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// Plans and Encounters 
// Story: My Little Pony Equestria Girls 3: Twilight Vs Twilight 
// by Hopeful Soul 
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Chapter 2


Speaking of the strange school, the next day kids were already flocking to their home away from home; Canterlot High.
A lot have amazing events have happened at this school, just as Human Twilight said, most of which the students keep to themselves but they will never forget them. First a pony Princess from another world dethroned the head mean girl who also turned into a crazy she-demon and then three brain beautiful but evil girls brain washed them into hating and battling them. Only to be stopped by Princess Twilight, her friends and the now reformed Sunset Shimmer, whom everyone had begun to accept and befriend at long last.
With the Fall Formal now over as well as the High School Musical Showcase turned Battle of the Bands, the students, as well as the faculty, now had a new thing to look forward to; the last day of school. Plus it was graduation day for many students, including the Rainboom’s, who all kept their band together as well as their name long after the battle of the bands ended.
Also, after the battle the Dazzlings disappeared and haven’t been heard from since, not that anyone cared. They were all too busy dealing with their upcoming graduation, the Rainboom’s especially.
At the moment, the girls were making their way down the hall toward the foyer. The bell was about to ring for them to be dismissed and they wanted to be the first ones out.
“Ah, graduation day… what a marvelous occasion, is it not?” Rarity asked, smiling.
“Yeah, can’t believe it’s only a week away!” Applejack expressed, amazed.
“I’ll say, feels like only yesterday we were walking through those front doors as dumb freshman.” Rainbow Dash remarked.
“And now were soon-to-be graduates.” Fluttershy finished, satisfied.
“I know, isn’t it exciting!?” Pinkie Pie squealed. She then turned to Sunset. “Don’t you agree, Sunset Shimmer?”
“Yeah… it is pretty exciting…” she admitted. “Never thought it would happen, really.”
“Well it is and I already got a super awesome idea for what I’m gonna do when they call my name and hand me my diploma!” Rainbow Dash proclaimed.
“Yeah? What’s that?” Sunset Shimmer asked.
“Yeah, tell us! Tell us!” Pinkie Pie agreed
“Well, when I graduate, I’m starting my own soccer academy, get kids more interested in sports, you know?” Rainbow Dash said as he bounced the ball on her knee.
“Sounds good, I’m mostly gonna be doing more work on my family’s farm.” Applejack said. “Can’t let all those traditions go waste, now can I?”
“No you cannot my dear Applejack, and while I will continue to work at the boutique, I will also be planning on entering the fashion world by becoming a world famous designer!” Rarity declared, dramatically. “Just as soon as a finish fashion school that is.”
“I’m gonna become a full time party planner when I graduate!” Pinkie Pie said as she blew a noisemaker. “What about you Fluttershy?”
“Oh… I’m just gonna do more volunteer work at the animal shelter and do more to help animals everywhere, maybe even come a veterinarian.” Fluttershy smiled.
“That sounds great, Fluttershy.” Sunset Shimmer smiled. “You’d be great at that job.”
“Aw, thank you.” Fluttershy said, touched. “So what about you?”
“Huh?” Sunset asked, not catching that.
“What are you gonna do after graduation?” Fluttershy inquired.
Sunset Shimmer’s eyes darted around, unsure. “Oh! Uh… Uh… I…”
“You do have a plan for when you graduate don’t you?” Rainbow asked. The others also looked at her curiously.
“Well… the thought actually never really crossed my mind until now…” Sunset admitted. “When I came here, all I cared about was becoming popular and gaining more power. It might not have been very nice but as we all know I wasn’t exactly a good person back then…”
“But you’ve changed.” Fluttershy reminded her.
“Yeah, you’ve totally turned yourself around since then.” Applejack added. “And everyone at Canterlot High have finally accepted you.”
Sunset smiled at this. “Yeah… thanks to you guys… and Princess Twilight,” she added, thoughtfully.
“Speaking of which, have you heard from her?” Applejack asked, curiously.
“Yeah, she says she’s doing well.” Sunset Shimmer replied. “Course part of me is a little jealous that she has her own castle and title…”
“I feel your pain, darling.” Rarity told her, sympathetically.
“Well… maybe your version of Principal Celestia will take you back when you finally decide to go back.” Rainbow Dash suggested.
Sunset looked very surprised. “When I… go back?”
“Yeah, isn’t that your plan after you’ve graduate?” she asked. “I mean you’ve already learned all you can about friendship from us and were all going to different places soon plus this isn’t really your home so…”
“Rainbow!” Applejack snapped.
“What? I’m just asking what…” Rainbow began before the others gestured to Sunset’s hurt face. “Oh… Sunset Shimmer I’m really…”
And with that, Sunset Shimmer suddenly ran off down the hall, seemingly in tears.
“Sunset Shimmer! Wait!” Fluttershy yelled as she ran after her, while the others watched them go and Rainbow looked down feeling guilty.



Sunset Shimmer eventually reached the school foyer with tears still going down her cheeks and Fluttershy close behind.
“Wait! Please stop!” Fluttershy called out as she finally reached her friend, who had just stopped walking in front of a wall and placed her hand on it, looking depressed.  “Sunset Shimmer… you know Rainbow Dash didn’t really mean that, right? We all love having you here and…”
“Relax, I know she didn’t it’s just…” Sunset began.
“Just what?” Fluttershy inquired, curiously.
There was a long moment of silence between the two as Sunset Shimmer turned around, sighed, and glanced away with a sad look on her face.
“Sunset Shimmer?” The shy spoke up, worried.
The former bad girl then spoke. “Yes, Fluttershy?”
“What’s wrong?” Fluttershy asked, concerned. “You look very distressed…”
Sunset Shimmer sighed again. “Nothing… I’m just… worried, that’s all.”
“About what?” Fluttershy inquired, stepping forward.
“Well… it’s taken me so long to gain your and everybody else’s trust her at CHS and now that we’re finally graduating… I fear we might drift apart once we begin our individual dreams…” Sunset confessed, sadly. “I mean with Rarity being in fashion school, Applejack working on the farm, Pinkie planning parties, Rainbow Dash setting up soccer camps, you being a vet and me doing… whatever… we pretty much won’t see each other anymore…”
Shimmer presses her forehead against the wall, sadly. Fluttershy frowned as she approached her. “Oh, don’t worry Sunset Shimmer… we’re not going to drift apart,” she assured her. “We’re friends and we’ll always be friends, even if we super far apart.”
This seemed to comfort Sunset a bit. “Thanks, Fluttershy,” she said. “By the way… I know I said this before but… sorry about the things I said to you before Twilight showed up that day… I was wrong, you’re the furthest thing from pathetic.” Sunset Shimmer told her.
Fluttershy smiled, touched by her words. “Aw, thank you Sunset Shimmer,” she expressed. “I’m glad we’re friends.”
“Same here.” Shimmer nodded, thankfully. “Now all I have to do is think of a plan of my own…”
“Oh, I’m sure you’ll think of something.” Fluttershy assured her. “After all, you’re just as smart as Princess Twilight.”
“You really think so?” Sunset asked.
Fluttershy nodded. “Absolutely.”
Sunset Shimmer smiled, touched. “Thanks, Fluttershy, that means a lot.”
“Anytime.” Fluttershy smiled back. Just then the bell rang. “Oh! The bell!”
“Yep, well gotta run, I promised myself I’d write to Twilight after school.” Sunset told her. “I’ll catch up with you soon.”
“Ok, bye!” Fluttershy waved.
Sunset waved back and quickly began to head out the door, but before she did she noticed Fluttershy going out a different door, further increasing her hidden fear of them drifting apart. She sighed and then left.



Sometime later, Sunset Shimmer was sitting beside the wall of the pony statue that acted as a portal to Equestria and the human world, which was currently closed. At the moment, she was writing in the journal Princess Celestia gave her which would automatically be sent to Twilight in Equestria.
“Dear Princess Twilight, things are still pretty good here at Canterlot High, graduation is even a week away. My only concern is that after we graduate, me and the rest of our Canterlot High friends might drift apart. Fluttershy has assured me that we won’t, but I still can’t help but worry. Wish you were here, your friend Sunset Shimmer.” The red and yellow haired girl wrote. Just then she heard a familiar voice grunting nearby and stood up. “What was that?”
Sunset then saw that the voice was coming from a large crowd of people on the other side of the street and began to slowly make her way over to it.
Close by on the other side of the busy street, the scientist-like human version of Princess Twilight Sparkle hurried down the crowded sidewalk carrying an armful of equipment and rolled up papers with a look of someone constantly distracted from what was in front of her. She was still trying to get to Canterlot High to investigate, but the sidewalk was jammed full of people who kept bumping in her constantly. “Excuse me.” Twilight uttered to a man. “Excuse me,” she said again, after being jostled by another person. “How… ow! Hey! Person here!” Another busy commuter bumped into Twilight’s arms, knocking some of her stuff loose.
“Hey!” Human Twilight exclaimed, reaching down into the street to grab her equipment while she could. She then grumbled angrily. “Lousy, no good, rotten, troglodytes… my life’s work…”
Sunset continued to make her way through the crowd until she could see the other side of the street where, much to her shock, she saw someone that looked a lot like Princess Twilight who was still grumbling and picking up all her fallen items laying on street outside the sidewalk. Sunset looked again just to make sure she wasn’t seeing thing, but it was true. That was indeed Twilight.
“Twilight…?” Sunset Shimmer breathed, stunned.
Sunset began to approach Twilight’s human self, still in shock when she noticed something coming.
The human version of Twilight was so focused on trying to get to her work that she hadn’t heard the speeding car tearing down the street. She turned just in time to see the car coming straight towards her. Human Twilight’s eyes widened with fear.
Fortunately for her, Sunset Shimmer had seen all this and after she managed to run over to her, she was able to grab the human version of Twilight before the car could hit her and pull her out of the way and back onto the sidewalk.
“You ok?” Sunset asked.
“I… I think so…” Human Twilight breathed, shaken. “Thank you…”
“That sure was a close one, huh Twilight?” Sunset remarked.
“You… do you know me?” Human Twilight asked, confused. She was a scientific shut-in. She had always felt that no one knew her name. The fact that Sunset Shimmer, who was a complete stranger to her, also made her very suspicious. “How do you know my name?”
Sunset Shimmer’s eyes widened as she realized her mistake. How was she gonna explain that? She had only met the Equestria version of Twilight and not the human version, and explaining something like that could present a problem. “Uh… she began before she noticed the stuff she was carrying and pointed to them. “Oh, those look important.”
“They-they are. You see… weird stuff has been happening lately and I have some ideas… I mean some thoughts, some notions about… what they could be,” she ratted off quickly, clearly eager to prove herself. “Anyway, that still doesn’t answer my question about how you even know me.”
Sunset scratched the back of her head and glanced away, nervously. “Well… let’s see… it’s really kind of complicated…” she began, though the Human Twilight didn’t seem to notice much due to her muttering to herself quietly.
“Nobody knows my name, I’m… I’m a nobody…” Twilight’s human counterpart said, shamefully.
Sunset looked surprised by this revelation. “What? You’re not a nobody, why would you think that…?” she began.
“I don’t know… I guess I’ve never been that good at connecting with people…” Twilight’s human self shrugged. “That’s why I’m better off alone.”
“Hey, no one should be alone, not even you, especially not you.” Sunset Shimmer told her, firmly.
“What do you mean? And why do you care so much about a total stranger?” The human Twilight asked, confused by her strong feelings against her being alone.
“Uh… let’s just say… you remind me of someone I know.” Sunset told her. “A friend.”
“Really?” Human Twilight asked, surprised as she adjusted her glasses. “Very interesting.”
“Yep, you’re just like her…” Sunset Shimmer remarked.
“Hmm, I’d like to meet this person someday.” Human Twilight said.
“You don’t say…” Sunset muttered to herself.
“What was that?” Twilight asked.
“Nothing! Well then, I’ll… see you around…” Sunset Shimmer said as she backed away, and just like that she was gone.
Human Twilight watched her go for a moment, then noticed that something was missing from her collection of items.
“Hey! Someone stole my calculator!” Twilight cried but no one paid attention. She sighed. “Guess I’ll have to come back tomorrow with a new one, but isn’t over! Not by a long shot!”
As the human version of Twilight made her way back home to gather some more supplies, and a new calculator, Sunset Shimmer couldn’t help but look back with a face full of worry and concern as she watched the other version of her friend from Equestria walk off in the crowd before leaving as well.