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// Part 38 
// Story: Linkin Pony- Recharge 
// by Kaciekk 
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Levers were pulled down by BlazingFlair. They had found the city, many ponies looked confused as they saw the train approach. Also, many ponies circled the train as it came. The ponies inside didn't know how they would introduce themselves. How formal did they need to be? By how the ponies looked outside, probably not that formal.
The door opened, and HyperBlitz saw what looked to be a thousand eyes staring at him. As he stepped down, he felt another pony jump off and hit his side.
"HI!!!" RandomSketch bounced into the crowd. Many of the ponies got angry when he budged in.
"Random!" ThunderCharm called out and jumped down from the train too. 
DawnShy came out and few up. She turned around and waved her green hoof. "I'll be back. Don't go too far!" She called back to them, then zoomed off.
HyperBltiz took a few more steps forward, CharmingRhythm and the others came too. Really all there was now was mumbling, many spoke to each other in secret. 
Hyper then lifted his head up and cleared his throat. "Hello everypony. I know that it may seem odd that we are riding a train. We had charged it up with energy."
"Who are you?!" Somepony from the crowd shouted.
"Why are you here?" Another called out.
CharmingRhythm then started. "Well, we wanted to meet up with more ponies. We thought we can get more information this way. And we can talk more about energy. We found an easier way to find it."
Before Rhythm could say any more, the crowd got louder, and closer. Some looked confuse, some excited, some angry. Many different feelings were here.Rhythm lead the ponies forward, away from the tracks. The looked around and saw the start of the city. Many tall buildings were deteriorating. 
"I'm not sure these ponies trust us." BlazingFlair muttered.
"Hmm." Rhythm thought for a moment. "Okay, everypony, circle!"
The six of them came together away from the mob. They made a circle and put their heads low in huddle. All of their eyes glanced over each other.
"Okay, what are we doing now?" HyperBlitz said.
"We need to gain trust of these ponies." Rhythm told him.
"I knew that these city ponies were going to act different." Blazing said. "I can sense negativity in the air." 
"Of course their negative, everypony is." SpinningNote spoke.
"But how do we..." EchoBeat was quiet, and the noise of the crowd overcame his voice.
"Speak up dude!" Hyper said.
"How do we get trust of these ponies?" He said a bit louder.
All of the stallions did speak, only thought. What would these ponies need? They could show them more about energy, but they might not even let them to do that.
"Can I join the circle of trust?!" HeartFelt called to them from the side.
Then Rhythm extend his fore-leg and showed her to a spot. Her eyes came in with the others as they all thought. She wanted to help of course.
"We need to get more information about these ponies." She said.
"Well, I don't even know how we would do that!?" Blazing shook his head.
Suddenly, there was the voice of a young mare behind them, ThunderCharm. "Play them a song!" She suggested.
All of their heads popped up from the circle and only stared. 
Then ThunderCharm shrugged. "This is a city that is based on art and music, right? I bet many of these ponies havn't seen a good act in a while. Play them a song, and they'll love you!" 
CharmingRhythm replied. "That's actually a good idea." ThunderCharm gave a smile and squeak. "But how would we find instruments? I mean, Blazing and Feather have their own, but what about the rest of us?"
"Like I said, this city is full of art and music." ThunderCharm told him. "I'm sure somepony has instruments somewhere. Even if they aren't exact instruments you need. You guys don't have to be perfect, because music is music." 
"I like that idea." Hyper smiled. 
The group broke away from the circle of trust. They all looked to each other with agreement. But then they looked to the right. DawnShy few close to the grown towards them. She let her wings go and stood on the floor. Her face was bright with big green eyes.
"I want you guys to meet LovingSong!" 
She moved out of the way and a stallion stood there. He had a tan coat, and a bushy dark mane. He wore sunglasses. Then he took them off with his hoof, and looked at them.
"Hey." He nodded. "It's nice to meet you." He put his hoof out.
HyperBlitz stared at it, then finally placed his own hoof down and shook. 
"Oh my gosh! I can't believe it. My two favorite music artist, in the same place!" DawnShy squeaked.
"Okay, calm down. No time to fangasm." ThunderCham spoke. She looked over to LovingSong and giggled. "Hi... I'm ThunderCharm. I was wondering, since you do make music, if you have any instruments these guys can borrow." 
The tan stallion retorted. "Hmm.... Well, I do know where there is a bunch of instruments. They aren't exactly mine. I just found them in a warehouse." LovingSong spun around. "Why don't you guys follow me."
FeatherTune glanced at HyperBlitz with a questioning face. Then Hyper jolted his head to gesture him to follow all of the ponies. Feather rolled his eyes and went, holding his guitar steady.