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It was storming in Canterlot City, which meant that most of everyone there was inside. Most apartments in Canterlot were running on generators, and some had even lost power entirely. The rain was falling so heavily that it could crush someone. The frequent lightning and thunder complimented the rainfall very nicely.

Sunset Shimmer sat inside of her bedroom in her apartment, reading a book that her friend Twilight Sparkle (SciTwi) had recommended for Sunset to read. It was called "Summer Falls", and was written by an author who was apparently never seen by anyone in person, even though her book was in the city's best bookstores.

It wasn't a bad book, in Sunset's total opinion. It had an interesting plot, fascinating characters, and amazing detail, which really made Sunset glad that she was reading it. As she flipped to the next page, however, her bedroom light just turned off.

'Ugh! I hope that wasn't a blown fuse!' Sunset thought to herself, angry that she had just been interrupted by the inconvenience of her light turning off on its own. She got up, slightly waving her arms in front of her to avoid bumping into anything. When she reached her bedroom door, she opened it and saw that everything in her apartment room had lost power.

'You have to be kidding.'

She started to move towards her door to get into the apartment complex's hallway but bumped into a coffee table. She yelped quietly in pain but got over it quickly. She continued on her way to the door and made it.

She opened the door and was bemused to see that the lights had gone off in the hall as well.

Sighing, Sunset went back inside to retrieve her cell phone from her bedroom. She did so quickly and made her way back to the hallway, aided by the light from her phone.

She looked around the hall, seeking the fusebox that was on the wall. When she saw it, she headed towards it, hoping that there were extra fuses inside of the small, glass case that the landlord always wanted to keep extra fuses at. Everyone living in the apartment complex agreed with this (having extra fuses next to the fusebox) a while ago, so the apartment's company began to raise money to pay for extra fuses.

Sunset opened the glass case, holding her phone in her other hand. She took one fuse and shut the case. She opened the fusebox and looked for a blown fuse.

She was filled with perplexion when she saw that there were no blown fuses, though.

'What in Cele-'

The sound of booming thunder was heard, and a fuse blew up right in Sunset's eyes.

She screamed, not totally sure what had happened, but knowing that it was bad since her eyes felt as though they were being roasted like marshmallows. She had just dropped her phone, not caring about it at the moment, and covered her eyes in hopes of easing the pain.

As soon as the pain and the volume of her screams amplified, she wondered why in all Tartarus she thought covering her eyes would ease the pain.

Her screams of agonizing pain had soon grown quiet, and she blacked out.

Sunset woke up... in a void of nothingness. That's all she saw. It was totally silent, and there was no signs of life, or even objects, anywhere around her. When she glanced down, she noticed that she couldn't even see herself. She began to hyperventilate, fearing the worst.

As her breaths became louder, she noticed a sort of... white pulse coming from where she could only assume her mouth was since she couldn't see herself. As the white pulse got further away from her... things began to become visible. However, everything was a ghostly shade of black, with bright white lines defining the shapes of objects around her.

"W-what?!" Sunset said, making another pulse come from where she was. She had spoken a little louder than she expected to, but she was more concerned that everything was black with white outlines. She stayed quiet for a moment, but then everything began to turn to the terrifying shade of black.

"W-wait!!" Sunset said, again, louder than she expected herself to say it. As she said that, another white pulse came from her direction. Everything was defined by white outlines again.

Sunset looked around while the white outlines were still present, and she noticed that she was in... a hospital room? Something like that. It might've been easier to tell if she could see a little more than just black with a little bit of white.

Sunset was calmed down, but only a little bit. She had no idea what was happening to her, or why. Was she going to be like this forever?

Right after that thought, the door to the hospital room opened, making a white pulse come from the door, and an unknown figure, along with six very familiar looking figures walked in. But just like everything else in the room, they were all a void-like shade of black, with white outlines defining the shape of their figures and a few other details, such as clothing.

"SUNSET!!!" The six feminine figures all screamed. This made a very... powerful... white pulse emit from them. At the same time, it made Sunset's ears ring.

"GAH! Ouch!" Sunset said, covering her ears. Everything seemed to be louder than usual today... or tonight? Sunset couldn't tell. Mainly because there were no windows in the room.

"OH MY GOSH! SUNSET, WE MISSED YOU SO MUCH!!! ARE YOU OKAY?! WE WERE SO WORRIED THAT YOU WERE A GONER, BUT WE GOT HOPE FROM EACH OT-"

The sound and speed of that voice gave away who was talking. That was definitely the voice of Pinkie Pie. However, it didn't help Sunset's pained ears very much.

"Ow..." Sunset muttered.

'Wait... if Pinkie's here... were those other voices the other girls?' Sunset thought to herself.

"Girls... is that you?" Sunset asked, emitting another white pulse. She realized something after that. Every time there was a sound, one of those white pulses would emit from wherever the sound was coming from. It also seemed like louder sounds had more powerful pulses.

"Yeah.... of course it's us, Sunset!" A voice that sounded like Rainbow Dash said.

"One of yer neighbors told us what happened to you, Sunset. At least what they thought happened..." another voice said, sounding like a certain farm girl named Applejack.

"You tried to change a fuse while there were lightning bolts striking everywhere?" Twilight asked, sounding worried sick.

"..."

Sunset stayed quiet.

"Well?" Rainbow asked.

"..."

Sunset stayed silent.

"You alright, hun?" Applejack asked.

"I..."

Sunset was beginning to think about her current state. Everything was black and white. She was hearing everything at least twenty percent louder. She had barely recognized her own dear friends at first. She had a killer headache. She was seeing pulses of white outlines coming from any sound that she heard.

"Is... there a doctor anywhere nearby...?!" Sunset asked, her voice cracking a little.

"Right here!" Said the unfamiliar figure that was with the girls.

"Oh... good..." Sunset said, feeling a little more than just worried.

"Did you need something?" The doctor asked, rather happily.

"Can you tell me what's wrong with me?"

The room went silent for a moment, which made everything go completely black for Sunset.

"Well... assuming that you mean about your vision... we weren't able to totally figure it out. You're not totally blind, but you're blind... to a limited extent. You seem to have developed some sort of... echolocation-like ability. It isn't echolocation... but it's very much like it. Even then, we haven't seen it before." The doctor said.

"Oh...?" Sunset said, rather quietly.

"But... we were able to figure out that it's still developing, so you might just be able to see a lot better before you know it!" The doctor said.

"Oh... that's great." Sunset said, giving a worried smile.

"But..."

Sunset's smile vanished.

"You won't be seeing many colors anytime soon. Perhaps you will one day... but that will be... quite a while from now. From what we've predicted, you won't be seeing color for about fifteen to twenty-five years."

Sunset's expression morphed into a frown.

"I'll leave you all here to chat for a little bit. I'll be back in about fifteen minutes." The doctor said, his face full of sympathy. He left the room, but Sunset could still see the pulses of outlines coming from his footsteps through the wall.

"So... I guess you had a crazy night pretty recently, huh?" Rainbow said, attempting to lighten the mood a little.