It was 11:31am and Twilight had been cooped up in the practice room long enough. Despite what her friends said she had to face Sunset Shimmer. She had planned this for six months and she wasn't going to let her plan fall to pieces. Besides, she had only about an hour and a half before the portal closed...

Twilight opened the door and stepped out into the hall. It was empty and she was glad. Through a swarm of people, she'd never find Sunset. Like a toddler, she peeked in at the classes through the window and scanned for her target. She had spotted some people she recognized, like Colgate and Cloudkicker, but Sunset Shimmer was nowhere to be seen. It took her a long time to find her. Twilight had run all over the building searching for her.

But in the end, Sunset had walked right by Twilight.

She really did. Literally.

Twilight had just about given up when a grumbling Sunset Shimmer stalked right by her. The girl had not seen her because Twilight was on her blind side. The purple girl nearly jumped at the sudden appearance. To her surprise, Sunset hadn't changed much in looks. She still wore that signature leather jacket and same orange skirt and riding boots.

Sunset was slightly red in the face and was squinting. Her unseeing eye was pink and looked quite sore. Sunset was muttering about something and headed down toward the main office. Twilight decided to follow her. Sunset walked down the hall and turned into the nurse's office.

So she was in need of some medicine the princess thought.

After some unexpected yelling that erupted from the office, Sunset came out the office with some medication and a rag. Twilight ducked behind a trash can as she came storming past. Sunset was back, with the yelling as proof.

The girl went into the bathroom and in Twilight followed. There she experienced Sunset Shimmer v3.0 first hand.

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The queen of CHS placed the pill on her tongue and swallowed it dry. It would help relieve the pounding in her head. She looked down at the sink and turned on the faucet. Putting the rag under the water, she tried to rid her mind of that damned book. No more romance. No more.

Thinking about class was boring. She was a genius and already learned it all. Wondering about tomorrow wouldn't do a thing. It wouldn't do a thing. It would just be another day of the usual. Or maybe books? Thoughts of Red Rose and Blue Belle swarmed her mind. NO.

Sunset looked up as she raised the rag to her eye and saw herself in the mirror. The scar was showing, ugly and unwanted.

Celestia did this.

Rage began to fill her up like pouring water into a jug. Celestia hurt her. She made her suffer. She shook with anger and balled up her hands into fists. The rag, in one hand, began to spill water all over the floor as she squeezed it. The rag was the only thing stopping her from digging her nails into the palm of her hand.

This punishment she was given was horrible. At first, she was able to get by just fine and smirked at how dumb Celestia was but soon she saw how dumb she herself was.

Even though she reclaimed her seat as the top girl, it wasn't the same. After Twilight had shown her what friendship was she was happy. But ever since she lost her only friends that day six months ago, she began to miss them. In a rush for egotistical purposes, she lost the friends she gained. Her days were lonely without them. She used to laugh and sing and talk with them, and now...

That was shot down quick.

Sunset walked the halls like nothing bothered her but everything bothered her. The way others looked away, how they cowered, how they would jump aside to move so's they wouldn't be too close to her. It especially bothered her when she caught them looking at her. Hate. She saw it. It burned through her.

She couldn't stand it. The more good things she was exposed to the more pain it brought when she lost it. And now, she stood in front of a mirror in the bathroom letting all her anger build up.

Sunset smashed her fist into the mirror and it busted into tons of pieces; some fell on the floor and littered it with safety hazards, and others hang onto the wall. Long cracks came from her fist up to the corners of the mirror's frame like jagged rays from the sun. Sunset was breathing heavily as all her pain surged through her body, into her arm, and was released into the bloody fist that remained pressed to the cracked mirror. Water from the rag found their way into the cuts in her hand and set fire to them. Drops of water and blood ran down her wrist and onto the floor slowly...painfully...

Sunset's ears began to ring and the vision she had began to blur. The slivers of glass that stayed up in the frame showed distorted reflections of the bathroom. And in one piece, she saw Twilight peeking from behind a stall door, bewildered.

Sunset let her bleeding hand drop to her side. She stared directly at Twilight via reflection. Twilight's form blurred and cleared constantly in Sunset's vision. And suddenly, she began to change into Celestia.

You deserve this Celestia said in her mind. You will pay for the crown's near loss.

The words rang in her head. She opened her mouth to say something but instead came out a cry of desperation. Tears welled up and fell from the corners of her eyes. Sunset's face became twisted in sadness and pain. The sobs that came from her mouth were agonizing.

Sunset Shimmer fell to her knees and felt the glass cut her. But she didn't care. The pain was all the same to her. It was familiar. She let it all out. Just like that night of her exile. She had cried it all out. The throbbing in her head, eye, chest, hand, and knee all suddenly intensified and before she knew it, she had blacked out and fell on her side.

Author's Notes:

I actually really enjoy adding music videos to my chapter. It all started out as something I thought would be cool and now, I'm doing it almost every chapter so far! After this chapter, though, I plan to take a break from it. I don't want to annoy anyone with the music in every chapter.

Thank you, everyone, who reads this story...and actually reads the Author's Notes...

BTW, I'm not a big anime person. It's just that anime always has good songs to use.