Sunset Shimmer's plan to escape the Steel Tower failed—but she is still returning home. Instead of a victorious pony, come back to gloat to her previous teacher about the secrets she had uncovered, she is an adviser to one of the most dangerous men alive: Tesla.
But it isn't a simple invasion; Equestria is under attack by demonic forces, and the Steel Tower has been invited to help. But there's another faction of humans in Equestria, one that is still at war, and one who Sunset suspects are plotting terrible things...
She isn't alone. One of her human friends, now trapped as a cybernetic bat pony, is sent on a covert mission of her own. Equestria may depend on them in ways they never could've realized.
Updates Thursdays.
This story is meant as a companion to Harmony Defended, and to take the place of the long-anticipated revision. I decided it would be better to write something new than to overhaul something that was so long in itself. This story will probably spoil various elements of that one, though the reverse will largely not be true. If all of this seems confusing, you should probably start with my first story in this series, My Little Apprentice. As that story was written in Season 4, this one will not necessarily incorporate the canon of future seasons of Friendship is Magic.
The Sunset Campaign was sponsored by Two Bit on my Patreon, who is generously sponsoring me to clean up my tangled web of previous stories. Sparktail and Two Bit did the editing, and Zutcha did the cover.
27 Chapters:
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Chapter 1: Turing Complete [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 6th, 2018
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Chapter 2: Block Cipher [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 7th, 2018
5,287
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Chapter 3: Man in the Middle [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 7th, 2018
5,140
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Chapter 4: Past Permutations [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 8th, 2018
5,286
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Chapter 5: Pre-Shared Key [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 9th, 2018
4,962
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Chapter 6: Lithographic [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 10th, 2018
5,469
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Chapter 7: Universal Interface [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 12th, 2018
5,192
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Chapter 8: Encrypted [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 12th, 2018
4,829
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Chapter 9: Signature [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 13th, 2018
5,025
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Chapter 10: Reciprocation [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 20th, 2018
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Chapter 11: Message Authentication [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Sep 27th, 2018
5,168
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Chapter 12: Interception [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 4th, 2018
6,327
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Chapter 13: Initialization Vector [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 11th, 2018
6,486
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Chapter 14: Eve [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 18th, 2018
4,823
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Chapter 15: Severence [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Oct 25th, 2018
5,377
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Chapter 16: Input Buffer [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 1st, 2018
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Chapter 17: Password [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 9th, 2018
4,597
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Chapter 18: Overflow [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 16th, 2018
5,494
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Chapter 19: Escape Character [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Nov 22nd, 2018
5,136
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Chapter 20: MAC [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 17th, 2018
4,692
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Chapter 21: Linking Map [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 6th, 2018
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Chapter 22: Transition Function [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 13th, 2018
4,465
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Chapter 23: Memory Mod [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 20th, 2018
4,052
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Chapter 24: Secure Cell [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Dec 27th, 2018
4,077
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Chapter 25: Tone Lock [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 3rd, 2019
4,169
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Chapter 26: Digest [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 10th, 2019
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Epilogue [Fimfiction.net] [Cache]
Jan 20th, 2019
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