A knocking could be heard on the other side of the door to Celestia's office. "Come in." she said, allowing three figures to step inside.
"Hello, Celestia. I'm honoured to meet the double of this world face to face..." Fortissimo walked in front of his fellow Blasters and did a Lyrican salute as he honoured the Celestia of the Human World.
"Well... thank you, but I'm just a humble principal. No need to feel honoured to meet me." Celestia replied to Fortissimo as he got up from his salute.
"Oh, I think you're mistaken, darling. You're so much more than what you make yourself out to be..." Fortissimo said, pulling up a nearby chair so that he could discuss matters with Principal Celestia. "But compliments aside, let's get down to business..."
"Ah yes, the forms to merge our music lessons with that of your new regime. It truly is quite a wonder that you three will be taking the time out of your lives to teach our young minds, especially with all the pandemonium that befell our world..." Luna walked up to The Blasters and handed each one of them a form.
"Tell me, Celestia. Have you ever daydreamt on being a pony? To be the leader of a civilization of equines?" Fortissimo spoke as he began writing down some details and approving some important details on the form's paper.
"Well... not exactly. But I'm fully aware that Equestria exists if that's what you're talking about," Celestia began explaining to The Blasters everything she knew about the events at CHS. "It started with the appearance of one Twilight Sparkle, a girl from ano-"
"Yes. We know all about Princess Twilight Sparkle, and the crimes she's committed..." Allegro spoke as he too wrote down some vital facts and figures on his form. "But luckily for us, she's decided that she's sorry for her actions, so we've personally given her a second chance..."
"Crimes? I'm afraid I don't follow what you're talking about..." Luna spoke to The Blasters, who were still deep in writing their personal details on the forms they'd been given. Their expressions never changed as the pens continued writing. "Princess Twilight seemed like a perfect student to us."
"Yes, but were you ever informed of The Dazzlngs?" Fortissimo finally spoke again, whilst still buried deep in his papers. "The poor dears were our little sisters, and Twilight performed assault on the three of them. And all they wanted was to rule the three worlds sing and play like regular children...
"Oh my..." Luna thought to herself when she'd heard The Blasters' views on what had happened back then. "If we'd only known, then we would have kicked Twilight out of the school when we had the chance..."
"That would not have been the wisest thing to do, Celestia and Luna of this world..." Fortissimo recounted all of the events that had happened. "Forgive me for revealing the truth, but allowing our sisters to continue their plans for mongering warfare would have been a great mistake, one that would have caused another war between the three worlds..."
"I'm confused..." Celestia watched as The Blasters finished with the forms and handed them back to Luna. However, what Fortissimo had said was now swirling around in her mind like a swarm of hornets.
"Thank you for agreeing to our terms, humans, but I believe your time in this world is over..." Fortissimo smirked as he and the other Blasters grew their dragon wings and extended hairs before tacking the two humans and pinning them against the walls. "Do not lie to me, ladies. Tell me who you really are and I'll consider letting you live..."
"Get... your... hands off of me!" Luna said, desperately trying to fight back as she struggled in The Blasters' chokehold.
"You are not high-school staff, ladies. You are PrinCESS Celestia and PrinCESS Luna. Do not deny yourselves your true birthright!" Fortissimo looked rather violent as he continued to mess with Celestia and Luna's minds with his combination of interrogation and Lyrican Magic.
"You are a fool, Fortissimo Blast..." Celestia finally spoke, seeing what was truly going on here. "Killing us will not aid your plans by one bit..."
"Correct..." Fortissimo released the two principals from the clutching hands of Allegro and Orchestral. "Instead, I shall have your flesh touch with that of the TRUE Celestia and Luna. You know what temporal displacement is, right?"
"You wouldn't dare!" Luna showed some more resistance as she leaned towards The Blasters with her fists out by her sides.
"Ladies. We are finishing what The Dazzlings could not. All this time, you passed them off as another group of girls, when in reality, we are the long-lost Lyrican Sirens who your pathetic kind fought against in the war before time!" Fortissimo's smirk grew even larger as Celestia and Luna recoiled in horror with all that information. "Our little sisters failed at purging your miserable Human World of the scum monkeys that continue to dance on it. However, unlike our little sisters, we play to WIN..."
"Celestia and Luna of the Human World. When you cross paths with the TRUE Princesses of Equestria, the temporal abnormalities will instantly consume you and erase you and any traces of your existence from this miserable universe. The chaos that will erupt from your deaths will cause mass hysteria and kill millions. And if The Dazzlings can somehow stop this carnage, they still have to defeat us at an even bigger and deadlier version of their musical warfare. And even if that fails to stop them, we'll still be able to consume their Right Souls when they get angry at us," Fortissimo laughed as he looked at the now cowering principals. "A win-win scenario for every outcome. Now then..." he grabbed both of them by their necks and watched as Allegro and Orchestral opened up a portal. "You're coming with us, whether you like it or not..."
Meanwhile, back in Dystopia, The Dazzlings were all fighting off even more monsters from Dystopia, carefully throwing the lifeless bodies of The Rainbooms, The Snapshots, and the ponies from Equestria around so that they were out of the line of fire. Even though they were still capable of fighting against their own forces, Adagio, Aria and Sonata were still grieving and becoming more and more distracted with the thoughts of losing their friends forever.
"Dagi... I can't..." Sonata seemed to struggle for breath after that last battle. She had every right to breathe heavily, since they had extra weight dragging them down. "I can't do this anymore..."
"Don't say that, Sonny! That's what they want you to think. They're just trying to break your mind with as many battles as possible," Adagio looked towards the castle after they destroyed another Dystopian Seal. "Well, bring it on. Bring it on, goddammit! I'll keep fighting until I either reunite with my friends and family, or until the last of my blood has been spilled!"
"The airspace in Dystopia is full of monsters now..." Aria looked up at the sky, seeing many winged monstrosities swarm the blood-red skies after what had happened. "Our battle with our former pets must have attracted them to the air..."
"So, flying's not an option? No problem. We'll just take the long way to the throne room..." Adagio surveyed the path ahead of her, looking for the best way to scale the mountain and make it towards the throne room of Greed, Persuasion and Malice. "Thank Allure for all those endurance hikes we went through in our first lives..."
"So, I say that if we ascend the mountain from the south side, we should be able to make it into the courtyard of the castle before nightfall," Aria turned her gaze towards the castle of the Three Queens of Dystopia, and where it lied on the mountain. "Provided more of those Dystopian demons don't slow us down..."
"We've got quite a long climb ahead of us, sisters. Especially with our friends and families' lives on the line..." Adagio turned towards the still lifeless bodies of her friends and family. "Hang in there, everyone. We'll right this wrong that our brothers have done onto you..."
Without a word, The Dazzlings struggled on, desperate to make it towards the throne room of the Three Queens of Dystopia and free their friends' souls so that they could live another day...
The Dazzlings finally made it to the foot of the mountain and grabbed onto of the elongated crystals that poked out of the foot. They then used a number of other crystals to hoist themselves up so that they could put their feet on the platforms. It was a hard task to do without flying, but The Dazzlings continued to climb the crystals, desperate to make it to the castle before the day's end.
Every crystal was hard to grab onto, due to the rather archaic way they were shaped. However, Adagio, Aria and Sonata found some smooth and equal parts of the crystal spikes, and clutched them tightly to further their ascent up the mountain. There would even be the odd time where some of the crystals either broke when they touched them, or instantly vanished on contact with a certain body part. This made the climb even more arduous, and it invoked more and more exasperated huffs from each of The Dazzlings as their progress was halted some way or another.
"Wish we could have just flown up this damn thing..." Aria grumbled to herself as she lifted herself up onto another crystal platform. "Then again, if we did fly, we'd probably be having to fight off hundreds of winged monstrosities at once, which would ensure that our friends and family never survive to see another day ever again..."
"Adagio! How much longer is the climb gonna be?" Sonata asked after about half an hour of climbing and hoisting the dead bodies up the mountain. "I feel like my taco-handling arms are killing me!"
"Just a few inches more! I can see a landing where we can regain our energy!" Adagio pointed towards a part of the platform which looked like it sank into the mountain itself, which would serve as a great place to rest and recover.
The Dazzlings eventually made it to the landing which Adagio had pointed out earlier, and let out sighs of relief when they saw how much space could be seen from their point of view. There was more than enough space to hold a party of a hundred people, and it would be a great place for Adagio, Aria and Sonata to regain their stamina for the next phase of the ascent.
"Come on, girls. Help them up..." Adagio said as she hoisted the bodies of Sunset, Celestia, Luna and Starswirl up, whilst Aria tended to The Snapshots and Cadence, leaving Sonata with The Rainbooms. Eventually, all of the bodies were let down, and The Dazzlings took in heavy breaths of air as they then dragged them over to the mountain's walls.
"We should be fine here..." Adagio said as she finally sat down to recharge her stamina for a while. "Nothing's gonna attack us from this position..."
Suddenly, a rather loud, spider-like screech could be heard, getting The Dazzlings to huddle up together.
"Oh... Me and my big mouth..." Adagio groaned as another Dystopian Seal appeared, blocking their climb upwards, whilst also putting walls around the cliffs so that they couldn't fall.
Another beast appeared in a burst of red light. This time, it seemed to have a humanoid chest and arms, but had a massive spider's body with archaic blood patterns all over the legs, cephalothorax and abdomen. The spinneret looked like it had a sharp spear-like weapon poking out of it, and it was shaking, ready for combat. The human part looked rather normal, but with more blood-red patterns running down the neck and chest, spreading out to the arms quite flexibly. The face of the beast was also rather savage, like a human's jaw had been dislocated, and its' eyes were nothing more than amber orbs. The human part of the spider beast wore a Furen pendant, and had two tomahawks in its' hands, ready to be thrown at will.
Hunter of Unacceptable Pleasures
PERVERSION
The Perversion looked at The Dazzlings and uttered another spider-like screech before immediately charging on them. It leaned forward once it was close enough and tried to swing the spiky tomahawks at Adagio, Aria and Sonata. However, they watched as they merely leapt straight over its' head and smashed onto its' abdomen, making him screech once more. However, once it got back up, it used the long spear-like spinneret to try and strike The Dazzlings from behind.
Adagio failed to notice that the spinneret of the Perversion was still a weapon as well, and immediately fell prey to the smashing attacks of the giant spear manipulated by a spider's silk. She was eventually knocked onto her stomach with one final attack, and was now recoiling in pain as she rolled onto her back, looking up in horror as the spinneret was about to come smashing down straight into her face.
Aria and Sonata quickly intercepted the spinneret and smashed it against the wall, holding it down and making the Perversion shake and struggle to move again. They let the spinneret go and charged in for the beast's head and chest. They braced for the spinneret to counter their attacks, but the counter never came, enabling them to cross blades with the Perversion's tomahawks.
Adagio tangoed with the spinneret, leaping over it and sidestepping out of the way whenever the spiked spear tried impaling her. This went on for quite some time until she found the silk that was controlling the spear. She leapt over the spear once more and brought her sword straight down through the silk, separating the spear from the rest of the Perversion's body and causing the spinneret to expel thick blood.
When the Perversion was only down to fighting with its' tomahawks, it frantically swung at Aria and Sonata, knocking them straight into Adagio, sending the three Furens crashing against the walls of the Dystopian Seal. Roaring in anger, the Perversion threw both tomahawks at the seal, hoping that one of them would pierce The Dazzlings with how precise they were.
Adagio merely kicked one of the tomahawks away and grabbed onto the other one. She got a boost from Aria and Sonata, and leapt towards the human part of the Perversion. She used her sword in one hand and the borrowed tomahawk in the other, madly hacking and slashing away at the Perversion's human half. She could hear anguished cries of pain with every slash, but she was unfazed by that and continued her assault.
With one final strike, she threw the tomahawk straight through the cephalothorax and abdomen, whilst splitting the human half of the beast in half. In the end, the entire Perversion had been split in two, and both halves collapsed rather rapidly before fading away as quickly as it had entered.
When the fight was over, The Dazzlings destroyed the Dystopian Seal and tended to the lifeless bodies once more.
"So... now what, Adagio?" Aria looked at the rather steep mountain and saw no possible method of moving upward from their current position.
"If my hunch is still correct, then the secret passage to the front doors of the castle should be right around here somewhere..." She felt for a certain part of the mountain, then fist pumped when a part of the mountain sunk into it. "We're in!"
"Dekima engra vric." a Dystopian voice spoke to all of The Dazzlings as a red forcefield appeared in front of the mountain's structure.
The Dazzlings merely sung their chorus to the voice, who immediately lowered the forcefield for them. "Engra vric obligra, jurac figre, Dazzlings..."
"Good to know the voice databanks hasn't forgotten ours..." Adagio smiled with satisfaction as The Dazzlings took up the dead bodies once more. Then, she watched as the part of the mountain that had been shielded suddenly vanished in a radiant burst of light, revealing a secret passageway with red crystal stairs leading upwards.
The Dazzlings all carried the bodies inside the mountain and laid them down, seeing that the cave wall behind them had sealed up once more, blocking off any uninvited guests.
"We should be safe in here. Dystopian beasts can't find us if we just fly up from here..." Adagio said as her wings re-appeared. "Gather the bodies. We're having an audience with Greed, Persuasion and Malice..."
The other Dazzlings complied and carried the lifeless bodies in their arms and over their shoulders. Then, spreading their wings, they flew up the caverns, passing many flights of crystalline stairs as they did so. To their relief, nothing had attacked them as their ascent neared its' end.
When they made it to the top of the caverns, Adagio, Aria and Sonata laid the lifeless bodies against another wall whilst examining the massive gates that now stood before them. The gates were at least twenty times taller than The Dazzlings, making their mouths drop with its' phenomenal size. It was also a rather wide gate, capable of getting colossal chariots in and out with little trouble whatsoever. The gates' patterns themselves were very demonic and were covered in blood. There also seemed to be a massive Furen crystal in the center of the gate, a symbol that this was a Furen fortress of rest and relaxation. Adagio, Aria and Sonata put their hands on the gate and felt like they were at home...
"Alright, girls. On the count of three, we breach the gate and fight our way to the throne room..." Adagio put her shoulder against the gate, seeing that Aria and Sonata followed her lead in the matter. "Remember, this place is full of Furen monsters, so don't be surprised if things get too tough for you..." she then looked at the dead bodies once more and got a massive surge of confidence. "Alright. One... two... THREE!"