Buck Club

Being jerked awake from a train stopping is not a pleasant experience. It happens a lot when I falll asleep on the train, and I always manage to have my muzzle face plant with the seat in front of me. Leading to the pony sitting in front of me to turn around and look at me like I am some kind of idiot. Most of the time ,when I apologize, they just roll their eyes and move on with their day, but this one grumpy mare in front of me didn't even give me a chance, and got pissed off. She started cussing at me. I didn't know what to do. I had been traveling for a couple of weeks now and hadn't gotten much sleep, so I was completely delirious to the whole thing. Eventually the train security pulled her off and I thought I would never see her again.

Oh I couldn't have been more wrong.

I loved traveling around to different cities. It was invigorating. The many tall buildings, restaurant, and the different stadiums/venues where the bands and DJs had their live performances. Though one of the major downsides to traveling so much is the change in hours when going through different times zones. You go from one city to next, lose an hour or gain an hour. Making it difficult remember to change the hours on my watch. Which would then also cause problems of me making it to concerts on time, or arriving too late to make the train departure. It was very frustrating, and I felt like I was going to explode.

Secondly, the concerts were fucking terrible. I hated every single one of them. Not one musician could play music that I could dance, or even get me to like for that matter. They were off key with every beat and rhythm, and sounded atrocious with their heavy rift guitars and bass. All sounded like random notes thrown together to make it disorganized sound that the crowd loved. The worst of them all was the DJ concerts. Their loud electro chaotic sound gave me headache with every show, but yet some how all these ponies at the concerts enjoyed every second of the disconnected phone line of a music.

The reason I traveled to so many cities and saw so many concerts was because I was basically there to steal their music. With a recording device, created by a pony named Sterling Bristle, I was able to record the music without any problems. Though the inventor had created 4 or 5 years ago, a few ponies were able to upgrade it making it easier to only capture the music and distort any other unnecessary noise coming from the crowds or loud ringing from the speakers. It was genius device, but yet it sickened me. I may not of liked any of the musicians I saw, but it was their life's work, and here I was recording it for a company that was giving their sound away. And I wonder why I can't sleep at night.

After two weeks of constant travel, I was finally able to come back to Manehatten and upload the songs that I had recorded from the device. Until my boss came in and said,"There is a new upcoming artist named DJPon-3, and she will be here tonight at the Madison Mare Gardens. I need you to get her recordings."

*sigh* The one night I thought I was gonna be able to get to one of my help groups and get some sleep tonight.

Being the obedient that I was, I calmly said,"Yeah, I'll be there."

Nodding to me and trotting away, I just stared at the ceiling, just wondering if Princess Celestia was just making my life hell at this point. Returning my self to task at hoof, I finished downloading all the music files and organizing them on the computer, and then packed up my saddle bags went home to get ready for tonight.

I stood in line at the entrance of the stadium,and staring the massive building in front of me. There were electronic bill boards just flashing between black, electric-blue, and white, with name DJPon-3 in every flash. This was a bit over the top for some DJs, most of them played in small clubs, or smaller venues, but this was a whole stadium for a one pony. I shook my head thinking this was just going to be like any other DJ; loud electronic mess with no proper sound or organization. Sighing loudly, I paid for my ticket and went in to find my seat.

The stadium's outside the arena was a cemented structure with stair wells leading to higher floors. The only tickets you could get were ground level. I trotted to the large cemented entrance in front of me that said: Ground Level. As I entered the arena, I gawked at everything around me.

This massive stadium had seats as high 5 stories tall and had even more of those electronic signs circling the entire perimeter. The ground level was completely made up of fake grass, and had a fairly huge stage in the middle, there were ponies every where, and were wearing some sort of accessory that had DJPon-3 on it.

Maybe she this won't be......

I facehoofed myself.

Don't be stupid. You know that there hasn't been a good musician in the past 10 years.

Once I had calmed down, I made way to the to the front of the large crowd forming in front of the stage. There were ponies packed tight up against each other at the stage, so I had to push most of them out of the way. They glared at me for my rude behavior, but being as grumpy as I was I really didn't care. I had reached the stage finally, and right when I got there the whole stadium lights went dark with the exception of the billboards.

The whole crowd began to cheer, as the sliding doors of the staged opened and some fog machines turned on. Then a hissing sound was coming from the stage. There was another platform coming up from the inside and ,to my eyes discomfort, strobe lights of blue and white began flashing around the edges. They soon stopped and I could see the amazing sight before me.

It was a huge, circular turntable with more buttons and dials than I had ever seen on one, and there in the middle was a white coated unicorn, with a wild, electric blue mane. At this point I had turned on the device to start recording.She was on her hind legs with front up against the table, and her head hung low so not reveal her face yet. She then raised a hoof in the air, all while lifting her head that revealed the violet sunglasses and a wild grin on her face, and slammed it on a button that began a slow loud noise that got louder and louder until......

BOOM!

A loud bass drop exploded across the room. It felt like my eardrums could burst from the sound, and then she continued on with an actual organized measure of beats and rhythm. Every pony around me was dancing and jumping around with their hooves in the air. I stared at them with disgust. Even if this pony had organized beats in her music, I couldn't stand the loud electronic sounds coming from it, and every once in a while I could hear a random moan that sounded like a women's voice. Either it was trick, or I was just hearing things. I shrugged it off and continued to record the show.

After what seemed like an hour, but only five minutes from what time said on the electronic screens, She did some thing I never heard other DJs do. Sounds from a violin began to play and a cello after that, and was becoming in synced with her electronic sound. I had never thought that some pony could pull it off, so well. It was first time I was actually enjoying my self, and was dancing with other ponies.

Unfortunately though, as I was just getting into it.

"Hey, what!? Let me go!" I shouted.

I was being hung in the air by a by buff security unicorn.

He glares at me,"We know why your here and don't appreciate slimy types like yourself to come here and record this music."

My face went white. How did they know? I mean with my pink bow tie and nice mane..... Oh right. Yeah I definitely did not look a pony that belongs here. To think these were the security ponies to actually figure it out. So this one unicorn hung me in the air and brought me into the security office where I sat for hours waiting and practically shaking from what they might do to me. I could still hear the loud music from the arena and soon after everything went quiet, and 30 minutes went by until the door of the office opened and there stood DJPon-3 with two security ponies behind her. A light smile appeared on her face while she looked at me and then turned to the other ponies and said, "Yeah, I can take from here guys. Go finish your business."

The colts were a bit surprised, but they didn't care too much and trotted off.

"So.." She began nicely with a sly grin,"We need to talk."