Six very exhausted girls stumbled into Sunset’s apartment with nothing resembling grace, dropping onto her couch as if they intended to never rise from it again. The sirens weren’t among them; due to the fact that they were the least injured, as well as being the most hungry, Sunset had given them money and had sent them down to a nearby fast food place to pick up something to eat.

In retrospect, there was a very real chance Sunset would never see that money again. But she was still counting on the fact that the older girls wanted somewhere warm to sleep and bathe, and for now she hoped it would be enough to get them to come back.

(Sonata had briefly asked why Fluttershy wasn’t coming along since she also was the least wounded of the girls. She, as usual, had been ignored. They all would have felt bad about it, but she genuinely didn’t seem bothered by it.)

For now, though, they were somewhere safe with Venus defeated, at least temporarily.

It was time to lick their wounds.

Fluttershy wasted no time; the moment all of her friends were sprawled out in positions they didn’t plan to budge from any time soon, she set about to fussing over the injuries they had sustained. A quick check of Sunset confirmed that other than some harsh bruising on her cheek from where Venus had backhanded her, she hadn’t sustained any lingering damage.

Rarity and Applejack were similarly lucky; Rarity had a headache so intense she suspected no painkiller could help it, and both she and Applejack had lingering pain and discomfort from having the wind rather brutally knocked out of them both, and the blonde had bruises on her back from Venus’s claws, but for the most part they were in one piece, if leaning against each other as they tried to get their breathing back under control.

To the shock of absolutely no one, Rainbow and Pinkie had the worst injuries.

Rainbow had initially brushed off Fluttershy’s concerns, telling her to look at the other girls first, but it wasn’t long before she made her way back to her childhood friend. What she found when she gently examined the blue girl made her grimace. She’d already suspected the injury was bad from the way Rainbow’s dominant arm hung uselessly at her side, but the way she flinched and swore when Fluttershy’s fingers gently probed along her upper arm and shoulder confirmed the yellow girl’s fears.

“Dislocated shoulder,” she murmured. “That’s my guess, at least. You must have popped it when Venus threw you into that tree.”

Rainbow grit her teeth. “Pop it back in place,” she muttered.

“Are you sure? It’ll hurt—“

“Yes I’m sure,” Rainbow snapped, then winced and softened her voice when Fluttershy flinched. “Please, Fluttershy. I’m no good like this.”

There was a moment before Fluttershy nodded, turning towards her friends. “I’m sorry, but you’ll need to get off the couch for a moment.”

There was some groaning at the thought of moving, but the girls moved over to scattered chairs and the floor without any other complaint. Fluttershy smiled in appreciation before she gently urged Rainbow down onto her back, getting the athlete to relax on the couch and dangle her dislocated arm over the side. “Sunset,” she said.

The girl in question perked up immediately. “Yeah?”

“Would you mind getting me some ice? Rainbow’s going to need it soon. And bring some for Pinkie, too.”

“Of course.” Sunset got to her feet, pausing. “Rarity, Applejack? Do you two need anything while I’m up?”

Applejack looked like she almost wanted to say no on principle of the fact that her two friends were far more hurt than she was, but a slight movement reminded her that she was still hurt and trying to be stubborn about it wouldn’t do her any favors, especially when Venus was still unaccounted for. “Jus’ some painkillers, sugar cube,” she rasped. “Reckon it’s the best option for me.”

Rarity gave Sunset a look, as if she was wondering if a painkiller would even help her pounding head, but a sharp glance from Applejack made her sigh. “Some for me as well darling, please,” she said. “It might at least take the edge off.”

Sunset nodded and headed into the kitchen, fishing two glasses out of the cabinet and filling them with water. She snatched four painkillers from a bottle, and was right in the middle of gathering up ice from her freezer when she heard Rainbow scream.

The sound wasn’t entirely unexpected, but it still made Sunset jump all the same. Rainbow’s scream abruptly cut off into a series of swears, each one more colorful than the last, and several of them were ones Sunset had never even heard during her three years in the human world. Taking that as a sign that the worst had passed, Sunset resumed gathering the ice, picked up the glasses, and headed back out into what served as her living room in the apartment.

Rainbow was sitting up now, her face twisted in a grimace of pain. She accepted the bag of ice Sunset offered with a wordless nod of thanks, pressing it to her shoulder, and Applejack and Rarity both murmured their appreciation when she passed them the water and painkillers. The blonde gulped hers down noisily, while the purple-haired girl managed to swallow with grace and composure.

It wasn’t much, really. But it was a start.

Fluttershy had moved on the moment Rainbow’s shoulder was popped back into place. In the time Sunset had been away, she had managed to convince Pinkie to take off a shoe and a sock so that she could take a look at her ankle. Sunset winced at what she saw; the flesh of her ankle was bruised and swollen. “That looks bad.”

“It’s twisted,” Fluttershy said, accepting the ice when Sunset held it out to her. She wasted no time in pressing it against the injured ankle, smiling slightly at Pinkie’s giggle as the cold made contact with her skin. “It doesn’t feel too bad, at least.”

Pinkie grinned. “Only reason that nasty she-demon got me in the end! If it hadn’t have happened I might have been able to take her down myself.”

The scary thing was, Sunset could actually believe it. She hadn’t heard the exact moment Pinkie had gone down, but she’d heard enough of the fight to know it’d lasted longer than any of the other girls.

At that moment there was a knock on Sunset’s apartment door, and for a moment the girls froze. “That must be the sirens,” she guessed, accepting with a small sigh that she would probably be on her feet a lot tonight despite the overwhelming desire to crawl into bed and sleep for a week. She took solace in the fact that at least Adagio, Aria, and Sonata had come back.

At least, she hoped they had. If the knock was a nosy neighbor asking why so many girls had stumbled into her apartment at this time of night, they were going to have a problem.

Thankfully, luck took pity on her after the beating she and her friends had experienced; Sunset opened the door to find two blank-faced sirens and one that was grinning wildly, cuddling her bag of takeout like it was her firstborn. Adagio practically floated past Sunset for how easily she moved and Sonata skipped right past her, but the true surprise was Aria’s muttered “Here” as she followed her companions, shoving something into Sunset’s hand.

Sunset blinked, then looked down at her hand. Change and a receipt from the food the three had purchased looked back at her.

Well.

She would take what she could get.

Sunset closed and locked the door and followed after the trio into the living room. She’d been briefly concerned about how they would actually interact with each other once they were all in one space, but Adagio seemed to have headed off any potential conflict on her own by taking over a chair that was the farthest away from the Rainbooms. Aria and Sonata had dutifully followed her lead, and at the moment Sonata was cheerfully tearing into a taco with the kind of reckless abandon one usually saw in a child who was eating their favorite treat.

“So,” Adagio said conversationally as she reached into her own bag. “You all look like crap.”

“We feel like crap, too,” Rainbow muttered, giving the siren leader a sour look.

Aria smirked, shifting so she was leaning back against the chair. “I like you,” she said. “I mean, you know, you still took away our powers, so I don’t like you, but you’ve got a mouth on you. I can appreciate that.”

The look Adagio gave Aria was thoroughly unamused. Aria soundly ignored her.

“The important thing is we survived.” Fluttershy’s voice was soft, but her tone made it clear that there would be no arguments while she was present; she even gave Rainbow a warning look. “Right, girls?”

A moment passed before quiet murmurs of agreement followed the yellow girl’s question, and it was as if a switch had been flipped from the way Fluttershy smiled and settled down among her friends. Sunset had no idea how she did that every time and, frankly, a small part of her didn’t want to know.

And sadly, as much fun as this was to watch, they had a much more pressing concern.

“Did we defeat Venus?”

The silence that followed her question was deafening, but Sunset’s eyes were on the sirens. For the time being, the three of them were their best insight into how the succubus worked; with how late it was, reaching out to Twilight wouldn’t get a response until the next morning.

“Define defeat,” Adagio said, taking a bite out of her meal.

Sunset rolled her eyes. “Did we do enough damage that she won’t hurt anyone anymore?”

Adagio took her time chewing and swallowing, digging into the bag to grab a napkin. “For now, yes,” she said. “You didn’t do any permanent damage, but you’ll slow her down for awhile. I’m sure that makes you feel all warm and fuzzy inside.”

“What… what about the people she’s already fed on?” Fluttershy asked, pausing only slightly.

“What about them?” Aria muttered, lifting a brow.

“They’re in comas,” Rarity snapped, some of her patience fraying at the edge from a combination of pain and the clear lack of caring from their companions. “Will they wake up now that we’ve defeated her?”

Anything Adagio planned to say was cut off by Aria laughing, a full, ragged sound as she collapsed back against the chair clutching at her stomach. “Defeated her?” she choked out. “You think that defeated her? Didn’t you hear a word Adagio just said?”

“I did!” Sonata chirped around a mouthful of taco. Without missing a beat Aria snatched one of Adagio’s napkins, rolled it up into a ball, and flung it at her fellow siren’s head.

“You said we didn’t do any permanent damage,” Sunset cut in, giving Rarity a warning look. “When the girls defeated me, they didn’t do anything permanent. When we defeated you, we didn’t do anything permanent, so—“

“You kinda destroyed our gems and took away our magic,” Sonata cut in, wiping at her mouth. “That’s, like, pretty permanent.”

“Yer still alive, ain’t ya?” Applejack grumbled, tugging her hat down slightly over her eyes.

Adagio simply lifted a brow as she studied the battered Rainbooms, waiting until Aria’s laughter faded. Her eyes narrowed in thought before she snorted, shaking her head. “That’s cute,” she said. “You think you’ve defeated her while still leaving her alive. That’s very cute.”

A chill that had nothing to do with the evening air crept down Sunset’s spine. “I don’t follow.”

“Of course you don’t. I forget how ridiculously innocent you all are.” Adagio took another bite to buy herself some time, composing her thoughts before she spoke. “But to answer your question, nothing’s going to change for the people she’s already drained.”

“… What,” Rainbow croaked.

“Whoa, you’re even dumber than I thought,” Aria sighed.

“Just tell them, Aria.”

Aria sighed again, giving Adagio a slightly annoyed look that she wasn’t being allowed to pick a fight she so desperately wanted. “Venus works like a battery,” she said, grabbing her bag like she’d just remembered it was there and reaching for her meal. “The magic she drains from her victims gets absorbed into her body and then runs through her. It can be released, but just defeating her like you guys tried to do tonight won’t do it.”

“Tried to?” Rainbow growled.

Aria smirked, a dangerous gleam entering her eyes. “From where I’m standing? Yeah, tried to. You guys would be totally dead if we hadn’t come along.”

“Hey! I don’t remember you three doing so hot yourselves, so why don’t you—“

“Rainbow,” Fluttershy cut in sharply, before her friend could finish her sentence. Rainbow grimaced, but a supporting squeeze on her shoulder from Applejack and a gentle back pat from Pinkie quieted her.

“Aria,” Adagio snapped at the same time, and the storm that had been brewing in her fellow siren’s eyes subsided somewhat as she settled back down with a rumble of discontent.

Deciding it was a good idea to follow the others’ lead, Sonata attempted to pat Aria comfortingly and got her hand batted away for her trouble.

“You said she feeds on friendship and love,” Sunset said, rapidly changing topics before another fight could potentially stir between the two groups.

“Oh, oh!” Sonata raised her hand in the air, waving it wildly. “I can answer this! Let me, Adagio! Please, please, please!”

Adagio rolled her eyes at Sonata’s childlike enthusiasm, but she nodded for her to go ahead. Sonata grinned and immediately straightened up, her almost finished meal forgotten as she began to gesture eagerly with her hands.

“So, like, Venus feeds on love and she doesn’t discriminate on which kind—friendship, romantic love, it’s all fair game for her! And since she absorbs the magic into her like Aria just said, she can go awhile before she has to feed again!” Sonata paused, thinking. “It’ not like us, y’know, or how we used to be. We had to feed often ‘cause our magic came from the negative energy our jewels absorbed.”

Sunset was quiet, mulling this over and well aware of the fact that all of her friends were watching her; with Twilight back through the portal, she had fallen into the role of expert on Equestrian magic. While the descriptions of Venus weren’t quite as specific as she would have liked—the part of her that was still wholly Celestia’s student wished she was actually in a situation to properly study the succubus, to really understand how she worked—she was still getting a good picture of how the monster worked.

First, this answered the question of why Venus was in the human world at all. Her features and magical abilities made it entirely clear that she was originally from Equestria, and in that world many forms of magic ran on the basis of love; it was easier to list the spells that didn’t use the emotion as a base, and combining that with the fact that magic in Equestria was simply stronger, it was easy to see how the succubus had ended up becoming such a threat that banishment into another world had been the best way to deal with her.

Second, this further explained why she hadn’t been noticed until recently. Assuming that what Aria said was true, Venus would still have had quite a bit of absorbed Equestrian magic running through her when she was banished. That could have easily kept her going for a long time and might have only started to fade recently, explaining why she was feeding now.

“But you said you’d run into her before,” the former unicorn murmured. “How is that possible if she can go long periods without absorbing magic?”

Adagio smiled, and it was entirely too predatory. “You’re a smart girl, Sunset Shimmer. Guess.”

It was Fluttershy who spoke, though. “Sport,” she whispered. “She’s hunting for sport.”

“Very good! Ten points for the shy girl.” Adagio leaned back in her chair, crossing her legs. “Of course, by now I’m sure she does need to actually feed to keep herself sustained, but for her? This is all the thrill. She may not always need to, but she wants to. And when she wants to, well…”

The Rainbooms thought of the three victims, and as one they all shuddered.

“But like I said,” Adagio continued without missing a beat, “you may not have defeated her permanently, but she’ll be slowed down. I imagine you’ll have a few days before she really becomes a problem.”

“If she’s even still in the city,” Rarity pointed out. “She may have decided to move on.”

Aria snorted. “Even if she wanted to, she can’t.”

“Aria’s right,” Sunset sighed, and her friends immediately turned to her. “In our last fight with her, the magic didn’t just cancel itself out. Neither side overpowered the other, so the magic just ended up being drained. If Venus truly operates as they say, I’m sure she still has some magic left; we hit her directly with harmony magic. But she’ll still need time to recover until that reserve she had is back at where it was.”

“… So when she comes back, she’ll come back swingin’,” Applejack concluded. “An’ she’ll probably hit harder since we all pissed ‘er off somethin’ fierce.”

“Oh, you’re all totally dead,” Sonata agreed, then she paused. “But of course, we’re probably dead too, since we helped you. So… nobody wins!”

Judging by the glares Aria and Adagio gave her, that particular observation wasn’t appreciated. But they couldn’t argue with it, either; they’d clearly thrown their lot in with the girls. Venus wouldn’t forget that soon.

That was good, Sunset thought. That was great. It meant the sirens had even more of a reason to stay loyal to her and her friends, to help them find a solution. When the alternative was death—and knowing Venus, she wouldn’t be quick or painless about it—working with someone you considered an enemy suddenly seemed like a great idea.

It helped as well that after hearing how the sirens described the succubus, she was beginning to develop a plan on how to possibly combat her. It was only a minor thought, and she would need to discuss it with Twilight as soon as possible. Which meant…

“We need Twilight,” she decided, and tried to ignore the slight surge of panic and uncertainty the thought gave her. Just because she’d seen Twilight when Venus had approached her didn’t mean it actually implied anything about her feelings! Sonata had said herself that the succubus fed on any love, be it the love for a friend or romantic love. Sunset certainly considered Twilight a good friend!

A good friend, and nothing more.

She’d completely forgotten that her friends had been watching her encounter with Venus, and from the looks they exchanged the moment she said it, they all knew exactly who she’d seen when the succubus had approached her. But bless them all, they remained silent on the topic; even Pinkie didn’t say anything, even as she squirmed excitedly. “Does this mean we’ll get to have another sleepover?!” she burst out, seeming not at all pained by her ankle.

It didn’t lighten the mood up nearly as much as it would have under normal circumstances, but it drew a slightly pained chuckle from Applejack all the same. “Ah don’t think tha’ will be an option this time, Pinkie.”

Pinkie deflated a bit. “Awwwwwww….”

Rainbow looked oddly grumpy at the thought that their friend would be coming back through the portal to help them, though Sunset suspected that had more to do with her pride; the athlete hadn’t exactly disguised the fact that she’d fully expected them to be able to handle the threat on their own this time, without having to put any stress or pressure on the Equestrian princess.

Maybe next time, Rainbow, Sunset thought.

“I’ll write her tonight after you all leave,” Sunset continued. “She probably won’t see it until morning anyway, but the sooner we get it out—“

“Wait,” Rainbow interrupted, distracted from her disappointment. “What do you mean after we all leave? You mean us and the sirens, right?”

“Nope!” Sonata cut in cheerfully, before Sunset could even think to reply. “Ya see, when Sunny got us to agree to help you, she like, totally offered to let us stay with her! It’s really the only reason we agreed. We don’t have anywhere else to go.”

“Sunny?” Sunset murmured.

“WHAT?” Rainbow roared. “Are you insane? You have to be insane if you think we’re leaving her alone with you! No way in hell! Not a chance!” She flopped back against the couch, scowling, and if she could have she would have crossed her arms as she aimed a glare at her friend. “I’ll leave to get my stuff, Sunset, but I’m not leaving you here with these three.”

“Rainbow, that’s really not—“

“Ah agree,” Applejack muttered.

“As do I,” Rarity chimed in.

“Sleepover!” Pinkie cheered.

“It really is a worrying idea, Sunset,” Fluttershy said. “You did have the biggest hand in defeating them, and it’s only been a few weeks. I doubt they’ve forgotten.”

Adagio snorted at that, drawing all eyes to her. “Trust me, we haven’t,” she said, and as Rainbow bristled she held up a hand. “But relax. We aren’t stupid. Sonata’s right, we don’t have anywhere else to go. Tempting as it is, we won’t lay a hand on your friend.”

The silence that followed this statement was punctuated by two things: the look of utter shining delight that Sonata gave her leader, which led Sunset to suspect that the girl wasn’t often told that she was right, and the sinking reminder that the only reason the sirens were on their side at all was because of the succubus currently roaming the streets.

“Rares and Ah will get our things,” Applejack said after the moment passed. “We’ll only be gone a few minutes, Ah reckon.”

Accepting the battle wasn’t even worth fighting, Sunset nodded. “Sure. Just a warning, it’s going to be tight. This place isn’t exactly large.”

Rarity waved a hand, grimacing as she got to her feet. “Relax, darling. We’ll make it work. It’s only for one night, anyway.”

Rainbow and Pinkie were in no condition to move; Pinkie probably could have limped if she’d really put her mind to it, but both of them needed to relax and heal what they could. Fluttershy promised to stop by both their houses during her time out to pick up her things, and after a few words she was gone with Applejack and Rarity. The silence that descended as the sirens finished up their meals was awkward, to say the least.

“You guys can use the shower,” Sunset said finally, if only to break up the silence. She pointedly ignored Rainbow’s glare and disapproving huff. “I know you haven’t had a chance to get clean recently, so—“

She could have just stopped talking after ‘use the shower’, really, because before she even finished her statement Sonata and Aria were gone, racing down the hallway and slamming against each other the whole way to try and beat the other out, trash talking all the while. It was impossible to tell who won the contest, and frankly the redhead didn’t even want to know. Adagio sighed, a deep, pained sound as she hopped off the chair and scooped up what was left of their takeout. “Garbage?” she asked, as if nothing had happened.

“I’ll show you.”

It was mostly an excuse to move at this point, a way of keeping herself awake and thinking even as every fiber of her body ached to just curl up somewhere and sleep. It helped that Adagio was silent as the younger woman led the way into the kitchen, flipping on the light and gesturing to the garbage bin in the corner.

Well. At least this was more civil than she’d expected.

“So,” Adagio began casually, “you saw someone when you guys tried to take down Venus?”

Well. So much for civility.

Sunset narrowed her eyes, crossing her arms defensively over her chest—as a way of closing herself off or a way to defend herself from Adagio, she wasn’t sure. She didn’t say anything, merely giving the siren a glare.

Adagio rolled her eyes. “Oh, please, your friends aren’t nearly as subtle as they think, and I didn’t keep myself and the two idiots alive as long as I have just because I’m pretty. I don’t care about who you saw, I care that you saw anyone at all.”

“… Okay, fine, I’ll bite. Yes, I saw someone. Why do you care?”

The siren rested her hip against the counter, sliding her hands lazily into her pockets. “Here’s the thing,” she said, her tone as mild as if they were simply discussing the weather. “You may have noticed a pattern. Venus doesn’t leave her victims conscious. You’re the first one that’s gone through her magic and walked away to talk about it.”

Briefly Sunset thought about mentioning the fact that her friends had no doubt seen the succubus’s magic too, but she could understand Adagio’s point. They had all been a safe distance away, still able to move about and still under control of their thoughts and body. Sunset had been right in Venus’s crosshairs, completely under her spell.

The thought of it still made her shudder, and her arms tightened against her chest. “Don’t tell me you’re worried about me,” she muttered.

Adagio actually laughed, at that. “Worried? Yes. About you? Hell no. I could care less what happens to you. A part of me wishes Venus had actually gotten you herself.”

I’m feeling better and better about this alliance with every passing minute, Sunset thought.

“What I’m worried about,” Adagio continued without missing a beat, “is that you’ve been exposed to Venus’s magic. You’ve been, shall we say, thrown a little bit off balance by whoever you saw when she approached you, I’m sure. I bet it’s put all kinds of interesting thoughts in your head, thoughts that confuse you and make you uncertain.”

“Get to the point,” Sunset snapped.

“Oh my, I hit a nerve!” Adagio smiled, and it was cold. “Good. Like I said, I don’t care who you saw. I do care that my life and the lives of Sonata and Aria are in your hands. You want to be unfocused and get yourself and your friends killed, be my guest. But you’ve got our lives riding on this, too, and I’m not a fan of dying a slow, painful death.”

Sunset’s eyes narrowed, and she tried to ignore the cold feeling of dread that had settled in her stomach with the siren’s words. “Nobody’s dying,” she said firmly.

Adagio grinned and breezed right by her like she wasn’t walking on solid ground, thumping her on the back so hard that Sunset stumbled and had to grip the counter for support. “Good to hear,” she hummed. “I’m glad we had this talk. Clear the air, and all.”

The redhead grimaced and straightened up, shaking herself off. By the time she’d managed to compose herself and turn around, Adagio had disappeared back into the main room. The bathroom door abruptly slammed open, making both Rainbow and Pinkie jump and alerting them all to the fact that someone’s shower had finished—Aria’s or Sonata’s, Sunset couldn’t begin to guess. After a moment she groaned, slumping back against the counter, and rubbed her eyes.

The next few days were going to be… interesting.

And that was, frankly, probably an understatement.

It was the glimpse of a shadow stumbling out of the alley that caught her eye.

In general, the young woman didn’t make it a habit of checking out alleys to begin with; they looked sketchy enough during the day as it was, under the sunlight and with plenty of people passing by. They somehow became at least ten times worse late at night, so she wanted absolutely nothing to do with them. She wasn’t even supposed to be out this late, but a friend had seen her after practice and, well, one thing had led to another…

She was getting sidetracked. The point was, she had seen something move in the alley, and her immediate response was to speed up, clutching her bag tightly at her side as she fished out her phone. It was better to be safe than sorry.

“Help me…”

And every thought she had about leaving the area as quickly as possible went flying right out of her head the moment she heard—well, it sounded like her best friend’s voice, but… what was she doing here, and more importantly, why did she sound like she was hurt?

She slowed down and then stopped entirely after a moment, turning towards the figure. Her eyes had adjusted to the darkness, and they weren’t lying to her; that was her friend, leaning heavily against the wall and looking battered. She gasped and rushed over, reaching out to her instinctively. “What happened to you? Just hold on, I can—“

She never got to finish her sentence.

Her friend surged forward, grabbing her roughly and pulling her into a kiss that was so sudden she shrieked with surprise. She tried to pull away, tried to struggle, but the hands holding her in place were like steel. As time passed, slowly but surely, her struggles ceased entirely. Magic, shimmering pink around her, was being sucked out of her body as the succubus fed.

Venus pulled away with a deep breath, and her face twisted in a frustrated snarl. The magic had settled into her body, had soothed the damage done somewhat, but it wasn’t nearly what she would have gotten normally; and more importantly, it had only done a small, small part of restoring the magic she had lost.

Frustrated and weak, the succubus’s snarl morphed into a shriek and in a surge of short-lived strength she slammed the girl’s head against the wall. A sickening crunch echoed throughout the alley, and Venus dropped the body and flared her wings, taking off into the night sky with a mighty flap.

There would be blood for this.

Author's Notes:

Exposition! Yay! Everyone loves exposition, right? ... Right?

Like I said in my blog post earlier, I apologize for the delay in getting this chapter up. It was supposed to be a simple thing, but a lot of things have been going on in my life lately. Most of it has been good, a lot of it has been bad, and I lost track of this story for awhile.

Next chapter: Twilight comes into the story, and Sunset shares her plan with everyone. Shockingly, her friends don't like it.