Chapter 1-20: To the games!

Rage stood at the entrance to Crystal Prep his mind on what had happened before back in Principle Celestia's office…

"So why do you want to partake in our student transfer program we have the week before the Friendship Games?" Celestia asks

"I heard a lot about the place and… I am curious. I want to see what all the hype is about." Rage answers

"Alright…but remember watch your powers. With all of your friends having occurrences with their transformations we don't want you doing anything at Crystal Prep like that." Celestia says crossing her arms

"Yes Principle Celestia I am well aware of that and I understand your concern but I am keeping The Chaos Emeralds at home under lock and key. Do not worry I have everything under control." Rage responds

"I trust you will at least get to know why we are beaten every year." Luna says plainly

"I will see about that you have that letter for Dean Cadence?" Rage asks, Celestia nods and hands him an envelope which he takes and put in his backpack. He waves and leaves the school for the day.

"Quite a strange atmosphere…" he says to himself before walking up to the doors where a woman with colorful hair dressed in a peculiar uniform greets him.

"Good morning…are you Rage Chaotic?" she asks looking at him "the CHS visitor?"

"Yes I am." Rage says "Dean Cadence right?"

"Indeed. Let's get you to Principle Cinch" she says leading Rage into a rather interesting office. It looked more like a headmasters room and he felt nervous walking in which to him was weird since he knew he had been through worse than this. "Principle Cinch the student from Canterlot High School is here."

"Thank you Dean you may go." She says in a voice that reminded Rage of the stereotypical sadistic headmaster of a school of some kind. He watched her spin in her chair to look at him. "So you are the student who we are trading with for this week?"

"Y-Yes ma'am" Rage says he didn't care what he had been through this woman was something else…intimidating for sure!

"Well you're grades sure are high I have taken the liberty of making sure you're schedule is as close to the one you had back at Canterlot but you will notice I had to put you into Honors Classes I felt it would be a better fit for you." Principle Cinch says "Now tell me…why did you decide you partake in this program of ours?"

"I have heard a lot about this school and I wanted to see it for myself some of the rumors and other gossip that goes around." Rage answers

"Well I assure you, you will find everything here to be above all other schools in the city. We do have a reputation to uphold. Come with me. I have to announce your presence to the rest of the school…" Cinch says with a tone of disgust in her voice.

'Well she's quite a piece of work…' Rage thinks following her into an auditorium where she took the stage from Dean Cadence.

"Good morning students our guest student from Canterlot High has arrived. Please welcome Mister Rage Chaotic." She says motioning to him, the atmosphere was dense and Rage rubbed the back of his now nicely groomed hair. Now spikey like normal. The bell rang to Rage's relief and he walked to the Chemistry room to go about his day at this strange new school.

Meanwhile back at Canterlot Rainbow had just finished playing her guitar and 'Ponying up" as they called it. Rarity then spoke "You guys think we should have sent Twilight home like that? It was awful rude."

"With the Friendship Games coming up we can't risk her being here." Sunset says "Now Rage has taken the week as our transfer to Crystal Prep. I have to figure out how to contain your magic and everyone is all tense about the Games!"

"Don't worry!" Sonic smiles "I am sure Rage will come back with some interesting secrets about that school!" Sonic says

"Probably not." Applejack says "Rage is too honest for that. But I have a question why is it when he plays his guitar with us he glows like we do but doesn't change? Could something from where you guys are from be the cause of it?"

"Of course not." Shadow says "If that was the case the three of us would have changed during our performances. And he doesn't glow when we play either."

"But Rage would have to have some connection to Equestria then. But I think Twilight would have known since she knew who Rainbow and the others were." Sunset replies

"Well I can assure you Rage has never been to this Equestria." Sonic says "He wouldn't be caught dead in a place like that unless he had to for his Chaos Guardian duties."

"So there has to be another explanation we can't be rubbing it off cause then you two would be affected as well." Sunset says putting a hand on her chin to think "So what could it be?"

"I dunno then we can as him when he gets back" Sonic says with a yawn laying back on the couch he had been sitting on.

Back at Crystal Prep Rage was slipping through the hallway when he accidentally bumps in to that worlds Twilight. "Oh my gosh I am so sorry." She says

"It's alright." Rage says helping her up and she looks at him

"You…aren't you the student visiting from Canterlot?" she asks "You look familiar."

"Yeah you and I ran into each other that night you were there." Rage answers "What were you doing all the way out at Canterlot High though anyways?" he asks

"Oh I can't say…I don't remember." She answers

"Right…" Rage says "What's the deal?" he asks

"For what?" Twilight asks

"Well let's see the rest of the school is pretty rude to each other and here you are as much as I hate to say it playing doormat." Rage says shrugging before sighing an face palming "Oh look at me…" he says to himself "Here I am asking you a question and I haven't even asked you your name! Jeez how rude of me." Rage looks at Twilight though he knew who she was he kept it unsaid "So you know who I am but please tell me who are you?"

"I am Twilight Sparkle the schools top student." She replies "It is nice to meet you Rage."

"Yes." Rage answers looking at the necklace she was wearing "That's an interesting neckace."

"Oh it's not a necklace it's an EM scanner it searches for the nearest-" Twilight then stops "Oh and it's probably way over your head."

"An EM scanner? So it searches for the nearest EM wave or energy signature and points you to it. So if I were to say create one behind you it would go off." Rage replies

"Wow!" Twilight says with her mouth open "how did you know that?"

"Well I am pretty intelligent myself." He answers rubbing the back of his head.

The rest of the week went by and Rage was in Principle Cinch's office the last day. "So did you enjoy Crystal Prep?" she asks

"Well you guys have a pretty nice school I will admit it." Rage replies "But not to be rude…why do you care what I think, it doesn't mean much."

"Because I have an offer. You're grades are outstanding and you have a lot of intelligence that you are not taking advantage of at Canterlot High School so I would like to offer you a place here at Crystal Prep, it would be better if you were among the best since you clearly are among them." Cinch responds Rage stood there silent trying to process why she would ask him such a thing. Though he would never betray his friends so it's not like he had to think about his answer.

"Thank you for the offer." Rage says politely "But I am afraid I have to say no…I have friends at Canterlot High that need me. I can't just leave without saying good-bye it's not cool. I understand you want to try and help me with being the best I can be but to me my friends are more important."

"Very well." Cinch says "You may escort Mister Chaotic here out Dean Cadence."

"Yes Principle Cinch." She replies taking Rage out and back to his own home

"Thank you for the ride Dean Cadence." He says as she pulls him up to his home.

"No problem and I like what you said to Principle Cinch. I think it's awesome you're loyal to your friends." Cadence replies

"Thank you." Rage answers before waving and going to his door. When he gets inside he sits on his couch and sighs "Thank god this week is over." He looks at his side table and notices a note from Twilight. "How did this get here?" he asks himself opening it

Dear Rage,

I know this isn't the best way to tell you all of this but…I have to go back to Equestria. Which means I have to break up with you. If you were a pony like me perhaps I would have taken you with me given you wanted to come but… I am afraid that will not happen. I left a book on your bookshelf though. It is like the one Sunset has so that we can be in touch. I hope you can understand

With regret,

Princes Twilight Sparkle

Rage looked at it taking a minute to process it all before his heart sank. "Oh…" was all he could say as a tear came to his eye. It was the first time Rage had truly felt sad in a long time. He had forgotten the feeling so it felt alien to him. All he was able to do was walk up to his room and lay down on his bed.

To be continued