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Sunset’s Hellish Adventure

by MorbidTheBrony

Chapter 5: Chapter 5: Strangeness to Her

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Chapter 5: Strangeness to Her

It was day three of Sunset's adventure in Hell, and already she has done so much. Sadly though, none of it was what she wanted. The first part of her plan was to leave Sinner City, and it seemed that was not meant to be for her. For now that was. Despite this horrible damper on her plans, it did not cause her to lose hope. Sunset knew that one day she will get out of here and find wherever Satan keeps himself.

For now though, Sunset has to abide by the city's laws and she had to go out and find a job. Where does she work? She works at a burger joint. It's her first day, and her just not 'looking forward to it' did not even begin to scratch the surface of how much she dreaded walking into the restaurant that morning.

She had prepared herself in the women's bathroom, taking a long look at herself in the mirror, with her pure black cotton polo shirt and snapback, both having the restaurant's logo of a toppled cheeseburger with red buns. The worst part of it all was the name tag that read 'Sunset Shimmer', which meant that everybody would know that Sunset was an employee at a restaurant named 'Toppled Sloppy'. It was not the most flattering name and Sunset had decided that she would rather be caught dead than ever say that name.

Sunset blew through her mouth to calm her first day jitters. She also lightly slapped her cheeks. "Okay, okay. You got this. It's just your first day at an embarrising excuse for a restaurant chain and that's okay." Sunset began to point at her reflection. "You don't need to impress anyone on the first day. Just get through the day and you'll be fine."

"Lunatic," someone suddenly said.

Sunset stopped what she was doing and looked back at the stalls. There was one with the door closed.

"Excuse me?" Sunset asked.

"You're just talking to yourself in the mirror like a fucking loony. Please stop. It's uncomfortable when I'm trying to take a shit," the occupying demon replied.

Sunset took that chance to finally get out of there. She mouthed to herself, 'Too much information,' before she rushed out of the restroom to take on the day.

Upon pushing the door open, Sunset took the time to get more used to the surroundings that she would have to look at for a decent amount of hours. It just looked like any other fast food restaurant with tables sitting next to large windows, higher tables and stools covering more of the middle area of the restaurant and the soda machines at the ready next to the counters. In addition to all of these generic features, the restaurant seemed to have quite a theme with the colour orange. From the counter and tabletops being made of orange plastic and wood, and the walls covered in orange paint. Aside from Barbed Wire's apartment, this place is one of the brightest places Sunset has seen in Hell by far.

Sunset took her place behind the counter. It was job time, and she had work to do. From now, 9AM, until 5PM, Sunset was to be the cashier woman, and as soon as she took her place and she was ready, her first customer had arrived.

"Oh no," Sunset said, her eyes shrinking.

"Boy, am I a hungry bitch today!" Barbed Wire had just arrived, shouting to the high heavens with a lot of forced excitement, and she had the most evil grin on her face. Sunset was very worried for what she had planned.

Barb strutted right up to the counter. The demonesses had their eyes locked onto eachother, Sunset staring in terror and Barb staring with a terror intent.

Sunset forced a smile onto her face in case she was being watched. "What are you doing here?!" she said through her teeth.

Barb rested her elbow on the counter. "Relax, Sunny. Girl just wanted some breakfast."

"We don't sell breakfast," Sunset quickly replied.

"What kinda place are you running? Fine. I'll have a..." Barb looked up at the flashy menu above Sunset. "A double triple bossy-"

"Don't you even dare!" Sunset seethed. She brought her hands over her mouth as she took a deep breath, and then she blew outwards, letting her arms fall back down as she pointed to Barb with her fingertips. "Is there anything that you actually want, or are you just here to annoy me?"

Barb held up her arms defensively. "Alright, alright. I just wanted to see how my girl was doing at her new job."

Sunset raised her eyebrow, not believing what her roommate was saying.

"...and I wanted a Grand Slopper meal with a cola and no pickles."

Sunset then nodded in an assuring manner. "Right." She pressed a few buttons on her register which displayed a price for her. "Seven forty-nine."

Barb began searching through her pockets, but she then suddenly stopped when she processed the price. "Hol' up. What the fuck? That's too expensive for a fucking burger!"

"Along with large fries and a large drink?" Sunset held onto her blank stare.

Barb didn't have an answer. She rolled her eyes to the right and then back to Sunset. "...maybe we could compromise?"

"Nnnno. Seven forty-nine to go."

Barb held up a finger to stop Sunset. "Nuh-uh. Sitting in."

"To go!" Sunset said harshly, giving Barb a hard glare.

Barb continuously began shaking her head left and right, while at the same time Sunset continuously nodded her head. It seemed that neither of the girls were letting the other one win.

However, the battle of the head shakers was cut short as it turned out that shaking your brain that much was not healthy, evident as both of them began experiencing headaches and a loss of balance.

"Ack! God damn, let's fucking stop," Barb said as she tried to remain up straight while her head throbbed and her eyes became cross. "Just let me stay, please? I won't annoy you for the rest of your shift."

Sunset made an quiet and unsure noise as she thought the offer over. On one hand, Barb wouldn't cause anymore mayhem, but then that would mean that Sunset would be alone at this boring job. On the other hand, Sunset would have company for a while at least, but then the problem there was that Barb could be lying and she was actually going to make this day worse for Sunset.

Sunset came to the conclusion that despite the horrors that may occur, the latter was the more interesting option. "Alright, you can stay in," she told to Barb. "But first, seven sickles, forty-nine skulls, please."

Barb made a pouty face, audibly giving a humph as she dug through her wallet, digging out a ten sickle bill. "You're lucky I'm so nice."

Sunset gave a friendly smile as she rolled her eyes. Barbed Wire was a piece of work, for sure, but she was certainly... charming to say the least. Sunset took the bill and pressed the button to open the cash register, when suddenly the till flew up in the air upon the burger worker pressing the button.

The cash register spun around while mid air, coins and notes falling out of the now open tray, raining down onto Sunset.

"Ouch! Ow! What the heck?!" Sunset was exclaiming as she tried to shield her face. Eventually, the metal rain ended, allowing Sunset to see what exactly had happened. But upon looking up, she saw that the cash register was only now just coming back down, and before she could react in time, it came crashing down on top of her head, sending Sunset to the floor.

"Holy shit!" Barb panicked. She jumped behind the counter and knelt down to her roommate. "Sunset, you okay?!"

Sunset groaned as she began seeing stars. "Just give me five more minutes, Princess Celestia," she said, slurring on her words.

"Princess Cele- what the hell are you talking about?" Barb asked back. An idea crossed her mind to try and snap Sunset out of whatever she was thinking, so she brought up a hand and it came crashing back down, making a loud and painful smacking sound as it collided with Sunset's cheek. "Wake up!"

Upon the hard slap, Sunset had snapped out of her dizzying episode. "Ooh man, what happened?" she asked, rubbing her eye as she sat back up. She caught sight of the metal mess all around her, with coins scattered across the floor and a cash register with a broken button and quickly, Sunset had remembered the events prior to this moment. "Oh... Right. I did that, didn't I?"

"What is going on here?!" a deep voice bellowed suddenly. Barb and Sunset quickly turned around to see a tall and round demon with a cigar in his mouth standing at where no one else but the employees could enter.

Sunset's eyes shrank at the sight of the demon. "Uh-oh," she whispered. In a very swift motion, Sunset stood back up, trying to appear as formal as she could in front of the man. "Mr. Slopper, sir. I'm very sorry, but a, uh... accident has happened. I'll clean it up right away." Sunset then knelt down and began picking up all of the scattered money.

Mr. Slopper was the strict, perfectionist manager of the restaurant and, unfortunately, Sunset's boss. "This barely looks like an accident, Miss Shimmer," he scolded as he shifted the cigar in his mouth to the other side. "I want every penny on this floor picked up ASAP or else you're doing the night shift as well!"

The boss' eyes shifted towards Barb after Sunset picked up the pace. "Well, well, well, if it ain't Barbed Wire. Judging by the situation I'm now seeing in front of me, I'm guessing you had something to do with this, like you're infamous for."

Barb scoffed as she crossed her arms. "Let it the fuck go, man. It's not my fault that you're ice cream machines are so shitty. Might be a good idea to invest in some that actually keep the soft serve frozen, y'know! And no, it wasn't me this time!"

"Then what did happen, if you don't mind me asking," Mr. Slopper replied.

It was now that Barb was at a loss for words. She held a finger up as if she was about to make a point, but then she knelt down to Sunset's level and began whispering to her. "What did happen there?" she asked.

"I don't know. I just pushed a button and then the register flew!" Sunset quietly answered.

It wasn't a lot for Barb to work with, so it seemed that she was on her own for this one. Standing back up straight, she told to Mr. Slopper, "It was just a little accident, so just chill out, alright?"

Mr. Slopper humphed as he crossed his arms. "Fixing 'little accidents' costs money, so don't tell me to calm down when my own shit gets broken!" He then fiercely pointed at Sunset. "And you! Don't fuck anything up!" Afterwards, the big bad boss turned around and headed back to his office.

Sunset and Barb just stood in silence after that whole fiasco.

"Wow. What an asshole," Barb commented, sticking her hands in her joggers' pockets.

Sunset scoffed as she got up from the floor with a small bag of money. "Tell me about it. During my interview, he told me that if a single order is sent to the wrong customers then it was my head."

Barb then proceeded to scan Sunset's face, seeing if any wounds were visible after that hard hit to her head. "You feeling okay, Sunny?" she asked.

"It's really no big deal, Barb, I can take him," Sunset obliviously replied.

"No, I mean after the register hit you on the head. You were out cold for barely a minute and now you're right back up on your feet, fit as a fiddle. A blow like that would have given you a concussion or something." Then, without consent, Barb got uncomfortably close to Sunset and tried to spread her hair apart to get a good look at her dome.

Sunset was caught off guard by Barb's sudden intrusion of personal space. "Hey! What are you-?! Get off me!" With enough effort, Sunset managed to push Barbed Wire off of her.

"Huh, your head seems to be perfectly fine... weird," Barb said. Coming to accept the fact that Sunset was perfectly okay, Barb took back her place in front of the counter where she was supposed to be. "So, you still got my order, right?"

"Yeah, we'll get that to you soon," Sunset responded, now standing in front of another register.

Barb then walked away and sat down at a table by a window. The situation that had just occurred was still looming in her mind, but if Sunset was as fine as she looked, perhaps Barb shouldn't dwell on it so much.

Shortly after Barb left, Sunset saw the front door opening again. Another customer had arrived, this time it being a slim demon with a blue mohawk, that didn't blend well with his crimson skin, and a yellow tank top that reached his knees with a '9' on the front of it. It was a mystery if he was wearing anything on his legs. He approached the counter, resting his arm onto it as he sported an overly confident grin.

"Can I take your order?" Sunset asked.

The demon spoke with a gravely voice, "Yeah, I'd like to have some of those fine buns, sugar." He then winked at Sunset.

"Excuse me?" Sunset asked, her face forming into disgust.

The demon bended further over the counter, getting into Sunset's personal space. "What dya say that we get out of here later and I'll show ya a good time."

She could not believe this. Her first day on the job and already some sicko was trying to hit on her. Sunset was ready to give this guy a piece of her mind, but before she even could, the demon's own face had shock and confusion written all over it. He seemed to be looking deep into Sunset's eyes before he slowly began walking away.

"Y-Y'know what? I-I'm just gonna go," he said before turning around and running out of the restaurant.

Everything was silent all of a sudden. Sunset was left with her mouth agape, trying to process everything that just happened. First a guy digged her looks and then treated her as if she was actually disgusting?

"Jerk," Sunset quietly criticised. She could see him running away in shame in her mind right now.


A couple hours had passed by, and so far it was going very slowly. Sunset hadn't exactly been keeping count, but she knows for sure that not even ten customers had arrived so far. Either business was slow in the morning or Sunset's first job in Hell just so happened to be at a not so popular restaurant.

Sunset's head rested in her hands as she leaned over the counter. Drifting her eyes side to side, there were three demons in the restaurant at the moment, one of them still being Barbed Wire. After she finished her meal, she never left for some odd reason.

Sunset yawned as her eyelids were starting to get heavy. If she started sleeping on the job right now she would certainly be kicked to the dirt, but what was she to do?

With the feeling that no one was going to come over for now, Sunset didn't hold her eyelids back. She let them close as her head began slipping out of her hands.

"Sunset!" She suddenly heard along with the clicking of fingers.

"I'm awake! I'm awake!" Sunset suddenly shot back up. Through her tired, blurry vision, she saw Barb had come over to her. "Oh, hey, Barb. You want anything else, like a dessert or something?" she asked as she stretched her arms behind her head.

"Nah, I'm good. Just wanted to make sure you were awake before I left," Barbed Wire said. "Slow day so far, huh?"

"Mmhmm," was all Sunset could respond with. She rubbed her eyes.

Barb looked down slightly. "I just figured I'd stay for a bit after that whole thing, in case nothing else happened. But it seems everything's fine, so I'm just gonn- Woah! What the fuck?!" she abruptly yelled, taken aback as she looked back up at Sunset's face.

Sunset was surprised by Barb's sudden shocked episode. "What? What's wrong?"

"Girl, what's up with your eyes? They're... different," Barb informed, getting a closer look into Sunset's face. "Go look in a mirror or something and see for yourself."

Sunset looked at her roommate with a confusing stare before she left to go to the bathroom once again. She looked into the closest mirror to the door and then looked into her own eyes.

"What the heck?!" Sunset jumped away from the sinks with a shocked reaction. Barb really wasn't lying, Sunset's eyes had changed with her sclera now being a deep, dark black colour that really brought out her teal irises. "What is going on here?" she asked to herself.

"What's going on is that you're going insane by still talking to yourself!" said the same demoness occupying a stall. She was still using the toilet after all this time.

"Well, maybe you should just let me, instead of feeling that you should comment while I'm having problems of my own, you hairy chested ape!" Sunset suddenly shouted in anger, turning towards the only closed door.

There was a moment of silence before Sunset heard the lock of the stall door turning, only for it to reveal a demoness with a large jacket on and a puzzled look on her face. "How did you know that?"

Sunset gasped and put her hands over her mouth. "Oh my gosh... I-I'm so sorry, I don't know what came over me," she pleaded.

The demon waved her hand at Sunset. "Its fine, I've heard it all before. What I'm asking is how did you know about that? We've never seen eachother before."

It was then that Sunset now realised the situation. That demon was right, Sunset and her have never come into eachother's sights before, and now Sunset made a horrible remark about her body hair without knowledge of the demon to begin with.

Something was definitely wrong.

Sunset apologised once again before leaving the bathroom. The demoness just shrugged and lock the door again, only for some kind of plapping sound to be heard.

Barb just rested by the counter, waiting for Sunset to return. She scratched the side of her nose before Sunset finally came back.

"Barb, I think there's something wrong with me," Sunset commented, slightly beginning to panic.

"I thought so," Barb replied, now walking away from the counter. "C'mon, I'll take you to the hospital."

Sunset remained still as Barb tried to walk to the front door to the restaurant. "I can't just ditch work on my first day! I'll get fired for sure!"

Barb turned back to Sunset, letting out a groan. "Who cares? The more important priority is making sure you don't got some weird disease that makes eyes black. Now let's go!"

Sunset looked back and forth from Barb and the counter. She was probably going to regret this later.


The two demonesses found themselves at an ER, patiently waiting to be called in. Barb leaned back on her chair while Sunset swung her legs backwards and forwards and fidgeted with her thumbs.

Barb took notice of Sunset's uneasiness and placed a hand on her shoulder. "You made the right decision, Sunny," she said reassuringly.

Sunset casted a half-hearted smile. "Thanks. I just hope it doesn't turn out to be anything too bad."

"Don't worry 'bout it. Demons' immune systems make them close to... well, immune to most diseases. Earth diseases that is." Barbed Wire proceeded to lean back once more. Her eyes began to look through the other demons that were with them.

There was one male demon wearing a black tank top with his arms completely gone. Blood was gushing out of his arms all across the floor, but he wasn't making a fuss at all.

And then there was another male demon with some weird outbreak of zits that were the size of water balloons all across his body, and by the look of it, it would be a single pop and that man was as good as dead.

Finally, there was a scrawny, tall female demon that seemed to breath out what seemed to be smoke. Yes, not breathing in, but breathing out smoke. If Barb were to guess, that girl has had a couple thousand too many and now her lungs were literally on fire.

Eventually, a doctor poked his head around a corner and pointed towards one of the many demons. "Mind Melt, please?" the doctor asked for, who paid no attention of the pool of blood that completely covered the floor.

Luckily enough, the demon called was none other than no arms guy. He got up and followed the doctor to his office, finally stopping with filling the room with his nasty red liquid. Sunset had to lift her feet onto the chair as a result to not get her boots covered in it.

Soon enough, Mind Melt, or no arms guy, returned looking better than ever as he seemed to regain his arms, strutting out as he had a big smile plastered across his face.

"Oh-ho man! You would not believe how much this hurts!" he said as he walked away.

Soon enough, the doctor returned again. "Caramba-Mia, please see me now," he requested.

Now it was the zit covered demon that followed the doctor, with his nasty, saggy sacks bouncing with every step he took. Due to the immature mind of Barbed Wire, watching that got a giggle out of her.

"Kinda like being covered head to toe with tits," Barb quietly commented, receiving a punch in the arm from Sunset.

Many minutes later, the demon returned completely free of his fat body zits. "Ay-Caramba! That doctor's really something else!" he cheered for the other three to hear.

"Doctor's really sounding like the bee's knees," Sunset said with hope.

Barb shrugged. "Meh. This is all just general, treatable stuff. It's nothing too big."

"Roadkill, please see the doctor now," the doctor requested for the last demon apart from Barb and Sunset. The demoness got onto her feet and walked off, leaving Barb and Sunset alone in the mostly drained of blood ER.

Sunset and Barb had to wait what almost felt like forever before the girl finally came out, and as she did she was breathing insanely heavily with a distressed look on her face.

"He replaced my lungs with plastic bags! This is not an alternative!" she said before taking off for home.

The two girls just stared wide eyed at the demon as she left. After hearing how exactly the doctor 'helped' her, they both started getting some concerns.

"Intuitive," Barb said.

"This doctor's methods seem to be... well, certainly methods," Sunset added on before looking to Barb. "Will you come in with me? I don't want to be alone if the doctor decides that I need some fancy procedure."

"Fine, whatever," Barb replied.

"Thanks."

The two of them continued their wait. It wouldn't be long now as they were the only demons here now. At this point, the remaining blood on the floor from earlier had dried up, and now the floor had a red, flakey and sticky layer to it. It made Sunset sick to her stomach just from the sight of it, but Barbed Wire remained unphased, as though blood was as common as water in her life. Fucked up, yes, but it is what it is.

But eventually, it was finally time. "Sunset Shimmer, the doctor is waiting for you now."

Barb and Sunset then proceeded, after walking through the nasty floor, to walk to the doctor's office. They arrived at the door, and already some confused eyebrows were raised. The name tag on the door read 'Office of Doctor Doctor'.

"Is this some kind of weird joke or something?" Barb asked.

Sunset didn't reply however. Instead, she just knocked on the door and proceeded inside. Barb followed suit.

Upon opening the door, the girls saw the doctor on the other side of the room with their back turned to them, reading some documents.

"Sunset Shimmer, if I'm correct?" the doctor asked, not looking away from his work. He directed a hand towards a chair. "Please, have a seat."

Sunset followed the doctor's order, leaving Barb to stand in the middle of the room alone.

The doctor was now finishing up with what he was doing, evident by him tapping his documents onto the desk to straighten them. "Now, what seems to be the problem?" He swivelled his chair around to face Sunset.

A shocked gasped suddenly escaped Sunset as she saw that this doctor did not have his face shown. Instead, he was wearing a beaked mask with a head mirror and stethoscope.

The doctor began laughing after hearing Sunset's reaction. "Gets them every time." He stuck a hand out towards Sunset. "Hello there, my name is Doctor Doctor."

"Is that actually your real name or do a lot of people just hate you?" Barb asked suspiciously.

"I assure you, that is my real name. Doctor, followed by the last name which is Doctor," Doctor Doctor answered.

"What's your first name?" It was now Sunset's turn for a question.

"Plague," the doctor said quickly and surely.

Silence then tell upon the room from the complete disbelief from Barb and Sunset. The doctor stayed pretty optimistic, as though he couldn't feel the awkward vibes given off from the silence.

Barb scrunched up her eyebrows. "Doctor Plague Doctor... fuckin', just wow."

"Now it's all really making sense..." Sunset slowly nodded. She then shook her head, realising they were off topic. "Sorry. Anyway, yeah, lately I've been experiencing... weird outbursts of things, I guess you could say."

"Could you specify?" Plague Doctor asked.

"Erm... Random occurrences of super strength and my eyes suddenly changing colour, causing my vision to focus itself on a particular thing..." Sunset listed on her fingers.

"Like they are right now?" the doctor pointed out, pointing towards Sunset's face as her eyes had become the void like they were at the restaurant.

Sunset nodded. "Yup. And there's also... Umm..."

"Healing abilities," Barb jumped in, sticking up one of Sunset's fingers for her.

The doctor nodded. "And how long has this been going on for?"

"Since I arrived here two days ago," Sunset explained. "It's been very random and causing major disruptions in things like my work."

"Hmm. Very, very interesting." Doctor Doctor swivelled his chair back around to his desk and began typing at his computer. "I have an idea of what is wrong with you, but before I come to a definitive conclusion, I need to run a few tests on you. Is that okay with you?"

Sunset and Barb just turned to one another before giving some shrugs and half-hearted 'yeahs' and 'alrights'.

Doctor Doctor clapped his hands with delight. "Excellent! We'll get started right away!"


The doctor had Sunset sit on the examination table with her legs dangling off of the side of it. The doctor approached her with a reflex hammer at hand and steadied his aim as he knelt down to Sunset's knees. Barb just sat in a chair in the corner, waiting this testing phase out.

Now ready, Doctor Doctor lightly swung the hammer towards Sunset's right kneecap, causing her leg to swing out slowly.

Sunset just looked towards Barb with a confusing look, raising her shoulders as to tell Barb that she had no idea what this was supposed to test.

The doctor rubbed the chin of his mask that was probably his actual face. "Interesting," he said before getting into position of the left kneecap next.

Something that caught Sunset's attention was how the doctor was weirdly looming over her legs. "Umm, doctor? What exactly is this supposed to be testing for?" she asked.

But the doctor didn't answer her. Instead, he swung down his handy reflex hammer once again and all of a sudden, Sunset's leg swung with the force of a baseball bat hitting a home run, kicking Doctor Doctor directly into the stomach and sending him flying to the floor above.

"Holy fuck!" Barb exclaimed in both shock and excitement.

"Doctor! I'm so sorry!" Sunset apologised as she suddenly panicked.

"Congratulations, it's a boy!" the doctor could be heard saying from the floor above along with the cries of a baby.


"Okay, so the next test is going to be on that enhanced vision you mentioned," Doctor Doctor said to Sunset. "I just need you to make your eyes all black again."

Sunset nervously laughed. "Hehe... yeah, about that, it happens completely randomly after I blink."

"Then just blink until they do change."

Sunset sighed as she began to blink at a steady, consistent pace. Barb and the doctor watched closely so they can catch Sunset the moment her eyes changed. They stared intently, making Sunset a bit uncomfortable as they were directly in front of her, so they were hard to ignore.

Regardless, the blinking continued for a few minutes with no sign of her eyes having a difference. As a result of the excessive blinking, Sunset's eyelids began feeling tired and her eyes were beginning to feel irritated. It shouldn't be too long now, though.

Minutes keep passing by and no difference has been made in that time. At this point, Barb and the doctor just minded their own business as Sunset sat back down on the examination table, now blinking much slower than before.

Barb looked up from her resting her head in her hand and noticed that Sunset's eyes had changed to black again, but she kept blinking so she must not have noticed.

"Wait, Sunset, stop!" Barb suddenly jumped up, holding her hands out to halt her friend. "Your eyes!"

The doctor perked up excitedly. "Oh! Wonderful! Now let's get this part of the test started!"

"Don't blink in case they change back, alright?" Barb asked Sunset.

Sunset nodded as the doctor went to get fetch something from his desk. He returned to Sunset with a black piece of cloth.

"I'm going to need you to put that on for the time being," Plague Doctor told Sunset.

Sunset paused and looked up at the doctor to see if he was being serious. With the confirmation that he was, she wrapped the cloth around her eyes and tied a knot around the back of her head. She was now completely blind.

"Now, you told me that your vision focuses itself on a particular thing when they're like this, correct?" the doctor asked.

"Correct," Sunset replied.

"So if I am getting this right, this means that you are able to see things without having to actually look them, regardless of place in a room."

Sunset nodded as a response.

"So, with that knowledge, how many fingers am I holding up?"

Sunset placed her index and middle fingers on each side of her forehead to try and help her focus. Her vision was fading back in and she could see Barb and the doctor again, but she could still feel the fabric over her face. She could also see the doctor with his hand behind his back.

Suddenly, her vision seemed to move around the room and now she was looking at the backs of the two demons in front of her. From there, she could see the doctor's fingers.

"You're holding up three fingers behind your back and Barb's giving you bunny ears," Sunset answered with a smile.

"Excellent wor- Hey!" the doctor complained to Barb, getting a giggle out of her. The doctor cleared his throat as he spoke again, "Great work, Sunset. Not only could you see my hand, but you also saw me hiding it. I'd say this test was a success."

"Hold on. I'm getting something else," Sunset said with curiosity. She turned her head towards a wall as her vision focused in something in another room. "I'm now seeing a... janitor raiding a vending machine?"

The doctor gasped and quickly bolted out of the room. "You fat, greedy, son of a bitch! You better not steal all the caramel logs again!"

Sunset took her blindfold off and turned back to Barbed Wire with confusion as she noticed the doctor's absence. Barb just responded with a shrug of her shoulders.


"Now, for the third and final test, we'll test these 'healing abilities' that your friend mentioned," the doctor said with his pants brimming with chocolate bars.

Sunset rubbed the back of her neck. "Yeah, about that, I'm not even sure if I even have healing abilities."

"Bullshit!" Barb interrupted. "That register hit your head like a fucking boulder and there wasn't a dent in your head when I checked! You got some kind of healing ability and I know it!" She turned her head towards the doctor. "Test her out, Doc."

The doctor nodded as a response. "Right. So first, Sunset, I'd like you to hold your arm out while also covering your eyes," he commanded.

Weird command, Sunset wasn't going to lie. But they've learned quite a lot so far, so what was the worst that could happen? She complied with the orders.

"Good," the doctor said. There was a moment of anticipation where nothing was happening for a moment. Then very swiftly, the doctor took out a knife and stabbed Sunset into her arm!

Sunset screamed in agony as she fell to her knees. "JESUS H. FUCK!!" she cried.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?!" Barbed Wire fumed with panic and rage. She picked the doctor up off his feet by the collar of his shirt. "Why the fuck did you stab her?!!"

"Now, now. This is all necessary to the test," he responded calmly. He reached out to Sunset and pulled the knife out of her arm, causing her to cry out loudly again.

"You better find a fucking reason to keep on living or else I'll stick my foot so far up your ass you'll be vomiting shit for days!" Barb threatened as she audibly growled at the doctor.

Sunset riled with pain on the floor as she clutched her wounded arm. She continuously moaned and groaned loudly as she moved around, trying to find a way to either ignore or ease the pain. But then suddenly, she felt another weird sensation in her arm. It wasn't pain, nor was it a good feeling. She didn't know how to describe it, but as she looked at her arm, she could see that the wound was closing all on its own. Sunset watched as her veins reattached, then her muscles reformed and then her skin closed it off. The agonising pain then subsided. Sunset was fine now.

Sunset picked herself up from the floor as saw Barb ready to pound the doctor to a pulp. "Barb, stop! It's alright! I'm fine," she said, putting a hand onto Barbed Wire's shoulder.

However, it seemed that Barb was too angry to listen. "You hurt Sunset, now I'm gonna make you feel the same thing tenfold!"

"But Miss Wire! Look at her now! She's okay!" the doctor panicked, almost pleading for his life.

Despite not believing this little rat bastard, Barb turned around and then she dropped the doctor onto the ground when she saw Sunset standing there completely okay, like Doctor Doctor said.

"Sunset...?" Barb quietly said with disbelief.

"It's okay, Barb. Look, the wound closed off," Sunset said, showing her tempered roommate her once hurt arm. "I actually do having healing abilities, just like you said."

"Wow, that's... amazing." Barb was almost lost for words. She then looked towards the shaking asshole doctor on the floor. "Alright, bitch, that's all the tests you wanted. Now tell us what's up."

Plague Doctor picked himself up off the floor and then cleared his throat. "Come over to my desk and I'll tell you everything." He gestured the girls over to his computer and then jumped back onto his swivel chair and began typing.

"These tests were all just to ensure that you were telling the truth and not just making up some bullshit," he said.

Barb pointed her fist onto the desk, causing the doctor to jump. "You know, you're on very thin fucking ice after what you just did, so I'd suggest you think twice before saying anything else!" Barb said coldly.

"Sorry. Let me rephrase. It's not everyday that a demon comes to the hospital with symptoms like these."

"But what does it all mean, Doctor?" Sunset asked.

"You're a very special demoness, Sunset Shimmer. What these tests have proven is that you have an almost impossibly rare condition known as 'Devilitis'," the doctor announces.

Barb and Sunset looked back at eachother just to confirm that that's what he really said to them. "Devil-itis..." they asked in unison.

The doctor nodded. "It is an extraordinarily rare condition that gives a demon similar traits to that of a devil, much like the lord himself.

"Only very few demons ever get the condition, whether they're born in Hell with it, or they're sent to Hell with it. In this city alone, there are not very many demons with this same condition, the last documented one being diagnosed a few hundred years ago.

"These abilities that you have aren't even all of what this condition gives to a demon. There's not much else known, but a common feature amongst most Devilitis demons are two small bumps that sit symmetrical on any place on their body. Have a look." The doctor turned back towards his computer screen and pulled up a gallery of demons with said bumps. One had them on their shoulders, another on their ankles, on each side of their head and one on their breasts.

"Hehe, bumpy titties," Barb giggled to herself. "So what are these like? Are they tumours or something?"

"No one is sure why demons get these, but it doesn't seem to affect their health in any shape or form. They're just... shitty little bumps," the doctor explained.

"Is there anything you can do about this, Doctor?" Sunset asked.

The doctor shook his head. "There isn't any known cure for Devilitis. All I can do is boast to my other doctor friends that I just found the third Devilitis demon! Yeah baby!" he cheered to his screen.

"What the hell is wrong with you?" Barb asked with wonder.

"Hey! No one ever gets one of these. You're gonna let me have this and be happy about it!" The doctor pointed a finger to Barb's face. "Anyways, my job is done here. Now pay up, I don't do this shit for free."

Barb just stared at the doctor blankly before snapping the finger that remained in front of her. "I think letting you live after everything is payment enough. Let's get out of here, Sunset. Let's leave this piece of shit to his games."

Afterwards, Barb and Sunset left the doctor's office as he began crying like a little bitch about his broken finger.


The girls were now sitting on the couch back at the apartment, both just staring at the ceiling.

"So, Devilitis, huh?" Barb asked.

"Mmhmm," Sunset responded.

"Kinda a shit name if you ask me. If I had to name it anything, it would probably be something like 'Satan-itis'."

Sunset shrugged her shoulders. "Or 'Lucif-itis'."

Barb pointed over to Sunset. "That's not bad. Heh. It's kinda like having superpowers. Its pretty cool."

"You kidding? With my super strength and enhanced vision happening at the most random times? That's only a recipe for disaster!"

"Meh, super healing's cool though," Barb said as she put her hands behind her head.

"Eh, I guess," Sunset replied, unsure.

Afterwards, Barb got up from the couch and walked away to another room. "Anyway, I'm gonna go for a shower now."

"You do that," Sunset said, not moving from her place.

Her mind was racing. The odds of her having some extremely rare condition, giving her special abilities that it seemed that she had no control over. She wasn't going to lie to herself, she felt pretty scared of it all. She especially felt a bit embarrassed about that sudden stabbing caused Sunset to lose herself a bit, showing a side she didn't want free. Sure, Hell is probably the place with the biggest sailor mouths in the known universe, but that didn't mean that she would succumb to it.

Sunset Shimmer, the demoness who didn't want to be, also having superpowers or whatever, it was an extremely strange and scary thing. Especially what with there being no known cure, it seemed that until Sunset did find a way out, she was going to accidentally cause a lot of havoc throughout this journey.

Suddenly, her vision changed once again, her eyes must have turned black. Sunset wasn't exactly sure what she was looking at. It was a cloudy room with what sounded like running water? Her initial thought was that maybe it was a small waterfall, but then the place cleared of it cloudiness and Sunset could now see the silhouette of a female figure.

Upon closer inspection, she made the image out to be Barbed Wire in the shower... naked.

"Ahh! No!" Sunset shouted, trying to cover her eyes. She jumped about the couch, not paying attention to the way she was kicking her legs until she heard a smashing sound.

Her real vision returned to her and she saw that she accidentally smashed the coffee table in front of the couch with her kicks.

"What was that?" Barb called from the bathroom.

"Uhh..." Sunset's mayhem has already begun.


Author's Note

Sorry for the wait on this one. Turned out to be much longer than I anticipated.

Next Chapter: Chapter 6: Soft Spot Estimated time remaining: 7 Hours, 16 Minutes
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