Chapters Sunset Shimmer Discovers She's a Pop Star
"Sunset Shimmer, please report to the Principal's Office."
"What did I do now!" Sunset angrily muttered,as she rose from the cafeteria table.
"Probably another one of your victims coming back for revenge against you with a magical artifact," Applejack surmised.
Sunset pinched her nose. "Oh yeah."
Human Twilight handed her a paper. "If that's the case, here is your scripted apology," the magicless monkey version of her friend said with a proud smile. "I've even included the proper emotional responses."
"Including the part where she's like 'I ruined your life, so let me give you a new one?'" Rainbow asked.
"Yep."
"I love that part," Rarity gushed. "No matter how many times I hear it, it always brings me to tears."
"Don't worry Sunset," Applejack assured. "I'm sure you can solve this problem like you've solved everything else that's happened."
"You mean using friendship lasers that we've somehow gained without any training, study, or an ounce of effort whatsoever?"
"Of course," Pinkie Pie said. "I don't see anything wrong with that at all."
"You're right," Sunset said in a blissful tone. "Isn't getting everything you want the best?" All her friends nodded with smug smiles.
Sunset walked to the office. When she opened the door, she found Principal Luna looking at her with a grave frown.
"Principal Luna, what's-," the woman gestured wordlessly to the corner of the room. There were two people there.
One was a middle-aged man with greying orange hair, sun yellow skin, a large beer gut, and quite a bit of height. He wore a pink dress shirt, orange slacks, fancy brown dress shoes, and glasses. As soon as the man made eye contact with her, he glared at her furiously. Behind him was some girl whose face she couldn't make out, but whose skin and hair were eerily familiar.
Sunset was confused and frightened by the man's rage. "Is there a problem sir?"
"Why don't you tell me?" A female voice asked. The person stepped out from behind them man. She had a familiar-
Sunset's jaw dropped when she saw her own face looking back at her.
"Can you tell me what in the name of Tartarus this is about?" Sunset Shimmer asked with crossed arms and a suspicious glare.
Four Days Prior
Sunset Shimmer came home on her motorbike. While people dismissed her machine as some outdated contraption, she considered this to be her prized possession. It was sturdy, reliable, and easy for her to repair.
Since the weather was early fall, she felt comfortable wearing a pink tank top, orange sandals, and daisy dukes. As soon as the bike came to a halt, she took off her helmet, reached into her pocket, and struggled to find her keys.
"Did I forget my keys again?" Sunset asked herself with gritted teeth. Before she figurd that out, her father burst out of the house.
"What did you do?" Solar Wind asked with a frown. Sunset knew it was the "I know what you did, but I wanted to hear it from you" face. Accepting the inevitable, Sunset sighed and prepared her confession.
"Uh, I left the door open?" The man continued to glare at her.
"Uh, I changed my grade from C to B?" The glare didn't go away.
"I didn't take out the trash?" Sunset said nervously, walking up to the front door. Dad handed her some kind of bill.
"A motorcycle, an apartment, a cake from some place called 'Sugar Cube Corner', a guitar," Sunset read.
"All charged under your name," The pudgy man asked with a stern expression. Sunset felt her skin go pale when she realized what he was insinuating.
"Dad I didn't take out a credit card without your permission," Sunset pleaded. She showed the bill to him. "Do I look like I own any of this stuff."
"If you didn't, then someone did!" The man yelled. He took off his reading glasses to glare at his daughter. "Did you give your account number to some stranger again ?"
"Dad, that phone deal sounded real legit," Sunset argued weakly.
"Pedophiles can sound legit when they're offering you free candy."
"DAD!" Sunset bellowed with disgust, angrily pushing past him to enter the house.
"Don't 'dad' me," the rotund man argued angrily. "This is serious. Someone out there stealing your identity, and if you don't get this resolved, this could damage your credit score." Sunset flinched. While she was only 15, she still had to be worried about that kind of thing if she needed student loans or wanting to lease an apartment. Realizing her father had a good reason to be annoyed, she turned toward him with a solemn expression.
"I promise you I didn't give my account information to some stranger," Sunset argued. The yellow-skinned man scrutinized her for a few moments before letting a sigh.
"Fine, I believe you," the man said in a softer tone. "I'll call the credit agency and take care of this. Go do your work." She turned away from him and marched toward the living room.
"And remember sweetie," the man called to her, "if a strange man offers you a ride-,"
"DAD SHUT UP!"
Sunset ignored her father's swipes, running to favorite table in the living room to do her homework. She pulled out her laptop from her book bag, logged on, and went to work. Suddenly, she got a call from Sugar Belle.
"Hey Sug," Sunset answered. "What's happening?"
"When did you join a band?"
Sunset cocked her head in confusion. "What?"
"There's this video of you, dancing with a bunch of girls that's going viral." Sunset looked at her father angrily arguing with a credit agency on the landline and felt a pit in her stomach grow.
"Is this a joke?" Sunset asked with narrowed eyes. "I'm not a band member. I haven't even played drums since I was ten years old."
"Then why is there this video of you dancing?" Sunset's jaw was set.
"What's the name of the video?"
"Crystal Rainbooms-Dance Magic." Sunset opened a WatchMe on a window, and entered the words into a search bar. She opened and...
She saw a video of...
Her blood went cold.
She saw herself dancing and singing in some video with a bunch of girls in fancy costumes. She was wearing a red and gold dress and golden gauntlets on her arms. She also had some really long hair extension, and what looked like horse ears coming out of the side of her head.
"Sunset," Sugar Belle asked. "Sunset." Sunset was so in shock, she didn't answer, the phone laying ignored on the table. When the video ended, she let out a horrified yell.
"WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON?!"
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Vice Principal Luna stood silent, being completely out of her depth with this kind of situation. Solar Wind and Human Sunset continued to glare at the unicorn-turned-human. Pony Sunset, meanwhile, stood still for several moments, doing nothing but staring at her double.
"Well, who are you?" Human Sunset bellowed. "Some shapeshifting alien come to slowly take my life away from me, kill me, and replace me?!"
"Uh," Pony Sunset uttered with a sheepish smile, "you're about...half right." The father and daughter didn't look impressed, while Vice Principal Luna shot Sunset a disappointed look that made Sunset quiver.
"if I don't get a good answer from you in the next ten seconds," the middle-aged man growled with icy fury, "I'll be speaking to the police about identity fraud." Sunset felt her blood go cold.
"Mr. Solar Wind," Vice Principal Luna said, "I know how this looks, but this girl is not an identity thief. This girl is legitimately someone else named Sunset Shimmer. She's been at our school for years. I have the records to-"
"It isn't just the name!" Human Sunset wailed. "You have my face, you have my eyes, y-you, the only thing that looks different is the mangled goth jacket you're wearing."
Pony Sunset's hackles rose. "Hey, leave the jacket out of this!"
"Hey Sunny." The people in the room turned to see some blue-skinned girl walking in. "What's going-," Rainbow paused when she saw Human Sunset. "Oh my gosh!" she said excitedly, "I knew this day would come! After meeting the Other Twilight, I knew we would one day meet the Other Sunset!"
Human Sunset shot the rainbow-haired girl an offended look. "Who are you calling 'the other'! I'm Sunset! She's 'the other'!" Rainbow fell to the ground, rolling on the floor from gut-busting laughter.
"Look," Pony Sunset muttered in annoyance, "there is a perfectly good explanation for all this."
"Well out with it," Solar Wind said angrily, pulling out a cell phone, showing he was serious about calling the police.
Pony Sunset let out an annoyed sigh. "I have to show you two."
Human Sunset felt her fist clench. "Tell me now!"
"You're not gonna believe her explanation, so it would be best to let her show you," Vice Principal Luna urged Human Sunset and Solar Wind. The two were not moved. "If she can't prove it too you, I'll call the police myself." The two unbend a bit, letting out reluctant sighs.
"Fine," Human Sunset said with more than a bit of suspicion, "but until then, I've got my eye on you."
"She's a got a hot ass doesn't she," Rainbow piped in, before falling to the ground with hyena-like laughter.
"I really don't like that girl," Solar Wind muttered.
Vice Principal Luna nodded. "I understand."
Sunset and her fellow Rainbooms watched with anticipation as the Human Sunset and Solar Wind tumbled out of the portal. Both of them were in a daze.
"Don't worry," Pony Sunset assured the two humans as Applejack and Rainbow helped them up, "the first portal journey is always the toughest."
"Either that was the biggest drug trip I've ever been on," Solar Wind uttered like he was holding back vomit, "or we really did end up in some pony world." After a few more moments of discombobulation, the two pulled themselves together.
"So magic really is real?" Human Sunset said in a daze. The Rainbooms effortlessly demonstrated their powers again, much to the continued shock of the two humans. Pony Sunset put her hand on Human Sunset's head.
"You have a crush on Sugar Belle and you don't tell her because your afraid of ruining your friendship with her," Sunset said with a smirk.
Human Sunset blushed with embarrassment while Solar Wind was shocked. "How?"
"Like I said, telepathy," Pony Sunset replied with a proud smile. "Does this prove I'm not an identity thief?"
"OK fine," Human Sunset conceded, "you're not someone who stole my identity on purpose."
"So, can we finally throw that 'Sorry-For-The-Misunderstanding' party I've been wanting to throw for a while," Pinkie said excitedly.
Human Sunset looked angry. "No! This ends with you getting your butt back into the portal and going back to your stupid magic world." Pony Sunset and the Rainbooms looked confused and annoyed.
"Why?"
"If you were some nobody this wouldn't be an issue," Solar Wind said with a glare. "I can handle the mistaken bills with some paperwork that you can sign, accepting the charges."
Rarity came forward. "Then what's the problem?"
"Everybody at school was asking me about when I became a popstar!" Human Sunset furiously stated. The Rainbooms looked uncomfortable with that. "Since you're also a soon-to-be valedictorian, musician, WatchMe star, and superhero, I'm probably gonna be spending my entire life with random people telling me how much I look like Sunset Shimmer!"
Pony Sunset felt shame and guilt form on her face. "You're right. That isn't fair to you. If I could give up everything and go home, I would. But...the magic is only going to keep growing and I need to be here to keep an eye on it. And," she said, looking back at her friends, "I have a life here I don't want to give up. How would you like me to tell you to give up the friends you made?"
Human Sunset and Solar Wind's expressions softened at that. "I can see your point," Human Sunset said miserably, "but I don't to spend my life being overshadowed by you." Solar Wind walked up to his daughter and put a comforting arm on her shoulder.
"Why not trade," Rainbow offered, "you can live in the magical pony world, and the-," Rainbow paused with another glare from the two, "-our Sunset can live here."
"Do they have cable and beer?"
"No," Pony Sunset replied.
"Then no," Human Sunset said firmly.
"Don't worry." Human Twilight said with a smile. "I have a solution."
"Duel to the death," Fluttershy said excitedly, "over who can be the real Sunset?"
"That sounds like a good idea," Solar Wind said half-ironically, "get me a gun and I'll settle this in ten seconds." Everyone started looking at the man with horror, not sure he wouldn't try something like that.
"No," Human Twilight said to Human Sunset. "You just have to change your name, face, and identity." Human Twilight pulled out her laptop.
Rarity looked excited and ran up to Human Sunset. "Give me some time, Darling, and I can come up-,"
"I am not changing my identity!" Human Sunset bellowed. "I am Sunset Shimmer, and nothing is going to change that!"
"I believe I have another idea," Rarity said. "This one has been instilled in me by countless soap operas."
"What is it?" Human Sunset asked.
Sunset Shimmer Discovers She's a Pop Star
"A long lost twin sister?" Sugar Belle asked with amazement. The two Sunsets met in the park, to put their practiced lie into motion.
"Yep," Human Sunset lied.
"It turned out I was lost during birth," Pony Sunset said with a fake smile, "but also given the name 'Sunset Shimmer'."
"Wow!" Sugar Belle uttered. "How does it feel to have a twin sister?"
"Great," Human Sunset said, "it is great to know I have an organ donor in case I need one."
"She's certainly is a loving big sister, isn't she?" Pony Sunset said facetiously.
"I can't believe it!" Human Sunset said, looking happily at her horn. "I get to live my childhood dream of being a magical pony!" Human Sunset decided to spend a week learning about how to do spells. Pony Sunset sat nearby, doing some human homework.
"Anyways," Princess Twilight said, "let us practice some magic!"
"OK," Princess Twilight said, "let's start with something simple." She gestured to a cup and a teapot. "Try pouring a cup of tea.
"Oh this is gonna be easy." Human Sunset concentrated her horn. Eventually a red aura came out, and she was able to use it to pick up the teapot.
"That's right," Princess Twilight, "you're getting it, you're getting it-,"
"AHHHHH!" Human Sunset looked sheepishly, as she realized she accidentally poured the hot boiling liquid on Sunset and her homework.
"Well," Human Sunset said nervously, "I got the pouring part right."
Pony Sunset glared at her and her ruined work. "Well come over here and I'll give you SOME LUMPS!" Pony Sunset chased after human Sunset, blasting her with her magic, while Princess Twilight watched all this with an utterly done expression.
"So how was your visit with your twin?" Rainbow asked as Sunset came back into the music room to practice with them.
"Great!" Sunset said happily. "It turns out, she's excited to be learning about magic in Equestria."
"Just don't let her near any magic crowns, whatever you do?" Applejack snarked.
"I'm glad we won't have to deal with this problem anymore," Sunset said with some relief. Human Twilight burst into a room a few seconds later, a worried expression on her face.
"Guys," she said in a panicked tone, "we have a problem."
The Rainbooms ran out of the library and onto the front lawn, where they saw someone standing in front of the horse statue with some weird magical laser beam.
"With the energies from this location," Starlight Glimmer gushed with a manic look, "I shall gain the power I deserve, and cast down all the fools who dared mock me!" She let out a megalomaniacal cackle.
Everyone let out sighs of frustration, while Sunset's face fell into her hands.
"Again," Fluttershy muttered miserably.
"Well, at least our lives aren't boring." Rainbow said with a nervous chuckle.
