Author's Notes:

WARNING: Colorful language...

Sunset Shimmer was walking out of the school casually along with everyone else when she was stopped by Trixie. Trixie stood by with her cronies, Snips and Snails. To Sunset it was dumb. Snips and Snails are always being somebodies cronies. They used to be hers. Trixie sneered at her and posed dramatically.

"Sunset Shimmer, I challenge you to a duel!"

Everyone around them stopped and looked with interest. But Sunset just stood there blinking. A duel? What is this, Equestria?

"Uhh..." is all Sunset Shimmer could say.

"I challenge your position as queen of CHS! If you lose, I get to be the best!" Trixie continued.

This was stupid. Her old self might've went along with it all cocky and certain she'd win, but now...What the hell was she doing? Sunset cleared her throat. With everyone staring she was getting uncomfortable.

Trixie frowned and put her hands on her hips. "Come on little Miss Sunshine. Surely you wouldn't turn down this challenge. Because if you do, I win by default."

"That's not how that works," Sunset said. "If I turn it down, nothing happens."

Trixie glared at her. "So what? I make the rules."

Now Sunset was getting aggravated. It takes very little to get on her nerves. Before she knew it her mouth was open and she shot back with a nasty retort.

"Last time I checked, I was the one in charge!"

Sunset covered her mouth in surprise. Oops. Whether she liked it or not, she got herself involved in this petty thing.

Trixie smirked. "Now that's more like it! Over the last week you've been acting like such a good girl that I even contemplated taking over your seat as queen. But no. I have to make sure everyone knows I'm the best and the one everyone should bow down to!"

"Oh hell no! You better calm your ass down!" Sunset yelled.

Great. She did it again! Her feisty nature just wouldn't let that slide. She was glad she took her pill that morning or she would've gone ham on this broad.

Trixie stepped back a little and the crowd around them was shocked.

"Yes, people! Here she is, your queen, Sunset Shimmer! And wow is she on fire!" Trixie announced. "But she won't be for long when I extinguish that flame of hers."

Sunset was getting red in the face with anger. Sure, the pill numbs her Prefrontal Cortex so her feelings aren't as off the wall, but that didn't hide her anger.

Trixie pointed to her eye. "Wow, Sunny, I like what you did with your eye. You really improved it! I'm glad I don't have to see that ugly scar and weird eye of yours. I'm pretty sure all of CHS is glad! It really wasn't getting you any points with the boys."

She continued. "And you seem healthier, too! You used to look kind of withered when you lost weight. You don't look so good trying to fit in size 8 girls', Sunny. I'm just letting you know. A full body suits you better and it makes you look younger, too. I would've told you before but you were being a total bitch so I let it slide..."

Sunset was boiling up. Her face was red and her hands were balled up. She shook with so much anger...

Trixie kept talking. She wanted her to get mad.

" Oh, and about last week. When we saw you being carted off to the hospital, I was pretty shocked. Sunset Shimmer? The Sunset Shimmer had been hurt?? And then I saw Twilight hop in the ambulance! Oh my god! Of course, rumors were buzzing around the school. The one about Twilight beating you up? Spread by yours truly.

"It seems the most believable. I mean, the last time you were queen, she practically blast you with a laser! Oh wait! SHE DID!!!!!"

Trixie slapped her knee and laughed. " And when you came back to school...I saw you were pissed. I saw you go and find Twilight. But then she came out pretty ok! Like, what the hell was up with that? Weren't you mad? And then after that, you're walking around like a good girl! You must've lost big time in that library!"

Trixie tapped her chin. "You know, why am I challenging you when it was Twilight who one-upped your ass? I should challenge her! She'd make any easy opponent. With all that friendship is magic bullshit and everyone's buddy buddy, I could slam her down just like that!"

Trixie snapped her fingers.

"Oh! And I could do more! I could destroy her friends, too! Make her see that friendship isn't all that--"

"DON'T YOU DARE GET THEM INVOLVED!!!!!!!!" Sunset yelled.

Trixie was surprised. "What does it matter to you? They dropped your ass after you went psycho. Twilight's going to get it--"

"DON'T TALK ABOUT TWILIGHT THAT WAY! I DON'T GIVE A SHIT WHO YOU ARE WITH YOUR 'GREAT AND POWERFUL TRIXIE' CRAP! YOU THINK I'M SCARED OF YOU?! COME AT ME, BITCH!!!!! TRY IT AND YOUR SORRY ASS AIN'T GOING TO COME OUT WITHOUT SOME SCARS!!!"

Sunset ran up to her and socked her in the face. A full out brawl happened and there were shouts and screams from the students. Trixie and Sunset tugged at one another's hair, punched, kicked, even spat in the other's eye. The shouts and screams could be heard from the office and Twilight, Principal Celestia, Vice Principal Luna, and the Main 5, and Flash ran out.

The sight shocked Twilight so badly. Sunset had roundhouse kicked Trixie in the gut, but that girl jumped up like nothing happened and did some kind of grand slam move on her head. Sunset grabbed Trixie by the shirt and did a judo takedown. She flung her over her shoulder and slammed her on the ground. But again, Trixie wasn't visibly affected. Her legs sprung out like springs and kicked Sunset back onto the ground.

Twilight couldn't just stand there. "Stop fighting!"

No one could hear her over the yelling and shouting.

"Stop fighting!!!"

Applejack touched her shoulder and stared at her. They knew it. Sunset was not as good as she seemed to be. "Just stop."

"No! Stop fighting, you two!!!!!" Twilight cried.

Rainbow Dash turned Twilight around. "It's not going to work. You should've listened to us!"

"No! Sunset's not a bad person! You have to see that!" Twilight told her.

"You're calling this good?! Sunset's not a good person, Twilight!" Flash shouted. "I told you to leave the problem alone! I told you it would get worse! And here it is!!!!"

Twilight's eyes teared up and she kept calling out to the fighters to stop.

"IT WON'T WORK!!!!!!" Rarity yelled.

And then it happened. It was so sudden, so shocking. Twilight teleported from the stairs to in the middle of the fight and everything went in slow motion. Twilight saw the two girls looking bloodthirsty before her slowly reeling back for a good punch.

"No. This never happened...this never happened..." Twilight whispered angrily.

The power in her surged. She could feel it course through her veins.

"This never happened!"

Her eyes glowed white and magic swirled around them furiously.

"THIS NEVER HAPPENED!!!!!!"

In a sudden explosion of power, everything rushed backward in a blur. The punches were never made, and Twilight watched in shock as the blows Trixie and Sunset had made were taken back. The kangaroo kick Trixie had done to Sunset that made her fall to the ground went in reverse. Sunset flung Trixie back behind her judo style onto her feet. The roundhouse kick went backward as well. Everything was going back in time.

The students moonwalked into the school and the petty argument Trixie started went back to the very beginning. Sunset went back into the school the wrong way around and time suddenly stopped. Time had gone backward.

Twilight stood where she was stunned. What. The. Hell.

Out of no where, time started again and Sunset was casually walking out the school like nothing happened. Trixie and her cronies moved to stop her when Sunset noticed Twilight.

"Twilight!" she called and smiled happily.

She ran past Trixie toward the said girl. Trixie stood there dumbly for a second before scowling and stalking off with Snip and Snails behind her.

Twilight was still recovering from shock when she saw the happy Sunset running to her. Instantly the surprise of it all went away and she grinned. The gorgeous girl looked as radiant as ever, more so than Rarity could ever be. Her heart pounded quickly as she watched her. The sun bounced off her red and yellow hair, making her shine. The green eyes she found beautiful glowed warmly. Twilight's face blushed pink as she was joined by her friend.

"Hey, Twilight..."Sunset said. "I was wondering, um, if you'd like to, uh..."

Sunset twirled a lock of hair subconsciously as she tried to find her words, a red hue coming across her cheeks.

"Would you like to...come over for the weekend? T-That's if you don't mind..." she said.

Twilight smiled happily as her eyes widened. "I'd love to!"

Sunset sighed in relief and smiled back. Together, the two girls walked to Sunset's house cheerfully. Twilight had no idea how she turned back time, but she did know that she liked this way things were going a lot better. Whether she was aware of it or not or ever would know this, her friendship with Sunset was growing. It was growing to something more than friendship.

How she had reversed time was purely because she believed.

Twilight believed in Sunset becoming a better person with all her heart.

Sunset had given her power, despite the fact she was powerless. Friendship is magic.