//------------------------------// // A Past Battle // Story: Getting Home // by leafz pegasus //------------------------------// “Is he OK!?” “He’s face down on the ground after shredding a manticore’s face to pieces. Of course he isn’t okay, Pinkie! Now let’s go get him to the others so we can get him to a hospital!” Vinyl and Pinkie ran over to the fallen DJ. “What’s this?” Pinkie questioned as she held Leaf’s M1911. “It’s all shiny and funny looking!” “Pinkie! Put that thing down! You saw what he just used it for!” Shouted the blue haired DJ. “I know! But the last time he used it, it made clicking sounds and the thing on the top stayed back.” “Okay fine, you can bring it with, but you need to help me with this guy! He’s bleeding out of his left arm and he’s unconscious.” “Okie dokie lokie!” Twilight came running into the clearing. “Vinyl! Pinkie! Thank Celestia you’re both okay!” Rainbow Dash landed in shortly afterwards. “Yeah, that’s good, but who the buck is this guy?” Rainbow pointed toward the unconscious DJ. “He looks a little like Vinyl, except with white hair.” “He doesn’t look like me! The only similarity is that he’s wearing blue aviators!” Shot back Vinyl. The rest of the elements ran into the clearing. Fluttershy was floating at a low altitude. “Oh no, look at him! We need to get him to the hospital!” “Fluttershy’s right. Come on girls, gather around the poor guy and I’ll teleport us back to Ponyville!” “Vinyl, stand closer to everyone else.” Commanded Twilight. “Twi, you know I don’t like to stand near people! I’m claustrophobic!” Rainbow laughed. “Yet you play at a club full of people and get on the dance floor, surrounded by people constantly, and sit in a sound proof room for hours that is more or less a glorified closet!” “…Yes.” “Girls! That man is bleeding out and you’re arguing?!” “No.” replied both girls. “Ugh, let’s just get to the hospital.” ************************************************************************************ Vinyl and the others landed in front of the Ponyville hospital, and ran inside. “Nurse Redheart!” The nurse looked up from her magazine. “Yes Miss Sparkle, how can I help you and your friends-” she stopped when she saw the limp DJ being held up by Vinyl, “Oh my. Come with me, we’ll get your friend here a room and a doctor.” The six elements of Harmony, along with Vinyl, Leaf, and Nurse Redheart walked down a seemingly endless hallway. “How long is this hallway?” questioned Rainbow. “Long, but the room should be right… here.” Nurse Red heart stopped in front of a door. The nurse opened the door and Vinyl put the knocked out man on the hospital bed. “What the Hay is this?” A small dull black rectangular object fell out of the man’s pocket, “it looks kinda like a phone, but… it has no screen.” “I wonder how you turn this thing on- Woah!” Vinyl pressed a button on the side of the device, and a hologram that spelled INS4NITY lit up, “Welcome Leaf Disqe, what would you like to do?” Vinyl scratched her head. “Uh… play a video?” The autonomous voice replied. “Request accepted, playing the rap battle in which you faced the bassist Josh Ferwood; newspaper article.” ******* (Josh is in bold, Leaf is in italics, and INS4NITY is in bold italics) Hey every-one, it seems we got a musician, Oh I’m sorry, I meant an electrician. That atrocity you call music is nothing real, Music is something that you can feel. Millions are moved when I play my symphonies, when people listen to yours they just lose their Sanity. Aw c’mon, that last one didn’t even rhyme! That rap was so bad that it couldn’t even beat a mime. I’m a player that hits on girls like it’s a game, Every time you even try to it always ends up lame. Your rapping is so unoriginal; it bores me, Ask any of your whores, I’d bet they’d all agree! I know that you can’t understand me when I say that you’re obtuse, but I know for a fact that you know child abuse. What, your parents left you at four? How about I just beat you and settle the score. You know my parents left me at four? Ha, like I haven’t heard that one before. You think that I’m stupid? I got two degrees! I got masters in the arts and in history! I’m done with this battle, but not my other personality, I’m leaving the battle finale up to INS4NITY. *Puts on sunglasses Yo dawg I heard you like ass kickin’s! My music leaves your ears bleedin’ here are some asprins! Oops, I’m sorry, but it seems I dropped your bass, How about I hit you over the head with the case! These headphones are a shield from your boring crap; all I need now is a final rap! I would say you could kiss my ass, but then you’d have to wait in line, My lyrics are better than any of your retarded rhymes! Oh that’s nice, you’ve got a little friend. Someone to help you, while you’re on the mend. Your lyrics are insipid, something that you’d know if you listened. And my rhymes are bad? Oh God, that’s sad. Your rap is so disgusting; it’s just like your mom (Nut-busting!) But that’s it, I’m done. Have fun knowing you’re loved by no one. Leaf Disqe, more commonly known as DJ INS4NITY, lost the battle in a vote of 5,454,534,896: 3,876,345,264. Not just the numbers, but how far his long time competitor had sunk to devastated the famous DJ. Ferwood had insulted his mother, which didn’t faze the DJ much, commented on how many women that have been in relationships with him, insulted his music, and then told him that he was loved by no one. Normally, this would only upset a person, but Disqe had been going to a psychiatrist for some time now for depression and Ferwood’s words weren’t lost on the DJ. Last night the local hospital called the DJ’s record company that he was in the hospital with second degree burns on the DJ’s left arm. Whether this was because of the battle the previous night is still under consideration. ************************************************************************************** Vinyl Scratch was the first to break the silence that had befallen the room. “Damn, this guy seems like he’s been through a lot lately.” Everyone in the room nodded their heads in silent agreement. “Would you like to play the attached file?” said the genderless voice. “Uh, sure. Why not.” Replied Vinyl. “Playing attached file.” *********************************************************************************** The rap battle that occurred March 14 earlier this year had taken a blow to the young DJ’s self confidence; he stopped flirting with women, and his music was less loud and no longer self expressive, but just music as Ferwood said. The music change is evident and shows proof to that statement below, going from this, To this, Although the DJ’s music sales didn’t decline, as many believed they would, the music itself wasn’t the same. Until last month when Leaf Disqe released his newest song out of the blue, When he released his new song, it went platinum almost instantly and he also said this at an interview, “I released It Girl after I got some inspiration from my Girlfriend, Deryn.” This led to much other spin off articles on how long this relationship was going to last and how it was affecting the DJ’s state of mind. He also stated in the interview, “It Girl is the last song I will make that isn’t electronic.” This statement sated many of his fans that believed he was going to stop being a DJ. ******** The silence was broken this time when the doctor entered the room. “Oh my, what have we here?” the doctor walked over to the patient, “What race is he? Pegasus, unicorn, earth, griffin, reptilian?” “We’re not sure. Pinkie and I here were getting wood while camping in the Everfree Forest when a Manticore came and jumped us. We were pinned against a rock face when he came, shouted some curse words, and then got jabbed in the arm by its tail. He then pointed this at it,” Vinyl took the silver firearm from Pinkie, “and it made some loud noises, and holes appeared in the Manticore’s face! We thought it’d never stop, until the thing on the top of it stayed back and it just made click sounds. After that, he fell over.” “That little thing killed a Manticore!” said Rainbow Dash incredulously. “Yup. Couldn’t even recognize it afterwards.” Said Vinyl with an impressed nod. “That’s odd…” the doctor stated, “He doesn’t have the symbols on his hands of a unicorn, the wings of a Pegasus, nor the build of an earth person. He doesn’t have claws or wings of a griffin, and no scalene eyes or fangs of a reptilian. Although he does have larger canines than anyone I’ve treated.” “So he’s a dog/alien thing?” questioned Rainbow. “It would explain this cool phone! It has so many games!” exclaimed Pinkie who was in the middle of playing Minecraft. “I think you’re both a little crazy. Aliens don’t exist! …Right?” Twilight questioned. The Doctor stood back from his patient. “Well, my magic isn’t working on him, and I’ve had to bandage him up manually. So I think it might be possible, I wouldn’t put that idea away yet. And he doesn’t have any characteristics of any known race of human, as well as having more advanced technology. Miss Vinyl said that that small metal object blew a Manticore’s face apart, and that phone of his is nothing I’ve ever seen.” “So he’s an alien.” Questioned Rainbow again. The doctor sighed. “Yes. He’s an alien. Happy?” “Ha! Take that Twilight!” “Uh…. What happened…?” Everyone in the room paused and slowly looked at the now conscious DJ sitting on the bed. Disqe looked around. “Uh… Hi?” A/N: Sorry that this chapter is so short, I haven’t had much time lately and I had to get this scene out of the way as well.