//------------------------------// // Chapter 7 // Story: Spider-Girl: The Movie // by Lucasnike123 //------------------------------// The Canterlot High cafeteria was a lively scene of lunchtime chaos. Students gathered at long tables, laughing and chatting. Many waited in line to order the menu of the day, which they dropped on plates and then went to their trays. At times, food would fly through the air and land on a table, the floor, or a student. Still brooding over everything that had happened to her, Twilight Sparkle made her way through the maze of tables with enough food to feed ten people on her tray. In addition to the physical changes and strange new abilities that were part of her transformation, Twilight was hungry. Very hungry. And at all hours. Settling into one of the few tables that weren't full, Twilight began to gobble up meat and mashed potatoes. Flash Sentry was passing by, on his way to a table where her friends were. Her tray prevented him from seeing the ground, so she did not notice that she was stepping on a pile of potatoes and gravy. She slipped and the tray went flying through the air. Twilight saw that Flash was going to hit the ground hard. With an instinctive move, she jumped out of her chair, caught the flying tray with her left hand, and reached down with her right arm to grab Flash around the waist just before he hit the ground. Flash regained his balance and Twilight handed him the tray. "Wow!" he said "Magnificent reflexes! Thank you!" Twilight shrugged. She also couldn't believe that she had done that acrobatic maneuver. It seemed that the thought of her had transformed into movement in an instant. "It was nothing" she said relaxedly. "Hey!" Flash said pointing to Twilight's face "You have purple eyes! I guess I've never seen you without glasses. Did you just put contact lenses?" "This..." Twilight hesitated, unprepared to share what was happening to her, since not even she was sure "This, this..." Flash smiled as he waited for Twilight to continue the conversation. But she did not say anything. "Well, see you" Flash finally said, walking away. Twilight gritted her teeth. Another missed opportunity. Before reaching her table, Flash turned and smiled at Twilight. He then she sat next to Trixie Lunamoon. Twilight continued eating, finishing off the first two courses and four desserts before stopping for a sip of milk. She put the fork down on the table, but when she wanted to lift her hand to take the milk carton, her fork stuck to her fingers. Puzzled, Twilight tried to pull the fork down again. A sticky filament that ran from her cutlery to her right wrist stretched like melted cheese on a pizza. Only this filament was thicker and stronger. Twilight couldn't get her fork off. As he lifted her left hand to try to get rid of him, a long filament shot out of her wrist and hit the tray of a girl sitting at the table next to her. Twilight pulled hard with her left hand, finally taking off the fork on her right. This movement caused the long filament coming out of her left wrist to drag the girl's tray and send it flying right towards her own head. Twilight ducked and the tray flew past her, ending up landing on Trixie Lunamoon. Trixie whirled around angrily. "Sparkle!" she screamed "Have you gone crazy?" As Flash tried to hide his laughter from Trixie, Twilight ran out of the cafeteria. Only when she was in the hallway did Twilight look at her wrists and discover a small cut on each of them. "This wasn't here yesterday!" She thought as she rolled down her sleeves and buttoned the cuffs of her shirt to hide it. At that moment, Twilight had one of the strangest sensations of her life. Time seemed to slow down and everyone around him was moving in slow motion. She also felt that she could see what was happening around her, and in all directions at once, as if her field of vision had expanded to cover three hundred and sixty degrees. Then, she saw a fist that was heading for her corinilla. Time returned to normal as she turned and took a step to the side, just in time to dodge a powerful punch from Trixie Lunamoon. Trixie's fist missed Twilight's head and hit a locker hard. "Oh!" she complained, waving her hand. Then she stared at Twilight, furious "You think you are very funny, right," weirdo "?!". Flash stepped between the two girls. "Trixie, it was an accident!" he said. "I'm sorry" Twilight added quickly "Really, it was an accident." "No" Trixie snapped "When she breaks your teeth, that will be an accident!" "I don't want to fight you, Trixie" Twilight said, as a crowd began to gather around her. "I wouldn't want to either" Trixie replied, as Flash stepped aside, aware that he couldn't do anything to stop it. Trixie unleashed two more punches, and Twilight dodged them without difficulty. Trixie was stunned; she couldn't understand how that clumsy bookworm had managed to move so quickly. One of Trixie's friends tried to grab Twilight from behind, but she felt her approach and she ducked; she then she got up at full speed, making him fall backwards. "It's enough, Sparkle!" Trixie bellowed "You're dead!" and she pounced on Twilight waving her arms and punching violently. Twilight did not move from the site. Bending at the waist, she avoided each of the blows without problems. Flash turned to Sunset Shimmer, who had just joined the crowd. "Sunset, please help her" she begged him. "Which of them?" replied Sunset, who was clearly enjoying the success of her friend while she frustrated the bully from high school. Trixie attacked Twilight with her head down and met her fist. Her blow hit him in the jaw, and the more abusive of the two flew off, she landed in a row of lockers and ended up collapsing on the floor, unconscious. "Look what you've done, Sparkle!" shouted Trixie's friend, crouching down next to her battered partner "You've knocked her out." "It was not my intention" Twilight replied looking at her fist, surprised by the new strength acquired from her. The crowd that had gathered to watch the fight surrounded Trixie. The toughest girl in high school, the fallen giant now pathetically slumped to the ground, was cause for compassion. The students looked at Twilight strangely, as if she had suddenly turned into some kind of monster. Looking at her hands, Twilight was suddenly scared of her incredible... new powers. She ran out of the institute. "I have to discover the extent of these powers" she thought as her mind raced.