Luster Dawn finished packing her things. Where she was going, she wasn't planning on coming back. Not for a long, long time.

"Better to see the world beyond 'Princess' Twilight's Mirror, then under the role of a Princess who lied." Luster Dawn said as she fled to the mirror, managing to sneak past every late night guard before finally arriving at the mirror in question. "Here it is...the dimensional mirror..." Luster Dawn said, and approuched it.

"Luster Dawn, stop." Princess Twilight said. "If you use this mirror, there will be no coming back. Period. Not unless you can learn true friendship and the reason why alicorns are made royalty in the first place." She said.

"You shouldn't be allowed to judge me. I saw what I saw fifteen minutes ago: Discord was never imprisoned, he was allowed to roam free! And that makes the story you told to the media a lie." Luster Dawn said.

"Technically, he is imprisoned. Right now, as punishment for what he's done, the Elements were used to chain him to Canterlot Castle with only authorized areas outside the castle being allowed for him to see. At least he is imprisoned this way until he is no longer evil." Princess Twilight said. "So no, the story is not a lie. It just didn't tell everypony the fully story." She added.

"How do I know that isn't also a lie? Something your saying just to cover your own ass?" Luster Dawn countered.

"The truth is you don't, but the truth also is is that it's not a lie. Of course the truth is all you really have to go on is my word, and my word alone. Are you really going to make such a decision as being banished from equestria forever over a story that doesn't give out the full details and just assume that I am lying?" Princess Twilight asked.

"A princess is supposed to protect ponies from any evil. Discord should be in Tarturus, hell even turned to stone! Evil doers should never be forgiven." Luster Dawn said.

"Then, Luster Dawn, you fail to understand why Alicorns are made royalty in the first place." Twilight said.

"I'll show you royalty. I'll be back, and I'll have an army. And when I do, your paper thin lies will crumble and everyone will know the truth!" Luster Dawn said. "I'd rather live in exile then live somewhere where my own ruling monarch can't tell the full truth and nothing but the full truth." She said and jumped through the mirror.

"Luster..." Princess Twilight said. "...For your sake...I hope you repent and give up such a foolish endeavor." She added.

Author's Note

Yeah this should give it away now: Luster Dawn is the Sunset Shimmer of this reversed roles world. Since Luster Dawn was Twilight's own personal student at Canterlot in the time skip episode, I decided that to fill in Sunset's role as the "rude and academic genius that seeks the approval of the sole ruling monarch", I would use Luster Dawn. So if this seems very OoC for Luster Dawn...I have to ask how. Mostly because we only got the ONE episode with her in it.