I have this dream, always the same dream. I dream that I am strong, stronger than anyone, I can run faster than ever, I can overcome any obstacle that is in my way, that I live in a world full of magic and wonders, that if I put my mind to it I can even fly and move the sun... but I also feel that I am missing something, that I failed someone, that I was abandoned, that no matter how hard I tried, I would never reach the expectations that were expected of me... I can feel that I am full of anger but also loneliness ...
The princess was standing in front of the horse statue waiting. She knew that the enemy army would arrive at any moment but she still kept waiting. Then something happened. A girl who looked the same age as the princess came out from the base of the statue.
"What's this! What happened to my hooves?! where is my horn?!” The princess waits for the girl to calm down so she can talk to her. Then the girl starts to look around her. When the princess looks at the girl she notices that except for a few small details she and the girl were the same in appearance. Velvet was also amazed by the girl who came out of the statue when comparing her princess with the girl, what stood out the most were her looks. While the princess's gaze was warm and gentle, the girl's was firm and determined but at the same time full of anger and pain.
"Please calm down, my name is Sunset Shimmer and if I'm right, your name is also Sunset Shimmer." Then the girl stares at the princess. “If my guess is correct, you and I are the same person. "I'm not sure what the details are that brought you here, but I want to make a deal."
The girl stares at the princess and then around her and asks seriously, "What do you mean by a deal?"
The princess replies “I want you to be me”.
The girl looks disconcerted at the princess "What do you mean?".
"I want you to take my identity as the princess Sunset Shimmer of this world."
"Hahaha! Someone with your same appearance suddenly appears, and you want me to impersonate you and become a princess? Tempting but why?
“Because this world is ruled by beings who only see us as slaves and I can't do anything to stop them. But you have more possibilities than me and you will not become a princess... you will be a queen”.
Those words surprise the girl. “Why do you think I will accept?”
"Because if you accept... you will be closer to achieving your goal."
"You know what I want?"
"I know the basics".
"It's very tempting and all but... why should I accept? You say I could do it, but why do you say you can't?"
Then the princess holds the girl's hand. “Tell me how much pressure do you feel in your hand?”
"So they're called hands... just like minotaurs..." the girl whispers, then she replies. "I feel like you press it softly."
"Believe it or not I'm squeezing it with all my might." That surprised the girl. "A bad healing in my body left me like this, that's why I ask you to take my place."
"If I take your place, what will happen to you?"
“You just have to know that I will make sure to give you time.”
"Time for what?"
"For you to prepare for what will come." Suddenly they felt a small tremor “so do you accept?”
The girl looks at the horse statue, she knew she couldn't go back to her world yet and then she looks at the princess. "I accept". And she feels another tremor in the castle.
"There's no time velvet will explain what you should know" . The princess takes out a pendant and hands it to the girl. "This is my token of royalty, only I should have this." The girl stares at him and is surprised at the symbol on her pendant. "When you think you're ready just use this." The girl knew very well the emblem of the sun that was on her necklace. Then another tremor was felt. "There is no more time, you have to go now... and thank you." Then Velvet took the girl by the hand and they took a secret passage that opened in the castle garden.
The gate of the passage closes, the princess is left alone and goes to one of the castle towers.
On the floating castle, All Master watched as the city of Canterlot was sacked. "I defeated Nightmare again and killed Queen Luna... priestess, does that mean her divination that foretold about the threat died with her?"
Priestess Cinch is silent in thought and then replies “yes, it is possible that Nightmare played an important role in the prophecy, however he was defeated by you today. It will take at least a few hundred years for him to recover… and even if he is reborn, by then, the time for the divination to be fulfilled is over.”
All Master sits on his throne and says. “Well that puts me at ease. I'll go back to sleep, don't let anything make me wake up again."
As All Mastes falls asleep, Cinch bows, “Please, take a good rest and let the council of the gods take care of the rest. Today was a busy night."
Velvet was leading Sunset through the secret passageway to escape the castle, but she noticed that the girl kept wobbling.
"These things...feet...I still have to get some balance."
Velvet sighs and crouches down, "Your Highness, please get on my back."
Sunset didn't like being treated like she was a burden "I'm fine, I don't need that kind of help".
"Your Highness we are trying to escape as quickly as possible, please allow me to take you." Velvet told him.
As much as she didn't like the situation, Sunset reluctantly agreed. "Why do you call me her highness?"
"The moment you accepted the deal you became my new princess... no, the queen just died now you are my new queen" she tells him as she begins to carry Sunset.
"And what about my other self?"
Velvet falls silent as she continues to advance.
Sunste had reached the top of the tower, it was not the highest tower in the castle, but it was high enough so that the soldiers who had entered the castle could see and identify who was there. The top of the tower was made of wood. When the soldiers entered the castle, Sunset was biding her time.
King Sombra had entered the castle along with his soldiers and saw Sunset in the tower. “Princess Sunset, please surrender peacefully! The war is over, there is no need to continue the conflict!” The King Sombra yelled.
Sunset ignores King Sombra. Then he drinks the liquid that Discord gave him and throws a torch. At that moment the tower begins to catch fire with her inside. "Wow, seriously, I don't feel any pain." Sunset says when the fire reaches her, then she begins to cry, she cried for the death of her aunt Luna, she cried because she would never see her mother Celestia again, he cried for the death of Equestria and above all he cried for the difficult path that his other self would have to travel.
At that moment Velvet and Sunset came out of the secret passageway, they were on the outskirts of Canterlot. "The sun is about to rise your majesty, do you think she can walk well now?" Velvet asks.
"Yeah, I think I'm getting the hang of it. What's the plan?"
We'll meet up with my family and hide out for a while. Meanwhile I have to teach you everything you should know about this world... you should also know that only I know that you are from another world, for my family I only helped you escape to protect you... they are also loyal and will help us with whatever you decide to do your majesty”.
"I suppose you will only tell me your majesty when we are in private right".
"In order to pass from incognito for a while." Velvet tells him. "It's already dawn, it's better to keep moving forward."
Velvet was going to close the passageway but Sunset stops her. "Wait!"
"Is something wrong, Your Majesty?"
“Who else knows this passage?”
"Just me and the royal family, why do you ask?"
"I need to hide something." Sunset looks into a bag she was carrying to see that a very thick journal with the symbol of the sun was there. "I need to hide this for a while." And she leaves the bag inside the passage before Velvet closes the doors.
In the castle of Canterlo, a group of soldiers review the rubble of a recently burned tower. "I found something!" A soldier shouts, then the King Sombra approaches the place, the soldier stands firm to greet his king. "Because of its size, I would say it is the body of a girl."
Sombra walked over to examine the body. “How am I supposed to break the news to Cadenesa?” He says sadly.
"What a pity..." Sacred Voice appeared to observe the situation. "I managed to escape so easily... this is just an insult to the gods, she and all those who were related to Queen Luna deserved severe punishment... but now the Crystal kingdom has emerged victorious, and although there are still some free rebels, they do not represent a threat...” Sacred Voice then raises its voice. “King Sombra! He has done a great job for the gods and has earned their blessing! From today on, the Crystal Kingdom will be known as the Crystal Empire! May the empire prosper and live forever!”
Near the walls of Canterlot the bodies of the Equestrian soldiers were impaled. "Here's another one still alive" shouts a soldier about to kill the other wounded soldier but is stopped by Scorpan.
"I thought I had ordered all the surviving soldiers to be brought to me." Says the god as he smiles ominously.
"I'm sorry" said the scared soldier.
"Just take the soldier and put him on the cart." Scorpan points out a caravan of carts that were pulled by a species of six-foot-tall lizards. As Scorpan continues walking he comes across another wounded body and his smile widens. "Heh... you're lucky, swordswoman." He then lifts Celestia's injured body. "I'll make sure you can fight again soon."
Sunset watched as Velvet's family bowed to her, "Your Majesty they are my husband Night Light, my eldest son Shining Armor and my youngest daughter Twilight Sparkle, all of them ready to serve you." Sunset looks at the family, Night Light seems to be an adult man, shining armor seems to be a child a little bigger than the body that sunset had and twilight seems to be the same age as her, she also noticed that twilight looked at her strangely, as if she already knew her and had noticed the difference with her other self.
"Nice to meet all of you... I guess you understand the danger and risk of following me, right?" The family is silent for a while until Night Light speaks.
"I told my children about what could happen... I take the risk that we will take... the Sparkle bloodline has always been loyal to the throne of equestria and always will be."
Sunset smiles at the answer, she knew that she would have to work to achieve her true goals, but first she would have to learn how the world she had come to works.
End of act–0