Thirty minutes and one big fight later, the three former-sirens all sat on the floor-each of them hog-tied and two of them being gagged-before Princess Twilight Sparkle. Each of the other element bearers sat on their thrones, listening to what Adagio had for her explanation.

"So, let me get this straight;" Twilight started, "You three were told by some shadow figure that you could return to Equestria, but then he tricked you and transformed you all into ponies?" she continued.

Adagio nodded. "The jerk said there wouldn't be a catch, too" she said as Rainbow Dash gave her an skeptical look.

"And just how do we know you didn't come through the portal to try and take back Equestria?" the pegasus glared at the Dazzling leader, certain that the next thing she said would be a load of bull.

"We didn't have any of our powers when we came in on account of your purple friend here breaking our necklaces, and even if that weren't the case, we're powerless as ponies" she answered in a snarky tone, completely annoyed. Rainbow simply rolled her eyes and resumed hovering as per usual.

"Was there anything specific about this individual, perhaps a personality trait that stood out?" Rarity asked, trying her best to help out during the situation. Adagio closed her eyes and focused on what the shadow sounded like.

"He was really conceited, like nothing anyone could do would hurt him" she answered, giving a little scowl at the floor as the element bearers shared a knowing glance.

"You don't think..." Fluttershy sheepishly asked.

"He totally did" Dash quickly answered, a scowl of her own forming.

"Let's at least hear his reasoning for it" Fluttershy stated.

"There's nuthin' that varmint can say that'll justify any o' this" Applejack huffed. Considering his track record, she had reason not to trust him. But of course, Fluttershy just gave a look and she groaned. "Call him up" she said to Twilight, whom of which had been staying quiet to consider her options. With a sigh, the alicorn focused her magic and flared her horn up in her familiar, magenta aura. A small tornado of magic was the result of her struggles, swirling about in the empty space in the room until a figure could be seen. After the smoke cleared, it revealed a mish-mash creature scrubbing his back in the shower.

"...I'm gonna be myself, no matter what I do" Discord whimsically sang to himself before stopping everything. With a fake scream, the draconequus hid behind his shower curtain and blushed. He glanced over towards the princess with a little sneer. "I see you still haven't learned to give me a heads-up like Celestia told you" he told her.

"And I see you're still messing around, doing whatever you want" Twilight countered as she crossed her fore-hooves across each other.

"Why, whatever do you mean?" the spirit of chaos asked innocently.

"Cut the nonsense, Discord, we know you brought them here!" Dash accused brashly. Discord merely wrapped himself in a towel and quirked an eyebrow.

"Them?" he asked. Dash pointed a hoof at the former-sirens, the latter three now having been allowed to stand normally, Aria and Sonata both un-gagged. Discord then grinned for a split second before putting on an intrigued expression. "Well, well, what have we here? a bunch of sirens playing pony, how unusual?" he walked up to Adagio with a knowing grin, the latter glaring daggers at him.

"I should've guessed you'd be the one. You were always a chaotic mess" the Dazzling leader spat venom as per usual.

"You two know each other?" Fluttershy pondered. Aria nodded.

"Pretty hard not to know about the spirit of chaos and disharmony. I just don't get why he's here though" the former siren stated.

Discord put a hand to his chest and grinned. "Oh, well, I've been reformed in recent times, and I even have friends now, I'm so good" he continued innocently. Unfortunately, his words didn't seem to hold much meaning to them; none of the sirens were convinced at what he was saying, the two of them simply-

"Wait, where did the other one go?" Twilight asked.

"Pinkie Pie ain't here either" Applejack added with a worried gulp.

"So you really controlled people using your singing voices?" Pinkie asked, bouncing up and down enthusiastically.

"Yeah, they did anything that we asked them too, even things we sometimes didn't ask them to, it was so cool!" Sonata answered, joining Pinkie Pie in her happy-go-lucky bouncing.

"It would be so cool if I always got what I wanted, but I can see how that would be a problem, I mean, hello, spoiled rotten much?" Pinkie continued in a sugary blur of words, sharing a thought-if you could even call it that-with her new friend.

"Well, wherever they are, they're someone else's headache now" Aria stated with a glum expression.

"Speaking of headaches, you still never answered why you brought them here?" Twilight said to Discord, whom of which now stood normally with a fake halo over his head.

"I swear to you, Princess Twilight, I had nothing to do with these sirens coming to Equestria. You yourself said that the portal would only open up from here, and it clearly hasn't been thirty moons in the other world yet" he pleaded as theatrically as he could, the only real actress in the room rolling her eyes and raising her nose.

"If you're going to lie straight to our faces, you could at least have the dignity to put up a better show" the seamstress deadpanned. Fluttershy flew up to Discord and looked him dead in the eye.

"Discord....Are you really telling us the truth?" she asked in a tone not unlike a mother scolding her child. Discord simply gave an awkward chuckle and tried to avoid eye contact, but each attempt was thwarted by the pegasus forcing herself into his field of vision every time he looked away. She just kept on pushing those turquoise eyes of hers forward, her brow furrowing itself every few seconds. Sweat started to form on Discord's brow, literally shrinking before her gaze. The element bearers noticed this and grinned; they knew he could never lie to the one friend he ever truly had, and the more she persisted, the easier it would be to get it out of him.

The Dazzlings just sat on their haunches and watched with malicious smirks as the draconequus known for warping reality on a whim just shrank before a single pegasus, and one they knew was really timid due to the way her human counterpart acted.

"Alright, I admit it! I brought the three sirens here from the other world, but you have to understand my reasons; these three were pathetic and powerless!" Discord admitted, much to the annoyance of Aria and Adagio.

"Hey!/Hey!" the Dazzlings protested, only to be ignored as Discord continued.

"They were left with no powers, no survival skills, and nobody who liked them. I simply couldn't just leave them there without doing something about it!"

"But that still doesn't mean you had to bring them to Equestria" Twilight interrupted.

"Oh, and Sunset Shimmer didn't have to become friends with you and the others either, I suppose?" Discord countered, taking the princess by surprise.

"W-well...she was different!" Twilight defended.

"She was in the exact same situation these three-er-two are now, I was just trying to be a good friend" Discord crossed his arms and scowled.

"You could've at least asked for Twilight's blessing first" Fluttershy scolded delicately.

"Or at least tell us what you were planning" Rarity added.

Discord merely lidded his eyes and rested his hands upon his hips. "Even when I'm just doing a good deed?" he sarcastically questioned.

"Eeyup" Applejack deadpanned with an unamused expression.

"I'm writing to Princess Celestia about this. We'll deal with you afterwards" Twilight summoned forth a quill and some parchment, noting everything that needed to be mentioned while keeping a close eye on Adagio. From what she remembered, that one was always the one you had to pay attention to.

A few moments later, Celestia's reply flew in and got unwrapped right away. Twilight read through the contents right away, her expression hardening over a few lines.

"What's it say?" Rainbow asked.

Twilight sighed. "It seems that Princess Celestia wants us to take in the Dazzlings" she answered.

A chorus of "WHAT!?" soon echoed throughout the throne room, both the element-bearers and the former sirens wearing incredibly shocked expressions.

"Apparently, she's putting them on some kind of work-release program by making them learn a lot of the same lessons that Sunset Shimmer is" the alicorn continued with a worried look. She wasn't absolutely certain whether or not she was being serious, which scared her just a little bit. Then again, even if the Dazzlings could somehow get their powers back, at least they could handle them this time.

"You have got to be freakin' kidding me" Aria groaned.

"I'd rather be back in the other world, attending classes at that stupid school than be here as a pony, let alone learning about friendship" Adagio added.

Twilight just shot the Dazzling leader a glare and huffed. Around that time, Spike entered the room.

"Uh...Should we be worried about Pinkie running around with that siren?" he asked nobody in particular.

"Very" Dash quickly answered.

"We'll need to track her down, even her opinion on what we should do with the Dazzlings matters" Twilight stepped off from her throne and walked over towards the balcony, Dash accompanying her soon after.

"I just pray she doesn't get too attached to that one in case things turn South" Rarity stated.

"Let's just worry about finding her before they turn Ponyville upside-down" Dash said as she took off.

"If Pinkie is doing what we think, we should be back in a few minutes. Applejack's in charge while we're gone" Twilight ordered as she flew off, leaving the rest to the farm-pony. Applejack just herded the draqonequus and former-sirens to form a line and gave them a good glower.

"A'ight, ya'll heard the princess, I'm in charge. That means I don't wanna hear or see anything funny, ya got me?" she asked in a strict tone. The Dazzlings merely blinked and looked at her as if she was the craziest thing they'd ever seen. Discord merely gave a short salute with his hand, even doing it with a straight face for that matter. "Good" Applejack smiled and returned to her throne, which was around the time where Rarity stepped off her own and approached the Dazzlings.

"Believe me, it's simply easier to go along with what she says" she whispered as she took her seat back at her throne.

As time passed, Fluttershy decided to break the silence by asking their newfound "friends" about themselves. From there, they all went and introduced themselves. A few comments from the peanut gallery-Spike and Discord-managed to make things a little tense, but Rarity managed to keep things from escalating too far.

"So, Adagio, how's it feel to be a regular pony after bein' human for a millennium?" Applejack inquired, getting an annoyed sigh from the Dazzling leader in response.

"It's not as bad as I thought at first, but it's still not something I like" she answered.

"If we were able to fly or do magic, it'd be a lot better" Aria stated.

"I'm pretty sure we couldn't trust ya with either o' those" Applejack retorted.

"There's a shock" Aria muttered. The only upside to any of this was that these ponies were smarter than they seemed. That much was made obvious by how they could reform Discord. The idea of them being reformed though, that just seemed like an incredibly childish idea that nobody with common sense would try to do. Still, considering the state they were in, it was smarter to simply play along and just wait for whatever judgement was necessary.

A few more minutes of mundane chatter continued until the ones the Dazzlings came to know as Twilight Sparkle and Rainbow Dash returned, carrying the rambunctious pair of ponies behind them in a field of magic.

"Whee!" Pinkie and Sonata cheered as they were dragged in, both of them bouncing enthusiastically and cheering "Again, again!". As if you needed to tell, Aria and Adagio sighed and pinched the bridges of their muzzles.

"Great, Sonata's back" Aria "cheered", the action causing Sonata to trot up and embrace her friend tightly.

"Aw, if I knew you'd miss me, I would've brought you along with me, Aria!" she cooed, much to the latter's chagrin.

"So, Pinkie, was there any specific reason you took..." Twilight started before coming at a loss for a name.

"Sonata Dusk" Pinkie introduced the siren.

"Right, is there any reason you took Sonata Dusk out into town earlier?" Twilight asked.

"Well, we were both super bored just sitting around, and Sonata wanted to come and see Ponyville, and what kind of friend would I be if I didn't let her see Ponyville and-" Pinkie explained before forcefully being silenced by a random cupcake Dash had acquired.

"For once, you did something right" Dash said to Discord, the latter of whom smiling in response.

"Anyway, now that everyone's here, we can go and discuss what we should do with the three of you. Spike, can you make sure none of them go anywhere while we congregate in the other room?" Twilight glanced at her assistant, whom of which saluted her.

"You bet'cha, Twi. Nobody's going anywhere on my watch" Spike boasted, Aria and Adagio snickering to themselves as they tried to hold back their full-blown laughter.

"Good" Twilight led the other element bearers into a nearby room, but not before Pinkie could hug and wink Sonata goodbye first.

By the time Twilight and the others finished their discussion on the Dazzlings was finished, everyone in the room was left either reading a magazine Rarity had left behind or was simply asleep on the floor. Pinkie tapped Sonata's shoulder a bit and she started to stir.

"Mmm...Five more minutes" the drowsy siren begged, only to be tickled by the party pony instead. After a mess of forced laughing, the two shared a hug before smiling at one another once more.

"So, what's the verdict?" Aria asked, wanting to get things over with as fast as possible. Twilight stepped forward and straightened her back, tilted her head up with her eyes closed, and delivered the news in as regal a tone as she could muster.

"After considering all of our options, we have decided to enlist all three of you in our friendship studies. You will learn what it means to have friends, and be properly integrated into pony society. Alternatively, you can choose to be returned to your prison in the other world for as long as you may live" the princess stated.

The former sirens huddled up and worked things over. Sonata wanted to stay there and try to start over, much like she had told them before. Adagio tried to mention a few important things such as trying to get their magic back, but Aria protested against it, claiming that trying to control others and take over the world was her idea, and all that happened as a result was the three of them getting their butts handed to them in the most humiliating way imaginable. A few small arguments later and they managed to reach a verdict of their own.

Adagio turned and faced the six ponies and cleared her throat. "After weighing our options, we've decided that all we can really do now is try and start over here. We're willing to give your lessons a shot and simply see what happens there" she clearly stated, being completely straight-faced on the outside while she was vomiting in her mouth on the inside.

"Excellent" Twilight said, followed by a pink blur rushing over to Sonata. The two mares happily embraced and bounced around in small circles, managing to find a way to get as happy as possible over the idea of them staying to become friends.

"We're gonna die here, aren't we?" Aria whispered.

"Eeyup" Adagio whispered back.

Author's Note

And now begins a series of shenanigan-induced chapters that I will be writing in my free time. Do be sure to expect somewhere between 1000 and 2000 words in each chapter.