The New Student

"Welcome to the first ever Canterlot High School Battle of the Bands. I do believe I speak for everyone when I say it is by far the greatest thing we have ever done here at this school." Principal Celestia announced as everyone cheered in agreeance with her.

"It could have been better." Aldon said to his friends as they nodded.

"We are so glad our three newest students encouraged us to turn this event to something exciting." She said.

"But as this is a competition, we can only choose one winner." Vice Principal Luna said as everyone started glaring at one another. "Who is it going to be?" she said as everyone then started arguing with anyone around them.

Later, the Battle of the Bands Auditions began.

There was bands after bands with this, then came the two boys who had a pair of scissors and a snail on their shirts with them dressed as rappers were on the stage.

They both started beatbox.

They dropped their mic which caused feedback that some people covered their ears from the sound

"Please do not drop the microphones."

They left the stage as Snips said, "In your face Rainbooms."

Aldon put his beanie back in place, "Finally, I thought they were never gonna shut up."

"Next up, The Rainbooms."

"Let's get ready to rock!"

"Wait! Where's Rarity?"

"Here, I'm here." Rarity said walking to them wearing a jacket with shiny material making El slightly hypnotized.

"We will be performing in front of an audience, I'm not going to wearing something fabulous?"

The Rainbooms got on the stage as they were getting ready to play, but they were talking about what they need to do during the battle if they get in.

"What do you think they're saying?"

"I don't know."

Danto and his friends walked to the backstage to see what was going on.

"What do you guys think?" Danto asked.

"Uncalled for, considering what happened."

"Train wreck by the middle."

"I couldn't watch anymore."

Danto sighed "Should've saw those response coming."

They made it with the others when they were arguing with what happened.

"And what's with the confetti Pinkie Pie? How am I supposed to shred when there's paper stuck in my frets?"

"It was pretty distracting."

"Ugh! Says the girl who was running from a light the whole time. A light!"

"You still much better than most of other bands, I'm sure you'll make it to the next round. But it won't matter if you don't have that counter spell ready." Sunset said looking at Twilight. "You all find a place to practice where the Sirens can't hear you. I'll keep an eye on things around here."

The next band had 3 girls with different instruments. One had a cow bell, one had a triangle, and the last one had a musical saw. They started playing as it gave El chills down his spine.

"Augh. Got chills for a second there."

Sunset turned to who said that. "Hey guys."

"Hey Sunset, where did the Rainbooms go to?"

"They went to go practice where the Sirens can't hear them."

"Got it."

"I'm gonna go check on them, watch the competition here. If you get called up, play and wait until I or the Rainbooms get back."

"Okay..."

Sunset walked out the doors to find the Rainbooms, Clem looked out to the audience and noticed something off.

"Hey guys," he said as his friends turned to him, "Weren't the Dazzilings on the bleachers?"

"Uh oh."

"Thank you, next up, the Shredders of Light."

"Well, we can't worry about that now. We need to play."

"Got it. Let's get setup and get this done."

They got their instruments and started getting set up. When they got everything ready, they were trying to think of a song to play to get in the battle.

"What should we do? The song we practiced won't be enough."

They pondered, then Danto got a song. "I got one, follow my lead."

Danto played 2 strums of his guitar twice and played a riff. El got the idea and followed up on drums and so did Clem. They started the song as it seems.

The crowd applauded for their performance and were cheering for what happened.

"That was great!" shouted El.

"Yeah, It had to be enough to get us in the competition."

"What now?"

"Let's get away from here before the Dazzlings are up, we can't get under the spell, no matter what."

"Got it."

They walked into the hallways and walked around to get away when the Dazzlings were going to be up.

"Next up, Trixie and the Illusions."

"Wait, aren't the Dazzlings next after them?"

"I think so."

"That's not really going to be good."'

As they turned the corner as Danto bumped into Rainbow.

"Hey Rainbow."

"Oh, hey Danto."

"You all heading back to the stage to play."

"Yeah, my band is going to win this competition."

"Our band, Rainbow." Applejack said.

"Well, good luck."

"Thanks, you too."

They walked the opposite directions as Danto and his friends tried to think of how they could help the Rainbooms break the spell.

"How could we help them with the counter spell?"

"Be the backup beat?"

"I don't think I'll really be a fan of that."

"Would that mean assisting them on vocals and the beat?"

"Sure, that sounds more like it."

"Alright, it's settled."

"Next up, The Dazzlings."

"Good thing we're not there."

"Yep."

After about 10 minutes of walking through the halls, the intercom rang as Principal Celestia announced, "Can the bands that are participate in the Battle return to the gym."

"Let's head there now."

"Yep."

They entered the Gym as Principal Celestia was going to announce what bands are in.

"Thank you for showing us what you all can do, but we can only choose 16 bands for this competition. They are The Dazzlings, the Rainbooms, Trixie and the Illusions, Flash Drive, MC Snips and Dj Snails, Octavia Melody, The Cutie Mark Crusaders, Photo Finish and the Snapshots, Bulk Biceps, Lyra Heartstrings and Sweetie Drops, the Diamond Dog Boys, Derpy and the Pony Pickers, the Green Cycle Band, iM>U, Tragic Comedy, and the Shredders of Light."

"Why are we last?"

"Don't know, don't think too much about it."