Rainbow Dash, Rarity and Fluttershy had been practicing all afternoon at Canterlot High. Rarity had written some great lyrics, and Rainbow Dash had created unforgettable melodies to go along with them. Fluttershy had been having fun, harmonizing backup vocals and adding a dash of fun with her tambourine. But Rainbow couldn't help but think something was missing from their sound. What was it, she wondered.
Meanwhile, Pinkie was in home economics class with Granny Smith, who was stirring a bowl full of cookie batter. Pinkie eagerly watched Granny while she stirred the batter, hoping for a bit of cookie dough or a lick of the spoon, while also getting a lesson in baking a new recipe.
"Just remember. The most important thing about sugar coco butter cookies is to fold your batter." Granny Smith taught Pinkie while stirring the batter in the bowl.
"Fold it?" Pinkie asked Granny giggling a bit, "Like a shirt?"
"Nah, foldin's baker talk. It means gently stir it, slowly." Granny Smith answered as she handed Pinkie the bowl, "Too much arm turnin' will make your cookies tougher than a lump of coal." Granny then went into the pantry to get some vanilla. Slowly, rhythmically, Pinkie concentrated on stirring the batter Granny instructed her. At that moment, Rainbow entered the room and walked up to Pinkie.
"C'mon, Pinkie." Rainbow told Pinkie, "We're supposed to help Rarity make the banner for the game."
"I guess I can fold a little faster." Pinkie suggested when she suddenly got an idea and rummaged through the bottom pantry.
"Then, after that, I'm gonna need you to help me find a drummer for the band. I mean, most people don't know how hard it is to find someone who can use both hands the way a drummer does." Rainbow said to Pinkie, who had brought out another bowl and another spoon from the bottom pantry and started stirring both bowls with both arms.
"I'll bet." Pinkie said as she managed to stir the bowls like rings on a stick. Both bowls slipped from her grasp and were flung into the air, where they soon landed back on the ground.
Granny Smith heard the crash and turned around to find, to her surprise, Rainbow and Pinkie now covered in cookie batter. Pinkie smiled at Granny apologetically while Rainbow glared angrily at her.
Later that afternoon, just as Rainbow Dash said, the Humane 5 were placed in charge of the Wondercolts' banner for their upcoming game, and Rarity had organized them all in the locker room to decorate said banner. They were sitting on a huge unrolled piece of bulletin board paper that would serve as their banner with some rocks holding down the edges to prevent it from rolling back up. They had some cups of paints with them to use on the banner.
"Now, it's important that our banner shine from the field, all the way to the top." Rarity instructed Rainbow and Pinkie.
"Yep, it's got to shine, shine, shine!" Pinkie agreed with Rarity.
"So, feel free to use as much glitter as you want." Rarity suggested as she grabbed a brush and began painting the words "Go, Wondercolts" on the banner.
Pinkie looked around the banner and realized they had forgotten to get some glitter. Eagerly, Pinkie zoomed out of the room without saying a single word.
"A drummer can't just be anybody." Rainbow said to Pinkie as she was helping working on the banner with the others just as Pinkie zipped back into the room with an absolutely giant jar of glitter in her hands. It was as big as a conga drum.
"Oh, of course not." Pinkie agreed with Rainbow beating on the bottom of the jar to get some of the glitter to pour out, but only a little bit came out. So, Pinkie then continued to beat the bottom of the jar to get more glitter out, creating a beat almost like a conga drum.
"They need to have the right instincts, you know?" Rainbow asked Pinkie keeping her eyes glued to her work on the banner.
"Totally!" Pinkie agreed, but she wasn't really listening. She was too busy beating the bottom of the jar to get more of the glitter out and apply onto the banner as she had it between her legs and beat it as hard as she could until a sparkly cloud filled the whole locker room.
When it came to the day of the Wondercolt's game, the team charged out of the tunnel for the opening of the game. But instead of tearing through the banner, it stopped them like a brick wall, or rather, a wall made out of purple metal glitter. Clank! Clank! Clank! One after another, they hit it and bounced back into the tunnel.
"Oh, well. Maybe I used too much glitter." Pinkie shrugged at how the banner turned out as she and the rest of the Humane 5 were also covered in the same purple glitter as the banner. Much like before in home economics class, Rainbow Dash glared angrily at Pinkie for ruining both the banner and the game.
Later at lunch in the cafeteria, Rainbow Dash was explaining to her friends about trying to find the right person to be the drummer for their band while having a bag of potato chips.
"The thing about the drummer we get is that it's gotta be someone with a lot of...energy." Rainbow Dash explained.
"Absolutely!" Pinkie enthusiastically agreed with Rainbow while she was making herself some strawberry milk and stirring the strawberry syrup in her milk. The clinking she made while stirring got Pinkie to start tapping her spoon on the top of the glass and then started tapping her fork on a salad bowl on her tray before she then started tapping the bowl with both utensils.
"I mean, a LOT. Energy. Enthusiasm." Rainbow continued seemingly oblivious to Pinkie's antics, who was now even slamming her fists on the table.
This lead to the table shaking uncontrollably. The plates of sandwiches and glasses of water on Applejack and Rarity's trays were soon getting knocked over as a result of the shaking, though Applejack barely manage to grab both her sandwich and glass of water at the last second.
Pinkie really wasn't paying attention to her surroundings at all as she continued her tapping before both her spoon and fork were grabbed by Applejack.
"Pinkie!" Applejack shouted at Pinkie, trying to get her to stop.
"What?" Pinkie asked Applejack seemingly unaware that she was annoying her friends.
Applejack then let go to see if Pinkie got the message, but she soon went back to her fork-and-spoon percussion session.
"They have to be able to carry the whole band on their shoulders." Rainbow Dash explained to the others, still not paying attention to Pinkie's antics. Her attention was soon turned to Pinkie when the latter tapped on her head while tapping on the table, in which Rainbow then shouted to her in annoyance, "Pinkie!"
"We have got to find an outlet for all that energy!" Rarity said as Pinkie then tapping on both her and Applejack's heads along with their plates and trays.
Hearing what Rarity said made Rainbow see that this was the perfect opportunity for their band as she then smiled excitedly, "Hey, Pinkie, how would you like to play the drums?"
"Me playing drums? But I don't know how." Pinkie told Rainbow.
"YES, YOU DO! YOU NEVER STOP!" Both Applejack, Rarity and Fluttershy said to Pinkie together.
In a hurry, Rainbow Dash, Rarity, Applejack and Fluttershy put away their trays and threw away their trash and hurried out of the cafeteria to take Pinkie to the music room.
"You're just going to have to trust us." Rainbow Dash told Pinkie.
"You'll see, darling. You'll be great at it." Rarity encouraged Pinkie.
With a mixture of excitement and nervousness, Pinkie Pie took a seat behind the drumset by the windows. She picked up the drumsticks and tapped the cymbals. They reverberated through the room, and she giggled in response.
"Do it just like in the cafeteria." Fluttershy suggested to Pinkie.
Pinkie Pie took Fluttershy's advice and started pumping the drum pedal, tickling snare and tapping out a tight rhythm on the bass drum. Quickly, she grooved into a tight trot, racing her sticks over the drums and ricocheting rhythms. She was going wild on the drums. She was putting all of her tapping she was doing all day all over the drums and cymbals, something the others were quite happy for. Unexpectedly, Pinkie was lifted up in the air and ponied up as she played wilder and wilder. The magic enveloping her had also changed the drumset she was playing on pink with the drumhead black and bearing the Rainboom's logo. The others were, of course, surprised and amazed by Pinkie's transformation, though considering Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy have gone through the same thing with their instruments, they really shouldn't have been. Pinkie kept playing wildly on the drums despite floating a few feet in the air, doing a spin while doing so before finally landing back in her seat, panting wildly in satisfaction from her session with her hair disheveled. This, of course, was being monitored by the mysterious man in black attire through the music room's security camera on the upper right corner next to the entrance.
"Whatever made you think Pinkie for the drums?" Rarity asked Rainbow Dash.
"I dunno. Guess I just have a sense for these things." Rainbow Dash answered just as Pinkie happily did a rimshot on the drumset.