Author's Note

Well, I've been in a rather bad mood the past two weeks, but I'm glad I managed to produce something.

Aria meets Sunset

Aria watched with mild interest the students of CHS walking alongside each other, happily chatting, laughing and generally saying that Sunset Shimmer is the biggest bitch in the entire existence. The siren resisted the urge to shake her head at those comments. These kids, children in her opinion, knew nothing about real bad people. Oh sure, Sunset did turn into a raging demon, but everyone with a greedy personality could have turned into one, had they just access to the Element of Magic. No, Sunset had simply been a school bully in a school full of idiots, who did not stand together against her. It shouldn’t have taken a pony princess from another dimension to “knock her off the throne”, so to speak.

“Speaking of the devil…” Aria muttered, pretty surprised to actually see Sunset Shimmer walking up the road, her head hung low and her left wrist being bandaged.

She must have been hurt, when she crashed into the ground. The siren thought, glancing over to the huge crater, which was closed off with some red and white tape. Apparently Sunset and her two lackeys or maybe former lackeys had not managed to fix the school grounds in one night. Either that or the principal and vice-principal just wanted to leave a message to the three former troublemakers and already called for an actual construction team to come over and get everything fixed.

The siren mentally debated with herself whether to approach the former unicorn now or wait until school was over. Fate decided to answer the question for her, as she heard a scream. Turning her attention back to the fiery haired girl, she found her on the ground, along with some of her school books. A male student stood next to her, grinning.

“Oh, did you trip yourself?” he asked in a smug tone. He then proceeded to stomp on one of her books and rub it into the dirt. Sunset looked up, tears clearly visible in her eyes, though she tried very hard to suppress them.

Aria didn’t waste any more time. Before the male teen could do as much as make a noise, Aria had walked in front of him and crushed his male parts with her leg. The letters K and O were clearly visible in his eyes. He fell over to the side, unconscious and most likely unable to give on his genes. The siren didn’t pay any attention to him. Instead she focused on Sunset, who was still lying on the ground. The girl wiped her eyes with her sleeve, before looking up to her savior. The siren didn’t say a word, as she bent down and grabbed the arms of the yellow girl, helping her up. Sunset grunted from her limbs aching.

“T-thanks…” she stuttered.

“Don’t mention it.” Aria bent down again, this time picking up the ruined school book. It turned out to be one for history lesson. “Huh, you know my sister wrote a few lines here and there. Never understood why she’s so interested in our education system.” the siren shrugged, handing the book over to the unicorn, only for the first few pages to fall to the ground.

“Well this sucks.” the siren threw the rest of the book away. Sunset looked a little crestfallen. A little group of students snickered at her misery, making her feel even worse. Aria ignored them and grabbed Sunset’s arm.

“Come on. Let’s talk to your principal.”

“W-what?!” The former unicorn yanked her arm free and took a few steps back. “Wh-why would we go there? I mean, it’s really no big deal- ahh! Let go of me!”

“Shut it!” Aria barked and Sunset immediately went silent. “Good. Now do me a favor and lead me to the principal’s office.”

“Y-yes.” the other girl stuttered, suddenly finding her savior really, really scary. She swore she saw the eyes of the girl flashing green for a second.

Inside the school teenagers were busy chatting with each other. However it became eerily quiet once Aria and Sunset came into view. The latter tried her best to become one with the wall next to her. Aria in the meantime tried to keep herself calm, as the student body’s hate towards Sunset Shimmer was justified. As long as they didn’t do anything like the guy outside, it would be like helping a bully if the siren became active. Luckily most of them appeared to be satisfied by either looking the other way or gawking at the new girl. Although that too was somewhat dimmed, due to Sunset Shimmer of all people leading her around. Most of them were surprised she showed up at all. Aria kept also an eye out for any of the Rainbooms, but had no luck in seeing one of them. And before she knew it, they were in front of Celestia’s office. To say that Aria wasn’t excited, would have been a lie.

“Well...here we are. So...I have to get to class-” Sunset cut herself off, when she saw Aria grabbing her arm once again.

“You’re going nowhere.” the siren said with authority in her voice. She didn’t even look Sunset Shimmer in the eyes this time.

Knocking at the door three times, it only took two seconds, before the audible “Come in, could be heard.” The siren could feel Sunset Shimmer shaking, from the grip she had over the girl. The unicorn probably didn’t notice Aria taking in a deep breath.

Inside the office...well, Aria didn’t remember the movies that good, let alone the side locations in it, so she wasn’t sure how accurate it was compared to the movie. It was tidied up, very simple with only a few shelves, no plants or personal items. A computer sat on her desk, which had nothing on it and behind the principal was a huge window, enlightening the entire room. And that was it, aside from the principal of course, who didn’t look all too impressed upon seeing a random girl dragging Sunset Shimmer into her office. Suppressing a sigh, the principal leaned forward, crossing her fingers.

“Can I help you two somehow?”

Aria let go of the other girl and placed herself on one of two chairs placed in front of Celestia’s desk.

“My name is Aria Blaze and let’s get straight to the point.” Don’t ask for her autograph. “Your student over here got attacked by another student in front of the school. The rest of the student body didn’t seem to care by the way. Also her history book was destroyed by the very same student.”

Celestia kept a neutral expression, while her eyes wandered from Aria to Sunset.

“Are you sure there was no provocation beforehand?”

“Yes, I am. I am also aware that the girl over here turned into a demon last night, thanks to the Element of Magic and I’m also aware that she was cleansed with the Elements of Harmony, basically meaning she is never going to do anything ever again.”

Both Celestia and Sunset stared at the girl with wide eyes. The former could pretty much guess what the girl meant with Element of Magic and Elements of Harmony, given the events the previous day. Sunset herself could pretty much guess that the girl sitting next to her must have been from Equestria as well. So far only the five girls knew about the portal, no one else.

“I...see.” the principal composed herself. “Maybe you could start from the beginning.”

Aria smiled. “So you really don’t know about it then…”

Thirty minutes later Celestia was staring at Sunset with wide eyes. Aria politely left out the fact that she was capable of hypnotizing other people and just offhandedly mentioned that she and her sisters got sick of Equestria, incidentally happened to find out about the portal and after checking the place out, they decided to stay on this world. At this point no one could check if she was saying the truth or not. Principal Celestia was still wrapping her head around the fact that an actual pony had been attending her school for years. Not to mention Sunset must have faked the papers she submitted somehow!

“Now, I would ask you to do me a favor.”

Celestia looked back to Aria, who had stood up from her chair. “Keep what I told you for yourself. You can tell the vice-principal, if you want but no one else. Let Sunset stay at this school, as I can assure you. I know enough about the Elements of Harmony to know that she won’t pull anything ever again. Now, Sunset” Aria turned towards the former unicorn, taking out six envelopes in total “please hand these over to the five elements. I know this comes out of nowhere, but there’s a lot we have to discuss.” She gave Sunset the envelope, who eyed them suspiciously.

“...Why do you do all of this?” the fiery haired girl asked.

Aria looked down at the girl, giving her a kind smile. “You’ll see, once you and the others are at our place. Oh, before I forget. Go home. Seriously, my sisters and I watched the entire thing happening. I honestly thought back then you had all your bones broken.” The siren turned to Celestia.

“Do you have any more questions, principal?”

Celestia turned her head to the purple girl. “No...not...yet.”

“Still wrapping your head around this, huh?” Aria chuckled. “I actually thought you would take this better after she turned into a- oh.” The siren flinched. “Sorry. Didn’t want to bring it up again.”

Sunset let her head hung. “It’s fine. After all I’ve done...I deserve a lot more.”

“Like being beaten into the ground?” Aria asked in a deadpan.

Celestia cleared her throat. “In any event, Miss Blaze, could you please leave me your number. I will come back to you later...after a got aspirin.”

“Go for the whisky.” Aria advised, writing down her number on a piece of paper.

“Well then, I’ll be off.” Aria waved her hand and left the office.

Once the door was closed, Celestia turned to Sunset, who shrunk under the gaze of the principal. “We have a lot to discuss, Miss Shimmer.”

Later that day during lunch, the cafeteria buzzing with activity, as always. News about a girl who saved Sunset Shimmer’s hide spread quickly around the student body. Bull Dozer, the guy who decided to pay Sunset Shimmer back first, was called to Luna’s office during the first period. Almost everyone was disappointed, when they heard that the guy slipped up and basically confessed everything.

On a table to the far end of the hall, Rainbow Dash, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Rarity and Fluttershy sat together, discussing the recent event.

“I’m surprised she showed up at all.” Rainbow scowled. “I mean, after we kicked her butt yesterday I thought she was going to sit at home and sulk or something.”

“Rainbow, could you please have a little bit more tact.” Rarity chided. “Although I agree. I expected her to wait maybe until after the holidays, you know, when things have a little bit calmed down.”

“Hmm, ya know, ah reckon Twilight asks us to show Sunset Shimmer all ‘bout friendship, but ah also reckon ah’m still more than a little miffed at her after everything, ya know.”

“Oh, come on Applejack!” Pinkie Pie drank from her tabasco bottle. “I’m sure she’s lots of fun! We just have to take the shovel and dig it out of her heart.”

“That’s a weird metaphor, even for yer standards Pinkie.” Applejack replied.

“Oh, um, speaking off...has anyone seen Sunset Shimmer?” asked Fluttershy.

“Nope. But ah think ah saw that gal walking through the hallways, when ah came from the bathroom.” AJ informed the rest. “Didn’t look like anyone from the neighbourhood.”

“Well, what did she look like?” asked Rainbow with a roll of her eyes.

“Ah only got a short glance. She had similar skin ta Twilight, but had two pigtails or some similar hairstyle. Ah don’t remember her clothes, but ah did notice she was wearing some expensive gem around her neck.”

“She probably wouldn’t have helped out, if she knew what Sunset has done in the past.” Rarity frowned. “I know everyone, myself included, is still miffed at her, but doing exactly what she did would be make us no better than her.” Rarity stated.

“Speak of the devil.” Rainbow Dash pointed towards the entrance, where Sunset Shimmer and Principal Celestia were standing.