Sunset Shimmer and the Holograms

by ratedoni


Truly Outrageous 01

Truly Outrageous 01

“Does this situation look familiar to anybody?” the voice of Rainbow Dash took Sunset’s attention away from the tuning of her guitar, right now she had been seating on her favorite spot, the one she had been using for years now in Canterlot High, the place where she used to sit down to listen to the Rainbooms before she became an official member.

“What, you mean Rarity being late for band practice, in which case Applejack would say that she was preparing to make a grand entrance and then Rarity would do exactly that?” the words were fired quickly by Sunset going back to the tuning not paying attention to Rainbow’s frown “nope, is in no way familiar, it has never happened before,” she finally zinged Rainbow much to the pleasure of the other members of the group, even getting a high five form Pinkie at the joke.

“Well, I don’t know about Miss Smartass over here, but I do believe this is old by now, I mean, aren’t we graduating soon?” Applejack’s southern twang was now so ingrained in the brains of the Rainbooms that they would miss to hear it daily, although considering that the six of them had been accepted by Canterlot University they would still continue seeing each other, just not that regularly.

“Maybe she wanted to do it for old time sake; I mean, I did set off a couple of party cannons this week, professor Cranky started crying, maybe he will miss me more than I thought” all the others simply shook their heads at Pinkie’s antics, and at that precise moment Rarity appeared through the doors, thankfully this time without a grand piano, just her with her white laptop.

“Sorry everyone, I do know how late I am but I bring great and exciting news!” She said looking extremely happy for some reason and that usually meant more shenanigans.

“So, what do you have there Rares?” Applejack asked getting closer to the screen, it was simply showing a sound file, probably an old recording of them? The blonde bassist had no idea.

“Well, do you recall that small reunion we had a couple of weeks ago?”

“You mean the one that we had at Fluttershy’s cottage?” the rainbow haired guitarist asked remembering how fun that afternoon was and all the games they played.

"Technically it is my family's cottage."

"Same thing."

“That one precisely; does all of you also remember when we played truth or dare that same night?”

“The one where you were finally capable of getting Applejack in a fancy dress and the whole nine yards? Sure” Sunset answered her remembering that crazy night of dares and embarrassing information being given.

“Please, don’t ever talk about that thing, I think it took me 3 make up remover bottles just to get all that gunk outta my face” Applejack said remembering that humiliation, specially the embarrassing moment when her family saw her and the way they reacted, thankfully her mom had enough makeup remover and helped her get rid of it… taking enough photos of her to fill an album “Rares, if you tell me that you uploaded those photos I will…”

“Do not fear my dear, I did no such thing, no matter that it could open the doors to modeling for you and how much of an impact you would create on a runway. This is something related to a dare specifically thrown at Sunset” she said pointing a dainty finger to the jacket wearing girl.

“Me? Wait, is this about that song I had to sing?” the bacon haired pony/human girl asked remembering the dare from Rainbow “I still cannot believe she dared me to sing a pop song” she said, although the experience hadn’t been humiliating or traumatizing, in fact, it had been kind of fun.

“Never thought you could go that high with your voice” Rainbow said remembering that fun moment.

“One of the things that have been found is that there is no such thing as a deaf tone pony, besides, I have always been a prodigy in everything I try”

“Leave the bragging to Rainbow Dash” Applejack said while Rainbow nodded to her words.

“That’s right… hey!” Rainbow finally caught on, recognizing the zing at her while the two had a mock fight.

“Leaving those hooligans aside I was about to say that the song you sang that night, all courtesy of our dear Fluttershy here, have to admit, those are gorgeous lyrics” the words were enough to make the less shy member but still easily flustered girl blush pretty at the words “and I was, shall we say, intrigued by your vocal capabilities Sunset, so I went to a mutual friend and started working on the song, after all that was just a capella version”

“Wait, you went to Vinyl?”

“How did you know it was her?”

“Pretty damn simple, who else in here would be capable of mixing a tune for the song?”

“Touché Sunset, but anyway, I digress; so I went to Vinyl and we started working on a ‘tune’ as you said and we created something pretty nice if I say so myself”

“So you are here to tell us the result of what you did which will either be a great song or it will be too much of dubstep and only select few fans of electronic will like it as if it were a cover song or a remix from a cartoon series?” even Applejack and Rainbow Dash stopped to look at the hyperactive girl.

“Pinkie, what have we been telling you about going into 4-chan?”

“To never do it because it would destroy any semblance of rationality and will corrupt and deteriorate my brain”

“Well, before I was interrupted in such a rude fashion, yes, I am here to show you the fruits of our work… just, not in the way you think” Rarity said trying not to look directly at Sunset.

“Rares, what did you do?” Sunset knew what it meant when Rarity didn’t want to look at her, she have done something by impulse.

“Well, I might have been overly excited about Vinyl’s work and I… may have uploaded the track to MyStable” she said as she started playing with the ends of her hair.

“It doesn’t sound so bad, so what did they say?” Sunset asked Rarity with most of the nerves that had assaulted her vanishing.

“The response was very positive, I mean, there were tons of comments about the track, there was just one little thing; it seems that one of my followers put the song on… uhm… YouTube, of course giving all credits to me and Vinyl”

“And?” the five other teenagers were practically hanging on Rarity’s words and what it meant.

“Well, that happened yesterday… the song has gone viral since then” Rarity said not knowing if to show embarrassment or a huge grin.

“HOW viral?” Sunset was an expert by this point of things going viral on social media after the life she had led.

“It… hit 5 million views two hours ago” the fashionista finally let out making every single member of the band start hyperventilating, get surprised and many other variants of those reactions.

“Wait, you mean the song has reached 5 million views? What the hell did you do?” Sunset was so surprised that she couldn’t even scream; on the other hand Rainbow was practically jumping up and down at that piece of news.

“Who the hell cares, I mean, is 5 million, this is so awesome!”

“Rainbow, do you really want people to connect you with a pop song?” Applejack’s reality check was enough for Rainbow Dash dread that information.

“Oh crap, now we are pop sensations… THIS IS HORRIBLE!”

“What a Drama Queen… why are you all looking me like that? But anyway, do not be afraid my dear, I know how much you detest pop so I didn’t put the name of the Rainbooms on it and since I know Sunset enjoys her little piece of anonymity I didn’t put her as the singer on the credits either”

“Wait, what? Then who the hell did you put as the singer? Yourself?” This had been quite the roller coaster in emotions for Rainbow.

“I do have an ego Rainbow Dash, but it would never reach yours, I put a pseudonym, sadly the one I wanted was already taken so I had to change a letter but I have to admit it is so fitting for a reason; now, ladies, I present you, Jem!” Rarity said hitting play and the synth-pop song reverberated through the room, the six girls smiling without realizing they were doing it while enjoying the highly catchy tune and the harmonious voice of Sunset… well, Jem according to the internet.

“Well, call me a biscuit and put butter on me, you two did magic on that, no wonder it reached those numbers” Applejack said looking at the huge number of votes up and comments saying how much they enjoyed the song, asking who was Jem and if she was going to release more singles or even a CD.

“That was such a cool song! I mean, it made me happy and I’m usually happy but it put me in a happier mood which Limestone says is impossible but if it got me even happier imagine what it did to people that were not happy I mean it probably made sad people into happy people!”

“So everybody is now asking about Jem? So what are we gonna do? I mean, there is no Jem” Fluttershy said still extremely happy that her lyrics had reached such a huge number of views. For her part, Sunset Shimmer simply couldn’t believe it, the recording was only something that she had done due to a dare, but now Rarity was telling them that it had become a sensation in a single day? But then a spark lead to an idea, an idea to a plan and Sunset knew what to do.

“What if… what if Jem came to life? What if Jem was real? I mean, what if she could appear and sing more songs?”

“Sunset, what do you mean?” Rarity said now turning off her laptop now that she had shown them the video.

“Twilight and I… we've been working on something this last year, I mean, before she went to MIT” Sunset said still missing her science partner, but she knew she was having the time of her life surrounded by all that technology “I think I know how we can bring Jem to life!” She said starting to run out of the room, the rest of the Rainbooms following her.

Neither of them knew at the moment, but the birth of one of the most iconic and successful bands in the history of that Earth was about to get born, all thanks to a duo of intelligent girls and a game of truth or dare, it was the moment where Jem and the Holograms was born.