Part 2: Twilight's Fright/Celestia's Doubts
Golden Oaks Library: A few hours later
Twilight paced back and forth, questions running through her brain like a wildfire gone out of control. Who were these aliens, where did they come from, and were they as violent as the first few "transmissions" suggested? No, Twilight quickly amended herself, they weren't transmissions, they were music... Even if said music wasn't quite as easy going as Equestria's normal style. On that subject, Twilight flashed back to a certain conversation between her, Celestia and a certain young drake...
A few hours before...
Spike stamped his foot impatiently, still waiting for a answer. Celestia and Twilight shared a look, not sure how to answer the young drake.
"I'm not breaking his innocence!" Twilight whispered to Celestia nervously who raised a eyebrow.
"You do realize he's been on adventures with you before right? Even killed King Sombra." Celestia deadpanned back.
"B-But I... I... That was a accident! And besides, I don't want to lecture my own son on how many deadly ways there are to kill somepony!" Twilight whispered back, quite frantic at this point as Spike watched the exchange like a tennis match.
"He... He might become a mass murderer or something!" Twilight hissed to Celestia, who rolled her eyes in disbelief. If anypony outside this room saw her do that, it might ruin her image as calm and unfazable.
"I doubt that highly." Celestia put in. "You don't become a mass murderer just because you learn of how many ways there are to kill somepony. ...Well, Sombra did but he was insane anyway."
Spike coughed, bringing both Celestia's and Twilight's attentions back to him.
"You do realize I wasn't questioning why somepony would do that, I know about death. Hello, killer of Sombra here?" Spike deadpanned, he'd picked up his adoptive mother's sarcasm a bit. Both Celestia and Twilight flushed as they realized they'd been overheard.
"Then why...?" Twilight trailed off.
"I was just asking what they were, that's all. I don't know what TNT or neckties are, seriously!" Spike exclaimed with a shrug. Twilight's eyes rolled up into her head and she fainted.
Now....
Twilight finally made up her mind, she knew there was only one way to get the answers she needed. That was, listen to more music. With more then a bit of nervousness, she fired up the machine and once again a blue beam shot up into the sky and came back with a song.
Twilight smiled as she tapped her hooves to the beat and bobbed her head. The singer sounded very determined, and Twilight noted this song would sound like the thing her good friend Rainbow Dash or Rainbow's idols the Wonderbolts would train to. Twilight's opinions on the aliens (She still desired to learn their name) were already changing. Maybe they weren't as violent as she thought they were...
"Hmm, let's see what else we can get!" Twilight smiled, now in a determined mood thanks to the song and she fired up her fantastic machine. Outside the Library, a certain pink pony was watching.
"Ooh, pretty! But what's Twi doing!?! I must know!" Pinkie cried, before another thought struck her as they always did.
"...Eh, maybe later. First, candy!" Pinkie exclaimed before she bounced off in search of the nearest sweet shop.
Meanwhile, Twilight got her song sent back to her, unfortunately this song is what she got...
Canterlot Castle: Celestia's Chambers:
Meanwhile, in the personal chambers Celestia went over what she'd heard in the songs even as she got ready for bed. She'd already lowered the sun for tonight just after she'd left Twilight's. In her mind, Celestia's thoughts raced. Now the Princess was not one to pre-judge others before she actually met them, but these songs seemed to paint a violent image of the aliens. Celestia had always wanted to make contact with creatures from another world, but it seemed these were not ones she would want to meet anytime soon.
"L-Look at me!" Celestia chastised herself. "I-I'm supposed to be perfect, and right now I'm acting like a..." Here Celestia swallowed hard and barely found the strength to continue her sentence but she mustered up the courage and did so.
"A-A bigot just based on songs from aliens who I've never even met! Tartarus, I don't even know what they look like, just hear them! I've got to keep a more open mind, I'm ignoring my own advice! These two songs may be exceptions to the rule, you know that!" Celestia told herself harshly.
"Well, there's only one way to find out. I'll go to Twilight's tomorrow and see if I get a better song, one that paints a nicer picture of these aliens." Celestia said, with a determined tone in her voice before she yawned.
"B-But for now... Rest is the best medicine." Celestia murmured as she walked over to her bed and threw off her royal garb...
Golden Oaks Library: Twilight's Bedroom
In Twilight's room, she trotted to her bed, worn out from the day's events. The last song was very violent to say the least, even more violent then the songs before it. It told of a man in a war, and how he killed others until he was killed himself. Twilight admitted the song was violent, but something in her mind also told her it was based on something historical in nature. Twilight sighed, she'd think more on this tomorrow and fell onto her bed and into the realm of sleep.
Twilight's Mind:
In Twilight's dream which she had rapidly fallen into, she found herself on a battlefield, the exact same from the song she had just listened to. She fired her trigger relentlessly with a determined look on her face, although she was really quite frightened as she knew what was about to happen any second now.
And then it came.
KA-BANG!
Twilight fell to the ground, bleeding from the gunshot wound. Suddenly the battlefield was gone and there was just Luna.
"Twilight, what's happened? Why are you here in this horrific place?" Luna asked, but could get no answer as the dreamworld soon faded away by Twilight's own sheer force of will, or more accurately fear.
Canterlot Castle: Celestia's Chambers:
Suddenly Celestia was awoken from her slumbers by a flash of purple light. She glanced towards where the flash came from and saw Twilight tossing and turning. Celestia's eyes widened, it was not unusual for unicorns of high power levels to accidently sleep teleport if their stress during their sleep was high enough. And it seemed something had driven Twilight to the brink for her to do this, something she hadn't done in years as she'd learned to control it years ago. Or at least, Celestia thought she had.
"Twilight, wake up!" Celestia said franticly. "I'm here, it's me! Princess Celestia!"
As Twilight awoke and saw her teacher, Luna rushed in through the great wooden chamber doors looking frantic.
"Sister, it's Twilight! She's gone and-" Luna stopped when she saw Twilight.
"Oh... I guess you already know." Luna amended herself with a embarrassed look on her face as Twilight began to sob uncontrollably.
"War... War and destruction, I saw it in my nightmares!" Twilight cried out and her teacher brought her into a hug with her great white wings. She may have be a Alicorn Princess now, but Twilight was still Celestia's student and she would look out for her like she did all of her little ponies.
"Shh... Shh, my student." Celestia reassured as Twilight sobbed heavily into the Solar Princess's pure white fur staining it with her tears. "They're not going to get you, they're on a different planet and can't come here."
As Twilight continued to sob and Celestia began to make her a sup of hot cocoa by levitating the ingredients with magic the Solar Princess turned to her sister.
"So, what do we do now my sister?" Celestia asked. "Stop the experiment here, or...?" She trailed off nervously as she looked down at her student.
"NO!" Luna suddenly cried. "This was a great happy accident on Twilight's part!"
Celestia glared, and Luna suddenly realized what she'd said, and corrected herself.
"I mean, the discovering of the alien planet in the first place and it's wonderous transmissions in the form of music! I shall not let this experiment be stopped, no! I shall continue it until Twilight has recovered!" Luna cried, and suddenly Celestia felt very nervous indeed...
END
As you can see, Luna's now gotten into things... Oh boy. Also, I'm starting to work on the pacing issues and the relationship between Twi and Celestia as JKinsley suggested I do. As you'll notice, Celestia will have a small character arc on accepting us as more then violent creatures, but I doubt this chapter's incident will help her swing towards our side anytime soon. Don't worry though, she will eventually!
On another note: I am taking suggestions for songs for specific charicters to listen to:
For example:
Rainbow Dash: Heavy Metal like Judas Priest or Metallica.
Finally, as you can see the Dazzlings involved in the events of this story if Adagio's character tag is any indiction. Any speculations on their role?
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I think Fluttershy would go more towards R&B like Mariah Carey, Boyz II Men, and Whitney Houston.
Rarity would gravitate more to Pop and more mainstream artists like Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Justin Timberlake.
Applejack would easily go towards country artists like Carrie Underwood, Garth Brook, and Miranda Lambert.
Obviously Rainbow would like Heavy Metal, but I think she would also like other Rock, Alternative, and maybe even rap artists like Guns N Roses, Fall Out Boy, Evanescence, Skillet, and Eminem.
Pinkie... That's a tough one. I think she wouldn't pick one genre, she'd like whatever she liked, whether its Pop, Rap, R&B, Rock, Heavy Metal, etc.
Twilight I think would gravitate towards Pop and R&B, especially after listening to Iron Maiden, she'd want something with less violence, and more songs about self-empowerment like Firework, or Fight Song.
I'm kind of waiting for the "Big Reveal" where they figure out it's the people on the other side of the mirror. Like, Sunset wanders in while they've picked up something Metal and starts headbanging. Amazed Equestria has developed Heavy Metal since she was last there and lamenting that you can't throw the goat with hooves
And, of course, Luna has to find Queen of the Night sooner or later.
Once they figure out where it's from, they can also start listening to music you won't find on the radio. I particularly ponder Pinkie Pie listening to Enormous Penis, or anything by The Wet Spots. Provided someone's around to heimlich her back to breathing again, so she doesn't literally die laughing
Oh, uh, and don't look those songs up with kids in the room. Fair warning.
Question: What period of music? Like is it the 80s and 90s in the human world or is she just getting some songs from an radio station playing old songs?
7295293 Twilight's getting every sort of radio stations, so that means every sort of genre.
7295198 Yeah, the CMC will turn up sooner or later so...
I also have plans for Cheese Sandwich to show up, no prizes for guessing what songs he'll hear.
7295346 i have yet to read the story, is she listening to the music of the equestria girls world? or real life world?
ok, now ive read the two chapters. maybe focus on some happy songs like these?
Or this
7295517 The EQ world, though Twilight has yet to figure that out and won't until The Dazzlings (Or Sunset, haven't decided yet.) come into the story.
7295539 Trust me, I've got too happy songs lined up for the story, oen of which is perfect for Pinkie and the other perfect for Celestia.
As for what they are, as River Song would say... SPOILERS!
7295540 so youre mixing our world with the EQ world?
7295546 You'll see how I do it. Trust me, it'll be something you might not expect.
7295548 uhh ok. but try and put in some happy songs like the ones i suggested there.
Here is a song you can use
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jTgkTEDDog
I would very much like to see this please.
7296268 I'll see what I can do, but I've already got the songs for the next few chapters picked out.
Also, thanks for the fave!
I've just noticed that this seems to take place in the Golden Oaks Library. I thought this story took place after Rainbow Rocks, which, in theory should be after the season 4 finale, meaning that Twilight's Friendship Castle should be here, and the Golden Oaks Library was destroyed. Unless in this story, we are to assume they rebuilt the Golden Oaks Library, and that the Friendship Castle was either taken down, or never built in this story.
7296354 I was wondering when someone would comment on that actually. It'll be explained in the next Author's notes.
Ehhh, I've got a minor beef with Twilight's thoughts on the The Trooper.
If you look at the lyrics, (and I would hope Twilight would, considering the situation,) the tells a very simple narrative: a soldier boasts about how he's going to fight to the death, going so far as to declare that with his last action he'll take out the person who kills him. (And the last verse of the first stanza it's kind of insinuated that he's only doing it because he's scared.) The lyrics that follow, however, paint a grimmer picture: he and comrades try to charge the enemy, but are all slaughtered by cannons and gunshot just as they finally get into range. The final stanza has the trooper laying on the battlefield alone, slowly dieing along with many others. Nothing about the song glorifies war in the slightest, and instead paints a very harrowing picture of what I think is the Crimean War (muskets, cavalry charges and english vs. russians would indicate as much to me).
TL;DR - Metal isn't always angry, and it doesn't always glorify sex, drugs & violence.
7709317 Yeah, and I understand that metal doesn't always glorify sex, drugs and violence, but in this case I wanted a song that would scare Twilight and have her have a nightmare that would send her running to Celestia and emphasize their student/teacher relationship, along with giving Twilight a temporary bad impression of the music she's been hearing for a bit.
It's cup not sup
just started reading, and i feel like luna wouldn't be phased by the more violent music. twilight was cause she grew up in times of peace and harmony.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO. ILL NEVER KNOW WHAT IRON MADIEN SONG IT WAS BECAUSE OF COPYRIGHT CLAIMS!!!!!!!!! DAMM YOU COPYRIGHT CLAIMS
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The Iron Maiden song you're looking for is The Trooper. The YouTube attachment on this chapter actually has this section at the end of its link: y98-ksHnjE4 and The Trooper actually matches the search/video.
https://youtu.be/y98-ksHnjE4
This website Iron Maiden - The Trooper (HQ) | Music Breathers Amino (aminoapps.com) actually confirms it.
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I think the song they played was Paschendale...
Recalling the horrors of ww1...