Sunset's human world origin

Katon family dining room
Date: Dec 28th, time: 8:00 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

Sunset and her family were having dinner. While Brigid and Anzhong were talking about something, Ki was eating his dinner in the kitchen, and Emi was humming to herself, Sunset was thinking. She was thinking about the video Fleur showed her. This world’s fencing and Equoes’ fencing looked to be almost identical. She’d been doing research and found that most of the rules were the same too, and there are places offering classes around Canterlot. She would just need to learn the different foot placements and how to hold a saber in her hands, but she could be in the advanced classes. All she would need to do now was ask her parents about it and now was as good a time as any.

“Hey Mom, can I ask you something?”

“Of course, ‘hat is it?”

“Can I take fencing classes?”

“Ya do realize ‘hat ‘here is gonna be a lot a’ people ‘here?”

“I do, but I’ll be holding a weapon. So, it will be okay.”

“‘Hat’s an interesting confidence builder but okay. Have ya done y’r research?”

“Yep, there’s a fencing class close to Dad’s work, and they provide rental gear.”

“Okay, then. I’ll do some research of me own, and we’ll see ‘hat we can do.”

Sunset’s bedroom
Date: Dec 30st, time: 6:00 am

*Sunset’s perspective*

Sunset’s alarm clock went off, and sprang out of bed and to the shower. Today was her first day of fencing lessons. That meant she was going to spend most of the day at Minerva’s house, be driven to the place, and once the lesson’s done, she’ll walk to her dad’s work where she’ll spend the rest of the day, until coming home.

She got to showering, which had become a much more pleasant experience ever since she discovered conditioner. Conditioner was not a thing in Equestria, in no small part, due to the fact that curly hair is extremely rare. She could count how many families she knew in Canterlot had members with curly hair, on her hands. Sunset remembered the first, and only time, the royal manesylest tried to comb through her hair. It was very painful, and she wouldn't listen to Sunset when she tried to instruct her how to properly do her main and tail. Cadence had to save her. From that point on, Cadence was the only pony, aside from Sunset’s mother, allowed to touch her hair. Living in a world where you’re not treated as an anomaly is nice.

Not too much later, Sunset was ready to start her day.

Canterlot School of Fencing
Date: same day, time: 3:30 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

After Sunset was signed in and got her gear, Minerva left to bring the kids back home. Having two 4 year olds, one being hyperactive, sit still for an hour around weapons is a bad idea. This meant that Sunset was there by herself, and she was more nervous than she expected. Sunset looked around at the other students, until she spotted someone she knew. What is Fleur doing here? I guess this must be the class she attends. Sunset made her way over to Fleur and got her attention.

“Hey, Fleur.”

Fleur spun around, surprised. “Oh, hey Sunset. Didn’t see you there. What are you doing here?”

“Taking a fencing class. I hadn’t realized that fencing was practiced in this country until you told me you practiced. So, thank you for that.”

“You’re welcome. - Wait, didn't you say you used to fence? Why are you in a beginner's glass?”

“I haven’t fenced in a while, and something happened to me so I need to relearn the basics.” It’s not a lie, I just left out what happened.

“Hold on, what happened?”

“I don’t really want to talk about it.” Again, not a lie.

“Okay, I hope it wasn’t too bad.”

Sunset looked down at one of her hands and said, “Yeah, not too bad.”

“Okay, everyone. Line up and get your gear on.”, one of the instructors said.

The lesson got underway. They worked on foot work, lunges, extra. It didn’t take Sunset long to learn how humans fence. Her old muscle memory did prove to be a challenge but not something Sunset couldn’t overcome.

Now came sparring. The students were grouped by weapon. Sunset and Fleur were both sabre users, so were grouped together. There were three people in the sabre group, and Sunset and Fleur decided to spar first.

“Ready to lose, Sunset?”

“I’m not gonna lose.”

The match began, and both girls went on the offensive. Their swords clashed, and they both moved to dodge out of the way. This cycle repeated itself, neither girl managing a hit. They were of equal skill. Before either had realized how long it had been, their timer went off.

“Wait, what?”, both girls said.

“Timer’s up.”, the boy and third member of their group said.

“Really, that fast? Damn.”, Sunset said.

“Good match, Sunset.”, Fleur said.

“Good match, Fleur.”, Sunset said.

“Okay, my turn.”, the boy said.

“I’ll spar with you.”, Fleur said.

With that, Sunset and the boy traded positions. The new match started, and Fleur was demolishing the boy. The boy hadn’t even come close to hitting Fleur. The timer went off, and Sunset stood up.

“Timer’s up.”, Sunset said.

“Good game, Sage.”, Flue said, lifting up her mask.

“No, it wasn’t a good game. You didn’t let me win.”, Sage whined.

“Of course she didn’t let you win. That would be disingenuous, and neither of you would learn.”, Sunset said.

“You still should’ve let me win. I wanted to win.”, Sage continued to whine.

Fleur turned to Sunset and said, “Ignore him. Even by CPA standards, he’s a whiny brat. This-”

Fleur was cut off by the sound of clashing metal. She turned her head and saw crossed blades mere inches away from her unprotected face. Sage had moved his blade to strike Fleur. Sunset noticed this and was able to intercept the slash. Fleur backed away, and Sunset advanced, keeping their blades locked. It wasn’t until she was inches away from Sage’s masked face did Sunset speak.

“Bad, move.”, Sunset said menacingly. In one swift motion, Sunset moved their blades out of the way and gave the boy a solid uppercut, sending him off the ground for a second.

It was then the instructor finally noticed what was going on. The instructor marched over and began berating Sunset. “Young lady, we do not punch other students.”

“Sage tried to strike me while my mask was off. Sunset was just protecting me.”, Fleur quickly said.

The instructor gave Sunset a look like he didn’t believe what he was told. “That’s not what I saw.”

“Check the cameras. They should've caught everything.”, Fleur demanded.

The instructor’s face didn’t change.

“My dad’s a lawyer. Before you do anything to me, talk with him.”, Sunset said.

The instructor’s face changed to one of terror and quickly lost its color. “No, no, that’s okay. Just continue sparring.” The instructor quickly walked off, back to the other groups.

Sage looked like he was going to protest, but a quick glare from the instructor shut him up. Sage just slunk off.

“What’s his deal?”, Sunset asked.

“He’s an alumni of the school Sage and I go to. He thinks people that never went to CPA are second class citizens. You get a discount if you go to CPA, and that’s how he knows who does and does not go.”, Fleur explained.

“What a turd.”, Sunset commented.

“Yeah, luckily for you, he’s got enough common sense to be scared of lawyers. Sunset, when you blocked his sword, you had this look on your face. What was it?”

Sunset knew the face she was talking about. It was the face all soldiers get in battle and what differentiates a soldier from a trained fighter. How do I explain that? “It was - I have extensive combat training. That face is a side effect of that.”

“Okay”, Fleur said, but her face said she was unconvinced.

“Let’s just get back to sparring. I still need to beat you.”, Sunset said.

“Oh, you’re on.”, Fleur retorted.

Canterlot district attorney’s office
Date: same day, time: 4:40 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

Sunset had made it to her dad’s work safely and was now sitting in his office.

“So, how was your first class?”, Anzhong asked.

“It was mixed. I like the sport, and the instructions were good, but there was a whiny kid that tried to hurt Fleur, and one of the instructors was very biased against non-CPA students.”, Sunset responded.

That got Anzhong’s attention. “Is Fleur okay? What happened?”

“Fleur’s fine. I stopped the blade. I punched the kid. The instructor tried to have me punished. Me mentioning you’re a lawyer, shut him up. Class went normal from that point on. I wish to return to give it a second chance.”

Anzhong took a deep breath. “Okay, as long as you believe you are safe.”