//------------------------------// // Not what I was expecting // Story: My Roommate is a pony? // by Meh121 //------------------------------// ‘So I’ve got the ruler of Equestria hooked on a cancer causing habit, smoking. I might as well just throw in the towel for having any sort of good reputation around here.', I thought, grabbing my guitar and smaller amp. I looked down and saw the others were waiting for me, I also noticed Twilight's brother staring at my guitar case. "You play the cello?", He asked me. I just looked at him and chuckled. "No, my good sir, this is an electric guitar, it’s nothing like the cello. Let's just say that it’s louder and much easier to get hyped up on.", I said with a slight smirk. "As long as it doesn’t make that stuff you guys call ‘rap’ and ‘hip-hop’, that’s all I hear you humans talking about. Personally I can’t stand it.", Shining said with an irritated eye roll. "Wait, have you never heard of rock and rock roll? Grunge? Alternative?", I asked with a little bit of a worried look on my face. "You guys listen to rocks?" Cadence asked with one eyebrow raised. "No, this is crazy, next thing you know you’ll say you've never heard of dubstep or electronic music.", I said. "Oh! That's right, I never told you, but let's just say that we do have a few of those artist around, and now with you humans here it has tremendously increased their sales.", Twilight said as she motioned for us to start moving. She pulled me to the side to whisper something in my ear, that I guess I should have seen coming. Obviously a town full of rich ponies hasn’t heard of that kind of music and would know that it’s actually a popular genre here. The cold air felt really nice on an early February afternoon, the air smelled so fresh, almost like it does in the country. I looked ahead of us and saw a hot air balloon and a chariot. I scratched my head as I stared at the strange forms of transportation, I mean we had those things on Earth, but we never actually used them to travel, did they not have airplanes or cars here? "What did you think? We were going to just walk all the way up there?", I heard Twilight ask me. I nodded before she giggled at me, then I noticed two pegasi attached to the chariot, I hopped in the hot air balloon simply because that chariot was way too flashy for my style. Although I guess with my ride back at home, I can’t really say much. I set my things down and looked around, Twilight and her parents joined myself in the hot air balloon, while Shining and Cadence both got into the chariot. I watched them take off as our hot air balloon was starting to climb into the air. "How come I didn't notice this kind of stuff when we first came here?" I asked, looking at every little detail of the balloon. "It's because it belongs to the kingdom, that's why." Twilight exclaimed, pointing up to a royal seal on it. The cold air definitely made riding in a hot air balloon feel sketchy as hell, I mean, it’s called a hot air balloon, right? Well let’s go ahead and skip the part about the hot air balloon and get to the good stuff. "Is that my balloon?" Twilight asked herself. I looked to where she was pointing and saw that it had just landed. I saw a lot of familiar faces, but a new one that was certainly not a pony. Twilight ran up to her friends and hugged each one of them. I finally caught up, and set my things down and waved. "Hey girls." I said with a smile on my face. I was met by a pink rush tackling me down. "Oh my gosh I thought we wouldn't see each other in forever, and well forever is like forever. But now you're here you know what this calls? Huh, huh, do ya, do ya? A seeing each other party!" Pinkie screamed while somehow throwing confetti. "Um, yea it's nice to s-see you....again Pinkie." I gasped while gently pushing her off of me. Applejack raised her hoof above my head, and reached it out for a shake. I shook her hoof trying to be gentle, and, well, let's just say her gentle almost broke my arm. Rainbow was the next one to greet me, this time I was on my feet, she stuck out her hoof and I knuckle touched, or I guess, hoof bumped her? They don’t really have knuckles. "I see you’ve got a guitar there, and to make it even better it's electric!" Rainbow said. "Ha, so you like rock music!?" I shouted. She nodded. "You totally have to do this new thing, now that rock is actually getting popular here, there’s going to be a competition called Battle of the Bands. I bet you would totally win." Rainbow said with an eager look in her eye. 'I thought Shiny boy said that rock wasn’t really heard of here, same with Twilight.’, I thought. "Um, I'll think about it, but with the amount of awesomeness I have, I'll probably do it." I said. Rainbow whispered something in my ear that made me think. "You're right, I don't have a band." I said. "I know a really good bass player, and a pretty good vocalist." Rainbow said, pointing at herself and Twilight, respectively. Twilight blushed before she gave a nervous look. "Who me? I’m no good at singing, I never sing, what would make you think I’m good at singing?" Twilight said. Rainbow giggled. "Please Twilight, I’ve heard you sing on my flybys. Come on, you have to do it!” Rainbow shouted. "What about drums?" I asked, taking a bit of the pressure off of Twilight. "We'll have to talk about this later, I don't want to keep the princess waiting." Rarity said. Before I started to walk I noticed this strange little creature run in front of me. "Hi! My name’s Spike." He said with a big smile on his face. "The name’s Tyler, nice to meet you Spike." I said, sticking my hand out for a handshake. I watched him quickly run off with the others. I shrugged my shoulders as I caught up with the others. We made our way to the throne room before two guards nodded and opened the doors. I then heard a loud beat going, as I saw Celestia with a snap back, a golden chain, and some custom made Jordan's on. She was listening to some rap song. I noticed she was lighting up a cigarette, and heard her scream ‘snap backs and tattoos!’. I ran up to where the music was coming from, and turned it off. Normally I would have never done that to a leader, but dear god that music made me want to kill myself, to put it politely. "Who turned that off?" Celestia asked. I was furious and I had no idea why, I took off the chain and threw the snap back off somewhere. The others gasped. I then put the cigarette out and looked her in the eye. "Oh what's good in the hood you repin that west coast, I know you are Tyler you got that swag because yolo." Celestia said. My eyes almost fell out of my head from the amount of stupid from that one sentence. "Ok pardon my French here, but Celestia, I swear to god that myself and everypony in this room just lost at least 20% of their brain cells from that one sentence. I think you need to wake the hell up and grow up. You’re acting like a little shit head teen here, you are the ruler of this fucking place now act like it. No more cigarettes, no more of that trash music, and stop trying to act like one those shit heads that you listen to for the love of god." I said looking her dead in the eyes. She clapped slowly. I stood there confused, while the others were making shut up signs or something of that sort. "Let this be an example girls, that you should stand up for something you believe in. He just stood up to me, something I've never heard of before. A commoner correcting a political leader. As you humans would put it, you sir have balls." Celestia said, bowing before me. I chuckled before she giggled. "So then, I bet you're wondering why I’ve called you all here." Celestia said with a smug look on her face. We all nodded. "As you are well aware, as I think you can tell, we are trying to set up a battle of the bands, and well, I could use some help." Celestia said, pointing to the other ponies as they nodded, then the little dragon, the last one was me. I sat there for a second. "Ah why the hell not, should be fun." I said. "Well girls, you know what to do, as each of the notes I sent you had a job on the back." Celestia said. I watched as 5 of the girls and the dragon took off. "That leaves you two, but for now I'd like to speak to Twilight alone please." Celestia said. I nodded and walked outside the doors. I tried to hear the conversation, until one of the guards looked at me. "Good luck kid, the doors are sound proof." He said to me. I sighed before I sat against the wall and pulled out my guitar. 'This sure wasn’t what I was expecting.' I thought.