“So class what did we learn today?” the art teachers sweet voice asked us. I always enjoyed Ms. Sherbert’s class. I mean, it was better than all other classes because they were always to serious. And I was never a fan of serious. I sat in the back of the class, while all my classmates sat in front, trying to sway our art teacher with ‘best student’ demeanor. A whole lot of hands shot up to answer her question. Me, I just stood by and let them answer the question for me. I was always too lazy.
“Yes, Octavia”, Ms. Sherbert said pointing at a light grey filly who had a mane of neat black straight hair . Speaking of teacher’s pets, Octavia is our fellow overachiever. Who also happens to be one of my greatest friends.
“Well Ms. Sherbert we learned…” Octavia started, her voice raised so the class to hear me. Still that didn’t stop me from slipping in and out of consciousness. Sure I loved this class, but I’d rather be home sleeping.
I finally woke as the bell rung. I was so excited, I pounced out of my chair and shrieked “WHOOO TIME TO GO HOME!”. Everypony looked at me like I was crazy. I looked at everyone and I started to lower my smile.
“Uh, Vinyl Scratch, It’s fifth period” my teacher told me. Aww snap. My face flushed red as I felt really dumb for my outburst. The kids pointing and laughing didn’t really help.
“alright class have a wonderful day” Ms. Sherbert finally addressed, turning her back to the class and returning to her desk. Oh now she wasn’t poking puns at me.
I slowly turned my back from my classmates and grabbed my backpack from my chair. All the ponies started walking out of class, still laughing and pointing at me, leaving me in a not so good mood. I think I’m going to start hating this class now.
Just as I began to walk out of class, a little voice caught my attention. I instantly knew who it was
“Just couldn’t let down the DJ attitude, even in class?” Octavia asked, stifling a laugh. Oh she may be classy but when it came to being mean she didn’t care.
“I’m not really in such a good mood…” I told her as we proceeded down the school hall which was flooded with other students. I saw a few eyes look at me, snickering amongst some of their friends about what I just did. I wanted to jump into the nearest trash can and hide there until the end of the day. It’s not like it can get anymore embarrassing.
“Oh now darling, it isn’t that bad”. I hated it when she did that.
I gave her a stern look but she just simply laughed. “Now, first off if you ever want to give someone a strict stare you’re going to have to take off those glasses” she stifled.
I just groaned, but couldn’t help but muster a smile. After all, picturing me trying to stare down someone with glasses sounded really idiotic. Apparently she saw me for she gave me a quick hug.
“Vinyl we do dumb things, it’s in our nature don’t be so hard on yourself” she said comfortably. I looked at her and quickly gave her back another hug.
“This is why you’re my best friend Octavia” I mumbled, squeezing the earth pony. After a good while, she managed to escape my hug and breathe back all the oxygen I took from her with my hug.
“Thanks DJ PON-3” she mumbled. I blushed at the sound of my DJ name. It was a name I gave myself after my first time trying out turn tables as a little filly.
“You should really be heading back to class though” she continued, patting herself off. I looked around and began to notice that most students were going to their classes. I still needed to get to my locker to get my books for next period. I quickly thanked Octavia for everything and she trotted off to her next class. I hope I didn’t make her late for class, that would be bad. I never really cared, I was usually late for class.
I began to trot down the lockers until I reached my locker. It was about three to four aisles down. Oh boy I was going to be really late.
I approached my locker, which was on the top section and considering I was to tired, I didn’t want to get on my hind legs to unlock it. Instead I steadied my magic to put in my combination and unlock the locker. Once I did that, I brought out my books for English (A subject that absolutely bored me!), and was about to close my locker, until I heard hooves. Then I heard the voices of stallions. I know a group of stallions that would be out here in the halls after class.
I quickly closed my locker and tried to go to class as fast as I could, but before I could even act out the first part of my plan, a hoove shot up and closed my locker. I jumped at the loud sound of the locker slamming inwards. I wilted my ears and head downwards. I didn’t need this now…
‘Hey there Pip squeak?” I heard one of them ask. “How’s it going?”
I didn’t want to look up at them, but I could see their shadows envelope me as they gathered in a circle around me. I knew who they were, so they weren’t as tall as their shadows made them seem. Still…
Another voice spoke out. “Dude don’t you know? She’s taking her things so she could go home. It is time to leave, am I right Scratchy?”
“Good one, Skrill-X” another pony said.
I tried to walk out between their legs as they stood around me, but they would move their legs to wherever I went.. They laughed at me and began to taunt me.
“Hey, where do you think you’re going?” Skrill-X asked.
“Yeah, where just having a little fun…” another voice added.
I looked up at my bullies and saw about four stallions.
I knew them. One of them was a grey toned stallion with green hair that seemed to only run down one side of his head. That was SKRILL-X (or as everyone called him). Everyone always liked him, well, everyone except me. He looked at me with a smirk across his face.
The second stallion had a black coat with short spiky hair petruding from the back of his polo cap. Everyone calls him DEADMAU5. He was not a bad looking stallion. He was just a total jerk. He stood there with a nonchalant smirk on his face. I couldn’t tell if he was enjoying this.
The other two earth ponies were twins. Both had a blue coat and black manes. They were new kids and they liked to be called Yin and Yang for some reason. I don’t know I’ll probably call the first one Douche and the second one Bag.
“Leave me alone, I’m not in the mood today…” I mumbled helplessly.
“Aww it looks like she wants to cry…” Yin (I mean Douche) said in a dry sweet voice. The other brothe laughed and was ready to chime in until he was cut short by DEADMAU.
“I don’t think today is a good day SKRILL, I mean c’mon look at her” He said pointing in my direction with his hoof. SKRILL shot him a look and DEADMAU looked back at him. The twins stared at the two in silence. I saw this as an oppurtinity to leave to class but Bag (Yang) snapped out of it and quickly swept me to the middle of the group again. SKRILL-X turned to me now and began taunting me once more.
“Hey DJ PON-3 I heard about your last attempt at trying to work on music” he snorted. The twins laughed. DEADMAU stood silent with his eyes closed. Deep down I truly wish he would stick up for me but no one ever really stood up for me. That was because I didn’t have a lot of friends.
“Man, I heard it was horrible. You were trying these new things with the system and I heard it sucked so bad, people kicked you out of the house”.
Oh man. I was in seventh grade then why won’t he leave that be. “So what?” I snapped at him.
SKRILL-X just laughed at me and continued on. “So why do you keep going by the name DJ PON-3? You clearly don’t deserve to be called a…”
DEADMAU quickly stormed off from the group and descended down the hall to his next class. I secretly pleaded for him to not go, because then I’ll be left with these three. The group didn’t even seem to acknowledge him leaving. SKRILL-X continued.
“…DJ. I mean c’mon no one wants to have a freak have that title”.
I looked down because I knew that’s what hurt me a lot. Being called a freak. They’ve always called me a freak because…
Suddenly my glasses were taken off my face by one of the twins, which left my eyes for the three to see.
“Purple eyes just screams a freak” SKRILL-X snickered.
I knew what he was saying wasn’t true. My eyes were unique. Many people like my eyes. Then again many people don’t really like me. I felt alone sometimes, only accompanied by Octavia, but other than that the only other true friend I had was music.
I began to curl up in a ball and cry as much as I could. Today just wasn’t my day. Through my sobs, I could hear them laughing at me and that didn’t help me at all. I really wish I could be home, away from all this. I wanted to get away.
It seems as if my thoughts were controlling my body, because I quickly got up and began to sprint, until a hoof went up and I tripped, sliding on my face a few paces. I heard more laughter, but only for a short time. There was a shout in the hallway.
“Hey! What do you think you’re doing?!” a voice said. I thought it was DEADMAU but this voice sounded a little more…nicer?
“Oh hey, it’s the new kid from Los Pegasus.” I heard SKRILL-X say.
I didn’t turn back to see who my savior was, because I just wanted to get out of there. I quickly shot up and sprinted down the aisles of lockers. I didn’t want to go to class right now. I didn’t want anything to do with anybody. I only had one place in mind, where a lot of people wouldn’t really be during class. My eyes blurred with tears but I kept going.
I continued running, panting, until I reached the mares restroom. I bucked the door open with my hooves and ran into the bathroom stalls. I sat down on the seat, put my hooves on my face, and cried. I just couldn’t stop crying. I was shedding tears, sobbing, and trying to breathe a little normal. I just couldn’t though.
My mind kept thinking. Why do they hate me? What did I do to deserve this? Is it because of my eyes? Is it because I’m different? Each question left me to clench my eyes harder to fight back tears but they kept coming.
Why do the DJs pick on me? I could still hear all their nasty remarks. They obviously didn’t like the fact I called myself a DJ and all that stuff. Why?
I finally stopped struggling to breath, but I still had tears running down my face. I just remembered I left all my stuff back by my locker. I clasped a hoof over my face, and banged my head on the side of the stall. Dang It!
“Hello?” a soft voice spoke out from the restroom. I shot up from the toilet. Was someone here the whole time? I stood there quiet, trying to see if the voice would come back. I held my breath trying to make sure she couldn’t hear my little sobs.
“I could see your legs you know…”
Dang It! Wait, that voice…
I quickly shot the stall door open and looked side to side to see if it was who I think it was.
To my right I saw Octavia.
I threw myself at her and began to cry more. I thought I ran out of tears, honestly.
“My, what happened Vinyl?” Octavia asked worriedly. I tried to answer her but for now I really needed to be close to someone. I really didn’t want to feel like a loner. She stood there, as if she read my mind, and started to groom my mane.
“Honestly Vinyl can your hair get anymore spikier?” she asked soothingly. I giggled, squeezing her tighter. I finally decided to tell her.
“It was the DJs again” I muttered to her. Octavia let out a snort of some sort towards me. I was almost about ready to haunch down until she continued on. “I’m seriously going to teach them a piece of my mind. They have no right to treat a mare like that, especially one that’s my friend!”
I stood in shock at Octavia. I’ve never seen her like this, she was always a nice good pony. This attitude though left me more happy than stunned though. It showed she actually cared about me. I smiled weakly at her but she seemed only enraged. I decided to calm her down before she does something she might regret.
“Octavia…”
“No Vinyl. Seriously you do what makes you happy. I know about some of the things they tell you. As far as I know they’re only mad at a mare who is actually interested in the same music they are interested in!”
Octavia was always a pony of classy slow music which bored me to death but I never let that difference get between us.
“…I don’t want to think about them. I just want to kind of escape everything…please?”
Octavia was still mad as far as I could see. But since I said please (which I hardly did) I could see her anger disappearing. She opened up her arms for another hug and I didn’t hesitate to go into her arms. I wondered for a second what she was doing out of class but I didn’t want her to go so I didn’t ask.
My mind kept repeating the mean things the stallions told me. I wanted to get them off my mind, and I think because my mind was all fuzzy I thought of the weirdest things ever.
“Octavia?” I asked her softly.
“Yes?” she replied, her voice as sweet as honey.
“Promise you won’t tell anyone about this.” I told her. I seriously didn’t know why I was going to do this.
“Promise you what, DJ PON-3?” she asked. I winced at the mention of me being a DJ, causing me to accidentally squeeze her.
“Just promise me.” I pleaded.
Octavia thought it over for a second and after a while said “Yes”
I closed my eyes and let my idea run wild. I remembered the lyrics to a song I heard a while back, and after a couple of seconds of remembering I let the lyrics slip out.
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I'm tired and I
I want to go to bed
Octavia stopped patting my mane and was now resting her hoof on my back.
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
And then leave me alone
Don't try to wake me in the morning
'Cause I will be gone
I felt tears began to well up in my eyes, but I’ve already cried too much today.
Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I will feel so glad to go
Sing me to sleep
Sing me to sleep
I don't want to wake up
On my own anymore
I felt Octavia’s head rest on top of mine.
Don't feel bad for me
I want you to know
Deep in the cell of my heart
I really want to go…
I stopped singing as I heard sobs. I thought they were coming from me, but when I opened my eyes I saw it was Octavia. She was looking at me with a stunned expression, wide eyed, and tears streaming down her face.
“That-that…was-was…” Octavia managed to get that far until she clasped her hooves around me. There was a lot of hugging today but I didn’t care. I needed it..
I stood there with Octavia for what seemed like hours until the bell rang. Octavia lifted her head up and looked at me with a smile that seemed to warm my heart. Wait, knowing that smile nothing good was going to come out of her mouth.
Her smile turned into a grin as we got up from the bathroom floor and began to walk to the entrance of the bathroom.
“That, Vinyl, is the bell to go home” she giggled as we walked out the bathroom. I shot her a look (this time without my glasses).
If she didn’t know about my secret concert in the bathroom I would’ve bucked her.
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I groaned as I woke from my dream (actually nightmare), and slowly stood up. I had a slight headache and after a while of fighting to open my eyes, I finally won.
Turns out I fell asleep on the couch. I was so tired; I probably just fell on the couch and knocked out. “Dang” I said to myself. Only time I ever fell asleep on the couch was one time at a college party. I told myself never again…for a month at least. Octavia was never happy about that. I laughed at the thought of our times in college.
I got up and heard the sound of something falling. I looked down by my hooves and saw my earphones and music player. I groaned as I realized no music was coming out of my modified cassette player. Yeah, I wasted the battery. Again.
I picked up my things and tossed them on the couch. I stretched for quite some time after (sleeping on my couch isn’t that comfortable).
After stretching I looked around and saw the sun blasting through my windows. Wow, I must have knocked out for a long time. I walked over to the kitchen to prepare me a quick snack. All that dreaming made me hungry.
I got some apples and orange juice out of the fridge. I was so tired, I felt like I was walking like a zombie.
As I brought myself to the table, I sat down and starting eating my apples. I just ate them in silence, enjoying the sweetness of the fruit in my mouth. I couldn’t think about anything else but my dream. It was so real… I honestly thought I was back there on that exact day.
I remember how it felt back then. To be alone and lame. Well to everyone else. I never really cared if people disliked me. I had my best friend Octavia so I could care less about everyone.
But what made me feel so lame, were the bullies. Skrill-X, Douche and Bag (I can’t believe I called them that ha!) and Deadmau5. It was odd how Deadmau5 walked away as if he didn’t want to hurt me anymore. The thought stopped me from taking another bite of my apple and left me shaking my head. Why did he walk away? I put the apple down and clasped my hooves on my face.
Thinking sucked.
I also could remember how Skrill-X and the twins were picking on me. They really tried to make me unhappy and that just wasn’t cool! I don’t know why they liked to pick on me but even if I did, it still wouldn’t mean a thing. Those jerks made me cry.
Luckily when I ran to the bathroom to cry, my friend Octavia was there. She was there for me and I was really glad for that. I wasn’t so glad that she heard me sing. I never really sing slow song so…yeah.
Hey, I was a little sad and I felt in the mood to sing a song from The Stallions. Octavia was shocked to know I actually knew a slow song. Hey if they put me to sleep, I might need to know a few.
The one thought that really stood out the most, was that voice. The one that called out to the DJs. I rolled the apple back and forth for quite some time across the table trying to memorize that voice. It was weird, I mean, no one ever really stood up for me when I was being picked on. Sure Deadmau walked off, but he was still a bully.
That stallion that shouted was from Las Pegasus, well, maybe because that’s where Skrill-X said he was from. I don’t remember any students that came from Los Pegasus to here. I groaned in frustration.
“These are too many questions!” I shrieked as I dropped my head on the table. At the exact same time the apple rolled in front of my face…
SPLAT!
…Ow.
I slowly lifted my face from the smashed apple and could barely see anything in front of me. I brought my hooves up to my face and wiped away all the apple bits. Well I know I won’t be that hungry.
I went over to the counter to get some napkins so I can clean up the mess. When I got the napkins and brought them back to the table, I saw the apple (or what was left of it). It was practically splattered all over the table.
Was my head actually that hard? I stood wide eyed at the bits of apples scattered everywhere. I didn’t know whether to feel sorry about my face or the apple.
I cleaned up the apples and downed my orange juice. I really didn’t want to think about the nightmare. I closed my eyes to think about other things. What I really wanted to think about was the…
My eyes shot open. “The Parties today!” I shrieked, running up to my front door to see if I got all my items for the gig. It was already the afternoon and I haven’t even got anything started!
I threw the door open and was instantly hit by a flash of the sun. That didn’t stop me though as I ran outside to see my items.
And as expected, there they were. And it was a lot of stuff. So many things I stood there looking up at the pile of things I needed to prepare this gig. The pile was huge! I knew that I wasn’t going to be able to put all this stuff together in such short time. I needed to call a couple of friends.
Thankfully I knew the right ponies for the job…
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Thank Primus, I did not slip into recharge! Another day I live to keep my sanity (or what’s left of it). Not so thankful I had to stay up in silence and listen to the hors-umm unicorn- making strange noises. I think they’re called ‘snoring’. Not a pleasant sound at all.
Well, I lived through the horrible noises, so there’s no point complaining.
I’m beginning to feel my dose of energon wear off. A feeling that isn’t a good one. It’s leaving me a bit more provocative. Something I shouldn’t be when stuck in my alt mode.
I really wish I wasn’t crammed into my alt mode. I’m beginning to feel my chassis rusting gradually and I’m forced to live my life through the eyes of a music blasting unicorn. Sadly, I think the only way to make a living is to start adjusting a preference for music…
NO! Scrap that. I can’t be too weak and give in to this madness. I’ve already lost one of my morals in a couple of moons; I’m not going to give up the other so quickly. I will continue to despise music until the day I go offline.
“Hey Vinyl do you mind playing a bit of music?” a familiar voice pleaded.
“Well, if it’s okay with Soundwave…”
WHAT! Wait, no…
“Pinkie, are you still with that whole ‘thinking cassette player’ thing” Vinyl asked, giggling a bit.
It was that pink horse. What was she doing here? Suddenly a light appeared from the top of the side pouch and I found myself being pulled out into the light of day. The light hit my senses real fast, but they quickly adjusted. As soon as they adjusted I found myself looking outside at a bunch of strange objects.
Vinyl lifted me up and placed me down next to the console. I already knew what that meant.
“Wait Vinyl…” another cool familiar voice called out. Oh scrap, this is all too coincidental. It was Rainbow Dash. I heard the white unicorn slowly walk away and left me there on the console. The console was raised off the ground, according to the elevation, and I could see about 3 other horses helping put things together. Seriously these horses always helped one another. Why was that?
I stood there, watching each horse attend to their assigned task. I saw an orange one, wearing an object of some sort on its head, hauling crates across the plain before me. I also saw a yellow flying horse (much like the light blue one I came across before) holding some thin object in her mouth.
“Hey Fluttershy, can you see what we have lest on the list?” another familiar voice said. I then saw a purple unicorn walk across my optics, and I knew who it was. It was the unicorn Vinyl knew who gave me a dose of energon. Her name was Twilight. She appeared to be lifting up boards of some sort.
“Sure” the yellow flying horse (Fluttershy) said timidly. I could barely hear her and I usually hear everything.
Then, at the center of the field was the pink horse known as Pinkie Pie. The one who knew too much. She seemed to be helping the orange horse pull strange object out of a crate. Kind of looked like bullet casings, but they were green.
“…Has the thing been giving you any troubles?” I heard the light blue thing questioned. She was talking about me. Again. Sadly they were out of my sight of vision for they were right behind me.
“Nope, nothing…” Vinyl answered but was swiftly cut short.
“Are you sure?” Rainbow Dash interrogated. This was going to get bad quickly knowing my luck.
“Yes Dash, why whatsup?” Vinyl asked, a little stunned by the flying horses tone.
“Well, I mean it’s something from the Ever Free forest so…”
“What!?” Vinyl exclaimed.
Well I’m scrapped.
“I thought you knew?” Rainbow Dash shot. She then muttered under her breath “I’m going to give those little fillies a piece of my mind…”
After there was a long silence. Well for them. I could still see all the horses in front of me, put together this ‘party’ the white unicorn keep squabbling about.
“Well” Vinyl answered, breaking the silence. “I do remember the Cutie Mark Crusaders telling me where they got it from. But honestly Dash, don’t get mad at them. They were fighting on my porch and I didn’t want them to get hurt, so I took it without thinking”.
“well you should’ve paid attention, because now you own something from EVER FREE FOREST!” the enraged flyer shouted. As soon as she shouted those last words, I saw all the horses before me lift up there head and look towards their direction. All except one. Twilight. She was running towards us. Well now I’m surely scrapped.
I heard the steps of the purple unicorn on the stadium and could hear them slowly approach her fighting companions.
It turns out even these joyous beings can have quarrels amongst one another. How ironic.
“Wait it’s from Ever Free forest?” The purple unicorn asked shocked. She obviously knew the answer to her own question.
“Yes, it is” Rainbow Dash said. I sort of felt some sympathy for the white unicorn but at the same time couldn’t help but let myself enjoy her pain.
“You had me jinx an object that is possibly cursed?!” Twilight said, sounding a bit enraged.
“You jinxed it?” Rainbow Dash asked in astonishment to Twilight. Twilight ignored her question. She seemed to be targeting Vinyl Scratch.
“Why didn’t you tell me where it came from?” Twilight continued.
“Well I…” Vinyl said feebly.
“Well?” Twilight snapped.
“This is not cool Vinyl you probably…” Dash started but was cut short. As were my circuits.
“ENOUGH!” Vinyl yelled.
Wow I didn’t know she had that in her. Maybe we aren’t scrapped…
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Twilight and Rainbow Dash stared at me shocked. I wasn’t really one to lose my cool, but honestly I wasn’t in the mood. Not after the nightmare.
I was waving my hooves to motion a ‘stop’ signal so they could see my message. They got it.
“Okay, yeah, I forgot to tell you, but I didn’t think it was that bad” I shot back. Rainbow Dash opened her muzzle to say something but I quickly cut her off.
“Hold on” I snapped. Dash closed her mouth.
I sighed and continued. “Okay yes it is from the Ever Free forest, but nothing weird has happened at all with the cassette player. If anything there are only two weird things.”
I lifted up my hooves to number down the only weird things I know about my Ever Free forest find.
“One” I said holding up one hoof. “Pinkie says it’s thinking and weird stuff like that. This is Pinkie so we can assume it’s nothing that bad.”
My two friends were ready to say something back, but I decided to say it for them. “If there is anything weird happening with my music player I’ll get rid of it”.
They stood there looking at me and after a while, Twilight nodded. “Okay, Vinyl, we trust you would. We just worry for your safety.” She said.
I laughed. “If anything Twi, if this thing is capable of thinking it should be scared of me…”
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I think she already made that clear enough for me…
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Twilight and Dash laughed. I smiled back and quickly realized we’re wasting time. Before I could tell my friends to continue working Dash asked me a question.
“Wait what was the second reason?” she asked curiously. I was just about to answer her question until we heard a small cute squeal. We all turned to the field in front of us and saw four little yellow legs trapped under a couple of small boxes. Applejack and Pinkie were around her.
“Uhh, I’ll tell you guys later. For now I think we should help put this party together” I finished.
“Alright you got it DJ PON-3” Dash said running off to Fluttershy’s aid. Twilight turned around for a second but then turned back to me.
“Hey Vinyl Sratch…” Twilight said.
I smiled at her.
“…Knock them off their hooves tonight.” She finished. Then she ran off to help set up the party. By now the sun was starting to go down. And the stars were beginning to come up.
Tonight, I’m going to prove those DJs wrong, and show them that I can do what I want, when I want, and especially how I want it.
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It’s dark now but the lights still radiated the area. The lights Rainbow Dash hooked up seemed to set a tone for a ‘party’ during a moon. It’s suprising how fast I saw these horses put together all this. I am a bit stunned yes, but I do not respect this. Besides this still meant a whole moon of music.
Oh Primus, I’m still hooked to the console.
Great now I’m up here forced to deal with the effects of music on full blast. Well I’ve survived before, I’ll just try to make it through once again.
Far ahead, I see an entrance at the front, possibly about 20 paces away (For a bot my size). There are horses coming in from the entrance. Dozens flooding in, chatting laughing and muttering to one another as they proceed further into the place. I knew I was outside because of the stars but the lights removed the feel of nature from the atmosphere.
I saw many horses of all kinds. Some with horns, some with wings, and some just normal horses.
It’s just odd how these horses are like actual beings. It shouldn’t be like this but it is how it is. This was one dimension I was thrown into out of how many others? They’re could be other species out there, none that would make any sense. They’re could be talking trees, flying rodents, heck maybe even animal cybertronians.
I doubt I honestly stopped Shockwave’s plans. If anything I just stalled them. But I think the possibility of Shockwave finding his way back into this dimension is so improbable, it gave me both a feeling of relief and anger.
Relief, because now I wouldn’t have to worry about zombots tearing me limb from limb and Anger because I was stuck in this dimension in this mode.
My thoughts of misery were cut short by the sound of steps slowly approaching my location. I could also see the horses before me, silent, and gazing at the approaching object. I knew who it was, and I tried to prepare for what would come next.
But this is Vinyl Scratch. From what I know, she has a lot of things planned. All of them, usually resulting in me getting damaged one way or another.
I heard the sounds of the two metal spinning discs on the side of me scratching. This is it…
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This is it. The part I enjoy the most has finally come. My hooves were a little shaky at first, but once I put my hooves on the turn tables, It quickly stopped. I’m excited that I see dozens of ponies here at my party, actually wanting to hear my music. I look at everyone with a smile and watch through my shades as other return the smile. Up here I feel so good. I feel like I have friends. Like I’m not alone. Not like I ever am, I mean I have a lot of friends now. But ever since my nightmare, I feel like I need the company of the whole world.
…Actually forget that. I came up here to play music and that’s what I’ going to do. I am not going to let anypony down tonight. I put the headphones next to the laptop onto my head, and instantly raise my hooves.
“How many of you ponies came here to have a good time?” I shouted to the audience. What I got in return was shouts from the crowd. Music to my ears.
“I’m glad to hear that! Now are you all ready?” I asked knowing their answer already. More shouts saying ‘yes’.
I loved to taunt the crowd. “If you really want a good time raise your hooves!”
Dozens of hooves shot up followed by screams. I smiled with joy
“Alright ponies” I added. “Let’s go!”
I immediately placed one hoof on the laptop and switched to the file I was going to mix. After a few deep breaths, I closed my eyes, and pressed play. No sooner had I done that, I placed both my hooves on the turn tables and beginning to rock my body to the beat.
Dun dun bumbumbum dun dun din dun dun
Dun dun bumbumbum dun dun din dun dun
Bum bum dun dun dun bun dundunbundun
I let that bass drop low and it was a feeling that left me grinning. I continued to lower that beat but continue it on.
Glitter on the wet streets
(bunbunbun)
Silver over everything
(bunbunbun)
The river's all wet
(bunbunbun)
You're all cold
(bunbunbun)
Dripping with alchemy
(bunbunbun)
Shiver stop shivering
(bunbunbun)
The glitter's all wet
(bunbunbun)
You're all chrome
(bunbunbun)
Dripping with alchemy
(bunbunbun)
Shiver stop shivering
(bunbunbun)
The glitter's all wet
(bunbunbun)
You're all chrome
(bunbunbun)
This is the part where I start rounding the beat. Oh I loved this part. I picked up my hoof to the side of my headphone and rose my other hoof up.
The colts cry out,
the mares cry out
The colts cry out,
the mares cry out
The colt cry out,
oh no
The colts cry out
, the mares cry out
The colts cry out,
the mares cry out
The colts cry out,
oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no oh no
Oh, oh, oh, oh oh, oh, oh, oh oh, oh, oh, oh
I could see many ponies in the party dancing and jamming to the beat of the song. This beat was only the beginning though. This part was gonna get real heavy…
Off, off with your head!
Dance, dance 'til you're dead!
Heads will roll, heads will roll!
Heads will roll on the floor…
…And it was going to be a really long night. I saw many ponies dancing, having fun and enjoying their time here.
I had no problem with that at all.
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After hours of blasting music I decided to give everyone (including me) a break. I kind of wanted to explore my party and enjoy everything that was going on.
“Alright ponies, hold on, DJ PON-3 will be right back with ya’”.
More shouting.
I made my way down to the stairs of the podium, where I was greeted by many ponies, congratulating me, and complimenting my music. It was a nice feeling. I liked the feel of being complimented because it showed that I make others happy by doing what makes me happy.
As I made my way through the crowd of partying ponies who were laughing chatting and having fun, I saw three of my best friends wave at me by the ‘Beverage’ table.
I saw Applejack, Rarity, and Pinkie. Except this was ‘party’ pinkie. Uh-oh.
I walked to my friends ready to tell them hi but instead they were the first to do so, rushing at me, hugging me, congratulating me and a lot of other things. It took me a couple of minutes to finally tell them my thanks (I was still recovering from Pinkie’s and Applejack’s sudden hug).
“Ay’ no problem Vinyl, way I reckon, you deserve a’ lot more than our compl’ments” Applejack said through her cowgirl accent.
I blushed when she told me this. It was a compliment I actually liked to hear.
“Yes, Darling, you did amazing up there” Rarity added. “For all I know, you’re the only pony I know who can do such a thing as that”.
More blushing. Now all I needed was a compliment from Pink-
“You…did GREAT!” Pinkie exclaimed a bit dazed. Oh snap. I think she wnt a little overboard with the beverages.
“Thanks Pinkie” I said, making sure she didn’t topple over on the floor. She seemed a little past gone.
“…But…” Pinkie said. This isn’t going to go well. I saw my two other friends look at pinkie as well, possibly thinking the same thing.
“…A pretty mare such…such as ‘urself…needs to find- a goo-good stallion…” Pinkie managed to say. I sighed. This isn’t the first time she brought this up.
“Pinkie, I’ve told you, I’m good I don’t fel like I eed to find a stallion” I grunted, still trying to watch over Pinkie. Her eyes looked heavy.
“Well…” Pinkie continued. “I found …found…” Pinkie burped. “Excuse me…found a-nice-nice stallion fer..you” she managed to say.
I giggled at Pinkie’s attempt to finish her sentence. “I appreciate that Pinkie but I’m goo-“
“Hey, Pinkie!” a familiar voice shouted. But it wasn’t a voice I recognized.
Me and my friends quickly glance in the direction of the voice. A grey earth stallion was walking towards our direction. He had black spiky hair and nice light brown eyes. He wasn’t very tall, but he wasn’t bad looking. Not.At.All.
“Umm Vinyl you ‘kay there?” Applejack asked giggling. Why was she laughing?
“Any wider darling, and a fly might go into your mouth” Rarity added. Oh snap. They caught me checking out the stallion. I was hot with embarrassment. It also didn’t help that Pinkie recognized also.
“See..” she said with a groggy smile. Darn Pinkie got me.
The stallion proceeded to Pinkie and helped her stand up a bit better. “You okay there Pinkie? Seems like you’ve had enough”. His voice was sweet, yet very stallion. I began to feel a little lightheaded.
“Oh, I’m…fine” Pinkie said smiling in my direction. Don’t do this Pinkie.
The grey stallion looked at what pinkie was looking and he spotted me.
Buck me.
I tried to manage a smile, but I could only feel it forming halfway. I already felt like an idiot. I felt like how I did the first time I met the Cutie Mark Crusaders. Not smooth.
He smiled and tried to keep pinkie in her position, then walked over to greet me. “Hey, I really enjoy your beats up there. They’re really sick”.
I stood there in silence for a couple of seconds, until I could hear my two friends nickering on the side of me. I snapped out of it and quickly answered his question.
“Oh, really, why-um- thank you” I said bluntly. This was going badly. I never really talked to stallions often.
He smiled (I almost turned to run. It was so….) and simply said. “No problem. As a fellow DJ I tend to admire others with musical talent”
My fantasies about the stallion (yes, fantasies, so what?) immediately came to a halt. My smile faded and I stood their blankly at him. Another DJ? Was this Deadmau?
Wait no, Deadmau had a black coat. Still…
“Did I offend you?” he asked worriedly. Oh great, you scared him Vinyl.
“Oh nononono, I just-uhh” I shut up. I just screwed up the chance to talk to a good looking stallion.
Rarity and Applejack were giggling and i shot a look in there direction. "Maybe we should leave you two alone, come along, Applejack" Rarity said, obviously taunting me. They knew i would fail miserably.
He laughed and continued the conversation. “Well my names Rivers by the way. As a DJ I go by the name DJ ROOK13 but you can just call me Rook.”
He smiled.
I was a bit dazed but I finally snapped back to my senses. “ Oh uh sorry, my name is Vinyl Scratch, but I go by the name DJ PON-3”. Good I didn’t screw that up.
The grey stallion nodded his head and then added , “Vinyl? That’s a pretty name…”
Oh sweet Celestia…
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Okay… I survived….my circuits aren’t fried.
But I can sure tell you it’ll take a deca-cycle before my audio sensors get repaired. Thankfully DJ PON-3 (as she refers to herself) has taken a break. I can see her talking to another grey toned horse. I wonder how that conversations going. Possibly like the one with the three little horses.
Well now I was in silence and luckily I could heal for a while before she comes back to wreak havoc on my spark. I stood there watching all the horses do their thing. It reminded me much of the energon joints found on the borders of Kaon. Except there was always brawls breaking out.
Usually started by me.
It’s suprising how these ponies are having a good time. They’re down there moving about having their fun while im up here immobilized with a audio cord plugged in my-
Wait, I still had the cord plugged in?
All this time I had the cord plugged in and I barely realized now?
Oh, I really wanted to destroy something right now, but now isn’t the time. If I’m successful I’ll be able to send sound frequencies into the system through the cord and allow communication.
Wait why would I want to communicate with these creatures? The whole point of my alt mode is to stay in disguise. If I warn them of my presence, for sure they’ll destroy me. Vinyl Scratch and her allies already made that clear. Then again, I wasn’t in my alt mode by will. If I managed to allow communication to these creatures for sure they’ll discard me, but honestly I think that idea sounded better than rusting in my alt mode.
I’ll let my curiosity get the best of me and give it a shot. Either way I’m already dying so let’s see how it goes.
Alright now, all I have to do is reroute the circuits, and integrate the cord into…
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“…I’ve been experimenting with music for quite some time. To be honest I’m a DJ and a vocalist for my band” Rivers said, his smile still on his face. I could listen to him ramble forever. But his idea of this new music was odd.
“Wait, your trying to combine rock and DJ-ing?” I asked dumbfonded.
He nodded. Wow that was kind of awesome.
“Wow, that’s pretty awesome. What is your band called?” I asked trying to keep the conversation going. He was a really interesting stallion.
“Well the name of my band is called Griffin Park” he said proudly.”If you want to come watch us practice one day, I’ll be glad to invite you.”
Yes, that sounded great. I opened my mouth to answer but was suddenly hit by a weird noise coming from the speakers. I winced at hearing the noise, and turned to the stage. The noise seemed really weird, somewhat like a beat, but not very organized. It sounded like winding mixed with metal grinding combined with clicking and other weird mechanical noises.
I turned to see Rarity and Applejack look at me with shocked faces, possibly thing the same thing as me: wht the heck is that?
‘What is that?” a voice shouted from the crowd (Reading my exact thoughts)
“Yeah, what’s going on?” another voice added.
I felt a pat on my shoulder and turned to see the stallion behind me. Oh dude this was not good timing.
“I think you’re needed upstage DJ” he smirked. Oh charming, he was also sarcastic.
“Thanks” I pitched back to him playfully and made my way back to the stage.
As I approached the steps of the stadium, I already saw one particular Pegasus at the scene.
“Rainbow Dash!” I shouted over the weird sounds. “What are you doing?”
“The sounds are coming from the cassette player!” she shouted back.
I looked at her in shock. I knew what I had to do if weird things like this happened but I couldn’t.
“Are you sure?” I asked her approaching her slowly. She seemed to be tugging the audio cord from the Walkman.
“Positive” she grunted. Great now I have to-
Wait, those sounds. They had a certain ring in there. It sounded weird but there was something familiar in there. There was a bass.
“Wait, Rainbow Dash! Don’t do it” I shouted at her. She shot me a look quickly.
“You know the agreement” she snapped at me. I couldn’t let her ruin this chance.
“Dash listen to me I got this trust me I-“ The sounds of the noise seemed to be getting a little more organized as if trying to make out words. “I can control this, trust me!” I pleaded.
Rainbow Dash looked at me puzzled for a while.
“please Dash, I’ll show you how” I told her, holding my hoof out for the cassette player. After much hesitation, Rainbow Dash finally handed over the cassette player.
“If it doesn’t work, I’m going to launch it in the sky” she barked, and went back into the crowd.
I sighed. That was a close call. Now all I have to do is access my computer and connect the sound system to both gadgets…
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Yes, I almost got it. Even though, that flying horse tried to dismantle me, I was still able to hack through the system.
Now all I need to do is polish the audio and I’ll be able…
Wait something’s not right. Wait what’s overriding my command. No, no this isn’t right, what’s going on?
I could hear my distorted thoughts in the speakers but not audible. They were…no. no...NO!.
VINYL SCRATCH, WHAT DID YOU DO TO MY VOICE???!!!
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“Alright Ponies” I shouted, over the slowly dimming noise. I was in control of it now, so I was able to tune it down.
“I’m sorry for the inconvenience, but it seems a file of mine leaked out of the system” I lied. I could see Dash raise a brow within the crowd.
“I’ve been working on this form of music for a while, and I seemed I’ve never been able to get it right” I continued. “ I tried to find the perfect combination of music that will allow a great amount of bass, but will still be enjoyable to hear”
There was mumbling amongst the crowd as I stood up there, my hands perched on the turn tables.
“Ladies and gentleponies, I prevent to you a form of music that is dubbed to perfection and will make you want to step your way into dancing”.
I just thought of this name but I went perfectly well with the music.
“So without any further delay I bring you…DUBSTEP” I shrieked, and pressed play on my console. The distorted sounds that came from the speakers were louder before. Except this time, I changed each wavelength, making it into a form of something much more understandable.
I changed it into music.
I moved my hooves on the console, adding sounds, deleting sounds, trimming and all that other crazy goodness. At first some ponies stood there a little bewildered. It made me feel nervous and that was one thing I’ve never felt in a while. That is until I heard a certain voice.
“Dang, listen to that bass!!!” River shouted. I knew it was him. I could recognize that voice anywhere. I said a silent prayer for his outburst.
Soon other ponies began to realize there was beat in the music, and began to actually start moving their body to the beat of the music.
I stood there in shock, still playing the music as I saw the ponies begin to dance to my new form of music. I was so happy.
I looked over to the cassette player sitting next to the speaker.
“I couldn’t have done it without you little guy” I said, smiling and moving my body to the beat of the music. So for the rest of the party, I blasted ‘Dubstep’ all through the night. Hmm, maybe next time i'll use the Bass Cannon...
[]iAnd not a single buck was given that day...
…But I don’t know how tomorrow is going to play out…