Sunset Shimmer had really gone and screwed up this time. After the mayhem that erupted from her transforming into a She-Demon and enslaving the entire student body in an insane attempt to conquer Equestria, she knew that she would have a massive target painted on her back for the teachers at Canterlot High. She had been responsible for countless amounts of property damage, not to mention the immense amounts of lawsuits that would be fired their way due to the abuse dealt to the students. As a repercussion, Sunset was given all of the blame and was not only stripped of her title as Princess of the Fall Formal, but was also pretty much expelled from school altogether. Even with her begging and pleading to keep her place at campus, the decision had already been made by that point. She was to pack her bags and leave the campus for good.

She was not taking it well. After two months of life away from school, she was a wreck, physically and emotionally. She had lost a considerable amount of weight and appeared disheveled and sickly. She did eat but in meager amounts due to her need to save food for when she really needed to eat. This didn't help the fragile state of mind she had amassed, which resulted in her constantly muttering to herself about how much of a loser she had become. These rambling were a mixture of anger and regret towards the students that had stopped her during her supposed master plan. As time went on, she was frequently heard by her neighbors crying hysterically in her apartment, rambling about Twilight Sparkle and frequent outbursts of rage at herself, which resulted in room being trashed to the point of it being unrecognizable. Furniture torn apart, stains peppering her room, and claw marks all over the place.

Inevitably, a fractured mental state of this magnitude would result in negative side-effects. With this violent hysteria came mental instability. The first signs were from nightmares about specters stalking her around every corner, not seeming to wish her harm, but just to talk. Unfortunately, when they did get the chance to talk, all that they stated were poisonous remarks that pierced her like icy wounds to her heart. Due to this abuse, she would always wake up shrieking at the top of her lungs in a cold sweat. As the days crept slowly by, she would eventually just forfeit sleeping entirely, just spending the nights rocking back and forth in her bed hugging her pillow while muttering to herself about how everything was going to be okay even though everything was the polar opposite of okay.

As the days slowly crept on to weeks, then months and then years, this strain did not make itself any looser around Sunset's proverbial neck. Her mood swings became a lot more erratic with more intense reactions to certain things. For example, when she would be conversing with a random stranger, she could feel sudden bouts of happiness followed by intense fits of sadness or anger. In time these would become overwhelming for her to have to deal with, which severely weakened her grasp on reality. Then, it happened, she experienced an extreme psychotic break. This resulted in her dialing random numbers on her cell phone, babbling incoherently, and then hanging up and repeating the process over and over and over again. She imagined seeing her classmates all around her ridiculing her for even the minutest of things and would respond with crying and more rambling. This then escalated to her calling Principal Celestia, and shrieking about how the "earthen denizens from beyond the nebulon quadrant" were going to swallow them all whole. When the kind-hearted Principal tried to get a word in order to lighten the mood, it actually made things so much worse, with Sunset crying about how her imaginary friends wouldn't stop judging her for what she did. She then told her to never call this number angain and then promptly hung up. Pretty soon, she had the entire apartment complex in a panic due to her abnormal behavior. One of the residents just happened to be Nurse Redheart, who was used to dealing with this sort of behavior. She told the others to stay in the lobby while she dealt with the situation.

As she quickly and calmly approached Sunset Shimmer's apartment building, she could hear a low-pitched thud along the wall of the room. She then inspected the area, which was eroded with a rather foul odor, similar to blood. Immediately fearing that the worst had occurred, Redheart put herself into high gear and made her way toward the door. She knocked on the door, asking the occupant to please open it so she could come inside. When she failed to garner a response from the other side of the door, she knocked again, only to see that it was not only unlocked, but had just fallen from its hinges. With all of the force being exerted on it, it didn't take much for it to collapse. Once it did, she made her way into the room, and was baffled by what she saw.

Inside the apartment, where the low-pitched noise had been heard, was a single splatter of blood. The spot in the wall had a hole in it, with the floor leaving a trail towards the bedroom. As Redheart gulped nervously, she slowly and methodically opened the door, only to see Sunset sitting on the bed staring right at her. Her head was soaked in blood, along with her sporting vacant wide-eyes, and a maniacal grin on her face. She began rocking back and forth while continuing to maintain eye contact with Redheart laughing quietly and insanely to herself. Red heart, fortunately knew how to handle this, as she carefully made her way towards the bed, trying not to provoke the unhinged teenager before her. She then pulled out a vial of tranquilizer, applied it to a needle and quickly injected Sunset in the neck with it. As Sunset fell into unconsciousness, Redheart assured her that where they were going, everything would be all right.

Author's Note

This is a little side-story to what I am working on next. This isn't a prologue. Just a little side-story. I hope that everyone enjoyed this. I will be working on this story every other week for the entire summer.

Hope you guys and gals are ready for quite the experience.