Equestria Girls JT: Rainbow Rocks

by MrBiteo

The Semi-Finals

"Ugh! Ruined! Absolutely ruined!" Rarity lamented still upset over her outfit.

"Rarity, don't you realize that Photo Finish gave you that outfit because she wanted to make you lose out there?" Applejack asked Rarity.

"Of course, I realized that. This was all Photo Finish's doing." Rarity rebuttaled.

"Yeah, well, she wouldn't have able to do this if you didn't agree to dress like...like, this!" Applejack argued. Rarity took offense to Applejack's words, "We can't trust anyone who's in the competition right now. Everyone's under the Sirens' control and we know now that they'll even cheat to win."

"Yeah! And what was with the confetti, Pinkie?!" Rainbow Dash then argued with Pinkie holding up a piece of confetti for Pinkie to see, "How am I supposed to shred if there's paper stuck in my threads?!"

"It was pretty distracting." Fluttershy gently openly admitted.

"Ugh! Says the girl who was running from a light the whole time. A light!" Pinkie talked back at Fluttershy.

"Fluttershy has stage fright, Pinkie. And I think someone knew that and was using it against her." Rainbow Dash said.

"If we're not interrupting something, we would like to have a word with you all." Vice Principal Luna announced herself as she and Principal Celestia stepped in.

"Listen, Principal Celestia, what happened earlier wasn't our fault. We had no idea--"

"Actually, we wanted to let you know that Snips, Snails, Photo Finish and the Snapshots have been disqualified over what they did. And even though things didn't go the way you planned, we are happy to inform you that your band is now in the competition."

The Rainbooms cheered at getting into the competition.

"We'll leave you to get ready for your first match." Principal Celestia told the Rainbooms as she and Luna left to go back to their table.

"See? You still sounded better than most of the other bands. I knew that you would make it to the last round despite what happened. But it won't matter if you don't have that counter spell ready." Sunset reassured and then reminded everyone, which worried Twilight, "You all find a place to practice where the Sirens can't hear you, I'll keep an eye on things around here." As the Humane 6 left to do what Sunset suggested, Derpy's own band came up on stage, which consisted on them playing a cowbell, a triangle and a musical saw. After Derpy's band finished, the Dazzlings went backstage for their audition, but were confronted by Sunset Shimmer leaning by the door. "You're never gonna get away with this." Sunset Shimmer told the Dazzlings.

"Why? Because you didn't?" Adagio then asked mockingly, showing that she and her teammates weren't intimidated.

This left Sunset unable to make a rebuttal, clearly caught off-guard.

"We know all about you, Sunset Shimmer. You've got quite the reputation here at Canterlot High." Adagio informed Sunset on how they knew about her as she and the other two Sirens circled around her like a pack of sharks.

"I've changed, I'm in a much better place now." Sunset finally rebuttaled.

"Waiting in the wings while you're friends have all the fun?" Aria mockingly asked Sunset, who didn't reply back.

"Oh, yes. You girls are so tight. And yet, they didn't ask you to be in the band." Adagio stated to Sunset.

"Probably afraid no one will want to see them play if she was in the group." Aria then speculated. The Sirens' words were starting to get to Sunset.

Sunset wanted to fight back, but couldn't over how their words were possibly true.

"Too bad!" Sonata exclaimed popping up in front of Sunset and then circled behind her saying, "So sad!"

"If it's any consolation, no one is going to remember you at all by the time we're through with you." Adagio stated to Sunset walking past her along with Aria and Sonata as she was saying it.

Sunset didn't respond back to the Sirens and was left defeated by their words, leaving her in a worse position than she was before as the Sirens stepped into the gym.

"Remember, girls. We want to save the good stuff for when our full power has been restored." Adagio pointed out to her cohorts as the pendants glowed.

Soon after, the curtain rose and the Dazzlings automatically began their song.

True to the lyrics, it showed Celestia and Luna swooning over the Dazzlings.

It then showed a tournament chart of all the bands against each other in the Battle of the Bands.

The first match was between Flash Sentry's band against the Eco-Kids' band.

Flash's band was victorious in the end as they moved up in the competition.

Twilight was trying desperately to finish the counter spell on time, constantly writing and then erasing lyrics.

Much like Celestia and Luna, the students sitting in the stands were all mesmerized by the Dazzlings.

The Rainbooms were pitted against Octavia, who was playing solo on her cello.

Like Flash's band, the Rainbooms beat Octavia and moved on in the competition.

Bon Bon and Lyra played a piano duet together against Trixie and her band, who reigned victorious over the two close friends, moving on in the competition.

Sunset begrudgingly watched the Mane 6 fight with each other, even when Twilight tried sharing her progress on the spell with them. All the things the Dazzlings said to her earlier were starting to take effect on her confidence in trying to help them and she began to wonder if she could help anymore at this point as her friends minus Twilight were slowly becoming like everyone else in the Dazzlings' control.

Adagio let out an evil song as their song came to an end.