The Fragments of Symphony

by Sky Blue CMC

Chapter II: The Fragment of Humour

Doctor Whooves said "Hello, Octavia!" again, just in case she didn't hear him.

"My professional name is DJ T4V3." the mare replied. "I go by that name when I'm wubbing."

Wubbing? the Doctor thought. Is "wub" a verb? I thought it was a noun! Never mind, Brain #13, that's not important. "What's wubbing?" the Doctor asked, pretending that he didn't know.

"It's what I call my music style: 'wubs' as a verb." Octavia responded. "I'm not very proud of myself for inventing it, though. How did you know my name, anyway? We've never met before, as far as I can tell."

"I know you because I'm a Time Lord, a time-travelling two-hearted alien pony from planet Gallopfrey." the Doctor said, following Rule 1. "You'll meet me in the near future. I'm Clockwork, by the way."

"Well it was nice meeting you, Clockwork, but I need to concentrate on my wubbing." Octavia replied. "Farewell for now, Clockwork! Or, as they say in French, au revoir, Mécanisme!"

"Au revoir, Octave!" the Doctor returned the farewell. "I must depart as well." he added, then he ran to the Canterlot Castle. With DJ T4V3 away, the Doctor decided to search the castle atrium. I must look for Vinyl, she'll know how to fix this! the Doctor thought. She's the original wubber! Oh Rassilon, I'm starting to think like DJ T4V3! She should be in the kitchen, preparing muffins or candies. Whichever one it is depends on whose Cootie Mark she has.

Doctor Whooves had no idea where the Royal Kitchen was, so he went to the head of the atrium, where Princess Celestia was standing. She was patiently waiting for the groom and bride, wondering why it was taking this long for them to arrive. Suddenly she saw the brown stallion, who exclaimed "Princess! It's an emergency! Octavia has Vinyl's Cootie Mark!"

Princess Celestia had learned not to correct the Doctor, and replied "Have you noticed anything strange about anypony before the eclipse?"

The Doctor thought about it for a while before answering. "No, Princess." he replied. "Derpy was off to make muffins like she normally does, and she asked me Derpy Werpy questions, like 'What's an Equestion?' when I told her about my friend River Song's equation."

"I see," responded the Princess, "I believe somepony transferred a lot of energy to the Sun during the eclipse, causing the Fragments of Symphony to mix up."

"That was me." the Doctor replied sheepishly. "I was testing my friend's equation, and the eclipse just happened to happen at that exact moment!"

"And have you any idea of whose Cootie Mark Vinyl has?" Celestia asked, emphasising that the correct word wasn't Cootie.

"I've narrowed it down to Bon Bon's or Derpy's," the Doctor replied, "Which led me here, to ask you where the kitchen is, since they'd both be there by now if their Cootie Marks were normal."

"Enter the sixth door on your right from in front of me." Princess Celestia replied, watching the Doctor as he turned around.

The Doctor ran to the room, and sure enough, he was in the Royal Kitchen. Then he saw Lyra with Derpy's Cutie Mark and Vinyl with Bon Bon's Cutie Mark.

"I'm try-ing to make muf-fins, I just don't know what went wrong!" Lyra exclaimed. "I can't get these in-gre-di-ents wher-e-ver they be-long! I have a lot of bad luck, so I hope you'll for-give me!"

"You telling me, Ly?" Vinyl asked. "I mix up all my can-dy but it al-ways just ends up a waste! I do al-right with fla-vours, but I can't hold on, I drop the base! I must be a Con-fec-tio-ner, it's what I'm meant to be."

"No time to sing of des-ti-ny, 'cause we have to get a move on, Al-lons-y!" the Doctor joined in the tune of a song he had heard in the future. "Come with me, Vinyl! Octavia's really struggling with her wubs!"

"But I don't really know anything about wubs!" Vinyl replied.

Yes, you do. You know everything about them. You invented the word, you human-brained Unicorn! The Doctor thought. The only thing he said on the matter was "But you do know something about Octavia!"

"I know that she's a true friend," Vinyl said, "and I'd do anything I could to help her!"

Doctor Whooves and Vinyl, joined at the hip, headed back outside the castle. Lyra didn't join them because she wasn't called to do so yet. I don't even know where Bon Bon and Derpy are! the Doctor thought. I'll ask Lyra to come when she's needed.

"Bonjour, Mécanisme." Octavia said worriedly.

"Octave!" the Doctor replied. He couldn't see her anywhere. Before he could ask where she went, he heard her say something else.

"I'm in here! Help! I'm trapped!" It was coming from under DJ P0N3's, no, DJ T4V3's turntable. "I trapped myself under here to blind me from the haters!"

"Hurry, Clockwork!" Vinyl exclaimed. "Can't you just use some sort of equation to calculate good sounding wubs?"

"No. Vinyl, you're the only one who can help!" the Doctor replied "Octavia needs you!"

"Um... Hello?" Vinyl said. "A wiki-wiki-wiki and a wubba-dub-dub! A Vinyl Scratch is playin' in the DJ Club! If the Element of Laughter just isn't enough, then call upon the Fragment of Humour and stuff!" Almost instantly, Vinyl's Cutie Mark had returned to normal. The name on the turntable said DJ P0N3 and the fans gave a rousing cheer! "Vinvyl!"

One down. the Doctor thought. How many more?

Author's Note:

The Brain numbers are a reference to the Doctor's 27 brains. "I've never seen you before, as far as I can tell" is a reference to a song I wrote last year called "For as Far as I Can Tell" by Richmond Barrington. (My artist name. The only other Richmond Barrington song I wrote was "Eveline" about a girl named after a character in a story made by whitewolf292 on Scratch. To this day "Eveline" is the most beautiful sounding name to me. Also it's a French name, which explains why the Doctor and Octavia are speaking French in this chapter.) "Princess Celestia replied, watching the Doctor as he turned around." It's not a Molestia reference. Get your Brain #19 out of the gutter! "Joined at the hip" if the first half of the first line of the second verse of Owl City's "When Can I See You Again?" which is my favourite song that I haven't written. The Doctor didn't know there were six Fragments of Symphony, ergo he didn't know how many remained.

Comments

[Sky Blue CMC]

I realised the chapter titles I said were a bit out of order. I will edit them ac-discordingly.

[SpiritOfMystery]

Holy-shmoley,that authors note was very informative, that"s my favorite song to, and this is my first comment on thus site ever!!!!! You my man, rock!!!!!!

[Sky Blue CMC]

4956982 My favourite song is "Eveline" but that's one I wrote. (I'm so proud of it that I'm too embarrassed to sing it!) Read the Author's Note again.

[Sky Blue CMC]

4956982 Also epic thanks for dedicating your first comment not only to me, but to loving my story! (Which very few people have done for my first two!)

[Sky Blue CMC]

Sorry if some of these chapters are short, I'm just writing whatever I can think of for them. If you have any ideas on how to make them longer, PM me. (I don't want comment upon comment of suggestion.)

[Nonchalant]

I retract my earlier comment.

[CookieDo]

She's the original wubber!