Book one of "Who We Become".
Sunset always knew that she was destined for greatness, but she never dreamed of how great she could become. Not until she had seen it - the mirror had shown her as an alicorn. Ignoring Celestia's warnings, Sunset goes l...
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To say that shit hit the fan after Sunset stole the crown would be a massive understatement. Everything had been looking up just the day before, but all at once, everything had gone straight to hell.
To start with, she'd been in Equestria all night. It had been somewhere around midnight when she first went through the portal, then between walking around the Crystal Empire and reading about Twilight Sparkle's perfect little life, the entire night just slipped away from her. By the time she came back through to the human world, the sun was just starting to rise.
Which shouldn't have been a problem. Missing a night's sleep was hardly a concern in the face of everything going on, and she still had three days to figure out what to do with the Element of Magic. But when she came out from the portal, it was nowhere to be seen. Since there had only been seconds in between the crown going through and Sunset going through, her best guess was that inanimate objects travelled through the portal faster since they didn't require any transformation.
Which was a fascinating idea in and of itself, but it didn't really console Sunset much in the wake of her crown going missing. As it turned out, Fluttershy had found it and gave it to Principal Celestia, who didn't even seem to realize that it wasn't the Fall Formal crown. But since she was only incompetent at her job it wasn't convenient for Sunset, she decided to not put the recently stolen crown back on display.
Without any way of knowing where it was, the only option left was to win it back. Which should have been easy, considering she was running unopposed. But then Twilight Sparkle just had to follow through the mirror as well, and lo and behold the Princess of Everything Sunset Ever Wanted just couldn't be kept down.
Sunset had tried, of course. When Twilight announced her plan to run against Sunset, Snips and Snails had filmed her making a fool of herself. Sunset put together a video, which spread through the student body and showed everyone what an idiot her opponent really was. Sunset was positive no one would vote for her, but Twilight Sparkle found a way.
Because no victory of Twilight's would be complete without tearing apart everything Sunset worked for, she'd managed to reunite the school. Worse, she'd reunited Applejack and her friends, as well as became friends with them herself. It wasn't enough to have the pony Applejack, Twilight Sparkle needed both.
And since Twilight was just as useless as Cadance, Applejack and her friends were basically pulling her weight. Twilight clearly didn't know anything about life as a human. Even the dragon that she'd brought along for some reason proved more competent than her; he played the role of a dog perfectly, while Twilight stumbled around on two legs and couldn't seem to grasp how to use her hands.
The first two days had gone so well. Victory had been practically guaranteed for Sunset on Thursday afternoon, but then Friday at lunch Applejack and her friends somehow turned it around with, of all things, a song. Sunset had watched the scene with glee as it started, thrilled that Twilight clearly couldn't manage a real plan
