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Sunset Shimmer was a wiser mare.In terms of subjective time, she had spent decades, years spent cramped in identical benches in identical classrooms, with the same handful of teachers. She had discovered on her second class that the teachers weren't smart enough to tell if she was paying attention to them, and they'd never move on until she responded to their questions and took their tests.Thus, with a few mental tricks she'd learned from Celestia, Sunset could ignore the mental compulsion trying to force…-
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The school that had once belonged to the builders was a different place. Gone were the crowds of "students," milling through the halls in the imitations of life. Gone were whole wings of the building, which took up resources without contributing to Sunset's purposes. The physical area of the entire shard had been reduced, from the miles she had been able to wander with Jackie to an area only about twice the size of the school itself. Even then, she'd removed every house, every building, and the simulated…
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It was an incredibly unpleasant experience; the first genuinely uncomfortable thing Sunset had experienced during her time in the infinite realm. It felt like her whole body was being torn, compressed, ripped apart. Her thoughts struggled for a moment, like everything she thought was immediately forgotten. At least the sensation didn't last that long, expelling her from the void lacking sensation or thought and onto a field of rolling hills as bright and cheerful as anything in Equestria.Sunset landed,…
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“I want out,” Jackie said flatly. “We all do. But just because we want what you’re offering doesn’t mean it’s possible. I want you to explain exactly what you plan on doing. I’ll tell you if it’s feasible. Then.” She pointed back at Bree. “She’ll promise to shut her damn mouth, and you’ll change her back. Got it?”Sunset hesitated a moment, considering. Then she nodded. “If she wants to, sure. I’ll agree.” There was little chance of that, at least if what she thought she’d…
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Sunset stared down at her marshaled legions, grinning with pride. True, it was a waste of resources to give them bodies the way she had, a waste to detail them and give them realistic responses—but as it turned out, the school's ghosts worked better when they had bodies.No location in the school was large enough for the soldiers she had created, so Sunset had added back the wide expanse that had once held simulated houses and roads with empty cars from nowhere. She hadn't bothered with any of the…
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Sunset Shimmer wasn't going to wait any longer. She struck. Not with the sword—that would require crossing the room, making her intentions clear. It would also require the will to kill someone, which she lacked. She would not make herself into Nightmare Moon, no matter how justified her cause became. With the Element of Intellect serving her, the resources of thousands of minds and all the power of their thoughts, it should be easy to defeat even a determined enemy. She attacked unconventionally,…
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After what had become of Sunset's escape from the Infinite Realm, she hadn't expected to return to Equestria. Despite Tesla's words, she'd seen enough of the way humans did things to suspect he was not being honest. Her rebellion, however doomed, created an inconvenience, and he wanted to be rid of it. She hadn't thought he cared about getting information from her.But a trip back to the school, some time disarming her defenses, and she was already on her way out of the Realm for good. Not that I really got…
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“That’s it, Joe.” Archive was bloody, weary, and broken. She had healed so many wounds that she no longer had the magic left to spare. She had seen so many ponies die that she couldn’t abide the pain anymore. She wanted to lie down on the stone of Mundi and give up. Charybdis would sweep over them and consume all that she loved, but at least she could rest. “That’s it.”Joseph’s workshop used the same design it had back in ancient Alexandria—a university closer to its original namesake in…-
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To call the battle apocalyptic would be a terrible understatement. Unlike those initial specters she had summoned, her two armies were intelligent, powerful, and filled with rage. Her army of dead ponies, revenants instead of wraiths, were even more powerful than the Romans, though they traded a little rationality in the bargain. As Ironblood had pointed out, it was hard for such a creature to feel anything but rage. In time, Archive suspected they would feel nothing else.But they retained their minds long…
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Alex Haggard woke on the edge of the Supernal Sea surrounded by old friends. The crash of the distant waves faded into white noise. There were numberless concourses of people here—some of them were ponies. For all its terrible might, the Stygian Key was undone.“I’ve wondered for a long time if there was anything up there,” Archive said, staring off across the sea. She saw the center of everything, the core of magic that existed at the heart of the galaxy. The same force that had killed so much…
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