Why? A tale of Anon-a-miss
Chapter 49: Insecurity (Edited and Titled by Icecreammac)
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Sunset woke up to a very annoying, beeping sound. Cracking her eyes open, she found that the noise was coming from her alarm clock. Groaning in annoyance at the irritating sound, Sunset tried to bury her head under her pillow, hoping the noise would stop. After a few moments of lying in a very uncomfortable position, Sunset rolled over to her right and shut off the alarm clock. Rolling back over to her left, she closed her eyes as she tried to find a spot to get comfortable in, only to sit up a second later, muttering, “Wait a second. I didn’t set the alarm.”
“No, that was me,” a soft but kindly voice said. “You need to get up. We need to talk.”
Looking to her right, Sunset saw Princess Twilight sitting in a chair, reading from her computer. Sunset blinked a couple of times before saying, “Twilight, what in all of Equestria are you doing here?” She glanced at her clock. “It's six in the morning. And why are you reading my journal?”
“Get up. You need to get ready for school.” Twilight continued as she turned her attention back to the journal, “I am simply reading this to see if what your friends told me is true.”
“Twilight, go away and stop reading my journal.” Sunset snuggled down into her bed and rolled over so her back was facing Twilight as she continued, “I don’t have any friends. They all broke my heart. Why should I go back to school?”
Getting up Twilight walked over to the bed and looked down at Sunset, who had pulled the blankets over her head. Twilight shook her head, then said, “Sunset Shimmer, get up. That's an order.”
Sunset rolled back over to her left and looked blankly at Twilight as she replied, “What?”
Twilight glared down at Sunset, who simply continued her confused stare. The two stared at each other for a few awkward moments before Twilight broke the uneasy silence between them. “I order you to get out of that bed and get up this very inst--”
“That’s what I thought you said.” Sunset sat up, glaring back at Twilight. “First, your status means jack shit in this world, Twilight. Second, I don’t fucking care how things are done in Equestria, but here, you don’t just barge into someone's home, set their fucking alarm clock off, then demand they get up for you.”
“Are you going to get out of that bed? Yes or no?”
“Let me answer you in a way that I think you might be able to comprehend, Twilight Fucking Sparkle.” Sunset scooted back down into her bed, laid her head into her pillow, then rolled over, waving her hand to Twilight as she continued, “As the humans here say, go to hell. Now get out of my room and leave me the fuck alone.”
“Okay.”
“Wait, what?” Sunset rolled back over. “What do you mean 'okay'? Twilight, you would never agree to do leave someone alone after being spoken to like that.”
“You're right. Which is why I'm going to make you get out of that bed.”
Before Sunset could react, Twilight reached down and grabbed the mattress. With little effort, Twilight picked up the mattress, dumping a very shocked and mostly upset Sunset Shimmer out onto the cold, hardwood floor of her bedroom. Sunset let out a painful yelp when she hit the floor.
Standing up, she very quickly became aware that she wasn’t wearing anything. Grabbing the blanket, she wrapped it around her unclothed body as she yelled out to Twilight, “TWILIGHT, WHAT THE FUCKING HELL WAS THAT FOR!?”
“Like I said, get up. You and I need to talk. I will wait for you downstairs.” Twilight headed for the door, stopping to look back at Sunset, who just glared daggers back at her. “Oh, and if you try to get back into bed, I'll dump a bucket of water on you and throw you out your window into the snow. Now I want you dressed and ready to go within twenty minutes. One minute late, and I will carry out my threat.”
“You're a fucking bitch, Twilight, you know that?” Sunset spat back bitterly. “What gives you the right to--”
“Either get dressed or get tossed outside. The choice is yours.”
“Fine. I’ll see you downstairs in a few minutes. This had damn well better be worth it, Twilight.”
Sunset watched as Twilight left her bedroom. With bitterness in her heart, she got dressed and headed downstairs. Getting herself a cup of coffee, she found Twilight sitting at the kitchen table, reading from the morning newspaper. Sitting down in front of her, Sunset said, “Okay, now that I'm actually up, what the fuck is so important that it couldn’t wait for a decent hour for you to talk to me. And another thing: How did you even know that we needed to talk? I don’t recall writing to you in the journal.”
“First I wanted to talk to you about this Anon-a-Miss stuff. I mean, how could you do that to your friends, Sunset?” Twilight looked up from the paper she was reading. “Second, I came here hoping to surprise you, only to be told by your friends that you betrayed them when you posted their secrets online.”
“I don’t fucking believe this!” Sunset slammed her coffee cup down and snarled, “I am not Anon-a-Miss, Twilight. Come to school with me.” Sunset looked at her watch, which read 6:45. “If we leave now, we should get there before my ex-friends do, and then, I’ll show you that I didn’t betray them.” Turning to face the door, she continued as she looked over her shoulder towards Twilight, “They, on the other hand, betrayed me by saying that I was the one that did this shit to them. They didn't even try to listen to my side of the story.”
Twilight got up, letting out a quick sigh as she followed Sunset to the front door, saying, “Alright, now that you're actually ready, let's go to the school and see who betrayed whom.”
“Just don’t be disappointed when you see that they destroyed our friendship, not me.”
Twenty minutes later, the two found themselves standing in front of the school. Sunset looked up at the big, blue doors, gulped, and headed inside. Twilight followed her, saying as they walked the hallways, “I don’t see any indication that you are innocent, Sunset. All I see are students going to and from class.”
Sunset grumbled under her breath, but did little else. Getting to her locker, she put away her backpack, then looked at Twilight. Spying a student just over the princess's shoulder, Sunset very quickly got an idea in her head. Heading past Twilight, Sunset walked over to the student, saying to him, “Hey, you! Hold up a second. I want--”
Her words fell short as the student turned and passed through her, causing Sunset to suddenly feel cold and very scared. Looking to Twilight, who simply grinned back to her with a wicked smirk on her face, Sunset gulped as she said, “What the fuck just happened, Twilight?”
“Welcome to Tartarus, Sunset Shimmer. I hope you do enjoy your stay, because you’ll be here a long time.”
Sunset felt a hot, burning sensation on her skin. Looking down at her hands, she screamed as her hands twisted and burned, revealing her demon hands. Looking back up to Twilight as she continued to burn, Sunset screamed out to her, “Twilight, help me, please!”
“No, Sunset Shimmer, I will not help you.” Twilight backed away, letting the screaming teen fall to her knees as her body began to twist and burn, turning back into her demon form from the Fall Formal “You wanted to be alone, Sunset Shimmer. You chose to betray your friends. Now, you can stay here as a demon, forever reliving the day that I beat you and the day that your friends found you were Anon-a-Miss.”
Sunset's eyes went wide as she felt another wave of pain and agony wash over her like cold water in the desert. Screaming out as she held out a burning, clawed hand to Twilight, she screamed, “Please, Twilight! I didn’t do anything! I'm not Anon-a-Miss!”
Twilight turned around to head back outside. Sunset's body finished transforming, and she got up and looked around. She saw that the students in the hallway around her looked back at her with fear in their eyes, and instead of the pleasure it brought her last time she was a demon, it only gave her pain and anger this time.
Running out of the hallway back onto the street, Sunset ran towards the portal hoping it would lead her home and out of her nightmare. Hitting the base of the statue, she fell to the ground, screaming in pain as Twilight came over and stood in front of her. Looking down on her, Twilight sneered bitterly to Sunset,“The portal will not allow passage to a demon whose only purpose in life is to hurt those around her. You, Sunset Shimmer, are hereby banished to Tartarus forever.”
Twilight raised her right hand. A purple ball of energy formed in the palm of her hand. She pointed her hand towards Sunset. Sunset tried to get out of the way, only to slip on the ice and snow, giving Twilight the chance she needed. Twilight fired her attack at Sunset, striking the girl in the chest and knocking her back and away from the portal.
Just as Sunset was getting back up, her chest burning from the attack, something grabbed her from behind. Looking behind her, she saw her five friends, each of them with wicked looks on their faces. Sunset looked past them and screamed as she saw a chasm open up in the ground, her scream melding with the many, many screams of anguish rising from the abyss. As the five girls began to drag her towards the yawning pit, Sunset screamed out, “TWILIGHT, DON’T LEAVE ME HERE!”
The five girls grabbed tightly around Sunsets waist, arms and legs, each one pulling hard as the struggling demon teen tried to break free. “I DIDN’T DO ANYTHING WRONG!” Sunset screamed in fear. Getting her to the pit, the girls pushed Sunset over the edge. As Sunset fell, she turned to look toward the opening, only to behold it close up forever. Sunset suddenly felt pain in her right temple as she found herself falling deep into the pit, causing her to scream further. She never stopped screaming, even when her throat was torn apart by her own cries.
Cheerilee came rushing into Sunset's room, finding the very frightened teen on the floor with blood coming out of her head. Cheerilee rushed to Sunset's side and saw that she had hit her head on her nightstand.
“Sunset, wake up. You're having a nightmare,” Cheerilee said as she reached out to grab the frightened girl's arms to keep her from hurting herself any further. “Sunset, listen to me. You're okay. Wake up. Please, wake up!”
Sunset’s eyes snapped opened as she flailed around on the floor like a fish out of water. She sat up, quickly gasping for breath. Cheerilee grabbed the bucket, placing it under Sunset's chin just as Sunset threw up, emptying the contents of her stomach into the bucket. Sunset heard Cheerilee’s kind voice say, "It's going to be alright, Sunset. No one's going to hurt you."
After Sunset threw up several more times, Cheerilee gently picked the still frightened but slightly calmer teen girl up, placing her back into bed. Wiping away any traces of vomit from Sunset's mouth with a tissue she had gotten from the nightstand next to her, Cheerilee said soothingly, “Alright, Sunset, I think the worst is over. You just sleep now. I--”
Sunset shot her hand out, grabbing onto Cheerilee’s hand tightly as she stammered, “D-Don’t go. Please. I-I don’t want to be alone.”
“Alright, Sunset, I won’t leave you, but you need some sleep. Your parents, Principal Celestia, and Vice Principal Luna will be here in the morning. I'm sure they're all very worried about you.”
“Doesn't matter. I-I'm going to Tartarus for all that went down at school. T-Twilight hates me. I know she does.”
“Sunset let me bring you out to the living room. You can sit with me until you feel better.”
“Y-You promise not to leave me?”
“I promise I won’t leave you, dear. Now come on, let’s get you out of that bed and into the living room. Then, you can tell me all about that nightmare.”
Looking down, Sunset slowly climbed out bed, allowing her former teacher to guide her into the living room. Although she knew which way to go, Sunset took some comfort knowing that Cheerilee was there for her. Sitting down on the couch, she wrapped her arms around Cheerilee, crying into her shoulder as her former music teacher soothed her.
Sunset cried on Ms. Cheerilee’s shoulder for a full ten minutes before calming down enough to say, “Ms. Cheerilee, there is something that I need to tell you. Something that I should have told you when you took me in. But you're not going to like it.” Sunset swallowed hard her lower lip trembled as she thought about what she was going to say next. “It's about Musical Skies and the reason I left when you graciously gave me a home.”
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