Chapter 1 - Friendship
It was the final Monday of the week, which meant that there were only four more days to go until the students of Canterlot High were scheduled to get out for Christmas break. The dismissal bell had just finished ringing, signaling the end of yet another miserable day. There wasn't a single cheerful soul in that building. No one laughed. No one smiled. Something had the students on edge and it wasn't homework.
For the past week, someone calling themselves “Anon-a-Miss” on several social media websites, such as “Mystable”, had been going around posting other people’s personal information online for the world to see. No one knew for certain how Anon-a-Miss was getting so much information on everyone, but the students of CHS had seemingly all jumped to one unanimous conclusion. Sunset Shimmer must have been the one doing it.
The students and the school staff burned her with their hateful glares as she walked down the halls. Profanities were whispered the moment that her back was turned. It wasn’t uncommon to receive a random shove when maneuvering through large crowds or to return to find that her locker had either been vandalized or broken into.
As much as Sunset wanted to hate them, the former top dog of the school couldn’t exactly blame them for being so quick to point fingers at her. Past memories of an age built on fear, blackmail, and sabotaged friendships were still fresh in the minds of others. The idea of Sunset slithering back into her old habits wasn’t very hard to believe.
There was just one small problem that no one else could see.
Sunset was innocent.
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Light trickles of snow fell from the sky as Sunset ran from the school and across the city. She didn’t stop until she had successfully reached her destination, “Sugar Cube Corner”. From what she remembered during her late night talks with Twilight, there was a place with the exact same name back in Equestria.
Sunset stood outside the establishment, took a deep breath, as if to further solidify her resolve, and then willed herself to step inside.
The light chiming of a bell could be heard as the front door was pushed open. As luck would have it, there were only five customers inside, not including herself. They were gathered at the same table, at the same section of the restaurant, exactly as Sunset had predicted. Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, and Fluttershy. They were all sitting there together, like they always did, and they were all wearing similar looks of hurt and disgust the moment that they became aware of Sunset’s presence. Even Mr. and Mrs. Cake, the restaurant's owners, seemed perturbed.
“You're not welcome here and you know it,” Applejack stated in a tone that could have turned entire rivers into ice.
Rainbow Dash was quick to follow Applejack’s lead. “Yeah, so whatever it is you want, go shove it , and leave us alone, Anon-a-Miss."
Sunset could feel her initial bravery crumbling away against the hostility. She expected this type of response, but that didn't make hearing it any easier. The fact that they were supposed to be her friends made it sting even more.
She considered leaving the restaurant. Perhaps going there wasn't such a good idea. She abandoned that train of thought after reminding herself why she had come there in the first place. She needed them back in her life. She needed them to listen.
“Look, I know things are a little messed up right now. And I know that you all think that I sold you out. But it wasn’t me. I didn’t do it. I would never do anything to hurt any of you.” Fluttershy looked away, her face scrunched up in irritation, Rarity mumbled something under her breath, and Pinkie rolled her eyes.
“You girls are literally the only friends that I have in this world,” Sunset’s voice cracked slightly, “So why would I ever -”
She was cut off by the sound of Rainbow slamming her fist down on the table and then leaping out of her seat. “What part of leave us alone didn’t you understand?!”
Sunset was stunned by the outburst, and judging by the looks on their faces, so was everyone else. It was no secret that Rainbow Dash could be a bit of a hothead at times, but seeing her like this, eyes narrowed, heavy breaths, fists clenched, body trembling in barely suppressed rage, this was something new. Sunset was half hoping that one of the other girls would do something to try and calm her down.
No such thing happened. In fact, they seemed to be showing silent support.
Drawing upon her inner courage one last time, Sunset reached into her purse and pulled out her journal, the enchanted device that served as a link between the Human World and Equestria. It was her hope that if her friends wouldn’t believe her words, then perhaps they would find assurance in reading through some of the more recent conversations between herself and Twilight. “I get it. You're all angry. But if you won't listen to me, then would you at least be willing to listen to Twi -”
There was a flash of movement from Rainbow’s arm. The only thing Sunset saw was a blur, and then the journal had been knocked out of her hands and sent flying across the room.
A heavy silence permeated the restaurant as Sunset slowly dropped her head to the floor in an attempt to avert her gaze away from Rainbow’s. The message was clear. Her friends wanted nothing to do with her anymore.
She silently walked over to the journal and placed it back inside her purse.
Before leaving, she turned towards her friends one final time.
"I promise that I'll find out whoever's behind all of this, no matter how long it takes."
She returned to her apartment later that afternoon, feeling more broken than ever before.
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Please don't tell me this fic ends the way I think it's going to end. I've seen way too many fanfics with similar premises to know where that tends to lead.
YAY Another Anon-A-Miss story. I love these so much.
Looking forward to the next chapter
6577510 Well, it doesn't have the "Tragedy" tag on it, just the "Dark" one.
So, hopefully that means that this one won't end with Sunset dying for once.
You know its kind of sad really. The holiday special happen after Rainbow Rocks so all Sunset has to do to convince the others she's innocent is point out if her friendship wasn't genuine they wouldn't have been able to create the giant sky alicorn and defeat the sirens.
I hope Sunset doesn't die. If she can't solve things, she should just leave. The Humane 5 aren't worth this sort of grief. Go back to Equestria or go somewhere else in the human world. Make new friends. Have her meet up with SciTwi. Anything.
CHS students as a whole were horrible (with perhaps a few exceptions-I didn't see Vinyl getting involved during the cafeteria scene for example. Other characters like Flash and Derpy were also absent.). They sent Anon-A-Miss secrets about one another for what I assume was petty revenge/cheap laugh then got mad when the same happen to them.
Most of these stories end with Sunset suffering. Let's hope this one is different...
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Yeah.
There really aren't enough of them on here.
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Hopefully you won't be disappointed.
Thanks for reading.
wow, she's a lot more big hearted than i am. if i got treated that way by my friends after doing so much to redeem myself, i'd have told them to fuck off. then i'd go bring the real assholes to justice, and rub it in every ones faces just how wrong they were.
Poor Sunset
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Oh, you feel bad for her now?
Just wait until I upload chapters 5 and 6.
But that won't be for another 3 weeks or so.
Assuming you're still following along by then.
6578624 i will.
Goddamn I a tually forgot about the EG comic.
6578624 shhhhhh no spoilers ya dick!
6578624 ...woah...seriously, that's the first chapter...something tells me poor Sunset is gunna be put through the ringer on this one. And moreover...I'm curious as to what comes of it? Frankly, Friendship only means as much as the quality of friend...and right there, I feel the Main 5...aren't living up to the proper level of friend. Wonder just what will happen to Sunset's reformation, or hell her life in general with this.
You have my attention good sir.
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It would have made so much more sense if it took place between the first two movies. Nobody's been given a reason to trust her, and her friendship with the other girls is still really weak. Instead they decided it should take place after she manages to be the tipping point in summoning a magical avatar of friendship to wreck shit with a laser made of friendship.
I suppose having it all take place after they've really become friends makes it more tragic, but it also feels cheap, right? Sort of like those stories where a bunch of bad stuff happens to someone and just as your suspension of disbelief is hanging by a thread, someone adds in that it was their birthday or something. The character has it worse but the audience isn't really going along with it any more.
That was all aimed at the original comic, by the way. It wouldn't really be fair to give a fanfic a hard time for accurately following the source material, even if I have some issues with that source material.
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lol, sorry, sorry, I'll be quiet now
I LOVE ANON A MISS STORIES
Very excited :D
Here's what I see eventually happening :
Sunset : So. This is it? This is final? This is everything? You reject me? You do not believe me?
Others : Go away you stupid bint!
Sunset : Well. I guess this proves it. You aren't really my friends after all. You never were. I guess I'm not surprised. I mean it was so easy to ruin your friendships back then when I was mean girl. The fact that you turned on each other so easily then. Just proves you don't know anything about friendship and were never my friends or each others either. I wash my hands of you losers. I'm going back to Equestria and Twilight who actually is a true friend, unlike you liar five.
Yep, that's how I see it going.
What I hope happens is that she's put through the utter ringer and then much later on, Anon-A-Miss is exposed so that we get to see all LARGE amounts of drama that would ensue. I just hope it doesn't end in suicide. That dark tag makes me weary.
Yeah, I always fucking hated the Anon-A-Mis story-line. It's probably the wort thing to come out of G4. It's just so god damn mean spirited. Great start to the fic. Can't wait to read more.
6599391 I can't really bring myself to hate it cause every mean spirited thing they come out with turns into such great fanfics.
Great start, really gives a cliffhangar at the end of the chapter.
That was rough what Sunset went through.
Well damn... this is interesting. Damn you good writers for getting me sucked into something else that'll suck up my time XD
Nice job!
"You can only push someone so far, before they break."
Carrie.
As if it was plainly obvious
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She does make a good point
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She'd better, or else someone else is gonna get hurt
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Hm
Even though I probably know how this story would go, I am slightly interested in Sunsets friends reaction.
One chapter in and I’m already hooked with your writing. I’m intrigued to see how this goes.