Twilight's friends followed her until they got to Twilight's locker. There, Twilight opened her locker up and show them all a book... a book that she got from Sunset Shimmer.
Puzzled upon seeing the book, Applejack ask her: "What's that Twilight?"
"This book will help us to get into contact with Equestria!" Twilight boldly proclaims.
Upon hearing the daring statement, everyone simultaneously yelled out "What!". A Confused and curious Rainbow Dash ask Twilight: "Is that some kind of spell book or something?"
"OOOHH! Please Tell It's A Spell Book" Pinkie excitedly remarks.
Chuffed to see that she got her friends intrigued, Twilight explains to them: "Sadly, no. This is a book that Sunset gave to me and she said this is what she used to send messages to her teacher in Equestria. Supposedly, all she had to do is write a message into here and her teacher over there would get it in a simular book to this one."
When she heard the explanation, Rarity excitedly thought out loud: "Ooh! It's kind of like text messaging."
Upon hearing the comparison, Twilight thought about it and responded: "Um... I guess you can think of it like that?"
As everyone were gazing at the book, imagining it as a magic cell phone, Applejack quickly realize and ask Twilight: "Wait! How do we know if it'll work all the way over here?"
When everyone realized that and slowly become worried, Pinkie Pie jokingly remarks: "Maybe they have really good- "
"Reception?" said Fluttershy, cutting Pinkie Pie off of her joke.
Surprised, Pinkie turned to Fluttershy and went "HEY!". Fluttershy quickly felt ashamed and said "Sorry" to her. However, Pinkie put her arm around her shoulder and tells her: "No don't be. That was a good joke steal." Even though she still felt guilty for stealing her joke, Fluttershy was happy that Pinkie wasn't angry and was appreciating the hug.
Getting back to the topic at hand, Twilight replied: "I guess we just got to hope". Even though they don't like that response, Twilight friends still want to follow her and past her a pen. After being surprised by her friend's support, Twilight quickly turn to a free page and getting ready to write. "Well, here I go."
But as she was about to put her pen down to the paper, Twilight stopped and question herself on what she is going to write. Twilight already knows that Sunset's teacher was the Equestrian version of Principal Celestia, who is surprisingly a magical alicorn princess who rules the land. However, she felt that she can't write the message as herself, especial since her Equestrian self is also an alicorn princess and it could make things weird. But after thinking about it, Twilight come up with an appropriate plan.
Dear Princess Celestia,
I apologize for not written to you for so long, as well as the incident that I caused several months ago, but I hope that you will be happy that things had gotten better for me. I have been making amends for the actions that I did and I've been slowly making friends.Special mention for this world's version of Twilight Sparkle. She had been so kind and understanding.-
When she they saw what she had wrote, Twilight friends gave her a disapproving look. Twilight gave a guilty smile in response and continue writing.
- However, I am writing this message because I am of need of your help. Three mysterious girls appeared at my school and somehow take control of my new home. They had some sort of hypnotic voice that captivate everyone who listen to them and some make everyone angry towards one another. I know I may not be totally forgiven for endangering Equestria and for running away, but is there some way to help and protect the new friends that I made?
From yourloyal stuex-loyalapologetic
From your former student: Sunset Shimmer.
When Twilight finished writing, she breathed a sigh a relief. But as everyone was about to talk, the book suddenly began to glow. The words that Twilight wrote were slowly flashing a tiny purple until it became you big light and then stop. When the book became dull and ordinary again to the average eye, Twilight remarks: "I guess that message was sent?"
"Ok, so now what?" Rainbow ask.
Twilight replies: "Well there is nothing else we can do but hope that they would get it and wait for a response.
"That's It!?" Rainbow Dash remarks. "We just gunna stand around and wait while the school is tearing itself apart!?"
Seeing that Rainbow was upset: AJ says to her: "Well let's be fair; the school isn't literally tearing itself apart yet. No one is bitting each other heads off or getting into any real fights yet. And hey, school is nearly over so at least people have a chance to clear their heads."
"Yeah, I guess you're right" Rainbow responded, sounding slight depressed and defeated. "But what do we do in the mean time?"
And then, before an awkward silence could take hold, Pinkie got to the centre and eagerly suggest to everyone: "Oh I Know! How about a slumber party at my house." All around her, her friends was liking the idea.
"That is a marvellous idea!" Rarity exclaimed. "I always enjoyed our evening get togethers that we used to have."
"Yeah! And do you still have those really comfy pillows?" Fluttershy ask to which Pinkie nods and went "Mm Hmm!"
Once it was settled and everyone decide to spend the night at Pinkie's house, Twilight packed away the book into her bag and was planning on her preparations for the night. There are at least one or two people that she would like to have at that slumber party as well.
_ _ _ _ _
Meanwhile, at another part of school, Adagio, Aria and Sonata were strolling down the halls and gleefully watching the strong tension between the students. The more aggression that they see, the bigger the smirk that was Adagio's face. While Aria and Sonata were perfectly content with what they did, they weren't as exited as Adagio was and finding her behaviour a bit creepy.
They stop by some lockers and Adagio says to them: "Can you look at this? Within a few short moments, we turned this pleasant little school to our own feeding ground of anger and aggression."
"Wait! I thought anger and aggression were the same thing?" Sonata asked, knocking Adagio off of her mood.
Remaining calm, Adagio told her and Aria: "The point being, we should be proud by how fast we made all of this happen."
But then Aria interjected: "Yeah, but even all of this won't restore all of our powers."
"Yes, but just enough for us to help us find the TRUE magical source here."
But then, as Adagio was about to went back to admiring their work, a sudden voice calls out to all of them. "Hey You Guys!" When they all were startled and see who it was, they all saw Sunset Shimmer and was nonchalantly leaning my a wall.
Surprised, Adagio says to her: "OH! Sunset! Surprised to see you here!?"
Sunset replied: "Oh you know; just want to see how the new students that I shown around were doing." While they all were still surprised, she went a bit closer and says: "I saw what you did in the gym and I honestly quite like your performance."
Upon hearing the nice compliment, Sonata cheerfully responded: "Oh thank you."
Sunset then adds: "But it's shame that nobody else seems to appreciated it. It's like everybody just wants to be angry for no adequately explained reason?"
"Yeah, that somehow always happen when we sing" Adagio non-discreetly relied.
But then, as they were trying to have a nice conversation, Aria quickly spotted something about Sunset. "And yet, you don't seem to act like anybody else?"
Adagio soon picked up what Aria had realized too became suspicious towards Sunset. "Yeah, that does seem a bit odd?"
Sunset was slightly startled. She wasn't prepared to be quickly suspected by them. However, she keep her cool and try to be mysterious towards them. "Hmm! I wonder why's that?"
"Let's see: Does the name "Equestria" ring any bells?" Adagio asks.
Again, Sunset was surprised by how fast that they figured her out, But she retained her persona and ask back: "Well that depends: you not happen to be into "Revenge against Equestria" are you?"
This time, the other girls were the ones who were shocked. Not only did Sunset not try to deny where she came from, but also seem to be on the same wavelength as them. Adagio and Sunset then began to stare at one another and try to decipher what the other is thinking. However, this means that Sunset's plan had worked as they invited her to hang out after school.
_ _ _ _ _
Later that evening, most of the Rainbooms were at Pinkie Pie's house and they all were enjoying themselves. Nearly all of them were at the kitchen as they were picking out snacks to bring it up to the bedroom. Fluttershy was by the fridge and was surprised by all of the whip cream that she found. AJ was searching through the pantry and found other delectable treats that they could have. And meanwhile, Pinkie Pie was with her sister: Maud Pie and tells her: "Thanks a lot sis for letting my friends hang out here tonight while mom and dad are away."
"No problem" Maud reply in a monotone voice. "Just don't make too much noice when Boulder is trying to sleep." (For those who are unaweare, Boulder is Maud's pet rock).
Meanwhile, while Applejack had her arms full of snakes, she spotted Rarity jotting some stuff down in her sketchbook. Curious, she went over to her and ask: "What are you doing there Rarity?"
Rarity reply: "Oh! This? Oh I'm just designing our outfits for our performance. It doesn't matter if it's a showcase or a battle of the band, nothing will stop from making my friends fabulous costumes to wear."
However, after seeing what she drawn, AJ tells her: "I appreciated the sentiment Rarity, but these are musical events. People aren't going to care what we wear."
However Rarity quickly responded: "Really!? So I don't suppose you mind going on stage with your p.j's on, would you dear?" Applejack was about to interject, but quickly stopped herself as she did admit to herself that that does sound pretty silly. As she couldn't come up with anything else to say, all she could is just stare angrelly at Rarity who was smirking at her small victory.
A few moments later, as everyone was taking the snakes upstairs, they all heard a knock at the door. "Coming!" Pinkie delightfully cry out. When Pinkie arrived and open the door, she was pleasently suprised to see that it was Twilight.
"Hello" Twilight greeted cheerfully.
"TWILIGHT!" cry all of her friends by the door. Rainbow then appeare at the top of the stairs after playing a few games and says to her: "Hey, what took you so long?"
Twilight reponce was: "Sorry you guys, but I just felt like bringing along a guest. At first, everyone were confused by who she meant and some were wondering if she meant Flash Sentry. However, Twilight moved out of the way and revealed that it was her dog Spike.
"Hey everyone! How are you all doing tonight?" said Spike as her imagined what her said in his head.
Upon seeing the cute little puppy dog again, both Rarity and Fluttershy cry out "Spike!" in an over excited joy and shushes over to pet. As he was being petted by all sides, Spike moaned: "Hey! Hey! Give Me Some Space! I'm just one dog."
After everyone had a chance to pet him, Twilight asked her friends: "Hey! Has Sunset Shimmer arrived yet?"
And then all of the happy noises in the house suddenly stopped. Everyone began looking at each other and slowly realize that none of them had even thought about her. When Twilight realized about this too, she then became concerned and worried about her friends. Rarity tell Twilight: "Well you see Twilight; I think some of us did try texting her and asking her to come, but we haven't got anything back from her."
"Strange?" a concerned Twilight remarks. "I couldn't get in contact with her either?"
"Maybe she didn't wanna come?" Applejack suggested.
But Twilight then responded: "No, if she wasn't able to come, I'm sure she would let us know about it."
Agreeing with Twilight, Pinkie then thought out loud: "Hmm!? I wonder what she must be doing instead?"
_ _ _ _ _
Meanwhile, in a dinner on the other end of town, Sunset was handing with Adagio, Aria and Sonata by one of the tables. The atmospher felt tense for her as she was sitting with the three girls that turned her school into a battle field. However, she try to be cool and just pretend to be their friend. She then spotted a waitress who gave Sonata a hot cup of co-co which she had ordered earlier. As she was sipping it, Sunset ask Sonata: "Are the drinks really that good?"
After drinking a mouth full, Sonata replied: "Oh yes. That's one of the reasons I like coming to this dinner."
As Sunset was trying to establish a small connection to Sonata, Adagio quickly grab both of their attentions by snapping her fingers and getting them to face her. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever. So Sunset; you said you were ALSO banished from Equestia?"
Muster up whatever discontent that she have and pretend to be angry, Sunset tells them: "Oh yes, that was the worst. Right when I thought I claimed my victory, the princesses brought out magical new weapon that I never saw before and then swiftly defeated me."
Curious and a little bit doubtful, Aria ask her: "What did you do? Grab a magical amulet to boost your powers?"
"No. I stole one of THEIR amulets and use it to mind control the populace." Both Aria and Adagio believed her and they both became impressed with Sunset. Sunset then adds: "After they send me here, I try to take Canterlot High with whatever magic that I have left. But again, more goodie two-shoes show up and foiled my plans again."
Adagio sighed and remarks: "Yeah... Seems like those goodie-goods always seems to bring new stuff out of nowhere just to defeat us."
"I'm assuming that you have previous experiance with that happening?" asked Sunset curiously.
"You can say that again" Aria remarked.
Sunset was sort of happy with how the things are going. Not only are she getting onto friendly terms with all of them, but they are slowly opening themselves up to her. In order to get them to talk more, Sunset leans forward, grab all of their attention and says to them: "Look, if we really want to work together and find a way to get our full powers back, don't you think we should share what we know and learn more stuff about the other?"
Adagio, Aria and Sonata all became very cautious and nervous. They all look at Sunset and couldn't tell if she's genuinly on their side or not. They do definatly believe some of her stuff as they know that she's pretty infamous around the school and everybody seems to hate her. But as they are looking at her, they could sort of tell that she's trying to learn more about them. After sharing a glance to each other, Adagio cautiously reply to Sunset: "Sure... We'll tell you where we came from."
Inside, Sunset was finally excited as she had gotten them to talk.
_ _ _ _ _
Meanwhile, back at the party, all the girls were hanging out in Pinkie's room and having a good time. Applejack and Rainbow were finished playing a video game and AJ won before Rainbow Dash could turn off the consol. Twilight and Pinkie were laying on a the bed and sharing a box of pizza and Fluttershy is by a mountain of plushies and giving Spike a fuss.
And then, Rarity then got everyone's attention as she want to take a photo with everyone. She managed to get Twilight, Fluttershy and Pinkie Pie into a huddle and got a picture with them with her phone. However, when they all take a look at the photo, they notice Spike in the background doing a goofy face. Everyone else found it funny while Rarity found it annoying and unsatisfying. She then try to get a photo of AJ and Rainbow Dash, but Spike photobombs that photo too.
After everyone had a laugh to Rarity's expense, Twilight could only wished that Sunset was there with them. And when that thought went into her head, a sudden surge of sombre flood across her body. She remember her saying that she isn't so sure that the rest of their friends like her and just trying to be polite to her. And as Twilight look at her friends right now, she notice that none of them seem to miss her.
Fluttershy, noticing that Twilight wasn't looking happy, ask her: "What's wrong Twilight?"
When everyone's eyes were on Twilight, she ask them: "If I... didn't joined the band or one of use couldn't perform, would you all really let Sunset play with you guys?"
Everyone else in the room paused. They all want to say yes, but they know that they would be very hesitant about it and very reluctant. As Twilight was getting upset by how long her friends was forced to think, Pinkie quickly says to her: "Of course we would Twilight! What made you think that?"
"It just that you all don't seem to care if Sunset is with us or not" she replied. "She's starting to think that you all still don't like her." When she said that, everyone in the room slowly began feeling a bit guilty.
Applejack then turn her body around to face Twilight and she tells her: "I'll be honest with you Twilight: we still find it weird that Sunset wants to hang with us." When Twilight became surprised and yell out "What!", AJ explains: "It's just that Sunset had been a bully to us since freshmen year and she did some really nasty stuff to get what she did."
"Plus there is the fact that she is some sort of magic pony from an alternate universe and turned into a raging she demon to take over the school" Rainbow added that gained weird looks from her friends. "What!? It's the truth."
Applejack then sighed and says: "And the truth is that we don't hate Sunset, It's just we're finding it hard to forgive her yet."
When she heard that, Twilight became overcame with sadness and distraught. Not wanting to see her like that, Fluttershy got up close to her and says to her: "Don't worry Twilight. We know that Sunset has changed and trying to make amends. We just need a little more time to get use to her, that's all." Even though was still upset with her friends, she did find Fluttershy's words comforting and guess that this is only natural.
Still wanting to comfort her, Pinkie Pie added: "And the only real reason we started the band was so we can show off that we still have magic." But then, when she heard herself speak, something clicked in Pinkie's brain and shot up in realization. When her friends became surprised by her sudden action, Pinkie ask everyone: "Hang On! Shouldn't we had mentioned that to the ponies of Equestria?"
Very quickly, all her friends realized the same thing. They couldn't believe that they forgot to mention that and only now they remembered that have powers. Feeling a sudden urge to fix that mistake, Rainbow ask Twilight: "Twilight! Did you bring the book!?"
"Of Course I Did" she reply as she began searching the room for her bag. As everyone began their manhunt for Twilight's bag, Spike was sitting patiently in a corner. He felt slightly embarrassed as they all searching the wrong areas of the room. Founding it under a pile of pillows, he barked at everyone: "Hey! You Left It Over Here!" When they all saw that Spike has the bag, they all felt embarrassed that the dog found it while they couldn't. "Thank Spike" says Twilight as she pet Spike on the head.
Twilight soon got her back and everyone crowd around her as she takes out the book. But when she does, everybody became surprised when they saw the book glowing vibrating. Shocked, Twilight ask out loud: "Wha... What it's doing?"
"Well in my experience; phones vibrate when they get a message" replied Rarity.
Everyone was confused and not sure what this means. However, Twilight sucked up her courage and began flicking through the pages. Eventually, she found the page where she written and notice that the page after had a message. The Equestrian's had gotten their message and had replied to them. Excitement and anxiety was pulsing through the girls bodies as they couldn't believe that they gotten a message from another world. Calming herself, Twilight began reading out the message.
Dear Sunset Shimmer,
I have received your message and I'm here to help. While I would like to know how have you been, I did some digging and I think I know who those girls might be. Aeons ago, during Equestria's early days, three magical creatures appeared called the sirens. They were beautiful but dangerous creatures that could charm ponies with their music. But in order to maintain that powers, they must feast on the negativity and distrust of others. The more of this negative energy they consumed, the stronger their voices became, and the farther they could spread their dark magic.
They would have conquered Equestria with if they were left unchecked. However, one of Equestria's greatest wizards: Star Swirl the Bearded discovered their plans and tries to stop them. He fought them with everything that he got, but everyone loved the sirens voices and he was outmatched. In a last ditched effort, he sucked the sirens through a magic portal, to another world without magic and no one had saw them since.
If they are attacking your school, they must be after something to regain their full power. My best advice for you Sunset is to free everyone from the negativity and cut the sirens off from their fuel source. Don't forget that your friends can support you and get you through things. I believe you can do it.
From: Princes Celestia
When Twilight finished reading, everyone was taken back and began to process what they learned. At the same time, Sunset had also heard the same story from Adagio and even she was left speechless. After a long pause, Rainbow Dash thought out loud: "Wow... I can't believe Pinkie was right with that siren thing."
"I KNOW, RIGHT!?!?" yelled out Pinkie who was equally as surprised.
The girls then stood up and began to think it this. While Twilight started to pace around the room and was lost in thought, everyone else was having a discussion. "So what do we do now?" ask Fluttershy.
"What can we do!?" Applejack responded. "Princess Celestia said that "Star-Beard" only won because he pushed them all through a portal."
Pinkie yell out:"OOH! We Have A Portal!" But then she realizes and added: "Oh wait. It's close now for another year."
As everyone was left puzzled, something finally clicked inside Twilight's head. "That's It!" she yelled, startling the rest of her friends. She turns to them and says: "Remember what they said; The sirens could only retain their power if they feed on negativity. If cut off their fuel source, they will be totally powerless!"
"But how do we do that?" Fluttershy asked.
Her response was: "We may not be wizards, but we still have magic. We just need to know how to use free everyone from their spell."
"Oh Yeah!" said Pinkie as she remembered. Everyone was beginning to like her, however, Applejack then says to Twilight: "I hate to break it to you Twilight, but we can only use them if we play our music."
After think about it for a bit, Twilight then tells them: "I guess we got no other choice, we have to enter the battle of the bands." She explains: "Not only everyone to her use play, but it's also the place to cure everyone from their anger."
Rainbow Dash remarks: "I like it. It's kind of like fighting fire with fire."
AJ says to Rainbow: "I would disagree with that remark, but it the best plan we got. So... Yeah Let Do This!"
Once they all agree, they then got into a group huddle. After a small countdown, they shot their arms in the air and shouts: "GO RAINBOOMS!"
_ _ _ _ _
Back at the dinner, Sunset was finishing processing the sirens story. "Wow" she said. "So... you're doing all of this to get your full powers back?"
"Not quite" Adagio replied. "We can still feed and we can still manipulate people to some degree, but unless we get out hands on true Equestrian magic, that is about all that we can do."
So, Sunset quickly realized what they need: her friends. They are the only ones in the school who still have magic and if they could get their hands, she doesn't even want to imagine what they would do. All that Sunset thought it that if she could play nice with them find their weakness, she could pass it along her friends. She thought that plan could go smoothly until...
"So who is it?" Adagio ask.
"What!?"
"We know about your failed attempt to take over the school so you must know who stopped you" She explains. "So again; who is it at that school that have magic powers."
Sunset froze. She didn't expect to be asked that question and now she is stuck between a rock and a hard place. And as she was umming and ahhing: Aria then added: "And don't try to lie to us. We'll know by the sound of your voice." And now Sunset felt even more stress and she is told that can't lie. As all of their eyes were on her, Sunset was put in a very difficult decision.