Vinyl's Rewind

by Head of Common Mockery

Rating: mature
Tags: Profanity, Random, Discord, Crossover, DJ P0N-3, Svengallop, Narcotics, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Dark, Thriller, Octavia, Suicide / Self Harm
Length: 3198

A meddler gives Vinyl a second chance.

I am The Head of Common Mockery, and I have a question. What if a certain DJ went through the worst time of her life? A time so bad, that she felt it right to discontinue her life?... What if the greatest meddler of all Equestrian history decided that this DJ deserves a second chance?... This is a tale of the ultimate second chance.

The following is a non-canon continuation of Vinyl's Curtain Call where Discord reveals his little secret of not being from Equestria and being more powerful than Celestia herself because he's a Q.

This is mature because of the first bit and because of language.

Thank you DinKaiser for allowing me to make this.

Published 2017-01-17 02:30:01 UTC
Last updated 2017-01-17 02:30:01 UTC

A Chaotic Lighter to Unmelt Vinyl's Candle

Damnit, Vinyl said, I missed...

Vinyl begins to feel a massive amount of pain wash over her from the pills. She begins to lose all feeling, and falls to the floor, spewing foam from her mouth.

This is it. Nobody can convince me to want to stay ali-

Octavia bucks the door open, and sees the mess that Vinyl Scratch made herself into.
"VINYL!!!" Octavia screams as she runs over and holds her dying ex-girlfriend. Tears fall from Octavia's face.

No, not you! Can't I die with no one caring? I need to tell her... Vinyl's hoof suddenly moves until it's touching Octavia's soft skin and coat. Vinyl tries to talk through the foam. Eventually, the words come out... Along with blood.

"O-Octavia. I never stopped thinking about you..." Vinyl bearly said. She took a heavy breath. "I l-l-lo-llove you too... Mu-hhhhhhhh..."

The grim reaper has claimed another life...

Right?

Octavia collapses on Vinyl's lifeless body, and kisses her head before wailing in sadness over the death of the one that she cared for.

"I shouldn't have left you..." Octavia said, holding on to Vinyl's body, "It's my fault....
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Vinyl appears in a large void of beautiful white light that goes on forever. Vinyl looks down at herself and sees that she's perfectly fine. No foam or blood all over her.

"Where the hell am I?" Vinyl asks herself. She looks around and sees a white blur in the void. "Hello! Blur The blur reveals to be a man in white robes who slowly walks over to Vinyl.

"Now now now," said the man, "What is a popular pony like you doing up here in... What ever you mortals call it. Heaven, eternity, the afterlife, stovokor; I can go even further with the names, but they're all in languages that both ponies, humans, and Star Fleet don't recognize."

Vinyl is confused by what is happening. About where she is. What the hell kind of afterlife is just a massive void of white anyway?

"W-who are you?" Vinyl asked, engulfed in worry, "What's a human! O-or a Star Fleet!?"

"So many questions, you have. I'll answer one of your first three in a way. I have a great many names. Some call me God. Some call me a God of chaos. Some call me an annoyance. Some know me as Q... But I'll take it that you're more likely to recognize this."

The man snaps his fingers and becomes Discord with a flash of white.

"Discord!?" Vinyl said, surprised to see the lord of chaos, "B-but I'm dead! If you're here, then that means you're more powerful than Celestia!"

"That fact is not what's important. What is important is why you are here. I came here because of your tragic recent events, and I've seen several downfalls like it."

"Then why do you care? I'm just another mortal who fucked up, right?"

"You're quite right! But I've pitied every 'fuck up' that I've seen so much that I gave them a chance at fixing their mistakes. In your case, I'll have you start when your bad habits started. If you don't change it properly, you'll come back here to stay."

"And how am I supposed to recognize the screw up? I've fucked myself over several times!"

"Simple. It will be like those cliché moments in TV shows and movies where you recognize it like the most hated moment in of your life. I will admit, the drugs have rotted away at your memory. But you'll know it when you see it."

With a snap of Discord's fingers,

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Vinyl Scratch is suddenly in in a twin sized bed. She sees grey hooves wrapped around her neck, and turns around to see who it is. It's her sleeping ex-girlfriend, Octavia Melody. Wait, was she sent back to when they were still together? Not caring for what day it is, Vinyl pulls Octavia closer to herself and looks at a clock on a nightstand next to the bed. It says that it's 2:08am.

Holy crap, I'm back with Octavia!... Wait. Discord might've done something. I don't trust him.

Vinyl gets out of the bed, and steps on something with wheels on it. She slips, falls, and slams into a bookcase. Only one book falls out, but it was a fake storage book that had a cassette tape in it. Why does this seem so familiar Vinyl? Was it around that time that she tried to learn roller skating?"

"Guh... Wha?" Said a partly sleeping Octavia, "Oh. Sorry for leaving my roller skates on the floor, love. I will never try playing the cello while skating again.." She dozes back to a heavy sleep.

Can I feel her touch again? I really hope that this isn't some kind of sick prank!

"Psst." A familiar voice whispered, "I made your favorite midnight munchie. Don't worry, your girlfriend can't hear me or my cooking." Vinyl walks out of the pitch black room, nearly hitting everything on the way out, and ends up in a kitchen. "This is a quite dreadful piece of property you own. Who puts a bedroom door in the kitchen?" It's Discord, but he's in a human form wearing a Star Fleet uniform with the Captain's rank.

"What are you doing here." Vinyl asked, being completely suspicious of Discord.

"I'm making you Cheesy Onion Hayburger Sliders. An odd midnight snack since it actually takes time to mix all the ingredients and cook it, but it always leaves you satisfied. Almost as satisfied as being around Octavia makes you. I wouldn't suggest sex, because you might be late. Oh! Your sliders are now done!"

Discord uses a spatula to take three hay patties and places them on buns on a plate. Each patty is covered in cheese. Discord sets them on a very familiar looking table with four seats around it.

"Is this that apartment that me and 'Tavi got together?" Asked Vinyl.

"Yes. It has been five months since you two bought this place. You can tell because of the custom ordered table, can't you?"

Vinyl walks up to the table and sits in one of the chairs. She grabs one of the sliders and scarfs it down, as she's feeling very hungry all of a sudden. She wolfs down the other two as well. Discord sits down and a Chocolate Sundae appears in front of him. He grabs a spoon that's sticking out of it, scrapes some of the sauce off the side of the sundae, and takes a bite while closing his eyes.

"That seems like an odd way to eat a sundae." Vinyl said.

"I know." Discord says in an unamused tone, "Troi lied. It's no different from eating it normally. And I don't even have to eat at all." With a snap of his fingers, the sundae disappears. "But enough about the needs of the body, you have such a beautiful lover in your bed, and you're not there with her. You've eaten now, so go back to bed. You've never had this much trouble sleeping since those finals at Magic School."

"What do you me-"

"What do you think it means? You know what? I'm not even going to say why. You're more than capable of figuring it out yourself." And with that, Discord vanishes with a flash of white. Vinyl scratches her head, still not having the slightest clue about what he meant. Well, she's been sent back to the future, she's been sent to a time where she's with her english gem, and she's in the apartment that was their worst buy ever. Discord's right, who puts the kitchen next to the bedroom?

With her not knowing what the fuck to do right now, she crawled back into bed with Octavia. She wrapped herself around Octavia, and kissed her lips. She was back with her lover, and that's all that she cared about right now.

"Uh... What was that for?" Octavia asked.

"Just kissing my favorite pony in all of Equestria." Vinyl answered said.

"Mm..." Octavia rubs her eyes and shakes her head, causing some of her mane to go over her face "Well you're doing it wrong. You do it like this."

Octavia pulls Vinyl closer, and locks her lips against her favorite's DJ. Vinyl tightens her grip on Octavia as the tounge sod the lovers began to explore familiar places. Octavia tastes like camomile to Vinyl, as she creeps her tounge deeper into 'Tavi's mouth. As Octavia moans out Vinyl's name and Vinyl gets closer to Tavi's tonsils, Vinyl's phone goes off. The two exit each other's mouths, Octavia let's out a sigh of disappointment.

"I bet it's him, isn't it." Octavia said, also in disappointment.

"He said I'm the next big thing!" Wait, how did I know what to say? "I'll make tons of money and we'll be able to comfortably adopt a kid! You know how much we've been wanting to do that, but we can't because of our income."

"Yes, but the work will make your life hell. Remember when you told me about your addiction in high school? You were lucky that you had good friends that kept any note of it from your parents and that two of them were learning medical things. One was a learning psychologist and the other a learning general things."

The phone stopped ringing.

"You purposefully stalled me, didn't you."

"He's bad news, I'm telling you!"

"He's going to get us out of our problems! I'm telling you, he's good news!" The phone goes off again "Now, I need to take this call."

"Fine. Do what ever you damn well please."

Vinyl picks up the phone and gets out of bed. As she walks into the kitchen, she notices that there's no sign or scent that sigified that she ate there in the night. What's Discord's game?

"Hello?" Vinyl asked.

"Hello, Ms. Scratch." Said the voice of a girly sounding stalion.

"Don't worry, I didn't forget the time and the place."

"Actually, I'm changing the place. Meet me at my office in Manehattan."

"But I live in Canterlot."

"Do you want fame?"

"Who doesn't!?"

"Then my office in Manehattan at 12:30. Don't worry, the four o'clock train will get you here in time."

"Alright, I'll be there."

The stallion hangs up.

Why did I remember those exact words? And why can't I remember who that guy is?

"Vinyl?" Octavia called out, "Are you coming back to bed? It's getting cold without you."

"I'll be back!"

Alright. I need to be in Manehatten today. I need to figure out what screw up is going to happen. But first, I need to let 'Tavi know about where I'm going.

Vinyl walks back into bed and tighty snuggles back up to Octavia.

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"So, Ms. Scratch..." The stallion said, "Do we have a deal?"

Why would Discord bring me here? This is the moment that I became the most popular pony in all of Equestria, and I got rich! I even got that big-ass house with Octav- Vinyl's phone vibrates, and she checks it. It's Octavia. Wait... Is that the call I cancelled? What did she want to call me about?

"Hold on," said Vinyl, "I need to answer this."

"Fine by me." The stallion responded.

"Hey 'Tavi! What's up?"

"Vinyl!" Octavia yelled, "Something fantastic has happened! Remember that one colt who gave me the record deal?"

"Yeah! He seems like a cool dude."

"Well, he caught me playing a tracks from one of your sample CDs, and he wants to cut you a deal too! He wants to talk about the offer over dinner sometime this week, and I said yes for you without your permission... Sorry."

"Sounds Sweet! I'll be there!"

Vinyl hangs up the phone and looks at an idiot who's just now falling through the doorway along with a fat stack of papers.

"Sorry Mr. Svengallop!" The strangely familiar sounding idiot said, "There were just so many papers! I couldn't possibly hold on to them!"

"Oh, don't worry about those papers." The stallion says, "In fact, don't even worry about doing anything else today other than collecting your things, because your fired."

I remember this stallion now...

"But I-I won't do it again, I swear!" the idiot begs.

"You are an errand colt with a perfect record until today." The stallion tells the idiot, "It even said so on your resume. Now you can put an imperfect record on there."

Yeah, I remember this mother fucker now!

"You know what Svengallop, you manipulative asswipe?" Vinyl said in the largest fit of rage, anger, and hate, "Fuck your business. Fuck your pay cut! And most of all, Fuck You!! I've seen what you've done to ponies, and I'm not gonna have a single Celestia damned part of it!"

"Well, guess you don't care for popularity then!" The stallion said, "Watch me make Countess Coloratura into the most popular pop singer ever!"

"I'm Not Even A Singer! I'm An Electronic Artist!" Vinyl opens the door out "Fuckin' asshole." The door is slammed so hard that the wood warps. The idiot is seen picking up the paper.

"Oh, it's impossible to pick these up with hooves." With a flash of light, the idiot flashes into Discord's human form. "Well done, Vinyl! You can now die happy and not in that dreadfully boring apartment. I mean, who in their right mind would ever want to live there! Ugh! Anyway..."

"Discord..." Vinyl hugs Discord while shedding a single tear that falls on Discord's back, "Thank you. Thank you for a second chance."

"Why are you hugging me? Don't you have anything better to do? Maybe a certain contract will end with hundreds of millions of bits?... Did I just spoil something? Sorry about that." With those words, Vinyl runs to the elevator....

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Vinyl Scratch, Octavia Melody, and a popular earth stallion named Pone.I.Am are all enjoying food at an outdoor cafe that's at a park in Canterlot. It's night, and the park is beautifully lit with yellow light coming from strands of lights strung up on the park lamps. The nearby pond reflects the light in such a way that an artist has decided to set up shop and paint the sight.

Octavia, and Pone.I.Am are currently enjoying fancy sandwiches that aren't exactly big but aren't exactly small that have some fancy types of lettuce, tomatoes, spinach, and kale. Vinyl is enjoying herself a nice sized artisan hayburger with blue cheese, fancy sauces, tomatoes, lettuce, and avocado.

"Mm!" Vinyl mms as she swallows to say something, "This is a tasty burger. Now, usually I get sandwiches like what you're eating 'cause 'Tavi says it's really good, and she's somewhat right. But I do like myself the taste of a good burger." Vinyl takes another bite from her hayburger.

"I ordered the sandwich 'cause I'm doin' a movie and I have to get thinner than I usually am," Pone.I.Am tells Vinyl, "But I have to agree, that burger does look good... Anyway, like I told Octavia not too long ago, I loved your little sampler tape. I loved the beat, I loved the sound, and I loved how it kinda puts your mind in a general mood and groove. I'm a musician too as you already know."

"Hell yeah, I know who you are!" Vinyl says with some hayburger still in her mouth, "I have your albums 'Songs About Mares' and '#ponepower'! I've also got most of your albums from The Buck Eyed Peas!"

"Well, I'm goin' to new record company called I.Am Music and I need some artists to go under my company name." Pone.I.Am pulls out a contract out that has his signature on it and an empty space, "Octavia has already has a deal with me, and she's goin' to release an album of her own. She's still writin' the music, but it'll probably release sometime next year. She works pretty quickly. I'd like to also make a separate deal with you. If you agree, then you'll become part of my company, you get to make as many albums as your own pace, and I would very much enjoy your help with my own album.

"What do you think, Vinyl?" Octavia asks, "I'd say this deal sounds better than the one you almost made a few days ago. Plus, there wouldn't be any pressure to in, though even I know you're good at making a new fantastic beat within three days."

"... Mister Pone.I.Am," Vinyl uses her unicorn magic to pick up a pen and sign the contract, "I would like nothing more than this record deal."

Author's Note

Thank you for reading! I made this a while ago, but didn't have the time to finish it and it became forgotten. But I finished it now.

A Lesson Learned, A Leasson To Be Learned

"And since that moment, Vinyl Scratch's life has gone right. Vinyl and her same sex lover Octavia eventually bought a big house, got married, and adopted a kid. And Vinyl also made a lot of money from her multitude of albums and collaborations. In fact, I was just talking with her the other day and she appreciates what I did with her... And then there's you, excuse of an evolved gelatinous life form!"

Discord, in his human form, is currently looking down upon a gel based creature that has screwed up big time.

"Please, God Of Chaos," the talking puddle of gel beggs, "Have Mercy!"

"I trusted you correct everyone." Discord continues, "To tell your people that you are not a messiah!"

"How Are People Supposed To Believe Me When You Brought Me To My Peak Of Power!?"

"Because you could've done better than say something to make a few of them suspect that you aren't a messiah. You could've told it more commonly, found some kind of mass communication, vibrated it out to the world! Instead, you corrected your best friend when he said that you wanted future generations to make statues of you. Now, go away. I wish to end this conversation. Enjoy an eternity of nothing."

"NO, PLEASE!"

With a snap of Discord's fingers, the gel disappears and Discord pulls out a crystallized tear.

"Hm. To think I wouldn't make any kind of connection with a unicorn mare. Speaking of life lessons, I wonder how Mon Capitaine is doing?"

Discord snaps his fingers and an orb floats in front of him with the sight of Jean-Luc Picard with a burned hole in his chest and Beverly Crusher trying her best to revive him. But the good doctor is failing badly.

"Oh? Mon Capitaine's artificial heart seems to have failed... I wonder what I can teach him..."

With a snap of Discord's fingers, Captain Picard appears in the distance. He looks around, slowly walks over to Discord, and grabs his hand.

"Welcome to the afterlife, Jean-Luc... You're dead."

Author's Note

And that's why Q diced to give Captain Picard a second chance. Because of Vinyl Scratch, AKA DJ Pon3.

Who would've thunk, eh?