The Human Hero

Chapter 3

Transmutation Station

Dazed, sore, and having the sensation of moving, Allyn awoke some time after he blacked out while trying to save the CMC. He sat up on the bench and realized he was in a train, but where was he going and how did he get on one? He looked out the window to see Ponyville in distance and getting smaller. He walked out of the small room and looked out the opposite window, Canterlot? Well he knew where he was heading now, now he needed to find out who put him on the train.

"Shit," he said as he held his side, "Ponies are too nice to just throw me on a train, so where's my guardian."

He felt a sense of annoyance at the word 'guardian,' but he knew someone had to be with him on the way to Canterlot. He made his way through the train car until he entered what looked like a dinning car. He scanned the small car trying to find anypony he could recognize.

"Who ya looking for," one of the men at the bar asked Allyn.

"Does anypony know who brought me on board," Allyn replied for the whole car to hear.

"I do deary," an elderly woman called back, "They paid for your ticket. Said it was an emergency."

They? Allyn walked over to where she was sitting so to have a private conversation. She turned to face him.

"Who," Allyn asked the old mare.

"The new princess and her friends," she told him, "Think one of 'em was a dragon."

Twilight and the rest of the mane seven's bringing him to Canterlot? Whatever happened after he blacked out must have been important to head to Celestia directly. Just as he thought it, Spike opened the door close to Allyn and walked into the car.

"Oh, hey Allyn," Spike said with a bit of cheer in his voice, "You woke up."

"Hey Spike," Allyn replied still confused as to why they couldn't just send a letter to Celestia, "Where's everypony else?"

Spike pointed to the door he just walked out of.

"Everypony's thru there," he said, he then whispered as if whatever he needed to say was too dangerous for anyone else to hear, "Is it true you fused the steel into the ground."

Allyn had to make sure he heard that right, he fused the falling steel into the ground? How the hell did he do that? That's it, time for somebody... ANYBODY to answer what he wanted to know. He stormed through the train door and into the personal car and saw Twilight sitting at a table with the other Element holders.

"Hiya Allyn," Pinkie said first throwing everyone in the car's attention at him.

AJ and Rarity jumped up from their seats and ran towards Allyn, throwing their arms around him in an embrace of gratitude.

"Thank y'ah," Applejack said near tears just by looking at him, "Thank y'ah so much for savin' Applebloom and Sweetie Belle."

"The three of them would have been goners if you hadn't done whatever that spell you did," Rarity continued, also sounding like crying at any moment.

"It wasn't really that big of a problem," Allyn smiled lightly, "But two questions; how long was I out and what spell did I do?"

"You don't even know what you did," Rainbow asked sitting back in her chair.

"You slept through the night," Fluttershy said, "We told Twilight and got you on the train this morning."

"They said you had some kind of circle spinning around you hand in magic," Twilight said, "and the steel fused itself together and then to the ground around it."

"Circle?" Allyn asked.

"Yeah," AJ started, collecting herself now, "It had ah bunch ah weird symbols n' triangles n' stuff in it."

"Did it look something like this?" He asked, drawing somewhat he could remember of the event.

"Almost," Fluttershy said, "May I ask, what is it?"

"Yeah, doesn't look like any spell that I know of," Twilight added, holding the circle in her hand.

"Because it isn't from Equestria," Allyn said taking a seat at the table, "It's a form of magic, combined with science, called Alchemy or Transmutation Magic. It requires a certain level of knowledge in chemistry and a great understanding of the Periodic Table of Elements."

"Oh, is this part of that period thingy," Pinkie asked, "It is a table, and we were the Elements of Harmony."

It took Allyn a moment to understand Pinkie's crazy talk, but after he did he took the sheet of paper back from Twilight.

"Not quite," he started placing a couple pieces of plastic in the circle, "The elements I'm referring to are more like Argon, Tungsten, Krypton, Carbon, Iron, Silicon, and so on and so on. Uh, pray tell; do any of you have an empty soda can I may borrow?"

Rainbow handed him a can she had just finished and Spike walked into the car. He asked what Allyn was doing, but Allyn told him to wait and see with everyone else. Allyn put the can to the side for the moment and focused on the plastic utensils on the paper.

"The chemical makeup of quartz is simply two parts silicon/one part oxygen," Allyn said half to remind himself, "Alchemy is governed by the Law of Equivalent Exchange; To receive something, something of equal value must first be given."

He summoned a small amount of magic and gently placed his hands on the edge of the circle. Before he could control it, a large force of magic energy summoned itself and his eye's were glowing white again. Only this time, Allyn could see what was going on with the world, he saw what everything was made of; the wood in the table, the fabric on the wall, the equation for a human body in everyone in the room.

He looked down at the transmutation circle, and thought of what he wanted the quartz to look like. He focused on the shape, tried as hard as he could to form the molecules. By the time he started to feel tired, the quartz was shaped exactly as he wanted it.

He shook the growing headache off and returned to the normal reality. Nobody in the car said a word, they only looked at him. He looked down at the transmutation circle and was shocked at how well he did... or, more like over did.

Lying in the center of the circle was the quartz Bowie knife he wanted to make, except he had inadvertently added the two parts aluminum/two parts oxygen that forms a ruby into the knife's handle.

"I might have overshot it," Allyn said rubbing his temples, "I intended on using the aluminum to make a ruby apple."

"Sugarcube," AJ said, still in shock of what just happened, "Y'ah just turned two plastic forks, an empty soda can, and tha oxygen in tha air into a pure gemstone Bowie Knife... Ah'm not sure what ta say to that."

Allyn picked the knife up and put it in his back pocket. He then looked at Spike and told him that if he found any teeth marks in his new knife, that he'd pluck each and every scale off of him slowly.

"You were able to take the silicon molecules out of the plastic," Twilight said, "add the oxygen molecules and form the quartz with magic. Oh Celestia, that's amazing."

"Hey," Allyn said, "Its the power of Alchemy. I've seen ponies transmute whole buildings out of the ground. Even have seen some not use circles like the one on the table, but that's a little more rare."

"Why," Rarity asked sipping a small amount of tea.

"Well Alchemy channels magic energy through the circle," Allyn started, "Some circles are designed to keep the transmutation inside the circle, others are designed to transmute things outside the circle, and there are a few meant to transmute in a single direction."

After a thirty minutes of explaining the basics of Alchemy, they finally made it to the capitol city of Canterlot. Allyn and the mane seven grabbed their gear and walked thru town towards the famous Castle for a meeting with Celestia and Luna.

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Princess Celestia sat at her throne, her alabaster skin complemented by her white, strapless dress incrusted with pink diamonds around her breast, accompanied by a pink sash around her waist with a gold sun in the center of her stomach. Her hair flowing as if carried by an invisible current.

Luna seemed just as beautiful in her royal blue form of the same dress, with white diamonds, a black sash, a silver moon, and unique to her outfit were laced ,black mesh bracers. Her skin as white as the innocent snow of the first day of winter with dark blue eye liner that seemed to make her stare evermore mysterious an alluring. Allyn noticed that in her hair were six or seven constellations sparkling from time to time that kept drawing his attention. While Celestia didn't look a day over 35, Luna shocked him by looking younger than he did at 24.

"... And I awoke in a creator, Rainbow Dash and Fluttershy standing over me your Highness's," Allyn said standing tall, his hands behind his back.

"What do you think, sister?" Luna asked, refusing to make eye contact with Allyn since he walked into the thrown room.

"While I have seen traces of other worlds," Celestia said, her fingers interlocked, "I have rarely interacted with them. In your world, we appear equine in form?"

"Yes, your Highness," Allyn replied, "Many in my world have imagined what you appear as what we call human."

"Well," Celestia asked, "How do you feel?"

He gave a questioned look, "I-I'm sorry?"

Celestia stood up and stretched her white wings, "How do you feel, now that you know what we look like as your kind?"

Allyn smiled and bowed, his right arm across his chest.

"You both have a regal look like the Princesses you are," Allyn said, trying to avoid being sent to the moon.

"May we see what we appear as in your world," Luna asked, her arms crossed.

"We as in both of you," Allyn genuinely asked, not knowing if she was speaking in the second person or not, "Or we as in you, your Highness."

She finally turned to look him in the eye, "Why do you constantly say 'your Highness' at the end of your sentences?"

He bowed his head, "You are both Princesses, 'tis only proper to say it your Highness." She blushed slightly then looked away from Allyn again. He couldn't help from very slightly smiling at her. He then had an idea, one he came up with while on an anime binge.

"I do believe there is a way to show you," he said to Celestia, "But it would require a large area, perhaps the royal garden?"

Celestia thought for a second and then nodded to one of the guards behind Allyn. The guard saluted then walked out of the throne room. Celestia gestured towards the door then walked with Luna pass Allyn.

He was almost certain that for a second, time slowed down as Luna walked by him and their eyes met. Hers' giving off the feeling that she remembered Allyn, but he never remembers seeing her like this. When he finally snapped out of the time warp, Celestia and Luna were almost at the door causing Allyn to speed walk over to them.

Allyn had finished drawing in the dirt of the Royal Garden his personal Wagon Wheel Transmutation circle, a Transmutation Circle that aloud for multiple transmutations to take place at once. For the demonstration, he had nine stational transmutation circles in a large circle with spokes connecting to one centeral, ranged circle.

The three Princesses, along with AJ, RD, Pinkie, Fluttershy, Rarity, and Spike stood a good distance from the larger circle as Allyn stood in the middle circle.

"Okay," Allyn said rubbing his hands together, "Here's to it working."

He placed his hand on both sides of the edge of the circle he was standing in and summoned as much magic energy as he could muster. Come on, come on, he thought as he focused harder on making the statues, I've just needed a good sized amount to transmute before. So with as much as I'm trying with, this has to work. He kept trying harder and harder to transmute the statues, but all that was happening was he was looking like an idiot.

"You," he grunted through his teeth, "Have. To. Work."

Suddenly, the complicated circle began to glow and the stone and dirt began to form wing tips and horns as ten statues rose from the ground. After three minutes the transmutations were complete; nine statues, each showing the pony forms of the Sisters, the mane six, and Spike.

Celestia and Luna were amazed by their new statues and how they looked to Allyn's world. But before they could complement him, he spat up blood and fell over with severe pain in his chest and slowly losing vision in his left eye. Celestia ordered the guards to get him to the royal doctor as soon as they could, and they teleported him away.

But even though he was gone, the doubt remained in Luna's mind of this stallion.

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Luna's mind raced for hours. Nighting Gale died a thousand years ago, so how could this Allyn Flynt look just like him, sound just like him? And why did her heart ache to be with him? Even after her sister lowered her sun and she raised her moon, she still pondered the relation between the two unicorns. She decided to fly the thought out of her head and flew out into the night.

She flew around for thirty minutes and she still saw Nighting Gale's face, Allyn Flynt's face, in the stars. She grew tired of flying and landed in the Royal Garden. She walked around for a while hoping the smell of the flowers would help her.

"Fly me to the Moon," a low voice sang out drawing Luna's attention. She followed the music until she returned to where Allyn Flynt had formed the nine statues. She finally made her way to the statues and saw a hooded unicorn standing in front of the statue of her.

"Tis a beautiful song you're singing," she said sweetly.

The unicorn turned to face her, showing his bandage wraps on his chest and head, part of his head wrappings covering his left eye.

"Greetings your Highness," Allyn Flynt said smiling in the moonlight, "I thank thee for thine complement. I was not aware your mane could change back to it's light blue color."

She had tried all day and most of the night to get his face out of her head, and he managed to draw her to him with his singing. She went to change her mane back to how it looked earlier, but he stopped her and reassured her that he thought she looked better this way and that she didn't need to change for him. He too looked rather cute with the combination of the moonlight and the bandages. He looked up at the moon behind her.

"Tis a beautiful night for a stroll," he said transfixed on the crescent moon, "your moon has a perfect glow for it. Thank you for raising it."

She blushed at his complement in shock. He... Thanked her for raising the moon? Could he be Nighting Gale and just be messing with her head? No, as much as she hated the memory, she witnessed Gale's death first hand.

"We," she started her voice cracking making her sound like a filly, "We accept your complement. But tis merely a Crescent Moon, it is barely enough for a stroll in our garden."

"But I can see the whole beauty of your moon, your highness," Allyn Flynt said looking at her, "Even with only a Crescent Moon. It is only hiding most of it's beauty in darkness and mystery."

She felt like melting at his words. He able to see the dark side of her moon with only a crescent moon, even Nighting Gale wasn't able to do that. She was certain now that this unicorn might look and sound like Gale, but he was different from him. She grew cautious if this unicorn was actually a Changeling using Nighting Gale to steal love from her, as Chrysalis had done during the wedding of Cadence and Shining Armor.

Allyn held his side and sat on one of the benches Celestia had placed around the transmuted statues after the royal doctor told Allyn that his injuries would heal in a couple days, turning his attention from her and her moon to something in his coat pocket. He pulled out some strange wired objects from his pocket and placed one part of it in his ear.

"Wouldst thou like to listen to some music," Allyn asked holding out the other end towards her.

She thought for a moment and sat next to him on his good side and placed the earpiece in. Allyn pulled out the small device the earpieces were connected to and selected a song. The song started slightly weird yet soothing. They looked up at the stars in the sky as the music played in their ears.

After a couple minutes of playing Allyn began to sing with the music, creating a combo of Baritone and Soprano. Luna enjoyed the two stallions singing to her and she rested her head on Allyn's shoulder, pausing him at the change in the music. They looked each other in the eye for a minute, neither saying a word. Before either could control themselves, the met in a passionate, loving kiss. The embrace of the kiss overtook the princess and she felt a growing warmth throughout her being.

But she realized what she was doing and broke away from the kiss, throwing the earpiece off in discuss.

"I-I'm," she stuttered before just flying away from Allyn as fast as she could. She didn't want to make the mistake again, the mistake of loving somepony.

Allyn remained on the bench for a few minutes before deciding to return to the medical room he was staying at for a few days. He wanted some sleep if he was going to explore Canterlot's interesting locations, so when he made it back to his bed he quickly got in and went to sleep as quickly as he could.

"May I have the honor of seeing you in my dreams tonight," he whispered before falling asleep.

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Allyn awoke today, two days after his incident with the transmutation, with only slight stinging in his eye, so he took off the bandages around his chest and switched the wrappings around his eye for an eye-patch. He asked Twilight to give him a tour of her home town but she said she needed to talk with Celestia about him and said that Canterlot wasn't as big as he thought. Figuring 'not that big' was coming from her growing up here, he decided to just go and figure it out for himself.

He bought some new clothing, wanting desperately to change out of the same thing he had been wearing for almost a week. He saw a movie that made absolutely no sense to him. He had a couple doughnuts from Doughnut Joe's. He bought a lighter with the famous Mustang Flame Transmutation Circle in case he wanted to look badass at some point. He was on his way to a nearby park when he heard a struggle coming from an alley ahead of him.

"Damn this 'Hero Complex,'" Allyn said to himself as getting into trouble to protect or help other people was a regular thing for him. He dropped his new clothing and ran towards the sound of violence. He rounded the corner to see three pegasi ganging-up on a forth.

"You gonna do something ya retard," one of the males said holding the blonde pegasi by her hair.

"Man like she could if she wanted to," the other female said her arms crossed.

Allyn saw who they were bullying and suddenly became enraged, entering his own form of Twilight Snapple. He clenched his fist and ran towards the three pegasi bullies. He jumped into the air and threw a Superman Punch, creating a colossal, grey fist out of magic.

The punch hit all three bullies sending them flying towards the end of the alley, dropping the mare they were harassing. Allyn held out his hand to the cross-eyed pegasus and helped her to her feet. She thanked him and he turned his attention back to her bullies. He took off his coat, folded it, and asked Derpy to hold it for a moment while he talked to them.

"You bucked up," said the stallion who was holding Derpy by her hair. He flew towards Allyn, readying to punch.

Allyn stopped the flight with a quick uppercut to the pegasus' face, followed by grabbing him by the hair and kneeing him in the stomach. Allyn put the pegasus down with one final elbow to the back, dropping the first of three.

The other male grabbed a nearby lead pipe and ran towards Allyn. Allyn countered in one fluid motion by parrying the strike with both of his hands, removing the pipe from his attacker's hand, and turning with a back knuckle to the pegasus' head. The first attacker stood back up and tried to sucker punch him. Allyn back kicked him in his testicles, grabbed his arm, and threw the first pegasus over his shoulder into the second pegasus.

Allyn looked and saw the third pegasus trying to escaping.

"No you don't," he said, throwing his arm toward the final pegasus. He summoned a large arm, grabbed her, and pulled her back. As she fell back towards the alley, Allyn turned and back kicked the final bully into the other two on the ground.

"My name is...", Allyn deep voice boomed in a way that rivaled Luna's Equestrian Voice, followed by throwing a fireball to the wall to the left of the three bullies with his new Transmutation Lighter, "And I work for the department of..." He threw another fire ball to the right of them this time.

"Am I making myself CLEAR?!" The three pegasi nodded in fear.

"Good, now listen here," Allyn pointed at Derpy, "If I find out that you or anypony else bully this sweet mare from now on, I will NOT be as merciful. AM I CLEAR!!!"

The three pegasi flew away as fast as they could. Allyn calmed down and called them punks. He turned around and was tackled by a hug from one very energetic and grateful pegasus.

"Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you," Derpy said sounding half like balddumborat, which made Allyn smile.

"You're welcome," He said giggling, "I just hate seeing ponies hurt sweet mares like yourself. My name's Flynt, Flynt Alchemist."

"I'm Ditzy," she said standing up, "But most ponies call me Derpy Hooves." Allyn brushed off the dust and trash from his coat and put it back on.

"Well Ditzy," Allyn said, "Care to grab a muffin with me." The following squee she made made Allyn fall over from diabeetus.

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Her blonde hair, her smile, her fashion style. All of which and more about Derpy reminded Allyn of his little sister. She was always getting in trouble when she was little and Allyn always had to fight her out of them. So when he saw Derpy, he saw his little sister getting bullied again and his instincts as an older brother kicked in. Which made the pain of those memories of his sister even harder.

Allyn and Derpy talked for a while, eventually walking into a nearby bar oddly run by none other than Berry Punch. Neither ordered a highly alcoholic drink, but Allyn had a small amount of brandy to ease the pain in his eye and chest. They talked for a couple hours but after a few diet sodas Derpy needed to leave to head home. She paid for her sodas and left the bar, but not before writing down her phone number.

"Anypony sitting here," a male voice sounding almost like TheInvertedShadow asked.

Allyn looked at the man asking him. He was a pegasus, light orange hair under a Wonderbolt headband, semi tan skin, and hazel eyes. He wore a black, torn tee over a white long-sleeve tee. He shared Allyn's two-belt style, which wasn't as rare in Equestria as Allyn thought, only the pegasus had white belts over black cargo pants.

"Nah," Allyn replied while having some more brandy, "Go right ahead." The pegasus sat down next to Allyn and ordered a Piña Colada with extra rum.

"Name's Rim Shot," the pegasus said to Allyn, holding out his hand.

"Flynt," Allyn replied, "Flynt Alchemist. So I'm guessing you're a huge sports colt right?"

Rim put his hands behind his head and leaned back a little bit, "More like drums, you?"

"Well my talent's a very rare magic called Transmutation Magic," Allyn said to the fellow musician, "But personally, I enjoy playing the guitar every once in a while."

The pegasi turned his attention to the left of Allyn.

"So your eye patch," he started, "I'm guessing it's either for an injury or you're trying to look like a tough guy to get the mares around here, am I right?"

"I'm getting over an injury," Allyn replied with a bit of annoyance in his voice, "Where do you get the idea that it's cool to ask a stallion if he's wearing an eye patch whether or not it's for show?"

Rim Shot shrugged, "I guess I'm really honest like that; if I think something, I say it and fuck the consequences."

"Hey, what are you looking at," Allyn asked. Rim smiled and pointed behind Allyn, causing him to completely turn around. Over by the dart board was a white covered, female unicorn with two-tone blue hair and DJ Headphones and a buxom, gray suited, Earth pony throwing darts at the board.

"You thinking what I'm thinking," Rim asked.

Allyn turned back to face Rim, "Dibs on the Earth Pony."

They fist-bumped and walked over to the two mares.

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Luna walked with Celestia in the long castle hallway, her mind stuck on Allyn Flynt. She asked her sister earlier if Allyn seemed familiar to her, to which her reply was to take this walk with her.

"This Allyn Flynt character," Celestia started after nearly twenty minutes of silence, "He's a spitting image of Nighting Gale, isn't he. I too am cautious that this unicorn may simply a Changeling, attempting to weave some type of outrageous story, but we haven't had any descriptions of Nighting Gale let outside the high Royal Scholars" So she noticed the link between them too, Luna chose to withhold the kiss between him and her last night.

"I talked with him last night," Luna replied, "He... thanked me for raising the moon, and said he could see the dark side of it as well."

"Remember dear sister," Celestia said wrapping her little sister in a loving embrace, "You can talk to me about anything, or anypony if you'd like."

"Thank you sister," Luna replied, hugging her sister back.

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A warm, plushy pillow that almost seemed to move with Allyn's every breath. Whatever Equestria had or was doing, he wanted them to NEVER stop making these. But, wait? Something seemed... off. Allyn lazily opened his eyes to see that he was not in fact lying on a pillow... but he wasn't really complaining about who he was on top of.

Under the hungover, and somehow naked though he didn't remember why, human was the buxom woman from last night. She didn't notice that Allyn had moved his head off of her, what looked like F Cup, breast. He tried to figure out who the equally nude woman he fell asleep on was, so he gently moved off of her and pulled the covers down until he made it to the cutie mark. The mare had a distinct purple musical symbol as a cutie mark, meaning he had gotten with one of his top three fave ponies after getting the number of his fave.

Allyn threw his arms in the air as a form of mini celebrations.

"Bonjour Monsieur Allon," Octavia said as she woke up, "How is your eye?"

Oh, she was French. That threw Allyn off guard a tiny bit, but his eye was feeling better.

"You know my real name?" Allyn asked.

"Oui," she said as she got out of her bed and walked over to the closet, "You said that you name was Allon after the four of us came back from the bar. You also played something called Though Fire et Flames on Scratch's guitar."

Allyn looked towards the walk-in closet like it just opened a portal back to his home. He knew he was a good guitar player, but all the alcohol on Earth and Equestria combined couldn't get him to play the famous Dragonforce song perfectly.

"I highly doubt that Madam Melody," he said as he pulled his pants up and tightened his belt, "The original band who wrote it couldn't play it perfectly live. Let alone on an acoustic guitar."

Octavia walked out of the closet in a gray tee and short shorts.

"I could show you the video," She said leaning on the closet.

Octavia walked Allyn into her living room, where Vinyl Scratch was lying face down and snoring on the coffee table. Rim Shot was asleep on the couch with a slice of pizza on his chest and a digital camera in his hand. An acoustic guitar was laying against the TV.

Octavia took the camera from Rim's hand and showed the video to Allyn, and sure enough there was an eight minute long video of a drunk him playing the hardest song in Guitar Hero history. He managed to hit every note on the guitar, though his singing sounded like a deaf man strangling a cat on top of a police car.

"I sound a lot better sober," Allyn assured Octavia.

Vinyl snorted awake, looked at Allyn and Octavia, then slapped Rim's knee waking him up.

"Get up, playcolt," Vinyl said to Rim.

Rim stretched out on the couch and looked at Allyn and Octi, "What happened with you two?"

"I could ask the same to you," Allyn replied to the pegasus, "Actually, I was wondering what happened period."

"You two dolts walked over to us at the bar," Vinyl started, "We all started talking about music; Punk, Classical, Rock, etc."

"We invited you two here," Octavia continued.

"I bought us pizza and beer," Rim took over, "We played poker, you said your real name was Allyn Flynt and that this was all a TV show in another universe."

"Which we figured was drunk talk," Vinyl cut in.

"I played the hardest song ever?" Allyn asked to which the others nodded.

"Then I took you to my room," Octavia said, "And you can guess the rest."

"Well," Allyn started, "What if the whole 'Other universe thing' wasn't drunk talk?"

"You actually are from another universe," Vinyl asked.

"Makes sense if ya think about it," Rim said eating the chest pizza, "I've always had that feeling that someone was watching me but I couldn't see them."

"Oh trust me if you knew the government of my country," Allyn explained, "But back on point; it's not so much you guys as much as Princess Twilight Sparkle and her friends. You three are more like background characters."

Octavia thought for a second, "Isn't one of them the one who jumped on the stage and started playing my cello during the Grand Galloping Gala?"

"Yeah," Allyn said, "To be honest, she's apologized for it."

Vinyl started humming a song that seemed familiar to Allyn. Octavia slapped Vinyl's arm and said that it was rude. Vinyl said to blame Allyn, as she said it was one of his songs. He knew it.

"Hey V," Allyn said, "Can you play the piano or keyboard?"

"Um," Vinyl said slightly confused, "Yeah. Why?"

"Well you know that Apple Family Cider Celebration they asked you to play for," Allyn reminded her, "Well after you had to back out, I asked to play at it. But all kinds ah weird shit happened which is why I'm in Canterlot for the time being. Back on track, they postponed the event until the princess, her friends, and I got back to Ponyville."

"You plannin' on telling what you're thinking," Rim said after finishing the crust of the pizza.

"Rim Shot, Drums," Allyn said pointing to every person in the apartment, "Octavia Melody, Cello. Vinyl Scratch, Techno Piano. And me, Allyn Flynt or Flynt Alchemist, guitar and male lead."

"Male lead," Octavia asked.

"Well yeah," Allyn said looking at her, "Can you sing?"

"Man her voice sounds like a sirens song," Vinyl said causing Octavia to blush.

"I'm an okay singer," Tavi replied modestly.

Allyn asked Vinyl for his music player, because he figured nopony would understand Ipod, back and handed it to Octavia.

"Listen and sing," He said as he grabbed the guitar off the floor, "Rim, Vinyl, follow along."

Confused, Rim Shot grabbed two wood spoons and Vinyl grabbed her portable piano keyboard. Allyn began by strumming the first few notes as Octavia skipped the first part of the song. Eventually, Vinyl started playing along to what felt right for Octavia and Allyn's parts and Rim started beating the spoons on the table and off each other.

Octavia's voice sounded like an angel singing a song of despair, a soothing French low alto/high tenor. Just before the chorus, Allyn's baritone voice joined in and the apartment was filled with sweet sounding music. The second time they hit the chorus, Vinyl and Rim joined in as backup singers.

After the song ended, everyone in the room congratulated each other on their parts.

"So the four of us join forces," Allyn said, the guitar still hanging by its strap, "and play the AFCC."

"As what," Rim asked, "A cover group?"

"What do we call ourselves," Vinyl asked.

"Well," Allyn paused for a second to think about it for a moment, "Where I'm from, there's a group called 'My Chemical Romance.' And seeing as my stage name is 'Alchemist,' how about 'Alchemic Reaction?'"

The three ponies looked at each other and nodded. Allyn agreed to pic the songs for the AFCC, write down the notes for each part before he left Canterlot, and try and talk AJ into making it a band concert instead of join a one pony show.

Suddenly a knock came from the front door and two members of the Royal Guard walked into the apartment, followed by the mane six, Spike, and Celestia and Luna. Everyone in the apartment knelt to the Royal Sisters.

"Here you are Allyn darling," Rarity said.

"You had all o' us worried, sugarcube," Applejack contributed.

"Why did you not say you would not return to the castle," Luna said coldly.

"Sorry everypony," Allyn apologized, "I guess I had a wild time last night."

"Well at least your eye is doing better," Celestia said, Luna looked over and lightly smiled.

"Yes, it is actually good that you showed up Applejack," Allyn said, "You already know Vinyl Scratch, these two are Octavia Melody and Rim Shot. I would like to ask if the four of us could play at you family Cider Celebration after we get back to Ponyville."

"Oh, are you guys a cool rock band now," Pinkie asked.

"You're the girl who messed up my performance at the Grand Galloping Gala," Octavia yelled at Pinkie.

"Either Alchemic Reaction plays," Allyn told Applejack, gesturing towards the three ponies behind him, "Or you find another act for you Cider Celebration."

"Are y'ah tryin' to negotiate with me," Applejack asked, "Or black mail me in front of the Princesses?"

"Well you have to admit," Spike spoke up, "They did sound awesome from the hallway."

"Yeah AJ," Rainbow Dash followed up, "If it wasn't for Allyn's voice, we would have needed to look through every apartment."

Allyn held out his hand and Applejack shook it with a little bit of annoyance. Celestia and Luna bowed and said they will enjoy listening to Allyn and everypony at the concert.