On a Monday afternoon, Sunset Shimmer and Twilight Sparkle stood side by side with opened mouths in shock at the sight before them.

After receiving the picture on Sunday night of the two with new magical limbs, an emergency friend meeting was called, with instruments required. So, here at Canterlot High after school hours in the music hall, stood the twins with their sound boards, Trixie with her electric guitar and Starlight at the grand piano, all were adorned with new equine features. Sunset almost wanted to laugh at the fact that every girl had a horn on their head now. Just a group of unicorn girls jamming out…

After the shock settled in, Twilight got to work with bombarding questions, “What does this mean? How does it feel? How did you gain this? How did this happen? Sunset, explain!”

Sunset put her hands up in defense, “I’m not entirely sure sparkes, Equestrian magic kinda does whatever it wants.”

Twilight went to retort before being interrupted, “Isn't it obvious! The Great and Powerful Trixie is just that great and powerful! It’s clear the elements realized their mistake and gave magic to the true beholders!” Trixie practically shouted.

Sunset deadpanned, “Uh huh.”

The inquisitive Scientist looked at Sunset, her eyes asking for the truth.

Starlight piped up, offering a hypothesis, “Well those girls that were friends with Sunset before had these- what…horse? power’s right?”

“Pony.” Sunset corrected.

“Right.. So what does that mean for us?” Starlight asked.

Sunset shrugged, “Like I said, equestrian magic, in this world, is an anomaly. I haven't had much of an experience with how it works, other than my own magic. Which will be different from yours, I'm guessing.”

Twilight tapped her chin, beginning to pace, “Those last five girls, were considered friendship elemental virtues. That power was removed from them, as informed by Pinkie Pie. Now, it seems that power has been transported to you four. Is that because you now embody the elements or is it a reaction from Sunset’s magic?”

“Actually human magic still exists, it’s very low yes, but Trixie has it inherently. This equestrian magic is new to me.” Trixie said, entering the theory talk.

The redhead held a finger under her nose, in thought, “That's a good point, I did bring magic to this world. Could it be that the people that I’m around the most gain equestrian magic since that’s my inherent magic? No.. If that were so, you, Sparkes, would have magic. You don't, right?”

The bespeckled girl paused her pace, “Not that I know of…”

“There’s only one way to know. Play an instrument.” Fuschia instructed, bringing the two girls back to their friends, seeing Trixie mock a yawn while Starlight giggled, and Lavender smirked.

“Well, there's none here that I can play.” Twilight replied.

Lavender straightened up from the piano she was leaning on, “What do you play?”

“The violin, I didn't think to bring mine.” Twilight said, as Lavender began to walk to the instrument room.

Sunset had her arm over her torso and her other arm raised with a hoof-impressionist fist, “I didn't know you played an instrument.”

Twilight gave a guilty look, “I hadn’t meant to keep it a secret, I haven't played in a long time. So, I never thought to bring it up.”

Sunset poked her nose up, in mock offense, I suppose I’ll forgive you.”

“The great and powerful Trixie is annoyed. Starry dear, teach them self control.” Trixie said and Starlight rolled her eyes at the other girl. Before the lilac skinned girl could retort, Lavender returned with a violin, handing it over to the lavender skinned female.

Positioning the instrument under her chin, Twilight's eyes looked to Sunset’s, asking for reassurance, “Go ahead, Sparkes.” Sunset smiled.

The string instrument began to fill the sound waves of the room, as Twilight gained more confidence in her playing, sure enough, equine ears, a horn, and a tail magically appeared.

Twilight stopped midway, after the transformation, eyes darting to the horn and to her elongated hair as her breath picked up, “Magic! Me! Unicorn pony things!”

Sunset laughed, along with the twins, as Starlight looked on with awe, “Congratulations, you now meet the requirements to be part of Trixie's powerful team!”

The former unicorn placed her hands on her hips, “Uh huh.” Sunset turned to Twilight, placing a hand on her shoulder, “Just think babe, now we have more magic to learn and experiment with… safely, of course.”

That seemed to calm the scientist as she smiled, “You're right, how exciting!”

Fuschia placed her instrument in its case, “Before we become guinea pigs, I want food.”

The others agreed, beginning to pack up and make their way to the outside of the school.

As the girls began to make their way down the school steps, Sunset dropped her guitar pic, in an attempt to slip it in her pocket, pausing on the middle step to pick it back up a strange sound entered her ears.

The sound of charging up magic caused Sunset to move her head up towards the sound, catching the sight of a fast moving bright magic bullet.

Sunset acted quickly, “Twilight!”

The girl started to turn in surprise when she was grabbed protectively by Sunset from behind. The redhead cried out in pain as the magic shot into her back, burning her. She kept a protective hold, as the others turned to the source of the shooting magic, this time many shots of magic flew towards them, surprisingly a mint green glimmering dome covered the group, causing the magic blasts to bounce off.

Twilight turned around in alarm, “Sunset! A-are you okay?”

Sunset hissed in response at the pain of her singed back, she turned her head over her shoulder, glimpsed at her back, seeing the back of her shirt and leather jacket burned away, “Aw, my jacket.”

“Uh, Starry, how did you do that?” Trixie asked, holding her wand.

“I-I don't know but I dont think it's going to hold up for long!” Starlight said loudly, holding her hands up as they shined a mint aura.

Sunset looked to the source of where the magic shoots were coming from. Her breath hitched at the sight of a masked figure. Her breath picked up in panic, recognizing the figure that had been with Gilda.

The memories of the attack flooded to the forefront of her mind as her fear paralyzed her. Sunset could hear someone saying her name but it was too fuzzy to break her away.

How can you be freezing and burning at the same time? Her throat felt closed as she tried to bring in deep, quick breaths. A lavender skinned girl entered her vision, placing her hand on , “Sunny, calm down. I-it’s gonna be okay.”

The redhead shook her head back and forth, “T-that person. They he-helped Gilda take me.”

The group looked at the school's roof that the masked figure was placed on with a magic shooting staff.

A fierce angry look flashed on Twilight's soft face that the former unicorn had never seen on her before. Suddenly a warmth covered her back lightly scratching her new wound, glimpsing at her shoulders Sunset saw a navy blue zipper jacket around her.

Feeling calm enough again to register her surroundings, Sunset spoke, “T-thanks Trixie.”

The silver haired girl nodded as her wand glowed a light pink, ready to defend. The mint dome faded away and the figure flung around the staff as another blast charged up.

As the shot headed their way both Trixie and Lavender dispelled it with their own magic bullets. Suddenly three Trixie’s flowed out from her own body, now shooting magic back at the figure. Fuschia teleported beside her and swung out her hand a giant cyan magic one manifested coping her hand motions.

The hand grabbed at the person in the roof attempting either the figure or the staff. The person powered the staff that shot a beam at the giant hand, shattering it.

Suddenly many bright, large monster looking figures shoot out from the staff and onto the ground level, cornering the girls.

“What do we do?” Starlight shouted.

Sunset stood with determination, summoning a bright red fireball in her hand, “We need to find a way out. We don’t know who this is or what they're capable of. Lavender and Trixie you two use your magic to distract the person on the roof. Fuschia, you have the largest car, go get it for our escape! Starlight, use your shields against any of the magic bullets. Twilight, stay behind me, I’ll take care of these monsters!” Sunset instructed, as the fireball grew.

“No!” Twilight protested, “I-I’m going to help too! Just tell me how!”

Sunset smiled and nodded, “You got that textbook, still?”

“Uh, yes?”

“Good, time to weaponize knowledge physically! Starting swinging at these things with.” Sunset said, sending a punch of fire at one of the monsters.

Twilight, now with a large chemistry textbook, hit at a monster charging at her, watching it shatter away as the hardback made contact, “Ha! That’s what happens when you mess with cadmium!”

The battle continued as Trixie used her illusions to confuse and shoot magic bullets back and Lavender’s own raspberry colored giant hand continued to apprehend the figure on the roof, causing them to jump back and around to avoid being caught as they sporadically shoot magic beams. Sunset used her fire to burn away the magic holographic monsters as her partner hit them. A black sedan pulled around the corner, honking.

Sunset used this moment to act as a flamethrower, sending flames and beridding of all the monsters before more could appear, “Girls, let’s go!”

A magic rope suddenly wrapped around Sunset's middle, dragging her up to the roof.

“Sunset!” Twilight shouted, using her book to hit at the rope.

The redhead attempted to summon her fire magic only for nothing to come forth, ‘Discord’s mixed matched horns!’

Sunset wriggled against the rope, in an attempt to get it loose. Trixie summoned her own light pink rope, lassoing around Sunset creating a tug of war.

“Okay, I’m not some golden hoof-shoe for you two to fight over!” Sunset shouted as she was pulled slightly back and forth.

Fuschia used the figures' distraction as an opportunity to teleport behind them. Creeping as quietly as she could, she lunged from behind grabbing the person and quickly teleported them to the ground. The covered person violently pushed Fuschia off and made a motion of teleport with the staff. Lavender acted quickly and resummoned a giant magic hand pinning the figure to the ground and flicking the staff away.

As the rope vanished from around Sunset, she fell to the ground, landing on her wounded back causing her the yelp in pain. Twilight was quickly at her side helping her up, hovering a hand behind her back.

The person grunted as they attempted to wingle from the hands pinning.

Sunset rolled Trixie’s jacket sleeves up to her elbows, “Alright, I've got a done to pick with you! Not only did you kidnap me but now you’ve destroyed my jacket and attacked my friends!”

The redhead stopped in front of the masked person as their head lifted up meeting Sunset’s rage filled gaze.

“I’ll admit I was a fool for letting the griffin girl get to play with her pet for a bit too long. The moment we had you I should have taken your magic.” A squeaky yet adult voice said.

Starlight rolled her eyes out of anger or bitterness towards this person and what they were saying. Wordlessly she grabbed the person’s mask revealing a girl that looked almost their age with salmon pink skin, light blue streaked ringlets and a cream headband. She gave a smile, showing some teeth with danger and evil dancing in her eyes.

Sunset searched her face, something about the girl seemed familiar, like Sunset has seen her before, but from where?

“Who are you?”

The girl gave a short laugh, “Don't you worry about that Sunset Shimmer, you’ll know soon enough!”

Moving quickly the girl pulled out a pocket knife which held a symbol on it. The former unicorn recognized it to be an Equestrian enchantment symbol. Using the butt of the pocket knife the younger girl smashed it into the giant hand holding her down, roughly grabbing back the staff from Trixie and blasting her to the ground before teleporting away.

Trixie rubbed at her chest where she was hit. Starlight helped her up, “Are you okay?”

The sky blue skinned female nodded, “Trixie is okay, probably just bruised. Nothing like what Sunset got.”

Said redhead leaned against her partner, slumping as they walked to the car, “Let’s just get home, now I’m definitely gonna need a nap.”

***

Sunset hissed in pain as an ice pack wrapped in a cold rag rested against her back. The two made their way to Sunset's home after Fuschia dropped them off by the redhead’s motorcycle.

“I’m sorry, I’m trying to be gentle.” Twilight said with guilt.

“It’s okay, it’s not your fault.” Sunset reassured.

“Isn’t though? You jumped in the way of that bullet.” The guilt was clear in her voice.

“That doesn’t make it your fault, besides I can handle a little burn. I’ve had worse.” Sunset tried to joke.

“It’s not a little burn, it’s a second degree across the entirety of your shoulder pads.” Twilight said, keeping her eyes downcast.

Sunset turned around, facing Twilight, giving her a soft kiss, “Please don’t blame yourself. Trust me, you’d know if I blamed you.”

Twilight nodded with a small smile and blush. The indigo haired girl popped open a cap of aloe, squeezing some on her fingers and began to lightly apply it to Sunsets burns.

“So, what exactly happened?” Luna’s cool voice asked as she entered at the door frame with a new wet rag.

“We got attacked by some girl with a magical staff.” Sunset said nonchalantly.

Luna frowned, “Who was this girl?”

Both girls shrugged, “We didn’t get her name. She teleported away before we could ask her anything more.” Twilight clarified.

“When we did ask she just said that we’d found out, whatever that means. She also knew my name.” Sunset said.

“Does she go to the school? What does she look like?” The evening colored woman interrogated.

The redhead shook her head, “I don’t think so. I’ve never seen her, she had pink skin and light blue hair that was styled like those old guys wigs from a long time ago.”

Luna tapped her chin, “I see. Twilight, make sure to mention it to your brother.”

The girl nodded.

Sunset thought for a moment before speaking, “There’s something really weird about it all. That girl looked, maybe, a grade younger than us, yet when Gilda and her attacked me, she was super strong and not to mention, taller. I’m sure it was her though, she knew who I was to the point that she knew I would be walking out of the school, that I have magic and that I was being… held by Gilda. She also was wearing the same attire.”

“It’s possible magic had something to do with her physical appearance or maybe ever her age, correct?” Luna asked.

The redhead nodded, “Yes, but that’s a very difficult thing to accomplish. Even for power unicorns. There’s definitely something weird going on there. I'm going to contact Princess Twilight and ask what knowledge she can give.”

Both Luna and her Twilight nodded. Luna taped the medical cold rag to Sunsets back with medical tape before pulling her new shirt down, “Well it’s getting late, dinner is ready, so let’s come have a cute family dinner.”

The two girls giggled and followed the woman to the kitchen.

***

Later that night Sunset’s motorcycle roared down the suburban road.

Stopping in front of Twilight's house, the two walked hand in hand up the porch before stopping in front of the front door.

“Well today sure was… enlightening and eventful.” Twilight said. Sunset couldn’t help but notice how her beauty was highlighted by the moonlight.

Sunset nodded, “It sure was. I hope it wasn't too much.”

“Please, it was actually kind of exciting after all was said and done. Plus turns out I have magic! It appears to be a miniscule amount compared to you and the others but that’s okay.” Twilight said with excitement dancing in her tone.

The redhead giggled, “Well no experimenting until we know more. Plus Trixie has had magic for her entire life and has trained with it. The twins have too apparently, which I didn’t know and Starlight was most likely out of adrenaline. I’m sure you’ll have something fun to show up some time.”

The indigo haired girl nodded, “In the meantime, dress shopping the day after tomorrow? That’s a Wednesday.”

Sunset nodded, “Sounds like a plan. I know a good place.”

Twilight beamed before leaning up for a kiss. When they broke apart Twilight put her hands in Sunsets, “Goodnight.”

Sunset kissed the top of her forehead, “Good night.”

As Sunset rode back to her house she relished in the relieving cold wind on her back.

***

Maniacal laugher echoed through the cold room.

'Please I just want to go home. Please let me go.'

'I don't think so, Sunny.' A gravely voice said, her large, buff figure looming over a weak amber skinned girl. Her eyes glowed a bright yellow.

Gilda dragged a slim figure forward by the pony tail, throwing her forward. Twilight entered Sunset's vision with fear and tears in her eyes.

Another voice spoke, ‘You've got something we want, equestrian. Fight back and we cant be held accountable of what happens to your little girlfriend.' This figure stood tall and lean, evil dripping from her presence. The voice was familiar, sounding older than how she heard it previously.

'Screw you!' Sunset shouted back at them with anger.

'Su-sunny, I'm so sorry! I-I needed to find you!' Twilight said with heavy tears flowing down her cheeks.

'Twilight-' Sunset was cut off as Gilda kicked the back of Twilight, 'Shut it with the mushy shit.' Gilda turned to the other figure, 'Lets get this started.'

Suddenly a bright light shone in front of Sunset's eyes. The redhead shouted in pain as she felt her inherited magic drain from her and into the staff, making the figure larger, bouncing tendril's and ringlet's flowing behind her as wings and a tall horn started to grow.

Sunset fell limp to the floor. Only for Gilda to pick her up half way and start beating her. Laughter of evil filled Sunset's ear's.

"Sunset."

Red and pain consumed her as Twilight sobbed.

"Sunset!"

The redheads eyes shot open, her sheets drenched in cold sweat and was panting from a panic. Luna entered her vision, concern on her face.

Sunset sat up leaning forward, silently asking for a hug. The woman accepted and rubbed her back in circles, "Nightmare?"

The girl nodded, gripping the back of Luna's shirt, "Do you want to talk about it?"

"I-I was back in the basement, but Twilight was there this time and Gilda was hurting us, t-that person from ea-earlier was t-there and she stole m-my magic. I just remember it being so painful, like I could physically feel it." Sunset said, with sobs.

"I'm sorry, dear. You know, we'll keep you safe, right?" Luna asked.

The redhead nodded, "I'm still scared sometimes. I guess I can't help it, sometimes at night when the shadows are to big I get scared that someone is waiting there to attack me... it's pathetic, I know."

The adult woman shook her head, lightly stroking her cheek, "It's not pathetic, after what you went through, it's a totally rational thing."

Sunset bit her lip, fidgeting with her fingers and shrugging.

"Mo- Miss Luna?" Sunset asked.

"Yes?"

"Do you think you could sleep with me tonight?" Sunset asked avoiding eye contact.

Luna smiled, warmly, "Of course, dear." Sunset scooted over as Luna laid down next to her. Cuddling her, Luna places a kiss on Sunset's forehead allowing her to fall into a peaceful sleep.

Author's Note

Howdy doo! Pretty exciting this time around I must say. Also what is going on the that staff wielding girl? Only time will tell

Thanks for reading :)