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// Chapter 6 - Sing 
// Story: Nature of The Experiment 
// by Cracked Egg 
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Rarity was taken aback at the request from The Pony of Pop. Not to mention she was asking for costumes from Rarity directly, and knew about her work. It was an honor, Rarity felt within herself, to do this for Sapphire Shores. Rarity was on the verge of fainting when there was a knock at the door.

"Oh my, would you excuse me a moment, Sapphire?" Rarity motioned towards the door.

Sapphire nodded. "No problem at all, hon."

Rarity turned towards the door, and hollered, "It's open!"

The door was pushed open to reveal a floating blue and red creature, that seemed to be hanging from the air itself.

"Oh, uh, sorry. Am I interrupting?" I folded my arms behind me.

Rarity shook her head, and motioned inward with her hoof. "Not at all, darling, step--er, flying right in. I think?"

Rarity tilted her head, while I shrugged. I hovered inside, shutting the door behind me, while Sapphire walked up to me.

"My oh my, I have nevah seen anythin' like you before!" The Pony of pop looked me over, while I just "stood" there patiently.

"Yes, well, the type of creature I am isn't very well known, or seen."

I thought back to the many trainers who had come to me about evolving Porygon2 into the ever elusive form of Porygon-Z. Certain conditions were required to be met, not to mention obtaining a mythical disc of dubious data that would supposedly evolve the Virtual Pokemon. Every time trainers would head towards my direction because I had a Porygon2, and I just shrugged, having to send them the other way due to my lack of knowledge on the matter.

Now that I was actually a Porygon-Z, it was a learning experience on how the last in the Porygon evolutionary line functioned. There had always been a trainer or two that had managed to acquire a Porygon-Z, yet could never quite discern how. All they knew was it required random chance and an error of some kind. Said error was apparently very deeply rooted in the creature's programming, possibly even taking up it's entire existence. I decided to worry about that later, storing the thought in my Things To Worry About Later folder.

Sapphire nodded in the sassy way only she could, "I don't really see why, you got some flair about you."

I suddenly had a flashback to the red suited scoundrels that nearly destroyed all life on Earth.

Team Flare.

I shuddered.

"Ah, yes, well thank you, miss uh...?" I motioned one of my arms in a circle.

Rarity answered for her, "That is Sapphire Shores, The Pony of Pop."

I paused.

Pop?

I bore a confused expression. 

"As in the genre or the culture?"

Rarity and Sapphire shared a glance, before looking back at me and answering at the same time.

"Yes."

I glanced at both of the mares for a moment.

I like them. I like them a lot.

Sapphire turned her head to look at the clock. She gasped.

"Oh my, I'm gonna be late. See you later, Rarity. Hopin' to have those outfits in soon, alright?"

Rarity nodded, feeling very lightheaded. "Oh yes, of course, thank you for stopping by!"

Sapphire was about to open the door, but stopped and looked back at me.

"Say, what was your name again?"

I spared a glimpse at Rarity.

"I'm Lenkar Glitch, Ms. Shores. I'm a Porygon-Z." I said, trying to be as polite as possible.

Sapphire put a hoof to her chin. "Huh. Well alright, see ya later!"

After we had waved our goodbyes and Sapphire made her exit, Rarity walked up to me.

"I'd like to thank you."

I looked at her, and tilted my head in confusion.

"For what?"

"Well because you were so patient, and polite! I'm so glad you have that consideration. Now, is there something you need?"

The only reason I was polite and patient was because I finally fished my Manners.bat file out of the recycle bin. It keeps jumping back in there every thirty minutes, and I have no idea why. I'm going to have to fix that later.

I nodded. "Your friend, the farmer mare I think, pointed me in this direction. I also accidentally took one of her bits with me, but I'm going to return it later."

As I said this, I held the bit up in front of me, looking it over again. Nope, still can't read the writing.

Rarity nodded and strode over to her work bench. "Alright, so you wanted some clothing then? What do you have in mind?"

She picked up her measuring tape in her blue aura, bringing it over to me. "I'm also going to need your measurements. I've never made anything for your body type before, and I think we may forgo any ideas about pants."

She motioned towards my tail, and I noticed I would not be able to wear much without it either slipping off my body, or getting in the way. She levitated the tape around my figure, and I held my arms out to my sides, making my body look like a T with a head on top. As she got my measurements, I suddenly felt an urge.

It was a strange urge, but my body went ahead of my mind, and music began to play from my antenna as Rarity finished her measurements.

"So, what do you think? What kind of garment do you have in mind?", she asked.

I shrugged and floated next to her.

"Nothing too gaudy, just whatever white cloth you can find.", I looked over at the clock.

I paused, and noticed I had just sung a line, and rhymed with Rarity's. Rarity continued from there.

"Ah, I see, something practical and easy to use?", she said.

I nodded and she levitated over some paper.

I huffed. "Well, you certainly have the artist's muse." I motioned toward her dresses on display.

"With an eye for fashion like that, you have quite the knack.", I said.

I picked up a nearby pen.

"Though if you are to add any jewels, I'd like some of them black.", I sang.

I drew a circle, and carefully traced a line through the middle. I stopped at the center, adding another circle, then continued drawing to the other end of the circle. I added one last circle at the very center of it. Once I was finished with my sketch, I picked up a red pen.

"One more thing, my dear, is that you need to add some red gems along here." I filled in the top half of the circle with red.

"Ah, I see, you want me to add this design somewhere?" She levitated a pen over as well.

"Mainly on the back of the coat, I'm thinking of something out of a laboratory.", I mumbled, looking over the design.

Rarity finished drawing a lab coat, and tapped her hoof on it.

"I'll make something like this, then, so don't you worry!"

We both sang together, still drawing and designing the coat. I felt a warm feeling rise within me.

"Some nice designs,"

I added a red pocket with a blue stripe across it. 

"A proper trim,"

She drew some decorative images along the bottom edge of the coat.

"Something soft,"

She started making a few notes on the side about the material.

"And not too dim~!"

I scribbled in a few more notes about the color.

"I'll get it done,"

She nodded.

"And I hope you'll have fun."

I winked.

"Something practical."

I made a small note about interior pockets for the coat.

"Something functional."

She drew a few more pockets in and around the coat design.

"Free of charge?"

I looked at her questioningly.

"No, yet not too large."

I deadpanned, but continued singing anyway.

"It'll be stylish too,"

She wrote in a few gem names to use for the Pokeball on the back of the coat.

"And a pleasure doing business with you!"

At the last word, we shook hoof and flipper-limb as the song ended. I let go of her hoof, letting it hang to my side. I stared at her, then to the lab coat design on the table, and finally to the rest of the room. I blinked a few times.

"What just happened?", I said in befuddlement.

Rarity laughed. "It's The Magic of Music, darling. You get used to it."

She levitated the drawing and rolled it up, carefully setting it on a shelf. She sighed.

I balked for a moment.

I'll ask again, WHAT IS THIS PLACE?!

"So ponies just randomly burst into song on a whim?! Whatever that weird magic, as you called it, was..."

I slapped an arm to my forehead and rubbed it. "It hijacked my head, and played music against my will. That is not okay."

Rarity trotted over and put a hoof on my back. "You'll be fine, darling, it happens to all of us. Besides, some of my best inspirations have come from those songs."

She levitated the design we just made. "It looks great, you see? I may need to make a few adjustments, but it'll work."

I nodded, still rubbing my head.

She patted me on the back. "You know what? Forget what I said about the pay. If it makes you feel any better, I won't charge you anything for the coat. I know you're recovering from arriving here in such a taxing manner. Is that alright with you?"

I folded my arms behind me and nodded. "Thank you, Rarity."

I chuckled. "Heh, taxing?"

Rarity paused, and smiled. "Oh."

We both laughed.

"Well, i guess I'll be going now, where should I go next?", I looked out the windows of the boutique towards the bustling town.

"You should probably try the library, my friend Twilight is the librarian there."

As she levitated the lab coat design over to the desk, I looked around for a library.

"What library, I don't see one. Also, which one is Twilight?" I continued to search for the library to no avail.

Rarity was concentrating on the drawing, but answered, "Twilight Sparkle, the purple alicorn. She lives in the town's library, it's the tall tree, you can't miss it."

I shook my head and looked over at, sure enough, a giant tree smack dab in the center of town. That was the library?

People call MY place of business excessive.

How do you even make a library in a tree anyway? This place...

I sighed, and said, "Alright, thank you so much Rarity, I'll see you later."

Rarity nodded and continued her work at the desk. "Anytime, darling."

I hovered over to the door, and exited the boutique, shutting the door behind me as quietly as I could.

I turned towards the tree in the center of town, and began my "walk" towards it.

Well, let's see what this 'Twilight Sparkle' is like, then...