The party ended and it was pretty late. Vinyl said that my bass was at her place and that I could there and since it was late I accepted her offer. I was so tired from partying I nearly fell over while walking to Vinyl's. She laughed every time I tripp
"Aaaand here we are, my pad. Just make yourself at home and be quiet, we don't want to wake up Octavia." Vinyl whispered.
"Ok." I whispered back.
She opened the door and much like my mother so long ago on earth she was waiting. Or so I thought.
"Hello Vinyl finally back for your 'rave' I see?"
"Oh your already awake."
"Yes I am. I couldn't go to sleep for some strange reason, so I thought I would wait for you to get home."
"Ooooooookay. Hey Octavia, we have a guest."
"Vinyl honestly. I thought we talked about you bringing strange ponies home with you."
"Well hes not exactly a pony...." Octavia looked past Vinyl and saw me.
"Is that who I think it is?"
"Yeah unlike those stupid ponies at the rave thought, this is him. The real Ezekiel"
"I'm honored Ezekiel. I thought you were dead."
"I was." I replied. "But death didn't want me quite yet it would seem."
"I see, that's an interesting way to put it. Oh where are my manners, would you like a cup of tea?"
"No thank you Octavia, the only thing I want is sleep."
"So you don't want your bass? Cool!" said Vinyl.
"No Vinyl I want that too but right now I want sleep."
"Well there is the guest room. You could stay there for the night." Octavia Offered.
"Thank you Octavia just show me the way."
"Certainly. Follow me."
I followed her to my room and as soon as I laid down I immediately fell asleep. Apparently I slept in too late. That or the dubstep loving mare was a little bit inconsiderate because I woke up to the roughest sounding mix shes ever made. I got out of bed and entered the room that was the source of the noises.
"Vinyl!" She didn't hear me. "Vinyl!!" Still didn't hear me. "VINYL SCRATCH!!!"
She looked up and turned the music down. "Oh hey, whats up?"
"Me. I'm up thanks to you. what the he....hay are you doing?"
"Oh I'm just working on a new mix. I figured this might be the last time I use your MP3 player so I thought I would make one last remix before you left."
"Ok I'm cool with that and all but does it have to be so loud?"
She looked at with a raised eyebrow. "Seriously dude? It's like 1 O' clock in the afternoon. you should have alrighty been awake by now."
"Whoa its that late huh? Ok then. So what song are you remixing?"
"Well I'm trying to do dubstep remix of uh....what was the name of it again?" She looked at my MP3 player. "Oh yeah Coming Undone by.....KoRn? Really?"
"Oh nice choice and yes, KoRn. They're really popular in my world."
"Ok then. There's food in the fridge in case you hungry Tavi's not here right now she went to the marketplace."
"Alright, thanks."
"No prob bro." And she went back to work.
I went to get some food and found that they barely had anything left to eat. No wonder Octavia went to the marketplace. I went back into Vinyl's room to find a more refined remix that was not as rough but still had to be worked on.
"Find anything to eat?"
"You guys don't really have any food so I'll eat some where else."
"Ok then. Or you know you could just eat after Tavi gets back."
"I guess I could. Hey why do you keep calling her 'Tavi'?"
"It's kind of a pet name for her that I like to use."
"So you two are....."
"Dating? Yeah man."
"Oh...I....see"
"Wait. Don't tell me, you have a problem with it to?"
"What do you mean 'to'?"
"We used to get a lot of crap for it awhile back."
"Hmm....that's not cool. And to answer your question no I don't have an issue with it, It just caught me a little off guard."
"Ok good. Hey what do you think about this?" And she played what she had so far and I helped her tweak it a little. she was still having trouble so I helped her work on it. I love working with music.
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I forgot how long making music could take. We were in her room for 3 hours and Octavia had gotten home by the time we were done. We went into the kitchen to see if there was any food and Octavia was staring at me.
"Don't tell me. She dragged you into her music, didn't she?"
"Well yes and no. She woke me up while she was working on a remix and I went to her room and she wanted help so I help her."
"I see. Well she can be a bit rude."
"But you love her all the same right?"
"Ye.....what?!" She blushed. "So you know as well."
"Yep."
She sighed and looked at the floor. "Go on the. Ridicule me just like everypony else...."
"Why would I do that?"
"Octavia the classiest pony in Ponyville and....a filly fooler..."
"Ah and let me guess, those two don't normally go together?"
"No. They don't."
"Well in my world they do in some cases. I mean yes there are people the disagree with it but that doesn't matter."
"So....your ok with it??"
"Personally 'Tavi' I don't think its up to me or the other ponies. You are happy right?"
"Well for the most part.....I don't agree with Vinyl's music and she plays it too loud sometimes but I try to look past it."
"So mostly?"
"Yes more often then not."
"Then that's all that matters."
"I'm happy that you understand. Thank you Ezekiel."
"Which reminds me. Hey Vinyl? you know those ponies from the rave last night?"
Vinyl looked over at me with a raised eyebrow. "Yeah what about them?"
"I'm still kinda pissed off about them calling you a liar."
"Heh don't worry about it man they'll get eventually."
"No not soon enough. Now would be a good time. I'm going to something about it."
"Hey man don't do anything you'll regret. I want everything cleared up to but.......just don't do anything to crazy alright?"
"Don't worry yourself Vinyl. Everything will be fine. Hmm.....well I think I'll go to Twilight's" They both raised their eyebrows. "I'll be in front of the town center in case you two want to see what I'm going to do." I laughed and run out the door in the general direction of the library.
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I reached the library in what seemed like no time at all and pounded on the door. Where did this energy come from?
"I'm coming! I'm coming! Hold on sheesh!"
"Oh hi Spike wheres twilight?"
"Why don't you just yell for her like you normally do?"
"Good idea but I don't want to."
"Ok then. that's not like you." He called twilight and she came up from the....basement?"
"Yes Spike....oh hi Ezekiel!"
"When did the library have a basement?"
"It always did......was there something you needed I'm in the middle of some research."
"What are you researching?"
"The ammunition for your weapons. I'm curious to see what is used to make the propellant."
"Gun powder?"
"Well yes but the ingredients of gun powder."
"Your on your own there. Wait are you planning to reproduce the rounds?"
"Well.....yes?" She smiled sheepishly.
"Twilight I want to make it very clear ok? You DO NOT reproduce the ammo ok?"
"But what if you run out? You will need more right?"
"Well that all depends......how many have you used for your research?"
"Around ten but I don't see how that....."
"Ten as in five of each or ten as in only one type?"
"Five of each."
"Ok that's not so bad." I thought for a little bit. "Alright Twilight I'll allow you to make more ammo for me BUT only me, got it? Even if the princesses ask you must refuse You understand me?"
"But that could be considered treason!"
"Then I'll talk to them and explain it. Now onto why I'm here. I need one round for my revolver."
"Ok certainly but why only one?"
"It's need to know and your not on the list."
"Uh....Ok then?" She went down into the basement and came back up a minute later. "Here you go But I still..."
I cut her off "Thank you Twilight." I grabbed the round out of her levitation field(?), loaded it and left. This will make them listen.
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I was at the town center and I saw vinyl and Octavia waiting. They saw me and looked at me with a curious face, I just smiled. Which from the looks of it worried them. I got up on the little stage that was set up for whatever reason and started yelling.
"Attention ponies!!" None of them paid attention save for a few. "I said attention ponies!!" Still nothing. "LISTEN TO ME!!!" That did the trick.
"Oh look its DJ PoN3's magic replica."
"Oh so I see there are some ponies here that were at the rave last night."
"Yeah what about it?" Said another pony from the rave.
"Well I'm here to prove that I'm the real deal."
Some of them laughed. "Oh yeah? How exactly is are you going to do that?"
"Well you see this?"
"Yeah what about it?"
"This is MY weapon and from what I've heard magical copies can not actually pick up things."
"Its probably a copy as well."
I smiled evilly. "Who want to find out?"
The first one to say anything walked forward. "I do!"
"Perfect. Just hold still." I took aim and was about to fire when....
"STOP!!!" Twilight ran in front of the pony. "I cant believe you would do something like this!"
"Like what exactly?"
"You were going to shoot him!"
"Yeah and then they would know I was real."
"Huh?"
"they think I'm a magic copy of the real thing so I was going to show them otherwise but since your here care to explain it to them."
"Y....you had this planned?"
"Yep." I laughed. "If it wanted to shot him I would have by now." there was a look of unease on the volunteer's face. "Now Take it away Twilight Sparkle!"
She glared at me for putting her on the spot. She cleared her throat. "Well I can say that he is not a copy. Magical copies are transparent and they glow the same color as the user's aura. He however is not transparent and is obviously not glowing, there's no way he can be a copy."
"And how do you know all of this?" One of the other ponies asked.
"You must be new here." I said before Twilight had a chance to reply. "She is Celestia's personal student and writes to her highness often."
She looked at me weirdly. "Well yes I am and I do."
"So there you have it folk so now......APOLOGIZE TO DJ PoN3!!" They looked at me in disbelief so I ran up to one of them and rammed him. He just stood there with a smug look on his face so I made sure he went down hard. "There believe me now?" they all shook there heads and went over to apologize to Vinyl for not believing her. I over heard one of them.
"Yeah I..um....I'm sorry." He walked away and said "Damn Filly Fooler." under his breath. I ran up and stopped him. I'll admit I considered grabbing him by the throat but I don't want the ponies to be afraid of me again.
"That wasn't very nice now was it?"
"Wh....what? I....I apologized like you asked!"
"Yes and what else did you say?"
"I...I didn't say anything else! I swear!"
"Its not nice to lie. And its not nice to insult my friends! I'll let you off with a warning don't let there be a next time ok?"
"Uh...um...right! No worries there wont be!"
"Good I smiled. "See you later then."
"Bye....?"
He literally ran off and I waved. I turned to Vinyl and Octavia. "And that's what he gets for insulting my friends." I winked.
"Man Ezekiel you can be scary." Said Vinyl.
"Were you really going to harm that pony?" Asked Octavia.
"No Octavia I wasn't I had a plan and it worked and yes Vinyl I can be when I need to be."
"So you had it all planned out?"
"Yeah why do you ask?"
"You must be some kind of genius!"
"Not really I'm just your normal run-of-the-mill undead human." I chuckled. "So now that this is over and done with. Octavia, I understand you play the cello?"
"Why yes I do. Would you like to hear me play?"
"I certainly would." Vinyl looked at me funny. "I like all sorts of music. What else can I say."
She shook her head and we all walked back towards their house so I could get my bass and MP3 player back and listen to Octavia play. I'm glad everything worked out.