8 Magic Nights

by The Blue EM2

Night 7: My past is not Today

To say that the previous day was weird would constitute something of an understatement for Tom, Jimmy, and Katrina. Not only had Tom recorded only his second change where his gender stayed the same, Jimmy had seemingly gone a bit loopy. That had really thrown them for a loop!

Katrina, on the other hand, found the contrast between nights four and six amusing in her case, as she had gone from timid in one to a daredevil in another with a love for adrenaline (or, depending on who you ask, ajrenaleen). As they sat about the bus stop, waiting for a bus (for some of them at least, as one was not needing the bus), they had got onto a most odd avenue of depate.

"Well, last night," Tom said, "my brother, not knowing I was Sandbar-"

"And having a nice time with Ocellus," Jimmy teased.

"Our interaction was entirely U rated, OK?" Tom snapped back, his cheecks red with embarrassment over the issue. "And do remember that this is technically your fault, right?"

Jimmy's face fell. "Sorry Tom," he murmured, going to clean some steam off of his glasses.

"Anyways," Tom said, "my brother sent me something on things called hapax legomenon."

"Aren't those a brand of bricks?" Katrina asked. "You know, as in LEGO?"

"Not quite," Tom replied. "Though I did get a laugh out of the appearance of Taco Tuesday in Rainbow Rocks. Given the two films were being worked on at the same time, I can only assume that the use of the same phrase was a coincidence."

"Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you're part of a team
Everything is awesome, when you're living out a dream
Everything is better when we stick together
Some have said you and I are gonna win forever?
Lets party forever
We're the same unlike you, you're like me we're all working in harmony
Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you're part of a team
Everything is awesome, when you're living out a dream"

Jimmy just looked confused. "First Disney, then Hasbro properties, and now the LEGO movie? What is going on here?"

"I'm astonished that you're the one asking the question," Katrina said in amazement. "You seemed to be pretty chill about this the first night when Tom and I were having screaming fits."

"Indeed, Little Miss 'You've Ruined Everything'," Jimmy reminded her. "Tom seemed pretty chill, mind."

"Well, you try going bonkers when you see somebody change into a fictional character in a queue line!" Tom was Tom. No, sorry, that's not quite right. Tom was indignant. "Anyways, I still haven't had a chance to explain what hapax legomenons are. It is where a word only occurs once in the written language."

"Such as?" Jimmy enquired.

"Well," said Tom, pulling up his phone, "notable examples in English include the word flother, a word for snow that only occurs once in The Eleven Pains of Hell, Manticratic only occurs in the T. E. Lawrence Poem The Pillar of Wisdom, and in all likelihood he invented the word, Hebenon is a poison referred to in Shakespeare's Hamlet only once, and Sassigassity only occurs in Dicken's short story The Christmas Tree."

"Interesting," Jimmy nodded. "But I still don't understand how LEGO fits into all this."

"Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you're part of a team
Everything is awesome, when you're living out a dream
Everything is better when we stick together
Some have said you and I are gonna win forever?
Lets party forever
We're the same unlike you, you're like me we're all working in harmony
Everything is awesome, everything is cool when you're part of a team
Everything is awesome, when you're living out a dream"

"Seems like transformations are soon going to be the least of our worries, if these random musical numbers keep happening," Tom sighed. "We had a few in Brentwood, methinks, and that got seriously weird seriously fast."

"You were Rainbow Dash then, remember?" Jimmy reminded him.

"What?" Katrina asked. "Are we just duplicating the same characters of one another?"

"Well, none of us have been Cozy Glow or Suri Polomare."

"I have," Jimmy said.

"On a completely different website," Tom corrected. "Not only that, the official cartographic record suggests that your memory was wiped completely."

"So it doesn't count?" Jimmy asked. He seemed sad at this.

"Mindwiping is just a cheap workaround to resolve the fact that a human and an Equestrian pony will have grown up with completely different cultural experiences," Tom sighed.

"I thought cartography was map making," Katrina added, confused.

---

Once more, Katrina and Tom found themselves in the same park, once all typos had been corrected. Mercifully, the mention of tacos had not drawn a hidden Sonata Dusk out of hiding, who in all likelihood was either asleep or stuffing her face at Taco Bell (yuck!). The bus trip was fairly mundane down to Hollywood Studios, and once they were through the entrance gates, the pair walked up Sunset Boulevard to their respective destinations. Both of them were in very close proximity to one another, and as a result coming here made perfect sense. As they walked down the street, they noticed the local cinema was playing Gone with the Wind (very controversial, very long, and frankly, my darling, neither of them gave a damn (though Katrina would have used a different word)), as well as frequent references to the film Sunset Boulevard. Ahead of them stood the Hollywood Tower Hotel, still as erratic in its elevator service as it was back on night 2, though whether the Twilight Zone had been cleaned of Rumble's vomit was unknown.

They took a left at where the old trolley tracks were still embedded on the road. This was a common feature in many American cities, so to see it included here showed Disney's attention to detail, and constituted something of a nice touch. Just outside Rockn' Roller Coaster (starring Aerosmith), Tom smiled, said his goodbyes, and headed into the queue. Katrina walked onwards to where she was heading next. Unlike most of the attractions this trip, she wouldn't need a Fastpass on this one. No, it is the enemy-

BOREALE! GET OUT OF MY STORY!

But I'm Bahld!

Do you want me to tell the Emperor that you have fehled!

There is no time to be lorst!

Thank Faust that's over. Anyways, this attraction was one of the few on which she wouldn't need a Fastpass, as this was a show.

The newly opened Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy, an attraction themed around the Cars franchise which took the form of Lightning McQueen himself dispensing tips and tricks about, well, racing I suppose. Which makes sense given he is a race car.

Katrina walked in through the entrance (and not the exit, as the exit was shut, and thus could not be used in any sense of the word). She went in and sat down on a bench, as Life is a Highway was blasted over the speakers. Then the show finally got underway, and so dark was the auditorium that Katrina didn't notice that the very incident timetabled for that very day and that very hour of that very day was underway. Just she didn't notice it somehow. Which is odd.

Her skin turned a very light amber, and her eyes turned blue. Her ponytail (which she had decided to put her hair into for that day for some reason) vanished, the hairband joining her glasses from a few days earlier in oblivion, and her hair flopped down her back. It grew slightly longer, but then another small fragment dropped down her forehead. Not long after that, her hair changed colour, turning red with yellow highlights. Her height shifted around a slight bit, and her hips narrowed slightly.

Then came the clothes. Her pants changed to a pair of leggings (that were blue), soon joined in the changing lark by her shoes, which morphed into a pair of heeled boots with silver buckles with an orange chevron on the front plate. Her shirt turned to light blue, and grew slightly longer, so that it stopped just above her hips. A yellow skirt emerged from the bottom, but which stopped at the very tops of her legs, and the shortest leather jacket ever seen in the history of the human race appeared on top, also featuring the provision of orange chevrons on the sleeves.

The show had ended by this point, and Katrina headed outside, to see she had become Sunset Shimmer. Her glasses were making it hard for her to see, so she removed them. "At least I've seen it from both sides now," she said, in a voice far removed from her own and unusually deep for a teenage girl.

---

Sunset sat outside Rockin' Roller Coaster, waiting for somebody (probably not Godot). She soaked up the loud rock music being played from speakers, when who should appear but-

"Hey Sunset!" Sunset glanced up to see none other than Flash Sentry smiling at her, and her cheeks went red.

"Hey Flash!" she said, hopping up from the wall. "Enjoy the ride?"

"The ride itself was great, but the music needed some work." There was a pause. "Fancy an ice cream?"

"Sure!" Sunset exclaimed, and the pair walked toward the nearby concession stand. She just wondered what Jimmy was up to...

Author's Note:

The (former) bad girl we used to love to hate, now a much loved character. Although Guyver54 did a Sunset TF over on dA, Katrina takes the title for first female to female EqG Sunset Shimmer TF.

If there on a rainy day, Lightning McQueen's Racing Academy provides an excellent refuge from storms.

Comments

[Poet Knight]

9819632
Quite possibly!
Though I don't recall any ghost ponies (other than an OC of mine).
Nightmare Moon & Discord make good options too.

[The Blue EM2]

9820062
I'll keep that in mind.

[MarblePieLover]

9820062
maud...when people first saw her they thought she was a ghost know as obsidian pie

[The Blue EM2]

9820214
Hmmm.

[MarblePieLover]

9820277
and tombstones..and such..could be scared so hard he loses all emotions to show

[JimmyHook19]

Jimmy had seemingly gone a bit loopy.

Heh, loopy is such a funny word to say XD

[The Blue EM2]

9820381

[The Blue EM2]

9820541
It's a British term for crazy or nuts.

The latter term is generally a slang term in Britain for a guy's genitals. What did you think otherwise? You're not the only person who gets to be Sunny!

[Godslittleprincess]

"On a completely different website," Tom corrected. "Not only that, the official cartographic record suggests that your memory was wiped completely."

If this was a fourth wall-break, then I had trouble following it.

Well, that addresses my comment from the previous chapter.

[The Blue EM2]

10348641
It's a reference to The Fashionable Scarf, a story originally posted on DeviantArt but since moved here. If you wish to read it, here's the link;

TLoco in the *REDACTED*

• MLP: FiM
• Dark
• Comedy
• Random

*THIS STORY HAS A COPYRIGHT CLAIM AGAINST IT IMPOSED BY COCO CHANEL*

• Sex
• OC
• Other
• Coco Pommel
• Suri Polomare

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