After Princess Twilight and her friends left Microchips musical performance, she ran into her friends with Starlight mentioning about a band is going to be performing in the next hour. During the time being, they took a snack break as the sun begins to set over the hills. Starlight Glimmer is eager to make her friends really excited to listen to a band she told to keep secret, or at least surprised.
Starlight is leading the whole Rainbooms to the other side of the festival while she’s holding the map to get to her destination. “Starlight.” Applejack said. “I understand this is supposed to be a surprise but can you give us hints on what band we’re going to see?”
“You might spoil it. Besides they really want me to keep it a surprise.” Starlight replied.
“But can you at least give us a small hint?” Rarity added.
“Girls, you should at least respect the fact that Starlight isn’t good at making surprises.” Sunset recalled. “She's Twilight’s student back at Equestria.”
“Your right.” Princess Twilight chimed in. “It’s been years and I’m sure Starlight knows what she’s doing.”
Starlight and her friends arrived to another stage that’s in front of a road. There’s an RV parked and that’s where the band is putting on their makeup. Like every other stage, there’s tens of people waiting for them to perform their music. As for the Rainbooms, while they still didn’t like that Starlight is keeping the band anonymous, they will still enjoy the performance nonetheless.
After five more minutes, the spotlights turned on which caused the crowd to cheer. “This is going to be perfect!” Starlight thought to herself.
The music came out from the speakers, it was soft and quiet which impresses the Rainbooms. Then the band came out from the bottom of the stage as it’s revealed to be the Dazzlings.
The Rainbooms eyes shot wide open in complete shook. Princess Twilight never forgot the Sirens even when she returned back to Equestria. “Starlight!” She whispered to her student. “This is the band you talked too!?”
“Yes! Isn’t this great?”
“Uhh...no it’s not!” Rainbow retorted.
“These girls were our enemies!” Fluttershy added.
“What?” Starlight said with a confused look. Princess Twilight didn’t know what to expect now that she encounters three girls she fought with in the past.
Adagio, Sonata, and Aria begin singing their song, Find The Magic. While singing, they’ve noticed the Princess Of Friendship is here along with her friends. Adagio made a grin that her manipulation on Starlight work. She notices that Princess Twilight is crossing her arms with a serious look but that only made her more happy.
As they continue to sing, Twilight isn’t enjoying it. Even with the music being nice and calm, she knows for a fact that the Sirens can’t sing after they lost their powers. “Something’s not right.” She whispered again.
“What do you mean?” Applejack asked.
Out of all the girls, Sunset Shimmer isn’t really surprised seeing The Dazzlings again. After three long weeks of being in a time loop, she thought Adagio was responsible, but she wasn’t. Even after she stopped, she knew that The Dazzlings have moved on even if they never changed. She can only imagine that after she and her friends defeated them, they’ve had to face the consequences of what they’ve done at Canterlot High.
“Sunset.” Human Twilight whispered. “Are you feeling alright?”
“Not much.” Sunset answered back while feeling exhausted.
The Dazzlings finished their song as tons of their fans expect the Rainbooms are cheering in delight. “Thank you so much for all of your approval.” Adagio smiled. “We will be back tomorrow to sing our song again. I know most of you are coming back because we can all agree, that your always here to adore us.”
She noticed that the Princess Of Friendship shook her head, unamused. Which doesn’t even bother her at all since this is still part of her plan. Adagio and her band left the stage as their crowd of fans leave, having thoughts about coming back. However the Rainbooms didn’t move at all. They know something is up since they are the reason Starlight took them to their performance.
“So...what are we going to do now?” Pinkie Pie wondered.
“I’m going to talk to them.” Princess Twilight placing her hands on her hips.
“Seriously darling?” Rarity reacted. “We can’t just go behind that stage!”
“There’s a security guard behind there!” Rainbow added.
“Why do you want to talk to them?” Fluttershy added.
The Princess Of Friendship took a deep breath to calm herself down at least. “Starlight, you should’ve told us that the Sirens are here.”
“Okay I’m sorry but how am I supposed to know?” Starlight replied.
“They’re the ones Rockhoof talked about.”
“Yes but they said they were The Dazzlings.”
“Yeah, their BAND name!” Applejack shouted.
“Look it’s been a long time since we defeated them and I know there’s something wrong with their voices when they sing.” The princess pointed at the stage.
“So your thinking that their autotuned?” Pinkie wondered.
Princess Twilight, despite having never heard of autotune in her life, might think it could be the reason. “If you put it that way, they must be. Come on!” She makes her way to the back along with her friends from behind.
However the only ones who didn’t come along are Human Twilight and Sunset Shimmer, which caught Princess Twilight’s attention. “Sunset, Twilight?” She stopped herself. “Aren’t you coming along?”
“No…” Sunset responded. “I think it’s better off that we should just leave the Sirens alone.”
“Excuse me!?”
Human Twilight decides to fill in for her best friend. “Twilight, I know I didn’t meet these girls personally, but I’m sure they’re not going to seek revenge on us.”
“You actually think that?”
Sunset placed her hand on her face still thinking this isn’t a good idea. “Believe me, I’m sure they just here just to get a job. At this point I would rather let them do whatever they want even if they’re autotuned.”
The Princess Of Friendship couldn’t believe two of her friends decide to not be part of this. To think years after the battle, this was something she never expect her friends to do. “You don’t understand. These girls can be reformed. It happened to me back in Equestria.”
“Queen Chrysalis is an example.” Starlight added.
“And if they find magic, they might go back to becoming monsters!”
Sunset and Human Twilight didn’t know what to say since they never went through reformed situations when their enemies strike back. Human Twilight didn’t knew that her counterpart went through the wrath of her enemies back in her world, but she’s still unsure on what she’s going to do with the Dazzlings.
“Hey girls!” Rainbow shouted to the girls attention. “There’s no security guard back here! The gate is even wide open!”
The Rainbooms made their way and notice that Rainbow is right. The gate is always closed when the Dazzlings are performing, but now it's somehow open. “They really want to see us, do they?” Princess Twilight said. She wasted little time and went through the open gate with the Rainbooms from behind. Sunset and Human Twilight had no other choice but to see what’s really going on.
The girls stop as they saw The Dazzlings small RV parked. Princess Twilight knows that they’re inside the vehicle and she’s not going anywhere. Most of the girls are either being impatient or not letting this slide, since they manipulated their friend who’s barely around in their world.
Then the slide door from the RV is open, revealing Adagio, Sotana and Aria coming out. “So, you’re back Rainbooms.” She replied. “It’s been a long time, Princess Of Friendship.”
Princess Twilight didn’t make a response since she’s still giving the Sirens her disgusted expression. “What’s the matter? You didn’t like our performance?” Aria asked with her sassy attitude.
“What do you want?” Rarity retorted while moving her hair.
“Shouldn’t you be working on your careers?” Applejack added.
“Actually, we only need your princess friend.” Sotana recalled as she walks up to Twilight. “Since she decides to come over to this world just to hang out with her friends.”
“Alright, first of all! She’s here because she wants to keep her other self occupied!” Rainbow pointing her finger to Sotana. “Second of all, we’re not here for another battle, you don’t have your powers anymore.”
Adagio pushed the athletic girl with her hand. “We know! We just want to set things clear with your friend.” She looked at the princess who’s still unflinched.
“If you actually expect that I brought magic to this world, don’t push your luck. You don’t deserve it.” Princess Twilight said in her serious tone. “Also, I did not enjoy your performance even if your song was interesting.”
This again didn’t made Adagio changed her expression. “It’s fine. I can care less about that.” She noticed that Human Twilight and Sunset Shimmer are right behind the group. “And I can tell your friends aren’t liking your choice.”
This caused Aria to walk up to Twilight and Sunset. “Especially how your other friend can’t handle her schedule without you.” She leans to Twilight which made Twilight took a few steps back.
“Hey, don’t thank me.” Human Twilight raising her hands in front of her.
“Please leave her alone…” Sunset rolled her eyes which made Aria turn to her immediately.
“Please? That is what you expect us to do?” Aria taunted.
“Just as I thought.” Adagio replied. “Just like Sunset Shimmer, all of you girls never change. As far as I’m aware, your friend is so gullible to not see the real us.”
This made Starlight Glimmer placed both of her hands in her mouth, ashamed of herself for putting her friends into this. Fluttershy placed her hand on Starlight’s shoulder, trying to cheer her up, but it wasn’t enough.
“You’re wrong.” Princess Twilight flinching both of her fists which made the Dazzlings took notice. “You seriously think that friendship has considered us to not change at all?”
“Oh please.” Adagio moved her hair. “At least we have jobs to keep our lives going.”
“Tell me, do you and your band autotune your voices?”
This caused Adagio to lean her face closer to Twilight. “Oh, this is gonna turn ugly.” Pinkie Pie commented.
“Do you even know what autotune means?” Adagio being in her bad side.
“No I don’t but I know it involves something with our voices.” Princess Twilight recalled.
“Oh really? Tell us how bad our singing is?”
“Eighty percent.”
The leader of the band just shot her eyes open in shook and so does the other girls. Sunset Shimmer was even surprised from her princess friend’s way of being in her serious side.
“What did you just say!?” Adagio reacted in anger.
“You heard me. Eighty percent!” The princess shouted back. “You really expect me to run away like a student in Canterlot High? Or be intimated from you? Not a chance in Tartarus.”
Adagio became speechless from what she’s witnessing from the Princess Of Friendship. Aria and Sonata didn’t know what to expect from what's going on right now. The Rainbooms are taking a few steps back, avoiding another possible predicament.
“The fact you manipulate my student still didn’t surprise me. Because after watching you and your band sing on stage, I can tell there’s no reason for you three to change. If any one of your fans see what you really sound like while singing, your careers would be short lived. Unlike you, the Dazzlings. The Rainbooms don’t need autotuneing because they can still without their own magic.”
Princess Twilight pointed at her friends until she pointed back at Adagio. “The only thing you can do is have anyone be under your spell, go against each other while they adore you so you can be the only ones standing. But let me tell you this, when you cause fights, eventually all of that will go against you!”
“Against us!?” Adagio reacted.
“If you ever come back to Canterlot High, people won’t consider giving you forgiveness even if you earned it. You have done terrible things to us, we would rather keep you away from our surroundings. When Starswirl, and you know what I’m referring to, forced you to stay in this world, it was because he knew you were unstable. And after we defeated you, you still remain the same as before. Well let me tell you this, you don’t get passes just because you’re bad. Same goes to where you’re at right now. Your becoming harmless teenage girls and need your voices autotuned just so you can at least get back to what you really need. You ignore being ignored, completely missing the whole picture. You’re even lucky you didn’t turn to stone because that’s the last thing all of us would do. And if your fans see your true colors, it’s only a matter of time before you reach your end. A punishment you let yourselves get into is only going to come back, no matter what. If you can’t handle that, you deserve to be in stone and remain in it until the end of time.”
After Princess Twilight took out everything she needed to say, everyone, even the Dazzlings were impressed. The Princess Of Friendship had enough from what’s going on between her and the Rainbooms lately. She’s not going to back down from anyone who interferes her weekend off.
However this made Adagio boil in rage, with both of her fists clenching. She had never been this furious in a long time and the fact her plan failed makes it worse. “Aria! Sonata! Get back in the RV!” She shouted which caused her sisters to head back. She still continues to stare at Twilight while slowly walking backwards. “You need to understand one thing Twilight Sparkle!” She stopped when she’s just behind her band. “What goes around, comes around even without our magic. And you know it!”
Adagio enters the vehicle while Aria and Sonata gave their glares to the princess until they enter as well. Aria took out her keys, started the RV and drove away leaving the Rainbooms alone. Princess Twilight stepped on the middle of the road as she saw the Sirens leaving the place, still keeping the same face the whole time.
“Did we just saw Princess Twilight making a stand for us?” Fluttershy asked.
“That’s really saying something, since this is the first time she ever talked face to face to the Dazzlings.” Rarity added.
Human Twilight is still concerned from what just happened. While she’s relieved nothing bad has happened, she walked up to her counterpart. “Twilight? Are you feeling alright?” She asked.
Princess Twilight panted in her own past. “Just a little, it’s just...I went through a lot today and I almost had it here from those girls.”
Sunset can see the stress from her princess friend, while she noticing that it’s getting pitch black outside. “I think we should all head to where PostCrush is performing. I’m pretty sure their performance will keep our minds off of this.”
“You’re right. Let’s go.” Princess Twilight replied as Sunset leads the group. Sunset’s favorite band along with a very popular girl at school, will definitely make tonight much more better. And it will also make the Princess Of Friendship the opposite of angry.