Chapter 1-21: Speed, knowledge and…magic?
Rage was sitting alone in the music room that the group shared waiting for his friends. He was unsure why they were late but he was starting to worry. The only thing on his mind was what Master Chaotix had told him. Rage remember that sometimes the ones with power are not the source of evil but the ones searching for it. And that is when unity is the key. Sure he understood what the old man meant but why share it now? Rage's thoughts were interrupted by the others as they walk in.
"Hay Rage!" Sunset says and he smiles softly. He was broken up about being separated from Twilight and he just looked at the ground.
"Still beat up about Twilight man?" Sonic asks putting a hand on the flame haired teens shoulder "Can't blame ya."
"You'll find another." Rainbow says with a smile
"I know how you feel about Twilight." Sunset says walking over to him "You two were really close and…having to end any friendship is hard. But we are here for you Rage." She says putting a hand on his other shoulder. Then to her surprise Rage hugged her
"Thank you…" he says softly
"I heard the Crystal…" Rarity says before suddenly falling weak and Applejack had to help keep her up.
"Woah there sugar cube are you alright?" Apple jack asks as the others look worried.
"What happened?" Sunset asks
"I don't know… I felt like I had all of the energy drained out of me." Rarity says slowly getting up herself.
"That makes no sense." Rage says "How could that happen all of a sudden?" he asks then the door opens to show… Twilight
"Twilight?!" they all ask before Celestia walks up followed by Principle Cinch
"Oh I am sorry… the wise students are always the most curious." She says looking at the group "Hello Rage, perhaps after the games you'll reconsider my offer?" she says leading Twilight to check her in.
"Oh and Sunset try to figure this magic stuff out soon. I don't want any of it showing up in the Games… Cinch might think we are cheating." Celestia says walking off as well
"Rage what was that about?" Rainbow asks
"Did something happen at Crystal Prep?" Sunset asks
"Principle Cinch offered me a place at Crystal Prep." Rage sighs "I hate to admit it but their academics to trump ours."
"What did you tell her?" Applejack asks
"I pretty much told her to piss off." Rage shrugs "I don't care about their academics there is no community. Every student is secluded and rude. I almost felt as if there was some kind of dark energy at that school but it was just the vibe of the place."
"That's the Rage we know." Sunset smiles "Come on we have a party to get to."
"And who's playing the main event?" Sonic asks looking at Rage and Shadow
"The Flames of Chaos!" the three say giving each other a high five.
Time Skip- Gym about 12:00 noon
The groups were divided and keeping to themselves and tension was in the air as Celestia takes the stage. "Greetings everyone and I would like to personally welcome Principle Cinch and the Crystal Prep students to Canterlot High. We hope you can enjoy you stay here.
"At least they have better food then we do!" a kid shouts and Principle Cinch looks into her group with an evil eye.
"Sorry about that Principle Celestia." She says "Please carry on."
"Anyway to get things started we have a performance from one of our student bands. You might have heard of them but here they are Sonic Shadow and Rage; The Flames of Chaos!" she says and the kids clap as the curtains open.
Rage walks up to the microphone and take it in hand "Thanks you Principle Celestia again welcome Crystal Prep before we being I would like to give a little information about our band. Sonic, Shadow and I formed this band back in our hometown in middle school as a way to blow off steam at first but we got better and better before long we were playing school events here at CHS and unknowingly a nationally televised event. But still deep down we are just three friends who love music and this new song is a softer one and we call it, "Is It You"
Here I stand, right before you
Feeling like a million words
And there you are, right before me
And not a sound can be heard
And I think to myself what am I trying to see
Am I going out of my mind
When something's so right, but you can barely see it
Open, close every door
Is it you? Is it me?
Is it everything we've meant to be
Is it here, is it now
That only we can feel somehow
Is it you... Oh... Is it you...
And we take every moment
Trying to feel who is who
And there you are, right before me
Stuck inside of what to do
And I think to myself, are we trying to love
When love shouldn't be trying at all
When something's so right, but you can barely see it
Open, close every door
Is it you? Is it me?
Is it heaven and we're meant to be
Is it here, is it now
That only we can feel somehow
Is it you... Oh... Is it you...
I'm hanging on to every word; to every word you say
And it's taking me over; over and over
And then it starts over again
Is it you? Is it me?
Is it heaven and we're meant to be
Is it here, is it now
That only we can feel somehow
Is it you? Is it me?
Is it everything we've meant to be
Is it here, is it now
That only we can feel somehow
Is it you... Oh... Is it you...
The three stop and a round of applause was heard as Pinkie and that worlds Twilight fire a pair of party cannons. This made Pinkie change and Twilight's pendant absorb her magic. After about another hour the time came for the Games to begin. Rage, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy Sunset Shimmer, Pinkie Pie and a handful of other students were their selected students. So began the first round.
Beginning with a simple math problem the academics continued into a baking competition, then a carpentry and finally… Rage and Twilight for Chemistry. They were to find what the formula: 2 C30H62 + 91 O2 - 60 CO2 + 62 H2O representedTwilight was thinking hard obviously she was thinking it was something more complex than it really was. Rage quickly answers "The equation shows the ideal combustion of the paraffin in a candle's wax."
"That is…correct?" Cinch asks almost surprised and "However Crystal Prep still wins by one." The CHS kids cheered for Rage's accomplishment at beating Twilight in the chemistry competition even though they lost.
"Why are they so excited they lost?" Twilight asks herself.
The next and possibly final event… Sports. Beginning with a motor cross of three laps to a 400m relay and finally the rifle shooting. However really the whole event depended on the rifle shooters performance. Cinch was with Twilight alone "Alright you are our relay team simply because you can't do the others understand?"
"Yes…Principle Cinch." Twilight replies
Meanwhile with the CHS team of Rage, Rainbow, Fluttershy, Applejack, Sunset Shimmer and Pinkie Pie. "There is no doubt we can tie this up!" Rainbow Dash says "Rage is the best shooter around! With the three position Olympic style we got this!"
"Right." Rage smiles as he walks up to his rifle and fires in the sighting targets to align the sights.
"Cheater!" Cinch yells from to booth
"He is sighting the rifle Principle Cinch that is completely fair." Cadence says
"Time for the next event; The Three way course! Our students will participate in motocross, a 4x100m relay and a rifle shooting challenge." Celestia says before an air horn blares the Sunset and the Crystal Prep kid take off at similar speeds causing them both to finish about the same. Then the circuit was off. The last leg was Twilight and Fluttershy. During the baton pass Twilight falls and her necklace opens causing havoc on the track. Rainbow who had saved Sunset from an attack suddenly "ponied up" and she flew around keeping the ravaging tentacles at bay. Down on the center Rage and the Crystal Prep kid were unaware to the events transpiring around them as they had ear muffs on for protection they were just waiting for the go light.
After finishing before Fluttershy and the last event began for Crystal prep she ran and closed her necklace causing all of the stuff to vanish. Fluttershy about the same time finished the race. Rage then began shooting at a moderate speed. By the time he half way through his kneel target Crystal Preps kid was done. Rage finished his and Cadence went down range to look at the targets before walking to the mic standing between the two firing lanes. "The scores for rifles are as follows; Crystal Prep's Indigo Zap has 262 of a possible 300 points…" she pauses moving the papers to Rage's targets while the Crystal Prep kids cheered as if they had already won. "And Canterlot High School's Rage Chaotic obtained… she quickly rechecks her marking a perfect 300." She says and the CHS students cheers they had tied the score! The Crystal Prep kids look at Indigo with angered looks
"It's not my fault how many people can actually shoot a perfect 300?!" he asks
"The kid had an average of 290." Twilight says "I saw his face on the trophy with his average so a 300 may not be hard for him."
"So they had a shooting prodigy as their shooter then we have to win the pennant race…Twilight that magic you have they were cheating with it… use it." Cinch says
"But…" Twilight objects "I…don't know…" The others look at her and she sighs walking up and meeting Sunset Shimmer before opening it and a large glow consumes her. "Help!" she calls
"That's not good!" Rage says looking up as the orb dies and a demonic Twilight appears.
"What is going on?" Fluttershy asks
"Oh they were right this is amazing! I want more… I want to understand it!" Twilight laughs
"Twilight no!" Sunset yells "Don't do it! I have been there before…you won't get anywhere trust me!" Sunset was replied to by a beam of energy and she put her hands up out of fright. But a burst of fire stops the attack. Rage had saved Sunset by blocking it with his sword.
'Where are Sonic and Shadow when I need them?" he thinks looking at Twilight "Calm down Twilight!" he yells "Sunset is right! You don't know what you are messing with!"
"Shut up!" she yells firing a shot at Rage who deflects it with a shield. "You could not understand! This power!"
"You're right." Rage says
"So you are acting irrationally stand back!" she yells
"I don't understand that power and I don't want to either." Rage says glowing "But I cannot let you go around doing anything stupid either." He says holding his sword out "Burn…" he says as he I surrounded in flames and then appears with long black hair, amber eyes and a black kosode his sword a dragon wing like design "Ryuu Saishu Bureijingukaosu." He says plainly before looking at Twilight "I have my own power. My power is different from yours."
"What do you mean?" Twilight asks
"Your power is coming from your lust for more magic… but mine isn't…my friends are my power. I have sworn to protect them and this school! And if I can't then I sure as hell will be sure to stop you!" Rage yells flying to Twilight hitting her into the ground.
"You…" she says "I will make you understand!" she yells firing a beam at him but he fires his own and they begin a power struggle.
"So this is what Chaotix meant…" Rage says to himself "Something powerful is around but Twilight is worse because she is seeking more."
"You are done for!" she laughs as her beam begins to overtake his but that was when his friends run up and are able to release their own magic into him and he felt as if he knew this power but he had never used it… suddenly he grew wings and a horn! As if he was ponied up!
"Harmonic…Chaos Beam!" Rage yells as it overcomes Twilights and she screams in defeat as she is sent to the ground and the necklace was flung off her. Rage then landed by it and crushes it making a blinding light fills the area. When the light dies Twilight was on the ground back to normal as she woke up. The first thing she saw was Rage reaching his hand out to help her up.
"I-I don't understand…I tried to kill you…" she says
"You let them pressure you into it." Rage says "Don't worry you're not the first and definitely not the last."
"What do you mean?" she asks
"Never mind." He answers as she takes his hand and he helps her up.
"I guess I won't be going back to Crystal Prep after that… nothing there for me anyways." Twilight sighs
"Why not come here?" Rage asks "You could use some friends."
"Yeah!" Sunset says "We can help you out." Twilight sat there before looking at Celestia who nods and she hugs Rage randomly and he blushes.
"Okay…enough hugging." Rage says pushing her back and looking at Celestia "Is everyone okay."
"Thanks to you." She says as Sunset walks up to him
"Rage… thank you for saving me." She smiles with a blush
"You were really brave there standing up like that." Rage says as they hug. Then as if they gave an inaudible cue the two kissed! The friends look away snickering a bit was Rainbow until Rarity hit her upside the head. The two break up and look at each other "Does this mean?"
"I guess it does." Sunset smiles.
To be continued with Year 2
Alright that is the end of the first year! Check back soon for Chapter 2-1: Trojan Horse