Hey guys! Thank you all for reading this :P Here's another chapter (which is another part of the movie)! Enjoy the first round of the Battle of the Bands!

CHAPTER 9
Battle of the Bands! Part 1

(Cobalt's POV)

The following day was pretty much uneventful, like yesterday. That is, during classes. But right now, the moment we've been waiting for finally arrived! The Battle of the Bands will start in a few minutes and, if the plan works perfectly, the whole school will be under our grasp.

Me and the girls sat on a small bench at the top of the stands, waiting for Principal Celestia and Vice-Principal Luna to make their speech.

"Welcome to the first ever Canterlot High School Battle of the Bands!", Principal Celestia greeted over the microphone as every band was gathered in the gymnasium upon the stands. "I believe I speak for everyone when I say it is by far the greatest thing we have ever done here at this school!", she continued, making the students cheer. "We are so glad our three newest students along with Cobalt Will encouraged us to turn this event into something exciting!", she finished, pointing us out.

"But as this is now a competition,", pointed Vice-Principal Luna, "we can only choose one winner. Who is it going to be?" Luna's question brought more arguing between the different bands, and the negative energy that billowed out from the students flowed into our necklaces.

"You all feel that?", asked Adagio. "Our true power is being restored", she said, making us laugh maniacally, but our leader gestured us to stop when she saw the Rainbooms enter the gym. "And that's before we've tapped into the strongest magic here."

But the Rainblossoms, or whatever they're called, aren't under our spell", noted Aria. "How exactly are we supposed to get to their magic?", she asked with an annoyed look on her face.

"The Rainbooms are just as capable of falling apart as anybody else", replied Adagio. "They just need a little... push in the wrong direction.", she added with a gesture. "I have a feeling everyone here is going to be lining up to give them a shove."

"Shhhhhh!", I shushed her. "It's starting." She rolled her eyes before turning toward the stage.

The first band on stage was Snips and Snails, performing like rappers, wearing backward caps, sweatshirts, baggy pants over big shoes with pairs of glasses. Snips was beatboxing poorly as Celestia and Luna observed them as the judges.

"Aw, yeah! Snips and Snails indahouse, yo!", exclaimed Snails with some hand gestures.

"They call me MC Snips and that ain't no lie", rapped Snips. "My favorite food is like pumpkin pie!"

"And here is Snails, I like whales", rapped Snails. "When I go to the beach, I always bring my pails!"

"Everybody knows my favorite color is orange", rapped Snips as he jumped near the edge of the stage. "My rhymes are so fly, you better... uh... um..."

"Than an orange, yo!", finished Snails.

"Yeah!", said Snips.

"Yeah!", yelled Snails.

"Represent!", shouted Snips. Celestia and Luna looked on nervously while everyone else was tired of the annoying rapping. Snips and Snails continued to beatbox poorly. Me, Adagio and Aria couldn't help ourselves but to giggle at the horrendousness of the rap, but Sonata seemed to enjoy it.

"How can you stand this?", I asked her, still giggling. "It's horrible!"

"I dunno, it sounds good", was her simple reply, to which I slapped myself, before turning my head toward the stage.

"Bam! That just happened!", exclaimed Snips.

"Aw, yeah! We out!", said Snails as he and Snips went back to back.

"Snips and Snails outta here!", said Snips. The two of them then dropped their microphones onto the stage, causing a large amount of feedback, making almost everyone cringe cover their ears.

"Please do not drop the microphones.", said Celestia to the duo.

"Yeah! Bam!", said Snips as he and Snails high fived before they walked off the stage, laughing.

"That rap made my day!", I exclaimed.

"Speak for yourself", said Aria. "It sucked!"

"Exactly!", I replied, laughing.

Minutes passed, and some more bands went up the stage, played their song, and went off the stage. It wasn't excellent, but it was way better than Snips and Snails' rapping.

Soon enough, the Rainbooms, along with Princess Twilight, arrived on the stage and prepared themselves, with Twilight as the lead singer, Rainbow Dash on the guitar, Applejack on the bass, Rarity on a keytar, Fluttershy on a tambourine and Pinkie Pie on the drums.

"One! Two!", the latter exclaimed as she bangned her drumsticks together, indicating that they were about to start.

Rainbooms: We've just got the day, to get ready

And there's only so much time to lose

Because tonight, yeah, we're here to party

So let's think of something fun to do

We don't know (we don't know) what's gonna happen

We just know (we just know) it's gonna feel right

All our friends are here

And it's time to ignite the lights

At that moment I saw Rarity's arms being lifted off by... was that magnets? I looked up and tried to contain myself not to laugh. Photo Finish and her friends were up in the catwalk and magnetized the metal fringes on Rarity's outfit, removing her hands from the keytar.

Photo Finish was taking control of the magnets as she swung them from left to right. Rarity swayed back and forth as Applejack seemed to take notice of how oddly she was moving, especially when she accidentally knocked her hat off her head onto the neck of her bass.

Rainbooms: Shake your tail 'cause we're here to have a party tonight

Shake your tail, shake your tail

Shake your tail 'cause we're here to have a party tonight

Shake your tail, shake your tail

Twilight: So what you didn't get it right the first time

"Boring!", stated Applebloom from the crowd before she, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo began to leave. Pinkie responded by flipping one of her drums, shooting out confettis from it.

Pinkie: Laugh it off, no one said it is a crime

Rarity: Do your thing, you know you're an original

Applejack: Your ideas are so funny that they're criminal

Ohhhhhh-ahhhhh!

Twilight then began chocking when a confetti fell into her mouth. Fluttershy helped her by smacking her tambourine on her back, causing the paper piece to fly right out of her mouth. As that happened, I saw Flash Sentry and his teammates leaving the gym, causing Twilight, to look around nervously.

Rainbooms: We've just got the day, to get ready

And there's only so much time to lose

Because tonight, yeah, we're here to party

So let's think of something fun to do

Suddenly, the spotlight began to shine over Fluttershy and, shy as she is, she tried to move away from it, but the light followed her constantly. She was forced to go behind Pinkie's drum set, where the light couldn't reach her.

Rainbooms: We don't know (we don't know) what's gonna happen

We just know (we just know) it's gonna feel right

All our friends are here

And it's time to ignite the lights!

Shake your tail 'cause we're here to have a party tonight

Shake your tail, shake your tail

Shake your tail 'cause we're here to have a party tonight

Shake your tail, shake your tail

Shake your tail 'cause we're here to have a party tonight

Shake your tail, shake your tail

Shake your tail 'cause we're here to have a party tonight

Shake your tail, shake your tail

Shake your tail 'cause we're here to have a party tonight!

"That's what I call sabotage at the first degree", I stated after the Rainbooms' song.

"True, but I admit that they still sound better than most of the bands here.", said Adagio. "Come, let's follow them.", she added as she saw the Rainbooms exit the gym.