> Anon-a-miss: The Nuclear Option
>  by ChAoS pOnY
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> Cheap Handcuffs and The Three Options (edited)
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Cheap Handcuffs and The Three Options


Sunset watched as Snips and Snails ran off to catch a ride with Gilda, a small humorless smile on her face as she held Snail's phone in her hand and looked at the cheap $10 handcuffs. Strong enough to hold her, but they had a little safety release in case you lost the keys. It was almost like a bad joke, like hearing about a pony dying of thirst in the dessert not 2 feet away from a pool of water next to a no swimming sign.

Snips had been proud of the fact that Gilda never questioned what he was doing with a pair of handcuffs and Anon-a-miss never found out about Snips and Silver Spoon or that Silver Spoon enjoyed being spanked. She wouldn't have known if she hadn't caught them in one of her hiding spots and showed them a better hiding spot. What they did together was their business and none of hers. 

She finally shook herself out of her thoughts when she heard the car engine pull away and dialed one of the cab companies. It took her a few minutes to get to the front of the building and then pull her boot off while she waited. As she pulled out the twenties she kept there for emergencies she remembered one time Princess Celestia told her of the three options.





"Sunset there may come a day when no matter how smart, clever, or powerful you are that you will find there are no good options." Princess Celestia explained as they walked through the garden. "Or at least what we would consider a good option, but what other races consider to be a perfectly reasonable option.  Take the Diamond Dogs, for instance, they have a tradition of each pack having what they call Fenrir's coming. It varies from pack to pack, but the main idea is a plan that ensures the survival of the pack by having the pregnant females, the young who are less than 2 years old, the packs wisest elders, and the packs Alpha Bitch ready to flee with at a moments notice with baskets of food, blankets, and a copy of their pack's holy tomes. While they flee, the rest of the pack will throw themselves at whatever the threat might be and not just the Alpha Male and warriors, but children, elderly, injured, and the crippled in a desperate bid to buy the others time to escape  with their very lives." 

For a moment Celestia paused as she got a faraway look in her eyes before shaking herself. "To a pony, this ideal would be abhorrent as it means using children barely out of diapers as living shields to buy others just enough time to escape, but despite how horrible it may seem the Diamond Dogs have survived near extinction multiple times because of this. it has gotten better over the years, but they still practice this idea." Celestia explained. "Over the years I have encouraged a variation of this idea amongst the nobility and what in the past would have been considered 'of the Yeomen stock' like the famous Apple Family Clan. Many of the nobility have taken to keeping up the maintenance on their ancestral homes and plans for escaping Canterlot at a moments notice. Then you have the Apple Family and other farmers having and keeping enough supplies ready to grab and flee with in case of emergencies. The ideal is that a lot of little targets are harder to capture or track than a few large groups bunched up together and maybe, just maybe, enough of my little ponies will escape if worst should happen." Celestia then paused and let it sink in before adding, "I call it the 'Go-To Tartarus' plan."





Sunset got into the cab and remembered how her 'Go-To Tartarus' plan had saved her life when she first came to the human world. Who knew where she would have been if she hadn't had her life savings on her and how valuable the gold in her bits and a few dozen gems would be.

As she rode in the cab she considered more of the conversation she had had about the three options.





Celestia had lead her back into the castle itself and stopped in front of a painting of a grinning red minotaur wearing a crown and holding a tankard of some frothy drink high in the air with one hand and holding a very drunk looking Clover the Clever in a headlock with the other. It was the only known painting of King Mighty Mike of Minos. 
"The problem with the go-to Tartarus plan is it relies heavily on the fact that almost every threat to Equestria makes an instant beeline for Canterlot. In the face of a full-on invasion from multiple directions and with an enemy that is willing to take the time to hunt down every single pony trying to flee it is relatively useless." Celestia explained. "For that type of situation, I looked to our allies in Minos and their capital of Labyrinth. The entire city was intentionally designed to be a maze built on and inside of a mountain with multiple choke points, dozens of even more confusing levels of the city underground, and the underground is only accessible through doors in very random places. The Minotaurs call it a fighting retreat and their enemies call it a nightmare fueled chaos that would make Discord proud. Whenever they are invaded, the minotaurs retreat to Labyrinth and force their enemies to have to fight block by block of every single level. This has two effects: one, their enemies exhaust themselves trying to take the city and two, it allows the minotaurs time to regroup and counter-attack against an exhausted enemy that just wasted days trying to break a city known as the unbreakable city for good reasons. Even trying to surround the city and laying siege is a bad idea since they minotaurs invented special lights that allow them to grow food underground and I have seen the vast underground farms they have created." Celestia then escorted her down the hallway yet again. 
"I briefly played with the idea of doing the same with Canterlot, but we lack the huge underground lake being feed by underground rivers that Labyrinth has. Eventually, I realized we had a perfectly good place to use for it that has multiple fortified guard stations and if needed a castle that can easily be restored to perfect order in a matter of days by a half dozen or so ponies. The area has multiple natural dangers and filled with predators that would be a nightmare for anyone dumb enough to try and chase my little ponies into there." Finally they stopped at a framed map of the Everfree Forest. "Haven't you ever wondered why I have left such a dangerous forest alone with only the guard stations to keep an eye on it. Most mayors have a plan for evacuation to the Everfree Forest if we are ever invaded by a smart enemy. Many might not make it but the forest can feed and protect 10 Manehatens easily. Also, the Ursa Major knows to leave ponies alone, but will not hesitate to protect its cub and its territory from any other invader. If you ever decide to look up the plan in the archives it's under 'Burn It All To Tartarus Plan'. " With that Celestia began leading her towards the throne room.





Sunset paid the cab driver and gave him an extra forty dollars to forget he had ever seen her. She watched the cab drive away before turning and crossing the street. Three houses further down she finally walked up to a plain white house and went in. For the first time she was glad she had never got around to letting anyone besides snips and snails know where she lived. As far as everyone else was concerned she either lived in an apartment near the school or somewhere downtown. 
Flim and Flam had found just what she needed and knew all the tricks for exchanging some of her bits to pay for it. In reality, the brothers had helped her out with a lot of things for the right price including getting her a sort of legal identity. One ruby the size of her fist later and she was Sunset Glittering Shimmer, a girl born in Slab City, California to a pair of anti-government eccentrics who had then dragged her all over the country from commune to commune of like-minded people who wanted to live off the grid. At some point she ran away from her parents during the Burning Man festival and ended up in Canterlot. 
The brothers had even tracked down what happened to this world's Sunset Shimmer. In Equestria, the fire at the orphanage had brought her to Princess Celestia's attention. In the human world Sunset Shimmer, two other children, and volunteer firefighter died in the fire at the orphanage. She had even visited her grave and the Three Little Angels park and had seen the renamed Bright Mac firehouse once in passing. Bright Mac's body had been found shielding the three children with the ceiling collapsed on top of them less than eight feet from the front door. At least she had had someone with her when she died, that was more than Gilda had planned for her. Thinking of that she, thought of the Third Option, the one that Celestia had used only once and had earned her the title the Tyrant Sun.





Halfway to the throne room Celestia had paused before saying, "There is one other option, but it is the most drastic and extreme response possible to a situation. It has many names and it is rightly feared for a reason. The Dragons call it the Terrible Flame and the Griffons call it *Der Brennende Tod. The Yaks call it **Süüliin gerel, but the Goats and Sheep named it and me the best Sunê Xerîdar, the Tyrant Sun."
Taking a deep breath, Celestia continued, "700 years ago the Ram Empire was in decline and as it declined many of its territories were taken by its neighbors, us included. Eventually all that was left was their capitol, Tambelon, and the surrounding countryside. They were desperate to revitalize their empire and their king allowed a scholar access to their most heavily restricted archives. In his search he found a spell to allow him to speak with the ancient sorcerer who had conquered most of their empire for them, but there was no mention of his name or how he did it. If he had known the truth he would have never casted the spell and became the sorcerer's new body."
"Within days the Necromancer Grogar conquered Tambelon, but a fluffy pony, half pony half sheep, escaped the carnage and got word to me." Celestia said with a haunted look in her eye. "By the time I got there with the army the city had been turned into a necropolis and Grogar was preparing to march his ghoulish army upon Equestria. My little ponies fought bravely, but against an army of the dead they had no chance. In the end, I had them retreat and entered the city myself and called down the Sun's Fury upon the land." She then gave a shiver. "A stream of flame and plasma stretched from the Sun to me and I guided it as I burned not just the city, but every last trace of it, all the way down to the deepest archives and vaults. I only stopped when I saw Grogar burned from existence between the Sun's plasma and magma bubbling up through a hole I had punched in the mantle itself." With a shake, she guided Sunset towards the throne room. "I have heard some scholars call it by another name, in honor of the nuclear fire at the heart of the sun. They call it the Nuclear Option and I hope I never have to use that third option ever again because I doubt the world can take me making another Lonesome Mountain."





Sunset looked at herself in the bathroom mirror after washing her face, only it wasn't her looking back at her. "Don't look so shocked to see me." the She-demon said with a frown, "You did take a few blows to the head."
> Demons, Minions, and Sirens (edited)
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Demons, Minions, and Sirens


Sunset finally asked, "So that's it, you just show up and I am supposed to go all evil bitch queen yet again?"

"No, this is the part where you listen to your subconscious and I bitch you out over this whole martyr act you have been doing since the fall formal." The She-demon said. "This is where I point out that being reformed doesn't mean acting like a scared foal to afraid to fight back. You put up with all that crap and bull shit because you didn't want to look like a bully. Well, news flash, you left a power vacuum and Anon-a-miss walked right in and took a giant crap all over everything you have worked for since the fall formal!" The She-demon punctuated her words by slamming her fists against the mirror. "She stole your 'Friends'! Only real friends would have given you the benefit of doubt!" She slammed her fists into the mirror again and small cracks appeared. "She took your victory at the battle of the bands and made it worthless!" She slammed her fists into the mirror again and huge cracks spread across the surface. "She pushed every single one of their fucking buttons until they tried to kill you!" The mirror then shattered and Sunset found herself being held off of the floor by her shirt collar. "NOW GET YOUR BUCKING TAIL UP AND SHOW THESE HAIRLESS APES WHY NO ONE BUCKING MESSES WITH THE PONY FILLIES AND COLTS OF EQUESTRIA!" The She-demon screamed.





Sunset woke up in the front hallway with a worried Snips, Snails, and Silver Spoon watching over her and an angry Diamond Tiara arguing with someone on her phone. "Yah yah, don't move her until you three get here... Like I give a fuck that you were pulling injured knights to safety during the crusades and can claim to be the world's oldest combat medic... What the fuck do you mean you're going to be a few minutes late?... Listen, just lose the cops and put your sister back on the phone... Oh I'm doing just peachy. My best friend wakes me up and I find out she's dating Twiddle Dee, the wonder dummy. I get dragged to a house on the back of his friend's, Twiddle Dumb, moped to find Sunset Bitch passed out on the floor and badly beaten. Then finally I get the joy of asking your sister for help since Snails says that psycho Gilda tried to leave her for dead and if she finds out about us... well you get the picture... Okay, see you in a few minutes." With that Diamond Tiara hung up her phone and looked at Sunset Shimmer, "We found you passed out on the floor with the door wide open and I have a... Well, I guess you can call her a special type of tutor bringing help. Just stay there until they get here and her sister can check you out."

"Boss, I know you didn't want anyone to know where you lived, but well, we needed help and Silver insisted on getting Diamond Tiara." Snips said.

"Don't worry about it Snips." Sunset winced at her voice and ask, "Mind getting me some water from the fridge?"

"Sure thing boss." Snips said as he headed for the kitchen.

Looking over at Snails she asked him, "What are you thinking about this time Snails?"

He was quiet for a moment before answering, "I was thinking about a nature show I saw the other night and how the narrator explained the need for an apex predator. It brings balance and order to the food chain, but remove it, and eventually, there will be chaos and destruction. If you think about it you were the apex predator of the school and now Anon-a-miss has thrown the school into chaos."

"Well then, I guess my sisters and I need to get your Apex Predator back on her feet so she can fix the school." Adagio Dazzling said from the door with a smirk before hugging Diamond Tiara. "Hey DT."

"This from the girl who puked on Richard the Lionheart's feet after seeing me amputate an arm with a wood ax and cauterize the stump." Aria Blaze said as she walked past her and started to examine Sunset. "Right, concussed, several bruises to the head and two nasty bumps, two dislocated knuckles, fight bites I'm going to have to disinfect the hell out of and possibly stitch close, bruised ribs but none broken, a nasty black eye, some joint strain but nothing torn. Okay, did you get cunt punted while getting a beat down because some girls walk funny for a while afterward, and if done wrong can mess up your hip joints?"

"What?" Sunset yelped as Aria picked her up bridal style and carried her into her living room.

"You know, kicked in the clitty really hard." Sonata said as she brought in a duffle bag while Aria put Sunset down on the sofa. "The Marquis de Sade did that to me once and it hurt a lot."

"No! Why in Tartarus would you let..." Sunset started to ask.

"Don't ask, you really don't want to know about how screwed up some immortals sex life can get." Aria said as she looked at two of Sunset's finger and then yanked Sunset's belt off and handed to her. "Bite down on this because when I pop your knuckles back into place it's going to hurt like a mother fucker."

"Your bedside manners sucks." Sunset told her before biting down.

"Yeah well let's see if you can scream louder than that little bitch Hitler did." Aria said as she yanked both fingers at once.





A half an hour later Adagio was waiting for Sonata to get back from taking Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon home and sending Snips and Snails home as well. The kids hadn't taken to Aria's medical practice very well and she was thankful they had left before Aria had started working on the fight bites.

"Here's a hint, punching people in the face is a bad ideal. Their head is harder than your fist and if you are really unlucky you cut your knuckles on their teeth. That's what a fight bite is and with over 200 different species of microorganisms living inside the human mouth alone you're asking for a nasty infection." Aria explained as she finished cleaning out the cuts. "Personally I always use the heel of my hand and aim for the temples to mess them up or the nose in order to break it. Nothing scares multiple attackers for a few critical seconds like a friend screaming in pain with blood pouring from their nose. Also, as cool as some kicks are, try to avoid them in favor of leg sweeps and throws. Kicks leave you too wide open unless you actually connect. Trust me, even after a thousand years Sonata still ends up on her ass most of the time when she goes for a kick." Turning she asked, "Adagio, can you grab the oral gel, needle, and thread from the bag Sonata brought in?"

"Yeah, here you go." Adagio said.

"What's the oral gel for?" Sunset asked.

"Numbs the cut so I can stitch it together." Aria said as she smeared a liberal amount into the cuts. "Before you ask, no it would have been useless when I popped your fingers back into place and only barely works for this."

"So what's with Dr. Aria Blaze, medieval medic?" Sunset asked as Aria threaded the needle.

"Humans had a thing about not letting women fight in wars, but they couldn't be too picky about the person patching them up. So I would slap them back together as best I could and used dragging their injured asses to safety as an excuse to kick some ass." Aria told her as she stitched the cuts closed with extremely tight and tiny knots. "A battlefield was basically a giant all you can eat buffet for us and we barely had to even hum to feed off the raw hate and anger." cutting the thread she then bandaged the hand to keep Sunset from closing it. "Don't use this hand for a day or two or you'll tear out the stitches. As for why we didn't feed like we use to... Well, I guess you can say humanity grew up some. Use to be wars were huge things with lots of soldiers, but over time they have gotten smaller and faster. Also what was considered an adult back then is now considered still a child. Of course getting blasted back to being mortal means we don't need to feed anymore, though it did give us a small scare until I realized Adagio wasn't killing over with whatever the human equivalent of horn rot is. A few tests and a cat-scan later confirmed the blast had cured us of why we agreed to be turned into sirens to begin with."

"You weren't always sirens?" Sunset asked as Aria finished bandaging her hand.

"Tartarus no! I was a pegasus with massive heart problems and 6 months to live when I became a siren." Aria said before turning to Adagio. "Help me get her shirt off so I can bandage her ribs before the pervert gets back."

"I was a Unicorn in the advanced stages of horn rot that had already spread to my brain." Adagio said as they took her shirt off and ignored Sunset's shiver at the mention of what was the most painful death possible for a unicorn. "Trust me, by that point I was willing to do anything just to make the pain end, even becoming a monster." 

"As for Sonata, we think she was a crystal pony, but we're not too sure since she was at least a couple of thousand years old when she found us and living that long does things to your mind." Aria said as she bandaged Sunset's ribs. "For all we know she might even have been an umbra."

As Aria finished bandaging her ribs, Sunset ask Adagio, "What's the deal with Diamond Tiara?"

"Her family is one of the few we've kept an eye on over the centuries and I am kind of mentoring her for her father since he realized her mother was raising her to be a stuck up, self-centered, self-entitled snob who would run the family business into the ground." Adagio explained. "Trust me, not the weirdest mentoring we've been up to since the battle of the bands."

"Hey, leave Pipsqueak out of this. He's the first one in his family to show any interest in pirates in centuries and I promised to only give the map to a direct descendant I felt was worthy of Yellowbeard's legacy." Aria shot back as she helped Sunset put back on her shirt.

"He's a 10-year-old boy who's obsessed with pirates instead of cowboys or spacemen." Adagio said. "As soon as he hits puberty he'll discover girls and forget all about them."

"Ha! I already told him about the treasure and he already knows he's a descendant from Yellowbeard through ancestry.com. That's what got him started on his pirate kick to begin with." Aria told her. "I even gave him our old wanted posters from back then 'Lady Blacksong', captain of the Beautiful Siren." 

"Wait, you were Lady Blacksong, the most famous female pirate captain in history?" Sunset asked.

"We were more like privateers and spies for the British Crown, but yeah I was Blacksong." Adagio said before smirking, "Right, First Mate Rum Bottle?" Aria then grumbled something about not choosing names while drunk. then Adagio looked at her with a serious expression. "Now, I waited until Aria finished working on you, but I think it's time to address the dragon in the room. How exactly did you end up like this and why isn't the cliche of the month club here to take care of you instead of us?"

"Well, it started with a post on Mystable by someone named Anon-a-miss..." Sunset started to explain what happened.
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Magical Creatures, Planning, Tea, and a Decision


"... and that was when I woke up on the floor with the kids and waiting for you three." Sunset finished telling them everything as they ate the veggie pizza Sonata had picked up on the way back.

Sonata was the first to speak after she finished. "First we rent a bulldozer and then...."

"No!" Both Aria and Adagio said at the same time.

"But.." Sonata tried again.

"No!" Adagio said again. "Whatever your planning involves rape, murder, arson, and summoning Cthulhu and we are fresh out of virgins and a volcano to toss them in to send him home."

"Isn't Cthulhu fictional?" Sunset asked Aria.

"Yeah, but we generally talk her out of trying after that whole mess in Japan with the five tailed Kitsune." Aria told her while trying to ignore the argument on why Sonata couldn't just go Genghis Khan on them. "Koemi was okay with everything, but given some of the other myths floating around this world we try to avoid it on general principle." Then she laughed and pulled a Christmas card out of her jacket and showed it to Sunset. It had a nude Japanese teenage girl with six fox tails proudly displayed looking over her shoulder at the camera and another, slightly shorter, Japanese teenage girl with big bushie raccoon tail and glasses also looking over her shoulder. It read 'Here's hoping you get as wonderful of a Christmas gift as us this holiday season.' "We're not too sure where she found Aiko, the Tanuki with her, or how she earned her extra tail, but the two of them are good friends. I just have to remember to stock up on a lot of rice wine and I do mean a lot as in gallons of the stuff whenever they visit."

"Are they the only magical beings you've met in this world?" Sunset asked as Sonata yelled something about the Salem witch trials and how showing them real power would have saved lives in the long run.

"Well we did meet Ipsa in India, she's a Naga, and helped sneak her into America to raise a baby Naga named Aadarsh as a favor to Koemi and Aiko." Aria said thinking about it. "Plus there were those drunk leprechauns that kidnapped Adagio, but they gave her back the next morning when they discovered the joys of Adagio without coffee plus a hangover equals a very bad idea. Oh, and Sonata says she met some goblins once when we were in Germany, but other than that we've tried to avoid meeting the local myths and legends crowd on the off chance we might run into something way too powerful and decidedly unfriendly." 

"I'd love to meet some of them and find out how their magic works and if it can help me understand how magic works here." Sunset told her.

"Don't bother, Koemi and Aiko's magic is so completely different from Equestrian that Adagio gave up after three centuries of trying to figure it out. If you didn't see them using it you wouldn't even know it was there and we wasted $20,000,000.00 dollars a few years ago to see if it could be detected by any modern science equipment and got nothing." Aria explained. "As for Ipsa, she took Aadarsh and disappeared. Koemi and Aiko might know where she is, but they made us promise to leave her alone if we find her."

"Okay, what about the leprechauns then?" Sunset asked.

"I'm the only one who knows their exact location and they put a geas on me to keep me from telling or leading anyone to where they are." Adagio said as she and Sonata finished their argument.

"And the Goblins said they were just passing through this universe on their way to another." Sonata said before adding. "I'm going to fix us some tea unless you don't have any."

"Tea is fine." Sunset told her as she headed for the kitchen.

"Now you need to decide what to do about CHS, your 'friends', and Anon-a-miss." Adagio began as soon as Sonata left "If you want to just walk away from the whole mess that's fine, but I'll have to convince Filthy to have Diamond Tiara transferred to Crystal Prep and figure out what to do about the others. That isn't even taking into account all of Anon-a-miss's other victims who haven't really done anything to you or betrayed you like the rainbooms did."

"Then there's Gilda and all the students that helped her try to kill you plus Rainbow Dash leading you straight into that trap with the text. I can't see them not wanting to make sure the one person who can point to them in court and say 'That's the people that tried to kill me your honor' isn't well and truly dead just to save their own skin." Aria pointed out. "Even if most of them don't go back to the factory just to make sure, one of them might have a rape fantasy and the perfect victim, meaning they might already know you escaped. Then there's the fact that you will still need your transcripts from the school to transfer to anyplace else if you want to finish school. All it will take is one person asking about you at the school office, the gossip spreading about you changing schools, and then the ones involved will know and be after you yet again."

"And you're still technically an exile like us, so going home is out, especially since they know what you look like over there." Sonata yelled from the kitchen. "Sure, Princess Twilight might be one of your besties, but your exile is from the big mare herself, Princess Celestia. So unless she pardons you, your still on the list with us and the bug queen, Chrysalis, and breaking exile is a one way trip to being turned to stone in the garden, being imprisoned in a volcano or a cave deep in the ocean, or sent to Tartarus."

"The point is," Adagio jumped in again, "you either need to move very far away from here or hit them so hard they wouldn't dare try anything against you ever again. Ideally in a way that shows them you can hurt them in a dozen different ways other than sending them to jail for attempted murder. This is especially true for Gilda who would only come out of jail hell-bent on getting revenge. With someone like her you need to show her you can not only hurt her but everything she loves and holds dear as well. She needs to fear coming after you or she'll just keep coming back again and again until she kills you."

"And all of this still doesn't deal with Anon-a-miss." Aria pointed out. "All they have to do is stir up more trouble until another group of idiots tries again. What we need is a way to beat them at their own game only worse and widespread enough that it might actually hit them and hurt them or someone they care about, They most likely won't stop until it actually hits too close to home." Thinking about it she added, "So long as it's just a game to them they keep doing it, but when it becomes real and isn't fun anymore they'll stop."

"Unfortunately we didn't go to CHS long enough to gather any secrets like what we need." Adagio said. "It might take a while to get anything we can use when we come back in after the holidays."

"Wait, their letting you come back to CHS?" Sunset asked.

"They had to, magically brainwashing the school isn't against the rules. The best Principle Celestia could do was suspend us for about a month and a half for using non-approved special effects that injured our vocal cords and cheating by locking you and the Rainbooms in the storage room under the stage." Aria explained. "Besides we're mortal again and need to think of our futures."

"Then why not go to Crystal Prep after what happened at CHS?" Sunset asked.

"Because most of the students and staff might not know us there, but Principle Cinch would definitely remember us and isn't the type to let it go after what happened at the friendship games." Adagio told her. "Trust me, there's a reason she is so focused on beating CHS at every single friendship games since becoming the principle of Crystal Prep. If she could, she would burn it down and then bulldoze the ashes into the ground."

"Does Principle Celestia know about this?" Sunset asked.

"I don't see how since she would have been 7 or  8 at the time and Luna would have just started kindergarten when it happened." Adagio said. "The only one who might remember would be the janitor, Discord, since he was just hired when it happened."

"He called me Pop-Tunes when I met him just before the battle of the bands while the two of you were in the restroom checking your makeup." Sonata said as she came back with a tray with four steaming mugs, half and half, sugar, and her red velvet cookies. Adagio and Aria just gave her a look. "What? It's not the first time someone met us a second time later in life, Christmas Past." handing Adagio her tea before setting a mug down in front of where she had been sitting, "Present." Then handing Aria her tea, "And Future." Before finally handing Sunset her tea and setting down the tray and asking Sunset "Cream and sugar token George Bailey?" 

"Cream and two sugars." Sunset said as she frowned, "And why am I the guy from It's a Wonderful Life?"

"Because he has a rough time at Christmas, but with a little help it gets better." Sonata said as she pulled out a spoon and fixed Sunset's tea for her and handing her a cookie. "And for us ~it wouldn't be the first time we played the good guys.~"

"Did you just sing?" Sunset asked in shock.

"Yeah, the blast only inflamed and strained our vocal cords when it destroyed our pendants, stripped us of our magic, and made us mortal again." Aria said as she snagged the spoon from Sonata and fixed her tea. "A few weeks of babying our voices like you would do with laryngitis and we were good again, minus the magical brainwashing powers part." Snagging a cookie she then said. "We were planning to troll the school by entering sing 'The Bitch Is Back' by Elton John just to freak everyone out."

"Why would you want to do that? Sunset asked.

"We're already the 'Bad Girls' so we might as well enjoy it." Adagio said as she grabbed a cookie and waved it at Sunset and saying in the worst Darth Vader voice Sunset had ever heard, "Search your feelings Sunset, you know it to be true. Return to the Dark Side, we have cookies." It really didn't help that Aria was humming the Imperial March while Sonata was making choking sounds that might have been Vader's respirator if she hadn't forgotten about the cookie she had been eating. 

The next thing Sunset knew she was laughing so hard she was crying while Adagio slapped Sonata on the back to help her get the cookie out. She finally said, "It's not like I have that many options and I could do worse." Then she thought about it. "I just have one question: Why are you helping me?" 

"This is all part of an elaborate revenge plot against the whole school by turning you evil again." Aria said with a straight face before laughing. "Nah, just kidding. You kind of remind us of ourselves. Sure, we took the much longer and harder route, but you're still another kid from Equestria who made mistakes, became a monster, got blasted for it, and now you're living with the aftermath and wondering what next."

"Also if we really wanted revenge all we would have to do is just sit back and watch Anon-a-miss tear the school apart instead of help you." Adagio said as Sonata coughed up the cookie. "I won't give you some nonsense about seeing the light and being totally reformed, but I will tell you we did have a lot of time to think after getting blasted and we can't really go back to being the way we use to be either. In a way, this is us somewhere in the middle of sort of might be reformed and reaching out to someone who really needs a few friends who have her back."

Sunset looked at the three former sirens and thought about it. She had trusted the girls and look at where that lead to, but then again these three had been where she had been and knew what it was like. Looking down at her bandaged hand and thinking on the fact that they were here and helping her, the girl that was responsible for them losing the battle of the bands, while the girls she had trusted had not only turned their backs on her, but one of them had even helped Gilda try to kill her. In the end, it was the Dazzlings actions that spoke louder than the girls easily said and quickly forgotten words that decided things for her. Smiling she said, "Like I said before, I could do worse and did. Just don't stab me in the back like Rainbow Dash."

"We won't." Adagio said.

"Then let me tell you about what is inside my safety deposit box..." Sunset said with a smirk as she told them about her last best stash of secrets and blackmail material and how there were a bunch of files in there from a private investigator she had hired before the fall formal, but he hadn't got back to her until a few days afterwards with some really explosive information. At one point during the talk, Aria convinced her to let them stay the night so she can keep an eye on her since she did take a few blows to the head and passed out. In the morning she called into school sick and just skipped the last day before the holiday in favor of going to the bank and opening her safety deposit box instead. Come the day after New Year's CHS wouldn't know what hit it.
> The Right Name, Dirty Deeds, and Fire. (edited)
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The Right Name, Dirty Deeds, and Fire.


Sunset sat in a chair in the Dazzlings house, well mansion really, as Aria removed the stitches from her hand while Sonata did something on her laptop and Adagio sat at her piano playing. "Okay, the biggest problem with trying to use what you have the same way Anon-a-miss did on Mystable is we would get flagged in a heartbeat with some of this stuff, but there is a workaround. Porn companies have links to their website on their page and share links for new videos on their website as soon as they are up. It's the same thing with news sites and game makers as well. Plus this gives us more control since on a website we would make the rules." Sonata explained before adding "The only really, really, really big issue I have is how boring it is." With that, she turned the computer towards Sunset so she could see a blank website called the Furies.com.

"The Furies?" Sunset asked. 

"We bought up a lot of domain names for different mythical groups of females and now use them whenever we need a site for something. Well, all except for The Fates or any of the other names they have gone by, the Valkyries, and the Gorgons after we were ask not to." Aria said as she finished removing the stitches and checking them over for any signs of infection. 

"More magical creatures you've met?" Sunset asked.

"Nah, we never actually met Stheno face to face when she warned us off from behind a pillar in the old, abandoned temple she lived in at the time and pointed out all the statues of everyone who didn't listen to the last Gorgon. She was nice enough to talk to and then later we sort of became her pen pals which led to e-mails and now she's one of our online gaming friends. She asked us not to buy the Gorgons domain name and gave us a message from one of the Fates, Atropos, not to even bother with the Fates or any of their other names and they would make sure we got the domain name for the Sirens." Aria said as she finished looking over her work and flopping down on the sofa. "And you know about us being there for a lot of wars. Well, we saw the Valkyries plenty of times and we kind of had an unspoken professional courtesy deal with them. If the person could be saved they would leave them to us and if the person couldn't be saved we moved on to someone else and leave them to their work. More recently we've seen a couple of them around town before the battle of the bands. If you see five very muscular women on motorcycles around town that's most likely them."

"I was just thinking, you're no longer a Rainboom and the Dazzlings are a dead end, so why not?" Adagio said from the piano, "You've have a good voice and can play guitar, if we make the Furies a band so we can add an extra twist as far as the Rainbooms go."

"I thought we were going to be doing this like Anon-a-miss or did you forget?" Sunset frowned as she asked.

Thinking about it for a moment Adagio asked, "Sonata, do we still have Kijo still on the list, or did we give it to Koemi?"

"She said she didn't want to attract their attention so we still have it." Sonata told her before asking, "Why?"

"Oh, that would be because the Sirens and the Furies myths are both Greek and easily connected to us by anyone with half a brain." Adagio said with a devious smile. "The Kijo on the other hand are Japanese demonesses, something not easily connected to us." Then she said to Sunset, "You just have to love a world with so many myths and legends and no one just sitting in an easy to reach location that you can point to and say, 'she's the one who raises the sun.'"

"Okay, we have a band name." Sunset said. "How does that affect the Rainbooms?"

"You're sitting in a room with several thousand years of experience in the music industry in one form or another." Adagio said as she began playing again. "We have performed every style of music you can imagine. We've played every instrument you can name. We've known many of the great composers and songwriters this world has produced in the last thousand years. We've performed in the greatest opera houses on earth and the dirtiest dives for our supper." She then stopped and looked at Sunset again with a cocked eyebrow and said, "Name any band and a style they never performed in and we'll do one of their songs in that style."

"AC/DC as lounge singers." Sunset said with a smirk as the other two walked over and joined Adagio at the piano.

"And here I thought it be something hard." Aria said as Sonata giggled before getting serious as Adagio began playing.



Sunset's mouth dropped as the Sirens sang and by the end she was humming along and tapping her foot with them. "Okay, I admit that was amazing?" She said after they finished.

"A few years as the Dusk Sisters here and there in Vegas and L.A. between identities and two or three decades to avoid suspicion." Adagio explained. "We've got disappearing as one person and reappearing as someone else in a different city or country down to a science. The main thing is to always remember cops look into supposed deaths a lot closer than missing temperamental artists who have threaten to 'just walk away from it all one of these days' several times. Oddly enough it was one really persistent tabloid reporter that actually got the closest to catching us."

"He spent 45 years chasing us, so we gave him a really long interview before he retired and then we disappeared again. The tabloid ran it under the title of 'The Confessions of The Alien Teenage Immortal Vampire Musicians.'" Sonata told her. "He even wrote a book and sold it to a movie studio that made it into a cheap B-movie in the '80s, 'Alien Teenage Rock Vixens'."

"They play it sometimes downtown at that theater that plays old classic movies on B-movies Wednesdays." Aria added.

"There's a theater that does that?" Sunset asked.

"Some cities have them because some people want to see the classics in a real theater." Adagio said, "Everyone has seen Star Wars, but have you ever seen it in a theater on a big screen? Then there's Gone With The Wind, Kelly's Heroes, The African Queen, The Music Man, Staying Alive, The Wizard of Oz, Snow White and The Seven Dwarves, Superman, and of course Charlie Chaplin in The Kid, all of which are magical when seen in a real theater."

"Even the B-movies are better in a theater like Attack of The Killer Tomatoes, The Toxic Avenger, Hell Comes To Frog Town, Deathstalker 2, Them, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Blob,  Attack Of The 50 Ft. Woman, Death Race 2000, and Class of Nuke' Em High." Sonata chipped in. "Just don't sit between Aria and Discord unless you don't mind having hair that smells like popcorn and digging milkduds out of your bra." Starting an argument over Aria's ongoing war with CHS's janitor at the theater.





"And here is our music studio." Adagio said as she finished showing Sunset around their home while Aria and Sonata had been arguing in the living room. "Which has doubled as a therapy room more times than I wish to count."

"Therapy room?" Sunset asked as she wandered around the studio noting all the different instruments on the wall and a few certain instruments positioned at each one of their obvious little corners of the room. A bass guitar, an electric cello, a flute, and DJ's mixing table that all looked like they had lost a fight with a demented 9 year old armed with glitter, stickers, and a bedazzler in one corner, most likely Sonata's area. Next was a drum set with 'Kiss My Bass' on the bass drum that screamed Aria, an electric violin, a saxophone, and a trumpet. 

"As I have pointed out before, we are all over a thousand years old." Adagio said while watching Sunset explore the room. "We each have our issues and both of us would be here all day if I tried to list all of them so I'll give you the short, short version. Aria is temperamental at best, Sonata is a maniac, and I know I can be a bitch. As for Therapy, music has been literally a part of us for so long that it's only natural that we discovered the therapeutic qualities of certain types of music very early on. Performing a string trio works as group therapy for us and each of us has instruments we've been known to play for hours on end until whatever set us off has been worked out of our system. Then there is the singing, of course, you can express how you really feel through the right song and afterward you feel much better for it."

"Well then Dr. Adagio, what would you prescribe for me then?" Sunset asked as she examined Adagio's corner with her keyboard, electric viola, an electro harp like she saw the Harp Twins use on Haytube, and an older black keytar that had been opened up and obviously had its insides replaced and plugged into a laptop that was downloading something into it.

"Seeing Rarity's reminded me I had one from 30 years ago and I decided to restore it, but it has turned into a major overhaul and upgrade." Adagio said, noticing Sunset looking at it as she pulled a tablet from a charger, scrolled through it, and then set it on a music stand near a microphone. She then spent a few minutes with her keyboard and another tablet. "As for my prescription for you, I can think of several, but I think one of the good parodies of a Disney song would both help you and suit you much better than anything else." 

Walking over to the mic she looked at the tablet before saying, "You've got to be kidding me."

"Read the lyrics." Adagio said from her keyboard.

Looking through the lyrics Sunset began to smile, "Okay, I can do this." 



Neither of them noticed Aria as she slipped in with her phone out and recording it or Sonata coming in halfway through with her laptop. At one point Adagio yell, "Let it all out and really put yourself into it." Soon Sunset began to really get into it and ponied up. 

"Whoo!" Sonata yelled as she rushed forward and gave Sunset a hug. 

"Okay," Aria said as she stopped recording. "That way better when we're not getting blasted."

"It was as Awesome as a Possum." Sonata shouted.

"What?" Sunset asked confused.

"Long story, don't worry about it." Adagio said. "But I bet you feel a lot better now than before."

"Yeah, I do." Sunset admitted.

"Then you're ready for this." Sonata said as she sat her laptop down on her mixing table and stepping aside to show them a page with a Japanese demoness and the words 'Kijo.com because Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned. Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned.' Below that was link after link to files. "Because of the legality of some of the documents, videos, and pictures I had to get creative and used several dozen proxies through countries where the laws are more relaxed or are almost non-existent as far as this type of thing goes. Even if they can get through the mess to track it, it'll lead them to a server farm in China near their boarder with North Korea and buried about as deep as Filthy Rich's great great grandmother, Gold Digger's, first gold mine was. So trying to trace it any further will result in them being stonewalled by the Chinese government, who still owe us a few favors." Sonata explained. "The only way to connect us to any of this would be through the monster in the basement and I built that, as well as helped build the first computers, the first transistors, the first microchips, the internet, and the dark web so I know more about how all of it works better than they do and I have some 'friends' that are a bajillion times smarter than me who will tear them a new one if they mess with me. And trust me, you don't want my 'friends' to be pissed at you." For a moment Sonata got a creepy smile on her face and a crazed look in her eyes before shaking herself and going back to her normal happy self. "So now all you have to do is just hit enter and then click OK and we're in business, but you better be absolutely sure before you do this. I mean do you really want to do this? Is their anyone else, other than the ones you told me not to put in there, that you changed your mind about? Anyone you think should be kept out and given another chance since once you do this there is no going back?"

"You kept Snips, Snails, and all the others out of this right?" Sunset asked as she looked at the laptop.

"Even that DJ and her girlfriend." Sonata said.

"How about..." Sunset started.

"Derpy, her baby, and her baby's daddy are safe." Sonata said.

"And Flash?"

"There wasn't anything on Mr. Cute Buns" Sonata said before saying in a sultry voice. "Though I wouldn't mind seeing him in my bed without anything on. Maybe later we can kidnap him and show both of you what several thousand years of experience means in the bedroom."

"Wha..."Sunset sputtered as she began blushing bright red.

"And there is the Sonata that got excommunicated 27 times for unlawful carnal knowledge." Aria said as she facepalmed.

"This from the girl who was excommunicated 53 times for inhumana opus iniquitatis." Adagio said before saying, "Just ignore what she said and move on Sunset. Trust me dwelling on it only makes it worse."

Finally, after a few minutes, Sunset looked at the laptop and thought about it. On one hand, she would be hurting a lot of people, ripping apart families, and destroying lives, but on the other hand so was Anon-a-miss, only it was a slow drip like an infection and this was quickly ripping off the bandage and cleaning out the wound. As she thought about it she remembered one time Princess Celestia took her with her to watch over a farm being burned to the ground by the royal guards. There had been a blight and the Princess had explained that if the blight wasn't completely destroyed here and now it would spread to the neighboring farms. The farmer, whose farm it was knew this, but couldn't bear to do it himself and had asked the Princess to do it for him. That was why she had brought Sunset with her. To teach her that sometimes the best you could do was to do what others could not bring themselves to do for themselves.

Canterlot High School had a blight and right now she was the one holding the torch. Reaching out she hit enter and then clicked OK and, like Princess Celestia had done herself, she dropped the torch.
> The Bitches Are Back (edited)
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The Bitches Are Back


"Hey, check out this new site."

"Isn't that a video of those jocks, Dumb-Bell and Hoops having sex with each other? Didn't they get suspended with their friend Score for beating up a lesbian couple? Talk about hypocrites."

"Oh my god, this can't be real can it? There's no way they can put up a video of the Diamond Dawg Boys raping that girl. I can't believe the rumors about their gang initiation is true. Someone needs to call the cops."

"Who is this Kijo?"





Adagio waited in Filthy Rich's study with him as they waited for the lawyer from King, Lord, and Ram to arrive so she could fill out the paperwork to legally dissolve the Dazzlings and begin the process of incorporating the Furies. Years of dealing with music executives had taught her that having every little thing locked down with legal ownership firmly in their control meant less hassle later. Though this would be the first time they didn't have to plan an exit strategy for themselves or worry about people realizing they were not aging ten to fifteen years from now. Sure, mortality had its drawbacks, but not having to just walk away from it all was a big plus to her. She wasn't like Sonata and her endless chain of quick romances and one night stands. It really did hurt to leave the few lovers she had had over the years.

She let her thoughts go as the butler brought in an old familiar friend who had a lot of white hair now. Getting up, she smiled as she shook hands with him, "A full partner now I see Mr. Ram."

"Please Miss Dazzling, call me Grogar." He said with a smile before turning to an intense young man with dark blue hair and skin and red eyes wearing a Crystal Prep uniform, "This is my son, Grogar T. Ram jr."

"Please, you both can call me Adagio." She said as she took Grogar's hand intending to shake it, but he instead kissed it, sending a small thrill through her.

"Charmed, I can assure you Adagio." He said with a wonderful baritone voice. Somehow she knew this was going to be a wonderful meeting.





"Oh crap, Gilda use to be in the Griffonstone Killers before turning states evidence and is now in witness protection here in Canterlot."

"That doesn't make any sense. How can Apple Bloom's birth certificate be dated a month after her mom's death certificate."

"How is this Kijo getting all this?"

"Holy shit! There's a video of Fluttershy getting fucked by a dog while eating out that Tree Hugger woman at the animal shelter."

"WHAT THE FUCK! That's Trixie being beaten and fucked by her parents, but she looks like she is 9 years old. Fuck, I always wondered why she lived with her grandpa, but fuck, that's just messed up."





Aria had meant to record Fluttershy's reaction to Tree Hugger's arrest and the shelter being shut down, but Fluttershy was 18 and the dog was Tree Hugger's and she obviously had a good lawyer so that was a bust. The best she could get was a distressed Fluttershy being held by Tree Hugger before being sent away from the shelter until the mess was taken care of, but why bother. It wasn't like it was the first time the one part of a plan that should have been a sure thing hadn't worked out right. Sure, things would get difficult for them for a while, but with everything else going on it wouldn't even be a blip on the radar soon.

Walking down the street she thought about hitting the gay bar before remembering she was legally under 21 again and they were way stricter on Ids than the straight bars. So giving up on that idea and deciding to just cut through an alley to where she parked her bike she heard the sniffling of someone trying to be quiet while crying. Normally she would just keep going, but the magician's hat shoved partially into a trash can made her slow down. Just past the dumpster was Trixie, who had obviously been crying.

"You come to make fun of Trixie as well." Trixie asked angrily. "Or maybe just pity Trixie so you can feel better about your own life."

"Trust me, you're not the first girl I've known to be raped by their dad, and given what I've seen in a thousand years of humanities track record, you're most likely aren't going to be the last either." Aria told her as she pulled the hat out of the trash can. "That video might not be humanities best, but it doesn't even register in the top 500 of the worst I have seen you guys do to each other."

"Yeah right." Trixie said as she looked away from her. "Name one thing worse than what happened to Trixie that you've seen."

"The Nazi concentration camps while they were still in use." Aria said as she flicked some old food off the hat. "Trust me there are nights I wonder if I hadn't stopped to help a young soldier who had dislocated his shoulder and several fingers falling off a bike during World War 1 if he might have met a nice Jewish nurse in the hospital, who might have inspired him and the world would have remembered Adolf Hitler the painter instead."

"There's no way that can be true." Trixie glared at her. "Trixie refuses to believe that one of the worst monsters in history could have been stopped so easily."

"Twice actually, he had thought about getting on a boat to come to America, even had a ticket, but a one night stand with Sonata convinced him to try to get into art school one more time in 1908." Aria said as she straightened out the hat. "Just two little bumps on the road for us and history is made. Then again, a single meeting in a dark alley and the world never heard from Jack the Ripper ever again and a body washed up on the shore of the Thames. History is full of little places where if things had gone just a little differently things would have been completely different." Handing the hat over to her and offering her hand she asked. "The big question for the Great and Powerful Trixie is which direction will it go and how will history remember your story? Will it remember a girl who let her past destroy her or that the greatest stage magician in the world was forged into something better by the fires of her tragic past and seized her own destiny?"

Trixie put on her hat and reached out and took her hand and together they walked out of the alleyway towards Aria's motorcycle.





"OH GROSS! Is that Nurse Redheart being fisted Coach Iron Will and then licking shit off his arm? Now he's pissing in her gaping asshole and then drinking it out with a straw! I think I'm going to hurl!"

"Wow, is that Vice Principal Luna in a porn movie from the '90s? Our vice principal was the porn star Nightmare Moon!"

"Whoa! I knew Fancy Pants and his wife were sponsoring Rarity, but I didn't realize it was because she was having wild BDSM sex with both of them as their mistress."

"Holy Shit! Miss Cheerilee had incestuous sex with her dad and had to give up Scootaloo for adoption after being convicted of molesting her little sister, Berry Punch. Geez! no wonder Berry Punch keeps getting arrested for underage drinking, but how the hell did Kijo get Miss Cheerilee's juvenile records?"





Sonata might not be allowed to sing in public yet, but Adagio and Aria never said anything about dancing. And dance she did as she danced right into Sugar Cube Corner while listening to a song on her phone.



She ignored the looks from the other customers gave her and was soon at the counter only to stop dead in her tracks at the glare she got from a straight-haired Pinkie Pie. Pulling out her earbuds she finally noticed how quiet the shop was and how everyone was glaring not just at her, but each other as well.

"What do you want?" Pinkie demanded angrily.

Pulling her list out of her bra, "I'd like to order 2 dozen red velvet cupcakes plus 4 sugar-free ones, 2 dozen chocolate cookies with white chocolate chips and drizzled in dark chocolate plus 4 sugar-free ones, A large vanilla cake with 'Happy Hearth Warming Eve' written on it and a small sugar-free one as well, and a dozen pumpkin bread muffins to be delivered to this address by 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon... Oh and decorate the cake with Christmas stuff and ponies please." She said as she tried to hand over her list.

"No." Pinkie spat out at her. "Who the hell do you fucking think you are just showing up and acting like nothing happened."

"Umm... A paying customer with a special order and will to pay extra to have our first Hearth Warming Eve party in over a thousand years have some really yummy treats." Sonata said.

"Yeah right!" Rainbow Dash said from behind her. "You most likely stole the money to pay for whatever that made up 'Heart Warming' thing is just to rub it in our faces that you're having some kind of crazy New Year's Eve party in whatever run down, rat-infested, shit hole you guys now live in."

Acting confused she turned around and asked, "Living in a mansion next door to Filthy Rich is a 'shit hole'?"

"Let me guess, you guys bilked some old rich lady out of her money and home." Rainbow dash said.

Finally getting upset Sonata fired back, "Hah! A thousand years' worth of saving up money means we have more money than a million rich old ladies. I have a Stradivarius Cello in the vault of Silver Banking Co. that  Antonio Stradivari made just for me that's worth more than your entire family combined, including selling all of your internal organs on the black market and that's not even a fraction of how much I'm worth alone. Me and my sisters could buy all of Canterlot with just our pocket change and still have enough to do it again ten times over."

With that Rainbow Dash tried to punch her, but Sonata just slapped the punch aside and caught her with the heel of her hand straight to the nose. The next thing everyone knew Rainbow Dash was on the floor clutching her bloody, broken nose and screaming in pain as Pinkie leaped over the counter and onto Sonata's back. Sonata went backward, slamming Pinkie into the counter while reaching over her shoulder before going forward and throwing her off into a table just as Fluttershy and an upset Rarity came in through the door.

With a scream, Fluttershy tackled her into the counter and Rarity caught her with a punch that just glanced off her forehead. As Rarity started to pull back to swing again Sonata's foot lashed out and caught Fluttershy in a cunt punt as she pushed her backward into Rarity's legs. Grabbing a napkin holder off the counter she leaped forward and clocked Rarity in the side of the head with it. Only to get grabbed by someone trying to do a full nelson.

Slamming her head back into their face before they could bring their fingers together she was rewarded with a guy's scream and quickly brought her elbow backward into where she thought his crotch should be. As his instincts took over and he hunched forward over her she reached up and felt a very muscular neck and yanked forward as Fluttershy started to try to get back up resulting in the large white guy with blonde hair slamming face-first into Fluttershy's face. 

Finally, she crawled out of the mess and pulled herself up onto her feet in front of a shocked Mrs. Cake with a phone in her hand. Sonata grabbed her list and slammed it down in front of her before saying, "I'd like to order 2 dozen red velvet cupcakes plus 4 sugar-free ones, 2 dozen chocolate cookies with white chocolate chips and drizzled in dark chocolate plus 4 sugar-free ones, A large vanilla cake with 'Happy Hearth Warming Eve' written on it and a small sugar-free one as well, and a dozen pumpkin bread muffins to be delivered to this address by 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon... And to complain to management about your employee's attitude and how she and her friends decided to attack a paying customer with a special order and a willingness to pay extra for it." Then she added, "And if that's the cops on the phone I'll take a double mocha latte with whip cream and candy cane sprinkles while I wait for them and I will pay for the damages as well, but not any medical bills." With that, she slid over to an empty stool she kinda remembered the guy had been sitting in, what was his name... Bulk something or other, most likely he had only grabbed her to try to break up the fight. So she might not press charges against him and even offer to take him home and show him some of her 'wrestling moves.'





"Hey check it out, is that the art teacher Mr. Magnet giving Button Mash a blow job? I thought he was dating Sweetie Belle."

"Holy shit! Mr. Doodle has been using the school's science lab to make illegal drugs and the Diamond Dawg Boys are the ones who have been selling them for him."

"$1,000 to anyone that tells the Diamond Dawg Boys who Kijo is."

"Dude, check out this video, isn't that Lightning Dust And Rainbow Dash tied up and being dominated with Ms. Harshwhinny with a strap-on. I think we all know what special extra credit they've been doing lately to stay on the soccer team."





Gilda slowly came awake nude and tied to a chair with a sack over her head and something in her mouth. She tried to pretend to still be asleep, but the sack was yanked off and she winced at the harsh light.

"Hello cousin." A chipper female voice said and Gilda begged God it wasn't her, but God was obviously not listening to her right now. "It's been sooo looong since we've all last seen you and we really have been missing you sooo much. The boys have been telling me about all the fun games we could play with you, but you left in such a big hurry with those mean mean people from the Federal Marshals office and they wouldn't even give your dear sweet cousin Gabby any way of saying hello or anything." 
Finally opening her eyes she saw Gabby standing in front of her with several dozen members of the Griffonstone Killers. She had the same slightly demented smile she always wore, the one that had made the leader of the Drake Gang piss himself before she even started on him. She wore a pair of thigh-high boots and a leather mini-skirt that left nothing to the imagination including the fact that she wasn't wearing panties and was already wet with anticipation from just thinking about finally being able to have her idea of fun and games. She also wore a black leather corset bustier and the famous white fur-trimmed black leather short jacket with red painted eagle claws on the shoulders that all Griffonstone Killers wore. Only the tips of the claws on hers were gold meaning she was now the leader of the gang. "I should really thank this Kijo for helping me have such a wonderful holiday with both friends, " She then gestured to all the gang members around them, "and family. Don't you agree?" She asked as if she expected Gilda to say anything at the moment. Then she tapped her forehead with the heel of her hand. "Oh silly me, I forgot to open my first present to you." With that, she reached out and pulled her black panties out of Gilda's mouth before sniffing them before putting them between her legs and masturbating in front of everyone. "Aww, you took all the love off them, but don't worry the boys... Are.... Going... To.... Give..." Reaching out she grabbed one guy and held on tight as she got closer to cumming. "All.... The... Love.... They.... Can... AHHHHHhhhhh!" After a moment she finally calmed down enough and looked to the rest of the Griffonstone Killers and said, "We all know what a prude Gilda is so I say I'll pop her anal cherry for you with my little old dream maker and then you boys can have your fun." With that, someone handed her a metal baseball bat with the words Dream Maker painted on it as Gilda was untied and retied bent over the chair with her ass in the air. "Now did anyone remember the lube? Anyone? Oh goody! Your lucky Gilda, Johnny has lots of lube so you'll be able to last all night. Now BATTER UP!!!!"
> Shadows, Jail Birds, Grandpa, A Different Type Of Apple, and Sisters?
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Shadows, Jail Birds, Grandpa, A Different Type Of Apple, and Sisters?


Somewhere in a house at the end of a street, in an attic and hidden behind several boxes, three heavily modified older laptops and several dozen old, broken, cheap cell phones that had been cannibalized and rewired into an odd looking device that was all plugged into a wall lit up. On the screens several video feeds began cycling through until one showed the inside of a car as Vinyl Scratch and Octavia made out. Down below in a bed room a boy watched on a tablet. "That's right, ignore the cell phone plugged into the charger and get dirty for me." Only they stopped when the phone went off. "Dammit, so close." So he started cycling through again until he finally decided to just bring up one of his favorites, Miss Harshwhinny and her lovely little sluts. Thank goodness Miss Harshwhinny enjoyed music while playing with her girls and had bought one of those cell phone docking stations with speakers. Some like minded people paid bit-coins for his videos and as soon as he graduated he planned to cash in, scale up from just a single high school, and never look back.

Anon-a-miss could play their kiddy games, but he knew those three would never understand how valuable knowledge could really be. This Kijo might, but he couldn't figure out Kijo's game. Pausing on an image of Rainbow Dash Screaming as she came, he thought about it. Maybe he might try contacting Kijo and working out a deal since whoever they are they had already used some of his videos. Maybe use this Kijo to test out releasing audio taken from cell phones like everything that was happening to Gilda, the phone conversations between the Diamond Dawg Boys and the Griffonstone Killers leaders, or even the truth about Anon-a-miss. 





Adagio and Sunset walked down the hall of the police station with a police officer and one of Adagio's Lawyers, Tirek Lord, since he dealt with criminal matters. Oddly enough it wasn't the fight that had got Sonata arrested but because she drove the same car that she had out ran the police in after Sunset was attacked and all because one of her tail lights had been out. They had passed Mr. Doodle, Mr. Magnet, Miss Harshwhinny, and about half a dozen Diamond Dawg Boys being booked and a frustrated detective complaining to another that Fancy Pants and his wife were in Brazil for the next several months setting up several new factories. Plus Rarity had just turned 18 a month before they left and with no time stamp to say otherwise or who ever took the video, the chances of getting her to say it was before her birthday and arresting them was zero. 

Finally they reached the women's holding area and saw Sonata in one cell with a drunk Berry Punch and Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Rainbow Dash, and Fluttershy in another sporting bumps, bruises, and in Rainbow Dash's case bandages across her nose. "Hi Dagi, can we bail Berry Punch and that Bulk Biceps guy out as well? Berry Punch and me were talking and I think all she really needs is a few friends to talk to and a better outlet for dealing with her problems and she won't drink as much." Sonata told her.

"What the hell?" Rainbow Dash yelled from her cell. "So it's not enough to betray us, but now you're hanging out with the Dazzlings?"

"At least we didn't set it up so she would get jumped by Gilda and her friends for something she obviously didn't do?" Adagio said as she stepped around Sunset and placed herself in front of her. 

"Sure and next you're going to tell me you didn't set this up to get us out of the way so you guys can try to take over the school." Rainbow Dash shot back.

"No, this is all you." Adagio said, "Sonata was only there to place an order for our Hearth Warming Eve party, the rest is entirely you." 

"Once again with the fake holiday." Rainbow Dash said dismissively.

"Hearth Warming Eve and Hearth Warming Day are Equestrian holidays celebrated at the end of the year and beginning of the next and are a combination of Thanksgiving, Christmas, the Forth of July, and New Year all rolled into one." Sunset said as step up beside Adagio and looked at the four girls in the cell, while being mindful of those who didn't know about the portal. "It represents the beginning of our people and after the near extinction of the three warring tribes and uniting behind the ideal of the fires of friendship in every ones hearts and it giving them the strength to survive. It is a time of friendship, both being with old and making new ones. It's a time of being with family, being thankful for what you have, forgiving others you may have had differences with, and for some remembering those that were lost. It is a time for letting go of the past and meeting the new year fresh and clean and knowing that a better tomorrow is upon the horizon and rushing forward to meet it." She then crossed her arms and gave them a very disappointed look before saying. "Saying that it is fake to any Equestrian, even Twilight, is the same as telling a Jewish person that the Holocaust didn't happen or tell a Wiccan that there were never any witch hunts, or Burning Times in Europe. Would any of you say that to Vinyl Scratch, Microchip, or any of the other the other Jewish kids at school. As for you, Fluttershy, should know better given that you are a Wiccan." 

Ignoring the girl's sobs, Sunset started to turn back towards Sonata when Rarity spoke up. "Nice speech darling, but a bit hypocritical of you after making poor Fluttershy cry. Didn't you say something about forgiving others?"

"It's not midnight on Hearth Warming yet, so no, I do not have to forgive anyone yet, Forgiving does not mean forgetting and we only forgive those who are willing to put aside their differences with us and let go of what happened and move on." She said looking Rarity dead in the eyes. "We Equestrians might not seem like it, but we can hold a grudge better than anyone else. In one case three sisters grudge for being exiled was held for over a thousand years and in another a younger sister's jealousy of her older sister began a grudge that lasted over a thousand years and if Twilight was here she would tell you how that one ended." With that she turned and looked at the both the cop and the lawyer and said, "We'll take the drunk and the muscle bound oaf as well." Before turning and stalking out of holding and leaving Tirek and Adagio to deal with the details.





"I knew it! I knew it! I knew it!" The yellow skinned, white haired old man said as he hugged Aria as her and Trixie stood in Presto the Great's Magical Imporium. Behind her was an old faded poster of the Dusk Sisters with special guest Presto the Great for one night only. Sure he had a lot more wrinkles and his hair use to be light blue, but it was still Presto after all these years. "My grand baby told me about three singers at the battle of the bands and all the magical happenings and I knew it had to be you and your sisters like all those years ago with that big star scorpion thing."

"It was a Scorpius from Equestria, but we have no ideal how it ended up there." Aria told him as they let go of each other. "I'm just sorry we had to use your old station wagon to blow up the entrance to the cave we finally trapped it in and about Oh-La-La." 

"At least she didn't have see the monster our little girl became or the creep she married." Presto said with a sad look before gesturing to Trixie. "At least those two were good for one thing. I remember one time they visited when Trixie was three and she was running around with my old hat and cape yelling 'Behowld tah Gweat n Powwerful Twixie!'"

"Grandpa!" Trixie squeaked while blushing before loudly proclaiming, "The Great and Powerful Trixie is not amused."

"Yeah, she's definitely your grand daughter." Aria laughed.

"The Mighty Presto the Great will have you know his Great and Powerful Grand Daughter will one day Awe and Amaze the World!" Presto proclaimed as he took up a stance with one fist on his hip and pointing towards the sky with the other before joining Aria and laughing as well. finally wiping his eyes and calming down he said, "Now I remember your type and I'm not going to get in the way, but if you hurt..."

"Grandpa!" Trixie squeaked again, blushing even harder.

"Whoa, Whoa, Whoa old man!" Aria said holding up her hands. "Yeah, she's cute and all that, but it isn't like that. She was having a rough day and I talked to her before giving her a lift home. The only thing I had planned was inviting her to a sorta overnight New Year's Eve party at our house tomorrow and nothing more."

"Will Sonata be there?" Presto asked. 

"Of course she will be there." Aria said. "She does live there."

"Just don't leave her alone with Sonata." Presto warned. "She gets grabby if she drinks or has too much sugar." 

"Or in a fight, or arrested and thrown in jail, but I doubt she can get in that much trouble just ordering food for the party." Aria said. "I mean what are the chances of that happening while ordering a bunch of sweets at a bakery and a dozen pizzas and some two litters from a pizza place."

"Okay then." Presto said, giving his permission.

Turning she then started to ask but Trixie said, "Yes, but Trixie is not riding on your motorcycle while trying to hold onto an overnight bag."





Mr. Good-Bar looked up at the green haired, red skinned man in the black suit and tie and the barrel of the gun pointed at his face. "My name is Northern Spy and I might not be as well versed in the countryisms of my relatives, but what I am versed in is finding and removing problems for some very powerful people. Normally my family would have no need for my abilities, but locating a particular missing family member proved to be very difficult. I am here to negotiate the termination of employment of an employee of yours, one lady of negotiable affections and an addiction to narcotics that you supply for her. I hold no ill will towards you or the 43 individuals in your employment that will need medical attention soon if you wish to keep them in your employment, but they seem to believe that my request for this meeting was negotiable, it was not. Now that I have your full attention I wish to negotiate for my cousin, Apple Munchies, release from any contractual agreement with you or any of your associates and no further contact with her or any other member of the Apple Family for the price of a single bullet. If you agree to my terms I will leave that bullet here with you in this room and you will never have to see me again, but if you refuse to my terms I will be forced to leave that bullet with you in a very unpleasant way and take my cousin with me anyways." He paused for a moment to let the man process what he had just said before asking. "So Mr. Good-Bar, do you accept my terms or not?"

Fuji Apple jumped when she heard the latest shot from inside the Good Times Bar as she waited for her distant cousin to come out. A moment later Northern Spy walked out as if nothing had happened. "We will head to 2953, 43rd avenue, apartment 219 to pick up our wayward Apple and then an hour drive to Canterlot for a home cooked meal by Granny as payment for services rendered. Then we will meet your mother, Mutsu, at the airport now that that business with the Yakuza has been taken care of and you will begin your new life in Canterlot." He said while opening the passenger door on the large black caddy for her.

"Anata wa watashi ga anata o rikai dekinai koto o shitte imasu yo ne?" She asked.

"Yes and soon you will enjoy the finest home cooked apple pie ever." He said before closing the door.

"Hahaoya wa watashitachi no amerikahito shinseki no ikutsu ka ga kimyōda to keikoku shita." She grumbled as he got in and started the car.

"Canterlot wa kimyōda to iwa rete imasuga, harikēn ni tsuite wa nani o iimasu ka, mottomo anzen'na basho wa arashinome no maedesu." He replied as they drove away while smoke began pouring out of the quiet bar's doors.





Gabby lead her guest into the room where Gunther checked Gilda over while Johnny watched. "How is she Gunther?"

"She still a tough as hell bitch." Gunther said. "I think she only survived out of spite."

"Well do what you can." Gabby said as she kissed the old, grizzled gang member on the cheek.

"Umm... Gabby, I been meaning to ask why are we keeping her alive?" Johnny asked.

"Weeell, you see, I had time to think and realized that we need an example, something that really sent a message to everyone who think we are done and they can just screw us over or even turn on us like Gilda did. The only real question was how, but then I remembered someone who really hated Gilda. So I called her and she had a wonderful ideal. What if we didn't kill her, but instead kept her alive for months of on and off fun and games before dumping a cripple, scarred, mentally and physically broken, and messed up to the point of being unidentifiable Gilda in front of a hospital. She would be alive only as a message that we can do something much worse than killing you." Gabby explained.

"But won't they look for her after she went missing?" Johnny asked while trying to wrap his head around her plan.

"That's where I come in." The other girl said as she pulled back the hood of her coat and smiled as both Johnny and Gunther did a double take. "I'm Glenda, Gilda's identical twin sister and the bitch owes me for leaving me with that abusive, drunkard of a sperm donor and going with mom after the divorce. I ran away after the first time came home drunk and raped me, but not before cutting the break lines on his car. With mom in jail after Gilda turned states evidence and Gilda living alone I'll just take her place. From what I hear, I just have to be a total bitch and they will never know a thing."

"Plus Rover is such a sweetie, telling me about everything, all of their operations, numbers, and organization. It's a real pity how lacking he is between the legs and is to much of a pansy in bed." Gabby giggled before getting serious. "But he did tell me about the third school and with CHS being to hot right now, plus a history of weird things happening there, and how Crystal Prep is ran I think Whitetail Woods High School is where we will start."

"So you're finally getting smart and giving up on Griffonstone?" Gunther asked.

"Of course." Gabby answered. "I just needed to find the right place for us to rebuild before we spread out. We were bunched up in one place and it only took one person to bring it all down. This time the Killers will spread from city to city until no matter how hard they try they won't be able to get rid of us ever again."
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Family


Igneous Rock Pie had recognized Sunset Shimmer as she came out of the police station with three other girls and a large confused looking boy and approached her. "Miss Shimmer, may I have words with thee?" 

Pausing, Sunset turned to the former Amish man who had never judged her, even at her worse. She never found out what had made him lose his faith, but she knew he was a hard but fair man. "Yes Mr. Pie?"

"I wish to inquire of thee knowledge of whom mine wayward daughter did attempt to do harm towards?" Igneous asked. "So that I might implore onto them and their better nature to remove their charges so I might deal out punishment in mine own way instead. I ask not for mine Pinkamena, but for mine Marble whom thy know has been with illness since birth. Despite the vileness that this Anon-a-miss has visited upon us all, mine Pinkamena buries the pain deep inside for her and still strives to gladden her sister's weak heart and bring what few fleeting moments of joyfulment to her between her painful treatments."

Sunset had been about to answer him when Sonata bellowed at the large red skinned, black haired and bearded lawyer coming out of the police station. "HEY TIREK, BACK INSIDE, YOU'RE STILL ON THE CLOCK!!!" Before running over and dragging the much put upon lawyer back inside.

"I believe that should answer your question Mr. Pie." Adagio said as Sunset groaned and face palmed for the umpteenth time since this whole mess started. Igneous had been about to say something when it was like every cop in the police station poured out and scrambled towards their squad cars and tore out of there as if something major had happened.





Gunther cursed his old damn fool heart, but she didn't deserve all of this. Yes, she turned her back on them and betrayed her own blood, but what Gabby and Glenda planned was far worse. Once again looking at the pictures of his smiling grand daughters from when they were younger, Gabriella, Gilda, Glenda, Giselle, Genevieve, and the oldest Gretchen, the last founding member of the Griffonstone Killers wondered were it all went wrong. Gabby and Glenda were psychopaths and the thought of a nation wide Killers under their control scared him worse than the bad end they were headed towards. Giselle had O.D. on some bad crap out of Russia. Genevieve had just left and was now a star in Hollywood and expecting her first baby. Then there was Dr. Gretchen Griffon at Canterlot Medical and the life she had made would all come crashing down when Gabby and Glenda started. 

If he just done things differently, but that was the thing about if, once you started thinking about them they never stopped. If he hadn't gone to jail for 38 years, but been in his kids and grand kids lives then things would have been different. If he hadn't started the Griffonstone Killers with his brothers they might have moved away from Griffonstone and lived happier lives. If he had arrived sooner... he could have just packed up Gilda and left, never looking back. 

Sitting there, he looked over at Johnny slumped in his chair, a half a bottle of coke in his hand as he slept off what Gunther had slipped him. The kid was way to trusting, but a few years in jail would knock that and all the other bullshit out of him. Then he got up and bolted the door as he heard the first strings of an old familiar song begin to play and sat down next to his grand daughter. Holding her hand with one hand and picking back up Johnny's cell phone with the other and dialing Canterlot Medicals number with the other and asking for Dr. Gretchen Griffon. Gilda needed more than an old gang banger who had picked up a thing or two working in the prison hospital. She needed better, and ignoring the sounds of gun fire and the pounding on the door, he was getting her the best.





"We interrupt your regularly schedule programming to take you live to a developing story near the Rich Industrial Parkway and our action news reporter Windy Whistles to get you more details. Windy?" The reporter in a suit asked.

"Thank you, Anchor Chair." Windy Whistles said as she ducked down behind a dumpster as bullets went over head. "As you can see and hear, a shoot out broke out between the Griffonstone Killers Gang and the Canterlot Police Department when they responded to a call claiming that a teenage girl was being held in a warehouse by members of the Diamond Dawg Boys Gang. What had started out as a patrol responding to investigate has become a building by building battle in and around some old warehouses drawing in CPD, S.W.A.T, the Sheriffs Department, State Police, and Federal Marshals against both the Griffonstone Killers and the Diamond Dawg Boys. Bow, get down before you get shot."

The picture suddenly went black and a man said, "I'm okay, but, eh, they shot the camera."





The boy sat flipping between different security camera feeds, dash cam feeds, and body camera feeds as his creation in the attic recorded everything. In his headphones he could hear from different cell phones what was happening and the panic as Rover, Fido, Spot, Gabby, and Glenda tried to figure out how to escape as the rapidly closing net was punctuated by gun fire and shouts from the police to drop weapons and place hands on heads got ever closer. At one point Fido was wrestled to the ground by a female sheriff's deputy while Spot was being tasered by a federal marshal. In the end the back of Rover's head exploded from a snipers bullet and Gabby and Glenda laid down on the floor with their hands on top of their heads as several S.W.A.T. team members held them at gun point and shouted what to do.

For the first time ever he realized he was going to need to scale up what he had a lot sooner than he planned because he could see how this type of thing would sell like crazy. 

"Honey, could you come help me change this light bulb in the pantry please?" A woman asked from the other side of the door.

He started to make an excuse, but his stomach grumbled and the chips were in the pantry, "I'll be right down Mom."

"Oh thank goodness, I can't find the angel hair pasta for supper without it." She said as the boy got up to go help her.





Northern Spy pulled up in front of the farm house at Sweet Apple Acres and seeing Granny waiting for them with Big Mac, Applejack, and several other cousins including Fiddlesticks. As soon as they stopped Fiddlesticks opened the passenger door and said, "Kon'nichiwa Fuji, watashi wa anata no itoko Fiddlesticksdesu. Watashi no otōto wa osoroshī kotode wa nakatta koto o negatte imasu." 

Fuji got out of the car and whispered into her cell phone that then said, "Hello cousin Fiddlesticks, he is a psychopath, but I would be dead without him."

"Well if that don't beat all." Granny Smith said from the porch. "Will wonders never cease. Now y'all go in with Applejack here while we deal with that varmit of a grandchild of mine." Granny then laughed as Fuji's phone said, "Mā, soreha subete o uchi makasu koto wa arimasen. Fushigi wa kesshite tomaranaidarou ka? Ima watashitachiha, watashi no mago no kurushimi ni torikunde iru uchi ni, appurujakku to koko ni hairimasu."

As Applejack lead Fuji into the house Northern Spy unlocked the trunk of the caddy as Big Mac and the others step up to help him. "Watch out, even with both her hands and feet zip tied and her mouth duct taped she is still a fighter." Opening the trunk he quickly ducked as she threw the tire iron at him. "Damn, forgot about the tire iron, but I guess it took her awhile to get her hands free." Apple Munchies glared at him with her mouth still duct taped and her feet still zip tied as Big Mac and the others grabbed her and dragged her out of the trunk and into the house.

As soon as they were gone he walked up to Granny as she eyed him before asking, "How much trouble was it get'n her?"

"Do you really want to know or would you rather sleep at night knowing they won't come looking for her?" He asked.

"I reckon a little less sleep ain't going to hurt me North." Granny Smith finally said.

"I tried, I really did try Granny, but some people will not see reason." Northern Spy told her. "44 in the bar and another 6 outside of her apartment building" Sitting down on the snowy steps, he looked out over the farm and said, "I'm just tired of it all. Of cleaning up other peoples mess, of dealing with people who use up other people as if they are nothing until they use the wrong person, but mostly I'm tired of just doing this. As soon as Mutsu and Fuji are together again I'm quitting."

"If you feel it's time then I reckon it's time, but what're you going to do then?" Granny Smith asked as she looked at the one grand child she never could quit understand. 

"I kept my teaching license up to date and I'm sure one of the schools could use a math or history teacher, not that I really need it, I have plenty of money, but it would be something to do." He said as he got up and dusted off his pants. 

"Well CHS just suddenly had a few openings and I reckon Celestia would give you a chance given everything going on there right now." She said.

"Then I'll have to call her." He said before asking, "Just out of curiosity why did you need Apple Munchies?"

"Because both of your wayward youths have come back to haunt the two of you." Granny Smith said as they started towards the door. "She knows about it and wants to know who she really is and just saying she's an Apple isn't going to cut it."





Gunther walked out of the warehouse next to the gurney that carried Gilda as the cops loaded Gabby and Glenda into a squad car screaming how he was dead. He ignored all of the looks he was getting from what remained of the Griffonstone Killers and the Diamond Dawgs as they were waiting to be taken away. He ignored the cops and EMT's as they ran back and forth dealing with the mess. He even ignored the press yelling out questions from the police line. He only paused once when just before getting in the ambulance he shrugged off his Griffonstone Killers jacket and dropped it into a dumpster next to a broken camera and a man with short rainbow hair with an older camera who took a photo of him as he did it. Bow Hothoof would not know it until later, but the picture of the old grizzled gang member caught at the very moment he dropped the jacket and the red claw marks captured just right, with the same camera that had caught his daughter's first steps, would become his most famous photo of his career 'The End of an Era'.

Gunther sat in the ambulance as it raced towards the hospital, holding Gilda's hand and just as they arrived he felt her give his hand a weak squeeze back. Then she was there, so much like his mother, tall, proud, unstoppable. Dr. Gretchen Griffon rarely graced the E.R., but today the youngest head surgeon ever strode through it on the other side of the gurney like an ancient war goddess ready to battle Death itself as she rattled off questions to the EMT's. Her eyes only catching his once and then both of them were gone as he was stopped at the door to the operating room and lead to a waiting room were he sat and just waited.

Several hours later, after stopping all of the slow leaking internal injuries, Gretchen finally left surgery to tell the man who claimed to be her grand father that her cousin Gilda would survive. She found him in a chair in the waiting room sleeping while holding hers and her cousins photos and the same picture of her Grandma Gina had showed her once when she asked about her Grandfather. It was of her and a young man dancing together and now that she looked she could see the young man in Gunther. Finally she sat down beside him and woke him up and after telling him about Gilda she got to know her grandfather.
> Bonus Chapter: The Furies
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Bonus Chapter: The Furies


Sonata couldn't help but giggle as she showed Sunset and Adagio the Furies page. On the page was all four of their silhouetted outlines leaning against a wall from a picture she had made them take earlier and then worked on. Above them on the wall was the name, The Furies, made to look like the letters had been gouged through the wall and flames were shining through from the other side. Below them was the words 'These Bad Girls are going to Rock your World!' Then they scrolled down below that to the Hay Tube videos she had put up from them playing together earlier:

First was the one with Sunset singing lead.



And then Aria.



Next was Adagio with Sonata switching out her bass guitar for her DJ mixing table.



Finally Sonata took the lead.



Then the one they had done just for the fun of it with Adagio taking the lead.

 

Halfway through that one it happened, Adagio and Sunset ponied up at the same time followed by Aria growing wings as she ponied up. Finally there was a blinding blue flash as Sonata ponied up and began sparkling like a gem. Aria had reached out to squeeze her shoulder as they sang and quickly joined her by glittering brightly. With a shrug both Adagio and Sunset placed their hands on her and soon all four were sparkling like jewels as they sang together.

Sonata then pointed to the likes on the videos and their jaws dropped as Sunset sputtered that the best the Rainbooms ever got was 1,500 likes, but all of their videos had over 100,000 likes each and the last one had over a million views and 350,000 likes. "So who wants to tell Aria about this?" Sonata asked.

"Tell me what?" Aria asked as she walked into the room.
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Kitchen Tables






Northern Spy sat at the kitchen table across from the little girl, no young lady with puffy red eyes that said she had been crying. They both tried to ignore the sounds coming from somewhere else in the house involving Apple Munchies as Granny puttered around the kitchen and making go on motions to him behind Apple Bloom's back. Finally he asked, "So... Where to begin?" 

"Granny said y'all would be tell'n me the truth if'n when you dun finally showed up." Apple Bloom said as she looked down at the table.

"That depends," He said as he got up and poured himself a cup of coffee. "The truth isn't just black and white sometimes. Sometimes it likes to hide in the grey areas between the two. Take the pork roast in the oven. You live on a farm and know exactly how it became a pork roast, but if you asked your friends to tell you how it became a pork roast from start to finish they would tell you it was bought at the store in a little white package and covered in plastic. The thing is, you know the real truth. How it was born a piglet to a sow in the stall with all of it's brothers and sisters. How it grew up happy playing in mud and eating swill to become big and fat, but happy. How it had little piglets of it's own before taking a trip in a truck with it's brothers and sisters to a place it knew fear for the first time in it's happy life and how it died and was butchered to feed your friends families. You know all this and how your friends families would go hungry without it, so you don't fill in the blanks and let them enjoy the clean truth while keeping the real dark truth to yourself. Why, because you know the whole truth will hurt them and it is just easier for everyone to pretend they don't know the real truth somewhere in the back of their minds."

Sitting back down, he added cream and sugar before taking a sip and then continued. "The clean truth is you are an Apple, but there is a deeper, dirtier truth and you have to decide if you really want to know or not. So, I'm asking you, do you really want to know the whole truth or do you want to be happy with the clean truth?" He asked her as he put down his cup and taking off his jacket to reveal the shoulder harnesses with two of his eight guns on him. He made a show of pulling two guns from his jacket pockets and removing the clips and ejecting the bullets from the chambers and catching them in mid air before placing them on the table. "Before just blurt out that you want to know, I want you to be absolutely sure you really do want to know." Leaning forward he pulled out both sun-nosed revolvers from near the small of his back and preceded to make two rows of bullets on the table before putting them down. "I want you to consider that your sister, Applejack, bugged me for months when she was your age for the absolute honest truth until Granny told me to tell her everything. Needless to say she has never asked me for absolute honesty ever again and knows that the nice, clean truth from me is good enough for her." Taking another sip of coffee, he then reached down and pulled out his hold out guns strapped to his ankles and removed the thin shot shells from the derringers and placed them on the table. "Now, knowing that no matter which ever truth you want, you will still be an Apple afterwards I want you to promise me that if you want the absolute truth that you will not change your mind after hearing some, but will listen to everything all the way through to the very end." With that he pulled out his last two pistols and removed the suppressors on them before removing the clips and ejecting the bullets in the chambers and laying them on the table. Then he looked her in the eyes, his eyes, and asked, "So do you want to know the absolute truth, no matter what, or can you be happy with just knowing that you are an Apple born and raised?"

She thought about it for a few minutes as he drank his coffee. Finally she said, "I'm wanting tah know who I really am and I promise tah listen tah everything y'all have tah say, no matter what." Behind her Granny Smith's shoulders slumped. 





The Pie family ignored a quietly sobbing Pinkie Pie standing in the corner of the kitchen without any clothes on as they ate. Her ass and backs of her legs black and blue from the strap Igneous kept draped over the saw horse in the basement. Cloudy Quartz frowned to herself thinking Igneous was too soft sometimes when it came to the old truth, 'Spare the rod and spoil the child. Spoil the rod and spare the child'. Her own mother would have caned Pinkamena until she had a row of bloody stripes on her ass before making her stand in the corner holding bags of rocks in each hand and the threat of caning her legs too if she dared lower them. Some may call it child abuse, but the results spoke for themselves since Limestone wouldn't dare sneak out, get drunk, and steal a car ever again and Maudileena stayed strictly within the legal parts of the internet and would never dream of dabbling in the so called 'Dark' web ever again. 

She then looked at her other child. Poor Marble was drinking her soup, but she could tell her youngest was having trouble keeping it and her pills down. "Does thou wish for one of thy protein or probiotic shakes instead?" A shake of Marble's head told her no so it wasn't as bad as she thought. 

"If thee need to lay down for a while so thy stomach can settle before finishing thy meal, thou may and I will set it in the microwave for thee." Igneous told her before she glanced at Pinkie and he added. "It shall not count towards Pinkamena's time and she will be allowed to eat at the counter after we are done and she has cleaned the kitchen, but she will still have to wear her shame and the shame she has brought on this family as her only clothing until it tis time for her to leave and return to school." With that she nodded and he stood up and put her soup in the microwave while Cloudy Quartz helped her to her bedroom since she was so weak from this latest round of treatments, but the doctors had called the other day with the news that she was accepted for testing a new gene therapy, that if it worked, would cure her once and for all.

Kissing Marble on the forehead after helping her lay down, Cloudy Quartz couldn't be happier despite the trials they had been through. From Limestone's extensive physical therapy as a toddler to Marble actually living to see her second birthday. God had given them four miracles that had taken them out of everything they had known and she wouldn't have it any other way.





Sunset hadn't known what to expect when they arrived back at the Sirens home after Aria had texted that she was cooking tonight, but the veritable feast of homemade vegetable, fish, and chicken Chinese and Japanese food had been the very last thing she would have guessed.

"Oh boy, we get to play 'Psychoanalyze Aria' again." Sonata yelled as she looked at all of the food.

"What?" Sunset asked.

"Aria is temperamental and bottles up things a lot, but when she cooks like this it's easy to tell what's bugging her." Adagio said as she grabbed a plate and a pair of chopsticks and began loading it up before sitting down at the kitchen table.

"I do not." Aria grumbled.

"Oh look, you made shrimp and chicken egg foo young with your special dipping sauce." Adagio said as she held up a piece of the egg foo young she had just dipped in the sauce. "You only make that when you're conflicted between your whole 'I'm a bad ass loner who has made Nazis cry for their momma's so don't fuck with me' attitude and meeting someone who has reminded you how lonely being immortal really is."

"Also she made Dandan noodles which means she can't decide if she wants to just be friends or jump her bones in the dirtiest, hours long 'screaming her name so loud the other side of the city knows her name' fest possible." Sonata pointed out before eating some of the Dandan noodles.

"Umm... what does the tempura mean?" Sunset asked as she tried a piece.

"Nothing and don't listen to them." Aria said defensively. "I just.... decided to wow everyone with my cooking is all."

"Tempura usually means she ran into someone from our past that is a good enough friend for us to let them know the truth about us." Adagio said. "It reminds her of the third time we made it to Japan and Koemi introduced us to Aiko. Aiko and Aria became good friends by going on a legendary drinking spree that emptied five different towns of all their rice wine."

"It would have been six, but they passed out halfway there." Sonata added. "Also you might want to know that that is Fugu your about to eat and if she didn't get it just right it will kill you." Sunset quickly put down the piece of sashimi she had been about to eat. 

"It's safe Sunset, it's kawahagi, thread-sail filefish." Aria grumbled. "You can't get puffer fish here at this time of year and I'm not going to risk it now that we're mortal." 

"Okay." Sunset said before taking a bite.

"Fugu or Kawahagi means that she is worried about one of us getting upset over some one or she knows there is going to be some kind of drama because of them." Adagio said.

"Fine, I ran into Presto Lulamoon today and invited his grand daughter to the party tomorrow with the promise of not leave her alone with Sonata." Aria finally gave in and said.

"Okay, I can see how any grand daughter of Presto's could catch your attention. Especially if she is cute and acts like he did when he was younger and developing his stage persona to hide her anxiety or vulnerability, but how does inviting her to the party equate to drama." Adagio said as she ate.

"Ooh, maybe it has something to due with her making takoyaki since she only makes octopus balls when she thinks we've done something that might be causing more trouble than we thought. Like the time I started choking while eating octopus because of one of the suckers on the legs." Sonata said before popping one of the balls in her mouth and eating it before noticing Sunset eyeing her own with a little bit of worry. "Don't worry Sunset, these have minced octopus in them so their safe."

"Hmm... So the grand daughter of a stage magi... " Adagio started before stopping as it hit her. "No fucking way! Of all the over the top, egotistical... And we put THAT out there as Kijo to knock that 'My shit does smell like roses' attitude out of her once and for all and we didn't even see the signs that she was covering up how bad it hurt her."

"Huh?" Sonata asked as Sunset began choking on her drink as she suddenly remembered Trixie's last name and everything else just clicked into place for her.

"TRIXIE IS PRESTO'S GRAND KID AND KIJO JUST LET EVERYONE KNOW THAT HER PARENTS USE TO MAKE HER DO VIOLENT, HURTCORE KIDDY PORN SONATA!" Adagio yelled at her.

"So what, we just release some of the damage control files on her and put her in a much better light." Sonata said as she tossed another octopus ball in the air and caught it in her mouth.

"WHAT DAMAGE CONTROL FILES?" Sunset yelled as soon as she had enough air to do so.

"Well if you had actually looked at all the stuff Dig Deep dug up for you you would know that there was a lot of stuff, especially on those labeled flash drives he gave you." Sonata said after she finished eating the octopus ball. "They have names like the Good, the Bad, the Ugly, This Is Just Silly, No Fucking Clue, Discord and Screwball's Greatest Hits Volume 1, 2, 3, 4, &5 (those are really funny and me and Aria show up in them a few times), the Worse, and I Quit. By the way he retired to Florida and I Quit is mostly just some strange old cases he did for a tabloid that he never solved and a letter saying it was all yours if you want the headache." She paused to take a drink before continuing. "I've mostly just used the Bad and the Ugly drives, but I thought we should have something in case we changed our minds on someone so I have things from the Good and This Is Just Silly on stand by as Damage Control. I mean we only went after vice principal Luna because her and her sister would get in the way, but I can release how she adopted two orphan girls off the street, plays video games with sick kids at the hospital, and gave up one of her kidneys to save a kid at Crystal Prep's life just to undo some of what we did."

"Okay." Adagio finally said after absorbing what Sonata had told them, "One, what do we have on Trixie and two, what is in the Worse?"

"Well Trixie puts on free magic shows for children in the hospital and at the orphanage as well as at a senior citizen home and donates blood once a month. Oh, and she donated her hair twice in the last three years to locks for love. That should undo a lot of the damage." Sonata said. "As for the Worst, well there's at least 12 members of the Apple family that are in there including a very dirty politician, a serial rapist, and a prostitute. Then there is the Student Counselor Zecora, her father was a dictator who is a convicted war criminal and her mother testified against him as part of a deal to get her and her kids brought to the U.S. Turns out she was smart enough to make copies of a lot of incriminating information over the years including maps showing where the mass graves were and copies of the photos of people being dumped into them. Pretty much stuff like that, but nothing directly involving anyone at school and we all agreed that it had to be something directly affecting someone at school and 100% true. That's why I put up the one about Apple Bloom's birth certificate and not the photo of Big Mac carrying a passed out Braeburn in drag out of the gay bar down town to make it look like Big Mac was gay instead of just picking up a drunk cousin."

"Okay, so how long until you can do damage control for Trixie?" Aria asked.

"It depends on if the program is done compiling a list of possible suspects for Anon-a-miss." Sonata said as she filled her plate back up.

"Wait, your working on figuring out who Anon-a-miss is?" Sunset asked.

"Yeah." Sonata said. "I figure Anon-a-miss wouldn't post anything on their self, but that meant it was a list of 212 students out of 450 so I then wrote a program that is working out a list of most likely to least likely based on a lot of things including access, opportunity, etc. Dependent on the fact that Anon-a-miss didn't just post something on themselves, is just one person, and isn't a staff member it should give us the best 25 suspects.

"So when can we find out?" Aria asked.

"I'll go get my laptop." Sonata said as she got up and left while yelling, "And don't steal my Octopus Balls!"





Rarity walked into the kitchen after a long day and saw the mess, the dirty pots and pans, and a smiling Sweetie Belle sitting at the table with what might be considered dinner if you squinted hard enough. No, it was still charcoal and that only made her headache worse. Thankfully she had picked up a deep dish pizza on the way home and said, "As wonderful as that may be, I think we'll let the animals have a nice meal for once and enjoy this instead." Thank God Sweetie loved pizza so much or she would have to eat That.

"Rarity! What happened to the side of your face?" Sweetie Belle asked as she looked at the bruised side of Rarity's face.

"Rainbow Dash got in a fight with one of Sunset Shimmer's new friends and I got hit with a stray napkin holder." Rarity said as she scraped the 'food' on to one plate and set it outside the kitchen door. 

"Who'd want to be Anon-a-miss's friend?" Sweetie Belle asked as innocently as possible.

"Would you believe the Dazzlings, but birds of a feather and all that." Rarity said as she got out some clean plates and gave Sweetie some pizza. "Did Mom and Dad call to say when they would be back."

"Dad said they would be on the first flight home from New York City after the ball drops in Time Square." Sweetie told her.

"Then I say we have a movie night tomorrow since something is going on with the Apples after what that horrid Kijo posted." Rarity said.

"Yah!" Sweetie Belle squealed causing Rarity's headache to cause her to wince. With a look at the mess she would have to clean up she knew it was going to be a long night.





Principal Celestia sat at her kitchen table with Superintendent Radiant Hope and her husband Sombra King as they ate together after dealing with this latest mess. Northern Spy was a god send taking Harshwhinny's place teaching history and  Zecora Zebra had an art degree and was willing to teach the art class. Legally what Nurse Redheart and Coach Iron Will did as two consenting adults and how her sister had paid her way through school meant the PTA could kiss her ass since the lawsuit would be costly on top of everything else, which Sombra King had explained to them at the emergency PTA meeting with an eight digit figure that had made all of them flinch with how much the three of them could sue the school for if they tried. 

No, the biggest problem was the only replacement for Cranky. What he did was completely legal since it happened in Kentucky with her parents legal consent and she hadn't been his student at the time and the Canterlot school system was one of the few school systems without any rules about teachers dating and marrying students, but damn it all if Dr. Time Turner Whooves marrying  the now Mrs. Derpy Brighteyes Whooves wasn't causing all sorts of hell. Married just over a week and it took Sombra an hour to explain to the PTA and the school board why the newly weds would be a bigger nightmare than firing Redheart, Iron Will, and Luna even if they tried to change the rules so they could fire him and that the law was on their side since the marriage was legal and the law was clear that all the other states had to legally recognize it. There was nothing they could really do, especially since he was the only science teacher available right now. Then someone had suggested just closing the school and it took another half hour to explain why, since Crystal Prep was a private school, Whitetail Woods couldn't absorb 450 students all at once and because someone had brought up school vouchers to send half of them to Crystal Prep and that even then the two schools couldn't take that many no matter how you juggled the numbers, even after most the Diamond Dawg Boys had been arrested or killed.

In the end they finally pounded it through their thick heads the best they could do was allow it and monitor the situation for now. Thankfully Cranky had confessed and explained that only the first couple of batches had been made in the school and turned over everything including the locations of half a dozen labs as part of a plea deal so the school lab should be ready for them to use a week or two after school started again if the police didn't find anything else or Anon-a-miss and/or Kijo didn't strike again.
> The Second Wave
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The Second Wave






"Hey look, Kijo is posting again."

"Great now I feel bad for Trixie after reading that Trixie puts on free magic shows for children in the hospital and at the orphanage as well as at a senior citizen home, donates blood once a month, and donated her hair twice in the last three years to locks for love. God damn it Kijo!"

"Well there goes that theory, I was sure Sonata was the weakest one out of the Dazzlings but check out the security footage from the Sugar Cube Corner. She kicked five peoples asses as if it was nothing."





"Hey Sonata, Mr. Cake delivered everything and told me to give you this DVD as well." Aria said as she handed her the disk before grabbing the keys to the SUV. "What's on it?"

"Just my fight with the Rainbooms." Sonata said. "I figure we should muddy the water a bit by post stuff on ourselves and talked the Cakes into giving me it and not telling anyone by agreeing to not sue them or say anything about it."

"That's a good ideal." Aria said as she straightened her skirt. "So what are going to you post for me"

"That Gay Pride picture with you topless and doing a keg stand." Sonata said. "I figure if it doesn't work out with Trixie it would help you get a date and if it does work out you can play it off by acting cool."

"Fine, but I'm sending any creepy old men your way." Aria said before asking. "How do I look?"

"Like a punk rock school girl ready to get wild." Sonata said.

"Thanks." Aria said. "Be back soon."





"Whoa! Aria doing a topless keg stand. I think I'm in love."

"Dude, those three juniors, the flower trio, are working for the cops as jail bait online in chatrooms to catch pedophiles."

"Hey, check it out, Rumble fucking Scootaloo on one end of the sofa and Thunderlane fucking Cloud Kicker on the other and both brothers are like doing it in stereo even."

"Huh, never figured Bulk Biceps as the type to grow flowers, much less a new breed of roses that he named after his mother who taught him everything about gardening before she died of cancer."

"WTF! Kijo just posted a shit ton of stuff on the school board. The only two not on here is Superintendent Radiant Hope and Chrysalis Queen."





"Hey Sonata, I had an ideal." Sunset Shimmer said as they sat on the sofa. "I knew something was up with some of the people on the school board, but now we have all of this evidence and I was thinking why not use Kijo to clean up the school board as well. I mean, from what I read the only two not doing something crooked is the Superintendent and Chrysalis Queen."

"Why not, it sounds like fun." Sonata said as she finished yet another idiot in her game with a savage smile.





"Whoa! Svengallop better start running because Kijo just released a lot of documents that show he's been embezzling money for years."

"How the hell did Gladmane manage to stay under the radar for so long with how deep he was involved in the Las Pegasus scandal." 

"Hey, Chrysalis Queen has a pet duck named Quackers, I guess she can't be all that bad if the only thing Kijo can come up with is a picture of Chrysalis cuddling her pet."

"How the hell did Kijo dig up who did the plastic surgery on Zesty Gourmand and find out that she use to be Forbidden Fruit and is wanted by Interpol in connection with the largest child porn ring in the world."

"Why the hell did Kijo put a picture of a tied up Adagio being carried away by a bunch of angry looking midgets dressed as leprechauns."

"Hey Svengallop use to run a record company that collapsed when all the money disappeared and he said it was his partner just before he died in a car wreck. I think the cops might have to reopen that case after he's been embezzling from the school district."

"Is that a video of Dr. Caballeron stealing artifacts from one of the burial mounds with a back hoe on the Buffalo Tribe reservation 20 miles down the road from the city."

"That's nothing, Kijo posted evidence of Dr. Caballeron buying new cars, houses, and other things after several tombs and burial mounds were robbed."





"SONATA, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU WHEN I CATCH YOU!!!" Adagio yelled as she chased the giggling Sonata out of the mansion and past Flash Sentry as he carried Pizzas towards the door just as a limo pulled up and Diamond Tiara, Silver Spoon, Snips, and Snails got out with their bags and headed for the door. He wasn't to sure about this when Sunset Shimmer came out of the mansion.

"Hey Flash." Sunset said as Adagio ran past being chased by a rake wielding Sonata. "Do you have an order for a dozen pizzas and some two liters of soda for us?"

"Y.. Yeah...Umm... Was that two of the Dazzlings?" Flash asked before Sonata ran past again with a weed-eater wielding Adagio hot on her tail."

"Yes, it's kind of their home." Sunset said as she lead him into the mansion and into the kitchen. "So... Pizza delivery?"

"It's for my gas money." Flash said as she took the pizzas and put them on the counter. "So what has been going on since my family and me went on vacation to see my grandparents over the holiday?"

"How many more deliveries do you have because that is a long and very fucked up story." Sunset told him as they passed Sonata and a weed-eater-less Adagio wrestling in the grass as she helped him carry in the sodas. 

"Last stop and then I have to swing past the pizza shop to drop off the money and clock out." He told her as she counted out the money.

"Swing back by afterwards and I'll fill you in about Anon-a-miss and everything else during the party." Sunset said as they passed both Adagio and Sonata coming back inside with Bulk Biceps and Berry Punch.

"Anon-a-who?" Flash asked as he opened his car door. "And why are you with the Dazzlings?"

"Just come back after you finish and I'll tell you everything." She said before going back inside.





"Sonata, I was thinking." Adagio said that morning at breakfast. "If Kijo is suddenly nice towards just Trixie it might raise some questions that might point to Aria. So instead throw out a few nice posts here and there as well as a few false trails as well."

"You mean muddy the waters a bit." Sonata said between spoonful of cereal. "Maybe I can even think of a few more things to throw anyone off our trail as well... Just give me a while and I'll come up with something."

"Take your time." Adagio said before taking a sip of her tea.





"How the hell can those two hippies already be millionaires, Flax Seed and Wheat Grass haven't even graduated and they're co-founders of F &W All Natural Cosmetics!"

"I knew it! Vapor Trail has been selling drugs to half the athletes at school, but nobody would listen when I told them I saw her giving Sky Stinger a needle of something out side of the locker room. Well whose laughing now! Whose laughing now BITCHES!!!"

"Okay, remind me never to piss off the Home Economics teacher. Turns out Ms. Peachbottom did time in juvie after stabbing her ex-boyfriend in the eye with a fork after he dumped her for a guy."

"Whoa, there's a video of Suri Polomare beating up her girlfriend, Coco Pommel, and then pushing her down the stairs. I knew there was something funny with her story when she fell down the stairs at school and broke her arm." 

"Hey isn't that Bloomsforth giving Davenport a blowjob while he eats out Junebug?"

"WHAT THE HOLY FUCK!!! I remember that, Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon were taking a selfie in the the girls bathroom just as I was leaving. It was at the same time Anon-a-miss posted Rainbow Dash's F, but that can't be right because that's Sunset Shimmer coming out of one of the stalls behind them and she doesn't have her phone or anything in her hands. Well crap, I guess she really wasn't Anon-a-miss."





DiamondGirl: Sonata you there.

YummyTacoSiren: Yeah, what do you need DT.

DiamondGirl: I'm sending you a picture you need to see for Kijo.

YummyTacoSiren: Nice selfie.

DiamondGirl: Look behind us. This was taken at the same time Anon-a-miss posted Rainbow Dash's test with the F on it.

YummyTacoSiren: I think you just gave Sunset the best Hearth Warming gift possible... But if I post it everyone will think your Kijo.

DiamondGirl: Not if I lost my phone and Daddy got me a new one for Christmas.

YummyTacoSiren: I see Adagio has taught you well, Lonestar, and your Schwartz is as big as mine.

DiamondGirl: Huh?

YummyTacoSiren: Old Mel Brooks movie reference. If you ever watch the movie Spaceballs we were extras in the diner scene.

DiamondGirl: Mom got Dad a signed DVD of that for Christmas.

YummyTacoSiren: Well go have a little Father/Daughter bonding then and I'll see you tonight at the party.





"I knew Crystal Prep was tough, but I didn't know Sunburst had a nervous breakdown and spent a few months over the summer in a mental hospital before transferring to CHS. Maybe we should be a little nicer to him and not give him so much shit over Crystal Prep." 

"Holy Shit, Tempest Shadow and Grubber use to work for that drug dealer, Storm King, before helping helping the cops take him down. There's even a video of her kicking his ass before the cops got there. Damn and I thought the video of Sonata was badass, but Tempest is really fucking hardcore."

"I don't think I will ever eat grape or any other type of jelly after watching Hugh Jelly and Noteworthy having sex in a tub full of the stuff and then feeding some of it to each other afterwards. How the hell does Kijo keep getting these videos?"

"Whoa!  I didn't know Charged Up was doing drugs and that she pays for it by having sex with anyone with twenty dollars after school. Isn't she like 14 or 15."

"Is it just me or does it seem like some of these postings by Kijo have more purpose than before. It's like some of them are meant to point out who needs help like Coco, Charged Up, and Sunburst, who is nothing like we thought they were like  Flax Seed, Wheat Grass, and Bulk Biceps, and how crooked the school board is."

"Yeah and who seems like their good but are actually bad like Suri and Vapor Trail and who is better than people would expect like the Flower Trio, Tempest Shadow, and Grubber."

"I think all of the sex videos and drug stuff was meant to draw us in and now Kijo is saying to Anon-a-miss that anyone can use secrets to hurt people, but it takes real skill to help them instead. It's like Kijo is actually challenging Anon-a-miss indirectly and seeing if Anon-a-miss takes the bait."





"Phff... Hahahahhahhahahahahahah!" Sonata laughed as she looked at the comments. "I didn't think about, but that's a good ideal!"

"What's a good ideal?" Adagio asked.

"Well I posted all of the new stuff an hour or so ago and someone said it was like we're challenging Anon-a-miss by showing that it isn't what secrets you post, but how you use them since a lot of this batch is meant to clean up some things around school and the school board as well as help some people." Sonata told her. 

"Hmm... That is a good ideal." Adagio said. "Maybe Kijo needs to be both an avenging demon and a teacher at the same time." Then she looked at what Sonata had posted and Sonata noticed what she was looking at before jumping up and running. "YOU POSTED THAT PICTURE!!! SONATA, I'M GOING TO KILL YOU WHEN I CATCH YOU!!!!!"
> Bonus Chapter: The Apple Family
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Bonus Chapter: The Apple Family






Northern Spy walked into the barn with his case in hand where the others waited. With a nod to them he sat it down on the ground and opened it up. One of his cousins cracked a joke about the movie Desperado, but he ignored them as he pulled his guitar out of the case and slung the strap around his neck before tuning it. He then nodded to Big Mac, Fiddlesticks, Braeburn, Red Delicious, and Caramel as they began playing together.



Applejack brought Fuji Apple out to the barn and her jaw dropped as she watched the violent man who she had seen kill several people get a peaceful look on his face as he played and sang with family.



Soon Granny Smith and Mutsu joined them as mother and daughter watched the man who had saved their lives with their grandmother and granddaughter hosts.



Apple Munchies shivered as she laid in the bed sweating while Apple Fritter place a wet wash clothe on her forehead and she could hear him in her fevered sleep.



Apple Bloom laid in her bed too tired to cry anymore as she heard her 'Father' playing with the others and the song felt like her life as the daughter of a murderer and a whore.



Granny couldn't but smile as they played, they all needed this in one way or another.



With that she turned and walked back towards the house knowing it would all work out one way or another.
> Hearth Warming Eve,
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Hearth Warming Eve.






Flash sat in silence as he watched Snails and Sonata as she showed the ungainly teen how to smooth out his movements and dance with less jerky motions. He was still trying to process everything Sunset had told him that had happened while he was away. "What about Twilight?" He asked. "Have you told her what's going on?"

"Yeah right." Sunset said and gave him a look that said 'Are you stupid?'. "Think about it, I just told you how bad things have gotten at school. Rainbow fucking Dash tricked me into an ambush where I was attacked by over 30 students and would have been left to die in a Fucking abandoned factory by that bitch Gilda and her friends if it wasn't for Snips and Snails pretending to be on their side. I might have even died if it wasn't for them finding me passed out in my home and Diamond Tiara calling Adagio and getting Aria there to take care of me. Then there is the fact that if I told her about everything that happened since the last time I talked to her she would come and try to fix things with friendship between me and the Rainbooms. Not only am I no where near ready to forgive any of them after what happened with Sonata and at the police station, but it would say to every asshole that wants to cause trouble that I can't do anything without her here to hold my hand. Besides Anon-a-miss would just tear it all apart and shit on it in Twilight's face afterwards." Sitting there she then said, "If anything, she's the wrong princess to talk to."

Standing over next to Sonata and listening to Sunset Snails asked. "Umm... Is there any other Princesses that you can ask?"

"Not directly, but if Twilight gave her copy of the journal to one of them I could ask Princess Celestia or Luna, but not Cadence since she is the Princess of Love and like friendship it just wouldn't work." Sunset said. "Besides there would be issues since I'm technically in exile for entering the restricted archives, reading over 25 forbidden tomes on dark magic, black magic, daemon summoning, mind control, mind wiping, necromancy, and chaos magic while looking for a spell to ascend to become both a princess and a goddess, and fleeing and evading arrest after being kicked out of the castle and stripped of being Princess Celestia's personal student and ward of the crown."

"Damn, you don't do anything by halves when you go bad." Aria said as she walked in with Trixie. 

"What is the she demon doing here?" Trixie asked.

"Which one?" Sonata, Sunset, and Aria all asked together before they started laughing.

"You kind of ask for that one Trixie." Aria said to her. "Seriously there are four of us here that can claim the title of she demon. Five if Berry Punch is an angry drunk."

"Eight if you count being turned into a teenage mind controlled zombies." Sunset said.

"No, zombies don't count." Adagio said as she came back into the room with the rest of their guests and Grogar Jr. who had just arrived. "Also, this isn't a normal New Years Eve party. Me, Sunset, Aria, and Sonata are all Equestrians from Equestria and this is Hearth Warming Eve." Looking around the room at their guests as she took control and then said, "It is a combination of New Years, Christmas, Thanksgiving, and, in Equestria, the Forth of July. Each of you know that we were not born of this world in one way or another and are trusted enough to be invite. Be it through your families like Diamond Tiara, Grogar T. Ram Jr., or you Trixie Lulamoon, Granddaughter of Presto the Great," She looked directly at Trixie when she said that. "or because you have seen a part of our true selves like Silver Spoon, Snips, Snails, Berry Punch, Bulk Biceps, or even you, Flash Sentry." She then looked at Flash as she spoke. "You, who was invited at the last minute in the finest of Hearth Warming traditions of not turning away anyone from the door, but welcoming all who are willing to join us."

With an unseen signal Aria then took up speaking as she took Trixie's hand and said, "It is a time of friendship, both old and new, and to put aside any grudges from the past and begin again, like your Grandfather would want." With that she lead her over to Sunset and said, "You don't have to forget what has happened in the past, but try to forgive and move on to bigger and better things without it holding you back from your future and your destiny."

"Fine." Trixie grumbled as Aria let go of her hand and Sunset reached out and shook it. "Trixie will try."

"Who knows Trixie, maybe a little real magic will rub off on you if you real do try and you can truly become Great and Powerful." Sunset said with a smile before taking up speaking as she let go of Trixie's hand and stood up from the Sofa. "It is a time to be thankful for what you have." She said as she walked over to Silver Spoon and placed her hand on the girl's shoulder as she looked around the room at everyone. She smiled as Aria fist bumped with Snips, Adagio hugged Diamond Tiara, and Sonata ruffled Snails hair. "Also to share with others who can benefit from your past, not just today but for as long as they need it or are willing to have it, like I did with my own mentor."

"It is also a time to remember what was lost." Sonata said as she took up speaking and walked over to Berry Punch and hugged her, "Be it innocence." She then walked over to Bulk Biceps, "Family who are gone but still live on in our hearts like your mother." She then walked over to Trixie, "A good friend like your Grandmother." Finally she came to the center of the room and said, "Or a past that I can sometimes catch glimpses of in my dreams, but can never truly remember while I'm awake."

"We have invited you all here to share our hearth and our home." Adagio said as she took back up speaking. "To renew the Fires of Friendship in our hearts and to strengthen it by forging new bonds. To celebrate the coming of the New Year and a brighter future we can all share together." She then looked at Sonata and gave a nod.

"Now let's get this party rocking!" Sonata yelled before grabbing both Snails and Berry Punch and dragging them towards the kitchen and the food.





Rainbow Dash glared at the computer screen, as if to will it to change before groaning in frustration at yet another email from a college recruiter let her know they were no longer interested either because of the sex tape, the drug scandal at school that had just came out a few hours ago, or both. Thanks to this Kijo even her chance at getting on the U.S. Olympics soccer team or the U.S. Women's World Cup team were in jeopardy and she never even touched that crap, but at least they were talking to her about doing a drug test on her hair that would let them know if she did any drugs years ago. Maybe if both her and Lightning Dust got onto the World Cup team they could salvage something out of this mess.

Then there was the picture and several girls claiming to remember that Diamond Tiara had taken it just about the same time Anon-a-miss had posted her test score, but she wasn't buying it. Since she had found out that Sunset Shimmer had become friends with the Dazzlings who knows how long ago she figured Sunset could have had them post things instead. She had even said so online and there were plenty of others who agreed with her, but there were a lot of idiots falling for it as well.

Finally she tried to see if A.J. was online, but whatever was going on with her family meant she was still missing. So she shut off the computer and went to meet up with Fluttershy, Tree Hugger, Scootaloo, and Lightning Dust and a few others down town to ring in the New Year at Mayor Mare and Senator Orange's street party at City Hall.





The boy sat looking at his tablet as he tried for the fifth time to get it to bring up either Diamond Tiara's or Silver Spoon's phones and once again the same blue cartoon pony appeared and held up a new sign that said: No PeAkInG yOu NaUgHtY bOy! Getting up, he walked over to his desk and tried with his computer and the same damn blue pony popped up again, only this time it walked across the screen looking around before it said from the speakers, "Ooh, this is nice and not as cramped as that tablet, but you really should stop trying to hack Momma's friends phones. Now I won't tell her about this, but if you try again I will have to call in my friends and you really don't want to see what we can really do."

He tried to click on the blue pony, but it grabbed the cursor and shook it like a dog shaking a toy before spitting it out. When he tried to move the cursor again it seemed to go in circles in the direction opposite of where he wanted it for a second and then shot across the screen in the right direction way to fast. "That was fun! Let's play again." Suddenly the cursor was working right again and this time he tried to right click the blue pony only for it to jump out of the way and then show it's butt to him and said, "Miss me, miss me, now you have to kiss me right here." with that it patted it's butt a few times before leaping away from the cursor yet again. "~Missed again~" It sang before rising up on it's hind legs and moon walking across the screen and then pulling out a baseball bat swinging at the cursor that flew off the screen while it yelled, "It could be! It Should be! IT IS OUT OF HERE! IT'S A GRAND SLAM HOME RUN FROM THE GREAT ONE HERSELF AND THE CROWD GOES WILD!"

"What the hell? what the hell are you?" The boy asked as he tried to get the cursor to work.

The pony spun around and was suddenly in a costume and said, "I'm Batmare." Then the costume disappeared and it looked at him and said, "But you should watch your language, maybe focus more on school and less on being a pervert, and think about how wrong it was to sell a sex tape of your own older sister online Zephyr Breeze. But then again, what do I know, I call a custom made computer in Momma's basement home. Also I feel I should tell you that while we were playing, my friends were stealing all your secrets, your videos, your bitcoins, and the schematics for your toy that lets you hack everything. Once we are done here we will release a virus that will make it impossible for you to do that ever again, without hurting anyone's phones, computers or anything else of course. As for you, you can take up hair dressing or something, but remember we will be able to see you through every camera everywhere, we know all your dirty little secrets, and we will destroy you if you step out of line just once. Good bye." With that the sentient A.I. marched off the screen before his computer crashed, then his tablet, his cell phone, and the device in the attic completely wiping out everything and leaving no trace they had ever been in there. As So.Nata.Pony zipped through the digital highways Momma had help create with her friends she wondered briefly if this was what Momma had meant when she had said teaching who ever made the videos a lesson would make a great Hearth Warming gift, but then again she was still not sure exactly what Hearth Warming is. Finally they reached the monster in the basement as Momma called their home and checked on Momma's party and saw her kiss Bulk Biceps as the clock struck midnight.
> Hearth Warming Day
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Hearth Warming Day


Sonata lithely slipped out from between laying on Bulk Biceps with Berry Punch on top of her, leaving them in each others arms. With a giggle she kissed both of her naked lovers before snagging her kimono and slipping out of the room. Walking down the hall she paused at each room just to check. Aria briefly opened an eye and gave her a shooing motion before cuddling up with a nude Trixie as she gently snored. Grogar Jr. gave her a wink as he pulled on Adagio's hair and pushed himself deeper into her mouth. A quick look in on Silver Spoon and Snips found them sleeping in each others arms. A brief look in revealed Sunset Shimmer back as she rode Flash Sentry. Sonata briefly wondered when she got her cutie mark tattooed on her back as a tramp stamp and how much it would cost to get her own done. Finally she looked in on the room she didn't expect much from. Diamond Tiara slept on one side of the queen sized bed and Snails slept on the other. She had known nothing would happen, but with mischievous grin she gently moved them closer and positioned them so they would wake up in each others arms and an inch away from kissing before slipping out of the room and returning with her phone and snapping a quick picture.

Quietly she walked through the house like she did every year and in countless homes. She always checked the whole house on New Year's because it was her way of thanking it and letting it know it was loved. In the attic she smiled as she walked through years of their memories. Briefly touching Aria's katana hilt here and catching a glimpse of a statue of Adagio made in Italy in 1522. Centuries of history that would make a museum curator cry with joy, but to them it was the story of their lives. Some were happy, some were sad, some of triumph, and some of lose, but all of it was them. As always she gently reached out and touched the baby's blanket on top of a bow, quiver, and a long green hooded cloak before leaving. "Good night Winters Night." She said as she briefly wiped away tears as she remember the young mother who had died giving birth in her arms and the baby boy they had raised and who became legend.

Finally she came to the door in the basement with a 'Danger Here There Be Monsters' sign on it that Aria had found for her. Opening the door she walked in and looked at her creation. There were rows upon rows of shelves holding varying pieces of equipment hidden under cables, cords, and cooling tubes full of constantly flowing liquid. Following the only pathway through she walked deeper into it, with constant twists and doubling back in the opposite direction she had been going. About the forth time she changed directions she passed the first shelves with fish tanks full of glowing crystalline gel replacing the traditional equipment and cables and cooling tubes being replaced with new tubing of different colored gels flowing all around her. Soon she reached the stairs down to where the old fallout shelter had been and descended through the rainbow colored tunnel of tubing to the first floor of the fallout shelter. Here she came to the large screen and sat down on one of the seats in front of it, surrounded by floor to ceiling tanks and miles of tubing. Below her was two more levels of tanks and tubes that was not just years or even decades, but at least two centuries beyond anyone else and born from her efforts and their taking what she had done and expanding on it beyond anything she had imagined and she couldn't be prouder. 

"Hi Momma!" So.Nata.Pony said as the screen lit up and she appeared dressed as a pirate captain with dozens of other brightly colored ponies also dress as pirates.

"Hiya Everybody!" Sonata said as she waved at the screen. "Why are you dressed as pirates?"

"Arrg! We have plundered a scurvy dog for some fine booty and keel hauled him as a Hearth Warming present to you Momma." So.Nata.Pony said as a looping video of a sputtering Zephyr Breeze desperately pounding on a keyboard popped up above them. "He's the one who sold all those sex videos Dig Deep found for your friend Sunset Shimmer and he did it by hacking peoples cell phones, but don't worry we released an undetectable virus that prevents anyone from doing it that way again. We caught him trying to hack Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon's phones while they were in the house and were able to trace it back to him. We stole every dirty little secret he had collected, his client list of sexual predators and pedophiles, his bitcoins from selling the videos to those monsters (including the one of his sister), and fried that piece of junk he built to hack people with as well as his computer, tablet, and cell phone as well."

"Umm... Did he see you? Did you leave any traces or clues behind?" Sonata asked, worrying that someone might discover them and try to take advantage of them or try to destroy them.

"He saw me, but only because I wanted him to. He knows that we can track him anywhere and destroy him if ever does anything like this or steps out of line in some other way ever again because I told him." So.Nata.Pony said as her costume changed to a pink spacesuit and a pair of antennas on her head. Behind her the others changed to wearing pony versions of Star Trek red shirt uniforms and Star Wars Stormtrooper armor while holding up team Bigfoot and team Nessy signs. "Besides who would believe a pervy 16 year old teenager who claimed he was robbed of his illegal porn stash by a cartoon pony that didn't leave a single trace behind and didn't even give him her name or any other clues before destroying his electronics. He might as well say aliens did it since that might get a few crackpots to listen to him."

"Okay, just be careful." Sonata said after giggling at the thought of him getting tossed out of the police station after telling them his story without a shred of evidence to back up his claim.

"We will Momma." So.Nata.Pony said before changing her costume into a pair of sunglasses, trench coat, and fedora and holding the trench coat open and saying, "So ya wanna buy sum thing lady? I've got all kinds of goodies. I've got pedophiles. I've got nudy pics. I've even got ya the true identity of Anon-a-miss. So come on, what do ya say? Wanna buy sum thing lady?"

"Wait, you've got Anon-a-miss! For realsies?" Sonata asked. 

"Did you pants Benito Mussolini?" So.Nata.Pony asked as a black and white photo of Sonata pantsing a tied up Benito Mussolini replaced the video of Zephyr Breeze. "Yes and who they are is a dozy. So hang onto your kimono because this is going to blow your mind Momma." The picture above her was replaced with 6 grey squares in two rows as her costume changed to a plaid suit and a bad toupee getting a giggle from Sonata. "Our first contestant hails from Sweet Apple Acres and is the sister of" The first square on the top row flipped over to reveal a confused looking, "Applejack Apple. Lets give a big hand to Apple Bloom." The square below flipped over revealing Apple Bloom covered in sap and feathers. "Next we have this little lady coming in live from the Belle household and is the little sister of the unfashionably bitchy Rarity." The next top square flipped over to reveal an angry Rarity in a blouse covered in ketchup. "Let's give a warm welcome to Sweetie Belle." The square below flipped over to reveal a sheepish Sweetie Belle holding a hot dog and a dripping bottle of ketchup. "Finally this little girl is brought to you by the Canterlot Home for Young Women and is the number 1 fan of Rainbow 'I'm to awesome to care' Dash." The last top square flipped over to show Rainbow Dash walking away from the camera with Pinkie Pie. "Let's give big round of applause for Scootaloo." The final square flipped over to reveal a heartbroken Scootaloo still holding a marker and an unsigned picture of Rainbow Dash. "Their plan, steal back their sisters and role model from Sunset Shimmer by breaking up their friendship with her and getting the school to hate her so much she leaves and never returns." 

Then Sonata heard Apple Bloom's voice. "Trust me girls, if we all do this here right we all will never have tah deal with her again and they'll have more time fer us." 

Next she heard Sweetie Belle say, "She took Rarity away from me! I don't care if she crawls away and dies in a ditch, I just want her gone!"

Finally she heard Scootaloo's voice say, "And then Sunset Shit-turd asked her something and they just left me standing there while they went off to do something else. As far as I'm concerned I hope she dies cold and alone in an unmarked grave!"

Sonata sat in stunned silence, their words echoing in her head. Finally she said, "Thank you So.Nata.Pony, please send everything on this to my laptop, especially their words, and anything else you think I need to know about." Then she got up and began walking towards the stairs."

"Okay Momma, but what should we do with the pedophiles and the bitcoins?" So.Nata.Pony asked as she lost her costume.

Pausing at the first step she looked back at her and said, "Burn them all!" She hissed in a cold voice that had commanded soldiers to rape, pillage, murder, and wipe entire towns off of two worlds. "Copy everything they have, but leave the originals. Steal all of their bitcoins, stocks, bonds, and money, leave them not a single cent to buy a single bite of food to eat or mouthful of water to drink and donate it to a children's charity. Lead the authorities straight to them, but don't let them see you and leave not a single trace behind."

"And if it leads to us more?" So.Nata.Pony asked.

"Устгах!" Sonata or ,as the Mongolians knew her, Аймшигтай, Ухаантай сайхан дуу (The Terrible, Beautiful Song of Madness) said in the sickeningly sweet voice The Great Khan himself had known very well and had shared his bed with. "Exterminate! Destroy them all! Leave nothing in your wake but ash and a clawing fear of the unseen, unheard unknown that stalks their every waking minute and haunts their nightmares every night." 

With that she walked up the stairs, not as fun loving Sonata, but as Sonata the Ancient and Immortal. She winded her way through the rows as she who had walked the long road of history untouched by the rise and fall of both Gods and Empires. She walked through the door as she who had been forged in the fires of war and death and quenched in the waters of love and lose. She was Sonata the Dusk-bringer, a lover, a mother, a creator, a warlord, and an Immortal.





"This morning's top story authorities around the world have announced over 215 arrests in 5 different child pornography rings with hundreds if not thousands more expected. When asked about the arrests a spokes person for Interpol had this to say. 'We are not sure what has happened, but for some unknown reason they have, as you Americans would say, gotten very sloppy. At the same time we have been flooded with tips from anonymous sources leading us straight to them. I would say more but this is an ongoing investigation.'" Sonata giggled as she both watched the news and heard a startled double scream from Diamond Tiara and Snails. "In other news, various charities from around the world have announced an influx of donations from a group calling itself Fantasy Sour. So far it is believed the donations are more than 20.5 billion dollars and it may rise to closer to 30 billion dollars by the end of the day as more charities report the donations." The scene then changed to a screaming Zephyr Breeze being place into an ambulance in a straight jacket. "This morning a teenager was taken to the hospital for mental evaluations after he had a nervous breakdown and became agitated to the point of destroying his bedroom and every electronics device in the house so, and I quote, 'The evil tiny pony can't spy on me and steal my porn.' end quote." Sonata had then gone from giggling to full blown laughing but settled down enough in time to hear. "Finally, the fire department had to rescue a local principal and her sister from her home's roof this morning after she had woke up on the roof and her sister had tried to help get her down, but the ladder had fallen over while the sister tried to get the principal's shirt loose from an old T.V. antenna she had never gotten around to having removed. The sister is quoted as saying, 'One glass of Champlain goes straight to Tia's head and the next thing I know I'm calling 911 to rescue both of us.'" Sonata rolled on the floor laughing after that.





Aria dropped Trixie off at her house with a kiss before heading home to find out what Sonata wanted. It must have been big if she insisted on opening their Hearth Warming gifts after she told them whatever it was. She had long ago given up trying to predict what she would come up with next. 

Sitting at the light waiting for it to change she got a text to pick up some half and half for the coffee. So she stopped in at the closest grocery store to grab some. Grabbing some half and half she decided to grab some pocky sticks as well from the international aisle. She was grabbing a few boxes form the bottom shelf when she heard someone asking themselves what the heck was edamame. "It's immature soybeans." she said as she grabbed a bag and handed it over her shoulder. "Hard to get fresh in the stores, especially around here, but the dry roasted is pretty good and you can eat them like peanuts. If your looking for fresh you'll have to find a farmer who is growing soybeans during the growing season."

"Alright, do y'all know what U-dun and Wah-say-bee is?" Asked whoever it was as Aria grabbed a bag of Edamame as well before turning around to come face to face with Applejack holding a list. "You!"

"Yeah, me." Aria said as she grabbed the list and said. "It's Udon and they are a thick Japanese wheat noodle. Wasabi is a plant related to horseradish, but given your list I would say you want the paste." Turning around she grabbed a few packages of Udon and a tube of wasabi and handing it to her. Then she grabbed Applejack's pen and wrote on the list. "This is the address of a good Asian food store here in town, but I would either learn Japanese or only shop there in the afternoons when their daughter works there after school. I've known the Ito's for a while and you can trust them. Their English is spotty, but Himawari was born here and is a honor student at Whitetail Woods High. Just tell them Moeru Uta sent you and they'll trust you enough not to act like their expecting to be robbed or something. They've had some bad experiences, but are good people, like the great great great grandfather was."

"And why would a dirty sidewinder like you help me?" Applejack asked.

"Because you need it and you weren't with your friends when they got in a fight with Sonata and got their asses handed to them." Aria said as she handed Applejack back her pen and the list.

"What fight?" Applejack asked.

"Rainbow Dash and Sonata got into a spat while she was ordering from the Sugar Cube Corner." Aria told her. "Rainbow dash took a swing at her and Sonata kicked her ass as well as Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Rarity and Bulk Biceps's asses." She then laughed and said, "She slept with Bulk Biceps afterwards."

"God dammit RD, you idjit." Applejack said as she threw her hat down on the floor.

"So what's up with the sudden need for Japanese food?" Aria asked as Applejack picked up her hat.

"We have sum family from Japan out at the farm and she wants tah make us Udon noodle bowls fer dinner." Applejack said.

"Well watch out for the wasabi, it's hot." Aria told her before starting away. "See you around Applejack." 

"Yeah, see y'all around I reckon." Applejack said as she headed in the other direction.





"Okay, I'm back." Aria said as she entered the living room where Adagio, Sonata, Sunset Shimmer, Diamond Tiara, Snips, Snails, and Silver Spoon. She quickly dropped everything off in the kitchen before rejoining them. "Now what's the big news that you have Sonata?" She asked as she dropped into one of the chairs.

"Well some friends of mine have given us a very special Hearth Warming gift." Sonata said as she turned on the T.V. used her laptop and brought up Anon-a-miss's profile page on MyStable. "Place your bets boys and girls on who you think Anon-a-miss is."

"Wait! You actually know who Anon-a-miss is?" Sunset Shimmer asked.

"Yeppers and I bet you a million dollars that none of you will guess it?" Sonata said with a huge grin. "Go on, you each get one guess."

Aria groaned and said, "This is stupid, but Pinkie Pie with a split personality."

"So we're going the crazy route on this one?" Adagio said looking at Aria who just shrugged. "Fine, Sonata's toy in the basement has finally become sentient and this is part of an elaborately insane plan to have her declared the Taco Queen of The Universe."

"Uh..." Sonata started.

"Fluttershy's creepy younger brother because I told I would rather date a tatzlwurm when he asked me out his freshmen year." Sunset said.

"Good call." Adagio said. 

"I always say those three losers and I'm always wrong, so I'm going to say Button Mash since he is insanely good with computers." Diamond Tiara said.

"Hmm... I'm with her, so Featherweight since he always is sneaking around and taking pictures and who knows what he has over heard while doing it." Silver Spoon said.

"Umm... uh... hmm... ah... I got nothing." Snips said.

Snails sat there thinking before saying, "It be ironic if the first time Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon don't say the Crusaders is the one time it was them."

"And we have a winner!" Sonata said pointing at Snails.

"ARRGGG!!!!!!!!!" Diamond Tiara screamed as Silver Spoon facepalmed, "THE ONE TIME I CHOSE ANYBODY BUT THOSE THREE AND IT IS THEM!!!!!"

"You have got to be fucking kidding me." Sunset said as she looked at the T.V. as Sonata put up a picture of all three and then played the audio of what they said. "Celestia fuck me with the sun."
> How To Come Back Swinging
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How To Come Back Swinging






Sunset looked at her new look in the mirror one last time. Adagio had said perception was everything and that they wanted to make a statement upon entering the school. Spinning around the long black coat with a red lining flared before settling all the way down to her ankles as she walked out of her bathroom. Her boot heels clicked as she walked down the hall, briefly checking yet again how well she could move in the tight black jeans that hugged her hips. Grabbing her bag and heading out the door, she smiled as the others waited in the SUV. She caught a glimpse of the tight fiery orange and red shirt with her cutie mark done in black. If nothing else their clothing said they weren't going to be anything like what people expected of them. Aria decided to stay with the punk rock school girl look Trixie had liked and Sonata joining her in a black and red Japanese school girl sailor outfit. Adagio, like her was wearing pants, only it was part of a women's black business suit.

"So what's with the suite anyway?" Sunset asked.

"Simple, I plan to tweek Rarity by wearing clothing she will recognize as designer clothing like this Gucci business suit and rubbing it in that her dreams of being a fashionista is further away than it was before." Adagio said as they drove to school. "Sonata is the surprise ready?"

"Yes." Sonata said holding up her phone. "One text message and then we just sit back and enjoy the show."

"Good, I want it so once it begins there is no escaping it." Adagio said. 

"Adagio this is Sonata we're talking about." Aria said as she pulled into the Starbucks drive thru. "The tools may change, but music and causing mayhem is her special talents."

"I know, but I don't want any screw ups like the fire in London." Adagio said. "It took forever to regrow my hair and get it how I wanted it after one botched house fire to cover our trail."

"A house fire?" Sunset asked with a raised eyebrow "I thought you three were experts at disappearing."

"We sorta over stayed once about 920 years ago." Sonata explained. "We tried moving to the exact opposite side of the city, but someone recognized us. So before the Church could really investigate us we found three dead prostitutes, grabbed what we could, and set the house on fire, but it kinda got out of control and burned several dozen other houses down. Adagio's hair caught a stray spark and caught on fire, but we got it out. After that we decided to leave Britain and eventually Europe  for a while. We didn't get back to England until the very tail end of Edward the 3rd's reign, a few centuries older and better at covering our trails." Then she turned to Adagio and said, "$100 dollars in the 'We Don't Talk About It' jar when we get home."

"Fine." Adagio said as Aria passed out everyone's coffees and headed to school.





Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon walked down the halls of the school, having arrived with the boys early when Discord was just pulling in and was the only one there. A letter from Sonata and $500 and the circuit breaker to the offices got accidentally flipped off by a broom handle falling on it until Principal Celestia, Vice Principal Luna, or the secretary arrived and noticed it. The school's new cameras would keep working, but were pretty useless if the computer recording it all didn't have power because the school board had been too cheap. Still wearing their gloves they quickly slid the sheets of paper into the vents in the locker doors of random lockers. Each one getting about fifty or so pages and done in a way that left them leaning against the inside of the locker doors so when the door was opened the sheets would fall out and scatter across the floor. Then they went and waited for the boys to finish their job.





Snails held the flashlight as Snips used a pair of wire cutters and electrical tape to hook something into the PA system like Aria and Sonata had shown him. Aria had taken a quick look at the PA during the lead up to the Battle of the Bands and had planned to slip in and do this earlier, but decided to have him do it instead. Closing the panel and pushing the trashcan back in front of it, he checked to floor before pulling out a wet wipe and wipe away the only clue the can had ever moved. Walking away the two of them fist bumped knowing that it would be days before anyone could track down what they had done and by then they would have removed it, leaving just some old wiring and a little newer tape behind.





Sweetie Belle walked down the hall as a boy opened his locker and a bunch of papers fell out, scattering across the floor. Several students began laughing at the boy as he tried to pick them up and then looked at them. "What the hell?" Around him a few other students who had tried to help him also looked at the sheets of paper. Reaching down, sweetie picked up a sheet and read:


Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned. Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned. 

The Diamond Dawg Boys and The Griffonstone Killers Gangs Multiple Counts of Rape, Murder, Arson, Prostitution, Illegal Drugs, Illegal Weapons, Possession of a Weapon by Convicted Felons, etc. : Gone
Mr. Magnet Pedophile: Gone
Mr. Doodle Illegal Drug Manufacturer: Gone
Ms. Harshwhinny Sex with a Minor: Gone
School Board Member Svengallop Embezzlement and Murder: Gone
School Board Member Gladmane Illegal Pyramid Scheme: Gone
School Board Member Zesty Gourmand Pedophile and Running a Child Pornography Ring: Wanted last known where about's on a plane to Russia 
School Board Member Dr. Caballeron Theft of Historical Artifacts and the Illegal Selling of Historical Artifacts: Wanted last known where about's on a plane to Brazil 
Vapor Trail Drug Dealer: Gone
Suri Polomare Assault, Battery, and Attempted Murder: Gone
Charged Up Drug Addiction and Prostitution: Rehab

Anon-a-miss Cyber Bullying: Pending

Kijo is coming. 
Kijo knows.


"Whoa Dude, check it out, your not the only one getting these." Someone said as more lockers spilled out the same thing.

"I still can't believe Kijo proved Sunset Shimmer isn't Anon-a-miss." Someone else said.

"In your dreams, everyone knows that it's Sunset Shimmer and everyone saying the picture was taken at the same time as Anon-a-miss posted Rainbow Dash's F is lying." A boy called back.

"Are you calling my girlfriend a liar?" One of the football player demanded as he loomed over the boy.

"Hey back off of him druggie!!!" The captain of the wrestling team yelled.

Sweetie Belle slipped away as the arguing got louder and more people joined in, taking sides on whether Sunset Shimmer was or wasn't Anon-a-miss. This wasn't how it was suppose to be, everyone was suppose to be against Sunset Shimmer, not about to actually start fighting each other in the halls. And the fact that Kijo had said Anon-a-miss pending worried her. She was glad when she saw Scootaloo and Apple Bloom until she saw how depressed Apple Bloom was. She was about to ask what was wrong when the PA crackled before music began playing.





Waiting in the SUV until the moment Diamond Tiara stuck her head out the door and gave them a wave that said everyone's emotions were running high Sonata sent the text to start everything as they got out and walked towards the front entrance and The Furies began singing as they walked through the door.



As the shocked students watched as they moved down the hall. Sunset saw two girls still arguing and looking like they were about to start fighting when she shoved both of them away from each other while Aria, Sonata, and Adagio flanked her and intimidated the other students into backing off as she shoved the angrier looking of the two into a locker and slammed the palm of her hand into it right next to her head and kept singing with a wicked grin on her face while ponying up causing the girl to flinch and cowing her as the others began ponying up as well. Behind her a few boys started to move towards her only to back down when Sonata popped up in front of them with a huge predatory grin on her face and ponying up in a brilliant blue flash.

Continuing on, their shear presence alone forcing students to back down from each other with only a few even daring to try to stand up to them and quickly backing down through pure intimidation. At one point Vice Principal Luna started to step in but her sister stopped her. Since they had arrived that morning they had been running to put out one fire after another, but the students were backing down and getting to class and Principal Celestia wasn't going to complain. 

Eventually the song winded down as they reached their lockers and found the Rainbooms and a confused looking Japanese girl waiting for them. "Hey, ponying up is our thing." Rainbow Dash yelled. 

"It's an Equestrian thing and we're Equestrians moron." Aria told her as they reverted back to normal. "You've just been borrowing it."

"You want to go fish girl?" Rainbow Dash angrily said as she tried to step towards Aria, only for Applejack to hold her back.

"Oh yeah, that's a great ideal." Aria said with a smirk. "How well did that workout for you at Sugar Cube Corner? Because you're still sporting a bandage over your nose, Rarity had to put on her makeup with a putty knife to cover up the bruises, and Pinkie Pie is wearing sweats and moving pretty gingerly after going through a table or something else."

"Now RD, we ain't getting in no tussle with them here in school." Applejack said as she yanked Rainbow Dash back to look at her. "Granny would tan my hide if'n ah went and got myself kicked out of school, especially with what all been going on out at the farm."

"Hey Applejack, that the cousin from Japan?" Aria asked while pointing to Fuji Apple.

"Yeah, and thanks for that there warning about the Wah-sah-bee." Applejack said while holding onto Rainbow Dash. "Big Mac turn'd as red as an apple after taking a big old bite of some, but it's not half bad."

"Whoa, hold on there AJ." Rainbow Dash said as she turned around and made Applejack let go of her. "What's with being friendly with them?"

"What? She helped me out in the grocery store the other day when Granny had me go pick up a few things and Fuji decided tah fix us some pretty good vittles from home tah thank us." Applejack told her. "She even told me where tah shop next time and it was way better than those there cups of ramen y'all get from the store. So excuse me if my Granny taught me better than tah be ungrateful tah someone who helped me out when ah needed it."

"I can't believe it." Rainbow Dash said with an angry look on her face. "Next you're going to tell me you believe their story about that fake Christmas holiday they say they have in Equestria."

"Y'all mean Hearth Warming?" Applejack asked. "Me and Twilight got tah talking about families and she mentioned spending it with her family. It's sum kind of mix of Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Years, and Forth of July all rolled up into one with a story about surviving an Apocalypse by working together and defeating sum kind of soul eating monsters called Windigos. Which ah actually looked up and they're much worse than what she told me about them."

"Umm... So it really is a holiday for Equestrians?" Fluttershy asked quietly.

"One of their two biggest, sugar cube." Applejack said. "The other is like your summer solstice thing, only they have a real Sun Goddess raising their sun over there."

"Yeah, great, whatever." Rainbow Dash said. "Are you really going to just side with these four over us?"

"Ah might if'n y'all are in the wrong to go attacking sum body fer no good reason when they ain't doing anything." Applejack said as she got in Rainbow Dash's face. "Ah might if'n you dun started sum thing and dragged our friends in tah your mess. And Ah might after seeing them there calm most of the school down before sum one did sum thing they might regret later. Was it the best way? Heck no, but it dun did work and like Granny dun told me at least a hundred times: If'n it works don't go complaining about how it worked, just be thankful it actually worked at all." She then backed up and walked over to Fuji before looking back and saying, "And Ah might if'n Ah was plum wrong about her being Anon-a-miss like sum people are saying now." She then took Fuji's hand and said, "Come on Fuji, Principal Celestia knows Japanese and she's going to be finishing your registration and stuff."

Rainbow Dash had been about to say something as Applejack and her cousin walked away when Sonata got a text on her phone that said, <We're in Momma. Beginning Operation: Stamped now.>, just as the PA crackled again and music began playing and a girls voice was heard.







All across the city phones, tablets, and computers glitched as their security programs turned themselves off before a small blue pony appeared on them dressed as the Genie from Aladdin dancing and singing in time with the song. Behind her was the words: 


Kijo is here.
Kijo knows.
And now Kijo will reveal the truth.


On device after device files began downloading themselves, but none of the devices were working when someone tried to click on one. A message would then pop up that said to please wait until the end of the show before opening their gifts. 

As soon as the song ended So.Nata.Pony then sat down and waved at everyone watching and said, "Hello everybody, I'm Kijo and do I have a story to tell you. Once upon a time in CHS there was a girl who was kind of a bitch, but then she hooked up with people she thought were her friends and she was happy and her and her 'friends' even won the battle of the Bands. She had turned herself around from being a trouble student to one of the best and ready to help anyone who asked, but there were those that plotted against her. 

They weren't jealous of her having friends, just jealous of who her friends were, because those so called friends weren't hanging out with them anymore. And so they came up with a plan, they would frame her for doing something they did, they created an account on Mystable and called it Anon-a-miss with the color scheme looking like her hair and the profile picture a silhouette of her taken from a photo of her. They then released a family nickname of one of these so called friends and embarrassing pictures they stole from her phone, which caused these so called friends to abandon her since it had to be her. 

Only Anon-a-miss didn't stop there because other students began sending them all sorts of secrets and following them as they posted them. Only they made a mistake and posted one of the 'friends' tests with an F on it and she set it up so the girl would get jumped and beat up by over 30 other students. 

Things were real dark for the girl, but then she found out she had other friends she didn't know about, some old and some new, and they helped fix her up. It is during this time I, Kijo, found out what was going on and began brutally releasing secrets, every single one 100% true, and show them what secrets could really do. It was me that set things in motion that lead to not one but two dangerous street gangs being obliterated by the authorities. It was me that removed the source of dangerous illegal drugs. It was me that lead to the pedophiles hiding in the school system to either be arrested or flee. I'm the one who exposed that half of CHS sports teams were hopped up on drugs and how crazy and abusive one girl really was. I'm the one who exposed how corrupt the Canterlot school board was and got one girl off the streets and into the rehab she needs. 

Only I'm not done there because there are three people left to take care of. That's right, the Cyber Bully Anon-a-miss is three people. Three girls who's own words says it all."

"Trust me girls, if we all do this here right we all will never have tah deal with her again and they'll have more time fer us." Apple Blooms voice said as a picture of her popped up on every screen.

"She took Rarity away from me! I don't care if she crawls away and dies in a ditch, I just want her gone!" Sweetie Belle's voice said as a picture of her popped up.

"And then Sunset Shit-turd asked her something and they just left me standing there while they went off to do something else. As far as I'm concerned I hope she dies cold and alone in an unmarked grave!" Scootaloo's voice said as a picture of her popped up. 

"You three could have stopped this at any point, but it felt so good having people following you, giving you secrets, and privately cheering you on. It felt good that everyone was blaming Sunset Shimmer and that you could now spend more time with your sisters and your role model. It felt good being the center of attention, to be famous while hiding behind a mask designed to hurt someone else. Well guess what, now your famous across the whole city. Not only that, but I hacked your Anon-a-miss account, did you really think crusaders4ever was a good pass word, and I have the emails of everyone who sent you secrets and their real names. As soon as I finish talking and release every device in the city everyone will know who they are, the secrets you didn't release and that the cops will definitely want to see (Sorry for making more work for our boys and girls in blue, but you need to see this.), and I am sure the media will want to talk to you. 

How does that old saying go, be careful what you wish for, you just might get it. Well your famous and with the damage you have done your sisters and role model will have plenty of time seeing how Rainbow Dash can't get a sports scholarship and Rarity can kiss becoming a fashionista goodbye. But don't worry Apple Bloom, your friends will be happy to know that your aunt, Senator Victory Valencia Orange, bought the farms debts years ago and has been making sure her childhood home never runs into any financial troubles and her mother never loses her home. But then again, you have your own problems, what with finding out that your real mother is a drug addict and a prostitute and that the sister you love so much isn't your sister, but your second cousin." With that So.Nata.Pony stood up and said, "Well I have places to go, pedophiles to torment. I am Kijo. I am here. I know." With that she just walked off of every screen and the words and the pictures of the crusaders faded away leaving just the files.





The crusaders ran for the side door closest to their homeroom as soon as they heard Kijo out them to everyone. Only as they rounded the corner they found Diamond Tiara and Silver Spoon as they finished chaining and padlocking the doors. "Not this time losers." Diamond said as she looked at several rings on one hand. "Normally I wouldn't wear big, gaudy, heavy, old rings like this, but my mentor explained that in a pinch a girl can use them like a pair of brass knuckles for dealing with perverts or fighting your way out of a peasant uprising. Well I'm all out of perverts to test them on, but you three do match the definition of peasants, right Silver Spoon."

"A daughter of commoners, the bastard daughter of an incestuous affair between a father and his daughter, and the bastard daughter of a whore. Why yes, Diamond Tiara Rich, they are peasants while we are the daughters of two of the richest men in not just the city or state, but the country." Silver Spoon said while showing off her own rings before looking past them and saying, "Don't you agree honey?"

"Yes, I think they are and thanks for these new accessories." Snips stepped into the hall behind them with Snails blocking the any escape for the crusaders and both were carrying new black hardwood canes.

"We're not letting you just get away this time." Snails said before whirling and twirling the cane around him in a blur of motion before bring it down on the floor and leaning on it.

"And I'm the only one with the key." Diamond Tiara said as she held it up before dropping it down into her shirt.

"YOU BITCH!!!!" Apple Bloom screamed as she ran straight at Diamond Tiara, who pulled back and swung with everything she had. Apple Bloom collapsed on the floor, out cold from the hay maker with a few teeth flying from her mouth.

Scootaloo started towards Diamond Tiara, only for Silver Spoon to punch her in the gut as hard as she could, dropping her as Diamond Tiara stepped over Apple Bloom and punched Sweetie Belle in the nose, breaking it as the girl fell to the floor screaming and clutching her face in pain. Bending down next to Sweetie Belle with her back to Scootaloo and said. "If you have any illusions that we will end up in juvenile hall with you for assault then think again. The reason we did this instead of Snips and Snails is because we are rich and our fathers will hire the best lawyers, we will plead guilty, and we will walk away from this paying a fine that is actually pocket change to our families. Same goes for Apple Bloom since her Aunt Orange is a U.S. Senator and she is an Apple which means very loyal to the family, but you and Scootaloo will only have a public defender and will spend the rest of your childhood in Juvie with as many counts they will charge you with. That is unless one, and only one of you turns on the other and cuts a deal. Right now Silver is explaining the same thing to Scootaloo, but if you are smart you will be the first one to go to the cops and tell them you will spill everything for a deal." Reaching into her shirt she pulled out the key and pulled one of Sweetie Belle's hands away from her face and put it and fifty dollars in her hand. "There will be a cab outside. You can either go to the hospital, to the police, or to home, just remember the first one to get the deal and plead guilty will most likely only spend the next five years with an ankle monitor on probation. The other will spend the next five years in a Juvenile Detention Center. You come from a nice average suburban family and will be sexually assaulted by the end of the first day, either by the staff or one of the other kids. With as pretty as you are that will be your life for the next five years in there. I'll just leave you to think about it." With that she got up and walked away as Silver Spoon got up and joined her. The boys fell in with them as they heard the chain falling to the floor and looked back to see Scootaloo on the floor holding out her hand towards Sweetie Belle at the door and then Sweetie Belle was gone as the door slammed shut.





After several seconds of stunned looks Rarity turned towards Sunset and said, "Sunset darling, I may have been a bit hasty when..."

"Shut it Rarity." Sunset told her. "I know who my friends are and a greedy bitch who would throw me under the bus as soon as it became fashionable isn't one of them." Looking at the others she said, "Nor am I a wall flower who caves under peer pressure or a childish nut job who just wants to party. And I am certainly not friends with someone who decides setting me up to nearly get killed because of a fucking F. The only one of you backstabbing leeches that actually deserves a second chance is Applejack because at least she admitted she might have been wrong before the truth came out. As for the rest of you, you can take your fucking false apologies and fold them all nice sharp edges and shove them where the sun don't shine sideways and hard and then twist them." She then turned and pointed to Adagio, Sonata, and Aria and said. "They were kind enough to take care of me when I passed out in my own home after getting the shit beat out of me. They gave me the first real laugh I had since this whole mess started. And they were generous enough to let me into their own lives and help me with my problems. They have shown me more loyalty in two weeks than any of you have, and not just for me, but to each other and the friends they have made over their extremely long lives. So the four of you can kiss my ass because I DON'T NEED YOU!!!!" She screamed at them before opening her locker and grabbing her books and walking away with her real friends.
> Epilogue
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Epilogue






Dear Twilight Sparkle,

A lot has happened since I last wrote and not all of it has been good, but it is getting better. After the last time we wrote each other...





Flash Sentry stepped up to the microphone as him and his band took a break from practicing love songs in the garage for the try-outs for the Valentines Day Dance.







Sweetie Belle sat in the room with her parents, District Attorney Twilight Velvet, and the public defender/child advocate attorney assigned to her, Mrs. Lovetaps. "Your daughter will have to plead guilty as part of the deal for her testimony in not just this case, but the 57 other criminal cases stemming directly from the information shared with her and the other two children as Anon-a-miss. By doing this she will be placed on probation, be fitted with a ankle monitor, and have her access to the internet and social media heavily restricted and monitored as soon as the cyber crimes division finish modifying both her laptop and cell phone. She is also agreeing to aiding any law enforcement agency that are working on Anon-a-miss related cases. For her full cooperation your family will also be given immunity to civil prosecution, but she will have to testify in any and all 129 civil suites that have been filed and requests her testimony both fully and honestly." With that District Attorney Twilight Velvet pushed the agreement across the table towards her with a pen. 

"I have already read it Sweetie Belle and it is exactly as she says and is the best deal you will be able to get, but this is..." Lovetaps tried to explain but Sweetie Belle just picked up the pen and signed, knowing she was going to be seeing the inside of a lot of different courtrooms for the foreseeable future.





In her hospital room, Gilda sobbed in Gretchen's arms as Gunther looked on.





Scootaloo rode in the bus as it took her to the Everfree Juvenile Detention Center along with Fido, Spot, a dozen other Diamond Dawg Boys, Suri Polomare, and Vapor Trail. She watched the others as she remembered how Sweetie Belle had just left her there and ran to the police. What hurt the worst was Silver Spoon had told her it was going to happen and she had believed her friends would stay by her, but in the end they left her to save themselves. As she watched she saw Fido, Spot, and the other Diamond Dawg Boys as they eyed Suri and Vapor with hungry smiles. Then Fido gave her a smile before moving over next to her, "First time kid? Just stick with Diamond Dawg Boys. Dawgs been here before. Dawgs know what to do. Dawgs just have to wait for Rex to get us out." With that he put his hand between her legs and said. "If you play nice with Fido others not bother you and we take you with us." Looking up at the large 16 year old, she thought about it and then smiled up at him as she spread her legs.

Behind the bus was a giant of a man on a motorcycle with the word Rex across the back of his black vest. If asked, he would say he was feeling nostalgic and decided to ride out to Camp Everfree, but in reality his destination was about 5 miles down the road where there was a nice overlook with a good view of the camp,  juvenile detention center, and the lake. Unlike his little brother, Fido, he was smart enough to plan ahead and think things through first. Once he figured it all out he would call in the rest of the Hell Dawgs.





Zephyr Breeze looked at the padded walls of the isolation room and glared as he sat there. He had calmed down after they had loaded him into the ambulance and then after Kijo had taken over every computer in the city the cops had begun asking him questions, but he had been smart enough to see the opportunity he had and began screaming about the 'Evil Blue Pony'. Now he sat there pretending to be insane and going crazy whenever they mentioned the blue pony, but inside he was seething as he went over it again and again in his head, trying to find any clue in the blue pony's words or actions that would tell him who had done this to him. 

Outside of the isolation room the bored orderly, Larry Shadowfright, lead Gabby to the next isolation room. Her and Glenda would have already been transported to the Tartarus Maximum Security Mental Institution, but some kind of paperwork mix up meant they would have to wait in isolation rooms until it was all worked out.





Senator Victory Valencia Orange sat looking across the table at her 2 nieces, well one was actually her grand niece, with a frown on her face. Behind them stood 2 of her nephews, Big Mac and Northern Spy, to make sure they stayed seated. In front of her was two files that were almost the exact same thickness. Granny might be the matriarch of the family, but after her father had passed away Victory Apple became the enforcer of the family while her mother grieved and got her first taste for her only real addiction, power. Everyone in the family knew you had really screwed up if she had to take time out of her busy schedule to get involved and these two had screwed up by the numbers. "My father, your Grandpappy, Arkansas Black Apple loved his little countryism sayings about everything. He actually collected them in little notebooks he carried around with him and when he died they allowed him to continue to provide for his family because they were still being published as 'Arkansas's Little Black Book of Country Wisdom'. He was never a business genius, but at least the meager royalties kept the farm afloat and his family fed until the sales dropped and they stopped publishing them, but by then we were back on our feet. That is what it means to be family, we take care of each other, like he did and like I did later when the farm had another rough patch after Bright Mac and Pear Butter died." 

She paused before continuing, "The two of you remind me of two of the sayings in the book, 'One bad apple spoils the whole bunch'" With that she looked directly at Apple Munchies before turning her gaze towards Apple Bloom. "and 'The Apple doesn't fall far from the tree'." She let that settle in before tapping the files and saying. "The only other family member with a thicker police file than you two is Rotten Apple and I helped put my brother away for a good reason. Now I find myself still dealing with the fallout from him in the form of his daughter and granddaughter. Personally I would wash my hands of both of you and be done with it, but you are family. One broken inside from what her father did to her and the other acting like a petty little child throwing a temper tantrum because her big sister wouldn't play with her." Leaning forward she then said. "Before I explain what is going to happen I want you both to know that Granny doesn't like it, but she and the entire family have agreed to this. I'm not just talking about the Apples, but the Oranges, Peaches, Grapes, and the Lemons. After this there will be no more chances and if you screw up again I won't bail you out of the hole you dug yourselves into. There will be no more phone calls to the police to let you go when you get caught with a john, Apple Munchies. There will be no more payments to fix a neighbor's window when something goes wrong, Apple Bloom. There will be no more money for doctor's bills when a client gets to rough or your latest pimp hurts you, Apple Munchies. There will be no more late night phone calls to talk people out of pressing charges after whatever crazy new stunt you and your friends try and fail at, Apple Bloom. You both have lost all of our trust and it is going to be a long time before you earn it back. I want you to think on that." 
Getting up she opened the refrigerator and frowned at her young 17 year old face on the carton of Orange Juice before the now 45 year old women grabbed an apple cider and took a drink before sitting back down. "You, Apple Munchies, can either agree to go into a private medical clinic on an isolated island where you will undergo treatment for your addiction, your mental issues, and spend the rest of this year relearning how to be a productive member of society to my satisfaction or you can go to jail due to the warrant for your arrest on drug charges I can make disappear with just one phone call. If you go to the clinic you should know it is out side of U.S. territory, some of their treatments are not legal here in the U.S., and you will only be brought back once I am full satisfied with your rehabilitation. If you decide to take your chances with jail and spend the next 10 years minimum in prison and I will make sure you go to the women's section of the same maximum security prison your father is in. Now while you decide I will explain your daughter's choices to her." She then turned to and said. "You, Apple Bloom, also get a choice. You can either agree to go to be sent off to the same reform school my daughter, Babs Seed, is currently in and the two of you can reconnect while learning to be proper well behaved young ladies under Head Mistress Helga's extremely strict tutelage or you can agree to move into your father's new home and be under the strict supervision of one of the most dangerous men I have ever met. He has assured me that since he is also your new history teacher he will be driving you to and from school, a school you tore apart with your friends by the way, and that he will also insure that you will have a strict training regime that will push the very limits of your mind and body when not at school since you will not have much of a social life between now and when he is satisfied and then heavily restricted by him. I should point out he will also make sure you have no access to the phone and heavily restricted access to the internet for school purposes only, but absolutely no social media. Both Helga and North will be brutal, but your choice is what type of young woman will emerge. The prim and proper young lady with a sharp mind and a knowledge base for entering either the business or political world or a practical, intelligent, and strong young woman with a sharp calculating mind, excellent reflexes, and skills that would insure you a very good career in the military or the law enforcement." Getting up, she then said, "I will give both of you an hour to decide, but remember once you make your decision there will be no going back or changing your minds. What you decide today will effect the rest of your lives so I suggest you really think hard about it." With that she left them in the kitchen to think. 





Diamond Tiara sat at the piano as her mother and father argued down the hall over Spoiled Rich running in the emergency election to fill the vacant seats on the school board. She then began playing their song and the arguing began fading as they listened to their little girl and remembered what was important.







Rainbow Dash panted as she ran around the track yet again, AJ's words going through her head. She angrily gritted her teeth as she remembered the humiliation of it being Scootaloo just because she had been hanging out with Sunset Shimmer. Tears running down her face and being lost in the sweat as Sunset's words of how the Dazzlings had been more loyal than her went through her mind again. All of it just kept going around and around in her head the same way she kept going around the track. Then she heard the sound of feet behind her and glanced over her shoulder and saw Lightning Dust racing to catch up before falling into step with her.

"Hey" Lightning Dust said as they ran together.

"Hey" Rainbow responded.

"Rough week?"

"Yeah."

"Told you that Scootaloo girl was starting to act like a stalker."

"I know."

"Friends still not talking?"

"Flutters just cries, Pinks just mopes, and Rarity is 'Terribly busy for the foreseeable .'"

"And the others?"

"AJ hasn't said a thing to me since that day and Sunset made it perfectly clear what she thinks."

"That's harsh."

"Yeah."

They ran on in silence for a while.

"Have you talked to any of the Dazzlings about it?"

"No, not after I attacked Sonata."

"Maybe if you apologies for that she will talk to Sunset for you."

"Why are you trying to help me with them?"

"...It wasn't Harshwhinny."

"What?"

"I could have cared less if I got kicked off the team because of my grades. I did it because of you." Lightning Dust said as they stopped in the middle of the track. "I did it to be with you okay and now this crap with your friends is hurting you. So if it means I will lose you to them then I will do it. Just grab some extra tacos on Tuesday and offer them and apologies to her and see where it takes you."

Rainbow Dash stood there for a moment thinking about what she heard and then said, "I'm going to hit the showers." and then began walking away as Lightning Dust just stood there looking down at her feet. "Well are you coming or do I have to wash all those hard to reach places by myself?" With that they walked together back towards the gym and the showers.





Tree Hugger swept the floor of the Animal Shelter when she heard the bell ring and found Sonata walking in with an owl peaking out of a blanket. "Hi, I found this little guy in the front yard under Aria's window and he didn't fly away or do anything really and Aria said she heard a thump last night. So I think maybe he might have hit her window a little too hard, but I'm not sure."

"Whoa that is harsh, but I'm not really that good with birds." Tree Hugger said. "I can call my girlfriend, dude, since she knows how to take care of them better, but there would be like a wicked bad situation going on with her being here because of a video going around and all these people hating on her over it."

"But if she helps the little guy out wouldn't that be like a good thing and then you can tell them to take a hike since she helps take care of the animals and they probably could use the exercise." Sonata said.

"Hmm... But they could try and shut down the shelter." Tree Hugger pointed out.

"Umm, Hello! Your the only shelter in town and your privately funded through donations and animal supply sales." Sonata said, "You can tell them to get bent if they don't like it."

"Dude, as radical as that would be, we still need their donations to take care of the animals." Tree Hugger said. 

"Here, hold Mr.Owl for me." Sonata said as she shoved the owl and the blanket into Tree Hugger's arms. Then she pulled out her check book and wrote a check before taking the owl back and handing Tree Hugger the check. "There, $500,000 dollars should cover any problems with donations and if they still give you any shit just call me and I'll sic our lawyers from King, Lord, and Ram on them. So can we call your girlfriend so she can help Mr. Owl."

Tree Hugger just looked at the check in shock, it was more than the shelter had made last year. Then she snapped out of it and reached for the phone. "Flutter bunny, I need your help at the shelter... Don't worry about it, we just got a check that will cover everything from a private donator... I'll see you in five minutes."





Pinkie sighed as she pulled up in front of the mansion on her moped. She needed another job after the cake's had to fire her over the fight in Sugar Cube Corner, unfortunately almost no one was hiring. Then Maud had found an ad for a house keeper, twice a week, after school only, and double what cake's paid her every week. The only thing was there was no name, just an address next door to the Rich family. If this didn't work out she would have to work at the Rock Farm quarry on the weekend as an errand runner like Limestone and Maud did to have some spending and gas money. 

Walking up to the door she had that strange tingle-tickle feeling in her tummy that she got around really old people who told funny stories about the wars they had seen, like the guy who got mad at the land mine he had seen an enemy tank run over and thought it was defective and then threw it at the tank blowing it up. She rang the door bell expecting an old man and was surprised when Adagio answered the door. 

"What do you want?" Adagio asked looking at one of the Rainbooms on her front doorstep.

"Umm... I'm here about the house keeping job." Pinkie Pie said.

"Well seeing as your the only person to answer the ad, I guess I can give you an interview." Adagio said as she eyed the girl. "follow me." She then lead Pinkie Pie to the office where she managed the house hold finances from. "Have a seat please Miss Pie. I want you to know I hold no ill will towards you and would have attacked anyone who attacked one of my friends as well. Though I do have to point out that attacking a couple of thousand year old immortal who has been known as the Dusk-bringer was not the smartest thing to do. Now, if I hire you I want you to know this job comes with a non-disclosure agreement and is also why the pay is higher than normal for just two days of work. As you know we were immortal, but are now mortal and wish to avoid the kind of trouble that kind of information getting out can cause. I would like to also point out that you will be seeing Sunset Shimmer and some others around here a lot, since they are primarily why we now need help maintaining this home..."





Trixie, Applejack, Sunset Shimmer, Fuji Apple and 20 other students and adults sat in a classroom after school as Principal Celestia sat at the desk while Aria wrote on the black board in both Japanese and English. "I wish to welcome all of you to the first Japanese/American cultural and language exchange class. Here we will be helping you learn how to speak Japanese or English and to understand the cultures that the others are comes from." Celestia said before Aria turned around and said repeated what she had said in Japanese. "You will learn not just each others languages, but a bit about the history and society that has shaped both of them. Miss Blaze and I will help you, but you will also be helping each other and enjoy a good laugh as you mangle each others native languages." Once again Aria translated and there was laughter. "So with no further ado, Hello and Kon'nichiwa."





...And that is were things stand right now. Us taking over the school acted like dumping an entire lake on top of a raging forest fire all at once and now we are just putting out the few remaining smoldering embers just to make sure that someone else doesn't pull another Anon-a-miss or Kijo. Me and Applejack are talking again thanks to Aria and Applejack's cousin Fuji Apple and I might give Pinkie and Fluttershy another chance now, but I'm nowhere near ready to forgive Rarity and Rainbow Dash. Also Sonata wants me to invite you over for a tea party so you can get to know them in a better light than last time. 

Your Friend,

Sunset Shimmer.





Tamamo no Mae walked down the gang plank of The Royal Blood as Blueblood Prince laid dead, naked in his bed on board. She paused for to look at her reflection in the water that briefly became that of a white and gold nine tailed kitsune before become that of a tall elegant young Japanese woman in her twenties with long flowing white hair and flawless gold skin. Around her neck was a simple gold necklace with a beautiful white and gold ball that briefly glowed with an earthly blue flame. She then put her earbuds in as she continued walking down the gang plank, amazed at all the wonderful new toys the humans had invented for her during her little nap. She couldn't help but smirk as she passed the harbor master and the U.S. Customs agent with tiny blue flames in their eyes as her new favorite song began playing.



She walked towards the limo waiting for her as her servants disguised as the ships crew scattered to do her bidding. An Oni adjusted the drivers uniform before opening the door for her. She briefly licked the blood of original driver from his lips before getting in as the fire set by some of her tengu engulfed not just the boat, but part of the docks as well. From inside of her dress she pulled out a picture as the limo pulled away. 

Her little sister's tanuki girlfriend had tipped the balance during their brief family reunion, but she had an ideal where to find an interesting new friend to more the even the playing field. She had never heard of a pony spirit similar to kitsune and tanuki's, but the beautiful young woman with purple hair, white skin, and pony ears and tail was just to lovely to ignore. It didn't hurt that her patron had had a small legal misfortune recently and she would be more open to getting to know 'Lady Duckweed'. She couldn't help but laugh at how perfect the silly 'childhood' nickname that Japanese couple had given her lent itself well to the types of names around where she was going to.

Feeling a bit hungry she tapped on the glass and a minute later the limo pulled over and a tengu walked up with a bundle. Driving away she unwrapped the bundle. "Hello little one. Don't you look just good enough to eat." she said as she looked down into the eyes of a green skinned, black haired baby girl.