Hindsight is 20/20
Sunset Shimmer looked up at the moon anxiously, then peered out from her position behind the statue at the front of Canterlot High School to the front doors of the school. She knew that Twilight had bamboozled the rest of the school and was a shoe-in to win the bid for Fall Formal Princess and the crown that came with it. But, she also knew that Twilight would eventually need to come to the very statue that Sunset Shimmer was next to - it served as the portal back to Equestria.
There was only about an hour left before the portal closed, and Sunset Shimmer was going to run one last, desperate gambit; threatening to destroy the portal to Equestria, preventing Twilight from ever returning home to her friends, unless Twilight surrendered the crown to her. That crown, and the Element in it, were key to Sunset Shimmer's diabolical plan.
And what was that plan? To bring a bunch of zombified humans through the portal, slow and stumbling, so that they might face of against the might of Equestria's equine denizens. What odds did a magic wielding unicorn possess against a shambolic teenager? Or the winged dynamos that comprised the pegasus race, how could they possibly hope to best grounded Neanderthals? Surely, Equestria didn't stand a chance! Of course, that meant that Sunset Shimmer couldn't actually destroy the portal - but Twilight didn't need to know that!
To raise the stakes, Sunset Shimmer had enlisted Snips and Snails to steal Twilight's dog. And they were, as Sunset Shimmer was acutely aware, sitting by the statue grasping her sledgehammer, late. She didn't have to worry for much longer, as the front doors burst open and the two minions ran towards her. In their arms was the little purple dog! Predictably, Twilight Sparkle was giving chase, and the crown was upon her head! Twilight's gang of cohorts was right there alongside her, and they were fast approaching the statue. Sunset Shimmer stepped out from behind it as Snips, Snails, and the dog came to a halt next to her.
"That's close enough!" She cried, brandishing the sledgehammer menacingly.
The dog yelped from Snips arms, in perfectly intelligible English no less, "Twilight!"
"Don't hurt him!" Twilight pleaded, her eyes filled with concern for her pet. Concern that amused Sunset Shimmer.
"Oh, I wouldn't dream of it. I'm not a monster, Twilight." To prove it, she offered the dog back to Twilight. "Let him go," she told Snips and Snails. The puppy scampered back to Twilight with haste. "You don't belong here," Sunset Shimmer continued. "Give me the crown, and you can go back to Equestria tonight. Or keep it and never go home!"
She raised the sledgehammer threateningly towards the statue, her intention to destroy it made clear to the princess.
"Tick-tock, Twilight. We haven't got all night," Sunset Shimmer taunted gleefully. "The portal will be closing on its own in less than an hour. So, what's your answer?"
The tension in the air was palpable as Sunset Shimmer witnessed the gears turning behind that brainiac princess' eyes. This was it... the moment that Sunset Shimmer was waiting for! When she would finally have the crown, and begin her surefire plan to world dominance! She couldn't wait to hear Twilight Sparkle submit to her will, and -
"No."
That wasn't the answer Sunset Shimmer expected to hear. How could that be? Didn't Twilight know what was at stake?
"What? Equestria! Your friends - lost to you forever! Don't you see what I'm about to do to the portal?" Sunset Shimmer brandished the sledgehammer again. Perhaps Twilight wasn't as smart as she was led to believe. But, the emotional thumbscrews that were potentially losing her friends were sure to be effective!
"Yes," Twilight answered with a most infuriating 'know-it-all' authority. "But I've also seen what you've been able to do here without magic. Equestria will find a way to survive without my Element of Harmony. This place might not if I allow it to fall into your hands. So go ahead, destroy the portal." To add insult to injury, Twilight didn't stop her self-righteous rant there, and said exactly what Sunset Shimmer did not want to hear. "You are not getting this crown!"
Sunset Shimmer gritted her teeth, and her eyes closed in anger.
"GOD DAMN IT!"
Sunset Shimmer was fuming, and enraged, she verbally exploded at the gang of losers in front of her. And Snips and Snails too.
"I tried two other equally convoluted methods to assure that I got the crown, surely the third time should have been the proverbial charm?" she demanded. "But no, you and your virtuous altruism have ruined everything!" Sunset Shimmer reeled back with the hammer. "I wasn't actually going to destroy the portal, but if it would make you unhappy and take your ego down a notch, even just a little bit, I would do it in a heartbeat!"
Twilight looked flabbergasted. "You weren't going to destroy it?"
"It's too late to beg now, Twilight!"
Sunset Shimmer swung the hammer with all of her might at the base of the statue. As soon as the head of the hammer made "contact", it vanished. Unable to control the momentum, Sunset Shimmer released the hammer, and it flew through the portal.
Back at the Crystal Empire, a plethora of ponies stood anxiously around a mirror. Three days before, their best friend Twilight Sparkle had travelled through the mirror to another world. However, the time that the portal would remain open was growing ever shorter.
"Ugh! It's almost been three days, and we haven't seen or heard anything yet!" Rainbow Dash groaned in frustration. "The portal's going to close in less than hour, and we're not going to see Twilight for like, ages!"
Rarity nodded her head in agreement. "Quite right. I know we agreed that only Twilight would go through, but perhaps one of us should go through and check that everything is alright? I am getting rather worried."
"And I'm getting rather hungry!" Pinkie Pie moaned. "We've been sitting here staring at this mirror for three days straight! Equestria is burning down in a glorious anarchic blaze because its' princesses are all cooped up in a storage room staring at a mirror!"
Applejack chuckled, and approached Pinkie Pie with a comforting hoof to place on her shoulder. "I don't think that I would write Equestria off just yet, Pinkie Pie. If it makes ya feel any better, I'm famished too. Even got a hunger headache. But Twilight's dependin' on us to be here for her when she comes back."
"You get headaches if you get hungry?" Pinkie Pie tilted her head.
"Yeah... why, you don't?" Applejack asked in return.
"Nope!"
Suddenly, a sledgehammer flew through the mirror, the metal end colliding with poor Pinkie Pie's cranium. Everypony gasped at once as Pinkie Pie collapsed on the ground.
"What happened?"
"Oh my!"
"What in tarnation?"
Princess Cadence's horn glowed, and the sledgehammer levitated off of the floor where it had settled. "Is that... a sledgehammer? What in Equestria is going on over there?" She asked.
Princess Luna coughed. "Technically, they aren't in Equestria."
"The moon still has vacancies, dear sister," Princess Celestia warned calmly.
"...Applejack?" Pinkie Pie called out softly, and the orange pony knelt close to her.
"I'm right here, Pinkie. Are ya alright?"
"I think... I think I feel that headache coming on..."
Applejack just giggled. "You'll be just fine. Right, everypony?"
Nopony answered. Instead, everypony in the room was staring worriedly at Fluttershy. Normally docile, she was heaving, and positively seething with rage.
"How... how dare they throw that hammer like that! Doesn't whoever did it know that somepony could get hurt? And somepony did get hurt! My friend! Give me that!" Fluttershy commanded, seizing the sledgehammer from Cadence's magical grasp. Holding it firmly in both hooves, the yellow pegasus began to rotate around in circles, building momentum.
Everypony else in the room ducked down in terror.
"Hey, look!" Rainbow Dash shouted from the floor. "It's a real Hurricane Flutters-"
"There's room on the moon for you too, Rainbow Dash!" Celestia interrupted.
"Take... your... stupid... hammer... back!" Fluttershy loosed the hammer from its makeshift tornado, and it was catapulted into the mirror. It did not shatter the glass, but was simply absorbed through the portal.
"I... I don't understand..." Sunset Shimmer knelt down next to the portal. "I thought for sure that would destroy it..."
"Really?" Twilight laughed with relief, her friends all joining in behind her. "It's a portal - it's not even a solid object! Why did you think a hammer would work?"
"I... uhh..." Sunset Shimmer stammered in embarrassment.
"I mean, duh!" Snips struck his forehead with his palm to emphasize just how blatant he thought the oversight was.
"Seriously, that was the worst plan ever!" Snails agreed.
"Who asked you two?" Sunset Shimmer hissed at the duo. She had never experienced such utter betrayal from such utter simpletons.
"No kidding!" Rainbow Dash joined in on the belittling. "That's like trying to destroy a lake by punching it!"
A crowd gathered at the front door of the school. Applejack noticed them and presented a rallying cry. "Hey everyone, let's all gather round and point and laugh at what a stupid idea that was!" In no time at all, Sunset Shimmer was surrounded by a sea of pointing fingers and laughing faces.
"Stop it!" the failed attempt at a villainess covered her ears. "It - it seemed like a good idea at the time!"
"Really?" Rarity inquired, wiping a tear from her eye. "Did you get hit in the head as a child?"
"I did not get hit in the head!"
Suddenly, from the base of the statue, the sledgehammer emerged like a bullet. Sunset Shimmer didn't notice - she lost consciousness just as soon the hammer's head slammed into the back her head.
The laughing died down and the crowd looked in confusion from the statue to the hammer on the ground.
"Well," Twilight said as she lifted the crown off of her head to examine it. "That could have gone a lot worse."
"Yeah!" Pinkie Pie agreed. "She could have actually got your crown by simply taking it instead of going through all of these nonsensical trials and tribulations, and then turned into a raging she demon! After that, she could have used magic to turn all of the students into a bunch of mindless zombies for her own personal army!"
Twilight shuddered at the thought. "Let's not get carried away, Pinkie Pie."
Also LikedSimilarAuthor
- Pickleless · 1.3k words · 449 28 · 8.2k views
- Thetrainenthusiast · 2.2k words · 12 2 · 469 views
- supergirl1329 · 3k words · 85 2 · 2.5k views
- Black Hailstorm · 1.7k words · 13 0 · 838 views
- Lucky Seven · 2.2k words · 331 11 · 7.4k views
- Nickel Alloy · 1.2k words · 89 0 · 2.2k views
Stats
Page generated in 0.182 seconds
Total duration
629 users online
817,236 hits today, 2,591,549 yesterday
FIMFiction
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Follow & Support Us
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
She was probably talking about destroying the frame of the portal, which probably would have destabilized it.
This was quite funny, as I have seen this problem raised numerous times. It's good that someone dealt with it in a realistic, albeit humorous, manner.
I love the zany way you portrayed the characters here too. Not exactly show accurate, but hey, it's a comedy!
Your witty quotes will be the death of me, I swear.
All in all, an excellent short for a quick laugh to brighten up my day.
Enjoy a like and fave; you've earned it.
OUCH, poor sunset shimmer and pinkie pie
6546364
Thank you! I don't do comedy too often, so it's nice to know that it works for some folks when I do!
6546378
Pinkie Pie will be okay, I'm sure. She's probably more concerned about not having eaten!
Nah, it wouldn't be Pinkie Pie.
derpicdn.net/img/2015/4/11/871101/large.png
6546736
I have never seen that picture before, but I'm glad that I'm not the only one who saw that Sunset Shimmer's "threat" was rather silly.
That was certainly..... something that.... happened
No words, take my Like
There are at least two different comics over at deviantart that explore this exact same premise. That's not criticism, mind you, I just felt like point that out. I'd also like to say that you did a good job describing Sunset's idiotic plan for taking over Equestria in a way that made me laugh. Personally, I suspect that the corrupted magic that transformed her in the first place also degraded her mind, making her dumb enough to believe that she could take over an entire country with just a few dozen untrained teenage puppet soldiers.
Funny stuff. Funny stuff.
I hate your Celestia...
6551637
I'm not fond of her either - she hates bad jokes and technicalities!
I thought the same thing when I saw the movie and was just waiting for Twilight to say, "Go ahead," when Sunset made her threat. But yeah, I also thought of what 6546340 proposed. Even then though, Sunset's a teenage girl; how much damage do you think she could manage with one swing and would it be enough? Stone is pretty tough to break, after all. Plus there's precision to account for; sledge hammers are hard to swing accurately without practice, so she very well may have thrown the hammer threw the portal on accident.
Be funny if the portal isn't part of the statue at all and even if the the rock was busted, the portal ended up just floating there.
P.S.
Twilight and her friends have no room to talk. They were all afraid that the hammer would break the portal too, so they really shouldn't be calling Sunset stupid for thinking the same thing.
And then Sunset wakes up the next day to find out that she has amnesia, it's the perfect sequel.
I'm just kidding, this got me laughing. Have a like, fave and follow.
"led"
When "lead" is pronounced "led" it specifically refers to a metal.
Heh, I liked it. Silly, short, and had a threat to send Luna to the moon. Again.
6546750 don't know about that she could have aimed at the portals frame that might have worked.
6553026
Fixed. Thank you!
I know Sunset was a jerk in the first movie, but ouch. I feel sorry for her.
*snickers*
That was pretty funny. Especially the end bit with the sledgehammer. xD
Dang it missed a "mortally wounded" speech from pinkie. Also apperiently Pinkie sense does not work across dimensions.
"If I don't make it, please tell the Cakes that the raisins are and always have been in the third shelf to the left."
What would have been even funnier is Fluttershy missing Sunset and hitting human Pinkie in the face.
Hehe. Nice.
And fun! I like how things go with the sledge hammer!
Though one of my friends pointed out Sunset's actual plan was likely to convert her brainwashed army into demons like she did to Snips and Snails and was more intending to have an army of demonic beasts marching on Equestria. But it's funnier this way.
Great work!
6546340 bingo. insteado f hitting it directly as shown here. destroy the full statue itself would have been interesting. While a bit funny I had hoped this story would go that route.
6556319
I have to wonder if they would have just turned to pony versions of themselves anyways. Or if the Element's magic would have held once they went through the portal back to where the only one the Element of Magic would respond to would have been Twilight.
Thank you for reading.
Getting a how 'How It Should Have Ended' vibe. That means this is awesome.
6557132 True.
And welcome.
And congrats on this making the 'popular stories' tab!
Getting hit in the head by a sledgehammer should have busted a skull or two. Even one as soft as Pinkies or as hard as Sunsets. In fact with the weight alone a slight throw should have scattered Sunsets brains all over the ground.
The real fun is telling Pony-Fluttershy she killed someone. Then watch the mental breakdown begin.
6557638
I'm honestly surprised it's been as well received as it has been, because this came out so far after the first Equestria Girls film.
I wrote this in two hours (literally, start to finish) and it's already quadrupled "Rise of an Alicorn's Destiny" which took a solid week to put together (and I think Alicorn's Destiny was better!)
Not that I'm complaining!
And then the damage done by the hammer ended up making Sunset good
I was actually kind of hoping the portal -would- get destroyed.
Funny and short, good job. Faved and liked.
Medic?
No shit Sherlock. It would obviously destroy the mirror.
I had the same thought.
i was watching the movie with a friend and was like "wait its a portal, how can she break it?"
and my friend said something that made it kinda okay. he said "she's not gonna break the potal, she's gonna break the stone around the portal. like if you were to smash the edging of the mirror on the other side. you know, so the portal shuts down?"
and i was "oh, yeah that could work"
I don't even take into consideration the fact that it was a portal!!!Oh man,that was good!
6557681 Yeah, sometimes short one shots do surprisingly good. Regardless, congrats dude.
*reads chapter...*
Now THAT'S thinking with portals!!!
I would've done this after Sunset got hit in the head.
Ok that was hilarious
Even if it wasn't quite show accurate, it was still funny to read 
6556319 I want to know if Sunset knew that Discord was free and reformed at the time. I mean, even an army of Snips and Snails would be no match for him.
Yeah, I thought that was pretty dumb too until I thought that maybe she was going to smash the edge of the portal so the stone would shatter. So it kinda makes sense.
...But that still doesn't excuse Twilight suddenly forgetting that she's a smart resourceful character and making that dumb decision of thinking Equestria will survive with one of the powerful Elements of Harmony gone despite them being essential to Equestria's protection and needing all six to work.
Hey look it's a real hurricane Fluttershy-
There is a place on the moon for you too Rainbow Dash!
I died!
Welp... Sunset is dead! A Sledge going that fast would... do much much more then KO her... Damn you Cartoon logic you foil my scientific rant once again!
NOOOOOOO----
*gets a Sledge to the face*
7576813
Oh oh..maybe..um...maybe a sequel chapter with Sunset having total amnesia?
Won't somepony think of the poor sledgehammer? It's an innocent victim in all of this!
That actually did get some giggles out of me. Well done. ^^
But don't you see? When teenage humans go to Equestria, they all turn into red-and-black alicorns! At least, that's what fanfiction told me. So this plan is ingenious after all!
On another note, now I want to make an Equestria Girls farce because of you. Darn it...
9639718
I love black and red alicorns. They are so ripe for fanfiction fodder, hence that Rise of an Alicorn's Destiny story.
I'm glad to have inspired you! If you need a hand with another story, let me know!
This is what a well-executed joke looks like. XD
...When Sunset woke up in the school's infirmary later, she realised she could not remember a thing; at first, she wasn't concerned about this fact since her head was incredibly painful. However, after the school nurse gave her a headache pill, Sunset started freaking out due to not recognising who she was, where she was, or what she was.
As a result of not being able to remember her bullying days, or much of her previous life, Sunset was eventually able to make friends in Canterlot High, without requiring a Friendship Laser.
However, because a human sledgehammer was thrown through the portal and did manage to cause harm to a pony, Princess Celestia insisted increased security measures be placed around the mirror. This case of assault by a being across the mirror to a pony only avoided retaliation when Princess Twilight Sparkle informed Princesses Celestia, Luna and Mi Amore Cadenza that the perpetrator was Sunset Shimmer, a former pony and recent amnesiac. Instead, Sunset Shimmer was tried in absentia, found guilty of assault, and was thereby permanently banished from Equestria.
Since Sunset no longer remembered Equestria, this didn't change anything of note.
This was great. I kind of want to see what would happen in the movie, though, if Sunset tried to hit the portal--I feel like it would be very similair to this.