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// Chapter 5: A Little Catching Up 
// Story: Equestria Girls - The Tale of Two Sunsets 
// by HumanSunset63 
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As Sunset walked out of the cafe, she looked around the shop, and noticed for whatever reason, Pinkie was nowhere to be seen. This was unusual, considering Pinkie usually always stopped by the cafe at this time after school. Her mind had still lingered where Pinkie would be, as she never saw her at school either. Regardless, she took her coffee and snacks to go, and walked down the streets.  Her next plan was to either head home to prepare for graduation, or perhaps stop by  Applejack's house for a while. This time, Applejack assured her through the text that everyone was going to hang at her house, mostly to catch up with each other, or even get some band practice in.

While  heading home, however, she ran into two unexpected visitors, they were  ponies like herself, but in human bodies, and friends she hadn't seen in  quite some time.

"Twilight? Starlight?" Sunset greeted. "Hey,  girls! It almost feels like a family reunion here! Sure, I've been  writing to you in the journals about magical situations, but I haven't  seen either of you in person for quite a while. How's Equestria been?"



"Well,  in all honesty, it's kind of been a major ride." Starlight answered.  "You wouldn't believe what we just went through the past couple of days. The unicorns, pegasi, and Earth ponies almost became separated and  turned against each other, and Equestria itself? Nearly destroyed by some filly, centaur, and changeling queen."

Twilight jumped in.  "Yeah, I wouldn't have thought it would all come to this either. At the  very least, I had more allies on my side to battle Tirek compared to the  last time I fought him, which was by myself."

Sunset became  increasingly curious about the adventure the more she heard. "Sounds  like you lived out Tirek's Revenge the video game in real time! But wow,  it does seem like you went through quite a lot recently."

Twilight  and Starlight looked at each other in confusion, not knowing what a  video game was. Twilight continued. "You bet! Anyways, you may be  wondering why we came to visit you ourselves rather than just writing to  you in your journal?"

"Well, I'm always happy to see old friends regardless, but go on." Sunset replied.

"Alright,  well I might've glossed over it for a while now, but I did vaguely hint  at it a few moons ago. More specifically, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna  have decided to retire, and were planning to pass the position as ruler  of Equestria to me.", Twilight explained.

Sunset was surprised  indeed. "...Wow, congratulations to say the very least, Twilight. I  never would've expected this so soon, but not all things last forever, I  suppose. This sounds like it'll be an incredibly big responsibility for  you. Given how busy you usually are, I'm certainly honored you would  take time out of your busy schedule to come visit me."

Twilight  smiled. "Well as far as visiting back once more, we wanted to stop by  and give you a personal invitation to my coronation ceremony. It's  happening very soon, and, since you are indeed an old friend whom I've  taught friendship in one way or another, I wanted to just stop by, since  we haven't really seen each other outside of these journal entries."

Starlight  continued the explanation. "Think of us being here as a reminder of how  meaningful you are to us, and that we'd really love to have you over."

Sunset  was ecstatic. "I'd love to come! I might be graduating from CHS pretty  soon, but that sounds like a wonderful idea! I'll move around the  schedule a bit with the rest of my friends, but I wouldn't miss this for  the world! Do you think you could head back to the portal real quick,  while I let my friends know? I'll meet you back in Equestria as soon as I can."

Both Twilight and Starlight nodded in approval before heading back to the portal in front of CHS. As they did, Sunset now knew it was ideal to head to Applejack's house first, mostly to let everyone know that she has decided on heading back to Equestria, at least as a temporary visit.