Having had enough with Gotham and it's seemingly endless criminal underworld, Jason Todd, or as he's known amongst most as the Red Hood, decides to find his own city to protect. Just like Dickybird. Even if it's a small city, he'll do whatever he can to protect it. Even if he has to resort to drastic measures, such as killing. Though he'll get hell from Bruce if he ever does that.

In the aftermath of the memory erasing debacle, Sunset Shimmer is haunted by dreams and premonitions of her former darker self and the mayhem she would create. She is also haunted by visions of people she can't recognise and voices calling out to her. A sense of paranoia has griped her as she constantly fears for losing her friends after almost losing them to the memory stone. But something has changed, a connection that had once laid dormant within her has awakened, and it has drawn the attention of others, especially a mysterious woman named Kara Antra who calls this power 'The Force' and massive galactic organisation called the Empire, the latter is bent on conquering their once peaceful planet for nefarious purposes. Separated from the friends, Sunset must now learn the ways of this Force and become a Jedi from Kara to save her friends and her people from being enslaved by this evil Empire. In doing so, she must confront her darkness within. Will She prevail or will she give in to the temptations of the Dark Side ?

This story is a sequel to My Little Clone Wars

It has been nearly two decades since the pony world of Equusi Prime was discovered during the Clone Wars. Their world was forever altered. Much has changed for them with the sharing of technological developments and spacefaring advancements. The Empire has risen from the ashes of the Republic. There are whispers of a rebellion, an Alliance to Restore the Republic that could possibly help free their world from tyranny. However, with the repressive regime of the Galactic Empire around, this is not an easy task. It’s time for a select group of ponies to explore the wider galaxy.

Just wanted to mention the secondary title, A Light in the Dark, was the original title I had for this story until recently changing it.

The name is static shock and i put a shock into your system, but actually my real name is Jackson Smith; I was an 18 year old African American, but now I'm a 18 year old African American with superpowers and going to school in a different world.

That was just my first day.

(The Human Sunset Shimmer is the Main Protagonist).

(This takes place during Gaara's 1st year as Kazakage).

Could her life get any worse, not only was 7 year old Sunset Shimmer forced out of her home by someone who looked exactly like her, she was sent through a portal and as a result was sent to a barren desert with almost no where to go. Without any food, water, or shelter, poor little Sunset wouldn't be able to survive the harsh desert heat. She was eventually found by The Great Ninja Spider and The Ancient Sand Spirit, Kumo, and instead of being eaten, she is raised by the sacred creature. Eventually she is turned over to Gaara the Kazakage of the Hidden Sand Village, where Gaara becomes her sensei.

She also makes new friends, such as Hidden Mist Ninja Twilight Sparkle, Hidden Leaf Ninja Rainbow-Dash, and Hidden Stone Ninja Applejack and Pinkie-Pie.

But with the threats of both Corrupt Leaf Elder Danzo, Orochimaru, the Akatsuki, plus revenge crazed Rogue Ninja Sasuke Uchiha rolling around, Sunset will have to step it up to protect her new friends and the Village she calls her home.

This is the story of Sunset Shimmer, The Crimson Spider of the Hidden Sand Village.

Sunset and her friends had no idea that Anon-a-Miss was a plot to break them up. They had no idea that it was targeting Sunset. When Apple Bloom was outed as Anon-a-Miss the account had leaked all of one secret, and everyone believed it was simply a younger sister having fun at her older sister's expense.

They certainly had no idea Apple Bloom would respond to Anon-a-Miss' failure by resorting to a Plan B that had all the subtlety of a Plinian eruption and all the precision of a hurricane.

What they do know is that in one night the veil of secrecy around magic at CHS was obliterated when a video of Sunset Shimmer, with full demonic transformation, doing physically impossible things exploded across the internet.

Now they have to prepare for the fallout, even though they have no idea what form that will take.

When you become unexpectedly popular for writing a story in a certain genre, you end up being exposed to more and more of what's in that genre, and your imagination runs away with ideas you encounter as a result, and suddenly what was meant to be a topic you touched for one or two stories at most instead becomes a mainstay of your corpus.

I was most definitely not looking for a new Anon-a-Miss fic. I've got two that have already been released and two in the oven, which makes four that I need to finish. I had no particular desire to start number five.

Then I encountered this idea. The idea in short:

Anon-a-Miss falls apart almost immediately with almost no damage done, which you would think is like dodging a bullet given how the genre tends to go, but because the underlying cause isn't dealt with it doesn't avoid the problem at all. It amplifies it by having Apple Bloom resort to releasing the one bombshell secret that was originally so far off the table it wasn't even considered.

Here's why it interested me enough to start up a new story:

The idea of the magic at CHS being exposed to the world presents seemingly infinite possibilities in itself, but there's also the fact that Anon-a-Miss occurs at a key juncture in the timeline. The human Twilight Sparkle is already on the case. If nothing major changes then you get The Friendship Games but changes could result in things that range from full blown apocalypse to her equipment never malfunctioning in the first place.

Credit must be given:

Uria came up with the idea at five AM with the help of fatigue and Pringles. Even now, as we speak I type this, a shadowy group of individuals are operating in a loose coalition in an attempt to bring that idea, kicking and screaming as it may be, into some form of reality and then unleash it upon the world.

This story is emphatically not the fruit of that particular labor. This is just me writing my version. That is, in part, why this isn't called "Your Past Is Here To Stay"; I wanted that title to be reserved for the official version created by the collaborating cabal.

None the less, this is inspired by Uria's idea, the first chapter extremely so, and credit must be given. Also, given my ties to the currently undisclosed syndicate working on the official realization of Uria's idea, there will probably be a fair amount of cross pollination between this story and the eventual "Your Past Is Here To Stay".

Featured on July 18, 2019

Throughout her time at Crystal Prep, Twilight Sparkle had been ignored or scorned by her jealous and well-to-do classmates. She could only rely on her pet dog Spike for companionship.

The Friendship Games, once a way to bring the two schools together, devolved into a cutthroat competition for glory. A competition Principal Abacus Cinch sought to win, even if it meant blackmailing her top student.

Seeking to distract herself from her loneliness, Sparkle sought to study the magic of Canterlot High School. Her experiments, however, wreaked havoc on the games, and brought her the scorn of Sunset Shimmer, who saw the human Twilight as a dangerous nuisance.

In a last-ditch effort at victory, Cinch and the Shadowbolts pushed Twilight into unleashing the magical energies she had collected.

But in their attempt to abuse a force they did not understand, the Shadowbolts unwittingly caused tragedy. But through this tragedy, will the Shadowbolts and others come to understand the value of a single human being? And will Sunset overcome her grief and try to prevent another one?

It seems there's a new map mission, one that requires Applejack, Applebloom, and of all creatures, Zecora. The map in the Treehouse of Harmony is calling them to Zebrat, which isn't some place Zecora wants to return to.

There’s no end to the monsters that lurk in the dark.

Ghosts, werewolves, mad scientists, cultists, mutants, zombies, vampires, aliens and more lie in wait in the dark corners of Equestria, terrorizing the night. But the most infamous and dangerous of them all is the legendary witch Twilight Sparkle, with a five hundred million bit bounty on her head.

Seeking fame and fortune, Rainbow Dash sets out to defeat the legendary witch and collect the massive reward. The one thing she wasn't counting on was Twilight being less evil than she expected.

More stories set in this AU can be found here.

Cover art is a work in progress by Abode_WTF

Canterlot City has seen more than its fair share of craziness, but it's about to get even weirder. Cars without drivers? Mysterious meteorites? Sunset Shimmer and her friends are about to learn that when it comes to things in this world, there's almost always more than meets the eye.

Sidenote; let it be known that I am by no means an artist; my best work involves Hero Forge, so if anyone wants to do fanart of any scenes or designs in this fic, I am 100% okay with that.