It was already 07:30 AM in the morning as Sunset sat alone in the dining room down staring with half lidded eyes at the table. Not even looking up to notice of Isaac and Carver walking in.

Isaac had his Hacker suit on mines the mask, while Carver had the same thing as Isaac but his jacket was black with the Earthgov USM Eudora logo on the left side of the of his shoulder, and underneath it, he wore a dark red shirt with a large symbol on the front Earth Government Colonial Alliance. They sat down at the table where Sunset was sitting at and greeted her, but receive no reply from her as she still in a haft lidded frozen state, like she was staring out into the void. The three only waited there for breakfast until Isaac tried to get her back to consciousness.

"Hey, Sunset," Isaac called. "Sunset?" Isaac then waved his hand in front of her face, but she didn't react to it. "Sunset you're okay?"

"She's trapped in her own mind again?" Carver asked with a little worry.

"Looks that way," Isaac replied as he looked on her emotionless face. "Since we know what she's been through with us, she's been haunted by those memories for a long time."

Carver paused for a moment and looked at the bacon-haired girl. "Wonder what she had in mind now."

---

2508 Four months after Sunset left CHS, USM Valor

"They just keep coming!" Sunset yelled she fired her Pulse rifle at the incoming Twitchers, Slasher, Leapers, and Exploders.

"Just keep shooting!" Isaac shouted back as he reloaded his Plasma Cutter before firing at a Leaper.

Sunset switched targets to shoot at a Stalker that positioned itself high on the wall above them.

Sunset and Isaac were currently fighting their way through the USM Valor for last fifteen minutes. What they found was a much recent picture of what happened to the Ishimura. The ship had been infected and crashed into the side of the Ishimura, and now they were on board to salvage its singularity power core so they could use it to power the shuttle that's in the crew quarters. But so far all they found was death.

Now they were what looked like the ship's barracks in the middle of a sudden lockdown, fighting what must have been the whole ship's crew. "Isaac, I'm running low on rounds!" Sunset said as she dismembered a Stalker. She reloaded her Pulse Rifle and fired at another Slasher that came through the air vent.

"Make every shot count Sunset! We can get through t-WATCH OUT!" Isaac shouted in fear as a Leaper leaped through the air. Sunset barely saw it in time to raise her hands to block its incoming attack as it tackles Sunset to the ground.

Sunset screamed as the Leaper thrashed over her. It's large jaw trying to take a bite out of her head.

"Sunset! Hold on I'm coming!" He said as he raised his weapon to shoot the Leaper off Sunset only to get blindsided by a Twitcher. While Sunset was doing her best at pushing the Leaper off, ever slowly, she'd just about to kick the thing off before it gave one last lunge at her. Too late to move, it's long fangs pierced her helmet, breaching it the process and dug into her skin.

Pain and fear filled Sunset's body as she desperately tried to get this Leaper off her. She suddenly felt the Leaper being pulled off from her, followed by a discharge of a Plasma Cutter and her head was free to move again.

Only to realize that the leaper's head was still attached to her face. Seeing that Sunset freaked out, taking hold of the severed head she tried to pull it off only for her hands to keep slipping.

"Sunset. Sunset, calm down!" Sunset heard Isaac say to her while trying to help his friend. Sunset just had it with this and pulled on the emergency clamps on her helmet and pulled the whole thing off and threw it to the ground.

Sunset leaned up against the wall and tried to calm her racing heart. Soon Issac was by her side with what remand of her Mark one engineering helmet in hand. "The thing punctured right through it, you won't be using that for any vacuum sealed rooms or spacewalks. Christ, you ok?" He asked as he looked at his friend.

Sunset waved him off, "Yeah, that was to close though."

"Way to close by the way that thing did to your face, damn that must hurt" Isaac replied as he tossed her helmet to the side before opening a nearby locker and retrieving a towel from inside. He lifted Sunsets chin up and began wiping the blood off her face."How bad?" She asked.

"Not life threatening but it will scar," Isaac replied.

"Where at? Feels like my whole face feels hurt."

"Looks like the right cheek right underneath your right eye and just above your left eyebrow," He said as he moved Sunsets head around to inspect it further." It went all the way down too."

"So much for my good looks, at least it didn't take my head."

"Always a good thing, now come on, the engine room isn't far from here," Isaac said after he finished cleaning the blood of Sunset's face. Sunset nodded and got off the wall and picked up her discarded Pulse Rifle. Together they made their way past the rows of chubby holes that the crew would sleep into the other side of the bay. There they found a Store kiosk to replace Sunset's helmet. Sunset went to the store first while Isaac took watch while she made her purchases. Isaac heard Sunset go "Mmmm..." and decided to ask her problem. "Something the matter Sunset?"

"Sorry, it's just I've got options now with this store."

'Options?" Isaac asked in confusion.

"Yea, since this is a military ship and not a mining vessel like the Ishimura. I got more thing to look at besides mining suits and gear and thinking of getting a suit, and I've got the funds to do so plus a little extra." She explained as the store opened up to her. Taking a step inside, Sunset felt the Stores restraints kick in and as the suit changing sequence started once more. A new helmet formed on top of her head and several plates formed around her body, before she knew it the Stores doors opened and released her.

"Woah, nice look, Sunset," Isaac commented as he took in Sunset's new RIG. She was wearing what the dead soldiers they've seen were wearing. The assembly is composed primarily of dark grey, vacuum-rated fatigues bearing many utility pockets, and white body armor plates, including armored boots, a cuirass, spaulders, rerebraces, vambraces, and a head-enclosing skeletal combat helmet. "How do you feel?"

"I feel a little-weighted down from the extra patting and plates, but overall I can't complain." After buying a few Med packs and ammo for her weapon, she switched with Isaac to resupply. After they finished with the store, they moved on to the nearest door. They then walked through the corridor that was in front of them and turned to the left when they had no choice due to a clasped section. From there, they made their way towards the door that pointed them in the direction of where Engineering was in and walked through it before approaching a large door, which revealed the mechanical parts of the engine. A few seconds later they stepped onto the elevator platform that was in front of them and rode it up to the level that was above them.

Isaac whistled at the extent of the damage the damage. Fire spewed out of its engines into Engineering and blocked their intended path. "Isaac, what do we do?" Sunset asked over the roar of the ship's engines. Isaac pointed over to the hanging metal plates.

"Use the spare parts as for cover and use our Kinesis to move forward. The core is just over there, but we need to run and get off the Valor when we remove it." Isaac explained his plan.

"Why do we need to run?"

"With ship still running like it is along with the damage, it's sustained from the crash. The Valor won't be able to hold together and would rip its self apart from the inside, so we got to move." He explained further before motioning Sunset to stand behind him. "While we're moving, destroy those power tubes. Doing so can force an engine shut down, and I can safely remove the core!"

The power tubes Isaac mentioned were resting on the left side of where they were standing. Giving Sunset a clear line of sight to shoot them. Once they were all destroyed, they pulled back and did the same with the other side. Now the engine went silent with the last tube destroyed. They approached the end of the engine room to the odd triangular shaped object that happened to be resting in front of them, large enough to fit into their hands.

"Ok, Sunset. Once I pull this, all hell is going to break loose so get ready to run," Isaac said before carefully removed the singularity core and stored it inside his RIG's inventory. Suddenly the engine ruptured and started to fall apart like Issac predicted, indicating that the two of them should get moving immediately.

"Is that it?" Kendra asked them through their RIG's, though at the same time Isaac and Sunset entered the nearby passage in front of them and exited the area going below engineering, but continued moving since it appeared that the engine's behind them were getting ready to self-destruct and tear itself apart, "You got it? Oh my god, you got it! That's the piece we need. Get to the Crew deck!"

Isaac and Sunset followed the path in front of them and found themselves inside the mechanical part of the engine room, which they had seen when they walked through the door earlier, but as they walked into the area, one section of the machinery exploded, indicating that something terrible was coming. Though as they approached the glass on the other side of the room, which Sunset and Isaac were planning on shattering it with their weapons when the door opened and saw Hammond running into the chamber on the other side of the glass, though he was focusing on something else.

"Hammond!" Isaac said, causing the Security Chief to turn towards them for a moment, where all three of them were happy to see each other again, though at the same time Isaac and Sunset heard the familiar sound of a brute roaring, indicating that one was nearby.

"Isaac! Sunset!" Hammond replied, though instead of sounding happy he sounded terrified, which made sense considering what was nearby, though he kept his eyes on the door behind him, which hadn't closed for some reason, "I've been trying to reach you two for some time now, but I think my comm was damaged after our last communication. I see you guys got the singularity core... that's our ticket out of..."

That was before a blackened brute, meaning that it was much stronger than the ones Isaac and Sunset had fought so far, walked into the area behind Hammond, causing the Hammond to brace his weapon as he prepared to give out one last fight.

"Isaac, Sunset don't wait for... oh fuck me..." Hammond gave out a war cry while he opened fired on the brute and used every bullet that he had left in his Pulse Rifle, though at the same time the Necromorph quietly stood there and took it, which only made it angrier. It rushed forward and bashed it's arm into Hammond, knocking him into the glass wall that was behind him. Before Hammond had a chance to regain himself, however, the brute stared down at him before pressing it's massive right arm against his chest and gripped Hammond's left leg with its left hand. Hammond screamed in pain as the brute ripped off his leg, though before Isaac and Sunset could do anything. The Brute raised it's arms into the air as Hammond went into shock over losing his leg, before the brute slammed it's fists into Hammond's body three times in a row, breaking bones and crushing organs as blood erupted from his mouth and his missing leg. That was before the brute lifted Hammond up by his head, who was nearly dead at this point and slammed him into the glass wall that separated the two, shattering it into a thousand pieces just as Hammond's RIG flatlined.

"HAMMOND!" Sunset screamed, face full of fear before turning into one of anger. "IM GOING TO KILL YOU!" She declared to the Brute as an orange and red aura engulfed her.

Isaac was in shock at the way Hammond had been killed. Now he was seeing Sunset doing something he'd never seen before. Sure Sunset told him about Equestrian magic, but he wasn't told what it could do. Isaac, who had never seen or heard this sort of anger and hate from Sunset, was showing a brand new side to him. Before Isaac could do anything, both the Brute and Sunset charged at each other.

Sunset drew back a fist full of red magic with sickly black spotted flames connected against the Brutes face. The magic backlashed and it sent the Brute flying back and smacked against the wall. Sunset stood there for a moment before falling flat at on her hands and knees out of breath while the magic left her body.

Isaac stood back gobsmacked at what the sixteen-year little girl just pulled off. He then focused on the Brute that was slowly picking itself up, acting fast, he zeroed in on its back legs and unleashed everything he had on it. Severing its limbs, making it cry out in pain before falling over and died. Looking over to where Sunset was, he saw her on one knee as she was trying to get up. Feeling more explosion going on inside the ship. He grabbed Sunset and together they raced on of the ship while also ignoring Kendra when she called them. He'd ask Sunset what happened later when they were semi-safe aboard the Ishimura.

---

"Hey!" Carver called her many times with soft voice, this time he flicked his fingers in front of her. "Sunset!"

"Huh?" Sunset snapped herself out after he flicked his fingers. "Oh, sorry. Didn't notice you both were there."

"It's alright," Isaac replied with a chuckle. "Bad night, eh?"

"Yeah," Sunset then put her index finger on the table and dragged it around the table. "Bad night..."

"What were you thinking about just now?" Carver asked as he grabbed and took a sip of good coffee on the table.

"Hammond," Sunset replied with a frown.

Isaac frowned at the name she mentioned. "Oh, the Ishimura. I... I know."

Sunset took a quite long sigh and paused for a moment, before looking over to Isaac. "Where did you two sleep last night? I don't suppose the crew quarters on the ship were very comfy."

"That one guy, Big Mac I think his name is, offered us the guest bedroom for the night after we got done with the ship," Isaac replied.

"So, got everything sorted out yesterday?" Sunset asked.

"Yeah, but we got some problems in our hands," Carver answered, which made Sunset frowned and agitated. "We managed to hide that most of the ship inside the forest behind this house in a distance, don't ask how we did that. Leaving only the MID section exposed. But thankfully due to its color, it blends in rather well to the mountains in the back. The only way people will notice it is with orbital imaging and if you're actually looking at it. We also managed to deal with the dead bodies of those Necromorphs by burning them. We also were able to deal with the media by censoring our appearance after the ship crashed but for sure everything will go wild on the internet after knowing the ship landed at someone's farm. Plus, we had some 'issues' with some military personals because they found out about this."

"Are they considered us hostiles?" Sunset asked worriedly, doesn't like that this situation goes from un-fucked to fuck with a brethren moon without a tube of lube.

"Gladly they're not," Isaac replied, which Sunset sighed in relief. "They seem to be curious with us around. And knowing you're the missing girl from town and listed in the police's missing person board they considered us to be good guys, I guess. After the ship crashed, they wanted to find out what we know. I and Carver will be going to the Canterlot Police Station to explain the situation and give them any information about this."

"Good grief," Sunset said as she leaned back against the chair. "We'll have hope on this. Just make sure they don't plan something bad after they knew any information we have."

"They're not like Earthgov, right?" Carver asked, receive a respond from Sunset with a nod. "Then we'll be fine."

"After that, we'll visit Randall to see how's he doing for awhile," Isaac added. "And I'll try to make prosthetic hands for him after he got out from the hospital."

"Good to hear," Sunset said in relieved.

"Breakfast ready!" Granny Smith shouted, as she and Applejack brought in the food and set them all on the table.

"Wow, smells great," Isaac said as they enjoyed the smell of the food while the rest of the Apple family came down from upstairs and sat down at the dining table.

"What are these?" Carver asked the excellent smell alone was enough to make his stomach felt burping.

"Apple Pancakes, breakfast sandwiches, and fruit salads," Applebloom answered. "Made from our own food materials we had in this house."

"May I have some pancake please?" Sunset asked as Granny Smith gives her a plate of it and also gave one to Isaac, while Carver goes for a breakfast sandwich.

Isaac looked at the spoonful of pancake in front of him with his full attention of the smell or the looks, before he took a bite of it and his eyes were widened. "Christ, this is without a doubt the best breakfast like this in my life!"

"I agree with ya, Isaac," Carver said as he took a big bite on his sandwich. "This is the first time we got such a meal like this with food this good, comparing what food we had to eat in the future this blows it all away."

"It's not my first time my first time eating this, but I did miss this," Sunset added in consent as she quickly took a couple of bites of her pancake.

"Ah' guess you never eat something like this?" Big Mac asked.

"Never had food as great as this, to be honest," Isaac replied as he took another bite of his pancake with a joy. "Better than the 25th century."

Applejack then was curious when Isaac has mentioned the year 2500's. "So.... how does the 25th century looks like?"

"I would say it was fun," Sunset answered with a shrug. "There was a lot of great stuff out there."

"Yeah, like the reaction to form when you realize that my apartment was on the moon," Isaac added, which halted the Apples to eat for a moment.

"Excuse me?" Applebloom asked in disbelieve. "But did you say your apartment was on the moon?"

"Yeah," Isaac nodded as Carver only stay silent whilst eating. "A colony called New Horizons, Luna was first colonized and established on the moon in 2045, and that's where Sunset and I live for a time."

"Really?" Applejack asked. "How were ya holding up there?"

"Nothing was hard there," Sunset answered. "Since I worked as an engineer and are alway's a demand for them. Well, yeah..." Sunset then looked over to Carver, who is in frozen while looking outside the window as he ate his sandwich.

"Why are you looking out the window like that, dear?" Granny Smith asked Carver, as he immediately snapped himself out from the sight.

"Nothing, Granny," Carver replied hastily. "It's just the first time I got a chance to seen the outside looking over the trees. Never seen a real tree before..."

The Apple's eyes widened at the facts he just said. "Hold up, you're saying that because there were really no trees in the future?" Applejack asked.

"Yeah, AJ," Sunset replied with a nod. "There weren't really any trees left that time. Even animals like horses became rare after that."

The Apples went silent for a moment after that, not sure how to respond to such facts of the future. "That sounds awful, how did you people from the future able to survive with such things like that?" Applebloom asked.

"When the resources started to dry up and what factories there were was pumping enough substances for the rapidly growing population. We built something that could, the big Planetcracker-class ship called the USG Ishimura saved our day that time," Isaac answered, he then took a couple of spoonful pancakes before continued the explanation. "A ship that was so big and powerful it can pull a huge chunk of rocks from the planet's surface to space with its powerful gravity tethers so it can be harvested within the ship. If you ask how big the hole that ship can make on a planet, let's say it's big as a crater made by a meteor."

His explanation sends shivers down on the Apples' spines to know that. "And they just harvest that big chunk of planet's rock after that?" Applebloom asked.

"Yeah," Sunset added with a nod. "That ship was the earth's savior and ended the Resource Wars."

After several moments later, they all finished their breakfast and went off the table as Granny Smith and Applejack cleaned the plates from the table. Carver and Isaac went off to the police station to deal with the problems they had with the police and the military officials. Big Mac, Applebloom, and Granny Smith were outside the house taking care of the animals in the barn. While Applejack was with Sunset sat in the living room, reason why Applejack wasn't with her family? Granny already had enough people to deal with the barn, so Applejack was needed to keep an eye on Sunset for the time being.

Sunset was sitting next to Applejack on the same sofa where the doctors had Randall lied down on yesterday before they transferred him to the hospital to get looked over. Sunset had left her journal she used to use to contact Princess Twilight on the table yesterday when she stripped off her armor, which was still laid out to the side. So she took up her old journal and did a quick inspection of her book. She looked straight at the journal cover, the cover with the sign of her cutie mark and just stared it down with a sad sigh. Applejack observed that Sunset wanted to open her journal.

When Sunset reached for it, only barely touching the edge of the journal, the journal suddenly glowed in orange color. It surprised both Sunset and Applejack, Sunset proceeds to open her book and looked at the latest entry from the journal. During her stay in the future, the magic in her journal felt dormant, and whenever she tried writing in it, she received no reply from the other side.

Sunset opened the journal and was very shocked to found out that there was a lot of entries from Princess Twilight when Sunset was missing for a year. A lot of these entries were from Twilight pleading to Sunset to respond back and to come home. Sunset cupped her hand over her mouth as fresh tears leaked from her eyes. While Applejack looked her gaze on the journal, amazed to know that her dreams were true after all.

Sunset then looked up on the last entry that was sent just now to her. And there it was, by the look of the words it was showing the expression of sadness and regret. They both red the last entry in the journal.

"Sunset, I'm sorry. I should've taken you back to Equestria, but you went vanish to thin air for a year. I don't know if you're reading this or not, but please..... respond..... I beg you,,,,,, I'm sorry......."

Both Sunset and Applejack could only stare, frozen on the new entry they received. If the journal could still be able to receive new messages, then it means that Princess Twilight hasn't destroyed the portal to Equestria. Which means Sunset has a chance to be able to meet her fellow Equestrian again. All she needs to do is to reply back.

"AJ, get me something to write will you?" Sunset asked her.

"Yea, one moment," Applejack then get off the sofa and went to her room to get a writing tool.

After a moment Sunset waiting for Applejack to get something for her to write, she returned to her and gave it to her. "Here's a marker."

"Tha- wait, what?" Sunset asked in sudden worry and alert as she jumped off the sofa and looked over to her. "What do you mean 'here's a Marker?'"

Applejack quickly confused on what Sunset said. "That's a marker, a.... you know a writing tool," She said as she pointed at the marker that Sunset is holding.

"Oh, umm...." Sunset just awkwardly sat back down on the sofa. "Nevermind about what I just said."

---

Equestria, Ponyville, Castle Of Friendship, 08:49 AM

Twilight was doing her regular duties as a Royal Princess of Equestria, assisted by the other five elements and Starlight to deal with her job. She had a lot of duties in her castle, especially on working on the documents sent from Canterlot concerning magic and teaching ponies about Friendship.

Twilight, however, was currently feeling down while she performed her duties. See, while she was working on the documents in the library, her mind kept wandering back to Sunset's disappearance a year ago. She had realized that there was still no word from the red and yellow former unicorn and fellow ex-student. Her sad thoughts turned to anger when she met those human versions of her fellow elements on how quickly they turned on Sunset. How could let them do such things to Sunset so severely and so suddenly? And most of all, why they didn't give Sunset another chance to speak or just listen to her when things got worse.

Twilight sat the journal aside after she recently wrote in to message through the magic journal that's connected to Sunsets. And even then, she still had the portal to the human realm. She'd left it active for the ability to travel to and from the human world because it was the only magic source in their world and two for the off chance that Sunset makes her way back to Equestria. She know's Sunset is still out there somewhere to her journal, its what Twilight uses to keep portal open in the first place.

Despite the fact that Sunset has disappeared with her journal, the portal could still be activated by Twilight's journal on Equestria's end, hence because it's the magic source for the portal. Twilight always wanted to go out and find Sunset on her own, but she doesn't know where to start to look for her, and there are so little clues to go off of on how did she disappeared.
The only clue she got was that Sunset used magic to force the portal open and malfunctioned.

Twilight couldn't believe that's what happened to her. But she just won't give up on her either. If she could just see her again...

"Hey, Twilight," Starlight called as she grabbed Twilight by her shoulder, as the other five Elements Of Harmony followed up behind them. "You're okay?" Twilight let out a sad sigh before answering.

"No, I'm not Starlight, it's just," Twilight paused for a moment. "Sunset..."

"She's gone, Twily," Pinkie stated. "Don't you think she...?"

"No, that won't happen," Twilight replied. "If I could just hear that she's alright and responded to my message in the journal I'll be fine. But she's lost out there somewhere, and I am responsible for not getting to here sooner as a friend should." Twilight looked down at the journal again with sad, filled eyes. "I just wish she'd come back, just tell her how sorry I am for failing her."

As if her wish was granted, they witness the same journal glowed brightly with and rang a tingling noise. Twilight could only stare a spark of renewed hope as what she was seeing was true. Her journal on the table was glowing in purple magic.

"Oh my gosh!" Fluttershy gasped as her both front hooves went over to her cheeks. "Was that-?

"Ah can't believe it!" Applejack shouted.

"Do you think what I'm thinking?" Rainbow asked.

"Let me take a look," Twilight said as she and the rest walked over towards the journal that was glowing.

She opened her journal straight to her latest message to her, to their shock it has a reply for it. "Hey, Twilight. It's Sunset. Sorry if I have gone missing for.... a year right? I should have waited for you to open the portal but I just couldn't wait to get away at the time from what was happening to me, I used my magic to force the portal open and stepped through. Only to know the portal was malfunctioned and time traveled towards the future."

"Oh my GOSH!" Rarity shouted in shock as the rest acted the same. "She's alive!"

"She time traveled!?" Starlight asked with a shout.

"Wow, that's a crazy way to disappear, Sunset!" Twilight quickly took a quill telekinetically by magic and wrote it down on the journal. "Sunset, where have you been!!?? I missed you so much!"

"Long story," Sunset message responded. "I had some help along the way and by accident, managed to jump back to the exact time we're in. By the way, I'm coming to Equestria tonight. Is the portal working now?"

"Yes, the portal still works. I'm going to open the portal for you tonight," Twilight said as she wrote it down and tears came down from her eyes. "I was very worried about you, okay? After I heard what they did to you. I'm sorry..."

"It's alright" Sunset responded. "I'm sorry too if I was so reckless to open the portal by myself."

"It's okay," Twilight replied on the journal. "Just come back to Equestria please!"

"Okay, okay," Sunset responded. "By the way, I need to warn you about something. I'll be coming to Equestria with three other humans with me because we need your help to figure out a problem. Somethings going on in CHS and I think its magic related."

"But what about what they did to you?" Twilight asked back whilst writing it down. "You're coming here with three of them from CHS?"

"Just one, which is Applejack, the human," Sunset replied on the journal. The other two I hold very dear to me, and they time traveled with me back to the past. Together we went through a lot of bad situations together and I consider them to be family. Their names are Isaac Clarke and John Carver."

"Huh?" Twilight paused for a moment before writing it down. "Your family?"

"Like I said, it's a long story and I don't think I have the pages to fill to write everything," Sunset responded. "Just keep in mind on one thing, please don't freak out when we arrived. Because I'm sure, you're going to freak out if you see something else coming out from the portal other than us."

"Oh, okay....." Twilight responded awkwardly. "Okay, we'll keep that in mind. See you in the night then."

"See you soon," Sunset responded at last before Twilight closed the journal and smiled of Sunset's condition.

"What did she mean by don't freak out when they arrived?" Starlight asked.

"Yeah, what she meant by that?" Rainbow asked.

"I don't know," Twilight said in unsure. "But if she asked us to don't freak out, then we do that when they arrived."

Twilight then got up an headed for the portal to get it set up. Time for someone to somepony to come home.

---

Sweet Apple Acres, Human world.

"Everything's set," Sunset said as she closed her journal and put it on the table. "We're heading through the portal tonight and stay overnight there to figure out this trouble."

"Ya'h sure about this?" Applejack asked in doubt. "Ah' don't think Princess Twilight will like that Ah' coming with ya after knowing what we did to you, blaming you for the Anon-A-Miss posts. Even if our memories had been erased."

"The only person you need to worry about that right now for the only person they need to worry about is me, alright?" Sunset said firmly and seriously as hell. "Because I'll be angry as fuck when I found out who started all this. Understand?"

Knowing that Sunset was a dangerous person in her house made Applejack gulped in reflex a little at this. "Alright..."

Sunset then looked away from Applejack and stared down at the table. But then something dawned in her mind. Something that she's going to need.

"Applejack, has my old apartment been sold to someone else?"

Sunset's apartment, Applejack remembered that. "Not yet, but it was sealed off by the police since you've disappeared until you showed up yesterday. Ya want to check it out?"

"Yeah, it's been a long time for me and want to see it," Sunset said at last, before they both get off from the sofa and changed their clothes to head out the house.

Applejack changed her clothes with a white t-shirt that has an apple drawing on the front, and the short sleeves were colored green and skirt made from jeans that had pockets in them and white lining on the front.

While Sunset was wearing the same clothes, she wore from yesterday, except that the jacket she was wearing was replaced with a black hoodie jacket-attached with RIG attached to it. When Applejack asked where she got it from she said it was in her suits storage for clothing emergencies. She also had a comunicator on her left forearm and a holo-projector in between the zips of the jacket. Which allowed Sunset to hide her face from the public, but not the exposed RIG on her back. Applejack asked why she's going to wear that and was replied back saying it would make her tasks easier for wearing it, which was actually a bad idea in Applejacks view. But then Sunset gave a reply to her, something that Isaac would say.
"Then stick around, I'm full of bad ideas."

Applejack just stayed silent about that and instead, told Granny Smith that they were going out for a bit. After that, the two walked out the house and down the side street towards the city. Many things Sunset saw whilst hiding her head with the hood of her jacket made smile at the sights. Children were playing around the sidewalk, cars passing by at the light traffics, people walked pass by them and chattered happily. Not sure how long they were walking, but none of the people around them seems to be noticing the RIG that Sunset has been wearing, which Applejack found it odd for the people in the city.

They walked for a quite a time on the road. Stopping for a short time to buy food at a hot dog stand for food and cold fruit juices. They both reached the old place where Sunset lived. Her good ol' apartment in the city. Still looks good from the outside of the second-floor red apartment.

Sunset's old apartment was sealed up with yellow police tape that was left alone in a lousy condition. The front door was sealed with a police sticker on the front door to ward off intruders. The from the stained windows of the apartment they could see it was deserted as the dark colors of the red were infecting the walls with signs of water damage. Sunset took a moment of silence as she gazed at what was left of her old apartment. Applejack can tell that she was sad about the condition of her old apartment was in.
"You alright?" AJ asked to her.

"I'm fine," Sunset replied. "I just didn't expect my apartment to be in such a condition. I didn't think the water damage alone is a surprise. "

"Ah'm sure the police will sort this one out," Applejack added.

"I hope so," Sunset replied, then turned her look at Applejack. "Let's take a little trip around the town."

Both AJ and Sunset took a good trip around the town. Sunset was happy with the condition of the town as it was still the same as when she left it, reminding her of how the condition of Lunar Colony was before it was razed to the ground by those Unitologist bastards. Sunset sighed in relieve as she took a good look at the park while they walking ahead. They both went into a bookstore because Sunset wanted to buy a novel. After they exited the store, Sunset opened up the inventory hologram in front of her and put it in her inventory slot. Applejack felt it uneasy to know that Sunset brought her Plasma Cutter and a bunch of ammo to go with it.

After they took a pleasant trip around the city until it was around noon. They then returned to Applejack's house peacefully without being stopped by anyone. As they walked through the front door, they both became surprised that Isaac and Carver were sitting with Randall on the sofa along with Dr. Whooves and Nurse Redheart, the latter two sitting in front of Randall taking care of Randall. Dr. Whooves was helping Isaac on attaching the robotic prosthetic hands to Randall. The robotic hands looked like the real hands that people had except that the hands had fingerless gloves on them. Although they seemed to be a darker colored than his skin tone.

Randall tested out his new hands and was happy with the good result of his hands. Sunset and Applejack can see how his face looks like. His hair was black and cut in short sides with medium length on top as the front side of the hair made a curvy-spike shape to the sky. His eyes were purple and had an oval-shaped face. He is old as a young adult from what Sunset guessed. He was still inside his snowsuit with all of the Marker symbols on it, at least he's not wearing his mask.

"I didn't know you are already in good shape," Sunset commented, surprising everyone inside for their return. "Good to see you have new hands, Randall."

"Sure as hell, the one who saved me used a bunch of med packs to stop the bleeding and nerve damage in my wrists," Randall replied as he gripped his both hands softly. "Happy to be out from the hospital."

"You got your medication, right?" the nurse asked, which Randall nodded. "Just don't forget to drink them."

"Don't worry, he'll remember," Carver added.

"Alright, we'll be off now," Dr. Whooves said as he and the nurse collected their equipment before looking back at everyone. "Have a good day, everyone."

They both went off from the house, not before they gave a greet-like nod to AJ and Sunset. Applejack then sat down on one of the chairs in the living room while Sunset only leaned against the wall next to the sofa. Sunset gave a cheeky smile to Isaac to not know something.

"You already made those by yesterday?" Sunset asked.

"The Terra Nova's medical wing is in the MID section in the Connie Towers, The parts were all there I just assembled them properly. Even if they are nearly two hundred years old they're still good," Isaac replied as he patted Randall's shoulder.

"By the way here's the situation," Carver said to change the topic. "We'll be alright here as long as we try to cooperate with the police and military about all the information we give them. And they will also give us warnings to not do anything stupid from our information. They also said they might want the gear we have right now for 'emergency use.' And right now, we might get some jobs with the police while we're staying. Don't know about you two but I can work with being a police officer."

"Sounds good to me," Sunset added with consent. "We'll talk more about that later, right now I want to tell you something about Princess Twilight."

"That princess of Equestria?" Isaac asked.

"Yeah, the good news is we can meet her tonight," Sunset answered. "She's going to open the portal for us tonight, Isaac, Carver, AJ and me will be going to meet her."

"Equestria?" Randall asked. "What kind of place is that?"

"My old homeworld in a parallel dimension," Sunset answered. "You want to come with us as well?"

"For real?... You know what, sure. I could use a new place of scenery." Randall said. No longer caring at this point. He just wanted to be useful for a good cause.

"Well I won't spoil the fun for you then," Sunset chuckled, wanting to keep it a surprise as Isaac and Carver would want to keep that way. "Now, we're just playing the waiting game."

The group decided to waste the hours away by watching TV. All rotating between channels. Issac and Sunset liked what was on the history channel. Some new show that Sunset never saw before she left about blacksmiths making knives and historic weapons. While Carver and Randall were liking this Seal Team Six show that showed after.

After hours of waiting and watching TV the night came, it was nearing night time. Randall, Isaac, Carver, and Sunset went back to the Terra Nova to changed their clothes while Applejack just went to her room to change before going out to where the portal was. Applejack was wearing a plain t-shirt, jeans, boots and her usual hat for the trip. Applejack and Big Mac wanted by the family truck for the other four to come when they shocked the pair of them.

Randall was wearing Hostile Environment suit which has the Marker symbols on it, Isaac wore his golden yellow Elite Engineering Suit, Carver had his black Special Forces Suit, and Sunset in her dark digital camo soldier suit.

The four individuals in the suits didn't feel comfortable not bringing their suits with them all the time, so they just use them. Sunset told them that they will meet Princess Twilight and stay with her overnight to figure everything out before returning tomorrow.

Big Mac drove them five from the house with the old truck, Applejack was sitting in the middle seat in between her brother and Sunset. Applejack kept looking over at Sunset every few minutes, she had her helmet as she looked outside. The low blue light of her mask give her the creeps with the way Sunset's helmet looked around. The other three sat in the back of the truck with their helmets on, all laid down enough to hide their whole body from the public. It was around fifteen minutes later as they drove, they finally reached their destination. There were no people around the site which means they're safe from detection. What made all of them surprised everyone except Isaac and Sunset, of where the place where the portal was opened at, Canterlot High School.

"The portal is at our school?" Applejack asked in confusion as she grabbed her bag from the truck.

"I was hoping for something better than the portal showing up at school," Carver added in annoyed.

"This school....." Isaac remembered this, knowing he had visited the place back in the future. "I think, yea I know where the portal you mentioned is at."

They all followed Isaac and Sunset towards where's the portal is, except for Big Mac who was told to go back home because he was not needed to meet the Princess. They all followed them until they reached the iconic statue of the of a pony with wings and a horn. Located at the front side of the school, the iconic statue of a colt horse standing on top of its pedestal. They all just stood there for a moment in silence, if not for Carver interrupted the silence.

"So!?" Carver shouted. "Where's the portal?"

Sunset paused for a moment before she looked towards the base of the statue that was as a high as an average person's height. "Right here."

Sunset put her hands on the wall of the pedestal. Instead, her hand was stick to the wall, her hand goes through the wall as purple magic was glowing on the edges of her hand. Carver, Randall, Isaac, and Applejack were in awe seeing her hand got through the wall. They have found the portal that Sunset mentioned.

"So, all we need to do just go through it," Isaac said, continued by Randall. "You sure it is safe?"

"I'm sure," Sunset replied as she looked back at him. "If she activated the portal from the other side it means we're fine."

They all looked at each other, preparing to see what will they see on the other side. Those who used their suits wore their helmet from the holo projector automatically. Applejack only gulped and readied herself to enter the portal. After a moment of preparing themselves, Sunset gives the order.

"Let's go people."

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All six of the Elements Of Harmony was waiting in the library as the Crystal Mirror was activated to open the portal between the human and pony universes. They're alongside them stood the other rulers of Equestria, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, along with Princess Cadence and Shining Armor, of the Crystal Empire. Starlight and some of the Royal Guards Celestia brought stood by the door were all waiting for their arrival. Twilight was smiling for a long time waiting for Sunset's arrival along with the other humans with her.

"When are they coming?" Princess Celestia asked.

"Should be in a moment now," Twilight replied. "I'm sure she will be coming."

Like what Twilight predicted, the Crystal Mirror reacted by itself meaning that Sunset has entered the portal. Waiting for a moment as the portal made a loud clanking sound and it was glowing brightly, somethings resembling ponies in shape came out from the portal, and all landed hard on the floor.

After the ponies that were looking away from the mirror because of brightness, all looked towards what came out from the mirror. Some became a little terrified on who or what just came out from the mirror.

Besides what must have been the human Applejack, who was looked the exact as the Pony Applejack, were the four others looked like wearing some strange metallic armors that they have never seen before, more futuristic for them as their helmets showing their intimidating visors at them.

One pony was wearing a black suit and golden yellow rib-like armor on them while the helmet really shaped exactly as a colt's head with 3 blue visors on it. The appendages on his side weaved around like wings showing him off as a pegasus. Another pony was wearing an armor that was looked recommended to use for winter season, but it was full of strange symbols that they never have seen before from head to stomach, his helmet has 3 white visors on it and some sort of cloth mask underneath the visors, and he was a unicorn pony because he had his horn above his head and was sealed under his helmet. The other pony was the same as the snowsuit one but seems to be wearing an olive-green suit and black while the armor plating had black and dark-grey pixels color, while the helmet had two blue visors and a horn on top of the head which stating the pony was an unicorn.

The last one was much more scary, instead of a pony, he was a griffon. And to all the ponies there he was the most frightening griffon they'd ever seen. The griffon had sold black armor around him and wore an underlayer red suit, while the helmet matching the same as the griffon's head, its shape as the skeletal griffon helmet and had emits a glow red color from the viewport of the helmet.

The newcomers were all looked stunned after they got through the portal, especially human AJ who had a little headache and comfort it with her hooves, only to realize what she is now. They all tried to stand up on two legs and were a little freaked out about to know that they were ponies... and a griffon apparently. All except the olive green one as it just stood up on all fours like it was natural.

The rest eventually were able to stand up on four legs and stared straight towards the other ponies who waited for somepony's arrival from the human world. Two of them, the pony in rib-like armor and the griffin nearly took their weapons out from their inventory slots as the Royal Guards, and the Princesses readied their weapons and magic's at them until they were stopped by a pony in soldier suit by voice.

"Stand down," she said. "I know them."

After they stand down, the griffon took notice on what he is now. "It's just me or I'm not a pony?"

The newcomers looked toward the griffon in black and red armor, and they were surprised with his appearance. "Carver, you're a griffon," the pony in the soldier suit said.

"Ain't that great," Carver added in annoyed.

"Who are you?" Princess Luna asked with a shout. "We know that's Applejack with you, but who are you?"

The pony in soldier suit looked back at the three in armor and gave them a nod to open their helmets. The first one was the one in rib-like armor, his fur was light brown, but his mane was black and dark grey with sporting shaggy hair and stubble to show his old age. The second was Carver, the griffon, his whole fur of his head was colored in white while the top hair of his head shaped into a bald, and most noticeably the large scar on his left side of his face. The third was the pony in his snowsuit, His mane was black and cut in short sides with medium length on top as the front side of the hair made a curvy-spike shape to the sky. His eyes were purple, and his face was the exact as Shining's except his fur was purple like Twilight. The last one was the pony in her soldier suit, they all were smiled at who are they looking at.

"SUNSET?!"

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