As Sunset and her friends were about to have their grim discussion, in another part of the city, Gilda was waking up to the smell of something cooking. Sniffing the air while she stretched, she could tell it was bacon and eggs with toast. Looking over to the clock on her dresser, Gilda saw it was 6:52 am. Getting up, her feet touched the cold, cement floor of her apartment building, causing her to shiver a bit. Looking around her room, she found an over-sized shirt and slipped it on.

Walking out into the living room, she saw that her roommate was at the stove, cooking breakfast. Gilda watched as her roommate placed the last of some freshly cooked bacon onto a plate next to her, then set the plate on the counter next to a coffee pot. Turning to leave and seeing Gilda standing behind her, she said, “Now that you're up, I'll leave you to your breakfast. I have other matters to attend to.”

“Like what?” Gilda replied, slightly confused. Getting her breakfast, she continued, “Is there something wrong? You look upset.”

“We haven't found her yet,” Gilda’s roommate replied with clear worry in her voice. “I don’t have much time. I need to find her.”

“If you say so, Summer,” Gilda replied, “Does this girl have anything to do with how we met three months ago." Gilda thought about it a bit and chuckled. "Man, you really freaked me out when you just hopped out of that statue like that.”

Looking down, Summer Sunrise replied with very clear worry on her face, “Yes. When I came out of the statue, I thought I'd run right into her. But instead, I ran into you--literally--while you were being chased by the city guards.”

Gilda grinned as she picked up her coffee cup taking sip she said after she set it back down on the counter. “Cops, Sunrise. They're called cops. And yeah, I remember that. I think I almost pissed myself then, especially when you were tossing all six cops around like toys.”

“Hmph!” Summer snorted bitterly. “I should've done more than toss them about. I should've killed them for putting their hands on me like that.” Summer smiled wickedly to Gilda, then laughed “Ah, well. At least I gave them a good thrashing, which was kinda fun, anyway.” Summer looked towards the bathroom, then continued, “I need to take a shower. I smell like a pigeon's been using me to roost on.”

Just as Summer was about to get into the shower, Gilda said, “Hey, don’t go using up all the hot water this time around, got it?”

Summer just waved her off, went into the bathroom, and locked the door. Gilda ate what was left of her breakfast, then turned her computer on. After surfing the net for a few moments, she logged onto MyStable. Bringing up the web browser, she was surprised at what she saw. In a private message box, an online friend of hers sent her a picture of Rainbow Dash. The message from her friend read, “Hey, Gilda. Thought you might get a kick out of this girl scaring the crap out of this other girl.” Looking at who sent the photo, Gilda saw it was from her online friend Dawn Talon. In the photo, Rainbow was dressed like a vampire, scaring some girl that Gilda didn’t recognize. Clicking on the photo itself, Gilda saw the words ‘Looks like Drac Bow wants to suck Fluttershy's blood’. Gilda was about to click on the next photo when the bathroom door opened, and Summer came out. Summer headed over to where Gilda was, saying, “Whatcha doing, Gilda?”

“Huh?” Gilda replied. “Oh, uh, Dawn Talon sent me a picture of Crash scaring some girl. It's pretty lame, though.”

“Really? Let me see.”

Gilda stood up and let Summer sit down. Looking at the photo, Summer snickered and said, “Well, if that's this ‘Crash’ person that you keep going on about, I can see why you think she is a flip-flop. Didn't you say she's cool one minute, lame the next? I wouldn't be surprised.” Summer was getting up, when an incoming video alert caught her eye. Sitting back down, she looked to Gilda, who just rolled her eyes as she clicked the video.

When the video came up Summer yelled out, “WHERE IS THIS VIDEO TAKING PLACE!?”

“Whoa, calm down there!” Gilda said. “First off, this video is almost four months old, and second, the only one that I rec--” Her voice went cold when she saw Sunset Shimmer was on the video. She yelled, “HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU ON THAT FUCKING VIDEO?” Looking at Summer with anger brewing in her eyes, Gilda screamed out, “TELL ME! NOW!”

“That isn’t me! If you watch the video, I can prove it. Look at that girl's right shoulder.” Watching the video a little further, both Gilda and Summer saw Sunset turn to her right, revealing her part of her shoulder to the camera. “Okay, see that symbol? Now, look at my left shoulder.”

Gilda did as she was told. Looking at Sunset's right shoulder, she saw a symbol that red XIV. While watching the video further, Gilda noticed that each of Sunset's friends took a quick passing glance to her when they saw her shoulder. Everyone except Sunset look concerned yet didn't do anything other than continue to sing. Looking at Summer’s shoulders, Gilda noticed right away that on her left shoulder was a symbol that read XIII.

Looking a bit confused and a bit angry, Gilda demanded, “How come I haven't seen this mark up until now, Summer? You've been living with me for three months. Why'd you wait so long to tell me about that?”

“What are you, my lover? It wasn't important before. What is important is that now that I know for sure that she lives around here, I can hopefully find her.”

Getting up from the chair, Summer was just headed back into the kitchen when she suddenly fell, holding her head in both hands and screaming in pain. Gilda rushed to her side, saying, “What's wrong, Summer?”

Summer screamed out, “It hurts, it hurts! Make it stop!”

A few moments went by before Summer was able to move about without flopping around like a fish out of water. Gilda helped her up, saying, “Are you alright?”

“Yes, I'm fine." Summer breathed heavily, her eyes clearly showing that she was anything but fine. "It comes and goes.”

"What do you mean it comes and goes? What just happened to you?" Gilda waited for a reply, but none came. To her shock, Gilda noticed blood coming out of Summer's nose and right ear. “You're not fine; you're bleeding. Here, let me get som--"

“I said I'm fine! Now just leave it alone!” Summer snapped back angrily, causing Gilda to take a step back and hold up her hands in surrender. “Okay, okay. Sheesh, I was trying to help for fuck's sake!”

“I don’t need you to worry about me. I'll be fine! It's like I said, it comes and it goes. That's it,” Summer snapped back while wiping away the blood from her nose and ear. “Now, can you tell me where that video took place or not?”

“Yeah, I think so. But I think it would be better to show you than tell you.”

“Alright. I’ll be ready to leave in ten minutes.” Summer headed to her bedroom muttering to herself, “I have to find Fourteen. I don't have much time, and with what Gilda saw, she’ll put it together sooner or later. I must find her!”

Gilda headed to her own room, got dressed, and a few minutes later was sitting down in front of the computer again. She was on MyStable, going through all the recent postings, smirking to herself when she came across Rainbow's picture again. She was about to comment on it when a loud knock came from her front door. Grumbling in anger, Gilda headed for the door and opened it. She took a step back when she saw Sombra standing in hallway.

Sombra smiled wickedly to Gilda, who slammed the door on his face, yelling out to Summer, “WE NEED TO LEA--”

"Freeze!" Sombra yelled, having simply reopened the door and entered the apartment.

At his command, Gilda stopped running, leaving Summer to run alone to Gilda's room. Gilda slowly turned around to look at him. Sombra was smirking, but his eyes were cold. "Gilda," he began. "It's been a while, hasn't it? How have you been?"

"W-What d'ya want? I'm done with you, remember?"

"Oh, I remember, alright. Do you know what else I remember?" When Gilda stayed silent, Sombra continued, "I remember when I first met you on the streets. You had just run away from home, I believe, and you needed a place to stay. And I gave that to you. You needed food. I gave you food. You needed to know how to protect yourself. I taught you how to steal and how to fight."

"Is there a point to this?" Gilda asked.

"I'm getting to it!" Sombra snapped back. Calming down, he continued, "I kept you off the streets, and all I asked was that you join our little group, that you make me some money, and that you run a few...deliveries for me. And you ran out on me!" Sombra walked up close to Gilda and said, "I spent quite a bit of money on you, Gilda. And you're going to repay it in full."

Before either person could say anything else, a baseball came sailing through the air and struck Sombra in the cheekbone. He snapped his head in the direction it came from and saw Summer standing in the hallway, a baseball bat in her hands.

"Get. Out," Summer said.

Sombra straightened up and said, "Fine. But don't think we're finished, Gilda. If you don't pay me the money you owe me, I'll make your life a living hell." Sombra turned to leave, but before he left the apartment, he stopped. Turning around, he looked to Summer and said, "Before I go, tell me: Have we met before? You look very familiar."

"No, we haven't. Now get out."

Sombra squinted his eyes in thought, and his eyes widened slightly in recognition. "Yes, I remember now. My boys spoke often of you. Oh, what was your name?" He took out his phone and thumbed through his photos. "Ah, yes, I remember now. Sunset Shimmer." He showed the girls the photograph, which depicted Sunset Shimmer holding another student against a locker. The other student was holding some money out to her. The girls saw that Sombra had entitled the photo simply "Sunset Shimmer".

"Well, I'm glad that's cleared up," Sombra said. "I'd leave quickly, Miss Shimmer. You're late enough for school as it is." With that, Sombra left, leaving two worried and silent girls behind.

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