Rock N' Roll is Friendship

by retrobrony1987

Giving A Girl A Ride Home/The Annual Slumber Party

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Lite drove down the road to the location where the pizza parlor was, he looked at the sky as it got more cloudier, "Man, it looks like it's gonna rain here pretty soon." He said looking up the clouds.

Lite found the pizza parlor it was next to the Chipotle where he and Sunset had dinner together, Lite park the car and walked inside where he was greeted by a waitress, "Hello!" She greeted, "Dine in or pick-up?" She asked.

"Well it's for pick-up but I haven't ordered it yet, cause I'm new in town and needed to know where this restaurant was." He said.

"Okay well I can take your order here and you can have a seat till it's ready." She said.

"Okay, I'll have... two large pizza's, one pepperoni and the other one plain cheese, and um... can I get two orders of mozzarella sticks and two 2 liters of Pepsi please." Lite finished.

"Okay," She said as she read the order back to Lite, "...Should be ready in about 35 minutes sir, would you like anything while your food be prepared?" She asked.

"Um... I'll have a Sprite please." Lite asked.

"Sure thing." She replied as she went and got his drink.

Lite waited at a small table for food and played a game on his phone to kill some time, Lite looked out the window and noticed that it was starting to rain.

"Hope my ballast resistor don't get wet, oh that right I made it waterproof in 83'" Lite remembered.

The rain was something that Lite enjoyed, cause it was something that would cause him to remember his good times with his friends from long ago.


Meanwhile across town in front of "Human" Twilight house, Twilight was inside getting her sleeping bag, they had gone to Sunset's to get her and Princess Twilight's sleeping first.

"So this is where my human twin lives?" Twilight said in awe.

"Yeah, it's nice isn't it." Sunset said.

"Too bad I can't see the inside cause my... our... I mean HER parents would have a real difficult time seeing two Twilight's" She laughed.

"Yeah them and Timber Spruce." Sunset said.

"Who?" Twilight asked.

"Sci Twi's boyfriend." Sunset replied.

"Oh." She said, Twilight just realized she hasn't seen Flash Sentry in a long time and she wondered how he was doing. "Hey Sunset, how's Flash?" She asked.

Sunset sighed, "Well Twilight he kinda went into the shadows after you left after the battle of the bands last year and he's always been asking me about you and always asking me if he could go through the portal just to see you, but I told him he couldn't cause it would be dangerous for him to be in a another world that's different from this one, during the summer while I was at the mall, I seen him toss coins into the fountain there, I kept wondering why he was doing that till one day I realized he was making wishes..., wishes to see you."

"Oh my." She sighed sadly knowing that the boy who loved her has been heartbroken for a while, they had been torn apart by worlds, not being in contact with each other, Twilight began to cry cause she felt terrible that she never realized that she meant so much to him. "I wanna see him... tomorrow." She said.

Sunset looked at Twilight and smiled, "We will do that tomorrow."


"Bolton!" The girl called carrying two pizzas and a white paper bag and two big 2 liters of pop out of the kitchen.

"Thank you, how much?" Lite asked pulling his wallet out.

"$43.35." She said, Lite took out his debit card and paid for the food and walked out of the restaurant.

Lite quickly carried the food through the rain and to the car and set it in the front seat, "Well this car might need a shower but I've already had one today." He said, Lite started his car up and was just about pull out of the parking lot when he saw somebody in a dark hoodie sitting on a bus stop bench in the rain, Lite look at this person and felt sorry that they had to sit in the cold rain in the dark and wait for a bus, the person looked up and Lite realized that it was a girl sitting all alone as the rain poured down upon her, she looked sad and Lite who had a big heart wanted to help her.

Lite rolled down his window, "Excuse me, Hey!" He called out to her, the girl looked up at him, she looked scared, "Do you wanna ride?" He asked, the girl shook her head no, "Are you sure?, cause you look cold." He said, the girl was still silent, "Come on get in, I'll give you a ride to where you live, I got a heater in here that'll warm you up too." He said, the girl looked up again and stood up and walked over and open the passenger side door, Lite moved the food into the back seat and the girl got in.

"Thank you." She said softly with a small smile.

"Sure thing." He said putting the heater on full blast, "I'm Lite by the way." He introduced.

The girl pulled her hood down releasing a long light blue ponytail. "Sonata Dusk." She replied.

Lite drove out of the parking lot and asked the girl Sonata where she lived, she said it was a little bit out of town, which was in the direction Lite was going back to his house.

"Did you miss the bus?" Lite asked.

"Yeah," She said softly "I... was suppose to take the 6:45 but I... wasn't paying attention at work and forgot to leave on time and I missed it by 15 minutes." She said.

"Oh jeez, that suck's." Lite said.

"Yeah, they're gonna be upset with me." She said nervously.

"Who?" Lite asked.

"My... other f...friends." She stuttered.

"Why would they be upset with you?" Lite pondered.

"They tell me that I'm... retarded." She whimpered, Lite felt a little upset that she had friends that say that to her, "I'm suppose to make sure I get to work on time and get off on time and take the bus on time, cause they are tired of having to come and pick me up while they have work."

"Man, they must sound like real strict friends." Lite said.

"No, they're just... a little rude, and we use to have a great life together till... something bad happened." She said.

"What?" Lite asked.

"I'm... I'm not suppose to talk about it." She frowned.

"Do your friends take care of though?" Lite asked

"Yeah, they've been looking out for me a long time and they told me I had to get a job to make money to learn... reasonablebilitys." She tried to say.

"Responsibility." Lite corrected for her.

"Yeah." She said.

"Where do you work?" Lite asked.

"At the Chipotle." She replied.

"Oh, I was there last night I think I saw you in the kitchen." Lite said.

"Yeah, I used to cook till I was caught eating the orders and they put me on washing dishes." She said.

"Sounds like a simple work related problem, have you asked your boss if you could cook again." Lite optioned.

"...No, I haven't really thought about doing that, what if he says no?" She said.

"Hey, all you have to do is tell them how important it was to you to cook and tell them you're sorry and tell them you'll try harder and put more effort into you work and he'll have to give you a chance." Lite said.

"You think?" She asked.

"Of course." Lite said, "Even though we just met and we don't know each other at all, it's a good option to try, I've had a lot of jobs where I've done wrong things and did my best to make up for it and it all works out, and maybe you can too."

"Okay, maybe the next time I go into work I'll ask." She said with a small smile.

Lite felt really sorry for this girl, she was treated badly by her friends and had problems with works and who appeared not to be the sharpest knife in the drawer.

"Why is this car so different form those cars." Sonata said pointing at the new Dodge Challenger's that were sitting on a car dealership lot.

"Well, it's because that this one is from 1970 and it's almost 50 years old and those ones are modern models and are upgraded with more technology." He informed her.

"Oh."

Lite pulled up to the place where she lived, it was a town house that looked a little rundown but was still livable.

"Thanks for the ride." She smiled at him as she began to get out of the car.

"Hope to see you again, Sonata!" Lite said as she looked at him.

"Yeah, I hope so too." She smiled, she closed the door and waved goodbye to him, and just before she got to her door she turned her head and looked back at him and waved again almost bumping into the post to the front patio.

Lite backed out of the driveway and drove a way thinking, "She was a really, really nice person." Lite thought, "Why would she be hated by her friends like that?"

Lite headed back to the house still thinking about that girl... "Does she have any real friends?" He thought, maybe the next time me see's her maybe she would like to meet his friends.

As Lite pulled into the driveway he saw that the girls were back and was guessing they are hungry for food, Lite brought the food into the house, "I'm back!" He called out, and suddenly the house started to shake, and saw a stamped of girls going after the food, there was nothing Lite could do but just let the girls tackle him for the food.

Rainbow Dash and Applejack grabbed the pizza's and Sunset grabbed the bag with the cheese sticks and Pinkie grabbed the bottles of pop.

Lite sat on the floor dazed from getting tackled for food, the girls took the food into the kitchen, "Hey!" Lite said, "How about we take the food downstairs into the man cave and watch a movie down there?" He optioned.

The girls agreed and took the food and headed into the basement and set the food on the big coffee table in the middle of the room and Lite walked over to the book shelve and tried to pick out a movie. "What do you girls want to watch, Comedy, Drama or Horror?"

"Please let's no watch a horror movie." Fluttershy whimpered.

"Well let's a comedy then." Lite said as he look through the shelves of old VHS tapes, Lite didn't really have any new movies on the shelve but he had some good old ones that were funny, Lite kept looking till he saw one that is his favorite and guessed the girls would like it too.

"Whatcha got?" Sunset asked.

"Cheech and Chong's Up in Smoke." Lite smiled.

"Alright!" Dash cheered.

"Who are... Cheech and Chong?" Twilight asked.

"A comedy duo that people of the 70's and the 80's loved, a couple of pot smokers that get into trouble with a van made out of weed." Lite said, Twilight did not understand what he was saying cause she didn't now what weed or pot was, Lite took the tape out and put into the VHS Player and hit play.

"Huh, this guy's morning is kinda like mine." Sunset chuckled.

"Dear me," Rarity interjected, "Those clothes are just awful, they're all torn." She said talking about Chong's hippie look.

"Ew, gross." Disgusted Fluttershy, "Why would they smoke dog doo?"

"That's exactly what happened to me when I took acid for the first time!" Pinkie squeed.

"Can Ajax Cleaner do that to you?" Sci Twi asked.

"My cousin from the south said that's what burritos down there would do to you." Applejack mentioned.

"Man the battle of the bands in this movie was nothing like the one we had." Dash said.

"Fun fact," Lite said, "This movie was mostly some of their recorded skits they did and they just used them for this movie."

After about an hour and a half of laughing and Princess Twilight not fully understanding what drugs were, "Wow that stuff looks dangerous!" She said in fear.

"Yeah it is, but only pot now a days has more purpose for good use." Lite said.

"Really like what?" She asked.

"Well... medicinal uses and helps relieves stress." Lite said, Twilight still was unsure about it, "I could spend hours telling you about it, I'll have to get you a book or something for you to read more about it." He said.

Later that night Lite, Sunset and Dash went into the guitar room while the others watched TV, Lite showed his axes to Dash and she instantly fell in love with a classic Tobacco Sunburst Fender Stratocaster with a gloss maple neck double duel humbucker pickups and a whammy bar and a black pick guard.

"WOW! This one is beautiful." She said in awe as she strummed a few notes.

"Yeah, I bought that one in 77'." Lite said, "Here let me plug it in for you." Lite took a patch cord and plugged it into a small Marshall amp, Dash played some of her music that she wrote and played some other songs from other bands.

Lite grabbed a Black Les Paul Custom with three gold pickups on it, and plugged it into another amp.

"Wow, that's a nice Les Paul." Sunset complemented.

"This is Black Beauty, I got her in 68'." He said playing some blues tunes.

"Which one of these was your first guitar?" Dash asked.

"That one right there." Lite pointed to a old Gibson acoustic, "I was working as a busboy cleaning tables in a club in 1953 and I'm in the back room washing dishes till I hear this sound of an instrument being played, I walked out of the back room and I see this old African American guy in his 50's on stage playing that guitar right there, and he was playing this music that just got to my soul, later that night when the club was closing he was still on the stage I walked up to him and asked him what he was playing, he told me it was the blues, I asked him he could teach me it, he says to me that it can't be taught... you gotta feel it, so he hands me this guitar and shows me chords and tells me "Let you life's story be your music." so I remembered all those memories and took them and let my feelings play." And Lite played the song he felt inside of him that day.

"Weeeeeeeelll.... I use to have lotsa friends,
But I had to leave 'em,
Came to new town,
To start new life,
Hopin' to make somethin' on myself,
Don't know what to do,
But... Soon I'll find out."

"And that's all I had, wasn't too good with lyrics but the guy said I was good with the guitar." Lite said.

"What was the guy's name?" Dash asked.

"Two Tone Blue." Lite said, "During the time he was in town and after he played every night he would let me play that guitar and one day was his last day in town and he gives me the guitar and say's "No matter what boy, music may be something to play, but it's a part of your life and sticks with you till the day you die, never ever let it go." And that was the last time I ever saw Two Tone Blue, never knew what happened to him after that, but from that day forward I play the guitar almost every day till now." Lite sighed remembering that man from a long time ago.

After playing the guitars they all ate some desserts that Pinkie had brought over and watched Caddyshack.

"That Carl guy reminds me of Discord." Princess Twilight said.

"That gopher is a real smart Alec." Whispered Fluttershy.

"I want a hamburger... no a cheeseburger, I want a hotdog, I want a milkshake, I want potato chips..." Dash quoted.

"You'll get nothing and like it!" Pinkie quoted.

"Reminds me of the trouble I go through with gophers in our orchard." Applejack said.

"That swimming pool part always cracks me up." Sci Twi laughed.

"Wow, all that trouble just to kill one gopher?" Sunset raised an eyebrow.

"That guy had an unusual style of golf clothes." Rarity declared looking at Rodney Dangerfield's clothes.

"God, Rodney Dangerfield... what a comic, when he was doing this movie he thought that his acting wasn't good enough and that's why he was sweating so much, but everybody loved it that they couldn't break character to laugh." Lite added.

After another hour and a half of laughing they decided to get ready for bed, Sunset was a little worried to go to sleep worrying about having another one of those dream, but if it happens it happens, she thought as she shut her eyes, Fluttershy thought it was too dark to sleep in the basement so Lite turned on a couple of neon beer signs and they all fell asleep, except for Lite who was still thinking about poor sweet Sonata.


Meanwhile Sonata laid on the top bunk of the bunk bed in the room where her and Aria Blaze shared, she was still trying to think about how she can make her life better instead of being a klutz all the time, she heard the front door open and got up to see who was home, it was Adagio Dazzle who was wearing a long black wool coat, she had smelled of sweat and her face had smeared makeup all over, Sonata always wondered why she looked and smelled like that when she came home late at night but Adagio said it was none of her business, Sonata was about to tell her about Lite till her brain stopped her cause she knew if she told her she would get the "NO FRIENDS!" lecture from her and be reminded about that night they lost their powers, Aria came home later smelling of cigarettes and alcohol she wondered why to but she would say the same thing that Adagio would say, Sonata would some times wish that things could go back to the way they were... but without the evil singing and the feeding off negative energy, having a nicer place to live and have a fridge full of food and the girls not controlling people which she had to do in order to have a home with the other two, even though she had the brain of a bird and the intelligence of a 6 year old kid, she still tries to be more of a better person than Adagio and Aria.

Sonata laid on her top bunk with Aria asleep on the bottom, she was beginning to think about that boy Lite, maybe if she saw him again maybe she could ask him to be her friend, for the first time in Sonata's life she felt something inside that she had never felt before, it was a warm feeling that told her that this Lite person was going to be a good friend to her.


Author's Note

Looks like Lite has met one of the sirens,:pinkiegasp: what will happen next? stay tuned for more my friends.

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