30 Moons After

When I got to school that morning, I went straight to the principals office.

"Excuse me, Principal Celestria?" I asked.

The woman behind the desk looked up from her paperwork. It was funny how she had 4 colors in her hair, but then again, so did Princess Celestia.

"Yes Sunset Shimmer?" she asked. Her voice soft with just a hint of cold in it.

"Could I make an announcement? I need to address all my classmates at once." I replied.

Celestia looked at me surprised, then she smiled, as if she knew what I was going to do.

"Okay Sunset." she replied, handing me a mic.

I cheered my throat and turned it on.

"Attention Canterlot high student body, this is Sunset Shimmer and I have sometime important to say." I waited until I sure they stopped to listen.

"I'm sorry for the way I treated all of you. I was a tyrant who ruled with an iron fist and let power consume me, so much I wanted more, and went to some... extreme measures to get it. But, I've seen what that kind of mentality can do. It makes you something ugly, a monster. I don't know if any of you can forgive 2 and 1/2 years of bullying, but just know I reget all of it. I don't blame you if any of you don't want anything to do with me, but please know, I really am sorry." I said, then broke into a sob.

"Thank you Principal Celestia." I said, putting down the mic.

I could see the principal struggled to think of what to say next. Eventually, she gave up and gave comforting smile. I returned the smile and turned to walk out of her office.  I opened the door to see every student stare at me. Then, to my surprise, they all smile and started clapping. Something tells me I'm forgiven.

I figured the day would go on as usual after that. When I went to my locker, a surprise was waiting for me there.

"Flash?" I exclaimed.

Sure enough, Flash Sentry was leaning on my locker.

"Hey Sunset." he said.

"What are you doing here?" I asked.

"Did you really mean everything you said?" he asked.

"Yes, why?" I questioned.

Flash was quiet for a moment. "The reason I broke up with you is because, most of the time I've known you, you acted like a real dog, not around me off course, but when I learned who you really were, I had to finish it. But, I'm glad to see your a changed person now." he said.

I smiled.

"So you want to pick up where we left up?" I asked hopefully.

"No, sorry. I kind of have my eye on the new girl. She looks strangely familiar." Flash said.

"Strangely familiar?" I asked.

"Yeah. let me show you." Flash replied.

I followed him down the hall to another locker, where a girl with lavender skin and dark blue hair with pink and purple streaks in it was putting away her stuff.

"See? She looks exactly like Twilight Sparkle." Flash pointed out.

"That's because she IS Twilight Sparkle. She's the Twilight Sparkle of this world. The Twilight you fell for was a pony from an alternate universe." I replied.

"I know, I sat with you and the others while you guys talked about it yesterday. I still can't believe none of you noticed me." Flash said.

"Oh, sorry about that." I apologized.

"It's alright, anyway, I already introduced myself, and I think you'd better do the same, she wants to talk to you anyway." Flash replied.

I walked over to her.

"Hi." I said casually.

"Hi, are you Sunset Shimmer?" she asked.

"Yes."

"I wanted to talk to you about a view you about a video you had posted online." Twilight replied seriously.

"You mean the one with the girl that looks like you struggling to used the stuff in the library?" I asked.

"Yes, that one."

"Well, you see, I had something against her, she was running against me for princess of the fall formal, and I well trying to ..."

"Win the vote?" Twilight asked.

"Yes, listen, there are a few people I need you to meet. Can you sit with us at lunch?" I asked.

"Sure, why?"

"Let's just say there's more to tell." I explained.

***

After the others introduced themselves to this universe's Twilight Sparkle (they were only to glad to meet her),  we told her everything that happened before she arrived.

Twilight Sparkle stared. Then blinked. The awkward silence dragged on for a while.

"So let me get this straight. Sunset stole a magic tiara from a pony princess from another dimension, and she came here to get it back, and when she came here, she looked like me, mainly because this princess is suppose to be me in her universe." she asked finally.

"Yes, that about it." Pinkie said cheerfully.

Twilight looked at me.

"And you're a unicorn pony from that other world banished here?" she asked.

"Yes." I replied uncomfortably.

"You stole her crown because it was actually a powerful artifact, and it ended up as the crown for your fall formal. She ran against you and posted the video of her struggling in our world so you could win the crown?"

"Yes."

"Then you used the crown to become a demon and take over the other world, only to turn back  to normal by the other Twilight and these other five girls?"

I nobbed. "Yeah, I was a terrible pony then, but after I was turned back to normal, I learned a HUGE lesson that night."

The new girl was silent.

"Look Twi, I know ya just met us, but assure ya, everything we told was as the true. Ah admit it does sound far fetched, but it really happened." Applejack said comfortingly.

Twilight looked at us.

"Alright, I don't know all of you that well, but my gut is telling me I can trust all of you." she said after a long pause.

"I'm sorry about the video, I never meant..." I began.

"...to hurt me. It's okay." Twilight finished.

I smiled with tears in my eyes.