EPISODE ELEVEN
The Sirens recalled how they were one banished to the Human World, hundreds of years ago. They spent all their time as the human girls they took the shape of, and with the power of their enchanted ruby pendants, they used their music to achieve their own ends.
Unfortunately, the more they used their powers, the more their powers began to run out, and the Human World didn’t seem to have the proper Equestrian magic they needed to sustain their powers with… until they came to Mystic Island and discovered Canterlot High and its connection to Equestria.
However, the girls were still far too weak to begin a conquest themselves. That was what lead them to the discovery of the ancient crypt under the island, where they discovered the resting place of five ancient evil beings: The Demonites.
Together, they teamed up in attempt to take over the island and the world, and the girls had their powers temporarily charged. However, the girls discovered, too late, The Demonites were only using them to achieve their own wicked desires, and had turned on the girls as well.
After being cornered by Commander Lightning Dawn and his Starfleet forces from this world, The Sirens’ pendants were completely destroyed, and with them went their magical singing and powers as well.
The Demonites were destroyed, but shamed and defeated, the girls decided to flee through the portal in front of the school and headed back to their home-world, only find themselves on, what was now, United Equestria, and right into the mercy of Starfleet and all its forces.
They were arrested and tossed into solitary-confinement where they had spent nearly three years perfecting their singing. They no longer needed magic alone to sing like goddesses, but to escape their cell…
“…Well, I think you all get the rest.” said Adagio. She and the others enjoying comfort in their new freedom as the Lingos did their nails, they even permitted Marla have her nails done too, while Bronc and Keto were equally pampered as a thank you for all they did.
“It sure feels great to be out.” sighed Aria “Now that we are, and charged up, we can start planning our revenge!”
“Sweet!” said Sonata “Um… how are we going to do that again?”
The other two seemed annoyed, and then Bronc stepped up, “Adagio…” he said, but quickly corrected himself when she gave him a stern look, “Pardon-- Mistress Adagio.”
Adagio smiled, “That’s better.”
Bronc cleared his throat, “As I was saying, perhaps it would be best if we were start spying in the rangers in their daily lives. It might help us to decide a course of action.”
“He’s right.” said Keto “After all, with the Comet Ranger out of the way; it may be easier to get at them now.”
“Hmm, good point…” said Aria “We’ve been locked up since, like… forever! We should observe what we’re dealing with.”
Marla snickered, “Trust me; the rangers are a lot tougher than they look.”
“Oh, yeah…? Well so are we.” hissed Sonata, “Um… we are… right?”
Her two comrades sighed, “Yes, Sonata!” grumbled Adagio. Aria could only grumble to herself.
(Que Intro)
Two days had passed since Lightning left and school was out. Most students were just kicking back and enjoying their summer, while others were working at their jobs.
So far, the rangers found it easier than they thought to hangout, either at the park, at the mall, one of their respective homes, or even at an outdoor café.
However, the graduation ceremonies and prom were to take place the next day. Many students were already well prepared and many of them had dates. Some wouldn’t be attending because they had work, and Sunset was one them, she had to work at the hospital that night.
The rangers all met at the park to talk it all over. “Shame you can’t come, Sunset.” said Rainbow “The prom is going to be held at one of Grandruler’s five-star hotels. How awesome is that?!”
The others agreed, it would be awesome, but not every single Grad Student felt that way. Nikki came along with her friends, “Will you zip it about the prom?!” she groaned.
The team could see that she had really let go of herself ever since Lightning left for Africa. Now she had lost all chances to be with him period, and she looked rather frazzled-- hair not curled right, wearing the same dirty bleached clothes, looking she hadn’t slept in days.
The other two Jazzies seemed fine.
“Whoa! Really let yourself go there.” said Sunset.
“Ah, she’s just upset that she doesn’t have a date for the prom.” said Amber, Dionne nudged her hard, “Shut up! You weren’t supposed to say that.”
Nikki just let out an uncaring belch. “Like, whatever. I couldn’t care less about some silly prom… and the fact that there aren’t any other cute boys for me to ask out, and Lightning’s gone!” he voiced was getting louder and louder all the time as her anger spiked. “… I need some ice-cream.”
Then she went off with her minions following her.
Rainbow just blew a raspberry at the mean girls. “They can moan all they want. At least we get to enjoy tonight.”
“I’m sure it’ll be pretty.” agreed Fluttershy. She then gazed over at Rhymey and he held her hand.
“I’m glad to be going with you,
There’s nothing else I’d rather do.” he said to her.
His girlfriend giggled, she even remembered how lovely it was when he visited her at the animal shelter, gave her a flower and gentlemanly asked her to be his date, even though he knew she would say “Yes.” Just be romantic.
“Are you coming tonight, Twilight?” Fluttershy asked. Surprisingly, Twilight nodded, “I’ve already got my dress picked out and…” she giggled softly, trying to find the nerve to mention her date’s name, so Spike blurted it out, “She’s taking Shining Armor.”
“Your brother?” chuckled Sunset chuckled. The others, and even Twilight couldn’t help but giggle, but it was still a sweet thought, and Shining Armor was doing a good thing by being there for her.
“How about you, Buddy? Who are you taking?” Twilight asked.
Buddy looked down at the ground for a moment, “Actually, I don’t have a date myself.”
He felt everyone in the gang staring at him, and they all had shocked expressions. “You didn’t ask anyone?” asked Rainbow.
“No, I’ve been too busy helping to replant all the trees and other plants in the park since the last battle.”
Everyone looked around, and the park looked great with all the plants healed or replaced, “So, does that mean you’re not coming?” asked Fluttershy. “Well, I don’t know about that yet.” replied Buddy, “I can still go even without a date.”
His friends, however, could see right through him.
“But you wish to have a date,
To you, that would be great.”
Buddy sighed, and nodded shyly.
Sunset patted him softly on the shoulder, “Don’t feel bad. I don’t have a date either, and I don’t actually want one.” She referred to the fact that Artie was only guy for her, and he was still in a coma, along with the rest of the friends.
This made everyone feel a bit down, missing their friends and wishing they were awake. Still, they couldn’t let it rule over them and stop them from living their own lives in the present.
“You can always come and hang with us.” said Rainbow. The others agreed. “I’ll think about it.” said Buddy, “I got to get back to the community garden. Later, guys…”
The others still felt bad for Buddy, wishing there was something they could do for them.
Little did they know that the villains were watching in on everything, “Aw, poor little ranger wants a date.” Adagio mocked.
“Hmm, perhaps that High School Prom will be a perfect place to get at the rangers.” said Marla.
The Sirens agreed, “Especially if WE happen to show up.” said Aria. She touched her newly restored ruby pendant, “It’s about time we tried these things out on the humans again.”
Bronc nodded and said, “And I know just the monster to send to help back you up, Mistresses.” He typed into the computer and showed them all a monster that seemed to resemble that a weird record and stereo system. His body seemed to be that of a huge steroid hi-fi with a record spinning and loud speaker in the front. “He is called Amp, and he has the power to send out ultra-high frequency musical waves that can destroy anything in its path.”
Keto snickered at the idea, “Cool, it’ll be a regular disco night.”
The Sirens all snickered, and their eyes glowed green. They loved the idea of performing again.
The next day, with the Prom coming at night, the rangers offered to help prepare the hotel lobby for the festivities. The place was absolutely beautiful with all the chandeliers hanging above. There were white and silver balloons to help reflect lighting. Large round tables set up to serve dinner, which the hotel kitchen staff would be personally catering.
Celesto helped with the supervising of the setups, as he did own the hotel. “We need so more tables over there, and keep the dance floor open.”
Sunset spread the table clothes neatly over the tables, and Celesto complimented, “Very nice, Sunset. I think they look just fine.”
She smiled at him, “We can’t thank you enough for all this; letting us have the prom here at the hotel.”
“Well, nothing’s too good for my graduating students; reminds me of my time in college before I joined the air force. Now those were parties. Of course I… didn’t actually attend them. I was busy with my studies, I just saw them.” He felt rather sheepish to admit all that, and cleared his throat as he headed back to work.
Sunset giggled when Twilight came up to her. “What was that all about?” she asked. Sunset felt it best not to tattle. “I have to head to the bathroom.”
Rainbow had already set up the Disc-Jockey station was grooving to the tunes. “Ah, yeah, this is going to go sweet tonight.”
“Can’t disagree with that…” Buddy agreed as he danced with her to the groove. Then they had to stop and keep working. “So, you found a date yet?” Rainbow asked. “Nah… It’s too late now. I’ll probably just hang with you guys… or maybe not even come.”
“What are you talking about? It’s not too late yet.”
Fluttershy and Rhymey came up to them, “I think I know someone you can take, Buddy.”
“Oh?”
“Yeah, you know my friend, Tree Hugger? She teaches yoga at the community center.”
Buddy smiled almost lovingly, “Yeah, she’s beautiful. Real hip too, and she loves flowers and gardening as much as I do.”
Buddy had only run into Tree Hugger several times during his last year of High School when she had just transferred, and he was amazed how much he and she had in common when it came to plants and nature.
Fluttershy was hoping he would feel that way, “We’ve been talking to her, and… she thinks you’re dreamy.”
“What?” Buddy playfully snapped “Get real.”
Rhymey chuckled and said,
“No, she said it herself and it’s true.
If you ask her to prom, she’ll say yes to you.”
“Really…?” Buddy squeaked, but then he caught hold of himself “Oh, I mean…cool. I… uh…” he stuttered and stammered, “Bye!” and he dashed off.
The rangers exchanged funny expression and giggled softly, thinking Buddy was really going in hard, and they felt everything would be alright.
What nobody realized is that outside the hotel, the Sirens were hiding in the shrubs with Amp by their side. They saw Buddy leave the area. “I’m going to go follow him.” said Adagio “You three know what to do here?”
The others nodded, “Fear not…” hissed Amp “I’ll play those rangers a tune they won’t resist.”
As the rangers and others continued to work, they could suddenly hear the sound of music being played. “Rainbow, that’s enough testing the sound machine.” Celesto called.
“I’m not doing anything…” Rainbow said, and she pointed to the stage. No one was at the sound station controls, and that music was getting louder in frequency, and suddenly, Rainbow found herself dancing uncontrollably.
Then Fluttershy and Rhymey began to move and groove…
“What’s happening?” cried Fluttershy.
“I dance and I hop,
I can’t seem to stop!” said Rhymey.
Soon almost everyone in the entire room was dancing and grooving, and then everyone could hear the sounds of humming which made them all fall into a trance. Sonata and Aira came through the doors humming to the music. Behind them was Amp as he continued to play the music from his disc-machine, strengthening the trances.
Everyone just kept dancing, and their eyes were glowing bright green as the villains took the stage, and the two Sirens conversed in singing voices.
“It’s working, hey, they’re under our spell.” sang Aria. “We can bend them to our will like before, only better.” added Sonata. This was all thanks to the upgrades of their pendants, as well as the help of their monster friend.
“Why don’t we tune it up a notch?” hissed Amp and he made the music play faster and stronger, forcing the people to dance faster and harder, and because they were all in a trance, they couldn’t realize they were doing it, nor could they call out for help.
…And they didn’t have to!
Sunset finally came out of the washroom, only to realize everyone was dancing to some strange music playing, and some familiar voices humming. She didn’t seem to fall under the trance herself, but she recognized all this too well-- Everyone dancing uncontrollably, their eyes glowing green, and those voices singing!
“…It can’t be!” she cried to herself, and she raced to the front of the lobby and saw with her own eyes, Sonata and Aria singing on stage with a monster playing music, and cursing everyone into dancing.
“We’re gonna dance them ‘til they fall on the floor.” sang Sonata, “Ditto… then they won’t have a chance to fight against us at all.” added Aira.”
Sunset clenched her fists, and realized they had to be stopped. So she quietly slunk around to avoid being seen, in hopes to catch them by surprise.
Meanwhile, Buddy had reached the community center. He walked along the soft green grass by al the trees near the parking lot where the Yoga class was meeting. Kids sitting on multi-colored mats and waring loose clothes-- T-shirts and light pants fit for the exercises, and there she was.
A nineteen year-old light green skinned girl with big red dreadlocks and a bandanna atop her head, “There she is!” Buddy said nervously to himself, and he was already sweating a storm.
“Whoa! Great sesh, everyone; really dug the vibes.” Tree Hugger said to her students, “Bliss out for now, and keep those chakras smooth to keep the peace.”
The kids agreed and ran off into the community center to get their clothes, while Tree Huger was left to pack away the mats and her boom box that played soothing music and sounds.
She didn’t notice Buddy was staring at her from the other side of the grass-field. He was panting nervously trying to get a-hold himself, “Okay, Buddy… you can do this. She’s just a girl.” he said to himself.
Suddenly, as he finally began to move towards her, a swarm of Lingos appeared all around him. “Ah, man, not now!” he groaned. He had no choice, duty always came first, and he dashed off to fight the swarm, and he was so far away now, that Tree Hugger couldn’t hear a thing.
Buddy flipped over landing on his feet and began to attack brutally-- punching and kicking the Lingos one-by-one and knocking them all into bits of dandruff.
After they were gone, he looked back to where Tree Hugger was, only to find out she was gone. “I don’t believe this!” he groaned irritably.
Suddenly, he began to hear the sound of someone singing, and he was actually being levitated off the ground. “Hey, what’s happening?!” he cried, and that’s when he saw her…! “Adagio…?!”
“Long time, no see…” she sang, and her voice levitated him higher and higher, and she suddenly stopped and let him fall to the ground hard. He wasn’t hurt, but he was enraged, and in shock that she was actually here.
Adagio then began to sing again, and Buddy began to slowly fall into a trance himself. “Time for some payback…” Adagio sang, “You’re gonna suffer just like your friends for what you did to me and my gals!”
Buddy found himself slipping away as the trance got stronger and stronger. Suddenly he started dancing himself to Adagio’s power. She didn’t even need the monster there to handle just one ranger and nobody else.
Meanwhile, back at the hotel, Amp laughed wickedly, “Now this is my idea of golden tones. Soon, the rangers will all be destroyed, and nothing can stop up from taking over the world!
The two Sirens agreed as they kept on humming but suddenly, they heard someone shouting, and the monster turned just in time as Sunset came dashing across the stage and leapt over, kicking him hard in the chest and sent him crashing into the Sirens.
The three villains fell off stage, and the music stopped, which in turn broke the trance and released the people back to their senses.
“What happened?” asked Rainbow.
“Look!” cried Fluttershy pointing at the villains.
“Uh, oh…!” Sonata and Aira cried. They quickly got up and starting to sing again to restart the trance “Everyone, cover your ears and get out of here!” shouted Sunset.
Everyone, even the rangers and friends covered their ears and headed for the exit. “Oh, no you don’t! Party’s just getting started…” hissed Amp, and he spun his record hard creating a sonic wave of power that blasted as the door, shattering the glass, bursting the balloons and knocking many of the people off their feet, but they still kept their ears well-covered so as not to fall under the spell again.
Sunset stood before the villains ready to brawl, and the sirens knew the music wouldn’t affect her because she was an alien from the same world as they were. The natural Equestrian magic within her prevented her from falling under the spell.
“Looks like we blew it, Aria.” said Sonata. “Gee…! What was your first clue?” grumbled Aria. Amp stepped forth, “Leave this to me. I’ll teach her respect for the tunes.”
The girls agreed, and teleported away, which made sunset realize, “That’s Bronc’s technology! They’re working for Nacluv!”
“Wrong!” snapped Amp “Nacluv is history. We jive to a new era, and speaking of jiving! Adagio must be grooving it out with your other ranger pal!”
Sunset, gasped, “…Buddy!”
And indeed, Buddy was still suffering under Adagio’s spell, because unlike Sunset, he wasn’t originally from the Dimensional Universe, and only his actual Starfleet powers could shield him from the spell, but without his energizer it was no use!
Adagio kept right on singing, and Buddy kept on dancing unable to control himself. “Face it big you, time is almost up.” sang Adagio.
Even though Buddy couldn’t control his body, he could feel his exhaustion getting to him, and he couldn’t even speak to cry out for help.
Sunset felt very annoyed and worried, and her friends joined her by her side, and they looked ready to go. Sunset nodded and declared, “It’s Morphin’ Time!”
“Moprhing Sequence, Ready!”
“STARFLEET MAGIC… POWER ON!!”
Once they were morphed, they all headed outside and the monster chased them down-- this way they could fight more safely.
“You can’t run away from me!” Amp bellowed, “Time to face the music!” and he began to play more of his wicked music to try and control them all again, but this time, “Hey, nothing’s happening.” said Fluttershy
“Our helmets must be filtering out the soundwaves.” said Rainbow.
The monster realized this, but he wasn’t beaten yet, “As I said… DANCE!!” he thundered as he strummed his record, blasting a sonic-wave at them all, making sparks and explosions, knocking them all off their feet.
Amp laughed, “Now, let’s meet our new dancers…” and he summoned a load of Lingos to attack the team. “Get them!”
The Lingos charged forth. “Come on, guys… Let’s rumba!” said Sunset.
While the rangers dealt with the Lingos, actually using simple dance-steps to outwit them…
…Inside, now that they didn’t have to keep their ears covered, Twilight and Celesto slipped away from the crowds so as not to reveal their connections to the rangers.
“We need to activate Buddy’s morpher.” said Celesto “If he is being cursed by Adagio, this can help him.”
Twilight agreed and booted up her laptop, “Starting program now.”
Meanwhile, Buddy had just about had it; he was so tired from all the dancing that he flopped to the ground. “What’s the matter, had enough?” sang Adagio, and she approached him threateningly, “You’ll be the first to pay up.”
She was about finish him off in his weakened state, when suddenly Buddy’s morpher began to glow, startling her and knocking her out of sync with her spell. “What’s happening?” she cried.
“Morphing Sequence… Ready!”
“All right!” cried Buddy, and using what little strength he had left, “Starfleet Magic… Power On!” he morphed, which reenergized him to full strength. “That’s more like it!” he snapped as he bolted up onto his feet.
Adagio tried to sing him back under her spell, but Buddy’s helmet shielded him. “Let’s try a new dance…” he sneered as he stomped his way towards her, “It’s called Villain Beat down!”
Knowing she was beaten, and her friends appeared near her, “Adagio, let’s split!” shouted Sonata, “Yeah! Let the monster handle things.” added Aria.
Adagio nodded and bid Buddy, “Later.” and she and the others vanished.
Buddy grunted angrily, especially when he looked back to where Tree Hugger once was with her class. His chances of asking her to the prom totally crushed, but he had no time to dwell on that when his friends needed him, and off he went.
The rangers had just finished off the Lingos and were attacking the monster, but Amp managed to stave off their every attack and hit all the rangers with big punches, and he zapped them all with more of his sonic-waves, blowing them all over again.
“This guy’s really tough to beat,
He keeps knocking us off our feet.” cried Rhymey.
The monster snickered, “And this time you’ll stay down. It’s time for the last dance, rangers.” He stomped forth ready to blast them all again… when suddenly, his arm got lassoed by the plasma whip preventing him from reaching his hi-fi!
“Buddy!” cried Sunset.
“Mind if I cut in…” Buddy teased, and he yanked on his whip hard flipping Amp over on his back. “Hey! No cutsies!” he whined.
The rangers regrouped…
…But back at the tower, the villains regrouped as well as The Sirens stormed in. “Keto, do it!” shouted Adagio.
“Coming right up…!” Keto complied, “FORTISSIMO!”
“Hey, that’s kind of cool.” said Sonata.
The mugic flew to the island and worked its power to turn Amp into a giant. “Whoa! These feet were made for stomping and that’s just what they’ll do!” he roared.
The rangers grunted and Sunset activated her morpher. “Launch Star-Jets…!”
“Summon Zords!”
The jets were launched, the rangers beamed aboard and the jets combined at once.
“Jet-Star Megazord, Ready!”
“Ha! So you wanna dance, huh?” scoffed Amp “Then let’s boogie!” and he began to use his magic music again which actually made the megazord start dancing all on its own.
“The controls are locked out!” cried Sunset.
“The high-frequency sounds must be tuned to our systems!” shouted Rainbow.
The rangers pounded and pulled on their controls, but couldn’t get their megazord under control.
Amp laughed at them, “Now, why don’t we do another little dance; Breakdance, that is.” By “Breakdance” he meant controlling the megazord to dance straight towards the hotel and would smash into it.
“It’s coming straight at us!” shouted Celesto.
Twilight typed into her laptop all she could, “It’s no use! I can’t get the remote-control unit to function. The H.F waves are blocked me out!”
The megazord was getting closer and would soon smash the building to bits!
“It’s no good, we can’t get her under control!” shouted Buddy.
“Oh, we’re going to crash!
Smash it to trash!” shouted Rhymey.
“Oh, my!” whimpered Fluttershy, and she covered her helmet visor with her gloves, not wanting to watch.
Celesto suddenly had an idea, “Send in the Comet Striker, and fly it exactly where I tell you to.”
Twilight complied, “Summoning zord!”
Even without Lightning being there, just as promised, the reprograming summoned the battle armor and it all connected together into a remote-controlled fighting machine.
“Comet Striker, Ready!”
With Twilight controlling it from her laptop, she steered the zord on a course right into town, and she set its sighting on the monster from afar. “Target acquired.”
Celesto nodded, “Ram it!”
Twilight pounded on the controls, and the Comet Striker zoomed straight for the monster, keeping well away from the soundwaves so as not get affected.
“Huh?” Amp shouted, and WHAMM!! He was rammed really hard and crashed overtop his hi-fi system, destroying it and stopping the soundwaves, freeing the megazord from the curse just in time.
“Hey, we’ve got control again!” cried Sunset.
“Yes! Way to go, Twilight!” Rainbow cheered.
Amp got up wailing, “My tunes! They’re all smashed up! Rotten rangers…!”
“Aw, don’t feel bad. We still have one last dance for you!” sneered Sunset “Ultra-Star Megazord!”
“Zords Combine!”
“Ultra-Star Megazord… Ready!”
Once the megazord was formed, the rangers had already charged up the energy charge.
“STAR BLAST WAVE… FIRE!!” the wave was unleashed, enveloping the monster. “I’M TUNING OUT!!” he screamed, and he exploded, was imprisoned and beamed into the cockpit.
The rangers rejoiced and Sunset declared, “Monster Captured! Mission Complete!”
Back at the tower, The Sirens were outraged, and Marla couldn’t help but mock them, “Well, well… looks like you’re not as skilled you thought you were. The rangers beat you anyway.”
The angry girls turned towards her, and each sang a note levitating her off the ground and then dropping her on her bottom! “Ouch!”
Bronc and Keto winced, while the girls snuffed, “We’ve been locked up a long time, and it’s our first day on the job! Give us a break!” growled Adagio.
“We need more time to perfect ourselves,” said Aria “And in the meantime, we’ll just let the rangers think they’ve won.”
Sonata just scratched her head and shrugged.
Later on, despite the minimal damages done, it wasn’t too serious and the prom was not canceled. Everyone was fixed back up easily, except for the broken front doorway, which Celesto planned to have completely renovated.
The graduation speeches and acceptances were already well over with, and now the big party was on. Everyone was dressed in their finest formal wear. Rhymey and Fluttershy were already dancing with each other, and Twilight was dancing with her brother as promised.
The other three rangers all stood together, even Buddy was there, though he was still feeling a bit bummed about not having his own date to dance with.
“Oh, cheer up, Buddy. It could be worse.” said Sunset. “Yeah, you could be here with one of The Sirens.” Rainbow joked. As funny as the others felt, they knew it was no joke now that The Sirens were on the loose, and teamed up with Nacluv’s former minions. All the rangers knew they would have to remain on the tips of their toes now.
“Hey… at least I have my friends, and that’s cool to me.” Buddy said.
The girls patted his shoulders and smiled at him for being such a good sport, and such good sport was about to be rewarded…!
Buddy felt a small tap on his back behind him. He turned round and was surprised! There she was, wearing a beautiful lilac gown, and in place of her bandana, she wore a small band of white flowers. “Hi, Bud…”
He couldn’t help but stammer, “T-Tr-Tree Hugger… Uh, where’s your date?”
She giggled, “Actually, I was coming to chill with Rhymey and Fluttershy, but they told me you’d be here and… well…” she paused “They told me you tried to ask me…”
Buddy looked over his shoulder, and Rhymey and Fluttershy both winked at him.
Buddy felt so nervous he didn’t know what to do until Rainbow patted him forward, “Well don’t just stand there, boy. Ask her to dance.”
“Um…” he stammered “Would you like to dance with me?”
She grinned rather lovingly at him, “…Groovy.” and she took his hand and the both walked off to the dance floor.
As they danced along, they passed Rhymey and Fluttershy, “Thank you!” he whispered to them, and his friends smiled back at him.
Rainbow and Sunset then went to get some punch, and wouldn’t you know who was serving it; Nikki, and she looked just as sour as ever. “What do you dweebettes want?” she groaned.
“Uh… some punch.” Rainbow remarked.
Nikki sighed and poured the girls each a glass, and she decided to get a little even with them for making her feel so bad. So she got out a small vial of extremely sour lemon juice and spiked one of the glasses.
“You know, Nikki… you don’t have to feel ashamed.” said Sunset.
“What do you mean? I’m not ashamed.”
Rainbow shook her head, “Ah, come on, girl. Lighten up. You’ve graduated high school, and that’s quite a feat. Compared to this, having a date doesn’t matter. Maybe you’re smarter than any cute boy could be.”
Nikki took what she said seriously, and actually felt a little better, “Gee… thanks.” she said with an honest smile on her face. Sunset and Rainbow then poured their own glasses of punch and walked off leaving Nikki feeling almost touched, “They’re probably the nicest peeps I ever hated.” she said to herself, and she was lost in her sudden feelings that she took a sip from the very glass of punch she had just spiked!!
At once she gasped and her face cringed as her eyes watered, but the others took no noticed and just continued to enjoy a lovely night.
Even Celesto was very pleased to see all the students enjoying the festivities, and he too received a slight pat on his back from his wife, who had taken the night off, leaving the babies in their Aunt Luna’s care, “May I have this dance?” she asked him.
He smiled lovingly at her, and they joined the rest of the crowd on that beautiful night.