For two weeks, Sunset Shimmer; personal student of Princess Celestia; had been struggling. Her thoughts distracted by the disappearance of her brother Sunburst. Sunset had thought she had been a good Big Sister to her brother, but apparently, he had thought otherwise.

It was one day while she had been dwelling in the thoughts around her brother, that she came across a young Twilight Sparkle. After a quick conversation with the unicorn filly, Sunset decided that fate was giving her a second chance to be a good big sister.

But fate wasn't only having its eye on her. For Sunset's fate wasn't the only thing being rewritten. For forces beyond comprehension have decided that a sudden end to a life not only was to be undone, but the victim was to be given a re-do in an effort to undo their own death; a death that should not have happened.

While trying to plan out the "Season 0" of this re-rewrite, I quickly realized that I could tie this story in with my other stories. Long-time viewers would know I like to insert my own OCs into the mix to tie them all together into one big, connected multiversal timeline. Of all the OCs I've shown off, one from What if Emziko was Cannon? was one who showed up with no explanation, or fanfare.

But when I was planning out this re-reboot, I knew I had the opportunity to give said OC a backstory in one of my fics, and that I also had the opportunity to do it in a very unique way. That when combined for my desire to give this re-reboot a title that would pop more than just calling it something along the lines of "My Little Pony: When Friendship Shimmers - The Re-reboot", the pieces fell into place pretty quickly.

As such, the subtitle of this fic was born; "Rewriting Fate" clicked into place so fittingly, as the topic of "When Friendship Shimmers" was already about rewriting Sunset Shimmer's fate in the FiM generation. It made it easy for this re-reboot to throw the OC from What if Emziko was Cannon? and their backstory into the mix as well to really sell the idea that this time, fate is being rewritten for more than Sunset alone.

Now first of all, you do NOT need to read What if Emziko was Cannon? to enjoy this story; in fact, this story can be enjoyed totally stand-alone. You also don't need to read this story to enjoy What if Emziko was Cannon? what-so-ever; this story won't even enrinch that story because the OC from the Emziko story that's getting a backstory in this one, I do not have any plans to bring them back in the Emziko story a second time. In fact, until this project is finished, I don't plan on the OC from the Emziko story that's getting a backstory in this fic to appear in a different fic from the Emziko story.

And second of all, there is one headcannon I'm being upfront about, and that headcannnon is that Sunset Shimmer and Sunburst are siblings in some compacity. Of course, just like in the original re-boot, they will be halfsiblings. And for those who were fans of the original reboot and know the other headcannons I used, I ask that you do NOT spoil them for the new readers of this story. If I see any comments spoiling the headcannons from the original re-boot, I will delete them no questions asked.

Finally, even if you have read the original re-boot, I ask that you give this re-reboot a fair shake, especially because I am going to do my absolute best to clean up a lot of the continuity that was confusing people within Season 0 as well as knock out all of the backstory for this version of Sunset early as well. And that's ontop of having everyone come to grips with the new parts of the continunity. Yeah I'm giving myself a tall order here, but I think I'm capable of delivering it all.

I guess if there's only one other thing to note, while there is mention of death within Season 0, no one is planned to die in this re-reboot. The only time death is actually present...well, that will be the set-up to the new version of the story coming to fruition. You can probably already guess which OC is getting a back story based on the tags.