Silver Spanner tucked a book into her brown saddlebags she had bought at a stand near the museum Sunset had dragged her into. Why, she had no idea. Art wasn’t necessarily something the two really was into. Art always seemed boring and a waste of time to Silver Spanner.

Which is why the two were staring past a sculpture of a pegasus legionnare with a shield and sword. It would be more interesting if there wasn’t a weird sculpture of random colored blocks stacked on top of each other next to it.

“What the hell is that supposed to be?” Silver Spanner asked finally and glanced briefly at an equally confused looking Sunset.

“Honestly, your guess is as good as mine. It reminds me of a Rubiks Cube, except taken apart and stacked on top of each other.”

Silver Spanner burst out laughing and Sunset gave a smile as she nodded. A few other patrons looked annoyed but the two brushed it off.

“At least the legionnare looks cool. I still prefer the Royal Guard personally. The gold armor looks cool,” Silver Spanner mused and Sunset looked around before leaning in close.

“Same here,” Sunset whispered and they both laughed again. “Hey, I wanna show you something. Come with me.”

Sunset and Silver Spanner wandered around a group of school ponies being led by a teacher and Sunset flashed the group a warm smile.

“Tada!” Sunset waved a hoof proudly at a spray painted concrete slab of wall. The slab was decorated in brightly colored waves of blue and white with a dolphin jumping out of the water. “Well, whaddya think?”

Silver Spanner didn’t necessarily know what the hell to think as she examined the slab closer.

“Who is Flanksy?” Silver Spanner asked and Sunset shrugged.

“No clue, but he or she does some pretty cool work, right?” Sunset pressed and Silver Spanner tilted her head at her in confusion. “Right?”

“I guess, yeah. Art isn’t really my thing if I’m being one hundred percent honest.”

“Oh.” Sunset gave her a disappointed look and folded her ears with a sigh. “Let’s move on and leave this ugly painting behind then, shall we?” Sunset muttered and her tail sagged on the ground as Silver Spanner stared after her.

“Uh, okay?” Silver Spanner trotted after her past some more statues. “Aren’t you even gonna look at the ones you ran past? You wanted to come here, remember?”

“No, because I don’t care about them. I want to go to our hotel room and take a nap. I’m tired,” Sunset answered and continued to the exit with a frown.

Silver Spanner followed in confusion and Sunset tossed the two tickets they had each paid for into a nearby trash can. Silver Spanner paused and levitated them out, internally thankful nothing gross got on them.

“What the hell was that about?” Silver Spanner wondered aloud and looked around. “Sunset? Where the hell are you? Oh great. Freaking lost in a random city, joy to the bucking world.”

Silver Spanner turned in a circle in a failed attempt to find Sunset. You think it would be easy, given how bright her mane is. It’s red and orange. How hard could it be to miss something like that?

Apparently very hard, Silver Spanner realized and she sat down hard on the stone steps of the museum she had been in. How the hell stone was able to be on clouds and not fall through was beyond her.

“Ughhh.”

“Something wrong?”

A yellow pegasus stood in front of her with three drops of rain for a cutie mark, idly fluttering her wings.

“Kinda yeah. Why?” Silver Spanner asked warily and the mare rolled her eyes.

“Relax. I’m really not interested in kidnapping you, so calm the attitude. Not often you see a unicorn randomly here. I’m Raindrops and you are?”

“Silver Spanner.”

Raindrops glanced at her cutie mark. She did vaguely remember White Lightning describing her cutie mark as a tool of some kind. She didn’t really know many ponies with wrenches for cutie marks and contrary to what she told her, a few unicorns did live in Cloudsdale alongside some earth ponies.

“I got lost from my friend and I’m not from here, obviously. I’m scared,” Silver Spanner admitted and scuffed her hoof on the stone. “She said she was going back to our hotel were staying at.”

“Come on,” Raindrops held out a hoof. “Tell me the hotel and I’ll take you there.”

Silver Spanner hesitated for a moment before accepting the hoof. Her parents always did say to never accept a strangers help in foreign cities for safety reasons, but Silver Spanner had her magic after all. And she did know a few defensive spells.

“I think my coltfriend will be back soon. He went to buy a bottled water,” Raindrops looked around and Silver Spanner stepped back warily.

“Oh hell no. I know all about couples taking lost teenage mares. I’m staying right here sitting on my plot till a police pony comes along,” Silver Spanner proclaimed and sat down on her plot, crossing her forelegs.

“Okay, listen. I know all about that shit too and I guarantee you I’m not into that. That shit is gross,” Raindrops sat down and licked her lips. “My friend saved you after you fell off that cloud. Her name is White Lightning.”

Silver Spanner paused and shot her a look.

“Okay,” Silver Spanner allowed her to rest a wing around her and she nuzzled into the wing. “Soft and warm.”

“Yeah, they are. I take good care of my wings. Attractive wings are how pegasi attract mates,” Raindrops explained and spread her left wing open.

“Huh.”

“Yeah. Anyway, here he comes,” Raindrops jerked her head to a white stallion with wavey black hair and a telescope cutie mark. “Milky Way, my coltfriend. Milky Way, meet Silver Spanner. She’s the one Whitey saved yesterday.”

“Oh well hi,” Milky Way waved a wing at her and hoofed Raindrops and bottled water. “What I miss?”

“She apparently got separated from one of the Princesses. Which one was it, by the way? Princess Celestia or Princess Cadence?” Raindrops asked as she glanced at her. She probably should have asked that at the start. Probably would have gotten a lot further in conversation than Silver Spanner thinking Raindrops was gonna sell her to some sex trade or whatever it was she thought.

“Well, if we’re using titles then it was Princess Sunset. But I just call her Sunset or Sunny,” Silver Spanner answered and the older ponies exchanged a look. “She really isn’t fond of her friends calling her by her full title.”

The two pegasi had read a newspaper article saying something similar but they didn’t really trust the newspapers. Most of the time Raindrops and Milky Way never took the papers seriously. It was another thing to have a pony close to Sunset to confirm it.

“Where’s your hotel at, by the way?” Raindrops turned to Silver Spanner. Silver Spanner told the two and they both nodded along. “Oh, that’s easy to find. Follow us. It’s near that one coliseum.”

Raindrops and Milky Way started trotting away and Silver Spanner hastily galloped to catch up. She really didn’t want to get left behind again.

“I really hope we don’t get arrested for going to this hotel. You know the police have it locked down tighter than the weather factory after closing,” Milky Way muttered and rested a wing on Raindrops back.

“Same. But she looked so scared, it made sense to offer help. Or at least look for a police officer pony. And we might get to meet the Princesses too.”

“Maybe. So did you like the art museum?” Milky Way glanced back at Silver Spanner and the brown unicorn shrugged.

“Art isn’t really my thing. It’s more of Sunset’s speed. She really likes painting and such. She spends a lot of time outside back in Canterlot painting the sunset’s. Or anything that catches her eye.”

“Gotcha. Kinda nice to know one of the Princesses is just like us,” Milky Way mused and Raindrops found herself inclined to agree. “You aren’t from Canterlot. Not with an accent like that.”

“Ponyville.”

“Really? Do you know somepony named Derpy? Gray pegasus with a blonde mane, gold eyes? She just had a foal. A little filly,” Raindrops eyed her and Silver Spanner nodded enthusiastically. “Small world.”

“Tell me about it. I’ve met her foal. Dinky is freaking adorable. Here, I got a picture,” Silver Spanner rummaged through her saddlebags and held up of a tired looking Derpy in a hospital bed holding a sleeping unicorn filly.

“That’s freaking adorable,” Raindrops smiled and Milky Way nodded. “We gotta visit now.”

“I’ll make a copy and give you one. She’s a nice pony. I like her a lot.”

“Most ponies do,” Milky Way commented and nuzzled Raindrops as the two led Silver Spanner through the market. “And here we are. It was nice to meet you. And remember, next time stay close to the Princess. Getting lost is scary, believe me.”

“Thank you,” Silver Spanner hugged Raindrops and the pegasus froze before ruffling her mane with a hoof. Silver Spanner quickly switched to hugging Milky Way and he awkwardly returned the gesture.

“No problem. We’ll wait till you go inside before leaving. It’s your turn to make dinner today, by the way,” Raindrops told Milky Way and flicked his side with her tail. “Have a good day, Silver Spanner.”

“You as well. I’ll make sure you get that picture,” Silver Spanner tossed her a salute and trotted inside the hotel lobby.

“She seemed nice,” Milky Way noted and Raindrops silently agreed. “Wait till White Lightning and the others hear about this.”

“I didn’t even think of that.”

Silver Spanner flung herself down on her bed, flicking the lamp next to her on and she levitated a book out of her saddlebags she had dropped at the side of her bed. A blue towel was wrapped around mane to soak up the remaining drops of water from her shower she had just taken.

Sunset’s cloud bed was mysteriously empty and Silver Spanner assumed she was either eating dinner with Celestia, in her room or doing whatever it was Sunset enjoyed doing in Cloudsdale. Sunset had been in the bed when she returned and the two didn’t really conversate. When Silver Spanner had came back from the shower, Sunset was gone yet both hotel key cards were on the coffee table.

Silver Spanner stretched out on her bed and rolled onto her stomach with a bored expression, glancing out their window that was open with the curtains blowing in the wind.

She was fairly curtain the window had been closed when they left this morning. Based on the sun setting, it was around nine in the evening so Sunset should have been either asleep in bed or taking a shower. And since Silver Spanner had been taking a shower, obviously Sunset wasn’t there.

Silver Spanner glanced at the window as she faintly listened to the sound of what sounded like either an animal crawling up the wall or a pony.

A pair of orange hooves grabbed onto the window sill and Silver Spanner charged her horn, blasting a defensive spell at Sunset as the unicorn swung her hind legs over the window sill and rolled onto the cloud.

“Woah!” Sunset yelped and covered her head before peering out the window as Silver Spanners blast slammed into a building next door. “What the heck was that about?”

“I didn’t know it was you! Why in Equestria wouldn’t you use the door like a normal pony?” Silver Spanner shot back and her eyes fell on the spray paint can that rolled out of Sunset’s saddlebags before she looked at Sunset.

Sunset’s hooves had specks of blue on them and she was folding up a black cloak that had specks of red, blue, orange and silver on it.

“What the hell?” Silver Spanner gestured at her. “Why are you covered in paint?”

“Shh!” Sunset hissed and her horn glowed as she cast a sound proof spell on the room. Silver Spanner could faintly make out the room glowing a light blue if she looked around out of the corner of her eyes. “What I’m about to tell you nopony else can know, capiche? Not even the priest you confess your sins at occasionally, okay?”

“Uh okay?” Silver Spanner raised an eyebrow as Sunset trotted towards her and Sunset sat down, careful to make sure paint didn’t get on the blankets. “Why do we have to have a sound proofing spell?”

“Because I have a hobby that’s not really legal,” Sunset admitted and looked around before shutting the window with her magic. “I like to do graffiti. I sneak out at night to go paint.”

“What?”

“I thought I was pretty clear in what I said. I have a few pieces in museums we went to today. I’m Flanksy. But you can’t tell anypony because Flanksy is currently wanted for questioning by the Royal Guard and a few police departments. It’s like an escape for me so to speak. My mom doesn’t know obviously. Mom would kill me so fast,” Sunset paused the spray cans under her bed.

Silver Spanner laughed. She didn’t know what else to say as she held her sides and laughed harder than she ever had in her entire life.

“Y-you’re joking,” Silver Spanner wiped a tear out of her eyes. “You have never broken a single law once. There’s no way in hell you’re this Flanksy.”

Sunset sat silently and Silver Spanners laughter faded slowly as her eyes widened.

“Oh my Celestia, you’re serious. Wait, so that painting at the museum-” Silver Spanner started and Sunset nodded. “Oh my god.”

“Yeah. It was awful looking, I know. You don’t have to remind me. It was early work that mysteriously got donated to the Cloudsdale Museum of Art.”

“It wasn’t bad,” Silver Spanner frowned and Sunset rolled her eyes. “What?”

“Don’t lie. You agreed when I said it was bad. I was so excited to show it to somepony but I guess I shouldn’t have been,” Sunset shoved herself off the bed. “I need a shower.”

“Sit back down now. I never agreed, I just don’t know anything about art. I’m sorry, okay?” Silver Spanner sighed and Sunset raised an eyebrow. “It was very pretty. I liked the dolphin a lot. How often do you do this?”

“Every night. Canterlot, Cloudsdale if I’m here. Any city I’m in, I hide spray paint with me. Mom never checks my bags so,” Sunset shrugged and glanced at her. “Did you really like it or are you just saying that because I’m upset you didn’t react at all?”

“I like it. Have I ever lied to you?” Silver Spanner scoffed and Sunset shook her head after a moment. “Exactly.”

“Sorry. Promise me you won’t tell anypony about this at all. Not even if they ask you if you know something, okay?” Sunset levitated a towel off the shelf in the bathroom.

“You’re asking me to lie? That goes against everything I am as a pony,” Silver Spanner rested a hoof against her chest. “You know I don’t like lying. Honesty is important and all, remember?”

“I’m asking you as a friend to help me. I’m not expecting you to say yes nor will I force you but I’d appreciate it. I’m gonna get a shower. Whatever decision you decide I’ll support,” Sunset stepped inside the bathroom.

“And we’ll still be friends?” Silver Spanner called out and Sunset paused.

“Obviously. I’ll respect whatever you decide. On my grandma’s grave.”

Sunset shut the bathroom door and Silver Spanner chewed anxiously on her bottom lip as she heard the shower turn on and she listened to Sunset start singing.

Silver Spanner glanced at a picture in her saddlebags of Sunset and her smiling in front of CSGU.

Silver Spanner quickly made her decision.

Author's Note

Name: Sunset Shimmer

Age: 16(currently)

Coat color: Orange.

Mane color: Red and Orange.

Eye color: Teal.

Element:?

Motto: The only way to survive a duel with me is not to show up.

Bio: Sunset Shimmer is the biological daughter of Celestia and Discord. Currently unaware of who her true father is as of right now. She is the sister of Screwball. Sunset is widely respected by Equestrian citizens or feared by classmates due to her being related to Celestia. Most classmates either fear her or worship her, often making her feel uncomfortable. She considers Silver Spanner and Twinkleshine to be her closest friends at CSGU. She is the cousin of Princess Cadence and is very close to the alicorn. She has a cutie mark of a gold and red flaming sun.

Sunset is often referred to as a WMD by her peers and affectionately by her friends as Sunset has a fondness for blowing things up. Sunset is occasionally left in charge of Equestria when Celestia is gone. Sunset is a kind hearted pony and she likes to meet ponies.

Sunset rarely gets angry, but when she does, she occasionally blacks out and doesn't remember what happened. Her magic tends to switch from a teal to a red when she gets angry.

She later becomes an Element of Harmony and the appointed leader of the Elements, but which element is currently unknown. She later helps defend Canterlot against the changelings and witnesses the Queens defeat. Sunset was one of the first to voice concerns about the wedding.

Sunset can make military decisions when necessary and is cold and ruthless in them. Sunset often prefers to take part in conflict alongside the royal guards and firmly shares the same sentiment as Celestia that good leaders lead from the front, not from the sidelines.

Sunset later assists with search and rescue after Baltimare is hit by a series of tornadoes alongside Redheart, White Lightning, Silver Spanner and Berry Punch.

While Sunset is mostly modest, she does have an arrogant side that can occasionally come out. She often serves as a judge for the BYFC and once served as a judge when Twilight and another unicorn had a duel in the streets of Canterlot. She is the owner of a lizard named Ray and a phoenix named Philomena. Sunset is fond of art and video games. She has a secret identity as a graffiti artist that is currently wanted by the royal guard. Many ponies secretly believe Sunset is strong enough to rival Celestia and a select few are waiting to see if Sunset makes an attempt for the throne.
Sunset is fiercely loyal to Princess Celestia and Equestria to the point of willing to die for the two.

Weakness: Heights.

Abilities: Sunset is very intelligent in spells and military decisions from sitting in on meetings Celestia has with the military advisors. Sunset is physically strong and is very strong with her magic.

https://www.deviantart.com/andoanimalia/art/Sunset-Shimmer-being-flirty-towards-somepony-902143845

https://www.deviantart.com/famousmari5/art/Sunset-Shimmer-3-792859453