Once a Time Lord, Now a Pony

"HELLO PONYVILLE! Rainbow Dash of Cloudsdale here, bringing you the latest awesome tunes on the fly! Now, some of you may be asking, what's a pegasi doing manning the radio stations and their airwaves? Shouldn't you be out busting clouds or doing stunts or something like that? Well, lemme ask you something. How many of you know me? Seriously, I'm lazier then ole Tirek when he's drunk on magic!"

Next to a tree she'd just finished bucking of it's apples, along with a bunch of others she'd just did a hour before this one Applejack chuckled. Her friend/rival would never change. And she didn't want her to. At the schoolhouse, the CMC listened intently while their teacher Ms Cheerilee watched in annoyance in the background before coughing and taking the radio away from them while Scootaloo groaned at the loss of her idol's voice. Cheerilee just sighed. How they'd got that in without her noticing she didn't know, but she made a mental note to keep a eagle eye on them if they tried it again.

"...Plus, the food the station provides isn't bad either. Mmmmmm.... Oops, sorry got a bit distracted there. Now, enough chatter from me, got some great music for you, coming up right now!"

Suddenly, Rainbow's excited voice was replaced with the latest track from Judas Pony, blaring out of the speakers of anyone who listened at top volume. In the Golden Oaks Library, Twilight had lost herself in one of her old history texts when Spike came down the stairs holding a radio snapping his claws to the song's beat. Twilight groaned and desperately tried to block out the noise by stuffing her hooves in her ears. That didn't work.

"Spike, can you turn that thing down?" She shouted. But Spike couldn't hear her voice over the song.

"Sorry? I can't hear you, it's too loud!" He shouted, and ironically enough Twilight couldn't hear him very well either.

"What? I can't... I can't... What did you say?" Twilight shouted back. This time her target did hear her yell. Spike sighed and turned down the radio a bit, enough so that he could hear his adopted older sister.

"That's what I was just trying to ask you!" He said to her in annoyance.

Twilight groaned and pinched the bridge of her nose.

"I asked you to turn that thing down! It's too loud, and I'm trying to read this absolutely fascinating text about the forging of the Griffin-Pony Peace Treaty. Did you know, for example that two ambassadors had this relationship..." She trailed off, and blushed red as a tomato. Spike did not need to hear that at his age!

"Don't know, and don't care." Spike said in a snarky tone.

"Just... Just take that thing somewhere else will you? This is a library after all. Music is not allowed." Twilight sniffed. Spike rolled his eyes and smirked.

"Not unless it's Octavia's cello concertos." He said, and Twilight blushed red once more.

Eventually, Twilight did get Spike to leave. and she was able to go back to her book. Well, she would have gone back to it, had Pinkie not barged in.

"Twilight! Twilight! You'll never guess who just showed up. TODAY! Right here in Ponyville!" Pinkie said, all of this spoken at very high speed making it almost impossible for Twilight to understand it all. But somehow, she did. Her mind almost at once went to the worst case scenario she could think up in her mind at that moment.

"Please tell me it's not Trixie again." Twilight groaned out, remembering the arrogant unicorn mare, who'd shown up about a week or so back. She'd claimed she'd stopped a Ursa Major, and when a Ursa Minor did show up... Er, make that brought here on purpose by two of her fans, some young colts by the name of Snips and Snails she couldn't even handle that. Twilight had easily sent the creature packing, and Trixie had fled in embarrassment and shame.

"No... Why'd you go there? If it was Trixie, my Pinkie Sense would be going off like wildfire!" Pinkie exclaimed. Twilight nodded, remembering her friend's strange ability.

"Well, who is it?" Twilight asked, somewhat fearing the answer.

Pinkie got in real close to Twilight's face and whispered "It's a rock star!"

Twilight blinked before she registered what her friend and fellow Element of Harmony said. Then her head met her desk and she groaned. That was so not what she wanted to hear.

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Pinkie led her friend to the town square where a huge crowd had gathered. In the middle of it all was a cyan pegasi with yellow and orange streaked hair wearing a leather jacket with a red Magiccaster on her back signing autographs and at some points even blowing kisses to stallions who fainted at the action. Twiligght frowned, this mare seemed like Trixie all over again and to make matters worse said mare played her least favorite genre of music.

"Hey, Twilight! Didn't expect to see you here! Thought you'd be stuck up in your library when you heard." Rainbow said from behind her, as she trotted up.

"Shouldn't you be at your-"

"Eh, I'm on lunch break." Rainbow said dismissively. It was then Twilight noted she had hay fries in her mouth. "And puh-leeze, did you really think I would skip out on something like this? Lightning Dust over there is one of my favorite artists! Her and her band!" She said excitedly.

Lightning Dust, so that was her name Twilight noted and filed it away for later.

"Hey Twi, I thought you didn't like this kind of music?" Rainbow inquired.

"Oh, you noticed?" Twilight deadpanned. Lightning trotted up right about then.

"Hey hey, always glad to see more of my fans!" She said, and put a foreleg around Twilight and the pegasus was smiling arrogantly all the while.

"I'm not... Not a fan!" Twilight sputtered in disbelief but Lightning waved her off.

"Oh, don't worry you'll come around. Everypony does. Here, I'll give you and your friends here a ticket to my outdoor concert in the park tomorrow afternoon." Twilight groaned and hung her head. How'd she get dragged into this? Then she remembered something and voiced her concerns to Lightning.

"But that's when the pegasi have a storm planned! Are you INSANE?" Twilight shouted at her in shock.

"Rain or snow, pah! The show MUST go on!" Lightning could only smirk in response before flying off into the sky. Twilight thought to herself,  this could not end well. She didn't know how right she was. Out of concern for the musician, she did go to the planned concert and already clouds were gathering and thunder rumbled in the distance. The concert itself could only be described as one of Pinkie's parties gone bad, the crowd getting more and more raucious by the second.

"This is nuts!" Rainbow shouted over the din.

"You're telling me. I've seen street riots which had more control then this!" Twilight shouted back at her.

Nearby, Pinkie cheered and danced to the music played over a radio. And in the middle of all the chaos was Lightning herself, setting up on stage. She tapped the microphone to see if it was working.

"Hello hello, everypony! You ready to ROCK!?!" Lightning shouted, and the crowd roared. "I'll take that as a yes!"

It was about then, much to Twilight and Rainbow's relief the Ponyville branch of the Royal Guard showed up. Looks like the concert would not go on after all... right?

"Finally, some order." Twilight muttered.

"Well well well, looks like the guard want to shut this jam down! Not going to happen, I say! Not even Tartarus or Tidal Waves will stop this!" Lightning shouted to her adoring fans, who'd come from miles around to see this. But something else did have other plans. With a mighty CRACK! of thunder, a bolt of pure energy came down right at that very moment and hit Lightning at full force...