//------------------------------// // The Plan // Story: Sirens of the Night II // by The Crazed Werewolf //------------------------------// Sonata was snoring quite loudly as three girls and a fat opossum snuck into her room. Everyone else in the house was asleep. They stood around her bed and watched her sleep, illuminated by the light of the full moon. "Does she sleep like this at home," Scootaloo asked as she put her fingers in her ears in an attempt to drown out the roar. "Actually," Aria said loud enough to be heard, "this is a bit quieter than normal." "Definitely quieter," Adagio agreed as she looked at her sister, "I hate to wake her up." "Come on," Aria hissed, "this was your idea." "I thought that Scootaloo would do it," Adagio said. "Um, no," Scootaloo replied, "your idea, you wake her." "Uhhg! Alright," Adagio said, "Tiberius, wake her!" The opossum looked at Adagio, then at Sonata and finally back at Adagio. He stood up on his hind legs, and crossed his fore legs across his chest. He then began chittering away angrily at Adagio. "Yeah," Aria deadpanned, "I could tell you that was gonna happen." "Are you three going to get to the point," Sonata said as she rolled over onto her side, "or are you going to keep me up all night?" "Ahhh," Scootaloo hissed, "she's awake," "Of course I'm awake," Sonata said as she sat up, "you three are about as quiet as an M1 Abrams at a demolition derby." "Do I want to even ask." Aria said, rolling her eyes. "Pinkie's sister, Limestone," Sonata explained, "took Pinkie and I to a demolition derby last weekend. Now why are you three here and not sleeping." "Adagio figured out who Incognito is," Aria said. "Ok," Sonata said as she wiped the sleep dust from her eyes, "whose ass do you get to kick?" "Sunset," Adagio answered. "Ok, that's nice," Sonata said as she laid back down. The other three girls looked at each other and Aria silently counted down from three. "What do you mean that Sunset is Incognito," Sonata nearly screamed as she sat back up. "Exactly what it sounds like," Scootaloo said, "I brought the demon back." "It wasn't just you," Aria said. She was worried that Scootaloo's anguish over what she had done to Sunset would summon another demon or cause the demon to jump hosts. "I'm sure that we may have had something to do with it," Sonata said, "we did turn both our mom and Aunt Tia against her." "Yeah, we fucked up okay," Adagio said, "now how do we fix it?" "I have an exorcism kit I could loan you girls." All four girls jumped at the sudden voice. Slowly they all turned and looked at the door. Leaning against the door frame was Andromeda. "You girls aren't the quietest bunch," Andromeda said, "you're lucky that your grandfather served on Navy Carriers, and that your mothers are both teachers." "Why are you awake," Sonata asked. "Nata, I can hear a mouse scurry across the kitchen floor." Andromeda said. "We're so busted." Scootaloo sighed. "Why don't the four of you join me in the kitchen and tell me what is going on," Andromeda said, "I'll make hot cocoa." It took nearly an hour to tell their grandmother everything that had transpired since the Fall Formal, and part of the information was incomplete or faulty since only Scootaloo had been at CHS at the time and the other three girls had heard about through hearsay. "Thanks for filling me in," Andromeda said, "I only know what Celestia and Luna have told me." "Mom told you about us," Aria said. "She told me that you three turned what was going to be a student showcase on different types of music into a battle of the bands," Andromeda said, "while I have nothing against some competition, using it to drain the energy from everyone so that you could return to your world or to rule this one is wrong." Sonata, Aria, and Adagio looked at their grandmother with their eyes wide and their mouths agape. "I know that the three of you and Sunset have been exiled from a magical world where ponies are the dominant life form," Andromeda continued, "Sunset stole a crown from that world which turned her into a raging she-demon then she tried to turn the students of CHS into a zombie army." Then she looked at Scootaloo. "Your mom told me that you and some of your friends used the school's social media service to frame Sunset," Andromeda said, "and to make the other students think that she was spreading rumors and secrets about them." "And now I brought back the demon," Scootaloo whispered, "I'm losing my sister just as I found her." "You're not going to lose your sister." Sonata said. "Sunset beat the demon before," Adagio said, "she can do it again!" "I don't think that she did defeat it before," Andromeda pointed out, "from what Celestia and Luna have told me, it took all of your friends and it did damage to Sunset's psyche. I think that it was just weakened before and everything that happened provided it with what it needed to regain it's strength." "So how do we defeat it," Scootaloo asked worriedly. "We beat it as a family," Adagio said confidently, though in the back of her mind she had no idea how to defeat it and free Sunset. No one around the table noticed the slight glow that the gemstone around her neck was giving off. "However you defeat this thing," Andromeda said, gathering her granddaughters hands into her own, "I know that you'll do it together." "Can we borrow that exorcism kit you mentioned earlier," Aria said, "we may need it." "It's older than I am," Andromeda said, "it's from the witch trials of the Sixteenth century, I doubt that it would work." "Eh," Aria said, "it was worth a shot." "When do we do this," Scootaloo asked. "We should wait until we get home," Adagio said, "something tells me that we are going to need our friends for this." "Let's not blast Sunset with a Rainbow Laser again," Scootaloo said, "I don't know if she could handle that a second time." "Yeah," Aria said, "that hurt the first time, I can't imagine that it would feel any better on the second go around."