Twilight and the girls all awoke to see that they were on top of a building, with dozens of police sirens blaring in the distance. They all felt heavy headed when they finally came to, and could barely hear anything when they had woken up, but they were quickly brought back to reality by the concerned looks of Adagio, Aria and Sonata.
"Adagio? Where are we?" Sunset asked when she got a grasp on the position they were in. "What happened to those armed men?"
"Don't worry, Mom, you and your friends are safe now..." Adagio said as she felt Sunset's cold cheeks with compassion and affection. "For now at least..."
"Yeah... who knows how long we have before those guys find you?" Aria said as she leant over the edge and saw all the helicopters scrambling to find the ten of them.
"Can somebody please tell me what the hay's goin' on here?" Applejack asked when she finally got back to her feet. "Why are those cops huntin' fer us? We did nothin' wrong..."
"Let's just see exactly what's going on here..." Sunset said as she pulled out a tabled from her backpack and opened up the internet with it. "If we can find the key cause for all this madness, then we might just find a way to clear our names..."
The girls flipped through a number of different websites to find the news, but constantly found adverts for meaningless products. Eventually, they finally broke through the mesh of ads and found a rather shocking revelation. There was a page that had all ten of the girls with flashing red outlines in the pictures. Not only that, but the giant red text underneath all ten of the faces read "TERRORISTS".
"When did this happen?" Rarity looked at the horrifying report on the ten of them, too fixated on the pictures to even read the story.
"Well, whatever it is, it must be the work of The Blasters..." Twilight said, looking at the report side of the story. "Look at the story; for over twelve years, terrorist group, The Rainbooms, have been wanted eliminated by the Anti-Assault Federation."
"Their many different crimes include harbouring a criminal responsible for theft and murder, cheating in public during a musical tournament, and even raising children who hate all other religions..." Twilight looked completely horrified as the words continued to play against the girls. "Not only that, but they've also been witnesses to the recent attacks in the cities of Coltimore and Animaheim."
"Their overall bounty is staked at five-hundred trillion dollars to whoever can apprehend the suspects and bring them in for a trial, the punishment being the long-since abolished DEATH SENTENCE?!" Rainbow Dash looked mortified at all that. "They're gonna murder us?!"
"If we're that hated, then it would only make sense for them to oppose a death sentence on us..." Twilight said, rather sorrowfully.
"You're not really helping, Twilight!" Rainbow Dash said as she turned towards the alicorn-turned-human with a rather angry expression on her face. "We're classified as terrorists and you're only stating the obvious?!"
"Well it's not like she has anything else to do, Rainbow Dash! With all the bad things that have been said about us, it would only make sense for Twilight here to do so!" Sunset stepped in to defend Twilight with a rather furious expression of her own showing.
"Are you seriously fighting against me, Sunset?!" Rainbow Dash said, rolling up her sleeves, ready for a fist fight of sorts. "After all we did for you?! After we gave you our trust?!"
"Stop with the arguin' Rainbow Dash! You're trying to have us exposed ta The Blasters again!" Applejack stated herself, her voice growing louder and louder in an attempt to break through to Rainbow Dash.
"Well I don't really see anything else to do, Applejack! We've got a whiny fashionista who doesn't want to be seen in prison orange-"
"Hey!" Rarity looked rather mad herself.
"Some stupid coward who does nothing more than care for animals-"
"Take it back, Rainbow Dash!" Fluttershy grabbed Rainbow Dash by the neck.
"Some stupid bubble-brained nincompoop who's too obsessed with party planning to even get her head in the game-"
"Don't talk to me like that, you big meanie!" Pinkie pushed Fluttershy out of the way and kicked Rainbow Dash to the ground.
"Two stupid ponies from some fantasy world who can do nothing but state what we already know-"
Screw you, Rainbow Dash!" Twilight and Sunset both said, punching Rainbow Dash in the stomach.
"And then there's you, Applejack. HONESTLY, ALL YOU EVER TALK ABOUT IS APPLES, APPLES, APPLES!" Rainbow Dash finally finished with her little tantrum. "Honestly, you're the worst friends I could have ever asked for, I hope you all get captured by the thugs that want our heads!"
The Dazzlings merely watched as all seven of the girls got into the most furious state of their lives. Their hatred for each other was coupled with actual fist fighting and insults. All they could do was watch as each of the girls expelled a stream of magic, which all combined into one giant rainbow stream of energy.
In the midst of all the fighting girls, The Dazzlings could clearly see the magic fly out of the girls and into the red pendants of The Blasters, who were just floating up from a concealed position and absorbing the magic. Adagio, Aria and Sonata watched in horror as their brothers consumed all the magic from Twilight and her friends.
"Now, this looks familiar, don't you agree, Dazzlings?" Fortissimo flew next to them whilst still watching The Rainbooms fist-fighting and arguing. He watched the seven tussling girls with a sinister smile, then looked back at The Dazzlings once he'd seen enough. "Where have I seen this before? Let me think..."
"Oh! Yes, I remember now... This is just how childish The Rainbooms acted, before their Magic of Friendship was considered forfeit." he said, watching the girls continue to fight, completely ignoring everything that was going on around them.
"Now then, Dazzlings. Let me show you just how a Lyrican Siren TRULY takes power..." Fortissimo spoke, lighting up the Furen pendants that he and his brothers were all wearing. "Remember what we said. Take all of the magic, leave none for the buzzards!"
Within seconds, all seven of the fighting girls were completely neutralized with a powerful absorbtion spell from the three red pendants. Their poses turned from poses of fist-fighting into poses of pain and suffering. They jolted around and screamed in agony as The Blasters began harvesting the rest of their magic from them. To all seven of The Rainbooms, it was as if something dear to them was being taken away from them, as the Magic of Friendship faded away from them and flew towards The Blasters. Not only that, but as they lost their magic, they lost their colours as well. Within seconds, their colourful skins and hairstyles turned grey and lifeless. When they finally turned as grey as the streets, they all fell unconscious once again.
"Now do you see, little sisters? That is how it should have gone down twelve years ago..." Fortissimo gloated to Adagio as he showed The Dazzlings the lifeless bodies of The Rainbooms. "By doing this, you would have become unstoppable, and would have easily won the Battle Of The Bands..."
"Fortissimo Blast... You're a monster!" Adagio looked towards her brother with nothing but disdain and fury. "This isn't how Lyrican Sirens operate! We're supposed to keep the balance equal, not assault random humans and ponies!"
Fortissimo merely looked at his sister and picked her up by her scruff. "Times change, little sister. We can wait no longer for the revival of the Siren species. And since these Rainbooms were a potential threat to the resurrection, we had to make sure that they were removed from the equation, by any means necessary..."
"Now then, we'd love to stay and chat with you ladies some more and rekindle our lost time, but we've got shows to perform, and you ten have got a one-way ticket to Dystopia for your crimes against Lyrica..." Orchestral watched as Fortissimo threw Adagio and the rest of The Dazzlings into their lifeless mother and aunties. Then, The Blasters held out their hands, revealing red orbs in their right hands and blue orbs in their left hands. "Ta-ta for now!"
The Blasters clapped their hands, firing a large wave of energy at the ten girls. They saw the energy collided into the roof, blasting The Dazzlings and their family into the distance, where a helicopter fired an electric net with magnetic cannonballs at the flying girls. Then they watched as all ten of the girls were snagged by the net and magnetized onto the bottom of the chopper, where they'd go in for their punishments.
"HQ, we got em!" one of the guys in the helicopter said with a rather satisfied tone of voice. "The Rainbooms and their children our in our possession, moving to Tartarus Prison now. Whoever those terrorists are, they're not going anywhere anytime soon..."
The next thing the girls knew, they were all hanging upside down in a dimly lit room with no doors. They could all see that they had been chained up by their legs, so that the blood rushed to their head and made them feel disoriented and dizzy. The only ones who still showed signs of worry were The Dazzlings, who had special binds that prevented them from using their swords.
They could see nothing but steel walls and police markings on the ground. However, that quickly changed when one of the walls slid upwards into the building, enabling three familiar figures to walk in and greet the prisoners. The figures they could clearly see were The Blasters, who were looking rather satisfied with their captives.
"I wanted to meet the very Rainbooms who defeated our poor little sisters and were coming after us next..." Fortissimo revelled in his victory as all ten of the girls turned their gazes towards him.
"We were going to defeat and redeem you, Blasters..." Twilight said, showing a rather furious look when he got right up to her face. She tried headbutting him, but to no avail as he quickly sidestepped away from the attack. "But after all the shit you've pulled on both my friends in Equestria, and here in the Human World, I can see no hope for you three. You're nothing but monsters, who care nothing for Equestria and the Human World..."
Fortissimo merely walked away from Twilight and made his way to the middle of the prison cell, so that he could address the entire group. "Failure is not something we Lyrican Sirens tolerate, so I'm surprised that three of the most powerful Furens in history, let alone OUR LITTLE SISTERS, have failed so miserably!"
"But then again, this is how it must be; the popstars from the garage bands, the steel from the iron, the strong from the weak and infantile..." Allegro said, adding on to what Fortissimo had been saying earlier. "You know, there's a word in ancient Lyrican called peleiumdra, which means strenuous training for perfection. Had you kept that in mind, then you would have been pardoned, Rainbooms. But, you keep fighting for imperfections, battling a species who is teetering on the brink of extinction with little help. You deserve everything that you seven monsters got for attacking our poor Dazzlings..."
"And what about The Dazzlings during the Battle Of The Bands? What were they? Popstars? Or garage band?" Sunset asked with vigour and gusto, still fighting against The Blasters, even without her colour.
"Our little sisters had been corrupted with Dark Magic at that time, and were obliviously unaware to the fact that they were doomed from the start..." Fortissimo spoke to Sunset and the Humane 5 with a rather serious look.
"Your stupid little sisters drove our school apart and nearly caused riots! How could they possibly have been corrupted?!" Sunset gnashed her teeth at The Blasters. She was completely oblivious to the story at hand.
"Yes, Miss Shimmer. But then again, you too were corrupted with Dark Magic yourself. So it's a classic case of pot calling the kettle black," Fortissimo raised his sword and prepared to torture Sunset. "Something that you should have known straight from the start..."
Then, without warning, Fortissimo threw his sword straight through Sunset Shimmer's heart, making her scream in agony as it quickly disappeared and returned to Fortissimo's hands.
"SUNSET!" all the other girls called out as they watched Sunset Shimmer groan in agony.
"You're not young, but you are strong, Sunset Shimmer. So I've decided to make your death long and torturous," Fortissimo showed a counter that showed Sunset only having three years to live. "Time enough, to consider whether or not you and those pathetic Rainbooms even deserve the Magic of Friendship..."
Then, Fortissimo turned his gaze towards The Dazzlings. He looked at his sisters with a rather compassionate look, but then shrugged it off when he realized that he had a job to do. He and the other Blasters grabbed onto Adagio, Aria and Sonata by the face, and made completely sure that their sisters were paying attention to them.
"And YOU... The fabled Right Souls of Fury..." Fortissimo spoke as he cut the chains that strung The Dazzlings up, making them fall onto the floor and look completely dizzy and unable to fight back. With his sister in trances, Fortissimo grabbed her by the face again, watching his brothers do the same with their sisters. "We believed in you... The Battle Of The Bands was your second chance to fight back, and you three fucked it up at the last hurdle..."
The Blasters then proceeded to punch The Dazzlings to the floor, making them collapse like ragdolls. Then, they threw their sisters against the walls and kicked their stomachs before they landed. Fortissimo, Allegro and Orchestral watched their little sisters scream and groan with pain as each hit connected with them.
Then, to add insult to injury, The Blasters held The Dazzlings in a tight body-lock and broke their arms and legs, making them scream and holler out in pain as their bones snapped suddenly. When it was all over, The Blasters threw The Dazzlings into a corner, watching them cry and shudder in fear.
Finally, to finish them off, Fortissimo held The Dazzlings by their faces again and addressed them with one final statement. "You're not my little sister. In fact, I have NO LITTLE SISTER..."
Once he'd seen The Dazzlings' pupils dilate in fear, he threw them against the walls once more and walked out of the cell with Allegro and Orchestral in tow.
"Enjoy your stay in Tartarus, ladies..." Fortissimo said as the cell wall finally began lowering itself once more, so that the girls couldn't escape. "Until your death sentencing, this is the last place you'll ever see..."
Once the cell had finally closed up for good, The Dazzlings and The Rainbooms hung their heads in defeat. They knew that there was going to be no escaping the death sentence that The Blasters had placed in front of them. All they could do now was wait for their trial, and accept death's cold embrace with welcoming arms...
The Next Day...
"Wake up, cunts! It's judgement day today, and you ten are getting the axe!" The Dazzlings and The Rainbooms were rudely awakened by a random security guard in tough armour. They landed with heavy thuds onto the ground when he cut the chains, then were quickly grabbed by their prison orange collars so that they couldn't fight back.
"What now, Twilight?" Rainbow Dash said with no more emotions of hope in her tone of voice. Instead, she spoke in a rather low and defeated tone as the ten of them began walking out of their cell and down the hallway to where the trial would be held. "How are we gonna save the worlds now?"
"That's just it, Rainbow Dash. We can't..." Twilight's tone sounded defeated and low as well. She'd been in many scrapes before, but she had been kept motivated due to the fact that she had the Magic of Friendship of her side. Now that it was gone, Twilight seemed like there was absolutely no hope left for them. "Without the Magic of Friendship, The Blasters have won... They'll swoop in to save their little sisters from the execution, then use the three of them to sing the Song of Resurrection, reviving the Sirens so they can lay waste to the ponies of Equestria and the humans of the Human World..."
"No talking! Keep moving!" the guard said, silencing the girls by punching their backs violently. "You'll want to save your last breaths for when you're screaming for mercy at the execution ceremony..."
"I'd rather die than offer my voice to those bastards we call brothers!" Adagio said, continuing to walk, but still voicing her opinions all the same.
"That's the idea, Adagio. Now keep moving!" the guard said, giving her a verbal warning without any brutality whatsoever.
"Dead girls walking! We got dead girls walking!" the guard informed all the other prisoners in the prison, who were still locked up behind walls of pure steel. He watched as all the prisoners looked out of special little windows to see the guard and his captives walk down the hallway to their judgement.
Many of the prisoners felt really sorry for the girls at this point. They used hand gestures to honour their death march towards the trial ground. One of the prisoners had even tried helping them out, but was still held back by the walls of pure steel.
After a while of walking, The Dazzlings and The Rainbooms arrived at the courtroom where they'd be declared guilty in front of the whole country. There truly was no escape for them now. They'd lost their powers, they couldn't escape from the guard's clutches, and it was only a matter of time before the ten of them were sentenced to death...