The Dazzlings charged through the gate, expecting to see a group of Dystopians ready for combat. Yet, to their surprise, nothing could be seen except a clear courtyard and a number of destroyed corpses.

"Something doesn't feel right..." Adagio raised her sword for conflict, expecting the unexpected as she scanned the area for any remaining hostilities.

"I know what you mean, Dagi. Someone, or something must have got here before us..." Sonata looked rather nervous as she looked at each and every corpse, the same grotesque image of death burned into her mind with every corpse that her eyes rested on.

"Something could be waiting to come out of nowhere to ambush us..." Adagio looked back at Aria and Sonata and said, "Stay on your guard, girls..." before returning her gaze to the center of the courtyard.

Thirty seconds passed, and yet nothing arose from the shadows. No growls of anger, no screams of anguish, nothing. Things were relatively peaceful for the time being. This was unusual to The Dazzlings, since Dystopia always had something going on in the places they'd seen.

"Cosy isn't it?" Rainbow Dash's voice could be heard from high above, but it sounded a little more serious than cocky.

"Show yourself!" Adagio shouted in the direction of the voice, desperate to try and get its' attention.

Within seconds, six armoured Lyricans that bore a striking resemblance to the Mane 6 descended from the skies. Their wings were spread widely, their swords ready for combat, and they had rather bemused faces when they all landed.

"Rainbooms...?" Adagio examined the six Lyricans that now stood before her and the rest of The Dazzlings. She was shocked that they were still alive, yet they were only dead a few minutes ago.

"No. We're not like those heathens. We fight to save the worlds, not doom them..." Lyrican Rarity said to The Dazzlings, ensuring that her words were tightly wrapped in their minds. "Unlike those ruffians, we six are Lyrican warriors of peace. They are merely charlatans, frauds of who are the TRUE Rainbooms..."

"Those girls you carry around with you are nothing more than stupid voodoo dolls, only serving as a way to harm us if anything was to happen to them," Lyrican Pinkie said, her mood never shifting from a mixture of serious and furious. "Forget about them, and let the Three Queens of this castle devour their souls..."

"Now I've got it..." Adagio stepped forward, getting a closer look on the six girls that stood before her, Aria and Sonata. "You're The Blasters' Rainbooms... The ones they made by baiting you to Lyrica and instantly overpowering you..."

"Baitin'? Ah think you've got it all wrong, darlin'." Lyrican Applejack spoke to the group this time.

"Yeah. We were born Lyricans, raised as Lyricans, and saved during the great war as Lyricans..." Lyrican Fluttershy explained, showing proof that there were absolutely no memories of her past life as a pony. "The Blasters warned us that the humans of the Human World would fill our heads with lies, you three are the prime example of just that..."

"Why are we the prime example of fibbers?!" Adagio asked with some rage boiling up inside of her. "If anything, I'd say that you six are lying, and you've only been lying to save the hides of your pathetic masters!"

"So, you want to do this the hard way? Fine by us..." Lyrican Rainbow Dash stood aside, allowing a Lyrican copy of Twilight Sparkle to step forward and address all of The Dazzlings.

"Adagio Dazzle, Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk, you three are charged with attempting to disrupt the Balance of Lyrica for war. This crime is seen as completely unacceptable, and the penalty for it is death," Twilight spoke to The Dazzlings as sternly as possible. "However, that is not why we're here..."

"We're here to buy The Blasters some time so that they can organize THEIR Battle of the Bands, which they say were inspired by your actions against the other species..." Lyrican Rainbow Dash and the rest of the Lyrican 6 fired bolts of red lightning into the sky, transforming the rippling airspace into a deadly vortex of Furen energy. The portal itself shot out more bolts of red lightning, all of which made the distinguishable noise of thunder as they left the void where they came from. "The spell we've cast on the sky is a Furenado. In approximately thirty minutes, this entire castle will become consumed by its' almighty power, destroying all life that continue to breathe on it, including you, your miserable napping infants, and the Three Queens of Dystopia themselves..."

"I see now..." Adagio's sword was drawn, along with her hair being extended once again. "It's pretty suicidal what plan you've got going down, ladies..."

"Excuse me?" Lyrican Twilight asked, putting a hand to her ear. "I couldn't hear you before..."

"So this is what The Blasters filled your little heads with..." Aria looked on towards the six Lyricans with a rather unimpressed look on her face. "Punishing us for breaking the rules, by threatening us with breaking the rules?!"

"Only Blissens can murder the Three Queens of Dystopia. You six are Furens, so killing them counts as a criminal offence as well!" Adagio spoke loud enough so that her words wafted on the ears of the six Lyricans. "The tables have turned, haven't they? Now we ALL have a reason to fight each other..."

"You have been wandering these worlds for far too long, Dazzlings. And even so, it only truly counts IF we kill the Three Queens of Dystopia, so we haven't broken the rules yet!" Lyrican Rainbow Dash retorted, looking even more peeved than usual. "And I'm sure we can spill some blood before the Furenado reaches destructive power..."

"So it IS a fight, isn't it?" Sonata said, looking rather disappointed in the six Lyricans. "It's a shame really, we'd have been good friends if you hadn't invoked our anger..."

"Prepare yourselves, fakes. Because after all these years, The Dazzlings and The Rainbooms are having a rematch!" Adagio put herself in a battle-ready position, ready to fight against the Lyrican 6. "I swear on my mother's dying breaths, and the dying breaths of all the friends we've made, YOU SIX WILL NOT TASTE VICTORY!"

"A foolish decision made by foolish infidels..." Lyrican Twilight said as the Lyrican 6's pendants all glowed furiously for the conflict ahead of them. She then took up her own battle-ready position and watched as the other Lyrican 6 did the same. "At long last, the Right Souls of Fury will be returned to PROPER Lyrican hands..."

LYRICAN RAINBOOMS

The fight quickly begun with both The Dazzlings and the Lyrican Rainbooms charging towards each other, letting out battle cries as they moved in for the attack. Nine swords crashed against each other when they'd closed in at last, and the loud noise of swords crossing paths could be heard by all fighters.

The two groups were hastily divided up so that there was an equal fight. The match-ups seemed to be one-on-two, though, since the Lyrican Rainbooms knew that The Dazzlings were the fabled Right Souls of Fury that would complete the resurrection of the Lyrican Sirens. In the end, Twilight and Rainbow Dash tangoed with Adagio, whilst Pinkie and Fluttershy duelled Sonata, leaving Applejack and Rarity with Aria.

Every attack was quick, and left the opponents almost no time to counter or evade. Eventually, both sides found a clear shot at their targets and struck, dealing massive damage to their opposition. Both the Lyrican Rainbooms and The Dazzlings had taken advantage of the opening, and they both felt pain whenever the opponents' swords found their mark.

"It seems your little leave of absence after your crushing defeat left you a bit rusty, Adagio..." Lyrican Twilight taunted as she continued to cross blades and volley Lyrican Magic at Adagio.

Adagio merely knocked the attacks away and said, "I've been fine-tuning my skills for fourteen years now. It seems like you're just starting to get a handle on our training..." before stringing her own chain of attacks right back at Lyrican Twilight and Rainbow Dash, who looked rather unamused at her efforts to fight back.

"Why do you resist us?" Lyrican Rarity furiously pushed against Aria's sword in a power struggle. "You realize that you cannot run from fate forever, so what's the point in fighting back?!"

"The hand that destiny dealt us will only lead to the complete destruction of all other life, even when it wasn't their fault to begin with!" Aria's words pounded Rarity's ears to make her flinch to the point where her sword was knocked back for a devastating combo. "This. Was. The. Doing. Of. The. Six. Euphorian. Deities!" she said in time with every sword slash that was dealt to Lyrican Rarity.

Lyrican Applejack caught Rarity as she fell, then put her down on the ground before blocking one of Aria's diving slashes with her sword. She then nimbly leapt out of the way of a flurry of slashes from the rather steamed Dazzling before leaping right over her and kicking her face in with her nimble leap.

"Still got a few more tricks to learn, Aria Blaze..." Lyrican Applejack taunted once Aria got up from her pained position on the ground. Once her target was back on her feet, Lyrican Applejack raised her sword once more and prepared for another string of attacks on Aria.

Meanwhile, Lyrican Pinkie and Lyrican Fluttershy were busy leaping all over Sonata in an attempt confuse her. This effort proved fruitless when Sonata figured their jump patterns out and struck where they were going to land. She then looked at her sword and polished it whilst her two opponents got up from their positions.

"Impressive..." Lyrican Pinkie said as she leapt back onto her feet and charged at Sonata, knocking her to the floor. With her target grounded, Lyrican Pinkie pointed the tip of the sword directly at Sonata's throat. "But not good enough, I'm afraid..."

Sonata didn't respond and instead kicked Lyrican Pinkie in the stomach, knocking her straight back into Lyrican Fluttershy. She then leapt back onto her feet quite rapidly to see her two opponents struggling to get back up.

"If I were in this position, I'd stay down and eat whatever landmass my face is planted against," Sonata taunted as she put her feet on the backs of each of the felled Lyricans. "But since I'm not in this position, I'd say that this is the part where you do what I said earlier."

"Try to mess around with us all you want, Sonata Dusk. Mind games have no effect on Lyricans in the slightest!" Lyrican Fluttershy rolled out from underneath Sonata's leg and grabbed onto it, pulling her down as she continued her escape roll. "Now, Pinkie!"

Within seconds, Sonata was hurled into the air by Lyrican Fluttershy, where Lyrican Pinkie began unleashing a barrage of sword swings and magical attacks. With one final attack, Lyrican Pinkie's sword slash was accompanied by a projection of a pink Hippocampi, knocking Sonata into the castle's walls with how violent the attack had become.

Adagio and Aria were also overwhelmed by the amazing co-ordination of the Lyrican Rainbooms. They too were knocked airborne and given no chance to counterattack as the Lyrican Rainbooms swung a great series of sword swings, finished up with projections of more Hippocampi. The overwhelming brutality knocked The Dazzlings into each other, and it actually left them with bruises and cuts.

"Looks like we win, infidels..." Lyrican Twilight boasted as she looked at the crippled Dazzlings slowly getting up to their feet. "Your time is over..."

"Not... until... The Blasters fall..." Adagio spoke through gasps for breath as she got to her feet, though her legs were shaking in pain as she struggled to get back into the fight. "Not until this torment ends..."

"Stay down, Adagio. You're obviously on your last legs..." Lyrican Fluttershy pointed out as she looked at Adagio's rather unbalanced posture in the heat of the battle.

"You obviously forget..." Aria got up to her feet as well and showed an undying resolve as the sweat trickled down her face. "It takes a lot more than a few cuts and bruises to kill us..."

"Yet it takes a deluge of Equestrian Magic to strip you of assured victory..." Lyrican Rarity taunted as she looked at Sonata getting up on her feet to join Adagio and Aria. "Now you all have to work for your victories, and not all of them can be assured..."

The Dazzlings didn't speak, and quickly glowed as red as the crimson skies above. Their energy was being magnified by the Right Souls of Fury suddenly responding to their agony in battle. Within seconds, The Dazzlings disappeared in a flash of red light and reappeared behind the Lyrican Rainbooms kneeling down with their swords looking like they'd been swung rather wide. They could only hear swords dropping and disappearing whilst they kept in their poses.

"True, not all of them can be assured, unless you're the Right Souls of Fury..." Adagio said as she looked back at all six of the Lyrican Rainbooms who'd fallen to their knees after that powerful finishing blow. "Now then, stop lying. It's time for the truth, ladies..."

The Dazzlings looked as the Lyrican Rainbooms were now on their stomachs with their arms stretched out wide. They were in a good position to finish them off right here, but they had something else in mind...

"When the truth is blinded, shrouded by rage, the victorious Lyricans will return the page," The Dazzlings all spoke in unison, uttering a seal of magic around the felled Lyrican Rainbooms. "The darkness dies, the light returns, with truths revealed, the fire burns..." the seal intensified with each different section of The Dazzlings' magic. "Shrouded in darkness, turned on the truth, with this new spell, we have our proof. The Blasters lied, gave you a plight, but with our truth, return to light!"

The Lyrican Rainbooms were then consumed by a powerful pillar of white light. The light levitated them off of the ground and begin making each one of the Lyricans glow brighter the longer they were exposed to it. Eventually, they glowed so brightly that they consumed the entire castle in their radiant glow.

When the light had vanished, the Lyrican Rainbooms were looking quite confused as they were now sat down on their butts. Their pendants still remained, but it seemed like a distant part of their past had returned to them at long last.

"Welcome back to reality, everyone..." Adagio held a hand out for Lyrican Twilight and helped her up to her feet. She could see now that that spell had revealed everything, and that their allegiance to The Blasters was now non-existent.

"W-What happened to us?" Twilight asked as she looked at her hands. "Why are we wearing Furen Pendants? The last thing I remember was talking to Allegro about restoring our friendships, but then everything went black..."

"Allegro lied to you. He broke down your mind and made you believe that the only way to restore your friendships was to shed your past and become a Lyrican Siren," Adagio began explaining, her words reaching out to Twilight and the rest of the Spirits of Harmony. "Upon accepting his deal, he annihilated all of your memories of being an Alicorn princess, and re-wrote you so that you and your friends would be obedient to his and the other Blasters' every command..."

"Ever since the six of you came to Lyrica, your Magic of Friendship was no longer able to defend you from The Blasters' powers..." Aria continued with the explanations. "When they conjured up a Chimera, its' presence alone was able to make you three fuming with rage over the smallest little detail. You six became a tinderbox, with the Chimera being the match that stoked the fires of anger..."

"Those rotten..." Rainbow Dash scorned The Blasters as she swung her fists close to her chest in a small burst of controlled anger.

"Oh my Celestia... SUNSET!" Twilight ran over to the lifeless corpses of her friends from the Human World. She then looked at the corpses of four ponies that she knew all too well. "Celestia? Luna? Cadence? Starswirl? What's going on here?!"

"We don't have much time before the Furenado consumes this place. We need to speak with Greed, Persuasion and Malice before they devour the souls of our friends and family..." Adagio put a hand on Twilight's shoulder in an attempt to calm her down. "If we can save their souls, they'll instantly come back to life. Trust me, I've seen this many times before..."

"So, where are Greed, Persuasion and Malice?" Applejack asked as she and the other Spirits of Harmony stood up and walked over to Twilight and Adagio.

"There... in the throne room of this place..." Aria pointed towards a rather large piece of the castle that stood atop a spiked tower. "We need to get in there and strike them down, and quickly! The Furenado's going to hit critical mass in fifteen minutes!"

"Let's get moving then, we'd not want you girls to be late to your audience with the Three Queens of Dystopia," Rarity said as the Spirits of Harmony transformed themselves into Rainbow Power versions of themselves so that they could ascend the castle by flying. "We'll follow close behind and keep an eye on things..."

"Thanks, girls..." Sonata and The Dazzlings flew up into the air themselves and positioned themselves on the roof of the throne room with little effort. "Once this is all over, I wouldn't mind coming around to see you back in Equestria..."

When everything was said and done, The Dazzlings spread their wings once more and leapt off of the throne room roof only to use their wings to fly upwards and dive bomb directly through the middle of the roof of the throne room. Before they impacted with the roof, they let out confident cries that grew louder in pitch as they smashed right through the roof like paper...

Author's Notes:

Night Mist: Dawn it, anodew cwiffhangew...

Me: Sowwy about dat, it's de onwy way I can buiwd tension fow da next chaptew...

Adagio: Well, I still think it's a rather fantastic story, Shadowmane. You've really gone above and beyond to make it seem like there's more to us than meets the eye...

Sonata: If Hasbro ever need help in making an epic villain for Equestria, they should probably get him to write that episode. I bet it'd be awesome...

Aria: True, he's known for making epic fight scenes like this one. Makes the final battle from our debut seem like the opening act for an even bigger threat...

Adagio: I'd love to read more of your story, Shadowmane... (Picks both me and Night Mist up in her arms) But right now, you two need your check-ups...

Me: No! Not da sywinges! Dey sting!

Sonata: Aww... he's so cute when he's worked up... (Holds my hoof) I'll be doing this until it's over, Shadowmane. You've nothing to worry about...