Twilight, I'm going to leave the house now.
I'll be at CHS, then.
"Seth," Sunset said, "Mind if I go run Princess Twilight's gift to her at the school?"
"Do you know how to drive the station wagon?"
"No," she said, "I don't know where the gears are, but I've driven Applejack's truck before. It's a manual."
"All the way to you and up is first, down is second. Forward and up is third, and down is fourth. All the way forward and up is fifth, and down is reverse," he gave her the key, "The gear selector is the stalk on the right side of the steering column. Also, the freewheel device is locked up, but it's been modified with an oil injector. It'll feel like you're killing the engine if you try to coast, but don't worry. I'm gonna take the thing to get it fixed in March"
"Thanks!" she replied, running to the front door in her coat with a bag labeled Мерры Чристмас/Новвы Год/Хаппы Хеартхьсварминг, Принцесс Твилигхт!.
"Sunset, where are you going?" Aunt Natasha said.
"To go give the princess her gift. She's at the school now. You wanna come?"
"Da," she replied, following Sunset out to the station wagon.
Getting it started, she almost flipped out when she saw the dials looked like they were in Russian, but Aunt Natasha told her what she needed to know, though Sunset still had to take a few tries in getting the Soviet estate car to crank.
I'm sure that Seth learned to drive in the Soviet Union, or at least somewhere in the East Bloc.
Thirty unsettling, deafening minutes and several plumes of smoke later, and they were at CHS. Princess Twilight was there, chewing out the Rainbooms.
"This is your school?" Aunt Natasha said as the station wagon came to a jerky stop.
"It is."
Getting out of the car, the alicorn-turned-human snapped her attention over to the station wagon, along with the Rainbooms.
"I didn't know that you knew the Crystal alphabet," Twilight said, reading the Russian-sized license plate on the front of the car.
ВАРТБУРГ
"Why does it say 'Vartburg', though?"
"Crystal alphabet?" Aunt Natasha asked, looking at Twilight confused.
Sunset's brain didn't link the Russian-style alphabets with the one used in the Crystal Empire until now.
"Aunt Natasha, in the Crystal Empire, the crystal ponies use an alphabet that looks like Russian," she turned to Twilight, "Here, it's called Cyrillic, and a few versions of it exist for some languages," she counted them on her fingers, "Russian, Belorussian, Ukrainian, and Bulgarian," she turned to both of them, "I don't know how close Crystalline is to any of them, mainly because I don't know 'em," she handed Twilight a bag, "Happy Hearth's Warming, Merry Christmas, Novvy God, or whatever holiday it is!" Sunset said, a smile on their faces, "I don't know what it is anymore! First, I was on an eighteen-hour long flight to Moscow, which is eight hours ahead of here, then we flew to the DDR, a two-hour flight that goes back by two hours, then from there to London, going back yet another hour the next day, and then coming back here, five hours behind there!"
"You had quite the trip, huh?" Twilight said, confused as she pulled the coat out of the bag, "What is it?"
"I'm not sure what it's actually called, but it's a Russian coat and fur hat. Believe me, if they can make a Moscow winter day feel warm, Celestia knows how it's gonna feel here."
She looked at the hat and saw a pattern of her cutie mark sewn onto the front of it, so she put it on, then hugged Sunset, "Oh thank you SO much!"
"You're welcome!"
"So you are Princess Twilight, da?" Twilight was lost at Aunt Natasha's speech and accent, "You are Princess of Friendship in your country?"
"Oh!" she said, remembering what Sunset had written, "I'm her! Who are you?"
"Natasha Ivanov, from Moskva."
"Thank you for everything you've done for Sunset!"
"It was only because of niece and nephew that she alive now," Aunt Natasha said, telling the story how Sunset had told them while they were still in Russia.
Meanwhile, Sunset excused herself to get the keys from the car when...
"You try to kill yourself, and instead get a fur coat and a trip around the freaking WORLD!?" Rainbow said, standing in front of the door to the Wartburg with the other Rainbooms.
Sunset showed no mercy, saying the thing like an innocent preschooler would if they were asking for water.
"All of you can just go and fuck the God-forsaken shit out of yourselves. Honestly, if you were burning in hell right now and I could get you out, I would just turn and walk away. If you weren't in hell, though, I would push each and every one of you in as fast as I could, enjoying your agonizing screams and torture. On the flight back from London, I had a dream. It was of me going all she-demon again, but targeting each of you specifically and, instead of using you to control Equestria, I was torturing each of you. Just to name a few things, I was eating parts of you, ripping your ribs out through your back, shoving my hand through your chests and ripping your beating hearts out, tearing out limbs, cutting you bitches open, and drinking your blood, just to name a few of the very lightest and most forgiving things. So again, I ask you to get the ***damn fuck out of my way so I can shut off the car."
"Darling, that's no way for a lady to talk," Rarity said, offended, along with the other girls.
"Alright, Sunset!" Applejack said, "We may've turned our backs on you, but you're the one who tried to kill herself!"
"And who brought that on?"
"Dammit!" Applejack said, punching Sunset and sending blood and a tooth flying, catching Twilight and Natasha's attention, "Now don't go a-pinnin' this on us!"
"We apologize, then you tell us that!?" Rainbow Dash said as Sunset got up and retaliated against both of them.
"I learned some self-defense, too."
"What the fuck!?" the princess said, among some rather colorful swears, becoming even more furious when she heard how Sunset had felt toward them now.
"Are you okay?" Aunt Natasha asked Sunset as she wiped some blood off of the former-unicorn's face.
"I'm fine," Sunset smiled, "Thanks."
"It what family is for."