“Are you ready for this, SA?” Chrys asked, her six member team in front of Shining Armor reading to break the door down before them. Two of them carrying a ram while all were dressed in armor and helmets protecting them from bullets. Shining Armor wearing an extra vest and helmet the woman had insisted on when they met up with him at his car. The sun was just peeking over the horizon and the club had shut down, Chrys asking if perhaps they should wait for it to be time to open again to make sure everybody in charge was present. Shining Armor couldn’t wait anymore, the image of who he believed was either Twilight or a very good look a like begging not to be left behind filling his head.

“Yeah, I want this bastard shut down.” Shining Armor said, narrowing his eyes at the door.

“You heard him people, this is a high risk unknown situation with an unknown amount of hostiles inside. Keep an eye on each other’s back.” Chrys said, her voice hard as she made a cutting motion with her hand signaling the two with the ram to take the door. With a two quick slams into the door, the lock busted and the door flew open allowing the small group to swarm into the building.

With it still being dark, one of the group broke off, flashlight in hand next to his weapon as he searched for the light switch. Moments later light flooded the room as the switch was located and flipped. Just as they started making sure that the room was secure, the door on the other side of the room that Shining Armor knew went to the lower level opened and two large men came through, followed by a smaller one with slicked back hair.

“Good morning officers, welcome to the Lotus Blossom. Name’s Sombra, how can I help you?” The man said, smiling at them as if he was confident that they couldn’t touch it. “Did your chief send you to pick up this months payment? A little early isn’t it?”

“We aren’t the police, we’re the FBI. Now get your asses down on the ground, NOW!” Chrys shouted as she pointed her weapon at the three.

“Can’t we talk about this? I’m sure a lovely lady you would be open to making a deal.” Sombra said, reaching back through the door and yanked a frightened looking girl out and held her in front like a shield while pulling a gun out of the back of his waistband of his dress pants and held it to the girl’s head.

“Twilight!” Shining Armor gasped out, fear filling his eyes as he saw the bruise on her cheek that wasn’t there last night.

“Oh, so you know this little bitch do you?” Sombra asked, smirking at the group as a scuffle could be heard from the other side of the door.

“You can’t do this! Don’t you dare hurt her!” A feminine voice screamed out before a loud smack could be heard stopping the noises.

“Sunset!” Twilight sobbed out, obviously recognizing the voice as she struggled to get free before Sombra jerked her back and forth a few times.

“Shut the fuck up, bitch!” Sombra hissed out as the two larger men flanked him, though one looked as if he didn’t want to be there.

“There’s no escape! Let the girl go, and I won’t shoot you!” Chrys shouted, prepping her gun as if ready to fire.

“Are you stupid? I have the hostage here!” Sombra laughed making Chrys shake her head in disgust.

“You seem to be the only stupid one here. Shot the hostage and loose your only defense and meet the stroke of my stun gun against all your broken bones and life in the prison hospital!” Chrys snarled making Shining Armor begin to sweat. He knew the woman could be a little excessive at times, but surely she wouldn’t do that? She wouldn’t risk Twily would she?

“You better let me hold her before she squirms away.” One of the two big men said, reaching to take her while pulling out his own gun. As soon as he had a hold of Twilight, he quickly pistol whipped Sombra on the back of the head knocking him out and aiming it at the other big man.

“Go over there with the others.” The man said, pointing towards Shining Armor who sighed in relief as Twilight hesitantly moved away from him and over to them. As soon as she made it half way the five other members of the team quickly subdued the unarmed big man cuffing him as well as the knocked out for of the smaller man.

“I’m not going to fight.” The other man said handing his weapon over to Chrys who smiled at him.

“Good choice, why did you do that though?” Chrys asked softly.

“Because what they do to these girls ain’t right.” The man sighed, “I hate what they do to them.”

“Then why help them? Aren’t you one of them?” Chrys asked as she made sure his handcuffs were secure, but not too tight.

“My dad dragged me into this before he died. I only stayed because Tirek would kill my mom and I needed the money for her hospital bills.” The man sighed, “Guess I won’t be making the payments this month.”

“I’ll see what I can do, maybe there’s something we can do for her.” Chrys said as the large man started crying.

“Thank you.” The man sniffed.

Shining Armor wasn’t sure what to think about it as he honestly wanted to just put a bullet between the eyes of each and ever bastard in this building. Taking care of Twilight was more important though as he yanked a silk table cloth off a nearby table and draped it over her before holding her and letting her cry in his arms. She was really shaken and he didn’t blame her, even if this wasn’t his Twilight. He wasn’t sure who this girl really was, but he knew she was his sister. There’s no way she could be an exact copy of Twilight otherwise which made him have a few suspicions which he would demand answered for from his parents soon enough.

“There’s three more men downstairs, two on the landing with Lotus and the Doctor in the clinic with Tirek in his office.” The man who helped them said from his sitting position on one of the chairs.

“Why don’t you just fucking shut up already? Do you want to go to jail?” The other large man growled out.

“Better than seeing them suffer anymore.” The man sighed, hanging his head. “I was already planning on doing something after what those bastards did to Lotus.”

“Who’s Lotus? What did they do to her?” Chrys asked, looking down at the helpful man.

“She’s a friend. They beat her up pretty badly a couple nights ago.” The man sighed, clenching his teeth in anger.

“You three, secure the landing. You two follow me. Will you be okay keeping an eye on them SA?” Chrys asked, turning toward the group who was ready to rush the door.

“Yeah, I don’t think they will be going anywhere.” Shining Armor said, helping Twilight over to a chair while he kept guard. The group of six moved toward the door and after a few minutes of fighting including a gunshot, a fiery haired girl ran out of the door towards them. “Stop right there!”

“Who are you?” The girl asked, slowly coming to a stop as she kept flicking her eyes over to Twilight who jumped out of the chair before Shining could stop her.

“Sunset!” Twilight sobbed throwing herself into the new girls arms, the two collapsing to their knees as the new girl tried fighting back her tears as she kept checking over Twilight as if making sure she wasn’t hurt. Sighing as he realized that this must have been Twilight’s friend, he pulled another table cloth off another table and draped it over her as well.

“Thanks.” The new girl said, looking up with teary eyes before turning back to Twilight. “Are you okay? They didn’t hurt you did they?”

Shining sighed in relief as Twilight shook her head no as the two girls hugged again. He kept his eyes on them as well as the three men a few feet away. The helpful one looking on with a sad smile.

“You okay Lotus?” The man asked, drawing her attention.

“Iron Will!” The new girl gasped, looking back at him. “Are you okay, what’s happening?”

“My brother is rescuing us!” Twilight said, the first hint of happiness Shining had seen in her clear in her voice.

“Twily, I don’t think that’s your brother.” The new girl sighed, as she kissed the top of Twilight’s head before moving over to the man she called Iron Will.

“Young lady, you need to stay away from him.” Shining urged the girl as she shook her head and kneeled down in front of him to look up in his eyes. “Are you okay? What did they do to you?”

“I’m okay Lotus, you girls are free now.” Iron Will sighed, “I was a part of this though, I deserve to be in prison for this.”

“Like hell you do! You were the only one who tried to help us! You were the only one who really helped me before Twily came.” Sunset cried, “I’m not letting them throw in some prison.”

“He may not have to go if he’s willing to turn state evidence.” Chrys said coming back through the door, three other men handcuffed with one of them giving everyone an angry glare.

“Do you know who I am, you bitch? I’ll have your job as soon as I get my phone call. The governor will make sure every one of you pieces of shit lose your jobs!” One of them growled out making Chrys chuckle.

“Don’t worry, I’m sure you both can keep each other company when we finish going through your records. Nice of you to actually keep such in-depth looking records.” Chrys said mocking the man.

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“Will you ladies please sit down and relax?” Shining Armor whined making Sunset roll her eyes as the ‘drones’ kept hitting on the male officers of the group agitating what seemed to be their commander from what Sunset could see.

“Officer, it isn’t their fault. They pumped us full of drugs that, from what I can figure, slowed down the brain’s processes making us seem more stupid while making our sex drives go into overdrive.” Sunset sighed, not wanting to see the girls end up getting shot by the increasingly pissed off woman.

“And what about the two of you?” The woman asked, looking over to where Twilight and Sunset was now sharing a bench in a booth, both wrapped in table clothes despite Twilight not fully understanding why.

“The drugs react differently with each of us, Twily and me doesn’t seem to be effected by it.” Sunset explained as she held Twilight close to her. Iron Will was explaining to Shining Armor how to use the key to unlock their collars which seemed to resemble a short metal pen with a needle instead of writing tip.

“How long have you been here?” The woman asked, finally pulling her helmet off making Twilight stiffen slightly. She finally relaxed when though as Sunset rubbed her shoulder as her arm was around her pulling her closer.

“Close to five years, though at first I was just the maid.” Sunset sighed, almost not able to believe that they were free now. It seemed so surreal as she had all but given hope of it ever happening. She still wasn’t too sure how it happened, but the only reason she wasn’t crying right now was because she was doing her best to stay strong for Twilight. After all the girl was still messed up from being forced to watch what happened to Sunset a couple nights ago as well as what that bastard did last night.

“How old are you?” The woman asked, “You don’t look eighteen.”

“I’m seventeen actually.” Sunset sighed, adverting her gaze as she felt embarrassed by the look of shock and pity the woman was giving her.

“Oh Lord, you’ve been here since you were twelve?” The woman gasped out.

“About that, yeah. I can’t remember the exact time though. I have trouble remembering some things.” Sunset said, finding herself lying as the more she thought about it, the more she realized she couldn’t tell them the truth. That she was a runaway from a land of magical, talking ponies. Yeah, that wouldn’t go over well.

“And you, how long have you been here?” The woman asked turning her attention to Twilight.

“She’s been here about a week.” Sunset sighed as Twilight froze up, not answering the question nor looked like she would be soon. “She’s been through a lot this week and might not want to talk much.”

“I just don’t want to talk to the bug queen who ruined my life.” Twilight hissed softly, making the woman look taken aback.

“Sweetie, I’ve never met you before in my life. Though you do look exactly like my best friend’s sister-in-law. I know you aren’t Twilight Sparkle though, so who are you?”

“I am Twilight Sparkle!” Twilight screamed at her making the woman jump a little in surprise as the girl sobbed angrily. It took Sunset to pull her back into her arms to calm her down.

“I’m not getting into this right now. Shining will be taking her to the hospital here shortly while I’ll be taking you young lady. The other girls are being picked up by some of my colleagues.”

“Why are Twily and me so special?” Sunset asked, suspicion filling her at the motives of these two. She knew this wasn’t Twilight’s brother, but was possibly this world’s counterpart. She could kind of understand him wanting to take care of Twily, but why was she being singled out herself?

“Because I need you to come with me and tell me everything that happened. I need you to talk to our DA if you want to help keep this bastard from getting off and starting this place up again somewhere else.” The woman explained. It made sense to Sunset, and while she didn’t know if she could trust her, she knew that she didn’t want this happening to another girl.

“Okay, but can you do something for Iron Will? He doesn’t deserve what these other bastards do.” Sunset asked, hoping that one of her only friends will be okay.

“I already plan on seeing if he will agree to going into protective custody in exchange for testifying about everything.” The woman said.

“Well, looks like it works, are you girls ready to get those collars off?” Shining Armor asked coming over to them and interrupting their discussion. Not that Sunset minded as she felt as if she was going to cry to finally get the damned thin off her neck.

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“I’ll see you as soon as I can.” Sunset said sadly, having a bad feeling that this would be the last time she saw her friend. In a way she felt as if it was for the best, maybe Twilight could find the happiness with her family here that she couldn’t back in Equestria until the portal opened again.

“What do you mean?” Twilight asked as Shining Armor shut the door of his car, the window down as the girl struggled against the seatbelt trying to figure out how it worked.

“I mean you need to go with your brother for now. I have to go make sure that Tirek can’t ever hurt another person ever again.” Sunset sighed as she leaned down through the window and kissed Twilight’s cheek as Shining Armor got into the driver’s seat.

“I’m not going anywhere without you, Sunset!” Twilight gasped as the car rumbled to life, startling Twilight as she fought with the seatbelt.

“It will be okay. Just take care, okay?” Sunset sniffed as she stepped back to let the car pull away from the curb.

“SUNSET!” Twilight screamed as the car sped away making Sunset let out a strangled sob. The rush of feeling the sun on her no longer feeling so good as her excitement at finally being free quickly draining out of her as she watched the last person in her life that she felt she could trust speed out of her life. If she knew it was best for Twilight, why was it ripping Sunset’s heart apart so much?

“You going to be okay, kid?” Chrys asked, putting a hand on Sunset’s shoulder.

“I’m more worried about Twily.” Sunset sniffed, wiping the tears from her eyes. “Come on, let’s get this over with. I’d like to find shelter before it gets dark.”

“What about your family?” Chrys asked, guiding Sunset to the car that was just pulling up. Sunset’s jaw dropped when she saw the hair style of the woman driving as it couldn’t be anybody else except for Cadence’s counterpart here. She couldn’t help wonder if this Cadence was as nice as the one back in Equestria.

“Family?” Sunset asked with a dry laugh, pulling her gaze away from the car. “I don’t have any. I’ll just go back to the street like I was before they found me. Worthless then and even more worthless now.”

“Hey, don’t talk like that, you aren’t worthless.” Chrys said, a little shocked at hearing the dead voice coming from the girl who had so much caring in it earlier.

“Hey, somebody call for a ride?” Cadence asked rolling down her window.

“Yeah, I came with the strike team, but wanted to go with our new friend here. She might be one of the key witnesses for this whole mess.” Chrys said guiding Sunset towards the car. Sunset climbed in the back, fumbling with the seatbelt trying to remember exactly how it worked the one time she rode with Tirek when he dragged her to that strip club. After a few moments she managed to get it to click in place before leaning against the door sulking.

She wasn’t really sure how to feel right now as she felt so happy the moment she stepped outside into the sun feeling her first taste of freedom in s long. Having Twilight next to her, hand in hand, had made that feeling all the better. When she realized that they would never let them stay together as Twilight had a loving family here if her older brother was any indication. Sunset had nobody, same as back home as her mother didn’t want her rejecting her twice. Once when she was apparently sent to the orphanage and the other when Celestia started neglecting her in favor of Twilight. As much as she would have given to have kept Twilight by her side, she wouldn’t force the girl to give up what could be the best thing for her.

“You okay back there?” Cadence asked, a look of worry etched on her face as they stopped at a red light letting her look back over her shoulder.

“I’m fine.” Sunset sighed as she wondered just how fine she really was.

“So what’s your name?” Cadence asked, trying to sound as nice as she could. Which of course was as nice and gentle as anybody could be as it just came natural to the woman.

“Sunset Shimmer.” Sunset said, Cadence’s eyes widening making Sunset wonder just what was going on. Did she just step out of one form of Hell into another one? A horn blaring from behind them stopped the conversation as Cadence did something Sunset had never dreamed the regal alicorn ever doing. She flicked the driver behind them off before hitting the gas leaving whoever it was behind.

“Caddie, maybe you shouldn’t be doing such things in front of the kid if you want to set a good example.” Chrys sighed

“Really Chrysalis, cut me some slack. The prick could have given me ten seconds.” Cadence huffed making Sunset smile just a little. This woman was definitely the same yet different at the same time. Sunset couldn’t help thinking she might actually come to like her.

“Sweetie, have you eaten yet? We can stop off and get you something to eat.” Cadence asked, blushing at the incredulous look on Sunset’s face.

“I’d really rather not go somewhere with a lot of people wearing a tablecloth, thank you very much.” Sunset said, blushing as she turned to look out the window. The car swerving all of a sudden sending her against the door and Chrys curse all of a sudden.

“What the hell Caddie!” Chrys screamed as she held onto her seatbelt. “I knew I should have called Hunter instead!”

“Yeah, and I doubt he would fix one of the problems we have right now.” Cadence huffed, “Sunset needs some clothes.”

“Don’t you think we should take her to the hospital first?” Chrys deadpanned, her eye twitching as she glared at Cadence.

“You feeling up to picking up some clothes first honey?” Cadence asked, looking through the mirror as the car skidded to a stop between a building with some shirts hanging up in the window.

“If it means I don’t have to hold this stupid thing over me anymore, sure.” Sunset sighed. It wasn’t that she was embarrassed about her body, after all five years of not be allowed to war anything except a few barely there scraps of cloth pretty much killed of any feelings of humiliation or modesty around people. What she didn’t want was people staring at the scantily clad teen walking through a crowd drawing a lot of attention. She found it hard explaining it to herself, or finding the full reason why she felt so self-conscious all of a sudden.

“Good, there usually isn’t anyone in here this time of day. We’ll take you back to the dressing room and then bring you some things to try on.” Cadence said.

“How am I supposed to pay for this? If you think I’m screwing the guy in there for this stuff, your nuts.” Sunset sniffed, turning to look away from the two women in the front seat who exchanged pained looks.

“Honey, I’m going to pay for this. If anybody even hints that you do that, you tell me. I’ll cut their nuts off.” Cadence said, sounding deathly serious.

“She’ll do it to. You should have seen what happened to the poor bastard who kept hitting on her sister-in-law and wouldn’t get the message.” Chrys said with a shark like grin, almost giggling. “I still remember him begging her to let go.”

“I don’t want to see anybody else get hurt.” Sunset sighed, making the two deflate a little.

“Honey, there’s no guys in here. Just a sweet older woman who runs a small clothing store.” Cadence said gently, making Sunset feel relieved. “Come on, let’s get you something to wear.”

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“Shining, honey, what’s going on?” Velvet asked as soon as Night Light and herself rushed into the small waiting room where Shining Armor paced back and forth.

“I’m not sure if I’m in the mood to talk to the two of you.” Shining Armor growled out angrily as he stopped his pacing, running his hands through his dishelved hair. He was pissed, very pissed off right now as he knew that the girl that was being examined by a woman doctor after she freaked out about the male doctor coming near her was his sister. It may not be Twilight, but she was his sister and he wanted answers from the only two who could provide them. Problem was, as pissed off as he was, could he keep calm enough not to say something he would end up regretting?

He loved his parents, his entire family, and to think they kept something like this hidden from him hurt. What made it worse was their decision to give that girl up because it was apparently that decision that landed her in the situation she was in now. How was he supposed to look at his parents right now when they were part of the cause behind the girl’s suffering?

“Son, I know that whatever it is that has you so worked up must be stressful, but that is no way to talk to your mother.” Night Light said, narrowing his eyes a little.

“Oh, I’m sorry dad.” Shining Armor mockingly said as he picked up a chair and threw it across the small room before turning back to them. “Maybe I should thank you two instead! Thank you for giving up my little sister to monsters who forced her into being a fucking sex slave! Thank you very fucking much!”

Velvet covered her mouth in horror, staring at him in confusion as she collapsed to her knees. Night Light was torn between telling his son off and comforting his wife, choosing the later within moments as he kneeled down next to her holding her.

“Shiny, what the hell are you talking about?” Night Light asked, realizing that this was very serious as Shining Armor hardly ever cried, and tears were streaming now as he breathed heavily. Night Light had never known his son to act like this.

“There’s a girl in there being examined because she was kept at a slave ring, forced to be a sex slave.” Shining Armor said, all of his anger leaving him as he took a step back and collapsed in the chair behind him. “She’s Twily’s exact copy, Twilight’s twin. There’s no way in hell you are going to tell me that she didn’t have a twin.”

“Your wrong, you have to be!” Velvet sobbed out, looking up at Shining Armor while shaking her head. Her eyes were full of hope that he was lying, yet something else was there also. “She died, Shiny.”

“What do you mean mom?” Shining asked, swallowing hard as the glare he was giving his parents softened.

“Shiny.” Velvet sniffed as she got up and moved to sit next to her son and took his hand in hers. “I was having twins, but I had to have a cesarean section. Your father was stuck in traffic and there were complications.” Velvet sobbed, “Twilight survived honey, but…”

“The other baby didn’t make it, son.” Night Light said sitting next to his wife, putting a hand on her shoulder for support as she cried.

“Then who is in there?” Shining Armor demanded, though the anger wasn’t behind his demand as he started wondering if perhaps there could have been a mix-up, either on purpose of accident. “She says her name is Twilight Sparkle, she even recognized my name when I found her. She kept begging me to take her home.”

“Do you think it’s her? Did they steal my baby?” Velvet sobbed as both father and son tried to comfort her, Shining Armor feeling like a heel for letting his anger get so out of control. He wasn’t sure what happened, he had never acted like this, but he felt like everything was upside down and he was so pissed at himself for not protecting that girl.

“I don’t know, but I think we should find out.” Night Light sighed, rubbing his temples.

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Sunset felt a little weird wearing jeans and a t-shirt with a simple pair of sneakers after only being allowed to wear only lingerie for nearly five years. At the same time it felt kind of good being able to cover herself up so people weren’t staring at her. Still the few people who did stare as they sat at a booth in a restaurant as Sunset attacked her second pecan waffle while trying to get the people around them out of her head. She couldn’t help feeling that they knew what she had done and were judging her for it.

“So Sunset, do you feel up to talking about what happened to you?” Cadence asked softly as Sunset swallowed yet another bite of the syrupy coated goodness. She really wasn’t up to talking much about it, but knew that if she didn’t then those bastards might get off. While she wasn’t too sure if she cared if they seek her for revenge or not, she didn’t want them looking for Twilight. If doing this would help protect Twilight, then she would do it.

“I don’t really remember a lot of my past before I ended up at the Lotus Blossom other than I knew Twilight when we were children.” Sunset sighed, making sure to keep any non important facts to herself as she couldn’t exactly tell these women she was a refugee from another dimension. “I was picked up off the street and promised a warm bed and food, which I guess they gave me. What I didn’t expect was being collared and turned into their slave. For almost five years the only two people who were nice to me really was Iron Will and Scar, but only Iron Will really tried to help me.”

“What happened to your face, honey?” Cadence asked, making Sunset pull more hair in front of the bruise and black eye on the left side of her face trying to hide it.

“I promised Tirek I would try and keep Twilight under control if he would stop drugging us. Twilight freaked out and they tied her up and made her watch them punish me.” Sunset said as she started shaking a little at the memories of it as it next to that one bastard, it was the most brutal experience she had been forced to endure there.

“What did they do?” Chrys asked before she could stop herself, horror at what such a young girl had to endure. Sure she had an idea that things like that had happened there, and probably worse, but knowing it happened for sure was something different.

“There were two of them, they took turns beating me and…” Sunset said, trailing off as she lost her appetite all of a sudden. She wasn’t sure why it was bothering her, being forced to do things was a normal part of her life until now. She had resigned herself to her fate long ago, even going so far to actually trying to force herself to actually enjoy it with Mac and the few times she had been with Iron Will. She never enjoyed it though, the most she could do was pretend while managing to more or less turn herself off during it.

“Caddie, why are we here? We should be getting her to a hospital to get checked out.” Chrys whispered to Cadence, though Sunset clearly heard it.

“First she needed actual clothes and some food, it isn’t like she’s in danger of bleeding out or something.” Cadence huffed, “Second, I called ahead and found out that the only woman doctor on call right now is seeing to another patient and is expected to be tied up for hours. So I called Redheart and she’s going to meet us at the clinic near my office in another half hour.”

“I can’t believe I didn’t think of that myself.” Chrys sighed.

“It doesn’t matter, I’ve been felt up by guys more than I’d like to admit. Do you honestly think another time would really bother me?” Sunset asked, her voice shaky as she realized she did care a little and was thankful of Cadence’s thoughtfulness.

“Well it matters to me, you’ve been through Hell sweetie and I’m not going to add to it if I can help it.” Cadence said making Sunset sniff a little. She was strong, she had to keep reminding herself of that as she kept wanting to cry again. She had already cried enough for a lifetime and didn’t want to let herself cry anymore. She was strong, she shouldn’t need to cry.

“Also, Auntie Luna will be meeting us after Redheart takes care of Sunset.” Cadence said, shifting nervously. “Honey, I was going to wait to introduce you two, but I already have somebody lined up to take you in. She’s my auntie and she’s looking forward to meeting you.”

“I know you mean well, but I know she isn’t going to want some filthy whore to stay at her home.” Sunset sighed, turning to look out the window fighting the urge to cry even more than ever.

“Sweetie, please don’t talk about yourself like that.” Cadence said as she changed sides in the booth so she was sitting right next to Sunset so she could hug the girl. “You can cry it out honey, there’s nothing wrong with crying. I’ll be here for you.”

“I’m not crying.” Sunset hiccupped as she kept looking out of the window, trying to deny the wetness on her cheeks.

Author's Note

This chapter was a little hard to do, especially near the end as it was hard to get Sunset's emotions to show how we wanted them. She's wanting to go with Twilight so much, but feels she is better off without Sunset. She's also hoping that she will be able to see her again so she's trying to be strong, but her feelings are so mixed up. She was so happy to finally be free, but now she doesn't know what to do. She hates herself for what she had been forced to do, wanting to make sure that Tirek pays for what he did. She just doesn't know what to think now though as she feels so lost.

I hope it turned out okay and hope you enjoyed the chapter as the next one starts the the Arc of the story which will introduce even more of the characters from EG or the MLP-verse.