ACT IV, SCENE I
Thunder. Enter the three Witches
Apple Bloom
Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
Sweetie Belle
Thrice and once the hedge-pig whined.
Scootaloo
Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time.
Apple Bloom
Round about the cauldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.
Toad, that under cold stone
Days and nights has thirty-one
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Sweetie Belle
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the cauldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg and owlet's wing,
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Scootaloo
Scale of dragon, tooth of wolf,
Witches' mummy, maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark,
Root of hemlock digg'd i' the dark,
Liver of blaspheming Jew,
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Silver'd in the moon's eclipse,
Nose of Turk and Tartar's lips,
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingredients of our cauldron.
ALL
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
Sweetie Belle
Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.
Enter Babs to the other three Witches
Babs
O well done! I commend your pains;
And every one shall share i' the gains;
And now about the cauldron sing,
Live elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in.
Music and a song: 'Black spirits,' & c
Babs retires
Sweetie Belle
By the picking of my crumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
Enter RainBow
RainBow
What'cha all up to?
ALL
A deed without a name.
RainBow
I came to ask you a question.
Apple Bloom
Speak.
Sweetie Belle
Demand.
Scootaloo
We'll answer.
Apple Bloom
Say, if thou'dst rather hear it from our mouths,
Or from our masters?
RainBow
Your masters? Who are they?
Apple Bloom
Pour in sow's blood, that hath eaten
Her nine farrow; grease that's sweaten
From the murderer's gibbet throw
Into the flame.
ALL
Come, high or low;
Thyself and office deftly show!
Thunder. First Apparition: Luna
RainBow
Tell me
Apple Bloom
He knows thy thought:
Hear his speech, but say thou nought.
Luna
RainBow! RainBow! RainBow! beware Lyra;
Beware the thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough.
Descends
RainBow
Okay. Kill Lyra next. Got it. Tell me more.
Apple Bloom
She will not be commanded: here's another,
More potent than the first.
Thunder. Second Apparition: Rumble
Rumble
RainBow! RainBow! RainBow!
RainBow
Yo.
Rumble
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn
The power of pone, for none of woman born
Shall harm RainBow.
Descends
RainBow
Okay, that's cool.
Thunder. Third Apparition: Pipsqueak holding a tree
ALL
Listen, but speak not to't.
Pipsqueak
Be lion-mettled, proud; and take no care
Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are:
RainBow shall never vanquish'd be until
Great Everfree to high Canterlot hill
Shall come against her.
Descends
RainBow
Uh. The only one who could move a forest is Twilight. And she's dead now.
I'm feeling pretty good about this.
Will Futter's line rule Equestria?
ALL
Seek to know no more.
RainBow
Oh come on! You showed me all the other things!
Apple Bloom
Show!
Sweetie Belle
Show!
Scootaloo
Show!
ALL
Show her eyes, and grieve her heart;
Come like shadows, so depart!
A show of royals, the last with a glass in his hoof;
GHOST OF Flutter following
RainBow
Really! I killed Flutter and there're assassins out for her daughter.
Apple Bloom
Ay, miss, all this is so: but why
Stands RainBow thus amazedly?
Come, sisters, cheer we up her sprites,
And show the best of our delights:
I'll charm the air to give a sound,
While you perform your antic round:
That this princess may kindly say,
Our duties did his welcome pay.
Music. The witches dance and then vanish, with Babs
RainBow
Come back! Darn. Looks like I've got more killing to do.