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6 Universal Nights - The Blue EM2



Journey to a place of magic... just not the magic the builders intended.

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Night 2: I Can't Turn you Loose

Standing on a nondescript street in a nondescript section of Universal Studios Florida, Steph couldn't help but check her watch. It is about 9:30 in the morning and the street itself was quite. Steph looked at her watch again, as she expected a ally of hers to approach and join her for this performance.

OK, who has been changing the settings in Microsoft Word? I need to go back and edit that, to avoid it looking this was written by a six year old.

Standing on a nondescript street in a nondescript section of Universal Studios Florida, Steph couldn't help but check her watch. It was about 9:30 in the morning and the street itself was quiet. Steph looked at her watch again, as she expected an ally of hers to approach and join her for this performance.

There. Much better.

Suddenly, a saxophonist walked across the street, playing music.

"OOoh!" Steph said randomly. "Pretty!" She then admonished herself for saying that. "That's not cool!"

Moments later, a car pulled up with a siren on the top. It was the pair that the crowd had been waiting for. It was the BLUES BROTHERS! Jake and Elwood exited (not excited, as that would be weird, and not werid) and headed for the stage as I can't turn you loose played over the speakers. The band members only had access to piped audio, with the exception of the saxophonist, so the sound was somewhat tinny. That, and they were performing in an open space.

Jake tossed Ellwood a key to unlock a briefcase that was inexplicably handcuffed to his wrist. He undid the lock and hurled the key absentmindedly into the crowd, where Steph caught it. And then, suddenly, oddly, bizarrely, it glowed. Steph's hand was closed, so she did no see the glow.

The Brothers started by performing Soul Man, and as they were performing, the crowd was too focused on what was going on to even see what was happening to Steph, who went unnoticed.

Her pants morphed into a pair of blue jeans that stuck to her form quite nicely, and her shoes were promptly replaced by a pair of white and black trainers. The process of them tying themselves onto her feet was what finally caught her attention, as they squished onto her feet precisely as shoes don't.

"What?" she asked. "Who is this even? At least they aren't girly."

It seemed that this process had not got the usual memo about clothes then body or body then clothes, as suddenly her legs got shorter, her feet shrank, and then it got painful, as her hips were suddenly forced together, narrowing to the width of a preteen girl. Her baggy shirt, which had a somewhat tenous connection to the rest of her form anyways (not to mention she now looked completely ridiculous) shrank onto her body and turned yellow with a relatively low neckline, soon joined by an orange hoodie that sat on top. She was quick to undo it, so that it hung open on her body. The hood hung back and flopped uselessly. Steph glanced down to see her skin turn orange, soon joined in hue by a pair of blue eyes. The low neckline soon proved to not be much of a problem, as her breasts shrank until they were nothingness, leaving her as flat as a board at the end of the day. Not long after that, her hair turned purple, and shrank back until it was shoulder length. Her appearance was the definition of a tomboy, and she found herself smiling as she listened.

"Blues?" she said. "Now this is my jam!" As the Blues Brothers launched into Shake a Tail Feather, the crowd broke into dance.

Somebody then looked at her. "Scootaloo?" they asked. "I saw you at Disney World last summer!"

"Who are ya talkin' about?" she replied. "The name's Smoulder!"


They ended the show with Jailhouse Rock, and promptly vanished into the crowd being pursued by the cops. Smoulder walked away and suddenly thought to check her phone to see if Tom had been in contact.

"Come on buddy!" she said, putting the phone to her ear. There was no response. The phone just rang out, and this concerned Smoulder greatly. Keen to see if any of her friends were around, she headed for an ice cream stand where she saw Gallus and Sandbar eating ice cream.

"That was a lot more fun than I thought it would be," she heard Gallus say. "I bet you Smoulder would have loved that."

"Silverstream would have spent too much time looking at the stairs!" Sandbar laughed.

Smoulder ran over to the pair, and quickly handed a dollar to the ice cream man, who started making a vanilla. Quite how he knew how to do this was a mystery, but he started doing it anyway. You guys!" she said. "I've got a problem. Tom's not picking up on his phone, and the others haven't seen him either!"

"Who's Tom?" Sandbar asked.

"A friend of mine you haven't met," Gallus replied. "Do you want some help? Cause if you could explain what happened to you, Steph, that'll help us unravel what's going on here."

Smoulder nodded. "It might be easier to call be Smoulder from now on..."

So, she told the tale of what had happened at the Blues Brothers show.

At the end, Sandbar blinked in disbelief. "So, you're telling me... they DIDN'T perform Everybody needs Somebody to Love?"

"Nope," Smoulder said.

"Should we go back to the hotel and see if we can find Tom?" Gallus suggested. "If he isn't picking up, he could be in real trouble."

"Agreed," Smoulder said. "Hey, there's lots of bubbles in this ice cream!"

"This stall has everything."


After making their way back to the Hard Rock Hotel, somebody soon stopped them. "Hey," a woman said, "can I get a photo of you with my kid? He really likes you guys."

"I'm a girl," Smoulder snorted.

Gallus glared at her. "Sure thing, ma'am. As long as it doesn't take too long; we're on a friendship quest."

The woman nodded, and soon the image was taken. As they walked away, she spoke to one of the park employees. "I must say, those cast members are so dedicated to their characters," she said. "They never broke character."

"Ma'am, the park doesn't have the license to My Little Pony characters," the employee replied.


Elsewhere, the trio stopped in front of room 101, in which Tom was domiciled. Sandbar knocked. "Excuse me?" he asked. "Are you in there Tom?"

There was no reply.

Gallus put his ear to the door and listened. On the other side of the door, he could hear quiet sniffling. "Are you OK?" he asked.

Still no response. Gallus looked to Smoulder. "Do you have that second key?" he asked.

Smoulder, without saying a word, handed him a key. Gallus popped it into the door, turned it, and opened the door. The trio stepped in, and gasped at who was lying at the foot of the bed.

Author's Note:

Honestly, Hasbro, how many times have you used that colour combination?

The show, admittedly, could be better; Elwood often has difficulty holding the tune.

Who do you think is in Tom's room? Find out on Thursday!

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