It was just after sundown in the City of Canterlot as the Dazzlings emerged from the local movie theater. Sonata leaped out of the front doors of the establishment and excitedly skipped down the street as Adagio and Aria trailed behind her. "Wasn't that a great movie? We should totally see it again."
"I don't know," Adagio said. "Wasn't really my cup of tea."
"I know, right?" Chimed in Aria as they walked down the street. "I mean seriously. The bad guy almost destroyed all of time and space and then at the last second they turn around and everyone forgives them and they sing a happy go lucky song. How unrealistic is that?" The two elder sisters continued to debate the movie as Sonata stayed a distance ahead of them.
"Yeah, I mean all that planning and effort and you let yourself get talked into surrendering? The director should be ashamed of himself."
The blue skinned girl stopped in her tracks as she spotted a familiar face a short distance away. "Hey, over here!" she shouted, frantically waving her hands to no avail it seemed as the person walked down an alleyway. "Guess she didn't hear me." Sonata proceeded to run in the direction the other girl had gone.
"Where are you going?" Adagio shouted as she and Aria raced after their companion. "Sonata, wait up!" The two rounded the corner and entered the alley seconds behind the first. For a few moments the dark path lit up in a brilliant light before it faded away. The figure emerged alone, a hood covering their face as they quickly left the scene.
The Next Day
It was mid-Sunday at Indigo Zap's home as she'd invited Sour Sweet, Lemon Zest, Sunny Flare and Sugarcoat over to spend the day. The girls discussed school and their future plans before breaking into a bit of gossip via Sunny, who was all too happy to air some of her other classmates dirty laundry. "Okay, I got refills." Indigo said as she entered the room with a tray of glasses filled with various drinks. She stopped in the doorway as she spotted Sour Sweet rummaging through her closet. "What are you doing?"
"Oh nothing sweetie," Sour said politely before putting on a scowl. "Just looking for those blasted pillows."
"Wh...What are you talking about?" Indigo shifted her eyes nervously.
"Lemon Zest said something about you having pillows with all of us on it." Sugarcoat explained as Zest gave a blushing smile and shrugged her shoulders.
The blue haired girl promptly removed Sour Sweet from the closet, closing the door and seated her down with the others. "Anyway...how do you guys think Twilight's doing over at CHS?"
"Probably enjoying her new friends," Sunny commented. "Why do you care anyway?"
"Tch, I don't. Just wondering is all. I bet she's bored to tears over there just begging to come back."
"You'd lose that bet, seeing as how she was jumping for joy with those girls from Canterlot High as we were leaving." Sugarcoat chimed in before she took a sip of her drink. "I even saw them having a picnic by the school."
"And why exactly were you out that way?" Sunny questioned.
"I was out seeing how a friend was doing." Sugarcoat countered.
Lemon Zest, lying on her stomach, rolled over to the white haired girl and sat directly in front of her to stare at her face to face. After a brief moment of awkwardness Zest turned to the others. "Yep, she's telling the truth."
"Well of course she is." the pink haired girl said. "When does she ever lie?"
"You know, I'm kind of glad that Twilight has some friends. She was always so...isolated." Flare added.
"Weren't we her friends?" Zest asked as the others turned to her. "What?"
"Deary, we weren't exactly what you'd call friendship material."
"Honestly we were pretty awful, but Cinch was the worst."
Indigo flopped down on her bed and stared up at the ceiling. "Yeah, Cinch may have pressured her to compete but we kept on berating her, blasting what little confidence she had to pieces and forcing her to use that device of hers. I wouldn't blame Twilight if she never thought about us ever again." The others were disturbingly silent as they looked at one another.
"I've got it!" Indigo jumped to her feet at her own declaration. "We could go over and make it up to her. Show here we're sorry and that we really do care."
"Do we care?" Sunny asked as Indigo scowled at her. "Kidding. Let's go." The girls proceeded to gather their things and head out the door.
"Does anyone know her number by the way?" Lemon asked.
"I have her address. We could stop by her house." Sugarcoat suggested.
"A splendid idea." Sour complimented. "Just as soon as I find those pillows."
"Oooookay," Indigo said nervously as she shoved everyone out of her room. "What do you say we get going over to Twilight's? I'll be down in just a second. Just need to grab my jacket." She shut and locked the door behind her as a panel opened over her bed and a set of four pillows, each with a full body picture of her friends hung from strings. "Oh, that was a close one."
Meanwhile
"Let me go! You don't know who you're dealing with, humans!" screamed a girl with chalk white skin and pale blonde hair with a streak of black running through it. The girl found herself caught in a large drainage tunnel by none other than Sunset and her six friends. "And give me back my pendent!"
"Yeah, like that'll happen." Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes and tauntingly held the pendent up as the girl continually struggled in Applejack's grip. "I thought we took care of all the sirens. Where did this one come from?"
"The name's Ghost Note."
"Fascinating darling. Well Sunset, any thoughts on the matter?" Rarity asked as the fiery haired girl pondered.
"Only one way to find out." Sunset cautiously approached the siren. She reached out her hand only to draw it back swiftly as Ghost Note attempted to bite her hand with a set of surprisingly razor sharp teeth. "Yikes!"
"Let me help." Twilight said as she used her newly acquired abilities to levitate the siren, holding her body stiffly in place so that her friend could get to work. "That should do it."
"Thanks." Sunset reached her hand out once again, this time with no danger of losing a finger and touched the girl's forehead as she gave a hateful stare with her blood red eyes. After what seemed like only a few seconds to everyone else, Sunset lowered her arm, having gotten all the information she needed. The others looked on with concern as she backed away looking slightly disturbed.
"Are you alright Sunset?" Fluttershy asked as she and the others gathered around her.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Got everything I needed to know about her and her friends. Everything else was a bit...disturbing." Ghost smirked at the girl as Applejack seized her again as Twilight let go.
"Wait, you mean there's more mind controlling fish people out there?" Pinkie exclaimed.
"I am not a fish!" the siren shouted. "Fish are lowly creatures. Just slightly below humans."
Dash stepped forward and again flashed Ghost's pendent in front of her. "Well, welcome to the human race. Because without this that's about all you are, well except for the jacked up teeth."
Twilight's familiar ring tone began to echo through the tunnel as she answered it. "Hello. I'm kind of in the middle of something. Oh, well alright. I'll be home soon, love you too." She hung up the phone and turned back to her friends. "That was my mom. She needs me to get home right now."
"Go on ahead, sugarcube. We've got this one." Applejack said as she mildly exerted herself to hold their captive in place. Twilight bid a farewell to the group as she found her way back to the surface. The rest of the girls decided to question the siren a bit further.
"Alright, Ghost Note is it?" Sunset asked as she received no reply from the girl. "I know Starswirl sent you here with some others, but you don't know where they are now. Do you know where we can find them?"
"Spill it already," Rainbow Dash interjected as she stepped up. "We already beat the Dazzlings so you and your group don't stand a chance against our awesomeness."
Ghost Note seemed to perk up after she heard that. "Wait, the Dazzlings? So they actually were here?" She began to laugh for a moment before she stopped to think. "Alright, the thing is..." She reared her head back and butted AJ in the left eye which made her drop the girl who immediately lunged forward and bit down on Rainbow's right leg. The pain caused her to lose her grip on the pendent as the siren retrieved it.
Rarity launched one of her diamond shields at her as Pinkie joined in with her explosive sprinkles. Ghost evaded them long enough to slip down another tunnel and dart away. "Come on we gotta go after her." Dash said as she attempted to use her super speed only to fall a few feet away.
"Hang on there Dash. You ain't going anywhere with your leg messed up like that." Applejack said as she and Fluttershy helped her to her feet. "She's bound to show up again sooner or later. Let's get you back topside and get that looked at."
"Fine," Dash said with an angered expression. "but next time she's all mine."
Twilight's Home
"I'm home." Twilight called out as she opened the front door. "Mom, Dad, Shining Armor?"
"In here Twilight." She heard the voice of Spike call from the living room. As she walked in and around the corner she froze up in fear as she saw half of the Friendship Games Shadowbolts team seated in the room, Spike seated on Lemon Zest's lap.
"S'up, Sparkle." Indigo Zap greeted with a casual wave as the girl stood in the doorway for a moment before darting away. "Was it something I said?"
