A Crystalling Tail

Chapter 8

"What?" Sunset asked again.

"Well, Sunset," Celestia started. "I hadn't realised that you had gained a mother and father in the other world."

"Yea," Sunset nodded. "But not until after what happened at the Battle of the Bands."

"Really," Twilight asked raising an eyebrow. "How did that happen?"

"Well," Sunset cleared her throat, getting ready to tell them the story. "It all started about a week after the battle of the bands..."

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(Flashback)

Principal Celestia looked up from her paperwork when she heard a knock at the door. "Come in," She called, feeling her sister, who had been photocopying more paperwork in the corner, stand next to her. She was surprised to see the Rainbooms all come into her office. It did not take long for her and Luna to notice that they were one short.

"Where is Miss Shimmer?" Luna asked the girls.

"That's what we wanted to talk to you about," Rarity started before looking at the others, not sure how to explain.

Applejack stepped forward. "Well, you see VP Luna. A little after the Battle of the Bands, we realised that we didn't know where Sunset lives."

"We've tried to ask her, but she always manages to change the subject," Fluttershy timidly continued.

"Yea," Rainbow nodded. "And we were wondering if we can borrow the new security cameras. Just to find out which way she goes after school, so we can follow her and try to figure out where she lives."

"Hmm," Celestia thought for a moment, looking over at her filing cabinet where a certain file sat, before turning back to the girls. "While normally I wouldn't allow it, we will make an exception just this once."

"To tell you the truth," Luna said, knowing where Celestia was going with this. "We also want to know where Miss Shimmer lives. After hearing that she was from another world, we realised that some of her student information might be false. And the address we found, along with other things, was indeed false."

Celestia gestured for the girls to follow her over to the new security room. They all gathered around one of the monitors, as Luna put in the passcode.

"Now," Luna started. "I assume Miss Shimmer normally goes out the front at the end of school?"

"That's right," Pinkie confirmed.

After a minute of going through footage, they found a good bit. They watch as the screen showed Sunset Shimmer walking out of the school. They were surprised when, after looking around she hid behind a nearby bush. Luna fast forwarded the footage, it seemed that Sunset remained behind the bush for two whole hours.

After everyone had gone home, Sunset moved from the bush and walk back towards the school. Luna turned the footage to one of the other cameras. Sunset walked around to the back and the girls gasped in horror as Sunset jumped into the school dumpster and start sorting through it.

"Oh, sugarcube," Applejack muttered sadly, as Sunset came out of the dumpster with a couple of half-eaten apples, a container of mystery meat and half a tub of day-old chocolate pudding. She then walked over to a slightly opened window and climbed through it. Luna shifted the focus to the cameras inside the school.

Sunset walked through the school auditorium and into the sports storage room. She pulled out one of the sports mats and one of smaller punching bags. After setting everything aside, she started eating what she got from the dumpster. After finishing eating, she took her boots off, the punching bag at one end of the mat, and laid down, using the bag as a pillow. Luna turned the monitor off after Sunset had gone to sleep.