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// Getting to Twilight 
// Story: The Return of Twilight Sparkle 
// by Cameron Nightshade 
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Sunset Shimmer walked into her dark red room. She sat on the edge of her bed and thought about different spells that she learned back in Equestria. After a half and hour of working on getting to get the magical flow back, Sunset Shimmer could feel the magic pulse through her body. It rippled through her veins like wildfire. When it was over, she turned to her clock, and tried to levitate it. A blue aura rippled around the small desk clock, and with some effort, Sunset was able to lift it off of the nightstand, and move it onto her bed. 

She laughed. She didn’t think that she would be able to do it. The next 4 hours consisted of Sunset Shimmer casting spells that she had been able to cast in Equestria, and also some ones that she had never dared to try. That night she slipped out of her house, leaving a note to her parents saying she went to her friends house for a sleepover. 

Sunset Shimmer walked through town, and about 15 minutes later, she found herself in front of the closed portal at Canterlot High School. Channeling her magic onto the portal, she began to cast her spell. The seemingly solid wall began to move. When she was sure that she the portal was fully open, she stepped through it, ready for the change.

When Sunset emerged from the portal, she looked down at her new body. Hooves, and a unicorn horn.

“Now to find Twilight.” Sunset Shimmer whispered, setting off through the castle. She cast a spell to deafen the sound of her hoofsteps. As she trotted through the large castle, she wondered if Twilight was even there. Remembering a tracking spell she had put on Twilight a while back, she started to track the purple alicorn. Luckily, she was in the castle, and Sunset Shimmer decided to wait until morning to talk to her, after she remembered the catastrophe that happened when she tried to steal her crown and ended up tripping over Spike’s tail.

Twilight rolled out of bed with a groan. As every morning since she had been staying in the Crystal Empires castle, she would go out when she woke up and take a walk around the castle. Twilight opened her large doors. Sunset Shimmer was sleeping in front of the large double doors. Twilight squealed and woke Sunset Shimmer up.

“Don’t do that!” Sunset remarked. “I need you to come back to my world.”

“But- how did you- what?!” Twilight gasped out. “How did you get here? The portal won’t be open for another 30 moons!” 

“Well if you must know,” Sunset Shimmer told Twilight about how she had been able to unlock the portal with her magic. By the end of the seemingly endless story, Twilight sat there, dumbfounded. She couldn’t fathom how Sunset Shimmer was able to use her magic in the human world, nonetheless open the portal. 

Twilight Sparkle knew that if she went into the human world, every human would know, because Fluttershy and Rainbow Dash would suddenly grow wings, and all of the five would grow weird ponytails from the ends of their hair, to replicate a tail. After much consideration -and a lot of pleading from Sunset-, Twilight agreed to go back into the other world.

That night, Twilight Sparkle left a note to the princesses: 
Dear Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadence;
Please excuse my sudden absence. There is a matter I must attend to in the alternate world. I know how the portal was opened, and please do not close it, for I will arrive again shortly. Tell my friends that I have taken my element and that I am fine. 
~Princess Twilight Sparkle

Twilight followed Sunset Shimmer to the portal. Taking a deep breath, she stepped through the magic portal to the other dimension, with Sunset Shimmer following closely behind her.