A cold anger gripped the young Unicorn's heart. Sunset Shimmer couldn't understand why her mentor kept trying to push this nonsense on her. Friendship? Seriously!? She came here to learn magic! To gain power! Not to waste her time helping others who couldn't help themselves.

Sunset shook the day's lecture from her mind and focused on what she came here for...the mirror. Princess Celestia had told her that the mirror was a doorway to another world. An ugly, barbaric world without magic ruled by aggressive hairless apes that were meaner than the Dragons and the Changelings combined!

As far as Sunset was concerned, these guys had the right idea. Power is what mattered, and she knew in her heart that she was destined for greatness, and if the only ones who could appreciate that were monsters, then so be it.

She channeled her icy blue magic from her horn into the sigils on the mirror, the sigils began to glow, then the glow poured into the mirror, creating a brilliant explosion of light that Sunset had to shield her eyes from. When she lowered her foreleg, she saw a swirling vortex of brilliant blue light leading to another world, a world she was determined to rule.

Sunset smiled at her success and gave her saddle bags one final check when suddenly the doors behind the rebellious Unicorn flew open, revealing her former mentor and a pair of guards. "Sunset! Step away from that portal!!"

Sunset Shimmer glared at Celestia with fresh anger. "You still think I'm not ready! You still think I'm not good enough for the real lessons!! But I'll never be ready if you keep wasting my time with this 'friendship' nonsense!!" The Unicorn shouted as she stepped towards the portal.

"Sunset please! That world is too dangerous! You don't kno-" Celestia's pleas were interrupted by Sunset's fury. "IT'S A WORLD! WITHOUT! MAGIC!! WE COULD'VE ALREADY RULED IT IF YOU LET US!! BUT YOU WANT US TO WASTE OUR MAKING FRIENDS!!!" Sunset spat the word with all the venom she could muster.

Celestia's eyes shrank to pin pricks as she realized just how little Sunset understood what she was about to do. "STOP HER!!" She shouted to the guards while channeling her magic to arrest her wayward student.

Unfortunately, after a recent Changeling attack a few months ago, Celestia had deigned to teach Sunset Shimmer some defensive spells. When she saw her mentor's horn begin to glow, she channeled her magic inward to resist outside magic. It wouldn't allow her to resist an Alicorn for long, but it gave her a split second to turn from her treacherous mentor and leap through the portal.

What followed was a miasma of colors as Sunset tore through the Infinite Planes of Reality before she finally stumbled and landed face first on a field of white sand.

Sunset groaned as she rose on all fours. Her body felt strange, the first thing she noticed was that her forelegs, face, and upper rear thighs were colder than the rest of her body.

When she opened her eyes, the second thing she noticed was that she was in a dimly lit shack made of sheet metal. The building was missing a wall and floor, giving Sunset a clear view of the beach she had landed on in the middle of the night.

Finally, as she brought a forehoof up to wipe away the sand she landed in...she noticed her body. "WAAAAAAAAAHH!!!!" Sunset shouted as she backpedaled at the shocking sight of her own limb, now devoid of it's orange fur and ending in a strange appendage that reminded her of a griffon's talon.

Her eyes drifted from her forelimbs to the rest of her body. She realized the reason parts of her body were colder than the rest is because she was wearing clothes. Likely because her new body seemed to be one of the hairless apes the stories said ruled this world.

Her hairless skin was a milky white that leaned towards pink, and her mane had become a bright pink she had seen in pictures of Princess Celestia before her ascension.

The front of her body was covered in a light blue T-shirt and a(SWEET CELESTIA!!) black leather jacket. It also felt as though there was something beneath the shirt that clinging tightly to the strange mounds of flesh atop her chest.

The back end of her body was covered with a reddish pink skirt and black leggings, with whatever odd appendages adorned her back legs being obscured by what she could only describe as false hooves.

She kept looking herself over and flexing the talons that replaced her hooves(she swear she could feel smaller ones on her back hooves) until she heard creatures coming.

"I'm telling ya, I just heard some chick screamin' ovah here." A male voice grew loader as a group approached.

"Oh, she's gonna be screamin'. Ain't no bitch trespassin' on our turf without puttin' out!" Another declared with malicious intent.

Sunset grinned to herself, time to show these apes what real power looked like.

She straightened herself up as best she could, her long back legs making it awkward to hold her head high until she settled for bending her knees to the ground, and then she... realized her magic was gone!!

"What? No no no no no no no no NOOOOOOO!!!" She cried out in a panic.

"Hey! She's over here!!" A voice brought Sunset back to her terrible reality.

A gang of three thugs stood tall over Sunset on their back legs alone, their front legs hanging loosely by the sides of their chests.

The three thugs scrutinized Sunset, who they found staring up at them on her hands and knees with a panicked expression. "Jeez! This slut's twinking out! What do you think she's on?" One of them asked.

"What the- Are those...HORNS!?" Another exclaimed while pointing at Sunset's head.

"Probably some stupid cosplay shit. Whatever, just means she'll be easier to hold down while she blows me." The biggest meanest one sneered. He was obviously the leader, and while Sunset didn't know what he was talking about, she knew it wasn't anything good.

Sunset's mind raced. Her magic wasn't working, her body was unfamiliar, there were no weapons in reach, and three male apes that were much bigger than her were closing in with lecherous grins. "...I...uh...this...she..."

The big male whistled. "Damn, you are on some baaad shit! Ya got anymore?"

"Wuh... what do you-AAAAAAAAHHH!!!!" The big male wrapped his talons in Sunset's mane and pulled her off the ground and slammed into the shed wall behind her. "You deaf bitch? Where're yer drugs at?"

"I-I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOU-AAH!!" The thug slapped Sunset across the face with the back of his talon. "You so fucked up you can't understand Japanese!? Screw it, we'll find'em ourselves."

With no further warning, the thug pulled down the zipper on Sunset's jacket and squeezed one of the mounds on her chest, illiciting an involuntary moan as he began harshly kissing her neck.

...is...is he...OH TARTARUS NO!!! Sunset's fear gave way to pride as she sought to preserve her dignity. She imitated her attacker by wrapping one talon in his mane and pulling him off far enough to slap him across the face with her other talon. Wasting no time, she turned and braced herself against the wall to deliver a full force buck to her opponent and knock him down as the other two moved in.

Sunset turned to slap the first crony, but he grabbed her forelimb...and he didn't slap her.

A curled talon collided with her face, four semi-sharp bones trying to pierce her cheekbone as her vision went white and then black. She was immediately returned to cruel consciousness when the other crony's rear(or rather bottom) limb slammed the point of his false hoof into her stomach.

Sunset gasped for air as the leader walked up to her, a red mark and an angry scowl being the only damage done. "You could've walked away after we were done, now I'm gonna drown you."

The other two apes seized her by her forelimbs and dragged her up. They pulled off her jacket and ripped off her shirt. As the leader began to lift up her skirt, Sunset thought of the events that lead her here. Her mentor's insistence on learning Friendship, her decision to leave Equestria behind, of realizing she hadn't her magic with her.

She was better... she was superior!! These lowly apes had no right to treat her like this, they should be begging for their lives and catering to her every need.

As her attackers started to remove their own clothes, a darker anger than any Sunset had felt before began to overwhelm her senses. She wanted them to pay, she wanted them to suffer, but more than anything, she wanted them gone!

GET THE BUCK OFF MEEE!!!

Sunset dropped to the floor like her strings had been cut, she was soaking wet with a sticky salty substance that had temporarily blinded her, and the thugs had all gone silent.

Sunset kept her forelimbs up, unsure of what had happened. But after ten seconds of waiting, she took the time to rub her eyes clean...and look.

The shed had been painted red. The three apes laid before Sunset in several mutilated pieces, having been bisected and beheaded at the same time by some wickedly serrated blade.

Sunset observed some of their talons twitching despite the bisecting strike having lopped off most of their forelimbs just above the elbow. Then she realized that she was soaked in their blood.

...did... did I do that? Sunset pondered, looking to her bloody talons. She remembered how it felt, to hate them so much, and tried to back that hatred back up while at one of their severed heads.

Something lashed out from her. Crushing the head like a melon under an Earth Pony's hoof and leaving a bloody print that looked like her talon.

That settles it! It was me!! I do still have magic!!! Sunset began to smile. She looked at one of the other heads. She tried to levitate it, but nothing happened. Then she moved her forelimb and it's talon to get a feel for it and tried to imagine picking up the head while channeling her hatred again.

It worked! An invisible limb stretched out from her back and grabbed the head in its talon. With a satisfied grin, Sunset crushed it. Alright apes, let's try this again...

Author's Note

I've been having a bad week...and a bad month...and last year was really bad.

So, while I'm not stopping my 40k fics, I am a little burnt out. So I decided to go back to a fic about my comfort show(the year I found this anime was the worst year of my life)

Now, a few things going forward. For anyone who thought this opening was unnecessarily cruel: Welcome to Elfen Lied, run while you still can.

I hinted at everyone in this fic speaking Japanese. That's because it takes place in Japan and while I might include a 'translation spell' into the lore later, I just didn't want to write a fic where Sunset spent two or three chapters learning Japanese.

Now, Sunset's gonna get a little mad with power, but anyone whose seen Elfen Lied knows how this arc ends...then the real fun begins.

And that's the opening of this fic, I'll see you all in the next chapter.