The next morning, the Dazzlings were called to the breakfast hall to join Twilight and Spike. Sonata was an utter mess, her mane being heavily disheveled and her eyes having bags underneath them. Aria and Adagio looked a little messy themselves, but at least they actually looked rested.

"Did you have a nice rest?" Twilight asked, trying to get the ball rolling. Nobody answered. They instead simply took awkward glances at different times, never once saying anything. For that Twilight knew about them, the Dazzlings were not the kind of individuals to keep silent about anything. Something was definitely up. One of her guards came right up and delivered breakfast to the large table, everyone taking their time enjoying the first meal of the day.

"So...Is there any real reason you guys are keeping quiet, I mean, there was never a time where you didn't stop talking back in the other world?" Spike inquired. Aria put on a scowl and aimed it right towards the young drake. "Jeez, sorry I asked" he muttered as he just took a bite out of a gem. Aria's expression softened as she turned her gaze towards Sonata, showing a slightly worried look at her. Twilight noticed this, but just didn't say anything about it.

"Well, this seems a lot worse than yesterday" Discord mused as he suddenly poofed into the room. The Dazzlings' attention was instantly brought to the draconequus.

"Uh...Morning, Discord" Spike greeted awkwardly.

"And a good morning to you too, Spike. So tell me, Princess Twilight, what exactly have you got in mind for our little friends here this morning?" Discord asked as he leaned against the table.

"Well..." Twilight started, though she wouldn't be able to answer properly. "I mostly thought about us just introducing them around town, maybe seeing a bit of what Ponyville had to offer" the princess answered, a little unsure about how she approached it.

"If it's anything like the place we used to be in, I'm sure it'll be a dump just the same" Aria stated as she averted eye contact.

"Hey!" Spike stood up on his chair, super mad.

"Yeah, I said it. What are you gonna do about it, shorty?" Aria challenged with a scowl. A blue hoof suddenly placed itself on her shoulder. Turning around, she found Sonata practically begging her with her eyes not to go down the road she was on. With a sigh and a shake of her head, the former-siren suddenly just gave up on the subject and looked into an arbitrary direction.

"Well, if only all of you could be so enthusiastic" Discord rolled his eyes.

"All I'm saying is to show Ponyville a little bit more respect. Besides, you're gonna be living here, so there's no real need to dis the place" Spike stated as he crossed his arms across his chest. Aria merely scoffed and averted her gaze. Why should she really have to care about some town she knew nothing about? She lived in the sea her whole life-not counting her life in the human world-, so it was only natural that she knew pretty much nothing of the land.

'Oh, to be back in the sea again' Aria thought with a small, wistful smile.

"Well, Ah can see this is goin' well" stated a familiar voice. Turning her head, Twilight found it to be Applejack, striding in with a bit of a chuckle.

"Thanks for coming here so early, Applejack, I'll be needing your help to get this first lesson out of the way" the princess bowed her head at the sight of the farmer.

"Happy to be involved, Twi. So, how're they doin'?" Applejack responded, Adagio raising an eyebrow.

"They've been about the same as they were yesterday, though it feels like they're being especially hostile towards each other today" Twilight explained, Adagio scowling in the background.

"Uh, We're right here, you know" the Dazzling leader reminded. Discord just placed his hands on her shoulders and pushed her back as a means of comforting her.

"Yes, you are, but the grown-ups are talking now, so try to keep it down" he condescended, causing a big scowl to appear on her face. Sonata perked up a little at that, easily amused by how Discord had managed to put Adagio in her place with little more than a flick of his wrist.

"Anyway, the here is that you three are to learn the same things about friendship that I did, and the start of it all is honesty" Twilight stated as she returned her attention to the former-sirens. She had a bit of doubt that the tree would have any interest in learning to be friends with the same people they had tried to enslave millennia ago, but it was better than the alternative if what Discord had told her was true.

"Honesty's probly the most important thing fer ya to be, but that's mostly just how Ah was brought up. Bein' honest lets ya get closer to others, whereas lies only get ya in trouble. Rule of thumb here; try ta be as honest as ya can be, and it'll get ya farther" Applejack explained in a relatively cheery tone.

"You do realize just how bad it is to be honest about everything right?" Aria started. Applejack quirked her eyebrow and tilted her head slightly, almost as if she had just heard something in a different language. Aria recognized the look from experience and sighed. "People'll just get angry with you if you wind up telling them something they don't wanna hear, or you could get yourself in trouble by admitting something you're not supposed to tell someone" she elaborated, the gears turning in Applejack's mind to make her shy away slightly.

"Well, ya don't hafta be honest about things, ya just can't flat-out lie to your friends or family fer no good reason" Applejack corrected, only to have Aria's eyes roll in her direction.

"Yeah, you should've lead with that one" she answered.

"Seriously, even Sonata could've known better, and she's-" Adagio turned and found no sign of her former cohort.

"-Not here..." Twilight sighed and pinched the bridge of her muzzle with her hoof.

"You didn't see 'er wander off, didja, Discord?" Applejack inquired, the spirit of chaos merely shaking his head.

"I have to admit, I didn't. Either Sonata's really crafty, or she can teleport the same way Pinkie does" the draconequus answered, slipping through dimensions halfway and poking his head out next to Twilight while his tail swished nearby Aria's head.

"Your speech probably bored her so much that she left to do something fun, which I would know because that's what I want to do" Aria all but spat.

"We should probably go get them before they wreck the town or something" Spike offered, stepping down from his seat and heading over to the princess.

"Nah, they're probably just doing something silly" Discord answered.

Pinkie was right in the middle of aiming Sonata, head-first, into a direction near the mountains with her party cannon.

"Ooh, this is gonna be so much fun!" Pinkie squealed, nearly bouncing as she calibrated the angle.

"I know right, this'll be awesome!" Sonata chirped, just as giddy.

"Like a whipped-cream fight or something" Discord zapped a can of whipped cream into his paw and shook it a bit before it exploded all through the room, disappearing through Twilight's magic.

"Alright, the main thing we're trying to teach here is that you should be more open about yourself and others, which in turn will help them get closer to you" Twilight summarized as best she could while trying to avoid scowling at everything she would have to fix later on.

"Whatever" the remaining Dazzlings answered.

"Well, that was easy" Discord deadpanned as he leaned down onto Applejack's shoulder, whom of which calmly brushed him off.

"Nothins' ever this easy, Discord. These two have got a lot more to honesty than just this" Applejack stated with a furrowed brow.

"I say we should just put them to work at the apple orchard for a while. They're earth ponies after all, they can take a little hard labor" Spike suggested with just a tad of venom in his tone. Twilight beamed right up to that idea, mostly because it would give her some time to handle some no-doubt more important matters.

"Anything to get out of this castle" Adagio stated as she flicked her mane.

"We'll need to get Sonata first, keep her and that pink pony from causing something stupid to happen" Aria added, which was soon followed by a big explosio in the background, shaking the castle for a few seconds.

"You mean like that?" Discord looked through a pair of binoculars at the wreckage of what used to be a city street, showing the former siren a moment later.

"Yep, just like that. I kinda expected it to have something to do with tacos though" Aria stated bluntly. Twilight just sighed and looked up at the spirit of chaos, whom of which nodded and snapped his claws. A split-second later, the damage was repaired, and Pinkie and Sonata were both zapped right back in the room, happily jumping up and down, cheering "Again, again!".

Applejack let out a sigh. "It's gonna be a long harvest" she deadpanned with a slump of her shoulders.

Author's Note

Not exactly my best work, but considering this is something I'm not used to doing specifically, it's the best I can really do, especially considering it's almost 12:30 AM by the time I'm posting this.

Like it or hate it, I don't care, just let me sleep.