House Music

by ovr9000percentcooler

Ch. 2. - The Never Ending Backstory

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It was a completely perfect day in the wonderful little town of Ponyville. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping, the butterflies were flying, the bears were mauling, the frog-orange was off making little frog-orange babies, and Doctor Whooves just stopped the Daleks from invading Equestria, but those things aren't important. While nopony realized it yet, travel between two different universes was about to become a reality.

Twilight was, once again, pacing around in her library. She wasn't trying to figure something out, though, she was simply waiting. Waiting in circles. Waiting for about a half-hour. Waiting to continue waiting. Spike had suddenly burst through the door, carrying a big, huge box into the center of the room.

"Hey Twilight, the new set of fiction books are here!" The purple dragon called out.

Twilight greatly trotted over to Spike, already beginning to sort the books out. "Great! Hmm, The Friendship Games go in the F's, let's see here...ooh, Daring Do and The 8 Spooky Notes goes right there!" She continiues to stack each book where it belongs, untill the whole box is completely and utterly empty. Still bored, she resumed her pacing. Spike had walked up the stairs, and had come back down with a gemstone he grabbed from his stash of leftovers from Raritys. He bit into the sapphire, savoring his delicious snack.

"So Twi," Spike begins, "What's got you in a bunch? Hate to see you worked up like this, again." He took another bite.

Twiligjt sighed. "I don't know Spike, it's just that ever since Celestia said I was ready for this, I've been nervous. I mean, this is INTERDIMENTIONAL TRAVEL Spike, not every unicorn can even come close to performing this spell. Which is why I need a partner; and since Rarity is out of town, I have to resort to another unicorn, and Vinyl Scratch is taking forever!"

"Wait, hold on, you want Vinyl Scratch? Why her?" Spike asks, finishing off his food.

"Well normally I'd try for somepony else, but it seems like they're all bust doing their own thing, plus Vinyl pretty much does nothing but make beats all day." The agitated unicorn said as she remembers the day she first met the DJ.

"Yeah I know, but you're the only one who can possibly do this, why hire a-"

KNOCK KNOCK KNOCK

"Hey Twilight! I'm here!" A familiar voice pops out from the other side of the door. Twi quickly changed her mood from impatient to excited as she opened the door with her magic. Vinyl gladly entered the library, her trademark glasses placed over her horn.

"Hey, so you need me for somethin'?" Vinyl asked, still confused about why Twilight choose her out of any possible unicorn in Ponyville to aid her in magical studies.

Twilight, oblivious to how much she really was in a good mood, responded to the white mare. "Yes, yes I do! Here, before we do any kind of work, read this." Twilight transported the spell scroll to Vinyl. Taking ahold of it with her own magic, opened the scroll and began reading.

"Dear Twilight, blah blah blah blah, next level of studies, blah blah blah, help from another unicorn, blah blah bla- WHAT?" Her eyes shot out in shock as she finished the letter. An additional note below it showed how to perform the spell.

"Twilight, you want...to open a portal?" Vinyl barely stuttered out of her mouth.

"Yep! Pretty neat huh?" Twilight was practically smiling as much as Pinkie does on a normal basis. I mean come on, you would be pretty psyched too if you found out you had the sheer ability to conjor up a portal to an alternate dimmension.

"Neat?" Vinyl questioned. "This...this is awesome!!! When do we start?"

"Follow me to the basement." Twilight instructed.

Shrugging her shoulders, the white unicorn followed her into the dark room. Twilight soon found the light switch, and the whole room was clearly visable. Vinyl was astounded, she had never seen so much equipment before in one room. Not that she'd normally care, but today, she was utterly intrigued. She even found a weird contraption, consisting of a metal helmet with flashing lights, attached to a machine with more flashing lights. Vinyl knew very well that technology was very limited in Equestria, herself owning a stereo system, headphones, and her especially secret weapon: a laptop. But to see so much of it in one basement, that was something else. Her train of thought was interrupted by Twilight, who was ready to get it started.

"Um, Vinyl, hello? You ready?"

"Huh? Oh yeah, right. So what do I need to do?"

"Ok, just stand right in front of me." She grabbed a nearby yard stick. "And this is a very delicate spell, so you have to be exactly in line, no errors."

Vinyl only rolled her eyes. She just wanted to see the portal.

After several corrections and -you guessed it- errors, they finally met eye to eye. Twilight grinned, satisfied with getting it right.

"Ok Vinyl, here's where you come in. I'm going to summon the spell. As soon as it charges, it's going to shoot into your horn. From there, I just simply need you to concentrate on the energy flowing through your body. I'll take it from there. Got it?"

Vinyl, now very nervous with anticipation, gulped. "Sure thing, couldn't be that hard, right?"

Taking a deep breath, Twilight begun working the spell. She balanced herself on her four hooves as she gathered more energy for her spirit bo- SPELL. Spell. That's right. A slight breeze started to circle the room, the mares manes blowing in the sudden wind. At this point Vinyl was getting even more nervous, yet she was so freakin pumped to see this plan come together.

Like a lightning bolt, a energy beam shot out of Twilight's horn straight into Vinyls. Being overwhelmed with so much magic at once, she began focusing on the spell like Twilight had told her to. Soon enough, a little ball started forming in the middle of the beam. A smaller bolt emerged from it, causing a small hole to appear.

"That's it Vinyl! Keep it going!" Twilight encouraged.

The wind picked up the pace, books falling off of desks and spare papers circling the two unicorns. Vinyl was close to cracking under the pressure, but she marched on, continuing to perform the spell.

Eventually the hole began to grow, and it kept growing until it was 3 times the size of a table. Feeling better than ever before, they both stopped feeding the spell, the wind dying down, and after that there was just a quiet hum from the portal above. Vinyl fell to the ground, while Twilight leaned on the wall next to her.

"We *pant*...did it!" She managed to say.

Vinyl let out a unemotional "Woohoo." as she was close to passing out. Yet the result of their hard work was enough to keep her interested. She stood up and stared in awe at the gateway.

"Woah, this is just awesome!" She exclaimed as she tried to peer through the portal.

"Nuh-Uh." Twilight warmed. "We don't know where it leads."

"Well we can at least take a little peek. Whats that gonna do?" She said as she postitoned a ladder with her magic, and before Twilight could do anything, she stuck her head through the hole. After 3 seconds, she pulled out.

"Not much but just space." She stated.

And just like that, the hole immediantly shrank, sucking everything near it inside, including Vinyl Scratch. It was soon quiet again as the basement was nothing left but a mess. Twilight sighed.

"SPIKE! Write a letter to Princess Celestia! We got a big doozy to fix!"

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