Shortly after the Chaos Rainbooms’ “performance” and they headed backstage, the group weren’t too fond with the stunt Sunset pulled. Cream was pouting and Cheese emote ball changed into a flame, Sonic impatiently tapping his feet with his arms crossed, Fluttershy hiding in her hair, Shadow with his back turned, and the rest were upset, except Charmy who is still knocked out after being hit by a bass guitar hit him on the head.
“Just what in the heck were you thinking” Rainbow bursted out at Sunset, causing her to feel horrible.
“Y-you were showing them your m-magic. I-I didn't know what else to do...” Sunset quick answered as her voice begins to crack, trying to tell her reasoning, but that didn’t work and caused nothing to change.
“Ugh. Close the curtains? Unplug her amp? Give us a chance to deal with the situation?” Rarity told Sunset different opportunities she could’ve done.
“The first choice would’ve been less bad, but it will still cause us too lose.” Tails told the fashionista, then said, ”Same with the second option and how could she even get our attention if we were too busy trying to play onstage?” Rarity simply brushed it off anyway.
“And Dash, Sonic, just what in tarnation were ya thinkin’!” Applejack question the two with a look and a serious tone in her voice.
“Well I was showing the crowd out awesome my guitar skill, then Sonic came in and we played against each other to see who’s better.” Rainbow defended herself as Sonic was nodding with her, but not before they were knocked on the head by Knuckles.
“OW!” Both Rainbow Dash and Sonic cried out. “What the that for?!” They asked the red echidna.
“We’re trying to beat the Dazzling from they magic and free the students, but you two are taking it as a joke!” Knuckles harshly told Rainbow and Sonic, then the blue hedgehog ran up to Knuckles faces and his face was bitter towards him.
“Listen knucklehead, we’re taking it seriously and I don’t think wanna hear from an echidna that was easily trick by Dr. Eggman, twice!” Sonic shot back at Knuckles, causing him to grit his teeth, clench his fist as both Sonic and Knuckles were about to fight and luckily, Pinkie stopped the two from fighting.
“Good, great, magnificent show, ‘Chaos Rain-brooms’.” A female voice taunted, which it was Trixie mocking the Chaos Rainbooms “performance” as she grabs Sunset’s shoulder and said, “I especially liked the part where Sunset Shimmer, in a fit of jealous rage, knocked out Rainbow Dash and Sonic mid-guitar solo which if you ask me, was probably the nicest thing she ever done for me.”
Sunset slaps Trixie’s hand off of her as her cheeks turned pink and quickly shot back saying, “It wasn't a fit of jealous rage!” Sunset turns her head to the Chaos Rainbooms to see them to look away from her, making Sunset look even more embarrassed as she held her arm and look down.
“If you say so.” Trixie nonchalantly said as her eyes were on Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna talking on the opposite side, which made the female magician excited. “Ooh! Looks like they've already decided who'll be moving on to the finals! I'm guessing it wasn't too difficult a decision.” Trixie mockingly added as she takes out her small mirror to sway her hair out at Sunset.
The double open and only Sunset notice the Dazzling harmonizing near the two principals since Trixie wasn’t paying attention and the Chaos Rainbooms were discussing about something, but Sunset’s attention was dragged away by Rarity and how she couldn’t use the outfit she made for the finals.
“Yep, truly a tragedy. The dress is more important instead of the competition.” Applejack said to Rarity in a teasing way.
“You know perfectly well that is not what I meant Applejack!” Rarity raised her voice at the cowgirl as the two were face-to-face before Rainbow pushed the two away from each other.
“You guys wanna keep it down? They're about to announce who's moving on.” Dash told the two girls.
“Does it really matter anyway Dash? We’re not going to winning anyway.” Ray told Rainbow as he hangs upside down with his tail.
Back onstage, the two sisterly principals walked on to announce the winning band in the semifinals to move to the finals against the Dazzlings.
Principal Celestia takes out her microphone and says, “The band that will be joining the Dazzlings in tonight's finals...” Trixie wasn’t worried at all because she knew she already won while Sunset knew the she cause their chance of winning to 0%. “...The Chaos Rainbooms!” Celestia finished, which was a huge surprise for Trixie, Sunset, the Chaos Rainbooms, and the rest of the students.
Trixie turns away and storms out the backstage, but not before saying, “This isn’t over!” After Trixie walked down to the crowd as she stomped her feet, it woke up Charmy and he saw himself on Vector shoulder.
“Whoa...what happened, and why is Vector holding for some reason?” the dazed bee asked the Chaos Rainbooms.
“Well it turns out we won!” Fluttershy told Charmy as his eyes were like stars and he had a huge smile on his face as he flew off of the crocodile as they head up onstage.
“Congratulations, you all. You deserve it.” Principal Celestia told the Chaos Rainbooms and only Rainbow, Sonic, Vector, and Charmy were excited to move to the finals, the others were perplexed to know the they won, even though their performance was ruined.
“Seriously?! We didn't even finish our—!” Pinkie tried to tell Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna, but Rainbow quickly hit her on the side before she could say anything else, making Pinkie frown at her.
Adagio, Aria, and Sonata appeared from backstage as Adagio congratulate the Chaos Rainbooms while still playfully teasing them by saying, “See you at tonight's big show, Chaos Rainbooms. We are really looking forward to it.” Sonic smiled and walked up to Adagio before the Dazzlings left, surprising the Dazzlings and the Chaos Rainbooms. The blue hedgehog stuck his hand out so they can give a handshake and Adagio stuck her hand out and the two began to shake hands. “Say, what’s your name anyway?” Adagio asked.
“My name is Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog.” the blue hedgehog answered while waving his finger on his free hand with his left shoe crossed to his right shoe as he saw a grin from Adagio.
“Well then Sonic, you and your friends should really step up your game, I hope you cuties can show my what you really got.” Adagio said, which Sonic agreed too and the Dazzlings and Sonic walked away from each other.
As soon as Sonic got back to the Chaos Rainbooms, the crowd began to booing and jeering and the the group were walking out the gym through the crowd with multiple students saying they shouldn’t have won and the Chaos Rainbooms quickly made it out of there while on the other side, Trixie was still furious after losing to the Chaos Rainbooms.
“This is a travesty! A travesty!” Trixie cried out.
“It really is!” Adagio said to Trixie from behind. “The Chaos Rainbooms don't deserve to be in the finals. Not when your band was so much better in the semis.” Adagio added while sounding sympathetic toward Trixie, trying to manipulate her by messing with her ego instead of singing to get what they want.
“And wanted it so much more.” Aria added
“Alas, this is the way it's going to be. Dazzlings vs. Chaos Rainbooms, it’s sounds much better if it was Dazzlings vs. Trixie and the Illusions, right?” Adagio asked, which made Trixie question it for a moment.
“Unless, of course, the Chaos Rainbooms don't manage to make it to their set or held up for some reason?” Sonata brought up as both Adagio and Aria look at Trixie with sly looks as the magician had a evil grin, followed up by a sinister laugh.
Meanwhile at the concert where the finals are held at, the Chaos Rainbooms were getting their instruments set up, (except Twilight, who was still trying to come up with the counter spell and was getting more anxious with all the previous events that happened) Rainbow Dash tested the microphone to see if it send a feedback, but nothing echoes from it and watching near the control settings, Sunset turned the switch to the highest and when Dash tested it again, the microphone feedback worked, too well in fact that it echoed really loud it sent a piercing screech, make it worse as Sunset quickly turned it down before it can cause damage.
“How did even make it to the finals?” Amy asked the group. “Trixie and her band played better than us, but somehow we won?”
“You’re so right Rosey, we should’ve won instead of you.” a female voice said to mock Amy’s old nickname as the they turned their backs to see Trixie again, but also her two other bandmates behind her.
“What did you just call me!” Amy yelled as she tried to get near the magician girl, but Applejack held her back before things got messy.
“Hey Trixie, aren’t you supposed to be sitting down there where the losers are.” Rainbow responded to Trixie as she pointed her finger to the seating area the audience will watch.
“The Great and Powerful Trixie is the most talented girl at Canterlot High. It is Iwho deserves to be in the finals.” Trixie declares. “And I will not be denied!” Trixie told as she snapped her fingers and one of the band members pulled the lever to open the trap door underneath the Chaos Rainbooms and Sunset and the student quickly closed the door before either Tails, Cream, Charmy, Cheese, Rouge, or Ray could escape. “See you never!” Trixie taunted, then laughed evilly, then stopped to say, “Let’s go tell Principal Celestia the unfortunatenews.” watching near the entrance, the Dazzlings have saw what Trixie successful did and their plan was almost complete.
“Well it looks like Sonic failed to keep his promise, poor thing.” Adagio said as she faked feeling let down, but Sonata didn’t understand what she meant as Aria begrudgingly had to tell her the true meaning. After that before the siren were about to leave, Adagio had something new on her mind as she, Aria, and Sonata went to the door where the Chaos Rainbooms were trapped inside and used their magic to create a magic barrier, so they couldn’t escape and they were amazed by their magic and as they left, the Dazzlings began to think about their powers and get revenge on Equestria. Spike saw what happened and began to desperately find someone who can help.
Later that night, Trixie and the Illusions performance onstage in the finals while underneath, the Chaos Rainbooms were still trapped while Knuckles, Mighty, and Vector tried to break open the door, but nothing happened.
“Give it up, boys. Y’all been tryin' at this for hours. It's not gonna open.” Applejack told the 3 and while Mighty and accepted defeat, Knuckles didn’t and kept trying, causing the cowgirl to facepalm herself.
“Maybe it doesn't even matter that we're trapped down here. I don't think the counter-spell would have worked anyway.” Twilight told her friends with her arms crossed as she felt that they failed the school.
“Of course it would have worked, Twilight. Assumin' a certain band member didn't try to hog the spotlight the whole time we were tryin' to play it!” Applejack said to Twilight as her voice became sarcastic as she looked towards Rainbow.
“Hey! If you wanna tell Twilight she's getting a little too caught up trying to be the new leader of this band, you don't have to be all cryptic about it.” Rainbow shot back to Applejack.
“AJ was talking about you, Dash!” Charmy told Rainbow as he casually flew around her.
“Me?! I'm just trying to make sure my band rocks as hard as it needs to and also, Sonic wasn’t the only one!” Rainbow tried to defend herself while putting Sonic in the conversation.
“OUR BAND!!” Rarity, Rouge, Cream, Applejack, Fluttershy, Pinkie, Charmy, Mighty, Vector, and Ray shouted at Dash.
“But why wasn't it working? I should know what to do. How could I not know what to do? How could I have failed like this?” Twilight said as she was putting herself down and Sunset watched before her worrying attention was caught by the others.
“Just because you thought of it doesn’t mean the your the boss Dash!” Vector angrily replied to Rainbow.
“And you’re also blaming me for this?!” Sonic asked in shock. “I mean really, you can’t take the blame yourself?!”
“I hate to agree, but Rainbow’s right, you also joined in and plus, haven’t you forgotten that this isn’t a joke!” Shadow told Sonic, which caused him to look confused.
“I’m sorry to tell you Shadow, but the only reason you joined is that Flash was mean to Twilight and you never considered joining before!” Sonic yelled at the black hedgehog as Shadow gritted his teeth and budded heads at Sonic as Tails and Amy held them back.
“I'm the one who writes all the songs!” Rainbow told the group causing Cream to sputter in disbelief and Fluttershy to become assertive.
“You don’t write all the songs! We do, but you won’t let us play any of them!” Fluttershy quietly shouted at Rainbow.
“I had the most perfect outfits for us to wear!” Rarity complained, which made Applejack groan loudly in annoyance.
“Rarity I gotta level with ya’, no one gives a shooting star attention about the costume.” Mighty politely told Rarity, making her look disgusted by his remark.
“Oh I’m sorry that you and Applejack don’t appreciate the beauty of my creative contribution for the band!” the fashionista shouted at the armadillo as he was take back by it.
“I can tell you guys one thing! It’s that being in the band is the exact opposite of fun!” Charmy and Pinkie shouted.
“And I would’ve been better off without the two of you!” Rouge yelled at Charmy and Pinkie as she turned her back away from them.
“And I wished I never asked you guys to be apart of my band!” Rainbow yelled at the group.
“Good because we didn’t care anyway!” the Chaos Rainbooms (except Twilight and Sunset) shouted as they started to argue, creating a small green and teal blue aura around them before it grew bigger.
Meanwhile above, Trixie and her band have finished their performance with the crowd cheering for her as she left and passed the Dazzlings before teasing them.
“That magician is as good as dead once we get our magic back.” Aria said as she cracked her knuckles, but was stopped by Adagio before she could cause any chaos.
“Hold it sis, let’s go onstage and then we can do whatever we desire.” Aria rolled her eyes and sighed, but followed so they can get finished their goal as they got up onstage.
At the same time however, the Chaos Rainbooms were at each other’s throats as their arguing created the negative energy the Dazzlings are feasting off on and Sunset tried to get their attention, she couldn’t help but remember what the Dazzlings and students at CHS said about her as started to burst into tears and sit near the wall and Twilight notices and looks back at the script stood up and held it tight.
“I had enough of this!” Twilight shouted as she slams the notebook to the ground while everyone in the room witness the pages flew out of it. “All of our arguing, the students jeering at us, and how we suddenly won the semifinals lead up to this and I couldn’t just think of the perfect counter-spell.” Twilight said as she glances over to Sunset, who looked back before quickly hiding in her knees.
“But how could we let this happen? We have the magic of friendship?” Applejack questioned.
“And even after what the students tried to do, we didn’t let that get to us?” Amy also responded to Applejack question.
Twilight looked at Sunset again and said, “Well while we might be best friends, we let the littlest problems get the best of us and Sunset didn’t say anything about it is because...” the princess held her hand out for Sunset and she grabbed it as she was helped up from the floor, then Twilight continued by saying, “...she was still getting use to the whole ‘friendship’ thing that we have.” Sunset wipes the tears off her eyes and grew a small smile on her face as the group gave her a big hug (yep, including Shadow himself) creating a transparent rainbow mist and suddenly, the door opened and on the other side was Spike and Vinyl Scratch.
“Spike?!” The group asked in unison.
“Sorry I took so long. I had to find somebody who wasn't under the sirens' spell to help me get you out.” Spike told as he looked back at Vinyl as she gives a thumbs up.
“But how?” Knuckles asked.
“Never takes off her headphones.” Spike simply answered.
“Okay, but if she doesn’t take off her headphones, how did you get Vinyl to help you?” Twilight asked Spike as he was embarrassed to how he get Vinyl’s attention.
“I’ll tell you guys later.” Spike worryingly replied as Twilight was seen with a sly smile on her face.
“Well with that out of the way, let’s go kick those sirens’ tails!” Vector declared in determination as he catch his fist with his hand.
“We're getting the band back together?” Pinkie cheerfully asked Vector.
“We haven’t officially left, so in other words, yes we are Pinkie Pie.” Espio answered as Pinkie grabbed Charmy and spun him around.
“So what kind of spell have you been working on this whole entire time Twilight?” Rarity asked.
“Nothing because all that matters is that we speak from our hearts.” Twilight responded as she put her hand on her chest.
“You kinda sound like Celestia just now.” Spike whispered, which surprised Twilight.
“I know just the song. Fluttershy, Cream, and Cheese had written a really great one that we should use.” Rainbow said as Fluttershy, Cream, and Cheese were happy to hear they get to play their song.
“But if we’re gonna save the school, we should look our best for the competition.” Applejack told as she looked at Rarity with a smile as the fashionista was containing her excitement to finally use their new rock outfits.
“I thought you’d never ask!” Rarity cheered as she pulled the clothes from her bag.
“Looks like we got a concert to crash, don’t we Sonic?” Shadow asked the blue hedgehog with a sly smile and arms crossed as Sonic responded with a grin as the Chaos Rainbooms left the room to get ready for the Dazzlings and what they have in store for them.