CAFETERIA 12:15 PM

Lunchtime. Thrice again.

Everyone including the Humane Five, sitting on a table, are eating lunch.

Sunset arrives at the cafeteria, sitting with the five girls.

"So, how was the tour?", smiled Applejack, eating a apple meal.

"I don't know. I mean, these girls, they were-", Sunset explains, trying to think of a better explanation. "There was something off about them."

"Like "off" like this?", Pinkie asks, giving her an example about something the trio were "off" like. She first gives a pink Santa Claus-like beard (no harassment) look. "Or "off" like this?" She then gives a Dracula-like look with lettuce as eyebrows and carrots as teeth. "Or, oh, oh! Like-"

"Maybe we should just let her tell us?", Rainbow Dash calmed Pinkie down. Pinkie stops talking for now.

"That's just it. I can't put my finger on it. They just acted sort of...strange around me.", Sunset gave proof, saddening after she says this. "Maybe someone already talked to them; told them about what I did.", sighed Sunset. "So much for making a good first impression."

Sunset puts her head down on the table, depressed about her bad self past.

"Uh-huh.", Fluttershy confirmed, as Rainbow, Rarity and Applejack look at her angrily. "Oh! That's probably not it."

Sunset, also depressingly looks at Fluttershy with the four girls, making the animal girl slump down shyly.

Outside the cafeteria, the trio from earlier are planning their performance.

"This is it, girls. The moment we've all been waiting for.", Adagio prepared, before startled by an eager Sonata.

"Lunch?!"

Adagio is unsatisfied.

"The chance to get our true Equestrian magic back."

"Oh. Right."

Adagio looks at everyone in the cafeteria through the doors.

"Our voices are just strong enough to make them want something so badly, they'll fight to get it.", Adagio says, planning their manipulative idea for the musical showcase.

Aria mocks, "So we're just gonna do what we always do? Stir up some trouble and then feed off the negative energy? Some plan, Adagio."

"It won't be the same as the times before! There is Equestrian magic here. Their negative energy will give us the power we need to get this entire world to do our bidding.", continued Adagio, before grinning and her light-red eyes once again turn green for a short time.

"But we can get lunch after though, right?", asks Sonata, as she looks at one of the lunch specials, not knowing it's Friday. "It's Taco Tuesday!"

"Just follow my lead.", instructs Adagio.

"Or my lead.", Aria vowed, hoping to get a chance to be the leader.

"MY lead!", snarled Adagio, grabbing her by the shirt like she did in the second chapter, but this time startling her.

Aria wasn't happy soon after, and Sonata giggles at her misfortune.

Their performance begins, as the trio start vocalizing as they open and walk in the cafeteria, their gems shining. The Humane Five and Sunset Shimmer witness this as it starts. Everyone witnesses this as well moments later.

Adagio: We heard you want to get together,

We heard you want to rock this school,

We've thought of something that is better,

Something that changes all the rules.

During this verse, the trio are walking past the students in a slick and manipulative way.

Why pretend we're all the same,

When some of us shine brighter? (Aria and Sonata: Shine brighter...)

Here's a chance to find your flame,

Are you a loser or a fighter?

All 3: Me and you, you and me, why don't we see who is better?

We don't have to be one in the same thing.

Oh, what's so wrong with a little competition?

Are you afraid of failing the audition?

During the first part of the chorus and their song, people are starting to glance at each other competitively.

Adagio: You're a star and you should know it,

Yeah, you rise above the rest,

It doesn't matter who you hurt,

If you're just proving you're the best...

All 3: (vocalizing)

Battle! You want to win it!

Let's have a battle! Battle of the Bands!

Let's have a battle! We go all in it!

Let's have a battle, battle, battle...

Battle of the Bands!

After this second part of the chorus, everyone is starting to like the trio's song and are now arguing!

"I can beat you!", Blueberry Cake, one of the students at the cafeteria, argues to Cherry Crash.

All 3: Battle!

"Ha! You wish!", Cherry Crash, another one of the students, talked back at Blueberry, with Mystery Mint agreeing with her.

All 3: Battle!

"I so want this!", Trixie joined.

All 3: Battle!

"NOT IF I GET IT FIRST!", yelled Captain Planet, one of the students in the cafeteria with Blueberry and Cherry.

All 3, including the arguing students: Me and you, you and me, why don't we see who is better?

We don't have to be one in the same thing.

Oh, what's so wrong with a little competition?

Are you afraid of failing the audition?

Outside the racket of the arguing crowd, the Humane Five and Sunset Shimmer witness this, not affected, and the latter notices there is something very strangely with those three.

All 3, including the arguing students: Battle! You want to win it!

Let's have a battle! Battle of the Bands!

Let's have a battle! We go all in it!

Let's have a battle, battle, battle...

Battle of the Bands!

The song ends, and right after the end of the song, the negative energy from the affected students absorbing into the shining gems of the trio's pendants, and a camera shot shows the students who were agreeing to the trio's idea arguing at each other.

"Ohh, they're that kind of "off"!", Pinkie realizes and says to her five friends and to Sunset too, as they stare at the trio again.

The Humane Five and Sunset Shimmer definitely found out there is something off about them.