Evil Empire

This is an epilogue. Readers, who are looking for any more reasonable plot buildup should quit reading here. Then again, assuming you even made it this far, you've likely been mislead all along.

- (probably not) Shakespeare

Having lost their superpowers in one of the least ways anticipated - interior intervention, that was - the Dazzlings seemed to be stuck at a dead end with no way out. It wasn't until Adagio's and Aria's paths crossed again, years later, that they made peace with each other. While this newly found unity didn't fix their voices, it certainly did give both girls some of their motivation back. Willing to participate in the world of music once more, they went straight ahead, founding a highly commercialized rap duo, while marketing their music worldwide. Seven platinum, and many more golden records would prove once again that no trace of talent or creativity would ever be required for mainstream music, ever.

Sonata didn't partake in any of her former partners' endeavors. She had given turned away from her music completely, in the meantime, willing to try a new path in life. Eventually, she decided on dedicating herself to another field more fit for her strengths. Her somewhat convincing charisma, combined with having no idea on what was happening around herself most of the time, narrowed her choices down to exactly one ideal career opportunity - politics.

After wasting several unexciting years in congress, Sonata ended up being elected the first female president approximately twenty-five years after the battle of the bands concluded. She served two successive terms, being re-elected by a landslide. During eight years of power, she managed to efficiently increase national debt, while simultaneously lowering the GDP by 16%, crashing Wall Street twice, and losing three completely irrational wars against Islamism in Yemen, Morocco, and Estonia.

Needless to say, the GOP still considered her presidency a complete and overwhelming success.

Trixie finally realized her true talent and potential, as she turned away from rock music in her very own way. She later went on to become a professional stage magician. That way, Trixie kept her audiences entertained, and her own finances floating. Her career lived long and prosper, even bringing her to a certain local fame.

She did, however, also spark some controversies. At the age of 27, she would use her first ever live television appearance to demonstrate the morally questionable Hat out of a Bunny trick. The overall performance resulted in 413 lawsuits against the TV station for motivating domestic violence, and a livelong ban from said station's shows for Trixie.

Fed up with her old life, the people around her, and literally everything else in Canterlot, Vinyl Scratch decided to start her existence from scratch. Which sounds ironic, considering that's been her family name for all her live. Not that any of it was ever her intention.

Vinyl went ahead to finish the final few weeks of her junior year, before ultimately quitting high school. Collecting all the money she had saved from her Saturdays' job, she moved out of the city by August. Most people never got to know about her destination - which, admittedly she wasn't so sure about herself at the time. To this day, her whereabouts remain a mystery. According to the few people still close to her, Vinyl converted to Buddhism after moving out, and decided to spend the rest of her days meditating in a lone log cabin high up in the Rocky Mountains.

One of these people is named Steve. He's not special or anything. He just so happens to work for a delivery service in Denver, which ships a pepperoni pizza and a diet coke to said log cabin each Tuesday.

Flash Sentry remained dead because death is permanent.

Trixie's mom lived happily ever after for most of her days. Of course, there weren't exactly many of them, since she died from food poisoning a few years later. Strangely enough though, she never got sued for blowing someone's head off in front of hundreds of people.

The reason for that was everyone's complete ignorance of Flash Sentry even attending the stadium on that night. He had never officially been released from the hospital, but instead managed to put his overseer in a coma before escaping.

Said overseer should have reported to his superior later that day. However, he was on vacation at the time, and his substitute was on maternal leave since that morning. Which is rather unusual for a man in his forties, but his insurance didn't check on his file for about another week, anyway.

Papers concerning Sentry's death were never filled out, and the entire case somehow got lost in the chaos. Two FBI officials from Los Alicorns would take up the files years later, but Trixie's mom was long gone by that time. They also got abducted by aliens, so the entire case would never be resolved completely.

Bureaucracy.

Two weeks after the battle of the bands, Trixie's mom caused a brief incident at the local bowling alley. During this, she accidentally slipped, while trying to toss a ball. Instead of knocking down some pins, she ended up placing the same effect on the place's current intern, another CHS student. Luckily, the girl only received a minor trauma, though  she went on to suffer from strange hallucinations for weeks.

After being released from the sirens' spell, Principal Celestia couldn't remember a thing that happened ever since the three girls had first entered her school. However, she did have to realize the entire student body now being two weeks behind schedule. None of her employees had any reasonable explanation for that.

Whatever she tried to bulge it out, at the end of that year, almost no-one at CHS had gotten ready to pass their SATs. Celestia's caffeine consummation reached truly questionable heights in the meantime.

Vice-principal Luna was quickly faced with similar issues. Yet, unlike her sister, she decided to rather not face them. Shortly after the battle of the bands, she quit her job, planning to become a professional artist. At the usage of her new stage name, Nightmare Moon, she founded her own gothic metal band.

Their success did remain limited. Aside from a TV interview with that one bearded guy from the Hangover movies, Luna never quite managed to hit the big screen.

Time Turner remained at CHS for a few more years until one day he stepped into a mysterious blue box, and disappeared without a trace. The remaining staff found themselves unable to see any reason behind this, since none of them normally watch British television.

The nerd kid, whom Trixie insulted in the cafeteria after her unsuccessful trolling attempt, did indeed manage to straighten out his life later on. Smart investments, and the correct lottery ticket would make him a billionaire only months after his own graduation.

He also became Batman, thus making him the officially most badass character in this story. There will be no questioning this.

Any other people, mentioned whenever, were deemed unimportant side characters, and will not appear in this list any further. That also accounts for the Rainbooms.

In short, and after that night at the stadium, our heroes and villains decided to split up. While none of them had initially planned to do so, it was merely a logical consequence emerging from their forthcoming actions. Some of them went straight ahead to be happy, successful, and generally go far in life. Others...not so much. Somehow, history has its own plan for each and every one of us.

That's the way it has always been, the way it is, and the way it always will be.

Because war...war never changes. Or something like that.