Author's Notes:

Here's the next chapter, I hope you all enjoy. and thanks again to KR Chrome.

The girls made their way to their lockers to retrieve their belongings, Applebloom stood still in front of her locker. Someone had written Die as well as Kill yourself! On her locker. Applebloom stares sadly at the writing, this is what Sunset had to go through and now it was her turn. She suddenly felt a hand on her shoulder and turns to see Dumbbell smiling kindly at her.

“Hey, need some help cleaning this up?” Dumbbell asks as he lifts up a bucket of water with two washcloths, “It’ll be faster with the two of us,”

Applebloom is surprised at the offer but nonetheless nodded her head, as the two began working on cleaning her locker, Applebloom cast a glance at Dumbbell as he happily scrubbed away the writing.

“Why are yah helping me? Ah thought yah hated me like everyone else?”

“That’s the thing, it’s easy to hate someone but it’s also just as easy to be nice,” Dumbbell states as he dunks the washcloth into the bucket, “The difference is that you waste your time hating when you should be helping,”

“Not to mention it’s more rewarding when yah help out someone,”

Applebloom turns to the direction of the voice to see her big sister smiling at her, she has her own washcloth and dunks it in the bucket, rinses it and proceeds to help clean up the writing.

“I know what it’s like to constantly be angry at everyone and lashing out, but then someone made me realize what I was doing and I didn’t like what I was becoming,” Dumbbell explains as he dips the washcloth in the bucket again, “She told me that if I wanted to change, I needed to put in the effort and let me tell you, it was an uphill battle to get me to finally let go of my anger and deal with it in a much more constructive way,”

“Basically what it all boils down to is this, you can’t change unless you’re willing to put in the effort to do so. And you have to put in more effort to make it up to everyone.”

Applebloom and even Applejack took in Dumbbell’s words, Applebloom looked back to her locker, a determined look in her eyes as she began scrubbing even harder.

He’s right, If ah wanna make up for Anon-A-Miss, ah have to try with everything ah got. Just like Sunset did,

Applejack watches her sister scrub off the writing with renewed vigor, she smiled proudly at her sister before rejoining her and Dumbbell in wiping out the remainder of the writing.

Ah can’t let these nightmares stop me from making it up to Sunset, Ah already screwed up twice now, ah need to talk to Sunset and do whatever it takes to prove to her how sorry ah truly am!

As the three are finishing cleaning up Applebloom’s locker, she is far from the only one who is affected. Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle’s lockers have also been vandalized, and even though they had Rarity and Rainbow Dash helping them, their other helpers made things... awkward.

Scootaloo looks between Rainbow Dash and Lightning Dust, she could see Rainbow Dash cast several glances at Lightning Dust. Scootaloo was tempted to ask Rainbow what she was doing, but decides against it. When Rainbow Dash picked her up to take her to school, she wasn’t as happy to see Scootaloo as she use to be. Scootaloo couldn’t bare to look Rainbow in the eye as they made their way towards CHS, halfway she worked up the courage to talk to Rainbow Dash, but she simply told her that she wasn’t in the mood for chit chat. That crushed Scootaloo, they use to laugh and joke with one another while on their way to school, sometime they even raced each other. But now, Rainbow treated Scootaloo like a stranger, their walk today felt more like an obligation to Rainbow than anything else. Scootallo had to resist the urge to cry, she knew Rainbow would be upset, but she never expected this. Come to think of it, Rainbow did plan to have Sunset beaten because of the photo of her kissing Gilda got posted for everyone to see. Scootaloo shivered at that, maybe being treated like a stranger wasn’t so bad after all.

“If you wanna ask me something Dash then go ahead,” Lightning Dust spoke which caught Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo by surprise,

“Well...I uh...” Rainbow was struggling with her words,

Lightning Dust stops her scrubbing to look at Dash, “Don’t you have something you want to ask me?”

Dash stares at Lightning Dust for a moment before finally speaking, “Why?”

“Excuse me?” Lightning Dust questions as she wait for Dash to elaborate,

“Why did you believe that Sunset was innocent? What made you so sure that it wasn’t her?” Rainbow asks with a hint of desperation in her voice,

“Because I’m not stupid!” Was Lightning Dust’s instant reply, causing both Rainbow and Scootaloo to flinch, “Honestly Dash, anyone with half a brain can see that Sunset was being set up,”

Lightning Dust cast a quick glance at Scootaloo before looking back at Rainbow Dash.

“The old Sunset wouldn’t make it so obvious that it was her spilling your secrets, heck she would make it look like it was one of you. She did do that before.”

Scootaloo directs her gaze towards Rainbow Dash in time to see her turn her head away from Lightning Dust, it’s obvious that Rainbow was still touchy about the way she and the Rainbooms were broken up by Sunset.

“Dash, let me ask you something. Was Sunset ever your friend?” Lightning Dust inquires,

Rainbow Dash quickly turns her head around, her eyes wide in shock. She opens her mouth to reply that Sunset was indeed her friend, but she freezes. She takes a moment to think before finally replying.

“At first I wouldn’t be caught dead hanging out with Sunset, but after getting to know her better, she became someone I did consider my friend...my best friend.”

“Then that makes what you did all the more disgusting,”

In a swift motion, Lightning Dust brought her hand up and smacks Rainbow Dash hard on the left side of her face. Rainbow brought her hand up to cover her reddening cheek, her gaze cast down.

“I so want to punch your face right now, but a bitch slap will have to do,” Lightning dust explains as she glares at Rainbow, “You use to call me rash, reckless, and caring only about myself. Funny how things turn around huh?”

Lightning Dust resumes her scrubbing although with a little more force than earlier.

“You fucked up royally Dash, you really hurt Sunset the most with your stupid actions! I’m still in shock when Gilda told me what you thought she was going to do to Sunset, what happened to you Rainbow? When did you become this backstabbing coward?!”

Rainbow couldn’t answer, every word that Lightning Dust spoke felt like a knife stabbing at her heart. She bit her lip as she felt like crying, she can’t break down, not now.

“It’s okay to cry Dash,” Lightning Dust spoke as she took notice of Rainbow Dash’s internal struggle, “There’s no shame in crying, you’re not weak if you cry,”

“But all I’ve been doing since that assembly is cry, and I hate it!” Rainbow Dash confesses as she takes in a shaky breath, “I don’t want Sunset to see me like this when I talk to her,”

“Maybe that’s what Sunset needs to see,” Lightning Dust pointed out, “Maybe what she needs to see isn’t the you she knows, the you that betrayed her. What she needs to see is a humble and remorseful Rainbow Dash,”

Lightning Dust places a hand on Rainbow’s shoulder before giving her a cheeky smile.

“I bet I can finish cleaning this locker before you two,”

Rainbow grinned at the challenge before looking to Scootaloo, “You hear that squirt? Lightning here thinks she can defeat the two of us,”

A smile spread on Scootaloo’s lips at hearing Rainbow talk to hear in the same way she always did, “Let’s show her who she is messing with!”

Lightning Dust, Rainbow Dash and Scootaloo scrubbed at the locker furiously as they attempted to finish before the other.

Meanwhile Rarity and Sunset were helping clean up Sweetie Belle’s, Rarity and Sweetie Belle kept casting nervous glances at Sunset who had a monotone expression as she scrubbed away the writing on Sweetie Belle’s locker. Rarity kept seeing her corrupted self in place of Sunset, while Sweetie Belle who is currently on her big sister’s right side and Sunset on her left saw the demon Sunset. She wanted to keep her distance from the demon.

“Don’t worry, I’ve already cast a tracer spell to locate whoever did this.” Sunset tells them without looking at them, “I’ll be sure to deal with them and make sure they never do this again,”

Sweetie Belle and Rarity shuddered at the threatening tone Sunset uses when talking about whoever did this to Sweetie Belle’s locker. Sweetie Belle actually heard the demon chuckle before the demon glanced at her direction, causing her to quickly go back to scrubbing her locker. They resumed working in silence, only the sounds of their washcloths being dunked into the bucket of water can be heard. As they continued scrubbing, Rarity’s hand brushed against Sunset’s.

“Oh! So sorry Darling,” Rarity quickly apologizes,

“Don’t worry about it,” Sunset responds without looking at Rarity, not even the slightest bit bothered when Rarity’s hand brushed against her,

Rarity simply looks at her corrupted self scrub away at Sweetie Belle’s locker, she steals her resolve and speaks up.

“S-Sunset, do you mind if we talked?”

Sunset finally stops her scrubbing and actually looks at Rarity, “Talk about what?”

“About my betrayal of you during Anon-A-Miss,” Rarity explains in a soft tone,

“I thought I already told you-”

“I know Darling, I know we already told you how we felt about you,” Rarity cuts off Sunset, a dejected look on her features as she recalls the awful truths that she admitted to not just Sunset, but herself as well, “And I know you don’t want to hear halfhearted apologies, but we do fell genuine remorse for what we did and want to properly apologize to you darling,”

Sunset stares at Rarity, her dejected and pleading expression shifts to an embarrassed and tearful one, as she recalls how she humiliated her at the spring fling. Out of her five former friends, Rarity and Fluttershy are the ones who truly suffered the most. Sunset closes her eyes and lets out a sigh before opening them again and looking at Rarity.

“Fine,”

“I beg your pardon?” Rarity asks, not believing what she had just heard,

“I said fine, I’ll hear all of you out. But lets talk somewhere private like the band practice room, we’ll meet there after school,” Sunset repeated, a slight smile on her lips at seeing Rarity’s mood do a one eighty,

“Oh thank you darling, I promise you won’t regret it!” Rarity cheerfully says before resuming her scrubbing with renewed vigor, although Rarity thought, I could’ve sworn I saw Sunset’s smile instead of that monstrosity,

Sweetie Belle watches her sister smile happily which caused her to smile, It’s good to see Rarity smile again,

Her smile faltered however as she glanced at demon Sunset who is smiling deviously.

I wish I could say the same for Sunset though,

Back in Equestria, Princess Twilight Sparkle is enjoying breakfast with her companion Spike. They are both eating a plate full of pancakes that the young dragon had cooked up for them, and all throughout Twilight kept stealing glances at him. Ever since her talk with Principal Celestia about wanting to adopt Sunset and then after bringing Princess Celestia to talk with the principal about adopting Sunset which would not only make Sunset her heir, but also a princess. Twilight has been questioning what Spike really means to her, she saw the way both Celestia’s gushed about Sunset and the way Princess Celestia talked about the former unicorn made Twilight realize what Sunset truly meant to her mentor. But then the subjected of Anon-A-Miss popped up and Twilight and the principal had to tell her what they knew, despite not showing any visible signs of anger, Twilight knew that the princess was fuming. She was extremely anxious when the princess chose to return back to the human world alone after lowering the sun and princess Luna took charge while she was gone. She didn’t get an ounce of sleep, wondering if the princess would take her anger out on her friends human counterpart.

She was immensely relieved when she returned the following morning to raise the sun and extremely happy to hear about that it is now official, that Sunset is now Princess Celestia’s daughter. Which now brings her to now, Twilight has always thought of Spike as family, and it wasn’t until she came to ponyville that their bond grew even more and thanks to both Celestia’s, Twilight finally understood what Spike is to her. He’s her son.

“Is something the matter Twilight?” Spike asks with a hint of concern,

That snaps Twilight out of her train of thought, “Huh?! Oh uh it’s nothing Spike!”

“Are you sure? Cuz you’ve been staring at me for a while now,” Spike pointed out,

Twilight’s cheeks turned red at having been found out, “Well uh...you see...It’s just that you’ve got something on your cheek!”

“I do?” Spike reaches a hand towards his cheek before his face is engulfed in a napkin.

“There, all clean!” Twilight says with a smile,

“Gee thanks Twilight,” Spike grumbled before resuming eating his pancakes,

Twilight sighed internally, but she still kept a close eye on Spike. Watching him eat his pancakes neatly reminded Twilight of how he would always make a mes whenever she fed him when he was just a baby, how she would bathe him, change his diaper, or how he couldn’t fall asleep unless she was beside him. Twilight’s right wing unfurled and wrapped around Spike, bringing him closer to her.

“Huh?” Spike is caught by surprise as he felt something soft on his left side before feeling somepony nuzzle him, he managed to crane his neck to see that it was Twilight. He opens his mouth to speak but Twilight’s next words stopped him,

“I’m so proud of you Spike, I love you,”

Spike’s eyes widen upon hearing this, in all his time being with Twilight, he has never heard her say that she was proud of him. Although he does know that Twilight loves him, but hearing her say that is always welcomed. Spike closes his eyes as he leans into Twilight, nuzzling her soft fur. He always liked it when Twilight held him, it made him feel relaxed, safe, and loved.

“I love you too Twilight,”

Twilight brings Spike closer and wraps her hooves around him, holding him tight. She recalls of how Princess Celestia explained to her after she came back from Canterlot high with her crown about her falling out with Sunset, she noticed that despite the princess’s best efforts to hide it, she was devastated when Sunset left. Along with a look that the Princess had when talking about Sunset, the same look she had when talking about her with Principal Celestia about her falling out with her, a look Twilight didn’t understand until now. It was the look a mother had when loosing her child. There were several close calls where Spike was in serious danger and Twilight feared that she would loose him.

The two stayed in their embrace for a few minutes before a familiar voice echoed through the castle.

“Hey Twilight! You in here?”

Twilight lifts her head from and calls out, “We’re in the dining hall Rainbow!”

Rainbow Dash zooms into the dining room and upon spotting Twilight and Spike, she dives towards them, wrapping her hooves around Twilight and lifting her into the air into the air. She twirls her around a bit before stopping.

“Morning babe!” Rainbow greets Twilight before nuzzling her snout,

“Good morning Rainbow,” Twilight greets her marefriend as she leans in and kisses her lips.

“Good morning Rainbow Dash!” Spike says from bellow them,

Rainbow and Twilight break off the kiss, as Rainbow looks down to address Spike.

“Hey there Spike!”

“So what brings you by Rainbow?” Twilight asks as the two come down and take a seat, Twilight wrapping her wing around Spike once again,

“Do I need I reason to see my mare?” Rainbow asks, batting her eyelashes at Twilight,

“Rainbow,” Twilight gives Rainbow a skeptical look along with a knowing smile,

“I maybe want to see if I can visit this other world,” Rainbow says sheepishly,

Twilight sighs, “Rainbow, we talked about this. You can’t go see your alternate self,”

“But Twilight-”

“The answer is no,” Twilight says firmly, she brings her left hoof to caress Rainbow’s cheek and in a soft and caring voice says, “I know how strongly you feel about what she did, especially since you yourself have made a similar mistake,”

“I would never even think of physically hurting you,” Rainbow stated as she stared deep into Twilight’s eyes,

“I know,” Twilight says before leaning in and kissing Rainbow’s lips, the kiss was brief but it was enough to convey Twilight’s appreciation for Rainbow, “But you going over there and talking to your counterpart won’t change what happened,”

“No, but I won’t just be talking,” Rainbow indicates as she smiles smugly at Twilight,

“I figured you wouldn’t,” Twilight rolls her eyes, “Anyway would you like to join us for breakfast?”

“Love to Twi, but there’s a snowstorm scheduled for later this evening and I just stopped by to ask you about the other world and to say hi,”

“Oh, okay. I guess I’ll see you later then,” Twilight says, she’s a bit disappointed that Rainbow won’t be joining them for breakfast and that she won’t be seeing her until later this evening,

“Hey don’t looks so glum Twilight, you’ll get to see my awesome self later,” Rainbow reminded her in her usual smug way, “Besides today is game night, and no way am I passing up a chance to beat you, AJ and Spike,”

“May I remind you who won our game of scrabble in the last game night?” Twilight says in a mocking tone,

“Hey that game was rigged!” Rainbow said offended, “That game was designed by eggheads for eggheads, the only one who gave you any real competition was Spike!”

“Well what do you expect when Twilight makes you read a Thesaurus for fun,” Spike responded while shrugging,

“Anyway I gotta fly, see you later!” Rainbow gave Twilight one last kiss and Spike an affectionate noogie before zooming out of twilight’s dining room,

“I wonder what game she has planned for this evening?” Spike asks curiously, “Maybe we’ll play cards again,”

“After you cleaned her out the last time, I doubt Rainbow will be playing against you unless it’s just for fun,” Twilight points out as she ran her hoof on top of Spike’s head,

Spike giggles and then he and Twilight return to their breakfast, Twilight however is wondering if she should talk to Spike about what she feels about him and wonders if her feels the same way, does he think of her as his mother or just a best friend. The thought of being thought up as just a best friend made Twilight feel depressed.

I won’t know for sure until I ask. Twilight thinks to herself as the two finish the rest of their breakfast and head off to do their daily routine,

Xoxoxoxoxo

Princess Celestia and Princess Luna are enjoying a breakfast that Celestia has made for them, normally Luna would be tired but she seems to be full of energy this morning.

“So tell me how did everything go with Sunset?” Luna asks as she wolfs down her pancakes,

“Everything went along great, Sunset accepted our proposal happily,” Celestia explains as she looks at the smiley face of her pancakes happily,

“So when do I get to meet my niece?!” Luna asks excitedly,

Celestia couldn’t help but giggle, “We’ll be visiting her during lunchtime so you better get some sleep before then,”

“I’m too excited to sleep! I figured I would have to wait forever for you and Discord to hook up and then give me a niece or nephew, but now I don’t have to anymore!” Luna cheers,

“Wait what?!” Celestia’s cheeks flush at her sister’s mention of her and Discord getting together,

“Don’t think me a fool sister, it’s obvious to anyone that you two hold a special place in each others hearts,” Luna states as she uses her magic to conjure up a mini Celestia and Discord hugging each other as they lean their heads against the other, causing their necks to form a heart, “Not to mention that he always seems to pick on you and Fluttershy once told me that he talks about you often during their tea times,”

Celestia’s face goes completely red which causes Luna to smile, “W-what does he say?”

“Sorry, my lips are sealed,” Luna smiles victoriously as her sister gives her an annoyed look,

“Just eat your breakfast Lulu,” Celestia grumbles as she uses her magic to navigate her knife and fork to cut a piece of her stack of pancakes before levitating it to her mouth, and taking a bite,

“Oh maybe she can call me auntie Lulu when it’s just us, but now that you’ll be announcing Sunset as your heir, no doubt there will be some of the nobles who would love to gain her favor,” Luna says in a worried tone, there are some members of Canterlot’s noble families who would love to introduce their sons or daughters to Sunset, in the hopes that Sunset may take a fancy to one of them,

“I wouldn’t worry about that, Sunset can handle herself around them,” Celestia says with confidence as she takes a sip of her tea,

“I’m sure you taught her well,” Luna smirks as she watches Celestia narrow her eyes at her,

“Just what are you implying?” Celestia questions, not liking what her sister was implying,

“Oh nothing, so tell me sister. What has been happening to my niece as of late?” Luna asks as she suddenly becomes serious, “By the nightmares you and Twilight have been having, something serious must have happened to her,”

Celestia sighs as she tells Luna what happened.

Xoxoxoxo

The lunch bell rings as the students exit the auditorium, they had just spent the morning seeing a video about Cyberbullying, how it affects those involved as well as the consequences. Needless to say the whole student body had quite the learning experience. The Cutie mark Crusaders looked pale as they exited the auditorium, the video showed a girl who was being tormented online and it followed her to school. Her life has been miserable and she couldn’t take it anymore and ended her life. The girl was around Sunset’s age and the video of her suicide gave them chills as the girl talked about how she was made fun of, laughed at and some even left her nasty notes. She looked and sounded so devastated and as the video went on she began to sound dead, and then the video was cut just as she pulled out a gun and pointed it at her head before pulling the trigger.

Applebloom remembered another story they showed also ending in suicide, she was also around Sunset’s age and an embarrassing video of her got posted to mystable by a girl in her class who was crying profusely as she muttered apology after apology, telling the authorities that it was all just a joke and that she didn’t mean for any of this to happen. The image of the girl in her coffin was instantly replaced with Sunset in the Crusaders mind, Sunset could’ve easily gone down this route, maybe she was already on it. Applebloom became scared, she didn’t know how she could live with herself if she caused Sunset to commit suicide.

She felt a hand on her shoulder and quickly turned her head to see Diamond Tiara’s concerned look.

“Are you guys okay?” Diamond Tiara asks the Crusaders,

Applebloom sniffed as she wipes away a stray tear, “No,”

Diamond Tiara wraps her arms around her friends as they quietly sobbed on her shoulders.

The Rainbooms weren’t faring any better, Fluttershy was sobbing into Rarity’s shoulder as the girl’s mascara ran down her cheeks, Pinkie Pie looked even more gloomy as the video reminder her of her nightmare, Rainbow’s bangs and Applejack’s hat hid their eyes as the two girls stood by their friends sides. Sunset walked out of the auditorium, the video just reminded her of what she did to Rarity and why she made sure that she never went that far ever again. She felt a tap on her shoulder and turned around to see Flash Sentry.

“Hey, mind if we talk in private?” Flash asks while smiling slightly,

Sunset raises an eyebrow but agrees, she beckons Flash to follow and informs Gilda and Lightning Dust that she’ll be late for Lunch.

“Try not to have too much fun you two?” Lightning Dust says, smiling playfully,

“Remember to use protection,” Gilda grins as she sees both their faces flush red,

“It’s not like that!” Sunset shouts at Gilda and Lightning Dust causing them to laugh,

Sunset grabs Flash’s hand and leads him down the hallway, they exit the school and head towards the school soccer field. They both take a seat on the bleachers and Sunset winces a bit at how cold the bleachers are.

“What Lightning and Gilda said reminded me of what my mom told me when we were going out,” Flash grinned as she stared at the soccer field,

“Oh don’t remind me, when I came over to your house for a study session she gave me a condom and told me to be careful,” Sunset shuttered at the memory,

“Yeah that was embarrassing,” Flash commented as her rubbed the back of his head,

The two stayed in silence as they simply stared out at the soccer field, finally Flash broke the silence.

“Sunset I’m sorry,”

Sunset snaps her head in his direction, “Sorry? What do you have to be sorry for?”

“I’m sorry I wasn’t there for you when this whole mess started,” Flash says as he stares sadly at the soccer field, “I also want to apologize for the way I acted towards you during the battle of the bands,”

“Flash, it’s okay. You were under the affects of the Dazzlings spell, and lets face it you and I weren’t exactly on the best of terms back then. And regarding you not being there for me, there wasn’t much you could’ve done for me,” Sunset assures Flash as she smiles sadly,

“You’re wrong, I could’ve at least be there to support you after the Rainbooms abandoned you,” Flash points out as he clenches his fists, “You needed a friend and I couldn’t even-”

Flash stops as he feels something warm over his fist, he looks down to see it’s Sunset’s hand.

“Flash, I know you wanted to be my knight in shining armor, but you would’ve made yourself a target and I couldn’t live with myself if something bad happened to you because of me,” Sunset tells him while smiling gently,

“Same here, I couldn’t live with myself if something happened to you knowing that there was something I could’ve done to help,” Flash smiles cheekily at Sunset,

“You dummy!”

Flush and Sunset had a good laugh, they then headed back to the cafeteria and along the way the two of them were asking about what the other had been doing since their breakup.

Back with the Rainbooms were siting on their table, they all looked anxious as they shifted uncomfortably in their seats.

“Alright girls, Sunset has given us a chance to show her how sorry we truly are for hurting her so we better make it count,” Applejack says as her friends nod in agreement,

“Quite right darling, but I am at a loss as to how we’re going to do it,” Rarity remarks as she’s been thinking it over since Sunset agreed to hear them out,

“Whatever we come up with has to be sincere and express how truly sorry we are,” Fluttershy comments as she looks at her salad,

Applejack thinks long and hard, there has to be some way to convey to Sunset how terrible they all feel for betraying her. Then it hit her.

“Girls, ah think ah know just what to do,”

Applejack motioned them closer as she explained her idea.

“Do you really think that’s going to work?” Rarity asks, unsure of Applejack’s idea,

“It’s the only one we got, it has to work,” Applejack says, but then she notices something on her peripheral vision,

She turns to her head to the left and notices something going on by the base of the Wondercolt statue. The Rainbooms watch as someone very familiar stumbles out of the portal followed by another very familiar woman, they watch as the second woman helps the first one to her feet.

“Isn’t that Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna?” Rainbow Dash questions as she watches the two woman discuss something,

“Something doesn’t seem quite right,” Applejack noted, she had a bad feeling about those two,

“M-maybe we should get Sunset,” Fluttershy suggested nervously, there was something about those two that made her uneasy,

Just as everyone was mulling over Fluttershy’s suggestion, Rainbow Dash bolts from her seat.

“What in tarnation?! Rainbow, where do yah think yer going?!” Applejack called out as she watches her friend exit the lunchroom, “C’mon girls, we better make sure she doesn’t do anything crazy,”

As the rest of the girls chased after Rainbow Dash, said girls is making her way towards the front of the school.

We can’t asks Sunset, not after what we did, Rainbow Dash thinks as she throws open the front doors of the school, alerting the two equestrians to her presence,

Luna looks at Rainbow and immediately recognizes her Rainbow hair, “Sister, is that Rainbow Dash’s counterpart?”

Princess Celestia narrows her eyes and growls out, “Yes,”

“Who are you two and what do you want?!” Rainbow demands as she stood facing the two princesses,

“You dare talk to us in such a disgraceful manner!” Princess Luna states as she tries to take up a threatening pose, but her unfamiliarity with her knew walking posture makes it difficult,

Rainbow glares at Princess Luna, “Are you here to cause trouble? Cuz if you are then I’m gonna stop you!”

“Why you insolent little foal!” Luna was becoming very agitated with Rainbow, but then the doors to the school burst open and the rest of the Rainbooms came out, “Well, well, it would appear that the rest of the traitors showed up,”

“Traitors?” Applejack questioned, she looks at the two women who look exactly like their Principal and Vice-Principal except for their clothing witch consisted of a beautiful white gown for Celestia that showed off her impressive bust and a blue gown for Luna, their cutie marks are on display at the hems of the gowns along with a crown resting on top of their heads,

“Such extravagant gowns, they must be made of silk or possibly some other amazing fabric!” Rarity gushes as her eyes scan the princesses clothing,

“Rarity, now is not the time to go gaga over their clothes,” Applejack mutters, giving Rarity a disapproving look,

“I suggest you go back to were you belong before we make you!” Rainbow threatens,

Just as Luna is about to retort, her sister walks past her and towards Rainbow Dash.

“Stay back! I’m warning you!” Rainbow stats as she takes up a fighting stance,

“Is that what you told my daughter?” Celestia speaks as she stops in front of a confused Rainbow,

“What are you-ugh!”

Rainbow is caught off guard as Celestia grabs her by her throat and lifts her off the ground, her friends tried to rush to her aid but are stopped by Princess Luna, “Perhaps a look at my mark might refresh your memory,”

Celestia begins to concentrate, pony ears sprout from atop her head and large white wings emerge from her back. Rainbow is shocked to see the transformation, and then the princess conjures an image of her cutie mark in front of her.

“Take a good look, other than your principal, who else has a mark similar to this?”Princess Celestia asks in a serious tone,

Rainbow looks closely at the cutie mark and it dawns on her, “Sunset,”

“Correct, my daughter has told me about everything that has been happening to her since we reunited last night. Especially about how you all betrayed her!” The princess raises her voice as she looks at the Rainbooms who cowered under her gaze before glaring back at Rainbow, “And how you plotted against her!”

Rainbow felt her throat burn as the Princess tightens her grip, she struggles to free herself and as she grabs on to the princess’s arm, she felt her palms starting to heat up.

“Rainbow!” Fluttershy calls out her friends name with great concern, it’s as her nightmare predicted. Sunset’s mother and aunt have come to take revenge,

Celestia continued to glare at the struggling girl, but then her struggles cease as her arms came down to her sides. Celestia raises an eyebrow at the young woman and as if to answer her question Rainbow Dash speaks up.

“If you’re going to punish me, go ahead,” Rainbow Dash says which shocks her friends,

“Rainbow darling, what on earth are you saying?!” A horrified Rarity screams,

“Rainbow no!” Fluttershy yells,

“Dashie don’t say that!” Pinkie Pie shouts as she tries to jump over Princess Luna, only to be grabbed by a shadow tendril and placed back with her friends,

“Why would you say a thing like that?” Princess Celestia asks,

“Because of what I did to Sunset, I saw what my stupid actions could have caused and it was done because I was to blind to see the truth,” Rainbow explains as a tear runs down the left side of her face, “For betraying my friend, I deserve to suffer,”

“You dare call her your friend!” Princess Luna shouts, she looks at the Rainbooms and then at Rainbow. She closes her eyes as she thinks of the pony versions of them, “You are all pale imitations of the elements I know. To believe only in the worst of an ally and friend, how shameful.”

Princess Luna opens her eyes and glares angrily at the girls, tears pooling in her eyes.

“Did she not prove herself!? Did it not matter?! Or have you simply been using her due to her connection to Princess Twilight?”

The Rainbooms couldn’t say anything in their defense, what could they say?

“But despite that, I’m still very grateful to all of you for saving her,” Princess Luna spoke which caught everyone by surprise, “Even after you freed her from the darkness that consumed her heart, you stood by her side. Regardless if princess Twilight asked you, you stood by Sunset during a time when she was mentally fragile,”

The anger in Luna’s eyes was replaced with sorrow, her expression shifted to one of pain.

“The guilt of her actions towards all of you must have weighed heavily on her mind, no doubt she’s been having terrible nightmares,”

Applejack bit her lip as she recalled how Sunset broke down, after she confided in her about how she kept reliving the night of the fall formal. But instead of the Rainbooms stopping her, Sunset succeeded in murdering everyone.

“So from the bottom of my heart, thank you. Thank you all for saving her,” Luna cried as she wrapped her arms around herself, “However that still doesn’t excuse what you have done and you don’t yet realize how badly the situation could’ve gotten.”

“We do,” Fluttershy speaks up, “We never realized before how badly our mistake was, and not just in loosing Sunset’s friendship. We could’ve lost Sunset forever,”

Fluttershy recalled the Cyberbullying video and how it opened her eyes to the gravity of the situation, seeing the victims of Cyberbullying pushed to the edge of despair and wanting to escape from it all really highlighted the similarities they all shared with Sunset when they abandoned her and left to face the ire of the school alone. She began to wonder how long did Sunset have before she too gave into her despair and ended her life. Fluttershy shuddered at the thought.

“But we WILL make this right!” Rainbow Dash raises her voice as she stared into Celestia’s eyes,

“And how do you intent to do that?” Celestia asks while narrowing her eyes at Rainbow, her grip tightening slightly,

“By first proving to Sunset how sorry we are for betraying her,” Rainbow manages to say as Celestia’s grip tightens even more, as well as the burning sensation on her throat becoming worse,

Celestia glares at Rainbow before letting her go, causing the rainbow haired teen to fall on her butt as she gasps for air.

Rainbow stares up at Celestia before getting on her hands and knees and with her head bowed she says, “I swear to you that I will make up for what I did,”

Celestia looks down at Rainbow before looking forward and then walking past her.

“See to it that you do,”

Rainbow’s head snaps back at Celestia who walks towards her sister, she stops next to Luna and speaks loud enough for everyone to hear,

“What matters is whether or not Sunset chooses to give you a second chance, personally if it were up to me I would take Sunset back with me to equestria and lock away the mirror in our vault,”

The Rainboom’s eyes widen at this but then Celestia continued to speak.

“If it were also up to me I would throw all of you into the pit of tartarus,” Celestia spat with venom, as her hair turned into flames, “or burn you all were you stand!”

The Rainbooms stared fearfully at the princess, but then the flames receded as her hair turned back to normal.

“But Sunset wouldn’t have wanted that,“ Princess Celestia says as she moves towards the school,

The Rainbooms watch as the Princesses made their way inside the school.

Xoxoxoxo

Sunset was laughing at something Flash had said when she heard her name being called out.

“Sunset!”

Sunset looks in the direction she heard her name and is surprised to see her mother waving at her.

“Mom?”

Sunset was suddenly engulfed in a tight hug and then spun around.

“Ooooh I’ve waited so long to meet you!” Luna gushed,

“Luna, I think your enthusiasm might be too much for Sunset,” Celestia points out, smiling in amusement,

Luna places Sunset down and places her closed fists on her shoulders, staring into Sunset’s eyes with great intensity “Hmmm,”

“Uh,” Sunset stares into her aunt’s eyes in confusion and a little overwhelmed by their intensity,

A warm smile spreads across Luna’s face, “If I didn’t know any better, I would say you were of our flesh and blood.” she brings up her right hand to caress Sunset’s left cheek with her enclosed palm,

“You may look like my sister, but you have my eyes and no doubt my winning personality,”

“Um, thanks?” Sunset says, not sure of it was a compliment. Sunset then noticed that her aunt and her mother had their wins and pony ears, “Why are you both ponied up?”

“We ran into some trouble, but we dealt with it without anyone getting hurt,” Luna explains,

Sunset looks at her aunt with skepticism, she cast a glance towards her mother who simply mouthed ‘later’.

Luna glances behind Sunset to see Flash Sentry, “And who might you be young man?”

“Flash Sentry, Ma’am,” Flash says as he bows to the princesses, “It’s nice to meet you both,”

“My, what a polite young stallion. Tell me, are you dating my niece?” Luna asks which causes Flash and Sunset to blush,

“W-well we use to, but we broke up,” Flash tells her as he looks at Sunset with a hint of confusion over the stallion comment,

“Y-you see, I wasn’t a very good person and the only reason I dated Flash was to become more popular at this school,” Sunset explained, feeling ashamed over her past actions,

“Tell me something Flash, did you believe that Sunset was Anon-A-Miss?” Luna asks, her tone becoming serious,

Sunset’s eyes widen at her aunt’s question, she looks to Flash to see him smiling confidently.

“Not even for a second, Sunset is too smart to make it look like she was behind it.”

Sunset smiles at Flash, appreciating his belief in her.

Princess Luna and Princess Celestia study Flash’s face, looking fir any sign of deceit. When they find none, they smile in satisfaction.

“I’m glad to hear that my niece has some trustworthy allies by her side, if you don’t mind, my sister and I will be borrowing Sunset for a bit. We have plenty to catching up to do,” Luna says as she wraps an arm around Sunset,

“I don’t mind at all, enjoy catching up.” Flash waves goodbye to Sunset as she is lead down the hall by her aunt while Celestia follows close behind,

“He’s cute, I can see why you would date him other than to improve your standing among the school,” Luna teased,

“I can’t deny that,” Sunset agrees, her cheeks turning red,

Sunset takes the Princesses down the hallway and along the way they encounter some students roaming the halls, who looked at the royal sisters in confusion but then switch to a look of horror when their attention switched to Sunset.

“Sunset, why are they reacting in fear when they look at you?” Luna ask curiously,

“It’s because of the spell I cast on them,” Sunset answers without looking at her aunt, she feels a hand on her shoulder and turns to see her mother’s disapproving look,

“What kind of spell?” Celestia asks sternly,

“It’s a spell that makes them see me the way they truly feel about me, a demon.”

“Oh Sunset,” Celestia brings Sunset into a hug,

Luna soon joins in and hugs her sister and niece tightly, Celestia maneuvers her arms around Luna leaving Sunset between them. Sunset once again felt the warmth and love from her mother and this time her aunt course through her, her hair extended into a pony tail and pony ears sprouted from atop her head. The trio remained like that for a little longer before Sunset spoke up.

“We should hurry if we wanna enjoy lunch before the bell rings for my next class,” Sunset pointed out,

The sisters released Sunset, but they each took a hold of her hand as she guided them towards the Rainbooms practice room. Sunset figured since they were all at lunch they could use the room. She got some chairs and a table for everyone to sit. Celestia used her magic to summon a lunch box for Sunset and Luna that she had prepared before hand, The family enjoyed the homemade meal as Sunset told them of what she has been up to since arriving in the human world. Luna told her niece about adjusting to equestria after being away for a thousand moons, as well as her duties as the princess of the night and her pet possum Tiberius. Celestia smiles warmly at seeing her sister and daughter laughing joyfully, oh how she dreamed of this day. First Twilight saves her sister and now she saved her daughter, she is truly thankful to Twilight. Celestia soon joins in as she tells Luna about Sunset’s time as her student and much to the former unicorns dismay, a few embarrassing stories.