Its been a month now since I first found Little Sunset cold and alone in that alley. Its been the single happiest month of my life to, well save for the incident about 3 weeks after i found her. It started like any other day, I woke up fed Sunset her breakfast, and had just turned on some cartoons when my buzzer had gone off. I nearly threw Sunset off me as I jumped up. Thankfully I had a hand draped over her at the time so I managed to catch her, she giggled as I put her down and went to answer the incessant buzzing of my apartments door/intercom system.
"Hello" I say into the small mic before pushing the listen button.
"Hey did you forget about me or something" Comes a familiar if slightly broken up voice from the speaker.
"Oh crap" is my first thought. I had been completely ignoring the only person in the world I could even consider my friend. "Heh no just been busy with something" I push the listen button again only to hear the unmistakable sound of the front door to my building opening. Its at this point that i do start to panic having remembered that I gave her a set of keys to get in for the reason of checking up on me. Its not long before I can hear the old elevator moving up the floors towards mine. Not even a minute later comes the unique knock of my friend.
"Hey I know you are in there so come on open up eh. If ya don't you know I'm just gunna come in anyways" Comes my friends voice with a chuckle
I stand there frozen in full on panic mode, Sunset though with a slight giggle lights up her horn and unlocks the door letting it slowly swing open. As my friend steps into my apartment i just about have a stroke, heart attack and full on brain failure simultaneously. My friends reaction is just as priceless.
"Hey ther...."she goes to say as she turns the corner looking into my living room my friend freezes looking right at Sunset. My panic grows right up until my friend lets out a squeel. "Oh my god isnt that just the cutest thing ever" She rushes right past me getting right close to Sunset, only to have her hand bit when she tries to pick her up. "Hey! Ow." her eyes slowly go wide as she looks over to me. "That...that's not a stuffed animal is it"
Before I can even reply Sunset lets out a tiny little growl towards my friend. "Ony ada cam tuch" My friends jaw drops almost literally to the floor as Sunset speaks.
"Did..did that thing just speak" My friend says backing up slowly from Sunset
"Hey she is not a thing." i finally say coming out of my stupor and moving over to Sunset picking her up letting her lay out on her back in my arms, as i gently scratch her belly getting her to giggle and coo softly. "She has a name It's Sunset Shimmer and I have no doubt in my mind that she is just as smart as either of us or any other human on this planet"
It takes my friend sometime to get over her shock before she begins rapid firing questions at me. "What is she? How did she get here?" I stop her after her first two questions by raising my hand up slightly.
"Come on and sit down its a bit of a story" I say moving to my couch setting Sunset on my lap.