A/N: If you haven't, I highly recommend reading my other stories to see what my OCs have gotten into prior to this trip. If you choose not to, their adventures will be summarized later in this story.

Full character bios are on my profile, but here is a brief summary. Told from his POV, Cloudflare is light orange with short green-blue hair in the EG world. Olivia Frost is light grey with shoulder-length brown hair in the EG world, and she wears a below-the-knee prosthetic right leg (which is covered up in the EG world) and round glasses (same size as EG Twilight's).

The customer walks over to the pick-up counter. 6:59. Almost done with my shift. I'll punch out after the next customer.

Working as a cashier at Taco Haven isn't the most glamorous job, but it's a decent way to earn some money during the summer and school year.

Someone walks through the front doors. Huh, she's a little late this week...

"Hiya, Cloudflare!" She walks up to my counter.

"Hi, Sonata," I respond. "Running late today, I see." Sonata's usually here at around 5:30.

"Yeah, sorry about that. Dagi needed my help with something."

"At least you finished before my shift ended. So what can I get you? The usual?"

She nods. "Mm-hmm! Two #3s, extra sauce!"

I put in her order. She hands me her money and I give her change, then she walks to the pick-up counter.

And with that, my shift is over. I turn around. Sunshine Blossom is waiting to take over. "All yours," I say as I step away.

"Thanks," she says.

I go in the back and change out of my uniform. I punch out, then leave through the employee exit. I look through the window as I get to the front, and I see Sonata sitting at her regular table.

Hm... I've seen her every Tuesday since I started working here, but we've never had time to chat for more than 10 seconds. Now would be a good time.

I put my work clothes in my car, then walk through the front door and over to Sonata. She's already halfway finished with her first taco.

"This seat taken?" I ask.

She looks up, then shakes her head. "Mm-mmm," she says, mouth full.

I sit across from her. "So how have things been since you were de-sirened?"

"A lot better than we thought it would. Going from near-immortal human/siren hybrids to humans that'll only live another hundred years at most was a bit of a shock, but now that we've lived like this for a while, it's actually not too bad." She looks at my geode. "Nice pendant."

"Thanks." I guess there's no harm in telling her. Even if she tells the others, they can't do anything. "There's actually an interesting story behind this. Remember when you saw me on a bus earlier this year?"

"I remember that. I was so surprised to see you again!"

"Same here. Our class was on a trip to Camp Everfree. Long story short, one of the people who runs the place was using geodes infused with Equestrian magic to keep the camp from being shut down, the magic was affecting me and my friends, she was overcome with magic and tried to trap the camp in a dome of brambles to save it, we defeated her, and we became the new owners of the geodes."

"Huh... So... you have magic now?"

"Yup. Well, I've had magic before then. I got direct exposure to Equestrian magic during the Friendship Games. You know about the Friendship Games, right?"

"The competition between Canterlot High and Crystal Prep that CHS has never won?"

"Uh-huh. Anyway, after I was exposed, my singing voice got a lot better. Like, a lot better. It wasn't as bad as you girls without your pendants, but bad enough where I wouldn't be caught dead singing in public. While we were at camp, the magic girls and I got new magic abilities, which we can activate at any time with our geodes." I look around. There are only a few people sitting in booths. That rules out a demonstration. "Thanks to this geode – which I call the Geode of Sirenity – I have the same power you girls had. I can manipulate people by singing."

"You... You can?" she says in surprise.

"It was a surprise to me, too."

"But how? You're just a human, and we didn't give you any of our magic!"

"Well, clearly you did. I wouldn't just gain siren powers out of nowhere."

"How, then? If that was something we could do, I'd surely know about it!"

"Maybe it's a secret technique only Adagio knows. Look, however it happened doesn't matter. Point is, I have your power."

"And you can absorb others' negativity?"

"No. My geode doesn't work like your pendants. It can't absorb anything. Even if it did, I wouldn't abuse it. I'll only use my power in an emergency. I got all the evil out of my system when I teamed up with you."

"That's too bad. I honestly think you'd make a good siren. Well, a good evil siren. Also, 'Sirenity'? Really?" she asks, narrowing her eyes.

She's questioning it? I'd expect something like that from Aria, not Sonata. If anything, Sonata would be the siren that likes it. "I think it's clever. Calling it the 'Geode of Siren Powers' would be boring, and it's a play on the word 'serenity'."

"Why not just call it a geode and say you have our powers?"

"Everybody else was naming their geodes."

"It's just... We didn't name our pendants."

"Well, I'm not you." Speaking of the three sirens... "Anyway, enough about object naming. I'm kinda curious. How exactly did you get banished here? Did you three and Starswirl have an epic battle to the death?"

"Uh... N-not exactly," she says nervously. "We kinda... got tricked into coming here."

Huh? "What do you mean?"

"See... It wasn't just Starswirl. He had some other ponies with him. They tried to stop us from doing our thing."

"Manipulating the other ponies?"

"Getting them to argue with each other. We ended up chasing one of them. We didn't see the portal, and the pony we were chasing flew out of the way at the last second. By the time we saw the portal, it was too late, and next thing we knew, we were in this world."

Uh... Hm... "Well... That was... kinda lame."

"Tell me about it... At least when your friends challenged us, they didn't throw us away like a taco wrapper." She puts her head in her hands. "So embarrassing..." She picks up her second taco, unwraps it, and takes a bite.

"At least they didn't open the portal underneath you while you were sleeping." Which they probably would've done, if that was an option.

Sonata looks at me. "Uh... Your Sirenity thing is glowing."

I look down. As she said, my geode has started glowing. "Uh... Yeah... I should probably get going."

"Why?"

"Our geodes are linked. If any of us use one of them too much, it charges the others. They activate, can't be shut off, and the effect is magnified." I stand up. "I'll explain more another time. Supercharged siren powers are really –"

"You *** liar!"

"I had to lie! You overreact to everything!"

Too late. "Dangerous..." I look in that direction. Two women at a booth behind me are standing up, getting into a heated argument.

"I do not!" One girl shoves the other.

"Well, what do you call this?!" The other girl shoves her back.

"Wow... Someone put a little too much cheese in their tacos." Sonata says.

I need to get out of here. "It's been fun, Sonata, but I gotta go. See ya next Tuesday." I quickly walk to the exit, then make a beeline for my car.

Out of all our powers, mine is the most dangerous when amplified. I don't even have to sing to get people worked up. The first time this happened, it caused people to actually fight each other. It's a good thing I was able to get away from other people quickly this time. My powers have a limited reach, and the effect wears off as soon as the affected people outside of that range. I imagine the sirens weren't as limited, but they didn't need to activate a magical object to manipulate others.