A Flood of Blueberry Jam

by Macro Zecora

Rating: mature
Tags: Equestria Girls, Sex, Sonata Dusk, Drama, Rainbow Dash (EqG)
Length: 48184

Shortly after suffering a humiliating defeat at the hands of the Rainbooms, Sonata Dusk mysteriously develops strange new absorption powers.

After her humiliating defeat at the hands of the Rainbooms, Sonata Dusk mysteriously develops strange new absorption powers. Will she use her new powers for good? Or will she use her powers to rekindle her dream of world domination?

Macro, Growth, Absorption/vore, goo pony

Published 2016-07-15 02:10:02 UTC
Last updated 2017-12-21 09:56:37 UTC

Chapter 1: A Second Chance

Author's Note

Feedback and suggestions are appreciated. I’m trying to write the best macrophillia stories I can, and I want to get better.

Chapter 1: A Second Chance

The three sirens slumped in the corner booth at the eatery. They had been utterly defeated. Just hours ago, the Rainbooms had defeated them at the Battle of the Bands. Completely destroying what little magical power they had left. They had been so close to achieving the goal they had pursued for hundreds of years. And now it seemed their plans for world domination had been utterly crushed. They had no magic, no income, and little human food. How long would they survive? In the past, they had always used magic to acquire any supplies they needed. Now that they had to think about it, they didn’t know how they would even make ends meet, let alone fulfill their plans of world conquest.

“Ugh…” scoffed Aria “I can’t believe we were beaten at our own game. By a bunch of humans, no less.”

“What’s wrong with humans?” asked Sonata.

“You kidding?” asked Aria. “They’re completely inferior to us, in every way. They have no imagination; they die in only a few decades, most of them can’t even use the most simple of magic! They were nothing more than pawns for us to feed on. And yet, they beat us. I’ll never live this down.”

“I know…” said Sonata. “but you have to admit, they do have some good cuisine.” She licked her lips.

“Ugh! Human food. Don’t remind me. I hate that stuff. I can’t believe you eat it voluntarily.” said Aria.

“What?” said Sonata “It’s good. I can’t believe you only ate it when trying to blend in with the humans.”

“Look” said Adagio “Aria and I didn’t eat human food because the negative energy we leeched from the humans was far more efficient. I always worried about you stuffing your face with that human crap at every opportunity.”

“Worried about what?” asked Sonata.

“Sirens aren’t meant to consume solid food. We can, in case of emergencies. But we’re meant to feed on negative emotions.” explained Adagio. “So every time I saw you celebrating the human’s ‘Taco Tuesday’, I worried it would mess with your metabolism.”

“Don’t be silly,” said Sonata “You said we can’t gain weight.

“That’s because our bodies break down everything we consume.” said Adagio. “But even still, you don’t want to overtax your body.”

“Not like we’ll have a choice now…” mumbled Aria.

Then Misses Cake came out from behind the counter and approached the trio. “I’m so sorry, dearies. I didn’t see you back here in the corner, and so late in the evening.”

“It’s okay!” said Sonata, cheerfully.

“We weren’t going to order anyway.” said Aria.

“Okay.” said Misses Cake “Let me know if you all need anything.”

“Actually.” said Sonata “Could you bring me some water? I’m thirsty.”

“You know we don’t have any money on us, right?” asked Adagio.

“It’s okay.” said Misses Cake “Water is free. I’ll be right back.”

“See.” said Sonata, cheerfully “I told you humans weren’t so bad.”

“Some are okay.” said Aria. “But most of them are complete jerks. Remember the Dark Ages?”

“Brrr. Don’t remind me.” shivered Sonata.

“Aw. Whatsa matter? You don’t remember almost being burnt at the stake fondly?” said Adagio.

“And don’t forget all those wars. MMmm, I still remember the buffet of strife.” said Aria “Face it, Sonata. Humans suck.”

“We’d have done them a favor had we subjugated their pathetic world.” said Adagio. “They can’t be trusted to take care of themselves.”

“Like you said Sonata, this place is the worst, for realsies.” said Adagio.

Misses Cake returned from behind the counter. “Here ya go, sweetie. And I even brought you a slice of coffee cake, on the house. You all looked like you could use some cheering up.”

“Thanks…” said Aria.

“Thank you!” said Sonata, licking her lips.

“No problem, sweetie.” Said Miss Cake “But we’re going to be closing soon. You all should be heading home soon.” Misses Cake ducked back to the kitchen.

Sonata wasted no time and began devouring the helpless baked good. The poor thing never stood a chance.

“How can you eat that?” asked Aria. “It’s disgusting.”

“As disgusting as it is, it would be wise for us to get used to solid food.” said Adagio “It’s the only way for us to feed now.”

“It’s not bad enough for us to be trapped in this awful place, but now we have to survive here as humans!” Aria slammed her fist on the table.

“We are not humans!” said Adagio “We may not have magic, but we are still better than them in every sense of the word. And one way or another, their pathetic world will be ours!”

Sonata finished licking the plate clean, breaking her cohorts out of their rant. “Mmmm. That was good. So? Are you two ready to go home?”

"We may as well." said Adagio. "It's not like we have anything better to do..."

The Dazzlings had returned to their home, a small house in a suburban neighborhood. They had acquired it about a decade ago, when they decided to lie low from the world’s eyes. It was a quaint unassuming home. Mostly used for sleeping and storing trinkets the sirens had gathered over the years.

Sonata glanced out the window and looked up at the stars. She wasn’t sure if she should be distraught or relived. On one hand, her life purpose was over. On the other, she was glad her human-hating cohorts would never be able to take over the world. Even still, Sonata wasn’t happy. The humans had grown on her, and she couldn’t stand to see them doing truly awful things to each other. Murder, Rape, Warfare, Ethnic Cleansings. Through her long years on Earth, Sonata had witnessed atrocities that would make an Equestrian Pony break down into tears, and yet she never lost her child-like sense on optimism. The feeling that one day, things would get better.

Sonata sighed and glanced up again. A shooting star darted across the sky. Sonata smirked. The humans had a tradition that if you made a wish upon one of those, it would come true. Sonata had tried it many times in the past, and it had never worked. Even still, she felt deep down, like this one was different.

She decided to offer up a token wish to the star. “Star light, star bright, I wish I had the power to make all the humans stop fighting…” she mumbled.

She chuckled “It’s a little ironic. All my life, I’ve used my power to stir up conflicts. And now here I am, wishing I could stop them.” She climbed into bed a closed her eyes. “Go figure.”

Little did Sonata know, her wish was about to come true. The shooting star she saw was actually a fragment of this dimension’s Equestria. Unlike the Equestria of Twilight Sparkle and her friends, this world was destroyed millions of years ago by an apocalyptic bio-weapon.

The chuck of space rock screamed through the atmosphere, losing almost all of its mass as it burned away. But a tiny piece, about the size of a dice landed with a tiny thud in the Dazzling’s backyard. Purple ooze poured out of the tiny bit of space debris. Roughly the size of an ant, the ooze immediately began moving across the vast jungle that was the perpetually uncut lawn of the Dazzling Residence. The parasitic slime slid across the lawn, desperate to find a host. It had spent millions of years in space, and had been exposed to all manner of mutating cosmic rays. It could adapt, but if it didn’t find a host quickly, the parasitic alien would die an ignoble death, doomed to be forgotten in the unkempt backyard.

The parasite could sense a large creature breathing nearby and immediately sped towards the potential host. It climbed up the side of the wooden wall and squeezed through the window crack, to see a large, blue, biped creature asleep on a mattress. The parasite wasted no time. It immediately slimed down to the carpeting and worked its way up the bedpost. The parasite then made its way over to the creature’s feet and began searching for a way inside the creature. It oozed along the entire length of Sonata’s leg, and up the hill that was her right butt cheek. In the valley of two of these hills, the creature found a suitable entry point and forced itself into its unaware host.
Sonata moaned happily as the point of entry closed behind the parasite, which chocked out one final noise before it began to bond with its host. “Ssssssmmmmoooooooozzzeee…”

A ray of sunlight and the chirping of birds awoke Sonata from her sleep. She sat up and stretched out her naked, blue body. The Dazzlings preferred to sleep in the nude, it reminded them of back when they sirens, before their banishment. Sonata never entirely understood why humans felt a need to wear them, but she found it charming. After all, when in Rome, do as the Romans do. Or was it Roam? She could never remember the spelling.

Sonata stood up cheerfully and was about to put on her morning robe when she looked down and noticed something was a little off. “Adagio!” She yelled. There was no answer.

Sonata walked into Adagio’s room, still completely nude. “Hey, Dagi. Can I ask you something?” Adagio was still wearing the same clothes she on the previous day. She was slouched over on her bed, staring out the window. Her tear-stained pillow sat beside her. “Jeeze, Dagi.” said Sonata. “Did you get any sleep last night?”

Adagio shook her head without turning around. "What is it, Sonata?"

“My chest thingies have gotten bigger.” said Sonata.

“Uh-huh.” said Adagio.

“Is that normal? asked Sonata. “Is this just something that happens to humans?”

Adagio clearly wasn’t listening “It’s fine, Sonata. Go play.” She said.

Aria walked into the room with a bag of groceries. “Okay ladies, I went grocery shopping last night. I got us some mashed carrot and pea baby food to help get us used to eating human fo- HOLY POPE URBAN THE SEVENTH!!! SONATA, WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOUR BREASTS!?” Adagio turned around and saw that Sonata’s breasts had grown nearly two bra sizes.

“That’s what they're called! Breasts.” said Sonata “Thanks for reminding me, Aria.”

“Sonata! What did you do?” asked Adagio.

“I didn’t do anything.” replied Sonata “I just woke up and they were like this.”

“You must have done something!” said Adagio “That just doesn’t happen by itself.”

“Well it did!” shouted Sonata.

“Is it a side effect from a siren eating human food?” asked Adagio.

“I don’t think so.” said Aria, massaging her own breasts. “I’ve experimented with their food in the past, and mine are the same. I even had one of Sonata’s disgusting tacos this morning.”

“Those were mine!” whined Sonata.

“Shut up! I was hungry. It’s not like I can kick over sandcastles for food anymore.” said Aria.

“There’s only one way to find out.” said Adagio. “To the kitchen!” The trio walked down to the kitchen, which was horribly cluttered with all manner of debris. Generally the Dazzlings used it as a storage room, rather than a place to eat. Before they lost their powers, they usually ate out.

Adagio cleared the table by sweeping everything piled on it to the floor. “Aria, get me one of Sonata’s tacos.” She said.

“I said those were mine!” repeated Sonata. “And technically, they’re burritos.”

“They’re for you, idiot!” snapped Adagio. “I want to test something, okay?”

Aria opened one of the frozen burritos and handed it to Sonata. “Here, and good riddance. They’re awful.”

“Are you going to heat it up first?” asked Sonata.

“Heat it up?” said Aria.

“It says on the label. Cook for 5 minutes before serving.” Sonata pointed “You have to read the labels, silly. That’s how human food works now.”

“Uh huh.” said Aria, plopping the freezer-burned burrito into their microwave that had never been cleaned once in its entire existence. Sonata walked over and punched in the recommended heating time.

“How many of those foul ‘things’ do you have, Sonata?” asked Adagio.

Sonata watched the burrito spin in the microwave with anticipation. “I don’t know, like twenty or so. They’re in the freezer.”

Adagio started pulling frozen burritos out of the freezer and placing them on the table.

“I don’t get it.” said Aria. “How come you’re having Sonata pig out?”

“Her breasts didn’t just get bigger as a coincidence.” said Adagio “Something is going on.”

“What do you think?” asked Aria.

“I think when the Rainbooms defeated us they stripped away our ability to absorb emotions.” said Adagio. “That’s why our pendants shattered. We have to rely on solid food now.”

“I know. It sucks. I can barely remember the taste of doubt and shame.” said Aria “But what does that have to do with anything?”

“Normally, we would sustain ourselves with negative emotional energy and convert that into magic.” Said Adagio “But Sonata sustained herself on solid food just as much as emotional energy, if not more so.”

“So what?”

“I think the spell was confused by her, she was an anomaly. The spell took our ability to create energy out of negative emotions, but in Sonata’s case, she wasn’t using that negative energy to sustain herself. She was using solid food.” hypothesized Adagio.

“So, instead of using emotional energy for her magical power, you think the spell changed it so she converts solid food into…” started Aria.

“Her own body mass.” finished Adagio. “Yes. That’s what I think.”

“Aw shit. This is terrible. She’s gonna have to eat so much food. Do you have any idea how much human crap costs? It’s a lot when you actually have to pay for it.”

“On the contrary.” said Adagio with a grin. “We might be able to make this work to our advantage.”

“How?”

“We don’t know how much matter she can absorb.” said Adagio “If it’s a lot, we could cause her to grow to massive size.”

“How big you thinking?” asked Aria.

“Who knows?” The size of a house? a skyscraper? a city? Once she gets powerful enough, the humans will fall at our feet to stop her.”

“So if we can’t subjugate the world with magic, we’ll do it with brute force!” said Aria.

“Exactly! “And with her new powers, Sonata is going to be the one to deliver the world to us.”

A dark silence fell over the room. The cheap florescent lights flickered ominously. There was then a ding, followed by a happy squee. Sonata pulled her burrito out of the microwave and started suckling the juice out of it. Aria and Adagio smirked at Sonata, as she went to town on her freshly heated burrito. Sonata looked up and saw her two cohorts staring at her. “What?” she said.

Aria and Adagio didn’t say anything. They just grinned.

Sonata looked down. “Oh, I’m still naked.” She blushed “Sorry, I forgot. I’ll go get dressed.”

“You might not want to bother.” Said Agadio “I get the feeling your clothes might not fit you very well once you’ve finished you breakfast.”She tossed one the remaining 19 frozen burritos to her. “Eat up. Let’s see if I’ve placed my bets correctly.”

Chapter 2: Coming to Terms

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Chapter 3: Unification

“Good practice today, Wondercolts!” said Spitfire as the sports team stepped into the locker rooms. “Especially you, Rainbow Dash. You played really well.”

“Thanks!” Rainbow Dash grinned. “Honestly, it wasn’t that hard. I’ve still got plenty of energy left over.” The Wondercolt’s star player started to remove her clothing, revealing her sweat covered skin. “Even still, I’m looking forward to a nice long shower.”

“Wish I could say the same.” said Spitfire, checking her watch. “But, like the rest of the team, I’ve got class right after practice. I got to be in and out of the showers in ten minutes.”

“Yup. Lucky me.” Rainbow Dash finished removing her clothes and stepped into the cascade of warm water. She picked up a container of body lotion and started rubbing it all over her body. The bubbles ravenously cut through the sweat and grime that had built up on her smooth, teal skin. Rainbow could feel them working into her skin. It was a lovely feeling, a feeling of cleanliness.

Spitfire and the others quickly washed up and slowly but surely, they shuffled out of the showers, leaving Rainbow Dash alone in the cascade of water. She was perfectly fine with the privacy. It meant she could close her eyes and satisfy her erotic impulses without shame. Her hand found its way down to her naughty parts. She started imagining her most intimate sexual fantasies. “MMMmmm! That’s good.” She mirred happily.

Suddenly the door to the locker room opened. Rainbow Dash awoke from her trance and pulled her fingers out of herself. She looked up and saw the source of the noise. It was Sonata. “Gah! What are you doing here?” Rainbow Dash jumped.

“Showering.” Sonata said sweetly, pulling her tight T-shirt over her head.

Rainbow was miffed. She hadn’t got a chance to finish fondling herself. “You don’t even go to this school. Why are you really here?”

Sonata blushed as she finished pulling the shirt from her arms. “Well, truthfully, I’m here for you.”

Rainbow Dash tensed up. “We’ll I’m not going down without a fight! Come at me!”

“No, it’s nothing like that,” Sonata put her hands up. “I saw the way Sunset Shimmer had redeemed herself, and I hoped I could do the same. I want to turn over a new leaf.”

Dash raised an eyebrow. “Yeah?”

“I noticed you here in the shower, all by yourself. And I was wondering if you needed any help washing yourself.” Sonata glanced down. “Because…you know…that’s what friends do…”

Rainbow Dash shivered despite the warmness of the water around her. Now she couldn’t get Sonata’s image out her head. She couldn’t trust Sonata! She was a siren for heaven’s sake! Luring helpless sailors to their death with the promise of sex was what they were known for!
That being said, what if she had turned over a new leaf? This would make for a good first impression. Twilight would have wanted her to offer Sonata friendship, right? Plus there was the fact she was super horny. Rainbow weighed the risks and rewards as best she could. She figured she was an athlete, and Sonata was a has-been super-villain who relied on her now-defunct mental powers to do most of the work. So she could probably easily overpower her if things did go bad.

Sonata was standing just outside the water. The occasional droplet would jump out and slowly slide down her smooth skin. Rainbow scanned Sonata’s naked body. Her massive breasts, skinny midriff, and wide, inviting hips made the prospect an offer Dash couldn’t refuse.
“Alright.” said Rainbow Dash “But I’m leading, Ok?”

“Okie-Dokie!” said Sonata, happily hopping into the warm water.

Rainbow Dash noticed that Sonata was a little taller than she remembered. She looked to be around six feet tall if she had to guess, but she just chalked that up to faulty memory. Besides, what really impressed her was the sheer size of Sonata’s breasts. They were the size of cantaloupes! She didn’t remember them being so massive either. She must have packed them in like sardines in the past, for them to be contained by her clothing.

Rainbow Dash started simple, with quick, tender kisses to Sonata’s neck and shoulder. She then started suckling Sonata’s neck, tasting the soft vellus hairs on her smooth, wet skin.

Sonata snickered. “You pretending to be a vampire?” she teased. “C’mon Rainbow, I’m a siren. I know a thing or two about sex. I want it rough.”

“Wow, right to the point.” said Rainbow Dash, not that she minded. “Are you sure?”

“Yes.” Sonata held out her breasts and juggled them around. “I want you to fondle these, caress them, and squeeze them. Knock them around. Show them how a real Wondercolt handles things!”

Rainbow Dash grinned. "You asked for it!” She put out her hands and started roughly rubbing Sonata’s squishy, substantial breasts with her fingers. Her dark blue nipples were as soft as taffy, but quickly hardened as Rainbow Dash ran her sensitive fingertips over them.

“Oh yes!” Sonata sighed. “Mister Whiskers likes that! Yes he does!”

Rainbow Dash didn’t know what Sonata was talking about, but she didn’t particularly care. She spread Sonata’s breast wide and saw a single bead of sweat glistening from within the canyon that was her cleavage. Rainbow extended her tongue and put her head between Sonata’s melons. She licked the salty liquid up and slowly lowered her tongue down Sonata’s chest and reached her bellybutton. She had a very cute ‘inny’ style bellybutton, which Dash couldn’t help but giving a lick slurping up the condensation which had settled there, eliciting a giggle from the ticklish siren.

Finally, Rainbow slid even further down and reached Sonata’s vagina. Sonata shuddered and moaned as Rainbow’s tongue caressed her clitoris, which grew wetter and wetter with each pass of Rainbow’s tongue. Sonata couldn’t take it. Rainbow Dash was a natural at this sort of thing.

Sonata’s legs grew weak. Rainbow Dash’s tongue massaged the inside of her pussy faster and faster and faster. Sonata could stand no longer, she fell to the ground and spread her legs wide, purring like a kitten.

Rainbow Dash was relieved. Sonata didn’t appear threatening at all. In face she was completely submissive to her. She stood over Sonata, giving Sonata an incredible low-angle view of her body as water skimmed off of her. “You ready for the rough stuff!?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“You bet!.” said Sonata. “Come to me, Rainbow. I want you! I want all of you!” She beckoned Rainbow Dash with her finger.

Rainbow Dash lay down on Sonata’s stomach, allowing her breasts to rub against Sonata’s. Rainbow started rubbing her sex all over Sonata’s chest. Her clit stuck out as it became stimulated with the texture of Sonata’s body. Rainbow stroked her pussy over Sonata’s slick skin. Her wet, thirsty cunt began leaking her essence all over. A sweet, comforting aroma filled the showers.

Sonata smiled. She further stimulated her prey by rubbing her body in the opposite direction, allowing her own sex to rub against Rainbows.

Rainbow continued the repetitions against Sonata’s crotch and increased their tempo. She could feel the upwelling of pleasure building inside of her with each stroke. The heavy pressure of the showers poured down. Sweat and warm water glistened on their bodies, as their smooth, wet teal flesh slid against each other. Rainbow Dash could feel every bit of texture of Sonata’s skin.

“Oh, Sonata!” moaned Rainbow Dash “That’s so good. I feel like I’m melting!”

“I know, Rainbow.” said Sonata. She grabbed Rainbow Dash and pulled her in close.

Rainbow rubbed her clit faster and faster against Sonata’s. “I can’t take it anymore.” Panted Rainbow Dash

“Ung! Neither can I!” wailed Sonata.

“I’m gonna, I'm gonna– oogghhh!!” The two could control themselves no longer. Their rubbing turned feverish, and they let loose a flood of white fluid all over the ceramic floors of the shower. It was a wonderful feeling, a sense of weightlessness and relief.

Rainbow Dash collapsed on top of Sonata. Her athletic body went completely limp. She was so weak her limbs were shaking. She panted heavily to catch her breath. Between sports practice and her ‘extracurricular activities’, she wanted to do nothing more than just lay there in the warm water, held by Sonata’s soft embrace. “Oh, that was so good.” said Rainbow Dash, resting her head against Sonata’s breasts. “Thank you, Sonata.”

“You’re welcome, Rainbow Dash.” Sonata ran her fingers through Rainbow’s hair. “I had fun, too.”

“I was a little skeptical at first, but this was really nice.” Rainbow Dash closed her eyes. “I feel like I could just lay here with you forever.”

“You can.” said Sonata. “Look.”

Rainbow opened her eyes and saw her skin had fused with Sonata’s. “What the-?” She tried to pull away, but found that her breasts had merged with Sonata. “Sonata! What’s going on?” Rainbow Dash asked in a panic.

“Oh, I can absorb people now.” Said Sonata “Pretty cool, huh?”

Rainbow’s eyes welled up “Don’t do this! Please! I trusted you!”

“I know, silly. That’s why I did it.” Sonata said innocently.

Rainbow could feel herself being pulled into Sonata. Her arms had fused into Sonata’s shoulders and were numb and unresponsive. She started struggling frantically, desperate to pull herself out of Sonata’s rippling body. But her efforts made little difference. Sonata’s gooey, fleshy body surrounded Rainbow Dash and started penetrating her skin on the atomic level.

Rainbow Dash started screaming in fear as her fatigued body was absorbed into Sonata’s belly. “HELP! SOMEONE HELP ME!” yelled Rainbow Dash. But her screams were drowned out by the noise of the running water and the acoustics of the locker room. It echoed through the showers. No help would come.

“Shhh. Don’t panic, Dashie. It will all be over soon. Then you’ll be safe.” Sonata stroked her rainbow hair, before shoving Rainbow Dash’s head into her breasts, which muffled her screams of terror. Rainbow's face slowly melted into her chest. Sonata inhaled as she felt the warmness of Rainbow's flesh enter her body. Sonata pushed Rainbow’s ribcage into her own with a satisfying ‘skluckh’ noise. This left Rainbow Dash’s butt and legs sticking out of her belly. The legs kicked and struggled with all their might as they were slowly sucked into Sonata’s stomach.

“Oh wow, you’re a real fighter aren’t you?” said Sonata “But there’s no point in resisting. You’ll be all mine soon.” Sonata was right. Rainbow Dash was absorbed down to her knees, and then her shins, and then her toes. When Sonata was finished, all that remained of Rainbow Dash her Wondercolt uniform, which sat abandoned outside the showers.

Sonata let out a satisfied sigh and patted her belly, which had become bloated and swollen with Rainbow Dash’s mass, as if she were pregnant. Never before had she had a feeling of satisfaction this intense. She could feel trembles vibrating under her skin. Rainbow was still struggling within her.

“Wow, Dashie. You’re all the way inside my stummy, and you’re still resisting?” Sonata laughed. “Blackie, Patches, Mr. Whiskers. We need to calm her down. Give her a tour, please.” The mass of body fat shifted out of Sonata’s belly and into her butt and breasts. This made her breasts almost the size of her head, and gave her an ass big enough to take two seats at a movie theater.

Sonata stood up, and walked out of the shower, not bothering to turn off the running water. She picked her clothes up and attempted to put them back on, but found it was rather difficult. Her body had gained a large amount of mass. Her once petite boobs now resembled soft blue melons, and her legs now resembled small tree trunks. She stood at just under 7 feet tall.

She forced her them on as best she could, though It was an extremely tight fit. Her clothes were stretched to their limits, and barely covered her. “Good enough.” She thought to herself, before happily skipping out of the locker room. She could hardly wait to tell Adagio the good news.

She started taking the shortest path home. Unfortunately, the shortest route home took her right through the bad part of town.

Chapter 4: Stress Test

The slums. Home of the vicious Night Drake gang. Not a safe place to be after sundown. Sonata and her friends frequented there often, as it was a good source of negative emotions. Whenever they got into trouble with the locals, they could simply sing their problems away. But know that Sonata lacked that ability, she was playing with danger, and her number was about to come up.

As Sonata walked down the street, two young men drove up beside her in a white van. One was tall and had a red and orange striped hoodie. His shorter and fatter cohort had a simple brown jacket and was skulked over in the driver’s seat. “Well, well. What’s a nice piece of ass like you doing in this part of town?” said the one in the red hoodie.

“I’m just going home.” Sonata said earnestly. “Today’s been a big day for me.”

“Oh yeah?" He asked. “You need a lift?”

Sonata smiled. “Okay.” She naively stepped into the stranger’s van. It made her happy when humans showed kindness to one another. She could feel Rainbow Dash yelling something in the back of her mind, but dismissed it as her as still freaking out from her recent assimilation. Sonata sat down and buckled her seatbelt. “Thank you, Mister.”

“Name’s Garble.” said the man with in the red hoodie. “So what’s happening with you, big lady?”

“My friends are going to be so proud of me! I did something right for once. I’m so excited!”

“I’m really excited as well. A big bundle of opportunity just walked up on me.” said Garble “Say, you a street walker?”

Sonata looked at him cluelessly. “Yeah, I walk on the street. But what does that have to do with anything?”

The driver spoke in a deep voice. “Man, did this hoe step off the short bus, or what? He wants to sleep with you! Garble’s got a thing fo’ bigger chicks!” He grinned facetiously.

“Shut up, Gronkle!” snipped Garble. “But yeah, basically what he said. So howza bout it?”

“Oh, I do enjoy a good diddling!” said Sonata. “But I really need to get home.”

“Well maybe I could persuade you to open up your schedule!” Garble smirked. He pulled a gun out of his jacket and pointed at Sonata.

Sonata gasped. She was being kidnapped! "What are-?" Sonata started.

"Shut up!" Garble shouted.

“What’re you doing, man!?” Gronkle gasped .

“Shut up, Gronkle!” snipped Garble. "I'm not gonna shoot her! I've got everything under control!"

“We had her, man! You didn’t gots to pull your piece out! What wrong with you?”Grongle looked at Garble wearily.

“The bitch talked back to me!” Garble snarled. “I hate it when they talk back to me!”

“I know, but you can’t just go pulling your piece in public!” said Grongle. “I’m not going back to prison! I get arrested one more time, they gonna throw the book at me!”

"We’re not gonna get caught.” Garble assured “Nobody saw nothing, and no one’s gonna miss some stupid street walker! Now pull up to the crib, will ya?”

“Shouldn’t we just deliver her to the boss? You know he gets mad when you sample the goods.”

“Look, just pull up to the crib! We’ll deliver her later. Make sure to go in through the back so no one sees us. I wanna have some fun with her first.” Garble said with an evil grin.

“Okay…” Gronkle pulled the van up to a run-down house. “We selling this one? Or are you gonna keep her in your basement like the other bitch?” He asked.

“Depends on how good a job she does.” Garble pulled Sonata out of the van. “Now let’s move it!” He gestured with his pistol.

Sonata entered the decrepit house. Her sense of fear was gone, and in its place was anger. They had taken advantage of her naivety, her assumption that deep down, everyone was a good person at heart. There was none of that in these two. These two were kidnappers, human traffickers, slavers. She fully intended to consume them first opportunity she got. But for now, she had a gun pointed at her.

“Get in my basement!” Garble pushed Sonata down a flight creaky wooden stairs.

Sonata landed on the floor in a heap. She grunted and pulled herself up off the floor. The basement was dark and musty. In the corner was a stained mattress that appeared to have been well-used, in the other was a cage with a naked girl chained up and gagged. She looked at Sonata with teary eyes. Sonata looked back at Garble. “You’re making a big mistake.”

“Sure.” Gargle casually pointed his gun at her as he skipped down the stairs. ”Now why don’t you shut up and take your damn clothes off?”

Sonata removed her clothing. She didn’t mind, as she didn’t have a problem with nudity, plus it also gave her a tactical advantage, as it would make it a lot easier for her to absorb him without her clothes being in the way.

“Uh, Garb. You gonna be alright down there? She’s a lot bigger than you. What if she gets your gun?” Grongle yelled down the stairs.

"I’ll be fine. I’m putting my piece away, where she can’t get it.” Garble walked over to a safe and placed his gun inside of it. “If you hear me yelling, come check on me, kay?”

“Okay.” Said Grongle nervously “I’ll be in the kitchen if you need me…”

Sonata smirked. Now that he had no gun, he had nothing to threaten her with. She should easily be able to absorb him. She was holding all the cards now.

Gargle turned his attention back to Sonata. “Lie down on the mattress.” He said.

“That girl over there…” She gestured towards the weeping girl in the cage.

“That’s Lyra. Isn’t she cute?” Grongle looked over at his prisoner. Maybe you two can become friends if you’re half as good as she is. Girl can suck a dick like a-”

Sonata’s anger flared “I’ll make sure I’m the last person you ever kidnap, you big bully!” She charged at Garble.

With lightning reflexes Garble pulled a switchblade from his jacket and lunged at her. “You think I’m afraid of you, bitch!? The Night Drakes aint afraid of nothing! Looks like I’ll need to teach you some manners!” A quick slash of his knife across Sonata’s stomach sent a splatter of blood flying against the wall. Sonata staggered backwards, Only for Garble to slam her onto the ground. Despite being a foot shorter than her, he proved remarkably strong. He raised his blade for another attack as Sonata lay helpless on the ground.

Sonata clenched her eyes shut as the sharp blade entered her abdomen. Garble shoved the knife in all the way up to the hilt, causing Sonata to spasm in pain. “I’m sorry, I’m sorry.” Sonata cried. “I’ll do whatever you say, just please don’t hurt me…” Her stomach clenched up in pain. She was in complete agony, as if she were dying. It was the most pain she had felt in her entire life. She could hear Garble saying something, but it was difficult to make out.

“Could you let go?” asked Garble.

“What…?” Sonata opened her eyes. She looked down and saw that Garble’s hand was stuck in the folds of her belly fat. Sonata gasped in astonishment. Her skin was completely wrapped around Garble’s wrist and seemed to have fused with it. Now that she had a moment to think about it, she could barely feel the pain anymore.

“Seriously, bitch.” Garble tugged hard “What’s wrong with your stomach!? I can’t get my hand out of it!”

Sonata grinned evilly. She inhaled deeply and sucked Garble’s arm in even further, pulling the blade from his grasp. She could feel the sharp metal object passing through her body. But it slid through her with no discomfort whatsoever, as if her internal organs had turned to jelly.

“Gah! What are you doing?” Garble gasped “You’ll bleed out! My knife will be stuck inside your gut!”

The blade slid out from Sonata’s skin and appeared in her hand, leaving no damage whatsoever. “You mean this knife?” Sonata dangled it in front of Garble’s face.

Garble stared in disbelief. “How…? How did you do that?”

“I don’t entirely know.” Sonata said. “Somehow, I can absorb things into my body, and it looks like I can take them out just as easily. It’s like I’m make out of pudding or something.”

“A-a-absorb things? You mean like, you’re going to eat me!?” Garble started sweating. It wasn’t supposed to turn out like this. He tugged even harder against her sticky, hungry flesh, but it did him little good. Already, he could feel his fingers melting into jelly.

Sonata licked her lips. “You messed with the wrong ‘street-walker.’” She inhaled and sucked him in up to his shoulder.

Garble started panicking. “You can’t do this! GRONGLE!!! GRONGLE!!! HELP ME! HEL-MMPHH! gurgle!” He shouted, but his cries were silenced as Sonata sucked his entire torso into her belly. Sonata forced his screaming face to swallow large amount of her gelatinous body, allowing her to absorb him from both inside and out.

Sonata started drooling. She hadn’t realized how good it felt when she absorbed something. Maybe because the last time she did she was still savoring a the post-coatis glow between her and Rainbow Dash, but now she realized just how nice it felt to feed of her first male victim’s flesh. She could feel him struggling inside her gelatinous stomach. Lyra watched in horror as Sonata’s skin wrapped itself around Garble and started to suck him in with a slurping noise.

Grongle ran down the stairs as fast as he could. “Garble, you okay? I thought I heard you ye– HOLY SHIT!” He made it downstairs just in time to watch Sonata finish sucking Garble’s flailing legs into her body, completely engulfing him. She now stood almost nine feet tall, towering over him, a look of predatory hunger on her face.

Grongle pulled his gun and pointed it at Sonata. “Y-y-you let Garble go right now…” He trembled.

Sonata wasn’t afraid. The cuts from the knife had healed completely. She doubted a bullet would be any more dangerous. “Hmmm, how about no? How about you let Lyra out of her cage before I decide I'm hungry for seconds?” she threatened.

Grongle gulped. “I’m warning you, let him go… I’ll do it! I’ll shoot, I swear…”

“Then do it.” Sonata licked her lips. “Shoot me. I dare you. I'm not scared of you! I want to see what'll happen.” She put her head directly up to the gun barrel. "Do it!"

Grongle closed his eyes. A loud bang out followed by a heavy thump. Grongle started breathing heavily. He timidly opened his eyes to Sonata’s body lay outstretched on the ground before hom. Grongle let out a sigh of relief. He didn’t think that would actually work. He crouched over to Sonata’s body to see where he had shot her, but he didn’t see any sort of wound.

“SURPRISE!” Sonata sat up and grabbed Grongle’s legs and merged her hands with his feet.

“What the!?” Grongle turned to run, but his feet had become part of Sonata’s arms. He violently fell to the floor.

“I can’t believe you fell for that!” Sonata laughed. “I didn’t even feel it!” She spat the bullet out of her mouth.

Grongle gasped. He raised his pistol and sprayed his entire clip into Sonata, but the bullets harmlessly wedged themselves into Sonata’s gelatinous skin. Sonata then relaxed her skin, allowing all the bullets to clatter harmlessly onto the floor.

“W-what are you?” asked Grongle.

“I’m usually a pretty nice girl. But you two have made me really mad! So I’m gonna eat you!” She started assimilating Grongle’s body into her own, absorbing him up to his waist.

“No! Please! I’m sorry!” Grongle pleaded.

“Liar!” Sonata growled “I can see into your memories! I know about all the terrible things you’ve done! I know about all the people you’ve hurt, including that poor girl over there. And I know you felt absolutely no remorse for it!”

“Y-y-you can read my thoughts!?” Grongle sputtered.

“Yes. But I wish I couldn’t. There’s no place for scum like you in my body. Goodbye, Grongle. You were tastier than your friend if nothing else.” Grongle’s body completely disappeared into Sonata’s chest. Her stomach churned in protest as she assimilated his mass into her body. Once inside, Sonata stripped their souls to their most basic elements of thought. The very essence of their consciousness was disfigured. The two thug’s memories, hopes and dreams were dwindled into nothingness. They were stripped of their individuality, their agency, and were dwindled away into nothing more than a pair of blank slates.

Sonata chuckled. She felt so confident. So powerful. Nothing could stop her powerful new body. She felt invincible. She stood up, only to bump her head on the ceiling with a crack. “Ouch!” She cried, rubbing her head. She now stood ten feet tall, almost double her original height. She walked over towards Lyra’s cage and knelt down so she could see inside.

Lyra had curled herself up into a ball as far away from the bars as possible. She was whimpering like a frightened puppy. “D-don’t eat me!” she pleaded.

“Why not?” Sonata licked her lips. “You’ll be safe inside of me. You won’t have to worry about anyone hurting you ever again.”

Lyra’s eyes started tearing up as Sonata reached a sticky arm towards her. “I-I don’t want to die!”

“You won’t die.” Sonata said as reassuringly as possible. “You’ll be safe and sound inside my tummy.” She ran her fingers across Lyra’s face.

“Please! I just want to go home!” Lyra broke down crying.

Sonata stomach dropped. She couldn’t blame Lyra for being afraid. The prospect of being absorbed would be terrifying for anyone, let alone someone as traumatized as her. Sonata sighed and pulled her arm away from Lyra. “Okay, I promise I won’t eat you.” Sonata said gently. “I just want to help you.”

Lyra continued to sob uncontrollably. Sonata gasped, it was hard to see them in the dark, but Lyra had scars all over her body, especially on her back. “How did you get those scars?” Sonata asked. Lyra continued weeping. She didn’t say anything, but Sonata already knew the answer. “They hurt badly, don’t they?” Sonata asked. Once again, Lyra didn’t answer.

Sonata reached a hand into the cage and slowly ran it across Lyra’s back, eliciting a wince of pain from her. Sonata could feel the fear and the pain emanating from her soul. In the past, these emotions would have been a feast to her, now she was revolted by them. No one should have to suffer like this.

Sonata started to feel Lyra’s emotions with more intensity. She started to feel the pleasurable sensation that she felt before she absorbed Rainbow Dash and the two kidnappers. Sonata licked her lips hungrily. Lyra was so tasty. She really wanted to absorb her. And why shouldn’t she? Lyra would be safer inside of her. Who cared what she promised her? Who cared what Lyra wanted? Sonata was going to force her to be safe! She reached her arm towards Lyra.

“You promised her wouldn’t eat her!” Sonata heard Rainbow Dash in the back of her mind.

Sonata stopped. “Aw, come on. I only said that to calm her down. Why shouldn’t I absorb her? She’ll be safe in me!” Sonata thought back.

“If lying to a traumatized kidnapping victim makes you feel like a big hero, then by all means. Don’t let me stop you.” Rainbow Dash chided her.

“Darn it!” said Sonata “As if I didn’t have my own conscience to deal with…”

Lyra looked up at the massive blue girl towering above her as if she had lost her mind.

Sonata sighed. “Don’t panic. I’m going to get you out of there, okay?” said Sonata.

“Okay…” Lyra whimpered. “Just don’t hurt me…”

Sonata ripped the cage’s door off with her bare hands and approached Lyra. “I’m going to fix your back now, okay?"

"What?" said Lyra.

"Don’t move please.” Sonata put her hand on Lyra’s back and slowly melted it into ooze that started to spread over Lyra’s body and working it into Lyra’s individual cells. She started completely reforming the damaged cells, melting Lyra’s soft skin into a squishy bio-matter.

“No!” Lyra wailed. “Please! You promised!” She started squirming.

Sonata lurched. Lyra’s struggling was like trying to avoid swallowing something that was at the edge of the throat. “I’m not absorbing you, I’m healing you! Hold still!” said Sonata.

“H-h-how do I know you’re not lying?”

“You’re just going to have to trust me!” Sonata strained.

Sonata continued regenerating Lyra’s skin. There was a ton of work to be done. Lyra’s body had taken a serious amount of abuse. She absorbed the entirety of Lyra’s form, covering it with a thin layer of ooze, melting down her entire body into slime. She could feel Lyra emotionally screaming.

“Just a few more seconds…” Sonata sweated as she finished reconstructing Lyra. She slid the layer off slime away, revealing a smooth patch of aquamarine skin that was completely free of scars and bruises.

Lyra gasped for air and opened her eyes. She at herself in shock as she admired her freshly repaired skin. It was a smooth as a newborn baby. “I-I Don’t believe it…” said Lyra, she stood up and embraced Sonata's leg in a tight hug. “Thank you…”

Sonata returned the embrace, although she had to be careful to avoid absorbing her. She could feel Lyra’s soul. She saw her recent memories and found Lyra had been kidnapped about a week ago, and although she seemed happier, she would probably be scarred for life by the experience. Sonata had to do something to help Lyra. She wondered if she could manipulate memories as easily as she did organic material. After all, she had dwindled Grongle and Garble down into nothingness, it shouldn’t much more difficult to remove only selected memories. She leaned her mouth up to Lyra’s ear. “You were never here.” She whispered, spitting forth a tiny blue drop of herself into Lyra’s ear canal.

“What?” said Lyra, as her eyes formed into pinpricks and her face went completely limp.

“You went on vacation to the Bahamas.” said Sonata. “You needed a little time off and went on vacation without telling anyone, remember?”

Lyra nodded. “Uh-huh…” She said in an entranced voice.

Sonata imagined herself relaxing on a warm beach, sunbathing while drinking pina colada and transmited those thoughts to Lyra. “You had a wonderful week there, and it was definitely was not traumatic in the slightest.”

Lyra’s face went back to normal and the lights returned to her eyes. She blinked a few times and looked around the room. “Who are you? And where am I? Last thing I remember I was on the beach, and…”

Sonata placed her finger over Lyra’s lips. “Shhh.” She whispered. “It’s time to sleep…” Sonata waved her hand across Lyra’s face, causing her to slip into unconsciousness.

Lyra fell to the floor in a gentle sleep.

Sonata crouched down and placed a hand on Lyra’s forehead. “Poor thing…” She mumbled. “What am I going to do with her?”

“Don’t even think about assimilating her.” thought Rainbow Dash.

Sonata sighed. “Okay, mom. I’ll see if I can find where she lives.” Sonata started sifting through Lyra’s memories in an attempt to figure out where find where she lived. She started seeing a few basic memories, and was able to glean that Lyra lived on the other side of town, with someone named Bon Bon. Sonata thought about probing her memories to see how deep this relationship went, but Rainbow Dash convinced her to respect Lyra’s privacy.

Sonata exited the cage and picked up her clothes. There was no way they would fit her now, she had just gained a lot of bulk. She looked over at Lyra’s naked body. “She could probably use these more than I could…” She thought. Sonata dressed Lyra up in her old clothes as if she were a child. Lyra was so small compared to her. She cradled Lyra in her arms as she walked up the stairs and exited the house.

Sonata was absolutely brimming with confidence. She was amazed at the host of superpowers her new body had. The ability to absorb anything into her body, to regenerate from debilitating injury, and to alter the memories of anyone her amorphous body touched.

Sonata walked out to Garble’s van without fear, knowing that anyone who harassed her would ultimately end up as her part of her ever-growing body. She placed Lyra in the back seat and entered the front, before realizing she had no idea how to drive. “Gah, that’s just great!” Sonata slumped against the side of the van. “It’ll take me forever to carry her across town.” Sonata leaned back in the seat. She didn’t know what to do. Then she had an idea. “Rainbow, will you drive for me?” She asked Rainbow Dash’s consciousness.

Rainbow Dash was indignant. “Why should I help you!? You ate me, remember?”

“This isn’t for me. This is for Lyra. We need to get her home.”

“We?” asked Rainbow Dash. “I don’t exist in the ‘real world.’ She’s your problem, not mine.”

“I could just absorb her, you know? Is that what you want, Rainbow Dash? A roommate?”

“Fine, I’ll help you get her home.” Rainbow conceded. “But how the heck am I going to do that without a body?”

“Hold on” said Sonata. “Let me try something.” Sonata tried isolating Rainbow’s essence into her bloated stomach. A pair of teal arms sprouted from out of her stomach, and then a torso, and finally a pair of legs. The mass of sticky ooze separated itself from Sonata and rapidly hardened to the consistency of flesh, leaving the body of Rainbow lay naked on the drive-way.

Rainbow Dash stood up and looked at herself. It was weird being inside a physical body again, instead of being a passenger inside of Sonata. Rainbow ran her hands on her face, just to make sure she was really there. “Man, I’ve missed you.” She said to her body.

“Remember, that this is only temporary. You’re still my prisoner.” said Sonata, who stood almost two whole feet taller than Rainbow Dash. Her large breasts were about on the same level as Rainbow's head.

"Yeah, sure." said Rainbow as she ran her hands over her arms.

“Oh, and just in case you had any plans of running away.” Sonata held up an arm and Rainbow’s arm involuntarily mimicked it perfectly.

“Are you kidding me?" Rainbow whined. "I don’t even get full control of my own body!?”

“I just said you were my prisoner, didn’t I?” said Sonata. “The only reason you’re being allowed to borrow your old body is because I need you to drive Lyra home.”

Rainbow Dash held out her arms and scoffed. “Well, we can’t drive around naked. We’ll get arrested!”

Sonata rolled her eyes. “I swear you humans and your clothes.” She held out her hand and Rainbow’s skin started to shift and bubble. Simple clothing manifested itself on the surface of her skin. In actuality, it was still her skin, but because her body consisted entirely of ooze as, it could be molded in a way that gave the appearance of clothing. Sonata did the same to herself and appeared to be wearing a pair of large jeans and a T-shirt.

Rainbow Dash hung her head. It was weird appearing clothed, but feeling naked. Nevertheless, she had a job to do. “Alright. Where are the keys?” she asked.

“Oh.” said Sonata. “Hold on.” She started moving the liquid insides of her body around. Several tiny metal objects appeared. Sonata guessed they were the teeth of Garble and Grongle's zippers. She continued shifting her insides around until the grooved metal objects slid out of her body onto her hand. “These?”

Rainbow Dash took the keys and sat down in the driver’s seat with her eyes half-lidded. Sonata sat down next to her. “So what’s your game, Sonata?” asked Rainbow Dash as she started the van.

“I’ve always liked go fish!” said Sonata. “But checkers is fun too! Oh, and karaoke! But I'm not sure if that counts...”

“I mean, what are you planning to do?” Rainbow Dash rubbed her temples. “Honestly, it’s an idiom. You've lived here for centuries, how can you be so uneducated on human culture?”

“Usually my friends and I would just take what we needed from your kind without giving it much thought. I've always been an outsider looking in.” said Sonata. “I mean, I like humans. I think you’re fascinating. But to tell you the truth, you’re the first one I’ve actually gotten to know that well.”

“Aw, I’m flattered.” Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. “You know what my favorite part of our relationship was?”

“What?” Sonata asked enthusiastically.

“The part where you pretended to repent so you could absorb me!” Rainbow said sarcastically. “That was real fun!”

“I’m sorry, Rainbow.” said Sonata. “But I couldn’t have you foiling our plans again. We needed you out of the way.”

“And what are these plans?” asked Rainbow “World domination I assume?”

“Sort of…” Sonata fidgeted with her fingers. “You see, I want everyone to be safe. And as far as I know, my body is indestructible.”

“So you want to absorb everyone in the world?” Rainbow Dash grinned.

Sonata nodded. “I’m doing that for the benefit of humanity,” said Sonata “You’re not smart enough to take care of yourselves.”

“And you are!?” laughed Rainbow Dash. “You’re a simpleton!”

Sonata frowned. “Maybe… But it doesn’t matter. If I’m powerful enough to absorb everyone, why shouldn’t I?”

“Because people have the right to make their own decisions!” Rainbow Dash scoffed. “For you to absorb them against their will is wrong!”

“It’s wrong to make people do things they don’t want to do?” Sonata scratched her head.

“You assume that just because you could hypnotize people that it’s an okay thing to do?” asked Rainbow Dash.

“No. I assumed it because humans make others do things they don’t want to do all the time.”

“What are you talking about?”

“Do people like paying taxes? Or going to work? Or getting sent off to wars?”

“That’s different. People have agreed to respect a governing authority. Otherwise people like those thugs you dissolved would have no one to stop them.”

“So if it’s okay for the government to take your stuff, and sent you to die, and put you in prison without permission, why isn’t it okay for me to absorb people?” asked Sonata.

“Because people have agreed to pay taxes and respect the government's authority.”

“What if someone didn’t agree?" Sonata asked. "Would the government be okay with that?”

“No. They’d send them to prison for tax evasion…”Rainbow hung her head. “But that’s not the point!”

Sonata placed her hand on Rainbow’s shoulder. “I’m not doing this because I want power, Rainbow. I’m doing this because I like your kind. I want the humans to be free and happy. I know every human has desires, dreams and goals. All of those can come true inside me. Imagine, living in a perfect world, without the responsibilities of the real life. Existing in a reality made only of your own wishes.”

“Sounds too good to be true.”

“But it is true. Right now, the hamsters inside of me are imagining themselves eating a giant peach right now. And in their minds, it’s actually happening.”

“So you want to trap everyone on the planet in your hive-mind ‘paradise’?” Rainbow Dash chuckled. “And I thought I had delusions of grandeur.”

“C’mon, Dashie…” Sonata started.

“Don’t call me that!” Rainbow snapped. “Only my friends get to call me that! You’re not my friend, Sonata! You’re a villain, and my friends are going to stop you, one way or another.”

“I’m not a bad person, Rainbow.” Sonata pouted. “Why would I save Lyra if I was a bad person?”

“I don’t know. To absolve some of your guilt? Because deep down you know what you’re doing is wrong? Don’t forget, you were going to eat her without a second thought if I hadn’t said anything.”

"Well, what do you think I should do with my powers?”

Rainbow Dash sighed. She looked back at Lyra, who was unconscious in the back seat. “Try to do the right thing.” She said. “Try to help people like her. You can help people without taking over the world.” Rainbow pulled up to Lyra’s home and put the van in park.

“I don't know. I'll think about it, but we're here.” said Sonata. “Now carry Lyra please.”

“What if I don’t want to carry her?” asked Rainbow Dash. "Besides, you're bigger than me. why don't you do it?"

Sonata waved her hand, causing Rainbow’s false clothing to disappear back into her body.

Rainbow quickly covered herself up.“Eep! Alright, I’ll do it!” She whined.

Sonata grinned, waved her hand and the clothes returned.

Rainbow snorted. She picked Lyra up from the back seat and carried her to the door.

Sonata skipped up to the front door and gave a happy series of knocks.

A short, cream-colored woman with opened the door. Sonata assumed she was Bon Bon. “Hi, uh, Bon Bon?” Sonata waved. “Does Lyra live here?”

“She’s okay!” Bon Bon smiled at the sight of Rainbow carrying Lyra's unconscious form.

“Safe and sound.” Sonata said proudly. “Uh! Not that she was ever in any danger, of course.”

“Oh, thank goodness she’s home.” Bon Bon helped Rainbow carry Lyra inside. “Do you have any idea where she went?”

“The Bahamas.” Sonata lied.

“The Bahamas? Really?” Bon Bon raised an eyebrow.

“Yup!” said Sonata. “Just ask her when she wakes up and she’ll tell you just that.”

“That’s odd. ” said Bon Bon as she helped Rainbow Dash set Lyra the couch. “She always said she hated going to the beach.”

“Uh…” Sonata started. "Maybe she changed her mind?"

“It doesn’t matter.” Bon Bon looked up at her. “I'm just glad she's home. I was sure she‘d been kidnapped. The news says that human trafficking is on the rise.”

“I know. More humans are driving cars this century.” said Sonata.

Rainbow Dash rolled her eyes. “Human trafficking means kidnapping, Sonata.”

"Oh..." said Sonata.

“It’s not safe to go out at night anymore.” said Bon Bon. “People are disappearing all over the place. It’s the Night Drake gang. Canterlot has never seen criminals of their caliber before. People taken by them are usually never seen again.”

“Heh, well, it’s a good thing she was just on vacation, and not kidnapped, am I right?” Sonata shrugged.

Bon Bon lunged forward and hugged Sonata. “Thank you so much for bringing her back. I was worried I would never see her again!”

It was all Sonata could do to not absorb Bon Bon right there. She was simply overflowing with happiness. It felt so good. Sonata started drooling. “Ah, you’re welcome.” Sonata quickly pulled herself out of Bon Bon’s grasp.

Bon Bon looked confused. "Are you all right?"

“I mean, uh. No need to thank me.” said Sonata. “It was nothing, really.”

“Nonsense.” said Bon Bon. “You brought Lyra back to me. The least I can do is treat you to dinner. Come on, Let’s get you something to eat.”

Sonata licked her lips. “Okay. Food is better than no food.”

“There’s cornbread on the stove. Fresh from the oven.” said Bon Bon. “Help yourselves, I’m going to go check on Lyra.”

“Oooh, Cornbread.” Rainbow Dash picked up a piece and took a bite.

“Be careful. It’s hot.” Bon Bon finished.

Rainbow’s eyes widened. Hot was an understatement, she was amazed it wasn’t on fire. Her mouth burned and she spat out the bread and ran her fingers across her tongue, it felt sticky, like it was melting.

Sonata was busy rummaging around in the refrigerator. “Please have tortillas…” she mumbled to herself.

“Thanata…?” said Rainbow Dash as her tongue turned dark blue.

“What is it, Rainbow?” Sonata looked away from the fridge and saw Rainbow Dash’s tongue had melted into a blackened ooze.

“Mah tung eth elted.” Rainbow struggled to say as her tongue started to ooze out of her mouth.

"Oh, I see." Sonata winced. "I guess my body doesn't like hot temperatures too much."

"Wha em ah gun duh nah?"

“Ah, don’t worry, Rainbow. I’ll just make you a new one.” Sonata held a finger up to Rainbow’s face and shot a squirt of her teal fluid into her mouth, which quickly reformed itself into a tongue.

Rainbow ran her fingers across her new tongue.
“There we go. Good as new.” said Sonata. “Now let’s get this cleaned up.” She picked up a cloth and wiped Rainbow’s melted tongue off the kitchen floor.

“Thanks…” said Rainbow Dash.

"You've got to cool your food off before you eat it." Sonata said cheerfully. "Now let me get you some ice water."

Rainbow Dash smacked her new tongue against the roof of her mouth. She slumped against the countertop. “Sonata, can I ask you something?"

"What is it?" Sonata handed Rainbow a glass of ice water.

Rainbow Dash took the glass and took a sip. "How come you’re so…nice?”

“What do you mean?”

“I mean, you don’t strike me as villain material. The only reason you want to take over the world is to keep people safe and happy? Really!? How did you end up with those other two miscreants?”

“It was mostly because we were all sirens. It was more efficient for us to hunt in groups.” said Sonata “It made it easier to stir up conflict for us to feed off of. It’s not that I wanted to make the humans fight, But I was a siren. It’s my nature.”

Rainbow Dash didn’t say anything. She just stared at her. "I don't know what to think, Sonata..." she said. "You had the desire to help people, and enough magic to do plenty of good help them ... and you used it for yourself for hundreds of years. I don't know if your a hypocrite, or just an idiot..."

Sonata was hurt. She put her hand on Rainbow’s shoulder. “Dashie, please, I…”

“Don't call me that.” Rainbow pushed her away. “You’re not my friend! You kidnapped me!”

“But I’m trying to do the right thing.” Sonata pouted. "I just want to help."

"Then let me go!” Rainbow waved her arms in the air. “You know kidnapping is wrong! Heck, you just ate a pair of kidnappers yourself! You want to do the right thing? Release me!"

Sonata ran that through her mind. She knew that Adagio would be livid if she showed up without Rainbow. Plus, she had gotten to like Rainbow Dash, and the thought of her being taken by the Night Drakes was just to much for Sonata to bear. She had to keep Dashie safe! “I...I…I just can’t.” Sonata sighed.

Rainbow rolled her eyes and crossed her arms. “Sure...”

Sonata looked at the floor. “I’m sorry, Rainbow…”

Rainbow looked at her flatly. "Yes, you are..."

The two of them just stared at each other for over a minute when Bon Bon broke the tension by walking into the kitchen “Did you two take Lyra to a cosmetic surgeon or something?”

“No. Why?” asked Sonata.

“Because she’s missing the scar on her right elbow that she got when she was a baby.” said Bon Bon. “If fact, I didn't see any of her blemishes. Even, her birthmark is gone. I swear she’s a perfect model of health.”

“Maybe the sea air was good for her.” Rainbow Dash said facetiously. She then turned to Sonata “Speaking of which, you still plan on bringing anyone else to ‘Paradise’, Sonata?”

Sonata didn’t say anything.

Lyra walked into the kitchen and rubbed her eyes. “Bon Bon?” she asked.

“Lyra!” Bon Bon practically jumped on her. “I’m so glad you’re awake.”

Lyra grinned at her. “I’m glad so happy to be back. I'm so sorry for leaving without telling you. I don’t even remember why I thought going to the Bahamas would be good idea in the first place. Or why I would consider going without you.” she rubbed her nose against Bon Bon’s. "I guess I wasn't thinking."

Bon Bon chuckled. “You hungry, sweetie?” she asked.

“I'm starved. I feel like I haven eaten properly in over a week. I guess all that island food went right through me. Hey, when we're done with dinner, do you want to go upstairs and..."

Bon Bon cut her off. “Lyra!” she gasped. “We have guests over!”

Rainbow Dash blushed. She knew when to take the hint. She put up her hand. “ Don’t worry. I was just going to go wait in the van anyway. I won’t leave without you, Sonata. I fully aware it’s a ‘rental vehicle.’”

Lyra kissed Bon Bon on the cheek before she went off to the kitchen . “I'll meet you upstairs whenever you’re ready.”

Bon Bon turned to Sonata and just stared at her.

Despite being almost one-and-a-half Bon Bon's size, Sonata was sort of intimidated by the look she was giving her. "Y-yes?" she asked.

“You want to tell me what’s up?” Bon Bon said sternly.

“What do you mean?” asked Sonata.

“I'm not stupid. I know Lyra would never go to the Bahamas without me. Who are you? What’s really going on?”

Sonata sat down. At the end of the couch was a newspaper with the headline ‘Night Drakes strike again! Police astonished by gang’s viciousness.' It pained Sonata to know there was an entire gang full of people like Garble and Grongle. They were probably harassing innocent people right now. “Can I ask you something?” said Sonata.

“About what?” asked Bon Bon.

Sonata held up the newspaper headline. “About them.”

“The Night Drakes?” Bon Bon looked puzzled. “What do they have to do with anything?"

“They’re bad people, right? They go out and hurt others, right?”

“Yes. But again, what does this have to do with you and Lyra?”

“I feel like I need to do something about them.”

“Are you talking about vigilantism?”

“I don’t know what that means.”

Bon Bon laughed. “I wouldn’t tangle with them. Yeah, you're a big girl, sure. But they’re a real nasty bunch. They threw the leader of the last gang that tried to push into their turf off a bridge. You’d just end up getting yourself killed, or worse. Besides, why do you care so much about a bunch of street thugs? And what does any of this have to do with you and Lyra?"

“They kidnapped Lyra…” mumbled Sonata.

“What!?” gasped Bon Bon.

“I didn’t want to tell you.” Sonata teared up. “They did horrible things to her... So I took care of her. I fixed her injuries. She had amnesia... and I told her she had been on vacation because I didn’t want her to worry and... I'm sorry. I shouldn't have lied to you...”

Bon Bon just stared at her. “You saved Lyra from the Night Drakes?”

“Yes.” Sonata sniffled.

“How?" asked Bon Bon " And Why?”

“I was kidnapped by them as well. And I saw her, and I knew I had to do something."

"Thank you..." said Bon Bon solemnly. “But that blind altruism will get you killed.”

“But what do you think? Do you think I did the right thing, saving her from the Night Drakes?”

“Yes. You absolutely did the right thing.” said Bon Bon. “If the Drakes had taken her away, I don’t know what I’d do…”

“So, If I could protect people like Lyra from the Night Drakes. Do you think I should? Or is it wrong for me to take the world's problems into my own hands?”

Bon Bon looked at a picture of Lyra, and then back to Sonata, and then back to the picture. She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair. "I can’t tell you what to do. I’m sorry, but I don’t want to be responsible for getting you killed."

"It's okay..." said Sonata as she stood up and turned to leave.. "I'll be going now."

"All I can say is make your own decisions. Think for yourself.”

“Thank you, Bon Bon.” Sonata stood up and walked to the door. “You’ve given me a lot to think about.”

“Hey!” Bon Bon stopped Sonata as she stepped outside. “You never told me your name, or who you were."

Sonata pointed towards the newspaper in the den. “Look for me in there.” She closed the door and walked outside into the night.

Rainbow Dash was waiting in the van with her eyes close and her feet on the dashboard. She didn't respond in the slightest as Sonata sat down in the passenger seat next to her. Sonata looked over at her. "Rainbow?" she asked.

“I’m not driving you home.” Rainbow Dash sulked. “I only drove you here because you threatened to assimilate Lyra. Now that she's safe, your can get blisters on your feet for all I care.”

Sonata should have been angry. But she wasn’t. She just exited the van without a word.

“Wait? You’re not going to force me take you home?” asked Rainbow Dash. "No blackmail or anything?"

“I’m not letting you leave, Rainbow.” said Sonata. “But you’re my prisoner, not my slave. I was wrong coerce you earlier."

Rainbow Dash was shocked. “Seriously?” she asked as Sonata started down the street. "I mean, I would have saved Lyra anyway, but seriously?

“For realzies." said Sonata "It’s fine. I need time to think anyway. I’ll walk. It’s up to whether you come in my body or your own.”

Rainbow Dash groaned and sprinted up to Sonata. “Okay, seriously. Come back. I’ll drive you home.”

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. I am." Rainbow blushed. "It's no problem at all..."

“Thank you, Rainbow.” Sonata and Rainbow got entered the van and looked out the window, deep in thought.

“Man, what did she say to you?” asked Rainbow. "I've never seen you like this."

“She said I should think for myself and make my own decisions.” said Sonata."That's why I let you tell me off. It would be 'hippocratical' for me to force you."

“Think for yourself? I’m guessing you let your cohorts do most of the thinking for you?” asked Rainbow.

Sonata nodded. “I was never the smart one. I just followed what Adagio said. She was the one with all the ideas. I didn't really know how to think for myself, still don't. I'm pretty dependent on my friends to tell me what to do!”

“Sonata. They’re not your friends.” said Rainbow Dash.

“What do you mean?” she asked.

“You've seen me and my friends.” said Rainbow. “I’m not the brightest bulb in the box, but they don’t go around telling me what to think. I am my own person, and they respect me for who I am. It sounds to me like your ‘friends’ are just using you. Especially now that you've gained all these freaky powers.”

Sonata frowned and fidgeted with her fingers. “Well, they are rather mean to me. And they don’t like humans nearly as much as I do.”

“So why don’t you leave them and do what you want?”

"Because I'm not smart." said Sonata. "And I'm worried that I'll screw up. Especially now that I have all this power."

Thunder boomed in the distance. Rainbow Dash looked up at the clouds. “Looks like a storms coming in.” She commented.

“Yup.” Sonata just kept looking forward.

“What’s wrong, Sonata? You’re usually so carefree.”

Sonata looked around at the slums around her. A homeless family in an alleyway was huddled inside an overturned dumpster. Delinquent teenagers stood by a street corner, listening to loud music and smoking cigarettes. A crazed prophet stood in front of a failed electronics store waving a sigh saying ‘the day of 'jugement' is coming.’

Sonata frowned. “They’re all so miserable. I never noticed when I fed off of it, but now… It’s awful. And the worst part is I know I could fix it. I could take them all under my embrace and make them happy.”

“But you know it’s wrong?” asked Rainbow Dash.

Sonata rubbed her temples. “I don’t know what to think. Like I said, Adagio always did that for me. I really want to, but I don't know if I should. And if I tell my friends about my powers, they'll tell me to hurt people! I just don’t know what to do...”

There was a long silence. Heavy raindrops started falling from the sky, causing a pitter-patter noise on the roof of the van. Rainbow Dash pulled up to the Dazzling's house. “Why don’t you come with us?” asked Rainbow Dash. “My friends and I could help you. Maybe we could find out why your body is acting strange and help you fix it.”

“I don’t really want to be fixed.” said Sonata. “I like my new powers. I just don’t know what to do with them.”

Rainbow Dash stepped out of the car into the rain. “Well, if you never need any advice, I'm here for you. It’s not like I’ll be going anywhere else.” She grinned.

Sonata smiled. “Thanks, Dashie.”

"Don’t-“ Rainbow Dash started, but then she stopped and sighed. “You’re welcome, Sonata.” She smiled.

Sonata’s face lit up. “Does this mean we’re friends?”

“I guess it does.” Rainbow Dash shrugged. “I guess it does...”

"EEEeee!" Sonata squealed. "Thank you, Rainbow!" She grabbed Rainbow Dash and held in her in a tight hug.

"Heh, no problem, Sonata." Rainbow Dash blushed.“I don’t suppose you’ll let me keep my body?” she asked, knowing the answer.

Sonata smiled. “No, sorry. Adagio and Aria will be angry if they think you're still alive. Plus, I don’t want them to know the extent of my powers just yet.”

“Yeah, I didn’t think so.” Rainbow Dash leaned her face into Sonata's chest. "I guess I understand."

“Sorry, Dashie. I’ll try to make you as happy as possible while you’re inside of me.” She leaned forward to kiss Rainbow’s lips, which stuck fast with her own. Rainbow didn't fight against her re-assimilation. She just accepted it. As Sonata pressed her face into Rainbow’s their faces merged into a singular blob. Her torso started to bulk up as she sucked Rainbow’s body back into her own. Sonata leaned back and licked her lips. She could feel Rainbow safe and sound inside of herself.

Sonata walked up to the front door. It was late, and she didn’t want to wake Adagio and risk being questioned on why she was out so long. Sonata looked at the door and frowned. The darn thing had never been oiled, it always squeaked, and was sure to make a ton of noise when she opened it. Sonata rubbed her chin. Maybe she could…

Sonata focused on the structure of her amorphous body and melted herself down into a large pool of blue jelly. A thin pseudopod whipped out from the mass and slid itself into the tiny crack between the door and the frame. She pushed herself through like a stream of sticky toothpaste being squeezed through a tube and formed into puddle on the other side of the door. She continued doing this until the entirety of her mass had made it through before morphing back into her humanoid form. Leaving a small collection of inorganic material she had collected outside the front door.

Wow. That felt weird. She thought, before sneaking into the kitchen, which was alight in a soft glow from the TV set. Aria was asleep on the couch. She must have fallen asleep while watching the news.

Sonata started to head upstairs, but glanced at the TV. The reporter on the late night news had a sad look on her face. “More people have been victimized by the criminal gang known as the Night Drakes, who have been robbing, murdering and kidnapping the citizens of Canterlot over the last few months.”

Sonata froze and stared at the TV. These people… They had been doing this for months. Sonata could have done something about it when she could hypnotize people. But she turned a blind eye to it. After all, it didn’t affect her. The reporter continued. “Their most recent crime was with the kidnapping of Lightning Dust, a star athlete for Crystal High University. Lightning has been missing for over a month, despite her family paying the ransom. Police are completely baffled at the lack of leads…”

That poor girl. To be at the mercy of those thugs, those brutes; for so long. Sonata could no longer stand idly by. She had to do something. She now had new powers that she had only started to comprehend. She wasn’t going to waste them like she had her hypnotizing voice. Sonata was going to hunt down the Night Drakes, and make them pay for everything they had done to mankind.

"Sonata?" Sonata heard a voice behind her.

"Gah!" Sonata jumped. She crashed into a bookshelf in the corner, breaking it in half, and causing books to tumble all over her.

“Sonata, it’s just me, you clumsy oaf.” Aria rubbed her eyes groggily “You were staring at the TV. Are you alright?”

“Yeah. I’m fine.” Sonata panted and brushed the books off of herself. "You just scared me, is all."

Aria glanced at Sonata’s nearly ten foot frame and smirked. “Hmm. Looks like you absorbed what’s-her-name. Nice job.” She said in a deadpan voice.

Footsteps came from upstairs. All the noise seemed to have woken up Adagio. She looked over at Sonata and smiled evilly. “You did it didn’t you?” she said. “You got Rainbow Dash.”

Sonata nodded. "Yup."

“Excellent.” said Adagio “I see you are sporting the girth of your victory.” She ran her fingers over Sonata’s gluttonous stomach.

“You look like a friggin’ whale.” said Aria. "No offense."

Adagio gave a maniacal laugh. “With Rainbow Dash gone, the Rainboom’s magic will be useless, and there will be nothing stopping us from taking over the world!”

“So what’s your big, master plan?” asked Aria, cleaning her fingernails. “Have Sonata eat a buncha people till she's the size of a pregnant aircraft carrier? Then have her terrorize the humans until they surrender?”

“That’s the basic version.” said Adagio. “The long version is just a little more complicated.”

“What did you want me to do?” asked Sonata, hoping she wouldn’t ask her to hurt anyone.

“I want you to have an opportunity to absorb a massive number of people at once. To do this, we’ll need a location where thousands of morons will all be packed together like tasty, little sardines.”

“So, like the Canterlot stadium or something?” asked Aria.

“Bingo” said Adagio “There’s a big football game coming to town next week. Over 100,000 people can fit in that stadium. And Sonata’s gonna give them a half-time show they’ll never forget.”

“But I can’t sing that well anymore.” said Sonata.

“No.” Adagio rubbed her forehead. “I mean you’re going to eat everyone there.”

“Ohhhh…” said Sonata. “That makes more sense.”

Adagio looked up a Sonata. “Next week, we’ll head to the city. Those saps won’t know what hit them. Once Sonata assimilates the mass of 100,000 humans, she’ll be invincible! Humanity's leaders will surrender to us, or we will show the world what happens to those all those who dare defy us.”

“Okay...” said Sonata. “As long as nobody gets hurt.”

Adagio and Aria stared at Sonata as if she were crazy.

"What?" asked Sonata.

“Sonata. You know that people die when you eat them, right?” asked Aria.

Sonata’s stomach growled. “Uh, of course I do. I must not be thinking straight. Of course, people die when you eat them..."

“This will be our ultimate triumph. We will succeed with brute force where we failed with magic! The age of humans will finally come to an end! and this pathetic, little world will be ours!” Adagio cackled as lighting roared outside.

Sonata had drowned Adagio out. She had learned to ignore her whenever she started ranting. That siren could spend hours just talking to herself about how evil and brilliant she was. Instead, Sonata's attention was brought back to the TV set. A commercial for a summer blockbuster was playing. It showed a costumed girl fighting off hordes of robots. Sonata stared at the advertisement, and a smile found it's way across her face.

"Sonata!" Aria broke her out of trance.

Sonata shook her head back and forth. "Sorry, Wha-?"

"You know what you need to do, right?"

"Yes. Yes I do." she said as she picked up the remote.

"That's good." said Aria. "Get some sleep, Tubby. You've got to be prepped for your big debut next week."

Sonata nodded and looked back at the TV. The news come back on with a breaking weather segment. The weatherman had a look of concern on his face. "Massive storm, about to hit Canterlot. Be on the lookout, as there is a now a high chance of massive flooding..." Sonata turned the off the TV and gave a massive stretch, her arms easily reaching the ceiling. She let out a soft yawn, before quietly walked upstairs.

Author's Note

Feedback is appreciated.

Chapter 5: Purpose

Sonata tossed and turned in her bed. She just couldn’t sleep get to sleep. She knew the Night Drakes were still out there, doing unspeakable things to innocent people. She got up and looked out into the hallway. Aria and Adagio were still asleep. She needed someone to talk to. Fortunately for her, she was never truly alone. She extended a finger and oozed out a few ounces of fluid, which formed itself into a tiny version of Rainbow Dash. The tiny Rainbow Dash blinked her eyes as she realized she was outside Sonata again. “Hmm.” She mumbled groggily. “What's going on?”

“Hi, Dashie.” Whispered Sonata. "I can't sleep."

“Gah!” Rainbow gasped at the sight of just how massive Sonata was compared to her.

“Shhh.” Sonata shushed her. “Sorry you’re so little. I don’t want Aria or Adagio to know you’re here.”

“I was sleeping…” Rainbow yawned and rubbed her eyes. “What do you want, Sonata?”

“I need someone to talk to. And you’re the only one who will listen.”

Rainbow looked up at her captor. “Okay. What do you want to talk about?”

Sonata looked outside the window. “How should I be using my powers? I feel like I should be out there right now, stopping the Night Drakes, trying to keep other people safe. I don't know what to do, but I feel like I should be doing something. Like maybe disguising myself and becoming a real-life superhero, you know?”

Rainbow Dash looked up at her. “So let me get this straight? You plan on dressing up in a silly costume, and going out to fight crime like a superhero?”

“Um…Yes?” said Sonata nervously.

“Sonata….” Rainbow Dash sighed. “That’s the best idea you’ve ever had!”

“Really?” Sonata beamed.

“Really.” said Rainbow Dash “This is such a cool idea. I can’t believe I didn’t think of it myself!”

“I’m just trying to do good things. Isn’t that what you said?”

Rainbow Dash just ignored her, she was too caught up in the prospect of vigilantism “We’re going to need to come up with a name for you. What do you think? The Oozinator? Super Slime?”

“Goo Girl!” blurted Sonata.

“Yeah!” said Rainbow. “That’s awesome!”

“And my sidekick, Jam!” Sonata finished.

“Jam? I…” Rainbow Dash started. “Wait?” Does this mean you’re going to let me fight crime with you?” She beamed.

“Yeah.” said Sonata. “We’d work a lot better as a team.”

“You mean in my own body!?”

“Yeah! Well, technically it’s still mine, but yeah.”

“Ohmigosh! Ohmigosh Ohmigosh!” said Rainbow Dash. “I’m going to be a superhero! This is the coolest thing ever! I can’t wait to tell my friends!”

“Actually…” Sonata frowned. “I think it would be better if we avoided seeing your old friends.”

“What!?” Rainbow yelled in a high-pitched voice.

“Shh!” Sonata shushed her, gesturing towards the hallway. "Adagio might hear you..."

“Why not?” Rainbow hissed in a quiet voice.

“It’s not that I don’t want you seeing them... But until I’ve fully decided what I’m going to do, I don’t want you telling anyone about me or my powers. You understand, right?”

“Fine. Whatever…” Rainbow turned her back on Sonata and sat down in a huff.

Sonata sighed and patted Rainbow on the head with a giant finger. “Tell you what. I’ll let you talk to your friends, if you promise you won’t tell them about me or my powers. That way at least they’ll know you’re okay.”

Rainbow turned around and smiled. “Thank you!” She got up and hugged Sonata’s massive face.

Sonata giggled. “You’re welcome, Dashie.”

There was a knock on the door. “Sonata?” Aria said on the other side.

Sonata jumped and quickly shoved Rainbow Dash into her mouth. She swallowed just as Aria opened the door. “Uh, Hi Aria.” stammered Sonata. “What are you doing up so late?”

“I need to expunge waste products from my digestive system.” said Aria. “God! Human anatomy is disgusting! I don’t think I’ll ever get used to this!”

“So what do you need me for?” Sonata gulped.

“I heard noise coming from your room.” said Aria. “Who were you talking to?”

“Oh, I was just talking to…uh…myself. About the plans we have for the weekend. With absorbing all the humans… and stuff.” Sonata said, giving an unconvincing grin.

“Uh-huh.” said Aria.

“So... what do you think of Adagio’s plan?” asked Sonata, changing the subject.

Aria shrugged. “Seems like a waste of time to me. If I had your powers I wouldn’t hesitate to absorb every stinkin’ ape I came across until they started worshiping me as a god. But Adagio is always one to overcomplicate what should be simple. She's smart and ambitious, but that can get her way.”

“Yeah.” Sonata gulped. “My powers are pretty impressive. I’m still getting the hang of them.”

“You might want to experiment with them a little. Y’know, like seeing if you can split yourself to be in multiple places at once. Otherwise it will be really awkward for you to walk around as a city-destroying blob monster.”

“Hmm. I hadn’t thought of that. Hold on, let me try.” Sonata held out her hand and formed a tiny blue body out of herself, but instead of transferring Rainbow’s consciousness into the body, she attempted to shift to switch bodies. Sonata blacked out for a split second, only to regain composure standing on her own hand. “Whoa!” Sonata looked up at herself.

Aria stared at Sonata’s tiny body. “Fascinating…” she mumbled. “Can you control your larger body from there?”

“Let me try.” said Sonata. “It’s really weird being held by myself.” She mentally imagined herself wiggling her fingers, and her larger body responded.

“So are you in two places at once?” asked Aria “Can you see yourself at the same time?”

Both Sonatas shook their heads. “No. I can only be in one at a time, but I can switch between them rather quickly.” Sonata started mentally bouncing between her two bodies. “Wow. That’s disorienting…”

“Do you think you could do more than two?” asked Aria.

“Probably.” said Sonata. “But it’s a lot easier just being in one.” She picked up her smaller body and swallowed it whole. Sonata giggled. “It feels really weird absorbing myself.”

“Speaking of which, how was Rainbow Trash?” asked Aria.

“What do you mean?”

“I mean did she struggle? Was she begging for mercy? Did she suffer?” Aria gave an evil smile. “Please tell me she suffered.”

“Uh… probably.” Sonata said nervously. “She struggled a lot and begged me not to eat her. She was definitely afraid…”

“Good.” Aria smirked. “After what she did to us, she deserved to die alone and afraid. I wish I'd been able to be there.”

“Yeah…” Sonata gulped. “It felt really good.”

“I’m glad to see you’ve come around, Sonata.” Aria patted her shoulder. “I was afraid your sympathy for the humans had blinded you from seeing the big picture. But devouring Rainbow Dash like that shows you have what it takes to carry out Adagio’s plan.”

“Yeah. I just wish I didn’t have to eat so many people to do it.” Sonata sighed.

Aria chuckled. “You know what the humans say: ‘To make omelets, you have to break some eggs.’ Besides, it’s only natural that we use an inferior race like chattel. The humans do it all the time. There’s hardly a difference in our relationships.”

Sonata thought back to all the times she had drained emotional energy from someone. She had exploited them without a thought. But she couldn't help but agree with Aria in the sense that she was superior than the humans because of her age and powers. “Yeah… I guess you’re right…”

Aria stood up and gave a yawn. “Anyways. I’m going to bed. Got to have a clear head when Adagio and I plan on how we’re gonna divide up the human’s kingdoms amongst ourselves. See you in the morning!”

“You too.” said Sonata. She lay back down on her bed, which creaked under her new weight. She tried to get back to sleep, but she just couldn’t, there were too many questions running through her head. Would it be better for her to take over the world, and force the humans to play nicely? Or was it better for the humans to rule over themselves, even if that meant them endlessly butchering each other? Sonata didn’t know the answer to either of those questions, but she did know one thing. That Adagio and Aria couldn’t be allowed to have power over the humans. They were far too cruel and heartless. Sonata sighed. Even if she was to take over the world for the sake of the humans, Aria and Adagio would need to be dealt with, but they had been her friends her entire life. She could just absorb them and be done with them, or she could simply ignore them and use her power as she saw fit. Either way, they would be very angry at her.

Unable to shut her mind up, Sonata decided to go for a walk. She opened her window and disconnected an amount of slime almost the size of her forearm. Not enough for her friends to notice she was gone. Sonata transformed the slime into a pair of squirrels, and allowed Rainbow control over one of them.

As Rainbow Dash's consciousness entered the ooze, she examined her new body. “Sonata, why are we squirrels?”

“I wanted to go out without Adagio or Aria knowing. So I can’t spare a lot of slime, otherwise they'll know something’s up. This way we can wander around without drawing too much attention. Pretty clever, huh?”

“I guess so.” Rainbow Dash grinned “I guess I’m just glad to be in a separate body.”

“Why?” asked Sonata, as the pair headed down the sidewalk. “I thought it was really nice inside of me.”

“It is.” said Rainbow. “It’s just…I don’t know.”

“You miss your friends.” Sonata finished for her.

“Yeah…” Rainbow sighed.

“What’s it like?” asked Sonata. “Inside of me, I mean.”

“It’s nice. I guess.” said Rainbow “It’s soft. Warm. Safe. It’s a place of comfort. It just feels so… Artificial. Like the back of your mind can tell that something is off about the whole thing.”

“What do you mean?” Asked Sonata

“It’s hard to explain.” said Rainbow. “But every time I feel a strong emotion while I’m in there, it feels muted, like I’m not experiencing it properly. Maybe it’s an echo of your ability to feed on emotions?”

“Maybe.” said Sonata “But if so, I haven’t been feeling it. I know what emotional energy tastes like, and I haven’t been noticing any.”

“Weird.” said Rainbow. “Maybe it’s just my imagination. Regardless, I definitely prefer reality out here to in there.”

“Oh…” Sonata’s squirrel ears drooped. “I thought my body was a paradise…”

“It’s okay. It might just be my point of view. Most of the animals you’ve got in there seem really happy.”

“That’s good.” Sonata smiled. “I don’t want the people I absorb to suffer… even if they are scum of the earth..."

“Speaking of, you want to go downtown and see if there’s any crime fighting we can do?” asked Rainbow.

“Sure.” Said Sonata. “Maybe we can-!” Her words were suddenly cut off and she found herself dangling hundreds of feet in the air. An owl had plucked her from the ground and sank its talons deep into her body. Had Sonata not been made of a liquid, she probably would have died instantly from the shock. Sonata stared up at the massive birds in shock. It silently glided through the night sky without a sound.

“Hey!” Sonata shouted at the owl. “Let me go!” Sensing its prey was still alive, the bird tightened its talons, trying to crush Sonata’s body, a task which proved impossible due to her lack of a permanent anatomical structure.

“Fine, have it your way!” Sonata shot several pseudopod-like tendrils out of her body directly into the bird’s chest. The confused avian released Sonata from its grasp, but at this point, she was partly melded to the bird. She began assimilating the terrified animal as quickly as she could. The air started whipping past her, as she realized the partially-melted owl was no longer able to fly.

“Oh, crud!” Sonata gritted her teeth as the ground started rushing to meet her. She tried forming wings of her own, but found they were too thick and liquidly to properly fly. Some of the bird’s feathers had not yet been melted. Sonata hoped she could use them as a sort of glider to slow her fall. “C’mon. C’mon…” Sonata sweated as she desperately arranged the feathers into a sort of kite, but it was too late. Sonata slammed into the hard concrete at terminal velocity and splattered all over a dark alleyway. Slime and feathers flew everywhere.

“I’m dead…” Sonata thought to herself. “There’s no way I survived that fall. I’ve died and gone to heaven. Or more likely hell, given my choices in life. Hmm. I wonder if I’ve gone to Equestria’s Tartarus, or the hell that Dante fellow was talking about? Do they check your soul for that sort of thing? Like, because I was born in Equestria do I go to Tartarus? Or do I go to hell because I died on Earth? I wonder if...” Sonata's train of thought was derailed as she heard a pair of distant voices talking. She could feel something touching her… somewhere. She wasn’t sure she had a cohesive body.

The voices became clearer. “What do you think it is?” She heard a male voice say. “An alien?”

“Naw.” said another. “Didn’t ya see the feathers? It’s obviously an angel! Send from the heavens themselves.”

Sonata focused on trying to form herself into something resembling a body. She reformed her eyeballs, she looked up and saw a pair of blurry humanoids towering over her, as she was only about a foot tall. Sonata sheepishly raised her re-materializing hand. “Hi.” She panted. “This isn’t heaven is it?”

“See!” One of the figures smiled. “I toldja’ she was an angel!” He knelt down over Sonata. “Did God sendja to help us?”

Sonata rubbed her eyeballs as they refocused. “Uh, No. Well, maybe? Sort of. Who are you?” She looked up and saw a pair of hairy, old men in tattered rags. She recognized one of them as the doomsayer with his ‘judement day’ sign she had seen a few hours ago. They were hobos.

“I’m surprised God didn’t tell ya!” he grinned. “The name’s Faithful Servant.” He bowed his head. “And my paranoid cohort is Falling Sky. He thinks aliens are going to wipe us out.”

Sonata finished re-solidifying her body. “Look, it doesn’t matter what I am or where I’m from. I’m here now and I want to help. What do you need help with? Is it the Night Drakes?”

“Not really…” said Faithful Servant. “We just need somethin’ to eat. I haven’t had nothing to eat since Tuesday. I prayed God would send us something to eat. Didn't think he'd send an angel though...”

“The Night Drakes don’t really bother us.” said Falling Sky “They come out during the night and take young people, especially women. But they don’t have much interest in old kooks like us though. I guess we’re not worth messing with..."

“That’s good.” said Sonata. “I’m sorry you’re hungry, but I don’t have any food on me. Is there anything else I can do for you?”

Faithful Servant held out his left hand, which had a nasty burn on it. "Well, I have this. Got it a while back. Hurts like hell. I don't suppose you could...?"

Sonata instantly reached out to his hand and started regenerating the damaged tissue. Maybe she should go into the medical field if she were to lay low and let humanity fend for itself. She would be able to heal injuries far beyond anything human medicine could imagine. "All done." She smiled, sliding herself off the hand, revealing fresh, undamaged skin beneath.

"It's a miracle!" Faithful Servant cheered. "Praise the lord!"

“How come you’re so small?” Falling Sky asked skeptically. "I imagined 'angels' would be a lot bigger."

“I actually am a lot bigger. I just left the rest of me at ho-” Sonata started, then she remembered. “Rainbow Dash!” Sonata realized Rainbow was now walking around unsupervised. She could be anywhere in the city by now. She could be telling her friends what was going on. About her new powers. She had to find her!

Suddenly, a black van blasting a heavy metal music pulled into the alley.

“Oh no…” mumbled Falling Sky. “It’s the Night Drakes.”

“We can’t let them find the angel.” Gasped Faithful Servant. “God knows what they’d do to her.” He grabbed Sonata and rushed her over to a nearby dumpster.

“No! I can take care of myself!” said Sonata as Faithful rapidly shoved her into the container.

“Shh!” Falling Sky shushed her. “We’ll be fine. The Drakes haven’t done anything to us yet. Just stay down, okay?”

Sonata peered out of the crack in the lid. A group of tall men jumped out of the van and stepped into the alleyway. They were clad from neck to toe in leather garment studded with bits of metal. Sonata could tell from their outfits that they were undoubtedly members of the Night Drakes. One of them had dozens metal studs imbedded in his face. Sonata recognized the habit as a relatively new phenomenon among humans, as usually they tried to avoid sticking bits of metal into themselves. It was weird.

The two hobos stepped forward to meet them. The thug with the perforated face stepped forward with a cruel grin. “Well, well, well!” he chuckled “If it isn’t my two favorite crazies! What’s good with you? You getting enough to eat? Wouldn't want you starving to death.” he chuckled disingenuously.

“What do you want, Pierce?” asked Falling Skies.

“We’ve got nothing worth taking.” said Faithful Servant "And we're too old to be of any profit in that human trafficking ring you've got going."

“You're right. I'm not here to steal anything from ya.” Pierce chuckled. "Luther, you tell em' what's up."

Luther, the tallest of the Night Drakes stomped over to the two old men. He was smoking a cigarette and wearing sunglasses, even though it was around 3 in the morning. He handed them a switchblade. “You two are going to be fighting our newest member, Rumble!"

"Rumble! Get your scrawny ass out here!” Barked Pierce.

A short, young man with light gray skin and dark hair timidly stepped out of the van. “Y-yes, Pierce?”

“I’ve found us a pair of useless dregs no one will miss.” Pierce grinned “Now’s your chance to prove you’re not a pussy.” Pierce walked forward and threw a switchblade at his feet. "You do this, and you're in."

“Why do you want us to do this?” asked Faithful Servant, eliciting a chorus of laughter from the gang members.

“It’s simple. Rumble here thinks he got what it takes to roll with the Night Drakes. But he aint street material, he aint never even shived a fool before.” said Pierce “So him of one of you are gonna fight to the death, ya dig?”

Sonata gasped. He was going to kill them, or at least one of them! She had to do something. But she was way too small to pass for a human. She needed to make herself bigger. She began rooting through the garbage bags to see if there was any material she could assimilate into herself.

Falling Sky growled. "Hazing the poor kid wasn’t enough for you? You want to make him a murderer now? Why the hell would we agree to help you with your stupid initiation ritual?”

“Because if you don’t, Boomer is going to blow your fucking heads off.” Pierce gestured towards a chubby gang member grinning and brandishing a high-caliber revolver “Now pick up that knife and fight like men, or die like cowards!”

Sonata gasped. She began assimilating as much garbage into herself as she could. She noticed she couldn’t absorb the plastic bags or tin cans, but was capable of absorbing rotting food and other organic material. It felt awful to assimilate such foul material, but she had little choice I'm the matter.

Falling Sky stepped forward “Look, we’re starving, old men. There’s no way we can take this kid on.”

“Pfft, I know you’re not gonna win the fight.” Pierce rolled his eyes. “The point is to show that Rumble’s willing to kill. The Night Drakes don't take in pussies.”

“Can’t we talk this over?” pleaded Faithful Servant.

“I’m afraid not. Rumble is gonna kill someone tonight, one way or another. Maybe I just need to give you some incentive.” Peirce shook his head and pulled a handgun. “The person who fights gets a chance to defend themselves. The pussy gets shot. Now which of you is it gonna be? Who’s fighting and who's dying?”

“Hold up!” Sonata burst out of the dumpster. She stood at a height of close to 4 feet, less than her original height, but enough to pass for a short woman. She had altered her skin to resemble a costume of purple and white skin-tight spandex with a mask around her eyes to conceal her identity. Not that it mattered much, given her ability to change shape. “I will fight for these men!” Sonata declared triumphantly.

The two hobos gasped. “The angel! She’s grown…” Faithful Servant muttered quietly.

The thugs pulled their guns. Luther, Boomer, Rumble and the other just stared in disbelief. Pierce started laughing “What the hell is this? Didja get lost on your way to an anime convention!?” He wheezed.

Sonata didn’t back down. She slowly walked towards the gangsters, who made sure to keep their guns trained on her. “I will fight your new recruit to protect these two.” She said as she fearlessly walked forward.

Pierce continued laughing. "You serious bitch? What? Do you think your some sort of superhero or something?”

“Yes.” Sonata said bluntly, which elicited another maniacal laugh from the gang leader. Sonata continued. “What’s the matter? I thought the Night Drakes were supposed to be tough. And here you are preying on a pair of old hobos, like that makes you big men!”

Pierce grinned “Night Drakes own these streets, we don’t gotta prove nothing to you. I’m the one holding all the cards. I could order my boys to kill you all right now, if I wanted.”

“But you don’t.” Sonata said seductively as she walked right up to Pierce, running her finger across his face. “Otherwise you would have by now.”

One of the gang members grabbed Sonata’s shoulder, but Pierce gestured for him to stand down. Pierce gave a grin. “So what do you think I want?”

“I think you know.” Sonata purred. “Maybe we can strike some sort of deal. You came out here to give your new member an opportunity to prove that he’s badass enough to join up with you. But really, is an underfed, old hobo really going to be a challenge for him?”

“No.” Pierce frowned “But it's not about the challenge, It’s more to prove that he has the guts to kill.”

Sonata laughed. “Anyone can kill. I’ve seen it lots of times. It doesn’t make you tough, It just proves you’re weak."

“Yeah?” Pierce lunged forward and delivered a debilitating backhand to the back of Sonata’s face, sending sprawling onto the floor. Sonata looked up at him with a look of anger. She would have eaten him right them and there if his goons weren’t actively threatening the two hobos. Peirce loomed over Sonata and planted his foot on her chest. “Look, bitch. I use violence to get what I want, and you know why? Because it works! I don't have to make any sort of deal with you, especially when you're so ripe for the taking. I don't take crap from no one, but especially not delusional cunts like you!”

“What do you think, boss?” asked Luther. “Should we take her down to the docks? She's quite the looker. That'd bring in a big amount of green.”

“No. She’s pissed me off, and you all know what happens to people who piss me off.” Pierce placed more weight on Sonata. The gang members laughed. “But she's hot. So we’re gonna have some fun with her first.” Pierce grinned.

“Uh, boss…” gulped another Night Drake. “You might want to make this fast and quiet. Place's deserted, but the fuzz sometime do patrols here at night. Might wanna keep it relatively clean."

"Aw, shut up, Sparks!" Luther mocked. "They only come down here if they get a call. Keep this quiet and we'll be fine."

Sonata slowly stood up and looked Pierce in the eye “I’m not afraid of you...” She grunted.

“OOOooo!” Pierce mocked her “Look at you! You’re so brave and selfless. I bet you place other’s lives before your own. So let me give you a sample of what’ll happen if I you don’t cooperate.” He walked over to Faithful Servant and simply thrust a switchblade straight into his abdomen.
Faithful grunted in pain and staggered around for a brief moment before blood began trickling down his shirt. He collapsed to the ground in pain.

“NO!” Sonata gasped.

"Ohh… he's bleedin' real bad, boss." Rumble’s look of surprise couldn't have been more obvious.

Pierce spun around, a look of utter disgust in his face. "Let the tramp bleed out, he’s not our problem!" Pierce scowled, quite unceremoniously cleaning his knife on Faithful’s trenchcoat A small puddle of blood began forming at the open wound as Faithful fell to his knees.

"I failed…" Sonata cried, tears welling up in her eyes. She had been an optimist all her life, despite the hardships of having been an outsider looking in, she had always kept a positive attitude. She had always found humanity fascinating, but was able to do little to prevent them from butchering each other. But on her first opportunity to defend the people from evil, she had failed… and an innocent man was going to die because of it.

Falling Sky ran to his fallen friend. Faithful Servant was alive but only just, he breathed heavily and sobbed. “You monsters! You inhuman monsters!” yelled Falling Sky.

“Can it, worm.” Luther threatened him with a pistol.

“You see, that’s the danger of caring about others.” Said Pierce “You can’t stand to lose them. Look at me! I don’t give a shit about anyone except myself. I’m beholden to no one. I’m a free man.” He smiled as he kicked Sonata’s face.

Sonata groaned. It didn’t particularly hurt, because she was made of ooze. It was more the embarrassment of failing to protect Faithful and allowing this thug to take advantage of her. And the worst part was he was right. If she didn’t care so much about protecting the two hobos she would have absorbed the entire gang by now.

“Maybe you are a superhero…” Pierce said hypothetically. “Maybe you have super strength, or laser vision, or something that would let you take us all out in an instant if you wanted. But it doesn’t matter, because the moment I threaten an innocent, you become a helpless little puppy…” He stomped on Sonata again. “That’s what you are! Your compassion for others drags you down! But it doesn't matter, because you don't have any superpowers. You're just a weak, stupid bitch!” He stomped her in the stomach with each word.

“You have no idea what I am…” Sonata growled.

“Sure I do.” Pierced smirked “You’re the delusional bitch in a stupid costume who’s gonna suck my fat cock.” He started undoing his belt.

“I’m over 2000 years old. I’ve manipulated your political leaders throughout recorded history. I've made tyrants and murderers far worse than you dance like puppets on a string. You’re nothing compared to me, brute.” Sonata snarled. "I look forward to making you pay for what you've done."

“Whatever, bitch.” Pierce shoved his dick in her face. “Now get sucking. If I like it... who knows? I might just go easy on the stupid hobo.”

Sonata grinned. This was her chance. “Oh, I’ll suck it all right, and I promise you It'll be good.” Sonata smiled. “I’ll give you the best blowjob of your life…”

"That's what I like to hear." Pierce smirked. His cock was already oozing with anticipation. The bastard seemed to really get off on his cruelty. Sonata opened her mouth and placed it over the tip of his cock. She instantly started oozing herself into the texture of his skin, absorbing his flesh and stimulating the nerves within his genitals, causing his legs to grow weak. “Oh god…” Pierce shuddered.

Sonata wasn’t finished. She started drooling slime all over Pierce’s cock head. The nimble slime gently eased open his slit and gently slimed into his body, stimulating him even further. Pierce moaned, he could feel the slime working his shaft both inside and out. Pierce was a well-endowed son of a bitch, the type of person Sonata would of happily slept with him if they had met under different circumstances. It was a shame that he was such a sadistic bastard, even still, Sonata had to admit she was enjoying herself.

“She good, boss?” asked Luther.

"Yeah, was she worth keeping' alive?" asked Boomer.

“She’s fucking incredible!” Pierce moaned, as he fell backwards against the alley walls. "Oh...God....oh God! I feel like I'm melting!"

Once inside his scrotum, the slime began subtly massaging his testes, sending him into a spasm. She swallowed all of the pre-cum that was slowly but surely leaking from his tip, but she didn’t assimilate it, despite it being a rich protein source. Sonata took a brief moment to catch her breath. “You think that’s good? You haven’t felt anything yet!”

Sonata took in another breath before going back on the offensive, this time focusing on Pierce’s entire cock. Her gelatinous throat meant she could pleasure the entire length with no discomfort or difficulty. The gang members watched in amazement as she swallowed Pierce’s massive member all the way up to his balls. Sonata could feel him tensing up with pleasure. The ooze she had inserted into his cock had made it to his testes. It was warm, slimy and heavy inside there. She started to take over his testes and made sure they stayed active. The slime quickly started spreading. In seconds it was working its way through his entire body, taking over nerve endings, blood streams and vital organs. Pierce started babbling incoherently. Sonata was ordering all his nerves to fire their dopamine receptors as she completely took over his nervous system.

“Boss?” Rumble gulped “You alright?”

“She’s…” Pierce babbled. “She’s got the best head ever… She’s... –OH!” Pierce moaned as Sonata allowed his testes to discharge. A massive amount of sweet cum burst from his cock into Sonata's body, given that Sonata was in full control of his nerves, she felt the intense orgasm as well, she pulled out and gave a tremendous moan. Pierce's cock continued to erupt like a fountain, oozing a mixture of his own seed and Sonata's slime.

Sonata looked up and gave a smile to the rest of the gang. “Told you I was good,” she smirked.

Pierce just sat their panting. Unbeknownst to him, Sonata had completely taken over his bodily functions. He was only breathing because Sonata had decided he was allowed too. "Y-your right..." Pierce shuddered "I should have listened..."

“So now what, boss?” asked Boomer. “You want me to waste the hobos?” He said crossing his fingers.

In Pierce’s mind, he had ordered them to be loaded into the van, so they could be killed in a safe location. But Pierce was no longer in control. He was a spectator in his own body, listening to his own voice giving orders contrary to what he actually wanted. “No." Pierce said flatly. “Don’t kill them. Everyone back in the van. Let’s go! And make sure our new friend has a seat in the back.”

The Night Drakes scurried towards the van. Boomer and Luther grabbed Sonata and dragged her to the back of the van. You behave yourself back there." Luther warned.

"Yeah, you try anything smart, and I’ll bust a cap in that nice ass of yours.” Boomer threatened before tossing her in.

Pierce started growling with a slight slur in his voice. It was a lot harder for Sonata to control him now that she no longer had eye contact with him. Hopefully she could maintain control long enough for her to get Falling Sky out of harm's way.

Falling Sky examined Faithful Servant. He had lost a lot of blood. “Please, you have to help!" He pleaded.

Pierce just ignored his pleas and stumbled towards the passenger’s seat, where Luther was sitting. “Move.” Pierce said flatly, his eyes twitching as he struggled to regain control of his body.

Luther looked at him with a look of confusion. “But aren’t you going to drive, boss?”

“No.” Pierce moaned. “Don’t feel like to do for now…”

The Night Drakes in the back of the van looked concerned.

“What’s the matter, Pierce?” Luther grinned nervously. “Did she suck out your brains or something?"

“What if she really does have superpowers?” Sparks gulped “What if she did something to him?” He looked over at his buddy. "Sparks, what do you think?"

"Well I..." Sparks started, before hearing a visceral slurping noise coming from the back of the van. The two looked at each other nervously, looked over the dividing seat to see the three Night Drakes behind them quivering erratically.

“Are you guys alright?” Rumble asked. Then they noticed there was some sort of pseudopod reaching out of the van’s cooling vents that had attached to the necks of the gangsters in the back of the van. Their bodies had become frail and weak. Their limbs and faces were shriveling, and a curious blue tint was moving around their body, causing them to become limp wherever it traveled, as if it was melting them from the inside.

“C’mon!” Luther yelled “We gotta help em'!” He jumped into the back and tore a pseudopod away from one of the Drake's necks and dragged him out of the van.

Sensing it was no longer attached, the freed pseudopod whipped around violently, before lashing around the neck of the other gangster in the middle seats. It violently pulled him into the half-melted remains on the three in the back, sending ooze flying all over the car as he was liquified as well.

He still looked sickly, as his bodily structure melted down more and more. “Aggro! C’mon! Snap out of it!” Sparks raised a hand and smacked him across the face, causing it to shear clean off, but instead of flesh and blood behind the melted skin, there was only thick, blue ooze underneath.

To make things even worse, he now had the blue ooze all over his right hand, which immediately started to lose its shape, before moving up the length of his arm. “AHHHH! Get it off! Get it off of me!” Sparks yelled. His arm had become completely numb, but the slime was still voraciously melting every part of him. Within seconds it had taken over his chest and working its way up to his head.

“I can’t!” Yelled Luther “If I touch it, It’ll eat me too!"

Sparks stopped yelling as the slime made its way to his head, forcing some of itself out of his mouth as his tongue was absorbed. In mere seconds, his hair fell out and his facial features melted into a slimy fluid.

Rumble started backing away in horror, but Boomer had completely snapped, he raised his gun towards his slime-covered colleague and fired his entire clip into his half melted body. "YAAAAA!! Die! Die! Die!" The body absorbed the bullets, and lunged towards the terrified gangsters with an inhuman lunge before melting into a harmless puddle at their feet.

Luther fell to the ground and wiped the sweat from his brow. His heart was pounding like an anvil. “I guess that’s that...”

“We have to go!” Rumble whimpered “That things not gonna stop!”

“Dude, relax." Boomer grinned "I wasted that thing. We’re gonna be fine.”

Suddenly, a mass of blue ooze burst out of the back of the van and formed into a nude, humanoid form. It was Sonata, only she was 10 feet tall. She looked down at the hoodlums with a look of absolute glee, licking her lips.

Rumble screamed like a frightened squirrel and immediately ran out of the alleyway as fast as his legs would carry him. But Luther was completely frozen with fear and didn’t resist in the slightest as Sonata picked him up and shoved him face first into her stomach. Sonata could feel his warmth in her belly, and completely absorbed him within seconds. But Boomer had been quick and evaded her grasp, he immediately ran over to Falling Sky and put his massive gun against his head.

The terrified hobo stood against the alley wall, unsure of what he should be more afraid of, the murderous thug holding a gun to his brow, or the 10 foot tall slime monster gleefully digesting another human being as a meal. Falling Sky chose the former, as the alien hadn't threatened to kill him yet. He timidly attracted Sonata's attention. “Excuse me…?” he gulped. “Giant alien slime girl? Help... please?”

Sonata snapped out of her digestive trance and looked down at the tiny humans. Sonata gasped. She had gotten so caught up in absorbing the Night Drakes, she had almost forgotten why she was fighting them in the first place.

"Don't you dare try nothing!" yelled Boomer. "I'll blow his fucking brains out! I swear I'll do it!" He said with unnatural fury in his voice.

"What do you want?" Sonata glared.

"I want you out of the way." He barked "Me and him are going to get into that van, and you're going to leave us the hell alone!"

"B-but how do I know you won't just shoot me the moment we're away..." Falling trembled.

"You don't." Boomer sneered.

Sonata just stood there. If she stayed, Falling was going to die. But if she let Boomer go, he was likely to die anyway, and this murderer would escape.

"You've got ten seconds!" Boomer warned. "If you're still here, then I'll paint the walls with his brains!"

"Don't let him go!" Falling yelled "He'll just kill me anyways!"

Boomer responded by firing a round into Falling's foot, sending him to the ground, yelling in pain. "You shut your mouth. If I go, these faggots go with me! Got it?"

Sonata looked at the wall behind Boomer and noticed a familiar blue slime oozing down it. It was her slime, but she wasn't controlling it. A slimy tendril oozed out and quietly reached for him.

"Rainbow Dash..." Sonata smiled.

"Huh?" Boomer turned around just in time to see the tendril leap towards him, melting a hole in his chest and burrowing in with uncanny speed.

Sonata quickly lashed out with her tendrils as well, making sure to grab Boomer's firearm and absorb it. Once it was inside of her, Sonata applied a massive amount of pressure to the weapon, crushing it into scrap.

Rainbow's tendril poured more and more slime into Boomer's chest until it started to ooze out his nose. He melted down into an inert puddle of slime before reforming into the humanoid form of Rainbow Dash wearing what appeared to be skin-tight red spandex with a white 'Jam' embalmed on her chest.

"You came back!" Sonata smiled. "I thought for sure you would have run off to see your friends."

"What? and abandon you?" Laughed Rainbow "No way! Besides, you still control my body, remember?"

"Well regardless of why you came back, I'm glad you did. You just saved this man's life. How did you find me?"

Rainbow Dash shrugged and spat a metal stud out. "I don't know. I could just sort of sense what general direction you were in. Probably because I'm a part of you. The gunshots are what really gave it away though. I trust he was a Night Drake?"

Sonata nodded.

"I see what you mean when you say absorbing people feels nice." Rainbow "I thought you were just making excuses, but jeez. Feeling him become me... it's indescribable."

Falling Sky looked Rainbow Dash and froze. “You’re one of them, are-aren't you?” He gestured towards Sonata. "An alien?"

“Technically, yes.” said Rainbow. “She's the alien. But we mean you no harm. Are you all right?”

Falling Sky was visibly terrified, not that anyone could blame him. He started blurting out the entire situation without stopping to breathe. “Well my buddy and I were minding our own business when all of the sudden, one of you shape-shifting aliens fell out of nowhere. And then we were attacked by the Night Drakes, and then... and then..."

"He's going into shock!" Rainbow gasped. "I've got this one! See if you can save the other!"

As Falling calmed himself down, Sonata kneeled down and shook her head. “I don’t know. He’s lost a lot of blood... I can repair damaged skin with my powers, but I don’t think I can replace blood with my own. Maybe if I were to collect all of his blood and filter it, I could…”

“It doesn’t… matter…” Faithful Servant groaned.

“Shh!” Falling Sky ran his fingers through his friend’s hair. “It’s going to be okay! She's going to save you!”

Sonata polymorphic her fingers into pseudopods and held them above the stab wound. "I'll see what I can do, but this might be beyond my ability to heal."

Faithful held up a hand. “No…” He slowly shook his head “Insides ripped apart…” he coughed. “Lungs… filled with blood… I’m not long… for this world…”

“Don’t talk like that! I’m not letting you die!" Sonata yelled “I’m going to save you!” She expanded her body like a kite and completely engulfed the mortally wounded hobo.

Falling Sky gasped as his friend’s body was dissolved into slime. Despite the gravity of the situation, Sonata found the experience very pleasing. She could feel all of the old man’s memories flowing into of her. There was so much guilt, regret and shame. Sonata couldn’t believe what she was seeing. This man had once been in a gang!

Yet he had redeemed himself. He had renounced his past life, and found something he could believe in. It wasn’t necessarily what Sonata believed in, but it was something. A purpose. A desire to do better. To make up for his past mistakes. She felt like she was in the same boat. She could hear Faithful’s voice. “Did I make it?” He asked.

“Make it?” Sonata thought back. “To heaven?”

“I understand if I didn’t.” Faithful sighed. “I’ve tried to do good, and to serve my fellow man… But it won’t make up for the terrible things I’ve done.”

“No! It’s okay, Faithful.” Sonata mentally comforted him She did everything she could to make Faithful’s ‘soul’ as happy as possible. “I’ve seen your problems and your attempts to redeem yourself. You’re an inspiration.”

“I was so wrong.” Faithful sobbed. “I don’t deserve it. But, please, give me refuge in your kingdom.”

“Don’t worry. Of course you can stay.” Sonata smiled. “My bod-er, kingdom is a sanctuary for all humanity. Even the irredeemable.” The souls of the Night Drakes Sonata had just absorbed appeared. “I will cleanse you of your negative emotions, and make you a part of me forever.”

The souls gave a sigh of bliss as they felt their negativity being stripped away. All the negative emotions inside of them were gone. This left some of the souls more stripped than others, but regardless they had achieved a state of total peace. Faithful Servant let out a tear. “Thank you…” He whispered before he became part of the ‘consciousness’ that inside Sonata. “Thank you…”

“You’re welcome.” Sonata smiled as the ethereal flicker of her own mind faded away. She returned to reality by forming sensory organs on the outside of the featureless blob that made up her body. It felt good when she helped people. In fact, it felt really, really good. Sonata looked down at herself. “I can feel them all moving inside of me.” She purred. “It’s incredible…” She could feel every single soul she had ingested all thanking her for removing their negativity.

“Did you save him?” Falling Sky tapped on Sonata’s hips. He seemed to have calmed down somewhat. Rainbow Dash had a pseudopod wrapped around his foot, and was trying to repair the wound he had received from Boomer.

“Yes. But I had to absorb him entirely.” Sonata rubbed her stomach “Don't worry. He’s safe and sound inside me…"

"Umm. Sonata? Who's this?" Rainbow pointed behind her.

Pierce was behind her, moving like a decaying zombie and holding his gun at her. Sonata leapt over to him with a look of pure anger of her face and knocked him to the ground with a single, powerful swipe. Pierce's arm involuntarily held his gun up to his own head.

Sonata lay down on top of Pierce, setting her giant breasts down on his half-melted chest. "Your body is mine, but your mind has yet to be assimilated." She growled "It's still tied to your frail, little brain. If that goes, you go with it!" Pierce unwillingly cocked his gun and placed his finger over the trigger, all while sobbing thick tears of Sonata's slime. She was using his own body to threaten him!

"Sonata!" gasped Rainbow Dash "What are you doing?"

Pierce's finger caressed the guns trigger. Thick, blue tears streamed down Pierce's cheeks, his lower lip quivered in fear.

Sonata looked him right in the eye and spat in his face. It was semen. His semen. The semen from the blowjob Sonata had given him. She hadn't absorbed it. "I should make you pull the trigger... It would be no less than you deserve." she snarled. "You're a murderer, a slaver, a rapist. The lowest scum of the Earth! It's no less than you deserve!"

Pierce's arm fell limp and his gun clattered to the ground. His terrified eyes looked up at Sonata in shock.

"But I have to believe in second chances." Sonata sighed. "I was like you once. I exploited humanity for my own selfish benefit. To simply destroy you without giving you a chance to redeem yourself would be hypocritical. Mayhap's you can make amends with the man you almost stabbed to death. You will get along, or I will make life inside of me very unpleasant. Do you understand?"

Pierce timidly nodded.

"Good. Rest easy, for he's a compassionate man. I'm sure he'll forgive you." Sonata waved her hand, causing Pierce's limp body to melt into sludge, which she quickly absorbed. She wandered over to Rainbow Dash. "I think we're done here. Let's go home. I'm looking forward to a nice, warm ba-"

Rainbow extended her arm and placed a finger over Sonata's mouth. “Shh! Do you hear that?”

“Hear what?” Sonata gulped. Then it started to get louder and louder. It was police sirens. “Oh no… Someone must have heard the gunshots!”

“We’ve got to get out of here! Get in the van!” Rainbow yelled, hopping into the driver’s seat.

Falling Sky's foot was still damaged. He slowly limped towards the van. Sonata wrapped a pseudopod around him and effortlessly picked him up.

“Gah!” He protested.

“Sorry…” Sonata winced before tossing him into the side of the van. She then compressed her body so she could force herself into the van. She was so large, she took up almost the entire middle section of the van by herself.

As Rainbow Dash started the ignition, two police cars pulled in front of the alleyway entrance. The officers immediately pulled their guns on the idling van. "It's the Night Drakes!" One of them shouted.

“Freeze!” Another shouted. "Turn off the vehicle and come out with your hands up!"

"If they see me, I'll have to eat them." Sonata warned. "There's no way I can shape shift out of this when I have this much mass."

"Not on my watch. Sorry, officers..." Rainbow Dash floored the gas and was barely able to squeeze the van between the cars.

One of the cops reached over and emptied his handgun into the driver’s side window as the car sped down the road. Shattered glass flew everywhere, causing Falling Sky to scream and cover his head in terror. "We're being shot at! Oh, God! We're being shot at..." he cried.

“Relax.” Sonata said calmly “We’re fine.”

Rainbow Dash sped down the road. The police quickly got back in their cruisers and began chasing them. “I can’t believe he didn’t hit you!” Falling Sky looked up at Rainbow Dash. “He was firing at point blank!”

“He did hit me...” Rainbow looked back, revealing that half of her face had been ripped apart by bullets. Blue slime oozed out of her wounds.

“Ohmygosh!” Falling gasped “We’ve got to get you to a hospital! How are you still alive?”

“We’re made of slime!” Rainbow strained as she whipped the van around an intersection. “Bullets won’t do anything to us. We don’t need to go to the hospital, if anything we'd just scare the crap out of them. Or worse, they'd find out we're not human and try to turn us into some lab experiment. No hospitals!”

“Actually…” Sonata said. “Maybe we should head there. I've got an idea.” Sonata oozed a large amount of her slime out the van's windows.

“What?” Rainbow Dash grunted as her face reformed, chunks of lead worming themselves out of her neck. "Why would you want to go there?

"We've got to get these guys off of us. The hospitals our best bet." Sonata looked out the back. The two cruisers were almost 100 yards behind them. “See if you can lose these guys for just a second, then head there. Trust me!”

“You don’t even know how to drive!” Rainbow hissed “Why should I trust you?"

“Because that’s what friends do, Rainbow.” Sonata said solemnly.

Rainbow sighed. “Alright… let’s see what this hunk of junk can do!” She pressed the gas all the way down and started nimbly weaving through traffic. Sirens blared and drivers honked as she sped down the road.

“Be careful!” Falling Sky shrieked. "You're going to cause an accident!"

“I know what I’m doing!” Rainbow growled, as she barreled towards a red light, the intersection bustling with heavy traffic in both directions. Several semi-trucks were barreling through the oncoming traffic. Rainbow Dash just stomped on the accelerator, sending them speeding towards the intersection.

“What are you doing!?” Falling Sky screamed “You’re going to get us killed!”

“Shut up! I’ve got this!" Rainbow Dash gritted her teeth. "There’s a gap!” There was a tense, pregnant second as the van pulled into the busy intersection. At the last second, Rainbow Dash put on the brakes and drifted into the traffic heading east, towards the hospital. All while narrowly avoiding a collision with a semi-truck, that honked angrily at them. The cops were much less willing to risk a head-on collision and screeched to a stop.

“Alright. I’ve lost them.” said Rainbow. “But it’s not going to take them much time before they find us again.” She gestured towards a police helicopter scanning traffic above them. "You got a plan?"

“Just slow down to the speed limit.” Sonata said calmly. “Obey all your driving laws."

“People here are only going 45.” said Rainbow. “They’ll catch us in no time."

“Do it!” Sonata said calmly. "Act natural."

The helicopter placed its searchlight right over them and held it. “They’ve seen us, Sonata…” Rainbow said nervously. "We've got to move..."

“Don’t do anything out of the ordinary.” said Sonata “Just act cool.”

The light in front of them turned red. Rainbow had no choice but to stop as the two searchlights ominously illuminated the van.

Falling Sky gulped. “Y-you’re not going to use me as a hostage, are you…? When they catch you…?”

“We’re not getting caught.” Sonata grinned. “Look!” The two helicopters moved their searchlights off the van and continued to sort through traffic.

Rainbow Dash breathed a heavy sigh of relief just as the light turned green and she proceeded through the intersection.

“Turn into the hospital parking garage up ahead,” Sonata whispered. “Then drive to the top floor. There’ll be less traffic there.”

Rainbow did as she was instructed with a look of disbelief. “How did we manage to get past those cops?” she laughed. “I thought they had us for sure.”

“It’s simple.” Sonata chuckled as the van pulled into the garage. The gate opened automatically for them. “They were looking for a white van, not an ambulance.”

Rainbow looked at one of the van’s reflection in the windows of the parked cars and saw she was in fact, driving what appeared to be an ambulance. “How did you…?”

“I covered the van with a layer of myself and changed the van’s appearance.” Sonata smiled “It’s probably not perfect, but enough to fool a search helicopter.”

“That’s brilliant!” Rainbow laughed. “So you’ve absorbed the van?”

“No.” said Sonata. “It’s only a skin. I don’t seem to be able to absorb non-organic things.”

“Ah. That would explain why I had so much trouble absorbing dirt on my way to find you. My body kept rejecting it. I had to go with a tree instead. It was weird. I don’t know how you can stand eating things like that.”

“Living things do taste a lot better.” Sonata said, eliciting a look of concern from Falling Sky. “Shh! It’s okay. I’m sorry. I have no intention of absorbing you.” She said reassuringly.

“I never asked for any of this to happen!" Falling shivered "I knew aliens were real, but I never thought they'd be anything like you two. I don't know what to think...”

“We can’t just let you go, you've seen too much. I could modify your memories,” Sonata formed a pseudopod from her finger. “But it wouldn’t be a perfect memory, and given how paranoid you seem to be, you’d probably assume aliens had messed with your brain.”

“I don’t want you screwing around with my head!” Falling Sky yelled.

“Why not just let him go?” Rainbow shrugged. “He’s an old kook. It’s not like anyone will believe him.” She looked back to see Falling looking perturbed. “No offense.”

Sonata sighed. “I’m worried about him. It’s a dangerous world out there, and I want him to be safe. He nearly died today and he lost his best friend. It feels like throwing a wounded fish back into a lake full of sharks.”

“I don’t want you to eat me!” Falling growled.

“But you’ll be safe inside of me!” said Sonata. “As far as I know, my body is indestructible. Rainbow Dash is part of me, and she was shot in the face and survived.”

“How do I even know I can trust you?” Falling Sky mumbled. "How do I know I even know Faithful is okay inside of you?"

“Here, I’ll show you.” Sonata concentrated to find the essence of Faithful Servant. Upon finding him, she molded him a body out of her hand and set him down on the dashboard.

Falling Sky watched in amazement as the miniature of his friend started walking around. Faithful Servant looked around with concern. “Where am I?” he gasped.

“It’s okay.” Sonata loomed over him. “You're still safe. You’re only outside my body.”

He looked up with beaded eyes and pouted lips at Sonata. “Did I do something wrong?" He asked "Have you abandoned me?”

“Not at all. You're a good person.” Sonata ruffled his hair with her fingertip. “I just wanted you to explain to your freind that there is nothing to fear inside of me.”

“My goddess speaks the truth. Her body is an unmitigated paradise that no earthly sensation can compare to. I believed I was in the paradise of heaven itself.”

“Goddess!?” Falling Sky said flatly.

Faithful Servant spoke with joy in his voice. “Only a fool would turn down an opportunity to experience true nirvana within the flesh of Sonata! Please join me, Falling!”

Sonata blushed. Even she felt that was talking her up a bit much.

“No! It’s a trick!” Falling Sky shouted. “He’s just a puppet! You’re making him say those things!”

“How dare you slander her?!” Faithful Servant yelled. “Do you not trust your old friend?”

“You’re not my friend…” Falling Sky growled. “You’re… You’re just a marionette for her!”

Faithful Servant sighed “I don’t blame you. It seems far too fantastic to believe. A heavily being made of slime who's body is a paradise on earth. I wouldn't buy it either if I hadn't seen it.”

“We don’t intend you any harm. There’s no reason for you to be so afraid of us.” said Sonata. “If you want to go, then by all means, go.” She opened the side of the van.

Falling Sky jumped out the side of the van and looked back. "Why are you even on this planet? What is it that you aliens plan on doing? With humanity? And the Earth?”

“I’m not sure yet.” Said Sonata. “But rest assured that my actions are benevolent.”

“She’d be doing you a favor.” squeaked Faithful Servant. “The outside world is hell compared to her glorious utopia of her body.”

Falling rolled his eyes. “Do you really expect me to believe that’s Faithful Servant? Give me a break.”

“Remember when you found that can of half-rotted chestnuts two days ago?” Faithful yelled in a high-pitched voice. "You told me it was 'the worst thing you'd ever eaten.' Remember?"

“How do you know about that?” Falling backed up.

“Because I really am Faithful Servant.” The miniature explained “I was born somewhere in South Ohio, I think. My parents abandoned me, and I was raised in an orphanage. I hated it there. When I was in my early teens, I ran away and joined a gang, the Timber Wolves. For almost 10 years, the gang was my life. During this time, I committed all manner of sins; stealing, sexual assault, selling drugs... I was horrible. But I thought my gang would always have my back…”

“But they didn’t…” Falling Sky muttered. “You’ve told me this story.”

“During a police raid, I was caught by the law. I expected my crew to bail me out, but they left me to rot. During my time in prison, I found religion. When I got out of jail, I had nothing until I met you.”

Rainbow Dash looked back. “You two aren’t a thing, are you?”

Faithful chuckled. “No. It wasn’t in my religion, and Falling’s door didn’t swing that way. But we had each other. We had companionship. We were the only ones who would listen to each other. That's what was important."

“It really is you, isn’t it?” Falling smiled.

“Yes.” Faithful smiled back. “And I invite you to join me, so we can be together again.”

Sonata allowed Faithful to re-enter her hand. “It’s up to you.” She said. “I don’t think I can restore you back if I fully absorb you. You’d become part of my body.”

Falling Sky thought for a second and chuckled. “I suppose if you really wanted to absorb me, you wouldn’t need my permission.”

“The choice is yours.” Sonata smiled.

Falling Sky thought for a second. Then he sighed. “Take me.” He said, holding his arms out. "I want to be with my friend..."

"Think about what you're doing!" said Rainbow Dash. "If she absorbs you, you won't have any agency. Your'll be completely in her hands. Is this really what you want?"

"It's worth it to be with my friend again." Falling said. "I was just a hopeless beggar in this world. Maybe I can do better as a part of you.

"Okay." Sonata oozed off of the van and reformed into her humanoid form, which towered over him. "Are you ready?"

"I think so." Falling gulped."Will it hurt?"

"No. " Sonata smiled before reaching out with both arms and carefully picked him up off the ground, embracing him in a tight hug. "I'll be as gentle as possible."

"What are you doing?" asked Falling.

"This is the easiest way." said Sonata. "Don't fight it. Just embrace the love you have for your friend."

Falling watched as Sonata's body turned semi-translucent as his chest slipped into hers, right around what would have been her stomach. He gulped nervously, slightly terrified that he would be killed by the process, but his worries were somewhat calmed when he was entirely engulfed. It was very pleasant, not too warm, but not too cold. A cool feeling overtook him as his body began to disintegrate, becoming part of Sonata's body.

The cool, damp feeling intensified as she pressed into his body from all sides, causing him, to become translucent. As his body completely melted, a series of ripples formed on her belly before the goo resettled and regained its texture and color. All in all, Sonata had grown almost 15 feet tall, to the point where she had to crouch to even fit in the garage. She slid back into the van with a happy smile and re-applied the ambulance facade.

"Is he okay?" asked Rainbow.

Sonata smiled. "Yes. He's very happy. Let's go home, Dashie." She yawned. "I'm tired."

"Are you sure?" asked Rainbow "Do you really want your 'friends' to know you've gained this much mass? If you do, they'll question where it came from."

"Oh. I hadn't thought about that." said Sonata. "But where will we go?"

"I'll take you to my place. We can sleep there until you're ready to go home. I've got a bathtub you can store the rest of yourself in." Rainbow Dash started the car.

"Really!?" Sonata smiled. "Your place?"

"Sure." Rainbow said. "It's the least I could do. I owe you for letting me have my own body." she sighed.

"Are you okay?" Sonata raised an eyebrow.

"Yes. I'm fine. I'm just... I don't know. I feel stuck with you, if that makes sense."

"Well, you are part of my body now." said Sonata. "Is that a bad thing?"

"It 's a nice place" said Rainbow. "I don't blame Faithful for seeing you as a living paradise, especially given the hard life he had."

"He's still alive." said Sonata.

"Yeah. I know." sighed Rainbow. "To be a part of you is... it's like being in the womb again. You're warm, comforting, safe. There's a sense of intimacy with you. But there's also no agency. I'm part of your body, and can't make decisions of my own. Hell, with your ability to alter thoughts and memories, I can't even be 100% sure this is what I actually think."

"I haven't messed with your head, Rainbow." Sonata assured her.

"I appreciate that. I'm a free spirit, Sonata. I need my sovereignty. An for me to be trapped as a part of your body makes you sort of like a prison to me. A very nice and accommodating prison, but a prison nonetheless. I feel trapped."

"But I let you have control of your own body." Sonata pouted. "What more can I do?"

"I'm not saying you're a bad person. Hell, given what me and my friends did to you, I'm surprised you care what I think at all." said Rainbow. "But I don't like having to get permission to do things. You've been very nice to me so far, but what happens if I want to do something, and you say no? Like you said earlier, I may control this body now, but it isn't really mine. You could take it back at any time, and there would be nothing I could do to stop it."

"I'm sorry, Rainbow. I don't think I can change you back to the way you were. You'll always be a part of me..."

"I know." Rainbow sighed. "I just want to be free again."

"I want to free you. I do. It's just that I'm afraid to lose you, Rainbow." Sonata said softly. "I'm worried that you'll go back to your friends and forget all about me. And I couldn't blame you, after all I've done to you, I deserve it."

"Sonata..." Rainbow grinned. "Of course I wouldn't just forget about you. Look at us. We're forgiving to a fault. Sunset Shimmer tried to flat-out murder us once, and now we're the closest of friends."

"Thank you for saying that." Sonata smiled.

"Your welcome."

Sonata leaned her head against Rainbow Dash. She sighed happily at her friend's presence.

Rainbow Dash pulled up to the front of her house. "This could be a problem." said Rainbow.

"What could?" asked Sonata.

"The police will be looking for this van. If we park it here, they might think we're with the Night Drakes. We've got to get rid of it."

"Don't worry, Rainbow. I've got this." Sonata slithered outside the van and completely enveloped it.

"Umm. Sonata?" asked Rainbow Dash. "What are you doing?"

Suddenly, the windows of the van exploded inwards in a shower of glass. The fragile frame buckled inwards as Sonata applied pressure to them. The roof slowly began inching downwards. Sonata was going to crush the van. Rainbow quickly melted herself and slithered out as Sonata's compression grew more and more intense. Within moments, the van was nothing more than a chunk of crushed scrap metal around the size of a refrigerator.

Rainbow reconstituted herself outside the van as Sonata continued pressing it. "Dang... Your slime is strong. How did you know you could do that?"

"I just sort of did. I've been getting more used to my powers." Sonata reformed into a humanoid form and carried the crush van to the backyard.

Rainbow walked up to her front door, only to realize it was locked. "Aw, man. I just realized I left my keys in the locker room."

"Uh, Rainbow?" Sonata held her hand in front of her face and melted it.

"Oh." Rainbow blushed "Right." The two melted down and slid under the crack in the door. Rainbow's house was absolutely filthy. Old clothes and magazines were scattered everywhere.

"Sorry about the mess." said Rainbow. "I don't normally have company."

"It's no worse than my place." said Sonata. "I like to collect human stuff and try to figure out what it does."

"Sort of like an archeologist, huh?" asked Rainbow.

"I don't know what that is." Sonata grinned.

Rainbow chuckled. "It's someone who..."

"Studies human history by analyzing artifacts." Sonata immediately finished.

"How'd you know that?" asked Rainbow.

"Falling told me." said Sonata.

"Right." said Rainbow. "I forgot you had gotten a lot more people in there. It's going to be really cramped when I have to go back in there."

"You can sleep in your own body tonight, if you want." said Sonata. "I don't need you inside me until I get back home."

Rainbow laughed. "Good night, Sonata. My bathroom is the second door on the left." She went off to bed giggling.

"Huh? Whats so funny?" Sonata scratched her head.

Sonata went to Rainbow's bathroom and started draining her excess mass into the bathtub. She filled it until she was her normal height. Having lost her extra mass, Sonata walked to the bedroom. Rainbow Dash was already asleep. Sonata sat down next to her and sighed. Rainbow Dash may have been the best thing to ever happen to her. She was a friend, a real friend, or at least the closest thing to one Sonata had. But was she her friend because she legitimately liked her? Or was it only because she had assimilated her? Obviously she was willing to give Sonata a chance though, otherwise she wouldn't have made love to her in the showers. Rainbow Dash was a free spirit, it was wrong for Sonata to keep her as prisoner. Sonata loved her too much. Sonata got into bed with Rainbow Dash and cuddled close to her. "I love you, Dashie..." Sonata whispered.

"I love you, too..." Rainbow quietly whispered back.

Author's Note

Feedback is appreciated.

Chapter 6: The Fire of Friendship

Sonata awoke to the sound of a doorbell. She glanced over at the clock and saw it was almost eleven in the morning. She could feel Rainbow Dash next to her, her breathing, her pulse, she even felt like she was sharing the same dreams with her vibrant-haired partner. Yet despite her comforting, almost intimate closeness with Rainbow, she felt weird, like something was a little bit off about their closeness. She looked to her side and saw that she had fused half-way into Rainbow Dash’s body.

Sonata bolted up in surprise. The alarm generated a small burst of adrenaline in her blood stream, which Rainbow obviously felt, as they were sharing the same body. She sat up as well. "Gah! What's going on!?" Rainbow gasped.

"I think we snuggled a little to closely last night!" Sonata gritted her teeth as she tried to untangle the sticky mess that was their bodies. "Who knocks on the door this early in the morning?"

"It's my friends. They're probably worried about me." said Rainbow "I was supposed to meet up with them yesterday, but you kinda ate me..."

"Oh" Sonata blushed as she finished untangling herself from Rainbow. "Sorry about that."

Rainbow shrugged. "It's fine, but I better go talk to them. Pinkie's probably this close to filing a missing person report."

"I'm sure your police force must love her." Sonata smiled.

"I'm pretty sure she's on some sort of watchlist at this point." Rainbow grinned. She quickly threw on some real clothes before stepping out to the front door.

"Rainbow Dash!" Pinkie Pie dove into Rainbow with so much force that she struggled to keep her solid form. "Thank goodness you're okay! I thought I would never see you again!" Pinkie sobbed.

"She was only gone for eighteen hours." Applejack rolled her eyes. "Ya gotta be missing for 48 hours before they can even be called a missing person."

"Maybe for the police." Pinkie hugged Rainbow tightly. "But for me, It's closer to 48 minutes! I heard about that Crystal High girl who was kidnapped by the Night Drakes, and I was so afraid they'd gotten you too!"

"Heh! I'd love to see them try!" Rainbow smirked.

"I'm never letting you out of my sight again!" Pinkie sobbed. "I can't believe I let this happen!"

"We're all glad you're all right." said Rarity. "But, why did you miss our meeting yesterday?"

Rainbow Dash sighed. "Why don't you all come in?" She led them to her bedroom. "The reason I didn't show up yesterday was because...I was with her."

She opened the door, revealing Sonata trying on one of Rainbow's gray tank tops. "Dang, these thingies are tight, Dashie." Sonata forced it over her breasts. "I don't know how you can stand wearing them."

"They're three sizes too small for you," Rainbow rolled her eyes. "but keep it on, we've got company over."

Sonata smiled and waved. "Hello, Rainbow Dash's friends!" She said enthusiastically.

“Are you serious?” Applejack protested. “You’ve been hanging’ out with her? After what she did to us?”

Sonata directed her gaze to the floor. She knew it. She just knew Rainbow Dash’s friends wouldn’t want anything to do with her. Not that she could blame them.

Rarity sat on the bed next to Sonata. "I'm inclined to agree with Applejack. How do we know we can trust this one?"

“Aw, come on, guys!” Rainbow scoffed. “You’re going to dismiss her just like that?”

Applejack sighed. “It’s not that I’m unwillin’ to extend the olive branch to her. It’s just that I don’t trust her. How do we really know she’s turned over a new leaf? How do we know that she aint' got something planned with her two cohorts? We don’t know what these Sirens are capable of, even without their magic.”

“Speaking as someone who has memorized the Monster Manual of Equestria,” Sunset leaned in. “A Siren that is stripped of its ability to use its mind-affecting powers is no more powerful than any other sea-pony. Assuming this, we can only conclude that she’s no more dangerous than any normal human being.”

“Yep. That’s me.” Sonata grinned. “Sonata, the normal human. No freaky powers here. No, sir.”

“But what about Adagio and Aria?” asked Pinkie Pie. "Have they turned over new leafs?"

“Eh, those girls are jerks.” said Rainbow. “They’re still trying to take over the world. But without their magic, they’re basically harmless.”

“I think we should give her a chance.” Sunset Shimmer smiled. “After all, you helped me reform, I’m certain we could do the same for Sonata.”

“How did you two even meet?” asked Fluttershy. “If you don’t mind me asking...”

“It was right after sports practice.” said Rainbow. “I was skeptical to talk to her at first, but once we started interacting, I was completely absorbed by her, right Sonata!?” Rainbow laughed.

“Rainbow!” Sonata’s face turned red before she recognized the wordplay. “Oh, I mean… yeah. She just couldn’t get away from me.” She grinned. "I've got quite the...um... personality."

“Ya fucked her didn’t ya?” Applejack said bluntly.

"Oh god!" Rarity immediately stood up from the bed. A look of horror and disgust in her eyes.

“Uh…” Rainbow stammered. “Well…uh...not here, anyways. You see, I was...”

“She’s really good!” Sonata blurted, seemingly unfazed by the intimate subject matter. “I’m surprised none of you have had sex with her! You don’t know what you’re missing! She does this thing with her tongue, where she starts licking your breasts and then slides it down to your belly button, and then the-”

Rainbow placed her hand over Sonata’s mouth. “Okay. I think they’ve got the picture.” She looked back to her friends, who were all flush with embarrassment. Except for Pinkie Pie, who seemed disappointed Sonata hadn’t gotten to finish. “So what do you think?” Rainbow grinned. “Can we at least give her a chance?”

The group was quiet for a minute. Fluttershy cleared her throat “I think if we could forgive Sunset for what she did, then we shouldn’t have a problem with Sonata. Everyone deserves a second chance, right?”

The group all clamored in agreement.

Applejack shrugged. “Ah’ what the heck? I guess so.” She extended a hand to Sonata.

Sonata took her hand and happily shook it. “Thank you, Applejack.” She smiled. “Does this mean we’re friends now?”

“Aw shucks, Ah' guess so. Don’t see no reason not to trust ya now that ya can’t take over the world no longer.”

Sonata froze.

“No offense.” Applejack grinned.

“Don’t worry.” said Sunset. “I get that one a lot. You get used to it.”

“Oh, It’s fine” said Sonata. “I’m just a little new to this whole 'friends' thing.”

“Don’t worry.” Sunset smiled. “If I could get the hang of it, I’m certain you can as well.”

“Rainbow Dash?” Pinkie called from another room.

“What is it, Pinkie?” asked Rainbow.

“What’s this stuff in your bathtub?” Pinkie asked.

Rainbow and Sonata ran to the bathroom. Sonata had completely forgotten. The bathtub was filled almost up to the rim with gallons of blue slime. Pinkie was staring at it with a look of innocent curiosity.

“Oh, that.” Rainbow gulped. “Umm. that’s just… It’s… It’s blueberry jam!” She blurted out.

“OOOoooh.” Pinkie nodded. “That makes sense.” Pinkie started poking the slime’s surface.

“Rainbow?” Rarity gave her a puzzled look. “Why do you have a bathtub full of blueberry jam?”

“Ummm because…Uh. It’s Sonata’s favorite food.”

“No it’s not.” said Sonata. “That’s tacos.”

“Right. It's her second favorite!” said Rainbow.

“That’s chimichangas.” said Sonata. “In fact, blueberry jam probably isn’t even on my top 100.”

Rarity put a hand on Rainbow Dash’s shoulder. “Look, if this is a fetish that you and your new ’girlfriend’ have, just say nothing. I don’t want to know about it, but don’t insult our intelligence, okay?”

“Okay…” Rainbow grinned sheepishly. “I’m not going to say anything- Pinkie, NO!”

Pinkie brought a finger-full of the slime up to her mouth and swallowed it. She smacked her lips as it went down. Sonata quickly stimulated the sensors of Pinkie’s taste buds to give her the sensation of blueberries.

“Mmmm.” Pinkie smiled. “It’s good. I can see why Sonata likes it so much.”

“That won’t hurt her will it?” Sunset looked in concern.

“No.” Sonata winced as she felt Pinkie swallow a chunk of her. “But it’ll probably feel really weird. For everyone involved.”

“What was that jam used for?” asked Fluttershy.

“Was it the tongue thing!?” asked Pinkie.

“It was involved with the tongue thing.” said Rainbow “Let’s just leave it at that.”

“That would be preferable.” Rarity huffed.

“We get it.” Sunset said “What happens between you two is a personal matter. We won’t push the issue, right girls?”

They all nodded in agreement.

Pinkie crept up to Sonata. “But I still really want to know what Rainbow does with her tongue.”

Sunset grabbed Pinkie’s collar. “Let’s go, Pinkie.” The group of friends exited Rainbow’s house.

“So what do y’all think?” asked Applejack “Ya think she’s sincere about changing her ways?”

“I hope so.” said Rarity “I’d hate for her to be sleeping with Rainbow Dash if she wasn’t.”

“I know right?” said Sunset. “It’s hard to believe someone so innocent and carefree would try to take over the world.”

“Innocent? You did hear the part about the tongue, yes?” asked Rarity.

“She’s a Siren. Of course she likes sex." said Sunset. "Their kind are used to doing that sort of thing whenever they feel like it.”

“I just wish there was somthin’ we could do to see if she really has changed.” said Applejack.

“I have an idea.” said Fluttershy.

“What did you have in mind?” asked Sunset.

“Well, two days ago, the pet store I work at sold a trio of hamsters to Adagio. I was so worried that she would do terrible things to them! But if Sonata has them, or at least access to them, then maybe they’re okay!”

“That’s a great idea!” said Sunset. “If she’s been taking good care of them, that would show she's sincere about her desire to reform.”

“Either way, I think we should be compassionate, but with a healthy dose of salt and skepticism.” said Rarity.

“And blueberry jam!” Pinkie cheered.

Sonata slithered back to the Dazzling's house. She had allowed Rainbow Dash to keep her own body so she could hang out with her friends, but only on the condition that she not use her powers while in public. These were terms that Rainbow found more than agreeable. Sonata wished she could spend time with them, but decided she needed to return home to at least give lip service to Aria and Adagio. She needed to get up at the very least, as getting up at noon was pushing it, even for a lethargic slime creature.

Sonata slithered in through her window and back into her 'original' body, which was still resting on her creaking bed. Sonata regained control of her ten foot tall form, yawned and stepped out of bed. Adagio and Aria were in the kitchen making peanut, butter and jelly sandwiches.

"These things are awful!" Adagio moaned. "How do humans eat this crap!?"

"I don't know." Aria grumbled as she placed the peanuts in the salty, yellow glaze. "I'm doing what the directions call for, and it's still coming out far worse than a lot of the other human food we try to make."

"Can I have one of those?" Sonata asked sweetly.

Adagio looked up at Sonata. "Help yourself." She handed her the half-eaten sandwich. "I swear... I'll never get this human food thing. This is supposed to be a staple of the human diet, and it tastes like a sweet and salty mess."

Sonata happily took a bite out of the sandwich and froze.

"What do you think?" asked Adagio. "If anyone's gonna like them it's probably you."

"I don't think you made it right. I've had these before, it doesn't taste anything like it's supposed to." Sonata grinned before shoving the rest of the sandwich into her mouth and swallowing. "It's still good though."

Aria handed Sonata her sandwich as well, which she happily consumed. "You were asleep for a long time, Sonata. We were this close to calling the morgue." Aria joked. "Is there any particular reason you needed so much sleep? Maybe talking to yourself too much?" She raised an eyebrow.

"Oh, don't be silly!" Sonata smiled. "My new body just needs a lot of rest and energy to keep itself going." She reached over to the counter and picked up a stick of butter. "After all, I'm lot bigger than you two." She began sucking on the butter as if it were a popsicle.

"That's disgusting, Sonata." Sneered Adagio.

"Hey, you're the one who told her to eat those hamsters alive, remember?" Aria glanced over at her.

"Point taken." said Adagio.

"Yup." said Sonata "My body doesn't seem to discriminate between organic and not-organic material. As long as it was once alive."

Aria rolled her eyes. "That's kind of the definition of organic."

Before Sonata could respond, there was a quiet knock of the door.

Aria looked up and eyed the door with suspicion. "Are either of you expecting company?"

"No." said Adagio.

"Nuh-uh." gulped Sonata. "What if it's the authorities? What if they know what I can do?"

"Then you'll have to eat them." said Adagio.

"Go to your room, Sonata." Aria gestured. "Adagio and I will handle this."

"Okay..." Sonata slinked upstairs as quietly as a ten foot tall slime girl could, but she was curious as to who would possibly be interested in talking to them. She extended a tendril with a tiny eyeball mounted on it into the hallway, so she could see what was going on.

Aria opened the door and saw a timid yellow girl with pink hair on the other side. It was Fluttershy. One of the Rainbooms! "You!" Aria growled.

"Eep!" Fluttershy gasped. "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to bother you. I'll just be going now!"

"Not so fast!" Aria grabbed her shoulder. "What the heck are you doing here!? Aren't you aware of how much we hate your guts?"

"Uh. I just wanted to talk to you about th-the hamsters you bought a few days ago..." Fluttershy stuttered. "I wanted to make sure they're alright..."

"Oh, sure," Adagio grinned "Sonata took good care of them. You want to come inside and see?"

"Not really..." Fluttershy gulped. "But, um... If they are alright, could you ask her to please bring them over to Rainbow's house the next time she's over?"

"Next time she's at Rainbow's house!?" Growled Adagio "As in Rainbow Dash? Your stupid vomit-haired friend?"

"If she could come by his evening, that would be best." Fluttershy said timidly. "Because Rainbow won't be home until six."

"This evening?" asked Aria.

"Yes. This evening." said Fluttershy.

"I think we need to have a little chat with Sonata..." said Adagio.

"Indeed we do." said Aria, closing the door.

"But what about my- my hamsters?" Fluttershy gulped.

Aria opened the door and smirked cruelly. "Sonata ate them. They're dead. Now go away!" She hissed before slamming the door back in Fluttershy's devastated face.

Sonata braced herself for the torrent of verbal abuse she was going about to receive. She just sat down on her bed and psyched herself up for it. Aria and Adagio burst into her room "Sonata!" Adagio roared "Why is Rainbow Dash still alive!?"

"Because my body doesn't kill people when it absorb them." Sonata said calmly. "Their consciousness is stored inside me."

"What!?" Aria snarled "You mean everyone you eat is still...?"

"Alive?" Sonata held out her hand and formed the tiny body of Mr. Whiskers out of her ooze. He began sniffing around, looking for food. "Yes. Everything I absorb survives within me, and I can alter it as I see fit. Rainbow Dash is walking freely, but she is still a part of my body."

"You ignorant, taco-obsessed imbecile!" Adagio shouted "She's our enemy! Why in the seven circles of hell would you let her walk around in her own body!?"

"Because she didn't like being trapped inside of me." said Sonata. "She needed her freedom."

"Oh my God..." Said Aria "You developed sympathy for your fucking lunch!"

"Dammit, Sonata!" Adagio raged. "You had one job! One. Job. And that job was the one thing you were actually good at. Eating! You would think you'd be able to handle it! But no, you were too stupid to even get that right!" She raised her fist and slammed it right into Sonata's stomach. Sonata hardened her slime around the fist and held it firm with her body. "That bitch is gonna go right to the authorities! All our plans are going to be ruined if they capture you before you have a chance to grow!"

Sonata was shocked. She wasn't surprised that Adagio had gotten angry enough to attack her, but she couldn't believe that she was foolish enough to attack someone almost three times her size. Sonata just looked down at Adagio with a stern look on her face. All those years of abuse, of being told she was holding the team back, of being blamed for every shortcoming, came to Sonata's mind. Sonata knew that Adagio had never respected her, but for her to act like this when she was relying on Sonata to carry out her plans of world domination, was beyond delusional. "You're not the boss of me..." Sonata said firmly.

"What did you say!?" Adagio roared.

"I'm not letting you tell me what to do anymore! " Sonata yelled "I'm done with you and your schemes! You can go ahead and put your plans for world domination on hold."

"You traitorous bitch..." Adagio seethed. "After all this time we've spent together, you're going to put these monkeys before your own kind!" She continued slamming her fists into Sonata.

"Calm down." Sonata ordered.

Adagio just ignored her. She kept kicking against Sonata. "Of all of us who could have developed super-natural powers it had to be you, the bubble-headed, soft-hearted moron! You're by far the most annoying person I've ever had the displeasure of associating with! Damn you! Damn you to the lowest circle of hell!"

"It's funny because that's where traitors go." Aria smirked. "It seems appropriate."

Sonata re-assimilated the hamster into her mass. "I'm leaving." She said evenly. "Fluttershy has the right to know that her hamsters are unharmed."

Adagio stood in front of the doorway. "If you go out there, I'll tell the entire world about your powers and what you're capable of!" She threatened.

"Is that right?" Sonata smiled at her.

"That's right!" said Adagio "You're not going anywhere without my say-so!"

"Yeah?" Sonata walked through the door anyways, and swallowed Adagio in the process.

Aria gasped. Sonata had never defended herself from one of Adagio's rampages before, let alone something like this. "D-did you just eat her?" She gasped.

"No." said Sonata, as she walked to the bathroom. She turned her body transparent, revealing Adagio's body was still intact and unassimilated. "I'm just holding her until she calms down." Adagio's body flailed around inside of her. "She needed a time out."

"Sonata. Please, will you just think about what you're doing?" Aria chased after her. "After all we've been through together, you're just going to abandon your dreams?"

"I never had a say in anything we did." Sonata said calmly. "I was always following you or Adagio's orders. No more! I'm the one with supernatural powers, not you! I can make my own decisions now!" She liquified her midsection, allowing Adagio to fall to the bathroom floor, covered in ooze.

"But what about our plans...?" Adagio looked up, attempting to milk sympathy out of her fellow Siren. "Don't you want us to take over so the humans will be safe?"

"You don't care about the humans. You've never cared about the humans! You just care about gathering as much power for yourselves as possible! You've been taking advantage of me for too long!" said Sonata. "I'm the only one here who's powerful enough to take over the world. That means I set my own rules, and I want nothing to do with you or your plans!"

"So you're just going to leave us?" asked Adagio. "Is that it?"

"No." said Sonata. "I'll make sure you are taken care of, but you will never rule over humanity. Ever!"

Adagio sighed. She walked dejectedly to her room and slowly closed the door. There was a quiet silence throughout the house.

"So what are you going to do this weekend?" Aria sulked. "Now that we're not taking over the world and all."

"I'm going to spend some time with my new friends." Sonata smiled. "You are welcome to join us. Who knows? You might like it."

"The Rainbooms!?" Aria gagged. "Ugh. I'd rather make love to a cheese grater."

"Fine." said Sonata, shedding the majority of her slime in the bathtub until she was back to her normal size. "I'll leave the offer open, though. You two deserve a second chance as much as I do."

"Uh-huh..." Aria rolled her eyes.

"Oh and keep in mind, if I catch either of you plotting against me or humanity, I have no qualms about absorbing you." Sonata said sweetly as she manipulated her body to give the appearance of clothing. "Just a little warning."

Aria just glared as Sonata hopped down the stairs and ran outside after Fluttershy. "Whatever..." She mumbled darkly.

Night fell over the city of Canterlot. Sonata and Rainbow Dash shapeshifted into their superhero personas, Goo Girl and Jam. They headed downtown, using their sticky arms as rope-like strands to swing from rooftop to rooftop. They latched onto the side of a high-rise skyscraper, clung to the side and climbed up to the roof, giving them a fantastic view of the city. Sonata modified her eyes to be similar to the owl's she had assimilated the previous day. Using her enchanted vision she scanned the city below.

“See anything?” asked Rainbow.

“No.” Sonata said. “The Night Drakes aren’t out this evening. They must have noticed a good number of them went missing last night. They'll be laying low tonight.”

“They’re probably in their hideouts.” said Rainbow.

“Exactly.” said Sonata. “And that’s what we’re going to attack. I’ve learned the location of several Drake hideouts from the thugs I absorbed yesterday, which one do you think we should hit up?”

"The docks.” said Rainbow “It’s more important than any of their other hideouts. Without them, there’s no way for them to easily smuggle their ‘merchandise’ out of the country. We take out the docks, we stop the flow of human trafficking.”

“We can’t just go in and start eating people, though.” said Sonata. “It’s likely they’ll use their prisoners as hostages. I don't want a repeat of what happened last night.”

“You’re right. We need to make sure all the prisoners are safe first.” said Rainbow. “But how are we going to get in?”

Sonata smiled. "I think I have an idea."

Two Night Drakes stood guarding the entrance to a warehouse. Inside were hundreds of crates full of drugs, weapons, body parts and slaves. Security was extra tight tonight, as several important buyers were here, negotiating prices.

One of the guards turned to his cohort, who was slightly shivering. “Whatsa matter. You cold?” He blew a puff of cigarette smoke in his face.

“No.” he replied. “I’m just a little nervous. There's enough paraphernalia in there to get us thrown away for life. Are you absolutely sure the cops aint' coming?”

“Dude. Relax. If they were coming, Captain Flask would’ve let us know. We don’t pay him to misdirect his department for nothing.”

“I’m just worried because of that big bust that happened last night. They arrested Pierce and a whole buncha others without warning.”

“That wasn’t the fuzz.” said the guard. “Flask says they don’t know who done did it. But it wasn’t them.”

“W-what!? But then where did they go!?” The paranoid gangster gulped. "D-do you think we've got a rival gang in town!?"

“Don’t know. They just up and disappeared.” The guard shrugged. “It’s weird. Never thought I’d say this, but I’m glad the cops are looking into it. The worst part is, that bastard Pierce owed me me money.”

“Shhh!” The paranoid guard whispered “Do you hear something?”

They heard a faint giggling coming from behind a shipping crate outside the warehouse.

“What do you suppose that is?” asked the paranoid guard.

“I don’t know. But I’m going to find out.” the guard pulled out his handgun and prowled over to the container. The guard’s eyes lit up. It was two naked girls making out and giggling like schoolchildren.

“Are you crazy?” the paranoid guard whispered. “That’s bait! It couldn’t be more obvious!”

“If the cops were doing a sting, they’d send SWAT, not nudes. You need to learn to appreciate things that just fall into your lap.” He holstered his pistol and casually walked towards the two girls. “Ladies, what are two magnificent slabs of beef like yourselves doing out here this late?”

“Aw…” Sonata pouted. “I thought you said there wasn’t going to be anyone out here this late.”

“I guess I was wrong.” Rainbow pouted. “Not that their arrival is necessarily a bad thing…” She grinned up at the confident guard's crotch.

"Heh!" the guard smiled. "Where are your clothes at, ladies?”

“Where we left them. Duh…” Sonata giggled.

“They’re obviously just drunk lovers.” the guard rolled his eyes. “I say we take them inside with the others.”

“But what about the-?” The paranoid guard started to speak.

Suddenly dozens of tentacles sprouted out of the girls and pulled the two guards into their bodies with a quiet gurgling noise. They then quickly assumed the forms of the two Night Drakes they had devoured and walked back to the doors.

Rainbow Dash assumed the form of the paranoid guard. “I thought for a second this guy was going to see through us.”

“Naw.” Sonata grinned. “Men are easy to manipulate. I used to be a siren, and if I played your cards right, i didn't even need to use magic to get them to do what you wanted.”

Rainbow chuckled. “Heh! I imagine not. Especially with a body as nice as yours.”

"Thanks!" Sonata smiled as she and Rainbow Dash entered the warehouse. Most of the Night Drakes were in the back offices, meaning the storage area was relatively clear. A particularly mean-looking Night Drake walked up to them “Aren’t you two supposed to be on lookout duty?” He growled.

“We were just checking to make sure all the slaves were present.” said Sonata “We have reason to think some of them might have snuck off.”

“Are you telling me my prisoners aren’t secure?” the angry Drake grabbed her jacket.

“Well?” Sonata smirked. “Do you know where they all are?”

“They’re all in the green shipping container behind me." The Drake gestured. "That thing hasn’t been opened since this morning. All twenty of them were present then, and they're present now!”

“Are you absolutely sure that's all the prisoners you have?” Sonata chided him. “They’re all in there? In that crate?”

“Are you telling me I can’t do my job right!?” He yelled. “Because you two seem to be doing a really piss-poor job of being the fucking lookouts!”

“So that is all of them?” Sonata pointed. “In that crate?”

“Yes. That’s all of them! We have twenty prisoners, and they're all in that crate!" He growled as he rolled up his sleeves. "Is there anything else you want to ask before I kick your asses!?”

“No, thank you.” Sonata smiled. She raised her hand up to the Drake’s face and completely engulfed it with her ooze. She then slammed his half-melted head against the shipping container, completely melting it in the process and splattering it all over the walls. His slowly dissolving body slumped against the container. “Well, he certainly wasn’t very friendly.” Sonata turned towards Rainbow.

“I'm going to look through what’s left of him for the keys to this crate.” said Rainbow, sifting through the mass of blue putty for inorganic materials.

“Okay." said Sonata. "I’m going to make sure everyone in there is okay.” She felt around the container until she found a tiny hole caused by a missing rivet and slowly oozed her way into the shipping container. She adapted her eyes once again to allow her to see in low-light conditions, and saw twenty young people chained to the walls of the shipping container with handcuffs.

Sonata’s eyes teared up a little. These poor people were in terrible condition. They were gagged, blind-folded, half-starved and badly beaten. But there was no time to dwell on that. Sonata knew she had to be stoic if she wanted to fight people who could do things like this. She regained her human form and removed the gag from a young green woman. “Are you okay?” Sonata asked softly.

“Please don’t hurt me!” the woman yelped in surprise. “I’m sorry!” Sonata barely recognized the poor girl from the news. It was Lightning Dust, the athlete from Crystal High. She was barely recognizable in this state.

“Shhh!” Sonata tried to calm her down. “It's okay, Lightning. I’m here to get you out of here, to get you all out of here.”

“You don’t know who you're messing with...” Lightning gulped. “The Night Drakes, If they catch you, they’ll…”

“I’m not worried about the Drakes catching me, I’m worried about them catching you.” said Sonata. “Can you run?”

“I could…” Lightning cried. “I was a great athlete... But they knew it, so they banged up my shins, and they…”

Lightning didn’t finish her sentence, but Sonata could see what she was talking about. The Drakes had cut off the two smallest toes on each of her feet. “Those bastards…” Sonata growled. Lightning started sobbing, tears dripped through her blindfold.

Sonata knelt down. “I’ve never done this before, so I don't know if this will work.” Sonata liquefied her hands and placed them over Lightning’s feet, half-melting them.

“What are you doing?” Lightning gulped. "My feet feel weird..."

“Please be quiet.” Sonata said calmly. “I need to concentrate.” She focused on the memory of what a human foot was supposed to look like. Her slime slowly started forming itself into a foot, complete with bone, blood and nerve endings. “Okay…” Sonata sweated. “Now for the hard part.” She started merging Lightning’s feet with her slime. Not enough to assimilate her, but enough that she could feel what Lightning felt. She focused on the surrogate toes, and tried to match them with Lightning’s biorhythms.

Lightning Dust gulped as Sonata slowly fused her nerves into the new feet. Sonata relinquished control of the digits to Lightning. They acted sort of as a combination between a prosthetic and a parasite. They were separate living entities and required nutrients from Lightning’s body to survive, and were a part of both Sonata and Lightning simultaneously. “There we are.” Sonata gave a sight of relief. “Good as new. But I don’t think you’ll be able to grow toenails from now on.”

Lightning wiggled her toes as Sonata began repairing her other injuries. “How did you…? Who are you?” Lightning gasped.

“A friend.” Sonata said simply, as she finished repairing the bruises on Lightning’s legs. “Hmmm. Your body is severely lacking in protein.”

“They haven’t fed us for over two days…” Lightning whimpered.

Sonata stood up. “Open your mouth, please.”

Lightning was hesitant, but figured if whoever was in the room with her had been kind enough to repair her legs, they could be probably be trusted.

Sonata placed a large amount of her body’s stored protein and placed in a blob of ooze approximately the size of a pea. She placed the drop in Lightning's mouth, giving her tongue a slight blueberry flavor sensation as she swallowed. Sonata knew her body was safe for human consumption thanks to Pinkie mistaking her ooze for jelly. “That should give you enough energy to get out of here.” said Sonata “Once you’re clear of the docks, go to the authorities, but not Officer Flask. He’s in on all of this.” Sonata started making her way around to the other prisoners, making sure they were in good enough conditions to run.

“But what about the Night Drakes?” asked a prisoner. “Won’t they come after us once they realize we're escaping?”

“Don’t worry about them.” said Sonata “Tonight, I’m taking care of them once and for all.”

“But then who will keep us safe while we run?” asked Lightning

“My friend will escort all of you out of here.” said Sonata. “I'll stay behind and deal with the Drakes. That should be a big enough distraction to make sure you aren’t followed.” Sonata knocked on the door to the container. “You ready, Jam?”

Rainbow Dash, still disguised as a night Drake, opened the crate. “Took you long enough.” she said factiously.

“They’re all ready to go.” said Sonata, absorbing what was left of the Drake she had melted earlier. “Just help me unlock them.”

Rainbow started going from prisoner to prisoner and unchaining them from the walls. The prisoners were very relieved to be rid of their restraints, and quickly removed their gags and blindfolds. Lightning went to the edge of the container to keep watch.

“So, did you tell them what you can do?” asked Rainbow.

“No.” said Sonata. “That’s none of their business. I’d rather keep my powers a secret for as long as possible.”

“So does that mean you’re not going to go with your friends' plan?”

“With the stadium?” Sonata asked. “No. You’ve shown me that people need to be free to make their own decisions. Even if those decisions aren’t the best choice.”

“We’ve got incoming…” Lightning whispered. “And they definitely know somethings up!”

“Hey!” A Drake yelled, running up to the shipping container, gun drawn. “What the hell is going on here?”

Sonata immediately shot forth a pseudopod the size of a bowling ball into him with such force that it melted clean through his body. Exploding him into chunks of slime.

“Holy shit!” The Drake that was with him cried. He ran for the back offices, but Sonata extended her arm, easily caught him and dragged him into the shipping container.

“So much for subtle…” said Rainbow.

Sonata held the terrified gang member off the ground with a single arm. “How many of you are back there?” She glared.

“W-what?” he asked.

Sonata slammed him against the wall. “How many people are in the back offices?”

“Ah! I don’t know!” he wailed. “Like, at least thirty or so!”

“Any prisoners back there?” The Drake just looked at her with a face of absolute terror. “Well!?” Sonata barked

“No…" He trembled.

That was all Sonata needed to hear. She instantly melted him down and added his body mass to herself. Sonata turned back to the prisoners. They seemed to be having mixed reactions to her brutal absorptions. Many stared dumb-struck, as if they couldn’t fully comprehend what they had just seen, a few shivered in absolute fear, and a couple watched with a look of vengeful glee. "W-what are you?" Lightning asked.

"I told you," Sonata smiled as she headed towards the back offices. "A friend."

"Where are you going?” asked Lightning.

“I’m going to take care of the Night Drakes. Once and for all.” She looked back. "I'm going to make sure what happened to all of you never happens to anyone else."

The prisoners started running out of the warehouses. Rainbow followed them, just in case they ran into any Night Drakes patrolling the docks. "Be safe..." Rainbow yelled to Sonata.

"You don't need to worry about me." said Sonata. "There's no way they'll be able to stop me."

She stepped into the hallway to the back office. A trio of three Night Drakes waited inside. "We've got company!" One of them yelled, drawing his gun.

"Who the hell are you!?" another yelled. "Don't move, or we'll blow your fucking brains out!"

“What’s wrong?” Sonata smirked “Let’s go!”

The Drakes yelled, and immediately began firing. Sonata didn’t even attempt to dodge, simply absorbing all of their gunfire before doing the same to them. Within seconds, she was a swirling vortex of sticky tentacles, by the time she regained her human form, the guards were nothing but piles of blue sludge.

Sonata then shed her extra mass and headed into the back offices. A lone guard was waiting for her. “Hey! You can’t come back here!” he yelled.

Sonata didn’t even give him a chance to react. She instantly punched through the door, leaving just enough of her slime on his unconscious body to assimilate him. Dozens of human traffickers looked up in shock as the melting body slid into the center of the room.

Sonata slowly entered the smoke filled-room, cigarette butts lay everywhere. Inside was a colorful cast of around thirty people, just like the Drake said. They were the lowest scum of the Earth. Drug dealers. Kidnappers. Crooked cops. Rapists. Their clothing varied from the studded leather of the Night Drakes to the well-made three piece suits of corrupt public officials, but it didn’t matter to Sonata. They were all about to be equal inside of her. Sonata said nothing, letting the gangsters soak in the horror of the unfortunate thug slowly melting in the middle of their office.

“What the hell is this!?” yelled a man in a yellow suit, dropping a suitcase full of money in surprise. He spoke with an east European accent.

Sonata looked down as the green federal reserve notes scattered all over the floor. “What the hell is wrong with you!?” She roared. “The world isn’t messed up enough as it is? You need to sell your own kind to get ahead in life!? Is that it!?”

“Oh my god! What the fuck did you do to Gravedigga?” One of the Night Drakes gasped at the sight of his melting comrade, who was still twitching and moaning as Sonata continued to dissolve his body.

"All of you are a disease, plaguing this planet…” Sonata inhaled slowly. “And I’m the immune system!” She growled.

Suddenly, the man in the yellow suit whipped out his pistol and fired, hitting Sonata directly between the eyes. She didn’t even flinch.

Sonata responded by letting out an inhuman roar, before charging directly towards him. Complete chaos erupted within the room. Dozens of bullets ripped through Sonata's body as more and more mobsters started to open fire. Yet she didn’t stop, she instantly melted anyone or anything organic between her and the man in the yellow suit. The man screamed and hid behind his desk, but Sonata simply absorbed the wooden desk and loomed over him.

“You can’t do this!” he screamed “I’m a foreign emissary! That means I have diplomatic imm-“ Sonata wrapped a pseudopod around his head and slammed it into a desk, melting both him and the furniture in the process. She then flung a mass of what was left of him into another gangster, melting him as well. Sonata then jumped into a trio of terrified Night Drakes and instantly dissolved them with a flurry of pseudopods. Her blue slime flew everywhere, melting anything organic it came into contact with.

The room erupted into a chorus of yells as Sonata absorbed dozens of people within seconds. It was as if a sentient, acidic bomb had gone off. Sonata heard an aggressive yell behind her. She turned around just in time to see a Night Drake wielding a combat shotgun fire into her face at point blank, blowing her head clean off her body. The Drake let out massive sigh of relief as the headless body slumped over. "Glad that's over..."

Sonata's body stood back up and she formed a face onto one of her breasts. “Hi!” she said cheerfully, before punching through the Drake's stomach, instantly melting him. Another Drake with a shotgun tried to move in for a similar attack, but Sonata didn't even give him the opportunity. She raised the half-melted body of the first Drake to act as a shield against his gunfire, before slamming into him and melting him as well.

The remaining gangsters stared at Sonata in terror, seemingly unsure if they should fight or flee. Sonata oozed the face on her breast up to where her head should be, she cricked her neck back into place and reformed her breast. “There we go.” she smiled. “Good as new!” At this point Sonata had acquired a staggering amount of body mass, easily two thousand pounds, she was almost the size of a small car.

“Our weapons are useless!” screamed a gunman. “Let’s get the hell out of here!” A dozen or so gangsters broke for the exit and ran.

“Cowards.” Sonata teased them “It’s not so much fun now, is it?” Sonata slid down the hallway and rolled over five of them like a tank, instantly absorbing them. A sixth was caught by a pseudopod and slowly pulled into Sonata's stomach.

“No! Please!” he garbled before being absorbed. The warehouse was in pure chaos. Criminals were running everywhere. Sonata figured she wasn’t going to be able absorb them all at this point, but so far she wasn’t looking bad. It occurred to her that she should probably be targeting businessmen over the common street thugs. The thugs might be more physically strong, but the power and influence of the elites would make them a lot more dangerous in the long run.

One such businessman in a sparkly blue suit bolted down the hallway, shoving a Night Drake in his path to the floor. Sonata pursued him, simply absorbing the fallen thug as she did. The business man reached into his coat and pulled out a cell phone. “Code red! Come red!” he yelled “Get me out of here and torch the whole place!”

Sonata zoomed closer to the fleeing businessman, when a bodyguard with a long tube-shaped weapon appeared at the end of the hallway. “Down!” he yelled before firing the RPG.

The explosive round hit Sonata directly in the face. The entire building shook. To Sonata’s surprise, it actually hurt a little bit. Not so much the shrapnel or the shockwave, but the fiery explosion. A thin layer of blackened slime peeled off her body. Dang. "My body does not like hot temperatures." Sonata coughed.

The businessman continued running, but Sonata wasn’t going to let him get away that easily. She quickly reformed her body and lunged at the man with the bazooka, melting him before he had a chance to reload. The man in the blue suit was heading towards the fire escape, but he was climbing to the roof instead of the ground. Sonata had him now. He was trapped on the roof with nowhere to go.

A few shotgun blasts peppered Sonata’s membrane, but they did nothing to stop her. She saw a pair of Night Drakes on top of a storage container were the source of the gunfire. One of them pulled out a fragmentation grenade and tossed it at Sonata. “Eat this!” he yelled.

Sonata’s body absorbed the grenade and held it firm, the explosion blew out a large chunk of her stomach, which almost immediately reformed.

Sonata slithered up to the container. “It wasn’t a very good meal.” she teased, poking the tiny human. “Maybe you’ll taste better.” She grabbed the duo with her psudodopod, shoved them into her salivating maw and swallowed them whole.

Sonata heard the whirl of an approaching helicopter. “Oh no you don't! You're not getting away that easily!” She quickly slimed her way up to the to the roof. She arrived just in time to see two men in silver body suits rappelling down from a helicopter, armed with flamethrowers.

“Not a step closer there, Missy!” said the businessman. “I saw how bad a number that rocket did on you. Imagine how bad it’d be if Flamer and Burnie got their hands on ya.” The two men held up their flamethrowers menacingly. "Let's just talk, okay?"

“What do you want?” Sonata growled. “Who are you?”

“I go by Gladmane, and I wanna know why you had to go and ruin a good thing.” he scowled. “ What even are you? Some of sort science fair project gone wrong?" He shrugged. "I guess it don't really matter none. What I really want to know is, why'd you come after me and my people?”

“You kidnap people and sell them as sex slaves!” yelled Sonata. “A pair of your thugs tried to do it to me!”

“Ah, the Night Drakes.” the businessman brushed his suit. “I figured those undisciplined thugs would attract trouble. But I guessed it'd something along the lines of a P.I. with a death wish. I never imagined it’d be anything like you.” Gladmane chuckled. “Look, there really aint' no reason for us to be enemies. I have little love for the Night Drakes, and human trafficking makes me little more than pocket change. Mayhap’s we could team up?”

“Team up?” Sonata frowned.

“Look, I'm rich, okay. I'm offering to hire you and your... unique talents." Gladmane gestured towards her. "You'd be quite the asset to my little business empire."

“Why would I ever agree to work for scum like you!?” Sonata snapped, causing the two bodyguards to raise their flamethrowers.

Gladmane gestured for them to stand down. "What is it you desire?” he asked. “Whatever it is, I can get it for you. Trust me, I have the money.”

“I want people to be safe.” Sonata said flatly.

“Safe?” Gladmane laughed. “Safety is an illusion. I thought I was going to be safe tonight! I took every precaution to preserve my own life, bodyguards, body armor under the suit, backup plan to torch the entire warehouse to the ground... And look at what happened! You quite nearly ate me like a jelly baby! 'Safe' does not exist."

"The world would be a lot safer without trash like you!" Sonata growled.

Gladmane smiled again. "Don't try and act like you're so much better than I am." said Gladmane. "I know who you actually are, Sonata Dusk."

"What!?" Sonata looked at him in shock. "H-how do you...?"

"When you have the types of connections I do, you tend to pick up on things your average dullard might miss. That stunt you botched at that high school, subtle as a chainsaw." Gladmane grinned. "From what I've gathered, you and your cohorts feed on other's happiness to survive. So you're in no position to scold me about exploiting others to get ahead."

"I was manipulating their emotions!" Sonata snarled. "Not snatching people off the streets! We are not the same!"

"What is the purpose of life?" asked Gladmane.

"What?" asked Sonata.

"That is kind of a non sequitur, boss." One of the bodyguards chuckled.

"Shut up, Burnie." Gladmane said without emotion. "I ask you, Sonata Dusk. Why are we here?"

"I Don't know..." said Sonata.

"I do. And it's a simple answer." said Gladmane "Pleasure."

"Pleasure!?" Sonata gasped.

"Think about it." said Gladmane "You could live life as an absolute saint. Giving money to the poor, food to the orphans, all that crap. And guess what ya get for it?"

"Uhh..." Sonata started.

"You don't get jack fucking shit!" Gladmane yelled. "You only get a century or so on this rock before you die! Good or evil, they all lead to the same fucking place!"

"You're afraid of dying?" asked Sonata.

"That's the one thing that separates you and me." said Gladmane. "You've never had to face the prospect of dying! You're some immortal being, who feeds off the pleasure of others, the one thing in life that matters, and you steal it from others without a thought! I'd rather be dead than miserable! Now tell me again how were so different."

"Easy." Sonata smirked "I don't kill people."

"You just ate dozens my men." said Gladmane. "Many of whom were just dumb kids off the street, and ya seemed pretty happy bout' doin' it."

“The people inside of me are still alive.” said Sonata. "I assimilate then, I don't consume them."

“So the minds of those you consume is kept preserved in your own consciousness?” Gladmane raised his eyebrow. “How interesting, and also…counterproductive.”

“Wha? What do you mean!?” Sonata was taken aback.

“You want the world to be safe, and you have a immortal, nigh-indestructible body. And who do you fill it with? The dying? cancer patients? Ha!" He laughed. "No, you fill it with drug dealers, murderers, rapists. The underbelly of humanity. You’re not a sanctuary, you’re a prison.”

“SHUT UP!” Sonata lunged at him, eliciting a stream of fire from Gladmane’s bodyguards. The fiery napalm seeped into Sonata’s body. She fell to the ground, half-melted and sobbing in pain. It felt like her insides were on fire. Sonata could barely keep her body in a coherent form as her own slime boiled within her.

“You may be powerful, but you aint invincible. Everyone has their Achille's heel” Gladmane chuckled “If you continue on your own path, It will only be a matter of time before the world governments learn of your existence. And then what? Will they capture you and try to weaponize you? Or will they simply bomb you into oblivion? You’re not safe at all. You're a walking target, waiting for an arrow. And when a good archer comes along to finish you, all those poor souls within you you will die as well.”

“No!” Sonata wrapped a pseudopod around one of Gladmane’s bodyguards, but his fire-retardant suit was made of an inorganic rubber material. She couldn’t melt through it. The guards responded by flaming the elongated extremity with napalm, melting it into sticky, blackened putty. Sonata cried out in pain.

“Look, kid.” Gladmane gloated. “I don’t know how you managed to delude yourself into believing that the entire world is your responsibility. But let me tell ya, the only thing that matters in life is milking as much pleasure out of it as you can, because one day, no matter how much of a goody-two shoes you are, you die. Others are just tools to be exploited in your pursuit of that pleasure."

Sonata continued sobbing on the ground as basketball-sized goblets of dead slime leaked from her stomach.

"So, what do you say?" Gladmane walked towards her. "Are you willing to work with me? With you're talents, you could make me enough money that I wouldn't even need to consider kidnaping people. I can protect you from the government. I have that kind of influence. Please! For your own good, accept my offer!”

"Maybe you're right..." Sonata gulped in pain. "Maybe we are a lot alike..."

"Join me!" Gladmane smiled "It would benefit us both."

"I fed on the happiness of others... with no consideration for how it would affect them." Sonata shook. "And I feel awful about it. So I'm asking you, Mr. Gladmane. Please don't walk down the same path I did. You're rich. Put your wealth and power into helping others... That's how you'll find real happiness..."

Gladmane frowned “Well, I guess we won’t be working together.” Gladmane climbed back into the helicopter. "Torch her!" He ordered.

The two bodyguards emptied their flamethrowers into Sonata's writhing body, lighting the entire roof on fire in the process. Dozens of gallons of melted slime dripped from Sonata's body as the two pyros mercilessly sprayed flaming napalm into her body.

"Scum!" Sonata screamed in agony as her body turned to jelly.

"It's not exactly a title I try to keep secret." Gladmane chuckled as his two bodyguards climbed aboard the helicopter. “If it makes you feel any better, knowyou cost me a whole lot of money tonight. That’ll give you something nice to think about as you burn!”

Sonata glared as the helicopter took off. It turned around a fired a massive barrage of hellfire missiles into the warehouse roof. Sonata's body was able to absorb bullets without consequence, but it couldn't stand up to a direct hit from a missile. She tried to stand up and run, but her body was far to limp to get very far. The helicopter was already upon her and unleashed a barrage of devastating explosions.

All of the missiles hit Sonata dead on. She could feel her body being completely torn apart by the blasts. Great chunks of her blackened slime erupted, her limbs were severed, she looked back only for a helicopter to launch a missile directly into her eye. Her limp body fell through the roof of the warehouse, leaving a massive crater in the concrete floor below.

“I can’t die…" Sonata cried. "I’ve got to take care of everyone…” Sonata cried. She was afraid. Not only for herself, but for the dozens of souls inside of her. She had to try to reform her body, assuming there was anything left to reform. She focused on having a cohesive form. She imagined the sensation of having fingers, then eyes and a torso, and was able to regain a legless slug-like form. Not much of her slime had survived. She estimated she was no bigger than three inches tall and had lost 99 percent of her original mass.

The warehouse was completely engulfed in flames. The inferno was causing Sonata's precious remaining skin to flake off and turn purple. Sonata slimed towards the relief of an automatic fire sprinkler. The cooling water cascaded over her slimy body. It was the only thing keeping her from melting into nothingness. Sonata could see a tall humanoid form approaching her. “R-r-rainbow Dash….” Sonata whimpered over the roaring fire.

It wasn’t Rainbow Dash. It was Gladmane’s bodyguards. “ Hey! There’s a big chunk of it over there.” one pointed towards a still-living chunk of slime clinging to a shipping container.

“I got it.” said the other bodyguard. He raised his flamethrower towards the chunk and fried it until it was a blackened husk. Sonata winced. She could feel her connection to the ooze fade away.

“This is nuts, man.” Flamer shook his head. “We’re hunting slime monsters now!? What kind of shit has Gladmane gotten himself into this time?”

"I know right?" Burnie laughed "I aint got no trouble with burnin' drugs, arson or even a little cremation here and there. But this? Hunting down a supernatural slime monster? What the fuck is this?"

"Hey, at least she's weak against the fire, and these suits protect us from her." said Flamer "Count your blessings."

"Yeah." Burnie sighed. "I guess you're right."

"You got cleanup handled in here?" asked Flamer. "I'm gonna check the offices to make sure all the paperwork goes up. Don't want the fuzz finding any receipts now do we?"

Burnie shrugged. "I guess so. Besides, I think we killed her with the missiles. I shouldn't be in an danger."

"Okay, but be careful." Flamer headed to the back offices. "I'll meet you at the back entrance in two minutes. Don't hang around too long afterwards. Cops'll probably be on their way about now."

Sonata watched as Burnie went around the room, incinerating globs of Sonata's body as he went. Sonata could feel each and every one of them. It hurt. It hurt a lot. She looked at her dissolving body, it was starting to turn purple due to the heat. Sonata cried. She was aware now that she was very close to dying. It wasn't supposed to end like this. She was so confident that her powers had made her untouchable that she hadn't even considered the possibility of death.

Burnie looked directly at Sonata. Had he seen her? Sonata assumed she was too small to be easily seen. But then she realized her body had melted as she crawled towards the water, and in doing so, it had left a trail of melted slime that led the pyromaniac right to her. Burnie spotted her pathetic form in the cascade of cooling water. "Ooo, whats this?" He chuckled. "Using the water to keep yourself alive?"

Sonata just looked up at his gargantuan form with tears in her eyes.

"Clever girl..." Burnie raised his flamethrower.

Suddenly, there was a honking noise as a semi-truck burst into the warehouse, completely engulfed in flames. Burnie had to leap out of the way as the truck crashed into a pile of rubble next to him.

"What the hell!?" Burnie sprayed the truck's carriage with a jet of napalm. Shattering the window and causing the gas tank to explode.

As the blackened truck slowly smoldered, a violet ooze poured out from its undercarriage and formed into Rainbow Dash's half-melted form. She had obviously gained more mass, presumably from a few unlucky criminals, but it wasn't going to last long in the fire. Already she was flaking off skin and was literally sweating bullets, as chunks of inorganic debris she had picked up popped out of her body.

Burnie raised his flamethrower towards Rainbow, but found he had expended his napalm reserves on the truck. Rainbow ripped it away from him with a quick swipe of her pseudopod-like arm before he could even think about reloading. She them slammed him into a wall with her slime and slithered on top of him, but found she couldn't melt through his hazard suit. Already she had lost half her mass, and was rapidly melting down even more.

"Stupid slime!" Burnie gloated. "Running in here without protection from the heat? You'll be little more than a pile of sludge in a few moments, and there's nothing you can do to hurt me! This suit protects me from both the fire, and your ability to melt me!"

Rainbow pointed a finger at his stomach. "Is it bulletproof?" she asked as a bullet erupted out of her finger.

Burnie cried out in pain as the bullet tore through both his suit and his intestines. He screamed in agony.

"I guess that's a no." Rainbow frowned as she shoved a tendril into the wound, numbing the pain as his body melted. She transferred her consciousness to the organic material she had assimilated inside the suit just as her old body collapsed into a pile of bubbling, purple sludge. Now offered a degree of protection by the hazard suit, Rainbow Dash began to search for Sonata.

"Sonata! Sonata!?" she yelled, her cries muffled by the suits filtration system and the roaring inferno.

"R...rainbow..." Sonata said weakly. She raised a hand outside the water, only for it to instantly melt into putty.

"I know you're here, Sonata!" Rainbow cried. "I can sense your presence! If you're okay, please give me a sign!"

Sonata raised her other arm and fired an explosive burst of her own slime into Rainbow Dash's gas mask, which instantly blackened into sludge.

"Sonata!" Rainbow rushed over to the leaking water and spotted the diminutive Siren. "Are you okay!?"

Sonata looked down at the hole in the hazard suit. Blackened sludge was oozing out of it. "It's too late, Dashie..." Sonata moaned. "Save yourself. Be a better person than I was."

"No way!" Rainbow growled. "I'm going to save you!" She mimicked Sonata's word's to Faithful Servant.

"You can't save me." said Sonata. "It's too hot! The moment you take me out of this water, I'll melt!"

Rainbow Dash pulled one of the fire-proof gloves off of her hazard suit. Her unprotected arm immediately began to blacken and flake due to the heat. "I can carry you in this!" Rainbow grunted through the pain." She scooped up Sonata's frail body and as much water as she could into the thick glove.

As Rainbow turned to leave, she heard a groaning noise coming from above. "Oh crap!" She yelped just before half of the ceiling collapsed. Rainbow dove beneath a shipping container, placing the glove below her body for protection as a wave of fire swept through the room.

"What's going on?" Sonata cried.

Rainbow surveyed the flaming warehouse. Fire was everywhere. "We're not getting out the way we came in." Rainbow gulped. "There's only one option left. We go further in, and try to find another way out."

"Don't go to the offices!" Gasped Sonata "That's where the other..."

Flamer stepped out of the smoldering hallway to the office spaces. "Alright. I got all the documents. Now let's get the hell out of here. This is getting to intense even for..." He looked up at his partner's hazard suit, and saw the hole in the chest oozing black fluid and the melting arm. Flamer shook his head. "You had one job, Burnie. One job! Don't get eaten by the slime monster!" He raised his flamethrower towards Rainbow. "And you fucked it up!"

Rainbow reacted by flinging her desiccated arm into Flamer's visor, effectively blinding him.

"Run!" Sonata gasped.

Flamer started spraying fire in every direction, a stream of which grazed Rainbow's leg, causing a great deal of her slime to boil away. She quickly charged at the blinded pyromaniac, but instead of attacking him, she melted down her form to the point where she was effectively liquid and slid the hazard suit in between his legs like a limp rag. She then reconstituted herself on the other side and began running.

Flamer wiped his visor free of slime just in time to see Rainbow Dash disappear down the hallway behind him. "Slippery little bitch!" He growled and began pursuing her.

Rainbow Dash burst into the men's restroom, which didn't seem to be on fire, yet. She quickly made her way over to one of the stalls and slammed the door shut behind her.

Flamer didn't waste any time. He was determined not to let them escape. He kicked open the door to the restroom and started spraying fire indiscriminately into the room. "Take this you oversized slug!" He cackled.

"R-rainbow... What are we doing?" Sonata moaned weakly as the room caught fire.

"Escaping." said Rainbow. She dumped Sonata into the toilet and flushed her down.

Sonata nearly vomited as she swirled down the disorienting network of pipes. She could barely manage to hold a coherent form as she splashed into a reservoir full of waste water. Sonata floated limply on the surface of the foul liquid. She was so weak. So fragile. So tired. She wanted to close her eyes and rest for a bit, but she knew if she did she was likely to dissolve into nothingness. She just had to stay awake. She had to keep focused. For the sake of all of the souls inside of her, she had to survive!

Rainbow Dash splashed into the reservoir next to her, shedding huge chunks of burnt slime as she did. Rainbow had lost so much mass she was around the size of a house cat, which still put her above Sonata, who was barely the size of a bottle cap . Rainbow swam over to Sonata and picked her up. Sonata wasn't in good shape. Her facial features were melting off of her, and half her body seemed to have been singed by the flames "Sonata! Wake up!" Rainbow extended a pseudopod and pulled them out of the reservoir and onto a concrete maintenance area.

Sonata was laying perfectly still. She had stopped breathing.

"No, please!" Rainbow gasped. "Don't die on me, Sonata! Please! You're tougher than this!" She extended a pair of tentacles into Sonata's chest and started manually reforming her organs. The first thing to do was to start her 'blood' steam, which was achieved easily enough by linking it up with Rainbow's own heartbeat. Next was the lungs. Rainbow quickly created new air sacs for Sonata and linked them up with her own respiratory system before jettisoning her old lungs, which were half-flooded with wastewater and melted slime.

The only thing left to do was to restart Sonata's brain, which was only emitting a faint amount of activity. Rainbow Dash tried jolting it with a slight shock from her body's electric field, but that failed to achieve any kind of response. "C'mon Sonata. Please..." Rainbow cried. "You need to come back!" She gulped. "I fixed you... I fixed everything..."

There was still no response. It was as if Sonata was in a coma.

Rainbow started sobbing. Her tears of slime slowly started to merge into Sonata's chest, which gave out only the tiniest of shallow breaths. Rainbow opened her eyes and saw the drops melting into her friend's tiny body. Rainbow gulped. She only saw one option left. She was going to have to go inside Sonata's mind. She took a deep breath and plunged her head into Sonata's, merging their minds.

Rainbow awoke in a soft blue void. Everything around her seemed to sparkle with an ethereal glow. She was inside Sonata's subconscious mind, and appeared as an astral projection of her humanoid form. She was naked, but she didn't feel any of the cold or shame that normally came with nudity. "Hello!?" Rainbow shouted. "Sonata? Are you there?"

"Yes. I'm here." Rainbow Dash heard a high pitched voice. She turned around and saw a tiny blue creature standing in front of her. It looked like a strange cross between a pony, a fish and a snake. It looked up at her with large, unmistakable pink eyes. Rainbow recognized it as a Siren.

"Sonata?" Rainbow asked softly.

"That's me!" The tiny creature chirped happily. She looked up a Rainbow Dash with her big beady eyes. "What's your name?"

"Uh, Rainbow Dash." She sat down so she could look at her face-to-face. "Is this what you normally look like, Sonata? As a Siren?"

The tiny creature looked confused. "You're silly, Rainbow. I've always looked like this." She squeaked.

Rainbow realized this wasn't the Sonata she knew, but a fragment of her childhood memories. "You're still a child, aren't you?"

"Nah-uh!" She laughed. "I just turned twenty-one yesterday, which means I'm a big Siren now. Even if I still can't eat emotions right yet."

"You can't eat emotions?" Rainbow looked confused. "I thought that was your thing."

"Well, most of us can when we get old enough, but my tummy doesn't seem to like them very much. I look at the ponies, and I try to feed off of them, but it just makes me feel sick." Sonata looked at the ground with shame. "But it's okay, I like eating fishes a lot more. But Aria says if you can't feed of emotions, you're not a real Siren. They say we can hang out once I've finished growing up though!"

"Adagio and Aria?" asked Rainbow. "The purple and orange Sirens?"

"Yeah!" Sonata chirped. "How'd you know? Are you friends with them?"

"No." Rainbow said flatly. "And it doesn't sound like you are either."

"What do you mean?" Sonata wailed. "T-they're my friends!"

"A real friend accepts you for who you are." said Rainbow. "They don't expect you to change just so you can be friends. It seems to me like they're just using you."

"No! That's not true! They accept me for who I am!" yelled Sonata. "They're my friends! They just... want me to... be better, so I'll fit in! Just leave me alone!" The tiny Siren ran off.

"You're lonely aren't you?" Rainbow said softly "You've fed off of love your whole life. But you've never really had any for yourself. So you tried to find it in them. And desperately tried to convince yourself that's what it was you were missing..."

Another vision appeared about thirty feet before her. It was two pegasus wearing what appeared to be Roman togas, cuddling under a fig tree together. One male and one female. The two were clearly deeply in love.

"That's what Twilight's people look like?" Rainbow rubbed her chin. "Huh. I figured they'd be taller."

An older version of Sonata appeared next to her, just staring wistfully at the young couple.

"What are you doing?" Rainbow asked her.

"Hunting." Sonata said flatly. "I'm stalking out my prey."

"They look happy, don't they?" Rainbow smiled.

"Yes..." Sonata licked her lips. "I can almost taste if from here!"

"Then why haven't you gone in?" asked Rainbow "What are you waiting for?"

"I'm just waiting for the right moment to strike." Sonata squinted her eyes. "A predator can't allow her prey a chance to escape."

"Really?" Rainbow smirked. "Because it looks to me like you're jealous."

"What!?" Sonata sputtered. "I am not! I am a fearsome predator, and they are my prey! I'm a Siren, the terror of the sea! Those soft, weak ponies could only dream of being as powerful as I am! They're the one's who should be jealous!"

"Okay." said Rainbow. "I'll take your word for it."

Sonata went back to watching the ponies and sighed. "Maybe I am just a little... jealous." she hung her head. "I taste how happy they are, and I have to ask. Why can't I have that for myself? Why do I need to take it from others? I have friends..., but no matter how hard I try, I can't seem to find the emotion those two are feeling inside myself. It's like I outhave an empty hole in my soul that desperately needs to be filled."

Suddenly, two other Sirens appeared put of nowhere and descended on the two ponies, easily overpowering them. The Sirens quickly started sucking a green mist out of the terrified ponies mouth.

"Your friends?" asked Rainbow.

Sonata shook her head. "I like to think so. But I know in the back of my mind, I'm just their hunting partner. Siren magic amplifies itself when used in groups, especially in a trio. We stick together because it is in our best interests to do so, not because we like each other."

"But you'd like real friends, wouldn't you?"

Sonata sighed. "Yes. But I can't. Look at me! I'm a monster to them. I feed on their very happiness! Even if some pony were to befriend me, I'd likely to devour their love for me, even if by accident. Besides, my hunting parters wouldn't be happy about it. It's best if I just don't think about it."

The two Sirens in the distant waved Sonata over. "Sonata! What in Tartarus are you doing!?" Yelled the memory of Adagio. "Get your ick-ridden ass over her or we're gonna suck em dry without you!"

Sonata sighed. "I need to go. It was nice talking with you. Whatever you are..."

The memory disappeared. Only for another one to reappear with a blinding flash, It was three nude, human female forms. Rainbow instantly recognized them as the Dazzlings. They were wearing nothing but simple red pendants, and hadn't appeared to have aged at all in the hundreds of years between whenever this memory took place and when Rainbow had met them.

"What the!?" Aria gasped. "Where the Hades are we!?"

Sonata held up her hands and gasped. "What happened to my hooves! And what are these!?" She gasped, crawling in panic away from her own legs.

"It's Starswirl!" Growled Adagio "That miserable bastard has sent us to a different dimension! He couldn't beat us, so he figured he'd just sweep us under the rug like a lazy schoolchild!"

"My magic!" Aria gasped. "I can't feel my magic! This world doesn't have magic!"

"No!" Sonata wailed. "Without magic they'll be nothing for us to eat! We're going to starve!"

"Shhh!" Adagio hushed them "I can sense something. Something magical. It's not much. But it's something." She looked towards the source and saw it was coming from a man dressed in a bright blue cloak with what appeared to be a bucket on his head. Rainbow Dash recognized him as a Crusader.

"That's the source of magic?" Aria scratched her head. "Is there even anything alive under all that?"

"It's alone." Adagio grinned. "We may as well find out."

The trio approached the strange being, who looked up at them. "Ye foul harlets!" He cried. "What business have ye wandering around in God's light uncovered and unashamed?" Cried the Crusader. "Think ye that the soldier's of God will be tempted by your sinful bodies? Give me strength, If God willed it, I'd..."

"You talk to much." Adagio waved her hand past his face. A green mist poured out of his helmet and into Adagio's pendant. The man moaned before falling feebly to the ground.

"Is it magic?" Aria asked franticly.

Adagio smacked her lips. "Barely. But, yes. We could definitely sustain ourselves off of this if we had to. And possibly charm a handful of... whatever these things are."

"Thank goodness..." Aria sighed. "I was afraid we'd starve."

Sonata was still on the ground, freaking out over the concept of having feet.

Adagio gestured towards the shaking knight. "Eat up!" She ordered. "We've got a long journey ahead of us if we're going to figure out how this world operates, let alone find a way back home."

"Why bother?" Aria smirked as she drained the crusader's essence. "Equestria has magic, yes. But they know how to use it. This fool isn't even resisting. I don't think these bipeds even have a clue how it works."

"Yes..." Adagio grinned. "We can't take over Equestria, sure. But Starswirl has send us to a plane full of sheep, and we're the wolves. Maybe this place won't be so bad after all."

"Adagio! What are these!?" Sonata franticly waved her fingers in Adagio's face.

"Those are digits, you moron!" Adagio snapped. "Lots of creatures who can't use magic have them, Dogs, Griffons, Minotaurs. Stop freaking out."

"The spell transformed us into one of these bipeds." Aria slurped down the Crusader's hopes and dreams. "Quit being stupid and get yourself fed up! We don't know when our next meal may come along."

"We also might want to find these bodies some coverings." Adagio suggested. "This one seemed quite disturbed by our nakedness."

"Whatever." Aria shrugged as the two walked out of the memory, leaving Sonata alone with the knight.

"Are you okay?" Sonata asked him. "You're not going to die, are you?"

The knight grunted. "God's grace will protect me from your foul magic, hag!"

Sonata knew she should get straight to the point and eat his last remaining scraps of joy, but her curiosity about these creatures was stuck at the forefront of her mind. "What are you called? Do you have names?" she asked.

"I am Odo of Genoa..." He moaned, and removed his helmet, revealing a handsome Italian man with long brown hair underneath. "and I do not fear death..."

"I don't want to kill you." Sonata knelt down to him. "I just want to go home."

"I understand that sentiment, witch." said Odo. "I miss my wife, and my country."

"Then why don't you go back?" asked Sonata "Were you banished as well?"

The knight shook his head. "I fight in penance for my sins. I have committed deeds most foul before the Lord. The Pope has offered annulments to those who gave their swords to fight for this noble cause."

"You are here because you were a bad person?" asked Sonata.

"Yes. I needed a way to redeem myself. I only hope if I die, I can see my wife in heaven. So go on, enchantress. If you are to feed on my soul, I beg of ye, leave a little of me for the angels. "

"I am really hungry." Sonata gulped. But she knelt down and helped the fatigued man to his feet. "But you'll need your strength before you go into battle. I can find someone else to feed off of."

"Thank you..." The knight looked her right in the eyes. "My creed tells me that I should not suffer a witch to live." He picked up his sword.

Sonata gulped in fear. He wasn't going to kill her, was he?

The knight sheathed his sword into his scabbard. "Guess that's another thing I'll need forgiveness for." He smiled.

Sonata gave a sigh of relief. She hugged Odo.

"Alright, alright, that's enough." He chuckled, putting his helmet back on. "I've probably gotten at least six more months in purgatory just for this."

"You're welcome!" Sonata said sweetly.

Odo chuckled. "Take care of yourself, and for God's sake, put some clothes on!" He waved before disappearing out of the memory.

Sonata turned around and looked directly at Rainbow Dash. "It's rude to go poking around in other people's heads." She said.

"I had to do something." said Rainbow. "You were dying out there, and I couldn't seem to revive you. This was my only option."

Sonata sat quietly, looking at the space where Odo had once been.

"What happened to him?" asked Rainbow.

"He died." Sonata said sadly. "He was killed during the Siege of Jerusalem. Him and countless others. He was the first human I ever talked to, and he died a thankless death on a pointless battlefield."

"That's why you don't never grew too attached to people." Rainbow realized. "You're afraid of losing people you care about."

"As far as I know, Sirens don't age. Barring violence or starvation, I could potentially live forever." Sonata sighed. "I've seen millions of humans succumb to old age around me. It's so sad. A few decades isn't enough time."

"But it's the time we're given." said Rainbow. "That's just what the real world is like."

"Why would I want to go back out there?" asked Sonata's subconsciousness. Dozens of jubilant souls surrounded her. "Out there, finding comfort and happiness was nigh impossible. But in here, I am surrounded by the souls of people who love me. Who's only focus is to praise me for freeing them from the torment of reality."

"Because this isn't life. This isn't living." said Rainbow "This is just a manifestation of what you've always wanted. To be unconditionally loved, despite all the terrible things you've done."

"That's right." said Sonata "And now that I have it, why would I ever want to go back to reality? People are jerks there!"

"Because it isn't real." Rainbow walked up to Sonata "None of this is real."

"So what if it's fake love!?" said Sonata. "At least I have it now!"

"But Sonata..." said Rainbow "You have it in real life too."

Sonata's eyes widened. "W-what are you talking about? Aria and Adagio hate me."

"This isn't about them." said Rainbow "This is about me. You ate me, Sonata. You took away my ability to be truly independent. But I want you to know, I forgive you. If there was any person I'd have to be trapped with, It would be you."

"F-for realzies?" Sonata gulped. Tears started welling up in her eyes.

"You've treated me not like an enemy, but like a friend. I haven't met many with a heart as compassionate as yours." Rainbow floated closer to her. "I don't know if you meant to, but you offered your friendship to me. And I'd like to offer you mine in return."

"Yes..." said Sonata. "Yes. I want to be your friend..." She sniffed, running forward into Rainbow's arms. "I love you, Dashie!"

"I love you too." Rainbow held her tight. "I didn't think... When we met in that shower... that you'd mean anything to me... I thought you'd just be... a tool to help me get off." Rainbow gulped. "But now that I've spent time with you... I think you're the most wonderful person I've ever met. All you've been through to try to find someone who genuinely loves you, and you found it by complete accident."

"I didn't think anyone could." Sonata nuzzled her "I was a monster who didn't deserve a second chance. Let alone some one who really loves me!"

"Don't worry about the past." said Rainbow. "Worry about the future. There's still so much good you can do." She looked Sonata right in the eye. "I forgive you for what you've done. The question is, can you forgive yourself?"

Sonata thought for a moment, then she gently nodded. "Yes... I want to help people. I want to make the world a better place. But how do I get out of here?" She gestured around her. "I'm trapped in a prison of my own mind."

"I think I need to deliver some sort of shock." said Rainbow.

"You mean like electricity or something?" Sonata scratched her head.

"Or something..." Rainbow smiled before leaning in and planted her lips directly against Sonata's.

Sonata's eyes widened, but quickly closed as she basked in Rainbow's embrace. It was a lot like the time they had met in the showers, but this was different. That time they had both agreed to it because they had ulterior motives, this time, it was purely genuine. She could feel Rainbow kissing her with a loving passion that wasn't there before. The two fell to the ground as the reality of Sonata's mind began to swirl away, and the fell back into the real world. The two formed intertwining bodies out of the blue slime, tenderly kissing and merging in and out of one another as they reformed their bodies.

A tiny rat stared in confusion at the sight of the two girls appearing seemingly out of nowhere, before scampering of down the pipes. At last, their bodies finished reconstituting themselves. Sonata looked directly into Rainbow's sparkling eyes. "I love you, Sonata..." Rainbow said softly.

"You saved me, Dashie..." Sonata smiled. "Even though you would have gotten your freedom if I had died."

"Oh yeah." Rainbow grinned. "I didn't even think about that. I was too focused on keeping you safe."

"You put saving me over your own freedom..." Sonata hugged her. "You really are a good friend, Rainbow."

"You are too, Sonata." Rainbow hugged her back. "For realzies..."

Chapter 7: Love and Vengeance

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.