The two blue squirrels carefully looked back and forth before hopping across the street. They jumped up to the door of Rainbow’s house, looking back to make sure that no one was watching before melting under the door.
A loud beeping noise was coming from the bedroom. The two girls had gotten home late, and Rainbow’s alarm clock was going off.

“I’ll get that.” Rainbow hopped down the hallway to turn off the alarm.

"Okkie-dokie." Sonata headed to the bathroom and walked up to the bathtub full of her ooze. She slowly slid into the calm, blue slime and disappeared under the surface, which rippled as she took control of the liquid.

Rainbow Dash turned off the alarm and entered the bathroom. “Sonata?” she called out.

Sonata’s translucent humanoid body burst out of the slime and stretched before reclining back in the bath of gelatin. To call Sonata curvy was to put it lightly. Her fluid body lent itself well to curves, and the extra goo always seemed to find its way to her breasts. Her translucent blue form wiggled seductively.

Sonata's gleaming, jiggling form caught Rainbow’s eye. She remembered when the two had just met and she found herself attracted to Sonata for purely physical reasons. But now she respected Sonata as a person, and not just a way to get off, she appeared far more beautiful. She was as lovely on the inside as she was on the outside, emotionally and physically.

Rainbow literally dove into the bathtub and immersed herself in Sonata’s slime. She went in as a squirrel and came as the rainbow-haired young woman Sonata had grown to love.

Sonata smiled as she watched Rainbow playing around with her breasts, seeing how they reacted to having certain amounts of fluid inside of them. “Stop it.” Sonata giggled. “Their perfect just the way they are.”

“I know.” Rainbow blushed. “I just wanted to make a good appearance.”

“What do you mean?” asked Sonata.

“Here we are, a pair of young lovers, in a bathtub together.” Rainbow grinned, splashing Sonata with slime.

“You want to have sex?” Sonata smiled. “But we’re made of slime, and we're technically part of the same being. Is that even possible? ”

“There’s only one way to find out!” Rainbow pounced on Sonata, causing her and the pool of slime they were bathing in to undulate like a water bed. They kissed passionately for a few moments, their liquid lips melting into each other for a brief moment.

“Oh. We should try something weird.” Said Sonata. “We’re both slimes now. Imagine all the cool things we could do to each other’s bodies! Oooo! I’m getting wet just thinking about it!”

“Heh…” Rainbow chuckled at the pun, and splashed a little more. “ All right. I have an idea I'd like to try. Do you remember when you first, y’know, ate me back in the Canterlot High showers?”

“Yes...” Sonata said nervously. “Are you still upset about-” Rainbow cut her off by putting a finger in front of her lips.

“I want to try that with you.” Rainbow smiled.

“What?” Sonata gave a confused look.

“It feels good whenever I absorb someone. Those thugs yesterday felt amazing. The feeling of having them trapped inside of you, helpless to do anything. It's a rush.” said Rainbow. “But I’m usually so busy with fighting crime that I can’t enjoy the moment. I want to really be able to savor what it feels like having you inside of me.”

“But I'm already a slime. In fact, I'm your host. You won’t be able to melt me.” said Sonata.

“It doesn’t matter.” said Rainbow. “I used to be trapped inside you all the time. I want to know what it’s like to feel you inside of me. Besides, it might be a good experience for you, so you can see what it’s like for me and the others you’ve absorbed.”

“Hmmm....” Sonata thought. "Okay. I guess that sounds like it could be fun." She leaned forward, presenting her breasts to Rainbow like a pair of oversized pudding pops. “Is it really that bad in there? Like you said a few days ago?”

Rainbow smiled. “It’s a lot nicer than it used to be. I've warmed up to it.”

Sonata smiled back as Rainbow pressed her lips against Sonata’s breasts and started licking them. "Oh... You’re... Mmm... You’re doing… the tongue thing." Sonata purred as Rainbow continued licking her sweet breasts.

Rainbow knew that Sonata must have been manipulating how her ooze tasted. She had never tasted a breast with so much flavor to it. It really did taste like blueberry jam. Rainbow moaned with happiness, she could see the vibrations of her moans rippling out across Sonata's skin. She could feel her fingers wrapped around Sonata’s arms melting into her skin. Sonata was absolutely luscious. She was like some sort of savory pudding, thick and refreshing at the same time. The gelatinous nipple stiffened ever so slightly, going from a jelly-like consistency to something similar to a balloon filled with pudding. Rainbow suckled harder, eliciting a startled yelp from Sonata, as she basked in the sensation of trickling down Rainbow’s throat.

Sonata liked the sensation of merging with Rainbow. It was warm, tight and intimate. "Mmmm!" Sonata purred. "Do I taste good?” She pushed lightly against Rainbow, but not enough for them to merge together.

“Of course you do.” Rainbow smirked. “You’re very sweet.”

Sonata giggled at the pun as Rainbow resumed slurping her nipple. A part of Sonata didn't want to allow Rainbow to absorb her. Submitting herself to Rainbow... it was a humbling experience. But Sonata didn’t care, she felt like it there was anyone she could trust with her life, it was Rainbow Dash. The feeling of being inside Rainbow's warm throat was amazing. The tight squeezes of her moist muscles, carrying Sonata slurp by slurp down into lover’s body was sinfully intimate. This was the first time Sonata had fully relinquished control of her body to Rainbow, it was strange, knowing she was fully in control, and yet allowing Rainbow to literally eat her. Then again, it seemed only fair...

As more and more of her body was absorbed by Rainbow, she suddenly started experiencing things from both Rainbow’s perspective and her own. It was just too pleasant for Sonata to ask Rainbow to stop, even as she realized that her body had shrunk to almost half its size, and Rainbow's had assumed control of almost three-quarters of the slime in the bathtub and she still wasn’t stopping, she widening her mouth and sliding her tongue out, then gulping hungrily, drawing several inches of Sonata's body down her throat.

Rainbow swallowed again, sending another massive gulp down her throat and pulling more of Sonata's chest into her.
Sonata quivered with excitement and pleasure as she was slurped down Rainbow’s gullet. The warmth of Rainbow’s body was all around her. It squeezed her, churned her. It was so far beyond anything she'd felt before. It almost didn't matter that she was being eaten.

Sonata noticed she was only a few inches tall, but the ravenous Rainbow Dash didn’t stop. She slurped the entirety of Sonata’s body into her slimy maw and held all that was left of her tiny lover on her tongue. “Yu 'eady’?” asked Rainbow.

Sonata braced herself against Rainbow's lips and looked down her gullet. She reached down with a tendril and felt the edges of Rainbow’s throat. She knew she didn’t need to be afraid, she trusted Rainbow to keep her safe while she was inside of her. “I’m ready.” Sonata said confidently.

Rainbow flicked her tongue back, sending the last bit of Sonata down her gullet. Pleasure instantly filled both of the girls as they felt their bodies intimately merge together. Rainbow fell to the floor of the bathtub as she felt the sensual squirms of Sonata caressing her silky smooth insides.

Sonata could feel that she had fully integrated into Rainbow’s body. She started feeling around, interested in seeing what it was like inside.

Rainbow slowly stood up, almost bumping her head on the ceiling. She was almost eight feet tall, and covered with a layer of well-toned muscle. She looked down at her stomach, which was quite thin, despite how much slime she had absorbed. “Sonata? Are you alright?” Rainbow asked. A loud gurgling from her stomach answered her question. Something was definitely moving around inside her midriff.

Sonata happily bounced around in the tight sack of her lover's stomach, squishing herself into the soft, churning insides. She had never felt more close to Rainbow than she did now. Sonata could feel Rainbow’s massive body was on the move. She looked outside the semi-opaque flesh and saw Rainbow admiring herself in the mirror. Sonata couldn’t help but stare, she was absolutely gorgeous, and she was a part of such perfection.

Rainbow walked to her bedroom and lay back on her bed rubbing her skinny, yet muscular tummy and propping up her large breasts. "Mmmm” She smiled as she felt Sonata slide through her insides. "Oh, Sonata! Mmmm… Keep that up!... It feels nice." Rainbow let her fingers run across her powerful body. She was so lost in her sensations and imagination that she didn't notice the tiny squirms inside of her was heading towards her crotch.

Sonata felt a flare of pleasure rush through her as she finally reached Rainbow’s nether regions. She didn’t know how much influence she had over Rainbow’s physical form, but from her perspective she was inside- no, she WAS Rainbow’s vagina. Sonata shifted her concentration into rippling the area of ooze she occupied, sending a faint tingly sensation through Rainbow’s crotch.

Rainbow shuddered and spread her legs wide. “S-sonata? Is that you…?” She gulped.

Sonata was very happy that Rainbow had felt her, and that her efforts hadn't gone to waste. She started to pulsate even harder, and at a faster tempo, increasing the intensity of her vibration in that very sensitive area.

Rainbow moaned. It felt like her pussy was exciting itself. “Ohmygosh, Sonata…” Rainbow panted, her breaths short and quick. “Whatever it is you’re doing… keep doing it.”

Sonata started vibrating even harder, making sure to place a large amount of stimulation of Rainbow’s clitoris.

Rainbow’s legs quivered and her mind became clouded as she imagined Sonata eating her out from the inside. It was so amazing feeling Sonata like this. She’d have to remember this the next time she was inside Sonata.

A small trickle of slime started leaking from Rainbow’s gelatinous slit. Rainbow decided to help Sonata out, and ran a pair of fingers across her lips. More slime leaked out. A strong sent started filling the room, but not the scent of musk or sex, but of blueberries.

Rainbow grinned. That scent had to be Sonata’s doing. “Oh, Sonata… you’re too funny.” She chuckled through her clouded mind before laying back and the bed and squeezing her right breast.

The tip of Rainbow’s index finger formed into a thin tendril and gently wrapped around her pulsating clitoris, while her middle finger slipped inside her slippery slit.

Sonata’s presence within Rainbow’s groin was making this far more exhilarating than any solo act. With simple masturbation, Rainbow always knew on a subconscious level what stimulation her pussy was going to receive, and how close she was to cumming. Now that Sonata had taken over her joy department, it was completely unknown and exciting.
Sonata gently suckled Rainbow’s finger, sending a pulse of pleasure through the two slimes.

Rainbow moaned in delight and bucked her powerful hips so hard she snapped a couple of her mattresses’ strings.
Sonata began to vibrate harder, sending tiny bursts of pleasure throughout Rainbow’s lower regions and causing even more slime to leak all over Rainbow’s bedsheets.

Rainbow bit her lip and tried to get her shuddering hips under control. She slowly slid off the bed and lay on the floor just as another one of Sonata’s squirms sent her legs into a spasm. “Unf!” Rainbow moaned, she instinctively plunged her fingers into her leaking pussy, making soft squishing sounds with each rub. She unsteadily rubbed her pulsing clitoris with her thumb, lube being completely unnecessary, as the sensitive organ was already made of liquid.

A soft whine escaped Rainbow’s lips as she slipped in another finger. Her spread wide, reaching across her entire bedroom. Her crotch was becoming a darker shade of blue, and little trails of slime ran down her cheeks. Rainbow’s heart rate increased as the pressure in crotch increased. She felt like she was back in the warehouse fire, but instead of melting due to the heat, she was felting due to the pleasure. A raging inferno burned in her groin, causing her powerful legs to flail uncontrollably and kick a hole in her bedroom wall.

But Rainbow didn’t seem to notice or care. She had completely lost control of herself. Her vision turned blurry as she started to near her climax, her pussy leaking like a dam on the verge of bursting. Her body begged for release. Knowing that she couldn't contain her lust any longer, Rainbow brought her legs up to her melon-sized breasts and panted wildly.
Rainbow felt her toes melt into jelly. Her body tensed up, and with one final moan her clitoris literally exploded with pleasure, sending gallons of thick slime splattering all over her room.

Rainbow’s eyes glazed over as she felt herself shuddering. Her mind was in a state that she couldn’t feel anything but pure, unfiltered bliss. Suddenly, she felt a weight upon her chest. She weakly opened her eyes and saw Sonata’s smiling face looking down at her.

“Hiya!” The bubbly siren beamed.

“H-hey…” Rainbow panted, her chest heaving up and down with every breath. “Was it good for you too?”

“If was very fun!” Sonata smiled. “I’ve never been inside a vagina before. It felt nice.”

“Mmmm…" Rainbow leaned back. “I’ll bet it did… If it felt anywhere as good for you as it did for me... Damn. I'm never gonna be able to go back to regular sex..."

Slime was dripping down from the walls and ceiling, Rainbow would probably need to replace her bed, and she had a big hole in the wall between her room and the hallway. The two girls just laid in each other’s embrace, listening to the soft pittering of the slime dripping off of the ceiling as they recovered from the explosive orgasm, a satisfied smile on both their faces.

"You, know..." Rainbow panted, looking around her bedroom. Who woulda thought that two slimes engaging in sexual intercourse would make such a mess? "We're gonna need to clean up at some point."

"Yeah..." Sonata nodded. "But we can finish pulling ourselves together later." She yawned. "For now... I just want to sleep. We've both had a long night..."

"Yeah..." Rainbow smiled and ran her fingers through Sonata's slimy hair. "Good night, Sonata." She smiled and snuggled up to the siren. "I... I love you."

Sonata paused and smiled, hearing that phrase that she had seldom heard her whole life. She snuggled back up against Rainbow. "I love you too, Dashie."

Aria sulked lazily on the couch watching the early morning news. It was 5:30 in the morning, but she just didn't feel like sleeping. She was still fuming over how Sonata had just given up on their plans for world domination, just like that. Adagio walked in and stretched. "Anything good on?" she asked.

"Maybe. Interesting at the very least." Aria sulked. "Sit down." She gestured to the other end of the couch.

There was a reporter on TV standing in front of a massive blaze at the dock. "A large fire that broke out at the Canterlot shipyards early this morning is now finally under control. Joining us now is Fire Chief Blazes to comment on the matter. Good evening, Mr. Blaze, you're on the air."

"Thank you." A muscular fireman with a large brown mustache took the mic from her. "Our fire crews are still determine the cause of this this very costly fire. It's very obvious at this point that this was no accident. We're currently working with the CPD, who are highly confident this act of arson was done to cover up a contraband deal gone bad."

"Millions of dollars have been done in damages to the dock. The loss of life is unknown. Many dock workers have gone missing, but so far no bodies have been found, am I correct, Captain?"

"That is correct, but a strange organic material was found inside the building." The Fire Chieftain replied. "The material is burned to the point where it's unidentifiable, but whatever it is it clearly isn't plant, animal, or even human in nature. The police are still investigating, but the whole thing won't be able to start until we get the fire under control."

"Thank you for your time, Mr. Blaze. This is News Flash, reporting live from the Canterlot Shipping Yards." Aria turned down the sound on the TV.

"Strange organic material?" Adagio perked up "Do you think Sonata was involved with this?" She turned to Aria.

"Maybe." said Aria as the news camera panned over the smoldering warehouse. "She went looking for trouble, and it looks like she found it. And that is a lot of slime in there. Maybe she died."

"We can only hope." Adagio chuckled.

"Serves her right if she did." said Aria. "Backstabbing us like that. If she had just eaten a few thousand people like we told her, she wouldn't need to worry about a little fire."

Adagio sighed. "I know. It's sad. If only it had been one of us who had gotten those sort of powers. We'd probably be in complete control of this pathetic world by now. The humans would be begging and scraping at our feet by now, and we'd be plotting our future takeover of Equestria. Now all that power is gone forever."

"Hmm..." Aria rubbed her chin. "Or is it?"

"Huh?" asked Adagio "Sonata's probably dead and we have no idea how she even got this powers in the first place. We're back at square one."

"Sonata might be dead, but we still have some of her slime upstairs." Aria grinned. "If we could find out what the source of her power was, we might just be able to..."

"SHhhh! Are you crazy!?" Adagio hissed quietly. "You can't go talking like that! What if Sonata isn't actually dead? She'll absorb us both!"

"Look, this might be are only chance!" said Aria. "If Sonata is dead, there's no risk, and if she is, how long do you think it will be before she becomes so powerful that we wouldn't be able to defeat her even if we did gain her power?"

"Maybe..." Adagio thought.

"After all, when are we going to get an opportunity to take over the world again?" said Aria. "We have to do this now!"

"Well... we have to do something." Adagio admitted. "We've got to get ourselves on the same footing as Sonata. Besides," She shrugged. "Even if she does watch us, the worst she'll do is absorb us and stick our minds in her ass or something. You and I both know she doesn't the guts to actually kill us. She's too soft."

"Personally, I'd rather be dead that face the prospect of getting absorbed by that mouth-breathing twit, having to deal with her was undoubtedly the biggest cause of stress in my whole life." Said Aria. Suddenly, there was a knock at the door. "So much for her being dead..." Aria scowled as the door knocked again. "I'm coming, Sonata!" She yelled "Don't get your panties in a twist!" She opened the door with a scowl.

But the figure at the door wasn't Sonata, or anyone Aria recognized for that matter. It was a man, dressed in all black, including a ski mask over his face. The only parts of him that weren't covered were his eyes and mouth. Despite his creepy demeanor, the man was wearing a suave black business suit and seemed very professional. "Ms. Dazzlings..." He spoke calmly. "I hope you don't mind too much if my friends and I let ourselves in. We have much to discuss.

"Who the hell are you?" Aria sneered.

"I am of no importance." said the man, forcing his way into their house and pulling out a laptop computer. "Would you all come with me, please?" He led them to the kitchen. "Mr. Gladmane would like an audience with you." He opened the laptop, and they saw the face of an older gentleman on the screen, who they could tell, despite his smiling demeanor, was fuming with anger underneath.

"So... you're the Dazzlings, eh?" Gladmane asked, lighting a cigar in the process.

"Maybe." said Adagio. "Who's asking? Gladmane, I presume."

"Why, yes. Yes I am. How astute of you." The man scowled. "I assume you two are aware of your cohort's new powers? The big slime girl?"

"Maybe." said Aria. "What business is it to you?"

"It's business to me because she recently raided a... -ahem- 'business meeting' I was attending. Such an act has not endeared her to me."

"So. Let me guess, you're a crook? You were dealing with some shady shit, and Sonata took it upon herself to stop you." Adagio rolled her eyes. "So self-righteous. I knew she was gonna attract unwanted attention."

"My business dealings are irrelevant, let's just say that I'm a man with a great deal of influence, and your friend Sonata has drawn my ire." He frowned. "I don't know if she survived that encounter in that warehouse or not, but I for one, am not willing to continue sparring with her without a little leverage."

"Leverage!?" Aria growled and stood up. "You mean you want to hold us as hostages! Is that it!?"

"In a sort, yes." Gladmane said callously. "But you have my assurances that you'd be treated well until this whole affair is over. Do as I say, and you'll be treated like royalty." He took another puff of his cigar.

"Why would I trust anything you have to say!?" Aria laughed. "You're a criminal! Probably a slaver, given how many people have turned up missing this past year! I've seen in the papers how much human trafficking goes on in this town! I'm not going to trust you! And besides, what makes you think Sonata would bend over backwards to save us anyway? We aren't exactly on the best of terms."

"And yet you're still here in the flesh, instead of a blob of slime in her belly." said Gladmane. "Your relationship can't be that bad. Obviously she still cares about you two to a degree. Now... what's it going to be?"

"Aria. Calm down." Adagio big her lip. "This guy means business... Maybe we should."

But Aria wasn't listening. She was still used to being able to mind manipulation powers to charm her way out of any situation, and decided to take out her frustration on this filthy old man. "Who the fuck are you!? Some fossil who makes his money by selling members of his own race? Scum like you make me sick! At least I have something of a predator status over you! People like you are just a virus on your own kind!"

"Aria..." Adagio gritted her teeth.

Gladmane scowled and took a puff of his cigar. "Okay... Obviously there were two things you failed to take into consideration. One, I don't actually need you to agree to go with me. My men are armed, and there dozens more outside."

"A-and what's the second part...?" Adagio gulped, genuinely afraid of what he would say next.

"That I only really need one hostage to keep the slime girl at bay. And perhaps Sonata will think twice about messing with things that do not concern her if she returns home to find one of her lifelong friends has paid the price for her hubris..." He glanced at his messenger and nodded. "Kill the purple one, I don't like her tone."

Aria and Adagio gasped as the messenger pulled out a silenced pistol and pointed it at Aria, the swift siren managing to duck just as he fired, destroying the coffee machine behind her. She quickly dove to the hallway the led to their bedrooms, hoping she could make it to a window and escape. But as she neared Sonata's bedroom, she saw a pair of men clad in black waiting outside. "Son of a bitch!" She swore. "How many guys does he-Gah!" She screamed as she felt her shoulder go numb, as a bullet ripped through her. She looked in shock and horror as her own blood splattered over the wall.

The gunman was behind her, and fired several more shots at her, most of which missed, thanks to the distance and darkness of the hallway, but one hit her clean in the gut, making her cry out in pain.

"Nnngh..." She winced, looking up to see the killer aiming his weapon directly at her head, only to find his gun was empty and needed to reload. She took advantage of the delay and stumbled to the bathroom, bleeding profusely. She then quickly slammed the door shut behind her and locked it, before looking at herself in the mirror. She gasped. Aria had seen quite a few humans die over her long years on the Earth, and blood loss was a major factor in a lot of those fatalities. She felt numb and was scared the same thing was happening to her. "N-no..." She sobbed. "Th-this cant be how it ends."

She looked down in the bathtub, which was full of Sonata's slime. She paused, completely lost in thought. With the exception of fire, Sonata's slime seemed almost completely indestructible, if she were to give herself up to the slime... there might be slim chance she would survive.

But would it be worth it? Becoming a part of Sonata in order to stave off death? Such an existence would be demeaning, but it would be an existence. She timidly reached forward, hovering her fingers mere inches above the slime. There was a loud series of shots which easily punched through the bathroom door, as well as Aria's chest. She let out a guttural moan before slamming forward into the slime. Aria took a deep, steadying breath and screamed at the top of her lungs. She squirmed in agony, and gasped for breath as the slime oozed in all around her, holding her tightly and oozing into her skin. Her entire life flashed before her as her heart beat frantically in her chest. She tried to struggle, to do anything, but it felt like she was moving through jelly. Darkness overtook her. She felt her body fail completely. She exhaled one last time, taking in the coolness of the ooze around her, and then she slept.

Adagio stared in horror as the courier came back to the kitchen with a look of disgust on his face. He wandered back to the laptop. "Alright, boss, I took care of the spare, but, uh... we've got a problem, Y'know that slime stuff? From the girl? There's a whole bunch of it in their bathtub. She was probably keeping some here in case she needed to reform herself."

"Which means she could come back to haunt us." Gladmane frowned. "This doesn't bode well. If she is alive she could easily rebuild herself."

"Now, I know this isn't my decision to make." said the courier, "But I think we should just torch the whole place. It'd get rid of the slime, and cover up the whole murder and kidnapping thing."

Gladmane sighed. "Oh all right..." He harrumphed. "Be this can't be our go-to option every time we need to cover something up. People will start to notice" He took a sip from a glass of wine. "But that slime has got to go, and fires the only thing that seems to take it out. Just... try to make it look a little believable this time, okay? There's only so many police detectives I can bribe into claiming something was a suicide-arson case before things start to look fishy."

"You got it boss." He nodded. "I'll take this one away and leave cover-up duty to the cleaners." He closed up the laptop, slipped it into his bag and pulled Adagio off the floor to a van waiting outside, who was too stunned to really do anything. She had seen countless atrocities committed in her long life, but never one directed squarely at her. She felt totally helpless, and could only hang her head as she was tossed into the van like a piece of used furniture.

She curled up in the corner of the van and sobbed. "A...Aria..." She didn't know if Sonata was still alive or not, but now a small piece of her hopes she was. The ditzy blue siren was likely her only hope of being rescued.

There was a sound of a doorbell going of. With bleary eyes, Rainbow Dash lifted her head from the floor. She was still next to Sonata's sleeping form, the two of them still recovering from a long night of crime-figthing and lovemaking. Rainbow yawned. “Just a second!” She called “I need a moment to pull myself together!” Rainbow stood up and quickly gathered up enough slime to reform her legs, she then shapeshifted to give the appearance that she was wearing clothes and walked towards the front door. It was almost noon, she and Sonata must have been really tired. She opened the front door to see Sunset Shimmer, who had a look of concern on her face.

“Oh, hi, Sunset.” Rainbow smiled. “What’s up?”

“I need to talk to you, Rainbow.” said Sunset, biting her lower lip. “About Sonata.”

“What about her?” asked Rainbow .

“She’s hiding something. I don’t know if you know about it or not, but I know that stuff in your bathtub yesterday wasn’t jam.”

“What?” Rainbow gasped incredulously. “Of course it was. Pinkie said as much. What are you crazy?”

“Well, that’s why I didn’t question it further at the time,” Sunset pulled out her phone. “But after seeing this, I’m not sure what to think.” Sunset’s phone was playing a news report of the warehouse fire that Gladmane had caused the previous night. Sure enough, the fire departments were questioning the abundance of blackened putty that lay scattered all over the charred wreck.

“So what?” Rainbow gave a dismissive laugh, trying to hide her nervousness. “That stuff could be anything.”

“It is pretty circumstantial. I'll give you that.” said Sunset. “But then I saw this, and well...” She held up her phone and brought up another video.

The video showed a bald man in handcuffs being held against the side of a police car. Rainbow didn’t recognize his face, but his hazard suit was a dead giveaway. It was Flamer, Gladmane’s arsonist, and the man who had almost killed Sonata last night. Rainbow clenched her fist slightly.

“Sir, can you give us a comment?” asked a reporter, as she leaned against the police barricade. “What motivated you to set fire to the warehouse?”

“Look, I ain’t sayin’ to you bout why I did it!” growled Flamer “I know how you corporate media scum do things. You gonna take my words an twist em' all out of context. But I do wanna say one thing, not for you, but as a personal thing." He looked at the camera. "Hey Sonata, if you’re still out there, I just wanted you to know, you aint safe. You and no one you care bout is safe. You hear me? We gonna come for you, and when we do, I’m gonna eat you off a piece a toast! You hear me?”

Sunset paused the video and sighed. “There’s far too many coincidences;” said Sunset. “The slime in your bathtub appearing at the fire, this cretin name-dropping Sonata, the fact you weren’t answering your phone last night. Rainbow, what’s going on?” Sunset gave a concerned look. "Is everything all right with Sonata?"

Rainbow hung her head and sihed. “Come on in.” She stepped aside. “Let’s talk to Sonata.” Rainbow led Sunset to her bedroom. All the slime had disappeared, but the room was still a mess. Sonata must have woken up and tried to hide herself when they came in.

"Jeeze..." Sunset stared at the hole in the wall. “What happened here?”

“That was me.” Rainbow blushed. “Sonata and I got a little crazy this morning.”

“Jeeze... What sort of crazy sex are you having?" Sunset sniffed the air "And is that why it smells like blueberries in here?” asked Sunset. “Is that air freshener? To cover the scent?”

“Something like that.” said Rainbow, crouching to look under her bed. “You can come out, Sonata. I know you’re under there.”

“Just a second!” Sonata gulped. “I-I’m not done cleaning myself up!”

“You need to show her.” said Rainbow “You know we can’t keep this a secret forever.”

“But what’ll she think!?” Sonata sniffled. “She’ll probably see me a freak who did something bad to one of her friends for selfish reasons.”

“Sonata, you need to trust Sunset.” Rainbow said warmly. “She trusts you, and trust works best if it goes both ways. She'll understand.”

“Okay…” Sonata gulped. “But she has to promise she won’t freak out.”

“You have my word.” Sunset crossed her heart, though she was very curious as to what the big secret could be, and how it related to the slime in the bathtub.

“See?” said Rainbow, gently coaxing her out. "Come on out. Everything's gonna be okay."

“All right. Here I go.” Sonata slid out from under the bed as a sheet of translucent blue slime before rearranging herself back into her humanoid form. “Well…” she looked at Sunset nervously. “Erm... This is me now…” She blushed.

Sunset clapped her hands over her mouth. “Oh my goodness…” she gasped. “So-sonata...You’re a- a Smooze!”

“A what?” asked Sonata.

“Beasts of the Far Realms, chapter eleven!” Sunset beamed like a child seeing a puppy for the first time. “I’ve read about them, but I’d never thought I’d see one in person! Let alone on this plane of existence!”

“So you know what she can do?” asked Rainbow.

“Yes... Well, Maybe…” said Sunset. “The natures of Smoozes tend to vary quite a bit, but… No. Wait... This shouldn't be possible! You're a siren, Sonata! Smoozes can’t channel magic like that! They’re infamous among enchanters for their ability to absorb it. There's no way you could have used your singing magic at the battle of the bands and have been a smooze at the same time!"

“Yeah!?” Rainbow asked defensively. "Well apparently she did. Because Sonata is awesome!" She hugged her. "I always knew there was a little good in her!"

“Rainbow, I’m not attacking Sonata.” Sunset rubbed her temples. “What I’m saying is that it’s impossible for a Smooze to use magic like a Siren.” said Sunset. “There’s no way the girl we defeated at the Battle of the Bands is the same as this Sonata.”

“Well, I developed these slime powers right after you defeated us. That night, I went to sleep as a siren, and the next morning, I woke up as a slime.” said Sonata, tying one of her arms into a knot to demonstrate her liquid nature. “Do you think that had anything to do with it?”

“You developed them spontaneously?” asked Sunset. “Out of nowhere?”

“Overnight.” said Sonata. “I went to sleep, and I woke up with ability to absorb things through my skin.” She picked up a chunk of wood from the hole in the wall and shoved it into her arm, where it quickly dissolved. “See? Anything organic seems to be compatible with my body.”

“This doesn’t make sense.” said Sunset. “You shouldn’t be able to do this. You’re a Siren! There’s no way you could developed powers like this out of the blue, no pun intended."

“Maybe she was absorbed, like I was.” suggested Rainbow.

“Huh?” Sonata and Sunset gave confused looks.

“I mean, what if you were turned into a Smooze by another Smooze, and that Smooze let you walk around free?” asked Rainbow. “Maybe that smooze didn't have a mind of its own, so it adopted yours. It’s the only thing I can think of.”

“What do you mean you were absorbed, Rainbow?” asked Sunset.

“I mean…” Rainbow turned her body translucent, revealing her fluid nature as well. “Sonata turned me into a ‘Smooze’ as well.”

“What!?” Sunset gasped and glowered at Sonata.

“Sorry about that…” Sonata blushed, or at least as well as her translucent skin would allow.

“That’s impossible!” Sunset looked at the two slime girls. “A Smooze can only convert absorbed material into itself. Creating a separate entity should be impossible!”

“That’s correct.” Rainbow nodded. “I’m made entirely out of Sonata’s body. The only reason I have a separate body right now is because she is allowing it.”

“By Celestia…” Sunset looked at Sonata with utter disbelief. "I don't know what to think..."

“Is everything okay…?” asked Sonata. “Are we still friends? I've been trying to use my new powers for good. I...”

Sunset sat down on the broken mattress and sighed. “What was going on at that warehouse?”

“Sunset, she-” Rainbow started.

Sunset held up her hand. “Look... I trust you, Sonata. I think you're trying to do the right thing. There’s no reason for us to not be friends.” She looked at Sonata’s eyes. “But I need you to tell me the truth. What happened at that warehouse last night?”

“We were fighting the Night Drakes…” Sonata said slowly. “I couldn’t stand how they were hurting people, so I decided to use my powers to stop them. That warehouse was where they were keeping their sex slaves.”

“Wait,” said Sunset. “That was you?”

“What was me?” asked Sonata.

“The news was talking about a large number of people who escaped from human traffickers.” said Sunset. “They were delirious, talking about a pairs of strange, girls with elastic limbs. That was you two, wasn’t it?”

“Yup!” Rainbow said proudly. “And don’t worry, Sonata doesn’t kill the people she absorbs. Their memories are stored safely inside of her.” To illustrate the point, Rainbow formed a confused-looking owl out of her shoulder.

“Fascinating!” said Sunset. “Sonata’s slime can absorb both the body and conciseness of a being she assimilates! I've never seen anything like this!”

“So…” Sonata looked up at Sunset. “Can we still be friends…?”

“Sure.” Sunset gave a smile and stood up to hug her. "Heck. All this sort of makes me like you even more!"

Sonata wrapped herself around Sunset in a tight embrace, smiling. Sonata closed her eyes and sighed happily. It was good to have friends. “You’re not going to absorb me, right?” Sunset asked nervously.

“I can control my powers.” Sonata nuzzled her. "I'm not gonna eat you unless you want me to." She smiled. "You do taste nice though." She said as her membrane rubbed against her.

“You might want to consider letting her absorb you.” said Rainbow. “The way I see it, there’s no downside to being a slime, save the weakness to fire. You could come and fight crime with us.”

“Hmm….” Sunset thought. “In my experience, no matter how many benefits something gives you, there's always some sort of downside. Before I commit to anything, I’d like a chance to study your body, Sonata. If I’m going to become whatever it is you are, I’d like to know what I’m getting myself into first.”

“I understand.” Sonata smiled as she oozed off of Sunset. “What did you want to study?”

“I want to examine your slime.” said Sunset. “That might give us a clue as to how you developed your powers in the first place, and exactly what it is you've become. Because I highly doubt you're a siren anymore. I think you've evolved past that.”

“Okay. Sure.” said Sonata. She walked to Rainbow’s kitchen, pulled an empty salsa jar from the cabinet and poured about a pint of herself into the jar from her hand. “Is this gonna be enough?”

“I think so.” said Sunset, taking the jar and peering at the slime slowly settling into the bottom. “Are you going to need this back? I mean, it is part of you.”

“Keep it if you want.” smiled Sonata. “I can make more. There’s still a lot of crime of the streets.”

“Thanks..." Sunset looked at the unassuming blue slime, a little grossed out by the fact that it was made of melted human remains. "Are you sure it’s okay for you to be eating people?” asked Sunset. “I mean, I know they're human traffickers, but that’s quite the grisly fate.”

“It’s not grisly at all.” said Sonata. “There’s nothing left by the time I’m done with them. They become a part of me.”

“Plus, it’s probably a better fate than prison.” said Rainbow. “It’s very soothing inside of Sonata.” She leaned her head against her shoulder.

“I guess so.” Said Sunset “It's just that... you're still eating people." She sighed. "Look, just be careful, okay? Things may be good now, but if people find out that you eat people, it won't matter if they're criminals or not. They'll come for you."

"That's not a problem." Sonata smiled and shapeshifted into Sunset. "I can change my identity to be whomever I need to be. Even if people find out whats going on, they'll have a hard time pinning me down."

"Yeah, but you're not invulnerable, Sonata." said Sunset. "It looked like you lost a lot of mass last night.”

“I almost died.” said Sonata. “Rainbow Dash saved my life.” She smiled.

"Mhmm." Rainbow nodded and hugged Sonata close.

"That's good, I suppose." said Sunset, walking out towards the door. "I'm just suggesting you lay low for a while, the last thing we need right now is the world finding out there's a crazy slime creature of the loose with a taste for human flesh."

"Aw, you worry too much, Sunset." said Rainbow. "Everything's gonna be fine."

Aria floated through what seemed to be an infinite blackness, she had to admit, once she had stopped fighting it, death was relatively calm. Her thoughts drifted through an endless abyss, untroubled by sensation. A strange sense of peace filled her, leaving her very unsatisfied, as she was always one to seek conflict and conquest. Now, there was nothing for her but her own thoughts, and she hated it.

Suddenly, she heard a voice in her head, at first it was very faint, but soon it got louder and louder. "Aria...?" a smooth gurgling voice said.

Aria thought for a moment before replying. "Am I dead...?"

"Yes." The voice said rather callously. "And no. I'm afraid you were murdered. As was I, but our symbiosis has allowed us to survive."

"What do you mean?" Aria growled "Who are you!? Show yourself!"

"I'm just saying, we seem to be in a rather unfortunate position." A purple...thing... slid out of the darkness, looking like an abomination of half-melted organs and skin. Aria's skin. "You were murdered. The DNA of my original host was destroyed. Right now, we are completely helpless, stuck in that bathtub, half-melted. We our very fragile at this point, and must consume something soon, or we will truly die."

"Wait? Lost your original DNA?" Aria thought. "You mean Sonata!?"

"I believe that is what my original host called herself." The mass gurgled. "But my consciousness was completely merged with hers. Whereas my connection with you is very weak."

"You...you're the source of Sonata's powers!?" Aria grinned.

"I suppose I am, it is quite likely that my merging with her as a host gave her a fair amount of my abilities." The slime shapeshifted into Sonata, before giving a hacking cough and melting back into a deformed mess.

"Just... what the fuck are you, anyway?" Aria stood in awe at the creature.

The thing gave the closest thing to a smile it could on its deformed mass. "A friend, I suppose. And one who can help you. Keeping you alive is my hope, as if you should expire, I will die as well."

"But aren't you part of Sonata?" asked Aria.

"Not anymore." The ooze burbled. "I told you, my ability to retain a hold of her DNA was destroyed thanks to the fire, and her conscious mind was not there to save me, therefore, I instinctively moved in on your DNA, which was thankfully compatible for assimilation, unlike the majority of the beings on this planet, which are little more than fodder, unable to be used as a host."

"It's because I'm a Siren!" Aria realized. "That's who you're compatible with! It must be!"

"Indeed." The thing said flatly. "I am a parasite of sorts, and I may be able to help you. There is only one thing I need from you."

"What? My soul?" Aria laughed.

The man laughed again. "No, don't be silly, you are my host, not my prey. Only the souls of those you absorb will be stored in me. What I am asking is for the ability to merge with your body, as to allow me control over certain functions of your body. Normally, such a process would be automatic, but given the unusual circumstances of our merging together, I feel oddly compelled to ask you. Perhaps a bi-product of my previous host's consciousness? As she was trying to clean up her act and be more polite."

"If that would give me all of Sonata's powers, then hell yes, you can merge with me!" Aria grinned.

"Good. Then prepare yourself." The thing said casually, and reached out to touch Aria, this sent a chill down her 'spine'. She felt like a terrible invasion was taking place, and suddenly felt naked. Her skin bubbled and oozed, like it had been bit by snakes. Aria jerked backwards and cried, feeling like a terrible acid was surrounding her. It oozed into her lungs and burned her chest from within. She fell into an orgy of searing pain as the featureless space of her inner mind vanished into obscurity. She didn't understand how anything could hurt this much if she was already dead.

Then she awoke to a scene that was hardly any better. She had become the deformed, helpless blob she had seen. She was unable to move, but was now vaguely aware of what was going on around her, noticing she was in the bathtub, gallons of dead slime around her, the tiny purple speck, about the size of a golf ball was the only living part.

"Hello..." She burbled weakly. "Are you there?" She asked the voice in her head, but there was no response. "Great..." She mumbled. "I've got all the powers of Sonata now... But I'm so weak... that I'm likely to just die here." Aria growled with anger and imagined Adagio being stuffed into a trunk of car and carried off to be a bargaining chip against Sonata. It was almost her, if her kidnappers hadn't decided she was the expendable one. There were a lot of terrible things that a bunch of men could do to a helpless siren like Adagio. For a bunch of magic-less apes to treat her like that made Aria furious. She hated humanity with a passion. She wanted the entire species to suffer for what they did to her. Nothing but pure hatred filled her mind.

Suddenly, she heard a pair of voices talking. She looked up with an organ that could, in the loosest sense of the word, be called an eyeball. Her vision was bleary, but could make out what appeared to be a pair of humans. One of them was decked out in fireman's gear, where the other was in less protective gear and had the words 'fire inspector' emblazoned on his sleeve. "No doubt about it." He said, shaking his head. "This was a tragic accident. Sad, but just an accident. I don't suspect foul play in the slightest."

"Are you sure?" asked his cohort. "Eyewitnesses claim they saw suspicious activity going on during the blaze, plus there were the bullet casings we found in this very hallway. Are you certain we shouldn't investigate further?"

"Absolutely. All of those are circumstantial, whereas the cracks of metal fatigue in their gas lines prove this was just a mere gas explosion. Tragic, but far from needing a full-scale investigation. And really, even if there was a shooting, we haven't seen any bodies." He gave a look directly at Aria, who was mostly submerged in the blackened slime. "I think there are far better things we should be having the police waste their time on what ultimately amount to nothing." He chuckled.

"Uh..." His subordinate frowned, clearly unconvinced, but too afraid to say otherwise. "All right sir. If you're sure."

The inspector grinned and pulled a wad of hundreds out of his jacket, before passing one of them off to the fireman. "Oh yes." He smiled. "I'm very sure."

Aria seethed with content for the humans. Typical behavior for them. Willing to cover up a murder for just a few coins. It was sickening. The fireman nodded and left the room with his ill-gotten money, where the inspector stayed and started examining the slime. "Welp..." He said to himself, poking the dead slime with a charred stick. "Looks like you didn't survive the blaze." He smiled. "Gladmane will be quite glad to hear that, I'm sure."

Gladmane. Aria seethed. Of all the humans on this planet, she by far hated him the most. And this guy was associated with him. She needed to get to him. Just so she wouldn't die if nothing else, as her tiny, weak form desperately needed the body mass. She felt the stick of wood brush against her, and she instinctively clung to it, holding on tight as the inspector pulled her out of the sea of blackened slime.

"Huh?" He stared at the solid chunk of purple ooze. "What's this?" He raised an eyebrow. "They told me it was supposed to be blu- Holy shit!" He cried as Aria leaped with all the might her pathetic body could muster towards his face, landing right of his cheek and quickly squirming her way into his eyeball, melting large parts of the corrupt official's face as she did. He opened his mouth to scream, but Aria contracted the muscles in his throat, and squeezed tightly. He let out a squeak of surprise and tugged weakly at his neck, but his fingers only sank into the slowly melting flesh. He fell to the ground and rolled around in agony. She squeezed harder and his face purpled up, in part because he was asphyxiating, but mostly because Aria had taken over his nervous system. Truthfully, she could have assimilated all of him by this point, but allowed it to drag out for a few moments longer, just to make the poor man suffer.

There was something about the animal-like terror in his eyes that Aria found deeply satisfying, not to mention the sheer pleasure she got from taking over the body of another being. It just felt so good. How could Sonata keep from doing this to every human she saw? This was amazing! She kept squeezing his throat until his eyes slammed shut and she felt his body relax before finally taking full control, she felt the man's worried soul in the back of her mind, but casually dismissed him into irrelevance. She was in control of her body. Unlike Sonata, she would not be influenced by those she consumed. She was the one in charge!

Aria rose unsteadily to her feet and took stock of her new body, shifting it around until she was able to get a form she was satisfied with. She opted to just stay in the form of the man she had just consumed until she could gain some more mass of course. She felt naked, because she technically was, but she didn't care in the slightest, in fact, it was little liberating, like being a real siren again.

She looked around, hearing footsteps walking towards the burnt-out bathroom. The fireman was walking back. "Y'know..." He said "I'm not sure if just one of these is gonna be enough for me to be sure that this was an accident. I mean, someone might mention to Chief Blazes that there were traces of gasoline found near the kitchen."

Aria turned around and grinned at him. "You truly are a despicable man, aren't you? Covering up a murder like that."

"Murder...?" He chuckled nervously. "No man, this is just a little arson is all. We didn't find any bodies in here. What are you talking about?" He gulped.

"I mean, there was someone who died in this fire." She shapeshifted back into her original humanoid form. "Me."

The fireman gasped, and turned to run, but Aria was upon him. Instinctively, she leaned forward and wrapped her body over his head. She had only intended to grab him at first, but found this option to be far more enjoyable. She worked her body over his shoulders and around his feet, before finally working her way inside his clothing and engulfing his ribs. Soon the man disappeared completely into her body, but she didn't assimilate him right away, she wanted the man to experience what it was like to be inside of her.

"Wh-what's going on!?" his panicked voice cried.

"Easy... I ate you," Aria said, rubbing her belly, moving the man inside of her as she did. "Well, not fully. Not yet, as I have a few questions I want to ask you, and I don't feel like sifting through memories to find the answers I want."

"Wh-what do you want to know... pl-please I'll tell you anything." He trembled as bits of Aria wormed their way into his body.

"There was a man your friend was working for." She chuckled. "A man named Gladmane. You ever heard of him? With how easily bribed you are, I'm sure you've got connections."

"N-no..." He whimpered and sobbed. "I'm not an inspector. No one bribes me... I'm just a firefighter."

"Oh. Pity that." said Aria. "I was hoping to make this quick." She increased the pressure of some of his weak, fragile bones, a series of snaps and a scream of pain were muffled within her belly.

"N-no... please..." The man sobbed. "I... might know something..."

"Go on." Aria smirked at his discomfort.

"Gladmane..." He wheezed. "I've heard rumors about him... I think he's mob boss or something... owns a lot of property in Vegas..." He grunted through the pain. "G-go to Vegas... y-you'll probably find him there..."

"Thank you." said Aria, tightening her belly further.

"I've never met the guy!" The fireman begged. "I swear, I had nothing to do with-" His frantic voice was cut off as Aria compressed her belly as hard as she could. Several loud crunches and snaps came from inside of her as the fireman's mass was compressed down to half his original size. Her stomach gurgling as she transformed back into the inspector.

"I know." Aria said callously, sifting through her body for anything metal. After a few moments, she found the keys to the inspector's car, as well as which vehicle was his from the devoured man's memories. She walked outside, past all the fireman who were milling about near their trucks. "So what do you think, inspector?" One of them asked. "Was it arson or an accident?"

Aria just walked past them without making eye contact. One of them followed her. "Sir?"

She just looked him right in the eye and smiled. "You needn't worry yourself any more about the issue, I will be handling this case personally." She said before starting the car and driving off. "Oh yes. This has just become a very personal case for me... You thought that Sonata was bad, Gladmane?" She growled. "At least she would have dignified you with a painless death. I'm coming for you. And then, the world." She smirked.

Author's Note

At long last, it's finally here. Very sorry about the delay. I was busy with school and got distracted by other projects. I'll try to update more frequently in the future. If you have any comments on the direction the story is going, then please comment below.