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Love Call of the Sirens

by Justice3442

Chapter 1: Chapter 1: Special Delivery

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Love Tap and Microchip of number four, Bridle Road, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very—

“MOM! Sweetie Belle asked me if I wanted to do something called ‘base jumping’ off that big crystal castle right outside our window!”

Not now, Sweetie!”

Right, let me try again…

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of magic, it was the age of—

“But whatever it is, it has the word ‘base’ in it and I really want to go!”

“Button, honey! Mommy is busy! Just wait a bit!”

Okay, one more time.

Call me Love Ta—

“BUUUUUT MoOoOoOoOoOoOM! I REALLY WANT TO GoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoOoO!”

“NOT NOW, BUTTON! MOMMY HAS A VERY IMPORTANT GUEST OVER!”

Love Tap quickly inhaled as much air as she could and then let it all out, hoping the escaping breath would grab hold of her anxiety and take it with it.

It didn’t.

The fact of the matter was that the Princess of Friendship was standing right on her doorstep. This wasn’t exactly the sort of thing that a deep breath or two made you feel better about, and what the Princess had just asked made the situation that much more tense.

Love Tap took a moment to swipe a few strands of her brown mane away from her face. “So let me get this straight…”

Twilight Sparkle, a pony who had saved the city and world several times, looked at Love Tap as if the princess was expecting the motherly mare to save the day this time. Given Love Tap’s role in her family, she was not unaccustomed to this look. However, she would have never expected a Princess of Equestria to show up on her doorstep delivering said look as well as three other unexpected packages.

Twilight nodded and answered with a simple, “Take your time.”

Love Tap tilted her head to take a look at the curious collection of three mares sitting outside. Although all three wore matching red gem chokers and were of a similar age, that is where their likenesses ended.

The three mares in question hadn’t said anything. This was likely because there was some sort of shimmering lavender aura covering their mouths. The aura also seemed to strategically be applied to the trio in other ways.

A baby-blue pegasus with lilac eyes and a light-blue mane with dark blue stripes in it looked over everything with wild excitement. She smiled as if she was simply happy to be there as her eyes rapidly moved from place to place as if she was trying to desperately look at everything all at once. All this despite her legs and wings being held in place by the same lavender aura over her mouth. Her cutie mark was a jagged blue music note in front of a pink heart.

A light-purple earth pony took turns looking between Twilight and Love Tap with deep-amethyst eyes with her eyelids lowered to a point that suggested violent thoughts going on behind them. Her dark purple hair with a pair of green stripes was held into twin ponytails by two metal stars. Her body was almost completely enveloped by the lavender aura. Her cutie mark was a two-color purple and dark pink star in front of something that resembled a straightened bass clef.

In between the two other mares sat an orange unicorn with lavender eyes and a mane that was a massive collection of curls so large, Love Tap wondered if there was a fourth pony hiding in it. She simply had the aura applied to her horn, but the aura was shifting erratically as if fighting something underneath. The unicorn’s wordless expression seemed to be in constant flux between seething rage that she was in this situation and an odd-almost sultry-look directed at Love Tap. Love Tap couldn’t make sense of it for the life of her. Her cutie mark was an orange jewel in front of a purple treble clef.

On a note that couldn’t possibly be unrelated, Twilight’s horn was glowing with such an intensity, Love Tap was sure she could hear it hum. Twilight had begun the conversation requesting Love Tap to ignore that. A difficult request, but not nearly as difficult as what Twilight had come here specifically to request.

“You want me to take care of those three mares…”

Twilight answered as if she detected the one missing word that was supposed to punctuate Love Tap’s statement and turn it into a question of ‘Why?’ “Well, I heard from my friends you were really good with children.”

“Permission to speak freely?” Love Tap said.

Despite the fact that Twilight had broken into a sweat, either from the awkwardness of what she had asked, the strain of maintaining the amount of magical force to keep the three behind her in check, or some combination of both, the princess cracked a smile. “Oh, Love Tap, you don’t need to stand on ceremony with me! We’re neighbors!”

Love Tap glanced upwards past Twilight. Twilight’s towering crystalline castle was practically a stone’s throw away from Love Tap’s house. Though Love Tap initially didn’t know what to think about the massive building that had simply grown into existence one day and blocked her view of the nearby mountains, her husband had placated her a bit by pointing out that the property value of their little two story house would likely skyrocket.

Love Tap nodded. “Right… Well… First of all, those three behind you are clearly not children. They appear to be young adults.”

Twilight seemed to nod in agreement, but replied with, “I think you’ll find their physical age poorly reflects their assumed mental behavior.”

Uh… okay…” Love Tap said as she rubbed the back of her head, disturbing her long, brown ponytail that was tied up with a red ribbon. She wasn’t sure how to respond to that. “Er… right… okay…”

From the corner of her eye, Love Tap thought she saw the light-purple mare flinch. The glow of Twilight’s horn suddenly shot up in intensity and it briefly let out a screeching sound as if the entire horn might just shatter.

Twilight closed her eyes hard and the light-purple mare suddenly tensed up as if she was being compressed in a magical vice. The glow of the horn subsided back to only casually blinding levels of light.

“Was there something else?” Twilight asked.

Love Tap pursed her lips. What was being asked of her was pure insanity, but the princess came to her personally to ask this! Still… There were certain uncomfortable truths about suddenly taking care of three more ponies.

Love Tap shook her head. “I’m sorry, princess. But even with my husband’s well-paying job, I don’t—”

With a howl and a blinding light from Twilight’s horn, a massive bag the size of Love Tap herself appeared with a ‘BAMF!’ It hit the floor hard and fell forward as the rope that tied it closed strained and opened slightly. A pile of bits spilled out from the opening.

Love Tap could only stare wordlessly at the fortune sitting next to her.

Ugh…” Twilight said in annoyance. “Sorry, I’m having trouble concentrating… Let me get the next one…”

“The-the-the next one…?”

‘BAMF’

‘THUD!’

An equally large bag appeared next to Love Tap. Gems of all sizes and colors spilled out.

“Sorry!” Twilight said.

Sorry?!”

Twilight nodded. “I know this would mean an extra expense for you, but this should be a good start on my part.”

“Sta-START?!”

“Honey?!” A concerned masculine voice called out from in the house. “What was that?! Did Button take a spill down the stairs again… twice?

I’m fine dad!” a young colt's voice answered from somewhere else in the house. “Hey! Can I go base jumping with Sweetie Belle and her friends?”

“Ask your mother!”

Aww, man!”

The sound of somepony trotting towards the front door sounded out as a dark-brown earth pony stallion with a spiky black mane and black mustache came into view. He wore a quizzical expression as if a sudden realization just hit him. “Wait, base jump—HOLY CELESTIA! IS THAT ALL MONEY?!

Love Tap turned towards the stallion, wrapped a foreleg around him and pulled him next to her side. “Chip! Great! I’m glad you’re here! Princess Twilight wants us to help her with something.”

‘Chip’ looked between the two bags that he and his wife now were sandwiched between. “Please tell me it’s simply not that she needs us to help count all her money.”

Twilight let out a laugh. “No, no… That’s all for you and your family if you can help me.” Twilight extended a forehoof. “Microchip, right?”

Chip extended his forehoof and pressed it against Twilight’s as the two ponies shook their legs up and down. “Please, call me your loyal slav—Chip! Call me Chip!”

Love Tap looked at Chip with a pleading look. “Princess Twilight wants to give us all this if we agree to take care of the three mares behind her.”

Chip peered past Twilight to the trio of mares whose previous activities of ‘looking at everything’, ‘glaring’, and ‘passing odd alluring looks’ went away as they craned their necks to look at the massive bags of wealth inside the house.

Chip nodded. “That seems reasonab—”

“And I’m going to give you more!” Twilight blurted out.

“Ma-more?” Chip stammered.

Love Tap felt her brow tighten. “You’re not any good at haggling, are you Princess?”

Twilight shook her head. “I’m not trying to haggle. I really need your help!”

“Hey!” Button’s voice called from inside the house. “What’s—AH!”

Love Tap and Chip cringed as the familiar sound of a young colt tumbling down stairs could be heard complete with “Oof!”s and “Ow!”s as the young pony made his rough descent that ended with a ‘THUD!’

Love Tap braced herself for what came next.

“Hhhehhh… Hheeehhh… whouaa… WHOUAAAAAAAAA! MOOOOOOOOOOOO—Hey! Are those two bags filled completely full with money?!”

Uh, Button?” Love Tap replied. “Maybe you should go back upstairs and play—”

Button scrambled over the bag of bits. His propeller beanie spinning away despite the fact that he was indoors. “Hi, Princess Twilight Sparkle!” Button said happily.

Love Tap and Chip stared up at their son.

“Button?” Chips said. “Have you met the Princess before?”

“Nope!” Button answered.

Love Tap and Chip couldn’t help but chuckle.

“Of course…” Love Tap said.

“Hey, Button Mash!” Twilight greeted. Forcing a cheerful look even though the mare was now drenched in sweat. “I’m asking your parents if you want three new sisters!”

“WHAT?!” Love Tap cried.

Twilight flashed Love Tap a look of deep apology before turning back to Button.

“COOL!” Button cried.

Twilight gritted her teeth into a smile. “Right. And you’ll also get anything that’s in my power to give you!”

“Princess!” Love Tap said in an irate tone. “I understand that you need my help, but please don’t try to use my son as a barg—“

“I want every video game system ever and every game ever,” Button rattled off without missing a beat.

“Button!” Love Tap cried.

“DONE!” Twilight said. She looked back at Love Tap and Chip. “What else?!”

Love Tap slammed her hoof on the floor. “Princess Twilight! You can’t just come here and—”

“We’ll need a bigger house!” Chip blurted out.

“Honey!” Love Tap cried in a chastising tone.

“Sorry!” Chip said. “But she said anything in her power! And if we have three more living here, we’ll need the space!”

Twilight frowned as she pounded the request. “I do want to help there, but I really want these three close to the castle, so...”

“That’s okay!” Chip exclaimed. “I can draft up plans to expand our current home!”

Twilight nodded, seemingly satisfied with that request. “Alright, get the plans to me as soon as you can.”

“Can we have a pool?!” Button asked.

Twilight pointed at Button. “You can have two pools!”

“YAY!”

Love Tap began to grit her teeth. “Prrrrrrinnnnnceeesssssss…” she hissed out in a threatening tone.

“And a hot tub!” Twilight added.

Love Tap’s eye began to twitch as she felt her angry expression suddenly melting away like sore muscles soaking in bubbling water.

“Okay!” Twilight continued. “Anything—”

“WHAT THE HAY IS ALL THAT RACKET UP THERE?!”

“Oh no…” Love Tap uttered as she smacked a forehoof against her face.

Approaching hoof steps from somewhere under the ponies could be heard shortly before a door opened. A teenaged reddish-brown colt with a short-black mane crawled on top of the gem bag. “Did Button fall down the stairs like four times, or—OH HOLY MOTHER OF THE SUN AND MOON! BABES!”

Love Tap sighed heavily. “Gibson, could you not. Could you just not.

Gibson looked down. “Also, I appear to be on top of a large sack of gems!” Gibson added before he looked back up. “BUT BABES!”

Love Tap raised both forehooves up to her face and simply allowed herself to fall forward onto the floor.

Gibson extended a foreleg out to Twilight Sparkle and quickly raised and lowered his eyelids. “Hello! My name is Gibson. I play the guitar and I’m in a band.”

Love Tap let out a heavy sigh as she slumped to her stomach. Her entire body seemed to deflate as if she was simply allowing it to fill whatever space she currently found herself in. “Gibson. You know mommy encourages you to shot for the moon, but at least show some awareness for when a girl is so completely out of your league she might as well be in another galaxy.”

“Hi, Gibson!” Twilight said as she took Gibson’s hoof and gave it a shake. “Would you like these three beauties to live with you?”

“I-I’m sorry…” Gibson said as he stared at Twilight like a starving pony stares at a giant bucket of oats. “Is… is it my birthday?! Did… Did I forget today was my birthday?!”

Love Tap covered her head with her forelegs.

“Great!” Twilight exclaimed. “Well if that’s—”

“NOW WAIT JUST A MINUTE!” Love Tap shouted as she practically exploded up on all fours. Her family let out startled cries as she pressed against her husband and the bags of bits and gems suddenly shifted. “You may be willing to shower us with wealth—”

“And hotties!” Gibson added.

“And video games!” Button chimed in.

“And a bigger house!” Chip said excitedly.

“STOP TRYING TO HELP!” Love Tap snapped at her family. She turned back to Twilight. “But suddenly taking on three mares is a huuuuuuge change! I think we need time to think about it!”

“No we don’t!” Gibson said.

“Nope!” Button chimed in.

“I am more than okay with the terms we’ve been given!” Chip added.

Love Tap raised a forehoof to her forehead as she felt it assaulted with shooting pain.

Her legs trembling as if she was struggling with the weight of her own magic, Twilight gave Love Tap a pleading look. “I’m sorry, but I can’t wait for a decision! I feel terrible for springing this on you, but I know your specialty is dealing with children.”

“Yes… Children! Chiiiillllldren!” Love Tap said. “Those three aren’t…”

“Sonata is basically a child,” a feminine voice called out.

Twilight and all ponies in the house turned to look at the three mares outside. The lavender auras around their mouths had disappeared, though their other restraints remained.

“Oh no…” Twilight uttered.

The orange unicorn worked her lips as if stretching them. She pursed them into kisses a few times and smiled with a devilish grin. “Ahh… much better.”

Love Tap peered over the mares. “Maybe they should have say in this?”

Twilight shook her head. “I don’t mean to be rude, but that’s a pretty terrible idea.”

The unicorn continued, “Oh, we accept living here.”

“You do?!” Twilight asked in disbelief.

The earth pony sighed. “We do?” she asked in an annoyed tone.

The unicorn began to speak through gritted teeth. “Just look at the piles of money!”

The earth pony sighed. “We do,” she said in a conciliatory tone.

“Yay!” The pegasus exclaimed. “I want to play with the small one’s hat!”

“Mom! Can my new sisters go base jumping with me?”

“Button! I’m not about to let you just go out with some strange ponies whose names I don’t even know yet!”

“I’m Sonata!” the blue pegasus answered happily. “Sonata Dusk!”

The orange unicorn hummed deeply as her lips curved up into a smile that seemed to offer dark promises of what was to come. “I’m Adagio Dazzle.” She nodded to the light-purple mare sitting next to her. “The unpleasant-looking pony next to me is Aria Blaze.”

Aria just sighed. “Whatever.”

Adagio looked at Twilight. “Twilight, you can let us go now.”

Soaking wet with her body shaking, Twilight grit her teeth. “You promise not to run away or get violent?”

Adagio chuckled. “Well you’re no fun, but of course.”

“Pinky promise!” Sonata said happily.

Aria glanced at Sonata with an irritated expression. “We don’t have pinkies anymore, you moron!”

“Oh, yeah!” Sonata said with an expression that suggested the thought just now occurred to her.

“I know one Pinkie you can have!” Button exclaimed.

“Really?” Sonata said in excitement. “That’s great! I always wanted to start a severed finger collection!”

“… What’s a finger?” Button asked.

“Focus, girls!” Adagio shouted. She turned back towards Twilight. “Well I can agree to your terms within reason, but I can’t guarantee the girls won’t still be idiots, because well… just look at them.

Gibson grinned wide and leaned forward on the gem bag. “Yes, look at them!”

Adagio continued, “But we won’t get into any trouble that would require your intervention… for now…” she purred out.

Aria sighed heavily. “Did you really need to add that last part?”

“I couldn’t help it!” Adagio said. “It just slipped out!”

Twilight sighed. “It’ll have to do…” The glow from her horn subsided as the auras around the three mares disappeared. Twilight staggered, then stood firm as if she was trying to avoid crashing to the ground.

Love Tap’s forehead and lips had crinkled to form a look of deep, deep concern. “Princess Twilight… are these three a danger to my family?”

Twilight’s entire body tensed as if she had just been caught with all four of her hooves in cookie jars. “Uh… well…”

Adagio shook her head. “Don’t worry. Given what just transpired, I can’t think of a reason as to why we’d want to hurt you or your loved ones.”

Love Tap’s eyes narrowed. “Believe me. I’d never give you the chance.”

“Whoa-ho-ho!” Adagio exclaimed as she raised both forehooves in front of her defensively. “You’ve got spunk! I like—AH!

Her two front feet suddenly raised, Adagio toppled forward onto the grassy ground with a small ‘thud’.

Aria and Sonata snickered to themselves.

Adagio sighed. “Right… quadruped…” She carefully raised herself back up onto all fours, balancing her massive mane on her back. “We find Twilight’s terms agreeable. We have no plans to harm you or your family.” Adagio turned and gave a commanding glare to both ponies flanking her. “Right?”

“Right!” Sonata exclaimed. “What were we talking about? I was looking at that small pony’s hat! It’s so spinny!”

Aria sighed. “Well, there’s no fun in beating up a buncha weaklings—”

Love Tap let out a growl of warning.

“—so fine, whatever.”

Twilight let out a sigh of relief. “So, it’s decided, then?”

Love Tap took a step forward. “Hey! I still—”

“Not quite!” Adagio interrupted. “What do we get out of this little deal?”

“Yeah!” Aria chimed in. “I heard mention of video games?”

“You three don’t get to make demands!” Twilight cried. “I’ve already tried to make the situation as pleasant as I can for you!”

“But I want a pony!” Sonata protested.

Adagio’s left eye suddenly twitched violently as if something just broke behind it.

“Sonata, you complete and utter douche nozzle,” Aria said. “You are a pony!”

Sonata looked down herself and gasped. “You’re RIGHT! I’M GONNA HUG MYSELF!” Sonata wrapped her legs around herself and let herself fall to the ground. She giggled playfully as she began to roll in the grass.

Gibson raised a hoof into the air. “I can help with the hugging!”

“STAY RIGHT THERE!” Love Tap demanded. She turned towards Twilight. “Princess, I’m still not sure about all this.”

“WHAT?!” Gibson exclaimed. “She’s giving us hot babes and money! It does not get any more win-win than that! There is literally no downside!

“And I want to play with them!” Button added.

Love Tap felt a comforting foreleg wrap around her as Chip pulled her close. “Sweetie… I know this is all very sudden, but think of what we’re getting out of this!”

“I know, Chip… but as nice as the money is, I really only care about us and our family! I’m not sure if three unexpected additions to the home is really what’s best for us. Even if we’re being given what we need to help take care of them. I mean… It’s not like we desperately need the money or anything.”

“Mom!” Button protested. He waved his hooves in front of him. “Video games!”

“Button,” Love Tap answered sternly. “You have a pile of video games already!”

“Yeah, that I beat already!” Button said. “Plus I kinda wanted to make a cartridge fort.”

Love Tap pondered this for a moment. “Well that sounds pretty coo—Wait! NO! It’s going to take more than money, a bigger house, and video games to sway me here.”

Chip pondered this for a moment. “Well, how about this. With the money Princess Twilight is offering us, I wouldn’t need to travel anymore with or without Gibson.”

Love Tap’s eyes lit up. “You… you mean…”

Chip smiled and nodded. “We can setup an office here at home. Heck, we can setup a workshop on top of that and just go into business for ourselves! We’d be here all the time!”

Love Tap bit at her lower lip and looked around. Seven pairs of eyes were all fixed on her. Each one looking to her as if the very fate of the world depended on what she said next.

She sighed. “Alright… they can stay.”

“Oh thank you merciful Celestia,” Twilight uttered.

“YAY!” Button Mash and Sonata exclaimed in unison.

“Mom,” Gibson said, “I know I don’t say this often enough… but I love you. I love you so, so, much!”

Adagio grinned and leaned closer to Aria. “Dibs on that needy-looking teen.”

“Wasn’t interested in him,” Aria said.

“Also dibs on that stallion.”

“Nor him.”

“And dibs on that hot milf.”

“Again, not interested… Geez, next you’re gonna claim that kid.”

Adagio’s entire body shook in disgust and she glared at Aria. “There’s something wrong with you.”

Arm still around Love Tap’s neck, Chip began to lovingly nuzzle his wife. “Thanks, honey. You made the right choice.”

Love Tap sighed and looked at the trio of girls who were now new additions to her household. “I hope so, Chip. I really do…”

Twilight suddenly perked up. “Welp! Everything is agreed and settled on! I better draft some paperwork and get started on the other things you wanted! Lemme-know-if-they-try-to-kill-anypony-or-try-to-take-over-Equestria,-also-don’t-take-off-their-gem-chokers! Gotta go!

With a flash of her horn, a bright light, and a ‘poomf’, Twilight was gone.

Wait!,” Love Tap called out. “What was that last part?!”

“Yay!” Button exclaimed. “New sisters!”

“This is the best day of my life…” Gibson uttered.

“No seriously!” Love Tap cried. “Did nopony catch that last bit?”

Gibson shook his head. “It’s really hard to hear over how absurdly happy I am.”

Love Tap shook her head from side to side. “I really hope this wasn’t a bad idea.”

Adagio grinned wickedly as she began to speak to Love Tap in a vaguely menacing tone. “Oh believe me, my dear Love Tap. You’re going to get even more than you bargained for.” Adagio smiled widely and threw her head back. Her massive mane cascaded around her as she threw her head back. “HehehehehaahahahahahahahaMUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!”

Everyone went silent and just stared at Adagio.

Adagio stopped once she felt all the eyes on her.

Aria shook her head and smacked a forehoof against her face. “Damnit, Adagio…”

“What?!” Adagio protested. “I can’t help it! It’s like tourette syndrome.”

“Whatever,” Aria said as she approached the ponies at the front door the bags of money. She roughly inserted herself in between Chip and Love Tap with enough force that the bits and gem bag exploded as Gibson and Button fell to the floor. “You guys have any food?” Aria added casually.

Love Tap and Chip looked down in concern at Button who dizzily moaned from the ground with his legs in the air.

Gibson scrambled out of the pile of loose bits and gems and followed Aria. “Yeah! We have lots! Let-me-touch-your-mane-I-mean-help-you!

Love Tap shook her head. “This deal’s getting worse all the time.”

“Don’t worry, new mommy!” Sonata said in a bubbly tone as she half trotted, half skipped up to the house. “I promise you won’t live to regret it!”

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