Midnight’s magic began to overpower Sunset as it drew closer to her. Moments from her victory, Midnight laughed manically.

“You should have stayed dead Sunset Shimmer!!” She screamed as her beam was mere inches away.

“I’m going to kill you slowly this time, make you an example of just what will happen if anyone dares cross me ever again!!”

Suddenly, there was an explosion of light, and a Shockwave of energy. Everyone was knocked from their feet. When they looked back, only Midnight Sparkle was left in the air. Sunset had been thrown back down to the earth, no longer in her glorious apparel, but instead, she was now left with no clothing at all. She was stomach down on the ground with many bruises and lacerations now littering her exposed body.

Midnight laughed manically as she saw Sunset's pathetic state on the ground.

"Look at you now! Oh mighty heroine of CHS!"

Sunset weakly looked up, before noticing Twilight's device within reaching range of her. She looked at Midnight Sparkle.

"Don't....make me do this Twi." She said with sadness, but determination.

Midnight scoffed.

"You seriously think you still have ANY power over ME?!!"

Her hands lit up with power once more, as she charged downwards to Sunset to put an end to her once and for all.

Sunset reached out and grabbed the device, still containing the power of the elements within it, and without missing a beat, held it out to Midnight Sparkle, and opened it up.

What hapened next seemed to move in slow motion as Midnight saw what Sunset was doing,but it was too late. With the noise, and force of a bomb, Midnight was thrown back, back, back, with un-natural force.

When everything had ended, Applejack, finally being able to look back after all had subsided, saw that Sunset was looking up at the sky with a look of utter disbelief. She also saw that Midnight Sparkle was....gone. But there was also no sign of Twilight in her place.

Rainbow Dash ran over and covered Sunset with a sweater.

Sunset was just staring into the sky.

"Twilight....oh Twi..."

Rainbow dared to ask the question she had been fearing the answer to.

"Sunset....where...is Twilight?"

Sunset weakly pointed to the sky.

Confused, Rainbow looked above, to the star spangled night sky.

She suddenly noticed a single star, different than the many others...it shone bright....mesmerizing to the eye.....and it was...purple?...

Rainbow put two and two together.

"No way.....No freaking way....That is....humanly impossible." She argued.

Sunset looked from the sky to Rainbow.

"All the crazy stuff you've seen since I came here, and you think something like this is impossible?"

"I....mean..." Rainbow started.

"It's real Dash...."

Vice principal Luna came over at that time, having gotten a large towel to wrap Sunset in, before getting her up off the ground, and taking her back to the others.

Sunset didn't have it in her to look at either body of students.

"You all might as well go home." She said sadly. "Twilight's not coming back..."

"Wait!!" Sunny flare suddenly cried. "What are we supposed to tell Twilight's family?!!"

"We'll tell them the truth!!" Principal Cinch cried. "That this school is a magical chaotic hazard to all, and that Twilight was menace!!"

Sunset looked sternly at the Shadowbolt's principal.

"Don't be ridiculous! They would never buy a story like that, and even if we showed them our powers to prove it, we don't want anyone becoming subject to experiments that would be likely to follow. No one can know about the powers here. This world is not ready for it. We also cannot afford to do anything that would ca use investigation into CHS... they could find something, and trace it's source to magic...so we can't say it was an accident that caused her death...."

"Then what do we tell them??"

"Tell them...." Sunset sighed. "Tell them I killed her."

"WHAT??!!" Her friends all shouted in unison.

"The only way to not have CHS as a whole investigated, is to put the blame on just one person that they can take to court."

"No way Sunset! There has to be some other way!" Applejack argued.

"There isn't. There just isn't..."

Author's Note

You guys....before you say anything about this alternate chapter.... I realized right after writing this, that Cadance was there, and witnessed everything....but, can we just pretend that this is an AU where Cadance did not actually come, and therefore was not present?

Otherwise I might as well delete this entire chapter.

I kicked myself so hard when I remembered she was there the whole time.