Chapter 3: Dreams of Disaster to Hope of Aster

A young Sunset was running. The cold air nipped at her fingers. She had to get away. She had been through this part of town before. She wasn't even sure if her dad wanted her to come back home, though every time she did she was welcomed back with open arms. That's what she used to think.

She kept running, not paying attention to where she was going, when she ran into someone, a police officer. She fell over and looked up as he turned around.

"Excuse me, but are you okay?" the officer asked.

"Ye... Yes," Sunset replied, sniffling.

"Are you lost?" he asked, concerned.

Sunset couldn't tell him that she ran away, and she knew that it was the end of a school day anyways, so she made up a lie. "Yes, I was on my way home from school. My dad's waiting for me." She knew that if she told him about her father, she would get in trouble with him.

"Okay, I'll get you home. I promise."

"Thank you."

The officer brings her home, and Sunset thanks him again.

Sunset walks into the house, alone. She sees her father on the couch, a drink in his hand. She knew that if she talked to him now, things wouldn't end well. She started to sneak up to her room when she heard him yell, "SUNSET SHIMMER!"

Sunset woke up, gasping and covered in sweat. It was just a nightmare she thought. She looked around and saw that she was in a hospital. She then looked down at herself and saw her pony self. She kept herself from screaming. "And that part wasn't a dream," she mumbled to herself.

The amber unicorn got out of her bed, and tried to stand on her back two hooves, before realizing that, as a pony, she would need to walk on all fours. Memories of the previous day, that is if the last time she was awake was the previous day, flooded into her mind. She knew that she had to get out of there unnoticed so that was nobody, or, as she had thought she had heard, nopony would question her about her parents.

Looking out of the window, she saw fillies playing around, so she figured that ponies worried less about their young than humans would, probably because there was less crime. She knew that if she got out of the hospital without being identified as a being by herself, then she could find someplace where she could start over, and maybe even be happy.

Sunset walked to the door, which was closed, and tried to open it, at first with her front hoof. However, she could not, being unaccustomed to how they worked. She could have sworn she saw a nurse use her hoof to exit the room. She then remembered the doctor, and that he had used magic to open the door. She remembered him saying that she was also a unicorn, and thus had magic. She then concentrated on the handle, and wanting it to open, and on using her own magic to open it. Sunset felt something within her. This must be magic! she thought to herself.

She continued to concentrate until the handle turned and the door opened slightly. But that was all she was able to do. She promised to herself that she would get some practice after she got out of here and got someplace safe, without her being questioned.

She pushed the door the rest of the way open with her hoof, and looked out the door down the hall. There was no one there. So, she went to the end of the hall and found the stairs, and was barely able to get the door to the staircase open. Right after she heard the door close, she heard voice coming down the hall.

"This young mare has almost no memory of Equestria, I think we should scan her again, make sure that everything is okay."

Sunset thought this voice belonged to the doctor that had questioned her, what was his name again? Right? Kite? White! Sunset was decently good with names, and she knew that her memory would come in handy while discovering this world.

"But, you told me that she started to remember, that she even knew where her parents were."

Sunset identified this voice as one of the nurses she saw earlier.

"True, but she is headed the wrong direction, Las Pegasus is on the other side of Equestria."

"She could have made a simple mistake and got on the wrong train, we've all done that."

"Yes, I know, I had my fair share of doing that. Though we still should check on her to make sure she is okay."

She heard the ponies walking towards the room she had been staying in, so she quickly turned around and headed down the stairs. She had gotten some useful information from that conversation, especially the fact that the main form of transportation was a train. Now all she needed to do was to get out of the hospital and find it. She reached the bottom floor, and exited out of the staircase. She walked out confidently, hoping no one would notice that she was a patient. Fortunately, the people working at the front desk hadn't seen her, so she was able to walk out without being caught.

Author's Note

Hello, dear reader!

Another chapter done! This is what I'm doing instead of studying for finals. RIP me. As always, feel free to correct spelling and grammar errors.

I came upon doing this by wanting to do a Sunset fanfic, but all the ideas were taken. Then I realized that I hadn't seen any fanfics of human Sunset coming to Equestria when Pony Sunset left. So, that is what inspired me. Everything that happens to Pony Sunset in the human world remains the same as the EQG canon, at least for now.

Also: note on chapter title: Aster is being used as the opposite of Disaster. I came upon this word through Robin on Young Justice, and use Aster as often as I can.

I hope everyone enjoyed this! And I'm enjoying writing this!