The New Student

They all decided to head to head to a café called 'Sugarcube Corner' to talk about who the girls were.

"Oo, I do hate you had to return to a time of crisis. We have some much catching up to do."

"For starters, a certain blue haired guitar player was just asking about you."

"Flash Sentry was talking about me?!" Twilight said loudly when she shows that she liked Flash Sentry, she then cleared her throat and continued as if the small outburst didn't happened, "Isn't that nice."

"Perhaps you can give us the slightest gossip from your world." Rarity said taking a sip of her tea.

"She's got a official title now," Spike the dog said as he played the dog treat as a trumpet, "The Princess of Friendship!"

"Let me guess..." Danto was saying to Aldon.

"Yeah... he's a talking dog that's with the girl from Equestria that says he is a dragon."

"Got it."

"Wow, that's really impressive. I guess you really were Princess Celestia's prized pupil."

"She's even got her own castle." Spike added.

"A castle?! You have a castle?" Pinkie and Sunset looked at Rarity in surprise, not usually seeing her that excited. She cleared her throat before talking, "Oh, how lovely."

"What's new here? I mean besides your school being target by the dark magical creatures from Equestria."

"Yeah... So that isn't the only strange thing that happened when you left." Rainbow said pulling a video from her phone of her doing a guitar solo and 'ponying up' while playing. "Pretty sweet, huh? It happens to all of us when we play."

"Hm? My crown was returned to Equestria, but some of it's magic remained here in Canterlot High. Now that we're back together, we can use that magic and defeat the Sirens. Just like when we were able to use it on Sunset Shimmer when she turned into that horrifyingly awful winged monster." Twilight said as everyone looked at Sunset. "No offense."

"None taken. Heh, I'm used to it."

"They'll won't know what hit 'em." Rainbow said doing some karate moves. Applejack then caught a punch Rainbow threw in her direction as Danto and his friends looked in amazement from the moment.

"We got nothing to worry about, now that Twilight's back." said Applejack.

"Oh, I'm pretty sure I could find something to worry about. But it won't be the Sirens."

"The sooner we do this, the better. Any idea where the Dazzlings might be?"

Rarity and Sunset shook their head as Pinkie waved her hand showing that she knew where the Dazzlings should be. Pinkie drank her chocolate shake quickly with Danto and his friends being surprise she didn't get the old fashion brain freeze.

"There's a big party for all the bands that signed up for the showcase, that would include the Dazzlings." she said finishing the last bit of her shake on the straw.

"Well, we know where they're at now." El said.

"Looks like we've got a party to crash." Twilight said as she wiped some chocolate off of Pinkie face while Pinkie smiled. As they finished their drinks, they went back to the school to try and stop the Dazzlings from taking over. As they made it in the gym, they saw that the bands were there with everyone was upset with everyone else.

"Didn't expect the whole school to go under this much negativity." Aldon said.

"Well, let's wait for the Dazzlings to show up." Twilight said.

"You do that, we'll just observe what's going on." Rainbow then realized something seeing Danto and his friends in the gym also.

"Wait a minute. You guys aren't supposed to be here, unless..."

"Surprise."

"You guys are in the battle too?"

"Yep, we're helping you out defeat the Dazzlings."

"You don't know what you're up against."

"Twilight, when the Dazzlings sang in the cafeteria, we weren't affected and weren't having arguments like..." Danto leaned to Twilight. "Everyone here."

"Really?"

"Yeah."

"That's strange. I look at that when I go back to Equestria."

"Alright."

They went to the table full of snacks and punch in case some people get thirsty. Pinkie started eating the cookies they had on the table one by one.

As they observed the room, Danto found the person he doesn't appreciate, Flash Sentry. He saw him with a kid wearing a shirt with scissors on it puffing his chest out, giving Flash a free swing at him. Flash wound back and grabbed his cup, "I'm gonna get more punch."

Twilight walked toward Flash as Flash was walking to the punch bowl when they bumped into each other and Flash caught Twilight.

"Hey Aldon."

"What?" Aldon asked Danto as he saw Flash and Twilight, "You got to kidding me."

"Easy man. You'll get your moment, alright?"

Aldon forced a exhale. "You're right, I'll get my moment."

"Twilight?"

"Heh, bumped, into, always, doing."

"What are you doing here? You came for the big competition right?"

"More like 'saving' it." Aldon said.

"Something like that."

"Not there's going to be any real competition, nobody wants it as bad as my band."

Danto took a deep breath in and slowly exhaled.

The gym doors opened as the Dazzlings came in. Rainbow noticed them, she then grabbed a chocolate chip from a cookie Pinkie was about to eat and flicked it in Twilight's hair. Twilight wiped it off and turned to see what Rainbow wanted, Rainbow showed Twilight the Dazzlings were in the spot where they wanted them.

"Can you excuse me for just a minute?" Twilight said as she walked to where she can use the "Magic" to stop the Dazzlings.

Rainbow and her friends did the same, but Pinkie didn't know what to do with the cookies, so she grab as much as she can and stuff them in her hair.

Danto then thought of something, "Wait, guys." He said turning to his friends and getting their attention.

"Yeah, What is it Danto?"

"They said they 'pony up' when they play their instruments, right?" As Danto quoted Rainbow.

"Yeah?"

"Does that mean they're just going to stand there and have no 'magic' to help them at all?"

"Uh oh."

"That may be a good point, but this will be a bad result." Clem said.

"I can't watch humiliation." El said turning away from the direction he was facing and covering his eyes.

"Well, let's prepare for the one of the worst fails we've seen." Danto said forcing himself to watch them NOT stop the Dazzlings while he got his phone and press record.

"There isn't going be a Battle of the Bands! We're going to make sure of that!" Twilight and her friends joined hands to have the magic of friendship help them.

"Friendship is magic!" She shouted, but nothing happened in return.

"Oh no." Danto whispered.

"Why?" El whispered.

"Guess it didn't happened whatever they were goin' for." Clem whispered.

"Guess you were right Danto." Aldon whispered.

"This is so bad. It's worst then a fail, it's... it's stupid. They're just standing there." Danto whispered.

"Uh, weren't there rainbows and lasers and stuff last time?"

"I don't understand, we're all together again. Why isn't this working?"

Spike came out of Twilights bag and whispered, "You uh, really need to go ahead and do that whole 'Magic of Friendship' thing now."

"I'm trying Spike, I thought the 6 of us standing together against the Sirens would bring out the magic we need to defeat them. That's what happened before." Twilight whispered to Spike.

"Talk about throwing down the gauntlet, this group is obviously serious about winning. A little cocky though, aren't they? Claiming there won't really be a battle. It's seems they get this thing all, lock, up." Adagio said making more negativity to happen.

"Not if the Great and Powerful Trixie has anything to do with it." Trixie shouted.

"Whatever Trixie! We're the best band at CHS!" Flash said.

"No, the Crusaders are gonna win!" A small girl with a pink bow in her hair said.

Everyone started arguing and causing negativity the Sirens can use. The Dazzlings looked at Twilight and her friends and noticed they weren't arguing, they were looking at everyone else arguing. Twilight and her friends got out of the gym as fast as they could as Danto and his friends followed a little bit sooner so they weren't seen arguing as well.

"Are they out front?"

"Most likely."

"Come on." they left the school and found the others in front of the school on the stairs as Twilight was trying to figure out why the magic of friendship didn't help them this time.

"It doesn't make any sense. I've should've been able to create the spark to help us break their spell. That's how it worked before."

"But to defeat me, you drew magic from the crown I was wearing. The Sirens magic comes from their music, so maybe you have to use the same magic to defeat them. Or maybe not."

"No, I think you're onto something."

"Really?"

"It's only when you play music is when you transform right?"

"Yep, ears, tails, the whole sha-bang."

"So maybe the way to use that magic to defeat the Sirens is to play a musical counter spell."

"Musical counter spell?" El whispered to Clem as Clem shrugged not knowing what is going on.

"You mean, like a song?"

"Uh huh. And in order to free everyone who's been exposed to the Siren's spell, we'll need them all to hear it."

They all began to think on how they could get them all to hear the song. Rarity then knew where they can play the song, defeat the Sirens, and save the school once again, "The band competition. That the next time we can be certain that everyone will be in the same place at the same time."

"Guess the Rainbooms are the band to beat."

"And I believe you Twilight, became the Rainbooms newest member." Rarity said as her friends cheering for Twilight now being a part of the Rainbooms.

"So, what do you want to play? Triangle?", Pinkie asked as she went through different instruments, "Sousaphone?", she asked as she play a note from a sousaphone, "Theremin?", she asked get a instrument that can control pitch as she played it, "So magical.".

"Ooo, so spooky." El said.

"Shut up El." Aldon said as El chuckled.

"I might take a little too long to playing something with these." Twilight said moving her hands. "I'll just sing."

"Like, lead singer? 'Cause that's usually my thing, this being my band and all."

Danto then face palmed with Aldon shaking his head, Clem scratching the back of his head, and El taking a breath to what Rainbow saying "My Band" instead of something else like "Our Band."

"It's our band and, of course as lead singer, she's the one with the magical know how to help us pull this thing off."

"Okay, yeah that's cool. I'll just use this as a chance to hone my already insane good lead guitar skills."

"It's only temporary and we don't have to win the battle of the bands, we just have to perform in the first round of the competition."

"Then let's get to learning to that musical counter spell."

"Well, that's just it. I don't know any." Twilight said as her friends 'aww'd' thinking that it is over. "But I'm sure I can figure out how to write one."

"Totally," Spike said walking toward Twilight, "Twilight can write a spell like nobody's business, that's pretty much how she got to become a princess in Equestria."

"Technically, I help finished a spell. And there was a little more to it then that Spike."

"Yeah, whatever."

"I've got this." she said grabbing Spike and walking to the school.

"Where ya' goin'?" Applejack asked.

"Well, last time we were here, Spike and I spent the night in the library."

"Are you crazy?! We're besties now, sleepover party at my house!" Pinkie said hugging Twilight.