Twilight and the Shadowbolts got off the bus at Canterlot High, and found Sunset waiting for them by the horse statue. As she walked up to them, Pinkie Pie and the rest of the mane six came up behind her.
"Twilight!" screamed Pinkie. She ran up and hugged her friends counterpart. "I can't believe your here! I can't believe what you told Sunset! We have to have a sleepover soon!"
"Uh, sounds great," said Twilight, trying to get a breath in. She gently pushed Pinkie aside and went over to Sunset, "So about what you told me," said Twilight, "I think that somehow the magic I collected did something to us, but its still connected to you, I think,"
"Well, I haven't even seen you guys pony up," said Sunset, "so how do I know it's true?"
"When I ponied up," said Sugarcoat, "It was during a debate, and I guess I was telling the truth. So, the square root of 9 is 3?" she said. Nothing happened. "Dang. That is the truth,"
Suddenly, she rose into the air surrounded by a dark blue glow, and grew the same wings, ears, and tail from before.
"Wow," said Applejack, "she wasn't lying," Sugarcoat landed in the ground in front of her, and the pony up lasted for a couple seconds, before dissipating.
"Wow," said Sunset, "I guess that she did pony up," she scratched her head, and then turned to Twilight, "I think we need to do some studying."
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Sunset took the Shadowbolts to the mane 6's band rehearsel room. She showed them the mane six's instruments.
"Alright," she said, "if you really pony up instead of us now, than we won't pony up when we play our instruments, and you will." With this she grabbed Rainbow's guitar and handed it to her. Rainbow strummed a few chords and broke into her song Awesome as I Wanna Be. When she finished the song, she had played with all her might, but nothing happened.
Sunset stared for a moment, then handed each other girl her instrument. They all took turns playing, and not one of them ponied up. Sunset, however, did seem to glow a light red color, but nothing happened to her either.
"Okay then," said Sour, "what are we supposed to do now? Do some random notes and hope it sounds musical?" Sunset handed her a tamborine, "I guess so," Sour hit the tamborine on her hand, then a couple more times as she got into the beat. She then proceeded to play a catchy beat, and in the process started to glow yellow and pink, and then pony up. Fluttershy winced at this.
"Okay then," said Sunset when Sour's pony up faded away, "I guess we try the rest of you now?"
And with that the rest of the Shadowbolts played some instruments. It took a couple tries to find the right one for some of them, but they all ended up ponying up.
"I just don't believe it!" said Rarity, "First they pony up instead of us, and now our instruments darling! What are we going to do?" She sat down with her keytaur.
"I think we should talk to Twilight about this," said Sunset.
"Well, she's right here, lets do this!" said Lemon.
"I'm talking about someone else," said Sunset with a smile, pulling out a brown leather book with a gold and red sun on it.