Sunset has had the same jacket ever since she came to Canterlot High. Rarity and the girls want to treat her to some new clothes, but some things are too important to be replaced.

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It had been almost a year after Sunset's fall at the Fall Formal, and most everyone had moved on. Sunset simmered down, as did the tension at Canterlot High.

However, sometimes an odd joke about her old self will pop up. And lately she's discovered a whole new reason to hate the term "she-demon."

[Slight AU; Fall Formal happened after two years not 3.5, so EG would have been junior year, and this takes place in senior year. Also: Transgender themes and 'special snowflake' things ahead. If you don't like these then, please, just don't read this.]

Sunset Shimmer wants nothing more than to be able to enjoy the holidays with her friends, but the festive season does nothing more than remind her of how alone and cold she's been for so many years. Is it possible for her to learn to love the holidays again?

Maybe with the help of some friends, she can.

Sunset Shimmer finds herself stuck in a time loop where she's forced to live out the main six singing a song to help Twilight win the crown over, and over, and over...

And over...

Except, things start to get a little... weird, at one point in the song.

Sunset Shimmer's experiencing a night of living hell. Thankfully, Twilight Sparkle shows up and lends a comforting shoulder to lean on.

In the space of two days, Princess Twilight Sparkle completely overthrew Sunset Shimmer's dominance as the queen of Canterlot High. That Sunset's rule of several years folded quickly to a culturally-ignorant person of another species entirely is suspect, along with her decision to invade Equestria, and her immediate redemption at the hands of the Elements.

What if all this inconsistency was deliberate, to hide Sunset's real master plan?

NOT Rainbow Rocks compliant.

On the day of the Friendship Games, the veil between two worlds is pierced. The magic of Equestria seeps through the barrier to permeate the world of humanity. Entities begin to come into existence. Lore and legend are gaining flesh, bone, and blood, yielding things both wondrous and horrible. Magic is powerful, but a limited resource. If the world at large discovers its existence, Equestria will become a target.

Thus, seven friends agree to keep the secret, but some things will not be hidden away.

On her latest visit to the human world, Twilight decides that she likes having a smartphone too much. So she steals one and takes it back to Ponyville with her.

Sunset does not approve.

This story was Featured on February 3, 2016.

"Hey, you used to be Celestia's student, right? Did you know Sunset Shimmer?"

Sunset Shimmer visits Equestria and spends some time taking care of animals with Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash.

Rainbow Dash is apparently not good with certain animals.

Sunset discovers very quickly that what you learn from the human world cannot be unlearned, ever.

Rated Teen and Sex for a pile of juvenile innuendo, though technically no bad language. Only technically.