Author's Notes:

So, the last chapter was pretty violent. not evil told me she and a friend enjoyed it a lot. That's a pretty good compliment because with all the profanity and fighting, I've never written anything so crazy. I mean, cursing and fighting aren't good, don't misunderstand me. It was just my first time making a fight scene. That's why it's rated teen, kids.

Dang it! Last night, my laptop was acting like a piece of garbage and wouldn't let me publish this chapter or save my work. I had to do this all over again...

Sunset took out her keys and made her way up the steps to her front door. Twilight stood by the base of the steps and her mind drifted to the fight she somehow reversed. How did she do that? The only explanation would be magic, but wouldn't she have to get her friends to use their powers as well? I mean, the last two times she was there, that's how the magic worked.

Remembering Sunset do that amazing roundhouse kick and judo move made Twilight admire her more, despite the fact that it was violent. She didn't blame her for beating up Trixie. Sometimes, she could be a real donkey and deserved to be punched. It stung her, however, when Trixie grand slammed Sunset in the head. It was like a basketball player jumping up to slam the ball in the hoop. And that kangaroo kick! Right in the chest! Twilight cringed and bit her lip.

Especially since Sunset wasn't flat chested...That must've hurt a hell of a lot! It was another thing if Trixie had done it to her or any of the Main 5. None of them really had much there. Applejack wouldn't even be affected. Twilight was pretty sure. If she could buck trees hard enough to make the whole thing shake and give up their apples in Equestria, then she was sure nothing would've happened.

Twilight was too busy thinking about the nonexistent event that she was startled when Sunset let out a cry and was ambushed by a dog. Twilight jumped back and screamed. Sunset laughed however and wrestled the huge golden retriever.

"Hey, Rascal!"

Twilight watched Sunset as she playfully put it in a headlock. It was apparent she got a lot of practice play fighting with the dog. No wonder she was a good fighter.

Sunset glanced at the scared girl and chuckled. "Don't be scared, Twilight. It's just Rascal, my dog."

Twilight looked at Rascal uncomfortably. That thing was bigger than Spike by 20 times. When Sunset stood up to brush her skirt, she saw the dog was a third of her height. Uh, no. Twilight smiled weakly.

"Nice dog..."

Rascal barked and she shrieked. Sunset laughed. "Come on, Sparkle! He won't bite."

The dog went up to her and sniffed. It wagged its tail and licked her. Twilight grimaced. "Ew..."

Sunset shrugged. Apparently, Twilight wasn't a dog person. "I'll make sure he doesn't go near you often then."

Sunset led Twilight into her house and Rascal followed. Twilight scanned the front room. The front room she walked into had a black leather couch leaning against a cream colored wall. There was a mahogany coffee table in front of the couch facing toward a large TV. The floor was polished and wooden. A lamp stood in the corner of the room next to a large cage. Inside the cage was a bunny, who stumbled over an empty bowl that had previously been filled with water. The room was very clean for a 17 year old to be living there.

"Welcome to my place. I hope you like it," Sunset said. She removed her leather jacket and placed it on the arm of the couch. "I'll be upstairs changing. Feel free to explore."

With that, Sunset went upstairs. Twilight went over to the cage of the bunny. The bunny looked at her with small black eyes. It was so cute with its fuzzy fur and button nose. Twilight stuck her finger through the bars and found that the bunny nibbled on her finger. She chuckled.

Twilight walked away from the cage and moved through the doorway in the front room into the dining room. There was a dark wood table with four chairs and a china cabinet standing tall by the wall. From the ceiling hung a chandelier, suspended in the air. This threw Twilight off a bit. A china cabinet? The only people she knew to have china cabinets were older folk. It must've been left behind by the previous owner.

Twilight passed through the room into a second living room attached to an open kitchen. The same black leather couch, mahogany table, and wooden floor was in there. The only difference was that there were shelves in this room and no TV. The shelves were surprisingly barren but of a few things. On one was just a broken locket carelessly placed on it. Twilight picked it up and saw two small pictures of a man and a woman.

The man was handsome with the same red hair and mischievous green eyes as Sunset. His dark orange skin was telltale of often being outdoors. He had a close shaven beard and laugh lines around his eyes. The woman was quite the opposite. She was a pale yellow, like Fluttershy, with dark brown hair. She had blue eyes and delicate features. Under their pictures were names. The man's name was Solar Flare and the woman was August Fall.

These must be Sunset's parents.

Twilight felt a small tug at her heart. Sunset had never gotten to know them well. She compared Sunset's features to her mother and father. Sunset definitely looked like her father, with the red hair and green eyes. She probably would've been a daddy's girl, too. Twilight could see them together enjoying one another's company. Though Sunset looked a lot like her father, she also closely resembled her mother. Sunset's skin tone was closer to hers and so were her features. The small nose, the sharp eyes, the face shape, etc.

All in all, Sunset looked like a female version of her father, but with the same body type and features as her mother. Genetics work in mysterious ways.

Twilight tried to imagine them all together. She could see Solar Flare smiling with pride as he held his daughter close to him along with his wife. August smiled quietly with her cheek pressed against Solar's chest and a hand grasping Sunset's. Sunset Shimmer would be in the middle, as radiant as ever, a product of two people's love for one another. She was their everything. From how she imagined it, Twilight knew they loved their daughter to death and quite literally on that end.

Twilight was glad her parents had been able to raise her. Twilight Velvet and Night Light cared a lot for her and her brother and it was the best thing in the world to be loved. A question popped up in her head.

What if Sunset were raised by her parents?

None of anything would have happened. Sunset wouldn't have been left alone at age five, Celestia wouldn't have adopted her and taken her in as a student for ten years, Sunset wouldn't have escaped, or became evil. There wouldn't have been a gas that she accidently caused that gave Twilight and the girls their cutie marks and Sunset autism...

They would have never met.

This last thing made Twilight frown. Sunset and Twilight would never have met. Meeting Sunset Shimmer had been one of the most life changing things she ever experienced. She learned a lot from everything that happened and became a better person through her. In her own selfish way, Twilight was glad everything had gone the way it did.

Twilight heard footsteps coming down the stairs and she hastily put the locket back on the shelf. Walking into the front room, she saw Sunset wearing a grey shirt and some casual black pants. She was putting on some shoes. When she tied them up she whistled and Rascal came running to her. Sunset looked up and saw Twilight standing in the doorway.

"Hey, could you get Carrot out of his cage? Rascal hasn't had his routine walk this morning and we'll be gone for some time. I don't want to leave Carrot by himself."

Twilight took out the fuzzy bunny. Carrot, so that's his name.

Sunset put a leash on Rascal's collar and opened the front door. She and Twilight walked out and closed the door behind them.