"Time travel?" Sunset Shimmer echoed the words spoken a moment ago by the beautiful, leather-clad redhead sitting in front of her. "THAT'S what I'm supposed to assume?"

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After four years in prison, human Sunset Shimmer comes back to reclaim her identity. For the pony who's been impersonating her, this might get complicated.

Also, we learn the secret TRUTH about Angry Gamer Sunset, and why so much computer software is buggy and annoying.

This is an authorized AU fanfic for C-L-Strife's story "Two Sunsets." Strife described his story as

Sunset's other self from the People Dimension is released from Jail but, The Criminal Life-Style is too hard for her to get past.

(I wanted my story to be at least partly original. That's why I carefully avoided reading most of Strife's story before composing my own fanfic of it! I only read Strife's story AFTER writing my fanfic, and I enjoyed Strife's tale even more than I had expected!)

Mildly AU.

I'm very lucky that Samey90 (fimfiction.net link) preread even part of this story. Thank you! As so often happens, I might not work out how to apply some of the more interesting and profound feedback until later stories, after this contest's deadline.

Thank you to Mykola (offprint, fimfiction.net) for advice on an obscure topic relating to science fairs! (Specifically, Mykola checked a Google translation of a Russian language line of dialog by Twilight Sparkle.)

This story might be an entry in a Sunset x Sunset story contest, idk.

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This story is an entry in Imposing Sovereigns III, using the prompt Sunset Shimmer (but which one?)/DETERMINATION (spoilers in author's note.)

You might think this Sunset x Sunset story obviously panders to Bicyclette's and (Imspooky)Reactception's contest. And you'd be a little bit right, I guess? But what really happened was, Shilic said:

10/09/2021
[...] Like, it would be cool if Sunset went to the human world only to find it destroyed by a robot apocalypse and Human Sunset is a survivior who finds her. [...] I couldn't tell you what happens in any of those stories

and

10/10/2021
go ahead, the more stories I can form into existence through other people liking my ideas the better

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Prereaders:
Gelatino (offprint, fimfiction.net) who is also credited in the main author's note for something else, too.

While traveling, Wallflower teases her girlfriend, and plays a little prank.

Read this message if you're Bicyclette: This story contains at least fifty words of "fluffy Sunflower cuddlefic" content, per your contest prize selection.

Thanks for well-timed concept discussions (mostly about the properties and methods of cuddlefic) to:
TeamSpen210 (fimfiction.net)
JustifiedParanoia
Lofty Withers (fimfiction.net, offprint)

For thousands of years, Equestria threw garbage and monsters and toxic waste into the human world.

Turns out, the traffic isn't all one-way.

This story is inspired by an idea from Chris the Cynic which I changed into a different idea (more details in Author's Note.)

For prereading I thank "Tela" at offprint, and "Tela" at fimfiction.net.