//------------------------------// // The Tragedy of RainBow - Act IV // Story: Robot Pony // by Dreadnought //------------------------------// 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.