Shimmer stared down at her food and said nothing. She poked the unidentified meat with a plastic fork and bit her lip. It had been three days since she last saw herself. Well, her doppleganger that is. Lunch time at school had rolled around and nothing out of the ordinary was happening...It was Monday and Shimmer wasn't any closer to figuring out how she existed and at the same time her other self existed than on Friday night. The other girl had disappeared right after her last words.
"Because I'm possible."
Shimmer frowned. It was so corny. Yet it felt as though it were seriously a true thing. She was there, no mistake. Therefore...she was possible. So as lame as that was it held some truth to it. But how her double was there...no explanation. All Shimmer got from her was a confusing short speech about dimensions and myths?
Shimmer tapped a finger on her chin. Even now it didn't make much sense to her...
"You'd be surprised at what you think to be absolute; the only solution or explanation. What you find logical can be altered and completely shattered, becoming the illogical. What makes sense to you here can be complete and utter nonsense in another dimension. Ideas you believe to be myths and old legends are what reality consists of in the multiverse..."
She sighed. It was all a mystery to her. She couldn't understand anything. Her double talking about her being a version of her...the sudden take off...her cold glare...Now that Shimmer thought about it, that girl was nothing like her. She, Sunset Shimmer, had always been a happy, upbeat person whose passion was music. She always smiled and her eyes shined with joy. Shimmer had many friends and was considered to be popular at Pointeville High.
But this other person...
She looked aggressive. Her eyes had a dangerous gleam to them. The smirk on her face curled cruelly. And the way she held herself; her head high and shoulders back like she was of importance. Shimmer's double had a low growl to her voice, one that intimidated her. The black leather jacket, orchid colored shirt, her skirt, and the tall black boots with purple flames that licked upward all reminded Shimmer of a gangster of some sort. Like she was some kind of biker or bad girl.
She shuddered. Shimmer had gotten a weird vibe from her. It was one that made her hair stand on end. If this girl really was her...She didn't like it. They were nothing alike as far as she knew. Looking up from her food she surveyed the cafeteria. Teens ate, talked with their friends, and laughed every now and then. It was like any normal day. But what wasn't normal was that her two best friends weren't at the table with her. Shimmer was sitting by herself...
Squinting, she tried to find them. Her friends always sat with her at lunch. It was like an unspoken tradition between them. Ever since they started high school two years ago they had become fast friends, all their personalities clicking together like puzzle pieces. During lunch was the first time she got to see them during the school day if you didn't count the walk to school. Their classes were all different from each others and so that's how it worked out. But this morning the two of them didn't walk to school with her. Shimmer started to wonder if they weren't feeling well or something...
And that's when her eyes landed on a girl with orchid skin and pink-purple hair that curled around her oval face and a boy with white hair and skin wearing a scarf. She smiled. It was Double Diamond and Sugar Belle. They were sitting around the music students. They must've assumed that Shimmer wasn't there and decided to sit at another table. The fiery-headed girl got up from her seat, tray in hand, and walked over to them.
The two of them were talking about an upcoming event: The Spring Fling. Shimmer placed her tray down on the table and said," Hi! I didn't see you guys this morning and thought you two might not have been here."
Double Diamond and Sugar Belle jumped when she spoke, like they hadn't expected her to appear. Double Diamond looked down at his food with great interest and Sugar Belle poked her food.
"What do you want."
Shimmer's smile faded somewhat.
"Uhm, I want to talk to you guys."
"Well, we don't. So you can go back to your table," Sugar Belle said sourly.
Shimmer paused. This was usually not how her friends talked to her...She looked at Double Diamond. He kept looking down at his food as if it was something spectacular. It was apparent that he would not respond to anything she said.
"...Is something wrong?" she asked.
"Yes. And that 'something wrong' is you!" Sugar Belle snapped.
Shimmer stood back with her eyes wide.
"Me?? All I did was walk over here and say hi! How am I doing anything wrong??"
Sugar Belle frowned.
"Don't act like you don't remember last Friday night."
The fiery-headed girl nodded slowly.
"Yes..? I remember it..?"
"Then you know why we aren't friends anymore!"
"How are we not friends anymore?! I just texted you to see how you were doing and you sent this threatening message talking about harassment and assault! Now what was that all about?!"
Sugar Belle stood up and pointed at Double Diamond.
"Last Friday night you came into the shop and were about to beat him up! Over spilling your coffee--"
"I don't even drink coffee! And why would I beat him up? I wasn't even there!"
"--You had a smart mouth and were acting like a total jerk! If you were feeling bad that day why didn't you just say so? We would've left you alone!"
"I didn't even go to the shop! I went home!" Shimmer cried out. She was completely confused and upset. "What are you even talking about??"
"What are you talking about?! You didn't go straight home! You came to the shop and hurt Double Diamond!" Sugar Belle yelled.
"I didn't!"
"Yes, you did!"
"But I didn't!"
"Oh, yes. You. Did!!!"
"I DIDN'T!!!"
"YES, YOU DID!!!"
"I SWEAR TO FAUST I DIDN'T EVEN TOUCH DOUBLE DIAMOND!!!!!"
Sugar Belle glared at her with such intensity that the expression 'If looks could kill' certainly was relevant to the situation at hand. Sugar Belle let out a low growl of frustration before speaking in a dangerously calm voice.
"Don't play dumb, Shimmer! I remember everything! The first thing I noticed when you walked in was that you were wearing a completely different outfit from usual. A leather jacket...a skirt...boots with flames on them...It was like you were trying to look like some kind of bad girl! And, as if to complete the look, you were being pretty snappy! You seemed to be a completely different person.
"I don't want to speak to you ever again, Sunset! There! Since you kept insisting we call you that from now on, you bitch! Lay your hands on anyone again and I will call the police!!"
Shimmer didn't reply to her. She just stared. There was no way...A black leather jacket, a skirt, boots with flame designs, and her attitude...It had to be...It had to be her. Shimmer turned on her heel and walked out the cafeteria. It wasn't just her who saw them, this double. It was her friends, too! And she destroyed a friendship they had had for two years!
It may not be a long time to be friends with someone but these two were the ones she always hung out with. They were her main friends and now one violent act done by a gangster-wannabe look-alike has ruined it. Shimmer gritted her teeth, feeling the anger inside of her rise. She shouldn't have yelled at Sugar Belle like that. It wasn't her fault that she was angry...It was her's.
It was Sunset's fault. She had never seen her friend so angry before. And it was directed at her! But it wasn't Shimmer that did that to Double Diamond! And then she called her a bitch. A bitch! Never had anyone called her such a name! Shimmer's vision became blurry as tears began to form. It was all her double's fault.
Shimmer ran through the hall and burst into a room full of instruments: the Music room. She grabbed her guitar and shut herself in one of the smaller cubicles used as a practice room. In there she opened the case and furiously strummed the strings, making a loud and terrible noise. She didn't care. All she knew was that she was angry.
Angry at Sunset.
Shimmer, no! Sunset, you fool!
Cycle of hate continues...always an interesting arc to follow if done right.
Congratulations, (unicorn) Sunset Shimmer. You've successfully pissed off your human counter-part. Welcome to a new world of wierd
way to go Sunset, you managed to fuck up your other versions life as well as yours! it must be your special talent!
5906310 I really didn't mean for the story to go the way it did. Now how am I going to get the romance to happen?? Even more waiting for romance then...
I feel like the real human Twilight Sparkle is going to show up somewhere.
Am i the only one that wants to see human Shimmer drag pony Sunset around and show her to her friends so that they can feel like jerks for threatening to call the police on her?
Because i really want to see that happen.
Something tells me a fight is going to happen
5906540 Such a chapter that would be!
Hopefully Shimmer and Sunset will be able to sort this out without causing each other bodily harm. Hopefully...
... how can a two year long friendship be undermined like that ? Is this a 'temporary stupidity' thing again ? I mean, a person you think is your best friend comes in, acts like a totally different person, assaults one of her other friends, and promptly leaves. your reaktion is then not to gather information and find out what happened, but instead rage quit your two year long friendship...
Actually that is posible. I would have acted differently, but I would still not know that something was up... until the SMS came, of course, then I would ask her what happened. When she says that she doesn't know, I would ask her to come to the shop, to talk it over. But that wouldn't work for the story. I suppose you could remove the SMS... but that is hard.
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If that is what Shimmer's friendship with SB and DD was truly like...
Perhaps she does not deserve friends like this.
...
...or it could be just a skill Sunset has. Remember how she shattered the Humane Five's friendship with a couple of well-placed emails and texts?
5907790 That did happen, didn't it... it seems that most people (and ponies) has an aversion to fact-checking in the MLP universe
5907713 High school girls are over-reactive. Wouldn't you be infuriated if someone you were friends with came up to you, assaulted you, and left? And then seemed to act like none of that ever happened? Plus, you can't take away calling someone a bitch once you do that. That's what Sugar Belle did and Shimmer won't forget that. Also, it was Sunset Shimmer, the queen of ruining friendships.
5908367 hmmmm... maybe but remind me never to go to an American high school if that is the case.
Then again... I have aspergers and have friends with aspergers, so I could be biased
We do have a tendency to meticulously fact-check EVERYTHING, til we are wrong or right... maybe I just don't know people as well as I thought
5906999 Why are you hitting yourself Sunset? Why are you hitting yourself?
5908834 OOOH. That's hilarious!
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And then someone asks if Sunset is Shimmer's evil twin sister.
5908965 Well, she kind of is. Sunset is Shimmer's evil twin from an alternate universe. All she really needs is a goatee.
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An interesting quote which somewhat relates to what sunset said about everything being because "[she's] possible"
Sunset, you've just pissed off your doppleganger and ruined a part of their life... GOOD-FUCKING-JOB NUMBNUTS!
Huh.
That's more like it.
Sorry, but I really disagree with you there. on romance on stories Usually, when they believe a astory must have romance or shipping because it's a story they try to force it and give it more importance than needed for the story's needs. t usually ends stretching/breaking the suspension of dibelief on the shipping part and diluting the main premise of the story.
I'm not saying that no story should have romance (for example, stories which are built for it; or where romance exists but is minor). In this story in particular... I have't seen it, which may be a good sign: I'll take it as a sign that you're taking your time to build it carefully.
But not to write only an answer to some text which isn't even part of the proper story I'll add my impressions so far: I've found your story really compelling to read, and this different take on Sunset interesting.
I love the conflict you've put between the human Sunset and her friends, where noboody there is at fault. Now, how can she fix it? She needs to prove the existence of her double, for starters.
I like you took the part of Sunset, being a former student of Celestia's being no slouch on CHS (except history, because why would she care of the history of another world?). However, she's supposed to be some years older then Twilight (and the rest of the Mane 6): should she try to get out of high school (either to other high school or to take exams to skip it completely) somewhere else? If she doesn't have any attachments to CHS there's nohing really stopping her (and if she intends to return to Equestria she might not be interested much other than surviving)
Now I wonder if Sunset regrets not returning to Equestria with Twilight.
I'll better get back to read, I still have about half of the fic to finish.
Should be spelled "shuddered" Pretty sure she's not shutters on a window.
It's that very notion that has been slowly destroying the romance genre over the years. That's not to say it doesn't work here, but that there are many cases where it feels tacked onto story that work just fine, if not better without being bogged down with needless romance.
Because I'mpossible
1. Forgot your spacing here.
But Sunset did tell them to leave her alone
And then the guy asks if shes on her period. Shimmer's friends are kind of assholes
7251005 Not to mention her supposed "best friends" for the past two year just up and drop her after one fight. Real friends would be seriously worried about her after something like, not snub her and tell her never to speak to them again.
7251005 to be fair they kinda have the right to be angry.