//------------------------------// // Prologue // Story: Anon-a-Miss: Duelist Kingdom // by CillianChamp //------------------------------// After a terrible day in Canterlot High, Sunset Shimmer walks back to her apartment for comforts, putting on her pajamas as she made a nice hot cup of tea. It was the worst week of her entire life. It was her first slumber party, held at Pinkie Pie's house. During the merriment, Applejack gets a call from Apple Bloom, who wants to make sure her big sister is doing okay. Applejack tells her she's fine, and Apple Bloom closes the call by calling Applejack "Piggly Wiggly." An embarrassed Applejack explains that, when she was a baby, she played with the pigs in the pigpen and earned the nickname from Granny Smith. That night, after everyone else has gone to sleep, Sunset Shimmer writes to Princess Twilight Sparkle in her magic journal. The next morning at school, Applejack hears someone call out the name Piggly Wiggly. As she wonders who it was, Apple Bloom runs up and tells Applejack that someone with the username "Anon-a-Miss" posted Applejack's story to MyStable. Applejack overhears several students gossiping about her, but she doesn't let a little teasing bother her. As she and her friends wonder about the identity of "Anon-a-Miss", the school bell rings and they head to class. Realizing that no one outside Applejack's circle of friends know about her nickname, Apple Bloom suggests that "Anon-a-Miss" is Sunset Shimmer, but Applejack refuses to believe such a notion. After school, Rarity picks up Applejack on the way to the second slumber party at Rarity's house. They meet up with their friends there, and Rarity dismisses Sweetie Belle from the party, much to Sweetie Belle's dismay. As the slumber party gets underway, Sunset Shimmer takes photos and video with her cell phone. During an ill-planned stage dive, Pinkie Pie discovers Rarity's "closet of shame", where Rarity keeps her awful outfits. The six friends use the outfits to play dress-up, and Sunset takes more pictures. That night, Sunset writes to Twilight again, expressing how loved and accepted she now feels, before going to bed. Later that week, Sunset meets her friends in the school hall, and they confront her; all the pictures Sunset took at the slumber party have been posted on "Anon-a-Miss"'s MyStable page. Thus, the five friends conclude that she is "Anon-a-Miss". Sunset pleads innocence, but due to the evidence against her, the other five don't believe her. They denounce Sunset as their friend and walk away, and Sunset breaks down in tears. Days pass, and as "Anon-a-Miss" posts more and more of the girls' humiliating secrets to MyStable (like Rainbow Dash's poorly graded research paper), they become laughing stocks at Canterlot High. Sunset Shimmer confronts Trixie in the hallway, and although Trixie denies being "Anon-a-Miss", she praises her for her actions. In the cafeteria, an angry Rainbow Dash sits next to Fluttershy. They notice that "Anon-a-Miss" has started posting about everyone at the school, turning everyone against each other. They don't want to believe that Sunset Shimmer is "Anon-a-Miss", but there are no other possible suspects. In the school library, Sunset writes to Twilight about her troubles, but Twilight has little help to offer. Twilight tells Sunset about the legend of the windigos. Sunset suggests the possibility of there being windigos in her world, but Twilight says they don't need to be—in her world, "hatred and chaos... can be spread as easily as pushing a button." The only advice Twilight can offer is for Sunset to stay strong, be herself, and find her family. Later, as Sunset enters a crowded hallway, someone bumps into her and she falls over. The other students crowd around her, accusing her of being "Anon-a-Miss" and glaring scornfully. And that how it happens. Sunset closed her eyes and went to sleep, trying to forget about it. "Knock... Knock... Knock." Sunset wakes up after hearing the door knocking. She walked to the door and opens it. When she answers the door, there's nobody there, except a small package delivered to her. Sunset was confused about someone has left her a package. When Sunset read the card that says, "To Sunset Shimmer Enjoy this special gift from Industrial Illusions" Sunset opened the package, and it contains a special Yu-Gi-Oh deck, a Dueling Gauntlet, two Star Chips, and a DVD. Sunset places the disc in her laptop as a man appears on the screen. "Greetings, Miss Shimmer. I am Maximillion Pegasus." The man introduced himself as Maximillion Pegasus, the president of the Industrial Illusions. "You're probably wonder why I sent a package to you, I heard interesting things about you, Sunset. You're a pony from another world who notice about equestrian magic, I've decided to send this message to you. I would like to invite you to compete in a new tournament I'm hosting at Duelist Kingdom. I've decided to give you your own deck, it's a offensive spellcaster deck with magic cards set to either heal her life points while burning down your opponent's and traps set to establish counterattacks and weaken your opponent's monster." Sunset looks at her deck for the first time. She looks at her monster cards, spells and trap cards in her new deck. She was amazed that her deck is very special. "If you win the tournament, you will be crowned King of Games, and also you will win the prize money of three million dollars." Pegasus said to Sunset about if she wins the tournament as for her shocked about the prize money. "Now, let me explain the rules of the tournament, You will start the duel with 2000 life points, direct attack is not allowed, you can normal summon monsters of any level without tributing, if you fails to summon any monsters during your turn when you didn't control one, you will automatically lose the duel." Sunset was confused about the rules, she decided to take part in the tournament. She sees the yes and no buttons on screen. "If you like to take part in the tournament, click yes. And if you don't want to, click no." Pegasus said as he give her a choice to take part in the Duelist Kingdom tournament or not. Sunset click yes. "Excellent, the boat to the island is going to leave in two day. I can't wait for you to join." As the DVD ends, Sunset looks at her new deck and have a look at it before going back to sleep.