-Adagio's House
-GemTech SpyCam #008 POV

Adagio was furious that she'd failed to get ElectroGem out of the Battle of the Bands in both the audition AND the Quarter-Final. If only she hadn't threatened her band mates...until she remembered that the Crystal of the Night could do anything she wanted it to, and hopefully that included erasing memories. She spoke to the gem again, ready with a command.

"How can I help you tonight, Adagio?" the Obsidian Fury asked from inside the gem.*

"First off, do you have the ability to erase memories?" she responded.

"Like I said before, I can perform any actions you wish. Just tell me what it is you want me to do."

"In that case, official command: I wish for you to erase memories of Obsidian Dazzle from Aria and Sonata."

"It shall be done!" With that, the gem began to glow brightly as the Obsidian Fury waved his sceptre. No sooner had he done this, Aria and Sonata appeared in front of Adagio. Red rings formed around their heads going outwards as Obsidian Dazzle was sucked from their minds. In her place, Obsidian left behind her Siren form and even went an extra mile as to make it look like Aria and Sonata were always on her side. He completely erased them being with ElectroGem from EVERYONE'S memories, replacing them with astral projections of Diamond's Pokemon friends.** In turn, he reconfigured everyone's memories to make it look like the astral projections of the Dazzlings she made were actually real. When the deed was done, the gem's glow went back to normal and the backup singers for the Dazzlings were warped into their respective beds in the next room.

"Thanks, Obby. You've really helped me out, as usual," she said, before letting out a short yawn. "Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm off to bed myself. But beforehand...can you make me look normal again?"

"*sigh* I don't like it, but sure." he replied, waving his sceptre once more. Adagio's body, hair and genetics reverted back to normal within seconds as red light travelled up her body. The gem finally went out, signalling that Obsidian had gone to sleep inside the gem. However, Adagio still had magical abilities. She snapped her fingers, which removed her regular clothes and replaced it with her sleepwear. She then headed to her room.

Diamond didn't have enough beds for everyone in his porta-home, so a lot of the ElectroGem members had to sleep on the floor. It didn't help that Sunset was the one who had been selected to share the bed with him that night. Diamond had trouble falling asleep already, but being with someone who snored made it even worse. While trying to fight back, however, he heard a faint voice from the gem around his neck: the Crystal of the Day.

"Having trouble, are we now?"

Diamond silently freaked out, as he didn't want to disturb anyone. Not that he was going to anyway, as it was near midnight.

"Do not worry, Diamond. It's me, the Diamond Angel."

"I'm always here to help you, and all you have to do is ask."

'I remember how this works. Think you could clog my ears for a start?' Diamond thought. No sooner had this been done, he immediately felt his ears fill with mana, rendering him near deaf. 'Actually, forget clogging my ears,' he said, remembering finally that he had his own powers. He snapped his fingers, creating a soundproof barrier around him, inside AND out. The mana drained from his ears seconds later.

"Alright, so...I see that the Obsidian Fury is now under new management," she said. "Well, think you could come to the Mana Zone, and we'll talk more there?"

"Maybe tomorrow, my fair angel," Diamond replied. "But, I'm gonna keep the soundproof barrier up so I can ACTUALLY get some sleep."

"You flatter me too much, Diamond. Well, see you tomorrow," she said, before the gem went out. Diamond was then finally able to sleep, due to keeping that barrier up.

-THE NEXT DAY...-

Diamond was nudged awake, due to not being able to hear anything. The bad thing was that he was half an hour late, but luckily he rewound time to prevent this ever happening and got himself through one more difficult day. He'd be out of there as soon as the Crystal of the Night was either destroyed or neutralised safely. Right now, though, he had to take out Trixie. The Rainbooms had been eliminated in the quarter finals, meaning ElectroGem was their only hope to beat Adagio. Up first was his opposition: Trixie and the Illusions. As per usual, the song that they'd be playing was Tricks up my Sleeve, which was probably the only song they knew. Diamond was kinda going off of a hunch there, but that was his theory. He knew the hard guitar solo he was gonna perform combined with his impressive rap skills was going to decimate Trixie.

"Alright, semis. Think that 'The Diamond Chronicles' is gonna be a winner?" Diamond asked.

"What do you mean, darling?" Rarity responded. "We've conquered every opponent up until now, why do you have doubts?"

"Not that I have doubts, but this is one of my...how do I put this...less good songs," he said. "I didn't write this well..."

"But we can still pull in a victory. Don't beat yourself up about it, Diamond," Sunset reassured him. "After all, I've been in the same spot as you have."

"You're right, Sunset. I just need to cool my jet boosters. We got this!" he exclaimed. The song came to a halt just then, and the Illusions stepped off.

"Beat that, guys." Trixie said as she walked by. "I doubt you will." Diamond could hardly hold onto his anger any longer, but he kept cool. The band walked on stage, and The Diamond Chronicles started up.

*light guitar*

[Diamond]:
"I see the days go by the way I like it...
But all I seem to be is all alone...
That's why I got my friends right here beside me-e...
And the daily blues will come into an end!
YEAH!"

*guitar intensifies*

[Diamond]:
"Think you got what it takes to brush me?
Then let's see you pull out a victory!
Oh wait, you can't! As it is foretold
As the Diamond here is sweet and bold!"

"You wanna take a fight, well, step to me!
When I'm done, you'll call me 'Your Majesty!'
But as the sun falls down, we don't go far,
And it's time to coat this day in tar."

[Rarity]:
"You think that you know me,
That I'm weak, like I'm glass that needs holding,
Well, we end the delusion today!

[ElectroGem]:
"Come on dude, let's see what you got!
When you suck it up, we'll kick you in the butt!
You're gonna suck my ####, like the chronicles told,
Yeah the Diamond Chronicles don't lie, bro!

*Diamond's epic guitar solo*

In the middle of the solo, a little bit of Equestrian magic began to emerge from his body. Rainbow Dash acted fast, quickly unplugging his amp and the music immediately stopped. In that horrible moment of utter embarrassment, he exploded in fury and charged towards Rainbow Dash, letting loose with a flurry of lightning-fast attacks. You could almost see the blood in his eyes as he beat the living hell out of RD. But he didn't stop there and charged at anyone who got in his sight afterwards. At that point, a small blue anthropomorphic hedgehog sped in and was able to restrain Diamond before he got in any more trouble. A hedgehog of the same height, black and red quills and also a human-like build, closely followed by one of silver appeared moments later to help the newcomer. These were some of Diamond's Mobian friends. The rest would be following shortly.

"Easy there, Diamond! We can't have you like this!" the blue one, Sonic, said. Diamond didn't exactly seem to hear him, and continued trying to fight his way out of the grip of three anthropomorphic hedgehogs, one of them using psychic powers.

"You know, Shadow, you could always use your Chaos powers to do this, instead of using your hands," the silver one said.

"My Chaos powers can't do that, Silver. I'd like to see YOU do it this way," Shadow insulted rashly. "I know you're from the future and all, but..."

"Shut up, Shadow!" Sonic called. With a situation like this unfolding, Adagio could absorb more dark mana into her crystal. Diamond realised this quickly and was able to snap himself back into reality. He then disappeared into the Mana Zone and defeated the three creatures of living mana attempting to corrupt his Mobian friends, which was surprisingly easy since they hadn't had time to manifest. He then popped back into reality, seeing the damage he had caused.

"Oh...uh...ouch. Seriously. Ouch..." Diamond said to himself, noticing how badly everyone had gone. "My cyborg protocol has been violated...I regret any distress I may have caused."

"You got mad, we understand," Celestia said from off-stage. "We can't blame you."

"Never mind THAT, look what he did to Rainbow Dash!" Sunset called. She was in NO condition to play the finals and ElectroGem was getting DQ'd for sure, but Diamond thankfully had one last trump card. He snapped his fingers quickly, erasing the past few minutes from memory of everyone nearby, rewinding time and COMPLETELY fixing the damage he'd done. The only ones he'd spared were the Mane 7 and Team Sonic. He then pulled out his guitar once again, walking onstage. He had something different planned for the next round: something with a bit of feeling to it.

"This song goes out to my robot friend from another world." Diamond said. "My dear Roll, I hope you're listening intently to my every word, and as I strum my guitar..." he began to blush a little. "Uh...n-never mind. Let's just do this thing."

ONE BRILLIANT SONG LATER...

"The band that will be joining the Dazzlings in the finale is..."

Trixie smirked, thinking that Diamond's love song had cost him the game. "ElectroGem!"

"YES!" Diamond yelled at the top of his lungs. Trixie just stood shocked, then tossed a smoke bomb and left in rage.

"Nice one, dude! I guess love really DOES conquer all." Sonic congratulated. "How long's it before the final round?"

"According to my sources, two weeks." Diamond said. "We got JUST enough time to fix some spirits and charge my gem to the fullest."

"Well, let's not waste any time, then." Shadow said, grumpy as always. "What you thinking in the meantime?"

"Well, we got two weeks. We'll use the first to hold a couple concerts across this world, then the second to practice our counter-spell." Diamond planned out. "I got some MAD respect and can get us anything we want. I'll get us the next two weeks off school, then explain that ElectroGem's joining forces with the Rainbooms."

"Sounds good, Diamond." Sunset said. "Let's put our plan into action."

[Adagio's House]
[GemTech SpyCam #008 POV]

"AAARGH!" Adagio yelled. "We just can't beat them and now they're in the finals!"

"Cool your jets, Adagio." Sonata said. "They can't be THAT powerful right now."

"Not ALL of them, but one of them, and he's got enough power to foil this plan for good."

"Well, you've got a lot of power yourself. What say we perform a little bit for the first week and get that gem of yours fully charged?"

"Sounds like a plan, Sonata. Then we have the second week to get back to grips with Welcome to the Show. Sorry if I woke you earlier. People like us need sleep to keep our brains in gear to keep the plan working. I'm headed to bed." She snapped her fingers, changing her into her sleepwear and popped a note on Celestia's desk, which she'd see tomorrow morning. It said they'd need to miss the next two weeks, but be back just in time for the finals. Sonata, already getting tired again, ended up dozing on the spot, with Adagio changing her outfit and warping her to bed. But she didn't head to her room. Instead, she warped outside and lit a cigarette. She smoked that down for a bit, then headed back inside and went to sleep.

Author's Note

*If you didn't read the last chapter, we learned that the Obsidian Fury is the base form of Obsidian Dazzle trapped inside the Crystal of the Night.

**The reason Pokemon isn't mentioned as a series in this journal is because this is one of the only times they're mentioned.