Sunset Shimmer's Anime-tion

by FlameRose-MLP-FiM

2. The Witch of October

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Two days later, as the weekend came, the weather began to change for the worst. All across the city, weather and news reports were going on about the approaching hurricane, and updates on the storms conditions, nonstop.
Although regular television programs were continuing their stationary broadcasts, what made things more startling and worse was the fact that the storm was coming much sooner than expected, and that there were also flood warnings. As a result, many citizens were preparing their houses with sandbags, digging trenches, and doing whatever was necessary to prevent flood water from penetrating their front doors, while the rest were on standby, bags and cases packed and just waiting for the order to evacuate.

At her house, Sunset Shimmer had informed Celestia that she had sent a message to Princess Twilight that she had prepared a room for her in the event of a power outage, or if something happened along the way to the shelter.
Celestia was bewildered at first, but after hearing Sunset out, she was pleased that there was a backup plan that Sunset had made.

As Monday came with dark clouds, it started to rain lightly at first, butnless than half an hour later, it was roaring loudly. All businesses and schools were closed because of the weather, Sunset and her family were watching the news. They saw that the ceiling lights and fan was flickering, so Sunset thought it was only a glitch at first.

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Another 45 minutes later, at the power station, several electricians were all struggling with circuits and breakers, trying to keep the power up as much as possible. They wanted to get out of there fast, so racing against time and abandoning all cautions, their attempts to make repairs and keep systems running were getting worse.
Lights flickered multiple times, and boxes lit up and fizzed like a cigarette lighter.

"Come on! Get those breakers in!" cried one. "Keep them in!" cried another.
But then disaster struck. A lightning bolt struck one of the generators, making it fry like an egg, and the shockwave sent electrical surges that killed all the lights and power, as well as themselves!
Then more trouble brewed. Another lightning bolt hit one of the tall electrical towers, causing electric wires to snap, light like fire, and topple down to the ground.

As a result, the city, except the shelters, lost power, and at Sunset and Celestia's home...
"...I urge all ci--izens -oo e-- a-- uate to the --ear..." everything, even the news broadcasts went dead.
That was their cue.

"Evacuate!" Ordered Celestia.
Sunset, Celestia, Luna and Snowdrop wasted no time, as did Sunset's friends who's power also went dead but followed orders anyway.
Within moments, Sunset and her family were safely in Celestia's car, and they helped Snowdrop into the backseat with Sunset.
Once everybody was safely buckled in, Celestia drove away from their home, and straight headed for the nearest available shelter.

However, as evacuations were taking place and people were leaving, new problems arose. Even as the weather got more worse, several shelters were already filled to capacity, leaving only two available. To make matters more worse, flood waters were already in affect, causing major traffic jams.
As Celestia and her family were passing the school, they suddenly stopped because of a major three-car pileup ahead of the traffic jam in front of them.

Right away, Sunset Shimmer began to feel scared again.
"Mom...?" she asked, trying not to feel afraid or cry.
Celestia turned around and saw what Sunset was beginning to feel. Setting the car in park, she held Sunset's hand for a few moments.

"Just take deep breaths, Sunset," she said, trying not to sound as scared as she was. Before Sunset could respond, or Luna, a police officer tapped on Celestia's window. When she rolled down to speak with the officer, it wasn't good news at all. Afew moments later, after he finished talking to Celestia, she turned to Sunset.

"Sunset, get your bag and your phone," she said. "We're going to be stuck here for a while, so you may as well go to Equestria."
Sunset nodded. Before she did that, she quickly threw her arms around Celestia to hug her, which caught her off-guard at first, but she returned the embrace.

After informing Princess Twilight that she was on her way, Sunset grabbed her umbrella and bag, opened the left rear passenger door and stepped out into the pouring rain.

Just as Sunset approached the monument where the Wondercolt statue once stood, Luna felt something horrible, as if it was a premonition.
Quickly, she got out of the front passenger door on the right.
Before Celestia could ask what was happening, and all she could say was, "What the...?!", and just as Sunset was entering the portal, Luna suddenly shouted, "NO, SUNSET, DON'T!!!"

But it was too late!
Just as Sunset had entered, and was fortunate not to have been hit, a lightning bolt struck the monument, forcing the portal to go completely haywire!
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!" screamed Luna, running to the portal. Falling to her knees, she added in a scream with tears, "NOOOOOOOO-HO-HO-HO-HO-HO...!!!!!"

But somehow, although Sunset was safe and unharmed, she didn't know what was happening, or where she was going. One thing was for sure, though:
She wasn't going to Equestria this time! All she could really do was scream and shout as se swirled and twirled around like ice-cream, expecting this to be a horrible ending!

Sunset shut her eyes, not knowing where she was going to end up!

But I must stop here, or the next chapter will be spoiled...

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