The Many Destinies of Sunset Shimmer

by ratedoni


The Wishful Sonata 01

You know, sometimes plans don’t go like one wanted, just look what happened last time. I decided to erase every single hint of the conversion potion. If you don’t know what it does you can go and read the Conversion Bureau, or not. Sometimes is better to not know those kinds of disasters. Anyway, after my terrible mistake of giving Celestia access to something as dangerous as the potion, why don’t we see what our dear bacon haired girl has done?

We could go and revisit one of the other Sunsets, maybe the one with Moka or we could even see how she became a fully-fledged ninja… hello, I haven’t seen this dimension before. Don’t look at me that way, when you create a universe link like I just did sometimes little ones appear; they just sometimes pop out of nowhere and can even surprise me. If it is a dangerous one we can make sure no one gets hurt so here we go.

Well, everything seems normal which at the same time doesn’t tell us a thing. Where could Sunset be? And those rays of light going everywhere accompanied by huge tears in time and space can only mean one thing. We are at the right time to see the ending of the fight between Daydream Shimmer and Midnight Sparkle… is funny, I mean, I know of another Midnight but… ah… sorry, that other Midnight is somewhere else. Anyway, seems that we reached the end and the cute glasses wearing Twilight has been redeemed and everything is like it should be. So what’s the difference? It seems this is a generic one.

Or at least I thought so before an unseen space tear cracked open and Sunset pushed her friends out of the way. This could be bad! I need to do something before Sunset falls to her death or something like that! So the only thing I can do at this point without pushing things too much is change the place the portal connected. No longer sending Sunset to Equestria it now threw Sunset on beautiful sand, untouched by humans until now.

Shaking her head and taking whatever sand was still on her head, Sunset Shimmer saw the blue expanse and could do nothing but sigh. She had just saved the whole reality, talked with Twilight and calmed her down. Now here she was who knows where and apparently marooned in an island. Or at least she hoped that it was just the coast.

After an hour under the sun’s heat and humidity, Sunset realized that her situation was one of the worst ones she had ever been into. Taking off her jacket and sitting under a palm Sunset began to think of all she would need to get out her current predicament. Her phone was useless since it didn’t have signal and with no idea of how far any kind of civilization was there was probably any way for her to escape this time.

She hated to be so realistic and almost cynic, but it was true, she was right now trapped in a desert island with no food, water and chance to survive. That is until she tripped on a rock as she began to walk deeper into the island. She turned around ready to kick the hell out of the stone until the glint of the light’s reflection on it made her stop. It wasn’t a stone, it was glass.

Knowing that she began to dig with her hands until she found out that what she had tripped with was a long necked blue bottle with a beautiful design. It seemed like an antique. Sunset wondered why the bottle had been on the island. She wasn’t the most knowledgeable about Earth’s history but she could recognize the strange symbols at the side of the bottle as Arabic. It seems that she was close to the Middle East? But the sea and the vegetation on the island seemed like the Caribbean. It was indeed a bizarre thing to find the bottle but Sunset was glad to have found something like that since it meant that even though it felt empty, now she at least had a container in the case she could find drinkable water. That was until she pullet the cork on the top of the bottle.

As the cork surrendered to Sunset’s strength a strange blue smoke began to be expelled from the interior of the bottle. Fearing that what she had on her hands was an ancient trap and the smoke was some kind of poison she threw it into the sand. Instead of simply dispersing in the air the smoke began to coalesce in some way and in a few seconds Sunset had to rub her eyes, wondering if maybe being under the sun for so long had done something to her perception of the world.

Right in front of her, kneeling in the sand wearing a blue crop top and pantaloons combo was none other than Sonata Dusk. Sunset could do nothing but remain silent and in shock as the blue haired teenager then began to talk.

"من اینجا هستم برای شما استاد" Sunset simply blinked not understanding a word that the siren had just told her. She knew that the ditzy member of the Sirens had come from another era of Equestria but even if she knew that there was no way for her to translate.

Most importantly was how the girl ended up in the bottle. Could it be possible that after they were beaten by the Rainbooms the other two put her in the bottle as punishment? No, it didn’t make sense; after all, they had been turned into normal teenagers after their pendants were destroyed. So, how was this possible?

“Sonata? Is that you?” Once more, the girl ended up talking in gibberish for all she knew. The surprise and confusion of seeing her in island plus the fact that she was marooned on that same island was beginning to be too much even for the former unicorn “Ugh, I wish you would start talking English, right now I don’t understand a word you say.” She said as an afterthought, simply putting her feelings into words to vent a little.

“Well, why didn’t you just say so?” The same slightly ditzy voice that she had heard back at Canterlot High answered back making Sunset’s eyes bulge out.

“Wait, you know how to speak in English?!”

“Not until you asked for it, I mean, I have no idea what English is but if that is my new Master’s language I’ll gladly speak on the same tongue as you.” She said with a huge grin and in just a second she threw herself at Sunset in a glomp as the redhead tried to understand what she had been told.

“Hold on a second, Master? Are you a djinn?”

“Well, I’m a genie, at least that’s what momma used to say, I’m not quite sure what she was but I’m pretty sure my parents were normal people, is kind of hard to think about it. I have been trapped in that bottle for almost two thousand years! You would not believe how boring can it be to be living in that bottle for so long Master, well, it would be Mistress now I suppose. Is it okay if I call you Mistress?”

“Two thou- you are this world’s Sonata!” It was incredible! Sunset had been wondering where the human world versions of the Sirens were, now it seemed that at least one was a genie all along, wait a moment. “So does that mean that I can have my three wishes?” Even back on Equestria, djinns were not all-powerful beings and usually only gave a couple of wishes to those that deserved that power, mostly brave heroes or mortals that had done a great favor or service to the djinn.

“Oh Mistress, don’t be silly, I’m here for you until you want me to or have no more need of me” Sonata’s last words were accompanied with a sudden drop of mood for the blue haired genie. Was that how she had ended up on the bottle? Either way, this was an opportunity she couldn’t pass up.

“Okay, Sonata, I wish I was back home at Canterlot High.” The redhead quickly said already missing her friends back home. For her part, the blue haired genie did a weird pose where she put one arm over the other and with a quick nod the sun and sea were exchanged with a partially cloudy sky and the remains of a horseman statue.

As one, the voices of several girls were heard as the friends of Sunset Shimmer, including the Crystal Prep Twilight all ran to Sunset who was lying on the floor with a girl that had been an enemy not too long ago basically lying on top of their friend.

“Oh my.”

“Well, Ah have no idea of what is goin’ on right now.”

“Wait, so you used a portal to avoid the clean up just so you play hooky on us and spend it on a Siren? Did you at least nailed her? AWW!”

“Rainbow Dash, don’t be so crass.” Rarity quickly said removing her foot from top of Rainbow’s.

“Hi, my name is Sonata and I just found my new Mistress.” The genie said making every single girl blink before both Rarity and Fluttershy fainted at the revelation. Sunset meanwhile tried to contain the huge blush appearing on her face but it was impossible as she felt Sonata tightly embrace her once again.

“Oh boy, where do I even start? Maybe Twilight has a book on how to take care of a genie.” She simply said as she enjoyed the cool stone under her wondering how the rest of the school year will go.