In another timeline, in another place, Sunset Shimmer walks along the beach, ready to meet her boyfriend and her friends near the pier.

She enjoys her first weekend as a college graduate. Sunset has settled permanently in the human world. She has plans for the future too: a promising starting career, a new apartment, a boyfriend that has just proposed to her, her friends are together in the same city. She has come to terms with her own mortality and that the best thing she can leave behind is a legacy. Sunset smiles at the prospect of getting married and having children…and at how she might some day tell them that their mommy was actually a mare from another dimension… or not… she giggles a bit. Sunset is completely oblivious at the fact that two agents, Michelson and Morely, from a secret organization called the PER have just thrown a vial of ponification serum at her…