It’d been two years since the legendary Rainbooms graduated from Canterlot High. But stories of their greatness still echoed through the high school halls. CHS desperately missed their heroes. That’s why I — Scribble Dee, Editor-in-Chief of the Canterlot High Sentinel — decided to track them down and answer our school’s most pressing question: Where are the Rainbooms now? [hr] I started by reaching out to each of the Rainbooms for comment… excluding Fluttershy, who was spending a year abroad at an isolated butterfly sanctuary in Neighpal. An anti-spam filter on Twilight’s email bounced my message back to me. Rarity sent me a link to her Instagram. But that left four Rainbooms. I decided to start with the girl who emailed back within an hour: Rainbow Dash. [hr] When I entered the diner for my interview with Rainbow, I found her trying to impress a waitress by showing off how many tater tots she could fit in her mouth at once. When I sat down across from her, she jumped, tried to swallow all the tots, spent ten seconds choking, then calmed down and shot me a grin. “What do you wanna know?” she said, eyes watering. Over the next two hours, Rainbow regaled me with tales of the Rainbooms’ incredible exploits. She laughed recounting the time she single-handedly saved the Earth from aliens with just a guitar solo; she cried remembering the time she leapt in front of a bullet to save Fluttershy’s life. When I asked to see the “wicked” scar it left, she said she couldn’t hear me over the tears. Who knew that being the frontwoman of a high school garage band could be so awesome? Before I left, Rainbow slipped me her phone number. “Lemme know if you need any more cool facts,” she said, pulling out a cigarette. “You smoke?” I asked. “Of course,” she said, sticking the unlit cigarette between her lips, butt-side first. [hr] When I met Pinkie Pie outside her college dorm and explained the article, she was ecstatic. “Aww, people still talk about us?” Pinkie said, blushing. “That’s so sweeeeeet~!” I held up my tape recorder. “Were you expecting this sort of legacy?” “Nope. I just liked hanging out with my friends! I didn’t care about the music that much.” Pinkie took a quick look around, then leaned in close and whispered, “I wasn’t even playing half the time! And no one ever noticed!” [hr] “Yeah, I pretty much wrote every single one of our songs,” Rainbow said at the start of our second interview. She nodded to herself, then smirked and asked, “Hey, did I tell you about the time I saved Twilight from getting shot?” “I thought you saved Fluttershy?” Rainbow blinked. “Oh, right.” She sat silent for a moment, then asked, “Can we start over?” [hr] “Lemme tell you,” Applejack said, leaning against a tree, “there ain’t nobody more discriminated against than bassists. I carried that band, and what do I get? Less attention than a patch of rotten moss.” I frowned. “That’s gotta be rough.” “It was!” Applejack sighed, but then she gave me a big smile. “That’s why I’m in a ska band now! The music stinks, but they can’t play a lick if I’m not there!” [hr] A bit after midnight, I got a text from Rainbow Dash: “U wanna hear my mixtape 🔥🔥” [hr] “I really do miss it,” Sunset said when I visited the coffee shop she worked at. “I mean, who wouldn’t? Hanging out with great friends, meeting fans, getting to make great art? It’s the life most people only dream of.” She leaned on the counter and chuckled. “Us girls still talk, sure, but it’s not the same. The time you spend with your friends — you gotta cherish it. Because one day, all you’ll have are the memories.” Tears welled in my eyes. “That’s so true!” “Yeah,” Sunset murmured. Then her face sharpened into a glare. “Now are you gonna order something? You’re holding up the line.” I glanced at the crowd of customers gathering behind me, then squeaked, “I’ll have a muffin?” [hr] Once I finished my interviews, I ran back to CHS and wrote up my article. It went out, all 1000 words, in that week’s issue of the Sentinel. And guess what? We managed to give out [i]four[/i] copies! That’s a new record! I knew that CHS missed their heroes! Only problem: Rainbow Dash won’t stop texting me. Can anyone help me block her number?