//------------------------------// // Ch. 3 The Countdown // Story: A New Year to Remember, Always! // by Serval Shots //------------------------------//    “Well, we’re about a couple of hours away from New Year’s. Y’all ready?” Vinyl asked Dinky and Octavia. Both of them smiled at Vinyl and nodded.     “Alright, time to celebrate!” Vinyl trotted up to Derpy and Doctor Whooves’ house and knocked on it. Derpy answered it and welcomed all of them in.     “Hey darling, did you have fun?” Derpy asked her child.     “Yeah we had fun mommy! Vinyl taught me how to hoofstand. Or kinda of.” Derpy chuckled at her daughter as the trio entered her and her husband’s house.     “Thanks for letting us come over. Vinyl and I really appreciate it” Octavia said to Derpy. Dinky then nodded her head and agreed.     “Silly, you live here!” Derpy exclaimed at her daughter, which resulted in everypony to chuckle.     “Well it looks like we have a couple of hours before the big new year. Do you two have any ideas to pass the time?” Derpy asked Vinyl and Octavia. Vinyl looked over to Octavia and grinned at her then to Derpy.     “Oh yeah, you bet.” Vinyl smiled at Derpy.     “Are you talking about-?” Dinky began to ask before she was interrupted by Vinyl.     “Yeah I am! It’s gonna be AWESOME!”     “Haha AWESOME!” Dinky exclaimed. Derpy and her husband showed looks of confusement as they didn’t catch on right away.     “Darling, what is she going to do?” Derpy asked her daughter.     “You’ll see mommy! It’s gonna be awesome!!” Octavia smiled at Vinyl as Vinyl trotted to the center of the living room, her horn now glowing brightly. Vinyl then sat down and closed her eyes, concentrating on casting her spell. And then, it happened. The entire room glowed electric blue. And when it did, the rest of them witnessed the spectualar transformation of the living room. Somehow, Vinyl was changing the actual living room into something else, as the lot of them experienced previous events from that year.     “Wow, this is amazing. Spectulcualry amazing.” Doctor Whooves said in awe.     “Woah.” Octavia, Derpy and Dinky all said at the same time. They witnessed everything that had happened that year and it was beautiful; it was truly remarkable that they all were able to time-travel to the best moments of that year. Dinky even saw the moment where Vinyl had taught her how to catch a remote control from falling and when she did, she and everyone else said “Awh”.  Then as the events in the background continued playing, Vinyl’s body became encased in electric blue as she started levitating, an electric blue ball now starting to encase her. And when this happened, each and every one of them to their surprise started to levitate as well, a different color to accommodate each and every one of them as spheres like Vinyl’s enveloped them as well.     “Amazing, absolutely amazing!” Doctor Whooves exclaimed, the others agreeing with him as well. As they kept levitating in the air, the scenery around them changed as well as the lot of them could see the universe all around, distant stars twinkling around. Dinky giggled and rolled in space laughing in delight as she saw the beautiful scenery. Both Doctor Whooves and Derpy rolled together laughing in joy and Octavia went with Vinyl, whom was now out of her trance and went with Octavia. Then all 5 of them stopped once they saw Equestria and wowed in wonder.     “Oh Vinny, it’s beautiful. Thank you Vinny for this. This is absolutely wonderful!” Octavia said to Vinyl, giving her a light kiss on the lips and smiling at her.     “It’s nothin’ really Tavi. Just my present to you all.” Vinyl replied, smiling as the others gave their thanks. Vinyl then checked her watch and looked up to the others suddenly.     “Oh snap guys, I forgot how fast time flies here. It’s almost time!” Vinyl then closed her eyes and the lot of them slowly descended towards Equestria, through the clouds and back into the living room. And just llike Vinyl had said, once they came back the television showed the final countdown to the New Year.     “Oh goodie! We’re just in time!” Derpy exclaimed. The TV then counted down for the New Year. “10” “9” “8” Octavia held Vinyl’s hoof and smiled at her as the both of them looked towards the TV. “7” “6” Doctor Whooves embraced both his wife and daughter. “5” “4” Derpy blinked, almost thinking she had missed the big moment. “3” “2” Dinky giggled with excitement as everypony anticipated the big moment. “1” Vinyl had a streamer ready to fire, floating nearby. “Happy New Year’s!” Everypony exclaimed in happiness as Vinyl’s streamer went off, coating each and every one of them with assorted streamers.     “Happy New Year’s!” All of them said to one another, proceeding to hug each other and wish the best. After that, Vinyl and Octavia wished Derpy and her husband the best as well as Dinky.     “It was our pleasure as well!” Derpy exclaimed, her husband nodding his head in agreement and Dinky giggling yes as well. Vinyl and Octavia, hoof in hoof, then left the house, saying Happy New Year’s once again and bye after that. As the two of them trotted together, Vinyl looked back and could see Dinky on the front steps waving bye. Vinyl smiled and waved bye and watched the little filly scamper up back into the house.     “I really enjoyed that Vinyl. It was amazing.” Octavia said to Vinyl, to which she could only somewhat blush and smile back. Octavia then leaned forward and kissed Vinyl on the lips passionately, to which Vinyl blushed extremely at.     “Happy New Year’s dearie.” Octavia said to Vinyl.     “Happy New Year’s baby” Vinyl replied.     “I like it when you call me that Vinny.” Octavia said with a short but cute smile. The two of them continued trotting home, poking one another and chuckling in the beautiful moonlight with Vinyl’s cute protests echoing in the valley near their home.