Equestria Girls Remake chapter 3 part 1

Chapter 3: New Challenge, Familiar Faces

Things in Equestria aren't improving. Twilight's friends are worried that their friend hasn't returned yet from her quest. To them, she should've gotten the crown back and came home by now. Eventually, things got intense that Celestia orders the room with the mirror to block off, not allowing the rest of the Mane Six into it unless they are with Celestia and Luna.

As the guards stood on duty, they fail to see a hooded figure sneaking past them and heading towards the mirror. He looks at it and is about to enter, when a familiar voice stops him, "Lorcan?"

Lorcan sighs as he turns to see Luna nearby, obviously catching him in the act. The scarred brother of Spike said, "I know you caught me. It's obvious to you why I am here."

"You are worried for your brother and wish to come...but you shouldn't go. We've already risked much allowing Ben, Nyx, Spike and Phobos go with Twilight but your presence may make things complicated."

"Trust me; they won't know that I am there. Lulu, please, let me go. Spike is my brother and I want to protect him from those who wish him harm."

Luna hesitates then nods while saying, "I won't say anything as long as you know. Just promise me that you come back, safely?"

"No promises." Lorcan remarks, "Luckily, my cloak and powers will keep my form in that world so I won't worry about transforming into something worst like a dog."

Luna looks surprised as Lorcan jumps into the mirror. What does the Dragon meant by that? Sometimes it's hard to understand him.

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Back in the parallel human world, the gang is heading off. As they look for some classes, Twilight asks, "I wonder what class we should take."

"I might be of help." A voice said.

The gang turns to see a male brown human with Golden hair as Twilight Ben and Nyx say, "Golden Heart!"

"Yu are smart to know my name and you three must be the new Students Celestia had informed me about. I have a good class for you. You will be in the class that my little sister goes to. Papers are already signed for all three of you so you can stay as a group."

"Tank you Mister Golden Heart." Nyx said, bowing in respect and amusement. Golden Heart's human self is as useful as the alicorn back home.

"You're welcome now, run along you three." Golden Heart insists as he waves the trio off. They head to the class as Golden heart walks back to Celestia's office. He says in his mind, 'Once more, my far sight was right once again. I have faith that Twilight will win. But I better see if Celestia has anything for me to do to help for the coming Princess of the Fall Formal."

Golden Heart goes into the office to talk with Celestia.

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The Superior of the room enters a white room, looking around to make sure that no one is watching. His horn glows as his magic makes a hidden stairway appears. The leader of the Apocalypse Ponies trots down, thinking about his past and what's happening down; Sunset Shimmer better be successful in her mission...or horns are going to roll.

The Superior reaches the bottom as he heads into a room before locking it up. The leader wants some privacy to do this. The cloaked villain sat in a throne while glaring at something's in front of him.

"It has been a while...Narissa." The Superior mumbles to the remains of a rip black cape with purple stars on it, along with a locket with a picture that is hidden from view in it.

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Trix Lulamoon fumes as she trots into a room, getting a bit ticked off. The newly alicorn is still ticked off that Superior would go to...to Sunset Shimmer of all unicorns for this mission! Not that she's mad as the spy for Celestia knew that the mission was to take over Equestria and to kill Twilight...but to give the mission to Sunset Shimmer, a certain pony that Trixie cannot stand? Unforgivable!

As Trixie heads to some steps, a familiar voice spoke up, "Yo, Trix!" Trix turns to seeing Warring Malice nearby, standing. "What are you in a hurry for?"

"Where's the Superior? I must speak with him now!" Trix snaps to Warring Malice angrily.

"He's in that room, the Room of Sleep. The Superior will be in there awhile."

"What is the Superior doing in there? He often spends some time in that room that only he himself knows of. Ugh! The Superior makes me so mad sometimes!"

"Yeah, I know. Of course, only a few has ever saw the Room of Sleep, even I do. I once spend a few minutes outside, waiting for him to come out." Warring Malice pauses as she put a hoof to one chin, thinking of something. "Funny. He is always the only one in there...but I keep swearing that I've heard another voice in there, talking to him right back; a mare voice for that matter. Pretty odd, isn't it?"

Trix looks concerned. Who in that room that the Superior could be talking to if he's alone? However the Apocalypse Ponies member shakes her head, saying, "Listen, I wish to talk to him about his choice for unicorn for this mission."

"You meet Sunset Shimmer, right?" Another familiar voice spoke up. T. Moon, still in her cloak and hood, is standing on a balcony above them. "Forgive me, I've heard your conversion and couldn't help but overhear. Why are you upset?"

"Why?! The Superior doesn't know of my past history with...with her! Ugh! I can't believe it."

"Getting jealous?" Warring Malice ask Trix Lulamoon in amusement.

"No! I can't stand her...not after what she did to me. My past involving Sunset Shimmer, back before her disappearance..." Trix snorts as she stomped on the floor of the room in anger, "Why can't he choose one of us for this mission; Why Sunset Shimmer?"

"The Superior needs someone who is familiar with that world and its inhabitants. While we do know, we aren't...that familiar." T. Moon explains to Trix and Warring Malice. She pauses while adding, "Sunset Shimmer is already practically having hold on that place. When her mission is complete and Equestria is ours, she will make a new addition to our group."

"I don't know why. I don't think I even want that bully in this group. I don't know why the Superior want her to kill Twilight Sparkle when he is so darn popular, he would just kill her before."

"Hey, Trixie, relax." Warring Malice said, patting Trix on the shoulder. "The Superior knows what he's doing. Twilight Sparkle won't be a problem for our little group. Got it memorized?"

"Sometimes I wish that the mission was a failure..."

Trix leaves the room. T. Moon glares after her. That alicorn has been objective of Sunset Shimmer's involvement since the Superior first made idea of the plan. The Apocalypse Ponies should keep an eye on her...

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It didn't take long for Twilight, Ben and Nyx to begin classes, making sure to hid their backpacks along with Spike and Phobos to keep them from getting discovered. As they watch the teacher writes something on the board, someone comes in; it was the same human with the flat pink hair with a lot of papers which she gives to the teacher.

"Well done Miss Pinkamena, how about greeting the new students while I look at your work?" The teacher suggests to Pinkamena in a bored tone of look.

"Ok teacher." Pinkamena said. She hugs the teacher and greets the newcomers but looks at Twilight as she uses a pencil with her mouth but Ponkamena takes it out of her mouth and makes her grab it with her hand. "Silly Twiley, you use your hands, not your mouth."

The teacher calls as Pinkamena comes over doing a flip making some of the class clap a little. The teacher says, "Once again, you got a perfect score and done all your work for this school year."

"I study really hard. So can I go back to guarding the statue please?"

"Well you done all your work for this year and I can't think of anything you could do but then again your brother talked with me about it and with Celestia. Well ok but be sure you come to the crowning of this year's Princess."

"Ok." Pinkamena said with a grin, making most of the students groan. They already know who will win that one. She heads out but then says to Twilight and the gang, "If you like to talk, meet me by the statue with the others that look like your friends where you live at."

Pinkamena then heads off as the teacher says to Twilight, "She always acts like Pinkie Pie but she does so well in studying, she is one of the top best students in school. I still am surprised how she does it."

Even Twilight got to admit, Pinkamena is scaring a bit.

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Soon it is time for lunch. The students went to the cafeteria to get some food. Twilight, Ben and Nyx, the females are wearing backpacks with their 'dogs' still hiding inside, got their lunch from an old woman cafeteria worker who looks like a human version of Applejack's grandmother Granny Smith.

"Thanks, Miss Smith." Nyx said with a nod.

"Shucks, just call me Granny. My granddaughter Applejack does." Granny said to Nyx with a chuckle. The girl chuckles as she follows Twilight, Ben and Fluttershy through the line. At least this old woman didn't give her a hard time like the pony Granny Smith, especially since after Nyx was no longer Nightmare Moon. It took a while for the old mare to trust the former villain.

"I know we've just met, but I was wondering if you might be able to help me with something." Twilight said to Fluttershy with a grin.

"Of course," Fluttershy exclaims to Twilight eagerly. The girl is already liking the one who stood up against Sunset Shimmer and Boris for her so she is willing to try her best to help. The gang heads over to an empty table nearby to talk while eating their food.

"Twilight have decided to run for Princess of the Fall Formal, and--" Ben begins to explain. Suddenly Fluttershy's eyes widen in horror as she gasps. "Is there a problem, Fluttershy?"

"Oh, gosh! Sorry. It's just, oh, running for Fall Formal Princess is a REALLY bad idea."

"Why?" Twilight ask Fluttershy puzzled and concerned.

"Come on, mo...Twilight shouldn't have a hard time in becoming a princess, right?" Nyx ask Fluttershy, not sure what's the big deal is though she and her new coming group already suspected.

"Sunset Shimmer wants to be Fall Formal Princess, and when she wants something, she gets it!" Fluttershy explains seriously to her new friends. "She'll make life awful for anyone who stands in her way. But the worst is Boris; he will make sure of that too. Because if you don't, you saw what happened before. Just ask the girl that ran against her for Princess of the Spring Fling. You can ask her boyfriend who tried to help, but he ends up getting beaten so badly."

"I have to try!" Twilight exclaims in determination. She can't let Sunset and Boris discourage her from trying...and the mare got to get that crown back.

Ben nods as he adds, "Besides, Boris is just the big bully who show off his muscles and skills, so that nopony," Phobos reach out of Nyx's back to slap on Ben's head to correct him, "I mean, nobody dare to face him."

"Da- I mean Ben's right. That guy needs some lessons, even though he's tough." Nyx said in agreement. The girl isn't afraid of Boris or Sunset Shimmer. "We're not afraid of him. We can take him! That shouldn't be a problem for Twilight to become a princess."

"Oh, I don't think you all understand. 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." Fluttershy explains seriously as she points to each table that appears to have certain Kids of certain talents; the last table has Flash Sentry sitting with a bunch of rock kids.

"Hay, that's Flash Sentry." Ben responded in recognizing the guy the group saw earlier.

"You know him?" Fluttershy looked to Ben in almost surprise to hear this.

"We bumped into him on our way in. Why's he with a group of Rockers?" Nyx answered off while pondering a question.

"Well...he's actually very good, he's almost like the leader of that group, and...word is, he got lessons from Rockstar Celeb himself; Johnny Brock." Fluttershy lightly blushed a bit in saying that Flash Sentry is a good player of an electric guitar to being Rockster leader, but most of all...is that he got lessons from a famous celebrity.

"No way," Phobos's voice spoke from in Nyx's backpack in hearing this discussion. "Urhm..." Then Spike's back next to Phobos's kicked the latter to hush him up as they can't be seen or HEARD talking. Fluttershy was almost about to question this, but a nervous Nyx beat her too it.

"Eh-hehehe, no way, seriously, the really famous rock star," Nyx chuckled nervously in trying to be the one who spoke to cover up Phobos's mistake while asking an interesting subject about a topic of a subject the gang from Equestria know.

"Yes, apparently, he & Spell Nexus were colleagues in college where Principal Celestia taught and they became good friends. Just before our principal got a job here & the assistant principal was also able to work in the same area." Fluttershy happily explained the subject about a background history that had some similarities to the ponies own world, sorta. "But still, anyone who knows or even hangs with Johnny Brock is a legend to being popular here. He's very kind, very thoughtful, friendly to kids and he sings to help ease our souls." The shy girl smiled a bit in thinking how it must be nice to be with someone many students all love the rockstar celebrity that's a great singer and a nice guy.

"Wow, guess Flash really hit it off." Ben smiled in thinking his good buddy in this world really had it made somehow.

"Yes, but Boris keeps an eye on him, he doesn't like anyone trying to take too much in being the most popular in the school; So long as he doesn't stand out too much, Boris leaves him alone." Fluttershy issued this fair warning of concerns, that Boris from Sunset Shimmer's group doesn't like it when some other hotshot steals his popularity, the mean jerk can be jealous at times, but hasn't made a move, strange as it sounds....

"Typical. Even a nice guy like Flash is being watched by an evil hawk like Boris." Ben rolled his eyes in hearing this, of course Boris of this place would keep an eye out on anyone that dares to trespass on his turf, for whatever the Boris of the pony universe wanted, he got by any means, so this other guy must share the same mutual feelings.

"Why is everypony..." Twilight begins to say but Spike slaps on her head to correct her, "Uhh, everybody separated this way?" The girl finds it hard to believe that everyone isn't sitting together as they want.

"Maybe it was different at your old school, but at C.H.S., everybody sticks to their own kind." Fluttershy explains to Twilight with a sigh.

"That sounds familiar." Ben commented, referring to the Hearth's Warming Eve Event and war between Unicorns, Pegasi and Earth Ponies.

"Sounds very harsh and different to each other, don't you think?" Nyx ask Fluttershy in concern. The students shouldn't be staying with their own kind if they don't want to. They themselves should hang out with anyone they want!

Fluttershy sighs, "I know what you mean. One thing that they do have in common is that they know Sunset Shimmer is going to rule the school until we graduate. If not," The girl gulp, "Boris will make you regret of it."

"Not if I can help it!" Twilight remarks in determination. She then begins to chew an apple...just like in her pony form! Ben Nyx and the 'dogs' sigh in embarrassment while Fluttershy looks at her oddly. Noticing the looks, Twilight stood up and said with an embarrass giggle, "So, uh, where would I find the head of the party planning committee?"

"Right, we wish to talk to whoever is in charge ASAP." Ben said with a nod, Fluttershy was hesitant but she agrees to help anyway.

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Twilight's group enters the school's gym where the Fall Formal is going to be at. The place is decorated to look just like a party room so whoever is in charge can't be far behind, right?

"Fluttershy said she'd probably be in here." Twilight said to the others as they came into the room.

"Weird, she appears hesitant more than ever." Nyx remarks in concern. "Especially about whoever is in charge. "I wonder..."

"Incoming!" A girl's voice is heard. Without warning, a balloon came from out of nowhere and knocks Twilight down to the floor. As the others help her up, they saw that the one who spoke is a girl who appears to have the same pink hair style and eyes as their friend Pinkie. She is wearing a blue and white shirt with a purple collar, a purple sash and a violet skirt with three balloons on it.

As the girl breaths in and blows into a balloon, Twilight begins to introduce herself, "Hi, my name's Twilight Sparkle and..." The purple girl's eyes widen in shock as she turns around, Twilight recognizes her instantly, "Pinkie Pie?"

Twilight yelps as Pinkie let go of the balloon, causing it to deflate air right into her face. Nyx exclaims, "Wow! You are here too!"

"Huh, are you two psychic?" Pinkie asks Twilight and Nyx in a combination of curiosity, eagerness and amazement. Ben couldn't help but chuckle. Even here, the girl can be so random!

"Uh, no; I don't think so, unless of course that's something you can do here." Twilight said quickly. She wonders if this girl has the same Pinkie Sense as her pony counterpart. If that's the cast, the princess may have trouble in wondering how to avoid stuff from falling on her.

"Eh, not usually."

"So how do you predict the future?" Ben asks curiously. He notices Pinkie's rear shaking, pushing himself and the others out of the way to avoid some balloons falling and landing at where they themselves were at.

"Wow! You know that my rear can shake which means stuff is about to fall!" Pinkie exclaims impressed. "I am so nervicited to meet someone who knows! You are psychic!"

Twilight chuckles sheepishly. May as well get to the point so the girl said, "Fluttershy said this is where I'd find the head of the Fall Formal planning committee." Of course, the pink girl frowns deeply at the mention of the word 'Fluttershy' as if the mention of her name brings a bad taste to her mouth.

"Fluttershy, huh; don't let the whole 'shy' thing fool you. She can be a real meanie."

"You two aren't friends?" Nyx ask in surprise. Twilight looks concerned. Pinkie would never be upset at Fluttershy back home unless there's a good reason to. "Why?"

"Aww, don't you worry about good ol' Auntie Pinkie Pie and not worry about that mean old Fluttershy." Pinkie giggles as she pats Nyx on the head. "Soooooo, who are you?"

Twilight coughs a bit as she explains, "My name is Twilight Sparkle, this is Ben and this little girl is..."

"Oh, I know! Let me guess! I’m great at guessing games. Um…Little Shadow; No… how about Night Shade; Oh, I know! Black Snooty, Black Snooty!”

Twilight and Nyx cringes a bit at this, Pinkie's guessing reminds them of when Nightmare Moon shows up at the Summer Sun Celebration when she, the pony Pinkie at least, tried to guess her name...and when she meets Nyx the first (or was it second?) time when Twilight was passing her off as her own cousin at the time and Pony Pinkie did the same thing.

A little hint of deja vu, don't you think?

Ben came to the rescue, saying, "Her name is Nyx, Twilight's little sister...and now then, about Twilight's attempt to run for the Princess of the Fall Formal thing?"

"Waited a bit to get your name on the ballot, huh? Dance is day after tomorrow." Pinkie remarks happily as she took out a signup sheet and a pencil from out of her hair.

"How are you able to keep stuff in your hair like that?"

"That's none of your darn business, Benjamin!"

"We're brand new here." Twilight said to Pinkie with a smile.

"Oooh; I thought you didn't look familiar." Pinkie said though she looks at the newcomers oddly. "Though, now that I'm really lookin' at you, do you have a twin sister who lives in the city, has a pet dog named Spike that looks just like that one? As well as a little sister like her who has a pet dog named Phobos? And as for you, Benny, do you got a same twin brother?" The newcomers look at each other nervously. Does this mean that they got human versions in this world?

"Uh, maybe?"

"That depends on what you're looking for." Ben said to Pinkie uneasily.

"Of course, it could be a coincidence." Nyx remarks to Pinkie with a giggle.

"Thought so; Anywho, just need to fill this out and you are officially up for the coveted Princess of the Fall Formal crown." Pinkie giggles a bit. Of course, since Twilight can't use a pencil or a pen without magic, she has to use her hands to write her name...and did so terribly. After Twilight sign up, she gave the form back to Pinkie who looks at it. "Wow! You have really bad handwriting. It's like you've never held a pen before."

Twilight gave out a nervous laugh, "Is it?"

Before Pinkie could ask some further questions, a voice spoke up, "Somebody order a dozen cases o' fizzy apple cider?" The group turns to see someone coming into the school gym with a case of fizzy apple cider. She is a girl with modern zap green eyes, white freckles on her face and her hair is tied in a blonde ponytail. She has a brown cowboy hat, a white shirt with a green scrawl, blue shorts with a belt that has an apple symbol on it, and brown boots with three apples on them. Twilight's group automatically knew that this girl is Applejack's human version.

"Oh! Oh! Me, me-me-me, me, yeah, ha ha, me," Pinkie giggles while waving her hands in the air like a silly fool, making Twilight's friends laugh a bit.

"Can yew bring in ‘de rest?"

Applejack was talking to a boy who is Big Macintosh's human version, same eyes and hair but is wearing a red jacket over a white shirt, a brown belt, blue pants and tennis shoes. He even speaks like him too, "Eeyup."

As Applejack put down a case, she saw Twilight's group for the first time. The girl smirks while saying, "Hey, Ah know yew."

"You do?" Twilight ask a bit uneasily, fearing the worst so to speak.

"Sure, yer're 'de new girl an' her friends who gave Sunset Shimmer an' Boris 'de Animal 'de what fer today." Applejack chuckles as she gulps some cider.

"Well, when creeps like them bullies poor kids, we can't stand by." Ben said with a smile to Applejack. "You would probably do the same time like we did."

"Probably, but wit' Sunset's influence an' such, she may ruin mah business."

"Twilight Sparkle here is going to run against Sunset Shimmer for Princess of the Fall Formal." Pinkie said as she jumps in eagerly. This causes Applejack to widen her eyes in shock as she spits out her drink.

"Let me guess, you think that's a bad idea too?" Nyx ask Applejack in concern.

"Eeyup; Ah'd think twice about 'dat. Ah'm sure she'll probably approach yew all friendly like..." Applejack then holds up two balloons, uses a marker to put in Sunset and Twilight's faces then the girl imitates Sunset Shimmer's voice as if to prove her point. "Ah sure am lookin' forward 'ta some friendly competition." She then fakes Twilight's voice while holding other the other balloon. "'Dat's so good 'ta hear." Applejack then goes back to her own voice as she said, "But then, here comes 'de backstabbin'."

Applejack took out a pencil and pokes the Twilight balloon to let the air out of that one. The group cringes a bit. Yeah, that's like Sunset to do something like that.

"An' trust me, if Sunset doesn't backstab ya or intimidate ya, yew bet yer soul 'dat Boris will do 'de rest fer her!" Applejack remarked. "About 'de only girl in 'dis school yew can trust less than Sunset Shimmer is Rainbow Dash."

"Rainbow Dash," Twilight ask in shock. So there's a Rainbow Dash here as well, but from the sound of Applejack's voice, it's obviously that the cowgirl don't like her for some reason.

"She's the captain of, like, every team at Canterlot High." Pinkie adds while trying to deflate a ballopn, only to pop in her fae.

"What's wrong with Rainbow Dash?" Ben asks Applejack puzzled, making the cowgirl scowls at the mention of her name.

"She's also 'de captain o' sayin' how she's going 'ta do somethin' fer ya, an' turnin' around an' not even botherin' 'ta show up." Applejack scowls angrily.

"Come on, I betcha she's not that bad."

"Oh, she's worst! Do yerselves a favor, sugar cubes, stay away fro' her if yew know what's good fer ya! She's a disloyal traitor an' a brat!"

Twilight's group cringes some more. Yeah, maybe Applejack and Rainbow has a rivalry back home in Equestria, but at least they would never talk about one another like that! What has happened that made the human versions be at each other's throat like this?

"Thanks for the advice, Applejack, but this is something I really need to do." Twilight said to Applejack seriously.

"Huh, suit yerself." Applejack remarks with a shrug as if saying 'it's your funeral'. If Twilight wants to be humiliated by going against Sunset Shimmer, that's her problem. Then something else made the cowgirl confused. "Hey, how'd yew know mah name is Applejack?"

"Um, Ah uh...Heh heh heh; didn't you say?"

"Nnnope," Big Macintosh said as he came in with some more cases of apple cider, confused as his sister is. It's odd that Twilight knew Applejack's name when they just first met.

Nyx pauses, smirking as she said quickly, "Big shy guy say 'eeyup'?"

"Eeyu...wait, what?"

The girls and Ben laughs a bit at what Nyx just did. Twilight giggles, "Yeah, nice one, Nyx."

"Your big brother is a big shy one, isn't he?" Ben asks Applejack with a grin, "A real ladies man, eh?"

"Shucks, Ah done tried 'ta git him a date fer years now, but he done haven't made 'de first move." Applejack said to the newcomers with a smile. "O' course, between y'all an' me, he has a thing for Miss Cheerilee, the school librarian."

"Applejack! Don't tell them that!" Big Macintosh exclaims in alarm, blushing a bit.

"Wait, Cheerilee's a librarian? Wouldn't she be more older than him?" Nyx ask Applejack puzzled. Since Cheerilee is a librarian, she must be a teacher and probably more older than Big Mac.

"Actually, Cheerilee is a student teacher, around 'de same age as mah big brother." Applejack explains with a smirk. Big Macintosh blushes as his sister continues, "Come on; just ask her out, big bro!"

"Better Cheerilee than that meanie Fluttershy." Pinkie remarked, frowning a bit and still upset at Fluttershy.

"Well, it sure was nice meeting you both. I'm sure we'll be seeing you around." Twilight said with a chuckle as the group makes their leave from the gym.

"Right, see you around soon!" Ben exclaims as he drags Nyx right out of the gym.

"Wow, Cheerilee is a student teacher. I betcha she likes Big Mac!" Nyx giggles happily as she leaves the gym.

"That Twilight girl's trying to hide a secret, but I am totally on to her." Pinkie said seriously to Applejack then whispers, "She's psychic!"

"Uh-huh. If yew say so." Applejack remarks while rolling her eyes. Pinkie is so random.

Suddenly the doors of the room slammed open. Entering the gym now are Sunset Shimmer, Boris and their minions, the last four looks like Snips and Snails who are lacking their horns and are wearing clothes, as well as Boxco and Dum-Dum, the dumb unicorn and Pegasi who hangs around Boris back in Equestria, who are lacking their horn and wings and are also wearing clothes like humans.

Sunset glares at the gym in disgust, popping a balloon while snapping at Pinkie, "This looks terrible! There should be more streamers near the stage and fewer balloons."

"Yeah, streamers," Snips remarked in agreement.

"And fewer balloons," Snails said with a stupid laugh. He and Snips throw the balloons and streamers into air while trying to be mean and tough...to no prevail.

Boxco chuckled as he asks Snips and Snails, "This is how you runts do? This is how we deal with balloons!"

Boxco and Dum-Dum jump and stomp on the balloons as they popped. The latter remarks, "Seriously, why would our boss, Sunset Shimmer, want losers like them? They are so losers as dumb as bats."

"Right. So weak as little kittens."

Boxco and Dum-Dum laughs until Boris glared at them. They got scared at once.

Boris groaned, "It's dumb as the apes, and weak as little mice! I don't even know why I hire you as my scouts. At least, Snips and Snails did something 'interesting' that Sunset Shimmer wanted, like you are useful in fighting, even your little brain are so tiny. Just keep your mouth shut, especially you, geeks!"

Snips, Snails, Boxco and Dum-Dum said nervously, "Yes sir!"

Boris leaves the room at this point with Boxco and Dum-Dum following their boss. Sunset Shimmer now checks out the refreshments that are being served. The girl took a sip of the apple cider and spits out the contents in disgust.

"Fizzy apple cider; Ugh," Sunset exclaims in disgust. "This is my coronation, not a hoedown."

"Well, now, it ain't necessarily gonna be yer coronation 'is time around." Applejack challenges Sunset, making the girl's eyes widen in surprise, but the bully recovers enough to badmouth her again.

"Oh, is that so? You country folk really aren't that bright. Must be why the other students say such awful things about you." Sunset taunts Applejack, making her growl angrily at the bully. "Obviously it's gonna be MY coronation. I'm running unopposed."

"Not this time. The new girl just signed up!" Pinkie points out happily, making Sunset's eyes widen in shock and disbelief.

"What?!"

"I know, her handwriting is really bad. Although that black girl with her is very fun!"

Sunset Shimmer grabs the signup sheet from Pinkie and looks at it. Who dares would try to run against her this time? The girl notes how bad that the handwriting is as if she hasn't writing before. But Sunset Shimmer did notice that she manages to put in the name 'Twilight Sparkle' in there. Of course, that explains everything!

"Where is this Twilight Sparkle?" Sunset Shimmer mumbles to her. She notices the others looking at her oddly, causing her to laugh nervously. "I'm look forward to meeting the competition!"

"Oh, she left with the black girl and that guy Ben before you show up." Pinkie explains happily to Sunset Shimmer. The girl storms out of the gym to confront her latest problem.

Sunset Shimmer saw Boris and his goons seeing Twilight's group heading off, the male bully smirks as he wolf-whistles after Twilight while exclaiming, "Whoa, baby! Look at the new girl, guys. She's quite the beauty."

"Who? Her?" Dum-Dum said in concern, noting how Twilight is holding Ben's hand. "I don't really know about this, Boris."

Boxco nods as he said, "Yeah, I think that she's already taken."

"Then I will make her un-taken." Boris remarks with a smirk as he prepares to go after Twilight. The bully always gsst what he wants and if Boris has to beat up Ben to get the new girl, then so be it.

"And where do you think you are going, Boris?" Sunset demands as she taps Boris on the nose when she says 'you are going'.

"I just wanted to talk with the new girl, Sunset, and maybe take her out on a date; Perhaps as my date to the Formal."

Sunset, sighing in annoyance, said, "You're wasting your time, Boris; that new girl, Twilight Sparkle, belongs to someone else. You'd never have a chance with her."

"What?! Someone already has her as a girlfriend?! Who," Boris demands angrily to Sunset more than he asked.

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Twilight and her group pass by the students, looking for a way to figure out how to get support or information on how to do so. They enter a hallway which appears to have lights going on and off at random; Kinda creepy.

"Can't believe I didn't recognize you earlier," A familiar voice taunts sinisterly. The group turns to see Sunset Shimmer sneering at them. Looks like she finally recognizes them, "Should've known Princess Celestia would send her prized pupil here after my crown, and her little dog, too."

"It's my crown!" Twilight exclaims to Sunset furiously.

"Right, you have no right in stealing it, Sunset Shimmer." Ben remarks sternly to Twilight.

"Well, well, you must be the princess's adopted Earth pony brat. Somehow, this makes things interesting especially since a pal of mine is interested in your 'filly-friend'." Sunset Shimmer taunts, making Ben glares at her. Turning to Nyx, she adds, "I don't think any introductions are needed. Cat eyes, black skin, purple hair and having a Moon Dragon dog for a pet...you must be the infamous 'Nightmare Moon' herself!" The former student mocks the Nightmare Moon part.

"Don't EVER call me Nightmare Moon! It's Nyx!" Nyx shouted angrily.

"Whatever. Anyway, the loss of the crown is just a minor setback for me." Sunset Shimmer commented, not worried about the loss of the crown. "You don't know the first thing about this place, and I already rule it."

"If that's so, why do you even need my crown? You went to an awful lot of trouble to switch it with the one that belongs here." Twilight said suspiciously.

"Yeah, why steal the Magic Element of Harmony? You don't seriously have any friends so you can't use its power of good for your own uses." Ben said to Sunset Shimmer seriously.

Sunset Shimmer smirks as if she was told the most stupidest questions in the world...which they are to her. She said, "Pop quiz: what happens when you bring an Element of Harmony into an alternate world?" No one in Twilight's group answer, they don't really have an answer to that question. "You don't know? Seriously," The girl laughs cruelly. "And you're supposed to Princess Celestia's star student, her little kid, and the darkness known as Nightmare Moon."

"Stop calling me that." Nyx snaps, her teeth grinding a bit.

"Then again, what were the chances she's find somepony as bright as me to take under her after I decided to leave Equestria? And yes, I am talking about you, Twilight. Bit embarrassing that you were the best she could do." Sunset Shimmer remarks sinisterly. Spike and Phobos growl angrily at her.

"Is that a fact?" Ben snaps to Sunset Shimmer furiously. Nyx is this close to doing the stare on this evil girl for saying such things about her adopted mother like that.

"Oh, and I'd keep an eye on your boyfriend, your little 'daughter' and mutts. Hate for any of them to be taken away from you. Or better word for all of them: harm." Sunset Shimmer remarked off in a cruel statement to not look so intimidated which still left the others staring with frowns at this girl's attitude.

"Is that a threat?" Spike held up his left paw to shake it like a fist in remarking what he heard this girl say about the dogs being taken away from their friends.

"Cause you're looking at some, right here, sister!" Phobos remarked off with sharp teeth while growling to wanna be unleashed, right now even.

"You can threaten us all you want, but we're not going to stop from what we came for, Sunset Shimmer. You'll regret for all the things you had done to this world, and my best friend, but you already know who he is. A Pegasus friend from the Royal Guard," Ben snaps to Sunset furiously.

Sunset glared at Ben for mentioning her former colt-friend, Flash Sentry from her former home.

"Daddy's right. We're not afraid of you. We won't let you get away with it, Sunset Shimmer." Nyx remarks angrily to Sunset Shimmer.

"Try to threaten my friends if you want, I'll show you how the threat is really like." Phobos remarked, showing his bare teeth to the bad bully.

"Oh, of course not," Sunset Shimmer lean down to make a sly wicked smile expression to toy and taunt the doggies in what she said; Which of course, earned some barks from the two changed dragon dogs in not liking the girl, "But I cut down on the chatter if I were you." Sunset tap her two fingers on the dogs' muzzles to silence them in being quiet, for their own sakes. "Don't want everyone to know that you five don't belong here. Now would you?" As Twilight and Nyx moved their bags with their dogs inside away to hear Sunset make this shrew statement about sticking out like shore thumbs, and enjoying to taunts the gang about it. "Do you think you actually can beat me, Twilight Sparkle?"

Twilight glared at her as she demands, “What's that supposed to be mean?”

Sunset scoffs as she continues, “You want to be a princess here? Please. You don't know the first thing about fitting in, especially when you still had your worst nightmare to deal with.”

Twilight was shocked when Sunset Shimmer mentioned about her nightmare.

Sunset smirks as she explains, "That's right, Sparkle. I know your darkest dream. Gee, I wonder which one is the real you when you become a princess. Are you benevolent or a tyrant? You're not destined to become the first one. So you'd better be careful if I was you, or else you'll end up like King Sombra. Good luck with fitting in, and dealing with nightmare, 'princess'."

Sunset walks away while laughing. Twilight looks down and squat down of what Sunset had said. She cried and sobbed. Ben, Nyx, Spike and Phobos became worried.

"Twilight;, it's okay, calm down." Ben said, doing his best to help Twilight a bit.

"Wish I had my bucking beam sword!" Spike mumbles quietly, wanting so much to get his beam sword to teach Sunset Shimmer a lesson.

"A shame, really, perhaps the lady should hang around...better company." Boris, who appeared from out of nowhere, remarked off towards Ben in seeing Sunset Shimmer leave after giving Twilight a hard time, to which...he could make her forget such problems...

"I think she'd rather be with us and wild animals then spend a minute with you! You really are an animal, aren't you?" Ben made an angry expression towards this human version of the jerk from his world he just can't stand.

"You appear to not know your own place, and the more we chat, the more it feels like I've known you...and despises you all the same." Boris also shared an annoyed glare at the boy that was with Twilight, something about Ben makes him really come to not like the guy.

"Believe me, feeling's mutual." Ben remotely spoke with his face looking ready to fight this guy.

"But here's a tip." Boris issued from showing a little badge with a rifle mark on it. "Around here, I'm Boris 'The Gunmen'! For my skills in the hunting division sports department in school, the best to get his targets and always gets what he wants. Whether it's fame, recognition, terror and fear, and any girl that can't resist my charm of... persuasion," The guy was pretty much a part of a club where he was the best to show off his skills as a hunter and be known for being the best around the school, even to get the ladies. Yep, this all sounded vaguely and all too awe-inspiring of the original Boris before the pony version lost his title as Canterlot Hero to being an outlaw crook; the Red Devil.

"Ugh, like this story isn't familiar!" Ben groans to gag in hearing this Boris brag about himself and always got the girls in class to fall for him and made all the other class shun outsiders that he deem...'unworthy' to go near or be friends with.

"So I'll make this crystal clear to you! Call me Boris the Animal, and you'll see an ugly side to me you wish you hadn't!" Boris snapped off to almost press his presence to glare at Ben's eyes with his stern look of warning to not cross his path, or suffering dearly.

"I think I just did." Ben looked away to almost gag in how close this jerk was in getting between his personal space.

"Hmph, I shall also take my leave, but before that...?" Boris spoke off from turning to leave to almost catch up to Sunset Shimmer, but saw someone coming from his right side which caused a hidden smirk the others didn't see. "You should know you made my list, Benny boy, at first, there was only one type of being I enjoyed to make amusement from. So let me introduce you to both!" He issued to have Ben come, and Ben kept a stern glare at the jerk to come out from the corner into the open, however....

"Waugh...guah," Suddenly, Ben cut between a cleaning cart full of janitor cleaning equipment, and made some grown up human janitor trip to yelp off to knock them both down. Worst off, a trash can was knocked over, while it landed on the janitor's head over his torso, Ben saw himself in a messy state, and could only glare at the 'jerk' that could have plotted this 'incident' to happen.

"Going from cool ego to the gutter, you should hang around your lower Earth fifth types, like the hobo before you! Hahahah...." Boris cackled off to say before turning to leave after getting a good laugh out of humiliating Ben.

"Boy, what a jerk!" Nyx made a frown to see Boris leave while she and Twilight helped Ben up to push off some filth on his cloths.

"Hugh, this Boris acts just as mean to Ben as the one we knew back as fillies?" Twilight sighs in feeling the Boris in this alternative world, is precisely like the one they knew from their filly days in school, which makes it harder to reconsolidate the present case here.

"Sir, are you alright?" Ben spoke from where he helped the poor janitor up to his feet...while still having a trash can over his head.

"Ehhh, be fine after I remove this darn trash can off my noggin. Can't see much, or hear much with it on." The guy spoke with a Red-Neck accent from his struggles, but his voice 'did' ring some bells for this group.

Once the trash can was off the guy's head, did Twilight's group see what he looked like, and were shocked upon the sight; He was in between his 30s and 40s with brown skin color, gray short messy hair, plus a little side burns that were white of his in-grown beard, and blue eyes. He seemed to be wearing cloths most matching that of a hobo; on his open shirt was a cross between an apple and some cleaning and workmen equipment that looked like a familiar Cutie Mark.

"Phew, smelling cleaner air again." The hobo janitor sighed in relief, sounding ever more familiar to those that study him while the dogs only peeked from open zippers.

"Hobo...Joe...?" Ben ushered off in being stunt to see and knows this person, or rather, his other self. The Earth pony he and Twilight knew from their school days, Hoboken Joe, AKA Hobo Joe by some kids that called him a hobo. The was Ben's second friend next to Twilight, the guy that no matter how bad his situation was, always looked to keep a positive outlook even when he was in places where giving up was the only thing to do. Once more, he was honored as 'Honorary Task Voluntary' by Celestia, given the Canterlot Castle Library to work directly for the princess, and if not for this guy, Ben might have lost himself as the Demon Pony, and Twilight have let her special pony's disappearance ruin her entire life's future if not for this guy....or rather the other guy.

"Hugh? What now," The janitor now revealed as Hobo Joe, looked to Ben by surprise. "Well, shoot, how'd you know my nickname?" Hobo Joe asked off with a little smile in seeing somebody knows him, question is...how?

"Ugh...lucky guess," Ben spoke off to shrug off in dodging that bullet of how he know something from his own world.

"Good enough for me. Please to meet you folks, names Hoboken Joe, the janitor of this school. There a mess, I clean it up." Hoboken Joe smiled off to say while introducing himself to the company.

"Well, sir...I'm...Twilight, Twilight Sparkle." Twilight snapped to her attention to introduce herself to the hobo here.

"Well nice to meet yah, Twilight, Twilight Sparkle. Or did you mean just one twilight for your sparkly appeal and personality?" Hobo Joe shook the girl's hand while making a joke that earned a little smile from the girl.

"Heheh, you're funny sir. I'm Nyx by the way, and this here's Ben Mare, our friend." Nyx giggled in seeing how funny this guy was being to them, he's nice, and she introduces herself and her father.

"Well, nice to meet you all!" Hobo Joe smiled to shake the other mentioned folks hands too. "Course, with a name like mare, I think I was meeting a female horse." Ben sorta frown in hearing another quote about his name, but 'deja vu' struck the moment that only Celestia's adopted son would remember such a line metaphor. "Hehe, but don't get me wrong, son, why, your name's probably better off than my rigidity nickname any day this week. Ask me, you got a horse's luck to dodge it. Heheheh," The guy was laughing at himself to make Ben not feel so bad for his name, it was something Twilight and Nyx smiled in seeing the hobo make Ben feel less bad.

‘I can't believe it, is it really Hobo Joe? His voice, his personality, and how he doesn't be bothered by my name, and says I'm better than he is. It really IS him! Only, it's this world's version.’ Ben thought in his mind as if almost staring in a mirror, this human hobo was likely a close resemblance to Hoboken Joe in all possibilities. "Sir, did you see what happened?" Ben snapped back to reality to ask if the man here saw what happened to him.

"Can't say that I did," Hoboken shrugs off to say while picking up the loose trash on the floor.

"You mean you miss the jerk Boris tripping you to knock da...day out of you and Ben?" Nyx recovered from almost giving away her relationship with Ben about the question at hand.

"You should report this!" Twilight insisted to the man after he was done picking up the dirt.

"Well, shoot, wish I could, but I'm in a jam myself." Hobo Joe shrug off his shoulders to sadly say, he can't help the folks here, "Can't rat on any students mistreating other students without having consequences to pay." He issued off to rub his head while looking like he's in quite a pickle.

"What...consequences?" Twilight raised an eyebrow in what this hobo was about to say?

"Hugh, you see, I'm being blackmailed by somebody. Don't have a ding-dong-dang by who but I got a weird call with a picture and instructions." Hoboken Joe signed before telling these kids the sad situation he's in which ain't good, someone is blackmailing him from squealing. "It said if I wanted a secret to not ruin someone's career that they could make it happen and lose something important, I had to just watch and do squat nothing." Hoboken threw off a little mad tone about not being able to stop some bad deed done cause of some mystery caller.

"That's terrible. Who would do something like that, and to who," Nyx gasped in hearing this and was upset that someone had such power.

"Well...ye see...that's complicated cause...it involves me and, um....a fellow staff member." Hoboken Joe kinda blush a bit in rubbing his fingers together strangely while seemingly sounding hesitate to answer until...

"Wait, don't tell me. Let me guess; Miss Mona Crafts? You and her are in love, right?" Ben held up his hand to smile with a calm face in knowing 'precisely' who Hoboken Joe was trying to say about complicated matters; it was clearly about love since that's how the others back home have it.

"Yeah, the fun art teacher who's love for art and creativity is noted by Canterlot High School's board. Boy, she is something. But how'd you know?" Hoboken Joe signed in happiness in recalling that teacher, but then looked bewildered in how Ben knows that much about their relationship.

"Let’s just say...I read your atmosphere of your stated situation." Ben basically spoke in having a good idea in reading what Hobo Joe was doing, added with his knowledge of this guy from another world would act in the same way.

"Well, whoever is blackmailing me, got a picture of us making out, stole a prize artwork from Mona Craft's desk she had since her earlier school days." Hoboken Joe explained the matter of how he's being blackmailed by the person that's threatening him to not tattle-tale. "And you can see why I gotta follow, not just for my sake, but Miss. Mona Crafts' sake and her treasure. Course I try to buck-up if it was only me, but I ain't letting nobody pick on that sweet-little thing." Hobo Joe was determine to hold out in this jammed state of his, he was doing it for someone he cares for and not of his own, that's true nobility, even from a hobo.

"Sir, we understand, and...I'm sorry we can't help." Twilight sighed in sorrow to see that Hobo Joe was having problems too, and they can't help him while having their own share of problems.

"Ahh, shucks, just being nice to a hobo like me and even taking time to help me up is more than I can treasure." Hoboken Joe patted Twilight on her shoulder with a smiling face in being happy to meet such kind and thoughtful kids in the school. "You kids must be new. So if you're in some mess, don't threat to call me to help you out of the jam state. Heheeeh....Dum-dum-dum...." Once he was done, Hoboken Joe gathered his things, started to push his cart down the next hall while humming a song tune to pass the time.

"Old Hobo Joe, he's still the same." Ben shook his head to show a little smile, glad to see something here was just the same as it was back in their own Equestria.

"But that guy's different, right?" Phobos poked out of Nyx's backpack to say about this hobo and the hobo they know are two different beings.

"Right, but he's the guy that helped daddy like mommy did when they were in school." Nyx nods to Phobos's point, but now see this hobo janitor, even if the situation is different from her parents meeting the guy, Hoboken Joe was still the friend that helped them out of some hard time cases.

"Now our problems just gone up with Sunset Shimmer and Boris keeping close watch on us." Spike sighed in reminding the gang of their other problem, that two nasty folks see them as problems.

"Hugh, we better keep moving guys." Twilight sighs in seeing they may as well get going since they need some time to think about what's happen from Sunset Shimmer's little chat to them?

Ben, Nyx, Phobos, even Spike riding on Twilight's backpack could tell, the girl was still distracted by matters here. First about how some of the Mane Six versions around so far, or either heard, aren't too much friends; And to hear the tough state Hoboken Joe of this world has problems, was eating up in Ben's mind, the guy didn't deserve blackmail to keep his nose from snitching about problems at school. All of these things almost sounds like...troubles have been blooming when Sunset Shimmer took over, can the pony/human and dragon/dog versions of the group from a pony universe help set things right...or not...we'll have to wait...

Sunset and Boris, who witnessed the conversion, turn and saw their henchmen, covered in steamers. The girl frowns as she asks, "What happened?"

"That party brat put some stupid streamers on these four idiots. I told them enough about destroying your coronation, and look what happens to them." Boris remarks dryly, explaining what happened while Sunset Shimmer was threatening Twilight's group.

"The very boy who you nearly picked on, his name is Benjamin Mare," Sunset said as she points to Ben, the one who Twilight's attracted to.

"Is that so? Well, then. I'm gonna make Benny-boy wish that he and Twilight never got together." Boris said sinisterly and cruelly. When he gets through with Ben, he will regret winning Twilight's heart.

"Calm down, Boris. And listen up. I've got a plan, one which will involve Twilight, Ben and little Nyx." Sunset said with a nod.

"All right then. We're listening." Boris said anxiously.

Sunset removed the streamers from Snips, Snails, Boxco and Dum-Dum. She then orders the four, "I want you four to follow her. Bring me something I can use just like I did with that last girl who thought she could challenge me."

"You got it, Sunset Shimmer." Snips said, saluting his boss stupidly.

"You can count on us, milady and sir. We won't fail you." Boxco remarked, giving the same salute to Sunset and Boris.

"You'd better or else this." Boris remarked, hitting on a locker to get his message across, shocking his stooges, Snips and Snails.

"When the crown and its powers are mine, Twilight will be sorry she ever set hoof into this world." Sunset Shimmer remarks sinisterly. "Not that she would've been safer if she stayed in Equestria. The Superior will be pleased."

"Right, sure." Boxco and Dum-Dum said at once. They don't know what Sunset is talking about but the two morons went along with it anyway.

"Yeah, in Equestria," Snips said with a stupid laugh.

"What are you still doing here?" Sunset scowls in annoyance as she pushes Snips and Snails forward. "Go!"

Snips and Snails end up banging heads together, making them yelp, "Ow." They recover and heads off on their sinister mission.

"You two as well; get going!" Boris scowls at Boxco and Dum-Dum kicking at the two, causing them to yelp and run after Snips and Snails.

"We're going, we're going!" The two stooges exclaims quickly.