//------------------------------// // Track 3: Dreams are my Reality // Story: Obsessed with the Beat // by LunaScribbles //------------------------------// I awoke in a strange white room. Confused at first, I tried investigating by observing my surroundings. I walk and walk, yet I can't seem to feel any wall; as if there were no boundaries surrounding me. Then suddenly, like a flash, the white endless void turned into a familiar school hallway. It was me walking, minding my own business, until Jack followed me and started to tell everyone that I'm a brony. I got angry and, yadda yadda, you know the rest. It's basically the same dream I had yesterday, but instead I'm a spectator of it all. I see Kent running all the way from the gymnasium in such a hurry, going to the hallway I was at. There he stood, face to face with Jack. I see a girl peeking through the gymnasium doors. Huh... I don't remember her. Well, I don't remember a lot of people except for Kent, Jack, and my teachers. Jack got judo thrown, yadda yadda, and I passed out. Wait a minute, I don't remember this part... Well, because, you know, I'm 'passed out'. After Jack the bully and his cast of Saturday Morning Cartoon henchmen ran away, everybody started cheering, but Kent didn't seem too happy about it. He punched a locker. The sound was so loud it silenced the people around him. "You have no right to cheer when all you did was watch." Wow... Kent. Kent then approached my unconscious body and-- Wait a fucking minute, how am I dreaming of things that I don't remember? I see a bright blue light flash in front of me. It was such a bright and blinding light... Wait, my eyes are closed. How can I be blinded by light in a dream? This doesn't make sense, but whatever. The bright blue light made everything that was the school hallway disintegrate. The bright blue light continues to grow brighter and pulsates until a silhouette emerged from it. A horse? No fucking way. "GREETINGS, I AM--" I cut off the familiar CANTERLOT VOICE by my excessive fanboying. "Princess Luna, one of the two alicorn princesses of the lands of Equestria!" I exclaimed. "This is one of the weirdest, but greatest dreams ever! Lucid dreaming is awesome!" Luna look confused. She then cleared her throat. "Why, yes. I presume you would know that." "Well, yeah. I've basically been watching you for so long!" "I beg your pardon?" "Wow, I've been watching so much of that show that I've actually created some kind of tulpa creature in my brain in the form of Princess Luna!" I squealed with excitement. "Princess Luna, make me a milkshake!" "ENOUGH!" "Wow, even the Royal Canterlot Speaking sounds accurate to the show!" I laughed. "Where's my back massage?" Luna just sighed. "Vinyl Scratch, this is getting ridiculous! What 'show'? What is a tulpa? And what do you mean by 'watching me for a long time'?" I stopped jumping around until I looked at Luna. "Wait, what did you call me?" "Vinyl Scratch. Unless you want me to call you Miss Scratch." "Miss Scratch?" "Yes, I heard Vinyl Scratch had been missing from Equestria for 2 years now. And the number of missing pony cases had kept increasing. So much so that royalty, such as I, had to take matters in to our own hooves." Luna said with a hint of seriousness in her voice. "But, I have found you now. It is time we take you home to Equestria." "Wait wait... I'm Vinyl Scratch?" "Yes, why? Are you not? You look like her?" Luna questioned, pointing her hoof at me. I've been looking at this dream for so long that I didn't even bother to inspect myself. My jaw nearly hit the floor with the sudden realization. Hoofs? Check. Hair-- I mean, mane? Check. Tail? Check. Cutie mark? Check! My lucid dreaming body was Vinyl Scratch! Holy fucking shit! "Oh my gosh, oh my gosh! I am her!" Now that I noticed it, my dream voice sounded a lot like Nowacking's voice when she did voice acting for Vinyl Scratch in fan animations. "This dream is just perfect! The kind of dream that I dreamed since I was 15! Everypony gather 'round, say that I look lovely with my--" "SILENCE!" Luna Canterlock'd. "Miss Scratch, I have no idea if the spell that has been the cause for the disappearance of several ponies have altered your memories, let alone altered it too much to the point of brain damage." "Oh please. My memories are fine. I am 19 year old Vick Camperson. I'm a college student studying Architecture!" Luna blinked out of surprise. "So, you aren't Vinyl Scratch?" "Well, in this dream I am. In reality, Lulu? No." "DARE MENTION THAT MONIKER IN THE MENTION OF ME, AND THOU SHALT FIND THYSELF BANISHED!" Luna Canterlock'd with such rage evident on her face. "You're funny, Luna!" I laughed. "Glad I have a friend in my dreams." I went up to Luna and hugged her left foreleg. Luna, looking visibly confused by the nonsensical sequence of events, spoke up. "Um... Thank you?" "You're welcome! You know what? Maybe I am Vinyl Scratch!" I said, trying to play along with Luna's or my tulpa's roleplaying session. "Maybe you were right about my memories being mixed up and stuff." "Finally. It's about time you've come to your senses. Vick Camperson? How far off from Vinyl Scratch could you get." Luna giggled a bit. Her horn glowed an intense aura. "I have to implant these coordinates to the-- What in Equestria?!" The ground shook, like a magnitude 9 earthquake, as I heard a deafening noise. The noise that I've always dreaded every Monday. My alarm clock. "FUCK!" Kent shouted, startled by the sudden alarm. "Jesus Christ..." I woke up to see that Kent was sleeping sitting down, with a notebook and a pencil in his hand. "Good morning, ya sleepy head." I joked. "Man, for an athlete, you became pretty sleepy." "Yeah no thanks to you..." Kent said with a hint of tiredness in his voice. He then tried processing the things around him. He then looked at me straight in the eyes. "Wait, when did a girl get here?" Kent said, probably still tired from all the lack of sleep trying to watch over me. "You say what now?" I said with visible confusion. "I don't have any idea what you're talking about?" After finally giving me his complete attention, Kent jumped a bit on his seat. Looks like he was surprised... "Your hair! Y-y-your voice!" he stuttered. "My hair?" I said as I looked at the hair on my neck. A very bright cobalt-blue. Oh my god, it looks show accurate too. "My voice? Okay, hair, I could understand. My voice on the other hand is fine!" I said as I held my throat, inspecting if there's anything actually wrong with it. "Wait, you don't notice your voice is a bit, I don't know, higher than usual?" He was right, my voice is a bit higher than usual, but that can easily be done with a certain gas. "Okay, maybe Jack went in when you were sleeping and gave me a bunch of helium, so what?" "Vick, helium only lasts for a few or so minutes. This can't be Jack's doing." "Aight aight. Speaking of Jack, I did have the same dream about Jack bullying me." "Jeez, Vick, could you dream about something else other than you getting your shit beaten up out of you?" Kent jokingly said. He stood up and left the bedroom. "I'm going to buy some breakfast pancakes." I nodded. I heard the apartment door close. I was alone for now. "I really need to change my clothes. I've been wearing the same clothes since yesterday... Wait, it was Sunday yesterday!" In a hurry, I took to the showers, stripped myself of any clothing, and did the scrub scrub. Kent calling me a girl. Hah! What a joke. After applying the shampoos and conditioners, I got the soap. I'm about to start scrubbing my arms, legs, and chest, until I noticed something... "Oh, there's my cutie mark!" I said as I cheerfully pointed at the terrifyingly show-accurate two combined eighth-note symbol that looks too crisp to be a tattoo. "Heh... when did Jack get amazing tattoo skills?" Then from the thigh I then looked up. Everything seems to be in order... Crap, I really gotta pee. I turn off the shower head and went to the toilet bowl. I looked down, but what greeted me wasn't my 'pride and joy', but something that's biologically impossible for a complete and utter buffoon like Jack would accomplish. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA"