More curious than evil

After the defeat at the hands of the Rainbooms, the Dazzlings had no choice but to retreat to their mansion, which they got via their magic, which they sadly didn't have anymore. Well, there was this teensy-tiny bit, but...oh well, it was too tiny to be of any use. Luckily for the three girls, the official records stated they had inherited the place they were staying in, while in all actuality they stole it somewhere around 1800 and still lived there.

These past weeks had not been easy for any of the sirens. Sonata tried to go on in life, started all kinds of hobbies, but none of them really worked out for her. Heck, she even tried to find a doctor who could fix her voice, so she could at least sing again and go to the karaoke bar again. So far, no luck, which left her in a pretty sour mood.

Aria took it the worst. She was even more grumpy than before and more often than not got into a fight with the other sirens. Most of the time, she was at the mansion, grumbling how she should have taken the lead, sometimes wondering if it would have been better if she just went her own way after their banishment.

Finally there was Adagio, who was just mad the first few weeks and desperately tried to fix their pendants with no results whatsoever. However there was something that brightened up her mood a little. Some residue magic was left in the tiny shards of the pendants, not much, certainly not enough to restock their magic before it disappeared. Not that she had any gems to store the magic, but it got Adagio thinking.

"So, your plan is to turn that Sparkle girl evil, HOPE she will give us our magic back and steal her magic at the next best opportunity?" Aria asked. "That's gotta be the dumbest plan you ever came up with Adagio."

If Adagio was honest with herself, it was a dumb plan. "Like we have any other choice, if we ever want to have our magic back." Adagio insisted. "That Sparkle person was their leader! She has to have the greatest amount of magic inside herself, out of the 7."

"Okay. Well let's say she does "hire" us." Aria made the air quotes with her fingers. "What stops her from making us her slaves with no free will? What stops her from actually corrupting her friends and again, enslave us?!" Aria exclaimed. "This is bound to go south, Adagio."

"So you'd rather spent the rest of eternity in this place, laying on the couch and watch sitcoms for the rest of your life?"

Sonata didn't need any "convincing", really. The girl always tagged along, no matter what the other two were doing and she was also more optimistic than Aria (and Adagio for that matter) that the plan would succeed and they'd get their powers back. The only remaining problem was to isolate the Sparkle girl, knock her out and get her to the mansion, where the sirens then would put their magic into the girl.

As a result, for the next two weeks, hidden by their hoodies, the Dazzlings scouted Canterlot High and studied the behavior of the Rainbooms, specifically where they met before, during recess and after school, where each of them lived, what they tend to do afterwards, hangout places and such and what friends they had outside of school.

One interesting thing they found out about Sparkle was, that she sometimes went stargazing a little outside the city, when the sky was clear. On the third week, on Wednesday, the Dazzlings finally set their plan into motion.

They had their car parked a little away on the side of the road, while they waited in the bushes for Twilight to make an appearance.

"Urrgh, how long is this going to take?" Aria complained, after they had been waiting for nearly half-an hour. "There are leaves stuck in my hair and I'm pretty sure something just walked up my leg."

However, looking down, she saw it was only Sonata's hand, mimicking a spider or something insect like, crawling up her leg. She gave the youngest siren a good kick against her own leg.

"OW! Hey, what's up with that?!"

"You know exactly, what-"

"Will you two cut it out?!" Adagio hissed. "You're going to give us away!"

Unknown to the three, Twilight Sparkle was already walking up the hill and passing their hiding place.

"Huh?"

Thinking she heard something, she turned her head towards the bushes. The small sound she gave beforehand was enough warning for sirens to take cover, barely.

"Hmm."

Shrugging, Twilight walked her marry way, whistling a little tune to herself. When she was gone, the sirens looked up, now all three having branches and leaves stuck in their hair.

"Come on!" Adagio urged them. "We don't have all night!"

Together the sirens ran towards the spot Sparkle normally set up her equipment. Today wasn't any different from the other days. The Dazzlings slowed down, when Twilight came into view and sneaked up on the girl, while she was busy adjusting her telescope. Adagio took out a baseball bat, which she had hidden inside her jacket and now slowly approached Sparkle.

*thwack*

An hour later, Twilight was still unconscious, thanks to the efforts of a very excited Sonata. Her two sisters had to restrain her from overdoing it with the bat, just so Sparkles would not bleed out to death.

The three carried the unconscious girl into a large empty room, in their mansion, where the shards of their pendants were waiting for them.

"This is bound to fail." Aria muttered.

"Shut up and focus." Adagio scolded the younger girl. "It will definitely fail, if we don't concentrate. We need to put every last drop of our magic into her body."

"And there's that! Shouldn't we look for some big fight and try to replenish our magic instead of doing something like, I don't know, strengthening our enemy?"

"You know, Aria has a point." Sonata pointed out.

"I said, shut up!" the lead siren yelled, effectively silencing the other two. They knew better than to anger her beyond that point.

Muttering something incomprehensible, Aria took her shards and took position. The other sirens did the same, forming a triangle around the unconscious girl. With a nod of their leader, the sirens started channeling their magic. The air around them became heavy and stiff, and everything became tainted in a red light, as the shards began illuminating.

Aria gritted her teeth, as concentrating through her broken artifact was harder, than when it was whole. Sonata was sweating bullets already. Only Adagio's face remained focus and impassive at the same time.

As if by an unspoken command, the sirens simultaneously released their magic, which was shown as by three lime-green energy beams shooting out of the gem shards and hitting the unconscious girl. For a moment there was a bright light, before everything became normal again. The sirens needed to rub their eyes for a moment, before they could see the result of their magic. Sonata let out whistle, when she saw the gorges looking Sparkle girl hovering in mid-air. Her hair was standing up, as if she had put a massive amount of hair gel into it. She spread black, angelic wings and some kind of energy horn came out of her head. The glasses she had been wearing, seemingly transformed into energy themselves and the outfit she was wearing.

"Dang, she's hot!" Sonata exclaimed. Just as the words left her mouth, Midnight Sparkle opened her eyes.