Leaving?
The beginning of school bell rang throughout the buildings hallways, as students began making their way into the school from the cold outside. Despite all the people walking through the schools entrance, it was rather silent, as none of them said anything to anyone, or even made eye contact to one another.
In short, the atmosphere around the school that day was dark, and dead.
Trixie was one as of those students. She walked into the building, and unzipped her coat, before having a glance around at the other students.
"...Don't suppose anyone has heard from her?" she said. breaking the silence.
The others just turned towards her and gave Trixie a gloomy look. It was all the reply she needed.
"Me neither..." she replied weakly.
Trixie hadn't told anyone where Sunset was, or more accurately, who she was with. Not knowing how her classmates would take it, she had kept the knowledge that she was with the three sirens to herself. Yes everyone was worried sick about her, but telling them that Sunset was in the hands of three former Equestrian monsters, that no one at the school really undestand, might not exactly make anything better.
"What are you doing here!?!?"
Trixie was distracted from her thoughts by a surprised voice infront of her. She looked up to see everyone was looking right at her. "What?"
"Can you move... " A very familiar voice called from behind her.
That's... It took about half a second for Trixie to recognize the voice behind her. It was the same voice from the siren she had ran into yesterday, and the night before when she was looking for Sunset. Trixie turned around, and sure enough, the one behind her was Adagio Dazzle. "Great... It's you..." Trixie said.
She wasn't alone, however. There were three others with her, who had just walked through the front doors of the school. Two of them were her two siren accomplices, Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk, but the third girl was someone in a hooded jacket,
Trixie wasn't dumb by any means, she knew exactly who that hooded girl was, but no one else did.
"What are you doing here?"
"Hey, you're those three freaks, aren't you!?"
"Great, you're the last thing we need!"
"We've got enough problems right now without them."
Everyone probably would have easily figured out it was Sunset under the hood, if it wasn't for her three new... rather unwelcome friends.
Adagio took a step closer to Trixie, "Can we come in?" Adagio asked.
Trixie took a peak over Adagio's shoulder at the hooded girl. While her face was hidden, Trixie somehow knew without a doubt, that It was definitely Sunset under tuat hood. She even noticed her hands were trembling slightly. Not enough that everyone would see, but it was there.
"Well?" Adagio asked. "Can we come in your school?" She repeated.
"What?! You've got to be kidding, get out!" one of the students said.
"Yeah, we've got serious problems right now!" another replied.
"Let them through!!!" Rainbow Dash shouted from the back of the crowd.
The crowd turned their attention to Rainbow, who was accompanied by Spitfire and Lightning Dust, who all slowly, walked closer to Trixie, the sirens and Sunset.
"Rainbow? You're kidding, right?" Lightning asked.
"No, no. Rainbow is right," Trixie replied, "Trixie thinks we should let them in as well." Trixie returned her attention to Adagio, "But just what is it that you want here?"
"We don't want anything," Adagio replied.
"We don't, but she does," Aria continued.
"Don't suppose you would give us directions, would you?" Sonata asked.
"It's up the stairs," Sunset said, pointing to the large staircase in the middle of the hall. That was a choice she would quickly come to regret, as the school students recognized that it was her under the hood.
"Sunset? Is that you?" Spitfire asked.
Lightning moved closer to Sunset, in an attempt to reach out to her. "Sunset? What are you doing with these three?"
"Lightning, I don't think that's a good idea," Dash said.
Before she knew it, Dust felt an incredibly strong grip on her arm. "What the?" Adagio had grabbed Dust's arm, preventing Dust from getting any closer. "Hey! You three stay away from her!" Dust said.
"We should stay away from her?" Adagio asked. "What about you?"
"Yeah!" Sonata continued, "What about all of you? You meanies!"
"Here's a little piece of info for you. We're the only reason she's alive right now!" Aria shouted.
"Um..." Sunset interrupted. The three sirens turned their attention towards her. "Can we just... Get this over with..? They're not worth it..."
Adagio let go of her grip on Lightning, who quickly backed up towards Rainbow and Spitfire.
"Alright. That's probably best anyway. The quicker the better," Adagio said. She took a look around at the crowd of students, who didn't look like they were any mood to put up a fight. "Which way?" she asked.
Sunset once again pointed up the stairs, and the four of them moved towards the staircase.
"Um... Sunset..." Rainbow began weakly as Sunset walked past her. "I just want to say... I'm so-"
"Save your breath, Dash!" Sunset interrupted. As she continued walking. Rainbow didn't even bother catching up to her. Instead, she just stood with the crowd, in complete silence.
The rest of the school hallways were empty, as everyone who wasn't a part of the large crowd was now in their homeroom. This made getting to the principals office simple, since there were no more obstructions.
The four of them approached the office, and Sunset gave a light sigh. "Here we go..." Sunset lifted her arm, ready to knock on the door.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Adagio asked.
"What other choice do I have?" Sunset replied, as she gave the office door a few knocks.
"Come in." Sunset opened the door, and both her and Adagio walked in.
Principal Celestia was sat in her chair, looking through one of three files on her desk. Adagio calmly rested herself against the door as it closed, preventing anyone from interrupting. She had promised Sunset she wouldn't say a word while her and Celestia were talking, but she did want to be in the room with her.
"Do you have any possible idea how much trouble you're in?" Celestia asked.
"Um... Principal..." Sunset said as she took down her hood.
Celestia immediately looked up from her desk, and was in shock at the girl in her office. "Sunset!?... You're back?... We didn't think we'd... I'm sorry, it's just-"
"I'm guessing... From what you just said, you were expecting someone else?" Sunset asked.
"Well... Yes, but you were honestly the last person I was expecting..." Celestia replied weakly. "But, what is she doing here?" she asked, looking towards the siren blocking the door.
"She's with me," Sunset replied. "I know the three of them did, well... What they did, but I swear, they're not here to cause trouble!" she said before Celestia passed a comment on just who Adagio was.
"Well... Alright, I'll take your word for it." Celestia turned her attention back to Sunset. "Why did you come back?" She asked, "If I'm honest, I... We never thought we'd see you again,' she continued.
"That's why I'm here," Sunset replied. "Well, one of the reasons." She sighed.
"One of the reasons?" Celestia repeated, "Honestly I'm surprised you have one reason good enough for you to come back."
"Firstly, I know everybody has been worried about me," Sunset began, "At least they were... After they found out I wasn't doing this... But, they're still worried, so I thought I should come her to let you know that, I'm fine. I'm okay. I'm alright..."
"Sunset, you didn't need to do that," Celestia said.
"You all don't need to be worried about me, cus I'm okay now..." Sunset took a deep breath. "I also want to let you know that... I'm not coming back to CHS."
Celestia nodded. "I... Understand..."
"If I'm honest, it's not something I want to do, but..."
"Sunset, you don't need to explain, I understand perfectly..." Celestia said weakly.
"... I really do want to stay here but..." Sunset continued, "After all my efforts, what I've done, or tried to do to make up for myself, and everything I've tried so hard to convince everbody that I really am different now... When that all gets blown away this easily... It just makes me wonder if there's any point in trying."
"Sunset..."
"I just can't do it anymore. I've tried, I've tried, and I've tried... But in the end, It's clear that nopony really cares about me."
"That's not true!" Celestia replied.
"They never did, and they never will, so I just..." Sunset sighed, and wiped a few tears forming in her eyes. "I just give up!"
"I..." Celestia really didn't know what to say. She was at a complete loss for words.
"Thanks for listening to me." Sunset got up from her seat and turned towards Adagio and the office door.
"SUNSET WAIT!" Celestia shouted, seemingly out of nowhere. Sunset stood still on the spot. "I owe you an explanation. Everyone here does, but as the principal of this school I should've helped you through this, and I owe you an explanation as to why I didn't!"
After a small moment of silence, Sunset turned back toward the chair, and sat back down. "You just heard me out so... Go ahead." Sunset said.
"Thank you," Celestia said. "Well, back when you were... The old you..." she began awkwardly, "You would blame other students for things you had done. Like that one time you blamed Lyra for damaging the sports equipment, or when you blamed Octavia for stealing Bon Bon's hairclip..."
"What's that got to do with this?" Sunset asked.
"Well, when those kind of things happened, I always thought you were innocent, even though everyone else knew you were guilty, and because I thought you were innocent, I never punished you for anything." Celestia continued, "Every time you pulled something, I would always be on your side, bailing you out. Every time."
"I get it..." Sunset mumbled.
"So... When this happened, I thought you were innocent Sunset." Celestia sighed, "I really did think you were innocent, and being set up... But, because everytime I thought that before I was wrong, I thought that I was wrong here. I thought you were innocent, so I told myself I wasn't going to bail you out anymore. I wasn't going to defend you this time."
Sunset didn't give any kind of reply.
"I even went as far as to tell the other teachers to specifically not listen to you this time, not that any of them took much convincing at all." Celestia sighed heavily, "I was trying so hard to not repeat the biggest mistake I ever did at this school, letting you get away with, but... The one time I decide I won't listen to you... Is the one time you really are innocent. I know it may not be the best reason, or even a good reason. But it's my reason," Celestia said weakly.
There was a long silence between the two of them. The only thing that could be heard in the room was the ticking of the clock.
"You said before... That you didn't want to go, Sunset, didn't you?" Celestia asked.
"I don't..." Sunset replied, "I really don't want to... I've got nowhere else to go, and as much as I really want to, I just can't go through this again."
"Well, if, by some miracle you do decide to return here, I promise that I won't ever let this happen to you again," Celestia said, "I promise I'll look out for you."
"Really?" Sunset asked.
"I promise!" Celestia replied, "Please think about it over the weekend. If you really do want to come back, then do, and I'll look after you. But if you don't want to come back, then I hope you find a place more accepting of you than here."
Sunset once again got up from the chair. "Thanks. I'll think about it." She walked toward the door, and Adagio opened it up for them both.
"Please, take care of yourself Sunset." Sunset gave a tiny smile, and walked out the office.
Adagio looked over at Celestia. "You should just be glad you've got that face. It's probably the only reason she listened to you," Adagio said as she walked out the office, and clossed the door behind her.
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Uh oh. I sense trouble
F**k off Dash...Sunset Doesn't want to hear anything from you...
Even in another universe, Celestia is still a failure...
Equestrian: She didn't tell sunset the truth about the mirror, stripped sunset's title as her student and removed from the castle
Result: Sunset abandoned her world and went to the human world.
Human: When sunset tried to convince everyone that she wasn't "Anon a Miss", Celestia didn't do anything, told the teachers not to listen to sunset and gave a really pathetic reason of Why.
Result: Sunset is Leaving CHS and is tired of trying to make a difference anymore.
CMC & Fluttershy will not Receive Mercy from Both Sunset & The Sirens.
Interested to see what happens next...
Wait, I just realized... does Sunset know it's been the CMC?
Well, that's gonna be interesting...
Well. I like it less and less. Not the story, but the direction it is going. I only hope Sunny's gonna be OK.
7272783 No she doesn't.
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Fool me once, fool me twice...
Exactly this logic is in work here. Unluckily for Sunset, she was working hard for her not-so-good reputation. And now this reputation works for her. Whether she wants it, or not.
I feel that for Sunset the best way will be to transfer to another HS and gain a good rep there. Or, maybe leave to Equestria, through I feel Sunset needs to prove to herself that she can be the good one right now.
Celestia has literally just admitted to malicious negligence, as well as admitting to the same on the part of the entire high school's faculty.
Even if she believed Sunset was guilty, she had a duty to seek out evidence, and if she found it, to see her punished in keeping with the law and School District guidelines. Conversely, if she found no evidence, she had a duty to protect the life and dignity of a wrongfully accused student. She had this duty regardless of personal feelings.
Instead, she crippled the mechanisms which Sunset could have used for protection, and let vigilante "justice" be done.
In truth, she, her sister, and the other faculty have failed in one of the most basic of ways imaginable, and by explaining herself in this way, she has done nothing but affirm to Sunset that if something like this happens again, there is nobody in that whole school whom she may trust.
Hm. This actually explains a lot, about how Celestia could let her school get torn apart so easily before and after the Fall Formal. What is the road to Hell paved with, right? That's probably not the perfect use of that phrase, but I feel it makes a decent walkway to it.
Every single person at that school can actually go fuck themselves, especially the Rainbooms and the only singular exception being Celestia.
You know the worst thing about Anon a Miss? I wouldn't have even slightly as much of a problem with it if it happened before Rainbow Rocks. But the fact that it happened afterwards, after she literally saved everyone from disaster and after she's been trying her hardest to show she's good now, is the worst.
I don't even want Sunset to forgive them. Because you know what? They all didn't start caring until it would've been too late. Had it not been for the Dazzlings, Sunset would've died with everyone hating her.
Keep it up.
That's loss of job levels of malicious conduct towards a student right there
7272776 *snarls* There better be.
I hope there is no reconciliation. Some stories should end "badly" just because that's a life lesson folk need to learn.
She should go home to EQ and make up with Tia, and where she hopefully will forgive Twilight.
Welp, this won't end well.
7272848 True...
But a Couple of Flaws with that plan...
I. Transfer to another School seems like a good plan. But What's to stop the past from repeating again? Someone from CHS must have transferred out during when Sunset was still evil and only to find her here in a different school with those same people and the Negativity & Accusations will spread and everything will just start all over again.
II. Returning to Home would not be possible. Cause the Crimes she committed weren't revoked and still active. One: She slowly delved into learning Dark Magic and Two: Stealing an Artifact that was ancient and powerful against forces that would disrupt the flow of harmony. Despite Celestia & Twilight Would Defend Her, The Ponies will outweigh them and Have Sunset Either Imprisoned in Tartarus or Banished from Equestria.
Despite Sunset has Changed, There Is NO ESCAPE FROM THE PAST...
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Firstly on 2 - It all would be true under 1 condition : if ponies get to know about it. If you think, in season 5 Starlight is a criminal who tried to destroy Equestria, and in s6 she's Twilight's apprentice. So even if the thievery part goes to the public, Twilight says that she reformed Sunset, Celestia agrees, and everyone is happy. Also, Trixie, who kinda used dark magic and a stolen artifact as well, and she's not in Tartarus for it. BTW, in Equestria antagonists get imprisoned/killed only when they're male(Discord/Sombra/Tirek), Nightmare got reformed and Chrysalis got flushed out of Canterlot. As Sunset is female, she will be OK.
About the first point - firstly, there are more schools than people in CHS. As Sunset can return to Equestria, she does not need to seek the school for best job opportunity, which widens the possibilities. As I think, the biggest reason of Sunset staying in human world is herself an her wish to prove she's good, not bad things that can happen in Equestria, as Twilight and Celestia will surely aid her. And reputation - in CHS everyone has an experience with Sunset. And in another school there will at worst be some rumors and maybe a person or two transferred from CHS. With this, most people would settle for "let her prove herself", and she is ready to.
WOW...what a chapter...that was...wow. AWESOME CHAPTER!!!!!!
So Celestia's reason is that she was getting revenge for all the times Sunset tricked her? I wonder if Adigo was recording that conversation because that confession is very actionable...
Don't go back Sunset, all of the students are so willing to believe you're still evil after you've saved their lives and you can't trust the teachers to do their jobs. It's just not safe for you there, mentally or physically.
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I hate to say, but ti true. Celestia scewed up big time, and i hope someone points it out to her.
I love to read what the other teachers think and how they felt about celestia's decision inhandling things.
Luna most of all.
7272868 I would not excuse Celestia, given her confession.
7272944 Celestia, Luna, and most of the faculty could easily be fired over this.
7273279 Very. There may be jobs list and lawsuits filed in real life over this.
Wow way to go Celestia you dumbass.
Sunset should go off somewhere with the Sirens and start over, maybe even find a sugar daddy or maybe mama and be set for life.
Keep moving forward Sunny; don't ever look back. At least now you know who you can really count on, and haven't given up on friendship entirely.
As for the school, the Human 5 and the CMC's...I'm furious at them, but I still don't know whether it's right or wrong to forgive them, but more than anything else, never forget. Never forget who abandoned you and those who stuck by you when you needed it.
Now if you'll excuse me, I'm gonna anticipate the feast of anger, disgust, guilt, shame and despair the CMC's are going to bring next chapter.
Upupupu...DAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
7273279 Not revenge, she just thought Sunset was up to her old tricks, so she chose not to help who she thought was a guilty person.
7272863
Um, not, not really. Or at least not in the way you mean. If anything she admitted to years of general negligence, when she was ignoring Sunset's actions when she was being an evil little bitch. The problem isn't that Celestia didn't believe that Sunset was innocent... The problem is that she did believe she was innocent for years, when she wasn't. She allowed Sunset to terrorize the rest of the students for ages because of that. It's just a matter of incredibly bad timing and poor decision making that she stopped believing in Sunset after her heel face turn.
Honestly, that's what bugs me the most about this chapter. It seems like Celestia just.. arbitrarily stopped giving the benefit of the doubt to Sunset... And only after Sunset actually started to behave like a decent human being. It just doesn't make any sense! Perhaps if Celestia mentioned that she suspected Sunset in past events, but she was so good at hiding her tracks that she couldn't find the evidence to punish her... But this time Celestia felt she had crossed a line, by hurting so many other students so publically?
Telling the other teachers to ignore her claims of innocence also seems rather out of character for Celestia... And totally unnecessary. I would assumed that the teachers were all working under the same assumption as the rest of the school... That Sunset was just backsliding into her old troublesome, bullying ways. As a matter of fact, the whole faculty believing that would be a strong support for Celestia taking a hand's off approach to the situation. After all, it's not unreasonable for the principle to be influenced by the opinions of her staff.
Of course, while that would be more realistic... It would hardly support the possibility of Sunset ever returning to CHS.
7274020 I am aware of that, yes, but even after that, telling the other teachers to ignore her is unacceptable in this situation, as is ignoring Sunset herself. The correct response, now as then, would be a thorough looking into the situation, and immediate action based on what is found, prejudices aside.
In short, Celestia failed twice, first when Sunset was a villain, and later, when she was falsely accused.
Yes, her past actions make her a likely suspect, but to just assume she was the culprit and let her be lambasted like she was? Completely unacceptable.
Teachers who are willing to behave in such ways do not deserve to be teachers.
Another amazing great wonderful chapter keep up the amazing work.
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Errr... It doesnt actually matter if sunset was Anon-a-miss, Sunset was being bullied by the entire school and Celestia admitted to telling the teachers to let it happen. While one was a responce to the other, they are two separate matters for the teachers to deal with and if that ever got to the board of directors IRL she would be sacked in a heartbeat.
If Addi did record the conversation lawyers would be lining up to get in on the law suit action as this is a clear cut case for emotional trauma due to negligence.
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I don't know what the rules are these days but while I was in school back in the stone age, gossiping would result in an assembly, a detention writing an essay about how gossip hurts feelings and maybe a letter home. While alot of us (me included) really hate the CMC for this, they never claimed to be Sunset (IIRC they werent pretending to be Sunset just trying to hurt their sisters). After Tia's admission of guilt the school has no moral high ground to additionally punish the girls on how much it ended up hurting Sunset as the faculty was complicit with the bullying.
7274501 I know that, I just thought I should correct you on that one thing. She didn't do thos for revenge or anything like that. And I must say I don't disagree with you at all.
7274501 While not direct about it, they did claim to be Sunset or, more accurately, Applebloom suggested Amon-a-miss was Sunset.
7274501
Really? The wiki and most of the other fics I read said they were intentionally framing Sunset.
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I thought it was (intially atleast) them spilling their sisters secrets for not spending enough time with them. Oh well, I already hate them in that story, I'll just add some more.
If the CMC. Are in the next chapter it will be Sunset's ultimate test, will she be able to be stronger then the others and accomplish what they could not, forgive?
Funny little typo there.
Hey you know what I just realized? Sunset never celebrated the holidays. I mean not exactly a necessity but might be a kind gesture and she could really use one about now.
Well, it's clear she hasn't forgiven the school. If anything, she's ready to leave this school behind and not look back. I'm glad she basically told Dash to shut it. Adagio is right though. Sunset only listen to the principal because she looks like Princess Celestia (DUH, of course she does.)
So the next chapter the CMC will show up and (hopefully) get the punishment they rightly deserve.
I'm surprised that was the reason Celestia didn't help her. Makes since though. I really hope that she stays at CHS. I doubt anything like this will ever happen again.
7280886 You seem to be the only one in this comment section who thinks she should stay.
7281194 Everyone knows it wasn't her. I know they will think twice about accusing her of anything after this. Twilight gave her a second chance, and she is learning a lot in friendship. If she stays, it could be like giving everyone else a second chance. School wide lesson in the magic of friendship
To quote Steven Universe: "Sometimes you just gotta bail."
7290826 Seems like it.
7272863 Actually she belived Sunset was innocent, but every other time she belived that she was wrong... So she decided not to trust her guts feeling. She should have.
7290826 I haven't. I don't nightmare.
7313896 The impression I got was this time she felt Sunset was guilty, even if she protested otherwise.
Her actions could also be criminally actionable in this case, as she was deliberately using her position to do harm to a student. That is.,,a huge no-no in the teaching profession.
7313978 Not saying that it is not the case, just saying that Celestia' instinct were telling her to trust Sunset. To quote:
So It's less not trusting Sunset and more not trusting HERSELF when it come to Sunset. Doesn't mean she didn't fuck up royally, just correcting you when you said that she believed Sunset was guilty. Little details like that bug me.
7314014 Fair enough. My mistake, and yes, she did fuck up. Beyond excusing, if you ask me. If Sunset does let her off the hook, it is not because she deserves the grace, but because Sunset has changed.
7290826 Not really. I'm not angry in the slightest, just possessed of firm convictions.
In this situation the perfect Christmas gift for Sunset would be a Sweet Tooth
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7340014 I know that feeling, I'm way to lazy with my story as well
I actually hope she does leave the school just...what other school can she go to...Crystal Prep?
I hate that idea as she have to deal with Cinch...but on the other hand she and the Dazzlings can meet Sci Twi who would be desparte need of friends, maybe together they can stop Cinch from hurting Twi and set the school free of her iron grip?
7344669 I could do that as a sequel to this one when it's finished. I really like that idea.
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Awesome!
7344669 i dont anyone would listen to a teenage girl ,but it would be nice if they put a CCTV?