Sunset watched from the corner of her vision as her boyfriend went to save Applejack and Rainbow, a part of her wanted to keep close to him and help her two friends but the others needed her as well, she also knew that Big Mac was no pushover when it came to fighting, his gentle nature may be mistaken for cowardice but those who dare hurt his loved ones would find out just how ferocious he could be.

As soon as she saw Big Mac connect his first punch she turned her attention where flashes of magic were appeared and flew in that direction, she was surprised for how easy was to control her new wings, it was more like they knew what to do unlike when she was in Equestria and she needed to move them, in seconds she could see where her friends were and when she saw them her heart stopped for a second.

Rarity, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie were in the floor and motionless, at the far side of one container she spotted Twilight breathing in chunks and she looked like hell. Moving closer she dropped down near Fluttershy and quickly started to call for her.

"Fluttershy! Fluttershy please answer me!".

"Su...Sun...set? Oh you...finally made it... I'm... glad". With that Fluttershy was gone.

"Shy! Shy! No! Please!". Sunset almost broke down in tears when a thunderous snoring came out of the girl in her arms.

"Huf, thank God, she's just exhausted".

"Sunset? Sunset! It is you!". Twilight and Sunset crashed one another in a hug when they saw each other.

"Yes Twilight, sorry that it took this long but I'm finally here, please tell me, how are you girls".

"It is as you see, Fluttershy, Pinkie and Rarity are out".Twilight used her telekinesis to make Fluttershy float while Sunset lifted Rarity and took them next to the also unconscious Pinkie pie hiding all of them behind a couple of metal boxes.

"We did what we could to fight Adagio but she still managed to take us out one by one, only Aria and myself are left". Twilight explained with defeat hanging in her tone. "Then Aria started insulting Adagio more and more, calling her names and... other things, when Adagio decided chasing her she told me to run away and I did, I... I think she did it In purpose so that we could hide... and I was so scared, we have never fough magic like this! Nor in this way, it hurts, is painful I... I...". Twilight couldn't hold back her tears anymore and soon she was crying, then Sunset was hugging her again.

"I'm sorry Twi, I'm scared too, I'm worried for Applejack and Dash too".

"Huh, AJ and Rainbow! I forgot about them! How are they! Are they ok?".

"They will be fine, Mac went to their help". Another flash of magic appeared, closer than before. "That most be Aria, she's still fighting".

"What are we going to do Sunset?".

"I'll go where they are, meanwhile see if you can move our friends to the entrance where Cheerilee is waiting, you think you can do that?".

"I... I'll try".

"Good". Sunset hugged her one last time. "Be careful Twi, we'll be ok, don't worry".

"Thanks". With that Sunset took fly once more toward the place of the last flash, Twilight wished her good luck mentally untill she realized something. "Since when did she have wings?".

NOT FAR FROM THERE...
"Why! Won't! You! Die already!". Adagio yelled at the top of her lungs as she shot blast after blast of magic against Aria, long ago Aria give up on winning the fight and instead choose to distract her former partner just to annoy her before a lucky shot could finally put her down, it was fun at the beginning but now Aria was sure that Adagio wasn't going to leave even ashes of her remaining.

"You die first puffy bitch, then maybe... maybe I'll try". Aria said while hiding in a corner, another blast almost hitting her when she took a look. "Yikes!".

"You think you're funny? Just wait untill I get my claws on you! Then I'll have fun listening to your screams of agony!" Another blast forced Aria out of her hiding, she ducked and rolled two more of the same before her legs finally crumbled leaving her wide open.

Adagio didn't even blink when she shot, she wanted to enjoy the view of Aria's demise completely, for her part when Aria realize her situation she rolled up her body trying to make herself as small as possible but she knew deep down that it was pointless, so she waited for her end, kept waiting and nothing came, no pain or suffering.

Finally it was a gasp from Adagio and the loud screech of her teeth that got Aria to open her eyes finding herself at the back of an angel, ember wings and a flaming hair was all she could see. "The fuck?". She rubbed her eyes again but the vision didn't disappeared.

"You ok Aria?". Came the unmistakable voice of Sunset Shimmer.

"You? You... it's that... You?". Aria asked dumbfounded as to what was going on, one second ago she was kissing life good fucking bye and now she was behind the last person in her list of 'care for Aria Blaze'.

"The heck?". Asked Aria again, still shell shocked.

"I'll take that as a yes then".

"YOU! You escaped! No! You couldn't! You shouldn't!". Adagio spit one quote after another losing more self control with each one.

"Eeyup! Unlike you, there's people who would dare traveling through dreams and nightmares for the purpose of rescuing me, and guess what, they did it!".

"Nnno!" Her shock stopped when she noticed something else then just augmented. "Wh-why do you look like that?!". The ponytail, wings and horn could all been explained one way or another but all three together only meant one thing.

"Didn't you get the memo?". Sunset collected magic in both hands. " I. Am. A. Princess!". Both blast found its mark impacting Adagio's shield and forcing her back a good amount of distance, not only that but the magic barrier cracked open at the end.

Adagio came unscathed but her face did show more doubt and confusion, it had to be a joke, a trick or something else but she didn't dare believe that she was really in the presence of an equestrian princess. "Don't make me laugh, you? A princess? Not even the purple Princess Sparkle looked like that and she was a real princess".

"I don't care if you believe or not, either way I'll make you pay for all the crimes you have committed against my home and my friends". Sunset looked back to Aria who was just getting up. "Aria, thanks for helping my friends and everything, go back with Twilight and help her move the girls to safety please, I'll take care of her". Sunset took flight without waiting a response back.

Aria watched as she started exchanging magic bolts with Adagio, in her eyes it was both mesmerizing and frightening, those two had a crazy ass amount of magic but she doubted that Sunset stole it from any resident of this planet, it was the same power she felt when she asked her to deal with the tantanites, "She's really a princess". Aria said to herself.

Finally braking out of her entranced state Aria looked back from where she came from, after some internal debate she made her mind and decided what to do next.

Away from Aria and the rest Sunset kept the pressure on Adagio forcing her back a bit more with everything blast, Adagio was no fool and quickly realized that Sunset's claim of princess status were true, her magic was as strong as hers and that she shown in the battle of the bands.

Whatever the case Adagio couldn't afford a mess up right now because unlike with the rest of the Rainbooms, here she would pay dearly, so Adagio kept her eyes locked on the amber winged target, Sunset on her part was full of confidence and a sense of rightness, she was defending her home, her friends and avenging herself as well.

By defeating Adagio, Sunset would also assist Equestria and would get payback for Princess Twilight, with more purpose in mind Sunset continued the match, with her wings acting on their own she was able to focus only on Adagio, while the two have the ability to fly it was obvious that Adagio was more limited in her moves that Sunset, Adagio's fin like wings did more gliding that actual flying, Sunset meanwhile could move freely in the air with the grace of a well trained Wonderbolt, that give her the edge of attacking from different angles, forcing Adagio to be at the defensive.

Adagio caught up on that and prepared to change tactics, faking been trapped against a wooden container and one of the warehouses, she took a good deep breath and waited for Sunset to do the mistake of putting herself in front of the siren.

Adagio couldn't hide her smile when Sunset did what she expected and as soon as Sunset landed Adagio attacked, her scream reached to her rival in seconds, Sunset on her part just barely managed to create a small looking barrier around her, Adagio's smile became even wider when the small barrier shook like if make of jello but it didn't broke, her smile turned into a frown as the barrier remained, the next moment Adagio was hit by her own Soundwave causing huge pain to run through her brain and body.

"Argrrrh! What... was that!". Asked Adagio trying to hold her head in hopes of stopping the pain racking her.

" Aha! I wasn't sure that it would work but I'm glad it did, did you forgot that you used that same move in me last time? Well, thanks to that I had plenty of time to think in a countermeasure for when we fight again". Sunset took flight again and moved toward Adagio who was still stunned by her own attack.

Sunset charged her fist full of her pink magic and smashed Adagio on the face, however, the siren didn't fall, instead her face morphed in one of rage and hate, Adagio took Sunset by the hair and dragged her down where she sunk her knee in her chest driving the air out of the princess, she followed up by pulling her up still by the hair and punched Sunset in the cheek, next she punched her in the stomach dropping her to the floor. "You bitch, I'll admit that you have stronger magic, but I bet you have never been in a real brawl".

Adagio got next to Sunset and stepped over one of her wings listening with glee as Sunset screamed in pain. "When I first met you I thought that you were dangerous, someone ready to do anything in order to win". Adagio moved around and kicked Sunset one the leg, Sunset tried to blast Adagio but she simply kicked her again causing her to twist in pain once more.

"When you joined the Rainbooms against us causing our defeat, I despised you, because of you my life turned from hard to shit, but even so I felt a glance of respect, then it came the worse, when I was alone and in the edge". Sunset forgot the pain for a second as Adagio stopped her attacks, she was still standing over her wing but her eyes were looking to the past, her hand touching the mysterious blue gem pulsing in her neck.

"It was just by mere luck that they found me, they were looking for the two traitors, but they found me instead, and then... They took me to her". Adagio turned her eyes to Sunset's, in those few seconds Sunset felt the swirl of emotions inside Adagio, pain, hatred, disdain, shame and deep down, regret, regret for someone.

All that disappeared in a second and was replaced by a single feeling, determination. "Now look at you, you were so fucking mighty with your magic but here, down to a real fight you are nothing, I can almost see you and your losers friends in a pillow fight, that's probably the closest you ever been to a real fight".

Adagio stomped her foot over her wing causing more pain, she then took Sunset by the hair again and lifted her face. " Did you know? We sirens can smell your little pony emotions, fear like right now or... Oh? What's this?". Adagio sniffed closer and Sunset tried to struggle free but Adagio hold her harder. "You smell of sex, my my, you really are a little bitch, that give me an idea". Adagio opened her free hand and her nails turned into long claws. " Let see how much fucking you get after I leave your face looking like mincemeat". Adagio pulled her hair even harder to prevent her from moving and her hand rose higher.

Sunset saw the longs claws decent at her but a flash of magic and a high pitched yell came instead. "Agh, who...?". Adagio turned in time to catch a punch to the nose by Aria, before Adagio could get her head cleared another punch in the chin interrupted her, in mere seconds Aria delivered unknown number of punches and slaps at Adagio, Sunset used the distraction to get back on her feet, as she saw the two siren drag each other through the floor like two wild cats.

She tried her wing, the one Adagio so graciously stomped on, as soon as she tried to move it pain exploded in the area, but not for long, pink glowing magic covered all places where Adagio struck her and little by little everything went back at how it was before the beating.

She tried to move her wing again and this time the wing worked properly and with no pain. "You dumb bitch!". Sunset turned to the sirens, Adagio once again was gaining the upper hand but Aria was keeping the orange siren at close where she couldn't shot her magic, it was a brawl just like Adagio told her and as much as it pained Sunset to admit, the siren was right, Sunset was no close fighter, magic was her weapon.

Deciding that getting close to them would be a bad idea Sunset took flight again and glided closer, she waited untill Aria was finally pushed away to start attacking Adagio. Soon Adagio was under fire from Sunset, her guard barely holding together as magic struck again and again. "Keep it up! She can't resist for long". Aria yelled as she too used her magic.

In seconds Adagio was been pushed against the wall of a container, running low in energy and magic, it was at that precise moment when Sunset felt pain, it was quick and sharp and it only lasted for seconds but as she stopped to question what was happening Adagio used her opening to use her screech, Aria was hit first, losing balance and falling to the floor disoriented, Sunset was able to protect herself just barely using her bubble shield, still the pain resurfaced and she felt her body been covered in a mantle of dread.

Before her mind could register what was going on a second wave of pain protruded from her abdomen, as if something tried to cut her there. Her hands when to her stomach but found no wound and the pain was gone a second later.

"Shimmer!". Aria's desperate yell broke her out of her trance. Adagio too was struggling to keep a straight posture as her body was more bruised that ever, Sunset glided over Aria where she could shield her in case Adagio tried. "What the fuck was that? You almost got us killed, specially me!".

"Sorry I... I dont-!". Before she could finish another wave of pain assaulted her, first in her arm followed by her chest, the pain was as before but know they were accompanied by a vision, she saw a tall bull like man approaching her while she was in the floor. "Big Mac!".

"What? Apple?". Aria asked not taking her eyes off Adagio who was still lost in her own mind apparently. "Please tell me you're not getting lonely down there right now". Aria said pointing to Sunset's crotch and expecting a full blown argument from the winged girl but instead she heard a gasp and she dropping to the floor, her hands tight against her chest, tears running free from her eyes.

"Mac! Mac! He's going to... NO!". Sunset sunk to her knees and holder her head as her crying worsened.

Deciding not to wait any longer Aria stepped forward and shot at the frozen Adagio, for a moment there Aria was sure that the blast would connect seen as Adagio's mind was also somewhere else but Adagio simply put a hand in front and the blast didn't even left a burn mark in it. " I have enough, of you, of all of you!" Adagio finally snapped back to reality.

"Shimmer seriously! Something is going on here" Aria pleaded. She watched as Adagio pulled a green pill from her black outfit, something inside told Aria that it was dangerous to let her finish with wherever she intended to do with the green stone, before let her finish Aria focused and shoot at her but instead of magic what it came out was smoke, to her horror she realized that she has lost all of it.

"To Tartarus with all of you! I rather use this that lose again!". Aria saw how Adagio broke the small pill like stone and a green sparkly dust fell into her mouth.

"Shimmer! Fuck!". Aria growled as Adagio started shaking violently.

"Mac!". 'Guess... this is... it's.

"No, Mac you can't give up!". 'Gwawg! '.

"Please, my love, you can't die!". ' Am so-rry '.

"You promised!". ' Wha-? '.

"You promised that you would come back ok". ' Ah... Ya '.

"I need you! You promised, remember? When were back in Equestria". ' Su-nny? '.

"Yes! I know you're badly hurt, I can feel your pain, but you are not alone, our families are waiting for us to come back, our friends, together!". ' But... how? Ah can't... move'.

"Mac! Don't go! You can do it, with magic, We have the strongest magic! You and I".
' lo...ve '.

"Yes! I love you, remember". ' Ee-up '.

As soon Mac finished those words Sunset felt a rush of power within her rising up, the pain she felt coming from Big Mac also was washed away, replaced with warm and love bubbling against her entire being. The light from her horn turned a bright pink color and her entire body was brimming with equestrian power, from her body small wisps of magic emerged each one producing a small warm light, from afar it may feel like nothing but to Aria it felt like been close to an open furnace.

In the other side Adagio was undergoing a very different transformation, her skin started cracking like a broken mirror, from the cracks red magic sipped out, her eyes changed too becoming more feral, her fins grew in size and length and when she smiled two full rows of sharp teeth appeared, with a boom, her human form was gone, replaced with the body of a fully mature siren very similar to what they have back in Equestria.

Aria didn't even know what to do as both Sunset and Adagio seemed to power up even more from before, in her mind she was just a deer caught up between a tiger and a lion. "Those two are... monsters...fuck!". Aria finally moved away from Adagio and closer to Sunset but not to close as to be hit by miss fire, as she observed the two finally noticed each other which triggered the second round of their match, in an instant Sunset was high above the warehouses delivering powerful magic attacks like Christmas's joy. Adagio meanwhile now could move in any direction with her new body, moving around the air like a snake in the water, she zigzagged the pink blasts from Sunset while looking for a good opening.

Aria kept her distance from fear of Adagio turning her into a snack and by friendly fire from the fire head, as she finally found refuge behind a few creates left laying around, Aria turned to check the magic bout with morbid curiosity, so immersed was she in the fight that she didn't noticed when one of the little lightbulbs that came out of Sunset found room over her shoulder, when at last Aria noticed the wisp, she almost screamed but the little thing didn't react, instead it started pulsing like a small flame about to going out, then suddenly it stopped and the little light sunk into Aria's shoulder, Aria panicked instantly and tried to get a hold of the magic bulb but it was in vain as it disappeared inside her.

Aria didn't move, didn't even dare to breathe for fear of what could happen but she couldn't hold it for long, suddenly her body started to feel warm and relaxed, to her shock her body started to heal and even her stamina came back, the sensation didn't stop there, the warm of her body took turn for the weird when certain parts of her body became slightly aroused, she couldn't believe that her body was reacting in such a way when not to long ago she almost kicked the bucket. "Fucking Rainbooms! First you almost got me killed by helping you and now you're getting me all frisky? Fuck!".

A scream from afar got her back in reality, she turned in time to see Adagio pin down by a barrage of magic blasts but she wasn't for long, tanking the damage Adagio shot upwards trying to catch Sunset in her maw, Sunset reacted quickly and stopped her attack and defended herself with another magic shield, Adagio's jaws closed around the pink barrier with a screeching noise of metal grinding glass, Adagio looked pleased as her teeth sunk into the shield but it couldn't break it completely, in fact it didn't even penetrated it, Sunset had her arms extended toward the walls of her barrier, her face showing not fear but concentration.

Seeing her attack nullified Adagio changed tactics, her claws dug into the shield while her maw let go of the barrier, then her long mermaid tail coiled around the lower part of the shield, with her target restrained Adagio started singing, a soft lovely melody, one that triggered a memory of long ago in Aria, the song was a lullaby that called the soul of the victim back to the source of life itself, "The banshee's end".

Remembering the name send chills down Aria's spine, it was the ultimate weapon that the sirens used against their foes, during times of peace in Equestria it was forbidden for the sirens to use the banshee's end against another living beings, but in war it was used indiscriminately, the last time Aria heard it was when the sirens were at war against the hippogriffs.

Aria was paralyzed with fear, while the banshee's end didn't affect other sirens it was lethal for any other creature with a soul, even if Shimmer was a princess she doubted that it would matter, Adagio had to be stop before...

"Aaargggg". One heavy looking crate smashed Adagio in the back momentarily causing her to stop her song, Aria saw the object travel from ground level all the way up, following the trajectory she found the culprits and she wasn't surprised when she saw the Princess's double, what surprised Aria was to find the whole collection of Rainbooms plus Macintosh Apple standing together and in neat condition.

Before Adagio could register what was going on a powerful magic blast got her in the face, her claws instantly let go of her pray to cover a second blast but instead Sunset shot a wave of power from her body forcing Adagio to release her, as soon as she was free Sunset flew down to land were she was immediately hugged by her 6 friends.

"Girls! You are ok! I'm glad!". Sunset was hugged at all sides from her friends with smiles and laughs in each face.

"Duh, of course we're ok, we are too awesome to be down for long, am I right?". Said Rainbow Dash proudly.

"Don't look so smug Rainbow, if it wasn't for those pink fireflies that landed on us we would still be with one leg inside the hospital and the other in the gra-". Applejack was interrupted.

"Da-darling please, do not finish that, I think everyone gets it". Rarity said with trembling voice.

"I know right? It was this voice saying 'Pinkiiiiie! You time has cooooome!' And I was like ' time for a party?' but the spooky voice said 'no you dumbass sugar high addict, time to di-hmmm!". Pinkie was interrupted by Fluttershy who clapped her hand over Pinkie's mouth.

"Yes Pinkie, we heard you the first five times coming here". Said Twilight Sparkle." After Big Mac and Cheerilee helped me checking everyone out we were about to head to the hospital but then some pink lights appeared and when they did contact with our bodies we were instantly healed, Big Mac said that it was your doing so as soon as everyone was ready we came".

"I see, thanks girls, I had some troubles but-".

"Sorry to interrupt your happy meeting but there's a mad siren just coming back to her senses!". Aria yelled to the Rainbooms as Adagio recovered.

"Sorry everyone, Aria is right, the final boss is still alive n' kicking, so you know what that means".

"Hell yeah! Let's kick some ugly siren's butt! No offense to you". Apologized Rainbow to Aria.

"Whatever".

Adagio looked at the new group united in front of her and her rage was temporarily replaced by caution she saw so many enemies and knowing that her time was reaching the limit, at this point Adagio realized that she had used more that a quarter of the gem's stored energy, she could get away and go back to Equestria and blame the failure to her incompetent helpers and Rawhorn, that way she would avoid any punishment that Abigail tried to impose on her. 'Yes! My plan can work, I just need to-'.

"She's chicking out! She's gonna run away!". Aria yelled at the top of her longs with alerted all the presents. Adagio dodged blasts from Sunset and Rainbow only to be caught up in Twilight's telekinetic grip, she struggled knowing that she could break free but the seconds that Twilight kept her immobile was enough for Sunset and Pinkie to zero on her and blast her out of the sky.

Adagio landed hard over the broken remains of a container, her back feeling the blooming pain of the fall as well as several sharp stings coming from the debris under her. "Hey hey mermaid girl, can you make fish sing and dance with you like in the movies?" Before Adagio had time to bite the head of the pink puffy girl she let a salvo of explosive sparkles right in her face, both blinding her and causing even more damage to her body and pride but more importantly it dazzle her leaving her open and unguarded.

"Now! Take the stone, the stone in her neck! That's were her extra power come from!". Aria yelled and in an instant Sunset was half way to were Adagio laid, Twilight used her magic to keep Adagio restrained and that was all the time Sunset needed to grab the gem and pull hard using all her strength, the stunned siren felt the gem been pulled out of her but she could do nothing in her current state expected wait hopeless as Sunset freed the gem, in the moment Sunset's mind was invaded by a twister of memories, without sense, she saw two species she recognized as the sirens and the hippogriffs fighting near a beach for control of sea, she saw a lonely filly siren traveling through a treacherous river looking for other survivors of her kind, in the end the filly managed to find two other. The three sirens went from place to place, as they went they found both kind ponies and those who tried to harm them, the leader, Adagio was little by little transformed into what the Rainbooms confronted many years later.

Untill that memory Sunset was sure that she was absorbing Adagio's memory but the last one prove her wrong. The last visage was that of horrible room illuminated by torches, in the center the room lay the owner of the memories, scared and petrified, several figures stood around her, watching her as her body changed, the figures were few and from different equestrian species but they all had one thing in common, the all have that look of evil in their eyes as they watched the captive mare scream for help, Sunset saw all of them, two of them she recognized instantly, Adagio, she looked sick and about to throw up as she saw what was happening with their prisoner, the second one, Sunset couldn't never forget that face for it was the face that she saw reflected in the mirror every morning, the face she saw reflected in the eyes of her boyfriend, her own.

Finally when the evil Sunset approached the mare with awe in her face she finally saw in her eyes the reflection of the terrified mare, light blue coat, mane with two times of blue, and violet eyes.

"So-Sonata?!". Sunset said tumbling back, her trembling hand let go of the gem and jewel fell landing a few feet away from Aria.

"What? What did you said?".

"The gem, Sonata, Sonata Dusk!". Sunset's legs trembled and she almost fell but Big Mac caught her before it happened.

"Easy there, easy, Hon are ya ok?".

Aria watched the gem, still shocked she took a step closer to it. "What are you trying to say Shimmer, is Sonata? Is Sonata inside the gem? Is that true?".

Still weak Sunset shook her head. "No... Not inside, not trapped".

"You're not making any sense! Is Sonata inside the gem of not, tell me!". Aria demanded.

"No, she's not inside the gem, she IS the gem!".

"Watch out y'all!". Applejack's warning came to late as Adagio recovered and taking everyone by surprise she snoop in and took the gem before Aria could take it.

"NO! Someone stop that bitch!". Aria yelled as she run behind the escaping siren.

END OF CHAPTER 24.

Author's Notes:

Hard chapter, too much exposition, anyway, like always thanks for reading and hope someone like it. Looking forward to July 4th and 5th, the 5th specially since is my son's very first birthday. Thanks again and untill the next chapter, good luck!

Next Chapters:

1) Bad Girl Fun Times: Rainbow's rodeo.
2) PokePon chapter 3.
3) Fruits of love chapter 25.
4) Fruits of love chapter 26.