Sunset walked through the halls of Canterlot High humming slightly to herself, a smile on her face. On her back she held her backpack, filled to the brim with all the various knickknacks and doodads that had accumulated in her locker over the course of the past school year. And what an intense year it was, initiating her plan for revenge, getting turned into a demon, being redeemed, making friends and saving the school from a band of evil sirens who had been banished here by one of the greatest magical minds of all time.
A week ago, before the end of the current school year, one of Sunsets dearest friends, Twilight Sparkle, had offered to allow her to stay in her castle in her home universe of Equestria. Sunset had eagerly accepted the offer, and had been sure to inform all of her human friends that she would be gone for the majority of the break, intending to spend as much time as possible in her old home before returning for the next school year.
As she walked, Sunset couldn't help but smile thinking of how much her life had improved over the year. And perhaps, had she not been so busy reminiscing, she wouldn't have tripped over the uneven sidewalk near the statue portal.
"Whoa!" Sunset exclaimed, without thinking she reached out for the nearest thing to steady herself. It just so happened that the nearest thing, or rather person, happened to be Adagio Dazzle, leader of the Dazzling's and the most recent villain to try and manipulate the school.
"Hey watch it!" Adagio yelped as she was pulled along with Sunset in her forward momentum, having lacked any time to brace herself and prevent herself from being dragged along by the falling teens momentum.
Sunsets eyes widened in recognition of the sound of her enemies voice. "Oh no." She managed to whisper in shock just before her head entered the portal, her body and the banished villain quickly following. Almost immediately Sunset knew something was wrong with the portal. Where before the experience had been relatively quick trip through a rainbow tunnel of light was taking much longer than she remembered from her previous trips through, and there seemed to be more colors than she remembered. Another thing she noticed was a sort of sense of being pushed and pulled, as though she was being passed around like a ball, needless to say it was not a pleasant experience. Behind her Adagio was either screaming in terror or outrage, it was hard to tell over her own screams.
And then, for the briefest of moments, Sunset could swear that a gigantic creature of grey and gold flashed by for the briefest of moments, and then she felt herself being tossed through the air. With a thud Sunset roughly landed on a patch of grass, the plant life cushioning her rather rough landing. A soft thump next to her announces the arrival of her unexpected and unwanted companion.
"Oh my god." Sunset barely managed to hear Adagio whisper. The sound of horror in the sirens voice prompted the look over, whatever had installed that much fear in the normally cocky siren could not be good. Sunset turned her head over to where she had heard Adagio, and nearly screamed at what she saw.
It was unlike anything she had ever seen. An enormous serpentine body, seemingly composed of boulders with two large glaring eye's towered above the two. A mouth, large enough to swallow either one of them whole, was open in a snarl. Jagged stone teeth the size of daggers filled the beasts maw. The beast huge head hung over the terrified teens for a long second, staring down at them, maw agape.
And then it screeched. A horrible, bone shacking sound that filled the air and shook the ground. Birds fled the trees, leaves were pushed back, and the two aliens to this world screamed in fear.
Sunset and Adagio scrambled to get to their feet, struggling as they were still disoriented by the monsters screech. Soon enough, however, they managed to get to their feet and began to flee for their lives, only to be knocked back down as the monster slammed its huge stone head into the ground where they had stood not a moment before.
Sunset managed to get onto her feet quicker this time, and was almost into a group of trees before she realized that Adagio was not running with her. Turning back, the redeemed unicorn couldn't help but groan. "You've got to be kidding me." A large rock had been knocked into the air when the monster, who was currently shacking its head in a sort of daze, and had pinned the Dazzling by her hair.
As much as she wanted to leave the siren to her fate, she just couldn't bring herself to do something cold hearted, not after being redeemed by her friends. So with a sigh she ran over towards Adagio.
"Help me get this off of me before that thing charges again!" Adagio screamed in panic, desperately trying to shove the large chunk of stone off her hair from her awkward position.
With a shove, Sunset managed to budge the rock over a little, "What do you think I'm trying to do?" With a grunt Sunset finally managed to get the rock off of Adagio's head, only to be shoved by the siren as thanks. "Hey! What was . . ." The words died in her mouth as the monsters tail split the earth where Adagio had previously been pinned.
Gulping, Sunset turned and ran off after Adagio, who was just making it to the forest Sunset had been trying to get to a moment earlier. The rumbling of the ground was all the clue Sunset needed to let her know that the monster was hot on her tail. With a burst of speed Sunset managed to quickly catch up with Adagio.
"We need to find someplace to hide!" Sunset shouted, dodging past a branch.
Adagio leaped over a fallen log, only to trip over a large stone as the beast let out an earth shaking screech again. Taking a look around, the siren spotted a building off in the distance. "Over there!" She exclaims, "There's a house or something, maybe we can get some help!"
Sunset glanced over at the siren, "You really think they can help us with a giant rock monster?"
The monster let out another screech, knocking over several tree's in it's mad attempt to catch the fleeing duo. Adagio grimaced, "If you have a better idea, I'm open to suggestions."
A giant stone flew past the two, pulverizing a tree nearby and showering the two in splinters. "Strange building it is." The two took off towards the building, doing there best to avoid the blasting rocks and stay ahead of the beast behind them. As they got nearer to the building a small fence sprung up from seemingly nowhere, nearly tripping the two. However, the two managed to make it over quickly, not even slowing down for a second. After all, what good was a fence against a monster that could launch boulders from seemingly no where and level trees by crashing into them?
So intent where they on reaching the rapidly approaching building, they failed to notice that the giant beast of stone had stopped short at the fence, letting out a roar of rage before turning away in anger. They didn't stop running until they reached the door to the building and began to urgently knock on it upon finding it locked.
The door began to open, but the fearful girls just forced there way into the building, hurriedly slamming the door behind them. The two took a moment to breath, not hearing the grinding of stone on stone or feeling the earth quake at the creatures movement. The two looked at each other, not knowing if they should laugh in hysteria or begin to tear into each other like the foes they were. They didn't get a chance to figure it out as a hand gripping each of there shoulders grabbed their attention.
"So," A tall lanky man in a lab coat with brown hair and glasses began evenly, a mixture of humor and annoyance on his face. "Which one of you wants to tell me why you have just barged into my lab after making such a ruckus banging on the back door?"
Author's Note
Welp, here we are. A new story, new adventures and possibilities.
I just want to make one thing clear. I am using both the show and games for this story. I am also taking a creative license on how the towns and such are laid out. They will still be where they are on the map, but buildings, monuments etc. will be defined by me.
Also, if you're interested, I am looking for a pre-reader for this story. PM me if you are interested.
The Musicians Melancholic Musings and The Setting Suns Conviction.
Adagio absentmindedly tapped her foot as she waited for Sunset to explain their predicament to the self-labeled 'professor'. She knew she should be paying attention, should maybe be helping explain how and why they ended up here. Not that she knew for certain, mind you, but she had a decent idea as to why they were not in Equestria right now, with her being locked in some dungeon. She knew she should listen as the man known as Elm explained how his world worked, and how it was full of creatures like the one that had nearly killed her earlier.
But she couldn't. Because one thought kept running through her head, over and over again like a broken record on Sonata's gramophone.
'It happened again, only this time, I'm alone.'
She was trapped in this world, forced out of the last one by some cruel twist of fate. Fate, and Sunsets' clumsiness. She was alone too, or as good as. Sunset would probably ditch her the first chance she got, she had no real reason to stay with Adagio like Sonata and Aria did. No, this time she was in a strange new world with no one but her self to rely on. At least she got to stay in the same form as last time, she couldn't imagine having to get used to using a brand new body, again.
Sonata, Aria, will you two even miss me? It was a somber thought, but one that wormed it's way into Adagio's head. She knew of Aria's dreams of being in charge, she would seize her disappearance like a lion does it's prey, and relish in the fact that she was in control. Sonata, on the other hand, would most likely celebrate the fact that, with Adagio gone, she would no longer follow her rules. But how long would they enjoy her disappearance? A few days? A week? . . . Forever?
She wasn't blind to her faults. She was aggressive, stubborn and unwilling to listen to others contributions when she was sure of herself, which was nearly all the time. She liked to be in charge a little to much and was unwilling to admit when she was wrong. Which led to more than a few arguments. She also knew she came off as rather distant and gave the impression that she couldn't care less for her fellows, that the only reason she kept them around was so that she could have someone to boss around.
But she cared. She cared about her fellow sirens, enough to take on a janitorial job at the school to earn a little extra money when the money began to get tight, so that they could still afford the few commodities they had to distract them from their rather depressing situation. She cared enough to set ground rules and enforce them, to be the adult in the situation. Did she mess up some times? Sure. But no one was perfect, not even her. No matter what Aria thought, she did not claim to be perfect. Close, but not quiet.
It hurt to think that those two might actually be celebrating her disappearance.
". . . dagio. Adagio!" Sunsets voice snapped Adagio out of her depressing thoughts. It appeared as though Elm and Sunset had reached some kind of agreement whilst Adagio had been distracted by her thoughts. The older man was currently rummaging through a few papers whilst balancing a large cardboard box in his left hand whilst Sunset looked rather pleased with herself, though it was also mixed with irritation at Adagio.
"What?" Adagio snapped.
"Well someone's in a bad mood." Sunset rolled her eye's, "Anyway, I managed to convince Professor Elm to help us while you were in lala land."
"And how'd you manage that? Through the magic of friendship?"
Sunset scowled at the siren before answering, "No. I told him the truth. Apparently what happened to us isn't that strange."
"Really?" Adagio asked, a hint of hope in her voice, mixed with desperation, "Does he know a way we can get back?"
Sunset's face softened. Sure she didn't like Adagio, maybe even hated the girl, but at that moment she felt sorry for her. She hadn't wanted to go through the portal, probably hadn't even known it existed, and here she was stuck in a strange new world with her enemy. "No." Sunset shook her head sadly, leaning back in her seat. "The cases he's heard of mostly deal with time travelers, and people created by some kind of weird magic. But he's heard rumors of a Pokémon, creatures like that rock monster that chased us, that has the ability to influence reality that could possible send us home, but he says that it's extremely rare."
And just like that Adagio's hopes plummeted. "So there is no hope."
"That's not true." Sunset said, shacking her head. Her eye's burned with conviction. "There is always hope. I know my friends will find a way to bring me home, and if they can not, well, I'll find a way! I'll find that Pokémon and convince it to take us back!" Sunset was standing by the end of her little speech, Adagio half expected a flag to appear behind her as she spoke and billow in some unseen wind.
"Us?" Adagio asked in surprise.
Sunset looked at her and smiled. "Of course. What, did you expect me to leave you behind?" Sunset laughed lightly at the thought. "I'm not like that, Adagio. Besides," Sunset smirked, "Without you who knows how long Aria and Sonata would last without you?"
Adagio laughed a little. "You're right. I have to get back to keep those two idiots alive." She smirked, "And I doubt you'll be able to survive here without me anyway. I've seen how clumsy you are." Adagio stood from her chair, ignored Sunsets protest at being called 'clumsy', and stretched her arms. "I guess this means were stuck with each other for a while."
"I guess so." Sunset agreed curtly, miffed at being called clumsy.
Adagio extended her hand, ready to shake hands with her enemy and solidify what was likely to be a shaky and most definitely temporary truce, when she was bowled over by a little blue alligator with bright red spines on it's back and tail.
Author's Note
Chapters after this will be much longer, I promise!
Thank you Lucky Star 33094 for editing!
