• Published 23rd Jun 2017
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Contest of Rivals - Moon-Lite



It is Sunset's third month at Crystal Prep, physically recovered from the attacks caused by Anon-A-Miss, she now has a new trial to overcome.

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Inner Workings: Contest of Rivals

Author's Note:

Just like Fall of Harmony, I have decided to share the planning sheet for this arc~

You will notice a lot of extra chapters that didn't make it, and some that got combined, there were even some added as you will see~

My writing style (if i even have one) is very... wingy. I write what I feel like, and only very loosly follow my structure I write out ahead of time~

This will also give a timeline for the story as well~

Hope you like this behind the scenes look~

Contest of Rivals: Prelude to Sorrow Monday, February 29th

Contest of Rivals: Reason for Celebration Friday, March 4th

Contest of Rivals: A Solemn Arrival Friday, March 11th 8:26AM

Cinch: Frustrations and Fury Friday, March 11th

Contest of Rivals: The Academic Decathlon Friday, March 11th 9:03AM

Cinch: Annoyance and Anger Friday, March 11th

Contest of Rivals: The Tri-Cross Relay Friday, March 11th 11:37AM

Cinch: The Last Straw Friday, March 11th

Contest of Rivals: An Awkward Lunch Friday, March 11th 12:14PM

Cinch: Dealing with Devils Friday, March 11th

Contest of Rivals: The Friendship Tragedy Friday, March 11th 1:32PM

Contest of Rivals: The Daemon Unleashed Friday, March 11th 1:49PM

Contest of Rivals: Her Inner Daemon Friday, March 11th ???

Contest of Rivals: Recovering and Informing Friday, March 18th

Contest of Rivals: A Better Future? Saturday, March 26th

Team Crystal Prep

Captain - Sunset (Twilight)

Indigo Zap

Sunny Flare

Sugarcoat

Lemon Zest

Sour Sweet

Jet Set

Upper Crust

Suri Polomare

Royal Pin

Neon Lights

Trenderhoof

Team Canterlot High

Captain - Rainbow Dash

Rarity

Applejack

Pinkie Pie

Fluttershy

Lyra Heartstrings

Bon Bon

Derpy

Flash Sentry

Sandalwood

Micro Chips

Bulk Biceps (Sunset)

Academic Decathlon- CP 1-0 CHS

Chemistry - CP 1-0 CHS

CP:

Sunset Shimmer

Indigo Zap

Sunny Flare

Sugarcoat

Lemon Zest

Sour Sweet

Jet Set

Upper Crust

Suri Polomare

Royal Pin

Neon Lights

Trenderhoof

CHS:

Rainbow Dash

Rarity

Applejack

Pinkie Pie

Fluttershy

Lyra Heartstrings

Bon Bon

Derpy

Flash Sentry

Sandalwood

Micro Chips

Bulk Biceps

Cooking- CP 1-1 CHS

CP:

Sunset Shimmer

Indigo Zap

Sunny Flare

Sugarcoat

Lemon Zest

Sour Sweet

Suri Polomare

Royal Pin

Neon Lights

Trenderhoof

Jet Set

Upper Crust

CHS:

Rainbow Dash

Rarity

Applejack

Pinkie Pie

Fluttershy

Bon Bon

Flash Sentry

Sandalwood

Micro Chips

Bulk Biceps

Lyra Heartstrings

Derpy

Construction- CP 2-1 CHS

CP:

Sunset Shimmer

Indigo Zap

Sunny Flare

Sugarcoat

Lemon Zest

Sour Sweet

Royal Pin

Trenderhoof

Jet Set

Upper Crust

Neon Lights

Suri Polomare

CHS:

Rainbow Dash

Rarity

Applejack

Pinkie Pie

Fluttershy

Sandalwood

Micro Chips

Bulk Biceps

Lyra Heartstrings

Derpy

Bon Bon

Flash Sentry

Spelling Bee- CP 2-1 CHS

CP:

Sunset Shimmer

Indigo Zap

Sunny Flare

Sugarcoat

Lemon Zest

Sour Sweet

Jet Set

Upper Crust

Neon Lights

Suri Polomare

Royal Pin

Trenderhoof

CHS:

Rainbow Dash

Rarity

Applejack

Pinkie Pie

Fluttershy

Bulk Biceps

Lyra Heartstrings

Derpy

Bon Bon

Flash Sentry

Sandalwood

Micro Chips

Elimination Equation- CP 3-1 CHS

CP: Sunset Shimmer

CHS: Rarity

Tri-Cross Relay- CP - 2-0 CHS

Archery - CP

CP: Sour Sweet & Sunset Shimmer

CHS: Fluttersyhy & Applejack

Short Track - CP

CP: Sunny Flare & Lemon Zest

CHS: Rarity & Pinkie Pie

Motocross - CP

CP: Indigo Zap & Sugarcoat

CHS: Bulk Biceps & Rainbow Dash

Capture the Flag- CP 3-0 CHS (TRAGEDY)

CP: Sunset Shimmer, Indigo Zap, & Sunny Flare

CHS: Rainbow Dash, Applejack, & Pinkie Pie

Contest of Rivals: Prelude to Sorrow

Sunset meets with Cinch, is blackmailed into participating in the Friendship Games

Contest of Rivals: Reason for Celebration

Sunset is annoyed, meets with New Shadowbolts for lunch. Twilight starts to blab about Anon-A-Miss. Assembly, Team CP is announced. Celebration at Twilight’s house, Adagio confronts Sunset.

Contest of Rivals: A Solemn Arrival

Arrive at CHS, Twilight follows extremely faint signal of Equestrian Magic to Rainbooms. New Shadowbolts and Rainbooms interact, before heading to Gym for welcoming. New Shadowbolts interact with Orchestra Group.

Cinch: Frustrations and Fury

Cinch angry about Cadence, plotting to deal with her. Sunset as well potentially.

Contest of Rivals: The Academic Decathlon

Chemistry - Sunset wins, talks with Rainbow then Sour Sweet

Cooking - Pinkie wins, is paired with Sunny Flare, talks with Pinkie and Fluttershy, Sunny during

Construction - Sugarcoat & Indigo win, Sunset paired w/ Lemon Zest, talks to AJ, Lemon during

Spelling Bee - “I BLAME MY PHONE!”, Principal Cinch chews out CP

Elimination Equation - Sunset wins, talks to Rarity, then Sugarcoat and Indigo

Cinch: Annoyance and Anger

Cinch angry at the abysmal display from the spelling bee, at Cadence for trying to console the students. What is she thinking?

Contest of Rivals: The Tri-Cross Relay

Archery - Sunset does ladderstall 360 yy noscope to win

Short Track - Sunny more fit than Lemon

Motocross - Indigo by a mile, then RD, then Sugarcoat, BB bike breaks at start underweight

Cinch: The Last Straw

Cadence is attempting to placate Luna and Celestia, who are upset at the CHS student actions, Cinch decides it is time for her to go

Contest of Rivals: An Awkward Lunch

New Shadowbolts end up at Rainbooms table, Rainbooms sit beside cause “it’s their table” lots of “discussion”

Cinch: Dealing with Devils

Cinch meets with Gilda and DD brothers outside, hires them to attack Cadence.

Contest of Rivals: The Friendship Tragedy

Sunset, Sunny and Indigo spread out, Sunset heading to the southwestern part of the school, ends up getting attacked trying to save Cadence. Twilight follows her and is about to be attacked.

Contest of Rivals: The Daemon Unleashed

Daemon Sunset saves Twilight, threatens to kill Gilda if she doesn't talk, goes after Cinch, almost kills her after making her talk but Twilight stops her, passes out due to blood loss.

Contest of Rivals: Her Inner Daemon

Sunset fights Daemon in her own subconscious while life saving surgery is performed at hospital by Stoic Heart. Sunset lands last blow as she flatlines.

Contest of Rivals: Recovering and Informing

Sunset informs Cadence, Twilight, Velvet, Night Light, and Shining to remain calm, Princess Twilight exits portal into Sunset’s room, greets Sunset, Sirens, and her otherworld family. Explanations are given, and Sunset decides to stay on Gaia, same with Sirens. Sci Twi loves Sunset unicorn form.

Contest of Rivals: A Better Future?

Sunset meets with Rainbooms at Sugar Cube Corner and discusses things. Explains that she was extremely hurt by their actions, but cannot blame them, nor the school. She has moved on, and says that their friendships will recover over time. Mentions Camp Everrfree.

Comments ( 50 )

8285187
It just feels far too random. There were no hints or anything that these characters would be getting together.

Also I personally believe that Mane Six shipping is just far too easy and overdone.

Kinda wished the CHS school board wouldn't blame Celestia and Luna on this. What about the teachers? What about the students? If they were told sooner they will still have their jobs. This is merely the faculty and students fault they got fired. What if the school revolted agianst the board and demanded that Celestia and Luna to return. That would be great.

8285195
I getcha~

I wanted to focus more on the story, and now that all the drama is done, bits of life can start to pop forth~ The Rainbooms havent been shown much in the story so there was no way to hint them, and there were hints through the two stories to at least Sonata and Aria~

Rainbooms had some fun stuff for me to wrtie, so that's why they are getting done ^^

8285206
heh xD but then I couldn't use them in the rest of my stories DX

8285211
Yes there were bits for Sonata and Aria. I just believe that you should have given the same treatment to the others in future chapters or in the next story so it doesn't feel like awkward comic relief after an incredibly emotional and dramatic situation.

8285181
FULL SPEED AHEAD, CAPTAIN!! :yay:

8285222
gotcha~

I will be honest, I always intended to move to a more shipping based story, though its not going to be fully smooth sailing~

8285184

Well are you going to do just that, have them go through the portal and find out what's on the other side?

I think canterlot high school will open again and Luna an Celestia will be back at it. I bet you have another story planned where Sunset get the girls from both schools to save canterlot because the statue is right on a source point of magic.

I somehow understood a lot of that. Huh. Keep it up!

This was really fun.

I'm a tad disappointed that you skipped the whole courtroom thing though. I imagine Cinch and Gilda spitting venom at each other in front of the prosecution would have been hilarious.

Regardless, i'm glad you're gonna continue this tale and i'm looking especially forward to seeing the kind of hoops the Rainbooms will have to jump through to actually prove themselves worthy of Sunsets trust again.

Keep up the good work mate.

8285409
Maybe~ xD
I do like the fic, Principal of Equestria (I think its called that? ^^; )

8285475
The portal has been moved from the statue now~ Will have to see where it ends up ;'D

8286155
I didn't feel the need to show any of that blowback, only make mention of the fact that Cadence is now the acting head of Crystal Prep Academy~

I'm doing these stories almost entirely focused on Sunset, so unless it is something super neccesary for the plot I will not shift away from her~ ^^

8286316
Well i'd say Sunset would have been present in court, being the victim and all she'd be sitting with the prosecution. Would have also been a great opportunity to taunt Cinch again.

But okay if you don't want to, that's fine too.

8286311

Yeah, but that fanfic only has Principal Celestia go to Equestria. Principal-of-Equestria

I'm glad she's seeking to retake their friendship.

To be honest, I'm a person who believes in second chances - and I was kinda too harsh on the Rainbooms - so there's no reason to be mad at the ones who turned on someone.

Keep it up!!

8288172
Not too happy she giving thema second chance but well, not my choice, plus even if she given them a second chance they need to really really REALLY make up for the crap they pulled on her.
Also won't be too easy, even if they don't care what the Shadow Bolts and the Dazzlings feel about them.....

They will when it comes to Velvet/Night:ight/Sci Twi/Shining and Candance.
Velvet and Twilight seen the worst they acted, so be a LONG time before they trust them, sure Velvet will give them the talk, stating she doesn't care for them or trust them but if Sunset giving them a second chance so be it...Before she looms over them red eye looking like a Demoness from Hell witha dire warning.

"YOU SCREW THIS SECOND CHANCE JUST ONCE...JUST ONCE...I WILL DESTROY YOU!!" Before returning to normal and sipping some tea.
Leaving them huddle up shaking.....Hey she Sunset adopted mother now in a way she will look out for her child just like Twilight and Shining as well.

It's weird how people see the idea of Sunset's friends getting a second chance to be wrong. I was looking through the comments of another story and another user brought up a good point that a major issue with Anon-a-miss stories is that in an attempt to make the story more dramatic they often demonize the Humane 5. They also assume that Sunset is worthy of forgiveness for all her misdeeds while her friends aren't when they were simply misled, yet regardless of this they wind up being portrayed as terrible people for making a very human mistake. I mean Sunset did alot of terrible things and got a second chance easily while her friends always seem expected to bend over backwards to earn forgiveness. Yes I know they pushed Sunset to suicide but that goes to the whole problem of demonizing the Humane 5. I could easily see Sunset at worst pushing someone like Fluttershy to those same dark thoughts.

As someone who's read alot of these stories I gotta say he has a good point. I've always found it weird that Sunset just gets a pass while her friends do not. Also this is more a criticism towards Anon-a-miss fics in general not just this story and it's predecessor.

This has been an excellent story. I look forward to reading more of your works.

8306190
Im glad you liked this~ ^^

I should have another short Sunset in Equestria chapter out in the next couple days, and I hope to get tue fourish cjpters there done in time for Happenings at Everfree to launch at the end of the month~

Man, I would love to hear how Cinch's case went, especially if she tried to convince the police that magic was involved.
"So, let me get this straight, Ms. Cinch. You're saying that Sunset Shimmer, your student, is actually some sort of demon-horse-thing from another world? And she was mind-controlling you into arranging the attempted murder of Mrs. Cadenza-Armor? And that Sunset's stab wounds were the result of you attempting to defend yourself and your students, even though the knife in question belonged to Gilda, was no where near you at any time, and does not have your fingerprints on it? ...do you have a history of recreational drug use?" Yeah, that would go over so damn well!

8362224
Heh xD I bet it would have been one for the ages~

Contest of Rivals: Recovering and Informing

Sunset informs Cadence, Twilight, Velvet, Night Light, and Shining to remain calm, Princess Twilight exits portal into Sunset’s room, greets Sunset, Sirens, and her otherworld family. Explanations are given, and Sunset decides to stay on Gaia, same with Sirens. Sci Twi loves Sunset unicorn form.

I thought it was Adagio that tells them all to remain calm when Princesses Twilight arrives? Plus, I thought SciTwil loved Sonata's pony form?

8389897
Ah, this sheet is a perfect example of my writing style.
This arc was going to be completely different in the ending bit, with Sunset recovering in the hospital after her fight with her Daemon, and that chapter description is an example of how much i write things on a whim ^^;

Aren't Fall of Harmony and Contest of Rivals complete? They're not really cancelled if they're already finished...

8451041
I put the cancelled tags to differentiate from the new version that's going to be posted~ ^^

Ah, okay. It was confusing and I lost my shit for a sec because of it. Not at you, at me for thinking I had missed something. XD

8451057
haha no worries~ ^^
Glad yo see you back btw~ ^^

8451061
Glad to be back! My fics have probably been missing me. :D And I've been missing my friends on FiM, so I'm happy I can talk to you like this again! Can't wait to catch up on your current stuff before you get done the reboot.

8451068
^^
They will still be up and readable so you don't have to rush through them~ ^^

This was a great story full of humerous moments.
Would you consider writing a third part based on Camp Everfree? There are quite a lot of hints to a possible future

It's fine if she forgives them because nobody wants to go around with hatred in their heart, especially if it might manifest itself as a demonic transformation. However they didn't just abandon her and accuse her of being annomiss, they intentionally approached her in public with the sole purpose of verbally abusing her after the fact, and when asked to stop they refused. They are so far beyond the point of no return for a second chance at friendship that you can't even see the line anymore. Hell by the end of the prequel they'd become obsolete anyway so why bother.

The two parts make a good story but the way the story is built up just to have her give them a second chance at friendship is like, going to Harvard, being a straight A student then dropping out half way through your senior year. What was the point?

9213653
I think Nightmare Inferno should be Sunset Shimmer’s Demon form’s name. The reason is because she let her burning Anger and resentment against Celestia and jealous of Twilight Sparkle get wings before her control her. If you take time every spell she used as a demon started out with a fire spell base? Basically the mind control spell burned away the free will. She even use fire to destroy the school entrance. And we can’t forget about the giant Fireball.

Does human Sunset Shimmer appear in this story?

Sunset se reúne con Rainbooms en Sugar Cube Corner y discute las cosas. Explica que ella estaba extremadamente herida por sus acciones, pero no puede culparlos, ni a la escuela. Ella ha seguido adelante y dice que sus amistades se recuperarán con el tiempo. Menciones Campamento Everrfree.

Cuando seguirás la historia me encanta
Me quede enganchada 😍

An amazing sequel to an amazing story!

Made it to the end. Not bad. Just a few notes.

Please don't mix character sets in words. OK, artistical it looks neat, but it's a pain in the tush for people with dyslexia, and the auto reader ends up spelling out the words or parts of words causing the speech program to be unintelligible. Lastly, the last bits are rather disjointed. Going from flatline to excited anticipation of visitors from another world is rather jarring and confusing.

Can't wait to read part 3

I LOVE IT KEEP THE AWESOME WORK😘I CAN'T
WAIT FOR THE NEXT SERIES🥳🙏

Almost there. Had enough of me yet?

This story is one of my many inspirations at an attempt to write a fanfic which has everything go very wrong for the M6. Sundown and Midnight are gonna play very big parts in the nuclear option I plan to drop during the Friendship Games arc.

All those planned fic not found still hoping they would be released thoigh🙏🥰

Comment posted by Maldarach deleted Sep 14th, 2023
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