Sonata: A Songwriter?
It was about two weeks after the Battle of the Bands.
Many apologies (mostly to Sunset Shimmer and the Rainbooms) and detentions were distributed among the student body, The Dazzlings (minus Sonata after she gave Adagio and Aria her saddest puppy dog eyes) left CHS to avoid facing punishment, and Trixie and the Illusions received a ten day suspension for trapping the Rainbooms before the finals and lying about their forfeit.
Overall, everyone was happy. Except for Pinkie Pie.
It was Sunday morning and since she finished her homework and all her friends were busy, the pink haired girl was stuck in her house, all alone, and bored out of her mind.
Pinkie Pie said to her stuffed alligator, "Gummy, I'm bored. None of my friends have the time to hang out with me today. My parents, Marble, and Limestone are on a rock expedition upstate, and Maud and Boulder are spending the day at the lake looking for more rocks. I don't know what to do!"
Gummy, being a stuffed toy, just stared in silence.
Suddenly, a little lightbulb went off on top of Pinkie's head. "I know, I'll call Sonata to see if she wants to hang out!"
She grabbed her cellphone and dialed Sonata's number.
At the Dazzling's house, Sonata was playing with some stuffed animals when her cellphone rang.
"Pinkie is that you?"
"Hi Sonata!" said Pinkie Pie, "You wanna hang out today?"
"Of course! Dagi and Aria have been giving me the cold shoulder since the Battle of the Bands and I've been very lonely at school since they dropped out."
"Well that's sad," Pinkie Pie said, "Hey, do you wanna be best friends?"
"Yay! I love that idea!" Sonata cheered.
"Great! What do you want to do today?"
"You want to Kevin's Comics and then get some tacos?"
"Yeah! Let's go!"
In the center of a mini strip mall in town stood a little store called "Kevin's Comics". It was a pretty nice place that sold every kind of comic from The Power Ponies to manga.
Sonata was really into the comics there. She even overreacted to one particular comic book.
"NO! NO!"
"*crying* Why?!"
"Yay! A happy ending!"
She attracted the attention of Poindexter, a regular at the shop.
"Can you keep it down? Some people are trying to read here!"
Sonata chirped, "Sorry."
Pinkie Pie walked up with a huge pile of Power Ponies comics and said, "Hi!"
Sonata was surpised at her friend being consumed by the comic books, "AHHHH! COMIC MONSTER!"
Pinkie moved away from the pile and said, "No Sonata, it's Pinkie Pie! Did you find anything you want?"
Sonata held up her comic and said, "I sure did." and then she ate it.
Pinkie Pie said, "Uhhh, I don't think those are for eating."
"Not as good as tacos but still yummy." Sonata said before she burped out a page of the comic book and it landed on Pinkie’s face.
"What is that?"
Pinkie looked at the paper, "It's an ad!"
Dear aspiring song writers,
Sonata got excited, "Oh boy that's me!"
Pinkie continued,
"Do you wanna have a hit song on the radio??"
"I love songs."
"Well here's your chance. Send in your lyrics to the perfect song with $100! Must be 13 or older to participate, ask your parents permission first."
Pinkie asked, "Can we check out now, my arms are getting tired."
Sonata jumped up and down excitedly, "I can finally start my solo career!"
Pinkie wasn’t sure, "You can't trust comic book ads Sonata. One time I ordered a pair of 'bouncy shoes', they couldn't bounce at all and they gave me terrible blisters. Also you're broke."
Pinkie dropped her wallet and Sonata picked it up.
"I found $100! I'm gonna write my hit song now!"
She gleefully skipped away.
Pinkie called, "But that was my comic book money!"
The owner of the comic store walked up to Pinkie Pie and asked, "Are you gonna pay for those comics, miss?"
"No."
"Then get out!" The owner ordered. Pinkie Pie dropped the stack and ran after Sonata.
After making a pitstop at Taco Town, Sonata was at her house trying to write a song while Pinkie Pie was on her bed playing games on her phone.
However, the blue haired Dazzling struggled to find the right words and eventually called out in frustration, "Ari! This pencil is broken! It won't write."
Aria walked up to Sonata's room and sighed, "You have to think of the words yourself you idiot. Now leave me alone, I’m watching TV."
She walked away annoyed.
"Do you have any prior writing experience?" Pinkie Pie asked.
"I did," Sonata sighed, "It was back in 1st grade."
*flashback to 6 year Sonata reading a poem*
Young Sonata stood in front of the classroom, "This is a poem I wrote all by myself,
Roses are blue
Violets are red
I love tacos
She then ripped up her work and bowed, much to the confusion of her other classmates.
The annoyed gym teacher walked up to Sonata, "Jesus Christ Sonata! THIS IS GYM CLASS!"
He blew his whistle and everyone pelted Sonata with dodgeballs.
In the present day, Sonata clung to Pinkie Pie, "They all threw dodgeballs and laughed at me, even Ari and Dagi participated! I don't want to relive that memory by writing my new song."
"Oh Sonata, you know I would never pelt you with dodgeballs! Don't worry! Now get up there and think of the most perfect song you know!"
Sonata smiled. "Thank you Pinkie! Now if you excuse me I have a hit to write. Open up a window, I'm using my brain!"
"And I'll be getting some chips!" Pinkie Pie said as she made a break for the snack pantry.
Now that she was alone, Sonata down to business and tapped her brain.
"Come on stupid brain work!"
Inside Sonata's head, cogs began to turn and smoke started pouring out.
Sonata cheered, "I'm doing it! I'm doing it!"
Meanwhile, Adagio was in the kitchen making herself a sandwich and humming out of tune.
Suddenly, she heard the smoke alarm go off.
"What the-" Immediately, the house sprinkler alarms went off in the house and drenched everyone.
Knowing the cause, Adagio stormed to Sonata's room, "SONATA?! Are you playing with my curling iron again?"
No answer.
Aria stormed up with wet hair and running mascara, "Sonata, it smells awful in here!"
Pinkie said through a mouthful of chips, "She's thinking! We went to the comic shop and she decided to write a song!"
"So she's going solo but she can't sing?" Adagio asked.
Pinkie Pie nodded.
Aria rolled her eyes, "Well can't she do this outside where we don't get drenched?"
"DONE!"
Sonata sealed up her work and said, "Come on Pinkie, let's go mail my masterpiece."
The two friends happily walked away.
Adagio said, "She's nothing without us."
"I bet it will crash and burn." snickered Aria.
Meanwhile at a local recording studio, The Deetles, a popular rock band was finishing recording for their new album.
"Oh I think of tomorrow."
When they were done, the lead singer Don said, "I'm exhausted."
Another member, Saul, agreed, "Me too."
The guy at the recording booth signaled the band, "Don, Saul, Pork, Bingo. We have a new song from a fan. This is called 'I'm a Taco' by Sonata Dusk."
The guy took one whiff and held his nose. Pork looked at the poem and barfed.
He groaned and showed the lyrics to his band mates, "It looks horrible! I threw up just looking at it.”
Don looked at the poem and his eyeballs burst into flames. "This is one of the tackiest songs ever. If we record this, our careers are over and we'll be back to playing at kiddie parties."
The recording booth guy tried to get the band on track, "We can't let her down, no matter how awful or kitschy this is. So please record the song."
Don sighed, "Let's get this over with. a 1 and a 2 and a-"
The next day at Canterlot High, Pinkie Pie and Sonata were telling Rainbow Dash and Sunset Shimmer about Sonata planning to go solo.
Rainbow Dash chuckled, "Sonata? A solo career? Please, she lost her singing voice at the Battle of the Bands!"
"I just want to show the world my amazing musical talents!” Sonata exclaimed, “Everyone will know that I love tacos!"
"Well Sonata, we forgive you for what you did at the Battle of the Bands and I wish you best of luck in your new solo career." Sunset Shimmer said, "Even if you end up a one-hit wonder."
Sonata smiled, "Thank you! Everyone's gonna love me!"
"PINKIE PIE AND SONATA DUSK TO THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE NOW!!!!!"
Every student in the hallway stared at Sonata and Pinkie.
Sunset whispered into Rainbow Dash's ear, "Something tells me Principal Celestia is suspicious of Sonata's new solo career."
Sonata, missing the point, smiled, "I bet she found me an agent!"
"Lets go see!"
The pink and blue haired duo skipped to Principal Celestia's office.
Principal Celestia said to the girls, "Good morning girls, I heard Sonata's planning to go solo."
Sonata said, "It's for realsies! I'm writing songs! I just wrote one for the Deetles yesterday."
"That's what we wanted to talk about," Vice Principal Luna said, "Girls, I wanted to let both of you know that all the members of the Deetles died after recording Sonata's new song."
Sonata was shocked, "Died? But why?"
Principal Celestia took out two absence forms and wrote on them, "It all happened so fast. When they finished recording Sonata's song, they just collapsed on the ground and nobody could revive them."
"There's a visitation Thursday night at the Cagiatto Funeral Home." She handed them the absence forms, "We're excusing you two from school on Friday so you can attend the funeral. It's 10:30 at the St. Aspen Church"
Both Sonata and Pinkie Pie looked at each other and Pinkie Pie's hair deflated.
Vice Principal Luna got close to the girls, "Don't mention anything about your song at any of those event because we don't want the paparazzi and angry fans storming our school. Got it?" she warned.
Both of them nodded and left the office without a word.
When they came back to their lockers, Sunset Shimmer asked, "So how'd it go in Celestia's office?"
Pinkie Pie was silent for a minute and then wailed, "NO MORE DEETLES!!!!"
Sonata cried, "I WANT MY SONG!"
Both of them ran out of school crying, much to the confusion of the other students they passed.
Rainbow Dash said, "I guess Principal Celestia discouraged Sonata from going solo."
On Friday following the funeral service, Pinkie and Sonata watched with many fans as the band member's four coffins got loaded into their hearses to be driven away for a private burial.
The funeral director, Mr. Waddle, held up a CD and told Sonata, "They wanted you to have this."
Pinkie Pie's hair poofed up.
Sonata smlied, "Oh boy my song!" She and Pinkie Pie quickly left.
After going to a post-funeral reception at the Rock 'n' Roll Restaurant, the two friends got into their regular clothes and went to the Dazzling's house to listen to the song.
The next day, Pinkie Pie texted up the other girls to have a listening party.
The doorbell rang and Pinkie opened it to find Sunset Shimmer and Rainbow Dash.
Sunset Shimmer said, "We got your text asking us to come over to the Dazzlings house hear the song so we came over to see how it goes."
Pinkie Pie led her two friends to the Dazzling's couch.
She then gave everyone some popcorn, "It's a shame all of our other friends can't be here. I want them to hear Sonata's new song."
Sonata asked, "Yeah, where are they?"
Rainbow Dash replied, "Rarity just laughed at the thought of you becoming a solo musician and refused to show up, Applejack had to go over to Mystery Mint's to work on their Latin project, and Fluttershy's managing the adoption day event at the local animal shelter."
"That's okay, they can hear it when it comes on the radio." said Sonata.
She then looked around the house, "There are no dodgeballs here and Aria and Dagi are on an out of town shopping trip, so let's listen to the music."
As the two got the couch ready, Sonata brought up a big stereo and blasted the music.
Sunset held her ears, "It's a bit loud! You think you can turn it down a bit?"
But Sonata didn't listen, for she was too busy dancing on the couch.
As the song played, flowers drooped, glass broke, and a picture of the Dazzlings performing turned itself over.
I'm a Taco! I'm a Taco! I'm a a very happy taco! I want to eat tacos 'till I die! Taco, taco taco! Tacos everyday! I wanna marry a taco named Felipe! I'm a Taco! I'm a Taco! I'm a very happy taco! I want to eat tacos 'till I die. Tacos for breakfast, lunch and dinner, tacos that sparkle shine and glitter. I love tacos and tacos love me! I'm a Taco! I'm a Taco! I'm very happy taco! I want to eat tacos 'till I die! ¡Arriba!
When the song ended, the house exploded. But thankfully, nobody was seriously hurt.
Sonata emerged from the rubble saying, "That was awesome!"
Sunset Shimmer emerged and dusted off her shirt, "Well, that was-"
Pinkie Pie finished her sentence, "The best song in years! We have to get it on the radio!"
The two friends ran to the radio station leaving Sunset Shimmer and Rainbow Dash in a state of shock.
Rainbow held her arm in pain, "Can you drive me to the emergency room? I think I may have broken my arm in the explosion."
Sunset pulled Rainbow Dash out of the rubble and into her car, "Sure thing Rainbow Dash."
At the radio station, the two friends saw Vinyl Scratch at the DJ system.
"Hi Vinyl, you wanna hear my new song?"
Vinyl put the song in her radio.
A few minutes later, the young DJ screamed and threw the pair out of the station and locked the front door.
"Judging by her expressive reaction, I don't think she liked it." Sonata sighed, defeated.
Pinkie Pie reassured her, "Don't worry, we'll get your song on the radio. But how?"
Sonata pointed upwards, "We could try the antenna thingie on the roof.”
"Great idea! Good thing I brought my rock climbing equipment with me!"
The two got into their equipment and climbed up the antenna with a giant radio and Sonata's CD.
They put superglue on the top of the antenna and placed the radio on.
Sonata cheered, "I can't wait until I'm a star!"
She turned on the radio and her song started blasting from the stereos.
In town, Dr. Hooves was in Radio Shack looking for parts when one of the radios started playing the song.
"AAAAAAHHHHHH!!!!!!!" What is this bloody madness?" The Doctor ran out of the store screaming.
While driving downtown, Bulk Biceps heard the song and screamed, "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!! MAKE IT STOP!"
He screamed and his car swerved out of control and crashed into a nearby farmer’s market. Luckily, he emerged unharmed.
At a local Starbucks, Lyra and Bon Bon were listening to the radio and drinking lattes together when the song made Bon Bon's head explode, literally.
Lyra stood there in shock at what she just saw, "No! Bon Bon!"
At Sugarcube Corner, Big Mac and Cherilee were listening to the song over one radio while sharing a milkshake.
Big Mac said, "This song reminds me of you. Ah love you Cherilee."
Cherilee smiled, "And I love you Big Mac."
When 'I wanna marry a taco named Felipe' came on, Cherilee got offended and dumped the milkshake all over Big Mac.
"YOU DIRTY CHEATER!" she yelled as she stormed out the door.
"Cheerilee, come back!" Big Mac called as she stormed away in tears.
Soon, the whole town was going crazy over how bad the song was. People were flipping cars over, running around, and randomly setting radios on fire.
Somehow, the radio-waves reached the pony world and a similar massive panic ensued.
“WHAT IS GOING ON?!” Roseluck yelled as she, Lily, and Daisy stuffed their ears with flowers.
The chaos was so bad that even the Wonderbolts couldn't help them.
Pony Soarin cried, "My ears!"
Pony Spitfire yelled to the other Wonderbolts, "Abandon skies, I repeat abandon skies!"
In the human world, people saw two delivery pilots jump out of their plane on parachutes and watched the empty plane crash into a fireworks factory and soon fireworks were everywhere.
The only one who enjoyed the song was the Derpy in both worlds, "I like this song."
Unaware of what was happening in town and in Equestria, Pinkie and Sonata watched the chaos from afar and started dancing.
Meanwhile, Aria and Adagio returned home from their shopping trip only to find the house in shambles.
Both girls screamed, "SONATAAAAAA!!!!!!!"
In the pony dimension, Mayor Mare was desperately trying to prevent a riot.
“Everypony calm down! There has to be a reasonable explanation for this! Nopony should panic!”
Nopony listened as they were too busy freaking out and trying to drown out the awful song.
“STOP!” Everyone looked to see pony Twilight.
“I think I know where that song is coming from.”
Back in Canterlot Heights, Sandalwood cried, "Where are those awful vibes coming from?"
Adagio and Aria parked their car near the crowd and ran out.
Adagio yelled, "Sonata Dusk and Pinkie Pie! They wrote this horrible song that destroyed our house! They're at the radio station!"
"Let's get them!"
Everyone became an angry mob and charged to the radio station.
Meanwhile, Sunset Shimmer and Rainbow Dash were at the emergency room where Rainbow Dash was being placed in a cast for her broken arm.
“It’s definitely a fracture.” Dr. Stabler said, “She’s gonna be out of an arm for about 6 weeks.”
“Aw man, now I’ll be benched for the start of basketball season.” Rainbow Dash complained.
“Don’t worry,” Sunset Shimmer said, “Things could be much worse.”
At that exact moment, Sunset’s journal to Twilight began to glow.
“Twilight?”
Back at the radio station, Pinkie Pie noticed the the angry crowd from afar, "Sonata, you have a fan club! You're famous!"
Sonata smiled, "For realsies?"
Pinkie said, "Yeah!"
The mob arrived.
Sonata yelled, "Thank you for loving my song. I will sign anything you want autographed!"
Adagio yelled, "There they are! Get them!"
The angry mob started chasing them.
They were about to beat them up but were stopped when Twilight Sparkle appeared with Sunset and Rainbow Dash, now in her cast and sling, behind her.
“Pinkie Pie? What are you doing with Sonata?”
“Hi Twilight!” Pinkie Pie waved, “I suppose you heard Sonata’s first song after she split from the Dazzlings?”
“I did and I just want to say that it led to a town-wide panic because everypony had thought it was a nightmare, so I wrote to Sunset that I was coming over to ask why her song was coming into my world and she told me you and Sonata became friends and she developed a crazy song?”
Sonata smiled, “I got it out of a comic book ad and everyone enjoyed it!”
“Actually, Sunset explained to me that it caused the band who recorded the song to die unexpectedly, the Dazzling's house to explode, Rainbow Dash to break her arm, and a city-wide panic culminating in an unplanned fireworks show.”
Sonata’s smiled turned to a frown, “I never knew that would happen.” She began to sniffle, “I just wanted to be a star again after losing my singing voice and respect in school following the Battle of the Bands.”
Sunset came up to her, “I get what you’re going through. I screwed up once and almost everyone hated me for it. It took me a while to recover and I’m still trying to find my place and so can you.”
“Aw, thank you.” Sonata smiled as the friends leaned into a group hug.
Adagio yelled, “No, you’re all filthy liars!”
“Let’s get them!” Aria added.
But none of the mob listened to them.
“You guys are lame, Sonata is totally cool.” Bon Bon, who’s head somehow managed to get reattached, said.
Adagio screamed and was about to charge at the five with Aria but,
TWWEEEEETTTTT! a whistle blew and everyone saw the CEO of Taco Town.
“Excuse me young lady?” The CEO asked, "Are you Sonata Dusk?"
"Yes I am!"
"Well I just happened to be listening to the radio and realized your song 'I'm a Taco' is a big hit! I think it will be perfect in our advertisements for 'Taco Town'. What do you say?"
Sonata smiled, "It's a deal!"
"Great, let's go get tacos!"
The three skipped away, leaving the two Dazzlings in shock.
Rainbow Dash said, "Wow I guess Sonata can make it in the music industry."
Sunset Shimmer agreed, "Maybe we shouldn't have doubted her.”
Twilight concurred, “Even though her song may have been terrible, I’m happy to know she is on her way to discovering friendship.”
“Wanna follow them?” Rainbow asked
"Sure. Maybe we’ll see if Rarity, Applejack, and Fluttershy are also interested.”
The trio quickly followed their friends. Finally, the mob slowly dispersed, leaving the two infuriated Dazzlings alone.
Adagio screamed, "ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!"
The End