Sunset Shimmer set quietly in her favorite chair as she relaxed reading her copy of Faust one of the many books Twilight had gifted her over the past year. All of a sudden however her peaceful relaxation was interrupted when Sonata let out a rather loud and unexpected random shriek!

"W-what's wrong!?" Sunset asked in surprise as she almost fell out of her chair.

"S-something bad happened to Dagi!" Sonata screeched.

"W-what, how do you know!?" Sunset asked rather confused.

"I-I can just feel it. C'mon we have to go, you gotta call everybody and we gotta go now!" Sonata panicked as she jumped off the couch and headed towards the door.

"Sonata wait for m-" Sunset shouted at the girl as she fell out of her chair face hitting the wood floor. "Wait for me" She moaned as she got out her phone and began to speed dial her friends. If Sonata was right and Adagio was in trouble, something told her it was indeed a good idea to have back-up.

Back at the park Aria continued to stare in disbelief at what she was seeing, a dark mirror version of her sister standing there staring at her giving a sly meanicing smile. "W-what the hell are you!" Aria asked again.

"Ahh, I already told you, i'm your big sister." The imitation adagio smiled.

"No-no you're not you're not Adagio, you-you're something else, something-wrong" Aria stuttered as she slowly backed away the creatures dark aura becoming quite evident at this point. She could not retreat fully however as the actual Adagio still lie unconscious behind it, her energy drained and her skin pale her hair partially gray.

"So mean, so defensive" The shadow Adagio whined. "It's not like i'm going to hurt you or anything, well-not unless you want me too" The shadow Adagio devilishly chuckled. Aria just gulped but stood her ground none the less, she knew she couldn't run and if this thing, this impostor wanted to fight, so be it.

Sunset huffed as she ran to catch-up with Sonata as she speed dialed as many people as she could. She had managed to get ahold of Twilight who said she would call the Shadowbolts and Pinkie who said she could get a hold of Dash, she had just finished calling Rarity who was thankfully already over at AJ's so it seemed most of the group was accounted for, the only two left...Juniper and Trixie. "Ugg, do I really have to call them" Adagio whined as she wheezed. "But if Adagio is in trouble they may be able to help, guess I don't have a choice." She consented. "Well one of the perks of being involved with all the events at CHS at least means I have near everyone's number" Sunset chuckled as she scrolled through her contacts and hit Juniper's icon.

Aria huffed as she ran, hiding in the bushes nearby the center of the park, the fake Adagio was actually much faster then she had anticipated as she had barely been able to block the creatures attacks even after ponying-up.

"Hehe, come out my little mutt, you can't hide from me forever you know!" She heard the creature's raspy voice sing as she looked out and saw it looking around for her, the dark magical aura growing ever stronger as did the creatures nails, now looking sharp like knives. "You know it doesn't have to be this way little one" The fake Adagio continued to coo. "If you just behave like a good little girl I'll give you what you want, what she couldn't, A lovers touch." The shadow of Aria's sister playfully mocked. This striking a cord with the girl as Aria jumped out from her hiding spot and began to attack the creature head on.

"How dare you! How dare you try to play with me like that!!" Aria screeched not caring for an already insulting mockery of her beloved leader trying to toy with her emotions like that.

"Hehe, oh did I strike a nerve little mutt?" The Faux-Adagio asked as she dodged Aria's attacks. Aria just angrily screeching as she did her best to try to land a blow.

Meanwhile back at the center of the park Sonata finally arrived and was dumbfounded by the site, she saw her sister Aria fighting someone that looked almost like Adagio, but also somewhat different, and there by the bench lay the real Adagio unconscious on the cobblestone ground.

"Dagi!" Sonata sobbed as she ran towards her fallen sister, grabbing her and laying her head close to her chest. "Oh thank Neptune, she's-she's still alive!" Sonata rejoiced. "Ahh, but she's unconscious again...how do I wake her up!?" Sonata bemoaned looking around the park and then an idea hit her. "Ahh yea, the fountain, I just gotta get some water on her face and that'll wake-her right up, or at least it always works in the movies!" Sonata cheered as she began to drag the unconscious Adagio towards the large fountain in the middle of the park's inner circle.

"So let me get this straight" Rainbow Dash began. "Sonata freaked out and ran off cause she said something bad had happened to Adagio?" Rainbow asked as she ran alongside the now winded Sunset shimmer "Ah-yeah, and then I called all of you." Sunset wheezed. "Good thing too cause i'd hate to miss out on a fight" Dash boasted. "So where are we headed anyway?"

"Well if I had to guess I would say the park, that always seems to be where we wind-up anyway...well there or the mall" Sunset chuckled. "Or the mall" Rarity added, Applejack just giving her one of those "Really" Faces.

"Well The Shadowbolt's were at Ocatavia's when I called them, but they said they would get with us as soon as they could, i'll text Soursweet and tell them where to meet" Twilight stated as she grabbed her phone from her pocket.

"Oh, I just hope we get there in time" Fluttershy worried.

"Don't worry Fluttershy, i'm sure no matter what big-bad mean meanie pants is after our friends we'll be able to beat em!" Pinkie Pie smiled at the anxious girl.

"Ugg, she is sooo annoying" Trixie whined.

"Well, you could have stayed home you know" Juniper angrily chimed in.

"Pfft, as if, The Great And Humble Trixie always helps her friends!" The showgirl boasted, Juniper just rolling her eyes as she did her best to keep up with the rest of the group.

Sounds of concrete smashing and trees falling echoed through the park as Aria continued her fight with...well whatever it was that had started all this as Sonata finally got Adagio to the fountain. "OK Dagi, easy does it" She nervously chuckled as she propped her unconscious sister against the water filled display. "Just a little should do, right!?" Sonata tried to reassure herself as she clasped some of the cold water in her hands and splashed it in her sleeping elder sister's face. At first there was no reaction but then she heard a low moan coming from Adagio. "Ahh, almost there, maybe one more!" Sonata gasped as she quickly got another handful of water and splashed it on Adagio, the siren moaning once more and finally opening her eyes.

"S-Sonata!?" Adagio asked as her vision unblurred. "W-whats?" Adagio tried to ask as her weak voice struggled to come out.

"Well, I got this funny tingly feeling that told me you and Ari might be in danger so I came running over here and I found you unconscious on the ground so I dragged you over to the fountain and splashed some water on you ta wake you up!" The siren explained. Adagio still just looking tired and dumbfounded however.

Before Adagio could ask a follow up question a loud crash came from in front of the two as Aria fell down to the ground the fake Adagio standing mere feet away from her laughing.

"Hehe, well looks like the sisterhood's all here" The Faux Adagio cackled looking at Sonata and the weakened Adagio.

Before the beast could attack however the group heard a multitude of footsteps running their way, they looked and saw Sunset and The Rainbooms with Juniper & Trixie in tow running towards them.

"YAY, WE'RE SAVED!" Sonata cheered. The imposter Adagio just giving off a low growl as she turned around to face them.

"What the heck is going on and how the hay are you!" Sunset angrily asked looking at the pseudo-Adagio.

"Ugg, I wish everyone would stop asking that!" The creature growled. "But fine, since such a large audiance came to watch my show, I guess I can at least try to give you an answer" It cackled. "You see I was one thing and then I was nothing, and then I was just a part of a thing that fell off a bigger thing, until I became this thing" The shadow-Adagio attempted to explain.

"Huh?" The group asked with a confused look.

"OK, yea, that didn't even make sense to me!" Pinkie Pie added.

"Ugg, fine, you wan't to make it simple, I guess, oh... all you creatures need names don't you" The shadow whined. "Well then....you can call me Arpeggio Fade, at your service!" The mean looking girl chuckled with a bow.

"Fine, Arpeggio it is then, so tell us, why are you trying to hurt our friends!?" Sunset asked the wanna-be biker chick that had stolen Adagio's appearance.

"Hurt, no you misunderstand I was merely trying to put that mutt in her place" Arpeggio chuckled looking back at the injured Aria. "Afterall as the new leader of The Dazzlings it's only fitting I keep my minions in line" She evilly sang.

"A-as if i'd ever let a freak like you lead anything!" A weak voice boomed. Arpeggio looking back and seeing that Adagio was standing-up with the help of Sonata who was acting as a crutch to balance her sister's weight.

"Oh-so the failure still has some fight in her, good to know" Arpeggio growled.

"I-I won't let anyone hurt my sister's or my friends!" Adagio confidently stated, despite her weakened state.

"Yea, you tell that loser!" A new voice wrang out, the girls looking over and seeing that the Shadowbolt's had finally arrived.

"I don't know what the hell is going on here, but it looks like the new chick is just asking for a beating!" Indigo smiled looking over at Arpeggio.

"Ugg, look at the biker outfit, so gousch!" Sunny Flare added,

"Way too early 90's yo!" Lemon Zest teased.

"She looks like a dime store villain from a bad movie!" SourSweet mocked.

"And on top of that i'm guessing she's probably a huge bitch" Sugarcoat stated pushing up her glasses.

Arpeggio just looked at the rather large gathering of girls and began to laugh as loudly and manically as she could. "BWAHAHAHAA!!" The creature chortled. "Man, a whole little army of cute teen girls, i'm soo scared!" Arpeggio mocked.

"Yea, well-maybe you should be!" Rainbow Dash growled looking at the wannabe Siren. "C'mon girls, lets pony up!" Rainbow shouted as she grasped her geode tightly. the seven girls beginning to glow as they transformed into their magical girl costumes.

"pfft, show offs" Trixie grumbled. Juniper just rolling her eyes once again at Trixie's bone headed responses to what was happening around her.

"He, c'mon Shadowbolts, we may not have magic powers, but we can still kick ass too!" Indigo cheered as she got ready to fight. The rest of the Shadowbolts not looking quite as confident but knowing their was no arguing with the stubborn athlete just sighed and decided to follow her lead.

"Aww, how cute, you think your friendships will be able to beat me" Arpeggio chuckled. "But let me tell you something, no matter how strong your friendship is, it doesn't change one simple truth, your biggest enemy will always be yourself!" The faux-siren cackled as her eyes glowed red and a similar Aura formed around all the girl's shadows, save for Juniper and Trixie who were now hiding behind the bushes.

"W-what the hell is this!?" Dash asked in a panic as her feet began to tingle and her shadow began to rise-up from the ground slowly gaining form as the park light's shown down on it. the other Rainbooms and Shadowbolt's not fairing much better as their shadow's too began to spring to life.

"Oh-oh Celestia no!" Sunset panicked as she saw her shadow grown and stabilize into a demonic form she was all to familiar with, the demon she had turned into way back at the Fall Formal, Sunset Satan. Meanwhile Twilight too began to panic as she saw Midnight Sparkle come to life right before her eyes. "I told you I'd always be a part of you" The dark Twilight chuckled as she finished forming. Twilight just looking at the creature with pure unbridled terror.

Pinkie Pie looked around and noticed the chaos, Fluttershy running from a mean and flat out bitchy version of her self, AJ's shadow being super mean and yelling at how it was AJ's fault her parents were gone, and Rairty' we'll apparently Rarity's dark side just had really bad fashion sense as it was wearing a ridiculously mismatched outfit causing the fashionista to freak out.

"Hey, pay attention idiot!" She heard a familiar but slightly graviler voice boom as she shifted her attention back to her own dark side. The dark pink girl with straight hair and an angry scowl. "Chill Pinkamina i'll get to you when I get to you." Pinkie chided her shadow self. "Yea-right!" Pinkamina shouted. "You always say that and you never do! You care more about your friends then your own well being and you always ignore me!" Pinkamina shrieked. "You let everyone take advantage of you and you don't even care how much it hurts you, hurts us, you're awful Pinkie Pie, I HATE YOU!!!" Pinkamina shouted as she ran towards the girl a black knife forming in her hand. "I HATE YOU, AND I HATE US!!" Pinkamina shrieked as she attacked. "Well, that's just kinda sad" Pinkie replied non-chelauntly as she began to defend herself from well herself "Because you know, I really love us!" She smiled as Pinkamina prepared to strike.

The Shadowbolts aren't fairing much better as they too were facing their dark sides. Lemon having an alter-ego that apparently loved classical music to her dismay, and Soursweet's darkside being a savage beast that growled and in broken slurred speech mocked her for being a broken bi-polar weakling that no one would ever love and friends only put up with out of pity. Sunny Flare's alter was a mere pallet swap that didn't really seem that different in personality and quite frankly the girl was dissapointed in how lazy her shadow was, and Sugarcoat's surprisingly looked exactly the same, the two girls just staring at each other. The most notable however was Indigo who faced off against the demonic version of herself she had shortly become for a time.

"He, like i'm gonna let some demon beat me!" Indigo confidently smirked as she wiped the blood from the scratch on her cheek. "Fool, I am you!" The creature growled. "Yea, well then I guess i'll just have to kick my own damn ass then!" Indigo replied as she prepared for her next attack.

"well, looks like no one can save you now" Arpeggio devilishly chuckled as she turned around to face The Dazzlings who now had managed to all huddle together, Aria having slowly crawled to her sister's while the demon was distracted.

"He-I was just about to say the same thing to you" Adagio wheezed as she wrapped her right shoulder around Sonata to help retain her balance and placed her left hand in front of Aria in an attempt to protect her. "HEHE, Cute, but in the end a meaningless gesture" Arpeggio scolded as her eyes grew red and her claws began to grow.

"See Sunset, no matter what you do people in this world get hurt because of you, because you brought magic back to this world, everything you do just leads to others pain and misery!" Sunset Satan mocked as Sunset fell down on her back. "N, no that's not true!" Sunset sobbed as she closed her eyes. "oh honey, but it is, you left Equestria and spent years plotting revenge over a petty grudge against Celestia without thinking about the ramifications, and now this world is infected with magic, magic that can hurt these weak fragile humans and it's all your fault!" Sunset Satan laughed as she continued to mock the girl. Sunset could do nothing but continue to sob as the devil approached her until she surprisingly heard her dark side scream out in pain. She looked up and saw it was wiping exploding sprinkles out of it's eyes

"Cheer-up Sunset!" Pinkie smiled as she helped the downtrodden girl back-up. with a large smile on her face. "Don't listen to that big meanie, you and Princess Twilight didn't do anything wrong, sure magic is super silly here, but think of how much happier we've all been since it brought us together, it's thanks to you all our friendships are as strong as they are now" Pinkie Smiled reminding Sunset of all the good times they'd had. Sunset just wiped away her tears and nodded in agreement. "Thank you Pinkie, you're right.....Magic brought me to all of you, and my past is not today, I won't let my old sins dictate my actions or my feelings anymore! Sunset boldly stated as she stood firm in front of her dark shadow, the demon hissing and slowly moving back knowing its inevitable defeat was at hand.

Meanwhile back on the Shadowbolt's side of things the girls had easily defeated their dark sides and had began to help The Rianbooms, Fluttershy and Rarity's were fairly easy to take care of but Dashes and AJ's like the girls themselves were quite stubborn. "He, seems like these fakers just don't know when to give up" Dash wheezed looking over at Indigo. "Yea, guess we'll just have to knock more sense into em! Indigo smiled as the two girls reared back and jumped towards the imposers giving them both a firm kick to the face.

All around chaos ensued as Juniper and Trixie watched the girls fight the remaining demonic doubles. "W-what do we do!?" Trixie panicked. "I don't know but we have to find a way to help them!" Juniper nervously replied.

"Help them how!?" There's still like at least four evil doubles of our friends out there and that fake Adagio!" Trixie whined. And we don't even have any magical powers to help them with or anything!" The showgirl added.

"So what, the Shadowbolts don't have magic and they're fighting, so we can too!" Juniper added. "We just need too..." She thought as she looked around the brush and within her sight saw a rusty old pipe. "Ah-ha, I think I have an Idea!" Juniper smiled.

Arpeggio inched ever closer as she prepared to destroy The Dazzlings, her smile growing ever wider, her laugh ever deeper and more manacle!

"Well, guess this is it girls" Adagio nervously laughed looking at her sisters. "Just know that no matter what happens it's been one hell of a ride and I love you both, so much" She began to sob as she brought her sisters in close for a tight hug.

"Yea-b-best sisters ever" Sonata blubbed

"Together Forever, No Matter What" Aria calmly added as she closed her eyes and braced herself for what was coming. All of a sudden though the three heard a loud shriek and opened their eyes to see Arpeggio screeching out in pain a old pipe pierced through her with black goo leaking out the wound.

"DON'T YOU DARE, HURT OUR FRIENDS!!" Juniper and Trixie shouted as they pushed the pipe further into the beast causing it to hack up more black goo as it screeched out in pain. "Y-you-l-little bitches!" Arpeggio howled as she tried to remove the intrusive rusty thing.

"Hurry, now's our chance!" Sonata cheered. "C-chance for what!?" Aria asked rather confused as she saw Sonata place her palm on Adagio's the weak girls gemstones beginning to glow. Aria catching on and following suite. As the three girls clasped each other's palms their gemstones began to glow even brighter as a small rainbow aura began to appear around them.

"D-Damn it...No!!" Arpeggio growled as the rainbow energy began to grow until eventually it fully encased the girls and like a laser it shot straight at Arpeggio piercing every fiber of her dark being. "hehe, so I that's it....fine then" Arpeggio smirked as she began to fade away, the remaining shadows plaguing the others also following suite.

After all the enemies had faded away the girls began to walk towards The Dazzlings who were still laying down by the fountain recovering their energy. As they approached they noticed a strange jagged black stone sitting where Arpeggio had been.

"What's this?" Sunset wondered as she bent down to pick it up, as she did the black goo on it disinigrating revealing a bright shining rainbow stone underneath. Before Sunset could pick it up however it began to glow with a bright light as it seemed to fracture into pieces as smaller fragments of light shot out towards the Shadowbolts, Juniper and Trixie as the lights cooled and floated into each girls palm Sunset's eyes grew wide, she couldn't believe it, they were more magical geodes!

"Wh-what!" Sunset asked with a rather stunned face.

"Uh-what is this?" Trixie asked rather confused. The stone quickly answering as it glowed and caused the surprised girl to pony-up. Juniper and The Shadowbolt's doing the same as they too began to change, Indigo and Soursweet gaining wings just as their Rainboom Counterparts Rainbow Dash & Fluttershy had, though Sour seemingly having trouble controlling her's causing a panic as Sunny Flare did her best to help bring her back down by constructing a lasso out of energy. Sugarcoat just feeling of the pony ears now on her head. "Huh, interesting." The girl said in rather unimpressed voice, meanwhile Lemon was celebrating and Indigo was flying around laughing like an idiot. Juniper feeling her own ears and wondering why her hair was now longer.

"More Magical Girls....Really!?" Sunset moaned. "Ugg, I have enough Trouble as is, I do not need this!" Sunset whined.

"Don't worry Sunny, I-I'm sure everything will work out in the end, and hey, it never hurts to have more friends...right!?" Twilight nervously tried to reassure her.

"Yea, something tells me everything is going to be OK, Adagio weakly chuckled as she looked at her sisters feeling her strength slowly return to her.

Meanwhile from the shadows a cloaked figure looked on. "Huh, so that one wasn't one of the keys.... oh well-that's fine at least I got one of my missing pieces back, and the outcome was still rather....interesting" The cloaked figure chuckled as it dissapeared into the night.

Author's Notes:

Well that was a long, crazy and chaotic chapter, glad everything ended-up ok, sorta.... seventeen magical girls in one city though-poor Sunset she really has her work cut out for her now.

Anywho I know this chapter is a mess formatting wise but I was fighting against the clock to get it out, will come and fix it as best I can over the weekend. Thanks for reading none the less!

Next time the final chapter with some much deserved R&R for our heroines and maybe a sneak peek at what the future holds!! Thanks for following my crazy story over the past two months everyone!!