• Published 17th Apr 2016
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The Many Destinies of Sunset Shimmer - ratedoni



The rules of the game have changed; now, the multiverse has been born, but it is in danger of being extinguished. One spark can create a storm and one Sun is the key to survival.

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Hero of Peace and Paperclips?

Rainbow Dash had something in mind when it came to working for the government as a spy, something like being a James Bond and going around the world, saving people and looking awesome while doing it. The truth was that most of the time, work was either boring or stressful enough to give you early heart problems; and really, Sunset never got used to desk work, no matter the company or the branch she could work for, she was a field research; she loved to be outside and do something instead of staying inside reading and storing documents. There was no middle point with her new job and she couldn’t be happier about it, no matter how worried Princess Twilight was about her.

While Princess Twilight had her school and she was able to make her little bookworm dreams reality, the redhead couldn’t see herself working for royalty now that she could move everywhere in the world and Do stuff. As much as she loved her old friend, she knew that being a teacher was not for her, no matter how much Twilight imagined all her friends working alongside her, right now she had important things to do.

Now that she thought about working, the way she acted and thought was probably the main reason why Sunset could never maintain a job for very long in the human world. It was either because she had to keep something under control magically or due to a co-worker’s stupidity, nothing was a challenge or that the work was menial and mindless, something that she abhorred about all else.

Most of the time, companies that were working on stuff Sunset did found interesting, like new usage of materials, new machines or theoretical work about electronics, would be used for things that she was not very comfortable with. The one thing that put Sunset over the limit was how a simple alloy, which had been created thanks to Sunset’s work, would be used to modify existing guns on the market. All of that done by a very unscrupulous chairman, who told his workers that he was dealing with a government branch; surprise, surprise, it was all just a ruse to get himself a lot of money by making weapons to extremists, but in the end was found out by an anonymous source -of course it was Sunset- and that same chairman found himself with international trouble.

It was close, but in the end the guy was send to jail, although he was only charge a million dollars and a year of prison. What happened next was that all his millions were stolen and many charities across the world soon found that they had been gifted a very nice donation. That’s when Sunset’s life changed; all because of a woman with deep green hair who walked up to Sunset and offered a new way to bring justice to the world.

The group called Phoenix Foundation for Research was obviously just a disguise, considering the kind of budget they could work with, which left Sunset even more curious about why they would recruit her. Not that she was nervous about being investigated for the chairman’s loss of money and company; after all, she had covered the whole thing extremely well.

Phoenix Foundation had enough workers around that it seemed like a combination of research center and normal everyday company. So what was the thing that truly hit alarm bells on her head? The fact that Vice-Principal Luna of all people was waiting for them on the office of the director of the group, still with that same professionalism that made her the terror of halls and parking lots in CHS.

Apparently, Luna and Chrysalis had been roommates back in college and kept their friendship, even when one turned to education and the other to national and international Security. In the end, it was clear that both women wanted something, but unlike other people and ponies around, the only thing they wanted was Sunset’s help and expertise in every day cases. Nothing bizarre, just beating some terrorists or extremists or corrupt and dangerous targets. No big deal.

So that’s how she was here, in the middle of the night, in the middle of nowhere, miles away from the nearest town, as she saw lights being up in a place where things shouldn’t even exist; there were rocks, sand, people walking around and way too many guns for people to be calm. The good thing about being in a place that far away, well, there is not much in the sense of electricity, beyond using some generators that were obviously being used for lights, not for alarms or any kind of security measures beyond the eyes of guards that took too long in their routes to see a redheaded woman move around.

And there she went, into a tent that had been conspicuously left alone by many people, with quite the modern work of art in terms of war right in the middle of it, with its sleek body; Sunset had found the one thing in this world that had a temper even more explosive than hers, which was fun and at the same time terrorizing; thankfully for everyone that enjoyed sunny days and being alive in general, the whole thing was rather easy to take apart.

It would be a little hilarious to think that after opening a side panel with a Swiss army knife, you could take out the truly dangerous part of the missile; sure, it could still fly and explode, but it was that small cylinder in her hands the one thing that could hurt so many people. Sunset hated chemical and biological weapons with a passion, so getting this bad boy was alright to her.

So what was next? How was she going to escape from this dangerous place? Well, you see, there was something else that she was planning on and that was to get someone to get her out of the danger; easier said than done sadly, but with just the right combination of physics and a very sturdy wrench, the guy that had the enviable job of being a guard went done pretty easy.

Taking off the blindfold from his face, Sunset could see that indeed, Shining Armor and Twilight Sparkle were siblings; it was mostly the eyes, but you could see the semblance. So it was with great surprise that Shining stood up and quietly followed Sunset; he knew her as one of her sister’s friends, but to see her in another country was as mysterious as the reason why she came to get him. So far nobody knew he had been captured, so why was she here?

The mystery was even bigger when after getting on an all-terrain vehicle Sunset pressed a button; it was the sound of a car alarm being activated and then, an explosion rocked the place, making people with arms try to get close to them or at least follow them in their own vehicles, just for them to stop. Seeing all the destruction Sunset sagged on the vehicle seat and sighed in relief.

Author's Note:

By following logic, since I do love to make conseccutive worls withing a theme, which one do you think is next?

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