"Oh...You don't even remember my name...", Trumpet Girl muttered.
"What...are you doing here? What have you done to Animal?", Floyd asked, standing.
"He'll be fine. I just put him to sleep so we could talk calmly. We don't need your pet right now, do we?"
"Hey, don't talk about him that...!"
"Easy, easy, man!", Doctor Teeth looked at Trumpet Girl. "Dolores, why did you do that?"
"Oh, hi, Teeth. I didn't know you were here. I expected you to be resting at home...At the hospital...Or better at the morgue!"
"You...You cut the spotlight...", Janice whispered.
"I see that the blonde stereotype is false for you...", Trumpet Girl smiled ironically. "Well, we are alone, so I think I can tell you. Yes, I cut the wires while you were acting with Banderas. It wasn't complicated: tools are spread everywhere, everyone's watching the show and, as part of the crew, I have access to the control booth, you know?"
"...Why...How could you...?"
Trumpet Girl ignored her and looked at Lips.
"It is a pity that you had time to clarify the issue...I hoped that Animal would rip your throat before you could say anything", she said.
"So you tried to blame me?", Lips exclaimed.
"Oooh, you're getting it. I knew that the letter was a bomb, but before writing it I thought that it would be funny if I imitated your handwriting. It exonerated me in the case that someone investigates the author. I am glad that the good Doctor Honeydew confirmed that it was yours. But you were still performing in the show so I had to improvise...No instruments, no band, I thought. So I took a screwdriver from the lumber room and put my hands on it. When I finished, I remembered that the whole band was very, very angry with you, so...I'm really sorry, Lips, it is nothing personal...Oh, wait...It is...I hate you"
"Why? Why do you hate me? What have I done to you?", Lips asked.
Trumpet Girl took breath.
"Because you are the sixth member...", she said in a lower voice.
The Electric Mayhem could not believe what they were listening.
"I always dreamed to be like you guys...I liked the orchesta, but...You were so free, so cool...Everyone loved you...You even had your own numbers...I loved playing with you when the Show started...I...I tried it hard to be like you and become a member of the Electric Mayhem...I thought we were friends and someday...Maybe...I would be part of your group...But do you remember what you said when I asked you to join?"
Doctor Teeth looked at the floor.
"Say it, Teeth", Trumpet Girl said.
Teeth swallowed hard.
"Say it", Trumpet Girl repeated harder.
"We don't need a trumpeter at the moment...", he whispered.
"Exactly", Trumpet Girl nodded. "You didn't need me. No one needed me. I was just a background muppet. You made it very clear. Since then, you only counted on me for a few songs and that's it. You forgot me, like the others. You had great appearances in the movies and the show, while I just got one single line in the whole series...One! I could cope with that. I continued working as if nothing happened, that's life! But then...You appeared...", she gave a deadly glare to Lips.
Lips felt shivers in his back. How could a little girl be so...scary?
"They said that you were the sixth member of the Electric Mayhem...A trumpeter...They all knew that there was another trumpeter before...And...Nigel...Nigel said that I should play the trombone instead...You...You made me renounce to the instrument I loved...It wasn't fair...IT WAS NOT FAIR! YOU STOLE MY DREAM! THAT'S WHY I DID IT, OKAY? I-HATE-YOU-ALL!
"Dolores...Please, calm down...You didn't have to do all this. We...We could have talked about it", Doctor Teeth tried to calm the purple muppet.
"SHUT UP!", Trumpet Girl shouted. "You will pay for that...All of you...Starting with your friend..."
She looked at Animal, who was still lying in the floor, with an evil smile.
"I have all this planned", she continued as she was explaining how her birthday party would be. "All the theatre has seen your instruments tearing apart. They all know that Lips has been doing horrible things to you and you wanted to make him pay...They saw Animal chasing him...He had to defend himself, so...", she charged her gun with another dart. "He saw this gun in one box and fired...But he accidentaly injected him...An overdose..."
"DON'T YOU DARE TO TOUCH MY BROTHER, YOU LITTLE WITCH!", Floyd sprang on her.
Trumpet Girl turned to him pressing the trigger.
"FLOYD!", Zoot screamed.