[X] Meet new ponies... check. Now what time is it?
I headed over to the city hall, and looked up to the clock. 10:30, did I seriously spend one hour walking already?
"I guess I'll start looking for this pony DJ now." I said quietly.
"That's DJ PON3 to you, buddy." said a voice behind me.
"Who!?!" I hate when people talk right behind me after listening to my conversation, even if it was with myself... I turned around and faced my "stalker". It was a white unicorn mare wearing deep purple (ha, Deep Purple) shades and had a rather wild blue mane and tail with two eight notes as a cutie mark. Ugh, "cutie mark", that's gonna take a while to sink in... it's just so girly...
"A DJ... wow. I never see many pegasus DJs around, this pretty cool." said the mare.
"Uh, thanks... but would you mind not creeping up on me next time?" I said as I closed my wings after being startled.
"No problem, bro." she nodded, "I'm Vinyl Scratch, nice to meet you."
"Johnny Bass, and I was looking for you actually. But I thought you were going to wake up at 11 today?"
"How the hay do you know I wake up at 11?" She looked angry and scared. I gotta use my words better, or I will end up getting that horn shoved up somewhere uncomfortable...
"I didn't, you just told me-" I joked. "IT WAS TWILIGHT SPARKLE! SHE TOLD ME ABOUT THAT!" I waved my hooves at her when I saw her horn glowing with a blue aura.
Her horn stopped glowing, but she was still disturbed. "And how do you know Twilight Sparkle? I never saw you around here before."
"I recommend we find a place to sit, it's kind of a long stor-" I paused, and recalled what she said when she startled me. "Wait, how did you know I was a DJ?"
"The cutie mark never lies, bud." she replied.
"Makes sense... anyways, let's find a place to sit."
"Sure, lead the way."
We walked over to the park and I told her about how I was a producer/DJ back on Earth, and how I got sent here.
"Shocking events..." She smirked, "Painful, but at least you tried to liven that story up a bit with that."
"Wait, you liked that pun? Nopony I talked to found that funny at all!" My eyes went wide open.
"It's silly, but yeah, it wasn't bad," she said, "but the wire part was very stupid of yo-"
"I know... I know..." I waved a hoof. "I got told that already, though if it wasn't for my stupidity I wouldn't be here meeting you or anypony at all."
"True... well I gotta head to the market and get some blank music sheets for my roommate; she plays a cello and is running out of paper for her new song."
"Octavia, right?" I asked her, she shot an eye at me and before she said anything I blurted out "Twilight! Twilight!"
"You're creepy, you know that?" She said.
"Says the one who was listening into my conversation..." I retorted.
"With yourself..."
"There's nothing wrong with that! Everyone I met in my life has talked to themselves at least three times a day!"
"And how do you know that? Oh yeah! You have to listen to their conversation closely... wait..."
"I guess that backfired on you, Vinyl!" We both laughed out loud and walked back to the market.
"That will be 10 bits, missy." said the stallion to Vinyl, sliding the stack of papers across the counter to her. She pulled out 10 gold coins from her light blue saddlebag, placed them on the counter and put the papers on her saddlebag.
"Now that's done, I'll drop these at our apartment and go get some lunch, wanna join us Johnny?" she asked.
"Why not? Okay, I'll join you two." I nodded.
We entered a 2-story building and walked up to the second floor. Vinyl opened the door to her apartment with her magic. It was an average sized room - there was a couch with a small TV across the room and a coffee table in between. The kitchen was on the side, a few dishes on the sink and a fruit basket on the corner. On the other side of the room there were were three doors - one led to the bathroom, another I guessed to be the bedroom - since I saw a portion of a bed from where I stood - the third door was closed and painted bright red, with a black quarter note emblazoned on the center.
"Feel free to look around; I'll just leave these papers with Octy and we'll be on our way." She walked into the bedroom and left me to explore the apartment.
I took another glance at the kitchen. It looked like there was a subwoofer mounted next to the sink. "Uhh.... Vinyl? Why do you have a subwoofer in the kitchen?"
"It's a dishwasher Johnny, not a subwoofer." She said from the room.
"Looks like a subwoofer to me..."
She walked back with Octavia - a grey mare with a stylish dark grey mane, lavender eyes, a treble symbol as a cutie mark and a pink bowtie around her neck. "This is Johnny Bass, Octy, a pegasus DJ, isn't that superb?", said Vinyl.
"Hello Johnny, I see we have two ponies to make absurd amounts of noise at night now" she sighed, "I also see you caught eye on that dishwasher, one of Vinyl's 'brilliant' ideas". She had a slight british accent.
"It uses low frequency sounds to help clean the dishes at a microscopic level!" Vinyl cheered.
"Won't that vibrate throughout the whole building and annoy the neighbours?" I asked with concern.
"It does..." said Octavia. "We had to install soundproof walls and a new door because the neighbours were getting irritated with it. I'm glad you at least have sympathy for other ponies' ears." she smirked. "Say, would you like to join us for lunch? I can hear your stomach growling."
"Sure, I'll join you two!" Wait, I said that already... oh well...
We walked out of the building and headed to the Daisy and Rose, picked a table outside and waited for the waiter/waitress. Surprisingly enough, the same waiter from yesterday showed up.
"Good day Johnny, Vinyl, Octavia. What would you three like to eat today?"
"I'll have the Caesar salad, please." said Octavia.
"I'll have a daisy sandwich with soda." said Vinyl.
"I'll have what I had yesterday." I said. He seemed to remember what I had, since he just nodded at me.
"Alrighty then, I'll be back in a few minutes with your orders." And with that he walked away scribbling on his notepad. Moments later I saw Twilight and Spike walking out of the library a few buildings away.
"Hey, Twi! Spike! Over here!" yelled Vinyl right on my ear, which I promptly flattened.
The purple mare and the dragon joined walked over to us and sat on the last two seats of the table. "Looks like you met Vinyl and Octavia already. So what's up?" asked Twilight.
"I was going to ask if you two wanted to join us for lunch; we just ordered our food seconds ago." said Vinyl.
"Actually we just finished lunch, courtesy of Spike!" Spike said proudly, "And boy that was a good sandwich!"
"I can attest to that!" I said, raising my hoof. And just then the waiter came with our food and placed them on the table.
"Well hello there, Twilight and Spike! Can I get you something as well?" he asked.
"We're fine; we just stopped by to chat. Thank you." said Twilight. The waiter nodded and walked back inside. "So how's your new composition going, Octavia? I can't wait to hear it next time you play at the theatre in Canterlot."
"I'm halfway done. Vinyl had to get some more paper for me because we were running out of it." she replied.
"Yeah, two musicians using one stack of music sheets can go through them pretty fast." Vinyl said with a smirk.
"Wait, you use music sheets to make electronic music?" I asked.
"Well yeah, how else would you write down your music?"
"I just use my laptop software to write down the melody..."
"Are you serious!? Where's the fun in that!?" Vinyl gasped, "Sure, I use my computer to make the music, but I always write down a melody before I use the computer."
"It's because it makes her look like an actual composer, not just a producer who spends all her time making loud scratchy noises with machines." Octavia joined the conversation, chuckling under her breath.
"It's not noise! It's art!" said Vinyl.
"Please explain how this is ‘art’..." she replied back.
This conversation about music went on for about an hour. It was pretty heated seeing as they both started talking louder and louder. I didn't dare say a word because I was afraid I'd get a hoof shoved into my face, until Twilight finally interrupted.
"Girls! Both of your music is art! Both of your audiences enjoy it right?"
"Yeah..." said Vinyl and Octavia. "But how do you enjoy music if you can't dance to it?" Vinyl continued. Twilight facehoofed.
"Never mind..." Twilight sighed. "We should go back to the library, Spike. Lunch break is almost over."
"But what about Johnny's flight lessons? I want to watch him do crash landings!" asked Spike.
"Oh right, sorry. You can go with Johnny then. I can handle the library by myself in the meantime."
"And I should go back to writing my composition." added Octavia, "you know... actual music."
"My music makes people dance, at least." Vinyl shrugged.
"Oh boy... here we go!" I said. "I guess I'll be going now... see you around, Vinyl and Octy!"
"Only Vinyl can call me Octy, Johnny." said Octavia. Vinyl promptly hugged her roommate, squeezing Octavia against her body and snarling at me.
Wat.
"O-okay... I guess I'll just head to the park now - c'mon Spike!"
"Right behind ya!" he said while getting off his chair.