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// The Greetings 
// Story: The Interstellar Record 
// by Omidaidias 
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There was a great buzz of talk in Equestria of the record. It was what anypony wanted to talk about. Celestia gave Twilight the mission to stay in Canterlot until this whole "Alien Communication" Thing get even. They had observed the Voyager and made the confirmation that it is a machine being controlled from very far away, and that it still worked. They had rerouted several cables on Vinyl's turntable to the voyager, unfortunately, all that came out was static.

"Its obvious that they are trying to communicate with us" Said Alarcus. "Its also very obvious on what we should do. We must put the disk back on the turntable and try to get something else out of it"

Princess Celestia turned to Vinyl Scratch "How many recordings did you say were on the disk?....6......13?" Celestia Asked. "31" Vinyl Replied, with a look of surprise from Princess Celestia. After a long moment of Astonishment, they got ready to play another recording from the disk. This time Several Scientists and reporters were to record what it said. They all Gather Around Vinyls Turntables, which had been moved to the Southern Rotunda. Celestia had also called Twilight and her friends to listen to the recording. "What if its not in Equestrian, what if the Aliens find and come after us?" Fluttershy asked, her natural fear of the unknown acting up again. "Calm Down 'Shy. They aliens said before that they only want peace, to learn, and it be taught" Applejack responded. "It was in Equestrian last time, its gotta be in Equestrian this time, right?". To her dismay, and ironically, it wasnt.





As the recording went along in what seemed like Gibberish, Several of the scientists and reporters glanced around, nervously, as if they thought they broke it. Others quietly giggled at the strange sounds. They hah at last found out that the disk wasnt broken or scratched, it was fine. The last hing said before the recording ended was "Hello from the Children of Planet Earth". 

"Well...thats that" Alarcus said, after several seconds of quiet talk among everypony after the recording stopped. "Lets play the next one". Vinyl pressed a button on the turntable as the disk began to spin





As the disk began, the group of ponies had those who laughed and those who looked around confused. The disk, again, wasnt in Equestrian. But this new recording added a new reaction, ponies covering their ears soon after a minute in. The Strange Moans startled many of them. As the disk went on, more and more of them covered their ears, until after 2 minutes in, Vinyl stopped the record. "That was an undesired effect..." Noted Alarcus, still covering his ears. "I could only make out a few Equestrian words, just more simple Greetings. They called the Discovery, 'Voyager'". Shall we continue to the next recording? Vinyl followed his order.

"This next audio clip is labelled 'sounds of Earth'". said Vinyl, getting ready to play the recording. Alarcus looked over his notes. "Earth is their planet, they addressed this to us on the first recording." he said. "Let it play"





At first, ponies, once again covered their ears, but soon stopped after the whining went away. The other sounds played after the first 30 seconds. The Scientists began writing down several notes as the recording went along. They noted all the sounds, some writing that it sounds a lot like Equestria. After it had ended, Vinyl was in the habit of going to the next audio clip when Alarcus was done talking, but this time, he said something else "We should stop for now, collect our notes and tell the Equestrian news". 

The Equestrian printing press was in a swarm, they quickly printed the news out and sent it to every corner of Equestria. Time Turner was in the lab where they had worked with the notes, making predictions. "It possibly came from Equestria, but from a different time, in the future" he made Several Predictions, over his obsession with timelines, and it took very much convincing and evidence to prove to him that this was not from Equestria at any moment in time.

Hours had gone by, Vinyl had taken note of the titles of the audio clips and told Celestia and the Scientists. She and her assisstants we about to move the turntable back when Princess Luna Approached them. "I would suggest keeping them there, the research isnt nearly done, also, the Grand Galloping Galla is tomorrow night" She said. It seemed to skip everyponies minds, the fact that the galla was soon to happen.

Alarcus approached the group, he turned to talk to Luna "Princess, I have an idea. I looked over Vinyls notes and found out that there is more than greetings and sounds from Earth on the Record, there is music. Earth music. May I request that we play this at the Galla?". Princess Celestia approached them and spoke.

"I wouldnt have it any other way"