In the care of Octavia

by Borogneir

Rating: teen
Tags: Random, Diamond Tiara, Slice of Life, DJ P0N-3, Alternate Universe, Sad, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Cutie Mark Crusaders, Dinky Hooves, Octavia
Length: 6919

Vinyl get's shrinked into a filly and sent to a dimentsion where she was adopted by Octavia.

Lyra and Bonbon came to visit their friends Vinyl and Octavia. The reason they came there was that Lyra had found a spell she really wanted to try, but Bonbon refused to be the test subject. Vinyl on the other hoof jumped at the chance, she thought it sounded like fun. But, something goes wrong and now, Vinyl is trapped in an alternate dimension where she's a filly adopted by Octavia!

Published 2012-07-14 01:34:01 UTC
Last updated 2013-01-28 20:55:33 UTC

Well this is not what I planned

As she was stirred from her sleep by the obnoxious sound of the alarm clock, Vinyl punched it straight into the wall. ‘I hate clocks.’ she thought to herself as her throbbing headache from yesterday’s activities returned. ‘Headache, check. I hate hangovers.’ She had gotten used to waking up like this; it came with the job as she would say. She then remembered that there was no reason for the clock to be active since she had no appointments to meet today, okay maybe except for hanging out with Octavia but that was a daily activity. She started feeling around in her bed and sensed a distinct lack of the gray mare in it. ‘Stupid Octy, making me wake up in the morning…’ She rolled off the bed in an untidy fashion and fell square on the floor. ‘Ouch.’ She tried to stand up, but she fell straight onto the bed again. ‘Wow, this is a really comfy bed…’ She started dosing off into dreamland once again only to be interrupted by a voice from downstairs.

“VINYL! I know you are trying to fall asleep again, but breakfast’s ready!” ‘Breakfast?’ Hearing the only word she wanted to hear at this point she practically jumped out of the bed and started to trot slowly downstairs. As she enters the kitchen she looks around the room for her breakfast.

“Where’s my breakfast? I’m hungry…” Octavia chuckled at the usual behaviour of her friend.

“It’s not finished yet, I just wanted you to get out of bed, you should know by now that staying in bed is not an option.” Vinyl harrumphed. She then continued to sit in her chair and dose of for a bit. But that only earned her a smack in the head from Octavia. “No sleeping. And besides, your breakfast is ready.” Vinyl lifted her head slowly and tried to sit as normal as possible. “Good, Vinyl. Now here’s your breakfast.” And surely enough Octavia put the plate with pancakes in front of Vinyl and before she knew it they were gone in a matter of seconds.

Then a sudden knock from the door was heard. “Octy, who could that, be?” Octavia smiled.

“It’s good to see that you are capable of speech, and I have no idea who it could be.” But Vinyl had already trotted off towards the door.

She opened the door and behind it stood two of their friends, more specifically Lyra and Bonbon. “You look tired.” The mint colored pony pointed out

“Party… What are you two even doing here?” Lyra smiled and Bonbon rolled her eyes.

“It has to do with Lyra’s stupid obsession.” Bonbon pointed out matter-of-factly.

“It’s no obsession, its a hobby.” Bonbon shook her head.

“Well come in then.” Octavia said from the kitchen, somehow overhearing the conversation. As the three ponies entered the kitchen to the newly arrived ponies left. Octavia finished up the dishes and then everypony sat down at the table. “Why are you two here again?”

“I have been doing research on hands and I think I have come across something big. Possibly even life changing.” Vinyl and Octavia slowly nodded and Bonbon just rolled her eyes again. “The thing I have come up with involves a certain spell that has a one hundred percents chance of success but Bonbon here refuses to let me try it on her and well I wanted to ask if one of you two would be willing to do so. I could even pay you.” Octavia shook her head really fast and Vinyl pondered the question.

“I could do it.” Lyra’s face started shining in happiness and Octavia and Bonbon just looked at her in disbelief.

“You will? Thankyouthankyouthankyouthankyou!” Lyra squealed in happiness.

“Vinyl what are you thinking here? It could be dangerous.” Vinyl just tilted her glasses and looked at Octavia with her bright red eyes.

“Are you serious? She even said it has one hundred percent’s chance of success and no damage, so I don’t see the problem. Now that we settled that, Lyra would you please follow me?” Lyra nodded and the two of them got up from their seats leving the other two mares too chat, oh and they also walked upstairs. The DJ closed the door behind them and turned her attention towards Lyra, but she stumbled a bit on her feet. She then tried to gain her footing again and when she finally did she saw Lyra looking out the window. “Let me guess, it’s not one hundred percent?” She shook her head and then turned herself towards Vinyl with a smile of excitement.

“Nah more like ninety-nine which isn’t that bad. There would be no way for you to get damaged anyhow.” If Vinyl hadn't been so busy wondering about the spell she would have seen the slight tint of worry in the eyes of her friend. “Should we get started?” Vinyl made a smug smile and nodded vigorously. “Sit on the bed and I will begin.” she did as she was told and Lyra’s horn started glowing in a slightly lighter mint color. The horn then started shooting a beam towards the white mare and she started floating in the air. “Nearly there.” Vinyl started feeling smaller; she had no idea what this feeling could mean. Before anything else happened the door was slammed open.

“LYRA! SHE HAS A HANGOVER; SO STOP!” Bonbon screamed as she knocked Lyra down from where she was standing.

“Oh god no, I had no idea… This is bad.” Lyra whispered from her new location on the floor.

“Guys what is happening?” Vinyl said with a tint of worry in voice as she was still floating in the air. With a distinct lack of Lyra’s magic aura around her.

“Vinyl… I have no idea what will happen really, but I never meant for it to ha…” Vinyl then disappeared. “Oh no…”

“WHAT HAVE YOU DONE!?” Octavia screamed as she slapped Lyra.

“She seemed normal… If I knew she had a hangover I would have never tried, because for some reason that stupid spell can’t handle alcohol… SHE EVEN TOLD ME ABOUT THE PARTY!” All three of them then started to cry.

***

‘Ugh, what happened to me? Wait, why am I in a bed?’ Vinyl opened and saw that she was in a kid’s room. ‘What is this place? I have never seen it before.’ She tried standing up and found that she no longer had a hangover and that she was distinctly smaller in size than before. She trotted over to the nearest mirror and looked at herself. ‘I’m a filly again? Why do I look like I’m ten years old? At least I still have my bad flank glasses, heh.' She had no memory of what had happened just before she went to sleep but she knew that she did not belong in the body of a filly. She started looking around the room she was in a bit more and found that the theme of the room strangely enough fit to what her interests was. There was a small mixer table along with a couple of not-so-big speakers. ‘I will have to do something about that.’ She then thought to explore the rest of the mysterious house she now found herself in. Trying the reach the doorknob she found herself struggling to open it with her magic due to her new body not being nearly as stong at magic.

Coming out from the room she only found a stair going down. When she gets downstairs she walks into the first room she saw and notices that the room itself is a kitchen. ‘I am pretty hungry.’ Jumping to reach the table she sees a note and instantly starts to read it. ‘Maybe some clues?’

Dear Vinyl

While you were sleeping my ensemble called
Frederic sounded really enthusiastic about whatever it is
So I made this note to let you know that there is food in the refrigerator
I should probably be home in a couple of hours from you reading the note.

Your mother, Octavia.

Vinyl’s face drops as she finished the note. ‘Is this some kind of joke? Oh wait, I’m filly sized, VERY FUNNY OCTY!’ She went and opened the refrigerator and started to eat her breakfast. ‘Wait a minute, I have no idea what this house is but somehow Octy knows? What is this madness? And why did she call herself my mother? Something really creepy is going on here.’ After finishing her meal she decided to go back up to her room and she started pulling parts out of the speakers and throwing them around and doing all sorts of crazy things for what seemed like a hour.

‘Now to test this bad-boy.’ The latest hour Vinyl had built together a small bass system out of the materials of her former speakers. She started the music and noticed it as something from Octavia’s collection. Her eye twitched as she stopped the music and started looking around for her own records. After searching for about ten minutes she finally found a record from Aerocolt. ‘Perfect, just what I wanted.’ She put the record in the machine and it let out a powerful yet amazing sound. ‘IT LIVES, IT LIVES! I guess I still have the skills even if I’m a small filly. What is the saying? The awesome stays awesome? Yeah, that’s probably it.’ She fell down onto her bed listening to the loud music of her newly made speakers and bass. ‘It’s not as good as the professionals do them but oh well, it works. Which also makes me one hundred percent awesome.’

After she listened to the entire album she decides to go downstairs again, and when she reached the bottom of the stairs the door slams open seemingly out of nowhere revealing Octavia running straight at her and starts hugging her. “Vinyl, are you ok? The neighbors called about some loud noise coming from our house so I rushed home. I can’t hear anything though… Vinyl what have you done this time?” She pulled away from the white filly and looked at her, and she just made a smug face.

“I made a speaker, Octy you should know by now that I do these kinds of things.” Octavia looked shocked at the way Vinyl talked to her, she had never heard her daugther using that nickname.

“You did what, But how? I didn’t know you had those kinds of skills. Would you mind showing your mother this speaker?” Octavia pointed out as Vinyl’s eye twitched as she nodded and went upstairs.

Octavia’s mouth went agape when she saw the contraption her daughter had made while she was at work. “I made this in an hour and a half, nothing big and besides I didn’t really have any good parts.” She went over to the machine and started the record again; Octavia fell on her bum as she heard the loud sound coming from the speakers not to talk about the bass. She immediately went over to the small console and turned it off with her eye twitching.

“Say, how did you know how to make something like this my dear Vinyl?” Vinyl raised an eyebrow and tilted her head.

“For years now, don’t you remember when I made my first speaker? I am pretty sure you were there.” Octavia just looked at her in disbelief and shook her head.

“Vinyl this is the first time you have shown me any of this, though I am pretty happy that you have the knowledge of these things in your young age.” Vinyl pushed herself from the hug Octavia had pulled her into.

“What are you talking about young? I was 20 years not so long ago, and then something happened which is blurry but I woke up in some unknown house and I have shrunk, THIS MAKES NO SENSE TO ME!” Octavia stumbled back as she heard her daughter screaming in frustration.

“Vinyl dear, you don’t have to hide behind lies, if something happened please tell me, I am here for you. That’s what a mother is for after all.” Vinyl shook her head and went under the bed.

“You’re not my mom and I know it because I remember my mom clear as day, even though she died a year ago.” Her eyes started tear up at the memory of her parents.

“Now what are you talking about? I have been your mother for years now and you already know i'm not your real mother. She died when you were nothing more than a newborn foal, or that's what the orphanage told me. So I took you in as your new mother though not biologically, but spiritually." Octavia tried to pull her frustrated daugther closer to her but she just pushed her away and started screaming.

“YOU ARE NOT MY MOTHER! WHY CAN’T EVERYTHING JUST GO BACK TO NORMAL?!” She started crying as she darted out the door into the streets not caring where she went.

Running through the streets of what she recognized as Ponyville. For her it felt like an eternity running through the crowds with her eyes filled with tears, even bumping into multiple ponies due to the fact her tears dulled her vision. A large number of ponies looked her way as they saw her running off. A few even tried to get her to calm down but she just pushed them away unable to accept their help because she was so angry with the world, not understanding why everything was so different but somehow the same. After countless of minutes just running through the village and multiple falls, she finally was so tired she just fell together in a nearby bush.

What is this, I dont even.

Uhhh... My head Vinyl took a hoof to her head as she awoke from the slumber she had found herself in. She looked around and found that she was in THAT bed again. NO! NO! NO! NO! NO! Why? Why did this happen to me!? ARGH! I don’t want to be stuck as a filly! I want to go back to my life and party every other day! I can’t do that like this! He hit herself in the head with anger as she slowly rose from her bed. “Wait a minute.” She muttered to herself. She was now seeing something she didn’t quite believe, she saw her own speaker and she remembered that she had made it… But somehow, it didn’t feel right, it seemed off… It didn’t fit her style and she had somehow made it in a VERY short time, they usually took hours, but this had only taken, like, what, one and a half? “That’s odd… I don’t get how that makes sense, but it somehow does… Ugh this body is annoying me! I can’t reach as high and my magic doesn’t seem to work! GRAAH! I DON’T WANT THIS!” Her horn flared blue and slammed the entire speaker and all equipment it came with straight into the closest wall. “Wha? Huh? How did I? … Okay… That made no sense, I can’t normally do that and this body doesn’t even use magic normally… Then how the hay did I just do that?” She sat down in a thinking position trying to think of how this was even remotely possible. She had never been very apt when it came to magic, but she could use it. So how this could happen was a completely mystery.

The door slammed open and there stood her supposed ‘mother’ Octavia, “Vinyl!? What just happe—” She stopped as she saw a giant bump in the wall with destroyed equipment to speakers and such. Octavia could do nothing but stare; she had no way to react to what she was seeing. This was impossible; Vinyl didn’t know magic this strong, right? And she couldn’t possibly have the physical power to do this, so how… “How did you?”

“Magic explosion thingy, or something like that, I don’t really care. I got mad; everything went into the wall, that’s pretty much what happened.” Vinyl said with a wave of her hoof, like she was shrugging the whole thing off, not caring about it at all.

Octavia shut her eyes and gave off a huge sigh. “I see… What did you get mad about then?” Octavia had a very small guess as to what it could be, unless that was just her daughter being extremely confused yesterday.

“What do you think? Or did you just somehow forget what happened yesterday? I am extremely confused about what’s happening. One day I was living my completely normal life as a 20 year old. I had a completely normal life as a DJ and I had the most wonderful roommate.” She glanced at her mother, who got slightly surprised at that for some reason. “My friends were the most awesome ponies I could ever ask for, my life was perfect. Then suddenly, I appear in a world where my best friend and roommate is somehow my mother, so how do you think I feel?!” Vinyl eyes were starting to fill up with tears as she cried into her bed, extremely loudly.

Octavia was stunned, that was a very heartfelt speech to listen to, but still, she couldn’t exactly believe any of it. She had been Vinyl’s adoptive mother for a long while now; it didn’t just happen over one night. But Vinyl just seemed so sad about it though. She had no idea what to do in this situation, so she did the only thing her mind told her to. She went over and hugged her daughter as caring and motherly as she was able to. “I don’t know how to react to that, I hope you understand that, it’s not exactly easy to believe. I mean, for me, you’ve been in my care for a long time now. If you actually come from this other place and you supposedly are twenty years old, how can I possibly understand? If what you say is true, all I want is for my Vinyl to get back. But to me, you will be my little Vin’ until this gets taken care of, deal?” Octavia said with the biggest smile.

Vinyl looked up from her bed to Octavia, the smile she was really genuine, Octavia believed her! This might just turn out good after all! Vinyl nodded her head very sternly as she hugged her supposed mother right back. She didn’t care if her best friend was her current mother, even if Vinyl would never see her as that. Octavia would always be her best friend! “Thanks Octy, I’m happy you believe me at least a bit. I get that it’s hard to understand, but I’m just really glad that you did, it’s a blessing.”

If Vinyl could see Octavia’s face at that exact moment, she would have seen extreme amounts of regret. To be honest, Octavia didn’t believe the story at all; she was just humoring her daughter, who could believe that? An alternate universe? That’s impossible, wasn’t it? Octavia released her grip of Vinyl and gave her daughter a smile as she said, “I’m going to make some breakfast now, so when you’re ready, you can come down.”

“Yeah, sure, I don’t exactly have much to do before, but sure. I’ll come soon.” Vinyl replied as she splayed herself on the bed with a sigh. Octavia just shrugged and went downstairs with a whistle. Somehow, that little whistle reminded Vinyl of something, she didn’t exactly know what though. “Why is that so familiar?” She couldn’t remember hearing it before; she had never heard Octavia whistle before. But somehow, that whistle somehow inspired nostalgia in Vinyl’s mind. It was probably just something about this odd reality she was now in, probably had something to do with the body she was in. Because if this body existed before she got here, it must mean it has its own experience about things… Doesn’t that mean that the child Vinyl had appeared in her universe? Well, she must be terrified out of her mind in that case.

“I guess I have to make the best of this place until I find a way home. Gotta talk to Sparkle later, she knows lots of magic… Right?” Vinyl didn’t continue to ponder this because she had decided what to do; she was going to enjoy the ride of being a kid again, with her attitude. She smiled menacingly to herself as she went for the door. Then, something popped into Vinyl’s mind; did she possibly have any friends in this universe? Well, her friends probably have to be children, what with her being a child now. That is, if she’s not the most sophisticated child in the history of pony, and the chance of that is probably the smallest ever. What with Vinyl being Vinyl and all.

As Vinyl entered the kitchen breakfast had already been placed on the table, it made Vinyl smile; this was awesome, free food… She liked free food. If one takes food and makes it free, Vinyl could eat so much her stomach would probably burst. She chomped the food so fast; Octavia just stared but quickly shook her head. The food made Vinyl even more nostalgic for some odd reason, she had no idea why, it felt like this had happened before. But clearly, that wasn’t the case at all.

As Vinyl finished she spoke to her ‘mother’ “Octy, can I ask you something?” Octavia hummed in an approving manner, her tone clearly stating ‘yes’ “ok then, as you know, I’m not from here, so I have to ask, do I have any friends and who are they?”

Octavia stopped cleaning the dishes and looked at her daughter and quickly replied, “well, that will be easy to figure out soon enough, since you are supposed to hang out with them today. And, if you are from an alternate universe or whatever, you probably know them pretty well, they are famous for creating a lot of ‘situations’” Octavia explained as she went back to the dishes.

Wait, famous for creating ‘situations’ ? Does that mean… No, it couldn’t possibly be those three, because if it were, her day would get weird, pretty fast. Well, let’s hope that’s not the case. But looking at her flank, the chances are unbelievably high, but hopefully, that isn’t the case. “I think I have an idea, but if it is them, Celestia save me…” This made Octavia giggle. “Yes, it’s them isn’t it? It’s those three, who were they again? Apple Groom, Swetty Bile and Smootacoo? I was it something else?” Vinyl knew she had just butchered their names, but she did that on purpose, those three were the biggest menace in the time she had lived in Ponyville, and if she was a member of the group… She didn’t want to know what could happen.

“Oh, yes, it’s them… By the way, their names are as follows, Apple BLOOM, Sweetie Belle and Scootaloo, easy to remember. I bet you already knew that though, you just butchered their names on purpose because you think they do a lot of odd things.”

“You have no idea.” Was all Vinyl could say as she left the kitchen after easting her breakfast. She had no idea what to do at this point, considering nothing of her usual activities were available as a child.

Vinyl tried looking around the house again, and well, she found the room that contained the television, she had forgotten the name of the specific room. So she didn’t quite care about that at the moment. She turned on the television and tried to find something interesting to spend her time with. She didn’t find a lot of interesting programs, since the most of the channels available were children’s channels, probably because she now existed in the body of a child, and she didn’t like it.

She fin ally decided to watch something called ‘Completely Spies’ it was about these three teenage fillies secretly being agents. The premise seemed ridiculous, but it worked in that weird way. They seemed to live in ‘Marely Hills’ which didn’t quite make sense if they wanted to be inconspicuous. The whole show was completely silly, nothing made sense, but at least, Vinyl had something to spend her time with.

She turned off the TV, getting very bored of the contents, she decided to go to her room and simply relax till the three got here and her day would go completely bonkers. As she entered her room she decided to simply relax on her bed, she first now noticed the sheets, it was what she would expect, extremely large bass notes, just the way a child version of her would have it. Just then, music started, Vinyl reacted to this, it was Octavia’s cello playing, she remembered this tune, it was the first thing she ever heard Octy play, the nostalgia levels were going overboard. She could do nothing but smile as she laid there on the bed.

Vinyl didn’t really like her situation, but what could she do? Nothing, that’s what. I do hope they do something fun for once, I don’t like braking things… Or, I could lead them on the biggest and craziest crusade know to this town… Yeah, that sounds like the perfect idea. I’m totally doing that. This made her laugh to herself; she already knew what to do.

And almost as fast as her thought finished, the door knocked. She smiled, this day was going to get interesting, just because she had the perfect plan.

She opened the door and there stood the three of them, Vinyl greeted them with a quick, “hello!” They replied with the same thing. Vinyl quickly shouted to her ‘mother’ “Mom! I’m going out with the girls!”

Octavia’s heart decided to jump, just because Vinyl had just said ‘mom’ she didn’t know why but it did. Octavia decided to shout back to her child something Vinyl had to remember, “Sure honey, just remember, don’t be back to late, there’s school tomorrow.”

This made Vinyl freeze, school… Oh Celestia no!

Please! Tell me what the buck is going on!

Vinyl had completely forgotten that detail, of course she had school. She was in the body of a filly, so that was pretty much a dead give away. If she hadn’t been distracted by the whole situation, she would probably have figure that out already, but alas, she hadn’t and now she had to pay for her incredibly silly mistake. Vinyl made a nervous laugh to her supposed mother and nodded as she closed the door behind her with a shove of magic. “So, that’s that, what are we gonna do today then?” She asked the crusaders standing in front of her. By her calculations, she was probably also a crusader, one could almost figure out such a thing pretty easily. Vinyl opened her eyes to see the crusaders jaws practically hanging to the ground, she tilted her head to the side in confusion, and then Sweetie Belle pointed at her horn and uttered something.

The sound that came out of the filly’s mouth sounded like amazement, but Vinyl didn’t quite understand what was so special about her horn... Wait, maybe they were referring to her magic? “You have magic!” Yeah, she had totally just called that. Vinyl nodded slowly and the gasps from the three fillies became even bigger. “That’s amazing! When did you learn that? I didn’t know a pony could just learn magic that fast, are you some kind of awesome pony?” Vinyl blinked, she didn’t know how to react, but she still found it pretty enjoyable that Sweetie Belle was the only one of the three able to talk.

Vinyl coughed, breaking the concentration of the three. “Yes, I can magic, please don’t make such a big deal about it. Let’s just do something, I am light headed so I forgot what we were supposed to do, so yeah, sorry about that.” She lied, she obviously had no idea what was going on. Vinyl hoped that the filly’s wouldn’t do something too crazy, but knowing the Cutie Mark Crusaders from her own world, that was something very stupid to think. She knew that the three had the biggest tendency to get into trouble. And then it hit her, she had magic, they were obviously going to make her do something with that. Vinyl gulped and smiled as she nodded in a weird way. “Come on now girls, shouldn’t we, you know, do something?”

The three fillies suddenly stopped being incapacitated and started to nod furiously. “Yes, let’s! Off to the treehouse!” They all shouted in unison. Vinyl sighed to herself as she started to gallop off after them. She giggled to herself, even though she didn’t like the circumstances, she couldn’t help but like the fact that she felt like a filly again, and it was great!

It was weird, she would have thought that the town would have changed in between dimensions, or whatever it was. But, for some inexplicable reason, there was no difference at all, it was odd, to say the least. It made Vinyl slightly unnerved, but no time for that, was her thought. She was too much into the moment to care. She was going to play as a filly again, even if she was a grown mare in spirit, she had always been a child at heart. She had never liked being stuck up with a stick in her butt. No, she had always been laid back and awesome just like a DJ should be.

The group of fillies soon arrived at the crusader treehouse, and first then, did Vinyl notice a difference except herself in the world. The treehouse wasn’t the normal tree color - as she called it - that it used to have. It was blue for some reason, with the frames of the windows being white. It was almost as if the treehouse had been modeled after herself. there had to be a reason, Vinyl just couldn’t figure out what. Not that she cared much about it at the time, but it was certainly something different from her own world. And somehow, that made her feel just a little bit more secure in her situation. As the four of them walked inside it... Ok, Vinyl had no idea what it looked like before, so there was no way to compare the two.

It was lazily decorated with some random painting on the wall, Vinyl had no idea what it was supposed to be, it just looked like somepony had splattered paint all over a canvas and sold it off to somepony. There was a small table in the middle, with four chairs surrounding it. Obviously for meetings or something like that. Vinyl reasoned to herself. Not that these three had any real reason to hold meetings but it was at least a table. In the corner of the treehouse was a small table with a single thing on it. it was a balloon figure that looked really disfigured, but it seemed to resemble some sort of pinkish pegasus with a blue mane. And of course, there just had to be a target mark on the ground. Vinyl didn’t understand what on Equestria this could be, it scared her, because it was a target. She had never liked anything to do with targets, not what so ever, there was just something scary about a flying object designed to hit other living beings. Swords on the other hoof, those were cool.

The other three crusaders placed themselves at the table and brought up something from beneath the table. Vinyl sat down on the table as well as she saw what it was. It was a blueprint. Not just any blueprint. A blueprint for a trebuchet... Vinyl gulped. “As you know, we have been building this catapult to try and earn our cutie marks as living projectiles—” Sweetie Belle was interrupted by a seemingly annoyed little orange pegasus.

“Proje-what now?” She looked at Vinyl. “What she’s trying to say is that we want to build this catapult thing to earn our cutie marks in the art of being thrown through the air.” Vinyl rolled her eyes. That was certainly an eloquent way of putting it to say the least.

“Yes, so as I was saying, now that you have magic, we can actually finish it, because we haven’t been able to deal with this thing-a-ma-bob right here.” She said as she pointed at a seemingly random spot on the blueprint. She certainly didn’t point at the contraption itself, just somewhere random on the paper. Vinyl guessed she just had to play along, so she did, and nodded towards the white filly. “Good, now, wait here, we don’t want you to see it in it’s current form. Just wait here and we will build it and then you can finish it for us.”

Vinyl nodded slowly as she was trying to comprehend why she wasn’t allowed outside. And then, she was suddenly the only pony left in the entire treehouse. Vinyl didn’t understand anything, what the hay was going on? Why didn’t she jsut help with the construction? There had to be another reason than them simply not wanting to see it in it’s current state. There had to be a reason, right?

She started to think to herself again, that seemed to happen a lot during the last two days. It probably had something to do with the fact that she had turned into a filly... Or not, yeah, that couldn’t be it. It had to be the lack of alcohol for two days. She used to drink at least every other day. And then, something very unexpected happened. As she was thinking to herself, something very unexpected happened. A certain filly stepped into the treehouse. A filly very known for her horrible attitude to ponies without cutie marks in general. “Hello?” Vinyl said as she stood up from her chair.

Diamond Tiara quickly hushed her as she shuffled over. “Hush! You don’t want them to hear me, do you? I’m here to give you this, remember? You asked for it three days ago, or did you forget? It’s been hard to get away from my father, but I know you will use it in the right way.” Vinyl didn’t react, she hadn’t even noticed what she had been hoofed, she was just looking at the pinkish filly with confusion.

“I am sorry, but I seemed to be rather confused at what’s going on. I have slight amnesia, so I’ve forgotten anything that happened before yesterday.” VInyl lied, it was better to do it this way, there was no point in even telling them about her apparent dimension change.

Diamond Tiara looked at her with a serious expression that practically shouted out in annoyance. “Well, that’s not good. You have to be reminded of the pan then. Remember, when they finish their... Whatever it is, apply this to the seat, to make sure that their bare flanks are even more noticeable than before. Quick take it before they come back with refreshments!” She almost shout as she threw a tube-like object at Vinyl, she grabbed it out of reflex and looked at it. It was super glue.

“Vinyl? I’m coming in with some juice to drench that thirst of yours.” Apple Bloom said as she could be heard moving up the steps to the treehouse.

“Horse-apples!” Diamond Tiara swore as silently as possible as she ducked beneath the table to try and hide herself from the incoming crusader.

“Huh, what was that? Is there anyone in there with you, Vinyl?” Apple Bloom asked with concern.

Vinyl had no idea what to do, so she looked under the table at the pink filly, who drew a hoof over her mouth that signified silence, so Vinyl understood what she had to say next. “What? No, no, no, there’s nopony in here with me, why would there be? It’s not like i have any other friends than you three, right?” She said with confidence. Which seemed to be recieved with a smile from Apple Bloom as she entered the treehouse.

“No, I suppose that’s true, I was just worried is all.” She said as she approached Vinyl with a glass of juice on her back. “Here you go.” She said as she pushed it off onto the table.” Juice is served.” The farm pony said with a smile, which was answered with a slight smile from Vinyl. “Now, i gotta get back to the other two, you just wait here.” Vinyl nodded and the filly went outside again.

Vinyl winked under the table signaling for Diamond Tiara that it was safe to come out. The pink filly looked at Vinyl with a stern expression and said with an authoritative voice, “Remember, the glue goes where their flanks go, that way, their coat gets ripped off as they shoot themselves away in that stupid machine.” Was all she said before she practically jumped out one of the window.

This was all too much for Vinyl to handle, so she grabbed her head and screamed in her mind. What on Equestria is going on!? Who are my real friends in this universe? If Diamond Tiara is my friend, then why am I even around the Cutie Mark Crusaders? And if the Crusaders are my real friends, then why is the apparent other me trying to ridicule them in front of everypony!? It makes no sense whatsoever! Please! Celestia, help me! And if I don’t apply the glue, Diamond Tiara will suspect something. And most important of all, why is the crusaders treating me like some kind of goddess? Is it because of my magic? No, that can’t be it. There has to be some other reason, but i can’t just flat out ask them, now can I? That would ruin my believability. I seriously have no idea what’s going on. I just hope somepony explains it to me before all the craziness goes to my head and it implodes on me. I can’t have that, now can I?

Her train of thought was stopped when the voice of Scootaloo could be heard from the outside. “Come out now, Vinyl! The catapult thing is ready now!” This made Vinyl react, she had to act like everything was normal, she didn’t want to seem suspicious. Even if she had no idea how to play the other her, because she seemed pretty out of character for what Vinyl classed as her personality. Of course, she had always like a little chaos, but revealing three ponies entire bare flank? That was a little too much. But she had to, didn’t she? Yes, yes she did. Diamond Tiara seemed to have hinted at somepony else getting the blame for what would happen. And besides, Vinyl was really curious as to how funny it would look when the three crusaders would look when their entire flanks are bare, without a single bit of coat left.

Vinyl rose from her chair and stormed outside. Scootaloo was standing at the edge of the glade as if she was leading the way somewhere. Vinyl trotted over and walked past her. She soon arrived in a small glade in between the apple trees. And there, stood the biggest trebuchet that she had ever seen. Though, this was the only trebuchet she had ever seen, but still! It was massive, at least as big as five stallions standing on their back legs and stretching as far into the air as they could. It was a trebuchet and it was massive, and it scared the living horse apples out of her! The crusaders wanted to get thrown by this?

This day was about to get a lot more interesting.

Author's Note

ERMAHGERD! I am releasing more of this, finally! Right? Yes, it's finally time for more. I am sorry for not updating this at a more frequent ratio, I would have been able to if I could, but alas, life has it's tolls and I ahve other things to do. What with having a girlfriend now among other things. (She's both a brony and a gamer, for those curious :P )

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this, I am finally getting into teh main plot, though, it's not quite there yet, if you noticed a certain something that's not too big, as a reference for the future, i will give you a cookie. Do any of you have any clue what's gonig on in the story? i know I do, and it's good.

Not relevant right now, but i am very forgetfull, does any of you remember wheter or not she still has her cutie mark? 'Cause the story differs depending on what the asnwer is. Wow, i am forgettting my own story... I raelly am lazy, aren't I? Yes, yes I am. Anyway, I'm not gonna check it myself, because I am simply too lazy to do so. The story won't differ THAT much, just a teeny tiny bit here and there, nothing to worry about.

Sorry about being lazy, hopefully I will be a man and try to update this soon again, don't count on it though.