Featured songs:
Excerpts from:
1. "La Copa de la Vida" by Ricky Martin (Spanglish version)
2. "La Llorona" from Coco.
Ahsoka and her adoptive parents were thrilled when they finally got to exit the orphanage door with their newest addition. Turha Koon. Little eight-year-old Turha, naturally, was nervous, but he was also excited to finally be adopted. He held his new mom and dad's hands as they walked toward their vehicle to take him home for the very first time.
"You're going to love your new home, Turha." Ahsoka smiled. "Lots of nice people live there too. So, I guess you could say, in the Temple, you'll have a lot of neighbors who are like one big happy family."
Turha was let into his new family's speeder, and they began heading on their way to the Jedi Temple to introduce Turha to his new home.
The little Togruta held his tooka plushie and looked around at the buildings of Coruscant. Turha hadn't gotten out of the orphanage much and spent most of his time doing artwork in the orphanage's art studio, just one of which that singer Count Crescendo provided for many orphanages across the galaxy. The singer himself said that he'd spent time as an orphan when he was young, and though it was an emotionally trying time, he found music and arts to be the best source of comfort. Thus, he decided to help orphanages have their own art and even music and dance studios so the children could have a place to express themselves and unleash whatever feelings they had in a creative, progressive manner.
"So... big!" Turha gasped seeing all the buildings.
"That's right, Turha." Shaak said. "Coruscant is full of amazingly big buildings."
But then, Turha heard something, and looked out to see a bunch of red roses growing everywhere.
"Lots of flowers too?" Turha said.
Turha's new family wasn't sure what he was talking about at first, but the youngest togruta pointed out that there were a bunch of red roses growing all over the buildings they were passing by, and on the grounds too!
"What the heck?" Ahsoka said.
The only people Ahsoka knew who could grow plants like that were Gabby, Lamenta, Wysteria, and her old Master. And Ahsoka had the sense that unless they'd planted magical seeds to make flowers grow to welcome Turha all the way home, something else was happening.
"Did you not say your master was away on vacation for the next three days?" Plo Koon asked, catching a glimpse of the plants.
"I did say that," said Ahsoka. "I don't know how else a big bunch of roses could be growing here on-"
Suddenly, something big and orange zipped right by the family as they continued on their way.
"What was that?" Turha asked.
"I am unsure." Plo said, stopping the vehicle somewhere.
Suddenly, Ahsoka noticed her clava detector was glowing green.
"Uh oh!"
It was then that Ahsoka and her family caught sight oftwo alicorns of orange, but both of them looked to be dressed as though they were dressed and made up for Dia de los Muertos, and each one had either a big symbol of the numbers 3 and/or 2 on their chests.
The one with the 2 called himself Dos and the other Tres.
Dos was playing music from his horn, and a pair of maracas he carried, and Tres looked to be beating on a drum Ahsoka remembered was called a Tambora; she recalled it being among one of many instrumets Carmine played, and Fiesta stated one of her brothers sometimes played it when they played in a band together, and that it was traditionally used in a lot of music in places like where her family was from.
Dos & Tres:
Do you really want it...(Yeah)
Do you really want it...(Yeah)
Do you really want it...(Yeah)
Go go go (go go go)
Ale ale ale (ale ale ale)
Go (go)
Go (go)
Go go go go go here we go
Yeah!
Dos and Tres kept playing their music to a very danceable beat and flew about around the flowers, singing together and making more of them grow, and making the plants grow bigger, and the plants began to unleash some kind of sparkling blue gas.
The cup of life
This is the one
Now is the time
Don't ever stop
Push it along
Gotta be strong
Push it along
Right to the top
Como Cain y Abel
Es un partido cruel
Tienes que pelear
Por una estrella
Consigue con honor
La copa del amor
Para sobrevivir y luchar por ella
Luchar por ella (Yeah)
People tried to run away from these two horses, but one or both of them cornered people by jumping in front of them while the other jumped behind their victim, and they continued singing and dancing, making more flowers grow.
Do you really want it...(Yeah)
Here we go! Ale, Ale, Ale!
Go, go, go! Ale, Ale, Ale!
Arriba va! El mundo esta de pie
Go, Go, Go! Ale, Ale, Ale
Ahsoka and her family quickly got back to driving home to warn the others.
Meanwhile, Myra walked out of the mall after doing some shopping with her friends.
"Omg, can you believe we actually got the Red Hot T's new album?" Myra said excitedly.
"It's even more amazing that you got a one of a kind version of their new song with you singing in a trio with them and Count Crescendo." one of Myra's human friends said.
"If that doesn't make Melody Academy regret not letting you into their ranks, I don't know what will." Comedia said. "I've never even seen a real high school, but if it's anything like anyone who has been describes it, I gotta be ready for fall."
"I still can't believe a princess is gonna be coming to out class next year." Said a nautolan girl. "Much less a horse."
"Believe me, I wasn't expecting it either-" Comedia caught sight of a couple of red alicorns flying by. "Or to see that either."
Suddenly, a bunch of red roses grew nearby, and the group heard the sound of music playing and someone singing.
Fiesta:
Ay, de mí, llorona
Llorona de azul celeste
Ay, de mí, llorona
Llorona de azul celeste
Y aunque la vida me cueste llorona
No dejaré de quererte
No dejaré de quererte
Lots of red roses started to grow all over the place. Curious, Comedia started to fly and follow the singing.
Me subí al pino más alto llorona
A ver si te divisaba
Me subí al pino más alto llorona
A ver si te divisaba
Como el pino era tierno, llorona
Al verme llorar, lloraba
Como el pino era tierno, llorona
Al verme llorar, lloraba
Comedia followed the singing until she saw the two alicorns she'd seen flying by, and gasped when she saw that they were dressed like a couple of mariachi musicians for Dia de los Muertos. And the one in the jalisco dress, she recognized as... "Fiesta?!"
La pena y la que no es pena llorona
Todo es pena para mí
La pena y la que no es pena llorona
Todo es pena para mí
Ayer lloraba por verte llorona
Hoy lloro porque te vi
Ayer lloraba por verte llorona
Hoy lloro porque te vi
Ay, de mí, llorona, llorona
Llorona de azul celeste
The second horse, Comedia didn't recognize, but as he came in and sang with Fiesta, more of those red roses started growing and unleashing this sparkling blue gas into the air.
Fiesta & Sombrero
Ay, de mí, llorona, llorona
Llorona de azul celeste
Y aunque la vida me cueste llorona
No dejaré de quererte
Sombrero:
Y aunque la vida me cueste llorona
No dejaré de quererte
No dejaré de quererte
No dejaré de quererte
Ay, ay, ay, ¡a-jajaja!
Comedia tried to hold her breath and flew back to her friends, who also tried to hold their breath out of fear that whatever this stuff was would turn out to be deadly.
"Let's get out of here!" Myra managed to get out, putting a scarf over her nose and mouth, she and her friends running their separate ways.
Myra and Comedia could barely hold their breath anymore by the time they reached the Temple and got inside.
"Phew! That was a close one." Comedia said. Except... she didn't sound like herself.
"What did you just-" Myra began, except her voice sounded different too! It sounded like she suddenly had a Russian accent.
"Since when can you do impressions?" Comedia giggled, her voice sounding like one of the chipettes. "And why does my voice sound so silly?"
"Something tells me we are dealing with another clavatized villain."
Comedia could hardly keep from laughing hearing that coming out from Myra's mouth now.
"Stop laughing, Comedia!"
"I'm sorry!" Comedia laughed, then coughed to regain her composure. "Okay, you're right, this is strange. We gotta tell someone!"
"I'll go tell my dad!" Myra said, running to look for her father.
"And I'll go tell mine!"
Not long after that, Ahsoka and her family arrived the Temple, but they saw more and more of the same red roses growing everywhere. On the walls, on the ground, and on other buildings too. By the time they'd arrived at the Temple, Master Plo and Shaak heard their comms beeping to signal that a Jedi Council meeting was being called.
"I won't be surprised if-" Ahsoka began, but stopped when she heard her voice. It sounded really deep and bass. She coughed and tried talking again. "If it has something to do with these- what the heck happened to my voice?!"
Ahsoka quickly found it definitely wasn't phlegm or anything in her throat making her voice change.
"You sound funny!" Turha laughed, but then he was shocked to hear himself speak in a French accent. "What the-?"
"Let's get inside before anyone says something they will regret." Master Plo said, his voice not changing at all.
The Council gathered for a meeting with their Padawans and the horses, and everyone's voices sounded very different.
"Everyone, meet Turha." Ahsoka introduced her new little brother.
"It's nice to meet you, Turha." Mace said, his voice sounding like Brenda's. "I wish we didn't have to meet while all of us are like this, though. This is embarrassing."
"You think?" Myra crossed her arms.
"I know I'm at the age when my voice is supposed to change," said Caleb, speaking in a southern accent. "But not like this!"
"You think you have it hard?" said Citrus, his voice sounding like a girl's. "I sound like my mom!"
Comedia could hardly keep from laughing when she heard everyone in their new voices.
"Comedia! Manners!" Ki-Adi scolded, his voice sounding like Stan from "Dog with a Blog."
"Sorry, Dad!" Comedia chortled. "It's kinda hard to take you seriously when you sound like that!"
"Do we know how this even happened?" Obi-Wan said, sounding like he'd been sucking in helium.
The Council assessed what they knew so far. Ahsoka and her family had seen two horses fly by them as they were bringing Turha home. And Comedia had seen two more as she and her friends were leaving the mall, and in both scenarios, they saw these horses singing and dancing as a bunch of red roses were growing everywhere and unleashing some sparkling blue gas.
"Did any of you recognize any of the horses?" Obi-Wan asked the witnesses who'd seen the actual villains.
"Yes!" Comedia blurted. "One of them was Fiesta! I could tell."
"What?!" Ahsoka said. "How is that possible? And who were the other three we saw?"
"Either Mariverde got Fiesta to split herself into four pieces," said Sunheart. "Or there were three horses Fiesta knew who came along."
"I'd say the second," said Comedia. "The other horse I saw was a stallion."
"So were both of the ones we saw." Ahsoka said. She looked at Citrus and Sunheart. "Did Fiesta mention anyone coming over today?"
"I don't think so." Sunheart said, speaking in a French accent.
"Did you notice anything familiar about any of the other three horses?" Mace asked Comedia and Ahsoka.
Comedia shook her head, but then Ahsoka thought about a picture Fiesta had shown her earlier that same day.
"Wait a minute!"
Ahsoka rushed to her room and came back with Fiesta's picture.
"Those other horses... they must be Fiesta's brothers! She said they were in a band together once, and all four of the horses we saw were making music and singing."
"I suppose the only question is," said Mace. "What led them to be clavatized in the first place?"
"That has yet to be determined," said Obi-Wan. "Right now, we best determine how precisely their powers work, and what the mariclavas landed on. Zatt... we'll need you to access security footage to see if you can spot where and how the four horses were clavatized."
"Myra, Comedia." Ki-Adi said. "You two have actually seen the villains. Therefore, you shall assist in locating these villains."
"I'll see if I can contact Remix or the royal family for help." Magenta said, her voice still sounding normal for her, as she hadn't breathed in any of the gas.
"Hydrangea, you're an expert on plants, aren't you?" Plo asked the green earth mare.
"I know a thing or two about most plants."
"Do you know anything about plants that unleash gas that can change people's voices?" added Ahsoka.
"I'll need to consult one of my enchanted botany books to know for sure. You said these were red roses unleashing blue gas?"
"Yeah, that's what we saw."
"Then let's get to it! Fiesta needs us, and so do her brothers."
So, it was settled, all the flying horses were sent out with their riders in teams to look for the villains. Those who hadn't had their voices changed yet, though, they all put on gas masks so they wouldn't breathe it in themselves. The mission seemed simple enough: find the villains, uncover the clavatized object, destroy said objects, and then get rid of all the voice changing flowers and find an antidote.