Born Down In A Dead Man's Town.

Sci Twilight clicked the button on her recorder to star taking audio notes, the two boys in the room had various monitoring equipment from an EKG reader to stress level testers. They were the two had listening to Total Mayhem covers of metal songs. Bright hadn't been angry with deep down he knew it hadn't been his fault. "Subjects Whiz Kiddo and Bright Idea, Bright says Whiz attacked him in a fit of anger over a miniscule detail on the evening of Tuesday earlier this week."

For safety given the incident that had brought them here, Whiz was handcuffed to the chair he was in for the experiment. If what these two had told Sci-Twi was true, she'd need them restrained.

Elsewhere at the house The Dazzlings called home said Dazzlings; the pony Twilight, Flash and Sunset Shimmer along with several other people who Twilight and Sunset had trust and faith in to help them. Twilight was busy flipping through the pages of an old weathered occult book.

"So let me get this straight, the lead singer of Total Mayhem is a necromancer from your world? And he's trying to raise an ancient Egyptian demigoddess from the grave at a concert, which he tried to do back in the eighties, but failed cause there wasn't any magic here correct?" Flash said as he strummed away on his guitar.

"Yes...thats the basic idea of it...but Ithen just sounds...so.. I don't know run of the mill. Like there's gotta be a deeper motive behind this...something I'm not seeing."

"So what was it that you felt when you had your little...episode let's call it Whiz?" The Sci-Twi said to Whiz as she took notes on his heart rate, stress level and adrenaline as she adjusted the headphones on him.

"WellI though The Force Awakens was okay when Bright and I first saw it...but I never liked that Rey character...now that we saw Rouge One I like Jyn more...you see we were talking about that when...I just...I felt all my anger and everything that just gets me irritated like it just boiled over, and I just had to unleashit all on something."

Twilight took down everything he said in her notes before turning to Bright, "okay Bright what is it you said made him stop?"

"He kinda lost focus when I popped the ear buds playing our music out, guess my mom was right about rock and roll it's evil." Sci-Twi only tsked as she began to push okay on the music.

"I've seen magic and felt it's presence, but I'm not sure if evil was the reason, there's a logical explanation before we jump to a wizard did it. Now I'm going to monitor both of your vitals and the music on various wavelengths to see if they affect you emotionally and or physically, okay ready? Beginning controled test number one."

"In order for Mayhem to be alive even though his physical body was originally destroyed, I'm guessing he borrowed magic on how to turn oneself into a lich." Twilight read from the book, the pages showing illustrations of a human undergoing various stages of decay only while still alive until only a skull and bones remained.

"What's a lich?" Flash asked as he and few others gathered around to listen.

"When somepony I'm Equestria who could use magic would use it to tinker with their very souls. Liches can survive almost every thing that happens to their bodies...unfortunely for Mayhem he has one weakness.

"And what pray tell is that Twilight?" Aria asked as she kept her attention on her sister Sonata, who looked ready to up and leave any second now...something about her just didn't sit with Aria, more so than usual.

"Equestrian liches can only lose an immortal physical body one time, their semi corporeal form after their first death is stronger, or the very least has less weaknesses than a physical form but once it's destroyed they're gone for good."

"So unlike the time Sunset and them this world's Twilight went all demon on us, the magic of friendship isn't gonna help us this time I bet." Rainbow asked.

"I don't know, my friends and I back in Equestria have always faced the worst evils, and it has been our friendship that saved us, but now...uhhh if I could understand the other motive behind this! There just has to be more to this then the resurrection of a dead demigoddess there just has to be."

"Status of experiment, subject has been introduced to the alleged source of increased anger, hightend levels of adrenaline and increased stress. Readings so far no noticeable changes." Twilight dictated into her recorder as she watched Whiz, he was restrained in the chair as his headphones played a Total Mayhem cover of Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb from the 1979 album The Wall. Like all their covers it was a lot more metal then the source of it had been from that genre originally or not, Pink Floyd having been more progressive and psychedelic rock.

"Not feeling it yet?" She asked as she noticed a slight rise in Whiz's heart rate on the EKG and a spike in adrenaline from his adrenal glands.

"I'm feeling PO'ed get this crap off me Twilight" He said glaring at her, as he said that his stress level rose and he began to wiggle in his restraints.

"Hmmm interesting, noticeable rise in vitals just seconds after introduction to test catalyst."

"No duh Anna Freud! Now are you gonna get this off me or do I have to snap the cuffs before I thrash you?" He said his face getting redder as he began to gnash his teeth and hiss at her in an almost animalistic manner.

"Rarity; I know this may sound strange but I need you gather up as much silver as you can and bring it to the royal guard's quartermaster in Canterlot, I'm also gonna need my magic fire dust, and I need that silver made into daggers, and necklace charms that look like this," she paused to draw onto the note of the magic book that served as a messaging link between worlds a cross.

"Does everyone here honestly believe in this symbol? I'm pretty sure that they'll only protect us if you do." Twilight asked the group paying for a second, several hands went in the air but not all of them, she continued writing. "Send them to this world and please hurry, I fear time is short and this world needs all the help Equestria can give it. The others in the room could only chatter among themselves wondering what lay ahead of them, as Twilight closed the book and turned to look at Sunset. "Now where did you say you had that dream take you?"

"Experiment update, have taken subject away from controled test catalyst, levels slowly but surely returning to normal, brain wave read outs are off the charts...if only I could conduct a proper CAT scan for full reading. EKG shows heartbeat 180 over 200, stress levels up to near fatal combined with adrenaline levels and dilation of pupils. However all levels returned to normal almost instantly upon removal of the music...more research may be needed." Twilight said as she looked at the knocked over chair with the broken restraints and the kicked open door to the garage of her house she used as an ersatz laboratory, the damaged equipment still emitting smoke and fizzlyin from being violently handled.