The first thing that Sunset became aware of was just how uncomfortably cold she felt. The cool late night air had stirred her back to reality. Her first instinct was to feel around for a blanket, but her arms were locked in place behind her back. Something was keeping her hands bound together, and the more she tried to fight against her bonds, the further whatever it was that had latched onto her wrists bit down into her skin.
She couldn’t stand either. It felt like her legs might have been tied together at her ankles. Not that she would have been able to stand anyway due to how dizzy she felt.
Her body began to shiver and shake as she tried opening her eyes, but only her left would open all the way as commanded. The most that she could manage from the other was a slight crack before a wave of pain hindered its progress.
She realized that something was wrapped tightly around her face. Whatever it was, it was blocking her vision. She tried moving her arms again, but found little success. Still too dazed to process anything, Sunset tried calling for help, but the sound was muffled by whatever had been tied around her mouth.
“Hey, look! I think she’s waking up!” she heard someone call out.
‘Who’s voice? ... Where are you? Can’t see …’
“Well well well, good to have you back!” This voice belonged to someone different. It sounded familiar somehow. Where had she heard it before?
‘Too tired … maybe after a nap ...’
A loud noise resonated in her ears, followed by a stinging sensation across her cheek.
Did someone just hit her? Why? That wasn't very nice.
“Hey, don’t go back to sleep just yet motor mouth!” It was the voice again. The same person who spoke a few seconds ago. This time she could hear the sounds of multiple voices laughing in unison.
‘Motor mouth? Why’s everyone laughing? Did I do something funny?’
“Hey, Gilda, don’t you think that we might be taking this a little too far? You never said that we were going to do all this.”
“Toughen up. Did you really think we were just gonna leave her there? What if she woke up? What if someone found her body? We would’ve been screwed. Too bad you know who had to stay at home. She's missing out on all the fun!” There was a flash from somewhere close by, followed by the sounds of a camera going off.
‘Gil … da. Gilda … That name … I know it. Where … ?’
The cobwebs in her brain were blown away in that moment. The Anon-a-Miss incident, talking with Adagio, the ambush that she’d walked into, all of it came back, start to finish.
‘Oh no … ’
Sunset tried uttering out a message but was silenced by a hard blow to the stomach. She had been hit once again.
“Hey, how do you like that dog muzzle we tied around your mouth?” asked Gilda. “Bet you thought it was real funny running your mouth and telling everyone’s business. Well it looks like we found a way to shut you up, huh?”
Moderate waves of anger and frustration flowed through Sunset as she scrunched her face together and creased her eyebrows. The display elicited a sarcastic response from one of her captors. “Hey, I think you’re makin’ her mad! Maybe we should stop before she turns red and grows wings again!”
There was another bout of laughter and then she heard Gilda’s voice again. “Just so you know, you’re inside an abandoned factory in the middle of nowhere about 20 miles outside Canterlot. Your arms and legs are all tied up and we’re the only ones who know where you are. In other words, you aren’t going anywhere and no one’s gonna find you.
“After we leave, you’ll be stuck here in this little dump all alone,” Gilda said in a mocking tone. Sunset then felt a series of overly aggressive taps to the side of her face. “But don’t worry, if you’re a good little horsey, we might come back some day. Just not tonight. Or tomorrow. Or any day over Christmas break. You get the idea.”
More laughter. Sunset could hear several sets of footsteps moving away from her direction now. “Hey, Sunset! With any luck, maybe a family of rats will stop by and keep you company after a few days! As soon as they see how much you've got in common, maybe they'll adopt you instead of turning you into a snack?” She heard a male voice call out, followed by what sounded like a distant high five.
After Sunset was certain that no one else was around, she took deep breaths, calmed her nerves, and began to think.
‘Ok, so I’m inside an abandoned factory and they have me tied to something.’
She then gave a series of experimental tugs against her bindings.
‘Yep, and the knots around my wrists are tied on there pretty good. Each time I pull, the ropes grind a little deeper into my skin. And my fingers are too numb from the cold for me to get a solid grip on anything. This doesn’t look too good.’
She sat there for an unknown amount of time, thinking to herself, until her inner musings were interrupted by the sounds of rapidly approaching footsteps to her left. ‘Oh great, they’re back.’
“Hey, Sunset, are you alright?!” a voice called out in the form of a shout mixed with a whisper.
If it wasn’t for the blindfold, Sunset would have blinked in confusion. Was someone trying to help her all of a sudden? Who was it and why?
She could feel a pair of hands fumbling around with something, and then the muzzle around her mouth fell away. After opening and closing her mouth a few times in response to the soreness, she turned in the direction that the voice had come from. “Who are you and why -”
“Shhhh!” The speaker placed a hand over her mouth. “It’s me, Snips! Keep it down, someone might be close by!”
“Yeah, and don't forget about me!” whispered a cheerful voice that she knew belonged to Snails.
“Wait, you guys were in on this too?!” Sunset angrily whispered.
“We sure were! Actually, no, I take that back. We didn’t help them beat you up or anything if that’s what you mean. All we did was watch,” Snails stated while Snips untied her blindfold.
“You watched?” Sunset asked.
Snails nodded his head up and down like a goofball.
“You watched thirty plus people nearly kill me … and instead of going to get help … you stood there … and watched?”
“Yep!” Snails chimed in with a smile. Then his eyes widened as he finally understood where Sunset was going. “No, wait a minute -”
“Sunset, listen,” Snips interrupted, “Me and Snails didn’t want any part of this. We were out minding our own business when Gilda stormed up to us and demanded that we “help her rip you a new one” or something crazy like that. She probably thought that we had some dirt on you that she could use since we used to work for you and all,” he explained.
“Yeah,” Snails said in confirmation. “And we couldn’t really say no either. Gilda’s scary enough as it is, but she’s like a bazillion times worse when she’s mad! And you should have seen Rainbow Dash! She looked crazy too!”
Sunset stared at her former lackeys in confusion. “Dash? What does she have to do with any of this? I thought Gilda attacked her and stole her phone. Why were they together when you got cornered?”
Silence permeated the air. No words were spoken as Sunset took in the saddened looks on their faces.
After another moment or two, it finally clicked, and Sunset lowered her head towards the ground. “I thought Gilda’s story sounded a little weird, and now I know why. Rainbow was in on it too, wasn’t she?”
Snips and Snails exchanged glances as if the two were having a mental debate over who should be the one to break the news.
“Sunset,” the red haired girl raised her head slightly at the sound of Snail’s voice. “You didn’t hear this from us, but, Rainbow never got jumped, and her phone never got stolen. She let Gilda borrow it, and then she helped set this up. Leading you to the school was all her doing. But to be fair, I don’t think that she knew that Gilda was going to take things this far. She was really upset because Anon-a-Miss posted a really embarrassing secret about her at lunch yesterday.”
Sunset’s body sank even further into the ground as she heard this. Her now messy and ruffled red hair hung over her face, casting a shadow over her eyes.
‘And what do you do with a dog that starts biting the hand holding its leash? Get rid of it. They've been playing you like a pipe since day one.’
The memory of her talk with Adagio echoed in her mind.
Silence reigned for several more seconds until Snips finally picked up from where Snails had left off. “At first Gilda was just gonna round up a few of us and then corner you in the girls’ bathroom or something like that. We never got the chance because you didn’t come to school today. Then Rainbow got the idea to send you a phony message. And did you know that she told everyone where your apartment was? We were supposed to snatch you up outside if you didn’t fall for the trap.”
Sunset raised her head just enough that her tired and desolate eyes became visible. “I guess I should be used to it by now. It’s always like this in the end.” The hurt in Sunset’s voice was evident. If the other students had gotten too carried away she could have been killed. She didn't believe for a second that Rainbow wasn't aware of this.
It just wasn't fair.
After everything that she had been through, reforming, the sirens, trying to save the school, what did it matter anymore?
“Back in my world, Celestia is a princess,” Sunset explained. “All she ever tried to do was help me. I returned the favor by throwing it all back at her, because I thought that she was holding me back. I had the chance to start over with a clean slate when I came here and I used that second chance to bring other people down, just to make myself feel better. I finally made a few friends for the first time and tried turning over a new leaf, but that didn’t work out either. And as a bonus, one of those friends nearly got me killed ...
“It seems that no matter what I do, I always end up causing way more harm than good in the long-run. So … maybe it’d be better if I just stayed here? Maybe I deserve this ...”
Snips frowned at the spectacle before him. Sunset always seemed so proud and confident in the past. Seeing her reduced to a broken wreck on the floor felt wrong. He walked forward and sat down next to Sunset, butterfly style. “I think you might be looking at this the wrong way.”
“What makes you say that?” she asked in a monotone voice.
“Well,” Snips began, “you said that you ran away because you thought that you didn’t need that other Celestia, right?”
“Not my exact words, but yeah, that's one of the reasons why I left,” Sunset replied.
“Well in that case you were right. I’d say you got along just fine without her.”
Sunset glared bloody murder at Snips using her good eye and began to tug several times against her bindings. “Does this look like ‘Just Fine’ to you, you fat slob?!” Snips flinched away at the sudden harshness which made Sunset look away in shame. “I’m sorry.”
Snips took a deep breath and then started again. “What I meant was that you survived. Sunset, I wouldn’t know the first thing to do if I ever ran away from home. I mean, sure, I have a little bit of money in my bank, I have some things I could pack in a suitcase, and I can make phone calls if I wanted to stay with someone for a week or two.
“But you? You didn’t just run away from home, you ran away into another dimension! You didn’t come here with anyone else, you had no way of calling for help, and you didn’t know anything about this world or the people who live here. But despite all of that, you survived here all by yourself for almost four years. And you did it all without Celestia’s help.
“And about all of the things that we helped you do to the other students, yeah, maybe we were a little out of control.” The sorrow on Sunset’s face grew. “But you tried to make up for it instead of sweeping it under the rug,” Snips added in quickly.
“All me and Snails did was runaway and hide until the heat died down. When everyone started blaming you instead of all three of us, we didn’t speak up. If it had been me, I would have gone back through the mirror a long time ago. But you never gave up. Even now, you’re still here trying to make things right.
“And as far as Rainbow Dash and the others go? It’s just like what happened with the other Celestia. You got by just fine without them before. You can do it again.”
Sunset turned back and faced Snips on the verge of tears. “But I’m tired of always being alone! Don’t you understand that?”
Snips frowned and looked away. “So I guess me and Snails are just chopped liver then, huh?”
Sunset’s eyes widened, as she realized the implications behind her last statement. Even Snails seemed somewhat offended. “I’m sorry, I didn’t mean -”
“Nah, it’s alright,” Snips butted in, cutting her off. “We get it. I’m a loser and Snails is an idiot. No offense buddy.”
“None taken,” Snails replied.
“We’re just a pair of screw ups. That’s why you ditched us for Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Pinkie, and Applejack.”
Sunset gasped in alarm. “Oh no, Snips … Snails!” She looked back and forth between the husky teen sitting on her right and the thin one standing to her left. “I swear that wasn’t the angle I was going for! All I ever did was treat you guys like tools. I thought I was doing you guys a favor by turning you loose.”
“It’s fine … I guess,” said Snails. “Anyway, we’ve kinda been gone for a while. We don’t want to leave you here like this, but if me and Snips don’t head back soon then the others will probably come looking for us. Gilda did give me and Snips a lift here and all. She's probably gonna have to give us a ride home too.”
“He’s got a point,” Snips said while standing back up. “I guess it’s now or never. Do you want us to lend you a hand? Or are you going to let Gilda win?”
She closed her eyes. It wasn’t for very long but for Sunset it felt like hours. She debated with herself, back and forth, like an internal game of tennis. At long last, she finally she opened her eyes.
“Snips … Snails …”
The two teens stared at Sunset.
“You guys up for one final scheme?”
Her two companions stared at each other and then looked back towards Sunset and nodded with smiles on their faces. At long last, the team was back together.
“How many students are still here?” Sunset asked.
“Not sure. Most of them had already started leaving by the time me and Snails doubled back over here. I don't know how many of them are left, but probably not a whole lot,” Snips stated.
“Alright,” said Sunset. “And you said that Gilda was your ride here, right?” Snips and Snails both nodded in confirmation. “That means that we might have to deal with her later, but before we even get there …” Sunset gave a small tug against her bindings, “Snips, I need you to find something that can cut through these ropes. If this is a factory, then there should be something sharp enough lying around somewhere.”
“I’m on it!” Snips gave a small salute before running off.
“Snails, all I need is for you to find my coat for me and bring it here. If you know where my phone is then that would be a big help too.”
“Uh, that might be a problem.”
“What happened?” asked Sunset.
Snails began scratching the back of his head. “Gilda got really angry when you threw your phone at her. So she kinda threw it against the sidewalk. After it broke apart she stomped all over what was left. Then she threw your coat in the trash while you were knocked out in the trunk.”
Sunset sighed in irritation. That phone of hers wasn’t cheap, and the winter coat that she had been wearing was pretty expensive too. “Snails, your job is to go find something that I can use to warm up. If you find a coat, a blanket, or anything else that I can wrap up in, bring it here, please.”
“Got it!” Snails enthusiastically exclaimed before running off.
As Sunset watched him leave her mind traveled back to a question that had been asked not too long ago.
‘So, you want CHS to go back to how it was before, and then you want to make up with those friends of yours and live happily ever after, as if none of this ever happened?’
Sunset shook her head. "Whatever happens next ... I'm not doing this for CHS or for anyone else. Not anymore." A new fire began to burn in her chest as she began planning her next move should she escape.
"I'm doing this for me."
Yep, Rainbow is going to be in some deep sht if the rest find out.
Can't wait for the next chapter. Keep going.
I REALLY want to see some retribution now....
So, is Sunset going to become the Canterlot Knight? (BTW, that's an Arkham Knight reference...)
Wow I'm liking this more everyday.
I'm excited when her friends feel guilty because friends shouldn't be like that.
I was surprised the real Anon-A-Miss didn't feel guilty about it yet.
6624768 Oh, boy, is she ever!
Makes me wonder how the other girls are gonna react when they find out that she was in on this?
(Not that they'll probably give a hoot one way ot the other, but I'm sure that they wouldn't have wanted Sunset beaten to death.)
Seven chapter and an epilogue to go, huh? Looking forward to it.
And I can't wait to see what happens in that next chapter! Should be good!
6624784 As do I.........
6624768 NO! NO! THIS IS SO NOT RAINBOW THAT I'M NOT USING HER NAME FOR THE REST OF THIS FIC! For this fic, I hearby dub her "Whitney Witcherson III"
imagine if miss anon update that day while they were beating up sunset and everyone realize they fuck up bad.
CAN'T WAIT!!! Keep up the awesome work!
6624826 Omg that's brilliant.
Please tell me you're gonna be putting up a new chapter every day, the suspense is figuratively killing me!
I'm pretty sure you mean Team Three S, which of course means it won't be funny, it's never been funny, and then you're most likely going to take a nap.
I guess in a way I was still technically right.
Huh, no matter how what; I feel that there's not gonna be a good ending for this. Very bittersweet I feel. Like no matter what, Sunset is not gonna be/nor want to be friends with the gang again. But yeah, retribution does sound pretty nice..
So if snips and snails have to go back with Gilda, couldn't they just spill the beans and all to principle celestia and have her drive out and get sunset?
Also....heheh...factory....
I'd really like to see a chapter in Gilda's perspective
Chuckles lightly.... congratulations CHS you've spelled your own doom!
I can't help but winder if she'll get the sirens in on all of this. I can't wait to see how this happens but soon Sunset will be driven back to her old ways.
*Sniff sniffs* What is that I smell? Is something burning?
Oh right, it's the smell of hell rising to the earth. How could I forget?
To the CHS students i have this to say.
but i'm happy with what you did with snips and snails
also hell ya sunset is back!
I vote Snips and Snails for the new element of loyalty. Maybe give all the elements to new people?
Only 8 chapters left I hope the situation with the Crusaders is resolved quickly. If only because I want to see the repercussions of everyone's actions get more attention. That's where the real drama is. Will the Humane 5 and Sunset be able to salvage their friendship? How will the others react to Rainbow's part in Gilda's ambush?
What will become of the CHS students who basically just acted like a bunch of sociopaths? How are they going to react when they see Anon-A-Miss is still posting? Watching them get karma in the ass is going to be even more satisfying then when the Crusaders are finally caught.
6625458 they got my vote!
This chapter kinda makes me think of Wicked...
Ya I know, it doesn't completely fit with the WHOLE song, but the main idea is pretty much the same....
Girl tries to be good, everyone hates her, and drives her to be the very thing they've been accusing her of being all along
6625458 *LE GASP*
The elements of harmony should leave the girls, and go to....the Crystal 6 girls...
Yeah, Sunset is gonna sucessed this time. She's not doing it for power, she's doing it for pure vengance. That...tends to be a very powerful motivator. Like the whole never attack a cornered animal, cause it'll fight with everything it has.
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I was thinking maybe an element could go to Vinyl Scratch? She can join and complete Team Four S with Sunset, Snips, and Snails.
IIRC she was like the only background character not being a jerkass in the comic. She just sits there looking upset in the cafeteria scene (Or annoyed. Its hard to tell) Even if this is because she's mute and can't speak to anyone I'd like to think not all of CHS would jump on Anon-A-MIss's bandwagon and delight in another's humiliation till they became a victim themselves. Or have all of them dumped in with Gilda's lot thinking beating someone up and leaving them for dead is perfectly okay.
6625543 Then there's only one thing they need to do now: They'll have to join the military. If they do, they'll have all the food, authority and
VENGEANCE!
that they'll ever wanted and needed.
I'm sorry, but... I dunno, for me this chapter felt like unpleasant fake out. I mean, last chapter was hardcore on Sunset, and this one kind of disregards that. It was written in a way suggesting severe head trauma and some bleeding, eye damage and several minutes (!) of stomping and kicking all over the body. I think if you're not MMA champ, first thing you will adress after regaining consciousness will be unberable pain, but tenage girl Sunset kinda skips that part. "Oh, it's uncomfortably cold here. Where is my blanket?"
And then biggest problem is that her fingers are numb becouse of cold. Wow. I thougt problems will be more like broken bones and painfulness of every movement, but no: just a little too cold to get a solid grip. I guess that cruel beating in last chapter was more for shock value than for actual story. Or I overlooked part where she found health pack.
I'm going to quote something someone on SpaceBattles said about the actions of the CHS students in the comics.
Regardless of how this ends as long as someone calls CHS out on their hypocritical shit I'm happy. This isn't just about what Gilda's group did. This is about how the school basically fed the crusaders ego into continuing the Anon-A-Miss thing by sending them secrets, betraying their friends, and when its their turn to be mocked they have the gall to be angry about it. They could all have chosen to ignore the crusaders' little gossip page, but instead what do they do? Like a bunch of sheep they go along with it.
I'm glad the IDW comics are NOT canon with the cartoon/movies because this... wow what happen to the magic of friendship?
Sunset can either reconcile with the Humane 5, start fresh and make new friends (maybe even go to a new school?), or go back to Equestria. Right now I don't really care which.
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Nope, you're right.
I admit it.
I messed up here, as well as in a bunch of other places too.
A little late to fix it now though.
What can I say? There won't be Disney's happy ending.
If i was Sunset, I'll return Equestrian to Equestria and leave CHS and Humane5 to their problems. They don't worthy of it.
fuck yeah! Sunset with a spine is back!
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The idea is that Sunset might not survive the night if she's left all alone.
Or at least, that's how I tried to spin it.
I'm just now noticing that for everything that I did right in this story, there're also some things that were mishandled.
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Yes and no. You can always edit the chapter if you want to. You aren't a professional writer with a professional editor making sure everything is ready for the public before it's released, so you shouldn't have to operate under the same rules.
I do feel like Sunset perks up a bit too much after finding out that Rainbow was partly responsible, and I would take out that big space before Sunset continues speaking but this isn't something you should feel ashamed of.
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Funny you should say that.
I actually do have an editor who usually looks things over for me and makes recommendations.
But he's been busy with real life responsibilities lately, which I understand.
After not hearing anything back from him in almost 3 weeks, I got impatient and went ahead without him.
The way his schedule is now (and mine too to be honest), if I tried asking him for help again then it would probably be over a month per update at best.
On the one hand, you guys would get better grammar and a better story-line ... but on the other hand you'd be kept waiting for long periods of time, which I really don't want, especially since my chapters tend to be a little short.
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Exactly my point. I feel like a lot of people make the mistake of looking at stories written by people who write as a career and then feel bad because their own work isn't as good. Writing as a hobby is a very different animal than writing professionally.
For what it's worth this is one of the better Anon-A-Miss stories I've read.
I've got a HUGE favor to ask you...not that I'm trying to steal this story in any way, shape, or form, and I would give you all the credit for the original story, but...would you mind horribly if I were, to say, take this story from the end of chapter 5, and branch it out into my own version?..
6625868 first, that's my quote.
Second. How many of the CHS students do you think we're taking pictures/videos of the beatdown? I can see them putting them online as a form of bragging. (It gets a lot of criminals caught IRL) for conspiracy to commit premeditated murder, assault and battery, kidnapping off the top of my head.
Third, when Rainbow Dash's actions come to light, how much you bet it'll cause a split in the Humane Five?
I've noticed this has been released a day early, unless it's Friday where you are
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First, Thank you for posting it. I felt it accurately summed up what disgusted me about the CHS students behavior. Furthermore I found those several pages that discussed the Holiday Special on SpaceBattles to be really cathartic after reading the holiday comic for the first time.
Second, Well it'd be fitting they get caught by posting their actions on-line considering what they were beating up Sunset for.
Third, At the very least it'll turn the Humane 5 into the Humane 4. Again, the only thing that's stopping me from really hating Rainbow Dash here is she'll be hating herself more then enough once she realizes how badly she messed up.
Of course the rift I'm most interested in seeing will be the one forming between the Humane 5 and the Crusaders once they learn all this started because the crusaders were mad their sisters weren't spending anytime with them and were going to break up their friendship for that. Sunset was just the easiest to turn into a scapegoat. This is why despite everything I don't want the Humane 5 to break up. Because it means the Crusaders still win even if they're caught (that said if Sunset doesn't want anything to do with them at this point I won't blame her).
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Really, out of Sunset's friendships I'm pretty sure the one with Dash is the only one that can't be salvaged. The other girls did jump to conclusions and they definitely owe her an apology, but at the time she was the only real suspect. They've wronged her, but she wronged them pretty badly before EQG1 took place so she should be pretty sympathetic to people who made bad decisions and want to make up for them.
With Rainbow Dash, it's harder to say. I doubt she and Sunset will be friends but everything depends on how Dash reacts to finding out how far Gilda took this. At best they might be able to be in the same room together, but I don't know if Sunset can really forgive a betrayal like that. If she does I'm assuming it will be in an epilogue that takes place after Sunset's had many years to let the pain fade.
If anyone was going to save Sunset, I was hoping it would have been Flash, I REALLY want to see them get back together.
Who knows, he could have found some lucky charm or something, followed the students to the school, pretended to be in on it all, and pulled a Dean....
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In one of the Author notes I put up a message saying that I was going to increase the update rate to 3 chapters a week as a thank you to everyone for reading.
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You're more than welcome.
Send me a link when it goes live.
Makes me think of Cold Case: A guy supports the sentence another to death for the death of his daughter..Only to find out he was innocent AFTER the execution.
Rainbow should be grateful Sunset didn't die after the truth comes out.
I still want her to be punished: She did have a hand in what happened, having a student being beaten half to death.
This is also be compared to the story:
-The attack will only end up a mistake, as Sunset was not the culprit
-The students had enjoyed tormenting Sunset for what happened, and are going to have to live with the fact they could had killed her (Or in your old version, HAD killed her)
-The fact Sunset was supposed to die at first, like the kid who got bitten, due to cruelty
-There is a possibility that Rainbow didn't mean for things to get that far.
-Last thing: Rainbow would be like the brother, regretting everything (And I wouldn't be too surprised if her choice for revenge could end up ruining her life, such as getting expelled, arrested, and/or loosing the respect of her friends and family. Possibly even Scootaloo, as she could end up terrified of Rainbow because of one fact: What Rainbow did was due to something the younger girl has done. Scootaloo might feel Rainbow could go after her next, just like she did with Sunset, a former friend)
Heck, I can even see the silence that follows when the truth comes out: probably just like the one that followed after the bite
Until then, here's some music that fits the mood
6628898 Thank you!! I just submitted the first chapter for moderation, so it should be up tonight, I'll give you a link when it's on.
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Suspension followed by detention for some length of time. Removed as captain of the sports teams she's a part of. Probably kicked off all those teams as well possibly permanently.
I like to think Dash at worst only wanted Sunset beaten up enough she'll confess to being Anon-A-Miss. You know like how accused "witches" and "werwolves" were tortured into confessing.
Everyone else though who took part in the "beating her to a pulp and leaving her for dead plan"? Expulsion will be the least of their worries.
6628898 Ok, it's been approved, here's the link.
http://www.fimfiction.net/story/300056/1/silent-night/chapter-1
6627470 I wonder if the CMC end up being divided if they find out what happened to Sunset. One might want to continue being Anon-A-Miss, one might want to just stop (but not come clean), and one might want to confess what they did.
Or someone could point out that since they did it because they were jealous of Sunset spending time with their sisters, it's possible that if one of the CMC has their own interests which end up taking time away from spending time with her friends, the other two might sabotage them because they're jealous.
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Man, that sounds so heartless: Torturing someone just to get what you want.
I don't think ANYONE would even stand to be in the same room as Rainbow afterwards. Cause, well, if she was willing to torture a former friend, who else would she be willing to do it to? Fluttershy? Twilight? Scootaloo? Sure the girl did do it, but if Rainbow did that just to get a confession..
Rainbow just ended up becoming the very things the sirens and Sunset were: A bully. A traitor. A monster