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This story is a sequel to Recovery


Sunset Shimmer is a genius. Sunset Shimmer is also a complete idiot when it comes to love. Rarity has learned this the hard way. Feeling down, she has Applejack meet her at the park so she can talk and vent.

This story shares continuity with the Recovery Arc, but is a non-canon side-story.

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Why, WHY must this be non-canon?

Rarity is right, Applejack arriving on a tractor because of the car thing is many levels of perfect.

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Applejack driving a tractor was great. How fast is that thing, anyway?

Poor Rarity. And poor Sunset, who still feels pretty damn broken...

shattered by the arrival of a tractor, belching black smoke out its top-mounted exhaust pipe

Triggered.

So this isn't part of the arc? :trixieshiftright: It definitely fits right in...

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Triggered.

But, but... that's how tractors are designed ! :eeyup:

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How fast is that thing, anyway?

Orange triangle means the vehicle's speed does not exceed 25mph (40km/h). Or 40mph (64km/h) on a highway. I'm using the lower number because that's how I learned it. Regardless, slow tractor is slow.

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So this isn't part of the arc? :trixieshiftright: It definitely fits right in...

It does. And it is. But it also isn't. I promise I will explain. Let's just say I wasn't joking when I referenced the Zelda series after you convinced me to get off my butt and create THE GUIDE. Speaking of which, I need to add this story.

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Orange triangle means the vehicle's speed does not exceed 25mph (40km/h). Or 40mph (64km/h) on a highway. I'm using the lower number because that's how I learned it. Regardless, slow tractor is slow.

And how long was Rarity waiting?

The tractor, for its part, sported an reflective orange triangle

Yay, you did your research! (I never thought that OSHA training would pay off, haha)

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I'm in a rural state and used to live out in the sticks. It's normal to see farm vehicles on highways here.

PS: Thanks for catching that "a/an" typo. It's fixed now.

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And how long was Rarity waiting?

Forever, as far as she's concerned.

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Ah, that makes sense! I had to do OSHA for school; it was torturous. Also, I didn't notice the typo, but I'm glad you caught it!

I will laugh for several minutes straight if Rarity literally starts smacking Sunset with a rolled up magazine (figure it makes more sense for her than a newspaper) the instant she enters her apartment.

<< Rarity lowered her head. “That, I don’t know. Maybe? Over the past several months I’ve been given such conflicting information and no one is willing to just up and tell me anything!” She pounded the quilt with her fist. >>

- Literally me struggling to get over some details from your stories.
I'm serious, while your stories are great, you can remember the several questions I asked because I didn't get your point of view, like; you're the writer but I don't see the story the same way you do.

It is because you keep mentionning this secret with only half-answers, mirrors and smoke to finally reveal it one day or it is just so casual and not as important as we should think, to just being mentionned just as "the thing about Sunset ('s age maybe?) that could bring a lot of trouble to many people"?

<< “Well, like I said before, she hides a lot about her past. She has a fake ID that says she’s 25, almost 26. That can’t possibly be true, but something she said on our burrito date back some months ago suggested maybe it is. Plus there’s her exemption from school rules and something about quid pro quo? I feel like if I prod too much, it may destroy everything I’ve worked so hard for. Sunset may come to hate me, and I don’t think I could take that.” >>

- So, the big deal that could bring a lot of trouble and not only to Sunset, is because she's older than it seems, or we'll have to wait until everything will be revealed? Or it is a fake ID and she's eighteen, and then it's another secret about something else?

Since Flash said "With age comes experience", I assumed she was indeed older. Now I'm back to square one with everything being said about Sunset's age, but no, here comes a fake ID that makes everything harder to understand, unless she's even more older than the age on her ID.

I'm not reading your stories again and again for fun like before, but to see every link to another and every mention of a moment that happened in a precedent one, all comments and answers that might help me and being avoided to ask again.
Like I'll read immediatly the burrito date story where Sunset mentionned something about her age.

It's wrecking my brain, and I feel bad because it ruins the entertaining I've always felt with you.
I don't know if other people feel like me, but maybe, you could do something like this to clear everything once and for all?
https://www.fimfiction.net/blog/819016/shallow15s-equestria-girls-timeline-updated-7-11-18

Thanks.
Be sure that I didn't wanted to seem too harsh and mean, but I'm trying to wrap this since a long time, and each story brings more questions than answers or avoids it at all.

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Oh dear. I'm so sorry. The last thing I want is to frustrate my readers. :applecry:

I answer your questions in the story where Rarity finally gets her feelings through Sunset's thick skull. I need to rewrite that story anyway in light of certain details I introduced in stories I wrote later but take place before (like this one), but I'll also make sure to settle these swirling "what"s you have.

It's my failure as a writer. I'll try my best to fix it.

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I didn't forget that you already changed a part of a story because I didn't understand, and it shown how you care. That I won't forget.

It's not your fault alone, people may have understood things that I didn't.
I can't blame you for every thing I don't understand, even if it's recurrent.

I know you'll do it fine, and you don't have to change something else this time.
I don't want to ask too much from you, maybe it's just that I can't wait properly or just a little explanation is all I need.

Thanks again for listening.

“Well, not quite,” explained Applejack. “She was too busy with… sumthin’… to help one-on-one, so she wrote up some cheat sheet notes for Rarity to copy and give to the rest of us. That gal really knows how to make book learnin’ easier.”

She sure does.:twilightsmile:

“She should,” Flash said with a half-grin. “Sunset has a lot of experience tutoring. I’m kind of surprised she didn’t ask any you to pay her. I mean, that’s part of how she can afford that apartment.”

That's just ridiculous, pay someone to be your friend. :ajbemused:

“Okay fine. You’re right. Let’s put it this way – I will do anything for my best friend. Within reason of course. If it means I have to spend the morning breaking a stupid regulation after a night of no sleep to keep her out of trouble, then I’ll do it.”

Guess that's why she's like that. :rainbowhuh:

“I’m… pretty sure I don’t need to worry about that,” he said. “Besides, the head of the camp is a really cute redhead. After striking out three times in the past year, maybe the fourth time will be the charm?”

I don't think gloriosa is a good choice for you flash.

“Sunset ain’t got a clue, does she?”

But hopefully she will eventually. 🤞

Much to nearly everyone’s chagrin, the tractor slowed until it settled into a parking space – two, actually – between a pair of high-end silver sedans, one of which had a “Baby On Board” sign on its rear windshield. The tractor, for its part, sported a reflective orange triangle and a sticker that read “I Brake For Horses” and another reading “No Farms No Life”. Its driver, a young girl with tanned skin and a long blonde ponytail, sporting a green-&-white shirt and faded denim skirt, hopped out of the driver’s seat. Once on solid ground, she adjusted her brown Stetson hat and spat on the pavement.

I have so many questions now why applejack arrived here via a tractor. 😧

She plodded over to a nearby knoll with a single elm tree on it. Underneath, on a plush pastel quilt, lay another young girl of the same age. This girl wore a full-length full-sleeve periwinkle dress, purple boots, sunglasses, and a straw hat to cover up as much of her alabaster skin as possible – she had noticeable blobs of sunscreen on the parts of her that were exposed – plus, she had styled her waist-length purple hair into braided pigtails.

Huh, didn't know rarity liked pigtails. :applejackunsure:

“I don’t even know why I’m surprised,” Rarity said. “This is you. This is who you are. This is what you do. I should learn to expect this by now. I should learn to expect a lot of things. Yet, nevertheless, I inevitably end up disappointed and/or at a loss for words.”

Sometimes it's best to keep those thoughts to yourself rarity.

Rarity held up her finger. “Yes, but she only sees me as her best friend. She doesn’t seem to realize I want more. The sexy photoshoot I did for her , which she said made me look beautiful, convinced her that I was chasing after some boy.”

Wait, she did that for her. I didn't expect that 1 bit. :pinkiegasp:

Applejack nodded. “I really hate to put it this way, but you gotta buck up and just tell her how ya feel. If ya don’t, I’m worried yer gonna snap, and that won’t be good for either of y’all. Maybe… you should take Flash at his word ‘bout smackin’ ‘er upside the head seventeen times with somethin’. She’d definitely get the message then.”

Yep, I think it's time you tell sunset rarity. :fluttershysad:

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