Vinyl Scratch began to walk down the stairs to her basement where all her electrical equipment was stored
"Hey guys" She greeted the 3 humans who were engrossed in her equipment. "You guys like the equipment?"
"Aww yeah!" Odd cheered. "Reminds me of the equipment we have on earth, but it looks a lot cooler"
"You guys wanna try it out?"
Ulrich William and Odd jumped at the chance to play with professional recording equipment.
"I'll take those faces as a yes then" Vinyl smiled at them and showed them in "Now just wait in there till I say you can start singing!"
Vinyl closed the soundproof door and electronically locked it, Knowing there was no way to unlock it from the inside
"Oh wait 2 seconds, I forgot a piece of equipment, I'll be right back!"
Ulrich, Odd and William just nodded as Vinyl couldn't hear through the soundproofing. Vinyl turned a dial on the wall before leaving and shutting the door behind her
"Boy, it's getting hot in here, I hope she comes back soon" William said while starting to sweat
"Haha, famous last words William!" Ulrich joked
Rainbow Dash was out clearing the clouds, she had just chased a stray cloud past Ponyville and into the vast countryside that surrounds it, she had finally caught the stray cloud and as she looked back to Ponyville she saw something in the corner of her eye. A sort of red mist, coming from a large tower. Rainbow instantly realised that it was one of XANA's towers and immediately rushed off to warn the others at the spa.
William, Ulrich and Odd were all sweating by now.
"You think... You think that Vinyl was infected with XANA?" William managed to speak
"Yeah I think she was" Odd said "I saw her shades flash a couple of times, and I thought I saw the XANA eye"
"WHAT? and you Didn't think to tell us?"
"I didn't want to worry you because I wasn't sure"
"Well, great timing Odd! Lets just hope Aelita gets to the tower in time"
Rainbow dash was nearing the spa when she saw Octavia banging on Vinyl's door.
Landing next to the musical mare, Rainbow decided to ask what was the matter
"Hey Octavia whats up?"
"Oh nothing, Vinyl has locked me out and she was supposed to be recording me for my new disc"
"Huh that's strange, I've never known Vinyl miss anything important, especially if it has something to do with Music"
"Yeah, I guess I'll come back later, She must be out. Take care Rainbow!"
"You too Octavia"
Rainbow instantly thought something suspicious was happening, she rushed to the spa. on her way there she spotted vinyl heading for the spa too.
'Weird... Vinyl never goes to the spa'
She slowly followed her in and saw something shocking... Literally, Vinyl held electricity between her two front hooves. She punched the receptionist with her hoof and she was sent flying back into the wall, unconscious. Vinyl headed into one of the rooms that was occupied. That's when the penny dropped for Rainbow. XANA was controlling Vinyl.
Rainbow sped into the room Vinyl entered and saw her holding electricity in her hoof again. Aelita was in the line of fire and wouldn't be able to shut down the tower if she was unconscious. She tackled Vinyl to the ground, Cancelling the shot that Vinyl was about to take.
Vinyl got up and started to wrestle with Rainbow dash.
"Aelita! Tower, North west, about 500m... GO GO GO"
Aelita quickly got up from her massage chair and ran out the door. Yumi in persuit
"I REALLY.... Hope Aelita has... found that tower" Odd said, gasping for air
"Does anybody even know we're here?" William asked
"Nope" Ulrich responded "Its all up to Aelita and Yumi now..."
Aelita was running towards the tower, now in plain sight. when she spotted 2 Krabs and a Megatank
"You take care of the Krabs Aelita, I'll get the Megatank"
"Okay Yumi"
Aelita charged up her energy field and shot it at one of the Krabs, Destroying it instantly. The Megatank opened up to charge its laser, which Yumi Dodged with ease, and landed on top of it, slicing its eye with the extra fan she keeps that nobody knows about, Destroying the Megatank
"Heh... Good job Pinkie didn't take this!" Yumi laughed as Aelita shot down the second Krab
"Yeah... we're getting quite good at this aren't we!" Aelita laughed as she ran towards the tower
Insode the tower, Communications with Jeremy resumed
"Jeremy, you there?"
'Yes Aelita but you've got to be quick, Odd, Ulrich and William are in Vinyl's basement, being melted by heat, But quickly before you deactivate the tower, im virtualising a new thing into the middle of the tower, i've been working on it for a few days now... Its a scanner device that should work in Equestria so you can find activated towers. but because of the short electricity supply there, it may take up to an hour for a tower to register on the scanner'
"Thanks Jeremy!"
'My Pleasure'
Aelita quickly rose up the tower and proceeded to identify herself to the tower so it could be shut down. the code: EQUESTRIA appeared and the tower was shut down, But this time a time field was activated, reversing time to a few hours ago.
"And thats how Equestria was made" Pinkie shouted
"WOAH WAHT JUST HAPPENED!" Rainbow shouted what everyone else was thinking
"That, Rainbow" William started to explain. "Was a time field, we get sent back a few hours when the tower is de-activated. But Aelita has to Initialize it from the tower. Jeremy must have told her we were trapped in Vinyl's basement"
"That he did, he also gave me this scanner so we can tell when a tower is activated... An hour after it's been activated" Aelita showed everyone the scanner
"Well I guess that's over for now then" Ulrich said
"Yep, Until XANA strikes once more" Odd replied