Thursday 05 August 1999 08:55, Lawndale High School, Sunset Shimmer's POV
"You? Do you even know what she looks like?" Quinn asked me.
"I'm pretty sure that I'd know her when I see her."
"Be careful if you find her, though. I think she might be a communist now," Mr Morgendorffer said.
"Jake..." Mrs Morgendorffer replied, shaking her head.
"We should probably go in teams," Jodi suggested, "I'll work with Sunset."
"You sure about that?" I replied.
"Yeah."
"In case you're wondering," Quinn said, "She's 5-foot-2, has glasses, boxy green jacket, orange shirt, and a black skirt and boots, with brown hair."
"I'll... keep that in mind," I said as Jodi and myself left.
"I'll take you to the bush," Jane said, leading us out before turning back to everyone else, "I'll be back."
"Or," I said, "You could just tell us where it is."
"You both seem new to the area. It's a bush next to a pothole in the sidewalk."
Before we actually went anywhere, I made myself stumble in a direction where I would come in contact with her arm.
"What are you-- hey!"
I must've grabbed it.
I saw the path that would take us directly to the place. I must've been in there for a full minute though, because they both seemed to have some level of confusion-based concern over what had just "happened" to me.
"Are you okay?" Jodi asked, not knowing what to do.
"What the hell happened to you?" Jane asked, somewhat scolding what I had just done."
"Yeah," I said, getting up, "I'm fine," I rubbed my head to make it look like it hurt a little, "I just had a late night last night was all."
"Are you sure you can do this?"
"Yeah. I've driven through here before," I pointed left, if you were facing away from the Morgendorffer residence, "Ten and a half miles that way?"
"Uh... yeah," Jane replied possibly catching on to my secret.
"Jodi and I'll go alone. You... search somewhere else."
She went, VERY carefully, back into the house as Jodi and myself began to head to the bush. When the house was out of sight, Jodi confirmed my earlier suspicions of her knowing that I was lying.
"In the hall at school," she said, "were you really tossing a ball of fire?"
"This is between you and me," I said, snapping a look at her.
"Agreed."
"The truth is," I said, summoning a flame the size of a baseball in my right hand and showing it to her, "I'm not even human."
"Does that not hurt? And... what are you?"
"Well, to tell you the truth, I was originally a pony from Equestria, in another reality. Specifically, I was, and to an extent still, a unicorn. There are three other types of ponies: Earth ponies, Pegasi, and Alicorns. Earth ponies look like horses do here. Unicorns have magic, and have a horn as a result. Pegasi have wings, and Alicorns have both. When I came here, I became human. Well, at least until several people branded me, beat me, and left me to die, which I was dead briefly, before being found, taken to the hospital, and was turned into a vampire there," I said, turning into my vampire self, "That's pretty much it."
Jodi looked like she was going to pass out before putting a hand on her head and sitting down on the sidewalk.
"Are you okay?"
"That's just a lot to take in. I don't even know if this is real or not, Sunset."
"Hold this," I said, giving her the flame, "It won't hurt you."
She looked between the fire and me, then held it.
"I..."
"See?"
She dropped the flame, but instead of the expected effect, it fell to the ground like a piece of plastic, then smothered because of the way that I had summoned it.
"Do you...? When were you a human?"
"In about 20 years."
"Whoa," she said as I helped her up.
"Yeah..." I said, "I can help a little more than I tried to come off, earlier."
"You didn't want to show your magic to anyone?"
"Some people use it to their advantage. I didn't know if I could trust you," I turned to her with a face that said I mean business, "Can I?"
She closed her eyes and took a deep breath, "You can. Just... don't make me think you'll kill me."
"No point in hiding it now," I said, leaving vampire-me out, "I won't. I've got your back."
A few more minutes of talking, and we were at the bush that strobed last night in Jane's memory.
"So... is this it?"
"On the other side of this portal," I said, "is Equestria. From what I understood, you'll turn into a pony when you go through."
Her eyes darted left, then right, "Okay," she finally replied as she followed me in.