Levi walks into Canterlot Suites main Lobby through the front door. He walks up to the clerk at the desk and looks at him straight in the eye from under his hat,

"I want a room," Levi says as he looks at the orange-tinted human with a dark blue afro.

"Um... how many nights are you staying sir?" the clerk asked, too nervous to look at the intimidating man across from him.

"How much for one night?" Levi asked annoyed as leans his head against his fist.

The clerk gulps hard, "One night is fifty dollars, sir."

Levi reached into his pocket and then slammed his palm down on the counter hard, causing the clerk to flench. The clerk opens one eye and sees a fifty-dollar bill on the counter in front of him. He immediately realized it was one of those individuals that paid cash and wanted no questions asked. The clerk pulls a key from the wall behind him right away and sits it on the counter then takes the money for it.

"Room 106 sir," the clerk stutters, "P-please enjoy your stay at Canterlot Suites..."

Levi placed a metal finger on the keys ring and slowly slides it from where it was set over to himself, all while never taking his eyes off the clerk. He ever so slowly pick up the key before spinning it on his finger. Levi tossed it up, eye still forward, causing the clerk to follow the key.

Levi caught it, his focus never wavering. He then quickly about-faced, "Have a good night," the mercenary says as he walks out of the lobby.

The clerk slumps over in his seat, "I thought he was gonna kill me with the key..."

Levi steadily walks down the pathway to his room, staying ever vigilant.

Back in the lobby, he hadn't actually been looking at the clerk but the reflection in the glass the was in front of the grease ball. He saw his target carrying what looked to be a basket of clothes coming from the hallway not far from his assigned room. Deciding he could put off his sleep for a while longer he decided to investigate what was in the hallway. It was a small washroom of sorts with machines that carried overpriced candy.

"Amenities aside," Levi scoffs as he knocks on one of the vending machines causing a pack of what the locals call M&Ms to fall into the dispenser tray. "I've found your base of operation Sunset Shimmer."

He takes his prize and walks back to his room, "But I must rest. Bar fight aside I am tired..." he says walking into his room and closing the door.

That night Levi Ackerman slept very well indeed...

Sunset woke up from her slumber. She’d been in this world for only a few years now and still wasn’t used to how things worked in this world. She was able to figure out how to use some of the more advanced technology but some of these items still baffled her.

It was at times like this that she really missed her home back in Equestria. Even if the princess hadn’t done what Sunset had wanted to do at least she’d been there for her. She really did miss home but most of all she missed her teacher. Celestia had cared more about her than a pony before to the point that Sunset came to see Celestia as he her mother.

Shaking her head free of these story thoughts sunset made her way to her refrigerator. Opening it she surveyed the interior of her food stock. She more or less stayed to herself, only going out to the library and grocery store. She did have a few acquaintances in the form of the elderly homeless she got to sign for her parental needs when she had need of this.

“Heee….” She sighs as she closes the door to her appliance while pulling out half a sandwich. “I didn’t want to have to go out today but i only have enough for one meal. Damn, having no magic sucks… If I did have I could stretch this sandwich out for another week,” she lets out another sigh, “I need to check and see if that portal is open yet anyways…”

After finishing her breakfast and changing into a clean suit of clothes Sunset grabs her keys and walks out the door to her room. She walks down a flight of stares and looks at the wash slash vending room.

“I should get some soap to… been a bit since I did Landry…” She scratches her head. “I still don’t see why humans have to wear more clothes than just something to cover their mammaries and other bits…. They’re so restrictive!”

She turns her head, “Oh well. I don’t need to worry about it. Once i have my power I’ll ban all clothing here.”

She walks off none the wiser to the man in a black suite and hat keeping an eye on her from his room. He swifly and without so much as a single click of his door closing behind him began to follow her. He stayed a good distance away to stay out of sight but close enough to where if he needed to he could tackle her.

The grocery Store…

Sunset walks through the aisles of the store with a basket on her arm and a grocery list in the other hand. Levi maintains his distance from the girl but keeps close enough to see her in full view. She matched the description he’d recieved from Celestia to a ‘T’, except for the the missing fur, horn, and hooves of coarse.

“Let see,” Sunset looks at her list, “I need a loaf of bread, sliced cheese, lunch meat, and…”

“Minimal shopping aye,”Levi says to himself. “Even though she’s got plenty of money to spare she spends as little as possible to keep from being noticed to much. Smart, but then again she is Tia’s daughter and student. She probably inherited her mother’s lover of books to.”

After some time had passed Sunset went to the check-out area and paid for her items. Stepping out of the store a cold gust of wind wipes by causing the teen to shiver slightly.

“It's getting cold fast this year,” Sunset sighs, “I miss my fur and self-warming spells,” she remarks to herself as she sets her grocery haul down and buttons up her jacket. “Let’s get this over with,” she picks up the sacks and starts walking down the start.”

“Hmm…” Levi watches as he pulls up his collar and follows her.

He continued to discreetly follow Sunset on her outing throughout her day. Soon they came back down the street where the high school and portal were located. Levi decided that as soon as she stopped to look at the statue that then was the time to strike.

Sure enough, Sunset casually strolled down the street and came to stop at the unicorn statue. She looked up and Levi saw it in her eyes, she was hurting so very much.

She began to speak softly, "Why haven't you come looking for me...." she sadly whimpers.

Levi took this chance seeing her guard was down, "Sunset Shimmer," he calls out with his hat down hiding his eyes.

Sunset jumped back, dropping her groceries, "Where the hell did you come from?" she quickly through her hands up in a defensive stance. "If you come any closer I'll... kick your ass and scream."

"Hmmm..." Levi looked her up and down with his eyes without lifting his head.

Sunset gritted her teeth. "I'm the top girl of downtown Canterlot buddy! I can handle any one of the gangs down there making me the strongest around, even most of the gang leaders know not to piss me off! So don't think I'll go down without a fight ya pervy old man!"

"If I wanted to fight you there would be nothing you could do about it with such a pathetic stance," Levi scoffed, playing off her bluff, "Yea I know all about your street reputation and I don't give a flying rats ass about it. I could easily get to you and hogtie you before you even had a chance to scream girl," he says reaching into his pocket and pulled out a cigar and let it with a match and waved it out before finally tossing it on the ground, "Besides, if I really wanted to hurt or kidnap then I could've done so many times over since you left that crappy motel run you've been living in for the last few years."

"You've been stalking me you creep?!" She said in outrage. "PEDO!"

"Yes I've been following you since this morning," Levi says with smoke coming out of his mouth. "I've spent the last few days merely tracking your sorry little butt down before that."

"Why have you been looking for me? Did I do something to piss someone off?" Sunset says as she readies to run for it.

"I imagine you have but I'm not here because of that," Levi dropped the cigar on the ground and used his foot to put it out.

"I was hired to find you," He says as he reached into his jacket again.

Sunset then made a kicked one of the grocery sacks at him and made a break for it. She immediately found an alley and waited there quietly for him to pass. As soon as she heard someone run past she let out a sigh of relief.

"I gotta get back to my room, " She huffs. "If he knows where I'm staying then this is the only time I can do it safely."

"Yep that would be a good choice," Levi says walking out of the shadows. "But what if I had someone watching the room?"

NowSunset was scared, "How did you get there? This alley is a dead end?"

"Like I was trying to say before you threw eggs in my face," Levi reached into his jacket and pulled out a book, a journal, and one that looked extremely familiar.

"That's my journal!" She says. "How do you have it?!"

"It's not your journal but mine," he reaches up and pulls his hat off to reveal his face, the face that was somewhat familiar to Sunset. "My name is Levi Ackerman and I was hired by Princess Celestia to find you and bring you home, back to Equestria."

Sunset just sat there in shock.

"She wanted to come and get you as soon as she knew you were gone Sunset," Levi motioned, "But at the time the portal had already closed and she had no means to open it, or to try without the possibility of destroying the mirror and never getting to see you again."

"If that's true, then why now? and why you?" Sunset asked with a mixture of hope, fear, and resentment.

"One, because you'd been here for some time at this point," He says. "Long enough to possibly make a life of your own and not want to come back. Two, she didn't know where to start. Magic does work in this world but you can use it without a horn, and neither you nor she had it when you came through the portal. Finally three, I have gone most of my life without the need to use magic in everyday life and due to my profession in Equestria, I should the best chance of finding you."

Sunset was finding this all very hard to believe.

"I know it's hard to believe," Levi bent down and reached into his coat again and pulled out a large envelope, and handed it to the girl. "I am staying in the same motel as you. The portal closes tomorrow. So I'll need your decision by then if you're coming. I'm not going to force you. I'll tell Tia anything you want to let her know. I also want to let you know that you're not alone. You have a mother, an older sister, a twin sister, and a little brother and sister who all want to see you. The next move is yours though. Look over what's in that envelope and let me know by tomorrow morning," he taps the package before standing up and placing his hat on his head.

"I hope to see you soon," he says before leaving.

Levi stood just in front of the portal to Equestria. All said and done, he was happy to see other humans but he wanted to return home. He had his kids to look after, not to mention a trio of unicorns that can summon a sort of demon-lizard thing that sprays everything with some sort of mayonnaise gun.

He'd suspected Celestia knew about the mirror and had planned on telling him about it at some point but didn't due to the lack of overall knowledge and the fact that his immortality would make things harder for him to live amongst his own kind. It was common knowledge in most of the early fairytales he'd read on humans that they only live for about a hundred years if they took care of their bodies, but even then they'd start to break down in their fifties to sixties. Most ponies cold still move and haul until the day they died.

He let out a sigh, "It was once to be amongst my own kind but I prefer Equestria to this lace," he says to himself softly Out of the corner of his eye he saw Sunset Shimmer walking up to him, a bag in one hand on the opened envelope in the other clutched to her chest.

She stopped right in front of him and looked him straight in the eyes with a hardened resolve that Levi liked to see in the youth of today.

"I take it you decided to come?" He says to her.

"I want to know one thing first," Sunset says, clearly holding back tears. "The letter said I could ask you anything and that Princess Celestia trusts you with her life. That's not some random praise that she throws out, especially in a very personal letter like this one," She took a deep breath and collected herself. "Is it all true?"

"I was right there beside Celestia when she wrote it," Levi crossed his arms. "And I can verify it even more as I was there when you were born."

"Why didn't I get..." Sunset dropped the items she was holding and clenched her fist in anger, "Why was I sent to an orphanage?! WHY WAS I KEPT FROM THE TRUTH?!"

"She wanted to protect you," Levi says unmoved. "She thought you would be far better growing up as a normal filly instead of around the corruption of the nobles. The same goes for your sister, though what she didn't account for was the family that took you to be just as corrupt. You have no idea how much it hurt her and your father to let you both go not even an hour after you were both born."

"Do you know my father too?" Sunset asked.

"Yes, I knew him," Levi nods once. "He was a good stallion and would've been a great father to you and your sister."

"'Would've' being the keyword there," Sunset crossed her arms. "Why didn't he keep either me or my little sister?"

"He already raised your older sister and he saw how much it hurt your mother to do so without her being there," Levi sighs as he rubbed the back of his head. "He didn't want to put her through that again and he was getting on in years. You and your sister weren't really excepted foals."

"That explains a little about it but I have an older sister that could've looked after us too." Sunset pointed out.

"As I said, he was getting on in years and didn't want to put your mother through the process of having to watch her foals grow up with her barely in the picture," Levi points to the sky, "You were twins but you were a unicorn while your twin was a pegasus like your father and big sister. Being her daughter meant you already had vastly superior magic to the average unicorn so your mother knew she'd see you again at some point. Unfortunately, you were entrusted to a horrible family and when you were her student, you'd circum to the influence of the nobles' way of think."

"Will I be able to see all of my family?" Sunset asked with a bit of apprehension.

"Most of them," Levi placed his hands in his pockets.

"Why not all of them?!" Sunset countered.

Levi sighs and looked up, "Your father wasn't just getting along in years Sunset... He was also very sick and ended up having an accident on the job. Your older sister was the one taking care of him while she was doing her best at the academy in Cloudsale. Everyone else you'll be able to see. As for your twin, she grew up totally unaware but Celestia said she'd be getting in touch while I was here looking for you."

Sunset just stood there silent.

"This is the last day the portal can stay up and by the end of the day it will close," Levi motioned to the statue. "It can be forced open again but doing so takes a lot of prep and power. I see you brought a bag. Does that mean your want to come home?"

"W-will sh..."

"Be angry," Levi finished her question. "No, she's not. She's very worried."

Sunset bent down and picked up the envelope and her bag then headed for the statue. She quickly looked back to Levi who only gave her a single nod. Sunset turned back around and took in a deep breath before steadily letting it out. She jumped through the portal and in an instant was met with a scene in a library tower of sorts.

Three unicorns were behind some sort of control panel. They were frantically working to keep the readings out and the portal stable.

Another phasing sound was heard and next to Sunset someone loomed over her. She turned her head and looked up to see none other than Levi in his human form.

"Much cuter now," Levi gave a soft smile.

She then looked at herself ver and she was a pony.

"I'll tell you why later," he says as he places a mask on his face.

Reaching up he touched the said and then his form blurred to that of a well-built tall grey pegasus. His wings had a dual color scheme with the end row of feathers being dark grey and his cutie mark was an old fashion duster that you'd normally use to clean high corners.

"Sunset," she heard.

Sunset turned her head and saw princess Celestiast standing there with a whole entourage of ponies. As soon as she saw princess Sunset couldn't hold her tears back anymore. She rushed over and hugged her mother as tightly as she could.

"I'm sorry!" She cried. "I'm so sorry I ran away!"

Celestia looked at Levi and he only gave a nod.

Celestia picked Sunset up in her forearms and gently nuzzled Sunset's cheek with her own as she wrapped her wings around her daughter.

"I'm the one who's sorry for putting you through everything you had to deal with growing," Celestia cried, "I'm just glad your home now, my Sunset Shimmer."

Author's Note

This one was a long time coming. I stopped writing this story because I was burnt out on it and I couldn't get a good setup for the meeting of Levi and Sunset as well as the reunion of mother and daughter. Please enjoy. I don't know when the next chapter will be out as I have no clue what will happen next. We'll just have to see what happens won't we!_!