Sunset's human world origin

Katon family home
Date: Oct 2nd, time: 6:10 pm

*Anzhong’s perspective*

“Dad!” Anzhong heard Sunset scream from her room.

“Sunset?!” Anzhong rushed from the kitchen and into Sunset’s room.

“Listen to this.” Sunset handed Anzhong an ear piece.

Anzhong placed it in his ear, and he heard the sound of crashing and shouting. It sounded like there was a fight, one male and one female combatant. “What is this?”

“One of my bugs recorded it, just now.”

“The Waters house?”

“Correct”

“What’s the address?”

Sunset gave Anzhong the address, and Anzhong pulled out his phone.

“How are you calling?”

“The police”

Principal Winters office
Date: Oct 5th, time: 4:00: pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

After Anzhong called the police, Mr. and Mrs. Waters were both arrested. At first, the police were only going to arrest Mr. Waters, but Mrs. Waters assaulted the officers and was also arrested. At least, that’s what one of Anzhong’s friends said. Sunset was not sure how reliable this information was, but it seems likely to be true.

Now, Sunset was presenting her evidence to Principal Winters. As Principal Winters read, her face became more scrunched. She even bared her teeth at one point. “Sunset, I do hope you understand the severity of the allegations you’re bringing against Mr. Waters.”

“I’m completely aware. That does not change the fact that Vice Principal Waters stole from the school, and I believe the fact that the Waters got into such a heated domestic dispute that it resulted in heavy objects being thrown around supports my first video. Mr. Waters is too dangerous to be around children.”

“How did you get your second recording?”

“My father and I were the ones to call it in.”

“Hg, thank you Ms. Shimmer. I will present this to the acting board head.”

“Thank you” With that, Sunset exited Winters’ office. While leaving and Winters wasn’t looking, Sunset placed a bug behind the bookshelf next to the door.

“How’d it go?”, Flash asked.

“It went well.”, Sunset said while taking the seat next to Flash.

“You’re not worried about Winters being in on it?”

“Not entirely. That’s why I’m going to keep an eye, or rather a bug, on her.”

“How long do those things last?”

“Their batteries last a month.”

-

“Now, what do we do?”, Flash asked.

“Wanna go back ta my place?”

“Sure”

Emi’s room
Date: Oct 15th, time: 1:00 pm

*Emi’s perspective*

Emi hummed to herself as she worked on her latest trick. By the time she goes back to school, she’s going to have a whole wave of new tricks. Her latest trick was a jack-in-the-box with creepily sweet music. When it pops, the jack will have a sign that says “I see you” and then a creepy laugh will play. Everybody at school is already creeped out by Emi, and they will know this is her handiwork.

Just as Emi was about to test her creation, she heard Sunset walking up the stairs. Given that Mom and Dad were out on a date and everyone else was downstairs, that could only mean that she wanted to talk to Emi. Emi’s suspicions were proven correct when Sunset knocked on her door.

“Come in. Watch your step.”, Emi said while turning to face the door.

As Sunset entered, she had to step over various semantics and recipe sheets. Emi liked to keep records of how to build her stuff, and when she’s actively working on a project, the needed information ends up on the floor. “I want to talk about what we’re going to do for this Halloween. Trick-or-treating is not exactly a germ free experience.”

“It’s not like Ah’m going to be sitting in a single room for eight hours, surrounded by a bunch a’ snotty crotch goblins. At worst, another group will come up ta talk ta us. Ah c’n jus’ stay behind Mom. There’s no way Ah c’n get sick.”

“Be that as it may, you simply can’t afford to get sick. If you get so much as a cold, you could die. I would jus’ like to be safe rather than sorry.”

“Fine, fine, as long as it doesn’t interfere with me collecting candy.”

“I wouldn’t dream of depriving you of your life blood.”, Sunset said while putting a hand to her heart.

“Ha ha, very funny. What’s your plan?”

“My plan is to put you in a HAZMAT suit and make it a part of your costume. I’ve come up with a few ideas.” Sunset handed Emi a drawing pad. The designs were good and ranged from a straight up HAZMAT suit to versions of already existing ideas that were modified to cover everything.

“I like this one.” Emi pointed to a cat burglar costume that used her fox mask.

“Okay then, I’ll start putting it together.”

“Thank you, Sunset.”

Sunset gave Emi a thumbs up and carefully left the room.

Emi turned back around and began turning the handle of the jack-in-the-box. The music played, and the jack sprang up. The sound of a low, staticy recording of Emi’s laugh played out from the box. It was perfect.

Emi placed her new scare-in-a-box onto her shelf of completed works. The shelf contained powder bombs, other creepafied toys, stinck bombs, glitter bombs, and other weapons of mass chaos. Emi wasn’t sure which one to call her masterpiece. She’s just too happy with all of them. Emi turned to pick up her schematics from the floor. As she was gathering them up, an idea for an even more devious device came to her. Now, all she had to do was find a way to bring her idea into reality.

Sunset’s bedroom
Date: Oct 28th, time: 5:00 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

Sunset’s day had been going well. The day was relaxed. Her homework was done, her and Emi’s costumes were done, she got some witch training in, and she had not much else to do. She wasn’t in a mode to play video games, and her wrist was starting to get tired from drawing. Without anything she wanted to do, Sunset got up and exited her room. No one was in the main area. Sunset looked outside and saw a sight she never thought she would see, Emi meditating. Sunset stealthed outside and saw that Emi was meditating and not just sleeping.

“Is there something we can help you with?”, Anzhong asked.

“No, I’m jus’ surprised that Emi’s actually meditating.”

“Hey, Ah’m disciplined.”, Emi protested.

“Six months ago, you were bouncing off the walls so much that you could barely do your homework.”, Sunset deadpanned.

“Yeah, yeah, pin the blame on me. It’s not the fact that it was boring or barely readable because they’re crappy copies.”

“They can’t be dat bad.”

“Oh, trust me, they are. You’re lucky you never had ta deal with US elementary schools. Do you even have copiers in Equestria?”

“Actually, we don’t.”

“What kind of third world micronation is Equestria?”

Sunset didn’t answer. She would tell them everything, in time.

Katon family home
Date: Oct 31st, time: 5:00 pm

*Anura’s perspective*

“Hello, Anura. Emi’s in ‘er room.”, Brigid said.

“Thank you”, Anura said, then went upstairs and into Emi’s room. Her room was a perfect reflection of her personality. It was painted with dark blues and blacks. The walls were lined with bookshelves, but the shelves had few books. They were mostly home to her creations, parts that would soon become part of one of her creations, or the blueprints for her creations. She still slept in her child’s bed, but Anura knew that was going to change soon. There was a nice, big window that let in a lot of light but was covered a lot of the time by the blackout curtains. Emi’s ceiling was painted like the night sky and had glow in the dark stars dotted about. Emi was sitting on her bed doing - something.

“Emi, what are you doing?”

“Hm, oh, Hi, Anura. Ah didn’t hear you come in.”

“Wow, that’s a whole new level of concentration for you.”

Emi stuck her tongue out at Anura.

“What are you doing?”, Anura repeated.

“Ah have this incredible plan for a new trick, but I can’t figure out how to make it work. Ah already asked Sunset to help, but she said that Ah’d need magic to make this work.”

“And you’re still trying to make it work anyway.”

“Sunset told me something the last time I was in a funk that fits here. “The only thing impossible in life is that anything’s impossible.””

“I like that. Either way, we need to get ready for trick or treating.”

Emi looked up to the clock on her wall and got an “oh, shit” face. “Crap, it’s that late already.” Emi hopped out of bed and ran to her closet, and Anura turned around from Emi. Anura was already dressed in her costume. The two of them were going in twin cat burglar costumes. The only difference between them would be their masks. Of course, they did have reflective tape on them. A fact Emi was not happy with, saying that no sane ninja would wear anything reflective. When Emi announced she was done dressing, Anura turned back around. Emi motioned for them to leave. Heading down stairs, they saw Sunset dressed as a pirate, Anzhong dressed in his McRuff costume, and Mom dressed as a wrestler. The only one not dressed up was Brigid.

“Mom, why aren’t you in costume?”, Emi asked.

Brigid gave Emi an apologetic smile. “Ah’m sorry. Ah have some work dat Ah need ta do. Ah’ll join ya late’.”

Emi looked sad but also suspicious. “Okay”, she said normally.

“Anzhong and I will still be taking you.”, Mom said.

Emi nodded, and everyone left to start trick-or-treating. The trick-or-treating went as normally as it could’ve. Emi made sure not to get too close to anyone, and people didn’t really ask about Emi’s costume. They met up with Brigid about a third of the way through. She was dressed as a pirate captain. The real fun began when they got back to the Katon house.

“Emi, we got a present f’r ya.”, Brigid said. Brigid led everyone upstairs and into Emi’s room.

Emi’s old bed was no longer in her room. In its place is a bunk bed desk combo. Sunset plugged her ears as a massive smile spread across Emi’s face. Emi proceeded to imitate the sound of a tea kettle. “Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!” Emi ran into her room and climbed up onto the bed. “I love it!” Emi then hopped off her bed and started reorganizing her room, incorporating her new desk, and everyone else left, deciding to let her get to it.

Sunset’s bedroom
Date: Oct 31st, time: 11:00 pm

*Sunset’s perspective*

Like many nights before, Sunset lay awake with her thoughts spiralling. Questions about who she has become, where she belongs, and what her future is. She has not been able to communicate with Nana since the first time. That only leaves her stuffed phoenix to talk to, who isn’t much help. Mr. Waters being relieved of his position did make Sunset feel good, but she still had this void in her chest. Its intensity varied, and Sunset could ignore it easily enough, but it wasn’t getting better. “Stupid complicated human emotions.” Sunset turned her focus to her anger of Mrs. Waters not being sacked. Despite the fact she attacked the police officers, she was still reinstated as the board head. From what Sunset had overheard of Mrs. Waters, that was going to be a bad thing. Mrs. Waters was not only complicit in her husband’s theft but actively encouraged it. That fight was because Mrs. Waters learned that Mr. Waters was giving half of what he stole to the football team. Unfortunately, Sunset couldn’t give the cops that evidence without admitting how she actually got it. That leaves Mrs. Waters in a position where she could retaliate against the school, but Sunset doesn’t plan on letting that stand. “Your move Waters.”