"THIS ISN'T FAIR!" Adagio bellowed in a rage as she was pounded mercilessly by the animal lover. Adagio wasn't nearly as skilled of a fighter as Aria, but she could still put up a good fight. But she couldn't do that while fighting to keep a dozen birds from pecking at her eyes. "BATTLES SHOULD BE FOUGHT HONORABLE-" Fluttershy responded by giving the siren princess a vicious yank on her big hair.
"HOW DARE YOU!" Fluttershy shrieked in indignation, painfully tugging on the siren queen's voluminous mane. She let out a moan of pain. "YOU MEANIES BEAT UP A LITTLE BOY, AND NOW YOUR WHINING ABOUT 'FAIR'?!" Fluttershy proceeded to punch the siren with the fist that was yanking on her hair. It added to the pain. "YOU STUPID. CHEESE PUFF. WITCH!"
Fluttershy was normally a stickler for the rules. Almost annoyingly so, as Rainbow and Zephyr pointed out whenever they wanted to do something stupid and she called them out for it. But after being bullied for so long, she learned you can't fight meanies by following the rules. Meanies don't care about rules. Adagio was the biggest, dumbest meanie she ever met. She nearly killed a little girl just to hurt Timmy. She would never, ever fight fair. All she cared about was power and getting what she wanted, no matter who she had to hurt.
No, Fluttershy couldn't let 'fair' control her. She needed to be unfair if she wanted to win this fight. She needed to be unfair if she wanted to save her friends and Timmy. Fluttershy cared for him like she cared for Zephyr.
Sure, Timmy may have fed her to a worm, and ran away from her and her friends when she was trying to help him. But she forgave him. Not just because it was the right thing to do, or because Timmy was a kid. Fluttershy understood Timmy. She understood why he did the bad things he did.
Fear.
Fluttershy lived in fear for most of her life. She knew first hand that fear could make a person do crazy things. Fear could make you think that a jacket in the closet was a monster who wanted to eat you, that a dumb meanie was tougher than they looked, and that North Dakota actually existed.
Zephyr Breeze acted like an idiot sometimes, but only because he was trying to be tough in a world that hated him just because he was a boy who wanted to cut hair. Underneath his weird manbun was a scared little boy.
And poor Timmy had so many things to be afraid of; bullies, meanie supervillains, dumb grown-ups, and protecting a bunch of fairies he considered his family. Like Flash said, you could only go through so much before you went crazy. And these monsters used his fear to control him.
With another whitstle, Fluttershy summoned a vulture, who proceeded to claw at Adagio's face while Fluttershy pounded her stomach some more. If Adagio wanted to be scary, Fluttershy would become the scariest person in the world.
All the while, Sonata continued to be assault by birds.
Princess Twilight stood on a nearby roof, watching all this with awe. Back home, she knew Fluttershy could be scary when pushed too far. Fluttershy was the only being she knew who could win a staring contest with a manticore. But still, she was amazed as seeing the human version of her friend was mercilessly thrashing Adagio and Sonata and siccing her animals on them.
"Not hurting Fluttershy seems to be the law of every universe," Princess Twilight quipped. A moan interrupted her thoughts. Princess Twilight bent down and saw a barely conscious Rainbow Dash lying on the ground, letting out a gasp of agony.
"I'm so sorry Rainbow," Princess Twilight said with deep regret, bending down to comfort the prism haired friend by patting her head. Princess Twilight knew about healing spells, but she had already drained her reserves trying to fight Adagio. Princess Twilight thought of fighting Sonata, but she was too exhausted physically to do it. For now, all Princess Twilight could do was soothe her athletic friend.
The four Rainbooms once again formed a human ladder with Applejack at the bottom and Sunset at the top. Sunset was currently making a bargain with one of her most detested foes.
A red brick.
"OK Brick," Sunset said to the red object in her hand. "I don't like you and you don't like me. But for once in our lives, let's put aside our differences and do the right thing." After a brief pause she whispered, "but we won't tell anyone, especially Rainbow Dash." She began leveling the brick, preparing to throw it so that it would break through the glass trapping the fairies. Suddenly the fairies began pointing somewhere. Sunset raised an eyebrow when Pinkie happily yelled, "Look guys, it's Timmy-Wimmy!" Sunset cocked her head in that direction and what she saw made her drop the brick in shock .
Onto Applejack's foot, who let out a grunt of pain.
The brown-haired boy suddenly appeared in the room. After dreading what was happening to him and worrying about finding him, here he was.
But he wasn't looking too good. It was clear the Dazzlings did a number on him; his eyes were black and swollen, a massive cloth was used to gag his mouth, his face and nose were covered in bruises, and he was tied up with rope. Not to mention his balance was so shaky, it almost looked like he couldn't stand on his own power. Sunset would normally be horrified, but she was just so happy to have found him, she put it aside. Timmy must've escaped while the Dazzlings were fighting Princess Twilight, Rainbow, and Fluttershy, the smart little thing he was.
"Timothy, darling," Rarity exclaimed happily. The other Rainbooms also smiled with a combination of relief and care. Sunset was so happy she immediately jumped off of Rarity's shoulders and ran toward the boy. She and the other Rainbooms were so euphoric, they failed to notice the relieved expressions of the Fairies gave way to fear and panic. They also failed to notice Timmy was mumbling something through his gag with fear in his eyes.
Just before Sunset could happily pull Timmy into a badly needed hug, he was suddenly yanked away. All of a sudden, she heard an all too familiar sonic blast and the creaking and snapping of metal from up above her head.
"SUNSET! ABOVE YOU!" She didn't know who yelled. But she looked up and saw a giant medal ball falling toward her. She just stood there like a deer in the headlights as-
WHAM!
The massive iron ball crashed through the floor, the floor below that, and finally crashed onto the hard basement with a very loud thud. The Rainbooms stood there in shock for a few moments as they tried to process what had just happened to their friend. But the shock was broken by Pinkie Pie whispering in a broken voice. "Sunset?" But no amount of staring could change the fact that Sunset was no longer present. Where the former unicorn stood was just a massive hole in the wooden floor.
"Now she's Sunflat!" A nasty voice cackled. The Rainbooms, horrified tears running down their face, looked up and saw Aria Blaze grinning viciously from the balcony. "I had good bait," the purple-haired siren chuckled, dangling a crying Timmy with a fish pole, "and ol'Sunny fell for it hook, line, and sinker."
All of the Rainbooms cried in horror at what happened. But soon their tears went from fear and horror to anger. "You...you monster!" Rarity shrieked in terror, her tear soaked. "You killed Sunset!"
"Come on down here and face my wrath!" Pinkie challenged the second oldest siren. Applejack didn't say anything, standing eerily still like a statue.
Aria, however, refused to take the bait. "Hmm, why don't you come up here, you dumb hick?" She asked in a mocking tone." She then opened her mouth, took a deep breath, and let out a sonic breath at the ceiling, knocking more debris off the ceiling. Rarity and Pinkie Pie ran for cover, but Applejack continued to stand still. "Applejack," Rarity shrieked, "what are you doing!"
Applejack knew the world could be a rotten place: The farmer girl had dealt all kinds of varmints and con artists: thieving birds, rats, the Flim-Flam brothers, and the occassional pear farmer.
But since she and her friends had entered Timmy's life, Applejack had seen some especially loathsome people: that horrible wench who called herself a babysitter, that idiot teacher who saw the buck-toothed boy as nothing more than a tool for power, those peppy happy fools who had no business being near children, a bunch of spoiled snobs who were all money and no honor, and his parents who seemed to treat him like a burden to dump on others. And seeing so much pain in his life filled her with more and more rage that she could barely contain. Timmy may not have been perfect, but he didn't deserve any of it.
But these sirens took the cake. But she never encountered creatures so foul in her life. Not even Sunset at her worst ever filled her with so much rage. They lied to the poor boy, turned him against Sunset, played dirty tricks with his mind, used him while pretending to be his friend, brainwashed his friends and family into hating him, and took away those fairies who were clearly the boy's kin in all but name.
And then they sunk to lows she never thought possible: threatening to seperate him from his fairies, making up complete horseapples about building a better world, beating that poor child like an egg when he had the nerve to refuse, and throwing the girl he fancied from a building.
And now...
Now...
They had taken from Sunset from her. Sunset may have done terrible things, but she turned her life around and had become one of Applejack's most loyal friends. And now she was...
Seeing Aria's cruel smirk, the sound of her remaining friends weeping, the horrified expressions on those fairies, and the sound of poor Timmy wailing with a gag in his mouth...
Something inside finally Applejack snapped. But it wasn't just her pent up rage that came out. It was a power she had, but that she could not access....until now. And power that could only be gained through a righteousness born of anger.
"AAAAHHHHH!" Applejack screamed, baring her fists as the debris came toward her. But instead of crushing her, she crushed the massive projectiles with her fists. The massive chunks of falling metal crumpled and broke to pieces, with them flying off.
Everyone looked at the apple farmer with shock. Rarity, Pinkie Pie, and the fairies looked at her with relief, while Aria looked at Applejack with a horrified expression. Applejack looked down and saw the brick Sunset dropped. Her anger was replaced with sinister smirk as an idea came to mind. Soon the tears of her friends faded as they collectively came to the same idea.
"Do it Darling!" Rarity urged her apple farmer.
"For Shimmy and Timmy!" Pinkie Pie urged.
With that Applejack picked up the brick and threw it at the orb containing it. Bricks were a poor projectile even for someone as strong as her. But endowed with the magical strength of 500 men, it was like throwing a tennis ball.
"NO!" Aria bellowed. She tried to fly toward them, but it was too late.
The orb shattered and the fairies were free.
"YAY!" The fairies triumphantly declared as they floated down. "WE'RE FREE!" The two flying creatures floated over to Applejack, gratitude in their voice, when Applejack held up her hand. "Pleasentries for later," Applejack said in a low solemn voice. "We've got a pest problem to deal with!" The fairies understood, at the euphoria faded as they turned to face Aria.
Their faces were soon stone as they approached the siren in midair. Her once confident expression was replaced with panic. But the fairies had no mercy left for her, their cold expressions sharpening as they saw the mistreatment their precious godchild had been put through. Even Cosmo, the ever cheerful and oblivious soul, was devoid of any humor. These sirens had put them through so much torment, and now they were going to pay them back with interest.
Timmy's terror and tears faded. Despite the agony he was in, as soon as he saw his fairies, a smile form under the gag. The fairies readied their wands, prepared to unleash unrestrained magical fury on Aria Blaze.
Or they would have, had they had their wands on them.
"WHAT?!" The fairies exclaimed. Aria's fearful expression was replaced by smugness. And Timmy's hopeful expression faded. With a smirk, Aria unleashed a sonic wave at them, blowing them across the room and slamming them into the wall.
"You didn't think we'd let you keep your wands on you?" Aria replied with amused incredulity. "They're in the far corner of the dresser over there." Aria frowned, realizing in her smugness she spoke too much. "Adagio's right. I have to stop gloating," Aria muttered in annoyance while The Rainbooms heard that and started running toward the dresser.
Aria snarled and she entered the race against the Rainbooms. She wasn't going to lose to these human losers.
Sonata loved adorable birdies. She loved eating sometimes when she didn't have access to tacos. But she didn't like it when they started eating her. "OW! OW! OW!" Sonata whimpered. "Leave me alone!" But the birds wouldn't. Soon more birds showed up and she was practically being swallowed by them. If only she could sing a lullaby...
Wait a minute.
She could sing a lullaby.
Using a soft voice, Sonata let out a song. When she was young, it helped her sleep when she had a nightmare. Now it made the birdies want to rest there little heads too and soon they started dozing off and falling out of the sky. No longer being attacked by birds, Adagio could finally fight Fluttershy without any distractions. But Fluttershy, despite losing her flying friends, was not going to be stopped. Sonata's mouth turned into a mean smirk as an idea formed in her brain. "OH NO," Sonata yelled so loudly, Fluttershy could hear, "THE POOR BIRDIES WERE FALLING FROM THE SKY! WHO WILL SAVE THEM?!"
Fluttershy heard that, and immediately turned her attention away from Adagio, her concern for her animals overcoming her own preservation. Big mistake. Adagio immediately seized the initiative, pulled Fluttershy close to her face, and proceeded to blast Fluttershy with her sonic wail at point blank range.
Fluttershy felt she had been hit in the head with a hammer as she was blown away. She could barely keep herself awake, let alone stay airborne. But still, she worried about the poor birdies. She looked and...
Saw they were flying away, much to her confusion.
"Don't worry." Fluttershy saw the youngest siren hover in front of her an adorable smile. "I woke them up from their little nappie, and told them to go home, because I could never hurt poor little birdies," Sonata said with a genuine kindness in her voice. But then it faded, replaced with a bone-chilling smirk that a child who crushed ants for fun would wear. "I can hurt meanie-mean pantses who hurt my big sister!" She let out an angry sonic blast. Fluttershy was too hurt to fly away and was blown against a nearby factory wall so hard, she was embedded into it. Fluttershy coughed and fell unconscious.
Adagio flew up to her sister, a proud smile on her face. "Well done Sonata," Adagio said with genuine kindness in her voice, "I am so proud of you." Sonata smiled genuinely again. She liked it when Adagio said nice things, and her smile grew brighter as Adagio patted her on the head. Adagio cocked her head and smirked. Sonata turned around and saw a short distance away were the idiot princess next to the unconscious athlete. "Now shall we deal with the so-called Princess?"
"YAY!" Sonata cheered. The two sisters flew toward Princess Twilight with vindicative joy on their faces. The princess looked up and saw that she was surrounded and without any allies. The scared look of the now defenseless and exhausted Princess was music to the ears of the siren sisters.
Aria tried to throw debris at the idiot Rainbooms from up above. But every time she threw something, Applejack destroyed it with her fists.
Applejack picked up a massive stone, planning to aim it at the siren with malicious intent. "Welcome to the corner of Pay and Back," the apple farmer said ominiously. She tried to throw it, only for Aria to use the brown-haired boy as a human shield. Applejack snarled at her. "COWARD!" she bellowed. Aria smirked and let out a sonic attack. Applejack barely dodged, but felt it sting her leg. It appeared while Applejack's newfound super strength gave her tremendous advantage in physical attacks, she was still vulnerable to a magical attack. Aria smirked and let out another one at Applejack, who was the biggest threat with her strength.
"Applejack," Rarity screeched, jumping in front of her rustic friend to protect her from attack. The fashionista, out of reflex, held up her arms and...
Nothing. Rarity opened her eyes and to her shock, saw some kind of weird screen form in front of her eyes. To her confusion, a weird diamond-like thing had formed in front of her, only to dissipate.
Aria was shocked again and felt her face turn red in frustration. "YOU RAINBOOMS HAVE ALL THE LUCK!" Aria growled in a rage. Timmy, despite his pain, couldn't help but find some amusement in the siren's anger.
Rarity agreed. She was lucky. But she didn't care. She smirked and looked to her farmer friend with a devious grin on her face. "You want to be the sword?"
Applejack smirked. "And y'all want to be my shield?" Rarity nodded. The two girls turned to Pinkie Pie. Nonverbally, they communicated what needed to be done.
Pinkie Pie and Aria raced toward the drawer at the end of the room. From the air, Aria tried to either bombard the pink haired girl with projectiles or throw a sonic attack at her, only to be defended by Applejack's super strength and Rarity's new diamond shield power.
Aria became increasingly enraged as that pink-haired clown got closer and closer to the drawer. This wasn't how it was supposed to go. She and her sisters were so supposed to be getting the wishes they want. In a desperate attempt at victory, Aria tried to dive toward the cabinet headlong at super speed.
As Pinkie watched this, she felt time slowdown. She saw that meanie Aria diving toward the cabinet, with poor Timmy-Wimmy in tow. With an angry frown, and with quick thinking, she knew she had to put a stop to this.
"Hey Meanie!" Pinkie bellowed, pulling some confetti out of pocket. "Leave him alone!" The confetti flew through the air and slammed into Aria's eyes, blinding her.
"MY EYES!" Aria shrieked, "My beautiful eyes!" While trying to rub the confetti out of her eyes, she dropped Timmy, who was thankfully caught by Applejack. She gently placed the boy on the ground and began untying and ungagging him.
In her panic, Aria flew past the cabinet, shrieking in agony. "How can this get any worse?!" She bellowed. A massive confetti blast blew her back into a nearby wall, much to the shock of everyone else.
"I don't know how that happened," Timmy said as he was untied, "but I'm not complaining," he finished.
"Neither do I," Pinkie said with a shrug.
Applejack looked at the barely conscious siren with an angry scowl. She walked over to Aria, yanked her out of the wall, and crawled on top of her. Aria looked up fearfully at the Apple farmer, who looked at her with a cold scowl. "It's time I gave you a little taste of love," Applejack raised one fist, "and tolerance," and raised another fist.
"NO, WAIT!-" Applejack did not wait, and started pummeling Aria, her screams and moans echoing. The other Rainbooms and Timmy watched this thrashing with no small amount of joy.
"TIMMY!" Everyone's attention turned away from Aria's beating and saw Cosmo and Wanda flying over to them with joy on their faces. Timmy, despite his pain, smiled the biggest smile of relief in days as he opened his arms. The fairies and the boy held each other and hugged, almost on the verge of tears.
"I believe these belong to you," The Fairies turned around and saw Rarity graciously handing their wands to him. Both of them were touched, and began unleashing a plethora of thank yous to the Rainbooms.
"What'll it be Timmy?" Cosmo asked his godchild. Timmy's eyes wandered to the hole in the ground and his face steeled into resolve as he prepared his wish.
"I wish Sunset was OK and that everything was back to-," a massive blast blew Timmy, the Rainbooms, and the fairies back. The force was so strong, it pushed the Rainbooms against the wall, leaving them in a tired daze, pushed Timmy to the floor, and knocked the wands out of Cosmo and Wanda's hands.
"NO!" They both exclaimed in terror, before another big red blast blew them against the wall, knocking them out cold.
Timmy pulled himself up, his face going white as he saw who entered the room.
A very angry Adagio and Sonata flew back into the room. To Timmy's growing horror, they carried three of the other Rainbooms in their arms, defeated and horribly beaten. Once they landed to the ground, the two sirens roughly dropped the Rainbooms to the ground.
Applejack was so busy beating on Aria, she didn't notice Sonata approaching her until it was too late. Applejack saw her and tried to attack, only for the ponytailed siren to throw another anti-magic net around her. The net let loose its magical blocking energies and Applejack's newfound strength was gone. Aria pulled herself up, wiped her lip, and began beating on Applejack in revenge.
Timmy saw the wands lying on the ground and tried to crawl over to them, only for very sharp heel to stomp on his hand just before he could reach them. Timmy let out a scared sob as she saw who stood over him.
Adagio's face was covered in bites and scars and stared down at the boy with a cold gaze, which didn't change, even as she dugged her heel deeper into the boy's hand.
"AHH!" Timmy wailed. A sheepish smile formed on Timmy's head. "Want to settle the wands over a nice game of tic-tac-," Timmy's protest was stopped with a merciless kick to the head.
"Pathetic," Adagio sneered.
Rainbow woke up, feeling cold water splash over her face.
"Wakey-wakey, eggs and bakey!" Rainbow, hearing the voice of Sonata, jumped up from her daze. Or tried too, since she found herself trapped in a net. The same magic nets the sirens used against them. In front of her, the Dazzlings stood over her, smug and happy.
To Rainbow's growing terror, she saw her friends were trapped in anti-magic nets as well. Timmy was once again tied up, and the fairies were trapped under a butterfly net that had been pinned to the table. Rainbow noticed something else that filled.
Sunset wasn't there.
"Where's Sunset?!" Rainbow screamed at the sirens, trying and failing to rip the net apart. Her panic grew, seeing the forlorn expressions on everyone else's faces. "What did you do to her?!" Adagio merely gestured with her head toward a hole in the ground. "You, you, YOU MONSTER!" Rainbow screamed, angry tears rolling down her eyes. The other Rainbooms, Timmy, and the fairies also began weeping over what had happened. "How could you do that?!"
Adagio's face was devoid of any pity or remorse. "I'm not a monster," the eldest siren said in an even voice. "I'm just an animal in the forest looking for the next meal. Sunnybun stood in my way, and so I had no choice. It's nature at work."
"Yeah, get over it you whiny babies," Aria said with more malice in her voice. "Sunset's gone, there's no possible way she could've survived that."
"There no possible way I could've survived this!" Sunset said with utter confusion.
If Sunset knew anything, is that she was lucky.
She was lucky to have been blessed with magical ability and power.
She was lucky not to have been banished to the moon, or least given a written warning for openly plotting treason against a sun-wielding magical princess.
She was lucky to have brought tons of bits and gems with her into an unfamiliar world, otherwise she would've been on the streets begging for change.
She was lucky to have turned an entire school in on itself without anyone realizing it until she had everyone under her thumb.
She was lucky to have not been expelled or chased out of Canterlot with pitchforks and torches after becoming a demon, causing property damage, and parking in the faculty lot for the third time in a week.
She was lucky that the girls she tormented gave her companionship.
She was lucky to have beaten the Dazzlings and been given the acceptance she wanted from the CHS student body.
She was lucky to have been rescued from being turned into a worm.
But Sunset knew her luck should've run out sometime. Having a two ton metal ball dropped on you, being pushed through two stories of wooden floor, and finally crashing into a concrete basement should've been the end of her good fortune.And yet against all logic, reason, and physics, she survived without any broken bones, scratches, or even a bruise. She knew she should've been grateful, but this kind of luck was just so stupid and ridiculous, it kind of annoyed her. However, not that everything was all hunky-dory. She was still trapped under a metal ball that was far too heavy for her to move and stuck in some kind of basement in the middle of an abandoned factory.
"Well at least I have my-," Sunset reached into her pocket, only to find her cell phone missing. "NO, I LEFT MY CELL PHONE BACK IN MY APARTMENT! THIS IS THE WORST.POSSIBLE. THING!" Sunset felt her forehead fall into her face. "How could this get any worse?!"
"But now, it's time we claim what is rightfully ours!" A sinister female voice uttered from up above. Sunset looked up in panic, remembering the situation, and realizing her friends and Timmy were still in danger.
"And since we can't get this to work," Adagio continued, holding up both wands in her hands, "and since TImmy refuses to give us any more help, we'll have to do this ourselves. Aria?" Aria took the wands and walked over to the table.
"What are you doing?" Fluttershy asked fearfully. Without another word, Aria began slamming the wand heads against the table. The two fairies and Timmy looked at this with terror.
"STOP!" Cosmo, Wanda, and Timmy wailed in desperation. "NO!" Aria ignored them, continuing to smash the wand heads against the hard surface. Gradually, the wands began cracking near the head. Taking a huge deep breath, got on the table and started stomping of them instead. "YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT YOUR DOING!" Wanda screeched at Aria.
"Heck, I barely know what I'm doing!" Cosmo commented.
With one last kick, the heads of the wands had been severed from the handles, breaking with a crack that echoed throughout the room. The wand heads clattered to the floor, but nothing seemed to happen. The wand heads laid inert. Yet the Rainbooms, Fairies, and Timmy remained alert and anxious as they watched Adagio and Sonata pick them up.
"Wait," Wanda pleaded.
"We don't care," Aria grunted as her elder sister handed her a wand head. The three siren sisters let out a strange chant. "AH-HA-AH-AH-AH-HA!" Their magic flowed into the wands. For a moment that seemed to last an eternity, nothing happened.
All of a sudden, the wand-heads starting glowing yellow. It wasn't the calm yellow, but an ominous golden color.
Cosmo and Wanda looked utterly horrified. "OH NO!"
"What's happening?!" Rarity wailed in terror. The other Rainbooms started shaking as well.
A most vicious smile formed on the orange-haired siren's mouth. "The power that once belonged to the fairies, a power we've long coveted," Adagio said in a demented purr, "belongs...to...."
"Us."
A massive light burst forth from the siren trio. The Rainbooms, Fairies, and Timmy shut their eyes. When they reopened them, they saw a horrible sight. A powerful golden aura surrounded the Dazzlings. They smiled a mixture of euphoria and cruelty as a massive energy surrounded them.
"At last!" Adagio gushed.
"I've never felt so full!" Sonata chirped.
"This world is ours now!" Aria declared.
Another bright light engulfed them.
The entire abandoned factory exploded as a massive form burst through it. Everyone shook with terror as they took in the Dazzlings' new form. It was the combination of a giant movie monster and the Dazzlings' old sea monster forms. It was covered in scales, clawed feet, a large tail, and six clawed hands. The creature was gold colored, scaly, and as tall as a seven story building. A red jewel the size of a dinner table was embedded into the neck of the beast. It glowed with an ominous green hue. It had three sets of arms, with massive-human like hands with large claws coming from each one. It's feet were like that off a dragon with sharp claws. Three massives head jut out from the creatures torso, their necks as long as a school bus, and their heads as big as a shack. They all bore an incredible resemblance to the Dazzlings in their old Equestrian forms. The mean-spirited sneers on the faces of the three heads only added to the menace.
"At long last," Adagio purred, "we have shed our inferior human forms for something more worthy of our...power."
"Except for the hands," Aria gushed, moving her set of arms. "We really like those."
"Yeah, their good for eating tacos," Sonata said. "I wish I had one." Suddenly, a massive taco appeared in her hand with a poof.
"And we have magic!" Aria gushed.
"Our new form deserves a new name!" Adagio declared happily. "One worthy of beings as wondrous as us!" Adagio thought it over. "We are now...Megasiren!"
"Really?" Sonata asked. "I wanted to be Superlizard!"
"I want to be Dazzling Deluxe!" Aria boasted. "Superlizard is...the worst!"
"You're the worst!" Sonata argued.
"No you!" Aria threw back.
"You!"
"You!"
"Y-"
"Enough!" The two heads of Sonata and Aria were painfully knocked together by Adagio's arms. "We are Megasiren, and that's final!" The two younger siren sisters reluctantly agreed.
"Now where were we," Megadagio muttered. She looked down and saw the Rainbrats, Timmy, and the Fairies looking up at them with terror.
"Oh right," Megaria muttered. "Dealing with the pests!"
"Man it's amazing how we made all this debris," Sonata, commented looking at the devastation from the factory they destroyed ,"and nobody got hurt!"
"Sonata, no one cares," Megaria muttered.
"I'm just saying, somebody should've been smooshed!" Megasonata uttered.
"I've been maimed, demoted, and burned!" Crocker muttered as she pulled himself up. "Well, at least in can't get any worse!"
"OH NO!" Crocker screeched, holding up his one good arm in a feeble attempt not to get crushed. "not again!"
It...crashed harmlessly beside him. Crocker looked at the debris in confusion, which gave way to joyous relief. "For once, my ability to tempt fate has not cost me." Crocker heard a roar and saw some giant three-headed monster suddenly emerge from the ground. "A monster that could destroy Dimmsdale with its mighty terror," Crocker declared. Then a happy smile formed on his face as he pulled out a camera. "And I get first dibs on watching its destructive rampage! Score one for Team Crocker!"
Megasiren looked down at the shaking group with sheer joy.
"Now that I have the power of the wand, whatever shall we do with you?" Megasiren asked, looking at the trembling Rainbooms. The magical teenagers said nothing, just looking at the monster with sheer terror.
"I know," Megaria muttered. "We should give them...the worst fates they could ever imagine."
"We wish," Megasonata uttered. The three sirens cackled as the Rainbooms were poofed away one by one, screaming their heads off as unknown terror awaited them..
Applejack woke up and found herself in some weird town. "Wah, howdy stranger!" Applejack pulled herself up and saw some goofy-looking man in a green pear costume approach her. "Welcome to Pear City, Georgia. I'm Felix Lump of the Tubba-Lump Pear Company."
"Pears?" Applejack hissed fearfully. Applejack looked around and, to her horror, this town was obsessed with pears. There were pear farmer markets, pear balloons, and pear shaped homes.
The man smiled, oblivious to Applejack's growing terror. "That's right. Pears as far as the eye can see. You can do a lot with pears, the greatest fruit ever. You can cook 'em, fry 'em, make 'em into a pie, wear 'em as a fashion accessory. There's...pear omelettes, pear candy, pear.....
"AHHHH!" Applejack shrieked, running away in sheer terror, much to the shock of Lump. "I'll say," the man said with a smile. "That girl must really love pears. I'm gonna find'er and give her some more."
"Hey, it's our old buddy Pinkie PIe." Pinkie pulled herself up and saw herself face to face with Gary and Betty, to her annoyance. "Welcome to Camp Learn-A-Torium fat camp," Betty said obliviously.
"Fat camp," Pinkie whimpered fearfully. She looked around and saw poor, fat children forced to do brutal exercises under mean guards.
"What's that, piggy?" One cruel guard said with hit boot on a boy's head. "I can't hear anything you say until you give my 500 pushups."
"Doesn't this violate civil rights statutes," the fat kid asked wearily.
"Oh," Gary said with horror in his voice. "He said a 'no-no' word. Which means he gets to do 1000 pushups."
"You heard'em piggy!" The boy started doing them painfully, much to Pinkie's horror.
"Yay!" Betty cheered. The two clowns turned to Pinkie. "Now we can help you start eating nice and healthy," Gary said happily.
"Want some nice, juicy brussel sprouts," Betty said, presenting the disgustingly healthy vegetables to Pinkie.
"NOOOOOO!"
With the Rainbooms gone, Megasiren turned its gaze to the three remaining nuisances. The three heads glared in particular at the quivering brown hair boy.
"Leave Timmy alone," Cosmo pleaded, his concern of his godchild overcoming his fear.
"PLEASE," Wanda screeched in terrified desperation, "we'll do whatever you want, just-,"
Paying the fairies no mine, Megasiren roughly grabbed the crying boy from the ground and lifted him up. Timmy started crying in terror. "Oh poor baby," Megadagio remarked with false sympathy.
"He needs a widdle bottle," Sonata said, her voice devoid of its chirpiness and full of abashed mockery.
"I wish we didn't have to hear his whining," Megaria remarked with annoyance.
POOF!
A dog muzzle suddenly appeared on Timmy's mouth, making his whimpering unheard, except for a tiny moan. Megaria smiled. "Well that was convenient."
"Look at me boy," Megadagio ordered the brown-haired child. Timmy, in too much pain and terror, couldn't. "I SAID LOOK AT ME!" His gaged whimpers grew even more as a clawed hand roughly yanked him by his hair to look into the gazes of the three heads. Timmy saw in their faces the same mean, hateful smile Vicky would smile at him whenever she was about to cause him pain. Before Timmy met Cosmo and Wanda, the only thing Timmy had to hope for was Vicky not hurting him too badly. While his parents were idiots, Timmy knew Vicky had to leave a good impression on his parents.
But these monsters didn't have to. They were too powerful to care about what anyone thought. They could hurt him and nothing could stop them. Timmy never felt so scared in his life.
"Normally this wouldn't be personal," Megadagio said in a seemingly idle tone. "Sure we've enthralled countless beings, but it's never been personal. Not even with the Rainbooms. Like we said, we're just the predator looking for a next meal, and you and your midgets were just the prey." But then Megadagio's eyes glared with no small amount of hatred. "BUT YOU MADE THIS PERSONAL!" She squeezed Timmy tighter, making his bruises sting even more. "WE WERE GONNA MAKE YOU A PRINCE! WE WERE GONNA MAKE MORE THAN SOME PATHETIC LITTLE BRAT BEGGING FOR ICE CREAM!I WAS GONNA MAKE YOU ADORED! AND HOW DID YOU THANK US?!" Megadagio roared at him, the force of her voice making a wind. "YOU SPAT MY FACE, LIKE THE UNGRATEFUL, SELFISH, GREEDY LITTLE BRAT I KNEW YOU WERE!"
"He's just a kid," Cosmo pleaded weakly.
Aria and Sonata also glared at as well. "I can see why your parents hate you so much and never wanted you to exist!" Megaria hissed spitefully.
"You're a disobedient, selfish, stupid twerp!" Megadagio bellowed. The gold-colored siren smiled a demented smile. "What's that? You want to change your mind? Too bad. A small part of us considered letting you live as our slave, but you don't deserve such mercy. And as the future ruler of this world, we can't less such insolence go unpunished."
"Normally we'd squeeze the life right out of you," Megaria said with vicious glee. "But...we don't know what will happen to the magic. But don't worry...we've got something much worse planned for you."
Timmy's eyes widened in terror. Megasiren lifted him high into the air. He saw all of Dimmsdale from up above, the lights of the city twinkling like stars in the sky. "Take a long last look, boy," Megadagio muttered in an eerie calm. "I want you to look at what could've been yours had you learned to respect your betters. Soon you won't be able too. Cause I'm gonna destroy Dimmsdale. Brick. By. Brick."
Timmy felt himself crying some more.
"And your friends too," Megaria muttered with cold hate."I'm gonna hunt them down. And make you watch as I squeeze the life out of them."
Timmy let out a muffled shriek of terror.
"And no more tacos for you, buster!" Megasonata hissed with as much hate as she could muster.
"And then I'm gonna tell him it was your all your fault, and let you hear as they blame you in their final breaths," Megadagio gloated, her voice full of spite. "And then we're gonna stick you in The Room," she finished ominiously.
"And by room, we mean cage," Megaria muttered with no small amount of glee. "No friends, no sun, nothing."
"We'll make sure the last thing you ever see is your stupid town blaming you as their homes burn. We're gonna destroy everything you love." Megadagio warned. Her gaze turned toward the downed fairies. "And we'll start with them." Using her clawed hands, Megasiren grabbed the two fairies with malicious intent.
Timmy let out a muffled noise, possibly a plea for mercy.
"They can't save you boy," Megadagio gloated dementedly. "They can't even save themselves."
Sunset looked up with horror as this happened.
"Do what you want to us!" Cosmo pleaded with tears in his eyes.
"Just don't hurt the boy!" Wanda also pleaded.
"Hmm...we'd rather do both," Megadagio uttered. "I wish you were goldfish." The two fairies were turned into fish. Then they were thrown into the air.
"TIMMY!" They shrieked as the fell back to Earth. Megaria and Megasonata caught them. In their mouths.
Sunset stood still with horror as she heard swallowing.
Timmy gazed in shock as the two heads swallowed his fairies whole. His fairies. The beings he loved the most. Gone.
"Delicious," Aria gloated.
With that, Timmy let out another terrified, but muffled, scream as tears flowed down his cheeks like water from a faucet. "Keep crying boy," Megadagio hissed. "But you know that deep, down... you made me do this, because you're so selfish and worthless." Megasiren wished up a cage, and shoved Timmy into it, and slammed the door shut, but not before wishing up a slave collar so that Timmy couldn't remove the necklace.
"So we're gonna blow this town?!" Megaria asked her elder sister excitedly.
"Later." Megadagio said with a shrug. "We have some unfinished business with some Canterlot brats." Megaria and Megasonata smiled, eager for retribution against the teenagers who had dared ignore them,
"I WISH WE WERE AT CANTERLOT HIGH!" With a flash, Megasiren was gone.
Inside the cage, the necklace began glowing. Timmy saw everything fade.
Timmy saw...Timmy saw..
Dimmsdale burning, his friends in family in chains, Cosmo and Wanda mounted to a wall. Everyone starting cursing his name.
"LOOK AT THE LOSER!" Someone yelled.
"I CAN SEE WHY NO ONE LIKES HIM!" Trixie sneered.
"IT'S ALL HIS FAULT OUR LIVES ARE RUINED!" Chester yelled.
"I CAN'T BELIEVE I LET THAT MORON HANG OUT WITH US!" A.J. sneered.
"WE WISH YOU NEVER EXISTED!" His parents shrieked.
"WORTHLESS!"
"PATHETIC!"
"WASTE OF SPACE!"
Timmy tried to deny it. He tried to say it wasn't true. But even Cosmo and Wanda looked at him with utter shame.
It was true. He was worthless and because of it, everyone he cared for was done for.
"I am worthless," Timmy said, his voice monotone and his eyes turning a sickly green. "I shouldn't exist."
Sunset's horrified shock gave way to anger. These monsters weren't just bad. They lived to cause pain and misery. It wasn't enough to rob him, break his spirit, and beat him to a pulp. And now they were gonna destroy his life, everyone he cared about, and his self-worth. All because he dared stand up for the fairies he cared for and dared to wound those sea monsters and their fragile egos.
Suddenly Sunset yelled, a weird pain stabbing her in her heart. It was her friends. She could feel their terror and pain in her very soul.
"Help us!"
"Save us!"
"Someone help me!"
She felt those fairies crying out in help.
"Get us out!"
"It's dark in here."
Whatever their mistakes, they were loving parents that didn't deserve to be eaten.
"Adagio's right. No one loves me. I guess I am worthless."
With a yell, Sunset tried to push the giant metal ball off of her.
The entire student body was confined in the gym, waiting for the news that the Sirens had been beaten. They got into their various cliques, sat around one another, and talked about their lives
"Have you heard anything from them?" Spike asked Flash. The dragon-turned-dog-turned human boy anxiously looked at the blue-haired guitarist, hoping for some news from Twilight, who he considered to be his surrogate older sister.
"Nothing," Flash said with an idle frown. He then looked at Spike's timid expression. Flash, his own brotherly instincts kicking in, bent down to look at Spike at eye level and gently patted him on the head in order to assuage his fears. "Dude, it's gonna be OK. We'll just sit around and make some small talk-,"
"NO SMALL TALK!" A loud voice yelled into their ear. The guitarist and the computer geek glared at the girl holding the megaphone, riding around in an electric ATV, and wearing the "Hall Monitor Sash!"
"YOU MUST BE STILL!" Photo Finish declared dramatically. "As still as...a mountain watching the sands of time flow through the hourglass of eternity atop the-,"
"OK we get it," Flash said with some annoyance. The bespectacled photographer wandered away to bother someone else. "You, you must act as the rock along the hill..."
"Who died and made her hall monitor?" Micro Chips muttered with annoyance.
"Good job Photo," Principal Celestia said with a smile to Photo Finish. "I've got," her eyes darted back and forth, "errands to run, so just keep everything together while I'm gone." The photographer-turned-hall monitor- simply saluted while Principal Celestia walked out of the gym and snuck off to a teacher's longue. She entered and approached Granny Smith.
"Did you lose your son?" Granny Smith asked her with a smirk.
An excited smile formed on Principal Celestia's face. "I didn't lose my son."
"And that's our password," Granny Smith said excitedly, pulling on a lever. Principal Celestia fell down a trapdoor and ended up in an underground chamber. "Welcome to the Real Teacher's Lounge," an excited voice said. "With good food, great service, and the best thing of all...NO STUDENTS!"
"HUZZAH!" The teachers said excitedly. Principal Celestia looked around and saw all the great luxuries they enjoyed: fancy drinks, filet mignon and caviar, and back massages.
"Uh...who's paying for this?" Miss Cheerliee asked warily.
"The taxpayer," Celestia said with a smirk.
"Government salaries are the best!" The fuschia haired teacher cheered.
Near the refreshment stand in the gym, two girls chatted idly and made jokes.
"So I said to her "Mummy or Mommy?" Bon Bon chuckled at the joke her girlfriend told her. Lyra was such a silly goose. The white and blue-haired girl smiled as she her began to tell another one. "So there were these two girls and suddenly-," Lyra paused and frowned. "The box is walking around."
Bon Bon stared at her significant other with interest. "And?"
"No, there's a box walking around behind you." Lyra said, pointing her finger.
The red and blue-haired girl rolled her eyes. "Yeah, not falling for-," she jolted as she heard a bang and a yell. Bon Bon turned around and saw a box was indeed walking around. More specifically, it appeared to be a group of people hiding in a box and crawling around on their hands and feet. Apparently, they had banged into the refreshment table.
"I told you we should've put in eyeholes!" An angry female voice yelled.
"Then they would see we're inside." A country voice drawled.
"You and your fancy logic," a squeakier voice shrieked.
"I need an aspirin," a male voice moaned, "my head."
With a sigh Bon Bon stormed over and took the box off. She recognized them as three of the younger sisters and the younger brother of one of the Rainbooms. They were all looking worried.
"Hey Bon Bon," Apple Bloom said sheepishly.
"What are you guys doing here?" Bon Bon said with a disappointed frown, "you're supposed to be at home."
"We know," Sweetie Belle said with some regret, "but we-,"
"Wanted to see Rainbow Dash kick some siren butt!" Scootaloo gushed.
Bon Bon rolled her eyes in annoyance, but she couldn't find it in her heart to be mad at those three girls. While they weren't supposed to bring younger siblings here, she could understand these girls were just looking up to their big sisters. She could glare at the blond boy.
"Let me guess Zephyr," Bon Bon growled, "you're here to hit on girls." Bon Bon knew about Zephyr and his creepy behavior. Always stalking girls and following them around no matter how many times they told him no. It was amazing how much of a creep you were, that you had a bad reputation in middle school and high school.
"I am not here to grace the girls of Canterlot High with my presence," Zephyr said with a smile, much to the annoyance of the three younger sisters. "I am here for my big sis, Flutters," Zephyr said, putting on a hat that said "Fluttershy #1".
Zephyr, for once in his life, looked...adorable. I mean, in an annoying sibiling way, but it was clear his love for Fluttershy was genuine.
Suddenly the ground shook hard enough for the building to sway a little. Everyone's chatter drifted into stunned silence as they wondered what had happened.
"Was that an earthquake?" Someone asked in a nervous tone that made it sound. Derpy walked over to the door and opened it, wanting to see if the building had been damaged. "Don't worry everybody," she said in a kind, soothing tone. "It wasn't an earthquake." Everyone let out a sigh of relief. "It's just a giant three headed monster just appeared on the lawn."
A stunned silence fell over everyone, before a massive roar erupted from outside. Everyone came over to the windows and let out a scream when they saw what it was. They began screaming even more as they saw the monster stomping toward them.
Zephyr, however, puffed up his chest. "Don't worry everybody! Zephyr is going to save the day." The blond boy ran over to the door, slammed it shut and....
Put a chair on it in order to block it. "There," Zephyr said triumphantly to the not-very impressed group of students, "now that monster can't get us-," suddenly the building itself began to shake even more violently.
In the library, Moondancer paused from her work when she began to feel the building shake violently.
Megasiren proceded to raise the roof.
As in, literally raise the roof from the building like it was a lid from a jar. The sounds of bricks breaking, boards snapping, steel girders tearing, and debris falling around the building echoed. The three sirens did this with eager smiles, cackling all the way. "HELLO CANTERLOT HIGH!" Megadagio declared bombastically as she lifted the roof clean off the building. "We've," Megadagio paused in annoyance when she saw no one was in the main building.
"Oh," Megasonata said in sheepish tone, as if she had forgotten to pick up milk, "they're all in the gym." Megadagio saw that the lights were all on the gym and let out an annoyed groaned. Were her massive claws not occupied with the roof, she would've facepalmed.
"Sonata you," Aria began, only to let out an annoyed sigh, "just forget it."
"OK girls," Megadagio said in a frustrated tone, throwing the roof away like it was a used up piece of paper, causing even more property destruction as the roof crashed to the ground, "let's take this from the top." The three headed monster stomped over to the gym and began lifting the roof off. The sirens once again smiled, especially as they heard the terrified screams of everyone inside.
In the teacher's secret lounge, the room starting shaking violently.
"Oh my gosh!," Mrs. Harshwhinny declared bombastically.
"We're out of shrimp cocktails!" The entire faculty let out a gasp of horror.
"Not to worry," Principal Luna declared triumphantly, "I have prepared for such a tragedy." She took out a hammer and broke the "Emergency Shrimp Cocktail "case, much to relief of the teachers.
"Thank goodness!" Mr. Cranky declared with a happy sigh, "I thought we were doomed." The room started shaking again. "What's that?" He asked on a lazy tone.
"Oh, some monster is attacking us," Principal Luna said calmly, as if discussing the weather.
"Shouldn't we do something?" Mr. Cranky asked her.
"Nah," Miss Cheerilee said in a completely nonchalant, even as a small bit of debris fell on her head. "Whatever it is, I'm sure the Rainbooms will take care of it for us." The other teachers gave affirmative grunts. "Besides, our children ought to learn to be more independent and solve their own problems."
"Makes sense to me," Mr. Cranky said with a shrug .
Eventually the roof came off, revealing the horrified student body assembled. Their terrified stares brought Megasiren so much joy.
"HELLO CANTERLOT HIGH!" Megadagio bombastically. "Remember us?!"
"Oh, oh," Lyra declared happily while raising her hand, as if wanting to enthusiastically answer a question in class. "You're the new movie monster from Japan."
"You're from that video game that came out last year."
"No," Megadagio in annoyance, facepalming with a clawed hand. "We're the Dazzlings."
The brief pause followed. "Ooooooooh," the other students said, followed by another silence. And then by a collective yell of terror from the student body.
"Why are you here?" Stammered Sandalwood. "How did you all get so big?"
Megadagio, Megaria, and Megasonata all cackled. "We'll we never got to finish our last song. You all booed us before we could finish," Megaria said in feigned sympathy as she leaned in with a menacing expression to the frightened students. "We couldn't just rob you off such an...experience, so now we're back, and better than-"
"HALT!" Megaria paused, as the white-haired photographer she vaguely remembered interrupted her tirade, to her annoyance. "You have broken rule 626," Hall Monitor Photo Finish declared bombastically. "No tearing the roof off the gym. And you must be as silent as a....child in timeout. As still as the rock along the babbling brook, as-,"
Megasiren was unimpressed and annoyed with this windbag. Gradually, their annoyance turned to vicious joy as they prepared to give a demonstrate of their power.
"I wish you would go away," Megadagio commanded.
POOF!
Photo Finish found herself suddenly in a cannon, which then blasted off into the air.
"I am now airborn, like a flying pig!" Photo ranted as she flew off into the horizon. "Soaring like a jet with a broken wing!"
The Canterlot student body looked with shock at what had happened to the overzealous photographer, before letting out another scream of terror.
"As we were saying," Megaria said, clearing enjoying the terror of Canterlot High. "We we're so angry after you rejected us and our...charms. But don't worry, we're prepared to let bygones be bygones."
"If you're prepared to serve fealty to us," Megadagio said, "the new masters of this world."
"Yeah, what we said," Megaonata added.
The other students began shaking with terror, except for one.
"Jokes on you, cheese poof!" Everyone looked to see who was talking back to the lizard. "My sister and her friends will take you down!" Zephyr Breeze declared bombastically, as if unaware of the danger.
"Yeah," Apple Bloom replied, albeit without as much foolish confidence as Fluttershy's younger brother.
"Our sisters will save us," Sweetie Belle added.
"Twilight'll stop you!" Spike declared happily.
"And when they do, you'll be so much trouble," Scootaloo gloated.
Megadagio looked unimpressed. "Really? Oh that's so terrible," she said with feigned terror. "That would be so horrific, oh what are we gonna do?!"
"There's just one problem," Megaria said with a nasty sneer. "We already took them down."
The brief confidence the Canterlot students had was replaced with confusion and fear. The siblings of the Rainbooms were shocked and horrified.
"You're-you're lying!" Spike screamed, his confidence replaced with terror and panic. "Twilight wouldn't have let you-,"
"They put up a good fight lizard boy," Megaria said idly, "but in the end, they were no match for beings as powerful as us. And now they're...gone."
Zephyr, Apple Bloom, Sweetie Belle, and Scootaloo started crying and holding each other.
Big Macintosh started whimpering and feeling tears fall down his eyes.
Marble Pie started weeping, while Maud hugged her, while trying to stop herself from crying. Limestone Pie glared up at Megasiren, her fists
"BRING MY SISTER BACK NOW!" Limestone bellowed in a rage at them.
"You don't have to worry your sister," Sonata said in what was sounded like a bubbly tone. "In fact, all of you won't have to worry your pretty little heads about anything ever again. Because we're gonna take away your free will and make you our eternal slaves. Isn't that great?"
The crowd responded with another shriek of terror. Some students tried to pile out of the building.
"Oh how cute, you think you can run," Megadagio said with amused expression, as if watching some adorable animals in a zoo. "I wish you were all outside."
Moondancer heard noise coming from the gym. Out of fear and curiousity, she ran to the gym, only to see her classmates all dissappear with a poof. Her shock turned to panic as heard screams of terror. She saw her classmates suddenly appearing outside, screaming in terror as some big three-headed monster loomed over them.
"Now, my little cattle, don't you see how futile it is to resist your new masters?" the yellow-colored one said with sheer glee.
Moondancer let out a gasp when she realized who it was. "Adagio," Moondancer whispered fearfully.
"I wish you were all in chains!" Megaria declared. Suddenly, iron yolks appeared the necks of everyone, much to their growing terror.
"Canterlot will be the seat of my new empire, and all of you will be working dawn to dusk, building our new palace, upon the ruins of this pathetic little school." Megadagio declared to the panicking and crying student body. The three sirens eyes narrowed as focused their attentions on a specific individual.
"Except for you!" Megaria growled, furiously picking up a struggling Gilda Griffon, much to the horror of her friends.
"NO!" Rolling Thunder shriked.
"Please don't kill her!" Lightning Dust screamed in terror. Hoops and Dumbell held each other and cried in fear.
"Oh no, we won't kill her," Megaria declared to the girl struggling. "We're willing to forgive her...slights if she serves as our champion, helping us crush all those in stand in our way., and learns her place in the natural order."
"I'M NOT WORKING FOR YOU MONSTERS!" Gilda bellowed in a rage, glaring defiantly at Aria. "I would rather be a slave then-"
"Perhaps your friends would rather live their lives as worms," Megadagio declared.
Gilda stopped her struggling, and looked at them with horror. "You wouldn't?!" Gilda whimpered in terror.
Megasiren just sneered. "I wish-"
"NO!" Gilda screamed, tears rolling down her eyes. She never felt so scared in her life. Not even when Garble was bullying her did she ever feel so much terror. "DON'T HURT MY FRIENDS, I'LL DO WHAT YOU SAY!"
"You'll do what we say...who?" Megaria growled, squeezing painfully.
"I'LL DO WHAT YOU SAY YOUR MAJESTIES!" The white-haired girl screamed in fear.
"Gilda don't listen to her!" Lightning Dust yelled.
"As for the rest you," Megadagio declared to the crying crowd, "prepare your lives of eternal servitude." A smile formed on her face. "But before I rob you of your free will, I think you should meet the little boy who made all this possible". Megasonata presented a small cage with one of her arms. Megaria opened it, revealing a small boy.
"TIMMY!" Scootaloo gasped. The rest of the crowd let out whimpers, remembering the boy who once wielded the power of the stone, shocked at his physical condition.
"Timmy," Gilda whimpered as he took in his condition. The boy looked horrible. He was covered in bruises, his eyes were black and swollen, he had a horrible frown on his face, and one of those horrible collars on his neck.
Moondancer's fear turned to regret as she took in the condition of the brown haired boy.
"You said you were trying to protect him," Moondancer whimpered in regret and anger."YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO HELP HIM!" Moondancer growled with clenched fists.
"Timmy," Gilda said softly, but the boy didn't seem to be able to hear her. He seemed to be in a trance. "WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIM?!" She bellowed in a rage at the monsters.
Megasiren let out a collective laugh. "Nothing," Megadagio gushed.
"This was all his idea," Megaria lied with a nasty smirk. "He hated all of you, and wanted all of you to become our slaves."
"Liar! Thunderlane screamed.
"Why don't you all ask him yourself!" Megadagio said, raising Timmy into the air. "Tell him boy! Tell him who's responsible for all this."
Sunset heard everything, and her rage grew even more, as she tried to shove the giant ball off of her. They weren't just gonna destroy his life and turn her friends into mindless slaves. They were gonna destroy the boy emotionally just for some sick pleasure.
Again, all because he dared to tell them the truth.
"It's...my fault!" Timmy said, as if sounding like some robot given a command. "EVERYTHING'S MY FAULT!"
Sunset started shaking even more and clenching her fists so tightly, she felt her nails dig into her skin. She felt smoke coming off her skin. She felt her skin starting to glow. She felt her hair start to flow and rise in some unseen wind. She closed her eyes as she began to focus in her inner rage.
"Now on the count of three, I want all of you will say 'It's all your fault Timmy Turner. We all hate you.' "
Sunset's eyes opened, and glowed a bright gold, as she finally let her rage out.
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"At last," Crocker said gleefully, as he began looking at his assembled video evidence in his van. "With this, I can finally prove the existence off...FAIRY GODPARENTS! And nothing will get in my-," Crocker's attention was cut off by one of his screens beeping.
"Magic detected", it said. "A massive surge of power has been detected."
Crocker smiled in excitement. "Really I wonder-,"
BANG!
Crocker came out, and to his shock, the rest of the factory blew to smithereens. To his greater confusion, some figure seemed to be rising out of the ashes and into the air.
"What's that?" Crocker said, pulling out his camera. But then a massive chunk of debris came down on his truck.
"MY TRUCK!" Crocker shrieked in horror. He then pulled out cell phone, and started to make a claim.
"You don't cover damage caused by falling debris do you?" He asked into his phone. "No," he said. "I understand, have a good day," he said politely. He then fell to the ground on his knees. "Oh how could this get any-," Crocker screamed as a giant metal ball crushed him and destroyed his camera.
The figure took off toward Canterlot at high speeds.
"Leave Timmy alone!" Scootaloo pleaded in terror, not wanting to be part of a plan to hurt Timmy even more. Everyone else pleaded for them to spare Timmy, but Megasiren just sneered. They wanted to make Timmy suffer even more than he already did.
"One, two, three. I wish all of you would-" Megadagio was stopped as some yellow-white laser beam slammed into her. The crowd's worries gave way to shock. "OW!" Megadagio shrieked in pain. "Who did-" Another one slammed into her.
"OW! What is that!" Megaria screamed. Megaria tried to find the culprit, but all she could find was some yellow blur that was flying to fast for her to see.
"Ow, it stings," Sonata whined. After a moment, it suddenly stopped, much to the three's confusion.
"What happened?" Megadagio yelled in confusion. She suddenly noticed the yellow blur around her legs. When she looked down, she saw that something had tied their legs together.
With power lines, much to their horror.
"Oh seaweed," Megadagio muttered, before she and her sisters were brutally electrocuted. In utter pain, and with their legs tied together, they tripped and fell painfully to the ground.
They dropped Gilda, who fell down, but was caught by the crowd, much to her surprise and joy. But her relief was short-lived when they saw another horrifying sight.
"Timmy's falling!" Scootaloo yelled. The crowd watched as Timmy fell through the air, yelling all the way, only to be relieved as the same blur caught him.
The being that caught Timmy yanked the collar off of him, ripped the necklace away from him, and surrounded Timmy with a yellow glow that cured all his bruises and injuries.
Timmy didn't know what happened. He was seeing everyone blame him for everything and he felt himself falling. Then suddenly, it stopped and everything went dark.
And then there was a bright light.
He saw....he saw....
“Daydream Shimmer" - MLP: Equestria Girls - Friendship Games BGM - YouTube
Wanda singing to make him feel better after a bad day.
Playing video games with Sunset.
Sunset taking him to school in a motorcycle.
Sunset tutoring him and helping him not fail a test.
Sunset giving him a chance to make it up to her after lying to her.
Enjoying a nice meal with the Apple Family.
Sunset standing over him, playing a guiter with a smile.
Rainbow and Scootaloo helping him practice running track.
Rarity watching Kissy Kissy Goo Goo with him.
Him happily running at the Dimmsdale track contest with Sunset and his friends cheering him on.
Sunset comforting him after those rich jerks cheated him.
Gilda teaching him how to fight.
Rumble and his friends welcoming him to their team.
Pinkie Pie making Timmy laugh after he had been humiliated.
Chester, AJ, Sanjay, and Elmer hugging him and telling him it would be OK after he accidentally hurt them.
His parents holding his hands and smiling after saving him from being expelled.
And...and...
Cosmo and Wanda giving him their great hugs.
Maybe....maybe...he wasn't a failure.
Maybe....
Timmy could barely open his eyes. But still he noticed something. The pain was gone. Heck, he felt better than ever. He also noticed the horrible necklace and the collar was gone too. He finally opened his eyes and saw... "Sunset." It was Sunset. Her same face. The same pretty smile that told him everything would be all right. But her eyes had some red line on them, and her skin was glowing. He realized that he was flying. "Sunset," Timmy said, a smile and happy tears flowing down his eyes. "You're OK!" Sunset landed on some tree in a branch.
"Of course I'm OK!" Sunset said, as if Timmy said the silliest thing in the world. Timmy took in how Sunset changed. Her usual clothes were replaced with some pink and white dress and gold colored boots that would normally be girly, but looked awesome on her. Her skin was glowing, and she had big wings growing out of her back that looked like they were made of light. A large horn made of white light came out of her head, and her hair was standing up on its own.
She looked so powerful and so mighty. But Timmy didn't feel scared of her. She looked at him the way Cosmo and Wanda would, and his parents would when they remembered they existed. Her smile was one of the prettiest things in the world.
"Sun-," Timmy began, only for Sunset to gently raise her hand, which caused Timmy's mouth to close. "I can save everybody, and save Cosmo and Wanda," Sunset said with both gentleness and firmness in her voice, "but you have to stay here and be quiet. OK?"
Timmy remembered what was at stake, and simply nodded respectfully. "OK."
Sunset pulled Timmy into one of the best hugs he ever had and patted him on the head. "Don't worry, Timmy, I keep you safe. I won't let those monsters hurt you or anyone else-"
"WHO DID THAT?!" Megadagio bellowed.
"Show yourself, chicken!" Megasonata shrieked.
"No fair!" Megasonata whined.
Sunset released Timmy, her warm expression faded, and then flew away. Timmy looked at Sunset with awe. Sunset wasn't angry. She wasn't even the quiet angry. It was the calm, determined face of someone who wasn't going to stop. Who wasn't going to quit. Who wasn't going to down with a fight. She wasn't angry, because she knew she was going to win.
It was the face of a superhero.
Sunset, her face twisted into calm, flew directly in front of the Megasiren who pulled herself up. The three heads twisted into shock as they saw who approached.
"Well, well, well what a pest you are?" Megadagio commented in a voice that became increasingly angry. "Why don't you just give up and surrender?!"
Sunset didn't dignify that with a response, staring at them with an utterly flat expression.
Megasonata looked at the crowd of the scared students and decided to torment them with a wish. Sunset seemingly read their mind and let a blast come out of her hand. A massive magical dome made of gold surrounded the students. The fear on the faces of the CHS students was replaced with hope and exhilration as they saw that Sunset wouldn't let the monster hurt them.
"Don't bother with Timmy either," Sunset said, her voice ethereal and utterly calm, as if she saw the Dazzlings as insignifcant as an ant. "I've put him where you can't fight him. It's just you...and me."
"Go Sunset!" Some students cheered.
"Kick their butts!" Another student said.
"You're the greatest!"
Megadagio growled at the praise Sunset was getting, but suppressed her envy as she prepared for battle. "Fine. Show us what you've got, Sunny-bun!"
Sunset put out her arms and flew toward them. Ready for the fight for her life.
She was not fighting for herself, not for her own glory, and certainly not for revenge. There was nothing on her mind, but the safety of the humans she come to see her own friends, and the well-being of the little boy who she saw as her own little brother.
Her goal was as pure as could possibly be.
And she would not fail.