The next day, Vinyl walked to the garage. She was surprised to see her friends all ready to go. "Ok, ok, even though I know the answer, are we ready?" she asked. The others nodded. "Really?" Vinyl asked.
"Vinyl, we were born ready." Lyra answered. Vinyl smiled.
She pointed at Derpy. Derpy played tap taap tap. Vinyl looked at her confused. "That was no different than yesterday." she said.
"No," Derpy said. "Yesterday was tap tap tap. Today, it was tap taap tap." Vinyl rolled her eyes.
"Ok, Octavia, how is your playing?" she asked.
Octavia played the bass as if it was a cello.
"No! You don't use your cello stick to play, you use your hoof." Vinyl explained.
"Oh, like an upright bass?" Octavia asked.
"No, like a guitar." said Vinyl.
"Ok. I'll try." Octavia said.
The ponies played through the song many times. They kept messing up. Derpy couldn't get the beat right, Lyra kept pressing the wrong keys on the keyboard, and Octavia was still trying to get the hang of things with the guitar.
"C'mon! One more time!" Vinyl cheered.
"Vinyl, do you think we can change the lyrics?" Octavia asked.
"What's wrong with them?" asked Vinyl.
"Well, rock us, rock us, that isn't the best lyric choice." Octavia said.
"Fine." Vinyl said. "How about just rock us?"
Octavia looked at her. "That's not much different." she explained.
"Well, what do you think?" Vinyl and Octavia started to argue. Lyra and Derpy looked at each other.
"How are we going to get anywhere if they start fighting?" Lyra asked. Derpy just shrugged. Lyra got an idea. She pressed on the highest key on her keyboard. It made a EEEEEEKKKKKKK sound.
"Ow! Jeez, what was that for?" Vinyl asked, holding her ears.
"How else could we break up the fight?" Lyra asked. "We need to start working together." Lyra walked over to Derpy. "Derpy, I need you to play on more than 1 drum, ok?" she asked.
"I can do that!" Derpy cheered.
"Good." Lyra said. She walked over to Octavia. "I need you to hold up the guitar and strum it." she explained.
"Got it." said Octavia.
Lyra smiled. She walked over to Vinyl. "You have to be less bossy, and change the lyrics to something we can all agree on." she explained.
"Ok?" Vinyl was confused. All of a sudden, Lyra took control and was helping out the ponies, and it worked! She seemed to be even better at being a boss than Vinyl. Vinyl shook off the thought.
"Ok, let's get started. We only have a week!" Vinyl announced. She pointed at Derpy once again.
The ponies played through the night. They worked really hard, slowly getting better. They finally stopped after all the stars were out in the dark blue sky.
"Ok, great practice today!" Vinyl smiled as she said that. The ponies nodded and walked to their home. Vinyl was so tired. She went straight to bed and fell asleep.