"Hey there! I'm Pinkie Pie!'
I jumped a bit, Pinkie was just so loud in her little introduction. I managed to recover a bit and nodded to her and said, "'Sup, my name's Vinyl."
She gasped and quickly started spouting out words, "Wow! I also know another pony named Vinyl too! Oh and you even have the same hair style as well! I bet you like parties, and music, and DJing, and cider too! We could have so much fun!---" She continued to excitedly talk to me as she bounced around the tub. I pretty much tuned her out for the most part, honestly I could barely even follow her train of thought.
"So a bubble bath huh? You got good taste in baths! These are really fun!" Pinkie punctuated that part by picking some bubble up and blowing them into the air. I was busy trying to find out when exactly she got in the tub with me without so much as a splash.
I shook my head to clear it and asked, "So what are you doing over in this neck of the woods Pinkie?" I could guess of course.
"Weeeell, Twilight gathered all of us up because we are suppose to catch you and stop whatever evil plans you have! If you have any of course." She giggled.
I blinked. "Well you can be rest assured that I don't have any evil plans in the making."
Pinkie swiped her forehead with a hoof. "Whew, boy am I glad about that." We both started laughing after a short while.
And us laughing in a tub full of hot water and bubbles is how the rest of Team Twilight found us. They charged through the bushes, the five mares skidding to a halt and stood there looking at us with wide eyed disbelief.
"Geez, how about we just invite everybody in Equestria here to watch me bathe? I love giving random strangers free shows." My sarcastic statement caused all of the mares except Pinkie and Rainbow to blush when they realized I was bathing. Those two were too busy laughing. I gestured to the tub. "I'd invite you five in but there is barely room for Pinkie and I as it is."
Shaking off her embarrassment Twilight and the other four mares tried going into a intimidating stance. It just looked cute to be honest. "Look Cloudsdale Destroyer-"
"Vinyl."
Twilight blinked. "What?"
I sighed, "My name is Vinyl. Vinyl Scratch, not 'The Cloudsdale Destroyer'."
"Oh, uh. Right... sorry." Twilight looked sheepish as she scratched the back of her head.
"It's cool."
Twilight shook her head, "Anyway we are here to bring you back to Celestia. You are a danger to Equestria and we need to bring you back in to be punished." She punctuated that last bit with a snort hot air. I actually saw the steam.
I took my sweet time to answer, the bath felt great after all. Eventually, after watching Twilight start to sweat from nervousness long enough, I answered her.
"Naw, I'm good. Sorry that you wasted your time." I raised up a hand in farewell at that and went back to a more relaxed position in the tub.
Twilight was completely flabbergasted at my dismissal. "Wha-What do you mean 'Naw, I'm good.'?! You have to face your punishment!"
I looked at Twilight and rolled my eyes. "Look I already faced my punishment. A thousand years in stone? Hello? Destroying Cloudsdale was a complete accident and I deeply regret what happened. I even gave myself up without a fight, though I bet Celestia didn't mention that part." I took a breath and released it before continuing, "My one thousand years stuck in stone was more of a punishment than I deserved anyway, especially since no one died. Besides if it weren't for the fact that Dissy and I could mentally talk to each other to keep sane then I would be completely mad by this point. I was aware of every passing second that went by while stuck in stone I'll have you know."
Twilight looked horrified by the implications at the end of my little monologue.
"Waitwaitwaitwaitwait. You were awake the entire time and only saw one teeny tiny bit of the gardens for a thousand years?!" Pinkie shouted, her front hooves shoved in my face and barely an inch apart, as if to emphasis 'teeny tiny'. "That must have been so booooring! At least tell me that you two played some sort of game!" Pinkie looked at me pleadingly.
I scratched my chin. "Well we did play eye-spy every once in a while. And any other game we could think of that didn't require movement."
Pinkie just sat there in the tub looking like she couldn't even process the thought of not being able to move at all for that long of a time. Especially without even being able to play a game to pass the time.
After noting Pinkie's reaction I nodded, "Yeah, it was really boring all right. Sucked a lot." I looked back at Twilight and said, "Like I told Pinkie before you girls came here. I don't have any nefarious plans in the making. So you and the Princesses can relax all right? Right now all I want to do is enjoy the last bit of my bath and find a way to make a living. I was planning on DJing in the city to make some quick cash."
Twilight looked like she was thinking it over. Applejack decided to give her two cents, "Ah don't think she's lyin' Twi. Maybe we should give her a chance?"
"Weeell." Twilight drawled out, still looking unsure.
"Oooh! Oooh! Maybe you can be Ponyville's resident DJ! The other Vinyl can't always be in town and I can throw more parties with actual bass... and wubs! It would be so fun if you could come with us! We could even share a room! It would be a never ending sleepover!" Pinkie ended her soon to be blabbering rant with a gasp. And apparently that gasp lead to her just sitting still with a faraway look in her eyes, drool dripping out her mouth. She's likely thinking of all the fun we would have.
"Sounds like fun Pinkie. I'd be down with that. I'd be more than happy to make sure there is more bass in the world, since I'm all about that bass." Megan Trainor can eat her heart out.
Twilight nodded, "I suppose that could work. We could even tell Princess Celestia that it's to keep a close eye on you just in case."
"Now hold on a second! How can we really trust her? She destroyed Cloudsdale! You know, the place where the weather is made? Sure she could say that she regrets it but she could just be a really good liar!" Interjected Rainbow Dash with her hooves crossed over her chest.
Everyone was silent and adopted thinking faces. Eventually Twilight responded, "Well we don't know what the future holds so we will just have to give her the benefit of the doubt. If she breaks that trust then we will deal with it accordingly." Twilight lightly stamped her hoof for emphasis.
I nodded to her. "I won't break that trust. You have my word."
"Good! Now we should head to Ponyville, I have a letter to write. Also you should sleep in my house, Princess Celestia would want me to keep a close eye on you. That's the easiest way." Said Twilight. Pinkie looked like she was about to complain but Twilight interrupted her before she could say a word. "Sorry Pinkie, this is the best way. Besides the Cakes will already have their hooves and home full. They are having foals soon right?"
Pinkie sighed in sadness that I couldn't stay with her, but the mention of the future foals brightens her back up.
"Oh right! I forgot about that! Hehe oops!"
Silence consumed us once more and I decided we should get this move over with. "Well I'm going to change into my clothes now. I'll be out with my stuff in a few."
I stood up in the tub and proceeded to climb out, making sure to scrape off any excess bubbles. I was a bit miffed that my late spring cleaning didn't mean a thing. All that hard work was unraveled practically instantaneously.
"Oh my, I see why you want to wear clothes Darling. Everything is exposed, must get dreadfully cold in winter." Said Rarity who was looking away from me in embarrassment. Same could be said for the others.
I rolled my eyes, "Oh don't get all embarrassed, we're all girls here. Nothing you haven't seen before right?"
I didn't press though and headed back inside my shack. I got dressed and packed everything I owned up, sadly I didn't have much and when I walked out my backpack was full and my Wubboard was being held against my right side.
Twilight looked interested in it. "What's that?"
I looked at her and said, "I'll tell you on the way to the train station. Maybe you can help me with a problem I have with it."
And with that statement the seven of us walked down the dirt path back to Fillydelphia.
"Why didn't we take this path in the first place? Trudging through dirt and bushes..." Muttered Rarity, a scowl marring her otherwise pretty face.
Hurray for updates!
6152468 I agree!
Sweet chapter!
And good call on not letting Vinyl stay with the Cakes when there are going to be infants soon.
Although a certain librarian may soon regret insisting that a wubmaster stay with her instead...
wub wub wub wub wub!
Great chapter.
You know even if it turns out Celestia doesn't want to give her chance. Thanks to what's happen to Luna she kind of has too. I mean she welcomed back Luna with open hoove even though she tried to bring eternal night again when she returned. While Vinyl really hasn't done anything wrong.
So if she had Vinyl imprisoned in stone again, and all this got out. Well her image and reputation would take a hit to say the least.
6152536 True. and Besides what Vinyl did WAS n accident. She had no idea Cloudsdale was over her, and had no way of knowing. Hell with those two facts Celestia was the one in the wrong with how she punished Vinyl. Mind you I am not saying Vinyl shouldn't have been punished for what happend, but rather that the punishment she received should have been FAR FAR Lighter
6152528 Wubs are the best way to wake up
6152536 Yup
Kind of funny the bath tube scene. I just imagine, what it would be like, if the Mane 6 would face a real villain while bathing!
On the other hand, we already had a Discord scene with it, but he doesn't mind that anyway.
6152692 Yeah, it is kinda funny that the entire conversation was happening while Vinyl was trying to take a bath
misunderstandings...
Wait, you mean she hasn't made a shower that uses wubs to clean yet?
6152927 hmmmm...
Iiiitttttt'ssssss baaaaaaa-aaaaaaack~
This chapter is hilarious!
Methinks RD holds (more than) a little bias against Vinyl for the Cloudsdale 'incident'...
Can't wait to see those future bass-based updates!
6155802 Thanks! And yeah, when you've read a ton of fanfics it does get easier to predict things in stories.
6162097 Vinyl needs this.
I can't wait for when Octavia finds out that there are two Vinyls.
6182177 That's a big ass link
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Well this is a new one. Might see if I can do something similar if I ever get off my lazy ass with fanfics. Definitely a different take than the whole 'dress as evil supervillain or awesome character' shtick. Though as a previous commenter posted, Celestia was kind of a bitch about the whole thing. And if she were to demand she return to her prison again, then I hope to god word spreads about her being an unjust jailor for the innocent.
Yeah she did destroy Cloudsdale. But all of that was an accident mixed with a heavy dose of coincidence. Plus the whole 'we are ponies and therefore anything that might even touch us wrong is considered evil' thing is getting a bit... overbearing with these stories. Some things I can understand, such as the torture of ponies, killing or anything that any morally just civilization sees as amoral. But when nobody has been hurt, and all that happened was some property damage and inconvenience at worst... then you're kind of screwing with the whole 'love and tolerate' concept ponies are supposed to have. So when I see ponies getting all angry, confrontational, etc simply because something they view as different or 'wrong' to their worldviews, it kinda pisses me off at the ponies. Makes me want to slap 'em.
Meh, rambled there. Hope you can keep up the good work and Celestia won't be a bitch. Not holding my breath, but there's hope.
6200233 Aye, raging bitchlestia isn't a favorite of mine either
OK if vinyl need help with sunbutt Andy would gladly but her in place along with jack and Raiden.
6210251 No worries, I got it covered.
6210341 oh ok have fun!
ch.7 now plz
6215613 It's coming. just be patient
6216235 ok
6216235 ps:plz make more story like this
6216297 Hmmm, I'll think about it.
6217876 i have a idea this story said she is the wub queen next story you made will be the remix king...so you like my idea?
6225248 Nah, doing that was temporary. It should be only present from now on, unless a flashback is needed for some purpose(highly unlikely)
6225409 Eh, that requires a nice head cannon of another DJ pony, a male one like Neon Lights. I don't have any interest in that character or any other DJ ponies honestly. It would make a really subpar story that couldn't hold my interest and that wouldn't be good in the long run for that story.
Now if someone else did it then that'd be awesome!
6225838 ok
hhhmmmmm i think i like her personality, i donĀ“t say that it is perfect, but i really like the way this chapter happened.
6226294 Thanks, and to be honest I'm glad her personality isn't perfect. Since there is no such thing as a perfect personality to me
6226381 Well she is a interessting Character, i just had the feeling i could find something if i would have looked for a mistake in her personality, or something else. However i only noticed the nice things.
6226395 Ah, I gotcha.
'bout time I see this point brought up in a Displaced fic. Now all I'm waiting for is a fic where Twilight and crew mention something along the lines of 'You must have been evil for the Elements to have originally cast you in stone!' only for the villain/supposed villain say "Uh, no, those Elements are actually indiscriminate. Sol Badguy is just a name, not my profession. They'll even work on Celestia, y'know." (they probably don't work like that in canon, but they do seem to do just that in a lot of the Displaced stories)
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