//------------------------------// // Track 4: Don't Stop me Now! // Story: Obsessed with the Beat // by LunaScribbles //------------------------------// Monday Morning Maniacs, It's a good thing that McDonalds is just nearby. It's been a while since I had pancakes. I've always been on a strict diet because of Judo practice and I wanna compete in world tournaments. Turns out, once I reached college, I was a tad too late to pursue that. Philosophy is harder than I imagined so now I'm focusing most of my time and effort on reading and studying. Sad, isn't it? Because of that, I quit the Judo team... and now I enter, the forbidden kingdom of the golden arches, McDonalds. "Hello sir, welcome to McDonalds, how may I help you?" the kind cashier dude said. "Yeah, I'd like two 2-pc pancakes and 2 cups of orange juice. Take out." I said. The cashier went out to call out his other employees to get the order done. In about a few minutes, it is done. "Thanks, uhhh..." I squinted as I read his name tag, which was pinned on his uniform. "Walter." "No problem, Neon!" he said cheerfully. Wait a minute, what did he just say? Nah. Probably some catch phrase. Everybody has a catchphrase. Vick's got one. He says "Vinyl Scratch Forever"... Okay, maybe I made that one up. I grabbed the paper bag and the two drinks. I start to make my venture back to the apartment... which is about a lot away. I ready the knock knockening on the door so that Vick could let me in and eat. "Vick?" I knocked. "I got the flapjacks. Open up or I'll eat em' all!" I heard a faint scream in the apartment. "AAAAAAAAAAA!" it was Vick's, well, girly voice. "Vick?!" I knocked even harder, but still garnered no response. "Wait a minute. He has a spare key under his rug." I put down the food and went to his rug, hoping to see the key once I lift it. "Oh thank god. It's still here." I sigh in relief as I grab the key and try and open the lock. "Vick?! Vick!" I rushed in the living room and heard the sound of running water. He was in the bathroom. Oh dear god, what could he be screaming about? It's a good thing I remember Vick rarely locks the bathroom door cus, you know, he lives alone most of the time. I open the door gently and saw something quite strange. It was Vick, sitting in the corner of the shower room, with his hands covering his face, sobbing. "Vick? What's wrong?! What happened!? Speak to me, buddy!" I came to the shower room and shut off the nozzle. "Come on, answer!" He gently looked up at me, tears flowing out his bright magenta eyes. His face looked so different than before. How should I explain it? Well, his face looks more feminine, and his eyelashes or a bit longer. Hey, that could still be managed, it's not like he-- Vick hugged me very tight, crying over my shoulder. "Neon..." he said to me. Again with the Neon. "Please don't leave me, it's just too much to handle..." "Don't worry, I'm here for you Vick." I said as I comforted him with a pat on the back. Pretty strange for a wet naked dude to hug me in the shower, but he's my friend and he needs my help with whatever he's dealing with right now. "You're strong, Vick. Now wipe those tears and tell me what is wrong." With that, Vick wiped the tears on his face. He then started to do some breathing exercise just to calm down. "It's gone, Kent." "What is?" Vick released me from his best friend hug and stood up. I respected my friend's privacy, so I quickly closed my eyes so to not see his, you know what. "Kent, look!" I looked up at Vick's face. "Yeah, I'm looking at ya." "No, not there you idiot! Down here!" "Down where? Your arm? Your foot?" "In between my legs!" "I don't want to see your dick, you cock!" "Don't worry, I have none!" Vick just paused there and just processed the entire situation. He laughed so hard at his joke, which I didn't understand. Well, I'm glad to see he's happy again... Still though, what's so funny? "Wait, what do you mea-" I then looked at the 'newest change' in Vick's body. "Oh... oh." the world around me started spinning. I then fell down and fainted. I was cleaning everything up in the gymnasium after the club meeting has ended. Good to see that nothing went absolutely wrong for once while I'm cleaning. Usually, the newbies would mess up everything by accident and I have to clean it up again for them. How does one mess up foam floor padding? Nobody knows. I packed my bags, and was ready to take the alternate shortcut to the exit. Sorry to say, but I never liked the hallway exit. It's where those stupid bullies are usually at. I was going to take the shortcut exit until a girl entered and told me about this huge fight going on. Now, I know that the bullies never fight. They just verbally harass people. They haven't beaten up anybody. Well, not that I know of. It wouldn't hurt to check it out. If it's a real fight, I'll just incapacitate them both. I thanked the girl and quickly ran to the scene of action. You call this a fight? I call this torture! It's Jack punching a dude he's carrying over and over again. I may not know the guy but my heart sank just looking at the state he's in. "Hey!" the two of them looked at me in surprise. "Hey, Jack. Put him down. Now." "Oh well, if it isn't Kent. Why sure, I'll put him down!" he said as he threw the dude at a locker. His head was noticeably bleeding. For some reason, that made me very fucking mad. "Oh, you didn't just do that..." "Well, I did. What're you gonna do about it, Karate Kid?" "I'm not gonna do anything about. You are." From my remark, Jack became mad and threw a punch, but I dodged it. I went to his side and quickly subdued him by grabbing his collar. I threw him at his other goons. "Leave." I said to them, hoping that they get the message. Jack started shrieking and started to run away from the scene. His cohorts soon followed after. The whole crowd was cheering for me. No, this is not right. How long did this fight go on? That person was completely defenseless and all they did was watch? Out of anger, I punched the locker to quiet down the crowd. "You have no right to cheer when all you did was watch." I yelled out in anger. "All of you. Why didn't you at least do something?! Called the teacher or anyone?! Now, if only one of you had stepped up, this person wouldn't have wounded up bleeding and wounded!" I approached the unconscious body of the dude. He got fucked up. I then looked at the crowd one more time. "If it weren't for the girl who called me, this person's injury might have gotten worse!" I lifted the unconscious body and brought him to the clinic. Hopefully he's going to be okay... And as for Jack? I hope he learns his lesson. I awoke in a white void. This place looks eerie. I tried looking around only to find nothing. This room feels like it has no border, like I could keep walking forever and nothing would happen. I then looked at myself, and I screamed. Hoofs? A body of a horse? What the fuck is this?! Suddenly, a blue pulsating light appeared out of the white void. "GREETINGS!" shouted the silhouette. "IT IS I, PRINCESS LUNA! THE GUARDIAN OF DREAMS AND THE PRINCESS OF THE NIGHT!" Alright, this is scary! I cowered and hid my face, hopefully this 'loud-speaking dream entity' doesn't eat people. Wait, did she say guardian? Whew, that's good... "Oh, forgive me for my sudden entrance." said the now calm voice. The figure walked out of the bright blue light and showed a tall blue horse with a mane that looked like the beautiful night sky itself. "I am Princess Luna of Equestria. It appears I have finally found you." "What do you want from me?" "You." "Come again?" "You are Neon Lights, are you not?" Neon Lights? "No, I am not." I said to the tale princess horse. "But, you look just like him. Neon Lights!" "I'm a human!" "I see." Princess Luna put a hoof on her chin. "Hmm, but you're dream form is not that of a human." "My dream form?" I said with a bit of confusion in my voice. "That's stupid, I can dream whatever I can be, what makes you so sure that I am the Neon Lights?" "While that is true that in the dream world, you can manipulate anything to your liking, but as of now, I control this place. However, I do not control one's dream form. The dream form is a manifestation of one's true self." Princess Luna said as she walked around me. "Neon Lights, I come here to take you back home to Equestria. But it seems that from my previous experience with another dreamer that you are a human. Have you ever heard of Vinyl Scratch?" "Oh my FUCKING god." I sigh in annoyance. "That name? In my dreams? Really?!" "No need to spout such profanity to the mention of her, my little pony." Princess Luna giggled a bit. "I met her in her own dream world. She was very... how you say... ecstatic when I met her in her dreams." "Mmhmm. I'm sure it's someone I know..." "Well, Neon Lights--" "It's Kent Light. I'm not some pony." I cut Princess Luna. "I'm a human." "Yes, you've said that." "And this is all just some dream, right?" Princess Luna nods. "Yes, this is a dream. But this form you have is very much true." "No it ain't. I've lived the rest of my live as a bipedal hairless ape man. I'm not a horse." "Pony." "Horse, pony. Potato, Tomato. Yeah yeah." I said. "And since this is just some dream created by my subconscious, you're also not real." "Oh ho ho, I'm more real than you think, Mr. Lights. Speaking of Vinyl Scratch..." I groaned as I heard that name again. "Don't you want to see her again?" "Huh?" "Well, of course! Back in Equestria, you two were dating." Luna smiled, "I thought I should mention that so you'd be more interested to return to Equestria!" "No no no, he hah. Sorry man, but I'm still single." I laugh, "And it's not like that this Vinyl Scratch in the dreamscape said her name was Vick Camperson." "Huzzah! That was the name she mentioned me!" "Wait, what!?" My pupils shrunk. The dream world started the shake. I heard Luna said a quiet "Oops." and she was gone in the blue light. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" I screamed my lungs out from that terrible nightmare. "Jesus Christ, Kent! You'll wake up the neighbors!" Vinyl-- I mean, Vick said. "You've been out cold for 14 hours! Jeez. I know growing a vagina made me hysterical for a few minutes, but I didn't know it would knock you out cold!" "Wait, so that wasn't a dream." "Nope. It is 100% real." "We're turning into cartoon ponies?" "Possibly." "I don't like this. I had a dream of the big blue horse thing." "Princess Luna! Yeah, I met her last night! So I assume that Princess Luna is real!" Vick shrieked in delight. "You don't like MLP enough to dream about ponies so now I believe it!" "Wait... if we're turning into ponies, that means you're turning into Vinyl Scratch, right?" "Mmhmm." nodded Vick. "Oh yeah, you mentioned we... Who are you turning into?" "I don't know. Some dude named Neon Lights?" as I said that, Vick went full blown laughing gas mode. "Holy fuck! Really? Neon Lights?! I ship Neon and Vinyl together! Haha!" Vick started laughing until he realized what he just said. "Shit, I'm Vinyl!" "No, you're Vick! And I'm Kent!" I yelled. "And I don't want to date you!" "Yeah, you right. Some fan art depicts Vinyl as a lesbian anyway. It was never said which was canon cus' they never really cared for that so..." I then remembered what the Princess told me. I'll keep my lips zipped for now...