"If Celestia was right and humanity was soulless and stagnant, then she'd have every right to 'uplift' them as she planned to do with me, using the Mirror of Reflected Worlds.
"But she wasn't. She couldn't be. If humans are truly soulless, then they shouldn't be able to use magic. But my friends here have never had any trouble. It sounded like an excuse from the very beginning.
"That's why I had to leave. The Celestia that taught me everything I know would never try to… cleanse an entire species from the face of a world the way you have.
"In order to be true to her ideals, to the virtues of Harmony she taught me - to be her most faithful student - I had to betray the tyrant she became, to warn humanity, and to help them fight back.
"Celestia… I'm sorry."

What if Sunset Shimmer fled to the human world to foil the plans of the Conversion Bureau? A side story to A World, Reflected. Has gore tag for implied serious injury and sex tag for literally sophomoric humor on the part of it's mostly teenage cast.

Cover image by CheckerboardAzn, used out of it's original context.