Chapter 1
Concequences
She ran, not knowing where, only that she had to get away, had to escape. Her feet pounded on the cobbles as she fled. Her long flame-shaded hair streamed in the wind, her teal eyes narrowed against the lashing rain.
“Sunset! Sunset come back! I’m sorry! We’re sorry!” A voice called over the howling wind, devoid of it’s usual cheerfulness.
‘They aren’t sorry. If they were sorry, they would have APOLOGISED! They’re not sorry at all.’ Sunset thought angrily. ‘And that’s normal. They don’t care. They never did. Not even when I was crying my eyes out on the hallway floor.’
“Sunset! Hey!” A brash voice called, trying to sound happy.
“What do you want Rainbow Dash!?” The former unicorn asked, glaring at the blue girl.
“Huh?” Rainbow asked, tilting her head.
“What do you want? You want something, right? Do you want me back?” Sunset asked, her tone turning to steel.
“What do you mean? Of course we want you back Sunset! We CARE! Just, please. PLEASE SUNSET!” Rainbow cried to the stubborn girl, her harsh voice softening as she choked back tears.
“Why?” The amber skinned girl asked, a single word that startled Rainbow.
“What do you mean why?” She asked, taken aback.
“Why do you care about me NOW? Why NOW, not when I was crying my EYES OUT, SURROUNDED BY PEOPLE WHO HATED ME! Why NOW? Why now? You didn’t care before. None of you did.” Came the sharp retort, the last words barely heard over the wind and rain.
“We do care!” Rainbow cried, shocked.
“No. You don’t. Not really. Not AT ALL! If you cared, you wouldn’t have blamed me for what YOUR FAMILY did! You said I was family. Some Loyalty you are.” And with that, Sunset walked out into the storm, leaving behind a devastated Rainbow Dash being comforted by Rarity.
For all her brave words, Sunset had no idea where to go next. She had slipped in a puddle, and now had a large gash on her leg, bleeding sluggishly. She faintly recognised her surroundings as near CHS. Pausing to think about her situation, Sunset decided to head into the school, if only for warmth.
"Watch where you're going. I've practice in an hour!" Sunset heard footsteps, and stumbled as the girl pushed her.
Lightning Dust stuck out a hand to push Sunset away, calling a hasty "SORRY!" as she ran by.
"Who am I kidding." Sunset murmured to herself, pulling herself to the statue and sitting on the steps in front.
Once there she examined herself. A long gash ran the length of her left thigh, and she now had a few new scrapes on her right side. Sunset sighed, leaning back...
"WHAAAAAA" She cried, tumbling through the portal. 'I thought it wasn't open! Twilight said she wouldn't open it when she was away, and she said she was going to Canterlot for a bit. Why was it open?' Sunset thought as she fell.
She landed in snow, hooves outstretched. Three things went through her mind at that.
1) There was snow, not Twilight's crystal floors.
2) There was a human standing nearby.
3) She was not in Equestria.
4) She had hooves.
5) She was a pony in a human world.
"Oh Celestia damnit!" Sunset swore. The boy turned around, scanning the area around him.
"Who's there!" He cried, raising a glowing bronze sword.
'Oh ponyfeathers.' Sunset thought. "Uhh. I'm here."
"Where?" He asked, glancing around.
"Here. Down. Yep. I know. I'm a horse. I can talk. Don't freak out. My name is Sunset Shimmer. I know I have a horn. I'm a unicorn. Feel free to freak out now." Sunset said, raising a hoof.
"Uhhh. Hi. I'm Percy." He replied in that deceptively calm voice that said 'I'm just about to scream, so please don't try my patience.'
"Hi Percy. Where are we?" Sunset asked, looking up at Percy.
"Are you some kind of monster?" A girl asked, walking up to stand beside Percy.
Sunset looked at her hooves. She looked at her horn. She looked at the ground. Sunset thought for a bit.
"Uhh, maybe?" She hazarded. "I mean, if you asked the others they'll say I am. I'm trying to be better though. I'm trying to be a better pony. I mean, I get it if you don't think so. They didn't." She said with a sad voice.
"Wait, who are they, what are you talking about, and are you a monster or not?" The girl asked, looking at Sunset with a peculiar expression in her stormy grey eyes.
Sunset sighed, tears in her eyes.
"Annabeth, she might not want to talk." Percy told the girl.
"No, no. It's all right." Sunset took a deep breath, glancing between Percy and Annabeth.
"My name is Sunset Shimmer, and I'm a unicorn pony from a land named Equestria. But, up until recently, I was a human. Anyway, I was a human teenager, going to school. For a while, I was, well...a tyrant. The tyrant of the school. It all came to a head during the Fall Formal, when a girl named Twilight came to CHS, my school, to get back her tyrant. Long story short, I was playing with dark magic, and I turned into a demon, got blasted in the face with a magical rainbow, and was left with a demon Sunset in my head, trauma issues and a bunch of new friends.
"All the people at school other than my new friends hated me, even when I tried to make it up to them. Then came these three SIRENS. They spread chaos, and Twilight had to come back. She and the girls tried to fix everything with another magical friendship laser, but it failed. It eventually turned into a battle between the Sirens and the Rainbooms, that was Twilight and the girls. They sort of failed, but I joined in, and we made a giant magical rainbow pony that blasted the Sirens to bits.
"Then ... Well, Anon-A-Miss turned up. They were an online bully, framing it to look like me. And, you know what! They went along with it. They turned around and left me! I was trying! I was trying to be a better pony! And they knew that! And they just, they just abandoned me. Eventually they found out it was their sisters but they never really apologised. You know that? They never really apologised for putting me through a week of torture, as I begged them to see that it wasn't me.
"And then I came through the portal, and it spit me out here."
"So, you're not a monster?" The grey-eyed girl asked.
"No." Sunset replied.
"OK. Cool. Annabeth..." Percy trailed off at a rustle in the snow.
"Uh, Percy, what was that?" The orange mare asked, inching closer to the boy.
"I dunno." Percy raised his sword defensively, as Annabeth pulled out a short bronze dagger.