The school was all aflutter with cameras, equipment, and people. Five or six students were assigned by principle Luna to loiter around the portal. Just to make sure none of the investigators got particularly close.
Sunset stood before the chaos in a state of anxiety. Each detail of the investigation was like a burden on her shoulders. All for Rainbow Dash, but her state was no better. She too felt the stress, seated on the curb. She didn’t feel like talking to her idols, learning about how they operate, or have any real fun at that moment.
“It’s pretty chaotic here,” said Sunset as she sat next to Rainbow on the curb. Behind her was the black van that Deathtrap Daisy and Daring Do were functioning out of.
“Yeah, at least if they’re here. I’m pretty sure the sirens won’t try to mess with anything,” added Rainbow.
Sunset was quick to reply. “Are you sure you should be mentioning you know who in front of the suspicious black van?”
“Don’t worry, they’re wearing those giant spy headsets that van people wear,” Rainbow turned to the side of the van. “Oh my God! UFO! It just took Flash – see nothing.”
Applejack cringed. “That still makes me nervous. Look at everything. It looks like there’s a hostage situation or somethin’. There’s a computer lab sitting in the middle of the football field.”
Constable and Banner pulled up in the armored car and stormed out with a steel suitcase. After bolting to the door of the van, they pounded on the door loud enough for the crew to hear regardless of headwear.
“Daring Do, we have a problem.” Banner said to the woman who opened the van’s door as he held an open and empty vessel. He and Constable were immediately pulled into the van.
The girls standing outside the van were terrified. It was abnormally quiet for a few seconds while Sunset, Rainbow and Applejack stared at the tense van. Sunset spoke up, “We have to tell them.”
Rainbow kicked on the door of the van with similar ferocity as Banner and Constable. The door opened to the stern face of an explorer whose net worth went down around $400,000. “What now!”
“I think we know what happened and I think I know how we can help,” Sunset was ready to come clean.
“So my gems were stolen by three mythological creatures from another world disguised as human girls.”
“Close enou—“
“And you yourself are some sort of extra-dimensional creature that has somehow assimilated perfectly to our society.”
“Well, there are some—“
“And your friends all have superhuman abilities because of magic rocks you wear around your necks.”
“Yeah!”
“Bull. Shit.” Daring Do was just about done with these insane, lying girls until Sunset grabbed her arm in a last ditch effort. She saw a flash of light and a stage, three vicious sea serpents dashed around her. She went further back. The adventurer felt a great sense of power and looked down upon six fearful teenage girls until she only saw the sky from the bottom of a pit. Her sight then turned to an alicorn, a term she suddenly knew. She felt Sunset’s frustration as well as all the awe she would feel upon seeing another world for the first time. Sunset knew what she had done so she released her grip.
Daring Do snapped out of her haze after a brief pause. “So, I guess that magic stuff must be absorbed through the skin. Daisy, grab me the Narcan pen and some charcoal.”
This frustrated Rainbow Dash. Just after Daisy could grab the needle, a bag of grilling charcoal landed at her feet. “There. That enough? If not, I could go back to the store and grab another.”
Banner, Constable and Daisy all stopped in their tracks. Daring looked somewhat unphased until she saw her colleagues. “Did you see it too?”
After a few quick nods, the adventurers were ready to negotiate with the teens. “All right. I’ll bite. I’m an open-minded person. Anything we can do to get those gems back that doesn’t make it look like I lost a priceless piece of history to three teenage girls?” Daring Do knew it might look bad that one of the greatest defenders of history in recent times lost one of her museum’s most prized possessions.
“It’s not that simple. The sirens are actually hundreds of years old and they want the gems because they think they can reclaim their mind control powers,” Sunset’s knees were pointing inward and her voice was crackling showing Daring Do and her posse that she was legitimately concerned.
“Mind control powers?” Daisy interjected. “Is that why they sing? They’re like—well sirens I guess. So we need ear protection.”
Applejack had an idea. “Y’all’s headsets—“
“We have enough for five of us.” Now Daisy was somewhat excited for the hunt. “Banner, could grab my Arctic Warfare from the van and the tranq darts we were gonna use on the Tasmanian Tiger?”
“That ain’t exactly what I had in mind. I reckon only one of us needs the headset and nobody needs to be tranquilized.”
A group of people between the size of a contingent and a mob walked down the middle of the street leading up to Canterlot High. At its epicenter walked three girls with renewed confidence. “So sis, do we want to add a few more to the entourage or is this a good enough human shield to get to their magic?” Questioned Aria.
“I think this is good. We went for the long term too much last time. Sometimes you just need to hold some unruly girls down with an angry mob until you can bleed them dry of magic.” Adagio realized the apparent risk to using brute force. At any other time they chose to use it, they usually had angry mobs turn on them in response. But in a scenario where everyone already knew who they were, it was the only option.
“Can we stop by a drive through Dagi?” It was taco Tuesday after all.
“Just because were enclosed and moving down a street does not mean were in a car, Sonata,” It crossed Adagio’s mind that if they were to gain enough power, they could split the world and not have to deal with each other. “Besides, we’re nearly at the school.”
Approaching the school, something that sounded like a blue jay cawed from behind one of the bushes twice. Adagio held up her wrist to stop everyone. “Aria, did you hear that?”
“Yeah. Kinda reminds me of… 1812? Are you implying were about to be attacked by Mohawk?” Aria questioned sarcastically.
“No, but I think whats-her-face is trying to show off her explorer experience a little too hard,” Adagio started into her singing voice:
I think we have a spy
Adventure chick, please rise
We’d just love to say hi
Daring Do arose “Yes Ma’am?”
“Wonderful, we have a few questions for you. We could start with what your plans might be for today?”
Deathtrap Daisy stormed into the gym. “I got the call. They’re here! There were two caws so they must have other people with them.”
On a small whiteboard were the words “Are you ready Rainbow?”
The sporty girl was in a sprinter’s pose in a track uniform with the headset duct taped to her head in multiple layers. A thumbs up indicated agreement.
Daring Do soon followed Daisy into the gym, “They’re by the statue. About six of them or so. Let’s start the ambush in the main lobby. I brought the AW in case we need it.”
Dash stood by the trophy case jogging in place while Daring do called a huddle. “All right, in case any of you guys need to use this I’m going to teach you right now. Load like this. The tranq darts are a little bigger. Aim with both eyes open. And…” A dart stuck right out of Rainbow Dash’s side. Daring Do knocked out Applejack with the stock immediately after she fired knowing that she had strength. She swung around with the rifle hitting Daisy on the side of the head. Constable knocked her down with two quick punches but it was too late. The sirens’ song began.
Rainbow Dash was already disoriented. Deathtrap Daisy’s ears were ringing. She saw the three sirens singing out commands to their new slaves. Banner grabbed Sunset Shimmer and several other strangers followed suit. Adagio mouthed words to her and pointed at Rainbow Dash. She staggered over to incapacitated girls as she started to gain back her hearing.
Upon reaching her, she stabbed Rainbow with the very needle that Daring Do had demanded to help treat what, at the time, she believed to be a Sunset Shimmer induced opioid trip. As Daisy passed out with the needle in her hand as Rainbow Dash awakened with unfettered rage.
Adagio, Aria and Sonata stood perfectly still in their ecstasy along with their frozen posse. Rainbow Dash rushed for their necklaces using the her speed. A few microseconds later, she freed Sunset and started to dial 911 for Applejack and Daisy before she realized that phones were not perfectly responsive.
The sirens finished blinking to find themselves in a very different situation. Coughing out a few last disjointed notes, they saw a very angry Rainbow Dash and a confused mob of people. The situation was all too familiar to them. They sprinted towards their car, but none could out-sprint an enraged Rainbow Dash.
Police were at the aftermath this time. They may not have wanted to reveal evidence of magic, but they did have two very bruised girls that were more than willing to testify that three teenage girls just seemed to snap under the pressure of having all the cameras and talk of aliens around.
Rainbow Dash and Sunset sat on the tailgate of an ambulance. The group of adventurers approached. Daring Do tossed a book into her lap. Subutai’s Blitz four months before its release date and Daring Do’s first attempt at alternate history. Before Rainbow even finished the cover she was already gone. On the inside of the cover, four signatures and the phrase “Sorry I shot you” filled the space. Daring always did have a difficult time apologizing.
Rainbow passed out. “Can we get that overdose pen back?” Yelled Sunset.
All of the Rainbooms sat on a couch ready for the new episode of Earth’s Enigmas. This one was special. This one was advertised for heavily, especially in the town.
“So they don’t get into too much detail of what we do here do they?” asked Rarity.
“We got Daring Do’s personal assurance that we appear as just really brave normal girls,” assured Sunset.
“Isn’t that pretty much what we are?” posited Applejack.
“I guess. We’re just awesome,” replied Rainbow.
Twilight was perhaps the most excited. “I can’t believe you guys met Daring Do!”
“I got a copy of Subutai’s Blitz for you too Twi.” Rainbow pulled the another signed copy from her coffee table. Twilight felt greatly tempted to watch it during the show.
“How many did they give you?” wondered Fluttershy.
“One for all of us who were there. Plus they covered my hospital bill,” Applejack had a slight grin about this. “We got like $6000 worth of stuff out of them.”
Rainbow smirked, “I don’t know what you’re talking about. I think that adventure was priceless.”
Daring Do and Deathtrap Daisy were staying in a shack. This time it wasn’t a tent in the Australian Outback or a Cave in Arizona, but a rather luxurious shack on a beach in Oahu. “Don’t you think it was a great idea to indulge Banner and do a ghosts of Pearl Harbor episode, Daring?” Daisy was unpacking onto her bed.
“I think I’m forced to agree, Daisy.” She stopped applying sunscreen to notice what Daisy was unpacking. “What did you bring the gun for this time? It’s brought us nothing but trouble in the past.”
“Banner wanted to go Megalodon hunting,” Daisy swiftly repacked it. “You’ve seen Jaws right?”
Just at the moment that Daring was about to roll her eyes, a shotgun blast blew the lock on the door. Banner kicked down the door and turned is back to the wall to face outside. Constable back peddled in firing a barrage of rounds outside with his sub-machine gun.
Banner looked at the girls with what could most easily be described as crazy marine eyes. “They’re here! I told you they were coming!”
Daring Do leaped into action towards the window. Mechanical suits and a hovering vessel scanned the beaches with strange tools in hand.
“They’ve trapped the whole state in a force field. We were at Wheeler Airfield when they attacked. The Navy is engaged off the coast,” Constable tossed Daring a handgun. Daisy unpacked her rifle again.
“Well. I guess it wouldn’t be a Daring Do Adventure if nothing preposterous happened,” Daring Do loaded up and grabbed her wip and hat. “Let’s dance.”