Meanwhile with the others...
Rarity was hard at work and little-by-little, she was getting more and more stressed out, and without Cherry helping her, the stress was starting to get closer. Mo, Sunset, Pinkie Pie, and Sci-Twi were soon altogether, being fitted for new outfits.
"I suppose Applejack and Cherry have better things to do than final fittings and sound check!" Rarity sighed.
"They're searching for the others which is way more important than this." Mo said.
"Yeah, don't be mad at them." Sunset added.
"Do not tell me who to be annoyed with!" Rarity glared.
"Rarity, calm down, this is may be a parade, but our friends could be in trouble." Mo said.
"Mo's right! I'm sure you've got something totally amazing up your sleeve!" Pinkie Pie added, checking Rarity's arms, though she was sleeveless and took her own metaphor seriously. "You did remember to wear sleeves with amazing things up them, right?"
"Uh, Pinkie Pie, that's not exactly what I mean..." Mo muttered slightly.
"STOP!" Cherry and Applejack called out.
"Did you find the others?" Mo asked Cherry and Applejack.
"Uh, well, kinda sorta, but, no one stay alone with Vignette Valencia, okay?" Cherry replied, a bit nervously.
"What?" Mo asked. "Why?"
"You can explain yourselves after the parade," Rarity told them. "I'm sure-"
"No, Rarity, Vignette is evil!" Cherry and Applejack told her.
The door then closed which made them all look that way.
"She is?" Mo asked.
"Guys, she can hear you!" Pinkie Pie whispered loudly to Cherry and Applejack.
"Thanks, Captain Obvious." Cherry groaned.
"She's done somethin' to Fluttershy and Patch, and we saw her from the security office when she made Rainbow Dash and Atticus disappear with her phone!" Applejack defended. "Ten eggs in a chicken coop says it's Equestrian magic."
"Oh, honey, delusional isn't your color," Vignette cooed. "You're an autumn."
"Quit the innocent act!" Cherry glared at Vignette.
"What are you talking about?" Vignette replied.
"This! Say goodbye to your mannequin!" Cherry glared, swiping her phone and used it to take a picture to make it go away, but nothing was happening. "Huh? What gives?"
"Uh, Ah think ya hashgabbed my SnapTag or all in the-" Applejack said to Cherry.
Cherry groaned as she felt frustrated and unfortunate. "How did she do it?!" She groaned.
Rarity looked quite unhappy.
"Ugh, Ah can't figure out these new, fandangled apps," Applejack grumbled as she took a look, then caught what she said. "Ugh, Ah sound just like Granny Smith!"
"I just saw your friends," Vignette smiled innocently as she took her phone back to pose and take a picture with Rarity. "They're in wardrobe, and they're fine."
"Liar!" Cherry glared.
"Are you sure?" Rarity asked Vignette.
"And looking good in your costumes, by the way." Vignette smiled to her.
"Applejack, Cherry, the parade is less than an hour away, and-" Rarity soon said to the country girl and perky goth.
"This is so much bigger than the parade, Rarity," Cherry told her. "And so much more important!"
"Nothing is bigger or more important than the parade, Cherry!" Rarity scolded.
Applejack felt stunned before glaring. "Ah know you didn't just say that about yer missin' friends!"
"I'm gonna let you guys sort this out amongst yourselves." Vignette suggested as she soon walked off and snapped her fingers to make the others leave, and where just like that, the other people left the room.
"Guys, admit it! You don't care about my parade!" Rarity glared to Cherry and Applejack.
"This isn't about you!" Cherry told her. "Vignette took our friends away from us!"
"Is this about our friends? Or about you two and Vignette?" Rarity asked.
"What's that supposed to mean?" Cherry glared.
Pinkie Pie looked startled from the drama.
"You've heard me," Rarity glared back to Cherry. "Ever since she gave me this opportunity, you've been jealous because she sees my potential but she didn't hire Applejack, and you promised to help me!"
"You guys! Stop!" Sci-Twi begged.
"I was helping you, but then you started to treat me like I'm you assistant!" Cherry glared at Rarity.
"Yer so blind, you can't even see she's usin' you!" Applejack added. "You only like her because she's always blowin' smoke up yer chimney! But that's what she does to everyone!"
"YOU'RE NOT SPECIAL!" Cherry and Applejack soon both yelled out. They both soon realized what they said.
"Maybe... We should just... Go..." Applejack said softly.
"Maybe you should." Rarity replied.
Applejack and Cherry both soon left.
"Guys, wait!" Sunset called out to Cherry and Applejack.
Rarity soon began to break down into tears.
"I better go comfort her." Mo said.
Cherry grumbled to herself, staring at the floor and kicking a stone in her path, looking quite irritated and emotional. Sci-Twi, Sunset, and Pinkie Pie soon got off the parade float.
"Waiting is for waiters, ladies," Vignette told them. "We're better off without her."
"We?" Sci-Twi replied.
"The Throwbacks, formerly known as the Rainbooms." Vignette informed.
"Hold on why does 'we' include you?" Sunset asked her.
"Obviously, somebody needs to fill Applejuice and Cheddar's spots," Vignette replied. "And since it's so last-minute, we are lucky to have someone with as much vision and talent as moi."
"Uh... You?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"And not just that!" Vignette continued. "We'll be playing a song I wrote!"
"Okay, one, you are not in the band and two, there is no way we're performing without Applejack or Cherry." Sunset glared at Vignette.
"Which are their names, by the way, not Applejuice and Cheddar." Pinkie Pie added.
"And you know what? Applejack's not usually one to make things up, like, ever." Sci-Twi informed.
"I don't think Cherry would lie about this either," Sunset agreed before suddenly glaring at Vignette. "So, all that stuff they said about you..."
"Ah, it's true." Vignette smirked as she looked at her phone before she did the same thing to Pinkie Pie, Sunset, and Sci-Twi that she did to the others.
"Now let's see if this Equestrian magique is all it's cracked up to be," Vignette smirked as she brought out her phone, dressing an avatar that looked like Sunset Shimmer like in a dress-up game, putting her in an outfit before putting holograms of the band in the outfits she wanted up on the parade float. "Now then... That's better. I wish I'd had this thing years ago! Think how perfect my life could've looked!"
Mo and Rarity soon came out after some comforting.
"Rare, you're not gonna believe this!" Vignette squealed.
"What? What is it? What am I looking at?" Rarity asked.
"Your friends, but better!" Vignette smiled. "Now we can make the parade exactly how I want it!"
"Don't you mean how Rarity wants it?" Mo glared.
"Well, I needed her vision to bring out my vision, but now there's an app for that." Vignette replied.
"Vignette, wh-what is going on here?" Rarity demanded. "Where are our friends?!"
"Like, trapped in the internet as zeroes and ones or erased from existence or something?" Vignette relied innocently.
"So then Applejack and Cherry were telling the truth!" Mo glared. "Give back our friends this instant!"
"Fine. If you wanna be with them so bad, I'll do you one last favor," Vignette smirked as she held out her phone to zap them away next. "You're welcome."
Meanwhile with the others...
"I can't believe we're trapped in Vignette's phone." Sci-Twi groaned.
"We're no strangers to getting stuck in magical objects." Rainbow Dash reminded, trying to keep cool.
"At least Rarity, Applejack, Cherry, and Mo are still free," Sunset told them. "Maybe they can get us out of here."
"They have to stop fighting first." Fluttershy trembled.
"We can't just sit around hoping to get rescued," Sci-Twi sighed as she soon stood up. "If we're in the internet, we can hack our way out! Well, I can. Maybe."
"Oh, I hope Rarity, Cherry, and Applejack are okay," Fluttershy frowned. "I wish we knew what's going on out there."
Meanwhile, back with Mo, Rarity, and Vignette...
"Sorry, Rare, guess you're not so 'rare' after all." Vignette smirked as she held out her phone to Rarity and Mo to make them be next.
Mo and Rarity winced, fearing the worst, but nothing had happened.
"Okay, that was your cue to disappear." Vignette glared before trying again.
And where Rarity used her magic power to protect them.
"I'd call that a Gem Shield, but I don't know if we can use that from Beach City." Mo commented.
"But still, never underestimate a good accessory!" Rarity smirked towards Vignette with a nod to Mo.
Vignette tried to shoot them again only to get blocked. "Stop un-magique-ing my magique thingy!"
"Never!" Mo smirked.
Vignette and Rarity growled, using their powers against each other.
"I can't believe I listened to you over Applejack or Cherry!" Rarity glared at Vignette before running off after using a special energy shot.
Mo soon rushed off with Rarity.
"Hey! U-G-H! Whatevs! I don't need you anyway," Vignette glared before she seemed to becoming a monster. "Attention, people who work for me! I am now the lead costume designer because our former lead costume designer is being HBW. Herself, but worse! Now pretend I just gave you an inspiring speech and get back to work!"
The workers soon ran off as they were now terrified of her.
Meanwhile...
"Ugh... I'm going home..." Cherry said as she walked off as it was getting dark. She soon saw Applejack still sad over what they said to Rarity. "Oh, Applejack... I'm sorry..." she said to her, though a little wore out, but just as miserable as she was.
They soon saw everyone making their way to the parade.
"The parade's about to start!" Applejack gasped before groaning. "If only Ah had done somethin' or said somethin' different! Maybe none of this woulda happened. Ah really screwed things up with Rarity."
"No, both of us did." Cherry sighed.
"Applejack! Cherry!" Rarity's voice called out.
"Rarity?" Applejack and Cherry replied before turning around to see the girl running towards them with Mo.
"Don't go!" Rarity panted out of breath.
"Please don't!" Mo added.
"Don't go!" Rarity gasped.
"Um...?" Cherry blinked a couple of times.
"You were right. I got carried away and let this stupid parade become the only thing that mattered to me!" Rarity confessed. "And I let Vignette manipulate me with false flattery into forgetting what really matters: my friends."
"Come on now, your talent puts you so far beyond the need for flattery." Applejack assured her.
"Stop flattering me!" Rarity cried out, turning red in the face. "I've not finished apologizing! I'm sorry I lost sight of why we applied for jobs here in the first place."
"And Ah'm sorry I got jealous," Applejack sighed. "All this time Ah thought Ah was bein' honest with you about not likin' Vignette. Ah wasn't bein' honest with myself. Ah felt like Ah was losin' my best friend."
"You didn't," Rarity smiled as she and Applejack blushed as they held hands. "Caramel apples to the end?"
Applejack nodded with a smile and blushing.
"Now kiss!" Cherry called out.
Applejack and Rarity blushed with wide eyes to that.
"Sorry, sorry, I couldn't help it." Cherry chuckled.
"Before anything else, there's something else you have to know." Mo told Applejack and Cherry.
"Dare I ask?" Cherry asked, a bit nervous.
"Our friends! Vignette has them all trapped in the internet!" Rarity cried out. "She confessed! We have to get them out! We have to save them!"
"What?! We've been wastin' all this time chin-waggin' about feelin's?!" Applejack replied. "We need to get crackin' on a rescue plan!"
Applejack's phone soon started ringing. Cherry's phone also rang and the two answered their phones together.
"Atticus?/Twilight?"
"It worked! Applejack, we're stuck in Vignette's phone!" Sci-Twi smiled before explaining. "I found a way to hack her apple popper app to route a VoIP connection to your IP address!"
"Same here!" Atticus replied.
"Uh... Magic. Got it." Applejack replied.
"Listen. We've come up with a plan to set all this right. You'll need to remotely install a virus that creates a backdoor admin account, which you can use to reset all the permissions on her phone and make a proxy backup. That should get us out of here!" Atticus then said. "Cherry, you love computers, surely you can do some sort of coding?"
"Um, none." Cherry said.
"Cherrryyy..." Atticus frowned.
"Attyyyy..." Cherry replied in the same way.
"And, uh, Ah can rub two stick together, that's all." Applejack said.
"Oh, boy. Okay. Get a pencil." Sci-Twi replied.
"Wait... Atticus, I don't have super-hearing, but I feel like I can hear you and Sci-Twi close by." Cherry said.
"What? But how's that possible?" Atticus asked as his voice seemed to echo from her phone and from somewhere else.
"Gah!" Cherry yelped from the sound.
"She's right! Yer somewhere close!" Applejack added before going to a door and opened it to find their friends at long last.
"Seriously?" Cherry asked. "You've been in a random white room this whole time?!"
"We were just standing in a white room the whole time?" Sunset asked out of annoyance.
"I just said that." Cherry muttered.
"Wait, you guys didn't know that?" Pinkie Pie smiled innocently.
Sunset soon turned bright red with anger and annoyance. Atticus and Sci-Twi both blushed out of embarrassment. Suddenly, Micro Chips appeared.
"Micro Chips?!" Sci-Twi looked at him. "Did Vignette take your picture just now?"
"I was just minding my own business making perfect caramel apples, when suddenly, Vignette saw me and said I wasn't as cool a nerd as she thought," Micro Chips explained. "Then she took my picture, and I ended up here, violating all known laws of space and time."
"Any more surprises?" Cherry muttered as she leaned against the door-frame before a shadow came over her.
"You won't believe who's behind you." Mo said.
"Can't I just win for once?!" Cherry cried out in misfortune. She soon saw who casted the shadow over her. "Hi, there~..." she then smiled innocently.
"Where's my nephew?" Drell asked her, a bit emotionless.
"How're you doing?" Cherry asked him back. "Is that a new haircut? I'm quite partial to-"
"WHERE is my NEPHEW?" Drell repeated, a bit sharply.
"He's with my double!" Cherry told him.
"So... You let her out..." Drell smirked.
"Is that why you came here to give me a heart attack?!" Cherry asked.
"I just wanted to see if you were going through with it or procrastinating." Drell smirked.
"Actually, she let herself out." Cherry said.
Drell glanced at her.
"Please don't send me to Mars!" Cherry begged.
"You guys have to stop Vignette Valencia before she corrupts all of Equestrian Magic," Drell told them. "She's turning into a monster worse than Gaea Everfree."
"Wait, she's at the parade!" Mo panicked.
"Everyone in the park is watching that parade!" Sci-Twi gasped to that. "If her phone teleports that many people into this tiny room at the same time-"
"Squish City!" Pinkie Pie piped up.
"Our friends are in that crowd!" Rarity yelped before thinking of someone very important. "Sweetie Belle is in that crowd! We've got to stop her!"
"And Cherry, if she has your double, you'll cease to exist." Drell added as a major plot twist.
"What?!" Cherry panicked.
"So, no pressure, I'm off." Drell smiled before leaving.
"Wait, Rarity, if we stop the parade, no one will be able to see all your hard work." Mo frowned.
"I think we need to remember that if my double gets taken, I WON'T EXIST ANYMORE!" Cherry cried out.
"Someone reminded me that none of that matters without my friends." Rarity told Mo.
Applejack blushed with a smile and where she noticed a playful smirk on Patch's face as he knew what that blush meant.
"We'd better hurry!" Sunset warned the others. "I'm sure Vignette's getting more corrupted by Equestrian magic every minute!"
"Would my life really matter if I didn't exist?" Cherry wondered. "What would be different?"
"We'd miss you, silly." Pinkie Pie told her.
"You especially..." Cherry muttered.
"Yeah!" Pinkie Pie beamed and hugged Cherry tightly.
"This must be how Cranky Doodle Donkey feels." Cherry mumbled.
