Adagio Dazzle and the Revenge of the Naan Bread

Adagio Dazzle sat in her cave or wherever the fuck she lived, licking her wounds, both metaphorical and literal. That Shimmer girl had got the best of her twice now — first at the Battle of the Bands, and now at Tesco — and Adagio was not the kind of girl to stand for such treatment. A single tear rolled down her cheek as she clutched the shard of broken red crystal to her chest.

The next morning, Adagio went to meet her friend Fluttershy. Yes, friend — a few short weeks ago, Adagio would have laughed if anybody had told her that she and Fluttershy would be friends, but since Principal Celestia had tasked the shy girl with "rehabilitating" Adagio, the siren had developed a grudging respect for her. She might have seemed meek and timid, but the girl had a way of bending people to her will through acts of kindness — Adagio thought that perhaps she might even be able to learn something from Fluttershy.

It was at their regular weekly get-together for coffee that Adagio mentioned her latest run-in with Sunset Shimmer, and her thirst for revenge.

"I… I, well, I'm friends with Sunset now, but I do remember what it was like to be at the receiving end of her bullying," Fluttershy admitted. She twirled her long pink hair around her finger, thinking back to Sunset Shimmer's reign of terror at Canterlot High School.

"Bullying… it goes beyond bullying! I actually think that she and that spooky, scary skeleton were trying to rape me." Adagio covered her face and tried to suppress the tears. She didn't want Fluttershy to see her weakness.

Fluttershy took a sip of her hot peppermint tea. "Oh dear," she whispered.

"You can't blame me for wanting to extract a violent, bloody revenge, can you?" Adagio slammed her fist down on the table, shaking her coffee cup.

Fluttershy shrugged. "I suppose it is understandble." She put her cup down and thought for a while. "Wait a moment." She picked her backpack off the floor and rummaged around inside it, pulling out various leashes, collars, whips, gimp masks, and other animal-related paraphenalia. "Here it is," she announced, pulling out a boxed DVD and handing it to Adagio.

Adagio read from the cover. "Iron Will's Assertiveness Techniques." A picture on the cover showed an angry-looking man in what looked like a Viking helmet, with two horns. She turned the box over and read the back. "Now with bonus ninja lessons…? What is this, Fluttershy?!"

"Oh, I bought it to deal with Sunset, but I never got around to watching it. Twilight Sparkle arrived and her magic magically made Sunset magically not evil anymore, so I didn't need it. I thought that maybe, perhaps, you might like to give it a try?"

Adagio's trademark smirk returned to her face.