Part 1: Epilogue
Aria Blaze raised a forehoof to her mouth and let out a few hacking coughs before she rolled onto her side, pulling baby blue covers over herself as she faced a wood-grain wall in the dimness of the night. “I miss being aquatic…” she muttered from the floor.
Adagio Dazzle turned, her mass of orange curls shifting slightly to reveal a pillowcase with a cross-shaped directional-pad design along with two rectangular black buttons, and two red circle ones. “You were the one stupid enough to actually try and drown yourself!” she snapped as she laid on a bed under a gray bedspread, and a light blue forehoof belonging to Sonata Dusk.
Aria turned to fire off a glare at that mass of orange curls hanging out from under the blankets and off the side of the bed. “It’s been a pretty stressful day for me, and you two certainly didn’t help! You never help!”
Adagio rolled her eyes. “You’re the one who picked a fight with our new hostess.”
Sonata let out a soft tired giggle as she cozied up to Adagio and laid her head on the unicorn’s chest. “New mommy is the strongest…” she murmured.
“Well, how the heck was I supposed to know she was using being a mom as a cover for the fact that she’s some extremely gifted fighter!” Aria frowned. “You think like… She’s got a tragic backstory there? Like she accidentally killed a pony in the ring or maybe there’s just too much blood on her hands—”
“Hooves,” Adagio corrected.
“—Right, hooves, and now she’s just trying to settle down and put her past behind her?”
“I’m not sure how that would matter,” Adagio said.
Aria shrugged. “I thought it’d be cool… but maybe we can find out and blackmail her with it?”
“… And whom would we be blackmailing her against?!” Adagio asked. “I got the impression Chip knows her inside and out both literally and figuratively, Gibson just has one thing on his mind at his age, and Button would probably think it’s cool! So, I ask again, whom could we possibly threaten to bring this information to, if indeed it even exists?”
“Uh… Princess Twilight Sparkle?” Aria suggested.
Adagio rolled her eyes. “Unlikely. If anything, that’d just bolster the idea that Love Tap can handle us three…”
“Society!” Sonata suggested as she threw a forehoof directly into the air, knocking the covers back.
Grumbling to herself, Adagio looked up at her horn. It flashed a dim, hazy green for a moment, then went back to its inert light-orange self. With a snarl, it glowed green once more and a small green haze drifted out to grab the edge of the blanket and pull it back over Adagio and Sonata.
Aria shook her head. “Naw… Love Tap doesn’t care what other ponies think of her.” She turned to look up at the ceiling. “She’s cool like that…”
“Hehehe! New Mommy is pretty neat!” Sonata agreed.
Adagio smirked in Aria’s direction. “Sounds like you’re developing a little crush on her.”
“What, no!” Aria insisted. “Besides, what about you and Gibson?!”
Adagio let out a short derisive laugh. “Gibson? I’ll grant the boy has excellent growth potential—”
Aria let out a pained groan.
“—but he’s just a horny teenager.”
“Who can play the guitar and is in a band!” Sonata pointed out.
“Yes, yes,” Adagio said, “so he’s not a complete loser.” She shook her head. “It’s not like he means anything to me.”
Sonata giggled. “I like Button and his friends! They’re fun!”
Adagio looked down and tossed Sonata a wayward look. “No getting attached.”
“I knooooow…” Sonata said in the tone of a child who was getting tired of being told the same thing over and over again.
“I mean it!” Adagio stressed. “The both of you. Remember that this is just temporary.”
“Well, duh, Dagi,” Sonata commented. “They told us sharing a room was just until the construction of the new additions were done.”
“I’m not talking about this stupid room arrangement!” snapped Adagio. A smirk that only communicated malicious intent crawled onto her face. “Twilight’s keeping us close but not close enough. It’s just a matter of time before we slip away from that naive Princess and are back on track to turning all the ponies of Equestria into one big audience to serve us the love we deserve.”
“Yeah, right,” Aria replied sarcastically. “Us getting our asses handed to use by the Rainbooms was just the first step in some big plan of yours.”
“I’ll admit that was a bit of a setback,” Adagio said.
“We lost our gems, stupid,” Aria quipped, “there’s setback and then there’s uncontrollable dumpster bonfire.”
Sonata snorted out a laugh.
Adagio rolled her eyes. “I know patience, forward-thinking, and not being an idiot isn’t your strong suit, Aria, but we’re far from out of the game.” Adagio glanced towards her horn and smiled. “Twilight’s unwittingly given us all the tools we need to succeed…” Adagio glanced down at her red gem and frowned slightly. “Did… did anybody—”
“AnyPONY,” Sonata corrected.
Adagio sighed. “—Anypony think to ask somepony else to remove their gems?”
“And what?” Aria replied, her face tightening slightly in confusion. “We just put our gems back on and asked whoever did it for us to forget what they saw?!”
“Well, you seem to be developing a repertoire of sorts with Love Tap and Sonata was with children all day… Plus, ponies are naturally forgetful and stupid…”
“Hehe, right?” Sonata quipped. “What a buncha grade ‘A’ ignore-a-mousses!”
Adagio let out a sigh heavy with annoyance.
“Sorry, Dagi,” Aria said, “Musta forgot to ask nicely if LT would take my jewelry off before we tried to smash the tar outta each-other.”
Adagio frowned. “Sonata?”
“Yes, Adagio? What is it?”
“Did YOU ask Button or one of the other kids to take off your gem?!” She snarled.
“Geez! You don’t need to yell! It’s night-night time!” Sonata’s voice dropped to a whisper. “You’re supposed to talk like this!”
“Well, pay attention to conversation context,” Adagio said. “Now did you get one of the kids to take your gem off or not?”
“No!” Sonata whispered. “I was too busy teaching Button how to fly and then saving him after I realized that probably wasn’t going to happen!”
Arai shook her head. “I can’t believe LT didn’t turn you into a greasy stain after you brought back the squirt with a dislocated shoulder.”
“Of course!” Sonata said excitedly. “Oops…” She began to whisper once more. “Of course. New Mommy is the best!”
“You two are useless!” Adagio quipped.
“Well, what about you?” Aria replied. “You and Gibson were having hot and heavy times!” She put on a fake smile, widened her eyes, and batted her eyelashes. “All you had to say was, ‘Hey, my gem is chaffing my neck, could you…?’ Or ‘I have an idea! Let’s put my gem around your massive horse member!’ or even ‘Take off my gem!’.”
“I…” Adagio’s forehead crinkled and she pursed her lips. “Oh, that clever little strumpet, she made it so we can’t talk about our gems when other ponies are around!” Adagio took a quick glance to one side of the room. “Or at least when they can’t hear.”
Aria rolled her eyes. “That sounds like a convenient excuse to cover the fact you dropped the ball, Adagio,” she quipped.
Adagio just chuckled. “This is going to be a little more challenging than I thought.” Another smile that could only mean devious attempt spread across Adagio’s face. “Which will make our inevitable victory over Princess Twilight and all of Equestria all the sweeter! HeheheheheMuaahahaha—”
“Hey, big sis’s?” Buttons voice called out as a collection a fiery orange-brown mane shifted from inside a checkered dark and light green sleeping bag with a few black squares arranged into a sort of frowning or perhaps shouting face. “I’m trying to sleep, can you three keep it down?”
A trio of ‘Sorry’s escaped the girl’s lips.
“It’s fine…” Button replied sleepily as he turned his head and closed his eyes. “G’night big sis’s! I love you.”
“Night, squirt,” Aria said.
“Love you, too, Button!” Sonata replied.
Glaring slightly, Adagio looked down and swatted the top of Sonata’s head with a forehoof.
“Owie,” Sonata replied as she rubbed her head, grumpily glared at Adagio, and turned in the bed to face away from Adagio. Sonata lightly buffered Adagio with her wings, kicking up the comforter slightly and sending a mess of Adagio’s locks about.
Sighing, Adagio’s horn glowed green again and small glowing wisps of magic energy drifted force to push her hair back into place. “Button, forget everything you’ve heard in this room tonight.”
“Forget what now?”
“Good job, Button.”
End Part 1
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Awesome. Though I admit I was kinda hoping that Love Tap would come in and end it with a choke hold.
Very nice. And that ending was hilarious. Love that "Forget what" running joke.
Absolutely wonderful.
“Well, how the heck was I supposed to know she was using being a mom as a cover for the fact that she’s some extremely gifted fighter!” Aria frowned. “You think like… She’s got a tragic backstory there? Like she accidentally killed a pony in the ring or maybe there’s just too much blood on her hands—”
Or she just took martial arts.
I doubt she'd care.
Exactly.
Oi, puns...
She has a point.
*sigh*
Indeed. She thinks.
Oh this should be good...
Glad to see this updating again.
I still foresee the sirens falling into Twilight's REAL trap. Causing the Sirens to love their new family of their own accords
You know, I could be in the minority but I get the distinct feeling that the sirens aren't as smart as they think they are.
It's probably just me.
Sonata, being the "youngest" of the three is the most likely to really want to be adopted by the Mashes. Also, 'Dagi's blanket is NES-themed~
I want to imagine that Twilight's sitting in her castle with some sort of scrying orb, rubbing her hooves together as she watches this scene, and doing the villainous plotting monologue about how she's going to get them to trust and love and be friends and stop being evil.
Funny and cute, especially with Sonata
Yep, Love Tap is badass. Adagio has no idea how spectacularly is she setting herself up to fail
You know, the effects of this family grafting aren't one-sided. In the last day Gibson, if still obsessing over sex is mostly over losing his virginity and his inability to talk to girls. Button has sort of learned to accept risk-taking (and that some of that will result in pain) as part of the approach towards Dominance Over EquestriaTM, or at least replacing the existing social order. Love Tap has apparently needed more stress outlets for a while now, has spent the entire day learning to adjust her expectations of what her family's happiness will look like and has started including the sirens on her list of protectees. Microchip is now able to spend all day drafting and designing stuff without work requiring constant traveling and thus contact with the outside world. (He's willfully blind within the house, even.)
And absolutely nothing about these new potential family bonds would directly cause the sirens to drop their grudge against Celestia and/or Luna (as associates of Starswirl), Twilight (as a devotee of Starswirl), or really anyone or anything they already have a grudge against. They're a lot less likely to be actually aiming for the complete conquest or destruction of Equestria - but that also immunizes them against rainbow lasers and thus permits them to be both more annoying to Twilight and more effectual in the long run. ...And they're now part of what could function as a pretty effective supervillain family. (I don't mean as in "visibly eeevil" so much as "could feel like supervillains if you happen to be in an antagonistic position". And any group of ponies is potentially awesome in the right situation.)
I don't think this was a plot so much as Twilight driven to desperation to get the sirens off her hooves and have a quiet bubble bath, but I could wish it was. There's so much more potential for irony. At least the elder alicorns have the life experience to roll and tumble when the inevitable stumbling blocks in any plot turn up underhoof. Twilight, especially in this continuity, tends towards OCD combined with a high-sympathy but low-empathy personality (she genuinely cares about people but has to guess their feelings and motivations), and when something looks bad, looks like her fault, and blindsides her... tends towards neurotic collapse.
I really look forward to the next chapter.
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That was really well thought out and presented. 5 out of 5 staches
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It's not in SweetieMash. There's some as of yet, unseen/unexplored fic where I kinda wanna cover this, but I haven't gotten to it yet. Note that I consider this trio separate from those in "The Dazzlings are Insane" and most my other Dazzling fics.
I know it's Adagio snarling, but the way it's written kinda makes it sound like her horn itself snarled😋
Ooh, i love the balance of sillyness and plot in this, you really established the setting well
Tracking now.
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.....Head's up they're ALL like that
To be perfectly honest this is absolutely amazing I love the story and I hope that it gets finished because I love this almost as much as I love the Sweetiemash Chronicles.
This is one of the three stories of your that I'm eagerly awaiting seeing an update on. This and the side stories are epic!
I didn't read this one for a long time because it centred so heavily around an OC. But I'm really glad I did, and I'm sad to see there isn't more of it. The sweet interactions between the sirens and Love Tap and Button were lovely
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Please continue
So is this dead? It has not seen an update in 3 years which is sad as this story has such a great premise!