The Rainbooms And The Dazzlings
Chapter 4: Episode 2A: They're Back With A Flash
Previous Chapter Next ChapterOn a normal day, usually around lunch, some of the students tend to hang around their lockers. Usually they would talk about school work, what they will gunna do once the school was over for the day or what was going on in their respective interests. But lately, when one student appeared and yell: "The Sirens Are Coming!", everyone would stop and become silent. And that what happened today.
Down in the hallway that leads down the cafeteria, Brawly Beat (the one who was more amazed about a talking dog then students blasting lasers at each other) appeared and told everyone: "Quick! The sirens are coming." Once he said that, all conversations that were going on became abruptly stopped. Beat looked to his side and saw how close Adagio, Aria and Sonata were to him. Before he could even react, Adagio yelled: "Get out of our way" and she pushed him to some lockers. Once the Dazzlings walked passed him, Beat didn't felt fear or intimidation, just not happy.
As she was walking along with her other siren friends behind her, Adagio glance at all the other students that they were walking past. Adagio knows that the students would move out of the way for then or become completely silent, but it wasn't for the reason that she wanted. They didn't respect them or were scared of them. They know that if they say or do something to get on their moods, then the sirens will breath down their necks and would have a scene. Adagio saw the aggravation and annoyance at them in their eyes. The sirens are nothing more but a nuisance to them and that way Adagio did not look happy when she was waling down the hall.
Aria on the other hand was a different matter. She was always angry and agitated and usually she was the one who starts the fights. And lately, she was getting into a lot of them by how the other students were treating them. As she was walking, she was looking side to side to see if they have anything bad to say about them.
And Sonata... she didn't cared. Honestly, the other students didn't have a problem with Sonata. Since she was the most friendly out of the free, no one had the feeling to antagonize her. But often they will see her along with the other sirens and they were too afraid to talk to her while they were around. And Sonata didn't care what the other students think about her. They can say some of the worst insults at her and she wouldn't be bothered by it. As long as someone doesn't mess with her and her food, then everything is golden.
Everyone just watch with discontent as the three sirens was walking down the hall. Some even wonder why they still go to their school because they know that they didn't like it here. They know that once the sirens will left them, they can continue talking and it wouldn't have been much of a problem.
However, when the sirens walked pass them and were several meters away from them, one member from a group of girls felt that she can say whatever she wants and the sirens would hear her.
"Can you believe it?" the girl exclaims. "How come we have to be quite whenever those sirens walk down the hall?"
Unfortunately, she did not go unnoticed as all three of the sirens could hear her speak. While Sonata wasn't bothered by it and Adagio couldn't be bothered, Aria was defiantly angry by this defiance.
"Stop! The Sirens Will Hear You!" said by the friend of the girl and all of the other students there will agree.
However, she would reply: "So what. I'm not scared."
At that moment, with her friends stopping her, Aria storms up to the girl, pull her around and told her: "If you have something to say, Then Say It To My Face!"
More ignorant and stupid then brave, the girl replied: "Fine! You think that you can come back to our school and do whatever you like, but No! Not only are we not scared of you because you don't have your freaky magic or whatever, but I also don't like you by how you dress."
"What!" Aria respond as she and the other sirens didn't know what to think about that last insult.
The girl told Aria: "Not only does your outfits barely matches your skin, but they are so last season."
Aria angrily retorts: "Well if that's the case, THEN I DON'T REALLY HAVE A PROBLEM TO POUND YOUR FACE IN!"
The girl jumped back frighten when Aria raised her fist at her. However, before anyone could imagine Aria hitting her, Adagio grabbed her arm and told her: "Calm Down! Is it really worth hitting over this?"
Adagio and successfully convinced her not to do something violent, but Aria still had this pent up rage and she doesn't want to look like that she was nothing but talk. She could even see the girl's smugness coming back to her face. However, she spotted the locker next to her and assumes that it's her locker. So instead, Aria punched it so hard that it left a dent in the shape of her fist into it.
As the girl and her friends were shocked by this, Adagio looked impressed and says: "There we go!"
As Aria left them with a smile on her face and the sirens would return going to the cafeteria, the girl was left upset by the state of her locker. She then huffs to her friends and says: "They are way much worst then when Sunset Shimmer tried to redeem herself."
However, that was thee most stupidest thing that she could ever say because Adagio returns right back and screams: "WHAT DID YOU SAY!?!?"
Adagio was ten times more angry and frightening as the girl was frighten by the rage in her eyes. All the other students just face-palmed and Aria even commented: "You shouldn't have said that."
As Sonata and Aria restrained Adagio and was pulling her way, Adagio was screaming: "Don't You Dare Say I Am Worst Then Sunset Shimmer! Because If You Do, I Will Burn You From Where You Stand And I Will Send Your Ashes To Tartarus!" Her friends fortunately pulled her away before she could say anything else.
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Eventually, the Dazzlings finally made it to the cafeteria and they slam open the door upon their arrival. Everyone looked up to see who it is... but then go back to eating their food once they saw who it is. Adagio did not like that. The three sirens then entered into the queue and was waiting to be served. But they then (Adagio and Aria at least) got into another fight when a group of girls try to cut in front of them.
Sunset and her friends could see the commotion from across the room and at their table. Sunset then turns to her friends and says: "Can you believe this? I heard that they were making friends like this all week."
All her friends agreed in unison. Applejack even added: "Yeah. It's like how you were when turn to the good side. But this, they are going into a fuss in a hair trigger."
Adagio then looked worried and then said: "Maybe I should go over and talk to them. Maybe to get them to calm down a little bit."
However, Rarity replied: "I wouldn't recommend it darling. I don't know about Aria or Sonata, but Adagio defiantly has a deep grudge against you."
"Really?" Sunset disappointingly enquire and only to be answered by a yes-full nod. She then turn towards Pinkie and asks her: "Have you at least been trying to talk things out with Sonata?"
Pinkie Pie then full down into a slump which Cheerilee would make began stirring her soup. She replied: "Yeah right. Whenever I'm 10 feet close to her, she would walk 100 feet away from me."
And speaking of Sonata, she was finally got her food from Granny Smith and her and the other sirens were going to find a table. However, when they found a table with enough free spaces, a random guy accidently collided with Sonata. When she realized what has just happened, she notice all of her delicious food that she was eager on eating were scattered across the food.
Rainbow Dash, who saw what happened, got her friends attention when she said "OOH!", like someone was sucker punched. She then explained to them: "That can't be good. Some guy accidently made Sonata to drop her food."
Upon hearing what Rainbow just said, Pinkie suddenly jumped up in fear and yelled: "What!" And she wasn't the only one who was scared. As Sonata still looked down in shock to the food she can no longer eat, Adagio and Aria was slowly walking away in fear.
As the Rainbooms were wondering what was going on or what's going to happen, Pinkie then screamed to as many people as she can to "Everyone! Hit The Deck!" She then pulled all of her friends under the table.
Once Pinkie got almost everyone under the table, Rainbow pulled Pinkie's arm away from her and yells to her: "Pinkie! What are you doing?"
But then, everyone heard a loud shriek that sounds like it came from Sonata. "AAAHHHH!" was heard and a lot of other frightening sounds were made. They heard plates shattering, tables flipping, screams from Sonata, the students and Wilhelm and somehow even explosions and gunfire.
All the girls were scared by all of the calamity that they aren't seeing. But then, Pinkie yelled out: "Hang-On! Where's Fluttershy!?"
Fortunately, Fluttershy appeared and replied cheerfully and nonchalantly: "I'm here." However, she was covered in a range of sauces and different foods.
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Sometime later, after Sonata had her roaring rampage that destruction, the three sirens was called into Principal's Celestia's office. The sirens was sitting on chairs and was waiting anxiously for Principal Celestia and Vice-principal Luna to say something to them and what their punishment was gunna be. However, waiting for their punishment directly from the principals did have a effect on their moods. Adagio and Aria was still brooding in all of this and Sonata didn't know what was going on. Celestia was grieving with the whole situation and holding her head up with her own hands. V.P Luna meanwhile was looking through the report of property damage which Sonata has caused and she did not like it one bit.
The room was filled with silence until Luna finally says to all of them: "Well, after the damages that you done to the school, along with the constant misbehaviour reports about your fights with the other students, we are looking at a week or even 10 days suspension."
As Sonata was about to ask what "suspension" means, she got the general idea of it when Aria made a comment. "What, we trashed the cafeteria and you would punish us with a week vacation? Score!"
Luna slams her hand on Celestia's desk in anger and states: "This Is No Laughing Matter!"
Aria argues: "Please. How does not coming to this school help punish someone?"
However, Luna retorts: "Well, if you don't think that's an adequate punishment, we can give you community service instead. Not only you have to clean up the cafeteria, but you must also help miss Smith with preparing and serving the food for the other students.
Adagio and Aria groaned to the thought of them doing manual labour and serving the students that they hate. However, Sonata looked optimistic and says to them: "Oh come on, it's not that bad. All we have to do is to spruce things up a little bit and we can even..."
However, Luna noted: "And you can't eat the food."
And with that, Sonata lost any optimism expression as she moans: "Oh Come On!"
Before that conversation could go any further, Celestia brings her head up, turn to face Adagio and says to her: "When we talk over the phone, you said to me that you will be on your best behaviour."
"Hey, you was the one who wanted us to come back" Adagio replies.
But then Celestia replies: "All I said is that if you girls want to come back and want to redeem yourselves, then you can."
Aria then crossed her arms commented to that remark: "Yeah, show what you knows."
Upon seeing their unwillingness, Celestia stood herself up and then told them: "It is my personal belief that anybody can change. Even if they still don't like other people, they can at least learn to tolerate and work with each other. I think that even you can change for the better."
The Dazzling didn't reply nor make a sarcastic remark to that. They all look away and try to hide that her words struck a cord with them, however small. Maybe it was how she just complimented them and how she has faith in them.
However, as they were taking a while for them to say anything, Luna decided to a bit of reality to the situation. "Well if you don't take your suspension seriously and you don't want to accept community service, then we have no other choice but to expel you and no longer consider her as one of our students." As she got their attention, she then added: "And if you want won't pay for the damaging fees that you caused, then we would have to report you to the proper authorities. And trust me, they can and will give you a much harsher punishment the we can even give."
Upon considering their options, Adagio reply for all of them: "Fine, we will take that suspension or whatever and try to see if we can be better. But How Can You Expect Us To Deal With Everyone Who Constantly trying To Get On Our Nerves!?"
Luna remark: "Sunset Shimmer went through the same thing and she didn't have a problem with..."
"DON'T YOU DARE SAY HER NAME!" Adagio interrupts her with a raging fury. When she see how the principals what shocked by her yelling and see her friends try to signal her that she wasn't meant to do that, Adagio then took a deep breath to calm herself down and says: "Sorry. Just don't... mention... that name."
After she apologized and token her seat, Celestia remarks: "Maybe we should also help you with that?" Celestia then began jotting down a note and tells the sirens: "I think we'll send you one of our best students and help teach you how to better interact with everybody else."
Aria replies to Celestia: "Yeah right. Like there is a student out there who really wants to help us."
"As long it's not Sunset Shimmer, then I'm fine" Adagio commented.
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But despite their expectations, they were eventually got word that a students was willing to help them and was arranged to meet up with them. They know that they would get in trouble if they wouldn't go and want to avoid anymore hassle.
Adagio, Aria and Sonata was waiting in the music room to meet-up with their student consoler, as per their arrangement and they even got the room reserved to them. While Adagio was huffing and looking out of the window, Aria and Sonata sat near each other and try to do something to past the time. While Sonata was immersed within her own little imagination, Aria come across and an abandon notebook and thought she could have a read of it. Aside for a few notes for classes and pages that were incomprehensible, she did come across some songs and music notes that she think that were really good. Despite it was just her and her friends there, Aria decided to keep the book.
Eventually, they all heard the door open and a voice cried out: "Oh... You're here!... That's Good!" As everyone looked around to see who it is, the voice then told them: "Hi. My name is Flash Sentry, but you can call me Flash."
While Aria was more or less indifferent, Adagio and Aria was interested in Flash Sentry. She couldn't put her hand on it, but Adagio remembered something funny and it had something to do with him. Sonata on the other hand thought that he looks good.
As he made his way to the side of the room with the piano, Flash told them: "Well um... I know that you are having a hard time adjusting to Canterlot, but I think we can help fix that." He then asks: "So... Can I ask you your..."
However, Adagio interrupted him and says: "Hang on, I know you."
Surprised, Flash replied: "Well... You probably just seen me around the school. I have defiantly seen..."
"Yeah! I remember you made the lead singer for the Rainbooms cry" happily pointed out Adagio. Aria and Sonata soon remembered that scene too and began laughing over it.
As well as being embarrassed, but they also made him remember a memory that he personally ashamed of. However, Flash knows that that he can get upset about it and try his best not the be flustered about it.
"So anyway..." says Flash Sentry while he try to hide his blushing checks. "Why don't you share to me your names?"
Aria replied: "Why do we have to? You must already know your names from the battle of the bands."
Flash replied: "Well yeah, but... It's to make a closer connection to one another. You know?"
Sonata was the only one to see what he means while Adagio and Aria didn't but didn't want to cause trouble. So all three of them gave their names.
"Fine. Adagio."
"Aria."
"Sonata!" Sonata said so cheerfully to make a better impression.
Flash expected for them to say a bit more about himself. So he then asked them: "Ok... But what are you like?"
"World domination." replied Adagio.
"Music" replied Aria.
"Trying New Foods!" eagerly replied Sonata.
Flash know it's best to avoid talking about world domination or anything evil related and doesn't know how to approach with the food thing. But he has a feeling that talking about music would be the most relatable and the best thing to talk about. Flash says to them: "Someone says music. Let's talk about that."
Flash expected them to be a bit more excited, being singers and all. However, none of the looked happy to talk about. Even Aria who mentioned didn't looked at all pleased.
Treading carefully, Flash asked them: "Well, I'm guessing that you all really like to sing. Right." Despite not cracking smiles, all of the sirens agreed with him. "Despite, you know... turning the whole school against each other, everyone thought that you all were really good. You even made it to the finals in the battle of the bands."
After Flash gave all of his praises, Adagio replied to him: "Thanks for the compliment, but you would probably won't hear it again."
"What!" Flash responded.
Adagio informs him: "Not only did annoying little Rainbooms ruined our plan and take away our powers to control people, but they also took our ability to sing."
"What! They wouldn't do that" Flash replied, until he realized and added: "Taking your singing voice, I mean. Stopping you plan... well..."
Seeing that he wasn't convinced, the sirens took the pendants that they now keep in their pockets and show him how damaged they were. As he was curious about why they were broken and why they were showing them to him, Adagio explains: "These gems housed all of our magical abilities after we got banished from the world where we came from. But since they're broken, we can no longer be sirens anymore."
Flash notice how troubled all three of them were about this. Even if they were using it for evil purposes, he could feel that they had much pride with their singing and must feel devastated that they think they can't sing anymore. However, Flash wasn't totally convinced.
"Oh come on. It can be like that bad" he told them. "Just because your pendants are broken doesn't mean you forgot how to sing. Right?"
"You don't believe us?" Adagio replied. After everyone put away their gems, Adagio then turned to Sonata and told her: "Sonata, sing something."
"What! Why do I have to sing?" Sonata responded.
Both Adagio and Aria replied: "Just Do It!"
Begrudgingly, Sonata then began to sing a few notes. It wasn't long for Flash to cover his ears in pain and realized how bad she gotten. After Sonata stopped, Flash let down his hands and says to them: "Ok, you might have a point."
The two other sirens smirked as they see that Flash have to admit how wrong he was. However, he turn back around and argued: "But come on. Despite how much your pendants had over your voices, you can't just forget your experiences. You been singing like... 5 or 10 years."
"About a 1000 years" Aria told him.
Flash was surprised when she told him a thousand. You just looks at them and he doesn't think they looked over 20. However, he didn't let his mind go off into a tangent and pointed out: "Ok, you had a 1000 years to practice and perfect your talents. In fact, have you been practicing since the battle of the bands?"
All of the sirens were shocked when they realized that they were right. For months they have been bickering with themselves about what happened and getting into fights with other people. They realized that they could have used that time instead to practice and try something to restore their voices. In fact, they couldn't even recall practicing in the first place. For as long as they can remember, they had always had an amazing gift at singing and didn't even need to practice.
As Flash could see how deep in thought that he made the sirens, he then says to them: "You know what, why don't you give me your gems."
"What! Why?" Aria enquired.
He just smiles and says: "I know somebody who is really good with jewels."
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