That same day Celestia took Flicker to Sunset Shimmer’s parents.
“Yes-? Oh, Princess Celestia.” Sunset Shimmer’s dad opened the door fully.
Flicker looked at him sympathetically upon seeing how dull and tired he looked. Obviously both he and Sunset’s mom had been upset about what happened to their daughter all these years.
“Has our daughter finally decided to come home?” Mr. Shimmer asked bitterly.
“I’m afraid not, I just came here to pass on a message she sent to me through Flicker Sentry.” Celestia said.
“Flicker Sentry?” Mrs. Shimmer appeared.
“Yes, that’d be me. I’m from another dimension-”
“You mean that dimension our daughter ran away into?” Mr. Shimmer frowned.
“Why...yes. You know about that?” Flicker was surprised.
“I told them what became of Sunset after she ran away.” Celestia explained.
“Oh. Yes, you see we used to date in that dimension but I dumped her after I realized how...well, how power hungry she was. Then when she stole Twilight Sparkle’s crown Twilight followed her into my dimension to get it back and later ‘bumped’ into me. Twilight and I ended up falling in love, so I recently decided to move into this dimension to be with her.” Flicker continued explaining. “Also Twilight’s actions in my dimension led to Sunset reforming, she just stayed behind to make amends for how she acted there.”
“What about making amends here? We’re not the only ones she hurt.” Mrs. Shimmer frowned.
“I’m sure she wants to, she’s just afraid that you disowned her. She did ask me to pass on a message for her: she’s sorry.”
“Well, at least she learned that what she did was wrong....” Mr. Shimmer muttered before sighing. “We won’t disown her, we love her to much to do that, but she’ll still have to come here and apologize to all of us herself before we can begin to forgive her.”
“I understand.” Celestia nodded sadly. “Although I’ve already forgiven her, though I’ll have to wait another thirty moons before I can let her know. Maybe I can convince her to come see you then.”
“Hopefully she will...truthfully I really want to go see her as soon as possible, but I’m not so sure I’d be comfortable visiting another dimension.” Mrs. Shimmer admitted.
“It’s all right, the fewer who go through the portal at a time the better. Too many duplicates might cause some bad chaos.”
“Sunset’s okay anyway, Princess Celestia’s counterpart is taking care of her.” Flicker added.
“That’s actually a huge relief....” Mr. Shimmer sighed.
“I’ll say, after she stopped caring about power she actually proved to be a really good friend.” Flicker smiled. “I’d even go as far as to say that she deserves another chance at love.”
Mr. and Mrs. Shimmer didn’t say anything, but their sad nods indicated that they agreed. The four of them then said their goodbyes and Celestia and Flicker left.
After Flicker and his parents were settled in their homes they found out that ponies didn’t use electricity (Flicker hadn’t paid attention before since his guitar wasn’t electrical). They were disappointed, but decided to just make the best of it. However, after finding out Twilight decided to alter the electronics so that they worked on magic instead. It worked...though the laptop was tricky to set up. Because it had been moved into another world it no longer connected to the internet, though it’s word program still worked. Flicker’s cellphone was useless too.
Flicker decided to just keep his cellphone as a memento of his past life and use his laptop for writing future songs. He did have a little trouble using the keyboard due to not having fingers, but managed to figure out how to type with his wings. Fortunately, pegasi wings in that world worked somewhat like second-hooves, only skinnier. He didn’t have to do that for long though, after learning about his difficulty Twilight used magic to attach a mind reading device to the laptop. Flicker now only had to think about what he wanted to write and the words would show up on the document.
Flicker and Twilight were very happy together, and their friends were happy for them as well. Spike and Shining Armor became like brothers to Flicker and vice-versa, and Twilight’s other friends became like sisters to Flicker.
Oh, also a couple days later Starlight Glimmer returned and met Flicker. She was surprised to hear about him being human, but liked him otherwise and was glad that Twilight found somepony who truly loved her. Mostly because Starlight was just that grateful to Twilight for helping her learn her lesson and reunite with Sunburst, and even make new friends. Flicker in turn was glad to hear that Starlight learned her lesson about friendship and he accepted her as one of Twilight’s friends.
Also Flicker did tell Sunset through the journals that Princess Celestia had forgiven her and her parents won’t disown her, so Sunset did start to consider at least visiting Equestria again to see them. However she was still afraid to do so, after all she did perform treasonous acts in the past. Betraying Princess Celestia, stealing a crown, nearly killing another princess...really you can’t blame Sunset for still being scared to return to Equestria. Especially since she was considering starting at least a separate future in the human world but wasn’t sure what she wanted to be.