"Rainbow Dash!" Rainbow Dash's mother, Firefly, dashed into the room.

Rainbow looked up from her reading. "Yea, mom? What's up?"

Firefly took an EXTREMELY long, deep breath. "Do you have your pencils?" Rainbow only nodded.

"Paper?"

"Uh-huh."

"Notebook?"

"Right there." Rainbow Dash absentmindedly pointed to her desk, which was tidied up with her school supplies.

"Oh, good;" Firefly finally managed to relax. "But you should pack them up so you wouldn't forget tomorrow." Rainbow knew she would say that, for she had already packed most of it. Lazy? Of course not.

"Your mother just makes up the weirdest questions all the time, don't you think?" Dash's dad chuckled, walking into the bedroom. He was also sipping coffee at night. Dash wondered why before Firefly told her it was his habit. "One more thing, champ," Dash's dad reminded, "don't fall head over heels for some bad boy at school. It's a bad thing." Firefly glared at him.

"Love is a good thing, anti-Romeo." Firefly argued. "You never realize that fact."

Dash groaned. Again with the arguments. Please don't divorce while I'm gone. She thought.

"Where's Rainbow Dash going?" A tiny voice asked. It belonged to Scootaloo, Dash's sister, who stood by the door.

Rainbow's parents looked at each other for a while, then chorused, "College."

THE NEXT DAY

Rainbow Dash stared out the window as her school bus took her to school.  It was loud and stuffy in the bus, so of course everyone was prepared. She had been told numerous times not to bump into boys this morning, but this bus is full of them! There are hardly any girls and all the boys are screaming, throwing junk, pretending girls have cooties, and the music is hardly heard because of the boys' noise level.

"How rude! Girls do not have cooties! That is the most insensitive thing I've ever heard in my life!" A marshmallow-coloured girl exclaimed. She wore a sparkly tank top, accompanied by a radiant purple skirt with matching sandals.

"Ha! Don't call us stupid! My father says that all girls have cooties!" the boy that the girl told off screamed. He was wearing a jacket over a dull t-shirt with jeans and sneakers.

"Then why did your father marry your mother?" the girl countered. The boy stared at her, dumbfounded. "He...uh..."

"Thought so." the girl whirled around to chat with a butterscotch-coloured girl, who was obviously hurt by what just happened.

Rainbow sighed and stared out the window again. I am really disliking this school right now, Rainbow Dash thought. Why did I have to go to this college? Are all colleges like this? Insane? Weird? Who knows until they get out of the bus. Besides, I'm staying here, so I'm definitely going to miss Mom's cooking.

Her thoughts were cut off by the sudden stop of the bus.

"Everyone get in! Next stop is Crystalling College!" The bus driver yelled. More students piled in, mostly, of course, boys.

One girl, with red hair and yellow streaks walked over to Rainbow's seat and sat down, since Rainbow Dash was alone.

The girl turned. She had a burgundy T-shirt with a dull-on-top, sparkly-on-bottom skirt. She also had matching shoes.

"What a hole this place is. Don't you agree?" The girl said, and Rainbow realized that she was talking to her.

"Um, yeah! There's a lot of crazy boys, though." Dash replied.

The girl smiled. "I'm Sunset Shimmer, nice to meet you." She extended her hand.

"Nice to meet you too. I'm Rainbow Dash." Rainbow shook Sunset's hand.

"So, your dad told you to never hang out with boys?" Sunset Shimmer asked Rainbow Dash.

"Yup, and I can't because this bus is mostly crawling with boys." She replied.

Sunset understood. They chatted until they got to Crystalling College.

Everyone crowded out of the bus when they arrived at their new college. Rainbow and Sunset walked down the steps into the courtyard. The school was covered in crystals, which resembles the name of the college. In high school, she had found a booking for Crystal Prep, but of course, she didn't. This school looks like Crystal Prep.

Sunset nudged Rainbow and pointed. "The principal is just there." Rainbow saw a woman with yellow, pink, and purple–streaked curly hair. They walked up to her.

"Hello." The principal said when Sunset and Rainbow walked up to her. They waved back. Sunset asked for their dorm and schedule papers and she handed them over.

"I got Dorm 427." Sunset said as she scanned her paper.

"Mine is Dorm 456." Rainbow replied. Sunset sighed.

"I hoped we could be in the same dorm, but we can't. Well, see you around." Sunset waved goodbye as they parted ways.

As Dash made her way through the corridor, she saw some kids with dangerous equipment she assumed were for Gym classes. Some people had dodgeball bags filled with dodgeballs to fling at new kids. As one bag was hurled at her, the student responsible had an evil smirk across her face. Dash used her reflex skills to dodge the bag and catch it from behind.

Students on the student's side stood gaping at what just happened. Dash ignored them and set the bag at the student's feet and walked towards her dorm.