Rock It. … What, you expected some big cool name for this chapter? I’m a being of Chaos, bugger off will…? Wait. Why the @#$% did I just…? Wait. Did I just get bleeped? Who the @#$% thinks they can bleep me?!
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The portal glows brightly, revealing that Twilight’s machine is working and the portal is now open for easy passage to and from Equestria and the EQG world.
Gotta say, I’m glad we’ve finally gotten to this point. Last couple weeks have been... well, season 4, I guess is the best way to put it.
After that, thing’s were pretty quiet. We spent the last day or so recovering all of Twilight’s stuff from the remains of the Golden Oaks Library.
I offered to use my magic to restore all the things that were permanently lost, but that only seemed to sadden Twilight. She said something about it just not being the same.
Anyway, as much as I remember everyone questioning why the Map wasn’t in Rainbow Rocks, I’m here to say, yeah, somehow, not once have every member of the Mane 6 sat in their personal throne at the same time in all this time.
Right, okay, back to present matters. Just about half an hour ago, Twilight got the message intended for Celestia from Sunset Shimmer telling her about the Sirens.
Gotta say, I cannot wait til the Rainboom clean their clocks, because then I get my turn with them.
“Ah don’t suppose we could join you this time around?” Applejacks asks Twilight as the now official Princess of Friendship turns away from the mirror to face us.
“Better not,” Twilight shook her head, but smiled. “It could make things pretty confusing if Canterlot High suddenly had two of all of you.”
The others all stare blankly for a moment, clearly trying to picture such a scenario in their heads, before smiling and nodding in agreement.
“Of course, Spike and I can still go,” I say, hovering over to the Alicorn. “Spike’s other self ain’t been seen anywhere near Canterlot High at this point in time and as for myself? The other me’s still in hospital recovering.”
“Uh, we can go, right?” Spike asks, clearly not wanting to just assume, even though I know it’s not necessary.
Twilight nods. “I wouldn’t have it any other way. Besides,” she smiles warmly at me, “I’m sure Screwball wants to see how her family is getting along after all this time.”
Hmm. Do I tell her now that I’ve been able to go there since before Sunset took the crown?
Nah! I’ll wait til later; maybe right before we head back the morning after the Battle of the Bands is over.
With all said and done, we head into the mirror, myself being the only smart one out of the three of us and walking through instead of running.
The only reason Twilight goes flying is because she was running through the portal.
One hop through the dimensions via magic mirror later and we’re back in front of the statue of Canterlot High.
We head on over to Sugar Cube Corner and fill the Humane 6 about the sirens, as well as a catch up on what’s been happening in Equestria since Twilight’s last visit.
I, of course, avoid mentioning how I’ve already been back multiple times, or how I’ve brought several other ponies with me.
I hang next to Sunset throughout the how time at the bakery/cafe. I can tell she appreciates it. And, yeah. Remember how annoying the “no offense” thing got when watching the movie? Being there in person makes it even more annoying.
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So, as you can imagine, Twilight’s plan to beat the Dazzlings failed pathetically.
With that the girls all decide to have a Sleep Over at Pinkie’s place. While the girls all hang out, I decided to have a chat with the human version Maud. It was quite the amusing and engaging conversation.
The next day at school... oh, boy. However bad Snips and Snails’ rapping sounded in the movie, it is WAY worse experiencing it firsthand.
Gah! I think my ears actually started bleeding, it was that bad.
I did have to laugh, seeing Sonata getting into the beat, though. That was probably the only good thing to come out of their performance.
I walk with the girls out of the gym to the taunts from the other students, reminding myself that they’re all just under the Sirens’ spell. Once we break it, they’ll all stop being such jerks.
Having lagged behind the girls to walk alongside Sunset, I come around the corner as the girls are moving away from Flash and his band.
“You really think you’re gonna help them?” he jeers out as Twilight and the other head off. “Ha! I bet you’ve know idea what you’re even doing!”
Sunset went off after the others, but I walk slower, glaring at Flash as I pass him.
“And what do you want?” he sneers at me.
I just slowly lift up my right hand and snap my fingers. At once, the door of the locker behind him flings open, slamming into him and sending him headfirst into the wall.
His two band mates look on in shock, before looking to me with fear in their eyes as I glare at the three of them.
“Believe me, I want to do far worse,” I snarl, before heading off to meet with the others, Sunset having already finished her confrontation with the Sirens.
Later on, when Flash and his band have been knocked out of the competiton and he storms off, I’m waiting nearby, smirking.
“Aw, what’s da maddew, Fwash?” I ask in a taunting, babying voice as he passes me. “Upset because a bunch of giwls beat you?”
He stops, whirling around glaring at me, only to freeze and wither slightly under the glare I switched to.
“Well, I guess now I understand why you act like things are fine between you and Twilight later on. You realize what a fucking asshole you are!”
He blinks, slight confusion entering his eyes. “Huh? I don’t...”
I lash out with an arm, grabbing him by the collar of his shirt and pull him close, snarling. “Maybe you realized that you were so heartless to Twilight for no reason, since you never even got to the finals to compete against her in the first place.”
I toss him back, causing him to stumble and fall, looking up at me.
I just snort. “Though maybe I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt. Maybe the reason you lost is because, deep down, the tiniest, itty bittiest part of you knew how horrible you’d been to Twilight was wrong and fought back, causing you to be that littlest bit distracted during your performance against the Dazzling, leading to your loss. Such a shame you don’t ever make it up to Twilight in the end.”
With that I storm off to wait with Sunset as the Rainbooms finish their performance, still so angry at Flash I don’t even pay attention to Rainbow’s ears until Sunset’s run out and tackled her.
As the girls head out to set up for practice for the finals, I hang back to catch up with Diamond and Silver.
As I expected, the small bit of protection I gave them helped them fight off the Dazzlings’ magic after they sang in the cafeteria. Oh, they still got affected by it, but the moment I arrived back here, the protection kicked in, snapping them out of it.
“I can’t believe this is happening,” Diamond says as the three of us walk down the halls, seeing all the arguing between the students.
“Yeah,” I say quietly, hugging myself. “And if not for the timeline needing to flow properly for Sunset’s sake, I’d just turn everyone back to normal right now and give the Dazzlings what they deserve.”
“Oh, you would now, would you?”
The three of us freeze in place, slowly turning to see the Dazzlings right behind us.
Sonata is just giving a normal smile, Aria is smirking, but Adagio is giving us a glare mixed with a confused expression. “You three seem unaffected by our spell like the rest of these humans. Care to explain?” the smile she gives us as she finishes that sentence causes a slight chill to run down my spine.
Quickly glancing around, I see that if it comes to a fist fight, there’s plenty of students around they could make attack us.
I decide to go for the quiet approach, folding my arms. “Gonna have us beaten up like you did Vice Principal Luna’s daughter?”
That causes confused looks to pass over all their faces. “Who?”
I blink. Wait. They didn’t know she was...? Right. Gonna file that away for later.
I just smirk. “Isn’t it obvious, Fish Girl?” Adagio’s right eyebrow twitches. Ooh. I hit a nerve there. Good to know. “I’ve magic too. I come from the Equestria, just like three. Only difference is I chose to come here instead of being booted out altogether like the cheap as bad buys you are.”
Okay. If there’s only one trait from Pony Spoiled I’m glad to share with her, it’s knowing how to get under someone else’s skin. Only difference, of course, is I do it to those who deserve it, not those I see as beneath me.
The look of pure outrage on Adagio’s face is priceless.
I smirk, giving a mocking little wave. “Buh-bye, now. Enjoy losing the competition and your powers.”
“Wait, what?”
With that, I grab Diamond and Silver’s hands and hightail it out of there, leaving those thoughts to fester in the Sirens’ minds.
As the night falls, I bring Diamond and Silver to the stage where the finals will be held.
I decide to sit with them, if only to make sure they aren’t effected due to the Dazzlings having more power by draining the magic from the girls due to their arguing.
As the performance starts, I already have a magical barrier around the three of us.
Once I hear the Rainbooms starting their song, I realize something very important. Leaving Diamond and Silver protected by my barrier, I snap my fingers, popping into the throne room of Canterlot Castle back in Equestria.
Celestia and the guards present are shocked by my sudden appearance.
“Yeah. Sorry. No time to explain. I need to borrow the princess for a moment,” I say to them, before grabbing said Sun Princess in my magic and teleporting us to the EQG world, switching her to a human form and giving her a long white dress to wear.
“I... what...? Where are...?” she stumbles for words, before noticing the group of girls on the hill.
I look to Celestia, my expression firm. “Celestia, what are you intentions for Sunset Shimmer? Do you want her to return to Equestria? Do you feel she doesn’t belong here and should come back to you?”
At once, Celestia looks heartbroken and turns away. “I don’t deserve to answer that question, Screwball. I failed Sunset as a mentor. I never even tried to have her found. I only kept the mirror close... before giving up and sending it to Cadance to watch over instead. Because of me, Sunset has no place to be. She doesn’t belong in Equestria anymore and she can’t have a life here.”
I glance over as Sunset starts walking towards Twilight and the others, carrying the microphone.
“I think what you see next might just change your mind there, Princess?”
Celestia turns around as Sunset starts to sing. We watch as she glows with a red aura, before Ponying Up like the others. I Pony Up again too, oddly enough. Eh. Chaos. Not gonna question logic here.
We watch as the girls all harmonize, their magic reaching into the sky, before forming into the Giant Rainbow Alicorn.
I look to Celestia and can’t help but burst out laughing at the slack jawed expression on her face.
After the Rainboomicorn blasts the Dazzlings, Celestia looks to me with tears in her eyes, but a smile on her face. “Send me home, Screwball. I may have failed, but I’m glad Twilight has helped Sunset find her place.”
I have a feeling there’s more to that, but I do have other matters to attend to, so I nod, snapping my fingers, causing Celestia to vanish as she’s returned to Equestria and her equine form.
As the Dazzlings are booed off the stage, my expression turns cold and I snap my fingers. This has been a long time coming.
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The three Sirens hurried off the stage, running away from the area.
However, they’d barely gotten a block away, before a wall seemed to burst from the ground before them, causing them all to halt in their tracks.
“What in the...?” Aria asked, before a cold wind blew, causing them all to shiver. Their outfits might have been great for a performance, but were terrible for keeping them warm.
“Well, well, well,” a voice said from all around them, sounding both cold and cheery at the same time, an unsettling sound. “What do we have here? Three little evil Sirens without their magic. I hope you don’t think this is as bad as it gets...”
There was a flash, cuasing them all to jump. From within the flash, they could make out the sillohete of someone. As the light faded, they recognised the person. It was that girl from Canterlot High who’d been able to resist their magic like the Rainbooms had.
However, she was wearing a chilling expression. It was a mixture of rage... and sadistic glee.
“Because, I can assure you all, your karma hasn’t even begun to come back at you,” she gave a light giggle that sent chills down their spines.
Adagio was the first to recover, putting on a calm facade. “Oh, really? I doubt your Equestrian Magic could harm us in any way, little girl.”
The girl just chuckled. “Whoever said I have Equestrian Magic?”
She snapped her fingers and suddenly all three girls were butt naked.
They screamed, trying desperately to cover themselves.
The girl just laughed. “Name’s Screwball. And you’re lucky it’s me and not my daddy. I’ve far more restrain than him,” she glared, “though in this case, I might just let loose more than usual.”
Adagio glared at the girl, before she noticed something she hadn’t back at the school. The girl’s eyes, they had no pupils. They were just purple spirals.
Why...? Why was that familiar to here? And why did it remind her of their current nakedness and cause fear to well up inside her.
“Ya know, I was originally going to just leave you three be,” they all yelped, turning around to find this Screwball was now sitting atop a nearby lamppost, swinging her legs back and forth. She then looked down at them, her eyes cold. “But, after you put Vice Pincpial Luna’s daughter in the hospital, close to death, I think I’ll be having a bit more... darker fun with you three.”
“Huh?” Sonata asked shakily, looking from Screwball to her fellow Sirens. “What’s she talking about? We never put anyone in hospital before.” She gulped. “A-and what does she mean “close to death”? We’ve never killed anyone.”
Screwball just snarled, snapping her fingers and reappearing right in front of the trio. “Let me refresh you memories, then, shall I? Black skin, turquoise eyes? Beaten up by a gang? Any of this a ringin’ a bell?”
Sonata blinked, before her eyes widened slightly in recognition, before her mouth opened in horror. “What? Why did she almost die? We didn’t do anything that bad to her.” she looked to Adagio. “We just had those nice big men teach her a lesson, right?”
Screwball blinked, before looking to Sonata, though not with anger, but slightly confusion. “When you say “teach her a lesson”, what do you mean?”
Sonata just shrugged as she continued to try covering herself. “Adagio just said she’d never treat others badly again.”
Screwball turned her attention to Adagio, her glare returning. “So, as far as you know, Sonata, Dagi here just had those men talk to that girl?”
“Uh-huh.”
Screwball glared into the lead Siren’s eyes for several long moments, before speaking again. “Those men almost killed her, Sonata. If not for my magic, she’d be dead.”
Sonata stared for several moments, before her body went cold for reasons beyond being naked outside. “D-d-d-d-d-dead?”
“It would’ve served her right,” Adagio snarled, looking to the youngest Siren. “She humiliated us!”
“No, she didn’t.” They all looked to Screwball, who had fixed Adagio with the most hate-filled stare any of the three had ever seen. “I did and changed your memories to help preserve the timeline. had I known what you’d do, however, I’d have just wiped your minds clean of it and left it as a horrible nightmare.” She clenched her fists. “Now, you will wish it was, Adagio Dazzle, because I’m going to make your life a living nightmare.”
“Wait. What about us?” Sonata shuddered as the girl turned to look at her, though calmed slightly due to the lack of hate in the stare aimed at you.
“From how you spoke, it’s clear you had no idea just what Adagio had those thugs do to her,” she said, her voice still firm, but gentler. “For that, I’ll be sparing you, Sonata.”
“And what about me?” Aria asked, before flinching as she was put under a far colder glare.
“Did you feel bad about what happened to the girl?” Screwball asked, her tone implying Aria be very careful with her next answer.
“Well, I knew she’d been ruffed up, but close to death?” Aria turned and gave a stern glare to their leader. “Seriously, Adagio? That’s just fucked up. Yeah, we thought she’d done that stuff to us, but to have her almost murdered for it? What the fuck?”
Screwballl studied Aria for several long minutes, causing the Siren to fear for her life, before speaking. “Well, it seems you’re speaking the truth, Aria. Much as you enjoy being horrible to others, including Sonata, the idea of murder does disgust and horrify you. While I won’t be as lenient with you as I will Sonata, you’re saved from my full wrath.”
“What?!” Adagio snarled, taking a step forward, her pride momentarily blindly her sense of logic. “You’re sparing these idots and only punishing me?! How is that fair at—?”
She was cute off as a mouth gag suddenly appeared in her mouth. It was one that kept the mouth open. At once, she tried to rip it out her mouth, yet no matter how hard she tried, it was like it was glued there.
Suddenly, her body was held in a magical aura and she levitated a few millimetres off the ground.
Screwball glared with pure hate and glee at the yellow human, her smile sending fear throughout the three Sirens. “They’re getting a pass because they show remorse for their actions, even if Aria’s isn’t anywhere near as much as Sonata’s.”
“Hey!” Aria said indignantly.
“And Sonata seems to have no really understood just how horrible the things you three have been doing,” Screwball gave a stern glare to Aria, “and Aria will be sure to explain all the reasons later, correct?”
The girl in question nodded, keeping her mouth shut.
Screwball turned back to Adagio, her smile sinister. “You, on the other hand, Adagio Dazzle, clearly care not for the pain and misery you’ve caused over your long lives. You’re even proud of it. Well, we’ll see if my personal brand of reformation, designed solely for a Siren trapped in a human’s body, will change all that.”
The predatory grin she gave Adagio caused the Siren to feel compelte and utter fear, renewing her in vain struggle against the magic holding her.
“As for you two,” Screwball turned to the other Sirens and snapped her fingers, their attire from before the finals appearing over them, “leave Canterlot and never return. I know you’ve a large portion of money saved up from over the long years you’ve lived in this world. Use that to get a three-person house. That way, if you feel you can trust her, you can let Adagio return to live with you once I’m finished with her. I’ll be by every couple days to make sure things are going well, got it?”
They both nodded frantically, too afraid to speak.
Screwball nodded back, before returning her attention to Adagio and licking her lips. “This is going to be so much fun... for me.”
Then she did something that made all three Sirens what to hurl. She literally pulled the top of her head off, revealing her brain, which was pulsing and surrounded by what looked like swirling galaxies.
“In ya go, Dagi,” she said with way to much cheer.
Sonata and Aria could only watch as a wind seemed to suck Adagio into Screwball’s brain, like how that boy got sucked into that game in the movie Jumaneji, her screams being cut off when Screwbll reattached the top of her head.
She looked to the remaining to Sirens, smiled, gave a small wave, and vanished in a blinding flash of light.
Aria and Sonata looked to each other, both still very shaken by what they’d just been through.
After a few moments, Aria walked up to Sonata and put a hand on her shoulder. She gulped. “L-let’s get going, okay, Sonata? Let’s start a better life.”
The blue Siren-turned-humane nodded fearfully and they both hurried off to the flat the three had been staying in, ready to leave this experience far behind them.
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“Sure wish you could stay longer,” Applejack says as the lot of us are gathered around the statue late the next morning.
“Me too, but I have responsibilities in Equestria I have to get back to,” Twilight says, not noticing Pinkie come up behind her, stuck her head in through the portal, then pull back out with a googley-eyed expression. “It’s citizens need me. But now, I can go through the portal whenever I need to. This isn’t goodbye,” she smiles, “it’s just goodbye til next time.”
“Which for me is pretty much whenever now,” I smirk, my hands behind my head.
“Huh?” they all ask, looking to me with confusion.
I give them all an odd look, folding my arms. “What? None of you have realized it yet? I’m a being of Chaos, for crying out loud.”
Several moments go by, before Twilight’s eyes widen, before she narrows them at me, saying in a deadpan, “You’ve been able to come here since the first time we went through the mirror, haven’t you?”
I snicker. “Just since then? Twilight, I’ve been coming to and from this world since the day you guys first beat Discord.”
Twilight’s eyebrow twitches. “What?!”
I chuckle. “Again, being of Chaos, Twilight. If Discord has his own dimension he travels to where he lives, why can’t I travel to and from this world and Equestria at will, hmm?”
Twilight’s face starts turning red. “All this time? You’ve been coming to and from this world all this time and NEVER THOUGHT TO TELL ME?!”
I shrug. “Didn’t seem important at the time.”
Twilight gave a loud, exasperated groan as she face palms. “You are just like your father. Anything else you wanna tell me you’ve been hiding?”
I pretend to be thinking about it, with the fakest innocent smile on my face. “Hmm. Can’t think of anything.”
The others can’t help but giggle, Spike included.
Twilight takes several deep breaths, before sighing and looking down at Spike. “Ready?”
He nods, smiling. “Ready.”
She gives me a deadpan stare. “Ready?”
I make a show of thinking about it, before shaking my head. “I think I’ll hang around a little longer. Don’t worry, I’ll be back in time.”
She cocks an eyebrow, whether in frustration, worry or curiosity, I can’t say. “In time for... what?”
I giggle, saying in sing-song, “You’ll see.”
“Great,” she grumbles, before heading through the portal, Spike following right after.
“I’m gonna go hang with Diamond and Silver, kay?” I ask the others, teleporting away before they can answer.