Sunset think's it's deeply unfair that her human counterpart is better looking than her. On top of that, all her friends assume that she wants to date herself. They might be right about that.

Winner of Third Place in the Sunset x Sunset Competition

After four years in prison, human Sunset Shimmer comes back to reclaim her identity. For the pony who's been impersonating her, this might get complicated.

Also, we learn the secret TRUTH about Angry Gamer Sunset, and why so much computer software is buggy and annoying.

This is an authorized AU fanfic for C-L-Strife's story "Two Sunsets." Strife described his story as

Sunset's other self from the People Dimension is released from Jail but, The Criminal Life-Style is too hard for her to get past.

(I wanted my story to be at least partly original. That's why I carefully avoided reading most of Strife's story before composing my own fanfic of it! I only read Strife's story AFTER writing my fanfic, and I enjoyed Strife's tale even more than I had expected!)

Mildly AU.

I'm very lucky that Samey90 (fimfiction.net link) preread even part of this story. Thank you! As so often happens, I might not work out how to apply some of the more interesting and profound feedback until later stories, after this contest's deadline.

Thank you to Mykola (offprint, fimfiction.net) for advice on an obscure topic relating to science fairs! (Specifically, Mykola checked a Google translation of a Russian language line of dialog by Twilight Sparkle.)

This story might be an entry in a Sunset x Sunset story contest, idk.

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Goldenrod Gleam is starting at Canterlot High soon, today she has come for a tour and Sunset Shimmer is still signed up to show newbies around.

It becomes very clear very quickly that they are too alike.

Something Sunset has to admit is very attractive.

It's not often a literal toss of a coin can decide the course of your entire life. Rarity's work is interrupted by the memory of just such an event in her own.

Also stars Rarity's parents, Hondo Flanks and Cookie Crumbles.

All As One, a budding but enigmatic group begins to make its presence known across Equestria. Bearing a message of unity that claims to surpass Princess Celestia's ideals of friendship, they soon catch the eye of Twilight Sparkle who is quick to investigate. While this mysterious group and its reclusive leader claim to desire peace for the world, the methods and ideals behind that goal may not be all that they appear. Friendship and unity; how are they different, how are they the same... and can they coexist.

I have spent my whole life in the hive, learning to be an infiltrator. But now Chrysalis has fled, and everything has changed. I don't know what I'm going to do next.

Let me tell you how I got here.

Written as part of a fic exchange for Flashgen.

Cover art by Shaslan.

Twilight Sparkle demands an explanation. She spends most of the story getting it.

Starlight tries out a new spell that swaps personalities, she wasn't expecting it to send her to another universe.

How will she'll get herself out this one?

While being chased by a hydra, Twilight Sparkle tried to jump across a chasm to safety like her friends did, but came up short. She found herself falling and screaming to her death.

However, right before she could become the late Twilight Sparkle, Spike reminded her that she could teleport to save herself. She didn't have to be reminded twice.

Unfortunately, teleporting not only kept her in danger, but also put her friends back in danger! Although Twilight did not expect how things would end...

Warning: contains some meta-humor and self-awareness and not just by Pinkie Pie.