After four years in prison, human Sunset Shimmer comes back to reclaim her identity. For the pony who's been impersonating her, this might get complicated.

Also, we learn the secret TRUTH about Angry Gamer Sunset, and why so much computer software is buggy and annoying.

This is an authorized AU fanfic for C-L-Strife's story "Two Sunsets." Strife described his story as

Sunset's other self from the People Dimension is released from Jail but, The Criminal Life-Style is too hard for her to get past.

(I wanted my story to be at least partly original. That's why I carefully avoided reading most of Strife's story before composing my own fanfic of it! I only read Strife's story AFTER writing my fanfic, and I enjoyed Strife's tale even more than I had expected!)

Mildly AU.

I'm very lucky that Samey90 (fimfiction.net link) preread even part of this story. Thank you! As so often happens, I might not work out how to apply some of the more interesting and profound feedback until later stories, after this contest's deadline.

Thank you to Mykola (offprint, fimfiction.net) for advice on an obscure topic relating to science fairs! (Specifically, Mykola checked a Google translation of a Russian language line of dialog by Twilight Sparkle.)

This story might be an entry in a Sunset x Sunset story contest, idk.

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