//------------------------------// // Meet the Cellist // Story: Meet the ponies (video transcript) // by gapaot //------------------------------// ["Meet the Cellist" text appears] [Gray earthpony walks up to the camera and places cello on a felt-lined table and sits down in a chair] Octavia: I am Classical Music Mare... and this [grips Scratchy] is my instrument. [lays both hooves covetously on cello] She weights thirty five kilograms and uses 100.000$ custom strings with 90.000$ special unicorn enchantments and 10.000$ bow that need to be replaced every 84 hours. [looks intently at viewer] It costs 400.000$ to play this instrument... for one week. Octavia: [snickering quietly then holds up a hoof trying to calm down] Octavia: [inspecting her cello] Oh my god, who touched Scratchy?! Alright… WHO TOUCHED MY INSTRUMENT?! Octavia: Some ponies think they can outsmart me. Maybe…[sniffs] maybe. I've yet to meet one that can outsmart string around the neck. Octavia: [Holds up string wrapped around her front hooves to the camera] [Octavia devastates the enemies with her cello and magical floating notes on Dustbowl Stage 1 Cap 1] Octavia:"Bow before my performance, uncivilized infidels!" [Pause. Enemy Scout leaps on Octavia, but she slits his throat with bow all the while playing, and with one swift motion shakes off blood] Octavia: "Heheh, bow..." [Blackout]