Book four of "Who We Become".
After discovering the magic of friendship, Sunset Shimmer's senior year was one of the happiest times of her life. But it's been almost two years since graduation; all her friends have moved on to studying abroad, to pr...
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"Aah!"
Sunset tumbled to the ground. Her first moments back in Equestria were spent wildly flailing around in a mess of clothing.
"Sunset? Hold still, you're making it worse."
She did stop moving, but not because of the command. She stopped because the voice that spoke was one she'd missed, more so than she had realized.
As someone – probably Twilight – began working on freeing her from the outside, Sunset grabbed hold of her shirt. Or rather, she tried to. Realization struck her as she held her hand in front of her to find it wasn't a hand at all. She pressed it against her cheek. It was hard, but that was to be expected; it was a hoof, after all. She stretched out her arm – or rather, her foreleg – to try and get a better view, but hit something on the other side.
"Ow! Sunset, please, stop moving!" Twilight said, her voice sharpening.
"Sorry!" Sunset did as Twilight asked. She could barely see what she was doing and had lost all her instincts for this body.
Once they were no longer working against each other, Twilight quickly freed Sunset from her outfit. Her smiling face was the first thing Sunset saw properly in her return to Equestria. "Welcome home!"
Able to look around for the first time, Sunset took in her surroundings. She was in a library in what was obviously Twilight's crystal castle. But far more interesting to her was Twilight herself, who was directly in front of her. While she looked very different from how Sunset knew her, the most surprising thing was how little she was surprised. She had seen Twilight as a pony before, but that had been brief and before they were friends. She had expected seeing someone she knew so well as a human to be shocking, but it seemed entirely normal.
"Twilight!" Sunset said, the name bringing a smile to her face. She awkwardly lunged forward and wrapped her forelegs around her friend.
"Hey, watch the hooves," Twilight said as Sunset accidentlly dug one into her back.
"Sorry! Again... This is gonna take some getting used to." Sunset chuckled. She took a good look at her foreleg and hoof for the first time. Strange, yet familiar. She didn't even notice she was still holding on to Twilight as she examined herself.
Twilight returned the hug. "It's fine, just be careful. I missed you too, Sunset."
While the two mares hugged a third giggled and walked up to them. "Hello, Sunset."
Sunset stared at the smiling yellow pony. She knew, of course, that it was Fluttershy. Next to Twilight, she was Sunset's closest friend in Equestria. They had only met face to face once, when she came into the human world with Twilight to visit Sunset some time after the couple's tour of Equestria, but they'd been talking through the journal for over a year. But despite the familiarity, seeing her as a pony again was... odd. In a way that seeing Twilight as a pony wasn't. It wasn't just her appearance that caught Sunset off guard though. 'They have the same voice.'
