Anon-a-miss: The Nuclear Option
Chapter 4: The Right Name, Dirty Deeds, and Fire. (edited)
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Sunset sat in a chair in the Dazzlings house, well mansion really, as Aria removed the stitches from her hand while Sonata did something on her laptop and Adagio sat at her piano playing. "Okay, the biggest problem with trying to use what you have the same way Anon-a-miss did on Mystable is we would get flagged in a heartbeat with some of this stuff, but there is a work around. Porn companies have links to their website on their page and share links for new videos on their website as soon as they are up. It's the same thing with news sites and game makers as well. Plus this gives us more control since on a website we would make the rules." Sonata explained before adding "The only really, really, really big issue I have is how boring it is." With that she turned the computer towards Sunset so she could see a blank website called the Furies.com.
"The Furies?" Sunset asked.
"We bought up a lot of domain names for different mythical groups of females and now use them when ever we need a site for something. Well all except for The Fates or any of the other names they have gone by, the Valkyries, and the Gorgons after we were ask not to." Aria said as she finished removing the stitches and checking them over for any signs of infection.
"More magical creatures you've met?" Sunset asked.
"Nah, we never actually met Stheno face to face when she warned us off from behind a pillar in the old, abandoned temple she lived in at the time and pointed out all the statues of everyone who didn't listen to the last Gorgon. She was nice enough to talk to and then later we sort of became her pen pals which led to e-mails and now she's one of our online gaming friends. She asked us not to buy the Gorgons domain name and gave us a message from one of the Fates, Atropos, not to even both with the Fates or any of their other names and they would make sure we got the domain name for the Sirens." Aria said as she finished looking over her work and flopping down on the sofa. "And you know about us being there for a lot of wars. Well we saw the Valkyries plenty of times and we kind of had an unspoken professional courtesy deal with them. If the person could be saved they would leave them to us and if the person couldn't be saved we moved on to someone else and leave them to their work. More recently we've seen a couple of them around town before the battle of the bands. If you see five very muscular women on motorcycles around town that's most likely them."
"I was just thinking, you're no longer a Rainboom and the Dazzlings are a dead end, so why not?" Adagio said from the piano, "You've have a good voice and can play guitar, if we make the Furies a band so we can add an extra twist as far as the Rainbooms go."
"I thought we were going to be doing this like Anon-a-miss or did you forget?" Sunset frowned as she asked.
Thinking about it for a moment Adagio asked, "Sonata, do we still have Kijo still on the list or did we give it to Koemi?"
"She said she didn't want to attract their attention so we still have it." Sonata told her before asking, "Why?"
"Oh, that would be because the Sirens and the Furies myths are both Greek and easily connected to us by anyone with half a brain." Adagio said with a devious smile. "The Kijo on the other hand are Japanese demonesses, something not easily connected to us." Then she said to Sunset, "You just have to love a world with so many myths and legends and no one just sitting in an easy to reach location that you can point to and say, 'she's the one who raises the sun.'"
"Okay, we have a band name." Sunset said. "How does that effect the Rainbooms?"
"You're sitting in a room with several thousand years of experience in the music industry in one form or another." Adagio said as she began playing again. "We have performed every style of music you can imagine. We've played every instrument you can name. We've known many of the great composers and song writers this world has produced in the last thousand years. We've performed in the greatest opera houses on earth and the dirtiest dives for our supper." She then stopped and looked at Sunset again with a cocked eyebrow and said, "Name any band and a style they never performed in and we'll do one of their songs in that style."
"AC/DC as lounge singers." Sunset said with a smirk as the other two walked over and joined Adagio at the piano.
"And here I thought it be something hard." Aria said as Sonata giggled before getting serious as Adagio began playing.
Sunset's mouth dropped as the Sirens sang and by the end she was humming along and tapping her foot with them. "Okay, I admit that was amazing?" She said after they finished.
"A few years as the Dusk Sisters here and there in Vegas and L.A. between identities and two or three decades to avoid suspicion." Adagio explained. "We've got disappearing as one person and reappearing as someone else in a different city or country down to a science. The main thing is to always remember cops look into supposed deaths a lot closer than a missing temperamental artists who has threaten to 'just walk away from it all one of theses days' several times. Oddly enough it was one really persistent tabloid reporter that actually got the closest to catching us."
"He spent 45 years chasing us, so we gave him a really long interview before he retired and then we disappeared again. The tabloid ran it under the title of 'The Confessions of The Alien Teenage Immortal Vampire Musicians.'" Sonata told her. "He even wrote a book and sold it to a movie studio that made it into a cheap B-movie in the 80's, 'Alien Teenage Rock Vixens'."
"They play it sometimes downtown at that theater that plays old classic movies on B-movies Wednesdays." Aria added.
"There's a theater that does that?" Sunset asked.
"Some cities have them because some people want to see the classics in a real theater." Adagio said, "Everyone has seen Star Wars, but have you ever seen it in a theater on a big screen? Then there's Gone With The Wind, Kelly's Heroes, The African Queen, The Music Man, Staying Alive, The Wizard of Oz, Snow White and The Seven Dwarves, Superman, and of course Charlie Chaplin in The Kid, all of which are magical when seen in a real theater."
"Even the B-movies are better in a theater like Attack of The Killer Tomatoes, The Toxic Avenger, Hell Comes To Frog Town, Deathstalker 2, Them, Plan 9 From Outer Space, The Blob, Attack Of The 50 Ft. Woman, Death Race 2000, and Class of Nuke' Em High." Sonata chipped in. "Just don't sit between Aria and Discord unless you don't mind having hair that smells like popcorn and digging milkduds out of your bra." Starting an argument over Aria's on going war with CHS's janitor at the theater.
"And here is our music studio." Adagio said as she finished showing Sunset around their home while Aria and Sonata had been arguing in the living room. "Which has doubled as a therapy room more times than I wish to count."
"Therapy room?" Sunset asked as she wandered around the studio noting all the different instruments on the wall and a few certain instruments positioned at each one of their obvious little corners of the room. A bass guitar, an electric cello, a flute, and DJ's mixing table that all looked like they had lost a fight with a demented 9 year old armed with glitter, stickers, and a bedazzler in one corner, most likely Sonata's area. Next was a drum set with 'Kiss My Bass' on the bass drum that screamed Aria, an electric violin, a saxophone, and a trumpet.
"As I have pointed out before, we are all over a thousand years old." Adagio said while watching Sunset explore the room. "We each have our issues and both of us would be here all day if I tried to list all of them so I'll give you the short, short version. Aria is temperamental at best, Sonata is a maniac, and I know I can be a bitch. As for Therapy, music has been literally a part of us for so long that it's only natural that we discovered the therapeutic qualities of certain types of music very early on. Performing a string trio works as group therapy for us and each of us has instruments we've been known to play for hours on end until what ever set us off has been worked out of our system. Then there is singing of course, you can express how you really feel through the right song and afterwards you feel much better for it."
"Well then Dr. Adagio, what would you prescribe for me then?" Sunset ask as she examined Adagio's corner with her keyboard, electric viola, an electro harp like she saw the Harp Twins use on Haytube, and an older black keytar that had been opened up and obviously had it's insides replaced and plugged into a laptop that was downloading something into it.
"Seeing Rarity's reminded me I had one from 30 years ago and I decided to restore it, but it has turned into a major overhaul and upgrade." Adagio said, noticing Sunset looking at it as she pulled a tablet from a charger, scrolled through it, and then set it on a music stand near a microphone. She then spent a few minutes with her keyboard and another tablet. "As for my prescription for you, I can think of several, but I think one of the good parodies of a Disney song would both help you and suit you much better than anything else."
Walking over to the mic she looked at the tablet before saying, "You've got to be kidding me."
"Read the lyrics." Adagio said from her keyboard.
Looking through the lyrics Sunset began to smile, "Okay, I can do this."
Neither of them noticed Aria as she slipped in with her phone out and recording it or Sonata coming in half way through with her laptop. At one point Adagio yell, "Let it all out and really put yourself into it." Soon Sunset began to really get into it and ponied up.
"Whoo!" Sonata yelled as she rushed forward and gave Sunset a hug.
"Okay," Aria said as she stopped recording. "That way better when we're not getting blasted."
"It was as Awesome as a Possum." Sonata shouted.
"What?" Sunset asked confused.
"Long story, don't worry about it." Adagio said. "But I bet you feel a lot better now than before."
"Yeah, I do." Sunset admitted.
"Then you're ready for this." Sonata said as she sat her laptop down on her mixing table and stepping aside to show them a page with a Japanese demoness and the words 'Kijo.com because Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned. Nor Hell a fury like a woman scorned.' Below that was link after link to files. "Because of the legality of some of the documents, videos, and pictures I had to get creative and used several dozen proxies through countries where the laws are more relaxed or are almost non-existent as far as this type of thing goes. Even if they can get through the mess to track it it'll lead them to a server farm in China near their boarder with North Korea and buried about as deep as Filthy Rich's great great grand mother Gold Digger's first gold mine was. So trying to trace it any further will result in them being stonewalled by the Chinese government, who still owe us a few favors." Sonata explained. "The only way to connect us to any of this would be through the monster in the basement and I built that, as well as helped build the first computers, the first transistors, the first micro chips, the internet, and the dark web so I know more about how all of it works better than they do and I have some 'friends' that are a bajillion times smarter than me who will tear them a new one if they mess with me. And trust me, you don't want my 'friends' to be pissed at you." For a moment Sonata got a creepy smile on her face and a crazed look in her eyes before shaking herself and going back to her normal happy self. "So now all you have to do is just hit enter and then click OK and we're in business, but you better be absolutely sure before you do this. I mean do you really want to do this? Is their anyone else, other than the ones you told me not to put in there, that you changed your mind about? Anyone you think should be kept out and given another chance since once you do this there is no going back?"
"You kept Snips, Snails, and all the others out of this right?" Sunset asked as she looked at the laptop.
"Even that DJ and her girlfriend." Sonata said.
"How about..." Sunset started.
"Derpy, her baby, and her baby's daddy are safe." Sonata said.
"And Flash?"
"There wasn't anything on Mr. Cute Buns" Sonata said before saying in a sultry voice. "Though I wouldn't mind seeing him in my bed without anything on. Maybe later we can kidnap him and show both of you what several thousand years of experience means in the bedroom."
"Wha..."Sunset sputtered as she began blushing bright red.
"And there is the Sonata that got excommunicated 27 time for unlawful carnal knowledge." Aria said as she face palmed.
"This from the girl who was excommunicated 53 times for inhumana opus iniquitatis." Adagio said before saying, "Just ignore what she said and move on Sunset. Trust me dwelling on it only makes it worse."
Finally after a few minutes Sunset looked at the laptop and thought about it. On one hand she would be hurting a lot of people, ripping apart families, and destroying lives, but on the other hand so was Anon-a-miss, only it was a slow drips like an infection and this was quickly ripping off the bandage and cleaning out the wound. As she thought about it she remembered one time Princess Celestia took her with her to watch over a farm being burned to the ground by the royal guards. There had been a blight and the Princess had explained that if the blight wasn't completely destroyed here and now it would spread to the neighboring farms. The farmer whose farm it was knew this, but couldn't bear to do it himself and had asked the Princess to do it for him. That was why she had brought Sunset with her. To teach her that sometimes the best you could do was to do what others could not bring themselves to do for themselves.
Canterlot High School had a blight and right now she was the one holding the torch. Reaching out she hit enter and then clicked OK and, like Princess Celestia had done herself, she dropped the torch.
Next Chapter: The Bitches Are Back (edited) Estimated time remaining: 1 Hour, 51 MinutesAuthor's Notes:
After many rewrites and rethinks this chapter is done.
Stheno was one of Medusa's sisters and was turned into a Gorgon as well. Some legends state that only Medusa was mortal, but it's unclear what happened to the other two.
Atropos is one of the three fates and is the fate that cuts the thread of everyone's life.
Yes, Sonata is a crazy, perverted mess that could hack the CIA with a rubber band, a tooth pick, a cheap calculator, a paper clip, and a can of spam but only because their computer system and every other system out there is based off things she helped build.
The next chapter is going slow and I need more ideals for what secrets are about to come out to go with the dozen or so I already have. Just put them in the comments and remember 'No Holds Barred' as far as ideals go.