Earlier
Trixie, having had her plan ruined by Adagio, Twilight and even her own band mates, now sits on a bench in the local park. She is both angered for being double crossed and saddened by the fact that her only friends have abandoned her. In her mind, Trixie plays with the notion of going back to confront Twilight. This is quickly brushed aside as she doubts she would be any match for the girl who now wields her former source of power. As she contemplates on what to do next she notices a familiar face a short distance away. She follows him from a safe distance, hoping to go unnoticed. He eventually stops at an underpass, reaching into a small crevice and pulling out a worn suitcase.
"Do you live here?" She says surprised as he stops and turns to her.
"Be it ever so humble." He says sarcastically. "I take it things didn't exactly go as planned for you either."
"I had everything going my way. I had the stone, I had the Rainbooms and Dazzlings right where wanted them and now I have nothing. I lost the gem, the powers, and the only people I thought were my friends." She says as she sits down next to Sketchy.
"You know kid, I used to have this plan. This plan to humiliate and get even with all the people who I though wronged me. Then I met Twilight Sparkle and it seemed like everything I thought of was coming to fruition." He offers her a canned soda as he has one himself. "Someone close to me wronged me a long time ago and I teamed up with Twilight and you because I wanted to make them hurt the way they hurt me. But it took me a while to realize I just wanted my only friend back."
"Why are you telling me this?"
"You did all of this to get revenge on those other girls right? But is that what you really wanted to begin with?" Trixie turns her gaze to the ground, her fists clenched tightly. "All I'm saying is don't make the same mistake I made. Do you really want to spend the next few years of your life thinking of how you're going to get back at them? I did and look at me. A former janitor living under a overpass."
Trixie stands up and turns away from him for a moment before turning back around. "Well, Trixie is not you. She is the most talented girl in this town and I am not about to roll over and call it quits. You may have chosen to be a loser but not The Great and Powerful Trixie!" She gets up and heads back toward Twilight's lab. Sketchy just sits there, shaking his head slightly, continuing to sip his soda.
Present
Having finally neutralized the situation, the girls help Sonata to her feet. She looks around and sees Twilight, greeting her with a smile. "You're okay."
"Thanks to you. I don't know what would have happened if you hadn't got that thing off of me."
"You probably would have eaten us all like one of those late night horror movies." Pinkie says popping up.
"How cool would that have been?" Sonata says as the two begin conversing as if nothing had happened.
"Yeah she's back to normal." Adagio says. She watches as Aria approaches the two.
"Sonata?" She says as the younger turns to her. She wraps her arms around her in a hug, resting her head on her shoulder. "I'm so sorry for what happened. I never meant to hurt you. Please please, forgive me. I promise I'll make it up to you somehow." She gets no response for several seconds as tears run down her face.
"Aria?" Sonata says as she takes a step back, her head hanging down. She extends her right hand and, sticking her pointer finger out, pokes Aria on the nose. "Boop." She smiles happily as Aria wipes her eyes. "You can make it up to me later if it'll make you feel better. There was this cool motorcycle I've had my eye on."
"We're having a rare moment when I actually open up here Sonata. Please don't push it."
Meanwhile, Trixie, having slipped away from the others, manages to find the stone. "Come to Trixie."
"Hey Trixie?" She spins around, keeping her hands and the gem hidden behind her back. Applejack approaches her with a hand extended. "Just wanted to thank ya for the help back there. But what made you come back and help out? Not that I'm complaining."
Trixie keeps the gem in her left hand as she moves her free hand to shake the farm girl's. "I just felt it was something I needed to do."
"I have to say this is incredible." Twilight says, marveling at her transformed state a short while before it fades.
"You should hang out with us more often. Trust me, it gets way crazier than this." Sunset Shimmer says. Looking up she notices the cracks in the ceiling getting larger by the second. "Um, how long has this building been abandoned?"
"About ten years or so. Why?" Twilight asks.
"I'm wagering that between the years of neglect and Sonata's little 'outburst', the ceiling above us has had it."
"I agree with Sunset." Rarity says nervously. "And with that, RUN!" The group make down the hall as parts of the building begin to come down. They move as fast as their legs can manage as, one by one, they make it outside, the others waiting for them just as the doorway is blocked by debris.
"Is everyone alright?" Curly asks as Lyra and the others head over.
"Yeah, we're fine." Adagio says before looking around. "Where are Sonata and Twilight?"
"I thought she was right behind us." Fluttershy adds as the others turn their gaze back toward the doorway. "Oh no."
Lavender looks around, silently noticing that Trixie is absent as well.
Inside the building as the rubble from the ceiling covers the floor, Trixie emerges from under a table that she managed to duck under during the panic. She smiles before realizing that she has once again lost her source of power. "Of course." Annoyed but undeterred, she begins her search for the stone. "Where are you my little trinket?" Sifting through the dust and debris she stops as she hears a sound from behind her.
"Trixie?" She turns and sees Sonata, leaning over a pile of rubble, trying her hardest to lift it off of an unconscious Twilight. "Boy am I lucky you're here. You have to help me get this stuff off of Twilight before the rest of this ceiling gives out."
Turning back to the task at hand, Trixie continues her search. "No, all I have to do is find the gem that she cheated me out of and get out of here." She notices a small glimmer of light emanating from a pile of broken wood and plaster. Reaching in she pulls out the stone. "There you are. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got to find another way out of here before the whole place comes down."
"You can't just leave her here."
"She lied to me and she kidnapped you."
"Didn't you technically help her with that?"
Trixie nervously shifts her eyes. "We're getting off topic here. She crossed the both of us. Why would you help her?"
"Because she's my friend. She made a mistake but she came back to make it right."
"Well she's not my friend." Trixie says as she prepares to walk away.
"But you'll still help, right?" Sonata says, looking up as she can see more cracks forming on the walls and ceiling.
"And why, pray tell, would Trixie do that?"
"Because you're a good person." Sonata's statement causes Trixie to pause for a moment. "You like to make big shows and you brag a lot, just like Adagio used to do. You and her are a lot alike that way. And I guess, just like her, even if you talk down to others, even if you act mean on the outside, deep down you are a nice person and you act the way you do because you think it will make people like you. You don't want to be alone." Sonata continues to try to dislodge the debris trapping Twilight.
"I know you're upset with us and her, but are you really willing to leave her here? Because if you do, I don't think you'll have any friends ever again." Seeing that the remainder of the ceiling above could give way at any minute, Sonata goes back to working on freeing Twilight. She closes her eyes as she strains to lift it, noticing it is getting lighter. "Hey I'm actually doing it."
"Not quite." She looks over to her left to find Trixie aiding her. "One more good lift." The two, working in unison, are finally able to flip the heavier objects off of her and pull her out.
"Twilight, are you alright?" The siren asks as she girl opens her eyes. "You're okay!"
"Thanks to you."
"Hey, we're friends. What else do you expect?"
"Yeah yeah. Hugs and warm feelings all around." Trixie says sarcastically. "But we do have a more pressing matter. We seem to be trapped in her and our only exit has been blocked."
"Not exactly. I actually built in a secret tunnel way that should get us back to the service, but..." Twilight says hesitantly.
"But what?" Trixie demands to know.
A few minutes later
"We have to get back in there. We can't wait." Aria says, looking frantically at the doorway.
"There's no way we can get back in through there. We can't risk causing anymore damage. We might make it worse." Sunset says as everyone attempts to think of a new plan.
"Any ideas in that big brain?" Curly asks Whiz Kid.
"Not a one this time. We can't go through the front without drawing attention to ourselves. That and all the other doors are locked. Give me a sec, I'll come up with something."
"That won't be necessary." The group turn to see Trixie with her arms folded standing a short distance away. She is surprised as Lyra, Lavender, Fuchsia, Whiz, and Curly dog pile her.
"Take that and that!" They shout as they hold her down.
"What are you guys doing?" Sonata says, coming down the alleyway, with Twilight leaning on her for support.
"You guys are okay." The other girls rush past the huddle mass of the other over to Sonata and Twilight.
"What are you numbskulls doing?" Trixie demands as they look over at Sonata and the others.
"Oh, ha ha. See we thought that you had gone irredeemably evil so..." Lavender attempts to explain as Trixie shoves them all off.
"Yuck. What smells so foul." Whiz Kid says as the others begin to smell it as well.
"Uh, Sonata. Why do you guys stink so bad?" Adagio says, holding her noes as the others do the same.
"Well there was only one other way to get out of there so we took the..."
"You know what? I really don't want you to finish that sentence." Aria says.
Trixie begins to walk away as Sonata calls to her. "Hey Trixie. Thanks."
"Yes yes. It was the least The Great and Powerful Trixie could do. I suppose you want an autograph as well." She takes out a note pad and pen from her jacket pocket and signs her name on a sheet, tearing it out and shoving it into Sonata's hands. "You're welcome." She says as she casually walks away.
"Boy, does that girl get on my last nerves." Applejack says as they watch her leave.
"I don't know," Sonata says as she opens up the crumpled piece of paper and finds the pendent stone tucked inside. "she seems pretty okay to me."
"Hey Trixie, wait up." Lavender and Fuchsia call out.
"You girls are still going to follow her?" Rarity asks.
"Well she may be loud, rude, inconsiderate, spiteful to a grand degree...wait where was I going with this?" Lavender stops as Fuchsia decides to finish her thought.
"She's still our friend and it's our responsibility to be there for her. Check you girls later." The two dash off to join Trixie, vanishing from sight not long after as the larger group looks on for a moment.
"Okay, seriously, I'm gonna blow chunks if we don't do something about that smell." Curly says as the group decide to head for Applejack's house to get cleaned up. After a very long and tiring day the group says their goodbyes as Curly offers Lyra, Whiz and Twilight a ride home.
"Bye Twilight." Sonata says as she hugs her. "And you promise you'll be at Adagio's party for sure?"
"I wouldn't miss it." She waves goodbye to the other girls as Curly sees her home.
"Well Sonata you sure have a way of making friends with the weirdest people. It's really exhausting to tell you the truth." Aria admits, sitting on the ground as Ticki sits on her shoulder. Sonata joins her as Adagio sits between them.
"You know girls this has made me realize something very important." The orange haired girl says looking off into the distance.
"What's that?" Sonata asks. She receives the responds in the form of Adagio putting a hand on both of their heads. "I am never leaving you two alone again." She says with a chuckle.