SNST

Sunset Shimmer: Origins

Sunset Shimmer nursed a swollen cheek as she walked home from school. She winced every time she touched it, constantly reminding herself that it would be better if she didn't agitate the bruise. Her day didn't have the best of starts, what with sleeping in late and having to settle for toast with a light smearing of jam on top to eat for breakfast as she sprinted to school, and things only got worse when the teacher brought up the subject of academy applications.

The teacher had flipped through the papers he had in his hands with a neutral expression on his face. "Now, I know now it's that time for you all to be sending applications to your preferred universities," a broad smile broke out on his face before he threw the papers into the air like confetti. "But I know you're all going to apply to a huntsman academy!" the class cheered and hollered as many showed off their semblances and quirks. Sunset, however, sat quietly in her seat with her pony ears pinned to her head and she slowly shrank into her seat.

"Don't lump me, and Deku here, in with the rest of these losers." a loud, gruff voice announced, cutting through the commotion of the rest of the class. "We're not going to just any second rate huntsman academy, we're going to Beacon Academy!" The boy with explosively spiky blonde hair then stood up on his desk in a dramatic pose, "Deku and I are the only students worth their salt as a huntsman in this pathetic excuse for a school, and soon enough we'll be the best huntsmen in all of Remnant! Better than Celestia herself!"

Izuku Midoriya, also known as "Deku," smirked as he rolled his eyes. "Classic Bakugou," he muttered.

It was at that point where the teacher laid the hay bale for Sunset's day to go from bad to worse.

"Oh yeah, Shimmer, aren't you applying to Beacon Academy too?"

Sunset's heart jumped and hit the floor as she covered her head with her hands, her face nearly touching the wood of the desk in front of her. The spiky blonde paled in his dramatic pose as Izuku turned around to face Sunset with a curious look on his face, along with the rest of the class. When Sunset looked up from her desk, everyone else in class immediately started guffawing at her expense, saying that there was no way someone like her could possibly make it into Beacon.

"She hasn't even unlocked her aura yet if she has one!"

"What a joke!"

"Come on guys," Sunset managed to say weakly, "There's no rule saying that I can't apply, ri-"

A hand smacked on top of her desk with explosive force, enough to completely break it in half and sending Sunset skittering backward across the room.

"Don't go get any delusions, Sunset." the spiky blonde said dangerously, "You're still a quirkless wannabe. You'll never make it as a huntress. You'd probably die in initiation!" he turned around with a superior smirk on his face. "Face it, you'd be better off as a clerk for some run down dust shop." and he returned to his seat.

The bell rang, and everyone left the classroom. Sunset was the last one out, packing away her things, her notebook being the last thing she put away, but not before it was taken from her hands by one of Bakugou's minions.

"What's this?" The boy said mockingly. He read the writing on the cover. "'Notes on becoming a huntress'? How lame."

Another minion that stood beside the first one laughed heartily.

"Come on, guys, that's enough," Izuku said, taking the notebook from other's hand. He held out the book to Sunset when Bakugou snatched it up from behind Sunset.

"I don't know, Deku, this looks like something worth investigating." He said as he slowly paced towards the nearest open window.

Sunset stood up from her desk. "Come on, Kacchan, give it back."