When The World Is Gone

-- Watching Out: Before The Aftermath: Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk --

-- Sonata Dusk --

In the east quarter of Celestia's Castle, Sonata Dusk looked outside from above, gazing at the minions below. She smiled, sweetly and wondered what she would do today. Would she watch for loose ponies? Or would she slack off and take a nap during this time?

Adagio would be angry if I did that, she thought to herself, but I could use a day off! She complained in her head.

But Sonata knew better, she knew Adagio would jump off the deep end if she saw what Sonata was doing, so she sat in the high tower waiting for signs and looking for resistant ponies.

She sighed and began looking in the streets of Canterlot.

-- Aria Blaze --

Aria was sitting on the west side tower of the castle. Watching for some low life ponies to somehow peek through the houses or show themselves.

Aria knew there was a small possibility for this to happen. She hated watching stupid ponies all day, when she could do something more productive. Making more energy for herself was more productive than this.

Aria was annoyed at everything from Adagio to the minions, she was mad at everyone. She was not a happy camper like Sonata; who could find the light to the darkness and solve any problem in any situation.

A problem solver is just what Aria wanted to be. That would be useful to her advantage. An advantage for the Dazzling's!

Aria was better at coming up with cool names. Dazzling's just seemed to click with them. It fit better than the Eternal Starlight's, but even that clicked with them. It seemed dark and mysterious, like them!

Aria wished she could just live peacefully without having to deal with stupid ponies all day long.

She wondered if Sonata was doing any better with the watch, would she find any ponies lurking behind the walls? Probably not. The chance is unlikely. But a Siren can hope can't she?

-- Sonata Dusk --

Sonata watched the ponies outside with joy. She liked seeing how they worked or did their jobs in Canterlot. Some ponies were washing the windows and tidying up the streets of Canterlot.

As she watched them I noticed a pony looking worriedly to his left and right. Sonata studied him and took in every detail of what he looked like.

He was a regular adult pony, but he looked like a walking corpse, his body was small and frail, he looked so weak, he has to be a resistant.

A resistant was never at the concert, because of sheer luck. That was the day they took over the world. It was so fun to get to feel that much power come a huge crowd of ponies. Sonata yearned to feel that moment again.

Sonata picked up a walkie-talkie and buzzed in Aria, "Aria, can you read me?" she asked through waves of static.

"Yes, Sonata, what is it?"

"I've found someone."

"You actually found someone?"

"Yes! Look over by the old yellow building!"

"Do you see it?"

"See what?"

"The pony peering through an alleyway!"

"Oh, I see him."

"We've got to go catch him."

"Oh, Adagio will like that we found someone after all."

"Meet you down at the front of the Castle?"

"Sure." And she signed off.

Sonata ran down the hallways as quick as she could and ran to the entrance of the castle, her hooves making skidmarks across the ground. Aria was quickly behind her as they stopped at the center of the entrance.

"We've gotta act natural, we've got to sneak our way around him and grab him before he screams for help, or signal more resistant's.  He could have some buddies helping him survive."

"Your prepared, aren't you?"

"Yep, like always!" she cheered.

"Adagio, loves that about you, and I guess its always good to be prepared."

"Should we disguise ourselves?"

"Absolutely, we need to be able to be seamlessly noticed by the pony, walk right by him, grab him and bring him to Adagio so that we can feed on his negativity."

"Aw! That uses some of the stored energy from my necklace, you know I don't like feeling weak afterwards!"

"That's a minor complaint, besides we'll get more energy when we sucked his energy, so let's disguise ourselves as mindless and walk!"

Their necklaces glowed a bright red and suddenly their forms started to change, Sonata's hair became shorter with a nice blonde haircut with bangs that went to the right side. Her skin color was grey, with bubbles as a cutiemark. Her race was now Pegasus. She opened her eyes and noticed she had a hard time looking straight forward.

Aria was now a brown pony with short brown hair and wore a tie, with a timekeeper cutiemark, "Why am I always the guy?" Her voice now had a British accent. She was an earth pony. Both their eyes, however, supported the evil green color that mindless had.

"I hate that our necklaces always give us random ponies to change into. But the longer we stay in this form the more energy we use up trying to keep us alive, so we have to be quick about this." No one could take her voice seriously, when she sounded like a little kid who needed their nose cleaned.

"Got it, let's walk."

"W-w-wait! We have to walk lifelessly! Like them!"

"Okay, Sonata! Let's go!"

They walked slowly outside the castle. (Seriously they were as slow as turtles.) (Maybe even slower than molasses.) (If that was possible.) Aria didn't want to break her cover and admit this was the most boring thing ever, but in some way she had to admit it was a stealthy idea, but patience was not her virtue.

Patience is a virtue, but its a boring virtue! Just stick through it Aria, she thought to herself, while her composure was still lifeless.

When this is over, I'll be glad to be done with this for a while.

Moving along the crowd of ponies, they saw him, the resistant, the one that got away. They looked normal and walked right by him and turned left on the next street behind him. They ran as quietly as they could and found themselves in the same alley as the runaway. He went back into the yellow building and closed the door.

They started walking a faster pace and then found themselves at the back entrance of the house. They walked inside the house, slowly closing the door behind them. Sonata quickly looked around the room for any signs that the pony saw them, he wasn't anywhere near them.

"Aria, let's go look around and see if we can find him," she said in a quiet whisper.

"okay."

Aria followed her with her back slouched and relaxed, they went straight across the room into the kitchen and popped their heads through, looking for him.

"He's not in here. Let's look in another room."

"Ugh, fine," Aria rolled her eyes, she hated the repetition of looking for ponies.

They moved from room to room searching for the pony, then they headed upstairs, near the entrance they went through and made their way upwards. The staircase steep and had pictures of ponies looking so happy. That was a memory they would never get back again.

A lot of these pictures had a group of four ponies smiling happily somewhere far from Canterlot. It showed them playing somewhere on the beach, having fun.

Sonata, gazed at the pictures for a moment, "It feels wrong." She said solemnly.

"What feels wrong?"

"Taking over the world!" Sonata snapped.

"Why does it make you feel bad?"

"Look at this happy family and tell me why did we have make their life miserable by making them mindless?!" She broke into tears.

"Because of Adagio."

"She wanted them to pay for what they've done to us, but now that its here and now I wish everything could go back to normal."

"You want to go back to being poked and prodded like a science experiment?" Aria questioned her, pointing her hoof at her.

"No, but"-

"I didn't think so, the only way were going to survive is to fight back. That's why we did this take over the world business. We want to be respected and treated normally like a regular pony."

"I know, but"-

"Sonata, either your with us or against us, which side are you going to choose?"

Sonata looked down at the floor, "I choose you guys." she sniffled.

"That's what I thought."

"Now cry up those tears and stop showing weakness. We've got to hurry now, he's probably heard us already."

They looked around the rooms upstairs, they found him within a closet in the second room they looked in, he was shivering from fright. They opened the closet and he nearly ran for his life, "Don't you dare catch me, I don't want to come with you!"

They ran for him, he was running for his life, he ran outside, but he made a mistake of falling on his back knees when he hit the gravel of the pavement, he braced for impact, and hit his chin hard on the concrete floor, but quickly got back up and groaned in pain, but kept running as blood dripped from his chin.

They finally got up to him, running as fast as they could and grabbed him, "NO! I DON'T WANT TO GO!" He screamed, but everyone went on with their regular business as usual.

"I'll let Adagio know about this and we'll be over there shortly."

-- Watching Out: Before The Aftermath: Aria Blaze and Sonata Dusk --