Applejack
(The Rainbooms are trapped under the amphitheater stage)
Give it up, Rainbow Dash. You’ve been tryin’ at this for hours, it’s not gonna open.
TS Twilight Sparkle
Maybe it doesn’t even matter that we’re trapped down here. I don’t think the counter-spell would’ve worked anyway.
Applejack
’Course it woulda worked, Twilight. (To Rainbow) Assumin’ a certain band member didn’t try to hog the spotlight the whole time we were tryin’ to play it!
Rainbow Dash
Hey! If you want to tell Twilight she’s getting a little too caught up trying to be the new leader of this band, you don’t have to be all cryptic about it.
R Rarity
She was talking about you, Rainbow Dash!
Rainbow Dash
Me? I’m just trying to make sure my band rocks as hard as it needs to.
AS All sans Twilight and Sunset
OUR BAND!
TS Twilight Sparkle
But why wasn’t it working? I should know what to do! How can I not know what to do? How can I have failed like this?
Applejack
It might have been your idea to start a band, but it’s not just your band, Rainbow Dash!
Rainbow Dash
I’m the one who writes all the songs!
F Fluttershy
I write songs, you just never let us play any of them!
R Rarity
I had the most perfect outfits for us to wear!
Applejack
Again with the costumes! No one cares what we’re wearin’!
R Rarity
I care, Applejack! So sorry if I enjoy trying to make a creative contribution to the band!
PP Pinkie Pie
Hey! Anybody here remember fun?! I’ll give you a hint: IT’S THE EXACT OPPOSITE OF BEING IN THE RAINBOOMS!!!
Rainbow Dash
I WISH I’D NEVER ASKED ANY OF YOU TO BE IN MY BAND!!!
R Rarity
I WISH I’D NEVER AGREED TO BE IN IT!!!
Applejack and Fluttershy
ME NEITHER!!!!!!
(They start to argue, and their negative energy wafts upward.)
PC Principal Celestia
This is a wonderful opportunity to raise money for all our after-school programs here at CHS. So keep working on those signs and posters. I think it's going to be one of the most exciting events we've had at CHS since the Fall Formal.
Sunset Shimmer
[The students started cheering for Sunset Shimmer]
What are they all cheering at?
Rainbow Dash
You! The chaotic invasion of the Fall Formal went perfectly.
PP Pinkie Pie
Yeah! You’re the popular queen of the hour!
Sunset Shimmer
The Fall Formal?....
Sunset Shimmer
[Flashback, people screaming as Sunset Shimmer, in demon form, destroys the school, then the scene cuts to Sunset attacking Twilight Sparkle in their last fight]
Oh... Yeah! I actually did became the Fall Formal princess in default and got away with it, so that's why the whole school is cheering for me! Yeah! [chuckles] I... I did that!
R Rarity
Oh, please. You could've done it without everyone that you've shown them what you're made of.
PP Pinkie Pie
And tried to turn everyone here into teenage zombies for your own personal army!
Sunset Shimmer
Right.... [in a quiet voice] What would I ever do without them......
Applejack
[Before the Rainbooms perform in the first round of the Battle of the Bands]
Least we know one group who won't stand in the way of us gettin' to the finals.
Sunset Shimmer
[sarcastically]
Hmph. Shocker.......
Rainbow Dash
Let's get ready to rock!
PP Pinkie Pie
Wait! Where's Rarity?
R Rarity
Oh! Here! I'm here! [panting]
R Rarity
[metal fringes jangling]
We will be performing in front of an audience. I'm not going to wear something fabulous? Hmph.
Applejack
Guh...
