Fun Time with SunPie

When it came to having a fun time or finding fun things to do, no one did it better than Pinkie Pie on a weekend, with no school and time off from her job at the Sweet Shoppe, she would have the entire length of spring break to make fun and silly memories with Sunset Shimmer and she didn't plan on wasting a single second! Ideas bounced around and danced in her head about what they should do but then Sunset mentioned Fun Zone and Pinkie since that moment couldn't stop smiling. As the name would suggest, Fun Zone was the central hub of all things fun in Canterlot City; food and games galore was what the place was all about and Pinkie LOVED hanging out there and of course, Sunset Shimmer & Pinkie Pie would arrive in style.

Rolling up into the parking lot with the roaring rev of her motorcycle engine, Sunset pulled into a parking space and shut off her bike and removed her helmet. Pinkie Pie would release her midsection and would take off the helmet she had gotten for when they go on rides, shaking out her helmet hair back into its puffy volume.

"Golly we got here super fast! Hehehe you always fly down the road on this thing Sunny!"

"May not be a raging she demon anymore but speed demon is still an title I hold with pride" Sunset giggled as she put her kickstand up and locked her bike up. Taking a look ay her watch she saw it was roughly 7:30 and the sun was beginning to set on the horizon which meant the evening rush at Fun Zone was about to be getting well underway.

"C'mon, let's go, lets go! I wanna get in line for the new attractions!" Pinkie would tug Sunset along by her hand smiling and giggling as Sunset came along.

"Heh you really love this place huh?" Sunset asked as they entered, the loud music and sounds of games blaring in her ear as she crossed the threshold from outside.

"Course I do silly filly; its a place for friends to have fun! Remember when I first brought you here?" Pinkie asked with a smile remembering when Sunset had finally begun opening up to the girls and wanting to willingly hangout with them.

"Heh I'll NEVER forget that, after all I got my love of gaming here." Sunset said as she began to remember back to when she and Pinkie first started hanging out.

"Sunny! You came, you came!" Pinkie exclaimed with a big smile as she hugged Sunset Shimmer.

"Heh hey Pinkie, sorry I'm a little late; you know how detention goes." Sunset said sheepishly as she rubbed the back of her head.

"Heheh aw no worries Funny Sunny! I was okay waiting for you!" Pinkie said as she brought Sunset over to the table where the rest of her new friends awaited.

It had been about a month since the Fall formal and Sunset had now officially made herself the 6th member of this little group of friends and while she was still rather nervous and awkward around them, particularly Fluttershy given their history of bully and victim; she had since given a heartfelt apology to ALL of them and they'd all accepted. Today was as Pinkie put it "her welcome to the world of friendship party" and she was nothing but grateful.

"Giiiiirls! Sunset made it!" Pinkie waved to her friends who were all waiting at a table a large pizza having seemingly just arrived.

"Finally, I'm starving." Rainbow replied having grown impatient waiting for Sunset to show up since Rarity and Pinkie wouldn't let her eat until the newbie showed up.

"Rainbow, have some manners. Pardon her darling, she gets cranky when she's hungry and has a pocket full of game credits" Rarity said in her usual posh tone.

"All that fussin' only to get whooped by me and Pinkie later" Applejack grinned at a now glaring Rainbow Dash who was giving her the "oh you are going down" look.

"I'm glad you could make it Sunset, detention wasn't hard today was it?" Fluttershy asked

"Hm? Nah, it wasn't so bad. Finally got through fixing the entrance so that's the biggest workload done, lesson learned; never tamper with magic you aren't meant to have." Sunset said as she sat down, a melancholy look on her face.

"Hey, hey, hey! No frowns! Tonight is a night for you to smile! So c'mon girls; cheers to our new bestie!" Pinkie raised her pink milkshake to the center of the table smiling.

"Yeah c'mon Shims none of that sad crap, tonight's supposed to be a fun night" Rainbow replied with a snarky smirk.

"Ah reckon Dash is right sugarcube, can't have ya frownin' up the fun so looks like we're gonna have ta fix that" Applejack gave a kind tip of the hat.

"We wish only for you to feel accepted and comfortable darling; your happiness is truly important to us and tonight we seek to prove it."

"I agree with the others. We should all have a good time" Fluttershy replied smiling as well.

The rest of the girls would follow suit without a moments hesitation, all except Sunset that is. Her hesitation coming from the pure shock, she still was in disbelief that this was real. That after all the horrid things she'd done to these 4 girls that they would still accept her with open arms and want to be her friends and for a moment her thoughts would drift back to her days in Equestria when she was a filly learning from Celestia.

'One day Sunset, I pray that you too know the joy that comes with sharing your happiness with those you may call friend.'

Remembering those words and seeing the four sets of smiles in front of her, she sniffled and wiped away a stray tear but didn't bother to try and hide the action. She felt comfortable crying in front of these girls, they had all reassured her many times that she could and that they wouldn't judge her. Though these tears weren't sad and regretful like ones shed previously, no these were happy and remorseful tears of joy as a wobbly smile formed on her face.

"T-Thank you girls." Sunset chuckled and choked down her sobs as best she could, raising her glass that was filled with orange soda to the center of the table clinking it against her friends drink glasses and once they all took a drink Pinkie brought them into a group hug and smiled brightly.

"Now it's fun time! Let's eat!" Pinkie would sit next to Sunset and handed her the largest slice of the pizza and then placed a fake crown on her head that read "Princess of Fun" on it.

The group of friends sat together smiling, laughing and eating while they exchanged stories, talked gossip and eventually after their food was done, they all went about to play various games and win many different prizes. Sunset even managed to use her big brain to figure out how some of the more scam like games worked and managed to massively increase their prize output. Needless to say? It was a fun night all around and Sunset and Pinkie had been coming here ever since.

As her memory came back to the present, she found herself sitting in that same spot they'd usually find themselves in when they came to Fun Zone, as regular customers the staff were all pretty friendly with the two of them, especially Pinkie since the place was surprisingly or rather usurpingly owned by her Aunt Surprise. As the two sat with a pizza between the two of them, pinkie was munching on her 2nd slice while Sunset was finishing her first.

"Mmmm this pizza is so good! I gotta find out the recipe." Sunset hummed to herself as she finished off another slice, pizza was one of her favorite things to eat in this world and the way the humans made it was vastly superior to that of pony kind.

"Knowing your big brain you'll figure it out in no time! C'mon and lets start the fun! Betcha I can beat your score in Power Ponies 3! I've been practicing!" Pinkie said with a gleeful grin as she finished off another slice and got up ready to go and challenge Sunset to their favorite fighting game.

"You're on!" Sunset said as she got up as well, leaving a generous tip of $5 before scurrying off with Pinkie towards the game section of the Fun Zone.

As they made their way into the area of the Fun Zone known as Gamer Galaxy, the sounds of various games being played could be heard mixing together, cheers of victory, groans of defeat, all of it was like music to Sunset Shimmer's ears. As they got deeper and deeper into the area they spotted their first target of the evening, the arcade machine for Power Ponies 3 Hyper Edition! There seemed to be a match that was just finishing up and Sunset was quite happy to see who was playing against who, it was a Crystal Prep student vs a Canterlot High student and from the looks of it? It appeared to be a friendly rivals match, friends of both cheering on either side.

"You can do it Sunny! Just remember the combos I taught ya!" A teenager from CHS shouted with a smile, she had purple skin, purple hair that faded off into a baby blue, a bracelet around her right wrist and was wearing a sparkling purple shirt and skirt that matched and a jacket over her shirt.

"I know Izzy, I know!" The girl playing was about the same age as her friend cheering for her, her skin was orange and she had purple hair with a light pink streak. She wore overalls, star pattern knee high socks, a pink shirt and pink sneakers. She seemed to be concentrating hard trying to match her opponent blow for blow and was inches from victory.

On the other side were the Crystal prep students whom in years gone by had changed significantly with Cadence being the new principal and implementing many a new policy that made the lives of the Crystal prep students a lot more livable and invited friendship. They'd even dropped the shadowbolt name entirely and were now known as the Crystal Hearts and Sunset couldn't have been more proud. Looking over the group of friends the one who was playing for her group was similar to Rainbow Dash in that her cocky smile made it clear she knew was she was doing in this game and was merely 'playing with her food' as it were.

She had bright pink hair with a lightning blue streak that was slicked up into a sort of mohawk, she had on jeans that had a lightning bolt symbol on them and a leather jacket over her pink crop top along with a pair of black boots. Her fingers mashing skillfully at the buttons in front of her as she gave a slick side eye to her opponent, she was about to end this.

"C'mon Zip! Finish this so we can go and play DDR!" Her friend who seemed to be recording the match on her phone encouraged her to finish up. She had pink skin and well styled purple hair very similar to Rarity.

"Welp you heard her, ya put up a good fight Sunny but this is where it ends! Gotcha! EX baby!" Zip replied as she activated her level 3 move and the entire screen filled with explosions winning her the match.

"Awww! I was so close this time!" Sunny pouted

"Close but no cigar Sunny! Now pay up!" Zip held out her hand grinning.

"Ooooh I'll get you next time" Sunny reached into her overalls and pulled out the tickets she'd won and handed them to Zip.

"Hehe just a few more and that big unicorn plushie is MINE" Zip would take the tickets and stuffed them into a bag that was looking pretty weighed down and then looked around for any other worthy challengers, leaning on the arcade machine with a cocky grin. "Anyone else want some?"

"I'll take you on" Sunset stepped up smiling as Pinkie followed close by. "Can't have you freshman getting cocky on my turf now can I?"

"Oh my God! You're Sunset Shimmer! Like, THE Sunset Shimmer!" Sunny said with shock and awe like she was meeting her hero. Her eyes filled with stars and her smile as wide as Pinkie Pie's she bounced on her heels and giggled. "I've always wanted to meet you! I read all about you in the school year books!"

Sunset blushed and rubbed the back of her head remembering that she and all of her friends had biographies in the schools year book and by the end of their time at CHS the Rainbooms had earned the title of Best Friend group and often times when they'd meet CHS students from this current era they'd often react something like this and it always made Sunset blush. From behind her, Pinkie Pie popped up and smiled and waved at them all.

"Hiya girls!"

"Oh hey Pinkie! You didn't tell me you'd be here with Sunset tonight"

"So you're the Sunset Shimmer Sunny keepin' blabbin' about eh?" Zip asked as she walked over to join her friends

"Uh huh, that's her alright; I follow her on Whinny, didn't know she'd be here tonight though" the trendy girl with the phone replied as she too came over to join them.

"That's the name don't wear it out. So to whom do I have the pleasure of meeting hm?"

"Names Zip Storm." Zip gave a cocky grin that once again reminded her of Rainbow.

"Pip Petals, follow me back by the way" Pip said with a sly smile and playful wink at Sunset

"I'm Izzy Moonbow! I love your hair by the way!" Izzy replied with a smile as she admired Sunset's hair.

"And I'm Sunny Starscout but my friends just call me Sunny" Sunny said with a sheepish smile as she tugged at her ponytail a bit.

Sunset chuckled at that and smiled. "Heh same here, how's spring break going? I'm glad to see CHS and Crystal Prep still getting along so well."

"Oh our break has been splendid so far, we actually just got here not long ago and have been trying to move on to other games if SOMEONE would just come along already." Pip thinly glared at Zip who scoffed and waved her off.

"I toldja you and the others can go and play that dancing game, I wanna keep on kicking noob ass over here"

"Language Zip" Pip chastied only to have Zip roll her eyes.

"Tell ya what, if Big Sunny here can beat me? I'll step off the game for the rest of the night."

"Challenge accepted." Sunset removed her jacket and handed it to Pinkie Pie who gasped.

"Oh she's SERIOUS!" Pinkie smirked and knew exactly what was about to happen here.

Sunset would step up to the arcade machine and pulled out her game card and swiped it allowing herself to enter the game and select her character. Scrolling through she selected her main, Phoenix. Zip would pick the character that Rainbow Dash often picked which was Zapp, fitting Sunset thought. As the battle began, Sunset would make it clear how wide the skill gap was, capable of pulling off moves Zip didn't even think were possible in this game on an arcade machine.

"Aw what? Didn't know there was a parry system in this game? Tsk, tsk, tsk; rookie" Sunset said with a sly smirk that she only wore when she was being smug.

"Don't underestimate me Sun-Butt" Zip retorted as she tried her hardest to fight back, dodge and copy the parry that Sunset was using.

"Heh man you're more predictable than Dash; too slow, absorbed that and now you're out of counters. Time to teach you a lesson." Sunset grinned and unleashed a flurry of fiery combo attacks that seemed to go on forever and once she was done, she scored a perfect victory having taken no damage at all.

"Winner of round 1! Sunset Shimmer!" Pinkie cheered and held up a score card she pulled from...somewhere.

"Sunny 1, Zip 0; fitting don't ya think?" Sunset chuckled seeing the freshman starting to get upset.

"Rematch!" Zip shouted

"Zip I don't think that's a good-"

"REMATCH!!!"

"Fine, but how's about we make it interesting? Loser has to buy pizza for everyone."

"Deal!"

"Oh dear" Pip sighed and stopped the recording knowing this was going to be embarrassing.

For the next 15 minutes Sunset continued to wipe the floor with Zip in Power Ponies 3, having cycled through every character in the roster and yet Zip hadn't managed to score a single win, she'd managed to at least get a few good hits and combos in but she never once won a single match against Sunset Shimmer, who stood proudly over her defeated would be rival, Pinkie had been keeping score and it was safe to say Sunset was the winner.

"Sunny 20! Zip 0! We have a winner!!!!!!"

"I can't believe this...how...how are you this good in this game!?" Zip was completely besides herself and demanded to know Sunset's secret.

"Pft oh that's easy, I own a copy of the game at home. Emulation is wonderful thing." Sunset said with a nonchalant shrug and pat Zip on the shoulder and ushered her off to her friends. "Now go and have some fun playing something with your friends, we can split the bill on the pizza" Sunset said with a kind smile as Zip dashed off to meet with her friends who all congratulated her on not giving up.

"Our turn now!" Pinkie said as she stepped up and swiped her card and selected her character, Filly Second.

"Game on!" Sunset said as she swiped her card as well and they prepared for battle, each of them smiling as they began their night of fun.