Twilight and Fluttershy had never been to Clearsky before. Mainly because it was one of those places where, if you weren't one of the residents, you'd stick out like a sore thumb in no time at all. And it showed, with the massive houses lining each street, like a set of miniature skyscrapers. Each one properly kept from the outside with unknown treasures inside that people would normally dream about, with the gardens leading up to them verdant and bustling with life and colour.

Aria and Sonata lead the girls down the path towards one of the bigger mansions in Clearsky, and it showed with how much space it took up, with a titanic hedge wall surrounding the house and a large iron gate sitting in place of the entrance. For them, it was just an average shrub. But for their guests, it was as if they were staring at one of the many walls within a maze.

"So. This is our house, girls," said Aria, turning on the ball of her heel with a grin on her face. "I know. It's a bit stunning from the first look, but that's just what you get with the whole singing magic package. Guess you could say we got ourselves the best bargain you could possibly get, huh?"

"Yeah. You could put it like that..." Twilight nodded as she craned her neck up towards the roof of the Dazzlings' mansion. "I mean, Clearsky's only for the creme de la creme here in Canterlot. "I don't even think some of my old Crystal Prep classmates have any houses here..."

"Well, if they did, they'd be living the high-life. Everyone in Clearsky gets only the best because they are the best. And yes, I'm aware that it does make it seem that we and every neighbour on our street is an egomaniac. But don't worry. We all are." Sonata pressed her fingers together.

"That's awfully reassuring," Fluttershy's hair curled against her eye.

"It is. Especially when you see just what's inside." Aria turned to the gate, reached into her pockets for something, then widened her brows. She dug around in one, found nothing and transitioned to the next one along. "Oh, darn it. I forgot where I put my keycard..."

"Oh, it's fine, Aria. I've got mine right here." Sonata pulled hers out of her jacket, sliding it into the reader on the pillar by the side of the gate. A buzzing noise could be heard, followed by the red light turning green and the noise of the gears inside revolving, so as to activate the mechanisms for the gate. "Open says me. Or however that saying goes..."

The gates slid open, granting passage to the two Dazzlings, with their guests closely behind. It took them a while walking up the path for the same device to close. By the time it had done that, the teenage girls were standing by the front doors of the house, with Aria and Sonata planting their hands on the large, cylindrical handles. One pull from the two of them caused the doors to open, right before Twilight and Fluttershy's eyes.

"Now, if you're a bit overwhelmed by all of this fancy-schmancy stuff, well, let's just say that you're not the first to be blown away by something as cool as this," said Aria, planting the door against the wall of the entryway. "Trust me, girls. We were too."

Fluttershy and Twilight stepped inside to a sight that they thought they would only ever see in fairytales. A grand foyer, coated in tile and carpet, with a clear path leading towards the stairs. Marble bannisters draped around the edges of the mezzanine and stairs, with small furniture pressed against the walls, usually housing plantlife or other strewn about objects. A myriad of doors, all similar in design dotted themselves around the room. Each one led to another corner of the house, with the upper ones a clear indication of being Adagio, Aria, and Sonata's living quarters. Artworks were also hung up on the upper floors. Some being recreations of famous works from artists past, while others depicted the Dazzlings in various different art styles. Presumably, they were made when the three sirens had cast spells on the people within the town.

"Whoa... This is... breathtaking." Twilight adjusted her glasses, almost thinking that what she was seeing was some form of illusion.

"Welcome to our home, girls. Mi Casa is su Casa. Only the best house that magical singing powers can buy." Sonata walked through the door and stood in front of Twilight and Fluttershy. "If you're wondering how we pay for all of this, I wonder a bit as well. Adagio's usually the one that works that part out."

"But she's having what we call an existential crisis right now. She can't handle the fact that she's got my old grumpiness," Aria cut in. "But she should adjust pretty soon. I mean, I did thanks to Sonata's bubbliness. Never been better."

"So, I just want to ask before we go on. You girls aren't evil anymore like the rest of the Rainbooms seem to think?" Twilight lifted a finger, then hastily retracted it, taking the Dazzlings' feelings into account. "N-not that you are evil. I just want to make sure that my friends aren't running some kind of smear campaign against you."

"Oh, the girls are still bitter about what we did at Canterlot. And, well, they have every right to be. We only just broke the friendships that everyone worked so hard to make, moulding good vibes into bad ones so that we could feed off of it and stay alive for another few days. Or weeks." Sonata lifted a finger. "Still, that time's passed. I've got no plans on hurting people anymore. Just as long as I can sing, I'm happy as can be."

"Plus, the Rainbooms are the Rainbooms. They're not exactly the brightest lightbulbs in the pack. I mean, there's a walking western movie stereotype; the fashion diva; Sonata but without powers; the cocky rainbow-haired kid; you but not really you, Twilight; socially awkward Fluttershy; and Sunset Shimmer." Aria twisted her wrist. "Still, I guess you could call it friendship; given how the seven of you make rainbow lasers rain down from the sky and everything."

"I would be offended by all of that, but I'm trying to see you girls from an unbiased point of view. Especially given how the girls wanted to physically hurt you." Twilight just put her hands to her sides, giving the Dazzlings a stare.

"I mean, I've got a lot of things I want to say to you and your boss, but I'm not really in the mood for it right now. I want to give you girls another chance as well. You seem awfully good to be around after the fact that you tried to brainwash CHS," Fluttershy added, meekly nodding to them.

"Guess it's probably because of these new personalities we've got." Aria rubbed the back of her head, catching strands of blue hair as her fingers combed it. "It definitely adds to the whole redemption shtick."

"In any case, I think we should discuss that matter while we show you around. Better to walk and talk than to just sit around and do nothing all day." Sonata jogged to the stairs, laying her arm across the bannister. "Come along, Not-Twilight, Fluttershy. We've got quite a lot to show you."

"Ooh! Ooh! Can we take them to our rooms first?" Aria thrust her arm up and shook it vibrantly. "If we're lucky, we can catch some funny shows too!"

"Sure we can, girl." Sonata pulled Aria in close, gave her a short hug, then let her free so that the two of them could coordinate Twilight and Fluttershy's visit "That's what sisters are for, right?"

"Wait. You're... sisters?" Twilight's pupils slightly shrank. "As in... born in the same family?"

"Yep! Adagio is too. She's the biggest sister out of the three of us. That's why she leads the group." Sonata nodded.

"So, where's Adagio now? Shouldn't she be with you two at all times?" Twilight asked, pointing towards the two personality-swapped sirens.

"Did you girls have a falling out with each other since the last time we saw you?" Fluttershy asked, pulling some hair aside as she strolled up to the two sirens.

"Oh, no. Nothing like that. Adagio would never throw us out like that. We're pretty much all she's got left outside of this house and that new crystal she got." Aria shook her head, crossing her arms. "Plus, she's carrying all of my old anger. I wouldn't be surprised if she's down at the local Hot Topic, trying to find something that'll work for her new look."

"ANYWAYS, we're burning daylight over here." Sonata immediately thrust her arm out, silencing the conversation. "We promised you a house tour, and all we're talking about is about the past and stuff that we'd rather not want to talk about." She returned her hand to her side. "This is our foyer. It's pretty big but totally boring without all of the bells and whistles we've added to it. Dagi was thinking on converting this into some kind of fashion show catwalk, but then we'd have nowhere to go when it came to getting out unless climbing out of the window was an option."

"And from that height, don't even try it. Sonata did before the CHS stuff, she almost ended up breaking whatever bones she got in this new world," Aria looked over to her sister, namely towards the aforementioned legs, giving them a small tap with the side of her boot.

"It took us a few shopping trips to get all of the stuff that we needed to make sure that this place was as good as it could be. Even now, we're still trying to figure out what in the heck we're trying to do with all of this stuff. I swear, if there was a fourth Dazzling, she should've taken up a hobby in decorating..." Sonata rolled her eyes. "But regardless, we're probably gonna change it sooner or later. Maybe even later today if we can remember to do it."

"Oh, I'm sure that we could help you decorate some time, girls." Fluttershy smiled a little bit more as she walked towards the sirens. Admittedly, she had never been a fan of magical things, but to see two former villains change their attitude and show that through their innocence and swapped personalities changed her perspective. "I mean if you want us to help you after what we did to you at the Battle of the Bands."

"Again, it's no biggie. Really. We were able to fix ourselves after that." Sonata idly tipped her hand before dashing up the stairs with Aria. "Now come on, girls. I think it's time to show you around our rooms."

Twilight and Fluttershy followed after Aria and Sonata, many thoughts awash through their minds. For all that the Dazzlings had done, for all that the Rainbooms had done to them in retaliation, were their friends really in the right for constantly throwing insults and claims over the three of them and their past behaviour? Sure, there was some proof in the pudding, but the three former sirens were working to change everyone's perspectives on them. Or at least, two of them were. That had to account for something, didn't it?

"Now, our three rooms are just on the right here, girls." Sonata ran on ahead, opening each of the three doors open wide for the lot of them, taking no heed to the signs on each of them that read out each of their rooms and the warnings on Aria's. "Adagio's is filled with all sorts of clutter. That's just because she wants to know everything about this new world, seeing as how we were thrown into it from Equestria thanks to a bunch of stuffy old folks. Aria's room looks bleak and miserable, but that's just because we've yet to give it a makeover. And my room? Well, let's just say you'll see so many plushies and pink stuff that it'll make anything that your little bubbly friend has seem boring."

It only took one look into each of the Dazzlings rooms to prove Sonata's words correct. Adagio's room was filled with a nimiety of objects. Some that Twilight and Fluttershy knew all too well, while the others were stuff that they had only seen in pictures or for the first time in their lives. As for Aria's, true to Sonata's words, the place had dark wallpaper, a set of skull ornaments, and a bed that was on the verge of collapsing from how tattered the frame and mattress were. Finally, with Sonata's room, the colours instantly clashed for the two Rainbooms, causing them to shield their eyes momentarily, trying to adjust their hues to the overtones of pink.

"So... are you normally this fine sleeping in a fully pink room, Sonata?" Fluttershy asked, trying to make something out in the room that wasn't overly drowned in the colour. "Not even Pinkie Pie has this much in her room, and I've slept in it."

"Sleepover or... other purposes?" Sonata asked, cocking a brow at Fluttershy.

"Sleepover," said Fluttershy, avoiding the assumption that Sonata was making.

"Personally, yeah, it's getting a bit too painful to look at, now that I've got Adagio's level-headedness. I suppose I should make some changes, maybe cut down on some of the stuffed animals." Sonata took a peek into the room herself. "But then I'd have to decide who to throw out, making a moral conflict in my head which would make me hallucinate and make me think all of my toys were alive and were begging me not to let them go and—"

"I'll take them off your hands!" Aria threw her arm up out of nowhere, attracting the gazes of everyone else on the platform. "I mean, I've got Sonata's personality bubbling up in here, so I don't mind having them instead." She blushed, dropping her arm and rubbing it. "That is... well if you want me to, Sonata. I-I don't want to be too much of a bother." Aria blushed, taking a step backwards.

"Oh? Aria?" Sonata was also in a state of shock, due in part to the fact that she had never in all of her years ever witnessed Aria willingly want to take Sonata's plushes not out of anger or spite, but rather because she was having an issue with them. Of course, a fraction of it also diminished thanks to the memory that it was the crystals that were changing them, but still, Sonata couldn't muster up any words for a few moments. "I... I never knew that you had an interest in my toys."

"I... I never did until now! Look at them..." Aria slid in through the doorway, bounding over towards the conglomerate of toys. "Back when I was a big, bad meanie, I never really had the time to appreciate Mr Stuffington, Mr Cuddlebutt, Esquire Huggles the 3rd, Sally the Snuggle Snake, Octavio Squeezybro, all of them! This whole new lease on life's totally changing my perspective, Sonata. As it is for you, and for Dagi." She slapped her hands over her mouth. "I even copied you. You used to call her Dagi all the time too!"

"Okay... Now, I'm pretty sure that all these changes really are starting to show." Sonata just stood, gobsmacked at the sight of Aria, watching as she dived in, scooped up as many plushes as she could and gave them a hug. "Oh well. It's not like they're doing us any harm, right?"

"I'm so goddamn sick and tired of having this stupid fucking anger problem!" Adagio seethed, her hands clawing through the forest that was her puffy, purple hair. "Crystal or no crystal, I need myself back. I just want to be my old orange-haired, level-headed, capable-of-handling-anything Adagio Dazzle self back. But I've no clue how I'm gonna do that without your friends carrying pitchforks and torches against me. Add to the fact that Aria and Sonata are doing who knows what who knows where and I'm screwed six ways from Sundance, Sunset..." Finished with her rant, Adagio's arms limply collapsed as she took a moment to breathe.

"I know that you're mad, Adagio, but raging isn't gonna change a thing. Look. All we need to do is get both sides to stop fighting and make a compromise. I tell the girls not to bully you and your friends anymore, and you stop hounding us for evil magic to feed yourselves." Sunset reached over Adagio, squeezing her shoulder gently.

"Yes, yes. I know. No need to drill it into my brain like some deluded prophet at a church or something..." Adagio spat, shuffling her body away from Sunset. "I stop hurting the people here, your friends never see us again, everyone's happy-go-lucky. Bleh. Y'know, not everything has to be all sunshine and rainbows."

"True, but you don't have to be the catalyst for all of this world's problems, Adagio. You or your sisters." Sunset crossed her arms, staring down upon Adagio. "If you have to feed off of anger to keep yourself alive, then could you at least not cause that anger in the first place?"

"It doesn't work that way, Sunset. Equestrian laws of physics is a real bitch, isn't it?" Adagio countered with her own folded arms. "According to those laws, we have to make them angry in order to eat. Otherwise, we starve. And then we die. And then there's a funeral service. And you feel very guilty for not making us eat. See where I'm going with this?"

"Yeah. And it just makes me glad I left that world behind. Magic really is a bit twisted back there," said Sunset. "Look, Adagio. I won't stop you from trying to eat, just as long as you do it within reason. Can't you just... oh, I don't know, go online and find some kind of corner of the internet where people are always angry?"

"Do I look like a beggar to you, Sunset Shimmer of Canterlot High?" Adagio lifted a brow. "For your information, I tried to do that once I discovered the internet had some people like that. But sadly, our songs only work if there are people physically having a dispute with someone in real life, not over the internet like some sad, pathetic soul who doesn't have anything better to do..."

"In any case, we should be approaching the shop. If my memory is correct..." Sunset just rolled her eyes at Adagio, then continued down her path. She never liked this corner of the town, mostly because of how easy it was for shifty folk to prey on her and any others who weren't prepared. "But be prepared for him to say no refunds to you, Adagio."

"If he does, I hope that he's got a damn good dentist..." Adagio puffed and planted her hands in her pockets. "Or at least knows how to defend himself."

"Man... Aria's bad vibes are really beginning to bury into Adagio's mind. I should get this cleaned up as fast as possible before Adagio decides to turn her newfound rage on me, my friends or everyone else she thinks pisses her off." Sunset whispered to herself as she ran on ahead, trying to see if the shop was still open, or whether or not the shopkeeper himself was even there. "I just hope that the other Dazzlings aren't having a total breakdown like she is."