A Shattered Rainbow Rock

by FourShadow


Chapter 11: Time To Be Fearless

Eventually after awhile, security teams began to break up the fight and everyone who had engaged left the restaurant. While no one was hurt, Adagio and her crew were given a fine for the damages and for partially being their fault for causing the food fight to begin with.

But with everyone calmed down, it gave time to discuss plans for the rest of the day. Adagio and her sisters asked their new friends about having dinner and a sleepover at their place to which they agreed.

So all throughout the rest of the afternoon, Adagio, Aria, and Sonata were setting up the inside of their penthouse to be a big sleepover party. Plenty of mattresses and sleeping bags out and around, blankets, pillows, and much more. Sonata brought out snacks and food of any kind to account for the girls tastes, interests, and allergies. And Aria made sure to bring out as many forms of entertainment possible for everyone to enjoy. But this time, the girls were wearing robes that covered their bodies instead of their usual clothes.

"Okay girls, quick count... sleeping bags and mattresses set out, plenty of food, entertainment systems out and I am already preheating the oven." Adagio nodded.

"Sounds like we're ready. Wonder who's gonna show up first?"

The doorbell to their apartment rung, and Sonata was quick to answer. She opened it up and offered the people on the other side a smile.

"Hey girls!"

"Sonata, hey!" Vinyl smiled back, appearing with Octavia.

In Octavia and Vinyl's hands were some food of their own that they brought for the sleepover as well, including their own bags of packed material for the sleepover.

"Great to see ya girls!" Sonata grinned.

"And its good to see you two have patched up your friendship once more." Adagio added.

Vinyl and Octavia had the most adorable smiles the sisters had seen.

"So girls... anyone want some nachos?" Aria asked, holding a plate filled with nachos.


The rest of the girls began to show up one by one, last one being Amethyst who arrived with some music and her own sleeping bag.

"Hey ladies, what's up?" Amethyst asked, setting her bag down.

"Great to see you Amethyst, please, make yourself comfy anywhere you look." Adagio offered. "Just set your sleeping bags down where you're standing, and come get some food if you wish."

"Thanks Adagio." Amethyst nodded, walking over to the open kitchen and stealing a nacho off a plate.

"Okay, so, what do you gals want to do?" Amethyst asked, biting into a nacho chip.

"Well, we've got plenty of games, karaoke mic..." Adagio paused and gave a sly smirk to the girls. "I told you girls to get swimsuits, right?"

"Yeah... don't know why though." Lyra replied with a raised brow.

Adagio smirked. "What if I told you girls we've not only got a ping-pong court, but we've also got a swimming pool, and a hot tub?"

Trixie choked on her drink, and ended up spitting out her drink in a cough. Sonata offered her a paper towel, which she accepted and wiped her chin.

"I'm sorry... what?" Trixie asked.

"Yeah, we've got a swimming pool," Aria nodded.

"Okay, here's my question... exactly how are you able to afford it? Wouldn't that cost hundreds of dollars to keep?"

"We always paid our bills and made lots of money." Aria shrugged. "Its how we were able to afford this place."

"Follow us!"

Adagio and the sisters walked the girls down a hallway, and moved down two sets of stairs that went around in a corner formation, going down one set of stairs, turning left and going down another set. As they reached the bottom, the girls found themselves walking on shiny tiled floors, like the inside of a public pool.

As they wandered further down the hallway, they found another room that was of interest to them. A big office area that had a lot of boxes and papers all stacked up everywhere. They could only assume this was probably their storage room. But as they made it around a corner, they could see directly into the giant room that was closed to a sliding door. Adagio moved the door open, and the girls wandered into the room.

There was a giant swimming pool, big enough for all of them to swim in. There was even a diving board for them to jump and dive off of. Lights turned on inside the pool, and around the room too. Outside, all that they could see was the dark moonlighting, while they turned on the lights inside.

"Whoa..." Trixie gasped, as she carefully walked around the pool to gaze outside the big window. Outside, she could see far across Canterlot City, staring at the big skyscrapers that were high as the building they were in, and there was busy traffic down in the streets below.

"You girls get to see all of this?" Trixie asked.

"Mmmhmm." Adagio nodded.

"This... this is incredible!" Trixie squeed. "I haven't seen the city so high above, this looks amazing!"

As Trixie was busy ooing and awwing at the big sight above, Adagio herself was moving towards the diving board. She removed the robe around herself, revealing her body covered in nothing but a two piece swimsuit that fit her size. She carefully wandered onto the end of the diving board and she extended her arms out.

Everyone's attention was now onto her.

Adagio took a deep breathe, and clapped her hands together, she made a jump into the air, performing an acrobatic move, and dove into the pool in a perfect dive, splashing the water and creating little waves that were sent in all directions across the pool.

But as the girls all looked into the pool, they could see she wasn't moving. At all. She was just... sitting there deep in the water.

"Um... is she okay?" Trixie asked with some concern.

"She's fine." Aria nonchalantly replied.

"Girls, no one can survive underwater, is she--"

"She's going to be fine, I promise!"

Three minutes had passed, and Adagio still hadn't come out. Worried out of her mind, Trixie started to remove items from her clothing and even tossed her vest to the side.

"Uh, Trixie, what are you--"

"I need to see if she's okay!"

"But Trixie, shouldn't you--"

It was too late. Trixie dived deep into the pool, splashing Octavia and Vinyl's feet.

"--wear a swimsuit?" Lyra asked.

"Apparently not."

"Boy, she's gonna be really cold when she gets back up."

Trixie dove down into the pool, and saw where Adagio was. But this was unusual to her. Adagio was sitting, deep in the deepest part of the water, with her legs crossed and arms out, with her fingers out. It was like she was... meditating. But something more frightening came to her eyes.

The pendent that Adagio showed off before was around her neck... but it was glowing. It was glowing a bright blood colored red as she sat there meditating. She was so shocked, she almost said a word, before covering her breathing holes and then swam back up. She poked her head out of the water and let out a big gasp as she could breathe again.

"What... WHAT WAS THAT!?" Trixie gasped.

"What was what?"

"Girls, your sister is just sitting down there... meditating. And-and-and that pendent she has, it... it was glowing, how-how is that possible?" Trixie stuttered.

Aria and Sonata's mouths drooped and their eyes went wide. Oh no...

But before anyone could say a think, the girls all cheered as they saw Adagio finally come out of the water, looking okay as she ever was.

"Wha-Adagio! You're okay!" Trixie gasped.

"Yeah, why wouldn't I be? I mean its not-wait, wait Trixie, what are--"

Trixie surprised her with another hug attack, even more tighter than the others. Adagio had no idea how to respond.

"Um Trixie? Are you okay?"

Trixie nodded. She finally let go of Adagio and looked her in the eye. "I'm just glad you're okay... I don't even know what I would do if my best friend had just... drowned."

Adagio could see Trixie was distressed, but she remained as calm as can be. She smiled at her as she attempted to adjust her hair which was danging in front of her eyes.

"Okay, maybe I should be a little honest with you girls. Ever since my sisters and I were young, we've always had a deep attachment to the sea. We've lived most of our lives out at sea, that every time we go into a pool or at the beach, its basically like a welcome home surprise for us."

"Oh, is that why you live in a place that has a pool?" Amethyst asked.

"Yes. Having this pool just... its just reminds us of home." Adagio said, sounding a little hurt with the last statement. But she quickly retracted and went back to her happy demeanor. "So what are you girls waiting for? Come on, get in!"

"Nah, you girls go ahead, I think I'll just sit here." Amethyst said, lying back on a beach chair.

"Aww, you sure? It'll be fun!" Aria said, trying to urge her friend to join them.

"I'm not really much of a swimming type. You guys go ahead, I can just chill here."

"You know, we don't have to do this if you don't want to. We want to make sure everyone's happy here." Sonata said.

"Sonata, I assure you I will be perfectly fine right now. Just have some fun girls."

Trixie was now shivering at this point. "A-A-Amethyst has a point... I-I think I'll probably get my real swimwear..."

"Let me go get you a towel. You can let your clothes dry while you're swimming." Sonata said, pulling a towel from a closet.

"Now come on, water's fine!" Adagio said, diving deep into the pool again.

One by one, the rest of the girls began to join in and dive into the pool for some swimming. And Sonata raised the fun up even more by throwing in an inflated beach ball for them to throw around. Even Amethyst got in on the fun from her chair.

"Come on, throw it here!" Trixie said, waving her arms up.

"Got it!"

Amethyst chucked the beach ball as far as she could throw it, but it only bounced off Trixie's face and landed in the water.

"Aww..." Trixie sighed.

"Hey, I'm sure you'll catch it next time." Vinyl replied, trying to uplift her friend.

"I'm not really good with catching, but I suppose I could try again next time."

During the bits of splashing, Aria climbed out of the pool and she pulled out some more towels so the girls could dry themselves off with.

"Say, Amethyst, this just hit me, didn't you say the Rainbooms were talking about something strange?"

"Hmm?" Amethyst muttered, looking at Aria. "Oh, wait, yes! Now I remember."

"What is it?" Adagio said, pulling herself up and sitting on the pool side, letting her wet hair go behind her back.

"I listened in on their conversation at the mall earlier today, and I overheard a really weird conversation. They said that when the musical showcase goes on, they're gonna go steal the trophy that's in the display case at the main hall to complete their quote on quote, 'secret plan'. Something about some ritual that they had planned for when the showcase goes on and everyone will be distracted and all in the auditorium."

Everyone at this point had stopped splashing and making lots of noise so they could listen to her story.

"I'm not sure what they're up to, but I thought maybe you girls should know. Maybe you girls should go grab the trophy before they do." Amethyst said.

"Why us? And, wait... You sound like its only we who should do this. Sounds like you're implying something," Lyra stated.

"And actually, something else just came to mind. I don't recall having seeing you at school. How come we don't see you at CHS?" Sonata asked.

If a record could be scratched, it would have been. Cause that's all that would have been heard in the mere silence of Amethyst standing there. She stood there, emotionless, void of any emotions.

"Amethyst?" Sonata asked.

"... I need to be alone."

Amethyst got up from her chair and she walked out of the swimming pool room, going back into one of the hallways. Adagio was about to get up but--

"I'll go talk to her," Aria said, grabbing herself a towel, wrapping herself around it and slipping on a pair of slippers. She opened the sliding door up, and walked into the hallway, while a few droplets of water trailed behind her.

"So... should we uh... go check on her?" Lyra asked.


Aria followed Amethyst back to the kitchen, and watched as Amethyst dug deep into more of the nachos.

"Amethyst?"

"I don't want to talk about it." Amethyst said, scarfing down more food.

"You do realize that scarfing down nachos are not the solution." Aria said, raising a brow.

Amethyst groaned.

"Look, I just want to help, that's all. Why did you leave when we brought that up?"

Amethyst sighed, and held her face with both hands. She stayed in relative silence for a few minutes, trying to compose herself together.

"Okay, you want to know?"

Aria nodded.

Amethyst groaned and rubbed her hand across her face.

"Look, I used to be a student at CHS... but I'm not. Not anymore."

Aria moved a little closer, raising a brow.

"What are you talking about?"

"Even if I wanted to go to school... I can't. Not after what... what..."

"What? What happened?"

Amethyst choked back a growl.

"Not after what those Rainbooms did..."

Aria groaned and rolled her eyes. Her face slammed against the countertop, making a soft thud.

"Of course, typical." Aria groaned. She raised her head back up. "What did those girls do to you?"

Amethyst sat down on a stool, sitting across from Aria, while Aria still stayed up, trying to dry herself off as much as possible.

"Octavia is the only one who knows this... and it may be that she's gonna tell your sisters, but, here's what's up."

Aria pulled up another stool and sat down.

"I attended CHS just like those girls. I was only in for a year and a half. But I quickly took in heart that with the Rainbooms around... there's no playing a nice guy. They pranked me just like everyone else in that school, without end. But I didn't back down from their attacks. But one day... I performed a prank on the Rainbooms... an act that I would quickly regret..."

Aria nodded, still listening to her. She was visibly worried, and was afraid to hear the end result of her story.

"I rigged all of their lockers, with springloaded deserts. Each one of them got hit, I know so. But unfortunately, I didn't expect them to have a backup plan. They gave Principal Luna, Vice-Principal Celestia, and all of the staff information. Information they rigged to look like I was to blame. They made it look like I trashed the auditorium, some classrooms, and the cafeteria out of spite for the Fall Formal Dance. I tried so hard to plead my case, but they wouldn't believe me! They had created enough evidence to pin everything on me, and they wouldn't even bother to hear my side of the story!"

Amethyst's voice was cracking up and getting louder as she spoke. Her face was getting red, and she was trembling in rage.

"Octavia was the only one who listened to me, she was the only one who tried to help me, and no one else did! And you know what!?"

Aria gulped. "What?"

"I GOT EXPELLED! Me, Aria! I just wanted them to stop harassing me, and I get expelled from school! I thought if I was expelled that they wouldn't bother me, but no! Even outside of school they still bothered me and kept shoving it down my throat how I was stupid to mess with them, and how I would never be allowed back at CHS. It was at that point... I had enough. If they gonna harass me, then I was gonna harass them."

Amethyst stood up from her chair and stood on one of the tiled pieces on the floor, revealing her dated clothing still worn on her body.

"I decided to embrace my love for the 80s, and in so, I created my own little gadgets and weapons to strike back. And ever since then... They haven't been able to take me down, cause I've always been prepared. But even with me being prepared to face them at any time..."

Amethyst shrunk down back into a sad face. "... I... I am never allowed to step on CHS property ever again... Never again can I come back, and... I miss that school..."

Aria frowned and she walked over to Amethyst, pulling her into a hug. Amethyst hung her head on her shoulder, and just breathed heavily.

"I'm so sorry Amethyst." Aria said, patting her back.

"Its all my fault anyways..." Amethyst moaned.

"No, its not." Aria said, pulling off from the hug and looking to her face. "Those Rainbooms shouldn't have messed with you in the first place, or any of you. I think its time someone put those girls in their place."

"How?"

Aria turned around and saw the rest of the girls gathered with towels wrapped around, and a few with their clothes back on.

"In case you haven't noticed, those girls have the entire school wrapped around their fingers. They can say anything they want, do anything they want, and not suffer any consequences." Bon Bon replied, crossing her arms with a scowl.

"Only if you let them continue to be this way." Adagio said. "You're not going to let them continue to make your lives miserable, are you?"

"Adagio, you girls don't even know what they've got in store. They have a lot more power than you think," Vinyl shivered in fear.

"Well I'm with Adagio. I think its time you girls stopped living in fear, and I think its time those girls stop making all of you miserable." Aria said with a mighty voice.

Like a flick of a switch, music was starting to kick up.

"Wait, no, no, please don't start--"

With a beginning beat, Aria began to sing.

I know these jerks have struck you down

"And she's singing..." Bon Bon rolled her eyes.

Things don't work out quite the way that you thought
Making you feel like all your best days are done
Your fears and doubts are all you've got

Aria sprung herself around and pulled all the girls together, looking at all six of them with a beaming smile.

But there's a fight, growing deep inside
Beneath those fears and doubts, so just chuck 'em
And let it shine for all the world to see
That it is time, yeah, time to be fearless

With a clapping hands and a stomp of their feet, the girls began to hum and clap to the beat. Adagio and Sonata included as well, both sharing proud smiles on their faces.

Ah, ah, ah-ah, fearless!
It's time to be so fearless!
Ah, ah, ah-ah, fearless!
It's time to be so fearless!

Octavia took center attention of the girls, showing a sad look on her face as she spoke.

You've no idea how hard it's been (It's time to be fearless!)
This horrid fear we’ve been forced to endure...

Aria popped to the side with Amethyst, and gave her a hopeful look.

Don't let them scare you with their trash talk
Be fearless, it's all up to you

Vinyl joined into the song, standing in the middle of the rest of the group who was excited with everyone else.

I feel the light stirring deep inside
It's like there's tales still yet to be told
(It's time to be fearless!)

Aria and Octavia sang a verse together.

And now it's time to break these shackles free
And start living like the brave and the bold!

Everyone was now singing together, and with quick movements, some of their favorite knick knacks and items were jumping about, held in their arms as they sang along. Vinyl's violin, Bon Bon's spatula and cooking spoon, and so forth.

It's time to be fearless!
Let loose, be true, so fearless!
It's time to be fearless!
Go big, be you, so fearless!

Lyra then sung a verse.

We used enjoy our days at ‘the High...

Followed by Vinyl.

Elaborate recordings we’d love to devise...

Bon Bon.

We enjoyed our time, and spent it without fear...

Then Octavia.

Having fun and wishing away those rainy days...

Now everyone was singing in once again. But without their friends even realizing it, the eyes of Adagio, Aria, and Sonata were starting to glow a bright hue of purple just like at the mall earlier in the day.

We see that light filling up our skies

Aria's eyes especially glowed as she continued to finish off their song.

So take the Rainbooms backlash and toss em!
Cause now's the time to let your colors fly, hey you girls, its time to be Dazzled!

Everyone sang the last few verses, while Adagio finished off the last lyric.

Cause now's the time to let our Canterlot colors fly

Hey you girls, it's time to be fearless!

A disco ball yanked down from the ceiling, and started to spin shining its flashy lights all around the room, making it look like a disco party all throughout. And all throughout the last verses, the girls were now cheering and giggling with excitement.

"I... I haven't felt this good in a long time!" Trixie smiled.

"I feel like I can take on the world right now!" Octavia pumped her fists.

"I don't know about you, but I feel like now we can take on those Rainbooms." Bon Bon added.

"Wait... are we?" Lyra asked.

"Oh, I know we are." Adagio nodded, confirming what Lyra asked. "But if we're standing up to them, we're going to approach this cautiously, without violence."

The girls groaned and moaned.

"Aw come on!" Amethyst yelled.

"You gotta take the fun out this, don't you?" Bon Bon moaned.

"These girls may or may not see what we have coming, so if that's the case, then we need to be prepared for any possible outcome. And I think I might have an idea for a place for us to strike. You said this was gonna happen during the musical showcase right? When will this happen?"

"Yeah. At the end of this month, but right now next week, everyone's gonna start preparing for a big musical showcase. Then once we're done, that's when people are gonna be coming around for everyone to see the showcase." Trixie said.

Adagio tapped her chin and a little devious smirk clicked on her face. "Next week, you say?"

"Yeah. Why?"

Adagio glanced at her sisters, and they two were sharing the same smirks.

"I think I might have an idea on how turn the tables on the Rainbooms. They wanted to steal something during the big showcase, well, I think its time we put a little change in their plans..."