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Rogue had also pinned Blade's cheat sheet to his tail too, and while his brother seemed to skip through the test at a quick pace, he decided to go slow. He made motions of attempting work out the problem himself and erased quite a bit. Like his brother, he too got a few things intentionally wrong. He was done with 10 minutes of test time to spare.



As they walked home that evening, they chattered excitedly about their "mission." Blade was excited, it was such a rush what they'd pulled off and gotten away with! Their teacher was no fool and caught cheaters before, but not them. Not the Brew bros.

They stopped along the way, trashing their respective sheets in different garbage bins. They wouldn't know it yet, but it was the beginning of a exciting partnership. Brother and brother, team work all the way.



But the brothers weren't as clever as they thought.

Upon grading the tests, an interesting thing was discovered. Morning Glory wrote a large red A - on the top of a test with Blade's name on it. This made the teacher pause. Blade wasn't the worst in class, but not the best. Certainly not the type to pull an A out of his flank. She didn't know how he'd done it, but he'd definitely cheated. Maybe off his brother, the pair were pretty tight. She wrote notes at the top of Blade and Rogue's tests.



After school Blade stared up at his teacher, a lump in his throat. He'd aced his test, as expected, but Miss Glory had written a "See me after class" note at the top. He'd immediately started to sweat. Class was a long, agonizing slog. Everytime she'd turn in his direction he'd duck down or drop his eyes to his book.

Glory looked down at her pupil, clasped her hooves together and said evenly. "Congratulations on your A Blade. How did you manage it?"

Blade stuttered: "Uhm, I've read the..the..the..books and stuff I'm j..just bad with homework." She looked at him expectantly. He couldn't look at her. She sighed.

"I don't know how you did it Blade, but I'm sure that you cheated." Blade blanched and Glory side eyed Rogue. "I don't know if Rogue fed you answers somehow or you were looking at some phony else's paper, but there is just no way with the grades that you make in everything, that you can make an A on a surprise test. Unless you are some sort of untested wunderkin."

"Maybe..?" Blade said hopefully. The look on Glory's face told him now was not the time to be making wise remarks.

"I'm afraid I am going to have to talk to your parents. Cheating is a serious offence."

The mint colt deflated. Failing would have been bad enough, but cheating? He'd never get to fence again! Tears welled up in his golden eyes and he sniffled. Goodbye Olympic dreams...

Both Glory and Blade's heads snapped to look at Rogue. Their teacher's sapphire eyes narrowed just slightly and she leaned on her hoof.

"Is that so? You helped him cheat..?" she nodded thoughtfully. "Yes, I believe that, though I don't think you made Blade cheat." she said with a small chuckle.

Blade's jaw was on the floor. What was Rogue doing?! He was going to get in just as much trouble. The back of his eyes stung as tears threatened to leak out.

"N..no! Rogue didn't help me at all! He's just saying that to lessen the blow! He didn't have anything to do with it at all!" Glory turned her head towards Blade again, and then glanced between the brothers. She folded her hooves together and rested them on her desk.

"I have a pretty good idea what's going on here." she said plainly, looking at Blade, then Rogue. "Tell me, what possessed the two of you to do something so drastic to pass a test that wouldn't have affected your grades unless you got the A."

Blade blurted the whole story out. He tried to leave out Rogue entirely, but when it became too difficult to explain properly, he tried to minimize his brother's roll as much as possible. Morning Glory listened quietly and waited for the foals accounting to be completed. She stood, approached the pair, raising her hoof and, surprisingly, patted each colt on the head.

"It says a lot about siblings who stick together even when the trouble one of them is in is deep. As odd as it is to say in this situation, I am proud of you and I think your parents would be as well."

Blade exchanged a confused look with his brother, then looked back at their teacher. "So..we aren't in trouble?"

Glory laughed. "Oh no, you two are in a lot of trouble, but I'll make you boys a deal.."



Blade Waltz groaned, resisting the urge to bang his head on his desk. At the time, the offer Miss Glory had made seemed easy and fair; She wouldn't tell their parents about their cheating if they agreed to come to after school tutoring for 2 hours every day for the next month AND do all of the after school cleaning chores as well. Their fellow classmates were surprised when their teacher had announced that Blade and Rogue "volunteered" to do this out of the kindness in their hearts, but none the less, thanked them and tore out of the school house as soon as the bell rang.

The mint colt glanced out of the corner of his eye at his brother and smiled just a little. Ah well, in for a penny, in for a pound or some such thing right? He returned to the worksheet of one hundred math problems and sighed. Might as well get it over with.