Equestria's Newest Sound

Deep within the confines of Princess Twilight Sparkle's castle, the portal leading to Canterlot High surged with electricity, a purple rift in time and space opening up with a thundering roar. The ground shook as the portal spat out three pony-shaped figures before closing abruptly. The first of the figures, possessing a large ball of orange-and-yellow, curly hair raised a hoof up to her head and groaned.

"Ugh...That was not pleasant" she complained as a small switch in her mind flicked. Rather than a hand, she had a hoof, and she could tell the ground was a lot closer to her body than it normally would be. A small grin formed on her muzzle as the realization hit her.

"Finally. After a thousand years in that wretched hole of a dimension, we're finally back in Equestria" she mused mostly to herself. She took a step or two forward, but was surprised to fumble about at her newly formed body.

"Um...Adagio..." said a worried Aria. As Adagio turned to face her cohort, her jaw instantly made for the floor. Rather than the sirens she had gotten used to seeing a thousand years ago, she instead found two earth ponies that greatly reminded her of Aria and Sonata. "You may wanna look at yourself too" she added as she aimed a hoof towards a nearby mirror.

Adagio hardly even recognized the mare staring at her in the glass. She clumsily trotted up to the image in complete disbelief, placing a hoof on the glance with widened eyes.

"This...This..."

"Isn't what you were expecting?" spoke a voice coming from right next to the gold-colored sire-pony. Turning to face the voice, Adagio found a shadowy figure floating there, the inky blankness taking on the form of an equine, just with no specific characteristics. The Dazzling leader scowled at the figure, then raised a hoof at it.

"You said you could take us back to Equestria, you never said there'd be a catch like this" she yelled, but the figure simply didn't care.

"Exactly. I never needed to mention anything because you should always be expecting a catch" he said.

"Told you so" Aria chimed in, getting an angry scowl from her leader.

"You wanted to return to your home dimension, and here you are. I just didn't want you three getting into any more trouble than you have, so I decided to take advantage of a few factors about dimensional travel and alter your bodies to better suit the environment" the shadow explained matter-of-factly.

"But why make us into ponies?" Aria questioned with an annoyed expression.

"Well, I thought you'd look cute if you were ponies" he answered with a small line in the form of a grin.

"He's not wrong about that, we're adorable!" Sonata stated as she started getting an eyeful of herself in the mirror. Aria simply rolled her eyes while Adagio brought her hoof to her forehead hard. She winced a little at the pain and the shadow just chuckled at her.

"Don't you worry about a thing, ladies, I promise that you're going to love things from this new perspective of yours" he assured them in a Friendly-Floyd manner, only earning further scowls from Aria and Adagio. Sensing the oncoming hostility, the shadow began to fade into the background. "Unless you want things to be worse for yourselves, you'd better learn to play nice" he said with a small chuckle.

"Ugh!" Adagio shouted. "Just perfect. The one chance we get to finally get back to Equestria, and the only guy who could do it turned us into ponies" she continued, glaring daggers at the unholy image staring back at her in the mirror.

Aria simply sighed, completely defeated and without any cares right now. The purple siren had believed she would be upset, but she was all out of hatred and anger after the loss of her powers. A blue hoof suddenly found its way around her neck and dragged her close to a blue mane in a ponytail. Looking over, she found that Adagio had been trapped in it as well.

"Come on, girls, let's make the most of this. I mean, think about the upside here" Sonata cheered.

"What upside?" both of the girls asked in unison.

"We lost our powers, had everyone in school hate us, got kicked out of our hotel, and then came back to Equestria. Everyone who ever knew about us probably won't even see who we are here, we can completely start over with a new perspective" Sonata continued happily as she released her friends. The former sirens simply looked at their dimwitted friend with mixed feelings. They simply exchanged a glance before sighing at Sonata's overly perky attitude.

"Just...just shut up, Sonata" Adagio groaned. Having to put up with all of this nonsense was enough, she didn't need Sonata adding her own two cents. Seeing as how they were back in the most magical place they could think of, the least they could do was try to regain their former powers. Having pony bodies didn't really change anything if they could-

Aria was in the middle of a "pleasant" conversation with Sonata about how their hair somehow looked cuter as manes when Adagio suddenly went wide-eyed. Looking from her point of view, she found a familiar looking purple pony standing at the entrance to the door, flanked by a small purple lizard of some kind. Unlike themselves, this pony had a unicorn horn and...a pair of pegasus wings...

"There's no way..." she breathed. One look in the strange pony's eyes made her experience all kinds of disgust and anger, she knew exactly who this pony was.

"What are...how did you three...why are you here!?" Twilight all but screamed, Spike readily getting set for a fight. Neither of them knew what had happened, but they weren't about to let a couple of criminals get off without much more than being thrown in the dungeons.

Meanwhile, the shadow from earlier returned to his seat by a big fireplace, slowly taking form from the wall and revealing himself to be a rather chaotic looking mess of animal body parts.

"Things are getting interesting" he stated as he took a seat, snapped his claws, and summoned forth a cup of tea. "Now to just sit back and watch the sparks fly between Twilight and her new 'friends'" he added with a sinister chuckle.