Rainbow Rocks (TV special)

"Rainbow Rocks" is the eleventh big Enchatria Girls TV special and twelfth overall. It premiered as a digital release on October 01, 2024, and was followed by a home video release on the 30th of September as well as a television air date on the 25th of October. It is part of Volume 4, of which it is the last TV special.
== Story ==
The film opens at a café in the human world. The numerous café patrons argue among themselves as a strange green mist swirls around their feet. In the corner booth, three girls in hoods sing and absorb the green mist into the red gems on their necklaces. The purple-haired girl Aria Blaze grumbles that she's "tired of fast food" and needs a meal. The orange-haired girl Adagio Dazzle laments that the energy in "this world" isn't the same as that in Enchatria, California.
As the blue-haired girl Sonata Dusk joins the conversation and gets into a light argument with Aria, Adagio notices an explosion of light in the distance. She races out of the café and watches the magical rainbow energy burst into the sky, grinning evilly when she realizes what it is. She explains to Aria and Sonata that Equestrian magic has found its way into the human world, and they're going to use it to make everyone adore them.
Six moons later, at Enchatria High, the students are busy making banners in the auditorium for the school's upcoming musical showcase. Wendy Wonders offers to help the Jimmy Stones, Timmy Plasience, Clyde Finster with their banner, but they decline, much to Sunset's disappointment. When Lori Creaser calls Wendy over to join her and her friends, the other present students glare at and gossip about Wendy, making her uncomfortable. Judy Von Puckett quickly changes the subject and shows Sunset the banner they made for the showcase.
Principal Goodway and Vice Principal Humdinger then enter, and Goodway says how pleased she is by the amount of student participation in the showcase. However, when she mentions the Fall Formal, the students glare at Wendy again and Wendy hides her face in humiliation.
Later, in the school band room, Wendy laments how she'll never live her past mistakes down. Her friends, now in a five-part band called the Rainbooms, say they've forgiven her and cheer her up with a rehearsal of Better Than Ever. As they sing, the five bandmates sprout pony ears and wings and longer hair, which disappear when they stop playing. Judy and Gina Miller express disbelief at the strange phenomenon, but Rachel Finster, Abby Snowglode, and Zee Kazaam cares little, letting her band leader egotism show.
Jack Andrews enters, having heard the band's playing from outside the room, and compliments their sound. When Rainbow criticizes Judy and Gina's playing, they give an annoyed look. Flash asks if "any friends from out of town" will be coming to the showcase. The Rainbooms tell him they're not sure if Katy will be present, and Jack awkwardly excuses himself. Judy is amused by Jack's behavior, but she stops herself when she remembers that he and Katy used to date. Katy admits that she never liked Jack romantically and regrets the error of her past personality even more. As Applejack cheers her up, a speaker announcement by Vice Principal Humdinger summons Wendy Wonders to the school foyer. Sunset leaves the room, having promised to give a tour to some new students and the Rainbooms go back to rehearsing. Elsa McMorgan asks if they can sing a song she wrote, to which Rachel Finster replies that they'll get to it later.
At the school entrance, Wendy meets with the new girls - Adagio, Aria, and Sonata - and shows them around the school. During the tour, they pass by a flyer for Enchatria High's musical showcase; Sunset talks about the event, and the girls are intrigued, with Sonata nearly revealing their true nature. When Wendy notices the three's gem necklaces and reaches for Adagio's, Adagio grabs Wendy's wrist in sudden offense. Adagio catches herself and apologizes, explaining that their pendants mean a lot to them and they don't want anything to happen to them. The three girls walk off, leaving Sunset to ponder their strange behavior.
Later in the cafeteria, Sunset joins her friends and mentions that there is something "off" about the new girls, worrying that they know about the events of the Fall Formal. Outside the cafeteria doors, Adagio, Aria, and Sonata have a brief argument before they enter. With their beguiling voices and a rousing song, the girls convince the students of Enchatria High to turn the musical showcase into an all-out Battle of the Bands. As they sing, tensions rise among the students, causing them to argue. As each vows victory in the competition, green mist forms around them, which Adagio, Aria, and Sonata absorb into their pendants. Only Sunset Shimmer and her friends are unaffected by the song.
Wendy Wonders and the Rainbooms suspect that Adagio, Aria, and Sonata are using dark magic on the students and go to alert the principals. However, Goodway and Humdinger believe the girls, now calling themselves the Dazzlings, are innocent and even praise them for their Battle of the Bands idea. For a brief moment, the principals' eyes glow green, indicating that they have also fallen under the Dazzlings' spell.
The Rainbooms deduce that the magic that causes them to transform while playing music also makes them immune to the Dazzlings' spell. With the rest of the school under the Dazzlings' control, the friends consider getting Katy Noir to return and help. The closed portal prevents her from returning, but Wendy Wonders has an idea. In her locker, she finds an old book with her cutie mark on the cover and explains that she used it to write messages to Principal Goodway, which would appear in a book in Goodway's library. Hoping to get a message to Katy Noir, Sunset opens the book and begins to write, starting with the three words she hadn't written in a long time: "Dear Principal Goodway...".
In Enchatria, California, at the Enchatria Mall, Wendy and her friends lounge about in the throne room when a stallion arrives with a delivery of books from Principal Goodway. One of the books, with Goodway's cutie mark on the cover, appears to glow and vibrate. Twilight opens it and discovers Sunset's call for help.
Wendy determines from Katy's warning that the Dazzlings are actually Enchatria sirens. Long ago, the sirens used their eerie songs to turn ponies against one another and fed on the negative energy from their hatred and distrust, which made them powerful enough to control minds. But before they could conquer Enchatria with their magic, Star Swirl the Bearded banished them to another world—the world where Sunset Shimmer now lives with the human counterparts of Twilight's Ponyville friends.
Wendy wishes to go and help her human friends, but the Katy's closure prevents her from doing so. Lori proposes that the same magic that allows Katy to send messages from the human world to Enchatria should allow the portal to be opened. With a bunch of mechanical parts, and using the book as a battery, Wendy is able to energize and reopen the portal. Her friends want to accompany her, but Twilight tells them they can't because it would be confusing to have two copies of her friends in the same place. Elsa can still go along, though, and he and Wendy soon charge into the portal.
Back at the school, Rachel starts to lose hope that Wendy will come, when Wendy and Elsa suddenly shoot out of the portal. Her human friends meet her in a group hug. Later at Lenny's Sweet Shoppe, the friends all catch up, with Elsa revealing Wendy's new status as the Princess of Friendship. Once Twilight learns of what they're up against, she comes up with a plan to ambush the Dazzlings at the pre-Battle-of-the-Bands party being held in the school gym.
At the band meetup, Wendy bumps into Jack Andrews and stammers in his presence. Once the Dazzlings arrive, Wendy and her friends declare their evil plans finished and attempt to stop them with a magic of friendship attack. However, nothing happens, allowing the Dazzlings to feed on even more of the competitors' negativity. Having humiliated themselves, Wendy and her friends excuse themselves, but the Dazzlings decide to keep an eye on them, calling them "special".
Wendy and the others regroup outside the school and try to figure out what went wrong. They reason that, since they can only channel their magic when playing music, only a counter-spell in the form of a song will break the Dazzlings' spell, making the Battle of the Bands the perfect venue. They also decide Wendy should be the Rainbooms' new lead singer, much to Rachel's chagrin. Before Wendy retires to the school library like she did during her last visit to Enchatria High, Lori proposes a slumber party at her house.
That evening, as her friends enjoy themselves around her, Wendy has considerable difficulty writing a counter-spell. Later, after everyone falls asleep, she works on it in the kitchen and is soon joined by Sunset Shimmer. As the two bond over the similar problems they each face, Katy is startled when Lori's friend Layla Parton comes in to get a snack for "Boulder".
The next day, the Rainbooms practice their musical counter-spell in the barn next to Gina's house. Unfortunately, Wendy's singing is so off-key that Rachel only manages a small bit of transformation. Before long, hostility continues to grow between the Rainbooms regarding Zee and Judy's costumes and Rainbow's insisting that the band is hers. With the Battle of the Bands starting soon, the Rainbooms soon agree to perform other songs and stall for time until Twilight can complete her spell. In addition, they decide to keep their magic a secret from the Dazzlings for as long as possible.
The Battle of the Bands gets underway, with Penelope and Melody performing a hip-hop duet that earns only confused looks from the audience and reprimanding from Principal Celestia when they drop the microphones. When the time comes for the Rainbooms to perform, Rarity takes the stage in a hippie-inspired outfit with metal fringes. During their performance of Shake Your Tail, other competitors try to sabotage them: Julie Grande and the Snapshots manipulate Rarity's movement with a magnet, and Snips and Snails take advantage of Zee's stage fright by holding a spotlight over her.
The Rainbooms manage to advance to the next round, but they continue to squabble over petty issues. Later, when they bump into each other again, even Flash Sentry starts to show hostility toward Twilight, considering her to be an enemy because she is on a rivaling band. As they part ways, a heartbroken Twilight walks away in tears. At the other end of the hallway, Sunset confronts the Dazzlings about their evil schemes, but the Dazzlings play to Sunset's fragile emotions and make her feel useless in her friends' eyes.
In the following montage set to the Dazzlings' Under Our Spell, competing bands are eliminated one by one, from the Crusaders to Andy Tuffkowski to Brainy Puffies and Pamela McIvy to even Jack Andrews. In the semifinals, the Rainbooms face Scarlett Ferris and the Illusions to decide who faces the Dazzlings in the final round.
As Scarlett and her band perform Tricks Up My Sleeve, Twilight still has yet to finish her counter-spell song, so Rachel takes over as lead singer and the Rainbooms perform Awesome As I Wanna Be. However, Rachel gets carried away and starts to transform, prompting Katy to leap in and cut the song short. The crowd is convinced that Katy hasn't changed, adding more fuel to the fire of hatred for the Dazzlings to feed on.
Through the Dazzlings' manipulation of the principals, the Rainbooms advance to the final round instead of the Illusions. An embittered Trixie is later approached by Adagio and given the idea of removing the Rainbooms from the competition so the Illusions can take their place in the finals.
During the Rainbooms' mic check on the stage where the finals are to take place, Scarlett and the Sapphires arrive to carry out their plan: a lever opens a trap door on the stage, and the Rainbooms fall inside. Elsa, the only one not to become trapped, rushes off to find help.
That night, the Illusions perform in the finals following the Rainbooms' supposed forfeit. Afterward, the Dazzlings take the stage for their final performance and continue feeding off the crowd. Below the stage, tempers and tensions finally boil over between the Rainbooms and a five-way argument breaks out, allowing the Dazzlings on stage to feed on their hatred.
Sunset notices what's happening and finally intervenes, pointing out that their arguing has warped the magic of friendship into something that the Dazzlings can feed on. Twilight is ashamed that she hadn't realized it sooner, and Sunset tells her no one is supposed to have all the answers, but friends can help you find them. The Rainbooms thus make amends and finally come to a compromise, and Spike arrives to rescue them with the help of DJ Jack, whose headphones shielded her from the Dazzlings' spell.
The Dazzlings continue feeding on the crowd on stage and transform, giving them pony ears, tails, and translucent wings. As the Rainbooms watch from atop a hill, wondering how their song can reach the crowd, DJ Jack arrives with further assistance: a car that converts into a DJ station. The Rainbooms start to play their counter-spell song over the Dazzlings' song and take on half-pony forms with colors similar to that of the Equestrian Mane Six's Rainbow Power. Refusing to be stopped, the Dazzlings summon astral versions of their true siren forms and manage to overpower the Rainbooms.
As the Rainbooms fall, Wendy's microphone rolls next to Sunset Shimmer's feet, and Wendy says they need her help. Sunset finds new resolve and, upon removing her jacket, starts to sing. Before long, the rest of the Rainbooms join her, and their combined magic creates a rainbow shockwave that weakens the Dazzlings and severs their spell over everyone, much to Adagio's disbelief. The magic of friendship builds inside Katy, granting her a half-pony form of her own. All the students then join in, and as the Dazzlings look on in shock and horror, the magic coalescing in the sky takes the form of a giant Alicorn that destroys their astral projections as well as their gem pendants.
With their power sources destroyed, the Dazzlings are unable to even sing and re-cast their spell. The enraged students boo, jeer, and pelt them with fruits and vegetables, forcing them to flee in shame and disgrace. Flash, now free of the Dazzlings' influence, meets Twilight in a happy and warm embrace. However, Trixie, still upset about her competition loss, makes it clear she isn't done with the Rainbooms yet. As for Sunset, with Twilight now having to return home to Enchatria, Rachel allows Katy to join the band in Wendy's stead—especially after Sunset reveals she can play the guitar.
Before Katy Noir leaves, she promises to visit whenever she can now that the portal can be opened at any time. Later, as the girls tune up their instruments, Sunset uses her old journal to write the friendship lesson she learned to Wendy, ending it with the closing statement: "Your friend, Wendy Wonders."
As the film closes, Katy picks up her guitar and joins her bandmates in a performance of Shine Like Rainbows. During the credits, Sunset is seen having now been accepted by the rest of the school, as the Jimmy, Timmy and Clyde help her with her books and walk with her and Andy Tuffkowski helps her get Sir Chicks-a-Lot down from a hard-to-reach perch.
In a post-credits scene, Starla Star and Raven Dark from Disenchadants Girls is seen documenting strange events that are all connected to Enchatria High. She confides in her Dragon Evermore that "something strange [is] going on at that school..." and Disenchadants Girls Characters needs Upcoming Crossover film.
== Characters ==
#Wendy Wonders
#Katy Noir
#DJ Jack
#Adagio Dazzle
#Aria Blaze
#Sonata Dusk
#Katy Noir
#Andy Tuffkowski
#Goodway
#Humdinger
#Rachel Finster
#Gina Miller
#Elsa McMorgan
#Judy von Puckett
#Lori Creaser
#Who
#Hack
#Abby Snowglode
#Zee Kazaam
#Layla Parton
#Woody Voodoo
#Julia Grant
#Billy Minnesota
#Sarah Duncans
#Ronnie Rivera
#Jessica Piper
#Pamela McIvy
#Murray Martin
#Oliver McQueen
#Keith Evans
#Clyde Finster
#Jimmy Stones
#Penelope
#Scarlett Ferris
#Melody
#Michelle Cameron
#Julie Grande
#Iris Smith
#Michelle Vortex
#Younglee Song
#Glennsburg
#Rainbow
#Timmy Plasience
#Kimberly
#Tawnya Finster
#Manny Beast
#Fawn
#Nathan Cooper
#Serena Von Boost
#Amanda Trotter
#Brittany Fletcher
#Jack Andrews
#Kipling
#Dory Gazette
#Tara
#Brainy Puffies
#Suzy Fitzgerald
#Mindy Mars
#Norman
#Amy Blossom
#Bella Carson
#Donna Lucas
#Michael Chips
#Sandy Larson
#Captain Planet
#Cody Winds
#Wiz Kid
#Carly Kicks
#Sophia Cata
#Rosie Heart
#Tammy Match
#Valerie Skye
#Presley
#Courtney Crash
#Gabby Hazel
#Caroline Peach
#Patty Purby
#Starla Star (Post-Credit)
#Raven Dark (Post-Credit)
== Notes ==
===Continuity===
*Disenchadants Girls Character is Starla and Lila are cameo in poster
*In Post-Credit Raven Dark and Starla Star from Disenchadants Girls has appear
===Errors===
===Milestones===
Vice Principal Humdinger, Adiago Blaze, Aria Blaze, and Sonata Dusk make their cartoon debuts.
===Other===
*The DVD of "Rainbow Rocks" contains Disenchadants Girls Episodes were exclusive to the DVD: "Legacy Day: A Tale of Two Tales" and "True Hearts Day" Also Bonus Disc with 7 Episodes are Bowling Championship of 2024, Bet to Be Brunette, Space Ape at the Cape, Kingdom Crashers, Riva Ras Regas Strikes Back, Wendy the Lifeguard on Duty, and Invasion of the Wendy Snatchers.
Category:TV specials