“Get out of our way, human scum,” Adagio Dazzle cried. The former Rainbooms and Flash turned around and saw Adagio and her sisters standing right behind them. She strutted through them towards the horse statue. “Finally, after all these years, we’ve found our way back to Equestria. Now, we will take what is rightfully ours.”
Flash, Rainbow Dash, and Applejack were about to rush forward and stop them from using the portal when Sunset held her palm up towards them, signaling them to hold back. Adagio grinned maliciously as she placed her hand on the portal. The surface of the portal rippled at her touch. However, when she tried to push her hand through it, nothing happened.
Adagio frowned in confusion as she placed her other hand on the portal as well and tried to push both hands through, but every time she tried to push herself through, something seemed to push her back.
“I can’t get through,” she gasped, taking her hands off the portal and staring at it in shock.
“What?!” exclaimed Aria. “Let me try.”
Aria rammed her shoulder against the portal, but she couldn’t pass through either. She rammed it again with even more force, but the portal just pushed back at her with an equal amount of force. Finally, she grabbed Sonata and threw her younger sister against it, but that was no more effective than her last two attempts.
“Ow!” Sonata cried as she slammed face first into the surface of the portal. She peeled herself off the portal and glared at Aria. “That really hurt.”
“What in Equestria is wrong with that portal?!” Aria screamed angrily.
Sunset Shimmer laughed before pointing out, “Did you really think Princess Twilight and Starswirl were just going to leave the portal back to Equestria open unprotected knowing the three of you are here and that you’d do anything to return there? They placed a spell on their side of the portal preventing you three from going through, so like it or not, you’re stuck here.”
“What?!” screeched Adagio. “Ugh! Why, that hateful, self-righteous, old fart!”
“Oh, come on,” Flash pointed out. “There’s no way living here can be that bad. If it was, why did Sunset decide to stay here instead of going back there to live?”
“Because she’s a stupid, sentimental airhead who probably thinks she doesn’t have anything worth going back to,” Aria retorted.
Sunset blinked twice before replying, “Okay, ow.”
“Well, we do,” Aria continued. “She might be all fine and dandy living in a world without magic, but we need it. Do you have any idea how annoying it is to have to actually work for other people’s adoration instead of just taking it from them?”
Everybody except the Dazzlings shared looks with each other ranging from bewildered to incredulous.
“Oh, no, you actually have to work to get what you want,” Applejack sarcastically retorted. “What a nightmare.”
“I know, right?” Sonata obliviously replied. “Before, all we had to do was just sing, and everyone practically worshipped the ground we walked on. I mean, sure, they ended up hating everyone else, but did anybody really care about that?”
“Pinkie, don’t answer that question,” said Sunset, causing Pinkie to quickly shut the her mouth before she could say anything.
“What are we supposed to do now?” Aria growled.
“Ugh!” Adagio screamed to the heavens. “Let’s just go back to the van and practice our new song. We’ve got another show tonight at the bar.”
She was about to walk away and leave it at that when she looked Flash in the eye. Adagio paused as if she had just remembered something she had forgotten. Then, she smiled.
“By the way, Colt Scout, great job going completely berserk and attacking your lady love’s friends,” she said to Flash, the look in her eyes a sickening mix of suggestive and malicious. “That was almost worth the fact we weren’t able to find anything we could have used ourselves, heh, almost.”
Twilight clenched her teeth as her fist began to glow purple. If Flash hadn’t put his hand around hers, she probably would have picked Adagio up and slammed her on the ground. She looked up, her eyes meeting Flash’s.
“Don’t do it,” he wordlessly said to her. “She’s not worth it.”
Twilight nodded and relaxed her fist. The group parted as everyone allowed the sirens to just walk away.
“So, we’re basically stuck with them now,” Applejack noted.
“Eeyup,” Sunset replied just as flatly. “At least they won’t be able to do as much damage here as they would in Equestria.”
“I don’t know. What happened Friday night was pretty damaging,” Twilight spat bitterly before turning to Flash. “Don’t let what she said get to you, honey. That—”
“Wasn’t really me,” Flash finished for her before giving her a kiss on the cheek. “I know.”