The two figures stood in the old abandoned factory, facing each other. "Are you ready?" John Corwin asked as both of them circled each other.

"It's seven on one." Jenny said as parts of her shadow drifted away from her and pooled on the floor. "I am so going to win this time."

"So far the score is 43 to zero." John said as he noted where each one was at. Suddenly a woman in green armor with a sword and shield leapt out at him, only to be wrapped up and slammed back into the floor by a chain of hundreds of small green disks. Spinning her around at Jenny, John watched as a red female luchador caught her with a smirk. Realizing what was going on he suddenly became a blue blur as a blue chain, yellow bullets, and orange beams hit where he had been. "Nice trap, but I now have a good ideal where three of them are." John said from behind some old machinery. "So unless you give in and release the restrictions on them you have only the last one left to protect you."

"Yeah right and let you use your full power to curb stomp me again, never!" Jenny yelled as she hid behind another machine.

With a smile he summoned an orange portal beneath himself and dropped down beside her and tapped her on the nose. "Gotcha." only to feel a finger on his nose as well.

"I do believe that our mistress has finally gotten a tie." said the purple clad female ninja as she rose out of Jenny's shadow.

Tempest Shadow, she refused to even acknowledge that stupid name her parents gave her, reached up with her scarred hand and touched the eye patch where her eye use to be before grabbing her leather jacket and getting out of her car. Shrugging on her jacket, she then frowned as she reached back in, grabbed her cane, and made sure the tag was hanging from the mirror. Closing the car door she sighed as she looked at the reflection of the scarred side of her head while reaching down and touching one of her leg braces. Sad part was that it took the searing pain and the two years of humiliating therapy just to learn to walk, cloth, and feed herself again to not only make her realize how lucky she was not to have died with him in the car wreck, but also how screwed up their relationship had been.

Finally she pulled up her hood, walked through the door of the school, and started down the hall towards the Principle's office. All around her the students suddenly stopped talking and just watched her. She was almost there when the whispering began and she turned to see Lightning Dust and the others coming towards her wearing their jackets, his jacket. "Tempest I missed..." She didn't even think as she smacked Lightning Dust hard enough to knock her to the floor.

"Don't you dare." Tempest Shadow hissed at her. "Don't you dare act like nothing happened and that we are best friends. For two years I waited and only Grubber ever came to see me. Where were you when I was crying after seeing this?" With that she used her scarred right hand to pull off her hood. "Where were you when I went through painful treatments and humiliating therapy just so I could walk to the restroom and wipe myself afterwards? I took all the blame and was expelled for every single one of you, yet Grubber was the only one out of all of you who was there for me. So don't you dare wear those jackets and act like nothing happened. I can still feel the flames and hear the sound of Storm King choking to death on his own blood whenever I close my eyes. Do any of you even know what it is like to feel your eye being pulled out of your head when you force yourself to do it just to get free so you can live?" She then turned and just walked away while saying, "Just take those stupid fucking things off and let the Storm Kings die."

"I could suspend you again for that." Vice Principle Luna said as she looked at the girl.

"Will you?" Tempest asked as she pulled her hood back up.

"Vice Principle Stygian didn't after I slapped the living daylights out of my sister, back when I still called myself Knightmare Moon, but only this once and because both Lightning and Tia deserved it." Luna said as she held the door open for Tempest Shadow. "Like he said to me, my door is always open and it helps to have someone who has been there to talk to."

"I'd like that." Tempest said as she walked through the door.

John pulled into the parking place at the school as Jenny glared at him while finishing putting band-aids on her knees, elbows, hands, and face. "'Feel all of them and pull their power into you.'" She grumbled. "'Push beyond those limits you place on yourself and tap into your true power.'" Getting out of the car and slamming the car door before yelling at him. "Next time let's try putting cans of WD-40 and hairspray in the microwave and see what happens." With that she stomped her way towards the side door of the school while grumbling every step of the way.

Getting out of the car and shaking the dust off of his jacket and checking the band-aids on his face and hands before licking his fingers and putting out his still smoldering brown hair. Feeling he looked less front row seat to an explosion and more just a really rough morning he finally walked into the school.

In the teachers lounge Principle Celestia caught up with him and asked, "Mr. Corwin, could you tell me why you and your daughter look like you got into a fight with a wild animal?"

"Would you believe in a bizarre series of events involving several squirrels, a ceiling fan, a burned breakfast, cracking open a window, toast, and an open jar of peanut butter." John asked as he poured himself a cup of coffee.

"You too huh?" Discord asked as he walked in with a few less band-aids and a squirrel sitting on his head and eating a piece of toast with peanut butter on it.

"I'm not sure what worries me more, the fact that both of you have the same excuse or that I actually believe it." Celestia said as the squirrel on Discord's head waved at her.

Starlight Glimmer watched as her one time rival walked into the office after hearing what happened in the hall. For a brief moment they just looked at each other before Starlight just moved over and made room for Tempest Shadow on the bench as they waited. "I take it life decided to literally beat you over the head with a two by four to get you to listen?" Starlight asked.

"Yeah." Tempest responded before asking. "You?"

"Expelled for trying to recruit the student council and several dozen other students into my Aunt Starlight Shine's social/political/semi-religious brain washing cult. Spent a year and a half in mental hospital that specializes in deprogramming brain washed cult members." Starlight then lifted one leg and showed her the leg monitor on it. "Three more months until my 18th birthday and I can finally say goodbye to this."

"So what happened with your family?" Tempest asked.

"Mom went to jail with her sister and dad has gotten real clingy." Starlight said. "Yours?"

"Parents disowned me after the accident and grandma cut them out of her will, paid for everything, and I'm now living with her." Tempest said. "Turns out she's loaded and even gave me a GTO for learning to walk again."

"T.A.C.O. I love to eat them on the go!" Sonata cheered while holding a breakfast waffle taco as Aria grinned while driving them to school. Normally by now she would have yelled at her little sister but...

"Oh god I want to die." A hung over and barely able to move Adagio groaned from the back seat while wearing a purple and green polka dot skirt and a brown and red plaid shirt. Aria wasn't sure where Sonata found them or how she got Adagio's hair up into one of the most impressive Afro's she had ever seen. Sure, she had to actually use her side mirrors and Adagio would kill both of them for this one, but this was going to be so epic that it was worth it.

Author's Note

Of course the Sirens would be in this story.

Might bump this up to mature. What do you think, remove the brakes and go full throttle or play it safe.