> Rock In Ponyville > by mordecaimapper > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Same Old Festivity > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Celestia was walking in her palace, she was thinking about Summer Sun Celebration, it will be the 500th anniversary of the event and Celestia didn't know what to do for the party. "Ok, I declared holiday for all ponies, royal event in Canterlot and an Art Exposition in Maneattan, but NOTHING MUSICIAL!" She was talking to herself, sad; then she called her sister Luna "Sister!". "Yes, sister?" Asked Luna with some fear "I need something musical for the 500th anniversary of the SSC! What I do?!" She started to cry "Sister... I would think in a... can you please shut up you mouth?" Luna was tired of Celestia's crying "Celestia! You are crying for no reason! It is just another SSC! What's the mat...". "Just another SSC?! Just another?! Do you have any idea how the 500th anniversary of SSC is important! Do you know that music was always before, during and after the event!". "I was in the moon... so… no I don't have any idea..." "You were thinking about what?" Celestia interrumped Luna, to going back to the begining. "I was thinking in inviting Octavia Melody for your concert" "Again, the same boring classical music... why don't you go shit in the bush?". "CELEST…". The sisters were almost at the point of fighting, when... "Princess Celestia" Twilight apered with Rainbow Dash and Rarity. "Hum... YES???" Celestia asked, hidding the fight with Luna. "Do you have some idea for the musical event?" Twilight asked. "Luna is suggesting the same boring and lame music..." Answered Celestia, frowning at Luna. "If you think that your "royal music" is boring, why not giving a look to the main scene in popular music?" Asked Rainbow Dash, she was studying music and this was the perfect hour for show her knowledges. "Yes, Dash is right, we should all pay serious attention to the popular music in Equestria and made a..." "A Festival? No way! Celestia banned "Big Summer Festivals" since an accident in one of these in Fillydelphia" Interruped Luna. "Well darling, I have to say that she needs a music event, she need to allow summer festivals again!" Said Rarity. "That won't be possible Rarity, you listened to Luna right? I don't want another fatal stampede!" "Ok Princess, I and my friends will try to find some musician that pleasures you" Said Rarity. Rainbow, Twilight and Rarity, sad with the results, exit the Princess' Castle. "Did it worked?" Asked Fluttershy, worried about the 3 mare's feelings. "No, Fluttershy... We didn't got it the Celestia's attention" Said Twilight, with a taciturn face. "Oh My!!! If she didn't wanted that possibility... maybe... it won't be music in SSC!" Said Fluttershy, scared. Back to the Princess' Castle, "Thank you Luna, for saying to Twilight and her friends that a festival is a stupid idea" Celestia said. "No problem sister, but they have some serious reason..." Luna slowly said. "Really... you first are in my side. and now you are in their side? What the fuck Luna?" "We need only more safety procedures and the stampedes could be resolved with a simple hoof!" Explained Luna. "You know what? Go eat shit! Yes, that it's! I'm done with this! I'm leaving this musical part, you do all!" Said Celestia, angry. The two sisters were about to discuss again this when a royal soldier came to Celestia's room. "Princess..." The soldier was interrupted by the fight between the two sisters. "May I talk to you more later or...?" "Yes, soldier?" Celestia hides the fight. "There is a pegasus that wants to talk with Your Highness" Said the soldier "He has the perfect solution for your music problem Princess" "Ok, call him to my room please" Said Celestia. While the soldier goes to calling the mysterious pegasus , Celestia and Luna were perplexed. "How did he knew my problem?" Celestia asked to Luna "I don't know, but he could be a good organizer of music events" Luna replied The two sisters were waiting for the pegasus, very nervous with him; when the pegasus went to Celestia's room, the two sisters came closer to the pony. He were wearing a black sweater with a band symbol, and a black bonnet with three pins with also bands logo, he had the hair and beard blonde and cobalt eyes, his mane was brown and his cutie mark was a guitar. "Hello, Princess" > Crash Rocker > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- "Who are you?" Asked Celestia to the pegasus. "My name is Crash Rock" Replied to Celestia. "I'm a music critic and musician" "How you found my sister's problem?" Asked Luna. "A little bird called "Dashz" said to me" Crash replied "I'm a great festival defender you know?" "Shit... another one of these guys..." Celestia talked to herself. "I heard! Bitch!" Crash angrily rebuked Celestia. "Another ponies came here asking for a great festival, but she says no always... what is your idea, Crash?" Luna tried to calm down the brown pegasus. "Oh yeah! I saw all festivals before the banning and I noticed in a thing that made these festivals good spots for stampedes and riots, check it out!" Crash tooked a file with all years and places of festivals. 1985 - FESTIVAL OF FILLYDELPHIA 1986 - FESTIVAL OF FILLYDELPHIA 2 1988 - EQUESTRIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL (MANEHATTEN) 1989 - FESTIVAL OF FILLYDELPHIA 3 1990 - EQUESTRIA SUMMER FESTIVAL 2 1991 - WINTER WRAP UP FEST (FILLYDELPHIA) 1995 - EQUESTRIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL 3 1997 - FESTIVAL OF FILLYDELPHIA 4 1999 - WINTER WRAP UP FEST 2 2001 - WINTER WRAP UP FEST 3 2005 - EQUESTRIAN SUMMER FESTIVAL 4 2007 - FESTIVAL OF FILLYDELPHIA 5 "As you see, the summer/winter festivals were always hold in great cities, so.. massive traffic lines and massive amounts of ponies, a disaster that was about to happen!" Explained Crash. "So, my idea is making a festival in the less-populated cities in the West, like Canterlot, Ponyville or Apple Acres, with high security procedures!" "It looks good and it all, but... about the insolations and the fainting?" Asked Celestia, with curiosity. "Build up a team of nurses and doctors around the festival's instalations" Crash replied. "Are you interessed, Princess?" "I say yes, I was blind by that disaster in the 2007's Festival, that I wasn't open for new things... Thank you Crash! What about you sister?" "OMG! YES! YES! I SAY YES! THANK YOU CRASH!!!!" "No problem... but lets not overstate the emotions ok?" Said Crash. "Now we need a guy that will choose the bands and the stages..." Said Celestia "I have a friend, he will help us, if he accept my offer!" Said Crash with some determination. "OK! GOOD TRIP!" Said Luna. "Ok... goodbye.." Crash exit the Princess' castle and he went to the friend's house. "THIS... IS... AMAZING!!!! THANK YOU CELESTIA FOR ALLOWING AGAIN FESTIVALS!!!" Luna was very happy about this, "I needed to took the visor from my eyes... is not 2007 anymore!" Said Celestia. The two sisters hugged each other with very strengh. "Sister... you are press me against you..." Luna screamed, breathlessly. "Ups... sorry!" Celestia dropped Luna to the floor. > The Critic Town > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Crash was about to go find somepony for help him in the making of the festival, when Rainbow Dash saw him, "Crash! What Celestia said?" asked Rainbow, she was asking Crash for trying to make Celestia change minds. "She said yes Dash!" Answered Crash "Now I just need to found a pony that could find the artists, choose the venue and create the funny things". Twilight was coming with Rarity, "Don't worry Crash!" said Twilight, "Invite your critic friends for reunion in my castle". "Ok, I can do that, but I need a pony that likes adventures" said Crash. "I'm a pony that likes adventures!" Said Rainbow Dash. "Ok, you two can go! We prepare everything for the reunion" Said Twilight. So the two ponies started to go to the Critic Town, they found a massive forest that had very rivers and mysterious trees. "Crash... why exists this forest between Ponyville and Critic Town?" Asked Rainbow, amazed. "Critics say that this florest hides the greatest music records of the world, a history was that existed a plane, which sended albuns for us, critics, reviewing, but one day, the plane crashed in this florest, the package of that day had albuns from The Beatles, Led Zepplin and Metallica, now, explorers who tried to get these albuns, never returned!" Explained Crash "So, this forest still existed before the crash?" Asked Rainbow "Well, yes, it was asked to be planted by Celestia, in order to protect the West Ambient" Answered Crash The two ponies finally went to the great doors of the Critic Town, the doors have gold letters saying Welcome to Critic Town and with various album covers fillling the doors, Rainbow Dash couldn't close her mouth, the doors were so beautiful... "Rainbow, if you are just like that for seeing the doors, I'm not thinking about your reaction when you watch the city from inside" Said Crash, closing Rainbow's mouth with his hoof and cleaning her saliva with a paper. "Ok, Crash, this is just the begining of the city and I love it! It is so AWESOME!" Said Rainbow Dash very exicited. The two ponies entered inside the city, and the vision was so amazing! Music bars, music shops, festivals all the time, the neighborhoods were divided by music genre, pure fans of music talking with each one about his tastes... the vision was... so musical! "Crash... this place is amazing! Where I did live all this time! I've been studying music theory since 5 months and I never had been taught about this!" Exclamed Rainbow Dash "Yes, it is the height of the musical theory!" Said Crash, looking happy to Rainbow "Now remember, we are just here to find my critic friends" So the two ponies went to the neighborhood of rock, to meet with Rocked Pony, a rock critc, just like Crash, when they meet him, he was suprised. "Crash! What are you doing here?" Asked Rocked "I'm looking for you and the others, for making a reunion in Canterlot, the festivals aren't banned anymore!" Answered Crash. "OMG! Really! Hey, Needle! Crash is here!" Screamed Rocked. Rocked was a brown unicorn, with dark brown mane and beard in the chin, he was always wearing a strip in his head, and today is was wearing a shirt with a band symbol. "Yes Rocked! Is the new Death Grips album that I ordered?" Said a voice from the top of the stairs. "No Needle, is Crash and he bring the amazing news!" Said Rocked. "Crash! The thing about the festivals? Yes I knew! But nevermind, Crash! OMG!" The pony started to down the stairs and greeted Crash with a brohoof. "Damn Crash, how long? You let your hair grow?" "Wait a second, Needle!" Said Rocked "how do you know that the festivals are now disbanned?" "Rocked, what kind of world do you live at? It was the first thing that apperead in the news today!" Said Needle Drop. Needle was a light-brown pegasus, wearing black glasses and it was bald. "Guys, there's no time to talk about that, Celestia need us!" Said Rainbow Dash. "Who's is that girl?" Asked Needle "She is more hotter than the girls in the cover album of Cherry Pie" Said Rocked Rainbow kicked Rocked in the leg, he fell with pain "For the next time, don't say that! Or I will kick you until you get like that album cover of Obituary or Napalm Death. "Ok... let's go!" Said Needle The four ponies went to Canterlot to talk with the Princess > The Forest > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainbow, Crash and the others were in the forest that connects Canterlot with The Critic Town, it was a dark and mysterious forest, and with the story that Crash told to Rainbow, more sinester the forest was. They were almost getting to Canterlot doors when Needle heard a cold and creepy sound. "You heared this guys" he said, trembling with fear. "C'mon Needle it was just a wild animal" Said Rocked, trying to calm Needle. The sound starts to get more closer and higher as they walk "Okay... maybe it is just more than an animal..." Said Rocked with fearfear. "Maybe it is just Count Jackula that is stalking me because of the things I did" Said Crash smiling with fear "You can just be kidding with me!" growled Rainbow Dash "You are just little pussies or Music Critics?" "Whoa... Dashie, calm down! It is just fear" Crash tried to calm Rainbow. "Calm down? CALM DOWM?! Do you know if that is a screaming of a pony trying to get help? C'mon guys! You can be so fucking serious!" "Okay! Okay!" Yelled Rocked "We go to the direction of the sound, but this is the forest of the lost critics!" "Follow me and we don't go to lose the trail!" Said Rainbow Dash. The 3 critics started to follow Rainbow Dash in a dirt road, while they were advance in the trail, the screams of help are getting louder and closer. "Hello?" Asked Crash with loud voice. "Where are you?" "I'm near you, in a tree with a v wrote in there" Said the mysterious pony. The 4 ponies went to the tree and found the pony, it was an orange earth pony, with brown hair and with green eyes, he had a pencil and a musical note as cutie mark, and he was wearing a black bonnet. "Please help me, I went to find some 1970's records and I got stuck on a thorny branch" Said the pony. "What is your name?" Asked Rainbow Dash "My name is Stewie Hond" replied the pony. Rocked easily removed the branchs from Stewie's hooves, but then Stewie fell with pain. "My hooves are full of thorns, I can't walk" He mumble with pain. Needle Drop looked at Stewie's legs and he saw blood, "I'm going to puke, wait a second guys" Rainbow was disgusted with this and said, "Come with us Stewie, we are going to Canterlot, there is a hospital near" "No, I was so close to get the gold record, not now... I need to find the gold..." Said Stewie queasy. "What is the purpose of find 1970's lost albuns?" Said Rainbow with a confused look to everyone. "Well, the gold record of the 70's is "The Dark Side of the Moon" by Pink Floyd; it is one of the best albuns of all time, that album is one of the motivations behind some ponies that tried to go to this forest, but they disappeared" Explained Crash. "Indeed" Said Rocked "But we need to get out from here!" "Ok..." Said Stewie almost fainting "You can take me to the hospital" Rainbow Dash picked up Stewie to her flank and the group started to move faster, they walked and walked and walked... "Guys.. I've seen this tree before, it is the v tree!" Said Needle "We're lost!" "I was really predict this shit!" Screamed Rocked "Now we are going to die!" "Just shut the fuck up" Yelled Rainbow to Rocked "Take Stewie, I will fly to see the right trail" Rainbow Dash flew to the sky to look up for the trail, while the Stewie and the 3 critics were talking "So... w-what you bring to t-this forest?" Asked Stewie "We are trying to make a new summer festival, Celestia disbanned them" Explained Crash "We were getting to Canterlot to having a reunion with the Princess" Said Rocked "But now your life is more important" "Not only his life" Said Needle "Our lifes are important, we don't know if Rainbow will find the tra-" Needle was interrupted by Rainbow, that was smiling, "I found the right, trail, give me Stewie and follow me" She said. Quickly the group went to the national road, Rainbow started to fly faster same with the group. "Please... wait... I'm soo fucking tired" Said Rocked. "Don't eat to much stuff!" Said Needle laughing. "Don't laugh at me your Death Grips nerdy!" Said Rocked angry. "Ok... sorry" Said Needle. Passed 5 minutes they were in Canterlot, they went to the hospital. "Redheart? It's an emergency!" Rainbow called for the nurse. "What is happening?" Said Nurse Redheart, then she looked up to Stewie, shocked she said "Oh poor thing! What happened?" "Me and my criticism group were walking in the forest Critic Town-Canterlot, and we found him alone, stuck at a thorny tree, and he has got too many thorns that he can't walk" Explained Rainbow. "He will need to see a doctor, that thorns are poisonous!" Said Redheart with caution. "Ok, we will wait" Rainbow said. > Knowing Stewie Hond Better > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- At Canterlot Hospital, Crash and Dash were with Stewie, near his bed. Redheart said to Dash that probably it would take some hours to Stewie recuperate from the poisoning. Needle and Rocked were waiting outside the hospital with Twilight. “He is going to be fine?” Asked Needle to Rocked, worried about Stewie. “Since when you started to worry about ponies that you don’t know before?” – Asked Rocked. “Look, I’m worried about him, because…” – Said Needle, with some fear of Rocked reaction. “Because?” – Asked Rocked surprised with the spontaneous pause in Needle’s speech. “Because… he… he is… my cousin…” – Mumbled Needle. “Whaaaat??!!!” – Said Rocked with some cringe – “Why you don’t tell us in the Forest?” “Because… you all were so frustrated and stressed that I couldn’t say anything…” – Explained Needle. “So, why aren’t you in the hospital with Stewie?” – Asked Twilight. The two critics look to the alicorn that was always looking to them. They knew that she was friend of Rainbow Dash, because Crash said; but they didn’t had the confidence and trust to tell her anything, because they didn’t know her very well, they knew that she was the Princess of Friendship, but even though, they didn’t had trust with her. “You can tell whatever you want, I won’t tell anypony” – Said Twilight with her hoof in the air. Needle at that point knew that we could trust Twilight to tell his cousin story, so he started telling. “Stewie Hond isn’t his real name, his name is Steve Drop Hond. He was born at the same year as I. We both grew together, until one day…” – Needle stopped abruptly and started to sob – “You know… Stewie… when he got his cutie mark… he started to feel very dizzy and he vomited and said to me that he had massive headaches… I said to him see his doctor… He said that he had a rare disease…” – Needle couldn’t stop sobbing – “Well… when he told me that, my heart broke into pieces… it was a disease that infects the brain and corrupts the old memories… it’s why that he didn’t remember me…. That’s why he went to the forest, because he forget the story… but I will always remember…” – Needle stopped for drinking water, while Rocked and Twilight were almost crying – “I will always remember what he said before he went to Manehatten seeking for treatment, that he didn’t receive… he said <>… that was the last time that Stewie knew that I was his cousin…” - Needle ended this story with the tears blinding his vision. Twilight and Rocked after hear all of this, hugged Needle with all of their forces. "Needle... Why you hide this from me?" - Asked Rocked, disturbed and with the red eyes from all the sobbing. "I was afraid... I thought if you were going to make fun of me... like you always do..." - Said Needle, with some regret. "Needle... I don't make fun of serious things... that is a thing that nopony can make jokes at" - Said Rocked looking to Needle with all that he could. "Exactly Needle... Rocked is right... you should tell him the truth..." - Explained Twilight with her motherly look, "You are right" - Said Needle - "Sorry Rocked, I think that we 3 should go to the hospital, what you think?" "Alright, let's go!" - Said Rocked and Twilight. In the hospital, Dash and Crash were with Stewie, waiting for his recovery. “Damn… why this takes so fucking long!” - Moaned Crash. “Shut up! Redheart said that we would take a while, maybe a day” – Said Rainbow Dash, with her angry look. “Never mind” – Said Crash with a bored look. Things started to get really weird, when Needle, Rocked and Twilight came to Stewie’s room running with all of their strengths. “Look at this runners!” – Said Crash, laughing – “Are you going to participate in the marathon?” “Shut up Crash! Needle is going to see his cousin” – Screamed Rocked, trying to find a chair to rest. “Wait, what? What the fuck? Stewie is your cousin?” – Said Crash, dazed with that new. Then he looks at Dash – “Did you hear this shit Dashie? Are you stoned Rocked?” “Crash, stop, this is truth” – Said Needle – “Stewie is really my cousin” “Yes, I can confirm that fact!” – Said Twilight. – “He told us the story about Stewie.” “Fuck… sorry Needle for being stupid…” – Said Crash with regret. “Okay, I will tell you the story, only if you stop bitching around” – Said Needle, making eye contact with Crash. Needle told the story, everyone was sobbing until Stewie woke up.