"I DON'T BELIEVE THIS!" Adagio Dazzle screamed as she and the two other sirens-turned-humans finally made it back to the rundown apartment they had all been sharing for just over a year now. "Everything we worked for, RUINED! We had our magic back and the entire school was our adoring slaves, SO HOW COULD WE LOSE TO THOSE MAKERS-DAMNED RAINBOOMS!?"
"Why are you yelling at ME like it's MY FAULT?!" Aria Blaze asked just as viciously. "We followed YOUR PLAN just like YOU said to! This whole mess is YOUR FAULT!"
"Girls, please, don't fight!" Sonata Dusk pleaded, looking from one siren to the other.
"SHUT UP SONATA!" The other two screamed, causing the blue siren to flinch away.
"I don't even think you were trying at all!" Adagio snapped at her. "The way you were acting, I'd swear you thought this was a game! Do you even WANT to go home!?"
"Seriously Sonata," Aria added. "We're all ready to turn the school against each other and all you could think about was tacos. You're not just the worst, you're the STUPIDEST."
Sonata didn't say anything to this; she simply backed away again without looking up at either of them.
"Our gems, our means of collecting emotions for magic, food, and possibly our only way home, DESTROYED!" Adagio kicked the only coffee table with enough force that it actually broke. "DAMNIT!" she yelled as her foot began throbbing in pain.
"Perfect example right there," Aria said with a smirk. "Yeah, you destroyed the table, but now you probably busted a toe."
There was no hesitation. Adagio launched herself at Aria and the two proceeded to scratch, claw, tug, pull, punch, and kick at each other. Sonata watched them fight, unsure what to do to stop them from tearing into each other. Thankfully, the events of the night and the subsequent retreat back 'home' had tired them out enough already that the fight was brief with relatively little bloodshed or injury and most of the real damage occurring to their outfits.
"This is a waste of time," Adagio said she pulled herself free of Aria, got up, and made for the bathroom and their first aid supplies. Aria was right on her heels, leaving Sonata alone in their small living room.
As soon as they reached the bathroom Adagio flung open the medicine cabinet without looking at her reflection for even a second. She had enough of an idea how badly she looked right now and really didn't need a visual confirmation. Between herself and Aria practically everything medical was ripped out of the cabinet and was strewn across the sink or on top of the toilet's water tank. Each of them applied medicine to themselves as if their own bodies had done them wrong.
'The Rainbooms will PAY for this. If it takes the rest of my life, I WILL make them suffer for tonight!' Satisfied with her hap-hazard first-aid work, Adagio stuffed the medical supplies back into the cabinet and slammed it shut. When she did, she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror this time. She did a double take, then simply stared at her reflection.
"Yeah," Aria piped up, "you DO look that hideous."
As an answer, Adagio reached out, grabbed Aria by the chin, and forced her to look at the mirror as well.
"Adagio, what the f-!" Aria cut herself off mid-yell as she got a look at herself as well. More specifically, as she got a look at her eyes.
Both her and Adagio's eyes had the faintest tinge of red in them.
"What..." Aria said.
"How... but... the gems..." Adagio stammered. "This is impossible..." Then the gears started turning in the siren's mind. Slowly, the look of shock on her face started becoming one of triumph.
"Uh, Adagio... you going crazy on me here?" Aria asked, actual concern making its way into her voice. More for her own sense of well-being than Adagio's, but it was still there.
"No you idiot; I just realized something," the lead siren said, her cool, calculating voice returning.
"Care to share?"
"Think about it; even earth ponies have magic in them. Anything from Equestria does."
"And your point?"
Adagio's smile grew even more. "Which means that, even without the gems, we still have our own natural magic. Sure, those gems boosted it quite a bit, but then again we are still only teenagers ourselves back home."
"So?"
"So, our natural magic is finally showing. We might not be able to use it to get home as quickly, but we can certainly use it to survive long enough to make a plan. That Twilight of theirs came from Equestria, which means there's a way back. All we need to do is find that way."
"But remember what we overheard those idiot Rainbooms discussing? It won't be the same Equestria we left. That damn Starswirl sent us forward in time, as well as sending us to this diamond dog crap-hole of a world," Aria reminded her.
"True, but if he can send us forward in time, then it only stands to reason that a spell exists that goes backwards as well," Adagio said. "Once we get back to Equestria, all we need to do is find it."
"Maybe even go back a bit further and take care of old bells and beard before he can take care of us."
"My thought's exactly," Adagio agreed.
They admired themselves in the mirror some more before a thought occurred to Aria. "Hopefully this time Sonata can keep her tiny brain focused."
Adagio frowned at this, but then almost immediately smiled again. "Do you remember that one fool who nearly got the whole pod killed during that one storm?"
"Yeah, the pod banished him. Why?"
Adagio's smirk grew. "Do you remember how they banished him?"
Aria stared at her a minute, then a smirk worked its way onto her face as well. "Yes I do. Do you think the two of us can do it on our own?"
"Please, that idiot wouldn't know what's happening until it was done and we were half a block down the street." Adagio turned to Aria and stuck out her hand. "For the good of the pod?"
Aria reached out and shook it. "For the good of the pod," she agreed.
They both left for the living room.