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// Search for Another Sunset... 
// Story: The Truth Behind Sunset Shimmer...? 
// by Teddie Williams 
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Sunset probably beat a record on the fastest time eating one perfectly made vegetarian omelet, and Belgium waffles piled high with fresh slices of peaches and whipped cream. Grabbing her glass of orange juice, she quickly drained it within five seconds.
Mrs. Cake placed a plastic bowl of cheerios in front of Pound, raising one eyebrow upwards. "In a hurry today Sunset?"
Sunset coughed, quickly sitting down her glass so that she could concentrate on not spitting up her juice. "Sorry... just you remember the weird note, letter thing that I got yesterday after school? Well, I can now add a mystery package to the list. And it's from the same person."
Mrs. Cake sat down in front of her, a thoughtful expression on her face. "Well, what do you know so far about whoever is sending these to you?"
"Well, it has to be someone from Equestria since there is definitely magic being used here." Sunset drummed her fingers on the table, a thoughtful expression taking over her features. "But I went and talked to Princess Celestia last night and she doesn't know who could have sent that to me."
"You went to..." Mrs. Cake shook her head, rolling her eyes skyward. "Do we need to have another talk about sneaking out past curfew?"
Sunset quickly shook her head, clearing her dishes from the table. "No thank you Mrs. Cake. I was just thinking, everything points that past wise, everyone's past is similar to that of their counterparts. Which means, if I'm just getting these notes and packages, then my counterpart is probably getting the same ones. Find her, and then I have a partner in figuring this out!"
"You...want to go looking for your counterpart? Are you sure about this?" Mrs. Cake arched one eyebrow upwards, clearly surprised about this plan that her young charge had.
Sunset shrugged, turning the sink on to rinse her dishes. "Well, it's more like a part of a plan than an actual plan. I just figure if  my counterpart is going through the same things that I am right now, then if I can help her figure it out, I'll know what is going on in Equestria too!"
Mrs. Cake sighed, before pointing out one small flaw in her half-baked plan. "It's gets confusing with two Twilights, how are we supposed to tell two of you apart?"
"Nicknames?" Sunset shrugged, already moving to the archway that connected the kitchen to the rest of the house. "We already refer to the pony Twilight as Princess Twilight, and when I'm writing to her I refer to Twilight as Sci-Twi. I'm sure we can figure something out for us." With that said, she ran back up to her room to get dress for the day. She had a counterpart to locate!



Sunset smiled at the security guard that was guarding the entrance to the new art exhibit. He arched one eyebrow upwards, before finally unclicking his walkie-talkie. "I have a young lady that claims she is one of the artists that donated to the exhibit. Is there a Miss Sunset Shimmer on the list?"
"Yes there is. High School Student at Canterlot High, youngest artist to submit her art to the exhibit."  A voice crackled over the walkie-talkie.
Sunset felt herself relax, while feeling completely ridiculous. According to the research she did on her way to the art exhibit that, thinking things over she totally forgot to tell her friends about... oh well. Three weeks means that they have twenty-one days to visit it if they want to. Anyways, according to her research, there is one more private academy in the city besides Crystal Prep. A school that makes Crystal Prep before Cadance took over look like a fun place to go and learn. Since none of them have had any run-ins with her counterpart yet, she could only guess that she was at this third school...and hopefully already had Sunset's appreciation of art and is planning on sneaking into the exhibit, like what Sunset would do before she ran away. Not that Princess Celestia knew she snuck out all those times to go see art exhibits...
The guard ushered her through the door, into the clean large warehouse like room where all the art was exhibited. Moving across the empty room, the exhibit doesn't open for another thirty minutes, she walked up to a large poster sized painting of a familiar group of friends, though it was what they would look like if they were actual super heroes with secret identities. "Now I just wait..." She paused, wrinkling her nose in realization of the weirdness that this whole thing was. "For me to show up to admire the work of others... oh boy."



Sunset was never so happy that she could just blend in a crowd, none of the guests stopped to ask her what her thoughts where or anything on the painting that she had spent weeks working on in secret from her friends. Scanning the crowd, she was able to tell when her counterpart showed up by the confused reactions from the security, several of whom glanced back at her as if to confirm that she was inside already. Sunset took a deep breath, doubts suddenly assaulting her. What if she was mistaken and her counterpart didn't have anything of the sort going on in her life... or worse! Didn't believe her about the whole interdimensional travel!? Giving herself a good shake, she squared her shoulders and walked over to where security was gathering around a rather nervous scared looking teen that had her hair, eyes, even skin tone. Only, she wasn't wearing the same outfit as her. While Sunset was wearing a brightly colored shirt with her cutie mark on the front, skin tight jeans, leather boots, and her lucky leather jacket, her counterpart only had the leather jacket. The rest of her outfit consisted of a plain white shirt, worn jeans that had holes in the knees, and sandals that desperately needed fixed.
"Glad to see that you could make it cuz." Sunset patted a security guard on the arm. "It's okay boys, she's my cousin.    I invited her to come visit the exhibit."
The guards immediately relaxed, taking a small step back from her. Grabbing her counterpart by the arm, she made a beeline for the corner nearest her own masterpiece.
"Who are you? Why did you claim we were cousins? I don't have any cousins! Why do we look the same? I love your outfit by the way." Sunset's counterpart blurted out as she eyed the young unicorn.
"Yeah, I'm your counterpart from a different dimension...." Sunset started to explain to her newly found counterpart...