Escape

Sunset ran straightforward into the portal, tears falling from her eyes, hoping Twilight had opened it as she promised, and in a bright flash of light, she was suddenly inside somewhere, laying on a floor.

"Sunset! What happened?" A worried voice asked.

She looked up to see a very worried Twilight looking at her.

"Th... They all hate me." Sunset sobbed, "They wouldn't listen Twi, you were wrong... They just... Just wouldn't..."

"It's okay, they can't hurt you anymore." Twilight told her, as she put a wing around her, trying to comfort her, "But please tell me what hap-"

"Please dont leave me alone Twi, I swear I've changed, I didn't do anything!" she interrupted.

"We're not gonna leave you Sunset, we told you that." a voice behind her said, causing Sunset to look behind her.

"Princess Celestia!" she immediately ran over to her ex mentor, "I'm so sorry for everything I've done, please forgive me."

"It's alright Sunset, but please, you need to calm down." Celestia told her.

Twilight levitated the book off of the device on top of the mirror, closing the portal, just then, the book started to glow and vibrate, drawing all of their attention.

Sunset took the book from Twilight with her own magic, and threw it across the room. "I dont care what You wrote, i don't want to know!" Sunset yelled as her body started shaking, and she broke down onto the floor in tears.

The two princesses looked at each other, not knowing what to say, and knowing that they would simply have to wait for her to calm down, however long that took.

After some time , Sunset eventually stopped shaking, and her tears had stopped. "Sorry about all that," she said, her voice now calmed, "guess I just needed to let it all out."

Twilight was reading the apology from the five in the human world, unsure what to think about it, and Celestia was writing a note to someone, though Sunset didnt know who. Probably Luna, she thought.

"Are you sure you don't want to know what they said?" Twilight asked, puzzled as to why this had come through so soon after they apparently blew up against her.

Sunset didn't answer.

Celestia and Twilight looked at each other and nodded. "So we were thinking," Twi begun, "since it seemed like you were so alone over, Pinkie had the idea to throw you a welcome party."

Sunset just looked at her.

"Of course I think we can all agree that you may not want that anymore, it's what this is about." Celestia continued, showing her the letter.

Spike,

tell the others the party's off, I'm afraid Sunset is in too bad a condition right now concerning our friends human counterpart's.

Princess Celestia and Princess Twilight.

"You wanna throw me a welcome party?" she asked, rather supprised.

"Of course we do! Pinkie always throws parties for everypony in Ponyville." Twi answered.

"I'dont know Twi." She repilied, her gaze back down to the floor.

"Can you at least give it a chance" Twilight asked.

Of course I can give you a chance, but what about the others? "Alright I... I'll give it a try."

"Great, well lets go, everypony should be waiting at sugercube corner." Twilight said as the three of them were about to leave for the aforementioned party location.

"Wait, Princess Celestia. I just want to say I'm sorry for everything I've done."

Celestia gave a slight chuckle, "I know you are, and there will be time to talk about that later, but right now, their are alot of ponies expecting us, and we don't want to be late."

"Are you sure they're coming?" Applejack asked.

"They should be, Twilight said Celestia would send me a letter if there was a change of pl-" Spike said, but was cut off by a letter being sent.

"You were saying." Dash spoke, trying not to laugh as spike opened the letter and read it to himself.

We're on our way now, but Sunset isn't exactly at her best, so please be careful what you say to her.

Twilight.

Spike showed the letter to the other five around him, knowing the full message was intended for them.

"They're on their way here now, get ready." Pinkie yelled to everypony else present, before ducking into her hiding place, as everypony else did.

"So no mentioning of the whole demon thing, and no questions about the other world right?" Dash asked in a whisper.

"Right." Applejack answered as Dash flew up to the window to keep a lookout.

"I hope she's okay, I wonded what happened over there?" Futtershy whispered to herself.

"That doesn't matter anymore dear, what does matter is that we make her feel better and-" Rarity began.

"they're coming!" Dash shouted, as she flew behind her own hiding place, turning off the light switch in the process.

As the door opened and the lights turned back on, everypony jumped out off their respective spots to greet Sunset.

"WELCOME TO PONYVILLE" they all shouted in unison.

Sunset was a bit surprised at just how many pony's there were in the building, just as she was about to respond however, a pink pony quickly bounced over to her.

"Hi! I'm Pinkie Pie and threw this party just for you!" Pinkie began, a large smile on her face.

"Oh, uh, nice to meet you Pinki-" Sunset answered.

"Nice to meet you to!" she continued, "You see Twilight here told me that where you were you were super dooper lonely, and when she said you were moving here I just knew I had to throw you a Super-Amazing-Fantabulous-Welcome-To-Ponyville-Party, and invited everypony in town!"

"Thanks Pinkie, i appreciate it." Sunset replied, with a kinda forced, kinda natural smile.

"Now let me introduce you to everypony, you've got Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and Spike, our little town dragon over there, Vinyl Scratch and Octavia Melody over there, Lyra Heartstrings and Bon-Bon up there..."

Sunset followed Pinkie's hoof as she pointed out the names of everypony who had come, quickly realizing that most of them had a human counterpart in Canterlot High, and even those who didn't have a counterpart in school she had at least heard about while she was around town.

"...and finally we have the Cutie Mark Crusaders over there, consisting of Applejack's sister Applebloom, Rarity's sister Swettie Belle, and Dash's sister Scootaloo."

Wait, Scootaloo is Dash's sister?

As if reading her mind, Pinkie replied "Well they're not actually sisters, but they're so close they may as well be." both Dash and Scoot gave a little smile towards each other at that comment.

"Oh and I almost forgot, final finally we have The Great And Powerful Trixie, I'm sure you two will have a lot in common!"

So you're saying I'm like the stuck up pony who thinks she's better than everypony else? Thanks Pinkie. she thought, although looking over at Trixie, there did seem to be something different about this one, her smile didn't seem forced or smug in any way, as it probably would in CHS.

"Now that our two royal guests have arrived," Pinkie pointed at the two princesses, "and our guest of honour is here, how about we get this party started?"

Pinkie was met by a loud "YEAH!!" from the crowd as she went over to turn on the loud party music, as the majority of other pony's went up to Sunset, curious about her.

"So where are you from?"

"How do you know Twilight?"

"Why did you choose to move to Ponyville?"

She and Twilight had fabricated a story that they had met while she was in Canterlot studying under Celestia, as she was, but Celestia thought that Twilight would be a better teacher considering what she was studying, and Twi and Sunset had been keeping in contact with one another for some time, Twilight had agreed to take her as a student. Which, given what had happened with them, wasn't exactly wrong, but wasn't exactly righ either.

Twilight eventually deided to go talk to her five friends, all of whom were talking amongst themselves.

"This is a great party Pinkie, I think you might have out done yourself this time." Twilight said as she approached.

"Thanks Twi, but there is no such thing as trying to hard with a party," she looked over to Sunset, as her face turned a bit more serious than usual, "especially for a matter as serious as this one."

"Pinkie has a point darling, what exactly happened over there between her and, well us I guess." Rarity asked, a question that the others wanted to know the answer too.

"I'm not a hundred-percent sure, but this isn't the time for that." Twi responded, "Oh Rarity, is that order of mine done yet?"

"Yep, I've got it for you right here." Rarity levitatd a bag over towards Twilight, who then took it off her, before looking inside.

"Perfect, now could we arrange something for tomorrow, I really want her to spend some time with each of you and get to know you girls."

On the other side of the room, Sunset was talking to basically everypony else at the party, as Celestia walked up to her.

"Sunset, I'm afraid I must be off now, but you said before you wanted to talk to me, so is there anything you want before I take my leave?"

"Well yeah, but I'd rather not....in front of everypony."

She chuckled "Would you all mind if I took the guest of honour outside for a minute?" Celestia asked, to which the crowd simply nodded almost in unison.

As the door closed behind them Sunset quickly began, "I'm so sorry for every thing I've done, for every doubting you and your methods, and for trying to steal the element of magic, I swear I'll never do anything stupid like that again."

Celestia looked at her with a smile, "Do you regret stealing the crown?" she asked.

"Wha... Of course I do, it was the dumbest thing I've ever done, and the biggest mistake too." She answered, her gaze falling as she finished her answer.

"Really?" Celestia replied, the smile still on her face, "So you regret meeting Twilight, is that right?"

Sunset immediately looked up at her. When it came down to it, stealing the crown was what brought her here, it got her her friends, and allowed her to gain forgiveness for her demonic ways, or so she thought. But even if the forgiveness there was fake, she was now home, surrounded by friends who really cared for her, what more could she ask for.

"Well I realy must be off, I think Luna might be getting a bit jealous that the sun isn't down ye-"

"Wait, Luna!" Sunset interrupted, gaining Celestia's attention, "Luna, as the princess of the night, can she help with...night terrors?"

"Are you..." Sunset nodded, "I'll speak with her about it."

"One more thing Sunset," Celestia added as she began to take flight, "despite eveything you've done, know that I have never been prouder of you than I am today." a huge smile grew on Sunset's face as Celestia finally flew away, the sun began to fall, and Sunset headed back inside.

The moon was high in the sky by the time Sunset, Twilight and Spike got back to Twilight's castle.

"So how was the party?" Twilight asked, noticing the huge smile now on Sunset's face.

"Best night of my life Twi, that was the best party I've ever been to."

"I'm glad to hear it, but could you do me a favour tomorrow?" Twilight asked.

"Sure, what is it"

"Well I know this may be hard for you, given... recent events but..." she started.

A frown slowly started to apear on Sunset's face, as she thought she knew where this was going, Go back to the other world and talk to them about this? she thought.

"...could you go around town and talk to Pinkie, AJ, Rarity, Dash and Fluttershy? I know you've had problems with them over in the other world, but I asure you this time things will go differently."

"Oh, sure." Sunset was relieved that the conversation wasn't going where she thought it was.

"Good, because I might of already asked Pinkie to show you around tomorrow."

Sunset laughed a bit "No problem Twi, but I'm beat after all that, where's the spare bed?"

"The spare bedroom is the third door on the left."

She walked into the room to find a large bed made for her "Wow, nice room. Night Twi, see you in the morning."

She got herself comfy and noticed a note on the bedside table.

Welcome home Sunset, sweet dreams.

Twi and Spike.

She closed her eyes, and was out like a light.