Chapter 1
There was a certain kind of stories beginning popular in CHS recently. They all centered around the same kind of idea.
"Well. I mean, it's just kinda cool. This dude was a loner in his world but now, he's all badass and he's just like "you don't know who you're messing with" and-"
"Well. I quite like the idea. The villainess was always quite the character. Horrible personality but wonderful fashion and social standing. Seeing that character be able to start from scratch or be redeemed with the help of someone who's read her story is quite interesting."
"I just like the ones about farmin' weird crops in a whole other world. It's an interesting idea and when they go all into it, it's hard to put down. Heck! Sometimes, I learn something!"
Those were some opinions but as a whole Sunset found all of her friends interested in the stories about being whisked away to another world through this way or that.
But as Sunset looked down from a throne of what she sincerely hoped weren't skulls, she groaned and put her head in her hands "I don't even like these stories…"
The three creatures kneeling at the steps stayed quiet, though Sunset could hear movement and uncomfortable shuffling. She pulled her face back and sighed at the sight of her red claws.
A quick glance upwards and she saw her horn. Her unicorn horn. It felt both horribly out of place but also a welcome familiarity. She was guessing there were more changes but she really didn't want to deal with that yet.
"Right. Can one of you tell me what's going on? Because I have no clue who any of you are or where I am." She wasn't going to pretend to be someone she wasn't. This situation was dumb enough. Misunderstandings could get the boot.
A… well, demon in a suit for lack of a better term stood up, smiling softly and adjusted her glasses. "Yes. You are the demon king and you've just gone through a metamorphosis. Temporary memory loss is expected."
"Are you fu-" she groaned again. "No. I'm Sunset Shimmer. I'm not- nor have I ever been a demon. Let alone a demon king, queen or lord."
The suit demon shuffled a bit and nodded "Ah. Well it seems-" she glanced back to another one, this one wearing a lab coat. Were they all stereotypes? No, of course they were.
Lab coat stepped forward and spoke. She sounded perpetually tired with every word. "A demon lord metamorphosis is a sort of summoning ritual similar to that of a hero summoning. But where they differ is that the metamorphosis pulls the summoned into the demon lord where the lord would absorb their power and mind."
Sunset could feel her eye twitch and something in her hand crumble. A quick glance showed her that it was the chair itself that had crumbled under her grip. "But I'm here. What does that mean?" She asked, trying her best to reign in her anger. It was difficult though. She didn't even like these stories, having literally been a living example of one already and here she was, pulled into another word just to be lunch for a demon lord. She was pissed!
She noticed that Lab coat was shaking a little, Suit was standing much straighter than needed and the one who hadn't spoken yet who was wearing what looked like a basic barbarian style outfit had taken to covering her head and whimpering.
Suit finally managed to speak up first "Pl- please calm your rage my lord! It is difficult to speak with such pressure!"
Sunset raised her brow and would have usually scoffed at such an idea. How could she put out so much pressure that three actual demons couldn't talk? But, Suit did sound like she was gasping those words out. She put a hand to her chest and took a deep breath before exhaling as she stretched it out. Who would have guessed she'd need Cadance's calming technique again after all this time?
It seemed to have the desired effect though as Lab coat stopped shivering and let out a gasp. Sunset let her catch her breath before motioning for her to continue. "What that means is that you absorbed the former demon lord instead. His memories and knowledge should become your own in time."
Sunset sighed and took a better look around the room. The look was…dumb. Overly "evil" and "Gothic" it was like someone saw a bad vampire movie and thought they could make it better by adding more "evil".
"This sucks." She grumbled before glancing to Barbarian "What about you? Do you have anything to add?" She asked lazily "also, this chair isn't actual skulls, is it?"
Suit spoke up first "Ah. No. They are replicas. The former lord had a flair for the dramatic but didn't want to actually touch lesser life forms."
"Great. So he was a specist. What a jerk." Sunset muttered as Barbarian stood up. She was pretty tall when she actually stood up. But the expression on her face stood in stark contrast. It was shy and unsure.
"Ah. Demon king- queen- lord-"
"Whatever. I'd prefer my actual name but somehow I doubt any of you will use it. " Sunset shrugged.
"W- we wouldn't dare to call-"
"Yeah, I figured. What were you going to say?" Sunset asked, resting her cheek against her hand. Thankfully, regardless of how sharp her claws seemed to be, they didn't do anything to her face.
"Yes! Well, it's just- during the period of your metamorphosis, the hero's party has made their approach."
"How close are they?"
"The…front gate."
Sunset was annoyed again but only for a moment as memories of RPG games from earth popped into her head. She had an idea. "Did they travel by ship or airship or whatever you have in this world?"
"Yes! Their airship landed on the coast of the continent two months ago!"
Sunset hummed as she grinned a little. It would be little more than a prank really but it would buy her time and no one would get hurt.
"Tell me more about their journey here." She ordered as she leaned forward.
~~
The hero readied his blade as he watched the gates to the demon King's castle swing open. His party had been talking about how to go about getting past the many enchantments earlier but now they were just being let in.
In front of them was one of the three commanders. The suit wearing demon-
"The demon lord has instructed me to bring you inside."
The hero blinked as his inner monologue had been cut off. "He just welcoming us in?" He steadied his sword and prepared for battle.
But the demon didn't change her stance "indeed. I'm not sure what my lord is planning right now to be honest but that was my order."
"Ha! I doubt that. You always know!"
The demon just shrugged "Nevertheless. Follow me. We've deactivated any traps and told any monsters to avoid the path."
The hero's party looked at each other for a moment before nodding. Trap or not. Getting further without going through the exhaustion that the path would probably normally cause would be a good trade-off.
Besides, they could deal with anything the Demon King could throw at them.
~~~
They were…actually in the throne room. All three of the commanders were here and so was…someone. "Who are you?! The demon lord's bride?! A demon queen?!"
The figure on the throne was completely red skinned with long red and yellow hair. Two horns gently curved to the back of her head while another stuck out from the top of her forehead like a unicorn. Her glowing teal eyes looked at him with annoyance before she sighed. "I'm the demon lord- I guess- just gender fluid or something I suppose."
"What?"
"New body, New me"
The hero paused for a moment. That sounded suspiciously like something said back in his world he narrowed his eyes "did the demon lord summon a bride from another world? Even I didn't think he'd sink so low."
The "bride" groaned and got up, causing the party to go on the defensive as her ragged leathery wings spread and spade tipped tail flicked out. But they only did for a moment as if she was only stretching. In fact, she was. She continued on, popping joints before moving down the stairs
"Look. I'm no one's bride. This specist jerkbag summoned me to try and absorb my power but I ended up absorbing him instead. Thus, I am the demon lord." She snapped her fingers and all of a sudden almost everyone's equipment got pulled to the ground.
"Like I said though. New me. I need to make a new reputation for myself and I need time for that. So I need you all to go away for a little bit. Tchau!" Another snap and the hero prepared for the worst but when he opened his eyes he found something familiar. The very same little town he'd started his journey in.
He looked around at the surprised faces of the villagers that recognized him and took a deep breath. How juvenile. All they had to do was get back on the airship and go right back
The airship that was on another continent…
His eyes widened as he realized how simple but problematic this situation was.
Sunset looked at her fingers. The fact she was able to actually do that was insane. How much power did she take from the jerk lord?
Suit stepped up with a grin full of sharp teeth. “My lord! How did you plan that all so well?!”
Sunset was pulled from her thoughts by that question. “Well, from what little I know about the former “lord”, he was a jerk. If we follow the usual conventions, if a world has a clear “Bad guy” like them, then the “Good guy” will be annoyingly good. So he won’t attack your back when you lead him, he won’t attack right away when he sees me.” She shrugged, “I just figured that the best way to change my reputation would be to focus on this area first and to do that we needed to send the hero away.” She explained with a smirk as she stepped forward.
This whole situation was dumb. Really dumb. She didn’t want to end up in another world all over again. But she was already here. She was stuck as far as she knew, so why not try to make things better for herself? Besides, it’s not like this would be the first time she had to completely turn her reputation around.
“So. How bout the airship?” Sunset asked as she walked towards the doorway the hero had come in through.
“As ordered, we’ve sent a group of monsters to take control of it.”
Sunset grinned. She felt a little bad about it but, if the world followed RPG logic then they stole the airship or got it as a gift, so why couldn’t she take it for herself. She was going to “improve” her reputation. She wasn’t going to become a saint. Besides, An airship landing was a heck of a lot less intimidating than demons flying in on their own wings. “Well, then. Let’s go and take a trip on our fancy, new airship.”
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Sunset Satan as a pragmatic anti villain/villain with good publicity is a nice concept lol
If anything, it took away her cheat powers.
It could've been worse, she could've met Truck-kun and get reincarnated as a orange slime.
I like this story idea, but I doubt you will add more to it.
Thumbs up because it's a interesting prompt, and it's given me ideas. Lots and lots of ideas.
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I'm glad to hear that! Ideas are my strong point. (everything else is my weak point but shh...) And I'm glad to hear that my ideas give other people ideas!
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Yeah, it's doubtful but if I ever get an idea for a little snippet for this world I'll add it as a chapter onto this
siento que es mas los poderes de Sunset potenciados por el antiguo Lord imbecil, teniendo en cuenta que la magia de los ponys (degradada en un cuerpo humano que no esta hecho realmente para poder manipular o soportar la magia) haya sido mucho mas fuerte que el de los demonios, tambien teniendo en cuenta que en la serie no hubo realmente ningun demonio (ademas de Tirek, pero por lo que se solo es un Minotauro muy feo) por lo que naturalmente ellos serian mas fuertes, me gustaria una continuacion porque si Sunset esta aqui estoy casi seguro que las demas Mane Seven estaran alli, probablemente las heroinas al lado del llamado "heroe" aunque podria ser que Sci-Twi tambien seria un demonio pero es es un Tal vez muy grande
I can see the Demon Queen improving the standard of living for the poor imps and other Demons.
Food to eat medical care good jobs no more summary executions or torture if a superior feels irked that morning.
Infrastructure Schooling trade and Diplomacy with the rest of the world etc.
Please give thought to continuing this.
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Esta es una traducción automática, así que, por favor, ten cuidado con ella.
En mi mente, era una mezcla del poder de Pony Sunset, Human Sunset y Lord Jerkface. Pero era un idiota, así que, por supuesto, Sunset era increíble o lo que sea que lo dominó.
Originalmente, en realidad iba a ser la melena seis al pie de las escaleras, luego pensé que quería convertirlos en héroes, luego deseché eso y convertiría a los demonios en Dazzlings. Pero luego lo deseché por más clichés ya que eso es en lo que quería que la historia se enfocara más.
Obviamente, dado que no tengo planes de hacer nada con esto, es básicamente una idea abierta.
english:
This is a machine translation so please bare with it.
In my mind it was a mix of Pony Sunset, Human Sunset and Lord Jerkface's power. But he was a jerk, so of course Sunset's awesome or whatever overpowered him.
Originally it was actually going to be the mane six at the bottom of the stairs, then I thought I wanted to make them the heroes, then I scrapped that and was going to make the demons the Dazzlings. But then I scrapped it for more cliche's since that's what I wanted the story to focus more on.
Obviously since I don't have plans to do anything with this, it's basically an open idea.
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This is kind of what I was thinking. Improving the standard for demons themselves and humans that are on the same continent. Since jerkface didn't like humans he probably made the ones stuck living on the same continent hate living there. So ideally by the time the hero makes it back to the continent the vibe would be completely different and the people would be working with demons or at the least like her.
Nice start for a summoned to another world plot.
Well, that was rather amusing. Could definitely be expanded to a full story, or be left as this one-shot.
Though I'm left with one big question. How are her friends reacting to her just up and vanishing like that?
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Probably pretty bad. But in this story filled with cliches, that's yet another cliche. Isekai almost never go into that at all. Or even talk about it what so ever.
Ripperoni humane 6. o7
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Most of the good ones actually do and some even make satire of it.
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I have read a LOT of them. An actually unhealthy amount. I could probably count on both hands how many actually properly reference the people left behind outside of an offhand reference.
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I'm not arguing that but how many of them are really good? Most isekai fall into the "let's rehash this cus this genre is popular" category without much thought or the manga and anime either add tropes that weren't in the novel or cut scenes away. Though they have recently gotten better about the cutting scenes away part.
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Some are. Just some.
Most of the good ones fall into the Maiden reincarnation or Otome Isekai. I found that Normal Isekai fall into the rehashing far worse than anything else and the overuse of harem cliche is horrible.
Here another idea, CHS love Isekai stories, and Sunset is sick of them, so:
Sunset: "You know guys, if you love those stories so much, there is like, a portal there, you know, to ANOTHER WORLD that yo can go through start from scracth, bring human acknowledge and stuff, how awsome is that?, you guys go there and STOP TALKING ABAUT ISEKAI IN FROM OF ME, YOU KNOW I HATE IT DAMN IT, "
Then all the cafeteria heard her, now we have docens of humans teenagers passing though the mirror, to live their dreams, and being arrested for disturbing the peace of ponyville XD.
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Eh. The issue I see with that one is I've seen that idea done before. Obviously without the preamble about isekai but still.
The funny thing about Isekais is that so many of them get released that the only way to stand out is to do something "unique", but even that uniqueness eventually leads to copycats. Like how Overlord spawned a bunch of stories with getting reincarnated/summoned as "the bad guy" (How Not to Summon a Demon Lord), Rising of the Shield Hero spawned a bunch of stories about the protagonist being screwed over royally and getting revenge (Redo of the Healer, Nidome no Yuusha), or how That Time I Reincarnated as a Slime spawned a bunch of stories about the protagonist getting turned into a benign entity that grows to become incredibly overpowered (Re:Monster, So I'm a Spider, So What?). It's to the point where we've got stories like Omniscient Reader's Viewpoint, where the entire thing is a meta-commentary on The Gamer / Peggy Sue / Summon / Reincarnation type stories, where the main character is living out a web novel he's read, with one of the characters being a writer who's ripped off the novel in question specifically because of how prevalent such stories are in the world (and then lo and behold, there's a story called Return to Player with an eerily similar premise...).
It's like a rabbit hole that never ends. At the very least, it gives my dad more things to watch because he can't get enough of isekai anime.
Poor Sunset, now she's a double Isekai.
somehow I wanted it to be presented !! HA HA
Oh god I kind of wanted this to continue please make this into a complete story🤣🙏😍
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Long as you credit the original, you're free to work from it. I have no plans at the moment. If I ever do I'll just add it as a chapter and it'd just prob be another one shot chap. No plans for a story. I have my other stories I need to work on
This is a very unique take on the isekai genre.
I'm letdown you won't expand it, but it is ultimately your choice.
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Yeah. I didn't have any concrete ideas or plans to really continue with it. And I already have so much I'm trying to work on and write. Adding another to my batch would be a mistake.
The game she was summoned too was Dragon Quest, she wanted to play Grand Theft Auto.