Monday afternoon, Sunset found herself outside Canterlot High, next to a large pile of bricks. Sunset was to be the construction crew's gopher for the time it took to rebuild the front of the school. She was thankful she didn't need to fill the big hole in the school's walkway. Over the weekend, they found it filled up overnight.

Sunset was glad she didn't have to deal with the girls. Seeing them after years of tormenting them made her feel acquired. The whole school may hate me. she thought. But I don't have to deal with them for the next month. Sunset sighed as she placed another brick onto the rapidly growing pile. While Sunset continued working, she thought about last weekend's talk with Shadow.

FLASHBACK

"So let me get this straight," Sunset said after learning that she might be able to use magic again. "with this world filled with magic, I could use it again?" After all these years with no magic, she was eager to use magic. This time, she promised herself to use it for good reasons.

"Again, yes, you might be able to use magic," Shadow explained exhaustedly, "but even if you could, you should wait until there is either one or the other type of magic in your system." Shadow felt this was the hundredth time, explaining that in the last five minutes alone. He paused, thinking about the amount of magic put back into the Earth. "There is one other thing I should point out," he said, his fingers folded together. "with the magic being indigenous to your world, only people who have their magic circuits wired for it should be able to use said magic."

Sunset raised an eyebrow at this news. "So I'm the only one who should be able to use magic here?" she asked, feeling mixed emotions. One felt relieved that her mistake didn't cause too much damage, and the other felt anxious at the fact if she did decide to go dark, she would have no one to stop her.

Shadow pursed his lips, mulling over his thoughts. "Yes, you could say that, provided nobody got exposed to either magic hand and had drastic changes done to their bodies in the process." Shadow rolled his eyes, snorting at the idea. "I highly doubt someone would do that on purpose." he chuckled, doubting that anyone would do that. To do so would be the same as shooting off a flare, pointing down at Canterlot High, then having a big neon sign saying: "I'm not from this world, and potentially dangerous. Please come and lock me up or dissect me."

Sunset's eyes widened at the idea. "Yeah," she chuckled nervously, "who would be stupid enough to do that while corrupted by dark magic?" Shadow raised an eyebrow at her. "Oh okay," she said, "so I might have used magic to turn my two underlings into demons in my army... of zombie teenagers." Shadow, for his part, showed great restraint, not yelling at the bacon-haired girl as he massaged his forehead.

"I swear kids these days have no common sense at all." He muttered in irritation. Sunset looked down in shame as she saw the folly of her actions, being mad with power or otherwise. "Aside from them, as long as nobody else had their bodies changed to fit with the magic circuits meant for your dimension, nobody else should be able to use the magic from your world."

"So the students I brainwashed wouldn't have magic being as it was just brain control, and my underlings wouldn't being as they had humanoid forms when they transformed." She thought out loud, diving deeper into thought. If those two didn't show pony features, they couldn't do magic, but the only ones that did besides me would be oh great, those five still have powers. The realization was like a shock to her system. She felt irritated that they would still hold magic but have no idea how to use it and released that if she started to stray, she would have someone to stop her before Sunset did something she couldn't turn back from, but still knowing that made one thing clear.

They are going to get us all caught and exposed to the authorities.

Flashback End

Sunset continued her work, unaware of someone walking up behind her. When she turned around, she saw Vice Principal Luna staring at her, her arms crossed. She stared at Sunset, a look of disdain on her face. "My sister wishes to speak with you and your parents, Miss. Shimmer." She said with a sour expression. "If you ask me, she's only delaying the inevitable. We should have washed our hands of you when you showed us who and what you are."

Sunset sighed, thinking the same thing. She made her way toward Principal Celestia's office only to pose when she saw the shadows behind Luna waver as if something was swimming in them. From the shadows came the face of Moon Shadow as he surfaced up to his hips, staring at Sunset with a mischievous look. She was about to ask him what he was doing when he made an "Shhh" gesture, sinking back into the shadows. The shadows that he was in reached out and attached themselves to the dark patch at Luna's feet. Luna started walking behind Sunset, the dark mass at her feet moving to always stay behind her.

When they entered Principal Celestia's office, they found said Principal sitting behind her desk with a mountain of files on each side of her desk. One particular file had its contents practically spilling out of it. Principal Celestia looked up from her paperwork, seeing the duo standing at the door, unaware of the secret straggler hiding under her sister's feet. "Ah, Sunset Shimmer, come in and have a seat," Celestia said, gesturing to the chair on the other side of her desk. Before Sunset could move to the chair, a black tendril extended from Luna, connecting to the darkness behind that had been cast out the door by the afternoon light streaming through the open window.

Sunset sat in the offered chair as Luna closed the blinds, drastically darkening the usually bright and sunny office. "Now, Sunset, the main reason I had you brought into my office while you were working is to discuss some important matters regarding the matters of last and the paperwork you submitted for inrolling into the school in the first place." Celestia opened Sunset's file, showing her the contents inside. "The address you filled out is in the middle of a lake, the phone number you added doesn't exist, and your parents' names are fake," Celestia said, pulling out Sunset's student transcript. "that alone should get you expelled from school, the rest of your file is just the icing on the cake. Vandalism, extortion, blackmail, various forms of bullying, and more, according to your peers, as the day goes by." Celestia sighed, picking out every piece of information about Sunset's misdeeds in middle school, detailed by the entire student body and most of the staff of Canterlot High. "Now, I'm afraid I have no choice but to expel you." Sunset looked down at her feet, expecting her punishment and wondering if it would have been better to have just left through the portal when she had the chance

Shadow took that as his cue to make himself known. He rose from the darkness next to the door, wearing a beige overcoat, white undershirt, dress pants, white socks, brown necktie, and beige shoes. Shadow brushed his black hair so it would have a slicked-back hairstyle. He stood tall like a lawyer about to take the stand and cleared his throat, getting the attention of the people in the room. "I object to those outrageous statements, your honor," he said in a thick southern accent. "sounds to me like what we have here is a failure to communicate." He chuckled, putting his fingers to his Addams apple, clearing his throat again. "Sorry, I always wanted to do that." He said, in his normal voice.

Sunset stared at him in disbelief, trying to figure out how he could do these things despite not being as good at magic as herself. Celestia and Luna looked at him in confusion as he took a seat next to Sunset while she continued to look at him in fascination. "Principal Celestia, Vice Principal Luna," he said, nodding to the two principals. "allow me to introduce myself. I am the new superintendent: Moon Shadow." He held up his hand to stop any other questions. "I'm the new superintendent because Chanser Neighsay had to retire early. He was, shall we say, "active" in his ethnic opinions." He folded his fingers as he got down to business. "Now, I'm here because I have heard about Sunset Shimmer, so I came to see if the legends are true." Shadow looked at Sunset as if it were the first time they had met, giving her a wink to play along. Shadow turned to face his hosts as he placed his hands on the desk. "Before we get down to the nitty-gritty stuff, I request that I be called just Shadow. I'm not big on formalities."

Celestia blinked, clearly confused by everything going on. "As I was saying, er, Shadow? After Sunset's actions last Friday alone, we have no choice but to expel her and hope she finds another school to attend." Celestia looked down at her lap as if she did feel bad for the girl. "It would be such a shame to waste such a brilliant mind as hers'."

Shadow grinned as he stood up. "Then it's a good thing I'm here." Shadow began to pace as he wrung his hands together. "You see, it has come to my attention that Miss. Shimmer here is brilliant, but her psychological mind is a bit unstable due to some, shall we say, moral issues." He stopped pacing to face the two with a bow. "So, for the foreseeable future, she is my responsibility as a student and as my ward and shall stay a student with mandatory psychologist appointments done by yours truly. I am certified for such a position, after all."

Before Celestia could respond, her door practically got blown off its hinges. From the door came five girls. Front and center was a girl with rainbow-colored hair and blue skin, wearing a white T-shirt with a rainbow-colored lightning bolt. "Principal Celestia, you can't kick Sunset out!" she yelled, running to the Principal's desk.

Celestia sighed, knowing the rainbow-haired girl had a bad habit of jumping the gun without assessing the situation. "I can assure you, Miss. Dash, we were just about to wrap up the details concerning that, that is, before you squashed Miss. Shimmer's guardian behind my office door." Sunset's guardian pushed the door off himself while he peeled himself off the wall, groaning in pain as he fell to the floor face first.

"Ouch," Shadow muttered onto the floor, "nice to see that you people care about one of your own." With that, he passed out the door, hitting him on the head when he stood behind it.

"Nice job knocking out the guy who was about to keep me from being expelled, Rainbow Dash." Sunset muttered, looking at the rainbow-haired girl with a sheepish look. Rainbow Dash looked at Shadow, seeing that he was indeed out cold. The blond-haired girl behind Rainbow left to get the nurse so they could take Shadow to her office, muttering about jumping the gun and knocking before entering.

Author's Note

Ho Ho Ho. Happy Holidays everyone. First to say "thank you." to everyone who read my first story and to know that your support means everything to me. So consider this a little Holidays gift to everyone, and I hope your holidays are a happy memorable one.

Also, I would like to point out that I will try to post new chapters every other week.