In the dead of winter, Equestria celebrates the arrival of a new year. On this special day, Celestia and Luna make a show of raising the sun and lowering the moon simultaneously, allowing their subjects to know the exact moment that they can begin partying.

Luna has some reservations about this.

Sunset Shimmer, the mean Queen B of Canterlot High School gets her life changed by a young genius scientist. A month and a half before the Fall Formal.
She learns new things about herself and gains a new lenses to life. A new lenses that just might be too much to handle for the human unicorn as she begins to understand the error of her ways.

Through a mysterious incident, Sci-Twi and Sunset Shimmer are transported to the world of Pokémon. Unfortunately, while Sci-Twi arrives as a human, Sunset is transformed into a Pokémon.

Working together as a Trainer and her Pokémon, the two must journey through the realm of Kanto in an attempt to find their way home and, in the process, learn as much as they can about this strange new world.

Cover art kindly provided by Mutter_Butter!

Featured on 26/07/19

Princess Celestia is with Princess Luna at a holiday play. To attend is expected of the royalty, but Luna is still new to this modern expectation. Just sit and enjoy, right? It doesn't look very difficult, as royal duties go.

Written for Test4Echo for Jinglemas 2023

With her mentor away for the holidays, Twilight must spend Hearth's Warming Eve alone. As her sadness begins to get the better of her an unexpected visitor changes her night.

During the middle of the night, Sunset receives a text from Twilight. At first, she didn’t think anything of it, until she realized that Twilight was hitting on her, and she was serious about it.

It only got worse better from there.

Art done by freshfriend (can't find an active source for their art unfortunately).

This story is a sequel to Luna's Coffee

Princess Celestia recalled her life with the company of her favorite drink: tea. She drank it whenever she needed a break from something, and recently, that has become more of a habit. Will she be able to make it to day court without worrying about her ponies?

A rewrite of an old fic I wrote back in 2015. Wrote a whole new ending that ties in with the new version of Luna's Coffee.

Profanity Warning: Sunset Shimmer isn't afraid to use pony profanity and expect that to spread to others later. While it is essentially kid-friendly profanity, profanity is still profanity.

Two weeks after her fraternal brother had gone missing, Sunset Shimmer encountered Twilight Sparkle, and ended up becoming the purple unicorn's surrogate big sister. This not only caused things to change for the both of them, but also it healed the hole in Sunset's heart in ways even the orange unicorn was unaware that she needed.

Welcome to the rebooted version of the "When Friendship Shimmers" universe. Things will be starting of differently here, with some fun HCs, a few surprises, and an altered opening. The surprises will be starting right out the gate though, if the fact that the story starting with "Season 0" wasn't already an indication that things are not the same from the original version of this universe. And here's hoping this time, people will enjoy the story I wish to tell. Oh, and let's just say...I've taken some creative liberities out of the gate.

Currently revealed HCs:
Sunburst is considered Sunset's baby half-brother, both sharing the same mother but two different fathers
Sunset has her own dragon companion known as Ray (named after the lizard pet she has in the Equestria Girls world from the original cannon, though only the name and color match)
A land north of what will become the Crystal Empire is part of the grand Eeveelution Kingdom known as Icicle Vally; making the kingdom neighbors to Equestria itself. Lightning Town & Team Strikers being from outside Equestria, but Raiden's fame of being a hometown hero is enough to basically allow them to be in equestria without any problems.

Currently revealed relationships:
Sunburst & Sunset being half-siblings
Sunset being Twilight's surrogate older sister
King Throsten; formally Prince Throsten; being an Equestrian Ally alongside the entire Eeveelution Kingdom.
Dragon Ray and Spike treating each other like brothers because of their unicorn companions being surrogate sisters
Scootaloo being Rainbow Dash's Biological LIttle Sister

Notice: While Throsten and his eight Eeveelution wives are part of this reboot, they will only appear in non-plot relevant episodes as side characters. This story is not about them, this story is about an alternate MLP:FiM world where Sunset Shimmer becomes Twilight Sparkle's surrogate sister

Update 8/12/2023 - This story now has a cover art, but this one isn't the long-term one. I did find the cover art that is up right now and thought it'd be nice to have up as this story before certain events happen. Plus, I think by having cover art for before Sunset becomes an alicorn in this universe, it adds to the progression of the story.

Update 8/14/2023 - Fanfiction author "Sunset JJ" is trying to repost this story on Fanfiction without my permission. The next chapter will have to now include the "Rob Snowden Production" notice to deter them away from copying more of this story. Please only read the version on this website as this is the only true official verison. The one on Fanfiction is being created by a story stealer.

Update 8/25/2023 - This Story has entered the featured story section as of today. Honestly, looks like this has become the popular story of this account.

Update 8/28/2023 - Someone made a comment about the way I'm portraying DID in this story. If you want the behind the scenes info, and have issues with what I'm doing with DID, read this blog post: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/1021373/marana-milissa-and-did-behind-the-scenes

Update 10/19/2023 - A death tag has been added for saftey reasons. Not all chapters will contain instances of death though. Only chapters with the specific warning attached will actually have deaths in them. Better to be safe then sorry though.

Update 12/19/2023 - There currently seems to be an ongoing issue where trying to change the cover of the story breaks the site. Until this gets fixed, you guys are just going to have to deal with the temporary cover. I apologize for this inconvenience, but right now, this is beyond my control.

Update 12/22/2023 - While trying to figure out how to upload the cover I wanted to put on this story, I came across this one, and this is much closer to what I originally envision AS the cover in the first place. So I consider this a win.

This story is a sequel to My Little Pony Friendship is Magic What If?: Volume 16

Make Your Mark is slated to end soon and G5 seems to be continuing solely with Tell Your Tale, but there's still lots of unexplored areas of G4 to look into. It's that time again, time for that series which dares to ask and seeks to answer that fateful question "What if that episode had been written differently?"

There's only ten episodes to cover for this volume, and every season but Seasons 3, 7, and 8 will have at least one episode covered. Season 4, however, will get the lion's share, including two redos from earlier volumes.

By now I really don't need to say it, but I'm saying it anyway just to be safe: The episodes rewritten are based on my personal opinion so please respect it. Don't get offended if an episode you liked is on the list here, or an episode you didn't like isn't on this list. I'll gladly respect your opinions if you respect mine.

As always, no disrespect is intended to Hasbro, the DHX writing and editing staff, or anyone who likes the episodes that appear here. The intent of this fic, just like all of its predecessors, is purely for entertainment purposes only and nothing more.

With over fifteen volumes worth of episodes to consider, and some episodes being covered twice, providing a link to each previous volume would take forever. So check out the prequel tab, and the also liked and the similar pages for previous volumes to see whether an episode has already been tackled in an earlier installment.

Celestia and Luna are on vacation in some unknown place, enjoying their life and generally relaxing. With the reins of ruling passed on to Twilight, they can finally take a break for themselves and rest.

Dedicated to Sleepless Beholder, Bike, Scampy, Gadot, Decaf, Not Enough Coffee, Sin, Ice Star, Chris the Cynic, Sledge, DaOtterGuy, Fiddle, Mushroom, Pineapple Princess, smokey, Techno, Posh, Tempest56, UnderscoreJay, Emotion Nexus, hexagon/Lord Camberbert, RDT, Dewdrops, Jes.