**Sunset has breakdown and walks off on Muffins, telling her that she's(sunset) damaged goods.**

The girl tried to comfort Sunset, but Sunset shoved her hand away.

“No! You don't get it! I ruin everything! I worked my hooves and horn down to nubs to get in with Princess Celestia. I achieved the most prestigious spot a pony could achieve. And I threw it all away because I wanted more. I came to a brand new universe and could have started over right and made friends and had a good life. You know what happened with that. Sure I was “redeemed” but any day now, any second, I know I'm gonna mess up and lose everything again. So just go. I don't want to hurt you any more than I already have.”

The girl just stared at Sunset. She couldn't move. And soon, she wasn't even unable to see. Her tears were big and hot.

“Sunset, that's not true. You're changed. I see it. I feel it. If you'd just…”

“GO!”

“Sunset!”

Both the girls looked and saw Rainbow Dash running toward them.

“What's wrong? What happened?” Rainbow Dash kept looking back and forth between the two girls, clearly unsure about what to do.

Through barely contained sobs, the girl spoke, “I'll go. I'll see you at school Monday.” She ran off in the direction of her house.

Sunset and Rainbow watched until the girl was out of sight. Then Rainbow turned to Sunset.

“What was all that about?”

Sunset Shimmer collapsed on the sidewalk and started shaking. Her soft whimpers, the only sound on the empty street.

Author's Note

This was a scene I wrote for the end of the Muffins arc. The trouble was, I couldn't add anything else to it, so it sat in my docs for...a long time.

I finally decided to just post up the scene. No context other than the previous entries in the story.

It was a toss up between this one and the one I used. Sunset is hurt badly in both of them, but it was when I decided on the first one because I just sense that Muffins' level of perception is that of a master. So she just beat Sunset to it.