Aria and Sonata both stood outside the door to the principal office. While Adagio had gone inside with Sunset to keep an eye on her, the two of them were given very simple instructions. Don't let anyone in. Given that the hallways were dead quiet, this wasn't exactly hard, no one had even walked past the office since they got there.
"How much longer are they gonna be?" Sonata asked, "I don't really wanna waste anymore of my time here."
"I told you before, I don't know," Aria replied, "Besides, I don't think any of us really want to be here anyway."
"Good point," Sonata replied.
"I don't even know why Sunset came to do this," Aria continued, "If I was Sunset I would just leave without so much as a goodbye text!"
"Can't argue with you there," Sonata replied, "How much longer are they gonna be? I'm bored!"
"What did I just say, about you asking that?!" Aria asked aggressively.
"Well sorry! I'll be sure to keep it to myself next time," Sonata replied.
"Good."
"Um..." a voice murmured.
Both of the sirens moved their attention away from each other, and towards the third voice. There were three little girls standing in front of them, each looking rather confused.
"Yeah, what is it?" Aria asked.
"Can we... Go in?" one of the girls asked.
"Yeah sure, go ahead," Sonata replied.
Both Aria and Sonata were standing right in front of the office door. "Can you... Move then?" the second girl asked.
"No, I can't," Aria replied bluntly.
"So... How are we suppose to-" the third girl. began.
"Scootaloo... Do those two look... Kinda, familiar to you?" the second girl interrupted.
The three of them took a moment to look at the two sirens. "Now that you mention it, a little bit, yeah." A few more moments past of the three girls staring at them, before they all slowly backed off a bit. From the looks on each of their faces, they had just recognized the two sirens.
"We should uh, probably come back in later."
"Me two!"
"Agreed!"
The three of them were about to dash down the hallway as fast as they could. But the opening of the principals office door made them stop, as they saw Sunset walk out from the office.
"Hey... You alright?" Sonata asked. Sunset completely blanked her, not giving any kind of reply.
Adagio followed shortly behind her, closing the office door as she left. "How'd it go?" Aria asked.
"We're going home," Adagio replied bluntly.
"Guessing it went badly?" Sonata asked.
"You could say that." Adagio noticed the three other girls, each of whome were staring at Sunset. "And who are they?" the two sirens shrugged.
"Um, Sunset..." one of them began.
Surprisingly, that got her attention. Sunset looked up, only just now noticing they were there. It was Sweetie Belle, Applebloom and Scootaloo.
"We uh..." Sweetie began nervously, "We... We wanna say were sorry fo-"
"Save your breathe!" Sunset interrupted. "I know what you're gonna say. You're sorry, you should've believed me, and all that stuff, but just save your breathe!"
With that said, Sunset wasted no time, and without giving either of the girls any time to reply, she began walking away. The three sirens simply followed behind her.
The three crusaders were quick to follow behind them. "Hang on, that ain't what we..." Bloom began, "Well, we do wanna apologize, but we need to tel-"
"She said she didn't want to hear it," Aria interrupted.
"Yeah but, we-" Scootaloo began.
"Didn't you two have a thingy at the principals office?" Sonata asked, "You should probably go to that, and leave us alone."
"Why did you three even come here?" Sweetie asked, "And why are you with Sunset anyway?"
"None of your concern, kid," Adagio said.
"Honestly, I think it is our concern," Scootaloo replied nervously.
"And whys that?" Adagio asked.
"Well beacause... We're Ano-" Applebloom froze mid sentence.
"Well?" Adagio asked, "Why is this your concern?"
"Well... You see..." Scootaloo began, only to be interrupted by the schools bell.
Homeroom had just ended, meaning that any moment now, the hallways would be filled with other students. Students that Sunset would rather avoid more than anything right now.
Sunset quickly put her hood back, hoping that no one would realize who she was before she could leave. "Look, I appreciate you're both trying to apologize, but I really gotta go now!" She was about to bolt it down the hall, but when the school bell stopped, three voices shouted from behind her in unison.
"WE'RE ANON-A-MISS!!!!"
Silence fell within the hallway, as some students stood in the door ways of their classrooms. Everyone there had heard that rather loud confession, and now they waited for Sunset's response.
Sunset slowly turned around, and removed her hood. She simply stared at the three small girls. She was speechless, and thoughtless.
The silence was broken by the sound of laughter.
Aria and Sonata had burst out laughing. "Alright... That was a good one!!" Sonata laughed.
"Yeah... We almost believed you there for a second!!" Aria continued.
"We're not joking!!!" Sweetie Belle shouted.
"Yeah, we're serious here!" Scootaloo said.
"Oh of course you are!" Sonata continued, still laughing. "And I'm actually the real princess of Equestria!"
"Fucking hilarious..."
The two sirens immediately stopped laughing, as they looked over at Adagio, who didn't seem to find any of it to be a joke. "Um... Adagio?" Aria began, "They're not serious, are they?"
"You three did this to me?" Sunset mumbled quietly. Her eyes were filled with shock, and her body seemed paralyzed, not moving an inch. "You're joking, right?" She didn't know what to think about what the crusaders had said. They had just told her that they were the ones responsible for everything she had gone through, and she just couldn't believe it. "Please tell me you're joking..."
"Listen you three!" Adagio began in a loud, commanding voice, "I can appreciate a twisted sense of humor, but this isn't the time! So I'm gonna give you three seconds to take that back!!!"
Applebloom shook her head, "We're not joking..." she replied glumly.
"You three destroyed my entire life..."
"We didn't mean for it to go this far, we-" Sweetie said.
"So you ACCIDENTALLY destroyed my life?!?!" Sunset asked, as a flow of tears began to flow down from her eyes.
"I... Guess so..." Scootaloo replied.
It was then that Sunset felt something deep down inside her. Something had been triggered in her that she hadn't felt in a long, long time. A fire that she thought was long extinguished from her. A deep, deep anger she hadn't felt since that one night. That night that she, nor anyone else at the school would ever forget, and as that anger grew, she could feel that she was about to snap at any moment.
"I need to go!" Sunset rushed as fast as she could out of the school.
"Sunset!!" Sonata shouted down the hall.
"You two go make sure she's ok," Adagio said.
"And what are yo-" Aria began.
"I said, go make sure she's alright!" Adagio repeated.
Aria and Sonata both glanced at each other, and ran after Sunset, leaving Adagio with the three culprits.
Adagio took a few steps towards the three girls, who each closed their eyes tight and prepared themselfs for the worst. It wasn't like they could really run away, if they did, then they would simply get it off of someone else later.
But Adagio didn't actually hit them. Instead, they heard the sound of clapping.
They opened their eyes to see Adagio was actually applauding them, which not only confused them, but everyone else around them.
"Congratulations. I'm impressed," Adagio began, "And I mean that, I am seriously impressed with you three!" her applause stopped. "You broke her. You took someone who was brave enough to stand up to me and my sisters, and is the only reason any of you are alive right now, and you broke her down into a crying, hopeless, broken mess of a pony, who just wanted someone to listen to what she had she to say."
"We're sorry..." Applebloom mumbled.
"I don't quite think that will cut it for her!" Adagio continued, "How many times has she apologized for what she'd done, and yet in the end, you all threw her away like a piece of shit." She looked around at the other students around her. "You know what, I think you three would make great sirens. I mean just look at this. If you can do this at such a young age, then I really do think you would make fantastic sirens." Adagio grinned rather maliciously. "Though, all of that aside, like I said, I'm very impressed you were able to pull this off. You remind me of myself when I was younger."
"Anyway. I should go make sure Sunset is ok." Adagio turned away from the three girls. "I just hope you can sleep at night knowing that she's never coming back, and it's all your fault..."
Adagio left the three of them standing there completely speechless, as she too, walked down the hallway in the same direction Sunset, Aria, and Sonata did.
I get a sick sense of satisfaction from this. Please, continue.
Twist the knife a little bit more Adagio, I don't think the point was driven in deep enough.
Worry not, some of us have more than a few stories we don't update for months or even years at a time.
Adagio's observation here was interesting, because it was something along those lines that led to my very first siren fic; that CHS (and people in general) gets broken up all the time, with and without magic, as Twilight points out in the Holiday Special herself.
Ah yes. The most important lesson of life is that some things can't be forgiven. Some things can't be taken back.
You know the feeling you know you 're seeing something bad but you feel good that happening? I feel that with the crusaders , that feel bad , but they deserve and will not say otherwise
I've noticed the misspellings of "principal" (the figure) and "principle" (the ideal).
Other than that, and a few other minor slip-ups, a good chapter.
one thing to say to the CMC.
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I like how you made Adagio not get angry easily, but was able to get things to sting for all of the students.
But I do worry about Sunset right now seeing on how she act.
This story is pretty good so far and the ending of it still got me wondering how it will end. So I wait for it to happen.
Also make the Crusadersame and Main 5 feel worst about themselves for what they did.
Ouch. Adagio's words... physically hurt to read. But I'm so glad she said them, because holy crap, did they need to hear it! Poor Sunset... this story is surprisingly believable, and that makes it even sadder.
I think that means you're doing a good job!
7426521 On the contrary,
to err is human, but to forgive is divine.
Sunset is running from her problems once again. Perhaps we should get her another mirror.
7426460 Here, I have some more for her to use.
7426447 We all get the sick satisfaction for seeing the monsters get their just desserts for their sins. That's why people come back for these fic.
Got an extra L in badly.
I believe they call this a proper 'The Reason You Suck' speech.
7426684 Have you been bullied? In any way? I mean deeply hurt by bulling. Sunset worked for redemption. HARD. And it was THROWN away in a matter of a day or so... I thought Sunset WAS being DIVINE by not murdering those three...
7426764 In my opinion, that doesn't really make us any better. Either way, the crusaders DEFINITELY needed to hear that.
Think you mean "would make fantastic sirens."
Ohhh, Burn.
Very nice Adagio, very nice.
'Dagi's right. If the Crusaders can wreck things accidentally, how much more if they're actually trying?
Well, that's concerning. Sunset's just getting worse and worse, and not even people trying to take responsibility is enough for her to at least attempt to calm down. Although the Sirens have been trying to help her out, it seems that their own attempts are doing nothing to help the situation either. To be fair, they are keeping her from making horrible decisions, but by the way things have been going, even they don't seem like they'd be able to keep it up.
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I think you mean believable in the realistic sense. If we went by the rules of the canon-verse (or even the comic-verse that this is based off of), I don't think anyone would believe something like this would happen.
7427061 Yes, I have.
Second, I was primarily referring to the 6. It may be hard to see through the lens of victimization but she is doing exactly what they did to her. In addition, remember that Anonymiss started due to lack of communication between the CMC and 6. By not talking about her feelings to the 6/5, whatever, she is perpetuating and repeating the problem.
I'm not mitigating or disregarding her pain; I'm saying that what she is doing now will not fix it.
*claps slowly* Adagio, this is why you're one of my favorite MLP villains. You're not even evil in this, yet you can still be so deviously... well, EVIL!
That painful moment when you read a chapter that makes you want to upvote a story, then realize you can't because you already did once.
7427467 Well, sorry for reading your comments in a way that she did it on purpose... Next time try to phrase it better.
How AM i supposed to understand it?
After that comment about being like sirens, I couldn't help but think of myself as one as well. I mean, their misery, their guilt, their despair, it was just delicious. I hope for even more misery for the guilty and the sweetness of their tears; let it come in spades!
Upupupu...DAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
7426838 No my friend, that was the 'Congratulations, you're more evil than I am and I'm pure evil.' speech.
7426619 That's right CMC! Keep crying you evil things you!!!
Adagio is too awesome in this story, and I usually don't like her character in mlp stories. This chapter is the best one yet!
Go Adagio, twist the knife into the CMC's cruel dead hearts!!!
7428037 monokuma is that you?
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7428108 YUMMY! Love them tears with a side of good old regret!
Ouch I think the Crusaders would have preferred a slap than hearing that but then again Adagio's words cut much deeper than any blade could. If I were Sunset I would have slapped those three for the crap they pulled.
I look forward to more.
Yep, nothing more painful than the truth.
Oh, such a lovely chapter. Dagi is twisting the knife in the CMC's heart like a surgeon. Those three little discusting brats are finally feeling their sins crawling on their backs. For fanfics like this, I can just hope that things will get even worse for those little hellspawns and their oh so precious sisters!
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I use his laugh when I'm enjoying their anguish. Yes, my love of their despair reaches Monokuma levels.
7427826 Well, she did just run out of the school, after just telling principal Celestial that she wasn't coming back. It sounds like running away to me.
Dark and compelling. Want more.....
7428474 Wouldn't you? At this time it's about emotions, and later - of pride. "I don't WANT to be with 'friends', that do not help or believe me. I REFUSE to be friends with them. After all, they left me hanging once, am I really sure they will stick with me next time things will get hard for me?" I know that I'm a guy of a principle, And for them to win ME back... Gee, I don't even know what they could have done to have my trust back... In other words, I agree with Asheram.
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Can you blame her? She worked hard to make up for what she did to everyone in CHS and was the main reason they were saved from the sirens, finally earning their acceptance or forgiveness only for everyone to turn on her when Anon A Miss popped up without even hearing her out or giving the benefit of a doubt. Her so-called closest friends didn't even do that!
They broke her trust and faith in them, so it isn't that she's running away it's that she's doesn't want to deal with it again. First time she deserved it and faced it head. This time she was framed and no one helped or stood up for her after everything she did and was hurt far, far worst than what she did to them. So yeah her leaving makes senses, especially now that the Crusaders' confession re-awoke her inner demon.
7428056 There is no trope for that. There IS for "Reason you suck speech".
Want to prove me wrong?
Reason you suck speech.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheReasonYouSuckSpeech
Give me ANY source of where you came up with "I'm more evil than you"
nice job making adagio so vile
7429264 7429260 All good points. But consider this: after the Fall Formal, Sunset was ostracized and rightly bore the blame of her actions. She then strived for a chance to make up for what she did wrong.
The student body is now in the same boat, striving for a chance to make up for their own wrongs toward Sunset. It just seems hypocritical of Sunset to not offer that same chance towards them.
Ten Thousand Talents.
7426838 This sound more like a "Your just just as bad as I am" speech. I don't think there is a trope for that tough.
7429276 I made that evil thing up on the fly. I was just improvising.
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True, but I think Sunset taking the low road is the point of this story. The way I picture it, Sunset asked herself a simple question following the reveal that she was innocent all along in the Anon-A-Miss incident: "Which is more important; the pain and fear suffered from my closest friends, or the warmth and joy those same friends bring me, and I them?"
In canon and all stories in which Sunset returns to her friends, she chooses the latter, of course, because she herself was forgiven (maybe not for the best reasons, granted...) even after years of her reign over the school, but here, we explore what happens when she (apparently) chooses the former (and happens to run into the sirens to pick her up from her lowest point so that she has some kind of support and doesn't just fall apart).
It's a "What if they took the low road" fic. Or, such is my guess. This might yet end with forgiveness and friendship, but we'll have to stick around to find out!
7430139 The thing is, Sunset came as neutral, and have taken the power, made the hu-mane 5 turn away from each other. She was on the evil side, and others were victims. But now everyone just didn't believe that Sunset was good and turned on her. Witch hurts more: a tyrant, hurting subjects or someone you consider a friend to turn on you? So who suffered more? Students from schemes and them direct hypnosis from Shimmer, or Shimmer, who had her "friends" turn on a dime and accuse her of being evil and coming back to old ways. Because I would not have as much grieve from a bully and a tyrant as from a friend, that suddenly didn't believe my single word, and join a mob in shouting profanities in my direction.