To happiness once again

It’s four AM at the Scratch club, and Sonata had two bag of ice duct-taped over his eyes.

"You are so STUPID! You could have been killed!"

"Calm down Passion, nothing happened... apart from you partially blinding me with a two by four." Sonata System called out her exploit of hitting him with a piece of wood over the head, and face mistaking Sonata for the aggressor. "If you hadn't tried to kill me, that guy would be behind bars right now."

Vinyl grumbled. "Still dad, what you did was really dumb!" The shy yellow mares’ ears perked up

"Dad?" Fluttershy wondered out loud. "Are you two… related?"

Sonata face hoofed the ice, which turned out to be almost unbearably painful. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! MY EYES! He mentally screamed.

"Eh...ow that's a long story"

Trotting with bags on his back, a younger looking Sonata walked down the busy market streets of Canterlot. Literally, everypony else was minding their business. "EEK!" pierced his fine ears. loud yells was after heard.

Curious, the young musician came to the source of the ruckus.

"You dumb brat! Where I come from, your hoof would be cut off if you ever stole something!" A big stallion was shaking his hoof and spouting nonsense. Sonata felt something crash on his forehooves. He looked down, a little white-ish yellow filly rubbed her head, she had baguette bread in her mouth. Sonata, kind as he was, floated a couple bits to the angry pony's stand

"Please, excuse my sister; she doesn't know any better." He talked loudly to reach the stallion while rubbing the filly's mane.

Later, on a park bench, the unknown filly devoured the bread.

"Man, you're hungry aren't you?"She stopped with a piece of the baguette sticking out of her mouth. She scanned Sonata and saw his cutiemark. Her mouth opened wide letting the food fall by accident.

Music? She wondered. "sir..." The single tone blue maned filly wasn't sure what to say. "Do... your parents hate you?" she asked
"Yes and no. I hate my dad and he hates me back. Why do you ask?" The soon to be musician became more curious.

"My parents hate my cutiemark... and now they hate me."

"..." Sonny was baffled. Who would do such a stupid thing? He thought as he felt pure anger go through his body. "Where are your so called parents?"

"Whaylz..." she looked down.

His eyes widened. "Whaylz!? But that's the next town over!”

Did she walk all the way here? He couldn't believe it. He took a deep breath before replying.

*sigh...*

"Do you have any place to stay?" The future singer asked.

"No."

Sonata became red. "Gah! Who would do this to a little girl!?" He rubbed his mane at high speed, and took a second deep breath. "Okay, you don't have a place to stay at, I assume you have no money 'cause you steal food, what else could go wrong for you!?" The mad colt yelled sarcastically. *dip!* A drop of water hit his muzzle He rolled his eyes "Great"

***

*Slam!* Sonata System's apartment shut tight, and the two ponies were at the entrance.

A small gray mare trotted to the sound eyes closed. "Hey Sonny, got what I asked for?" Her eyelids opened, revealing her dark lavender eyes. "Erm, who's this?" Hip-Hop asked.

"Passion stayed with us for a couple years. I taught her everything about music, and even payed for her schooling. Until one day she left, without so much as a letter." Sonata coughed, trying to readjust his voice. "Thanks Dad for all you did for me, I am eternally grateful. Your daughter Passion/Vinyl Scratch" He giggled. "Two weeks later; I found her playing at a new club that opened a week ago... It's kinda what's happening now, but the roles are reversed!" The turquoise unicorn pointed the weird coincidence out, laughing at the wall in front of him.

"Uh, Sonny, who are you looking at?" Fluttershy called, trying to catch his attention

"Why don't we take off the ice bags from your eyes?" The white disk jockey giggled awkwardly, taking off the bags.

*Knock Knock Knock* The sounds came from the main doors.

The retired singer got up. "I'll get that, just in case"

The door clicked and opened. "Vinyl, sweetie? Are you here? You'll never guess what I did with yellow paint and feathers!" Sonata came out of the backstage VIP room. "Eh... you're not Vinyl? Did I enter the wrong club?" A gray-ish sea blue colt with a gray horn tip and muzzle stood before him. The colt stood a little taller than him, but the retired singer was a bit more built.

Sonata dashed towards him, lifted him off the ground and said in a new voice: "I know who you are and I'm warning you Kiddo, touch a single hair of my daughter's mane and you're dead." Sonata's magic dissipated, making the unknown pony fall strongly on his hooves. The turquoise unicorn headed backstage. He came back with Vinyl lying on the blanket on his back, and a yellow pony in his magic

"Sonata, this is-"

" He's Leaf Disc, a famous DJ." He cut Passion off and kept on walking. "See ya..." *Slam*. The door shut strongly.

"What's with this guy?" Leaf asked Vinyl Scratch

"I don't know Leafy but, he's been acting strange since we re-met..." The popular DJ told her coltfriend.

"Sonny, can you let me down?" the shy little yellow pegasus asked. The magic lowered her down and vanished. "Are you alright Sonny? You haven’t talked since we left."

"Rarity didn't keep my promise did she? She smells like alcohol" Sonata said in a clear, strong and kinda menacing voice. "She smell like alcohol."

"Um... how do you smell alcohol? Ahe didn't drink anything, plus she got chloroformed..." Fluttershy thought for a second. "Does chloroform smells like alcohol? I'm pretty sure it doesn't, I use it on my animals before surgeries..." She spoke under her breath

buck me... Sonata thought.

"Maybe it's her perfume..." the singer caught himself.

"Maybe."

"Where are we going?" the white pony mumbled on Sonata's’ back.

"To my house; I'm not letting anypony off the hook... He might even be spying on us right now." After his few words Rarity quickly fell back into slumber. Fluttershy scooted closer to Sonata. His cheeks blushed.

***

At Sonata's log house, Rarity was just waking up while Fluttershy slept on the sofa.

"Sysi?" Rarity blurted out rubbing the sleep off her eyes.

"Don't call me that." The sound of his voice was muffled by the cigarette in his mouth. "Did you sleep well?"

"Not really dear; my neck hurts, my head is spinning and I'm sure my coiffure is out of place!" The white mare dramatized as she tapped her mane.

"Stop whining, your mane is fine." Sonata sounded firm, and she liked it.

"Why are we at your house? Weren't we at the club?"

"Yes." He turned around to face her. "But you got attacked and chloroformed, Fluttershy got herself choked to the point of fainting, I got beaten over the head by a piece of wood and I learned that my daughter got herself a coltfriend. Not a good night if you ask me."

"Yeah, I remember something." The turquoise unicorn's ears perked up. "I dreamed of you being related but not really to Vinyl Scratch was that true?" Rarity asked.

Sonata nodded. "You sleep hard, but your ears are captive." The white mare smiled at the comment, but it soon turned to an intrigued frown.

"I got... attacked... am I this helpless?" Her head dropped down, and she thought out loud. "Sometimes I wish I was Rainbow Dash or Applejack..."

"Why? You don't need strength to defend yourself, your magic is as useful or more than muscles... Plus, why Dash? She's not that strong; the only differences between you and her is that she's a pegasus and she's faster, that's it." Sonata sat next to her. "Rarity, not to be mean to Dash, but you’re smarter and that is all you need. You don't need fast or strong, just this." He tapped his head with the tip of his hoof

Rarity pondered. "You’re right, I don't need crowds shouting my name for my physical skills, I'll make ponies around the world shout my name when I'll be making the greatest defilé de mode this world has yet to see! All that with my magnifique haute couture designs!" She gave the faded green colt a kiss on the cheek. "Thank you Sonata." As he blushed, Rarity left by the front door.

The strong look on his face faded. "Why was I... mad just now?"

'That's the egg; It hatched...'

"System... you mean he's getting stronger?" The colt asked his other self.

'Yes, your jealousy and anger toward our daughter's coltfriend woke a part of him. we haven't got much time left!'

System begged for his true self to eradicate the nuisance. "We can't, not now at least." His alter ego sighed.

'I know you want to pass time with our friends, but we might put them in danger if we don't do a thing! You wish them protection but can you protect them from yourself!'

Sonata's double hit a soft spot

'You know I'm right!'
"Alright... give me a month, I'll to stay calm and and explain to them what's going to happen."

'I'm only doing this for the safety of others, but you knew that.'

Sonata lit another cigarette; he wasn't used to taking more than one in a day. He went outside, took his wooden baseball bat, a couple of balls, and jogged to his backyard. He walked in front of the log wall he made a little while ago, just for this reason.

*Whack!* *Crash!*

A white leather-like ball collided with the log wall, making a part of it crumble.

*took! tick! clack! crchroc! tiptk!*

Those sounds made a song to Sonata ears. "What's going on this morning? Why do you feel so bad? You hear your neighbors screaming and yelling, and your thoughts are speaking in your fancy?...." The turquoise colt rushed in his house to get a pen and paper

A couple of hours later; the colt scribbled words as fast as he could on the paper

"Done!" he took his guitar from behind the sofa

♪ what's going on this morning?
aren't you feeling properly?
You here your neighbors screaming and yelling,
and your thoughts are speaking in fancy?
I think I know what you need,
no you don't need medicine
Its in your head, the vaccine,
its in your hooves, the vaccine,
you know there's no need to recede!
I don't want to tell you what to do; just want to help you get through, give you a new point of view
so close the radio and make a cup of joe, go sit in the stairs and dream about else where...

Opening your mind is not a hard task
Opening your mind is not hard
Opening your mind is not a hard task
Opening your mind is not hard
Its not a hard task
Its not a hard task!- ♫

"Hmmm..." Fluttershy was sitting on the sofa, rubbing the sleep off her eyes.

"Oh! Sorry did I wake you up!?" Sonata was really anxious.

"Ooh, no no, you didn't, well yes but...-"

"I am so sorry!"

The mare turned her head slightly. "...Its okay; I have to feed my animals anyways." She got up and went for the door trotting happily. "And Sonata, keep making music, that one was very, very good!" With a little click, the door closed after the pegasus.

'Faust, I love that mare!'

*click!*

"Oh... sorry, I forgot my key..." The shy yellow mare blushed.

“A---"

Both ponies’ stomachs’ grumbled in hunger.

"..."

"..."

They both blushed. "D-do you want to get breakfast?" Sonata broke the silence.

"S-sure!..."

By the time both ponies sat at a table, it was 6 o’clock. The sun shined brightly, and birds were chirping happily throughout the dawning.

Fluttershy was sitting at the table reading the menu. "Madame et monsieur, may I please take yur orders?" The nice French waiter asked for their meals. Without thinking, Sonata said something that shocked the French pony.

"Oui, j'aimerais avoir deux oeufs, jaune coulant et une patate aux fours s'il vous plaît... quoi?" He didn’t realize until later that he had spoken French.

"Et vous?" the blue mustached stallion demanded at the shy Pegasus.

"I-I don't really know what you both said, but I'd like apples and oatmeal please." The butter yellow pony was really confused by that event. The waiter walked away to the kitchen with both menus and the orders in a small notebook. "I never knew you could speak French! And it sounded like a pure accent!" Fluttershy beamed with curiosity.

'I can't believe I spoke French just now' "Ah... It's my native language... I come from a small town in ((Insert a horsey pun for Canada here)) called Clopbec where French is the native language. When I was five, I moved away to Canterlot and lived here in Equestria."

"Wow, I never knew you came from so far! What are the animals like there? What are the plants like? Is it a big civilized place, or is it more like the countryside? Tell me!"

"Okay, okay, calm down." Sonata giggled. He never saw Fluttershy this way; jumping and grinning wildly on her seat. The animals are pretty much the same, we mostly have a wider variety of fish and water mammals: narwhals, sea otter, blue pikes, et cetera. The flora is mostly pines trees, 'cause of the snow and cold temperatures. From what I remember from the towns and cities were I used to live... urban to countryside in less than a minute. The way to go to Montreal, the capital, is a complete forest."

"How is Montreal?"

"It's a huge urban island with an awesome rollercoaster park!" Good memories of his past came flowing back in his mind.

"Wow that's sound fun!"

The waiter arrived, and fake coughed to get everyponies’ attention. "Your orders, miss and sir" The waiter bowed and left.

"Let's dig in."

"Okay.”

After their meals, Sonata accompanied Fluttershy to her cottage. Little did she know, Sonata had a little surprise for her. With a quick flash of painful magic, his guitar appeared in his hooves.

♪ I was traveling in a fried-out combie
On a hippie trail, head full of ponies
I met a shy lady, she made me nervous
She took me in and gave me breakfast
And she said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where mare glow and stallions plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Lyin' in a den in Bombay
With a slack jaw, and not much to say
I said to the mare, "Are you trying to tempt me
Because you come from the land of plenty?"
And she said,

"Do you come from a land down under?
Where mares glow and stallions plunder?
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover."

Yeah!

Living in a land down under
Where mares glow and stallions plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover!
Living in a land down under
Where mares glow and stallions plunder
Can't you hear, can't you hear the thunder?
You better run, you better take cover! ♫

Fluttershy turned around. "you can make a song out of anything, can't you?" She giggled cutely. "Anyway, we're here." The pegasus pointed towards her house. "I’ll see you tomorrow, I guess."
"Yeah, See ya." They both walked their separate ways.
On the way to Sonata's house

I should get to know Fluttershy before I can get into a relationship with her. He thought. He knew it couldn't hurt him, but then thought about something else. What do I know about my friends? I tell 'em about my past, but I know jack-s#%t from them!? Applejack didn't have a good past, I can see it now, but I don't know the specifics... Wait, I do know what happened to Winona three years ago.... poor dog. I hope Applebloom won't leave her chocolate on the side of the table again. I can't believe Twilight forgot about me, I guess I wasn't a big part of her life. Rainbow and I are best buds! her mother died some years ago in a lightning storm, her dad's a construction worker in cloudsdale, she had a brother but never told me much about him. She hates anything that doesn't move, with the exception of Tank. Poor little turtle, tortous... tortoise???..... I lost my train of thought... what was I thinking about again? Oh whatever. Up next is …. Pinkie Pie. Well, the less I know about her better I am! I want to keep the last bit of Sanity I have left! Rarity, She's pretty.... um..... She loves hats?. Her parents are douches who can't take care of her younger sister and goes on vacations without them? They used all of Rarity's and Sweetie's college money and savings for themselves? Wait, is it me, or does EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE MARES HAVE A BAD FOALHOOD!?!?'

***

*chic-click!* *slam*

*sigh*

"Ah... Home sweet H-"

*knock knock knock*

"Faust dammit."

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