Sunset Shimmer - HiE

by CrossRedstone

Chapter 2

Sunset flinched, upon the pegasus gently slapping the girl with her wing. It didn’t hurt, it just came unexpected, but it brought the girl back into reality. The mare said something really fast, yet even if she had talked at a normal pace.

“Sorry, but I can’t understand a word you’re saying. For that matter, you probably don’t understand me…” The girl realized.

The pony also noticed that talking was getting them nowhere. The equine put a hoof under her chin, while flying in front of Sunset, who had trouble focusing actually on the pony, rather than just her wings. Finally the pegasus flew towards the open door and motioned for Sunset Shimmer to follow her with her hoof.

“Oh.” Sunset realized what the mare wanted from her and stood up from her makeshift bed. Her boots echoed through the room, as they hit the wooden floor one after another. When she came in front of the pegasus, the pony flew out of the room and down a stairway, which was located right outside the room Sunset had been sleeping in. Going downstairs, Sunset noticed a few pictures hanging on the sidewall. They depicted the pegasus, the unicorn guard from earlier and a pegasus filly in various ways, like in one picture they were all smiling at the camera, in another the filly could be found on the sling, which Sunset had seen outside earlier. The filly had a lighter green coat colour, a short blonde mane, red eyes and was still lacking a cutie mark. At least she was in the pictures.

Downstairs, the pegasus mare flew to the side and into another room. This room turned out to be the kitchen, where on the table there was a plate, a fork, a knife and a glass placed on it. On the far corner of the room was the stove located. A pot was placed on it and tiny flames could be seen escaping from underneath the steel pot. A pleasant smell entered Sunset’s nose, when the house owner opened the pot and checked the contents. Nodding satisfied, she turned off the stove, put on some oven cloths and then she took the pot towards the table. Sunset was still standing in the doorframe, watching the pony prepare what was obviously lunch for the surprise guest. Seeing said guest just standing around, the pegasus motioned for Sunset to take a seat.

A little surprised by such a friendly gesture, Sunset complied and took a look inside the pot. It looked like the mare prepared some kind of vegetarian goulash, which was fine with Sunset. Despite most humans liking to eat meat, she never even tried a bite, knowing that in her home a lot of those creatures turned into food were sapient.

“Thank you.” Sunset bowed her head to make sure the meaning of her words came over. The mare smiled, nodding in return. She then proceeded to fly to another door in the room, which, upon opening, revealed the backyard of the house and the pony flew outside. Shrugging, Sunset picked up the way too small fork and began eating. It tasted really good, but wasn’t anything special by any stretch. Sunset was just happy that there was no hay in this dish, since her body couldn’t digest it.

As she was eating, Sunset could hear the mare from the open door. She was humming a tune, while watering her flowers, as she passed the windows or even the door from time to time. At one point there was no water left in the watering can. Instead of coming into the kitchen and filling it from the sink, the mare left the can on the ground and flew up into the sky. Five seconds later she was back, with a cloud in her hooves. She wrinkled a part of the cloud in the can and pressed the water out of the cloud. Something like this shouldn’t fascinate Sunset the way it did, but after being absent from Equestria for so long, she just couldn’t peel her eyes away, until the mare resumed her work.

“I have been way too long away from home.” Sunset realized with a sad smile, while she resumed eating. The thing was, it took her quite some time to finish her dish, since she only managed to get tiny bites into her mouth, thanks to the small fork. By the time she was done, the house owner had not only watered her plants, but also made the dishes and read today’s newspaper. It was at that time that Sunset found out that she somehow forgot on how to read Equish too. She had a theory that the portal somehow was responsible for that and that she probably would need to go through it in order to fix this. That meant she somehow needed to get to Twilight’s home. Maybe there was a map in the house, which she could use. Ponyville was supposed to be close to Canterlot and she was already close to the capital itself. Who knows, maybe Ponyville wasn’t that far away.

After finishing her dish, she planned on bringing the dishes to the sink, but the mare was quicker, swapping everything up and bringing it to the sink.

“Er...alright?” Sunset blinked confused.

The mare just smiled and said something that was probably: “It’s no bother.” or something along those lines. Before Sunset could figure out whether her hypothesis was right or wrong, both mare and girl could hear the door being opened and a high pitched voice shouting into the house. The mare shouted back, startling the guest a little, before flying into the hallway. Sunset took a second before following. She found the front door open and the mare hugging a little filly. Upon further inspection it turned out to be the filly from the pictures. Said filly noticed the intruder from the corner of her eye and looked curiously and a little scared up to the...thing. The mother noticed her daughter’s gaze upon the guest and introduced her to her. At least Sunset got the impression, since the larger pegasus pointed a hoof at her, while the second hoof remained on the filly’s back. Also, the mother said something, as she made those gestures.

The filly’s expression didn’t change, but she did come out from under her mother’s wing and spoke slowly to the human. Said human however once again, did not understand a single word. The mother pegasus was quick to step in front of her daughter and most likely explain the little conundrum they were in. The filly asked a few questions every here and then. After the mother was done explaining, the filly looked up at Sunset, fear still present in her eyes. The human then reminded herself of a little trick Fluttershy taught her, when dealing with animals. You bent down to their eye level, in order to appear less menacing. Strangely enough, the same method worked, when dealing with children.

As a result, Sunset slowly knelt down, the two ponies watching her every movement. She wasn’t on the height level of the child or the mother for that matter, but she figured it might do the trick. The ponies looked apprehensively, as she slowly stretched out a hand towards the filly, who didn’t hesitate to retreat back under her mother’s wing, saying something incomprehensible. The mother didn’t appear to be sure what her guest was up to. Maybe a friendly hoofshake? It certainly seemed that way. The pegasus was about to raise her right foreleg, when the shaved, clothes wearing ape adjusted its hand’s movements. Before the flower loving pony could react, Sunset’s fingers were scratching the pony behind her ears, as if she was a cat. Although surprised by the sudden contact, the tension almost immediately disappeared out of the mare’s body and was replaced by a feeling of pure relaxation. On instinct, the pegasus leaned more into the human’s hand for maximum efficiency.

Sunset was surprised by the notion, but continued her scratching. She could see now why Fluttershy adored animals so much. Not that she personally saw ponies as animals, but scratching the mare almost relaxed Sunset as much as it did the mare, who at this point was sticking her tongue out a little.

The filly, initially flabbergasted ran towards her mother and started yelling. Looking down, the pegasus and the human found the filly glaring angrily at Sunset and pointing an accusing hoof at the fiery haired girl. Not sure what exactly was going on, she watched as the mother pegasus walked to the filly and said some reassuring words, at least that’s what Sunset deduced from the tone of the mare’s voice. The filly in return shut her mouth, but still didn’t look convinced. The mother spoke to her child once more. This time it appeared to convince said child that whatever Sunset was doing was doing any harm on her mother. She slowly approached the houseguest, her eyes never leaving Sunset’s own. The girl in return tried to give the filly the kindest smile she could muster, even though the human wasn’t all that sure what was going on. Slowly she stretched out her hand, the two ponies watching her intently. The filly took a tentative step towards Sunset, making it possible for her to pet the little pony. Like her mother, she tensed up, before Sunset started scratching. Later Sunset would swear she heard the filly purring like a cat.

Comments

[Frost492]

Heh kitty cat

[Windsor]

So cute.

[CrossRedstone]

7580318 Sorry, but I thought otherwise the story would be too easy. Or rather it would give me not as many opportunities for some funny misunderstanding between Sunset and the ponies. And what do you mean with "so many fanfics"? I've only seen half a dozen.

[HiddenMaster]

Cute and interesting so far. Not too much to comment on considering there's just two chapters, but what is here is interesting and I'd like to see where you take it.

[Greatazuredragon]

Interesting idea, nice work.

[Shadow51247]

8071033 Well, we know she's been sent back in time in the story, why not to an alternate reality where ponies DO speak another language, when she does not.

[Sylica telca]

She could just write in equestrian.

[Queensarrow]

7580318
Aliens don't have to be ugly or weird looking, the only reason that is often the case is presumably a different evolutionary path. Which come to think of it, is an even bigger reason to have ponies speaking a different language. The shape of a pony mouth, their nose, and the length of their throat, ponies speaking a different language becomes quite expected. The fact that they speak English is due to it being fiction, teaching an audience an entirely new language isn't the goal of the show. That's why they translate it to different languages in other countries.

[dvd1442]

Another story with great potential is lost
Was really looking forward to princess celestia reaction