Sunset's human world origin

Halls of CMS
Date: Sep 1st, time: 8:20 am

*Sunset’s perspective*

Sunset and Flash, along with other students, were hanging out in the halls, waiting for school to officially start. The morning announcements were coming over the speakers, like normal, but what was not normal was that Vice Principal Waters was making the announcements. It was normally Principal Winters who did all the announcements. Having to hear his voice, especially so early in the morning, grinded Sunset’s gears, and it was clear by the looks of contempt on some of the other students’ faces that Sunset was not the only one who disliked Waters. Aside from that, the announcements went on like normal. That was, until the end.

“And, effective immediately, there will be no hugging. Violating this rule will get you sent straight to my office.”, VP Waters said in his usual abrasive tone.

The reactions to the new rule varied from confused to angry to indifferent. Sunset was both angry and confused.

“What kind of a rule is that?”, Flash asked.

“I don’t know, but I’m going to get to the bottom of this after school.” Sunset got an evil look on her face and pulled Flash in for a hug. Chuckles and students jokingly saying “Ooh, you’re gonna get in trouble.” could be heard from the crowd.

“Ooh, a trouble maker.”, Flash jokingly said.

“Ha ha, I’ll see you at lunch.”, Sunset said while patting him on the shoulder.

With that, they were off in opposite directions. Flash wasn’t in Ms. Trees’ class.

Principal Winters’ office
Date: same day, time: 4:00 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

Knock knock knock

“Come in.”, Principal Winters said.

“Hello Principal Winters, I have some questions about the new rule. From my understanding, people require a lot of physical contact. This rule seems like it would be harmful to the students. So, I need ta ask, why does it exist?”

Principal Winters placed her pen down on the desk with a sigh. “The rule is in place because some of the female students have been giving male students hugs in order to cause them to get… boners.”

Sunset stared at Principal Winters in disbelief. What the older woman had just said was so absurd to Sunset that it took her several seconds to properly process it. “That is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever heard. These are twelve year old boys we’re talking about. Salads give them boners. On top of that, this is already covered under the sexual misconduct rules. Why put a completely ridiculous rule in place to deal with an issue that already has rules covering it?”

“Sunset, I’m afraid that you’re going to need to take this up with Vice Principal Waters. He is responsible for all disciplinary matters.”

“You mean the same guy who let two older students go around sexuall harassing younger girls? Why in da world did it take another student to take care of them?”

“Huh, I know what you mean. Mr. Waters is very ineffective at his job, and I’m overworked as it is. So, I can’t just pick up his slack. Is there anything else I can help you with?”

“No, thank you for your time. I’ll see you tonight.”, Sunset said, then turned to leave. It’s time to put that legalese training to use.

Sunset’s bedroom
Date: same day, time: 6:00 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

“That’s the dumbest rule I've ever heard of, and my old school had some gems.”, Anzhong said. Sunset had been beguiling Anzhong with the story of the new rule they had at school and her meeting with Principal Winters while she got ready for the dance. “I can say as a former twelve year old boy that salads will give them boners.”

“Exactly what I said, minus the part about being a former twelve year old boy. I want to get him fired, and from what I learned from you, the first place I’m gonna look is at the books. There is no way someone like him isn’t skimming some off the top.”

Anzhong got a huge smile on his face when he heard that, huge for him at least. “So, you have been listening to what I’ve been teaching you.”

“Of course, I’m always listening when you and Mom teach me stuff.”

“Hff, I’ll keep that in mind.”

“Yeah, chances are good that none of the documents will be in braille, but I would still like your help.”

“Of course, I will help. I quite like the idea of getting Mr. Waters fired. He’s an asshole, even by old white guy standards.”

“Hmhm, thanks. I’m off now.” Sunset and Anzhong began walking out of Sunset’s room and to the back door. Even though it was just a twenty minute walk, because it was now dark, Brigid wanted to drive Sunset. “I’ll see you in a couple hours.”

“Have fun.”

CMS gymnasium
Date: same day, time: 6:15 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

“Hey, Sunset!”, Flash called from the middle of the floor. He was doing a dance Sunset could best describe as what a person with three left feet would call a dance.

“Hey, Flash.”, Sunset said while trying not to laugh. “How in Traitorous are you popular when you dance like that?”

“Oh please, I’m so cool I can make anything cool.”

“So, you can just point to something, say it’s cool, and then it suddenly becomes cool?”

“Probably” Flash held out his hand which Sunset took. The two did their best to dance, despite neither really knowing how to. “Wow um, the party committee really did a good job.” Flash was clearly trying to distract from how badly they were dancing.

“Yeah, they did.” There were plenty of streamers and balloons serving as decoration. The room was mostly dark but had several lights of many colors to light it. There were several tables filled with food and drink. The stage was left relatively barren, except for the microphone, speakers, and the crown.

The two continue to dance and do their best not to hurt each other until Principal Winters announced it was time to crown the Fall Formal royal. All the students turned to face the stage. Both Winters and Waters were on stage. Winters was wearing her normal pants suit and glasses, but her snow white hair was done up in a simple yet elegant low bun. She also looked to be wearing make-up but the lighting and her dark skin made it hard to tell. Overall, she looked very nice. Waters was also wearing his normal getup, but unlike Winters, he always looked terrible. It could just be Sunset’s dislike of him coloring her vision, but Waters looked like he saw a picture from some 50’s formalwear magazine and said “That’s what I want ta look like.”, strange color and texture combo included. Combine that with a lousy comb over, and he just looked bad.

Winters called out Sunset’s name, and Sunset climbed up to the stage. Winters took the crown from Waters and crowned Sunset. Sunset turned to the crowd, and everyone started cheering. This surprised Sunset considering how little everyone seemed to care, but she liked the feeling all the same. It made her feel special, like how she felt while being Princess Celestia’s prized pupil. She wanted to feel like this more. She wanted to feel like a princess.

As she was basking in the attention, Sunset saw Flash. Out of everyone in the crowd, he looked at her with the most love and adoration. No one ever looked at her like that before. In that moment, it was like she was the center of his universe. He made her feel like a princess.

Sunset climbed down from the stage and went back over to Flash. The music started again, and everyone got back to dancing; eating; nonchalantly leaning against the wall because they’re “too cool”, when in reality they couldn’t get a date; or whatever the hell Flash and Sunset were doing.

“Have I told you how beautiful you look?”, Flash asked.

“Hm, maybe, but you can tell me again.”

“You look beautiful.”

The two continued to “dance”, until Sunset leaned down and kissed Flash; he was a good couple of inches shorter than her. Flash came to a full stop for a second, probably in shock, but he soon came over it and kissed Sunset back. A collection of “ow”s, “aw”s, and “ew, cooties”s came from the crowd. They soon parted, and Flash had that same dorkish smile on his face. Sunset replied with a considerably less dorkish smile.

Katon family home
Date: same day, time: 8:30 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

“Happy birthday, Princess Sunset!”, Emi cheered. Sunset knew that she was calling her that as a joke, but it still felt nice.

“Thank you, my loyal subject.”, Sunset said in her most regal tone. “Let’s go get some cake.”

“Cake! Cake! Cake!”, Emi chanted.

Brigid finished decontaminating and walked in after Sunset and to the fridge. Brigid grabbed the cake out of the fridge, and Anzhong set the table. Everyone had eaten already, so they weren’t just eating cake and ice cream for dinner, despite Emi’s protest. No amount of “but I’m sick and dying” will get her that.

“Can I see your crown?”, Emi asked Sunset.

Sunset was hesitant but decided to let Emi look at it. Sunset took the crown off her head and handed it to Emi. “Be careful with it.”

“What? I’m always careful.” Emi took the crown and started examining it. After she was done examining it, Emi placed the crown upon her head. “How do I look?”

“You look like a princess.”, Sunset said with a smile.