Lucas Chronicles, the Afterstory Part 1: The Monster Hidden Behind Mountain Dew
LAST TIME:
"I can't believe it's been six months..."
"...Equivalent Exchange..."
"Let's throw a party!"
"Celestia's a tyrant!"
"...From the Fire that burns inside!"
"...Yet, the Lord laid on Him the sins of us all."
"I'm at war with the world..."
"Son of a cupcake..."
"I WILL NOT serve a tyrant!"
"...with that sickness, we should be dead!"
"I feel You keeping us alive..."
"There are some things in life you don't question. I'm one of them."
"Your not gonna die..."
"This is how it feels when YOU. FIGHT. BACK!"
"EXECUTION?!? W-why?!?"
"...to them, it's just another kill..."
"A HERO'S NOT AFRAID TO GIVE HIS OR HER LIFE!"
"...I'm... I'm not worthless!"
"Take control, it's now or never!"
"I'M. SICK. OF. IT!"
"They're in cahoots with Celestia!"
"I didn't want anypony to see me cry... I'm fine..."
"This is THE LAST NIGHT you'll spend alone!"
"RISE IN REVOLUTION!"
"TO CANTORLOT!"
"It's our faith! It's our life! This is our battle cry!"
"Derpy! YOU'RE A GENIUS!"
"I will just have to destroy you myself..."
"...It's time to ride my circus for psycho!"
"This is the place that you can never take away..."
"...circumstances of one's birth are irrelevant..."
"I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool."
"Hello, you clever boy."
"...those sins will be mine and mine alone to bear..."
"...Sunset Shimmer..."
"The Doctor... has a secret..."
"...come to a great battlefield... You must come to Trenzalore..."
"IT'S TOO DANGEROUS!"
"Well then... Miss Duskshine, Miss Bubble Berry, I'll see you around..."
"He saved us from poison!"
"Chase all the fear away! Every time I speak Your name!"
"I'm so nervouscited!"
"You've got good, strong pairs of legs, my student. It's time that you got up and used them."
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Hello. My name is Lucas. You may remember me from my records of the time I helped save Equestria from Reapers with the 'Mane 6', a Derpy Hooves from the future, and my human friends of TheArchwayTeam (or the Lousy Bagels. The name is still under consideration). If you have not, I have them recorded here. Anyway, this next adventure all started when I got lost coming home from E3...
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"Driving down this highway," I sang along with my car's radio. I was listening to Skillet's song, 'Good to Be Alive'. I'm huge Skillet fan, by the way. "Soakin' up the sun. Got miles to go before we get home. And the journey's just begun..." I stopped singing. "AAND I'm lost... I knew I shouldn't have driven all the way from Virginia to Los Angeles for E3..." You see, I didn't have money for a plane ticket, so I decided to drive all the way to California...
Please... Don't ask me about it...
Anyway, about halfway back on my return trip, I had been stopped behind this school bus because the map I was reading said it would be quicker to cut through this one school rather than going through the actual city. I didn't catch the name of the school, however...
By the way I read the map, I would cut out at least three hours of driving. As the school bus moved, however, I saw a girl with purple hair tumble out of the school statue along with a purple and green dog.
Now, I had seen the movie Equestria Girls, and I had actually been to Equestria so I knew everything in the show My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was absolutely real. In other words, I knew how this whole situation was going to play out.
As the girl stood up, I pulled around in front of her, rolled down my window and said, "Listen. I know who and what you are and what you are planning to do. Trust me. I have a better way to get your crown back, but, Twilight, I need you to get in my car so I can explain it without anyone eavesdropping."
I realized how wrong that sounded, and like any sane person, Twilight just backed away slowly. I sighed, turned my car off, got out, opened my trunk and grabbed Chillrend and my Chaos Emerald (I haven't left home without them since I took them from Celestia), I also took my IPod and Headphones, then locked my car door. I turned to look at Twilight and said, "Okay, I realize how weird that sounded, but you're going to need my help. I know how the next three days are going to play out. You probably don't remember me though... Shoot..." I touched my forehead then introduced myself. "I'm Lucas."
"How do you know who I am?" Twilight asked.
"It's a long story," I started, "but here it goes. I've been to Equestria at least three times now, and we've met before." She gasped. "Two of those times, I was just passing through. But that other time, Celestia recruited me to stop a Changeling invasion and ultimately stopping a race called the Reapers from wiping out your world and all other worlds with it. But the reason I'm pretty sure you don't remember me, is because in that Equestria, you died. We saved it, but you, Pinkie Pie, and Applejack sacrificed yourselves to do so. You are a Twilight from a parallel dimension. Now, all worlds have-"
Twilight interrupted, "An infinite number of parallel realities!"
"Yes..." I replied. "How did you know that?"
She answered, "Now it's my turn to sound crazy... like, really crazy... but I know this alien who calls himself the Doctor-"
It was my turn to interrupt, "YOU KNOW THE DOCTOR?!?"
"Oh. Um. Why yes!" She smiled. "I traveled with him for a little while! You know him as well?"
I shook my head. "Not exactly. I know OF him, and studied him, but I never actually got to meet him. So, I take it he told you about contacting and travelling to parallel realities?"
She frowned. "Sort of. He said that when phenomena in time and space occur, sometimes you can remember things that happened to a different or future you. But you said you knew what is going to happen. How?"
"Hmm... He must not know about the power of Chaos Emeralds..." I mumbled, then I spoke, "That brings me to the answer of your next question." I flashed her a look at my Chaos Emerald. "You see, this is a Chaos Emerald. It's said that it's a jewel containing ultimate power; of course, this one's a fake, but it does have all the wavelengths and properties of a real Chaos Emerald. With it, I can manipulate time and space, so I can travel through time and across dimensions. And that is the exact reason why I know what is going to happen. I watched a different you go through this." I didn't want to tell her about Equestria Girls, fearing I would create some sort of paradox in time and space.
"Well, if you're here to help..." Twilight pondered. "Let's go!" She began making her way to the school entrance very awkwardly, even falling on her face a few times.
After that, despite me being there, this situation played out almost exactly like the movie, granted I didn't want to do anything to cause a paradox.
We had reached the point in the 'movie' where Sunset Shimmer had began to bully Fluttershy. You see, I HATE bullies. I whispered, "You freaking piece of crap..." Then, I ran up and threw a perfect Tornado kick to her head. For those who do not know, a Tornado kick is where you spin around, then using that momentum, you throw a Round-House kick. Needless to say, if done correctly, it's kind of devastating. Sunset Shimmer flew into a locker.
It was the most satisfying thing I had done that month.
She hated me after that.
Again, the 'movie' played out like normal, all the while I was making friends all over the school. I don't even know how, because most times I just sat there listening to music and playing Animal Crossing: New Leaf. I made friends nonetheless, even the human 'Mane Six', just by being there, supporting Twilight.
One other thing that I did differently from the movie happened as the friends were getting ready for their school's dance. It had just been brought up that Twilight was from a different world and the human Mane 6 were beginning to wonder where exactly she was from. In the movie, Pinkie Pie had 'guessed', and was correct. But here, I was sitting in the corner just outside the dressing room, listening to the band Fireflight while playing Animal Crossing. I overheard the conversation in between songs and just as Pinkie took a deep breath to 'guess', I replied without even looking up. "Yeah, she's a magical flying horse princess with magical flying horse princess powers."
They all peeked out the dressing room door in confusion, save Twilight, who glared at me.
The last deviation from the movie that I made, was when -um spoiler alert, I guess?- Sunset Shimmer had transformed into the flame demon monster and turned the student body into zombies (Now that I think back on it, I thank the Maker that they weren't actually legitimate Walkers. Not even Sunset Shimmer would be able to control that horror. It's just... no. Just no. ...R.I.P. Dale... D'X). She instantly ran for me, probably still enraged by my Tornado kick.
Which, by the way, was still totally worth it.
Anyway, she reached for me, but I just used the Chaos Control to warp around her. There was no way she could hit me after that, so she gave up. She instead started pinning Twilight and her friends down with fire. Instantly, I turned around, jumped, and embedded Chillrend deep into her back.
"Don't worry Twilight!" I shouted. "She should freeze in about three... two... one!" But she didn't freeze. She was a being of eternal flame after all. But, since Chillrend is a legendary blade of eternal frost, it didn't melt. Their effects had canceled each other out. She threw me off her back. I hit the ground and I fell unconscious.
When I awoke, Twilight had just defeated Sunset Shimmer. I walked over as the human Celestia gave Twilight her crown back. The principal spoke, "A true princess in any world leads not by forcing others to bow, but by inspiring others to stand by her side."
Twilight realized, "So... this is where I hear this..." I just simply nodded at her.
And so, they went inside and danced and whatnot. In light of the situation, I gave the human Vinyl Scratch a copy of 'Good to Be Alive' to play at the dance because I thought it fitted the mood.
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Of course, I gave her a copy without the intro to 'Not Gonna Die', because I didn't think anyone could handle it after what happened that night. Plus, frankly, it's just plain creepy.
After the dance, Twilight went back to Equestria as we all waved goodbye. Actually, I walked her to the portal. Dunno why, but I did. I spoke to her. "Alright Twilight. I guess this is it. God willing, I hope to see you again. I'm sure fun times shall be had when we do."
She stopped in her tracks. "Did you just say 'God willing'?"
I gave her a quizzical glance, "Yeah. Why? Is that important?"
"Well," she began, "Pinkie Pie- or, my Pinkie Pie at least- said that she no longer served Celestia because she believed in this 'God' that took our 'sins'. Would this happen to be the same 'God'?"
I was kinda shocked. "Uh... Haha! Yeah! The very same One! The Savior of the universe! How did she know- on second thought, that's not really important. Hold on for just a sec."
I swiftly ran to my car, pulled out my Bible and returned to Twilight, waiting with Spike at the portal. "Give this to Pinkie. If she really believes, she'll need it more than I do at the moment."
"O...kay..." I handed her my Bible as she glanced at it strangely. She shook her head and smiled as waved to me and bid me farewell as she returned through the portal.
I walked back to the party, and I had this brilliant idea.
"Hey Flash, you play guitar, right?" I asked Twilight's temporary love interest.
"Yeah." He replied. "Why?"
"Well, I play too, and I was thinking we should start a rock band, because, frankly, this school is boring."
He was quick to rebuke that idea. "But you don't even go to this school. The principal wouldn't allow it."
"Yeah, I thought of that." I responded. "But I figured we'd just throw guerrilla performances, not exactly condoned by Celestia. And if the students like the performances enough, they themselves will kind of act like crowd control when it comes to the princess- I mean- principal. But, who knows, maybe Celestia will like it, you never know. As for me not being a student, after what's happened over the past three days, everyone pretty much knows me, so that's covered. What do ya say?"
Again, he rebuked it. "I already have a band."
I rolled my eyes, "You mean those people who played with you during the cafeteria musical number? Psh! Please! That was no rock band!"
"But-" He paused, sighed, then smiled as he gave me a high-five. "Let's do it, man."
Lucas Chronicles, the Afterstory Part 1: The Monster Hidden Behind Mountain Dew
So, a few days passed, I used Chaos Control to get my guitar from my house, but Flash and I ran into a slight problem. Our band was missing two key components: A bassist and drummer. "Alright Flash," I said as he met me in one of the empty classrooms in the school, "I like, don't know any one at this school. I can be rhythm guitar and vocals, you can be the lead guitar, but we need a bassist and and drummer. I mean, I know about a lot of them,- don't ask because it's confusing- but I don't know of anyone who could play those instru-"
I was interrupted by a girl who peaked her head through the door, "Um... excuse me... My name is Octavia... and I think I may be able help with one of those problems..."
I raised my eyebrow. I knew of Octavia Melody in Equestria, but she played the cello there. "How so?" I asked.
She replied with another question. "Am I correct with the knowledge that you two wish to start a rock band? And that you need a bassist?"
"Yeah," I answered, "but don't you play the cello?"
"And the violin..." She added, "and the fiddle... and the classical bass. Any classical instrument, really. Anyway, like I said, I can play the classical bass. I assume an electric one isn't too much different... It's the same as playing a classical one on it's side."
I looked at Flash. He just shrugged. "We might as well give you a chance. Oh shoot... We don't have a bass for you to try out..." I snapped my fingers. "WAIT! I have an idea!" I grasped my Chaos Emerald. "CHAOS... CONTROL!" I opened a portal reached in, and pulled out a sleek, black and red Fender bass along with it's amp and handed it to Octavia. It was clear that it was brand new. "Here you go. Chaos... Control!" I closed the portal.
"But," Octavia started, "isn't that stealing?"
I smiled. "I took it from the future. Fun fact about time travel, you can take something from anytime in the world, keep it for as long as you want, then return it before even a minute has passed! ...Just don't break it."
"Wow... no pressure or anything..." Octavia reluctantly grasped the bass and began playing.
Needless to say, she played some of the BEST bass riffs I had ever heard.
Once she finished, Flash and I just stood there with our jaws wide open. "So... how was it?" She asked.
For the longest of time, we couldn't answer, until I finally shouted, "YOU'RE IN!" She smiled as we gave her high-fives and congratulations and such. "Now, I don't a suppose our drummer is just going to walk through the door, will they?" I paused, just kind of hoping they would. But, like I suspected, they did not. I sighed. "Well, since you guys actually go to school here, I need you to ask around for a drummer. Meanwhile, I'm going to get some brain fuel. I'm going to get us some Mountain Dew. I'll be back in a little while."
And so, I go to the store and buy a twelve pack of Mountain Dew Code Red. I would have gotten Mountain Dew White Out, since that is a personal preference of mine, but absolutely NO STORE carries that particular flavor in twelve packs, which is what I specifically wanted.
So, I placed the now-purchased twelve pack of Mountain Dew Code Red in the passenger seat of my car as I drove back to the school. As I pulled in, I was stopped by Rainbow Dash, followed Pinkie Pie and Rarity. I rolled down my window so they could speak.
"Can I help you?" I asked.
Dash placed her elbows on my open window with her chin on her elbows, all the while Pinkie was going on about stuff I couldn't pay any attention to because she was speaking WAY too fast. Dash exclaimed, "I'm SOOO BOORRRREEDD! Hey, what're you doing today? Why'd you leave during the middle of school?"
I sighed. "Firstly, you should ask your principal why everyone is still in school in middle of summer. Secondly, I don't go to school here."
She blew her hair out of her face. "You still haven't said what you're doing today... What's that?" She pointed to my Mountain Dew pack.
"This?" I asked. "Have you never had Mountain Dew?" She shook her head. My mouth dropped as I gasped, "WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA...?!? Wow. I feel sorry for you. Anyway, it's an awesomely amazing soda and it's going to stimulate the minds of me and my band mates while we-"
"YOU HAVE A BAND?!?" She interrupted.
"Oh- Um, yeah. I was actually getting to that. The reason we need the Mountain Dew stimulus, is because we need a drummer and we're having an awful time trying to think of who can drum for us..."
At this point, Rarity had shushed Pinkie and spoke up, "Why, I may be able to help! You see, whenever I'm not working on something fabulous for the students of Cantorlot High, I drum a little in my free time."
I shrugged. "Well, I guess we should see what you can do. Me us in this room here." I wrote down the room number we were in on a piece of paper and handed it to her. "I'll meet you guys there after I park my car."
So, I did just that. Since we didn't need my Mountain Dew to help us think anymore, I left them in a cooler that I had brought for the trip to E3 to keep them cold. I arrived at the room, only to see all the chairs and desks moved out of the way, while a drum set sat in the middle of the room. I looked to Flash and Octavia. "How... Where did you guys get this?"
Flash spoke, "We figured, if we do get a drummer, we would need a drum set."
Octavia added, "We also figured you could not do the same thing you did with my bass, due to a drum set being way to heavy. So, we borrowed this set from the music room. And that's when Rarity came into the room, saying that she'd like to drum for us.
I smiled. "You guys are awesome. But... Where IS Rarity?"
Flash replied. "I know we are. Anyway, she said she had to change outfi-"
"I'M BACK!" Rarity nearly kicked the door down, wearing something different than when I met her when I drove up. "AND I'M READY TO ROCK, as that saying goes!" I facepalmed. "What? If one is going to 'rock out', she must look the part of a rocker!"
"Just..." I sighed as I facepalmed again. "Just show us what you can do."
She shrugged and sat down at the drum set. Next thing I knew, she had begun playing the drumbeat of the song 'Aliens Exist' by Blink 182. THAT is one difficult song to drum, and she did it to perfection. I almost started singing, 'Hey mom, there's something in the back room. Hope it's not the creatures from above.'
Needless to say, our jaws dropped until I finally waved her to stop. She had a questioning look on her face. "...Was that not good enough?"
I had to just laugh in astonishment. I started clapping, followed by Flash and Octavia. I finally spoke. "HOW MUCH FREE TIME DO YOU HAVE?!? That was amazing!"
She smiled. "So I'm in?"
The three of us replied in unison. "HECK YEAH, YOU'RE IN!"
We all high-fived each other as Rainbow Dash peaked her head in the room. "How'd it go?"
I paused. "...But- what- How long have you been standing there? Eh, I guess that doesn't really matter now. We got ourselves a drummer!" We went through another round of high-fives. "But," I said, "we have to practice if we want to be ready for our first performance. What you guys think? Think we could pull it off tonight?"
They each looked to each other and nodded. Flash spoke. "We better get practicing!"
Rainbow Dash started squealing and fangirling, "THAT IS SO AWESOME! I'm going to tell everyone I see to go to the gymnasium for your performance! ...But... what are you guys called?"
I laughed. "I guess we're playing in the gymnasium now." I paused and thought. "Y'know, I didn't really get to the band's name... Hmm... How about 'Walking Upward'? I think it has a nice ring to it. Any objections?"
No one objected. They seemed to really like the name in fact. Rainbow Dash shouted, "ALRIGHT! I'm gonna tell everyone that Walking Upward will be performing at the gymnasium tonight! And with a manager like me, what could go wrong?"
"...wait, WHAT?!?" I started to object, but she was gone before I could protest anything. I sighed. "Alright guys, so here are the songs I think we should practice."
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Later that night, we had started making our way to the gymnasium to set up for our guerrilla performance. Along the way, we met with Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy. "You guys ready for the concert?" I asked.
"Heck yeah!" Rainbow Dash exclaimed. "It's going to be AWESOME! But, first, Fluttershy and I need to do something. We'll definitely meet you there, though!"
"Alright!" I said. "I'ma hold you to that!" She laughed and nodded as we parted ways.
"So, Fluttershy," Rainbow Dash spoke, "let me get this straight: You have NEVER had soda ever? Like, at all?"
"Um...pretty much..." Fluttershy meekly replied.
"Well, that's a problem!" Dash exclaimed. "Come on."
"Where are we-" Dash took her friend by the wrist and pulled her along. "Ooh!"
She had taken her to the cafeteria and sat her down in a chair. She grabbed an empty cup and depressed a soda nozzle. But nothing came out. "Aw..." Dash whispered. "They must shut these machines down after meals to keep the drinks fresh..." She gasped. "I have an idea!" She walked back over to Fluttershy and dictated, "Stay here. I'll be right back!"
"O-okay..." Her shy friend replied as she ran out of the cafeteria.
Rainbow Dash sped down the hallways of the school and out the door. She ran to my car, and opened the door on the driver's side. Idiot me forgot to lock it. Anyway, she rummaged through my car until she found the cooler that held my twelve pack of Mountain Dew and various other snacks. She snatched the Mountain Dew from the cooler, closed my car door, and dashed back to the cafeteria.
"I got it! I got you some soda!" Dash exclaimed to her friend who was sitting exactly where she had been left. She had set the box on the table, opened it and extracted a can.
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"Alright!" I said to the band. "You guys ready?"
We each gazed out over the mass of people waiting for our concert. "Wow." Flash commented. "I never thought Rainbow Dash would actually amass this many students. But yeah, I think we're ready."
Octavia interrupted, "Where... um... is Rainbow Dash exactly? With hair like hers, she's almost impossible to miss."
I replied, "Dunno, but if we wait any longer, I think this crowd will get a bit antsy. If she sees it, awesome. If not, her loss." The lights went down. The spotlights shined on us as I shouted to the crowd. "HOW'RE Y'ALL DOING TONIGHT?!" They replied with various shouts and screams. "LET'S GET THIS CONCERT STARTED!" I shouted the next sentence with sort of a growl as Flash started the guitar riff of the first song.
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"BWAHAHA! LET'S RELEASE THAT MONSTER!"
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"It sounds like Walking Upward has started playing. So... let's make this a bit more interesting!" Rainbow Dash said. "Since we need to get going, I wanna see how many of these you can chug!"
"D-do I have to?" Fluttershy asked.
Rainbow Dash smiled and shrugged, "Well, if you want to leave the cafeteria and see the band perform, yeah."
"I-if I have too..." Fluttershy said. "You're not very nice, you know that?"
Rainbow Dash chuckled as she handed her the can of soda. "Yeah, but I'll loyally stay here until you finish."
Fluttershy took the can, opened it and hesitated, "Okay... Here I go..." At first, she just took a sip and said, "Wow! This really IS good! So... I just... like this?" She tipped the can upside down, chugging the Mountain Dew.
Rainbow Dash began laughing. "Yep! Just- bwahaha- just like that!"
"Can I try another?" Fluttershy asked.
"HAHA! Don't let me stop you!" Dash laughed as she handed her a second can.
Fluttershy downed that one quickly. "Another one?" She asked. Rainbow Dash didn't even say anything at this point. She just handed her a third can while laughing hysterically. After Fluttershy finished that one, she didn't even ask for another, she just took it, all the while Dash fell on the floor, clutching her ribs in laughter. This cycle went on for two more cans, until Dash dictated in between her laughter, "Okay. I think you've had enough. Haha!" She picked up the box with the remaining seven cans. "Yeah, I should probably return to Lucas' car-" Fluttershy grabbed and chugged another. "DUDE!" Dash yelled.
"MORE!" Fluttershy growled.
Dash held the box way over her head so Fluttershy couldn't reach. "Alright, it was funny at first, but no more."
Fluttershy punched Dash in the stomach. She reeled over in pain, dropping the seventh can, which of course, Fluttershy grabbed and drank. "You little..." Dash seethed
"MORE!" She yelled again.
"Ah crap..." Dash said as she high-tailed it out of the cafeteria. As she turned, however, she lost yet another can. She quickly fled into the halls as Fluttershy guzzled that can. Somehow, Fluttershy had started to catch up to Dash. "Ohcrapohcrapohcrapohcrap..." Dash whispered in desperation. Even with the soda boost however, Dash was still faster.
But she stumbled. She had lost another can.
Scrambling in desperation to get up, she no longer cared for that can. She knew it was a lost cause, so she took the time for Fluttershy drink the soda to put as much distance between them as possible, all the while she could hear our concert was still going on. She snapped her fingers. The gymnasium! That was really far away from where they were! And she could take shortcuts and things to lose Fluttershy.
As the gymnasium doors came within sight, Dash heard Fluttershy scream. She turned and said, "Son of a..." With inhumane strength, Fluttershy had lifted a locker and looked as if she were going to throw it.
Rainbow Dash had abandoned the box at this point so she could get inside the gymnasium. But Fluttershy threw the locker anyway. It didn't hit Dash, but it caused her to trip. As Fluttershy started chugging the last three cans, Dash desperately scrambled inside the Gymnasium, closed the doors, and blocked them with her body.
Her heart was pounding, she started breathing heavily, and she whispered, "WHAT. THE. LITERAL. CRAP."
She stepped away from the door, but as our song got to the part with the monstrous growl, Fluttershy broke down the door instantly. But she wasn't normal sized Fluttershy, no. Her size had caught up to her strength. I would've said she was about ten feet tall now, but it was probably actually more along the lines of twenty feet or more (I was playing music! I didn't exactly have the chance to measure her using Geometry. Geometry sucks, by the by). I didn't stop playing music, however. Our song was almost over, and honestly, she stopped gnashing her teeth and enjoyed the reminder of the song. While I was still playing, I thought, Again? FREAKING AGAIN?!? In the end, I chalked it up to that most parallel dimensions have to follow the same basic pattern, even if the details are a little screwy.
When we finished, Fluttershy went back to being all crazy and mean. She walked- or stepped, rather- on stage. "WHY DID YOU STOP?!?" She growled as she reached for me.
As she grabbed me, I said, "Well, crap. This is new..."
She started shaking me around. I knew Rainbow Dash had been with her before they 'came' to the concert. I shot her a look that asked, 'What the heck happened?'
She just mouthed 'I'm sorry' over and over again. I knew I wasn't going to get any information out of either of them. Heck, I was so dizzy that I couldn't think straight.
Rainbow Dash yelled up to me, "Lucas! Try playing your next song! Maybe that'll help!"
I yelled back, almost wanting to puke, "I don't even- I'M KINDA IN A PREDICAMENT!!!"
Fluttershy stopped shaking me, glared, and growled again, "MORE! Play more!"
When she looked at me like that, I could see all kinds of crazy in her beady, bloodshot eyes. I saw 'malice' crazy; the crazy hyperness that comes with drinking too much Mountain Dew (I have experienced this one myself. That's how I knew what it looked like); and lastly, the 'psychotic' kind of crazy.
Honestly, I didn't really know what to do. I didn't want to possibly make this situation worse by playing a hard rock song.
But I made a gamble. I gave the cue to my band mates to start playing 'Hero' by Skillet.
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After I sang the line 'I Need a Hero' for about the umpteenth time, I think something clicked in Fluttershy's mind. I saw her pupils return to normal size and her eyes lose their blood-shottedness. "W-what's going on?" She asked as she noticed herself and her surroundings. I couldn't say anything. I was still singing the line 'I Need a Hero' (of which, by the way, I had a rush of joy when I saw that my gamble had worked). She looked at me in her palm and gasped. Rainbow Dash tugged her on the skirt and motioned for Flutterhsy to meet her in a corner of the gymansium. Fluttershy set me down as gently as possible so I could finish the song, then she followed Dash.
After we finished, I told that band to take five and I walked over to Fluttershy's and Rainbow Dash's corner. As I approached, I sighed, "Well. That happened."
"D-did I really do that to you guys?" It was clear that Fluttershy had been crying.
I shot a questioning look to Dash. She replied, "She says she doesn't remember anything after the second soda, so I recapped what went down from that point."
Fluttershy began crying again. "I-I'm so sorry Lucas! I knew d-drinking your Mountain Dew was a b-bad idea! Ooh! I should've just put my foot d-down..."
"WAIT... YOU DID WHAT?!?!?!?" I yelled.
She cried harder, "D-D-Dashie m-made me d-drink your s-soda, and then s-said I d-drank i-it a-a-all... I... I didn't... I d-didn't..."
Her tears got the better of her at that point. I didn't want to get soaked by a tear, so I sidestepped and glared at Dash. "YOU GAVE HER MY MOUNTAIN DEW?!? THEN YOU LET HER DRINK IT ALL?!?"
"Hey!" Dash retorted. "I didn't exactly LET her drink it! I tried to stop her, I did! SHE THREW A FLIPPING LOCKER AT ME FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!" She mumbled, "Shame is, I didn't even get to try some..."
I didn't exactly hear that last part. I sighed as I spoke again, "At any rate, we've got a bigger problem on our hands. No pun intended. (Actually, the pun was completely intended.) We still don't know how this happened to Fluttershy- although, I do have a couple of theories- or how to fix it. And on top of all that, the crowd that came to listen to our concert is now both terrified of Fluttershy and angry that we didn't finish the performance."
I motioned to the stage where Octavia had started telling jokes to entertain the audience.
...Octavia is awful at telling jokes...
Fluttershy saw the madness that was going on on the stage as well as in the crowd. She cried again as she grabbed me.
"I hate my life." I commented she lifted me to her wet, teary cheek in what I think was supposed to be a hug.
"I'm s-so sorry Lucas! I didn't mean to ruin your concert..." She balled. I was definitely drenched now with salty tears. It was not enjoyable. Oh, and I also couldn't breathe.
"-uttersh-" I choked. "Can't... Breathe..." She couldn't hear me. So, in order to save myself from suffocation via death hug, I inched my hand towards my hip and and choked out the words, "CH-A...O-S... CO-NTRO-L..." A portal opened in Fluttershy's hand and I fell through. It closed.
A couple seconds later, another portal opened at Fluttershy's feet. I stepped through the portal, slightly bloody and clothes slightly ragged. I laughed. "You guys won't BELIEVE what just happened! I- and you- and Skillet- Ah, I'll tell you guys about it later! Oh wait..." I glared at Rainbow Dash. "YOU GAVE HER MY MOUNTAIN DEW!!!"
Dash yelled back, "I THOUGHT WE WERE OVER THIS!"
Fluttershy interrupted, still crying slightly, "U-um... H-how do we f-fix me...?"
I turned to her, "Well, I'm sure if we took you to a surgeon, we could- OH WAIT. Not that kind of 'fix'." I rubbed my head, "Forgive me, I've been gone for about a month now." They looked at me in confusion. I answered their confusion, "Time travel. I can't explain it right now, though. I have yet to explain my theory as to what happened with Fluttershy."
"Please do." Rainbow Dash crossed her arms.
"Well," I started. "I have two theories. One is kinda broad while the other is somewhat narrow. Here is the broad one. You see, any realty has an infinite number of parallel realities. This happened to a different Fluttershy as well, granted the details were slightly different. I surmise that the events all parallel realities have to follow the same general pattern even though they don't have to follow the same exact details."
The two girls continued to wear their confused face. I sighed. "Here is my not-so-broad theory. You guys remember when you helped Twilight Sparkle defeat Sunset Shimmer the other day?" They nodded. I continued. "I think that the Energy from the Elements of Harmony are still flowing within you. Along with that, I think that when Flutterhsy drank my Mountain Dew," I paused and glared at Dash.
Dash rolled her eyes. "Oh, give it up!"
I shook my head and continued, "when she drank it, the Element energy reacted with the soda, and this was the result. My solution: Give it a couple days, maybe a week or two for the energy to disperse, and you'll return to normal, Fluttershy."
"Really?" she smiled for the first time that I had seen that day. "You think so? Thank you so much!"
She reached for me, probably to give me another death hug. I wasn't having any of that. I quickly dodged the hand and spoke, "Haha. Um, I think we should dance, because yeah, th-that's a thing. That's a thing we do. Come on! What's band without their manager and their biggest fan?" Their faces lit up and they followed as I walked to the middle of the gymnasium and shouted to the human Vinyl Scratch. "Hey! Vinyl Scratch!"
"'Sup?" She asked.
"Here! Catch!" I threw her a copy of Monster: Unleash the Beast Remix by Skillet (At this point, I had given up on the concert. I figured the only way to save the night was with a dance party).
"ALRIGHT!" She smiled. "Let's do this!"
She dashed to her DJ Turntable, gave us Rave lighting (can't have a dance party without Rave lights), and started the song.
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Each of us took turns dancing. The dances we did felt like a combination of the Robot, the Wave, and the Thriller. After we each had our turn dancing, we all did the Thriller-Robot-Wave together.
But that wasn't even the best part.
We were all so in sync with each other, that, when the song did the Monster Growl, Fluttershy momentarily renewed her crazy self, bloodshot eyes and all, and threw her hands out as if she had claws. At this, EVERONE fell to the ground and cowered during the remainder of the Growl, then after it finished, we all instantly got up and started dancing again.
It was pretty great.
THE END