1 Day Left
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Sunset had one more day to get through before the portal was open again. She really didn’t know what her plan of action was today. She had already talked to marble and cheerilee so there wasn’t anyone left she desperately needed to talk to about her dreams. She figured today could just be a bit of a relaxing day for everybody.
Sunset was up earlier than the rest of the girls, so she decided she would just ask them what they wanted to do when they woke up. She spent the time waiting on the girls to wake up to do some thinking about her dreams, and what they could mean. The most logical conclusion that she could come up with was that it was her subconscious missing Cheerilee, but that answer wasn;t good enough for her. The main problem with that reasoning is that it doesn’t explain the bells or the poems, which she knew had some significance.
Everyone was finally up by nine, and Sunset decided to ask everyone what they wanted to do today.
“Is there anything we can do to help figure out your dreams?” Rarity asked back.
“Not really, the portal opens tomorrow so I thought we could just have a relaxing day,” Sunset replied.
“In that case, there is a Battle of the Bands competition taking place in Indieville today, we’d be a late entry but I’m sure they would make an exception for The Rainbooms,” Rainbow offered.
“Sure, I’m down for that as long of the rest of you are,” Sunset replied.
The rest of the crowd agreed, thinking it would be a great way to get back into the groove of playing.
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Rarity had taken everyone to their house to get their instruments, and Sunset had called the Battle’s moderator to ask if it was fine if The Rainbooms were entered. The moderator said that they accepted entries up to one hour before the competition, and that The Rainbooms were clear.
Rarity was now driving to the theater where the battle was taking place. Indieville was still in Canterlot District only about 20 minutes away from the city, so it wouldn’t take long for the girls to get there. A little time after they crossed into indieville, Fluttershy made an interesting remark. “Does anybody know why there is a telephone booth over there?”
“What do you mean?” Rarity asked.
“There's an old manhattan style telephone booth at that cross section. Why would there be one in Indiville?” Fluttershy asked.
“Now that you mention it, it is slightly odd that old style Manhattan architecture would be in Indieville,” Rarity responded. “Perhaps it’s just some modern art project, dear.”
When the girls checked the lineup to see if there were any notable bands that had signed up. The girls had never heard of most of the bands, save for one.
“Trixie and the Illusions,” all seven girls remarked.
“You rang, “ Trixie responded, walking towards the girls.
“Wow Trixie, your band is still making music?” Sunset asked.
“We stopped for awhile, but I had to get them back together, because my magic shows weren't gaining the attention that they deserved,” Trixie responded.
“How has the band business been working out for you?” Sunset asked.
“It’s been great, we must be pretty good, because the band gets more attention that I ever did with magic shows,” Trixie Replied.
The battle was starting in 10 minutes, so everyone went to their respective practice rooms.
“Okay, so I say we play it cool, with less intense songs at the beginning and then as we climb up the ladder, we swing harder!” Rainbow said.
“I agree, we can’t play the same song twice, so we need to save the harder songs for harder opponents.
There were ten bands in attendance, so the competition would start out with five battles. The Rainbooms vs Power fist was the fourth battle of the qualifiers. The Rainbooms decided to play a mellow song since the other band was a strictly punk rock band.
“The winner is... POWER FIST!” said the announcer.
“Did The Rainbooms, seriously already lose?” Rainbow Asked. “I thought we were better than this.”
“Not yet rainbow, this just means we are in the loser bracket,” Twilight responded. “We can still win this, but I think we should definitely stick to harder songs, a mellow one to stick out didn’t work as much as we hoped.”
Each band carried on the battle with winner semifinals being between Trixie and the Illusions and Dancing with Spiders”
“Trixie and the Illusions will be moving on to finals,” the announcer said. “And now the loser bracket semifinals, The Rainbooms versus Blind Love”
The Rainbooms played a very upbeat song, while Blind love played a soft emotional song. Surprisingly the results were very close.
“Wow The Rainbooms managed to scrape by with one more vote than Blind Love, which means they will be moving on to finals,” said the announcer. “Finals will be Between The Rainbooms and Trixie and the Illusions.”
Rainbow convinced everybody to play “Awesome as I Wanna Be,” While Trixie’s band played “Tricks Up My Sleeve.”
The announcer excitedly announced the winner “The winner is… Trixie and the Ilusions.”
“Okay so now we lost right,” Rainbow said annoyedly.
“Yeah, but we definitely put up a fight, and it was a lot of fun,” Sunset replied.
“Trixie’s band must have practiced a lot, they sound really good,” Fluttershy added.
“Yes they did really well, I’m glad Trixie finally found something she’s really good at,” Rarity said.
“And just what is that supposed to mean?” Trixie asked while walking over to the group of girls.
“Nothing, you’re just a really good singer Trixie,” Rarity responded.
“Thank you, Rarity,” Trixie added.
Each of the girls gave their goodbyes to trixie and her band, and headed back to Canterlot.
When the girls got back to Canterlot, Rarity dropped everyone off at their respective houses.
Sunset went to sleep early, because she wanted to be well rested for when she went to equestria tomorrow.