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Diamond Tiara resisted the urge to start giving Splinter some rather inappropriate nicknames, a hoof going to the bridge of her forehead. "Ugh, can you believe that guy...? Anyways, I was thinking that I was going to dress up as someone from the past- Like Commander Hurricane or Chancellor Puddinghead- and reenact some history for the class." Diamond Tiara had both the looks and the resources to pull it off, after all. With the stupidity of the other groups taken into full consideration, her idea would probably be a showstopper.

Diamond Tiara watched as Splinter started to jerk away, as if desperate. Really? What the hay had she even done to this kid? Bemused and deciding she no longer cared, she scoffed and turned back to Magnus, waiting for his ideas on what they would do for their project.

Diamond Tiara evenly regarded Splinter, her expression a cool smile. "I've worn masks, not made them." Diamond Tiara then turned away from him as quickly as possible to hear out Miss Cheerilee. "Thank you, Miss Cheerilee." She nodded her head in deference to the teacher and turned to Magneus. "Obviously, I can't use magic for my half of the presentation. What are you thinking of doing?" Diamond Tiara considered her options, or rather she tried to until she was distracted by an outburst of sound. Looking up, she saw Splinter, and was actually flabbergasted at how stupid some ponies on this planet could manage be. Oh well. Something for her to try to take advantage of. She sidled up to Splinter while she waited for Magneus to respond. "In a bit of a bind there, Splinter? Don't worry, I'll help you out..."

Twilight heard out Rainbow Dash, nodding slowly. "I don't know about that, Rainbow. I mean, if anypony wanted to bring back Discord... I wouldn't be too surprised if this also had something to do with Applejack's trees." "Remember Discord, guys? That was fun! But sad. But awesome! But horrible. But there was chocolate rain! But there was also chaos and destruction..." Pinkie's face lit up. "I know what we should do, guys! Let's get the Elements of Harmony!"

Diamond watched Lucky for a moment. "Idiot." A slight cough was what most of them would have been able to hear. As for her partner, Diamond Tiara was a bit miffed. She could tell by his tone that he didn't expect her to be able to keep up, and so he was assigning her the 'easier' races to deal with. Well let me just tell you that I also would rather work alone, boy. She kept her thoughts to herself once again, however, for the sake of being diplomatic. Just because she had the easier races didn't mean she couldn't make a great presentation and upstage every pony. The Earth Ponies and Pegasus had some pretty amazing history, from what Diamond had read in snippets before while bored in her father's office or backstage in a pageant. "Alright, sounds good." Diamond Tiara then raised her hoof. "Miss Cheerilee, what can we use for the project?"

Diamond Tiara's opinion of everypony was very unaffected by their introductions. She was sure that she had made the correct assumptions with her first impressions of everypony. She yawned, bemused by the incredibly shy Dawn. She half wanted to gallop out and grab a megaphone for the dolt. But a presentation... now that she could do. If she made an awesome enough presentation, she would only further galvanize her status as the best of the best in her classroom. But who to pick as her partner? They were all more or less unnecessary, and she could easily get the research done on her own. But she needed to follow the rules, or Cheerilee would get on her case. And she also needed to start making friends and allies, lest she be left out of the loop in class... She turned to Magneus, smiling sweetly. "Hey there. I think my father might know your father." That could well have been true, Filthy Rich was a well connected stallion. "Want to do the project with me?" Ain't that the truth? Diamond thought to herself when she overheard Splinter. But she didn't actually say it. No need to make a scene in class. "Aw, Splinter, don't say such things about yourself," she said compassionately even as she glared a dagger or two in his direction.

In pretty quick order, Diamond was able to neatly label all of her peers: Amber, loud, annoying, and naive; Lucky, heaven knew but Diamond was sure he'd also be a derp; Splinter... he was actively glaring daggers at her, which beyond being insulting as hay was also a pretty strong indicator of who one of her main rivals would be this year. Diamond didn't even know the kid and somehow she had drawn his ire. Perhaps she had insulted him in passing? Possible. He also seemed to be a jerk in general. At least Diamond knew how to pretend to be nice when she needed to be. Acro, not as naive as Amber but close; and Mageus. He had also drawn Splinter's ire. Now that would be an interesting angle to play if need be. Diamond stood up to introduce herself soon after Lucky did. "I am Diamond Tiara. Remember the name, everypony, you will all want to someday. I have won beauty pageants before even starting school, so my qualifications are already quite high. I look forward to making friends with everypony, old and new alike..." Diamond glanced at Splinter. "If anypony has a problem with me, they would do well to remember Miss Cheerilee's suggestion. They may bring up their problems with me at lunch. Thank you all for your time." Diamond Tiara sat back at her desk, impressed with herself for her eloquence and sure other ponies were too.

Pinkie's head erupted from the ground, showering the other three mares with dirt. Twilight protested, but Pinkie ignored her. "Applejack's trees are being rebellious, so we need to find out why! And what's with the accent, Rainbow? Are we doing impressions? Here, let me do you!" "I'm the fastest flier in all of Equestria, Rainbow Dash!" Twilight's jaw dropped. Pinkie's imitation had been dead on in voice, it was eerie.

"Good morning, Miss Cheerilee." The voice, sweet with a slight condescending twinge, issued from a desk in the second row. A young filly, coat groomed to a hair with a bejeweled tiara sitting atop her head, was the speaker. Diamond Tiara wore a bright smile but her eyes were shooting around, appraising her peers mercilessly.

"Well I got this really really big one this morning, and I'm sure it means something important is about to happen. What if it's Nightmare Moon again? Spoooky!" Pinkie yelped suddenly and somehow managed to literally bury her head into the ground, quivering. Twilight stared blankly for a moment before putting her own thoughts into Applejack's problem. "Well... between your trees and Pinkie's intuition I really wouldn't be surprised if something's amiss. The only problem is, we have to find what." Twilight ran through some scenarios in her head, a mere microsecond of thought spared to thoroughly consider them, but she couldn't come up with any satisfactory conclusions. "I think we'll have to do this the hard way, just hoof it and figure it out as we go along. Right?"

OH MY GOD A RAP THREAD I NEVER THOUGHT I'D SEE THE DAY!!!! Anyways, I'm going to comment on the above because I don't trust my own taste in music enough to post my own favorites. He's got a good flow, and the song motif is pretty nice. Not a lot of wordplay though, and that's what I really look for when I listen to rap. One line that I got any reaction out of was: 'throbbing from his rod incisions So you started fishing, websites and call him b------' Because fishing can be fishing from the previous word rod or phishing like online, and the next word is websites. Am I weird for basing my love for rap on stuff like this?

"Trees... acting funny?" Twilight shot Applejack an inquisitive look. "Well the book I've been reading on duplicative magic postulates on the effect of that sort of magic on flora... besides that, nothing much." Twilight wasn't a botanist- if anything, Applejack should have been the one to have that sort of information. "Why do you ask, AJ?" "Ooooh!" Pinkie interrupted buoyantly. "I bet the trees have mad tree disease, or they're being scared by a tree thief, or Bloomburg's going through tree puberty and bullying the other trees, or-" Pinkie rambled on for a bit while Twilight sought out Applejack's gaze and rolled her eyes. Sometimes Pinkie could be a handful. "- And then I said oat-? Oh wait, I know! I bet it has something to do with my new Pinkie Sense!" Twilight nodded to herself. Now that was a sensible thought.

((Grahhh totally forgot about this guys, sorry)) "Hi Rainbo- bye Rainbow!" Pinkie waved eagerly as Rainbow passed, followed hotly by some unknown stallion. Twilight raised an eyebrow, wondering who it was who would be following her. She didn't recognize a pony that looked like that in town... "Hey, who was that stallion that was following Rainbow? Do you know, Pinkie?" "I don't know, that's the weird thing... Normally I know every new pony in town! I should go introduce myself!" "Should we go after her?" Pinkie was already bouncing eager circles around Twilight, so that question was essentially answered already. Twilight sighed and smiled to herself. "I'm guessing that's a yes..." "Of course it's a yes! Comeon Twilight, last one there's a bad cupcake!" "Don't do that teleporty thing you usually do to catch up to ponies!" Twilight ignored the fact that she could also teleport, and the two mares trotted steadily in the direction they had seen Rainbow and her pursuer vanish. As they got back into town, they passed back by Twilight's library, where they happened upon Applejack. "Hey Applejack! Watch'a doing here?"

Twilight Sparkle had her nose in the thick of a large tome- even by her standards, which meant this beast of a book was larger than the table it was resting on- studying a very strange concept she had just come across. They called it 'duplicative magic', and it seemed to be a more user friendly version of the same dark energies that gave the wayward changelings their power. Twilight had gone through a lot: a veritable mountain of paperwork, three security checks, and a changeling detector (however that was supposed to work) to get her hooves on this book. Not that her hooves were on this book, since it was simply far too weighty. She had to employ a carriage just to get it back to her library. "Duplicative magic will not always create perfect replicas, but similar to an imperfect glass blowing, will create copies with 'bubbles': deformities and flaws, whether obvious or not..." Twilight looked over the page larger than her body in surface area again, her eyes and mind strained to levels they had never been before. Beyond being incredibly dense in it's writing and subject, to a degree that even Twilight struggled with; the writer had jarring changes in diction and style at times, including an area on this page where instead of writing a chart or graph to illustrate his or her point, the author had chosen to write POWAAAAAAAAAAA which was misspelled, bolded, and underlined all at once. Half wondering if this book was a farce, Twilight turned away to give her eyes a much needed rest. "Hey Twi!" Twilight was about to question how Pinkie had gotten into her house without anypony noticing, but she determined that the effort would be wasted and just smiled back: "Good to see you, Pinkie. What brings you here?" "Have you seen Rainbow Dash? I wanted to get her to help me throw a surprise party for Mayor Mare! It's her birthday in two months!" Twilight grinned at that. When it came to parties Pinkie was even more on the ball and organized than Twilight was... in her own unique Pinkie way, that was. "I think she was going to practice today? We can probably find her outside Ponyville somewhere." "Then let's g-g-g-g-g-gooooo-!?" Before she could finish speaking, Pinkie was overcome by a set of gyrations: a twitch of both ears, a crack of her neck, a triple spin on her tail, a weird hoof maneuver that approximated breakdancing, and a two second holding of her breath. Twilight's attention to detail took it all in eagerly and without fault- this was a new Pinkie Sense! "Whoa! I've never had that one before!" "What do you think this one means, Pinkie?" "I dunno, but whatever this one is it's super super big! Let's go!" The two mares galloped out of the library, looking for Rainbow Dash.

Screw Mundo, we prefer Shyvana. But seriously, I used to love Mundo but now I don't feel as good about him. Something about his kit is clunky and hard to use well. I don't know how to explain it, but he just feels like a weak choice to me when a jungler like Shyvana fills the same role only better.

^ Scarlet Devil, Scarlet Nite? Anyways, I cannot play the Touhou games to save my life. I die even on EZ Mode. But the series has a special place in my heart, it was my first crossplays, and the series I liked around the time I stopped being a stereotypical dumb anime fan and started maturing out... Then I got into MLP. Still love Touhou though.

More champions are good than they do fade into irrelevance, I think. Only champions I can remember really doing that within my lifetime are Skarner (and they fixed him) and Hecarim (still waiting on the fix). All the others have seen at least some usage in pro games or general play.