Garfield and the Equestria Girls 2: Rainbow Rocks
Chapter 17: The Slumber Party Pt 5: Midnight
Previous Chapter Next ChapterNote: This chapter is the ending of an extended sequence.
PINKIE PIE'S HOUSE 7:30 PM
As everyone was brushing their teeth and getting ready for slumber in Pinkie Pie's big bathroom, they see Roxy coming in, dazed from the romantic flight and song she had with Snoopy minutes ago.
"What happened, Roxy?", Charlie Brown worried, who is brushing their teeth. "You need to sleep somehow?"
"I think I'm falling in love.", Roxy muttered about Snoopy, who nearly falls but doesn't with the help of Snoopy, who just came in to the bathroom.
"Love...?!", gasped Charlie, realizing he saw Poppy and Cupid having a romantic Disney moment during their dinnertime when he also just saw Snoopy and Roxy in love too. "Oh, good grief."
Selina comforts Charlie by embracing him. "Love is a good thing, Charlie Brown.", before unexpectedly kissing him on the cheek also. After, Charlie felt the same intensity he had when he kissed the Little Red-Haired Girl on the cheek some time ago.
Odie whispers to Garfield, "Ooooh, Love is in the air for those two couples, right?"
Garfield also says, "Yep. Especially Poppy and Cupid's Lady and the Tramp moment...I somehow loved it."
Woodstock privately says to Tecna, "Like I said, I'm only gonna be your sidekick, not starting a love triangle."
Tecna then says to Woodstock, "Got it. Timmy's my boyfriend."
Everybody continues to brush their teeth until they go to bed at 8:00 PM in the same bedroom where Twilight and her friends were.
PINKIE PIE'S BEDROOM 12:00 AM (MIDNIGHT)
Midnight.
Garfield and Twilight suddenly wake up, even though it was a quick sleep, look around for the notebook Twilight borrowed from Fluttershy and placed in the drawer earlier. Everyone but the two were sleeping. In pairs, Fluttershy was sleeping with Spike and Rosabella Beauty, Roxy was sleeping with Snoopy, Jon was sleeping with Liz, Nermal was sleeping with Arlene, and Poppy and Cupid are sleeping together, snuggling like a couple in bed. The rest are sleeping individually.
Tiptoeing and averting the slumbering people on their way, Garfield manages to grab Fluttershy's notebook as he doesn't wake anybody up.
"Let's go downstairs.", Garfield whispers after he got the notebook.
Garfield and Twilight goes downstairs to the kitchen, where Twilight was writing the magical counter-spell, with the support of Garfield. She was using her teeth to hold the pen, like when she met Pinkie for the first time. Looking at the paper that she wrote, it was scribbles again. She spits out the pen from her teeth and says to him:
"No. That's not gonna work."
"I already got the artists arranged, but I don't know what songs I can put into the medleys for those.", Garfield laments.
As Garfield and Twilight rub their eyes, they are alerted by two voices, causing them to be startled: "Hey, Twilight and Garfield."
"Who said that?! Who goes there?!"
It was no other but Sunset Shimmer and Squeak.
"You two are up late.", Sunset grinned, walking over to the two with Squeak.
Squeak continues, "Twas the night before the Battle of the Bands, and all through Pinkie Pie's house, not a animal was stirring, not even a cat and mouse."
"Just looking over the counter-spell.", Twilight excuses, hiding the scribbled pages of Fluttershy's book.
Garfield arranged, "And arranged the artists."
"We've only got one shot at this. It has to be perfect.", Twilight continued.
"We really are lucky you guys are here.", joyed Sunset, opening the refrigerator with Squeak.
Squeak adds, "Along with some new friends."
"That's what everyone keeps telling us.", frowned Twilight.
Garfield also adds, "Yeah. With some new friends to meet...since you interacted with a dozen dimensions when you first came here."
Sunset questions, looking in the refrigerator, "Who can possibly use this much whipped cream?", seeing dozens of whipped cream in the refrigerator.
"And where's the cheese?!", Squeak frantically asks.
Garfield answered, "I ate all the food in the fridge, which was tasty, so I filled the fridge with whipped cream cans."
"Must be nice to have everyone always looking to you guys for answers to their problems...", Sunset bitters. "...instead of waiting for you guys to cause a problem."
"We aren't causing problems.", the tabby cat excused, eating his last piece of lasagna from dinnertime.
"Just because everyone expects something from you, doesn't mean it's guaranteed to happen.", Twilight sorrowed, looking at her notebook with Garfield.
"Yeah. It takes some time for someone like that to be trusted.", the mouse included, mouth full of whipped cream.
Sunset continued, "But that doesn't stop them from expecting it."
"Which only makes things harder because the last thing you want to do is...", Twilight saddened, before she and Sunset both lament:
"...let everybody down."
"Yeah...", Garfield saddens too, before he and Squeak both do the same thing as the two:
"...and drive everyone apart."
The four have their thoughts mired as they realize the two girls and the two animals are thinking the same thing.
The cat and mouse pair cheer, "Jinx!", before forgetting that they both talked during the conversation. "Double Jinx!"
When Sunset and Squeak finish their whipped cream, the princess and the cat smile at Sunset and the mouse as the latter two close the refrigerator. They both turn around and suddenly shriek in terror.
"EEEK!", the mouse shrieked as Sunset screamed in shock. He and Sunset were both startled by an alternate version of Pinkie Pie's sister.
Maud Pie.
Maud was a little emotionless and monotonically says, "Boulder was hungry.", grabbing a box of crackers to her inanimate pet rock. The crackers only drop to the floor instead of feeding it to the rock.
"Hug me. I'm scared.", Squeak offered to Sunset and shivers, as Sunset backs up from Maud, who accidentally startles her and Squeak.
"Who...was that...?", Squeak traumatized, asking Garfield.
"I still can't get over the fact that she's related to Pinkie Pie.", whispered Sunset.
"You, Garfield, Squeak and me four.", Twilight smiles.
"Maud's her sister, alright.", Garfield chuckled.
Twilight and Sunset smile in agreement.
"Squeak, I managed to get the artists ready for our medleys for the Battle of the Bands for The Rainbooms and the Lasagna Medleys.", Garfield says to his mouse friend, giving him his spare sheet of paper showing all the artists. Squeak grabs it and agreed, "Let's see what it says.", as the paper says the artists including names for selections like Michael Jackson, Justin Timberlake, Johnny Cash, Taylor Swift, Maroon 5, Katy Perry, and some others, reading the first six names quickly.
Then Sunset and the mouse yawn in exhaust, as they begin to go back to bed with the others.
"We better get some sleep. Good luck with the counter spell...", Sunset granted good luck to Twilight and Garfield. "...not that you guys will need it."
Squeak says, agreeing, "And the medleys. We will need it."
"This must be nothing compared to the stuff you're expected to deal with as a princess in Equestria. With Garfield and his friends as your assistants.", shrugged nicely Sunset, causing Twilight to look at the scribbled pages of Fluttershy's notebook nervously, with Garfield comforting her.
"Sunset Shimmer?", asks Twilight.
"Squeak?", asks Garfield as well.
Sunset and Squeak looks back at the two, the mouse questioning, "Yes?"
As Twilight and Garfield was about to say something, they forget it at the last second. "Never mind. It's not important.", Twilight smiled and waves Sunset goodnight.
"Just about the songs we're gonna pick for the Lasagna Medleys.", Garfield laughed, and suddenly stops. "But seriously, it's important."
Sunset and Squeak smiles at their two friends and the mouse says, "Goodnight, you two.", before going back to Pinkie's bedroom. As the two leave, Twilight says to Garfield, "No. We have to be able to do this. We have to."
"I agree. You think of a counter-spell, I might think of arranging the songs, and we'll go to the alternate world's version of Sweet Apple Acres first thing in the morning.", settles and promised Garfield, hoping to not fail their surprise at the band battle tomorrow.
Or might they?