"... and that was when I woke up on the floor with the kids and waiting for you three." Sunset finished telling them everything as they ate the veggie pizza Sonata had picked up on the way back.

Sonata was the first to speak after she finished. "First we rent a bulldozer and then...."

"No!" Both Aria and Adagio said at the same time.

"But.." Sonata tried again.

"No!" Adagio said again. "What ever your planning involves rape, murder, arson, and summoning Cthulhu and we are fresh out of virgins and a volcano to toss them in to send him home."

"Isn't Cthulhu fictional?" Sunset asked Aria.

"Yeah, but we generally talk her out of trying after that whole mess in Japan with the five tailed Kitsune." Aria told her while trying to ignore the argument on why Sonata couldn't just go Genghis Khan on them. "Koemi was okay with everything, but given some of the other myths floating around this world we try to avoid it on general principle." Then she laughed and pulled a Christmas card out of her jacket and showed it to Sunset. It had a nude Japanese teenage girl with six fox tails proudly displayed looking over her shoulder at the camera and another, slightly shorter, Japanese teenage girl with big bushie raccoon tail and glasses also looking over her shoulder. It read 'Here's hoping you get as wonderful of a Christmas gift as us this holiday season.' "We're not too sure where she found Aiko, the Tanuki with her, or how she earned her extra tail, but the two of them are good friends. I Just have to remember to stock up on a lot of rice wine and I do mean a lot as in gallons of the stuff when ever they visit."

"Are they the only magical beings you've met in this world?" Sunset asked as Sonata yelled something about the Salem witch trials and how showing them real power would have saved lives in the long run.

"Well we did meet Ipsa in India, she's a Naga, and helped sneak her into America to raise an baby Naga named Aadarsh as a favor to Koemi and Aiko." Aria said thinking about it. "Plus there were those drunk leprchauns that kidnapped Adagio, but they gave here back the next morning when they discovered the joys of Adagio without coffee plus a hangover equals a very bad ideal. Oh, and Sonata says she met some goblins once when we were in Germany, but other than that we've tried to avoid meeting the local myths and legends crowd on the off chance we might run into something way too powerful and decidedly unfriendly."

"I'd love to meet some of them and find out how their magic works and if it can help me understand how magic works here." Sunset told her.

"Don't bother, Koemi and Aiko's magic is so completely different from Equestrian that Adagio gave up after three centuries of trying to figure it out. If you didn't see them using it you wouldn't even know it was there and we wasted $20,000,000.00 dollars a few years ago to see if it could be detected by any modern science equipment and got nothing." Aria explained. "As for Ipsa, she took Aadarsh and disappeared. Koemi and Aiko might know where she is, but they made us promise to leave her alone if we find her."

"Okay, what about the leprechauns then?" Sunset asked.

"I'm the only one who knows their exact location and they put a geas on me to keep me from telling or leading anyone to where they are." Adagio said as her and Sonata finished their argument.

"And the Goblins said they were just passing through this universe on their way to another." Sonata said before adding. "I'm going to fix us some tea unless you don't have any."

"Tea is fine." Sunset told her as she headed for the kitchen.

"Now you need to decide what to do about CHS, your 'friends', and Anon-a-miss." Adagio began as soon as Sonata left "If you want to just walk away from the whole mess that's fine, but I'll have to convince Filthy to have Diamond Tiara transfered to Crystal Prep and figure out what to do about the others. That isn't even taking into account all of Anon-a-miss's other victims who haven't really done anything to you or betrayed you like the rainbooms did."

"Then there's Gilda and all the students that helped her try to kill you plus Rainbow Dash leading you straight into that trap with the text. I can't see them not wanting to make sure the one person who can point to them in court and say 'That's the people that tried to kill me your honor' isn't well and truly dead just to save their own skin." Aria pointed out. "Even if most of them don't go back to the factory just to make sure, one of them might have a rape fantasy and the perfect victim, meaning they might already know you escaped. Then there's the fact that you will still need your transcripts from the school to transfer to anyplace else if you want to finish school. All it will take is one person asking about you at the school office, the gossip spreading about you changing schools, and then the ones involved will know and be after you yet again."

"And you're still technically an exile like us, so going home is out, especially since they know what you look like over there." Sonata yelled from the kitchen. "Sure, Princess Twilight might be one of your besties, but your exile is from the big mare herself, Princess Celestia. So unless she pardons you, your still on the list with us and the bug queen, Chrysalis and breaking exile is a one way trip to being turned to stone in the garden, being imprisoned in a volcano or a cave deep in the ocean, or sent to Tartarus."

"The point is," Adagio jumped in again, "you either need to move very far away from here or hit them so hard they wouldn't dare try anything against you ever again. Ideally in a way that shows them you can hurt them in a dozen different way other than sending them to jail for attempted murder. This is especially true for Gilda who would only come out of jail hell bent on getting revenge. With someone like her you need to show her you can not only hurt her, but everything she loves and holds dear as well. She needs to fear coming after you or she'll just keep coming back again and again until she kills you."

"And all of this still doesn't deal with Anon-a-miss." Aria pointed out. "All they have to do is stir up more trouble until another group of idiots try again. What we need is a way to beat them at their own game only worse and widespread enough that it might actually hit them and hurt them or someone they care about, They most likely won't stop until it actually hits too close to home." Thinking about it she added, "So long as it's just a game to them they keep doing it, but when it becomes real and isn't fun anymore they'll stop."

"Unfortunately we didn't goto CHS long enough to gather any secrets like what we need." Adagio said. "It might take awhile to get anything we can use when we come back in after the holidays."

"Wait, their letting you come back to CHS?" Sunset asked.

"They had to, magically brain washing the school isn't against the rules. The best Principle Celestia could do was suspend us for about a month and a half for using non-approved special effects that injured our vocal cords and cheating by locking you and the Rainbooms in the storage room under the stage." Aria explained. "Besides we're mortal again and need to think of our futures."

"Then why not go to Crystal Prep after what happened at CHS?" Sunset asked.

"Because most of the students and staff might not know us there, but Principle Cinch would definitely remember us and isn't the type to let it go after what happened at the friendship games." Adagio told her. "Trust me, there's a reason she is so focused on beating CHS at every single friendship games since becoming the principle of Crystal Prep. If she could, she would burn it down and then bulldoze the ashes into the ground."

"Does Principle Celestia know about this?" Sunset asked.

"I don't see how since she would have been 7 or 8 at the time and Luna would have just started kindergarten when it happened." Adagio said. "The only one who might remember would be the janitor, Discord, since he was just hired when it happened."

"He called me Pop-Tunes when I met him just before the battle of the bands while the two of you were in the restroom checking your makeup." Sonata said as she came back with a tray with four steaming mugs, half and half, sugar, and her red velvet cookies. Adagio and Aria just gave her a look. "What? It's not the first time someone met us a second time later in life, Christmas Past." handing Adagio her tea before setting a mug down in front of where she had been sitting, "Present." Then handing Aria her tea, "And Future." Before finally handing Sunset her tea and setting down the tray and asking Sunset "Cream and sugar token George Bailey?"

"Cream and two sugars." Sunset said as she frowned, "And why am I the guy from It's a Wonderful Life?"

"Because he has a rough time at Christmas, but with a little help it get's better." Sonata said as she pulled out a spoon and fixed Sunset's tea for her and handing her a cookie. "And for us ~it wouldn't be the first time we played the good guys.~"

"Did you just sing?" Sunset asked in shock.

"Yeah, the blast only inflamed and strained our vocal cords when it destroyed our pendants, stripped us of our magic, and made us mortal again." Aria said as she snagged the spoon from Sonata and fixed her tea. "A few weeks of babying our voices like you would do with laryngitis and we were good again, minus the magical brain washing powers part." Snagging a cookie she then said. "We were planning to troll the school by entering sing 'The Bitch Is Back' by Elton John just to freak everyone out."

"Why would you want to do that? Sunset asked.

"We're already the 'Bad Girls' so we might as well enjoy it." Adagio said as she grabbed a cookie and waved it at Sunset and saying in the worst Darth Vader voice Sunset had ever heard, "Search you feelings Sunset, you know it to be true. Return to the Dark Side, we have cookies." It really didn't help that Aria was humming the Imperial March while Sonata was make choking sounds that might have been Vader's respirator if she hadn't forgot about the cookie she had been eating.

The next thing Sunset knew she was laughing so hard she was crying while Adagio slapped Sonata on the back to help her get the cookie out. She finally said, "It's not like I have that many options and I could do worse." Then she thought about it. "I just have one question: Why are you helping me?"

"This is all part of an elaborate revenge plot against the whole school by turning you evil again." Aria said with a straight face before laughing. "Nah, just kidding. You kind of remind us of ourselves. Sure, we took the much longer and harder route, but you're still another kid from Equestria who made mistakes, became a monster, got blasted for it, and now you're living with the aftermath and wondering what next."

"Also if we really wanted revenge all we would have to do is just sit back and watch Anon-a-miss tear the school apart instead of help you." Adagio said as Sonata coughed up the cookie. "I won't give you some nonsense about seeing the light and being totally reformed, but I will tell you we did have a lot of time to think after getting blasted and we can't really go back to being the way we use to be either. In a way this is us somewhere in the middle of sort of might be reformed and reaching out to someone who really needs a few friends who have her back."

Sunset looked at the three former sirens and thought about it. She had trusted the girls and look at where that lead to, but then again these three had been where she had been and knew what it was like. Looking down at her bandaged hand and thinking on the fact that they were here and helping her, the girl that was responsible for them losing the battle of the bands, while the girls she had trusted had not only turned their backs on her, but one of them had even helped Gilda try to kill her. In the end it was the Dazzlings actions that spoke louder than the girls easily said and quickly forgotten words that decided things for her. Smiling she said, "Like I said before, I could do worse and did. Just don't stab me in the back like Rainbow Dash."

"We won't." Adagio said.

"Then let me tell you about what is inside my safety deposit box..." Sunset said with a smirk as she told them about her last best stash of secrets and blackmail material and how there were a bunch of files in there from a private investigator she had hired before the fall formal, but he hadn't got back to her until a few days afterwards with some really explosive information. At one point during the talk Aria convinced her let them stay the night so she can keep an eye on her since she did take a few blows to the head and passed out. In the morning she called in to school sick and just skipped the last day before the holiday in favor of going to the bank and opening her safety deposit box instead. Come the day after New Year's CHS wouldn't know what hit it.

Author's Notes:

No Koemi and Aiko are not really in this story, but might get added later. I decided to use them to show why the Sirens tend to avoid looking too deeply into various myths and legends since they got lucky once or twice but there are some really scary things hiding in the deep dark places of the world.

Aiko

Koemi

Aadarsh

Ipsa

Is it just me or can you picture the leprechauns kidnapping Adagio as well?

Sonata might be a magnet for weirdness.

I thought about it and finally flipped a coin, (then dug it out from under the sofa and flipped it again) so yes the Dazzlings can sing and the Rainbooms (and you) are in for a surprise.

The sirens are not totally reformed, but they are not evil anymore as well. They are in that grey area between being villains and being good guys and had already planned to have fun with being the 'Bad Girls'.

What's in Sunset's safety deposit box and what did the private investigator dig up? Let's just say one secret will hit very close to home for Anon-a-miss and also the school staff is not off limits.