The Many Destinies of Sunset Shimmer

by ratedoni

The Devil of Canterlot High 03

Author's Note:

I don't know if I should make people have normal skin tones in this dimension? What do you think guys?

The world had a strange vibration to it, from the top of the building Sunset could feel it travelling across her body making the asphalt, concrete, steel and glass move and live like nothing else. It was empowering and terrifying all at the same time and Sunset was starting to get addicted to the feeling of the wind and the world turning into pathways and routes in her mind. The redhead took a deep breath and enjoyed the oxygen going through her veins and making her heart beat faster to get energy all across her body. Then she jumped.

She could hear the small gasp coming from the communicator installed inside her helmet and had to contain her smile knowing very well why they had that reaction. The livestream directly from the special ports in her mask were transmitted into a computer back at her now ‘head quarters’; of course, after being bounced several times across the world in a really hard to pinpoint IP that didn’t exist. Sunset could be blind, but she didn’t stop being extremely paranoid, even more now due to her new mission on Earth. Thanks to the efforts done to the mish mash of computers Sunset and twilight had back at the headquarters they were capable of getting some nice toys that would make tonight’s mission go, if not smooth, easier than they would go if it weren’t for their joint work.

Just at the right moment, all thanks to her bizarre pseudo-echolocation -which technically wasn’t since Sunset didn’t only use sound to find things around her- she took a hold of the small baton at her waist and with a quick movement from her strong arm a cable was shot through the dark night until it impacted against a gargoyle. Once the idea of moving from building to building through the darkness of the city would have come directly from one of Spike’s comic books, now it was the new reality for Sunset and the girls on the livestream.

The idea of turning into this bizarre creature of the night was not one taken lightly; it was something that had been nagging at the redhead all the week they were preparing things. It was a weird sense of rightness and vengeance which pushed Sunset beyond all points of reasoning and she was not going to stay quiet or idle. She had lost her vision and Fluttershy almost died, so she wondered who else would be hurt, who else would find themselves at the wrong end of an accident like that. It incensed the usually choleric girl to the point of creating the horned mask she was wearing; it pushed her to the point where she would gladly swing over buildings and crystal clear windows of apartments businesses with no lingering doubts. This is what she was now, a denizen of the darkness that was always present behind her eyes.

At every swing that her body made possible, Sunset felt the chilling air hit her face as her fingers clenched and moved with super human dexterity. The cable retracted and then shot up into another location as the redhead quickly traveled to the building she needed to check, but all changed when she heard something. Sunset stopped atop a brown brick building as she tried to concentrate on what she had heard before.

“Sunset, is something the matter?” The redhead ignored the question from Rarity as she began to track the sound, her mind filtering everything in the ambient, the sound of cars, the birds, televisions and music. On the other side of the video feed, the two girls helping Sunset were discussing the point of not calling Sunset by her name as they were not sure how well their system worked, but Sunset simply tuned them out too.

Suddenly, she found out the sound she had been looking for; it was the sound of a trashcan being thrown into the ground that alerted Sunset and she began to run on its direction. The sounds of steps were getting louder and she quickly found five set of steps that were apparently following a lone set. Sunset immediately threw the cable into a gargoyle and threw herself once more into the void as she sailed through the air until she was right on top of the people reunited, her body completely surrounded by darkness, but after all, who looks up in an alley.

She heard the steps and the way the five guys -she knew the difference in sound steps by now- were ganging on someone and had him surrounded. Sunset gnarled silently as she heard who could only be the leader start approaching the smaller guy.

“Look idiot, I already told you we didn’t like your kind in here.”

“What the hell are you talking about man? I work like two blocks from here.” The man answered back and Sunset sensed how confused he was. Apparently the group had ganged the wrong guy.

“Oh, is that so, I’m sorry, you trash all look the same to us.” Or not; this was not just something done at random, these people were going to do something with the older man and it was not something nice by the way the young guys all had bats and other paraphernalia. Just what Sunset needed, young boys doing stupid stuff for stupid reasons. At the moment the leader brought the bat up she knew there was no other way; screw the building for now, it was time to do something with her new powers.

Jumping over the metal staircase at the side of the building she had been crouching on, Sunset landed with enough force to send the leader face first into the muggy ground instantly knocking him out and probably taking several of his teeth in the process.

Sunset could feel the different cameras and instruments located on her mask and other parts of her suit flare up and start collecting information; mainly the faces and marks of the people she was about to unleash the worst beating upon.

“Talk to me Sparky.” She said in a lower voice as the other wannabe bad guys began to sweat and their heart rhythm spike out of control at her dynamic entry.

“I got their names… well, this is surprising and worrying, they are all part of the Fraternity at Canterlot U.” Twilight gave her the information only making Sunset growl louder at the now demoralized and frankly terrified young men “two of them are being investigated for an alleged rape attempt.”

“That’s all I needed Sparky.” Sunset ended the call as she then grinned at the idiotic students who at that moment understood that they were screwed. Half a minute later the five guys were all in the floor, blood, teeth and weapons everywhere as Sunset stood triumphant in the middle of the alley. The older man -probably a worker in one of several fast food establishment due to how smelled- had stood rooted on his place as he simply watched the fury on red and black.

“Girl, you gotta tell me who you are.” He simply said not believing anything that had happened. The girl then simply turned around and smiled.

“I’m just a daredevil.” She said as she once more used her baton to get on the building’s rooftop and then she disappeared into the night. The man simply laughed at the situation.”

“Daredevil? Man, I got the best story of the year, but who the fuck is gonna believe me?” he simply said as he walked away, ready to go back home and tell everyone about the girl wearing the horned mask.

Comments

[diablo4000]

Awesome Sauce

[Poet Knight]

Nice!

[Shadow Hero]

Don't tell me he was Stan Lee

[ratedoni]

7744174 He will make a cameo, just not right now