A Rainbow Reunion

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“We adore you!”

“We love you!”

“We worship you! We’ll do anything for you!”

The voices of adulation were coming not just from the crowd, but all around town. The Dazzlings were creating an army of obedient slaves—and they were doing it using the Equestria Girls’ own Magic of Friendship.

The Rainbooms were horrified.

“How can they be using our magic?” Applejack wondered. “It’s the Magic of Friendship, and they don’t understand anything about friendship.”

But Sunset Shimmer had been thinking about everything very carefully. “Ever since you started this band, you’ve been letting little things get to you. I never said anything because I didn’t feel like it was my place. Not when I was so new to this whole friendship thing.” She took a breath. She didn’t want to seem arrogant or all-knowing. “I still have a lot to learn, but I do know that if you don’t work out even the smallest problems right at the start, the Magic of Friendship can be turned into… well, something else.”

No one said anything for a moment. They were too embarrassed. Here was Sunset, who supposedly didn’t know anything about friendship, explaining to them how to get along with one another.

Twilight Sparkle was particularly disappointed in herself. She was the Princess of Friendship, after all. “I can’t believe all this tension was happening right under my nose, and I didn’t realize it. I’m supposed to be the one with all the answers, and all I’ve done since I got here is let you down.” She hung her head in shame.

But Sunset had come to understand many things over the past few days. She knew exactly what it was like to think you were the best, the one and only, the top of the top. It was a very lonely place. “I don’t think anyone is supposed to have all the answers. But you can count on your friends to help you find them.”

Her wise words filled Twilight Sparkle with joy. “I think you already have found the answer,” she said to Sunset Shimmer. “Come on! We need to get out of here.”

One more time, the girls rushed to the door, desperately pulling at it. But it was no use. It was still locked. How were they going to get out?

That was the exact moment when the door miraculously opened. Standing there were Spike and DJ Pon-3, holding a crowbar in her hands. She’d pried the door open!

Twilight hugged Spike.

“Sorry I took so long,” he apologized. “I had to find somebody who wasn’t under the Sirens’ spell to help me get you out.”

DJ Pon-3 waved at all the girls.

“Why isn’t she under their spell?” wondered Twilight out loud.

“Never takes off her headphones!” said Spike, pointing at them.

DJ Pon-3 smiled and gave the girls a thumbs-up sign. They all laughed out loud with relief. But not for long. They had work to do. Grabbing their instruments, they ran out of the cellar toward the parking lot, where DJ Pon-3’s car was waiting.

As DJ Pon-3 raced toward a nearby hillside, the girls were frightened as the sky turned darker and darker red. The Sirens’ evil spell was spreading! Even from the car, they could hear the hypnotic music.

The girls got out of the car when they reached the landmark overlooking the whole town. They were ready to play the counterspell. But there was only one problem. They had nowhere to plug in their instruments.

“How are we supposed to play over them from up here?” Rainbow Dash cried.

DJ Pon-3 noticed the girls looking around and figured out what the problem was immediately. Good thing she had a pair of enormous speakers in the trunk of her car! She never went anywhere without them.

“Sweet!” Rainbow Dash exclaimed when she saw them.

“Come on, y’all, time to prove we’ve still got the Magic of Friendship inside us,” said Applejack.

Twilight Sparkle stepped forward. At last, she knew the counterspell. “And there’s only one way to do it.”

“We’re getting the band back together?!” squealed Pinkie Pie.

“We’re getting our band back together,” said Rainbow Dash.

The girls shared a sweet smile. They were a team again.

“Just one question,” asked Rarity. “Which version of the counterspell are we going to play? You had us rehearse quite a few versions as I recall.”

“All this time, I thought I had to be the one to come up with a musical counterspell. I thought I had to do everything. But I don’t think it matters what song we play. As long as we play it together. As friends.”

An idea lit up Rainbow Dash’s face. “In that case, I know just the song.”

Applejack was just starting to roll her eyes when she realized what Rainbow Dash was suggesting.

“Fluttershy’s written a really great song,” said Rainbow Dash.

Fluttershy beamed with happiness.

“I know just the song you’re talking about,” said Twilight. She’d seen it in the notebook Fluttershy had loaned her.

“Just one last thing,” said Applejack. “We’re about to save the world here. Personally, I think we should do it in style. Rarity, I don’t suppose…?”

Rarity was delighted. “I thought you’d never ask.”