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I’m knocked off my hooves as a crimson-and-gold blast comes off the statue base and disorients me. “Gah, shit, is everyone okay?!” I scramble back up and blink to clear my eyes, half-expecting Discord himself to have just burst from the statue.

“Wait, is that…” Fluttershy trails off.

I squint at the image floating in front of us. It’s not Discord at all; in fact, it’s not even real. It looks like a hologram of—

“Sunset Shimmer?” Twilight takes a step forward and waves her hoof through the hologram of the yellow-and-red pony. The image of Sunset shimmers as Twilight’s hoof moves through it. “What is this, some kind of recording? I triggered it?”

Pinkie trots up to the hologram of Sunset and clops her hooves excitedly, “Oh, I saw a movie about these. ‘Help me, Sunset Shimmer. You’re our only hope!’”

Sunset pays no attention to her, or any of us, and starts talking while looking nowhere in particular. “Hello? Twilight? I can only assume you’re the one that gets this message…”

Second chapter 33 art for the book release of Five Score, Divided by Four. Info here: https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/868820/, https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/884957/

Posted previously at: 2020-05-24T23:11:04