The point of all this, however, was not to actually engage them. Your plan was two-fold: to buy time for the staff to charge up some more for your diversion, and to keep them from rejoining Twilight and Fluttershy. After all, if you’d sat on your ass, hid away, and waited for the staff charge like a boring person, they’d have assumed you dipped, and they’d wanna link up with their pals again.