//------------------------------// // Chapter 4: What’s the Plan? // Story: Equestria Girls 2: Rainbow Rocks // by Taionia05 //------------------------------// Back at CHS, the group walked into the gym only to see all the students giving each other glaring looks and said nothing to one another and distance themselves away from each other. The group walked over to the punch bowl and continued watching the students glaring at each other. “This looks more like a boring party than an exciting party...” Sonic stated as he crossed his arms. “Anyone see the Dazzlings?” Tails asked as he looked back and forth, but the others shook their heads and Twilight decides to walk around to find them. Near the stage platform, Snips was taunting Flash Sentry with his hand motion, Flash growled and raised his hand in the air and snatched his cup and turned his back at Snips. Flash sighed and said “I'm gonna get more punch!” as he walked away towards the punch bowl, he crashed into Twilight, causing her to tumble back and she almost fell on the floor, but Flash caught just in time and was surprised to see her. “Eh, bumped, into, always, doing?” Twilight stuttered as her cheeks turned bright red and Flash smiled as he pulled Twilight up straight. “Twilight! What are you doing here? You came back for the big competition, right?“ Flash asked. “Well if you’re askin’, then yeah, we’re back for the competition Flash.” Sonic replied as he walked towards Flash and he gives him a thumbs up as he answered. “Even Tails, Knuckles, and Amy?” Flash asked the blue hedgehog, which he nodded, but Flash gave Sonic and Twilight a cocky smile and said, “Huh. Not that there's gonna be any real competition. No one here wants this as bad as my band does!” Sonic crosses his arms and gave Flash a snarky look and smile. “Like a rival battle I see, well Flash I gotta tell ya’, you might have some real competition...” as Sonic was talking to Flash, Rainbow saw the Dazzlings and took a chocolate chip from Pinkie’s chocolate chip cookie and threw it at Twilight’s head. Twilight reached the back of her head and grabbed the chip and turned to Rainbow as she pointed her eyes at the Dazzlings. “Can you excuse us for just a minute?” Twilight told Flash as she grabbed Sonic’s arm as she walked back to the others. “What the deal Twi?” Sonic asked Twilight, who pointed her finger at the Dazzlings and then, the students began arguing with each other. In the middle of the gym, Adagio, Aria, and Sonata watched the student body yelling in each other faces, others threatening one another with their fist, even some where being held back by their friends. As this was going on, the same green aura from before surrounded the students, emitting a green and cyan smoke as it was going into the Dazzlings’ ruby necklaces. “Oh, no! No one's mingling! It's like there's some kind of underlying tension that could bubble to the surface at any minute!” Adagio mockingly cried as she snickered at her necklace. “It's the fruit punch, isn't it? I knew I used too much grape juice!” Sonata responded as Adagio facepalmed herself and Aria gritted her teeth and clenched her fist. “Are you really that much of an idiot Sonata!” Aria yelled at Sonata, who in return, gave her an annoyed look and acted like she didn’t hear a single thing from Aria. “It's not the fruit punch! It's us!” Adagio told Sonata, who realized what she meant to mock Aria. In bitter anger, Aria drank her fruit punch and sticked her tongue out and threw the cup in the trash. “Geez, what kind of punch do they even serve here?” Aria complained, which caused Sonata to get close to Aria. “What do you know about good fruit punch?” Sonata retorted. “More than enough to give you a punch that’ll make you shut up!” Aria threatened as she caught her fist and then cracked her bones and got closer to Sonata’s face. “Can we save the death battle for later girls.” Adagio told as she pushed Aria and Sonata away from each other. “This is just the kickoff party. Imagine what a tizzy they'll be in by the time the Battle of the Bands starts.” “There isn't going to be a Battle of the Bands!” A voice shouted, catching the Dazzlings for it to be Twilight and standing beside her were Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Fluttershy, Applejack, Rarity, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, Amy, Cream, Cheese, Rouge, and the Chaotix as Sunset nodded to them and looked at the Dazzlings. “We're gonna make sure of that!” Twilight said as they started holding hands. “Alright, everyone, let's do this! Friendship is magic!” Twilight and her friends raised their hands and their eyes were shut, but it was complete awkward silence and when they open up, nothing happened. “Was something suppose to happen?!” One student in the back shouted. “Aren’t we suppose to create a rainbow of some sort?” Ray asked. “What now Twilight!” Rouge hushed to Twilight, but she didn’t say anything but look super embarrassed. “Hey Shady, can you help us over here!” Pinkie shouted, but he ignored her. “Talk about throwing down the gauntlet! This group is obviously serious about winning! A little cocky though, aren't they?” Adagio mocked the group. “Claiming there won't really be a battle. Seems they think they've already got this thing all locked up.” “Not if the Great and Powerful Trrrrrixie has anything to do with it!” Trixie shouted. “Yeah and that ‘Great and Powerful’ stuff will make you look like a fool!” Flash shouted at Trixie. “And just because you’re popular, doesn’t mean you have the best band.” Applebloom told Flash as Scootaloo and Sweetie Belle agreed with her, then the arguing started back up again. “I think we may have found what we're looking for. Or rather, it found us.” Adagio said with a sly grin and she and Aria looked at Sonata, but she looked confused and just shrug, prompting Aria to slap her face. “Magic!! Don't you see?! Everyone else has fallen under our spell. But not them. They’re something special.” Adagio told Aria while looking at Twilight and the group walking out of gym. Outside the school, Twilight was prancing back and forth while her friends sat down on the step looking at Twilight. “It doesn't make any sense. I should have been able to create the spark that would help us break their spell. That's how it worked before.” Twilight questioned herself. “But to defeat me and Metal, you drew magic from the crown I was wearing.” Sunset told Twilight. “The sirens' magic comes from their music. So maybe youhave to use the same kind of magic to defeat them.” Sunset theorized and answered, sparking Twilight’s attention. “Or... maybe not.” Sunset dropped her answer and looked down. “But you might be onto something there Sunset?” Tails said to Sunset. “Really?” Sunset asked Tails. “It's when you play music that you transform now, right?” Twilight asked Applejack. “Yup. Ears, tails, the whole shebang.” The cowgirl replied. “So maybe the way to use that magic to defeat the sirens is by playing a musical counter-spell!” Twilight answered. “You mean like a song?” Vector and Charmy asked. “Uh-huh. And in order to free everyone who's been exposed to the sirens' spell, we'll need them all to hear it.” Twilight said, which got them thinking, until Shadow voice was heard. “The band competition.” Shadow answered, then said, “We can use that counter spell during the competition and everyone will be there to hear it.” “Guess my band are the band to beat.” Applejack said as she looks at Rainbow Dash. “And I believe you guys just became our newest members.” Rarity said as she stick her hand out to Twilight, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy, which only surprised Twilight and the other were excited. The others ran up the them and chattered excitingly, leaving Sunset behind. “So what do you guys wanna play?” Pinkie suggested after she popped up in front of Rarity and Mighty as she offered them a triangle, sousaphone, and a theremin. “How bout’ I play the electric guitar instead? Sonic asked. “And I’ll play bass.” Knuckles said. “And I can play the drums.” Amy said. “Is it okay I can do the vocals along with Twilight.” Tails said. “Like, as in, lead singer? Cuz that's usually my gig. This being my band and all.” Rainbow told Tails and Twilight. “It's our band!” Applejack told Rainbow. “And, of course, as lead singer. She's the one with the magical know-how to help us pull this thing off and Tails’ might be a great singer.” Applejack said as she had her arm over Tails and Twilight shoulders. “Okay, yeah, that's cool. I'll just use this as a chance to hone my already insanely good lead guitar skills.” Rainbow said as she played an air guitar. “It's only temporary. And we don't have to win the Battle of the Bands. We just have to perform during the first round of the competition.” Twilight told the group. “Then how bout’ we get to learning with that counter spell.” Mighty said “Well about that...well, that's just it. I don't know any.” Twilight told the group as the sighed in disappointment. “But I'm sure I could figure out how to write one.” “Totally! Twilight can write a spell like it's nobody's business. That's pretty much how she got to become a princess in Equestria.” Spike confidently said to the group. “Technically, I helped finish a spell.” Twilight corrected to the group and looked at Spike and said, “And there was a little more to it than that, Spike.” “Yeah, whatever.” Spike said. “I've got this.” Twilight told the group and turned to Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy while she picked up Spike as they were walked towards the doors. Cheese flew in front of them and asked them what they were doing. “Well, last time we were here, we spent the night in the library.” Amy answered. “Are you crazy?! We're besties now!” Pinkie told Twilight, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy as she gave them a tight hug. “Slumber party at my house!” Pinkie screamed as she lifted them off the ground and hugged them tighter. “Could you let us go first, ya killing me.” Sonic asked Pinkie, who dropped them and bounced off to her house as Mighty, Fluttershy, Rainbow, Applejack, and Charmy helped them up and they took them to Pinkie’s house. “That girl is a real pain.” Sonic mumbled as he rubbed the back of his head. Later that night at Pinkie’s house, in Pinkie’s bedroom, Pinkie was on her laptop going through her profile; Shadow was leaning back on the wall with his arms crossed; Rarity was going through her phone with Fluttershy, Sunset, and Cream; Tails was reprogramming Metal so he can act more friendly with Cheese watching; Applejack, Rainbow, Sonic, Mighty, Ray, Knuckles, Vector, and Espio played a 8-player fighting game while Rouge watched; and Twilight and Amy was busy write on a notebook on Pinkie’s bed. “Status updates: ‘Okie-dokie-lokie.’” Pinkie said to herself as she type in the what she just said before. Rarity turned her phone sideways and lifted it up above her and her upper lip looked looked like a cat and Sunset smiled big, Cream ears formed a heart and smile, and Fluttershy just smiled and looked a tiny bit shy and the fashionista took the selfie and put the phone down to see it, and saw Charmy, Ray, and Spike photobombing it. Rarity gave a annoyed glare at Charmy, Ray, and Spike as Fluttershy, Cream, and Sunset giggled. Rainbow, Applejack, Sonic, Knuckles, Mighty, Vector, and Espio were at one life and at a high percent and while Espio kept his cool, the others were ferociously mashing button and Rouge pushed down the power button before anyone could win, causing Knuckles and Applejack to yell at her which made her giggle. “What in the heck Rouge?!” Rainbow asked the bat girl. “Come on, see the cowgirl and the echidna angry is not a big of an issue.” Rouge answered as she sat up straight and put her left leg on top her right leg. “Well I was going to win anyway until you messed me up.” Vector told as Sonic playfully rolled his eyes and shrug to Espio, who smiled. Espio turns his head to Twilight and Amy and asked, “Hey Twilight, Amy, how’s that counter-spell coming along?” “Huh? Oh, uh, good. Great.” Twilight answered to the ninja chameleon, then turned to Fluttershy and said, “Thanks for letting me use your notebook, Fluttershy.” “And the song you wrote is really great for the band.” Amy added. “Thank you two.” Fluttershy said to Twilight and Amy, then sighed and mumbled, “Hopefully one day, we'll get a chance to play it.” Fluttershy looked Rainbow Dash, holding Applejack’s controller and held her back from the controller. “Twilight, I think I speak for all of us when I say I don't know what we would have done if you, Sonic, Tails, Knuckles, and Amy hadn't come back to help us.” Rarity said to Twilight, causing the princess to cover the book so Rarity couldn’t see it and after Rarity told Twilight, the others agreed. “Without you guys, we wouldn’t stand a single chance against the Dazzlings.” Charmy added to what Rarity said, then suddenly, the doorbell rang. “Pizza’s here!” Pinkie shouted as she, Applejack, Rarity, Fluttershy, Rainbow, , Sunset, Sonic, Knuckles, Amy, Mighty, Ray, Rouge, Cream, Cheese, Vector, Espio, And Charmy zipped out the room with Shadow walking behind to the door. Tails didn’t follow and Twilight was too busy think of spell and when she looked, it was just scribbles and at the bottom of the page, it was a simplified drawing of her singing at a poorly version of Adagio. “Hey ya’ two! Pizza’s here.” Pinkie said with pizza in her mouth, snapping Tails and Twilight back to reality and they quickly nodded and Tails flew to the kitchen and Twilight put the notebook inside Pinkie’s drawer, which had a large swirled lollipop and some candy. Twilight looked back and sighed and followed the group into the kitchen. Later that midnight, everyone was fast asleep except Twilight, who grabbed the notebook from the drawer sneaked into the kitchen without stepping on Applejack, Shadow, Sunset, and Cream & Cheese. Twilight was in the kitchen table, writing in the notebook with her mouth and just like before, she couldn’t think of a counter-spell and she slowly got frustrated that she kept failing. “No. That's not gonna work.” Twilight said to herself, but heard a voice singing outside and grabbed a the notebook and headed outside. Twilight slowly opened the door and followed the singing voices and slowly made it to the backyard to see Tails singing how he can believe in himself and Twilight watched the two-tailed fox sing as her eyes shined bright like stars. When Tails finished singing his song, he opened his eyes to see Tails standing in front of him looking in awe, causing him to jump back and the same with Twilight. “Y-You d-didn’t h-hear me s-singing, r-right?” Tails nervously asked as his entire face was blushing red uncontrollably. “N-No, I-I only heard a tiny bit. Some of it.” Twilight nervously chuckled and rubbed the back of her head as her face blushed red uncontrollably. It was a awkward silence between the two of them and Twilight slowly walked up to Tails and put her hand out while trying not to make eyes contact. Tails grabbed her hand and tried not to make eye contact and Twilight help him up from the ground and the two looked at each other and blushed uncontrollably again and quickly looked away from each other. “I feel super embarrassed about this!” Tails said to break the awkward silence and looked down with his hand behind his back. Twilight lifted up Tails’ head and told him, “You don’t have to feel embarrassed, your voice is just...wow! I think it’s the most beautiful thing out of all of this...” Twilight and Tails looked at each other with suddenly turning red and looked at each other eyes and their cheeks turned red. “You two are up late.” a voice said, causing Twilight and Tails eyes to widen and their pupils to shrink and quickly turned to look to see Sunset with a smirk and her arms crossed. “What were you two doing anyway?” Sunset asked. “W-Well you see. I was. What I meant to say. I-I...” Twilight stopped mid-sentence as her and Tails face turned bright red again. “Well it seems like I was interrupting something important.” Sunset teased the two, causing them to look down, same with Sunset shortly after. “I’m sorry if I’m going to far.” Sunset apologized. “It’s nothing to apologize about, I was just singing, then Twilight heard me singing and...” Tails stopped himself. “You two don’t have to put so much pressure on yourself.” Sunset told Tails and Twilight, which stopped their face from being bright red. “I know, but this counter-spell has to be perfect.” Twilight told Sunset. “Must be nice to have everyone always looking to you for answers to their problems...instead of waiting for you to cause a problem.” Sunset said as she took out a can a whip cream and put a tiny bit on her finger and turned her head to the window and looked at the others sleeping. “And because of that, everyone expects something from you that isn’t always 100% guaranteed.” Tails added as she looked up at the sky and saw a constellation of him and Sonic giving each other a high five. “But it doesn’t stop them from expecting it.” Sunset added. “Which only makes things harder because the last thing you want to do is...” Twilight added as she looked at the page in the notebook. “let everybody down.” Twilight, Tails, and Sunset said at the same thing and Tails and Twilight looked at Sunset and vice-versa and gave each other awkward smiles. “Hello there.” a voice said to Twilight, Sunset, and Tails, scaring the life out of them and the voice was from Pinkie’s older sister, Maud Pie and in her hands was a small boulder (not a rock) “Boulder wanted to look outside for a bit.” Maid told the three. “I still can't get over the fact that she's related to Pinkie Pie.” Sunset hushed to Tails and Twilight. “Yeah, both Tails and I.” Twilight hushed to Sunset while Tails nodded in agreement. Sunset yawned and said, “I better get some sleep. Good luck with the counter-spell. Not that you'll need it. This must be nothing compared with the stuff you're expected to deal with as a princess in Equestria.” Sunset said before walking back inside the house with caused Twilight to looked a bit worried. “Sunset Shimmer? ...Never mind. It's not important. No, I have to be able to do this. I have to.” Twilight said as she and Tails got walked back inside the house to go to sleep.