Celestia, Twilight and Sunset were sitting around a large round table in Mysterium Keep. Celestia snarled at Sunset “How could you hide such a thing?! You know the dangers of chaotic beings and that you should have informed me! What if they decided to invade Equestria?!”

Sunset shook her head “There is nothing you could do about it other than make things worse. When I first mentioned you Dyna threw a fit, she doesn’t like the concept of order that Equestria is and wants to keep you as far away from her nation as possible. It is not wise to get involved in diplomacy with someone who hates you and everything you stand for.”

Twilight sighed “Mum, as much as I hate to admit it I think Sunset is right. Queen Dyna didn’t seem interested in speaking with you. If Sunset wasn’t there if could have gotten quite ugly really fast.”

Celestia frowned at the both of them “There what do we tell everyone?”

Sunset frowned “You tell them part of the truth, that you found a society that wants you to leave them alone. You have agreed to do so, keep it vague and it will make it harder for them to really do anything about it.”

Celestia sighed “Well I’m glad you paid attention to something I taught you. I need to address Equestria about all of this.”

As Celestia left to address Equestria Twilight frowned “Sunset, your friends with Queen Dyna right. How did that happen?”

Sunset smiled “I work as part of the expedition team, exploring new lands. It is a lot of fun, you meet a lot of interesting individuals and get see things that no-one has ever seen before. Dyna and I had a fight between the two of us, we both enjoyed the fight so much but I am way ahead of her now.”

Twilight frowned “Did Celestia ever tell you why you were built? She tried to keep it from me.”

Sunset sighed “I was just a tool to her back then. She kept the weapon system away from me so I wouldn’t be able to escape from the castle. With it I was supposed to be stronger than Nightmare Moon.”

Twilight blinked “Nightmare Moon but isn’t she just a legend, I thought she was made up to explain the strange pony face on the moon and was turned into a story to scare foals into behaving.”

Sunset facepalmed “I shouldn’t have told you that, still you will press Celestia for it so I’ll tell you everything and she is not ready to face that yet.” Sunset then sighed “Nightmare Moon is more than just a jealous pony, her name was Luna the Alicorn of the Moon and much more importantly Celestia’s sister but over time ponies started to condemn her and her sister did nothing blinded by the prestige she had.”

Twilight’s eyes widened and she was about to speak but then stopped thinking for a moment. She then sighed “I still have a hard time believing my mentor could do something like that.”

Sunset sighed “I can understand that but if you really care for her then you need to treat her like a normal person. She needs someone to not just listen to her but also correct her when she goes down the wrong path. I did that when I was younger before I got fed up and ran away. You are her daughter, she will listen to you more than she will listen to me.”

Meanwhile Celestia was overlooking the population outside Mysterium Keep “As you are aware we sent a force seeking out a nation that we recently discovered. Their leader is far more powerful than I am and they have made it clear they want to be left alone. I will not risk your safety by irritating them.”

The Nobles began shouting incoherently as the average person shrugged as they saw the Princess leaving and went about their business. Celestia shook her head, she was in no mood. In fact she was in the mood for a training session with Twilight, to let off some steam.

She teleported to the room where Sunset and Twilight were last, Celestia frowned “Twilight how about we do some training. I need to let off some steam.”

Sunset frowned “How about you two train with me, two on one? I can handle two opponents.”

Celestia frowned “Are you sure about this? Twilight is a talented fighter and I am an Alicorn, to face both of us at once.”

Sunset frowned “I had my rematch with Dyna, at twenty percent I had a massive advantage. I’m sure neither you will be able to really hurt me in any way shape or form, in fact I probably will need to hold back against you two.”

Celestia shook her head “I do have some tricks up my sleeve Sunset, don;’t underestimate what I can do. You shouldn’t hold back too much or you’ll be in for a surprise.”

Sunset frowned “Well then we better head to the training fields, I remember them quite well.”

With a click of her fingers the all three of them were standing in the training field. A white Adept Mecha with blue hair ran over and bowed “Princess Celestia we are currently in the middle of our drills. Is there anything you need of us?”

Celestia smiled “Yes Shining Armour, me and Twilight are training with Sunset here. We would ask you to leave the training grounds so we can cut loose so to speak.”

Shining Armour nodded quickly shouting “Everyone, Princess Celestia and her student wishes to spar with Sunset Shimmer! We are to evacuate the premises for them!”

Twilight wrapped the captain of the guard in a mighty hug “BBBFF.”

Sunset blinked in confusion “Um could someone explain to me what is going on?”

Celestia smiled “Well he and Twilight spent a lot of time together as kids. She started to see him as an older brother., I think it had been a positive thing.”

Shining Armour smiled “How is everything LSBFF?”

Twilight bounced excitedly “We’re just about to train with Sunset, she is really strong. I hope to be as strong as her one day.”

At Shining Armour’s concerned look she smiled “Don’t worry big guy, I’ll be holding back. I don’t want to hurt her.” Shining Armour nodded and joined his guards at the edge of the field.

Sunset nodded to the other two as she took position in the middle “Let’s begin.” Twilight and Celestia rushed forward Sunset ducked under a punch before kicking Celestia away.” Twilight fired a powerful blast of magic which Sunset barely dodged, Sunset smiled “That almost got me. Impressive work Twilight.”

Celestia floated into the air as red energy began to coarse around her body, she let out a massive roar “Kaioken x 50!” Sunset blocked Celestia’s barrage of punches and the sent her flying with an uppercut. Celestia growled “Stop messing around with me!”

Sunset smiled “I must admit that technique from that show is quite impressive but it burns up way too much stamina” she grinned at Celestia’s confuse expression “You must know that a someone like me needs to unwind. Juggling parenting, work and training is tough. I also discovered an ability that I could tap into.” The ground began to shake as Sunset screamed out her energy surging as her hair glowed a dark red and began flowing upwards before a huge wave of energy flew out.

Sunset smiled as as she hovered there her dark red hair flowing upwards a dark red aura surrounding her “Behold the power of my Nova form, Celestia you should be able to do this to after all it is a solar based transformation. Still it is overkill for this fight.” Sunset returned to base form drawing out some more power “Let’s go.”

Celestia rushed forward dodging every punch that Celestia through only to let out a small yelp of pain as a powerful blast of magic struck her in the back. Twilight was was breathing heavily “T-take t-that.” Twilight collapsed to the floor unconscious

Sunset frowned “It seems we need to put this on hold while she recovers, still it was mighty impressive she was able to hurt me at all.” Celestia nodded as she powered down taking her daughter away to get some rest while Sunset watched on with a smile.

Author's Note

Part of the reason I included the Dragonballz refernce is for something that will happen in the second part of the story.