Patch was also there he saw what was going on as he glared at the other girl that was threatening Fluttershy. The two girls were talking about something given to someone else, this mean girl had red and yellow striped hair with light orange skin a black jacket with an orange skirt.
"I feel that might be Sunset Shimmer..." Mo whispered.
"I think so too." 'Bobby' nearly growled, feeling his puppy gig act up.
Twilight had enough of this. "How dare you speak to her that way!"
The girl turned to the group, having piercing aqua eyes. "What did you say?"
"You heard her, now stop threatening Fluttershy." Atticus said, glaring at the girl most likely to happen to be Sunset Shimmer.
The girl smirked to them. "You must be new here. I speak to anyone any way I want." she said as she seemed to cause fear for many of the students. She walked off as she got a boy to get himself inside his locker.
"I can't believe you did that." Human Fluttershy stood up in shock.
"Well, we couldn't just stand there." Twilight shrugged.
"It's just that nobody stands up to Sunset Shimmer," Fluttershy told them.
"Sunset Shimmer?" the 'new kids' were surprised as they saw the mean girl leave.
"So that really was Sunset Shimmer." Atticus said.
"You've heard of her?" Fluttershy asked them.
"Sort of," Twilight said, then was surprised to see these other humans knew her. "How do you guys know her?"
"We'll tell you later." Mo covered up since Fluttershy was around them.
"You haven't been around here either," Fluttershy noticed Twilight. "Did you transfer here from another school to Canterlot High too?"
"Uhh, yeah, another school, hi, I'm Twilight." the new human tried to be acceptable in this environment.
"I'm... Fluttershy..." the pink-haired girl whispered her name, being incredibly shy, but her name was indeed that, which confused Twilight, until Fluttershy went to pick up and fondle with Spike.
"I wonder if this Fluttershy is afraid of big dogs." Cherry whispered to her friends, knowing pony Fluttershy was afraid of big dragons.
"Well, sinse she is Fluttershy, it is a high possibility." Atticus whispered back.
"Eat up, little pup." Fluttershy gave Spike a dog biscuit.
Bobby was jealous he didn't get one, but since he was a human, it probably wouldn't taste so good now.
"Wouldn't you just give anything to know what they're really thinking?" Fluttershy smiled.
Cherry, Atticus, Bobby, and Mo looked to each other in secret.
"He usually tells me." Twilight said then, not knowing how weird that sounded.
Spike gave her a sign to not tell them that, but saw that Atticus, Mo, Bobby, and Cherry weren't affected by what Twilight said. Fluttershy wondered what that meant, then Spike barked like a normal dog.
"Did he just say aardvark shoe polish...?" Bobby could understand the barks still of course, but Spike had unknowingly spoke in gibberish in dog talk.
"Sunset Shimmer said you picked something up," Twilight changed the subject. "Something that belonged to her... It wasn't a crown, was it?"
"How did you know?" Fluttershy was surprised.
"Lucky guess?" Twilight shrugged. "Do you still have it?"
Fluttershy shook her head.
"But you know what happened to it?" Atticus asked.
Fluttershy nodded then. "This morning, I was passing out fliers for the animal shelter like I do every Wednesday..." she explained, then mentioned how she was sitting and a crown hit her in the head randomly. "I have no idea how it got there, but I didn't want anything to happen to it, so I decided to give it to Principal Celestia."
"Principal Celestia?" Twilight was taken aback. "She's the ruler here?"
"Yes, in a way, she is." Atticus said.
"Technically, I guess she and Vice Principal Luna do make the rules." Fluttershy shrugged.
"Where is she now?" Twilight asked.
"Probably in her office." Fluttershy shrugged with a smile.
"We'll take her there." Cherry volunteered.
"Oh, wait," Fluttershy stopped them. "You're not really supposed to have pets on school grounds. Might wanna tuck him into your backpack, that's what I do."
Suddenly a bunny, cat, and bird escaped Fluttershy's backpack.
"They just get so lonely when I'm at school all day." Fluttershy hugged her animal friends.
"I can imagine." Bobby giggled.
"Oh, okay, thank you!" Twilight called.
The bell rang instantly.
"Oh, no, I'm late for class!" Fluttershy cried and she hurried down there before she would be marked tardy.
"Well, then we'll take you to Principal Celestia then." Atticus said.
They got to the door, remembering how to get there and Twilight came in, bowing her head, expecting to meet a princess.
Celestia was reading a folder and put it down.
"My name is Twilight Sparkle, I'm new here, and, well..." the newly made human girl stumbled over her words. "I understand that Fluttershy found a crown and gave it to you?"
'Why would a crown be so important to Twilight? I mean, other than it would be worth a lot of money, there's gotta be another reason?' Bobby thought to himself.
"Were you interested in running for Princess for the Fall Formal this year?" Celestia asked Twilight with a smirk.
Twilight wasn't sure how to explain this without sounding crazy, but grew curious of this princess title.
"It's Canterlot High's big Fall dance." Celestia explained, she would allow for Twilight to find out the truth later.
"Like the Grand Galloping Gala?" Twilight asked. "Uh... It was a big deal at my old school."
"Yeah, I heard it was a big hit and much more livlier then last year." Atticus said.
"Yeah." Twilight agreed quickly.
"Here at Canterlot High, the students select one of their peers to represent them," Celestia explained as they saw Sunset Shimmer in all four grades of school as the princess of the fall formal. "She receives the crown at the Fall Formal."
"Why? She doesn't deserve it, she doesn't even act like a true princess." Atticus said.
"Can anyone run?" Twilight asked.
"Yes, you just need to let the head of the Fall Formal Planning Committee know you'd like to be on the ballot, if you need anything else, my door is always open." Celestia smiled, then closed the door once they left.
"Twilight, why didn't you just tell her the crown is yours and ask for it back?" Mo asked.
"How do you guys know that?" Twilight felt odd around these fellow new students.
"We'll tell you when the time is right, we promise, and we know about Sunset Shimmer and how you came into this world." Cherry said.
Twilight felt really weird around them, but trusted them. All five of them then left Principal Celestia's office. Twilight decided she should try to run for this Fall Formal princess thing, even if she had no idea how. It was lunch time now though. Fluttershy was in the lunch line, getting vegetarian offers as Granny Smith appeared to be a lunch lady. Atticus, Mo, Cherry, Bobby, and Twilight joined Fluttershy.
"Hey, I know we just met," Twilight said to Fluttershy as she grabbed a tray with them. "But I was wondering if you might be able to help me with something."
"Of course!" Fluttershy smiled as she took a fresh fruit bowl.
Twilight carried the bowl and stared at it. "I've decided to run Princess of the Fall Formal, and..."
Fluttershy gasped, accidentally dropping her bowl, making a mess on Twilight's clothes and she quickly cleaned it up, apologizing in the process. "It's just, running for the Fall Formal Princess is a really bad idea."
"Why?" Bobby asked.
"Sunset Shimmer wants to be Fall Formal Princess," Fluttershy explained. "And when she wants something, she gets it. She'll make life awful for anyone who stands in her way. Just ask the girl who ran against her for Princess of the Spring Fling."
"Is she really that bad?" Bobby asked.
"Twilight has to try at least." Mo said.
"I don't think you guys understand," Fluttershy looked back at them. "You'd have to convince EVERYONE here to vote for you instead of her. The athletes, the fashionistas, the dramas, the eco-kids, the techies, the rockers..."
"Why is everypony-" Twilight started to ask, but then Spike hit her in the back of the head. "Uh, everybody separated this way?"
"Maybe it was different at your old school, but at CHS, everybody sticks to their own kind," Fluttershy explained as she sat down. "One thing they do have in common, is that they know Sunset Shimmer's gonna rule the school until we graduate."
"Not if we can help it." Cherry rose her fist.
Twilight bit her APPLE clear off the table and suckled on it which looked odd in this world.
"Um, Twilight..." Atticus said.
Twilight saw this, then put the apple in her hand after she got a bite out of it. "So, where would I find the head of the Party Planning Committee?"
"Check the gym, she should be in there." Fluttershy said as she continued to eat her fruit salad.
"Thanks ago, Fluttershy." Mo smiled to her.
Fluttershy smiled, then continued to eat her lunch with her new friends. This lunch was great, especially eating with Patch AKA Bobby, Twilight and Fluttershy. After lunch, they went to the school gym.
Bobby opened the door and looked around. "Fluttershy said she's probably be in here."
The whole gym was decorated, there was streamer, balloons, a lot of decorations and fake food for decor as well. It looked like there was already a party in advance, but seemed like preparation for the Fall Formal as there were pumpkins.
"INCOMING!" a high-pitched voice called as streamers suddenly fell on them. There was a girl with light pink skin with darker pink hair in a puffy mullet-like hairstyle with shining blue eyes.
"Party Committee." Cherry realized how it was that this 'girl' was in charge of the party committee as she threw confetti and got balloons ready.
"Pinkie Pie?" Twilight was surprised to see her.
"Are you psychic?" Pinkie grew frantic as always.
"Uh, no, I don't think so..."
"Wow, she behaves the same way as the pony Pinkie Pie." Atticus whispered.
"Not surprised." Mo whispered back.
"Oh, great..." Cherry knew this meant oddball insanity which would never stop. "And I just got that Smile Song out of my head."
Pinkie got out a new balloon and blew it.
"Fluttershy said this is where I'd find the head of the Fall Formal Party Planning Committee." Twilight stated her business with the others.
"Fluttershy, huh?" Pinkie seemed to sneer at the name. "Don't let the whole shy thing fool you. She can be a real meany."
"You two aren't friends?" Twilight thought was terrible.
"Why?" Atticus asked.
"Just because," Pinkie grinned as she looked back at Twilight. "Waited a bit to get your name on the ballot, huh? Dance is the day after tomorrow."
"We're brand new here." Twilight admitted, it seemed to be a good excuse to not understand a lot of things around here.
"Ooh!" Pinkie smiled, then narrowed her eyes. "I thought you didn't look familiar... Ya know, now that I'm really looking at you all, Twilight, do you have a twin sister who lives in the city who has a pet dog named Spike that looks just like that one?"
"Uh, maybe." Twilight shrugged, not sure how to answer to that.
"Yeah, we're not sure ourselves." Atticus said.
"That's probably why no one here knows Twilight," Cherry said when Pinkie wanted Twilight alone for a moment. "The real Twilight is away from here and will visit probably soon to learn lessons about friendship."
"This is all really confusing..." Bobby rubbed his head.
"Sorry, Pat-Bobby, but that's the thing about going on adventures." Mo soothed him.
"Somebody order a dozen cans of fizzy apple cider?" a southern female voice called, revealing to be human Applejack, she even had a cowboy hat. "Can you bring in the rest?" she asked someone.
An older boy who was Big Macintosh's counterpart came in with more cases. "Yup." he told his sister on the way inside the gym.
"Cool, Applejack and Big Mac." Atticus whispered.
"Wonder where Apple Bloom is?" Mo wondered.
Applejack wiped her forehead, then looked to the new kids. "Hey, I know y'all!"
"You do?" Twilight asked.
"Sure," Applejack placed a case down with a smile as she took out a bottle. "You're the new kids who gave Sunset Shimmer the what-for today." she bit the cap off, then started to drink.
'I could have taught her a lesson for threatening Fluttershy, but I don't hit girls.' Atticus thought to himself.
"Twilight Sparkle here is gonna run against Sunset Shimmer for the Princess of the Fall Formal!" Pinkie beamed.
Applejack spit her drink out quickly, then looked to the new kids. "I'd think twice about that," she then took out balloons to use as a metaphor. "Oh, sure, she'll probably approach you all friendly like, but then, here comes the back-stabbing," she popped the balloons instantly. "About the only girl at this school you can trust less than Sunset Shimmer is Rainbow Dash."
"Really?" Atticus asked. "Why?"
"She's the captain of like every team at Canterlot High." Pinkie explained as she hopped on a large balloon like a horse ride until it popped.
"She's also the captain of sayin' she's gonna do somethin' to you and turnin' around and not even botherin' to show up." Applejack added.
"Thanks for the advice, Applejack, but this is something we really need to do." Cherry said to her.
"Suit yourself," Applejack shrugged, then looked curious. "Hey... How did ya know my name is Applejack?"
"Uhh... Didn't you say?" Cherry chuckled nervously, making the other girl think then.
Big Mac came in with the last case. "Here you go."
"Well, it sure was nice meeting you both, I'm sure I'll be seeing you around." Twilight said to them, then ran off with Spike and her other friends to get out of the gym.
"Let's hope that Sunset doesn't find out about this." Atticus said.
"Guys, when are you gonna tell me how you know me whn no one else here really does?" Twilight asked.
"It's still school time, I promise, Twilight, you'll find out after." Bobby said to her.
Twilight sighed, she was really curious and impatient about this.