9. where stuff happens and a pissed hen ends in space.

Sunset was writing to Princess Twilight, using that old book as a chat of sorts, it felt weird when

Twilight's words were appearing and the hour-long lag it took words to appear only made it worse,

On their first chats, Twilight seemed to reply randomly. Luckily, both had devised a way to write

With some coherence, they close their books until it buzzed. It was slow, but worked.

Sunset sent Twilight a short note.

"I’ll be there soon, we need to talk."

Sunset got herself before the portal Monolith, studying the polished black onyx it was made, she

Pondered her whole life....

Her book suddenly buzzed alive.

Twilight replied.

"Sunset, how do you expect me to take you seriously? Today isn't even a full moon on your

Dimension, for Celestia's sake!"

Sunset then got the portal device; she pushed the power button, the onyx then made strange ripples

And then it deformed as in a vertical water pond, making a huge sideways splash, the black onyx

Then looked like a sea of Mercury, Sunset approached the Monolith and tentatively touched the surface

It was neither cold nor hot, it lacked temperature, and it also lacked any resistance to her hand movement,

She then overcompensated and got elbow deep on the Monolith, and then it actually pulled her inside.

Once she fully broke the surface,  then she was at the opposite end of the Monolith, not as she actually trespassed it, she knew she was actually inside; it was an infinite black depth, soon interrupted by a cluster of stars approaching her, or she was approaching them, she wasn't sure, she was then trying to hold her breakfast in her tummy because she now felt ingravid, also inertia was pushed under the bus, and luckily, because Sunset now was dragged at an increasingly ludicrous speed.

She approached towards the 'stars' and eventually travelling inside a tunnel made of said stars and even whole galaxies were there. Now her mind apparently began playing tricks on her, she heard the first 'I love you' Flash Sentry said

She heard Twilight vanquishing her devil inside, parts of the song of the Sirens... she approached

to a bigger star in a beeline, then she impacted it, now she was lying in grass besides a full body

Mirror, she tried to get up, only to fail.

"Oh right, hooves... Pony, all that jazz."

She pranced to the mirror to meet her, a rather shocked pony.

"Cool, it worked... Twilight owes me some Tea and biscuits"

She pranced on the grass; there was some architecture of Canterlot facture, the grass interrupted to let space to train tracks, she assumed due the orientation of Canterlot's skyline the tracks were from the Friendship Express to Ponyville-Sweet Apple Acres-Appleloosa scenic line.

She pranced down the tracks; she knew there was a station somewhere....

Somewhere...

8 Hours Later, exhausted, Sunset arrived to a Station, the sign said "Ponyville" Sunset

Then spewed enough curses to make a sailor blush. A pony on the station turned her head towards

Sunset Shimmer, nodding her head in disapproval on her profanity fallout while saying “Such young thing, such rudeness…”

Sunset then meet Snails, from miss Cherilee's class he was curious at the random cursenami

asking about, Sunset just said.

"Had to travel through a wormhole."

"A wormhole? You had to dig?"

Tired, Sunset said.

"Look, I hope for you an easy life, were you never realize how dumb you are."

Then a confused Snails, thanked her, not sure on how to feel.

Sunset left the station prancing to Ponyville's plaza, were she hoped to get her bearings

from that map Twilight send her a time ago. She knew she lived on Golden Oaks library.

When she arrived to Plaza, she gone to the town hall and asked for directions.

The guard that was stationed there replied mechanically.

"Golden Oaks, go down the Street at your left three blocks, then, you go north, cross the river. It is

before the Windmill"

Thanks, but no thanks I found someone who can likely help me.

Effectively, Pinkie Pie was doing some errands across the street, her saddlebags filling

with all sorts of fun and novelty items.

"Thanks, oh, also I need 20 assorted balloons... Uh, hey Shimmer!" Pinkie saw her across

the street, and with a big grin she approached Sunset Shimmer. The store owner came out with a paper bag

"It would be 5 bits, Oh, drat why she's Pinkie Pie when she won't?"

Pinkie surprised Sunset by appearing on her field of vision upside down and over her

"Hi Shimmy! you got tired of humans? You want to try our local cuisine? That means

having some hanky panky fun with local stallions? Wink! Wink!" Pinkie even said the last line while winking.

"No Pinkie, its just business..."

Pinkie suddenly gasped in a sudden revelation.

"Do you mean you found your dead body on the human dimension and you're about to know

that your likeness from someone of the 30 dimensions is trying to kill her dimensional sisterhood so she

can become the only one?" Pinkie's hair then deflates, "Sunset, that's so sad!" then Pinkie

hugged Sunset, who desperately needed it. "Uh, Pinkie, I need to see Twilight"

"Then go see her, Silly!" After that Pinkie hair began to slowly inflate, while taking a bow to protect her friends wherever she was at any moment.

Sunset made it to Golden Oaks, now just charred remains, she then gawked besides the burnt down structure an almost carbon copy made of glass, or crystal , she approached the door and knocked at it, after some seconds, the door opened, and Spike appeared. He looked at Sunset and quickly said.

“Hi Ms Shimmer, Twilight talked to me about your visit, come in, but she’s no expecting you… This would be a surprise to her.”

Sunset followed Spike While looking at the place setup, yep, it looked like a Library and a house’s foyer combined, and the result wasn't ugly at the least. Twilight then appeared at the stairs, she looked at her and squealed like a school-filly. Quickly prancing down the steps.

“Sunset! How you made it to Equestria? Isn't even full moon, not even a setup for the Rainbow Bridge to work…”

“The what? Twilight?”

“Sunset, the portal linking both worlds, that term was coined by me after that was how it looked the times I transited it”

Sunset, after getting a parchment and a quill told to Twilight.

“Twilight, how I can explain it, the portal is actually a wormhole, look our 3 Dimensional space, can be isometrically depicted on a piece of paper, then she got the parchment and drawn two points separated 3 inches away, those separate points can be together at zero distance if the paper is folded along the intersection, separated by an equal distance to both points, a wormhole works this way and allow us to move great distances in no-time, curving space.”

“Oh my…did you became the clever girl didn’t you?”

“Don’t rub it, it’s just that I pay attention on class, and also that I hit hard the books.”

“Oh my… Why do you do that Sunset? I would never do that to books.”

“Neither I, that’s just an expression. Also, showing you this wasn’t my main reason. Look I found a terrible thing. On my dimension, Canterlot Police found me!”

“Found you?” Twilight looked puzzled.

“They found my body! I was DEAD! Look, I’m sure she was me, but she was dead for a while, even years."

Twilight was now in the verge of crying out of empathy with her friend, she wanted to help her “Sunset, look, I can tell you something for sure, did you ever met your ‘Canterlot high’ equivalent?”

“Didn’t know everypony had an equivalent there until I met Principal Celestia, it seemed confusing at first until I guessed both worlds are actually parallels, also, the inhabitants refer to themselves as ‘humans’ so, ‘Human World’ seems more accurate. Also, you are implying the dead body was my equivalent on ‘Human World’?”

“Sunset I didn’t imply anything, you did and found your answer by yourself, how you found the body of this Hiuuuu Man?

“It’s Human, just separate the word in two, huuu and Man and you’re all set, didn’t found the body by myself, Canterlot Police contacted me, they supposed I was the body. She had a blow on her head, body was frozen due to cold climate on that region, she was found on a permafrost area”

“Sunset #2 could had been attacked by somepony”

Sunset corrected twilight “Is ‘somebody’ there…In Human World there’s just one dominant species, humans.”

“So, somebody then? Okay, but if she was attacked, by who? And Why?”

Twilight after staring her own hooves for sometime, asked to Sunset:

“Also, how did you beat the full moon rule?”

Sunset then rummaged on her saddlebag, that before was her backpack for the portal controller. And gave it to Twilight

“There, Human Twilight gave this to me, look if you press the first button, it powers on, then the second button opens a portal on any moment, no more ‘almost 3 year gap between uses’ the third button makes it explode.”

“Okay first two buttons make sense, but who makes it explode? Also, why didn’t you just thrust me and not an human doppelgänger of me?”

Sunset was now getting annoyed. “Look, as your doppelgänger, that Twilight made the device you’re now holding.”

Twilight, knowing she was caught, replied with just a dry “Understood.” Then after some idle seconds she complemented “Look if this machine allows you to travel when you want, I suggest we both go there, so I can see with myself and cooperate to sort this out”

“Thanks Twilight, I’ll be happy to ride along besides you, ride, or walk, or whatever.”

“Wouldn’t have it any other way Sunset. Spike!!! I have to be out of town for some time, take care of everything here. Also get a Mouse from your corn hole and give it to Owliscious.”

Shocked Sunset asked “How corn hole?”

“Corn hole is where the cereal are stored on the paltry, sometimes, mice crawl in there. What did you supposed it was?”

“Never ever, lose your innocence Twilight. You don’t want to know, just believe me.”

They got train tickets on Ponyville. And after accommodating on the caboose they idly chit chatted the whole travel to Canterlot.

“So, how’s life treating you past the rainbow?”

“Peachy Twilight, do you remember Flash Sentry? Guess who’s together now… Us!”

Twilight felt amazed, she knew Flash used to date Sunset, until she dumped him, that relation reviving was close to be unexpected.

“Sunset I’m so happy about you! Look, we’re going to raid the shops on both Canterlots, we can even get pampered on the Spa, also try again to do a pajama party… With s’mores and everything!”

“Everything as in everything everything?”

“Yes!” replied Twilight on a voice so high only bats and dogs could fully register her words “We are going to be. So. Much. Girl.”

Finally train stopped on terminal station, both stepped down from it Sunset gawking around, “So this is now the station were it ends? Years ago before going trough the mirror, the Canterlot station was like 5 minutes down the street at prancing speed and station wasn’t terminal, it gone up the Manehattan beaches, now that was scenic!”

Twilight commented,

“Right, so do you know were are we going?”

“It was a park, or someplace with grass, near the tracks… I supposed the station was southern, so that’s were we need to go.”

So, southern both gone, eventually they reached the ‘park’ that wasn’t a park at all, but remains of the Southern palace, destroyed back when a ten times worse Discord version popped from the mirror with mean intentions. That was a year ago, about the time Flurry Heart got her Cutie Mark.

Sunset then stepped on the grass that once was the palace’s foyer “Look, grass, garden, think I’l try a sample…” she then lowered her head, when she almost reached her goal she was stopped by Twilight “Don’t try it, Sunset, it’s discorded grass, if you eat it you’ll get chronic trots for the rest of your life, about a week…”

“Dully noted, thanks.”

When they reached the mirror, Sunset took out the Portal Generator and pushed the #2 button, nothing happened… Then after fiddling with it for a minute, she pushed #1 button, the machine came to life with a high frequency pitch, then she pushed the #2 button, now it worked, Sunset took note to comment to Twilight about the need to put a LED somewhere indicating that the machine was on.

They centred themselves to walk through the mirror, this time, Sunset steeped first, experiencing again her former experiences, there were the inertia and gravity suppression and the instant queasy feeling, Twilight who entered after Sunset was enjoying the ordeal a bit too much, Squealing on nerdy joy the whole way plus making ‘interesting’ comments “ Look! That’s a White Midget! That’s a supernova That’s a black hole…. No no no no This is bad.” She felt the gravity pulling her towards the point of singularity, a point with infinite density and infinitely small, just the minimum to hold matter… She tried desperate to hold on Sunset who had an idea, she got the Portal Generator with her mouth, and managed to press button #3 and then hurdling it towards the black hole, it before time slowed too much, exploded on an orb of white light, it was the light what pushed both back in the wormhole, they both contemplated the birth of a star… “Now that’s something you don’t see on everyday, I think I’ll call it “Twilight Shimmer” after both of us.”  “No way, it should be Sunset Sparkle for same reasons you commented”

“No! Twilight Shimmer you creep.”

“Nay! It’s Sunset Sparkle!”

“Come on! How you want to name a new star ‘Sunset’?”

“Did you get a feather on your brain while preening? Twilight is the separator of day to night, AKA a setting sun!”

“It has a nice ring on it!”

“Ohh yeah, we have to do whatever our Pwincess deawest wants…”

“That’s it, you’re getting it.” Twilight had Sunset’s mane on her hand and was pulling it without realizing that she.

A. had a human hand.

B. Sunset was becoming more and more human.

They popped out of the CHS monolith, and nearly hit someone’s parent, a obese man with green pants and white shirt, who was now profusely bleeding from his nose, he turned to see who hit him, but only saw a 6 Ft 8” Philadelphia hen who was now clocking for his neck, both began to exchange fist blows, they fought like a certain old toy with robots, mechanically, they landed punches on each other, eventually they got to the Space Centre then they got into a space shuttle that took off to space with it’s homicidal payload.

Then much less Viciously gone the fight of Shimmer vs. Sparkle, both pulling each other hair.

And exchanging insults, being Twilight’s innocent and with no hurting payload, but Sunset’s mouth was in need for some soap, permeating horrible curses only the tamest made it here.

“By Celestia I hope you survive your children!”

“Ha, I can only produce foals not children, joke’s on you…”

“Those foals can only exist if you even develop the nerve to actually meet a stallion.”

“Like Flash Sentry? You lost your chance with him, but you don’t want anypony else to have her chance decide yourself!”

“ Do not ever put that name on your mouth!” sunset now connected a right uppercut on Twilight, who fell square on the ground, unconscious, before Sunset can gloat on her victory she heard

the familiar voice of Barbara ‘babs’ Cooper  “Come with me if you want to live” and then she fired

her gun, Sunset felt it instantly, the  two prongs zapped her with a good deal of volts and just the right Amperage to not permanently hurt a healthy person, but she fell unconscious to the floor besides Twilight.