"I've never seen anything like it," said the older captain as he examined the body. The entire area was closed off this morning, in fact, for the first time in a century, the Mariam Mare Bank was fully unavailable to the public. A dozen guards were walking around, trying to find clues and documenting everything of interest on the crime scene. Murder was usually rare in Equestria, but these ponies were trained to cope with this horror. "I think this pony died immediately, look at his expression. He looks surprised, almost curious, it wasn't pained as his father's face," said the captain.

"This wound, it's too precise to be a sword, and too small to be a knife. Could it be one of the cursed ponies we've heard about?" asked the younger guard, trying not to get sick from the smell.

"Possible. We'll have to keep this investigation going, and report it to the castle. Celestia will probably want to read the report herself with this Group Misery we keep hearing about."

"Hm, I didn't expect this to happen to a banker. Usually banks are so dull," said the younger pony.

"Well, looks like this bank," said the pony, putting a pair of sunglasses on. "Just gained some interest."

***

"Yeah! Here comes the first airship!" shouted Pinkie Pie and pointed towards the distance. With speed impressive for its size, a gigantic airship was getting closer and closer to the Canterlot airship harbor. The harbor was on the edge of a cliff side, looking down over the edge was a sure way to get vertigo, as they were at the highest point still technically in Canterlot. The air was cool and fresh, and the view was to die for.

It anchored with graze, and with some hard work of the local workers and guards, it was pulled into the harbor where it was held down much more securely. This was just one of many that would be arriving during the day.

The path down was extended from the airship, and the first one to walk onto the steady harbor was a large griffin. His colors had started to grow a bit gray from old age, but most of his plumage was white. He actually seemed quite composed and regal. Princess Celestia walked up to him.

"King Pero, it's so good to see you again," said Celestia.

"Likewise, my dear Princess Celestia. You look as graceful and stunning as ever. Am I perhaps the first one here?" asked the griffin king. Twilight thought his voice was actually shockingly friendly. He reminded her more of her dear old grandfather than royalty.

"You are not. The ambassador of the west plains, a chief of a large tribe of buffalo, arrived yesterday."

"Well, at least I'm early. It's so nice to be back in Canterlot again, although, is it true what I hear about it? Is there really a group opposing your rule here right now?" asked King Pero.

"So you've heard. Yes, but as you know, I could not simply refuse to hold the meeting. Have no fear-"

"My dearest, I never have fear. I know you are doing your best to deal with them. Politics, oh how they tend to get in the way of things, am I right?"

"Indeed, King Pero. If I may ask, is your son, Prince Sky, here?"

"No, that boy is out adventuring with some strange ponies. Good ones, but strange. I frankly don't know where he is, but I do know he's having a good time," said King Pero. Some of his griffin guards walked down from the airship and walked with the two royals as they conversed about somewhat more trivial things than expected.

Twilight looked at them as they walked towards the castle.

"Wow, good thing one of the early ones is a friend," said Applejack.

"Yeah, King Pero's great. Funny, too," said Spike. Twilight turned to him.

"You've met him?"

"Yeah, not long after Shining Armor's wedding. I went with Celestia to the griffin kingdom, remember? To Pennaplume? Their capital?"

"You were gone?" asked Twilight. Spike glared at her.

"Oh, ha ha, very funny." Twilight gave him a playful smile. She turned and looked at Celestia and Pero one last time.

"Well, Celestia will be busy with taking care of all the guests that will be coming today. In the meantime, let's find this Mrs. Misery," said Twilight, she turned to Spike. "Spike, today you'll be staying here at the castle. You'll probably be needed here by the Princess, and we saw how dangerous things could get yesterday," said Twilight.

"Fine, whatever," said Spike and kicked at the ground a bit in disappointment.

***

Twilight and her friends had consulted some maps and staff in the castle. They decided to check out whatever thing that the old Whitemane family had owned at the time when Merry had lived in the city. While they had very little left in their name, as it was slowly dying from the memory of the populace, the things they did have just didn't seem very useful as hiding places.

"These guys are like rats, they are so hard to find," said Rainbow Dash, flying around her friends in circles, trying to keep herself occupied as they sat down in the quiet garden.

"Not if you ask nicely," said Fluttershy.

"I just don't think asking nicely is going to do much, Fluttershy," said Rainbow Dash.

"Hm, you know, after hearing Celestia's story, I realized that there might be an easy way for them to stay hidden and move through the city unseen," said Twilight Sparkle, drinking a cup of tea while examining the map. "I think they really are like rats," said Twilight, tapping on the map.

"Hm?" asked Fluttershy.

"I think they are hanging out in the old unused sewers. Think about it, an entire labyrinth system, which Mrs. Misery must have gotten very used to when she was a filly? It would make sense for them to hide there. Nopony would disturb them."

"Why haven't they already been checked? I mean, I would never go down there, but somepony else?" asked Rarity.

"Well, Celestia told us they have been sealed and blocked off," said Applejack.

"And since almost nopony even knows they are there, I didn't even know, they would make for a great hiding place," said Twilight Sparkle. "If they are as old as I think, they would be really roomy too, unlike modern sewers," said Twilight.

"Well, are we going down there?" asked Rainbow Dash. Rarity winced at the thought.

"Well, yes, but first we're going to need a proper map of them. From what I've gathered, they are really big. As some of them are designed to go out at the bottom of the cliff, we could in theory get lost all the way down into the core of the mountain."

"Well, the archive is just inside the castle from here. Let's go," said Applejack.

"Time to go and-"

"Twilight! Twilight! Emergency!" yelled Spike. They saw him come running at them with a scroll in his claw. He fell over as he ran, but quickly got up and kept going. He came up to them a bit out of breath.

"That bank pony, the one who told you about Whitemane, he was found dead this morning!" said Spike. Twilight looked at him shocked.

"Mrs. Misery," said Rainbow Dash, with an angry frown. Twilight tried not to think of what that meant, that she had put an innocent pony in mortal danger.

"Yes, and two other ponies, one of them was some guy in an old bar, but that's not everything! Look! This is a copy of a note that was found in his pocket!" said Spike, holding up the paper. Twilight grabbed it and started to read.

"As you have now come a step closer to stopping our cause despite your ignorance, we have been forced to punish you by punishing those you protect. Unless you give in to our demands, we will make a large amount of ponies suffer tonight," read Twilight, getting more worried with each sentence.

"A... a bomb?" asked Fluttershy.

"No, there's more to this," said Twilight. "As the citizens are not part of this conflict, they will eventually heal from this event, but tonight will be the worst night of their lives nonetheless," read Twilight. "Your move, Princess Celestia. Group Misery," she finished and gave Spike back the note.

"Thank Celestia she isn't going to commit mass murder," said Applejack.

"But, why wouldn't she?" asked Rainbow Dash. "I mean, she knows how to make a bomb, right? She didn't care about ponies when she was a filly, why would she care now? Why wouldn't she try to kill a lot of ponies? This might be a lie, right?"

"I don't know, but this is still not good. We have to find out what this is going to be and stop it before it starts," said Twilight.

"Of course, but where do we start?" asked Rarity.

"Maybe, maybe we should split up?" suggested Spike.

"Split up?"

"Yeah, one group goes into the sewers, the other tries to stop this thing," said Spike. Rarity immediately raised her hoof.

"I volunteer to not go into the sewers!" she said as quickly as possible.

"Well, maybe this is a good plan. Hm, maybe... yes. I think I have the basic plan. I will take my brother's group underground, and all of you will stay up here and try to stop this," said Twilight. They all looked at her.

"Are you sure?"

"Yes. If we can't change our strategy, then we will never beat them," said Twilight. "I'll go to them right now and talk about it," said Twilight and stood up.

"Well, good luck!"

"'I'm sure everything will be fine," said Twilight, giving them a reassuring, friendly smile.

***

"What do you mean Shining Armor is gone?!" asked Twilight confused to Joe.

"That's just it! He just got up and left a few hours ago! We were all asleep, he's been on a very erratic schedule lately!" said Joe.

"I'm sure he'll come back soon enough," said a guard. Twilight sighed.

"Alright, well, maybe this is for the best if we're going underground. Are you all ready?"

"Yes, Ma'am," said the guards.

"Good, seems like I have some input here. Joe, stay here and wait for Shining Armor to get back while we go and explore the underground tunnels, alright?"

"Sure thing, Twilight," said Joe.

"Well, come on then, everypony. We have a hideout to find!" said Twilight, and then they were on their way. They didn't have time to waste today, they had a lot to do in a short amount of time.

***

And so did her friends. They had actually decided to split into groups themselves. Two pegasi could easily fly all over Canterlot and keep a look out for any trouble. About twenty of them at the same time could do even more. Of course, knowing about this threat, Celestia had ordered several trainees of the famous group, the Wonderbolts, to patrol over the city, keeping a lookout for any threat. They had looked for hours.

On the ground, meanwhile, Rarity, Pinkie Pie and Applejack were doing their best to ask officials if they had noticed anything strange lately. None of them had.

"Come on you gals, think! I mean, where would a lot of ponies be in one place tonight?" asked Applejack.

"Hm, I don't know. Oh! I can ask that famous DJ! She's always in the know about these things. She's used to it, in fact, she going to hold a musical competition tonight! Thousands of ponies will be there! It's going to be great!" said Pinkie Pie.

They both simply stared at her with a shared expression that could only say 'seriously?'

"Ooh," expressed Pinkie Pie as she realized this could very well be what they had been looking for.

***

Beneath them, in the dark tunnels leading here, there, everywhere under Canterlot, Twilight and the troop of guards were quietly and carefully searching for Group Misery's hideout. They made sure not to lose each other in the impenetrable darkness. They busy streets of Canterlot could not be heard from above. It was silent and cold down there. The atmosphere was quite heavy.

"Twilight Sparkle, we've been looking for hours. These tunnels seem pretty empty so far. How much of them have we covered?"

"Oh just about thirty percent, give or take," said Twilight. The guard groaned. "A bit casual, aren't we?"

"Well, technically we are off duty, especially since we are helping a civilian. We have the right to be a bit relaxed. This hasn't been an easy week, you know. We love your brother, but this week he has been a bit much, even for us," said the guard. Twilight heard the grunting from some of the other guards, agreeing with her.

Suddenly, they heard a voice echoing in the dark tunnels.

"Twilight! Help me!" screamed a familiar voice. "Twily!" Her brother was in trouble.

"Shining Armor!" yelled Twilight. She didn't know why he was down there, but she frankly didn't care. They started to run even deeper into the tunnels.

***

About two hours later, Random could hear the excited sounds of the ponies as the sun was setting. He was in one of Canterlot's newly built buildings, a stadium, for the night equipped with modern sound equipment for the concert. He could notice a few guards in the crowd, looking far less enthusiastic about this night. They realized this could be the spot of the group's punishment of Celestia through her ponies, but they couldn't be sure.

Random was sure it was the uncertainty that made Celestia simply not cancel the event. If she did, it would mean she was intimidated by them, something she, as a ruler, could not show her ponies. She didn't want Group Misery to get attention. She thought she could still take care of this in the shadows. Typical, thought Random. The group was done with hiding in the shadows, however. Now, they would go on the offensive. Only a few in the city knew their name, that was about to change this night.

Random looked down at the huge crowd, from the rafter of the huge empty stage below. The curtains were still drawn. He could spot the stage that would remain unused for the night on the other side. It wasn't that the staff members who had planned and set this up weren't intent on using it, it was more due to the fact that they couldn't, because Group Misery had other plans.

"There you are, Random. How is it looking up here?" asked Solitary, after having climbed up to him.

"All things considering, pretty good. There are three similar things happening around the city due to the first delegates having arrived. Otherwise this would have been a pretty obvious choice, no?"

"Do you think she will be able to do it?" asked Solitary.

"I have no doubt. She knows she has to. They have to know just how awful our powers can be. Celestia needs to know," said Random.

"It sucks that we have to do this, doesn't it?" asked Solitary.

"Yes. Think of it this way, they suffer for a single night so that everyone won't suffer for their entire lives. We are doing them a favor in a way. It's only partially our fault. If Celestia would just see reason," said Random.

"These poor ponies are in for a wild night," said Solitary, looking at all the ponies down there.

"Let's get out of here before we are caught in the middle," said Random.

They both climbed back down backstage. Random looked at a group of ponies sitting down, being unable to walk anywhere due to being tied up in sturdy ropes. They looked at him with contempt in their eyes. The two ponies at the front glared especially rebelliously at their captors.

"Relax, Miss Vinyl, Miss Octavia. Tonight's entertainment will be taken care of." They heard a signal, telling them the show was about to start. "Oh dear. It seems we've got to run like hay," said Random and galloped towards the back exit. They needed to get to a safe minimum distance as soon as possible.

***

"Shining Armor!" yelled Twilight in the dark tunnels.

"Twilight, wait!" yelled the guard behind her. She turned around. "We're missing somepony. We have to go back and look for him," he yelled.

"But my brother is-"

"I know! But I can't leave one of my soldiers behind just like that!" said the guard.

"Where did he even go?"

***

The guard couldn't believe his luck, there he was, right in front of him.

"Shining Armor, there you are! Your sister is going to be so relieved!" said the young guard. Sure, he was lost in the gigantic labyrinth, but they would have to solve one problem at a time. Shining Armor turned to face him.

"I'm glad to see you. I thought I'd never get to see another pony in my entire life," said Shining Armor and smiled.

"You're- you're cured! I can't wait to see your sister's face," said the guard and laughed in relief.

"Neither can I. Wait, you could be- What is the code phrase now after we created it after my wedding day?"

"It's, it's 'Both in dusk and dawn'," said the guard, confused.

"Good, what a relief. I think there might be a changeling down here," said Shining Armor. Looking around, always mindful of any possible shadow that could hold a threat.

"Like we didn't have enough problems," said the guard.

"My thoughts exactly," said Shining Armor. Walking past the guard. Then Shining Armor pounced on the guard, a pair of icy blue otherworldly eyes and fangs the last thing the guard saw before being consumed by the darkness. "Now for the rest of them," said the changeling, giving what seemed like a wicked smile in Shining Armor's friendly face.

***

The show was starting. The curtains were pushed aside, and where over a thousand ponies had expected to see either Vinyl Scratch or Octavia, they instead saw another pony. The mare in question had a bright blue coat and a yellow mane. The two colors almost seemed to overlap into each other. She was wearing a black newsboy cap on top of her head. She was a bit skinny, and seemed pretty physically weak. She was standing in front of the microphone, having something on her back. Rarity and Applejack was up on the upper parts of the stadium, looking down at all the commotion below.

"Is that mare supposed to be here?" asked Rarity.

"Not that I know of- You don't think...?"

"Oh no."

"Hello, everypony! Are you ready to party?! Vinyl certainly is, and so is Octavia! But every great thing needs a start! Tonight being no different! I am here tonight to be the opening act of this magical time of music and rhythm. Tonight your heartbeats will be one with music!" shouted the mare with energy. She suddenly swung the large thing on her back to the front and in less than a second set it up on the stage. It was an electronic keyboard. They weren't a popular choice of instrument in Equestria, but they weren't unwanted either.

"Come on! Hurry!" yelled Applejack to Rarity.

"I'm going as fast as I can!" Rarity shouted back to Applejack. They were constantly getting closer to the stage.

"I am called Instrumental! Fillies and gentlecolts, get ready to party your faces off! Because I'm about to lay down some fresh beats!" shouted Instrumental. She lifted her hooves up above her head, seeing Applejack and Rarity almost at the stage. She almost smashed her hooves on the keys, activating her curse. She smiled as they were already too late.

***

"That's not my brother! It's a changeling!" yelled Twilight and shot a magical beam at Shining Armor. He was immediately thrown into a nearby wall, and the magic stripped away the shape of the changeling, returning it to its old form.

"How did you know?" hissed the changeling towards Twilight, fleeing into the shadows.

"I didn't have to know Cadance well enough to realize something was wrong. Don't you think I wouldn't recognize my own brother?" yelled Twilight after the changeling.

"It doesn't matter! Do you think I'm the worst thing down here?! You're already doomed!" yelled the changeling. The uncanny sounds its movement made still echoing in the dark tunnels.

They all suddenly jumped nervously when the missing guard was limping out from around a corner.

"That's him alright, we would have seen the green light," said Twilight.

"I'm alright, I was hit by that bug and knocked out. I can't believe it fooled me."

"You just had to tell it the codeword, didn't you?" asked the guard leader.

"Hey, it tricked me! I was just happy to see Shining Armor!" said the young guard.

"It doesn't matter, look what we've found," said Twilight, nodding at a hole in the wall. Inside, there were a few candlelights still burning.

"We've found them?"

"Where they were, anyway. They aren't here now," said Twilight, walking inside. The guards quickly filled the little room. There was a few beds there, a makeshift table. Some old food and water bottles. And a note on the table. "What's this?" asked Twilight as she walked over. It just had two words on it.

'Above you.'

Something big and heavy crashed down on the table in front of Twilight who ducked and jumped back when something almost cut her head off. There was a stallion in a light green color standing on what was left of the table. He was standing on his two hind legs. He only had one hoof, the other one was a dark talon, holding a long thin dark blade. He had a scar over his eye.

"Hey, you!" yelled the guard leading the others. The pony turned his attention to him immediately and pounced towards the guard, swinging the sword mid-jump. The stallion was hit by the sword, but everyone looked on with surprise along with shock. There was just a red marking on every bit of the area he had been hit in. Suddenly, the sword started to tick like a clock, and the guard fell down, asleep.

"My codename is Erase. My curse forces me to always hold this blade. Whoever refers to me by anything but a name I have accepted will be attacked. I can not control that. Once somepony has been cut, I have to be forced to drop the blade within five minutes, or the damage that should have been done will take place," said the stallion.

"Why are you telling us about that?" asked Twilight to the pony. The pony looked at her, with a solemn look.

"Because I want you to know who I am. I'm dangerous. The first attack was a show of power... I don't want to hurt you more than I need to," said the stallion, looking directly into Twilight's eyes. "Please, just leave," said the stallion, it was like he pleaded them to get to safety.

"Yeah right, drop the sword, you jerk!" yelled a guard. Erase jumped up into the air with surprising force and cut the pony. Would the sword have been solid, it was clear from the red mark that the guard would have been decapitated. Twilight was ready to fight.

"Give up! Erase!" yelled Twilight.

"I can not. What we are doing is far too important, both to us, and everypony else," said Erase. He cut down two guards in one slice. Even more of them fell asleep.

"Wake up!" yelled another guard to his friends.

"Let them sleep. They feel pain if they wake up before the time is up," said Erase, looking at his sword. There was some sort of information displayed, the face of a clock, made from darkness, ticking down.

"We won't give up, Erase," said Twilight, lowering her horn, ready to fight the threat.

"Neither will Group Misery. If you have chosen death, I will comply," said Erase, jumping towards Twilight with the ferocity of an animal, ready to cut.

***

"What's going on!?" yelled Applejack to Rarity. They were right up there at the edge of the stage, but they couldn't climb up. Their bodies only did one thing in this atmosphere, they danced. Instrumental was up on the stage, making music, and they danced. In fact, they couldn't stop. They couldn't move from their spot, they just stood there and danced. Nopony around them seemed to have noticed the effect yet, as they still believed they dance to Instrumental's music. To them, this was still a concert. The electrical sounds of the keyboard did sound nice, but the situation clearly wasn't. Applejack realized the fear the ponies would face once they realized they simply couldn't stop. In fact, she started to see a few faces looking down on their hooves, and then showing fear and yelling and screaming, the sound died out from all the chaos and screaming and cheering and music however.

"Our only hope is Pinkie Pie!" said Rarity.

"What makes you say that? Rainbow Dash is still out there, right?" asked Applejack. In her sweaty dancing, Rarity managed to nod upwards. Applejack managed to look up, barely, as her head had a tendency to bob up and down to the beat. Rainbow Dash was dancing and flying up in the air, as was plenty of pegasi. She was the only one of them who seemed to realize anything though. "Okay, we're doomed," said Applejack.

***

Pinkie Pie was actually aware of the situation, more aware than she usually was. She was up in the VIP booth, looking down at all the ponies dancing through the sound proof glass. Usually, she would have gone down there quicker than Rainbow Dash could fly, but she recognized a bad party atmosphere when she saw one. Not nearly enough ponies were smiling. And that mare playing the keyboard wasn't supposed to be there.

"It is clear to me this pony can force others to dance when she exposes them to her own rhythmical sounds. What a terrible curse! Dancing shouldn't be forced! You should dance because of happiness, not dark magic! That's just so, darkish!" said Pinkie Pie.

"Well, what can you do from here?" asked a random mare who Pinkie Pie had inadvertently clued in to what was going on.

"Hm... I think I have a plan. Get me a pair of earplugs and a drum set! Also, cupcakes, because I'm hungry!" said Pinkie Pie, motioning for the bunch of ponies in there to get to work. "Oh, this is going to be fun," said Pinkie Pie, rubbing her hooves together with an evil grin on her face.

"Miss Pie, what are you going to do?" asked a stallion there.

"What do you do if a party is getting dull? You crash it and make it better!"

***

Back down in the sewers, things were not going well at all. All the guards had been defeated and Twilight was exhausted, too exhausted to struggle. Erase was above her, holding her down, his sword just inches away from her eye. He was aiming. The ticking was getting louder, there wasn't much time to save the guards.

"Farewell, Twilight Sparkle. You fought well," said Erase, getting ready to shove his sword into her eye socket.

Suddenly, the wall behind them both collapsed in a loud bang. Erase was pushed back by the force of the explosion. Twilight got up and was about to attack Erase with her magic, but then the entire room was filled with a bright purple mist. It made all momentum in the room stop, making them unable to move, even by gravity. Erase was stuck in the air. Twilight managed to see to the side of her. In the hole in the wall, stood somepony familiar.

"Freeze! I know that somepony has to be in here!" yelled Shining Armor, walking inside. He pumped into Erase who was gently pushed aside by the excess force. Shining Armor turned around.

"Guards, seize whoever is here and gather any evidence I can't see," said Shining Armor, thinking he had his guards with him. He walked over to the broken table, looking at the piece of paper from Erase. He looked up, but saw nothing of course. Twilight focused on a counter spell, and within ten seconds could move freely as well. "Ah, here we go. Bank statements from the same bank I saw those money bags from. Yes, this is clearly the place. Makes sense too. If Merry Whitemane is the perpetrator, then this place makes sense. Hopefully she is here. If she is, grab her, guards!"

How in the world Shining Armor had found a trail of clues leading here, and giving him the right information, Twilight would never know. But for now, she twisted the dark blade from Erase's talon with her own magic. He dropped it. Immediately the sound of a ticking clock stopped and the sword magically appeared in his grip again. The guards started to wake up. They were outside the magical mist.

"Good morning, oh, did we win?" asked the guard. Twilight put Erase to sleep with a simple spell, easy to use since he was finally fully still.

"Yeah, yeah. We won," said Twilight, taking a deep breath.

"Good work, soldiers!" said Shining Armor, giving a salute. Twilight looked at him, and then she burst out laughing in relief.

***

Basically all of the dancers had realized what was going on at that point, some screamed, others cried, all were terrified.

"I just want to say that Celestia has the power to make you stop. All she needs to do is give in to Group Misery's demands!" yelled Instrumental into the microphone, still playing her music. "I can go on for days! Can you?! Isn't your hooves already starting to hurt just a little?" she asked, keeping up the rhythm. She then allowed herself to add vocals to the beat.

Dawn to dusk, we dance and sing, turning to husks, giving in!

A night of terror, a night without sleep!

A hurtful memory, running deep!

Can you feel the music!? Can you feel the pain!?

The dance will never end, not in snow, hail or rain!

The dance will never end!

Then several lights on the other side of the stadium lit up, turning towards the other stage. Applejack could see several ponies with earplugs operating the lights and machinery. Something was up. The curtains of the other stage was pulled apart. Applejack could see a few musical ponies there. Octavia on the left side, with a violin. Vinyl Scratch on the right, with an electric guitar, and Pinkie Pie in the middle, with a drum set. They were all wearing earplugs. They started nodding their heads to the music, but, how did they know the rhythm without hearing the song? Of course, to the vibrations the dancers caused.

They started to add their own beats to the music, they had become part of the performance. They removed their earplugs, ready to fight in their own way. Pinkie Pie started to sing into the microphone.

Dawn to dusk, we dance and sing, having fun, but it's just a fling!

A night of dancing, a night without sleep!

A joyful memory, running deep!

Can you feel the music!? Can you feel the beat?!

The dance will have to end, we will perform this feat!

The fun will never end!

Applejack found herself to actually dance less when she focused on Pinkie Pie's music, she thought she understood. If they danced to something else but Instrumental's music, they could move. Instrumental was clearly not going to let them take back the night so easily, however. She was hitting the keys more serious than ever. It was on.

A fool can face me, but they won't be free!

This battle is being fought, removing every other thought!

Whoever you are, you can not win! Beating me in music is a deadly sin!

Can you feel the music!? Can you feel the pain!?

The dance will never end, not in snow, hail or rain!

Applejack saw Pinkie Pie's confident face. She wasn't afraid, in fact, she seemed to be enjoyed herself more than ever.

I am a fool, you see, my friends will all be free!

This battle is being fought, removing every other thought!

I am Pinkie Pie, and I will win! Try to beat me, I'll just sing!

Can you feel the music!? Can you feel the beat?!

The dance will have to end, we will perform this feat!

They both was about to get a lot louder. Applejack could almost stop dancing as long as she just focused on Pinkie Pie. She started to dance her way over to the side of Instrumental's stage.

Who do you think I am?

I'll show you that I can... beat you this very night!

I will definitely set things right!

This music will set... us... all... free!

"Show's over, Instrumental," said Applejack backstage. Finally getting enough control of her body to stop dancing, instead jacking out the electrical wire hooked up to the loudspeakers. The only sound left in the stadium was from the other stage, the winners, and of course, the cheering of relieved ponies who could finally stop dancing. Obviously, now when they all faced Pinkie Pie's stage, they simply didn't want to stop anymore.