14:00 PM, Canterlot Police Station

"Get out from my head, Damara!"
"Don't you want to be with me, with Dylan?"
"You're already dead!"
"Be whole with us, Carver."

"Hey, Carver!" a voice shouted next to him and made him wake up quickly. "Are you alright?"

Carver quickly turned his head to his left to find Copper who looking at him. "I-I... I'm alright,"
Carver replied as he stammered his words from being shaken from his post-hallucination.

Carver was sitting in Copper’s SUV police cruiser with Randall, Kurt, and Copper who was driving the SUV. All four of them are heading back to the station for a little debrief and break. They just finished a petrol shift and done answering a couple of calls to duty.

One was traffic control for a overturned tractor trailer, another had them performing a drug bust which Carver had fun scaring the pants off the dealers with his helmet. The only thing they need to do now is only drive in the car and report back to station and writing documents. Carver was at the front seat with Copper while Randall and Kurt was in the passenger seat.

Carver was sleeping at first after the jobs before he got a hallucination attack. Carver was having nightmares about his long-dead family back in Uxor, after Jacob killed them and they were turned into Necromorphs. Carver just felt uncomfortable about it, uncomfortable to forget it if even he moved on. But then again he was in the past, not 2514, so he just calmed down about it.

"Anything new?" Carver asked to everyone as his eyes looked forward.

"Nothing new," Kurt replied with a small shrug. "Except we got a case of missing person/possible kidnapping."

"Sorry?" Randall asked, he lost trail on what was the last words he said. "A case of what?"

"Missing person/possible kidnapping," Copper added slowly. "It happened in Whitetail Woods this morning."

"What time?" Carver asked for accurate detail.

"Oddly, they disappeared at 7 AM this morning," Kurt replied, making himself earned the glares of the future individuals. "Way too early and way too fast for them to disappeared."

"Any leads?" Carver asked.

"Nothing but a trail of leaves leading to the crime scene a peck of blood on the tree," Copper replied as she turned the driving wheel to the right. "Had to send K-9 dispatches to the woods."

"What's the status of the case now?" Carver asked as he looked at the deputy.

"Still not found anything yet until now," the deputy girl replied. "The only thing we have in mind right now is that they probably dragging themselves into the forest after the the woods, or the kidnappers dragged them to the forest. Nothing else about that."

"Hmm, can you represent about what happened in the woods?" Randall asked to Kurt with a lifted nod to him.

"I don't know," Kurt replied back in doubt. "The only thing I can describe is between these two, one is that the kidnapper knocked out a man with a stone to the head before knocking out another one via chloroform. Or they got chase down by a wild animal, one of them hit the tree hard with his head before kept running deep into the forest, but I don't think that is what happened there."

"You need help on that, bro?" Randall asked, stretching his arms behind his head for stiffness. "We could find something about it."

"No, thanks," Kurt replied outright. "We got this covered, you both better find another job for that."

"You sure?" Carver asked, doubting the Sergeant Officer's opinion.

"Yeah, I'm sure," Kurt replied with a cheery tone. "Besides, we’re able to solve this kind of case many times."

"If ya say so, Sarge," Carver added as he corrected his back on his seat to comfort himself.
5 minutes later, they reached the station and got off the car. They 4 headed to an office where they will write the reports of their jobs. Carver and Randall, though felt a little confused on what the hell they're doing with the paper until they 'imagined' the paper was the text logs. Then Carver had decided to head over to the gym with Kurt for a little workout, Carver had been feeling pretty sore after all the shit he had do with the Necromorphs. The gym workout should do good to him.

Heh, what he can say about it? All he did when he was in the Necromorphs was to shoot, punch, stomp and rip the Necros apart. Oddly enough was he didn't feel any sore whenever he does all of that, he just felt the sore just now. Carver and Kurt were heading to their locker and get changed to their police t-shirt and headed to the gym. He and Kurt go ahead and did a rep of 50 push-up before going to the next one, the bench press.

He hasn’t use one of these for a long while even before the fighting off Necromorph attack. The lack of gym back at Uxor was a bit of a disappointment for him, at least he able to use one in this new place. He laying down on the flat-horizontal chair and reaches his hands to the barbell over his face and lift it in the air in front of him. He felt great to feel his muscles tense up again.
Took him around half an hour before he's going to lift up dumbbells in his both hands with Kurt.

From Kurt's perspective, seeing Carver lifting those dumbbells with his very strong muscles along with the prominent large scar on his face, he didn’t dare say he was looked like a badass. But then remembered Carver's statement earlier yesterday about how his life broke apart because of himself, he wouldn't say he's an asshole, he was just tried being one. He pumps iron for a moment before he received a call by his captain, wanting to talk with him.

Kurt couldn’t help but wondering why the captain was calling him, maybe it was because of the recent case back in Whitetail Woods. But then again he thought that the captain calling him must be about something else. Kurt let that thought away from his mind for now and kept walking to the office. Moments later, he reached the office and knocked on the door.

"Come in," the captain shouted from inside his office, motioning Kurt to come inside the office.
As Kurt walks in and the captain walked to behind his desk, the captain stood there and dropped his hands on his desk. "Take a seat."

As Kurt took his seat, the captain does the same thing he did. "What going on, Cap'?" Kurt asked with a cracked neck.

"How's your day been, Sarge?" the captain asked. "Had a good day on the job?"

"Everything is the same thing, sir," Kurt replied as he leaned his back against the chair.

"How's the two recruits doing, Carver and Randall?" the captain asked, which made Kurt raised his eyebrows.

"I wouldn't say they are recruits, sir," Kurt added in half disagreement. "They both really capable of anything, well for their first jobs they are doing it really fine..."

"But?" the captain asked, got the feeling that what Kurt said is not just that.
"Carver is suffering a bad dementia, you know that PTSD stuff they they told us?" Kurt replied honestly. "It's slightly interfering his job, but then again he able to hold it out."

"Good to hear that," the captain then quickly changed the topic. "Alright, to the reason I called you here is because about that case in Whitetail Woods.”

"What about it, you found something?" Kurt asked as he was surprised about that case was mentioned to him.

"Unfortunately, no," the captain replied with a shook. "And I'm afraid it will gone cold very soon."

"Gone cold? But it’s barely been a day why so soon?" Kurt asked as he winced his eyes. "What does that suppose to mean?"

"The only clues we got is only the ones you found and the tracks in the woods," the captain replied. "After we sent dispatches to the site from Whitetail until the forest beyond, we found nothing, not even tracks, mud trails, blood, or anything else, even the K-9’s can't track down where the missing persons went. They just vanished. Like someone just lifted them off the ground and into the air."

Kurt clumped his mouth in silent, before said to him. "We need to keep looking, sir."

"I know, I would like your help in this part along with Randall and Carver," the captain offered with a nod. "Are you in?"

"Yeah, we're in," Kurt answered as he nods twice. "Where should I start looking?"

---

Sunset was heading home along with Twilight and Applejack, in real bloody piss poor mood after what happened back at the school. It was a good thing for her to have such a very harsh experience in pain tolerance with the Necromorphs and the Unitologist. Especially about getting slammed, stabbed, hit, thrown, shot, everything else that had to do with fucking up someone's body into mush meet. It wasn't the first time Sunset got crashed by something very hard, because she was already use to it for the least. Heh, what a funtastic good fucking day for her.

Sunset was walking ahead of Applejack and Twilight, still pissed off of what happened back there between the soccer team and her. She was walking a little bit faster and her metal boots made a stomping sound on the ground that made the pedestrians around her surprised by the noise. Those people were also wondering about why the hell Sunset was wearing the metal boots, some of the people though it was a protection for her feet. Sunset ignored the people and only kept walking forward.

"Hey, you okay?" Twilight asked nervously.

"Am I okay?" Sunset asked back angrily as she stopped walking. "What the hell do you think?"

"Whoa, Sugarcube," Applejack said as she tried to calm her down. "Take it easy, Sunset."

"Take it easy?!" Sunset retorted as she leaned her head to Applejack. "Do you know how many fucking times I’ve gotten hit like that?!!"

"Umm.... no?" Twilight replied as she was wondering how many times she has gotten into something like this.

"Heh, a lot, and it ain't that fucking great," Sunset replied with a normal tone and calmed down a little. "At least I'm not dead yet."

"How did ya' even survived that crash?" AJ asked, confused of Sunset's survival capabilities. "That car was running fast..."

"Let's just say I’ve been slammed many times onto walls made tougher then that car very hard," Sunset said, they then continued walking on.

"Umm...out of 1-10, how hurt is it for getting slammed?" Twilight asked, which was obvious for Sunset.

"11 out of 10," Sunset replied. "How's that?"

"Ouch, Ah' can't even imagine how hurt is that," Applejack cringed as she tried to not imagine it.

"You don't want to know," Sunset replied with a sigh. "Believe me."

"And I imagine living here is very different than that apartment on the moon," Twilight stated.

"That's for sure, Twilight," Sunset agreed with a nod. "Thou I wish I had some stuff to fix it up my place, something like back in my days in the mining company."

As they walked on, they met someone from a distance ahead of them. To Sunset's inconvenience, it was the CHS soccer team again. This time, Rainbow Dash wasn't with them. The last time Applejack talked to Dash, she implied she doesn't want to be involved with this trouble and decided to keep a distance from Sunset for awhile in case Sunset went mad again. If Sunset wanted to beat them then let it be, sooner or later Sunset was going crack and possibly kill them if she was past the limit. Or worst, unnecessarily cut off their arms.

They three stopped right in front of them, Sunset's eyes were glancing between the players with a small fire in her eyes. Though, as she looks at them, they had showing a vary different expression than before. Instead of the expression of hatred or with evil grin towards Sunset, they showed faces of regret and agitations when they walked up to Sunset. Mainly Spitfire, the one who pushed Sunset into her accident, looked quiet to scared just because she wanted to talk to her.

Sunset stopped right in front of Spitfire and sighed. "What the hell do you want, Spitfire?"

"I....." Spitfire paused, she felt quiet scared just to talk to her after what she did back at school. "I’d... just want to apologize."

Sunset paused, quite in disappointment. "You damn fuck.... now you wanted to apologize."

Both groups then fell into silent after what Sunset said, before Twilight break up the silence. "Are you telling us that you don't believe Sunset is the Anon-A-Miss?"

"Well..... yeah..." Fleetfoot replied staggeringly. "We just don't believe that, just now."

"And how can you tell that I'm not the Anon-A-Miss?" Sunset asked in a moderate tone, but still hiding her grudge in her heart.

"Your reaction earlier..." Spitfire answered, then paused for a moment to think. "And you sounded different than the Sunset we knew before."

"Anything more than that?" Sunset asked again, quiet sure it's not just that.

"We were thinking about what Twilight said earlier to us...." Spitfire answered as her tone was trailing off. "She was right about it, There’s no way you could go back to your old ways. We should have listened to you a year ago. We're... I'm sorry..."

Sunset along with her group paused for a moment about it. At last this girl able to think the situation over again about the Anon-A-Miss bullshit. Sunset would be glad to say that there are a few people were slowly to listen and believe to Sunset. Despite the harsh feelings Sunset has shown to them, she just accepts them. But, she does know that she needs to find whoever the real Anon-A-Miss before things repeat itself and get worse, even if she had Isaac, Carver, or even Randall at her back call.

But Sunset felt she still can't forgive Spitfire, until Spitfire herself begged for it. "Forgive me, please..."

Sunset paused after she heard that, and sighed with eyes closed. "Alright, I'll forgive you. But don't think I won't remember about what you did to me back there and a year ago."

"I know," Spitfire replied with a nod. "I understand that."

"Uhm, Sugarcube?" Applejack asked, as she approached Sunset from behind along with Twilight. "Should we get some food first? You didn't anything back in school."

"I'm just not in the mood, AJ," Sunset replied, shook her head in denial of eating. "I thought you both already ate something back at school."

"We both didn't actually," Twilight replied. "We were spending our time discussing and reading at the library."

"....Right," Sunset added, kind of annoy her. "Fine, let's get something for ourselves to eat. You're coming, Spitfire?"

"Su-sure," Spitfire replied nervously. "Let's go."

With nothing else to do but to fill up their bloody empty stomach, they along with the soccer team headed out and looked for the nearest restaurant they can find. And who's gonna pay the food was, hilariously, Sunset herself. They could say nothing about it, but smiled at that. Sunset only kept silence and seriousness to herself as she was eating with them.

---

Twilight and Applejack spent their time either studying and talking in Sunsets apartment, but Sunset herself was alternating between her BENCH station and the Suit Kiosk in her apartment building or modifying her gear. Isaac had came by to help Sunset with setting everything up. If Twilight was correct, it only took them for only six hours to build those things in Sunsets apartment. It was quite a short time for two engineers to build those in the apartment. But then again because they were from the future, she could guess they were made to make their jobs done faster because of that.

And even though, they were quite impressed of what they were building. They could eager want to use them, IF Sunset allows them. But then again, Sunset only allowed them when they ask her to build something in case they really need it.

The BENCH was all colored in grey-white. And what makes this BENCH quite unique. Sunset said it was modeled after the ones from someplace called, Titan Station. The BENCH looked like a folded work table, and if one started using it, the BENCH will fold open and then fold close when the person is done using it. Sunset said it can be used to make weapons, tools, equipments, and upgrade for those tools and weapons.

Then there was the Suit Kiosk. It's all colored in a metallic dark brown, then later colored again with light grey and yellow on the edges of the Suit Kiosk. It was in the shape of a cylinder with the inside which is looked like an available slot for person inside. There were some sort of 3 tubes of tools on the ceiling along with the single light with the middle of it. And a floating hologram on the front saying 'SUIT KIOSK'. Both AJ and Twilight were really confused on why the machine would be like this if this was the Suit Kiosk.

And it was that time that Sunset was going to check out the Suit Kiosk.

"Hey, Sunset," Isaac called. "Now that we're done with this Kiosk, don't you want to try it out?"

"Sure, why not?" Sunset replied, lifting her arms to her sides. "I want to try retrieving my Forged Engineering Suit first."

"Umm.... I don't understand how's that thing working," Applejack added, confusion was mixing up in her head. "And what's with that slot?"

"You'll see," Sunset replied, which she then walks over to the Suit Kiosk.

Sunset pressed a few commands on the Kiosk, before the hologram disappeared and the Kiosk was ready. Sunset walks in the Kiosk and turning around at the person-sized slot. She fixed her arms and legs so it can be fitted to the slot, before suddenly the machines quickly locked her arms and legs in place and the Kiosk closed its doors to contained Sunset inside. The girls were startled and though the machine was killing Sunset, while Isaac put a grin on his face after he sees the girls frightened.

Then there is something else happening to the Kiosk. There was a bright yellow light was moving from the top until to the bottom of the Kiosk right on the lining of the closed doors. Seeing that made AJ thinks that Sunset was turning herself into a robot. After that, the Suit Kiosk open its doors and reveal Sunset. They were very amazed on what Sunset was wearing.
Sunset was wearing a suit that was colored light green grayish color with the dark gray color on the middle part of the suit from top to bottom. There was a logo on Sunset's left arm, it was the CEC logo of a mining company where she ever worked before. What was quiet unique from the suit was the chest area of the suit is padded with rib-like platings, likely to protect the wearer from machinery and occupational hazards along with her shoulders. There were also thrusters on her shoulders and legs should she needs to fly somewhere.

She steps out the Suit Kiosk and looked over to herself. They could see that Sunset was smiling on her favorite suit. She held the rib-like metal skeletons and moved her body around so she can get used to the suit. This is very great for her.

"Goodie, now I got the suit for the job at the car factory tomorrow," Sunset added, which surprised Isaac on that.

"Wait, since when?" Isaac asked as he leaned his head forward to Sunset.

"Since school day," Applejack replied, Isaac turned his head to her. "Principal Celestia came by our class said that to Sunset personally."

Isaac gave a happy cringe face to Sunset. "Hm, not bad."

"I know, got another way to make money now," Sunset replied with a shrug. "How's the payment with the Mayor?"

"Very great, high payment," Isaac replied, which made Sunset grinned on that.

"Damn good of you, Isaac," Sunset commented with a sigh. "At least you can pay your apartment with it."

"Yeah," Isaac then looked at the time on his watch he had on his left wrist. "I've got to go, I have some important business to do elsewhere.

Isaac then headed down the stairs as he waved his hand to Sunset. "See you tomorrow, Sunset."

"See ya, Isaac," Sunset replied with a wave of her hand to Isaac along with the other two girls as he left the house.

"So, is this the Engineering Suit?" AJ asked
.
"Forged Engineering Suit," Sunset corrected slowly. "Suitable for machinery hazard."

"And working in the car factory?" Twilight stated in disbelieve. "Looks like you're going to have a fun day."

"Yeah, that's for sure," Sunset replied, but then she looked at the time. "It's getting late. I'll.... try to get some sleep.."

"Alright, but please don't scare us," Twilight asked, worried if the same shit happened again.
"I'll try," Sunset replied with a nod. "See you tomorrow."

---

"Ready when you are Norton," Isaac said as the two of them stepped into the cage. Going through the intestines of a giant Necromorph had not been fun. "Norton!"

A few seconds later the opening they had walked through closed, and the cage shook, where the engineering duo watched as they started to rise out of the Nexus, to which they disengaged their helmets and smiled because what they had just done had likely given them the location of the Machine to end this nightmare finally.

"Santos, how do we have a fix on where the Machine is located?" Sunset asked as they rose up. Santos had said their part of the operation had been a success, though what 'success' meant in this situation was still unknown to her, as they have to find this Machine physically.

"Yes! There are thousands of signals; all concentrated far below the planet's surface." Santos told them in an excited tone. This made Sunset cock her head to the side in as she weren't sure what that was supposed to mean but kept her mouth shut as Santos kept talking. "That has to be it! There's an entrance further up the mountain beneath a second dig site."

"Further up the mountain?" Norton asked as he couldn't believe what he was hearing. "They're sheer cliffs!"

To Sunset she couldn't care at this point. All she wanted it to get out of this damn Necromoprph.

"I saw some climbing gear stored outside the warehouse," Ellie spoke up, revealing that there was a way up the cliffs that Norton had a problem with.

"Santos and I will start setting it up at the base of the cliff. Norton, can you make sure that Isaac, Sunset, and Carver get out of the Nexus safely?"

"Yeah... sure," Norton said, his tone revealing that he honestly couldn't care about any of this. But Sunset had a feeling for a while now that something was up with the Captain. "I'll take care of them."

Isaac, Sunset, and Carver watched as their section of the cage rose out of the Nexus and reconnected to the part of the container that Norton was waiting in, though as the two parts of the cage connected once more Norton touched another command, and they headed back towards the area Santos had been. Though when they arrived at the area in front of the booth, Norton then turned away from the controls without touching the command that would open the door for them to leave as well.

"Norton, open the cage," Isaac said as if Norton turned his back on them like he appeared to be doing. "Norton!"

"No," Norton replied merely replied. He stopped in front of the opening that they would have been able to walk through if the command box had opened the gate in front of them before he stared at the three of them, where Sunset felt an aura of hate and jealousy that was directed at them, specifically at Isaac.

"Excuse me?" Sunset inquired.

"Look, it's clear that the three of you want to die, so be my guests and do so." Norton snapped at them, showing that any point of reasoning has now lost. "I'm taking back control of this mission again... and saving Ellie from your stupidity."

"Are you that desperate to get laid?!" Norton ignored Sunset jab as he backed away from them. "Hey ya ain't goin' nowhere." She said raising her gun.

"Hey!? Where you going!?" Isaac yelled slamming the cage's bars.

"Saving Ellie." He said before opening the elevator. Giving a mock-salute, he closed the doors and disappeared.

"Norton. Norton! Norton!" Isaac yelled slamming the bars again.

"I'm killing him," Sunset said in a statement of fact.

"Not if I kill him first," Isaac said. He then reached out with his TK module and pulled the lever on the door controls to them out.

When the doors opened, the three went in an all-out sprint after their traitorous Captain. When they entered the elevator, they hit the down button and descended. They saw Norton ahead, already halfway to the doors. When he caught sight of us, he quickly sped up and reached them as the elevator door opened. They met the doors ahead faster than Norton and quickly got it. They entered the furnace room; Isaac quickly stopped to look around to where Norton had got. Sunset looked and saw a security door that was locked before was now opened to them.

"Isaac, this way!" She yelled going through the door.

The moment the door opened, however, a group of Unitologists soldiers surprised them by smacking them in the face with the butt of their guns, stunning them for a few moments as they were all forced onto their hands and knees in front of the security door.

"You wouldn't believe the trouble you saved me."

Sunset, coughing from the blow, looked up at the smiling face of Danik. Of course, as the Unitologists gathered around them, with an air of victory surrounding them, Danik revealed himself and walked over to where the group was kneeling, while his soldiers made sure to have their weapons at the ready in case one of them tried anything funny.

Danik gabbed Norton by the hair and looked at him momentarily. "Nice work."

"What?" Isaac said looking at Norton.

"Well, here they are: the Marker Killers, Isaac Clarke, and Sunset Shimmer And here we are, on the 'Marker homeworld'... you know, to tell the truth, I almost didn't believe a place like this existed. But thanks to your friend Norton, I finally found it... and the two of you as well."

"That's how they followed us through shock space," Carver said looking at Isaac.

"Oh! Oh, he is a bright one." Danik said looking down at Carver mockingly.

"No, no," Norton said leaning towards Carver. "All... All he wants is Isaac and Sunset. Carver, the rest of us can go home!"

"You deluded son of a bitch..." Carver said lunging at Norton.

He was quickly pulled back and hit across the back with his guard's gun.

"Hey! You've already got us. Let them go!" Sunset said.

"It's a very difficult thing you know, undoing the damage man has done. Everything we touch, we contaminate, corrupt. The Markers have a plan for us, but we took what should have been a magnificent gift... And perverted it." Danik said.

"Now, isn't that the biggest load of manure I've ever had the displeasure of hearing."

"Oh, you would, heretic! I've spent an entire lifetime undoing the damage that man has done. Fighting EarthGov's ongoing research. Liberating the Markers from those profane testing facilities, and now...I just have one problem left to purge. All of you!" Dank waved his hand to all of us.

For some reason, this didn't surprise Sunset in the least and kept a level head. She wondered if she acted something like this back when she was the queen bee at CHS. Norton on the other had started to panic badly.

"No. No. No!! No! You promised me a ship. Danik! We had a deal!" Danik was then handed an SMG from the trooper behind Carver.

"Yes, I'm sorry about that. But I can't afford to leave one of you left alive. Apologies for misleading you, captain." He leveled the gun up to Norton's head.

It was than Isaac rushed forward and tackled Danik into the snow. When this happened, Carver reached behind him and grabbed the trooper behind him and started wailing on him. Norton was doing the same with the guard behind him. Sunset reached with her TK module and seized the guns out of the Troopers hands that were behind her before shooting the man with their weapons. Looking back I watched Carver shooting another soldier that was trying to sneak up behind Isaac. Isaac then reached out, plucked a fallen grenade off the soldier and threw it at a retreating Danick. The mad man just nearly got away and ran into a nearby dropship just before taking off.

"Here!" Turning to Carver he through Isaac his Plasma Cutter and Sunset her Thunder Strike. It was then another dropship landed and out came a number of Unitologist Soldiers. We all readied our guns and started poured gunfire at them.

"What the hell?!" Isaac shouted. It was then the earth shook.

"Shit! What's going on?!" Carver said. We all looked behind us at the warehouse wall shook for a few seconds, causing everyone to pause... before the Nexus, fully awakened from it's ancient slumber, burst through the wall and stopped at the edge of the area they were on, where it glared at them for a few moments as it roared at them.

"Come on! Are you fucking kidding me? Move Norton! Move!" Isaac shouted as he pushed the traitor down behind an Ice Block, while at the same time mowing down the Unitologists that were stunned by the Nexus' arrival. It then opened its mouth and gave a huge vacuum-like effect as it sucked in everything from the snow to the Unitologist Soldiers that flew up into it's awaiting mouth. But Isaac and Sunset was still too exposed and were sucked in right when the Nexus' mouth closed dropping them in the middle of the field. They screamed as one of the Nexus' tentacles came down on them.

"Oh, Fuuuuuuck!!!"

---

"Eghhhhhh!"

Sunset quickly launched her upper body off her bed and quickly looked around as she took her Plasma Cutter from the night table next to her and aimed it around her. And calmed down after finding out there's nothing out there trying to kill her. She lowers her Plasma Cutter down and put it back on the night table. She then turned her whole body around and sat at the edge of her bed.

“Tentacles. Why is always tentacles?” Sunset asked herself as she wiped the sweat off her brow. .

Sunset bowed her head as she felt a dizzy sensation build up in her head. Holding her head up with her left hand and massage it. well, these damn nightmare’s were fucking with her again. She is always wondering when this shit had to stopped. Looks like that thought is for another day again.

Sunset through her legs out off her bed and looked at her alarm clock. Fucking hell, it was middle of the damn night. From not sleeping to weeks has become sleep improperly.

Sunset sighed in annoyance as she go downstairs to her main room underneath that floor. She then headed for the bathroom and washed her face to refresh herself. She put both hands on the sink as her head bowed down. Lifted her head up to the mirror in front of her. She looked over to her scars that ran down her face, some old some new, remembering again how she received those scars badly. Remembering again on how much hell she had to get through to stay alive. But in the end, it doesn't matter anymore for now, there's nothing else going to kill her.

Pushing herself off the sink and headed out the bedroom, looking over to Twilight who is in her sleeping bag and to Applejack who is sleeping on the couch. It was quite fortunate that Sunset didn't wake them up, otherwise they will be scared to their arses to hear Sunset screams and shoots stuff again. All she did right now, is only sat down on the floor at the wall near the staircase that leads to her bed upstairs. She took a deep breath, and sighed with her eyes closed. Looking up she noticed an audio file that wasn’t there before

Taking hold of the audio file, along with a small comm tool at the table in front of the couch before Sunset sat down at the wall before.

As Sunset leaned her back against the wall, she put her comm in the ear and held her audio file. She presses a few command on the audio file, and it played. It was another message from Isaac again.

"Hey, Sunset. I left this message to make sure.... Well, you know. You're doing fine for now. Don't tell me about what's up in the school because the principals told me about how are you doing back there. Honestly, sounds not good. If you need any help or just need someone to talk to just call me... alright? Be fine, Sunset."

When the audio log finished. She puts it down on the floor next to her softly. Oh, Isaac, does he have to worry about Sunset everyday? Well, she guessed he's right about it since she along with Isaac, Carver and Randall were having hallucinations season. Hff, what would be much worse than that? Now, she only sits there, lost in her thoughts and waiting for the morning to come. Only darkness and silence that comforted her.

---

They three started their good morning a stretch of their bodies and a yawn from their mouths (and her hood hiding her face). They heard the chirping birds in the air as some of the birds flew in front of them in such graceful manners. They looked up to the sky, and cloud gaze the sky for a moment to find unique shapes of the clouds. They then looked forward to the sidewalk as they kept walking.

Before they started their way to the school, however. Sunset put down her scavenger bot again somewhere near her house. She checked the result of the bot's scavenging progress from yesterday, and it was quite perfect. The bot found a lot amounts of materials she needed for engineering job. Though, there was something that didn't look like a material for her, whatever that is. Starting to hope that the bot didn't stole it.

They kept walking on as they (except Sunset) greeted the people they know on the road. Sunset only looked for sour for now, they're not sure why she looked like that. Though, they weren't to disturb her for the moment. Sunset did say that she still awake in the middle of the night until the morning. It's a good thing for them however, Sunset a good breakfast again for the three of themselves.

They soon arrived at the school after that walk. For now the school was quiet lonely because they three decided to go to the school early, because Sunset was hoping to not be 'disturbed' by other students on the road. They then headed for the entrance of the school.

However, they suddenly heard some shouts at the front side of the school. Hearing those shouts, Twilight, AJ and Sunset quickly looked at each other in suspicion and nodded at each other in understood. When they walked past the statue, they saw a fight going on there. There were Spitfire who still had her still-healing bruises on her face along with her soccer team, and there were the students of the Crystal Prep. Applejack recognized them as the Shadowbolts from Crystal Prep.

They three stood from afar to see what was going on. The three girls from the soccer team were having a talk fight with the girls of the Shadowbolts. From the looks of it, the Shadowbolts were the one who started the problem. As they watch the fight was getting intense, they saw one of the Shadowbolts, Sunny Flare was her name, slapped High Winds after she insults her and High angrily talk back. This was no problem for Sunset. However, AJ looked like had a grudge on them while Twilight only remain neutral at this.

But when Sunset noticed the grudge that AJ had on her face. She had decided to help AJ out despite of what she had done to Sunset a year ago, soon Applejack will got her pain after she found who's the Anon-A-Miss is. Sunset then looked over to Twilight, who had known what is Sunset up to. Sunset was about to approached them, until Applejack stopped her.

"Sunset? What do you think you're doing?!" AJ asked quickly.

"Helping them out, why?" Sunset asked back, giving her neutral expression.

"Do you know who are those people Spitfire is facing?" Applejack asked back worriedly.

"The Shadowbolts, I know," Sunset replied with a nod. "I'll handle this one, you should stay back for awhile."

"Sunset, are you sure about this?" Twilight asked in doubt. "What if...?"

"Is getting myself crashed by a car is not enough to convince you?" Sunset asked back making Twilight paused, but then Twilight nodded in understood. "Thank you. Let me handle it."

Sunset then approached them calmly. As she walks toward them, their fight was still going on. And the heat of it was getting increased the longer they stay like that.

"Hey, bitch!" The dark blue haired girl name Indigo Zap taunted. "What's with your face, huh?!"

"Hey!" High Winds shouted, but then interrupted by them.

"You looked a whore on the streets!" A lime haired girl named Lemon Zest taunted. "You know that?"

"No I'm not," Spitfire defended herself. "You goddamn pricks!"

"Why can't you just leave us alone?!" Fleetfoot asked in fear.

"You all soon gonna pay for your victory in that competition!" Sugarcoat shouted angrily with an evil grin. "We're not going to stop until all of- hang on, who is that?"

That was the time when the soccer team turned around and saw Sunset was walking towards them, from behind the soccer team to the front. Sunset was standing in front of the soccer team against the Shadowbolts right now. Despite her odd appearance against the Shadowbolts, they don't care anyway as long as they able to deal with her. They see Sunset as nothing but a stupid obstacle for them.

"Who the hell are you?!" Sunny asked harshly to the hooded girl. "And are you from that stupid CHS, huh?"

"First, yeah, I'm from CHS," Sunset replied with sarcasm. "Second, it's Sunset Shimmer, bitch."

When they heard what was her name, they quickly got up and surprised. "Wait, aren't you the Anon-A-Miss?! The bitch who spill the secrets from our school?!" Lemon asked suspiciously.

"That's what you heard actually," Sunset replied neutrally with her arms crossed and her hood still hiding her face. "And I'm still sticking to this school."

"Huh, shame," Sour Sweet replied bitterly. "Why don't you just go away and get out here, huh? This place is ain't for you."

"And this place is ain't for you either," Sunset replied, Spitfire and the other two girls were quiet worried on what Sunset is doing. "You better get out from here before I have to deal with you."

"Oh really, what are you going to do to us?" Indigo taunted back, disbelieve of her threat.
"Dumbass."

"Hey, bitch!" Lemon called, she then aimed her fist to Sunset's face. "Take this!"
Lemon thought she just hits Sunset's face. But then she felt and saw her fist, was held and gripped by Sunset with her right hand in front of her face instead of really hitting her. When Lemon tries to freed her fist from Sunset's grip, her fist was really stuck in Sunset's hand like her hand was stuck in a wall. Lemon tried to freed her fist but to avail, the Shadowbolts looked up to Sunset as they were disbelieve of her strength.

Sunset only sighed and shook her head in disappointment. "I have dealt with people that are worlds' worse than you. And it's not as quite pretty."

As she still held her fist, Sunset quickly hits Lemon's face hard making her stunned. Sunset then kicked left knee by right round-kick to behind her knee, forcing Lemon to kneel to her right as her fist was still locked in Sunset's right hand. Sunset then proceeded to kick her left side of her face by her left foot pushed forward to her head, sending her thrown away to the Shadowbolts grasp. The Shadowbolts were stunned for a moment when Sunset's counter-attack happened, but then quickly picked Lemon from the ground after Sunset beat her up.

After they picked Lemon up, they all looked back to Sunset who was hostile at them, while the soccer team feared of Sunset's brutality. "I'm warning you, get the fuck off from here."

The Shadowbolts looked at each other, before they nodded to each other. "Let's get her!"
Those Crystal Preps then charged at Sunset, but then stopped in shock to see what Sunset has got her hands onto. Sunset was holding some sort of cannon that she had to held with her both hands. The skeletal-like platings on the cannon prototype was in red while the rest of its body are in grey. They, along with Spitfire's team do not know that what Sunset was holding was a Non-lethal Force Gun set on a low setting. The soccer team feared the force gun she was holding while the Shadowbolts were in shock as they froze in their spot.

*WHIRRR-DUUAAM*

After Sunset pulled the trigger on her force gun, it send the three Shadowbolts flying in the air backwards up nearly three feet in the air and a few meters away from Sunset. The Shadowbolts then landed on the ground hard on their back. If Sugarcoat had to admit, the strength of the cannon Sunset was having was something equal to the Force in the Star Wars movie. They slowly stood up at their positions, and then turned around to looked at Sunset in fear.

Whatever the prototype Spitfire was looking at, she won't dare to mess around Sunset anymore. Since her true claims as an engineer and how well she fought back that time. For Twilight and Applejack who watched from afar near the statue, they feared if such monstrosity that Sunset would killed anyone in that scene. But then their thoughts were quickly calmed down after knowing the force gun Sunset was having was a non-lethal one.

"What the hell is that thing?!" Indigo shouted panickedly, wanted to hurt her but can't get around on the freak cannon she was having.

"A goddamn weapon that love to send people flying in the air!" Sunset shouted angrily as she steps forward to them with her force gun at ready. "GET THE FUCK OFF FROM HERE BEFORE I'M GOING TO SHOOT YOU AGAIN!"

*WHIIIRRRRR*

That was the time when they knew, they fucked up. The Shadowbolts quickly turned around and run for their lives. Sunset is going to release the trigger of her cannon soon enough. "RUN, LET'S GET OUT FROM HERE!" Sunny shouted in panic as they run away from Sunset.

*DUUAAAAMM*

Sunset shot out another round of kinetic shockwave. Luckily for the Shadowbolts, Sunset's shot was a near miss. But they have to run out from there as quickly as they can. They shouted to each other in horror after Sunset sent the shockwave to them.

It took them for a few seconds to completely disappear from the school. Sunset felt quite satisfied to see them gone and bite the dust. Sunset slowly turned around to the soccer team along with Twilight and AJ who approached the soccer team, as Sunset puts back her force gun in her inventory slot. The girls who are with Sunset were quite freaked on what weapon she used on the Shadowbolts, but more than that, the soccer team were very glad that Sunset defended them.

"Sunset," Fleetfoot called slowly. "What..... the hell...... was that...?"

"A ‘Handheld Graviton Accelerator’ or force gun," Sunset explained with a shrug. "A short-range kinetic booster device. Its function in mining operations is to provide blasting power beyond conventional explosive charges, thus making it suitable for precise terraforming applications."

They were quite shock to know what the hell she meant. "You're telling me the cannon you were using there should've killed people?!" Twilight asked aloud, worried if she had killed someone like the Shadowbolts.

"Don't worry about the force gun I'm having here," Sunset replied. "I have set it to non-lethal for crowd control."

They all signed gladly if she had tune up her force gun first. "Hey, thanks for defending us," Spitfire replied.

"Your welcome," Sunset replied, but then noticed Spitfire's expression. "What's bothering you?"

"Umm, well...." Spitfire stammered in doubt. "About what we did to you... a-a year ago. Is it....?"

Sunset sighed with a frown face, but then decided on what she said to her. "You don't have a grudge against me, do you? Because I'm not either."

"No, we-I swear it!" Spitfire replied quickly. "I'm very sorry for what we.. I did to you!"

They all fell to silence once, Spitfire doesn't have anything else to her, Sunset gave her choice. "You're forgiven."

"Wait, what?" Spitfire asked in surprise. "You... you really mean it?"

"Yeah, I mean it," Sunset replied, but then looked over to AJ. "But not you."

Applejack only nodded in understood, as Spitfire only smiled a little to Sunset. "Let's get in the school, shall we?"

They all nodded in agreement, and headed for the entrance for the school. Now it's time for them to start a new day of school.

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