//------------------------------// // We're Here to Let You Know // Story: Norm, Genie of The Dazzlings // by Aku //------------------------------// "We're waiting for our dad to finish his meeting with the principal." Sonata cheerfully replied, ignoring or oblivious to the tension in the air. Rainbow shot her an incredulous look. "You have a dad?" Rainbow may not have been the smartest kid in school, but even she knew that the sirens she had faced a few months before didn't have parents here. They were from an other dimension after all. "Of course we have a father," Aria began, once again using what Sonata had dubbed her 'nice voice', "Everyone has one." Aria smiled brightly, before taking a few steps forward and extended her hand in greeting. Slightly baffled, Rainbow took the offered appendage. This was not how she expected things to go when she heard from Fluttershy that the sirens were back. "My name is Aria MacDonald and these are my sisters, Sonata," She pointed at the smiling siren who was rocking back and forth on her heels, "and Adagio." Adagio gave a shy little wave from where she stood behind Aria. It had been decided that, since the first time they were here Adagio had clearly been confident and in charge, this time she would act shyer and let Aria take the lead, something Aria was actually happy about. They let Sonata be Sonata, because Sonata couldn't be anything but Sonata. "Uh, nice to meet you?" Rainbow said uncertainly. She had been expecting a confrontation, hell, that's why she had come in the first place, looking for some action while the girls wrote to Twilight for assistance. But so far the three were acting nothing like the scheming jerks from a couple months ago. Aria's expecting look reminded Rainbow that she had yet to introduce herself. "I'm Rainbow Dash." She stepped to the side, exposing Fluttershy who had taken cover behind her. "And this is my friend Fluttershy." Fluttershy gave a timid wave. "It's nice to meet you both." Aria smiled brightly. Yeah, there was no way she was the same girl as that siren, she was acting way to cheerful. Sonata happily skipped over towards Fluttershy. She wanted to get close to the girl, to find out where it would hurt her the most to strike at, to rip away what she cared for most and then bathe in her tears. Most would not think that the normally bubbly siren to be ruthless, or clever, and she wasn't. She just really knew how to hold a grudge. Being hit in the face by a swarm of magic butterflies hurt a lot more than one would think. "Can I borrow five bucks? I forgot my wallet at home." She asked sheepishly, rubbing the back of her head. Oh, and she knew a pushover when she saw one. Why should she pay for food when there where others perfectly willing. "Oh, um, I guess so. I brought a sandwich anyway." Sonata's grin threatened to split her face as her prey handed over a small pile of dollar bills. Norm was not having a good time. Celestia, the gorgeous sister of Luna and Principal of the school, dropped a few dozen more papers in front of him with a smirk. "I need you to sign these, they're to allow your daughters to use the schools internet and electrical equipment. And once again, one for each of your daughters." Correction, Norm was having a terrible time. He had already signed about sixty papers already, being forced to sign each individual form three times, and was starting to think that some of the forms were made up. Like that one a couple minutes back, a waiver of the ability to sue incase his young masters were brainwashed by a she-demon in order to invade an alternate dimension? Preposterous! And there was another one saying that they could not be held responsible for the sudden disappearance of students during the full moon. Perhaps he shouldn't have tried hitting on her the moment he walked through the door. "I need these in triplicate." Another small pile. Yeah, he really shouldn't have tried. It was just to bad he couldn't gong it done, he would have been done twenty minutes ago and then he could have gone on to enjoy those blissful moments between wishes. "I think that's the last of the papers, Mr. MacDonald." Celestia cheerfully announced after Norm finished the last bit, a form of consent allowing them to take his children to the hospital in case of emergency or something like that. "Well that's a relief. Thought I would vaporize the lot if I had to sign one more thing." Norm muttered. "What was that?" Celestia inquired, turning from where she was standing near her filling cabinet. "Oh, nothing. So," He began, trying to cover his verbal blunder. Wouldn't do to have her suspicious of anything supernatural going on, "The girls are good to begin classes? I know Aria is eager to get back in the swing of things and Sonata is looking forward to making friends." Well, the part about Sonata was true, he was pretty sure Aria just wanted to hang around in her pajamas and play that Crash Nebula game he stole from Turner. Hah! He knew it was petty, but by smoof he was going to exact his revenge however he could, and thanks to that fez dammed contract, that wasn't much. Celestia nodded with a smile. "That's good to hear." She slid over three papers to Norm, making him moan until he noticed that they were class schedules. "They are free to begin class at once, though they can take the day off and begin tomorrow if you feel that would be best." Norm took the papers with a smirk, "Thanks, I'll just let them decide. Though knowing them they'll want to start right away." Within her castle of crystal and wood, Twilight Sparkle, alicorn princess, stared at the message that had suddenly appeared in her journal in shock. Which quickly turned to annoyance. "Discord!" The princess shouted in annoyance, "How many times have I told you to leave my books alone?" A pair of eyes and a pouting face appeared on the page of gibberish, "But this isn't a book. It's a journal, two very different things." Letting out a sigh at Twilights narrowing eye's, Discord slid out of the book, returning the message to it's original state. "Be that way then. It's not like it was anything important, just some nonsense about some sirens coming back for their revenge." The chimera pulled a nail file out from a bouquet of daffodils that had not been on the nonexistent coffee table between the two sitting powerful beings, and begin filing his left claw. Oddly enough this produced a lovely violin like sound. Twilight let out a sigh, having had a similar conversation with Pinkie earlier. Though she had to admit the music was actually very nice. "Discord, when I said books I meant all types of reading mater- . . . did you say the sirens were back for revenge?" Discord stopped his filling, thus ending the music Twilight was enjoying. "Did I?" He tossed the file away where it turned into a kitten that bound off down one of the castles many halls, no doubt it would wind up at Fluttershy's house soon. "I suppose I did." Twilight looked at Discord with a very serious expression. "Do you know what this means?" Discord sent her an equally serious expression. "Yes I do." He nodded solemnly, before a pair of suit cases appeared before him. "Road trip!" Twilight looked at him equal parts shocked and confused. "Wait, what?" Wasting no time, Discord grabbed Twilight and with a snap, transported the two of them to another dimension, leaving behind only a note for Spike and the girls explaining they had left to save the day. And that they needed more milk. With a sudden flash of light, the odd duo appeared in a world full of humans. Humans that were all yellow and overweight. "Well, this isn't right." Discord muttered as he stared at his claw in confusion. He had really meant to land in that other world he had heard so much about, not wherever they were. "Discord." Twilight growled warningly. She really didn't want to deal with his antics today, not when her human friends, and Sunset, were in possible danger. "Just hold on a minute, Princess," He began as he prepared to snap his fingers again, "This may take a few tries."