Sunset Shimmer wishes she could convince Wallflower Blush that Wallflower and Sunset are perfect for each other. Until that day, she'll just have to do the best she can.
As the last event of the Friendship Games approaches, Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle each have a crisis of conscience. One has a friend to talk to. The other has Cinch.
Sunset didn't know a whole lot at the moment. She knew that she was in some sort of hospital, her name is Sunset Shimmer, and that the big white mare sitting beside her bed makes her feel like a bug one second away from getting crushed.
The subdued ring of golden hooves on stone, echoing in the empty halls. The throbbing of an old wound torn open. Another betrayal. Another family broken. And the constant rubbing of the bandage against my furless flesh.
Sunset’s entire high school life, all her time in Canterlot High and as an advanced pupil under Princess Celestia, erased. The only one who knew to destroy the Memory Stone has forgotten about it all. The sun set below the horizon.
Sunset Shimmer, now a child psychiatrist in the human world working in a secure mental facility for children, reports to Princess Twilight on a patient whom she helped, and broke, and who reminded her of who she could have been...
After losing her family in a fire, Sunset wanders the streets of Canterlot, doing what she has to do to survive. She finds a fellow filly on the street and the two work survive together.
As Misty runs away from the brighthouse in a guilty panic, an unrelated botched spell leads to her meeting a fiery unicorn with a similar story to tell