," Fluttershy replied.

"Yeah… yeah," Rainbow Dash began to walk to class. "Remind me, I need to show you my grades on the computer."

"Of course! I just need to head to class." Fluttershy walked the other way. "Bye, Rainbow!"

School went smoothly, except for when Rainbow tried to use her phone to email something to Applejack. The phone began to vibrate and the screen flashed with green, with several lines of zeros and ones flooding across. It made no sense to Rainbow Dash, and when she turned off her phone and then turned it back on, the screen showed the green once, and then it promptly died on her.

After school, Rainbow Dash headed down to the school lobby, took out her laptop, and pointed it out to all of her friends. "I am going to show all of you that you don't need to study to be awesome. I passed my math test without really doing any of the homework."

"Oh," Sunset Shimmer commented. "Congratulations."

"With flying colors?" Rarity asked.

Rainbow Dash opened up the webpage to her grades, and pointed at the screen. She was smiling proudly, and looked at her friend, expecting to hear them burst out into cheers. However, their reactions were of shock and horror, evidenced by Pinkie Pie's hair drooping and Rarity dropping the vial of nail polish she had been holding.

"What?" Rainbow was confused.

"Uh, you might wanna double check," Applejack said, pointing at the screen. She was grimacing, finding it hard to point out what she had seen.

"I'm sure the teacher just made a mistake," added Sunset Shimmer. "Right?"

"Oh, but Mrs. Harshwhinny wouldn't mess up any grades," Fluttershy interjected, but then she quickly put in, "But maybe she did make a mistake."

"What?" Rainbow Dash still was confused.

Pinkie Pie cocked her head to the side, trying to grin. "Maybe… maybe the "F" stands for fun, right? It probably does."

"What do you mean by an 'F'? I got a 'C'!" Rainbow Dash finally looked at the screen, and her jaw hit the keyboard. "How did I get an 'F'? Ah!" she backed out of the math grades and looked at the other grades, which were C's and B's. All of a sudden, the letters began to change, one by one, into a failing 'F'.

"What's happening?" Rainbow Dash hit the back arrow, trying to get her grades to return back to normal, but it didn't work. She began to shake her computer, and when Applejack tried to grab her arms, the laptop went flying and hit the ground. It shattered into several pieces, and Rainbow screamed.

"First my phone, then my grades, and now my computer!" Tears began to form in her eyes. "Wh…what?"

Sunset Shimmer, who was busy thinking, said, "I bet Atomic Adam has something to do with these grades. You need to work things out with him."

Rainbow stuttered, "I tried, but then… Trixie… and… look at what he's done!"