Merciful Beats

Today's agenda.

Concert.

Oh yeah, my first concert is tonight. This outta be something else.

. . .

I stepped away from the calendar my eyes wide.

"Yo Scratchy!" I ran up to Vinyl's room.

"Not now Anon." Oh hell naw, she isn't going to blow me off.

"Today is my first concert!" I heard a crash from the other side of the door, I opened it only to see Vinyl wrapped around her snake like cords.

"Help me." hmmm, time to have fun.

"No, I don't think I should." I knelt beside the trapped unicorn.

"Don't make me beg." A slow grin crept across my face. Should I tease her? Or maybe I should just untie her, not like she would actually get mad at me. I mean who could hate me?

"Maybe I want you to beg." Vinyl looked up to me, her eyes teared up and her lower lip hung, I had to look away. My god she has weaponized the puppy face, hell she did it even better then me! I heard a whimper, I think she gave me a heart attack.

"Ok! Ok just stop the puppy face!" I heard an audible 'squee'. I never understood how these ponies could do that. I turned to her and began untangling cords. As soon as the last cord fell away from her body I was instantly knocked the fuck down.

"We gotta go now! I can't believe we haven't prepared for the concert! I can't believe I forgot today was the big day. Why did you let me forget!...this is your fault." Mares. I wasn't exactly prepared for what came next, her horn glowed, and I was on a stage. I knew she just teleported me, but fuck that was my first time, she could have warned me. I fell to my knees.

"Dammit Vinyl!" My legs felt like pins and needles. I tried to stand but ultimately failed.

"Anon get up!" Vinyl was now in front of me, her horn lit up again, before I could open my mouth to protest I was already enveloped in her magical grasp. I rose about three feet and was dropped onto my feet. Now I don't know if you have ever stomped down when you have pins and needles in your legs but this was just like that. I'm not one for lying, much but I did yelp out.

I stood there for what felt like hours, I just stood there feeling the shock and tingles crawl up my legs only to fall back down to my feet. Vinyl was gonna pay for this but first. "Vinyl are we gonna prepare or what?"

"If your so eager then why are you just standing there?"

"Oh, cuz I'm waiting for you to explain why you teleported me to the empty stage, with no equipment, no warning, and no crowd."

Vinyl just blankly stared at me. "Uhh, first I was excited about teleporting you, uhh..er second, I wasn't thinking ahead, and third because we gotta get ready before the crowd comes on in, now hurry we only have like eight hours!" Eight hours, it should only take us two hours to set up.

"Well get the equipment here and I will help set up." Vinyl's horn lit up and she was gone, only to be replaced by a menacing pink mare.

"Hi, hiya, hey, hey..heyheyhey!" I was still a bit upset about the pranking incident with her, so I turned away from her. "Anon, Anon, hey Anon, Nonny, Nonny, hey Non Non, yo nonalicious." Okay, enough is enough. I turned to her.

"WHAT!" I yelled at her, obviously annoyed.

"Hi." She giggled and blurred off. Now when I say blur I mean she ran...so fast I could only see a pink blur. She was immediately replaced by Vinyl and a stacks of equipment.

Vinyl grinned, she seemed sure of herself. "Does teleporting not make you tired?" I asked. She shook her head.

"When A unicorn teleport something enough times, the unicorns magic accepts the object and creates a type of enchantment that allows it to be teleported with ease." I gave her a blank stare. "Oh come on that was the simplest explanation I could give!" I shrugged. "Basically if I teleport something enough times it will be easier." I nodded to her fully understanding.

"So the only energy you actually used was when you teleported me...right?" She nodded. "Was it a lot?" Vinyl shook her head. "Cool, well lets get started." I looked at now tall the stack of equipment was. I traced its height with my eyes, leading up to a cat walk where I saw a bunch of light systems. Something clicked in my head. "Hey Vinyl, who is going to be controlling the lights?"

"Oh, Pinkie Pie is." greeeat. "Speaking of Pinkie where is that pink mare?"

"She was just here a minute ago."

Vinyl's horn began to glow as she took down some speakers and levitated them towards me. "Really?" She pointed to where the speakers go.

I nodded. "Yeah, she annoyed the hell out of me." Vinyl giggled a bit as I set down the speakers. I looked at her. "What's so funny?" I walked back to her only to get a face full of more speakers. She pointed to the other side of the stage.

"Nothing...nothing at all." I walked to where she was pointing and set down the equipment. "I was just thinking that sounds exactly like Pinkie sometimes. I turned to see Vinyl setting up the stage with her magic. A booth appeared center of the stage, speakers were the base, the table top was a turn table and a mixer.

"Nice set up." It looked all to familiar. Vinyl looked up at me with her gorgeous red eyes. She held out her hoof as if she was expecting me to hand her something. Then, with an audible pop her signature shades appeared into her hoof. An electric blue aura wrapped around her shades, it then raised and was placed across her eyes.

"The jerk thing doesn't apply while were inside the stadium ok?" Vinyl said to me. I nodded to her took a look. Around the stage. Looked like we were finished. Like I said though it only took an hour.

"So, looks like we have plenty of time to get you an outfit."

"Wait what?" I looked at Vinyl.

"Well you cant go out on stage looking like you normally do, you need some sort of hook." I looked at her. "I mean you need some sort of signature, like me and my shades." I nodded.

"Well, I think me being an alien should be good enough, dont you?" She chuckled. "Why are you laughing?" I was starting to worry that she had something she needed to tell me.

"The ponies that are gonna be here aren't exactly stiffs, they already heard about an alien for a while now..sooo, we gotta spice it up." I sighed, apparently I am no longer special....why was that sad. Am I really that egotistical? Imma have to change that.

"So what do you think-" An imaginary light bulb appeared above my head, forget asking her I already have an idea what should be my signature. I grinned and closed my eyes, I was trying to imagine what the design should be, or it should have patterns. "Get me a pencil and paper! Quick before I lose my thought." I heard a pop, seconds later I heard another pop. I held out my hands and eyes still closed.

"What are you doing Anon?" Vinyl said as she handed me the pencil and paper. I put the paper on the floor and began to sketch what I was seeing in my head. I opened my eyes to see my master piece. Though I never really could draw.

There on the paper was set of headphones, It had an insignia on both ear muffs, an odd cross, it sort of looked like a staff with two snakes intertwined with it, but rather then snakes they were just simple lines. The interesting part was the shade that emanated from behind the headphones, the ear muffs were suppose to light up so that the insignia would glow blue. The piece that went across the top of my head was a line that had several sharp spike and drops, like the kind those hospital monitors have, only it glowed blue.

I grinned as I finished inspecting my work, I looked over to Vinyl. She was completely transfixed in the drawing. "Vinyl?" I poked her muzzle. "Scratchy?" I booped her nose. I laughed at myself a bit for what I was about to do. "Boop." I poked her muzzle again. "Boop boop boop boop." Honestly, I was enjoying myself to much, but like every good thing it had to stop. I got bored of booping Vinyl so I pressed my lips against hers. Her eyes eyes snapped shut as she kissed me back.

I broke the kiss leaving Vinyl with her eyes closed. She let out a sigh and opened her eyes. "How long was I out?"

"Oh about, hmm maybe half an hour?" I laughed a bit as I saw her expression then I smirked at myself...did I seriously spend half an hour poking Vinyl's muzzle? Wow I must be easily entertained.

Vinyl gazed down at the paper again, her eyes started to glaze over, but I wasn't having any of that mess....so...I smacked her flank, that got her attention but before she could protest I spoke. "So how am I gonna make those real?" I pointed to the drawing.

Vinyl opened her mouth to say something but she quickly closed it. She wore an expression across her face that just shouted thinking. She took a breath and her horn glowed.

Again no damn warning, we were now in front of Twilights treehouse/Library. My legs immediately tried to give out but I was smart and leaned against Vinyl. "Give me a warning!"

"Stop whining." She did not just- Vinyl began knocking on the door. Seconds later a purple Alicorn came out...yeah thats right, an Alicorn..it's still a bit odd seeing her with both parts but I shrugged it off. Vinyl held out a hoof and an audible pop was heard, there was my drawing. "Can you magic this into existence some how?"

Twilight blankly stared at me and Vinyl. "Why?" She simply said.

"Because it will be a learning experience for you! I know we have something similar to this here in Equestria but Anon has something like it from where came from!" I could see Twilight's facial expression change from annoyed to interested. "Oh and it glows!" Twilight smiled and gave us a nod.

"But Im going to need Anon's help." I nodded my head. "How long do I have?"

"Until the concert starts." I replied.

Twilight nodded and lead us inside.

. . .

Four hours...FOUR hours of sitting there trying to explain electricity to a pony, hell I could barely understand it myself. So in the end we just decided to make it glow by magic, because fuck logic. She pulled some alchemy shit though she gathered all the colors needed and used some wood to create it. The wood simply turned to plastic and whatever else are in headphones, obviously lacking the wires and components though. So yeah she used some spell to make the design and ear muffs glow a vibrant deep blue.

. . .

Thank fucking god we walked back to the auditorium this time, rather then teleporting, I tried on the headphones while we were at Twilights, they sure as hell did fit though, so yeah I am more then pleased with these. When we arrived I already had the head phones on, the coolest part about them was that the cord was magical so all I had to do was place the plug to whatever outlet and it would fit and adjust by itself.

. . .

The stage is setup, my headphones are glowing, Vinyl is pumping up the crowd, the ponies are stomping, the beat is flowing, the lights are moving, Pinkie is..being herself. All that's left is for me to step out there and begin.

"Time to shine." I take a deep breath, the lights cut out and fade in towards the center, smoke rises up. I move the curtain and step out into the crowd.