The Legend of Rock

Twilight Meet Derek, Derek meet a talking unicorn...Oh By the way all the other Ponies Talk and sing!

The sun was shining brightly as Twilight left her tree-library. All of Ponyville was alive and bustling with a normal day activity, shopping at the local markets, performing chores that their jobs assigned them, or simply hanging out with friends on this beautiful day. The lavender unicorn smiled as she stepped out into the sunlight.

“Wow what a beautiful day, it’s almost perfect summer weather.” Twilight admired trotting away from the door.

“You said it!” a familiar voice shouted from above. Twilight looked to see a cyan Pegasus with a rainbow mane and tail swoop in from the sky. It was the Element of Loyalty and Twilight’s good friend, Rainbow Dash; who was particularly proud of the Pegasi’s work today. “We worked really hard to clear up the skies after yesterdays storms. It looks like every pony loves our work.” The Pegasus bragged.

“Well Rainbow what can I say, you guys do a great job.” Twilight admired looking at the sky.

“Speaking of doing a job, what you doing today Twi?” Rainbow asked as the two ponies began to walk into town.

“You want the long version or the short version?” Twilight asked with a smirk. She knew Rainbow Dash’s impatience with ‘Egg Heads.’

“Short version Twi,” Rainbow Dash answered as if the answer was obvious.

Twilight laughed, “Okay, okay well last night I discovered a summoning spell within one of my Starswirll books. I was hoping to test it out today.”

“A summoning spell, whatcha planning on summoning?” Rainbow asked as the two continued to walk through town.

“OH! Oh, are planning on summoning Cupcakes?” a high pitched and bubbly voice. Twilight and Rainbow turned around to see the bright pink, puffy hair earth pony, who also was the Element of Laughter, appropriately named Pinkie Pie.

“Hi there Pinkie Pie,” Twilight greeted, “And I was thinking of starting out small. You know some rocks and books and the like.”

“The Like,” Pinkie asked tilting her head, “What’s the Like?”

“A figure of speech,” Twilight answered, “I’m actually going to practice this out on Ponyville Hill.”

“Will Spike be helping you out?” Rainbow Dash asked.

“No,” Twilight answered sighing a little, “Princess Celestia wanted him to be our envoy to the Dragon Empire, so he’ll be away for a few months.”

“Ohh that’s too bad Twilly,” Pinkie Pie soothed, “He’ll be okay right?”

“Oh I have no doubt about that.” Twilight boasted. Then before any other pony could comment Twilight looked towards the hill, “Well would you look at the time I must be going!”

Then the lavender pony trotted off towards the hill. Pinkie Pie waved good bye before looking at the cyan Pegasus, “Hey Dashie, I just got in the new Pegasus Rock’n’roll CD, you wanna hear it?”

“Urgh Shades of Black, please they’re so boring.” Rainbow Dash said very disappointedly.

“Awww Dashie I thought you liked Rock’n’roll.” Pinkie grinned.

“Yea but it’s gotten so boring, there really isn’t any one good anymore.” Rainbow Dash sighed.

“Wow I never thought of it that way Dashie, is that why Rock’n’roll hasn’t really been catchy?” Pinkie asked.

“How should I know, I mean I can play the guitar but I’m no rocker?” Rainbow answered lifting off the ground, “Say Pinks, what plans you got today?”

“Well I have some baking to do at Sugarcube Corner. Would you like to help me?” Pinkie Pie answered eagerly.

Rainbow shrugged, “Sure why not, I got nothing better to do.” She and Pinkie began to head over towards to Sugarcube Corner.

“Oh by the way Dashie, I saw you practicing the other day, was that for the Wonderbolts!?”

“You know it Pinks,” Rainbow boasted, “I’m getting more awesome each day; the Wonderbolts will have to notice me!”

Pinkie Pie cheered, jumping higher than the building with sheer exuberance. When she landed on her hooves, she looked at Dash with a huge smile, “Do you know how it’s gonna play out?”

“Oh yea! I’ll go right up to Spitfire and say this to her!” Dash grinned. A confident look went on Rainbow Dash’s face as she felt a beat begin to play within her. It was upbeat, and it was good, and it was forcing the song to come out of her. “Open up your eyes, take a look at me. Get the picture fixed in your memory. I’m driven by the rhythm like a beat of a heart. And I won’t stop until I start to stand out.” Rainbow sang to the upbeat beat, “Hmm, Stand out.”

She turned to Pinkie Pie and knelt on her front hooves, jutting her wings up full erect. Pinkie Pie was starting to feel the musical beat radiating out of Rainbow Dash. “Some pony’s settle for the typical thing. Living all their lives waiting in the wings. It ain’t a question of if, just a matter of time. Before I move to the front of the line!” Rainbow sang.

“And once you’re watching every move that I make, you gotta believe that I got what it takes!” Rainbow sang before launching her self into the air at full speed. She blasted into a cloud then bolted out the other side causing the cloud to poof out and explode behind her. Dash used that to break out the chorus, “To Stand out! Above the crowd.” Then she lifted off the cloud and dove towards Pinkie Pie singing, “Even if I gotta shout out loud ‘til mine is the only face you see!”

As Rainbow neared the ground, she did a full loop singing, “Gonna Staaannnddd out!” She landed on all four hooves with a smirk, “Till you notice me.”

Pinkie Pie was sure in awe of Rainbow Dash. She didn’t know what exactly she was in awe of, but the cyan Pegasus was pretty awesome right now. Rainbow then trotted forward as the song continued.

“If the sticky wheel’s always getting the grease, I’m totally devoted to disturbing the peace. And I’ll do it all again till I get done. Until I become your number one!” Dash sang pointing towards the sky. The two ponies were near an outdoor restaurant, Dash jumped onto an empty table which wowed the pony crowd, “No method to the madness and no means of escape. Gonna break every rule and bend ’em all outta shape. It ain’t a question of how, just a matter of when. They’ll get the message that I’m trying to send!”

Dash jumped off the table and soared through the air, “I’m under a spell, I’m in over my head. And you know I’m going all of the way till the end!”

Pinkie was running at full sprint below but she was totally enjoying the show Rainbow Dash was putting on, “Ooh here comes another Chorus!”

“To stand out!” Rainbow sang landing on a rooftop over looking the street, “Above the crowd!” Pinkie slid to a stop and watched her above. Rainbow was now fully charged by the music within her, “Even if I got shout out loud! Till mine is the only face you see! Gonna Staaannnddd out! Till you notice me yeah!”

Dash then leapt off the building, landed on the street, and began walking towards a poster of the Wonderbolts. “If I can make you stop and take a look at me instead of just…” Dash started. When she reached the poster, she turned left and began to moonwalk backwards singing, “Walking by.” She then spun around to have her body point at Pinkie Pie but her head still looking at the poster, “There’s nothing that I wouldn’t do if it was getting you to notice…” She began walking towards Pinkie Pie with her head held high, “I’m alive!”

She stopped right at Pinkie and looked into her eyes. “All I need is half a chance, a second thought, a second glance to prove I got what ever it takes!”

Pinkie snorted, “It’s a piece of cake!”

Dash jumped into the air once again, “To stand out, above the crowd! Even if I gotta shout out loud! Till mine is the only face you see! I’m gonna Stand out!”

“Till they notice you!” Pinkie finished as the song ended, “Whoooo! Dashie that sounds awesome!”

“You bet it is Pinkie Pie. And in the mean time I’ll take my cracks at the guitar.” Rainbow answered floating down from the sky, “I think I might have a real shot at that as a hobby.”

“Oh you know what a good instrument set is too?” Pinkie asked. She didn’t even wait for Rainbow to finish, “The drums!” Pinkie then began to ramble about the drums until the duo got to Sugarcube corner.

Ponyville Hill was the tallest hill overlooking the town of Ponyville. It was only a two minute walk from the edge of town and very easy to reach. Twilight particularly liked this hill to test out her new spells, not because of any of her personal reasons, but Spike liked watching here the clouds in-between tests.

Today she stood at the top of the hill in front of a small circle she drew. After rubbing the dirt off her nose, she lowered her horn to the center of the circle. Twilight squeezed her eyes shut. She concentrated on her object. It was a small book she had taken out of the library and placed on her bed.

According to Starswirll the Bearded, to perform the spell a unicorn must envision every part the object before giving an undesirable urge for the object. Twilight’s horn glowed brightly as she cast the spell. And like magic the book popped out. “Well that worked perfectly!” Twilight beamed, “Everything that was supposed to happen happened!”

She levitated the book out of the circle. Just in time too, as the spell began again without her control. The circle began to glow bright white. Twilight took a step back as a white bubble popped in the very circle she drew. The pop created a bight light that temporarily blinded Twilight.

When the light subsided, what was left was quite a sight. Lying on the ground was a pure white colt. He had messy black mane and an equally black tail that was styled similar to Rainbow Dash’s tail. He also had a black goatee under his chin, and dark brown tips on his hooves. His ears were pointed and fully up as he squirmed. Other than that he was completely passed out.

Twilight approached the pony, a look of horror and confusion on her face, “Oh, that’s not supposed to happen!”

All of his senses returned slowly to Derek as he came back into consciousness. And what he felt horrified him. He didn’t feel his normal body; he felt his arms and legs yes, but no hands or feet to say, and certainly no fingers or toes. Plus he felt no clothes on him, instead he felt something fuzzy, almost like fur covering his entire body. Then he felt another sensation, something moving off his butt. It was a tail!

Derek slowly picked himself up. He wasn’t sure how he was doing it, he was acting normally but nothing felt right. His body was doing everything on its own. He sat down and slowly opened his eyes. The world around him was bright and lush. The grass was greener than any lawn he had ever seen in his life. But the sun was also a little bright, so he raised his hand over his eyes to protect them.

There was just one problem with that, he had no hand. Derek moved his appendage in front of his face. It was horse’s front leg and hoof! Now on all the booze and drug trips Derek’s been on before, he had seen some crazy things. But this took the cake for sure. “Okay that’s different!” he whispered very scared, “What have they got me on?”

“Um, excuse me sir but are you okay?” the female’s voice asked.

Derek jumped when she spoke. He looked in her direction and saw a pretty lavender unicorn standing near him. Wait a… “You…you can talk?” Derek squeaked.

“Um…yes quite well actually.” The unicorn answered, “Did you hit your head or something.”

Okay wait that unicorn’s talking to me and I can understand her, Derek thought to himself, this is too weird. He wasn’t sure of what to do, but the unicorn did mention the accident, so he played the card. “Um…yes, yes I must have. I don’t know how I got here?”

“Oops well that’s my fault actually,” The unicorn grimaced, “You see I brought you here with a summoning spell. I wasn’t ready to use it on ponies so I’m just as unsure as you are.”

Spell, magic? Can this get any stranger? Derek thought. “Yea sure maybe something like that.”

“Well what do you remember?” the unicorn asked.

Derek pondered on what to tell this…this…thing. Well if he was going to start somewhere, it better be with the name, “My name…Derek, Derek Strands.”

“Hello Derek, my name is Twilight Sparkle,” Twilight Sparkle greeted, “Welcome to Ponyville.”