"What was that?", Rainbow scolded at Sunset as all the fourteen get off the stage the four girls, Poppy and Tecna angry at Sunset and Squeak respectively.

"What were you thinking?!", Poppy and Tecna yell at Squeak angrily.

"You were showing them your magic, I-I didn't know what else to do!", explained Sunset.

Squeak also explained, "I helped her and we both were trying to do the right thing so we don't blow our cover!"

"That could be explaining why you helped her.", Garfield agrees.

"Close the curtains? Unplug her amp? Give us a chance to deal with the situation?", Rarity asks with disappointment.

"I'm sorry. I just wanted to help.", Sunset sorries, with Squeak adding 'Me too.' to her sentence.

"Yeah, well you didn't.", Rainbow argues.

"I believe Sunset is right.", Jon agrees with Liz, Odie and Arlene.

Applejack comes into the conversation, insulting, "None of this would have happened if you weren't tryin' to show off, as usual.", as she and Rainbow stare down.

"Uh oh.", Liz says, along with Nermal.

Trixie approaches them backstage again.

"Good show, Rain-brooms and Las-gone-a Medleys!", Trixie taunts, then approaching Sunset and Squeak. "I especially liked the part where Sunset Shimmer and Squeak the mouse, in a fit of jealous rage, knocked out Rainbow Dash and Nermal mid-guitar solo and solo medley!"

"It wasn't a fit of jealous rage!", Sunset yelled, blushing.

"IT WAS A FIT TO SAVE THEIR LIVES!", Squeak yelled too, explaining why Sunset and him knocking out Rainbow and Nermal during the performance.

The two look back to see the Humane Six cringing, with the other eighteen speechless and empty-minded. They then smile and are glad.

"Glad to see you're not angry. At us.", Garfield smiled at Sunset, then to Squeak.

Sunset rubs her shoulder in embarrassment, and Squeak comforts her more.

"If you two say so.", Trixie agreed their fit of saving the twelve's lives. She then sees the two principals, on the other side of the stage, looking at their results and about to choose who will go in the finals. "Looks like they've already decided who'll be moving on to the finals!" Trixie then uses a makeup compact, saying, "I'm guessing it wasn't too difficult a decision."

Squeak laments to Sunset, "We're doomed.", before the two see the doors open behind the principals on the other side. It was the Dazzlings. They vocalize and surround the two principals while their pendants glow red, and suddenly, Sunset and Squeak notice the two principals' eyes glowing green like in the seventh chapter.

"I got a feeling they are strangely manipulating those two.", Squeak whispers to Sunset.

"What can we do? There isn't gonna be another opportunity for us to play, and I had the most gorgeous outfit for the finals!", worried Rarity.

Applejack argues, "Yep, 'cause that's the real tragedy here, Rarity...that you won't get to play dress-up!"

"You know perfectly well that is not what I meant!", Rarity also argued.

Garfield quietly said to Odie, "This kind of arguments is ludicrous."

Rainbow Dash interrupts the argument between Applejack and Rarity, reminding "You guys want to keep it down? They're about to announce who's moving on!"

"Who are you kidding? You know it isn't gonna be us.", Fluttershy realized.

"I think so too.", Arlene saddens, along with the other twelve non-Garfield characters, and the other five Garfield characters.

The two principals go in front of the stage and Celestia revealed: "The band that will be joining the Dazzlings in tonight's finals..."

In another shot, Trixie excitingly waits for her band to win while Sunset and Squeak are watching with sadness...

"...the Rainbooms and the Lasagna Medleys!"

"What?", Trixie gasps.

"What?", Garfield gasps.

"What?!", everyone else backstage including Garfield's friends gasp.

"Did they just say "the Rainbooms and the Lasagna Medleys"?", Pinkie asks.

"I can't believe it!", Odie glees.

At the sound of the Rainbooms and the Lasagna Medleys being chosen to be in the finals, Trixie storms off, stomping away and exiting the backstage.

"This isn't over!", Trixie growls as she does this while all the twenty-six people come out from backstage.

"Congratulations, guys. You deserve it.", Celestia congratulated them.

"Seriously? We didn't even finish our s-", Pinkie excused, but Rainbow elbows her, stopping her sentence. Garfield and Odie chuckle at this gratitude, but then frown due to their surprise.

The Dazzlings meet with the twenty-six people for the first time.

"Act natural.", Garfield tells his seventeen friends.

Adagio sinisterly congratulates, "See you at tonight's big show, Rainbooms and Lasagna Medleys. We're really looking forward to it.", as she, Aria and Sonata leave.

Rainbow and Nermal are also angry at this, former proving, "Yeah, well, not as much as we are!"

"Yeah! We are gonna beat you in the finale, and THAT IS FINAL!", Nermal warns the three, but the Dazzlings don't react.

Garfield tells Rainbow and Nermal, "Looks like we're in trouble!", as he showed all the other twenty-five the booing crowd.

"This never should have been you, Rainbooms and Lasagna Medleys!", Photo Finish boos, revealing that her associates Pixel Pizzaz and Violet Blurr play cymbals and triangle respectively.

Garfield laments, "Come on, guys. Let's go to the amphitheater and finish the Dazzlings once and for all.", as he, and everyone else trudges a walk of shame through the crowd as they exit the gymnasium. Selina hugs Charlie, both sad, along with Jon and Liz, Poppy and Cupid, Roxy and Snoopy, and especially Garfield and Arlene doing the same. The rest are ashamed.

"This is a travesty! A TRAVESTY!", Trixie boos with indignation, that her band didn't go to the finals. That is when the Dazzlings talked to her.

Adagio said to Trixie, "It really is! The Rainbooms and Lasagna Medleys don't deserve to be in the finals, not when your band was so much better in the semis.", sinisterly.

Aria joined, supporting Adagio, "And wanted it so much more."

"Alas, this is the way it's going to be. Dazzlings Vs. Rainbooms and Lasagna Medleys.", Adagio fakes her acting.

Sonata also joined, "Unless, of course, the Rainbooms and Lasagna Medleys don't manage to make it to their set, or are held up for some reason.", explaining, with Aria and Adagio smirking at her.

Trixie, an idea popping up in her hand, smiles evilly that she has a plan that her band might replace the Rainbooms for their band to be in the finals...