Unforeseen Consequences - A sixth grade takeover

>”Hold on, squirt. Lemme get this straight, the changelings are back and nopony told me?! What kind of bad joke is that? Everypony knows that I’m the best when it comes to kick bug’s flanks!”
>The magical lamps and the rising sun illuminated the snowy track field that you were running on. It was early in the morning. The air was chill, almost glacial, but you liked it this way, or rather, learn to like it thanks to Moonlight hammering the idea that a cold weather was the best for exercising since it built character.
>Not everyone thought like you, though. Many of the Royal Guards who were training nearby complained, like they usually do, about the cold weather. Of course, the threat of facing Moonlight’s anger made sure that they didn’t stop their training to find a warmer and cozier place.
>This time, however, Moonlight wasn’t here, the only one keeping you company in this cold winter morning was your coach and good friend Rainbow Dash. She was flying above you, and was wearing a red cap; hanging from her neck was a timer.
>It was the first time in a few days that you trained under her command. Different events were the cause for that, events that put the safety of Equestria on risk. That is to say, the changelings happened and they were big, yet dangerous douches.
>Rainbow Dash wasn’t stupid, far from it, she was incredibly sharp, and that same sharpness is what caused her to notice the odd behavior that one of her best friends had after receiving a mysterious letter from your mothers.
“Don’t blame me! It’s not my fault that Twilight just packed her stuff and left to the Crystal Empire”
>The friend in question being the purple princess of sexiness Twilight Sparkle and the letter was about the aforementioned douches. The thing is, Twilight never told anyone about the changelings, she just… had a panic attack and left before saying anything to her friends.

>”I know it’s that egghead’s fault, but this is Twilight we’re talking about, C’mon she always does this sort of things when she freaks out. I’m asking why the hay YOU didn’t send a letter to any of us, I mean, you do realize that we have saved Equestria lots of times before, right? Oh! And you still owe me two laps, after that I hope you feeling like jumping ‘cause we’re doing box jumps”
>Of course, that caused worry among Rainbow Dash and the rest of the elements of harmony. So, using her gut, Rainbow deduced that you must knew something about Twilight’s new crazy antics and used this training to question you.
“Eh, whatever, it’s not like I ain’t agile, and about that other thing. You realize that I’ve been busy all weekend with this stuff, right? Not only did I have to save Starlight from those jerks, I also had to find an actually good-hearted changeling so Chrysalis didn’t destroy him, and then… well, I don’t want to go into what happened yesterday… not again”
>Once you completed the remaining laps on the track field, you trotted over to a nearby part of the training field, and of course, it was covered in snow. After you used your magic to take care of that little set back and did some stretches, you started jumping over the pyramid shaped boxes.
>You didn’t see anything wrong with telling RD everything that happened. Your moms never told you to keep this as a secret from the elements of harmony, and there were no worries about the cyan pony who was training you being a changeling spy.
“Gyahahaha! C’mon, squirt! The filly Princess Celestia being heads over hooves for you? That is pure comedy gold! Hearing that story from Princess Luna was almost worth being covered in that weird green goo, and eeeh… it works to tell real ponies from faker bugs, right?”
>When she arrived to the castle, your moms used that weird green potion that Zecora gal gave them on RD, so yeah, no worries there.

>You jumped over all the boxes and repeated that a few times until RD told you to stop. Then you looked at her and shrugged.
“Supposedly, yeah, as I told you, I don’t know the specifics of it, but I mean, we could call Eris if you want to be sure that you ain’t a changeling who really got into the role, she’s really good at telling who is a pony and who is… something else”
>RD waved her hoof dismissively “Nah, I like that gal and all buuuut, I think that I’ll trust the Princesses on this one. By the way, Applejack told me that you feel like you’re enough hot stuff to help her with her farm, so I wanna see if that’s true. See those sand bags over there?”
“Yeah, I’m not blind, you know? What do you want me to do with a sand bag?”
>”Well, smarty pants, I want you to grab one of those sandbags with your little hooves, put it on your back and then you’re gonna gallop until I tell ya to stop, got it?”
>You let out a groan but followed her orders. You trotted over the sandbag, grabbed and…
“Hnnng! This thing… is… heavy!”
>”Well, duh! That’s the idea! Applejack and her family are always carrying lots of heavy stuff, so if you even dream on helping them, then you gotta build some muscle!”
>Using all your strength, you picked the sandbag and placed it on your back… and then did your best to not collapse under the weight of it, but you failed miserably after you traversed like 10 feet or so.
“Rainbow Dash… a little help here”
>RD rubbed the back of her head and cringed at your poor display of strength ”Geez, that was sad” Then, she quickly flew to where you were, removed the sandbag from your back and helped you to get back up.
>After you stretched and heard some parts of your body crack a bit, you gave RD an annoyed look
“Y’know, I think that things could have gone better if you didn’t tell me to carry something that even a Royal Guard would have trouble with”

>”Actually, squirt…” RD snickered “Those bags are like, the lightest ones here, seriously, I think that Applebloom carries baskets that are double the weight of this”
“Oh…”
>”Don’t get so down, squirt!” RD landed on the ground and placed her hoof around your neck “You are fast, not as me of course, there is nopony in Equestria as fast as me, and you’re agile… just not as me, we just need to focus a bit more on getting you stronger… even if you won’t be as strong as me. I’ll that Moonlight gal that it’s time to make a change to your routine. Anyway, that’ll be it for today!”
“I think that I can still try a few more times, but if you say so, well… fine by me. I would invite you to have some breakfast since my mom is making pancakes, but you need to go to Cloudsdale now, right?”
>”Actually, I asked the Wonderbolts to give me the day off. Rarity is opening her new store here in Canterlot or whatever and this is like the biggest thing ever for her, I just can’t miss that for the world”
“Hmmm, my mom told me that Miss Rarity finished my new wardrobe and that she was going to give it to me today, but she never mentioned anything about a great opening… do you think that I should tell Twilight that it would be better to wait until tomorrow to pick that up?”
>RD immediately waved her hooves as she frantically shook her head ”Noooo! No, no, no! I dunno why the Princesses didn’t tell ya, but you have to trust me on this, squirt. Rarity is absolutely counting on you and Twilight to be there, like, you two are the main pull for this whole thing since you’re royalty. So you can’t miss it either, and you if you can act extra princely, that would be awesome”
“Mate, I’m the prince, don’t worry, I have this covered… I think… I hope. A-Anyway, this whole thing will also serve to tell the rest of your gang about the changelings”

>”Yeaaah, about that” RD rubbed the back of her neck “This whole thing is super important for Rarity so, y’know, knowing that we have a new bug problem would probably ruin it for her”
“Oh… I understand now, yeah, that would be pretty bad. As I said, don’t worry about my attitude, Miss Rarity has always been good to me and if this is a way to repay that kindness and generosity, then I’ll put up my best princely attitude!”
>”Awesome! Now, if you excuse me, I have to go and help Rarity with some stuff for her opening. See ya there, squirt!” RD flew off after saying those words, leaving a rainbow trail behind her. That’s… kind of awesome
>And morning was already here! After a nice breakfast with your moms and a little “goodnight” to your mom Luna, you went straight to your school.
>Thank the heavens that nothing stopped or delayed you on your way there, seriously, you may be on time for the first time in weeks. That’s awesome! For the first time in weeks, you won’t need to worry about doing extra work, this kind of levity was something that you needed after that crazy weekend.
>Too bad that peace of mind was shattered when you arrived to the snowy front yard of the school…
“Ruffle Truffle, you stupid idiot, what did you do now?!”
>Giant banners with Ruffle Truffle’s stupid face were hanging from the main building. On them, the slogan “A vote for the Ruffle is a vote for a school that is not lame” could be read in the most heinous grammar you ever saw.
>You quickly entered the school, and that same propaganda was plastered all over the halls. To make things worse, there was a stupidly high amount of hallway monitors now, and they were being bigger jerks than usual.
>”Hey! I already told you, I’m just going to my class!” A very young colt said to a very dumb looking filly
>”Oh yeah?!” The filly snickered “Then where’s your pass? That’s right, you don’t have one! To detention with you!”

>With an arrogant glare, the filly handled a yellow paper to the poor colt, then she walked away not before she stuck her tongue to him.
“What the hay? This has to be against the rules”
>You heard a familiar voice coming from behind you ”It is, or it was until the sixth grade took over the school”
>You turned around, and there you saw your classmate and “campaign manager” Gale Breeze standing in the middle of the hallway and holding the most frustrated face that you’ve seen in a while.
“Gale Breeze, what do you mean they took over the school? This garbage wasn’t here on Friday! Please tell me what in Equestria is going on?”
>”Not here, Anon!” She quickly shushed you and dragged you with her “We need to get to our classroom first, then, I’ll tell you everything!”
>As you and Gale Breeze rushed across the hallways of the school, at a mild pace of course, you didn’t want to get called out for running in the hallways, you saw more and more banners and posters with Ruffle Truffle’s campaign garbage on them.
>Of course, you also saw the hallway monitors flagrantly abusing of their powers by detaining almost everyone who even dared to look at them. This new situation made you feel disgusted, angry, frustrated and curious
>Yes, you were curious that this whole thing was happening in the first place and that it didn’t matter in which direction you looked at. You couldn’t see any teacher roaming the hallways, not even in the few classrooms that had their door open.
>Speaking of classrooms, when you and Gale Breeze arrived to your own one, the first thing that you noticed was that your teacher, Sunny Hill wasn’t here either. Now this was bizarre, that artifact that pass itself as a pony never leaves her spot.
>It was even more bizarre considering that the entire class was present. She SHOULD be here by now.
>After Gale Breeze closed the door behind her, you dropped your saddle bag at your seat, walked to Sunny Hill’s desk and sat at her chair.

“Alright before anything, first I must ask you the most important thing right now, has any of those jerks tried to bully any of you? Because if so, then that’ll be another thing that I’ll make them regret”
>Every filly in the class shook her head. Thank goodness, your classroom was untouched by the sixth graders’ stupidity.
“That’s good to see, very well my beautiful friends, I know that are nervous about what’s going on, I can see it in your faces, but worry not, because I’m going to solve this one way or the other, an in order to do such thing, first I need to know how this mess came to be, so Gale Breeze, could you please fill us in? Because I swear this place now feels more like an insane asylum than a school”
>”I know, right! Ehm, I mean… well… do you know about that crazy thing that happened yesterday at the Castle right? Because if you don’t, I can tell you everything! My dad was covering that event, and he came back home with toooons of stuff that the guards and maid told him!”
“You know that I live at the castle, right? I know what happened”
>”Oh…” Gale Breeze chuckled nervously “Right… eh… I suppose you’re not going to give me an exclusive interview about what happened, right?”
>You slowly shook your head
“Absolutely not, sorry but that’s kind of secret information until my moms decide to tell what happened. Now, what does that has to do with Ruffle’s ugly face being everywhere and the sixth graders suddenly controlling everything?”
>”Awww…” Gale Breeze dropped her head for a moment, but quickly regained her mood “Well, the interview can wait, you see Anon, I heard from Melodica who heard from Butter Sweet, who heard from Comet Trail, who heard from her cousin, who heard from her BFF, that the sixth graders hung their banners and plastered their posters during the chaos that was happening at the castle.”

>While you were sure that the entire city of Canterlot was paying attention to what was happening at the castle, something here didn’t fit.
>You laid back on Sunny Hill’s chair, looked at the ceiling and asked to Gale Breeze in a polite tone.
“I’m sorry Gale Breeze, but what you’re telling still explain everything. Even if those knuckleheads took advantage of the situation that happened yesterday, I can’t understand why the trash they put wasn’t taken down immediately, nor why there is not a single classroom with a teacher”
>”Oh, that’s easy!” The magenta filly with pink mane who goes by the name of Melodica stood up and quickly dashed at the desk “You remember Butter Cup? Of course, you do! She’s that sweet and tough filly from the other fifth grade class! We had a slumber party a couple days ago, and she and Gale Breeze became friends and they talked a lot about you and…”
>You leaned forward and held your hoof to shush Melodica’s little rambling
“I’m sure that you had fun at your slumber party, and I’m happy that you finally sorted your differences, it’s kinda creepy that you gals were talking about me, but… Melodica, please, I need you to stay on the subject. What did Butter Cup told you?”
>”I dunno why you find it creepy, Anon. I mean, Gale Breeze and Bubble Cup are all over you and even Comet Trail didn’t shut up about how smart you’re and…”
>”M-Melodica! I-I told you to not say anything!” Comet Trail yelled from the other side of the room as she covered her blushing face with her hooves
>”Oh yeah! Sooorryyy!” Melodica rubbed the back of her neck as she playfully stuck her tongue out. Then, she looked at you and continued with her cheerful explanation “Anywayyy! Butter Cup told me like… twenty minutes ago that the sixth grade teachers made an “emergency meeting” or something and that’s why nopony is having classes right now”
“Hmmm… now this is curious”

>That is too convenient to just be a simple coincidence. Those guys definitely created that distraction so the sixth graders could do whatever they please without having to worry about the repercussions.
>The million dollar question here would be why are the sixth graders doing this? What do they win by terrorizing every single foal in the school?
>”Anon?” Gale Breeze gently poked you, snapping you out of your train of thought “Are you okay?”
“Mmmm? Sorry, I was thing about how convenient this whole thing is, do any of you have more information to share? Anything would be useful, no matter how little it might seen”
>Your classmates spoke among themselves for a bit, but the ultimate response was a no. You let a little sigh and jumped off from Sunny Hill’s chair.
>”So, Anon” Gale Breeze spoke to you with expectation “As our candidate for school president, I sure hope that you’re planning to solve this, it wouldn’t give you a sure victory in the election, but it’s kind of your responsibility, you know?”
>You walked past her and looked at the entire class.
“It is not only my responsibility as a candidate, I think it goes a little higher than that, I do wholly believe that getting the school back to normal is one of my duties as the prince. Luckily for everyone, I already thought on something, so here’s the plan”