Thunderstruck

“Im not sure what type of name it is, but its a name with a story and a reason like all school names.” Mike said. He was right, you can’t judge a place by its name. Liam then spoke up.

“Ok I know this sounds crazy, but I think we are in a different world.” There was a moment of silence in the car, until me and mike started laughing hysterically. “What you don’t believe me? Look around you. These cars on the roads aren’t like anything I’ve ever seen, and just look at the PEOPLE. Ive never seen anyone with red, lime green, and grays skin before. Just look.” Holy crap he was right. Every person we saw had a distinctive skin and hair color. And the cars didn’t look like anything I’ve ever seen. Some resembled nissan civics or prius’, but some were utterly confusing. There’s this one that looked like a mix between a camaro and a challenger.

“Well, maybe you’re right. I’ve never seen anybody like those people before.....Ok we’re on another world, universe, dimension, I DON’T KNOW ANYMORE!” I started to panic. Either I was on something like shrooms or something just as bad, or I might never see my family again.

Mike then put his hand on my shoulder and gave me an ‘everything is going to be ok’ look.

“Here, let’s put some Joe Satriani on to calm you down.” Mike then plugged his phone into the car stereo and started to play Joe Satriani’s ‘Made of Tears’.

“Thanks for that Mike, now let me think for a second.” I took a deep breath and thought about the situation for about a half a minute. “We’re on a different world, so chances are we’re gonna be here a while. So let’s enroll in this school for now and see where it takes us.” Mike and Liam nodded in unison. So I drove the car to the parking lot and got out. I made sure that me and Liam to grab our instruments and walked to the high school entrance. Once we entered the building, we were then greeted by a tall looking woman with multicolored hair, pale white skin, and shoes that will make you scream “WHAT ARE THOOOOOOOSE” without thinking twice.

Unfortunately I didn’t think twice.

"Um...Ok then, excuse me you three, are you new here?" She asked.

“Yes, we are in fact new here.” I said.

“Great, then allow me to welcome me you to Canterlot High School. My name is Principle Celestia. Now please follow me so I can walk you through orientation in my office. After that a student will give you a tour of the school. When the tour is done you will return to my office and receive your schedules. By the way, Ilike your instruments. You know, our first ever high school musical showcase is in a few days, you should sign up. Sign ups are located in my office, and around the school hallways.” That lingered in my mind for a bit, I’ll have to talk to the two after orientation to see what their thoughts on the subject are.

Once we were in the principle’s office, Celestia asked us a couple questions on where we live, age, grade, and such before telling us to wait for the tour student. The hardest ones being things like ‘where do you live’ and ‘did you attend school before this’ we made up things like our address and such and how we were home schooled before this. She then told us we will be put in the Jr class and told us to wait with the other 3 new girls that just transferred here. Before we left, we signed up for the musical showcase and was given a pamphlet of the schedule, rules, and guidelines of the event Now I’m just gonna come right out, the girls in this school have the strangest addiction to shoes that ho 2/3s past your shins. I have no idea why though.

We were walking to the front when we saw the 3 girls waiting for the tour guide as well. They seemednormal enough but the 3 of us knew something was off. We didn’t know what bit it HAS to have something to do with those necklaces. I went up to the yellow/orange one with the puffy hair and greeted her.

“Hi I’m Ryan. What’s your name?” I put my hand out expecting it to be shaken.

“Why? Who wants to know?” The orange one said.

“Geez, rude much?” Liam said. While we were waiting, I decided to pull out my Ibanez guitar and play Surfing with the Alien by Joe Satriani.

Just then, a girl with red, yellow, and orange hair came up and introduced herself to us. I’m pretty sure she’s our tour guide.

“Hello, my name is Sunset Shimmer. Are you the ones that I’m gonna give the tour to?” Mike then spoke up for the 3 of us

“Yes we are” he said

“We are as well.” The suspicions yellow girl said.

“Outstanding. Can you tell me your names?”

“My name is Ryan.”

“Im Liam.”

“And I’m Mike. It’s a pleasure to meet you.

“Great now may I ask you 3 for your names as well?”

“I’m Adagio, and this is Aria and Sonata.”

“Could’ve told us that earlier.” I said to myself.

The tour was pretty boring. It was just the expected shlop that you would expect from a stereotypical school tour. They tell you where all the classes, electives, and where everything else is. While nearing the end of the tour, the most peculiar thing happened regarding those 3 girls.

Sunset Shimmer asked obout the medallions on the 3 girls, and when she reached out to look at them, Adagio freaked out and backed away from her. Then she gave some BS excuse as to why. I think it was something along the line of ‘these medallions mean a lot to us.’ I knew that was a huge lie. I have this gift on when people are telling lies and such. Like when people say “don’t worry about it” i can just study their faces and see if it is something to worry about. When the tour ended, Sunset wanted to talk to us.

“You guys look pretty mean with those instruments. Why noy come with me to the music room and why don’t you show me what you guys got. I’ll even introduce you to my friends.”

“That sounds great.” I said. After that we headed to the music room. Once inside we were greeted with 5 different girls. Each with a distinctive feature separating them. All of them had instruments. Some were very peculiar, some were not. One girl with light pink hair had a tambourine. I’m not sure why. I’ve never seen a band with an electric guitar, and a tambourine in the same band. The other odd instrument was a keytar. I thought it it was an odd choice, but without things like that, we wouldn’t have great songs like ‘Jump’ by Van Halen, or ‘Working for Weekend’ by Loverboy.

“Mike, Ryan, Liam, these are my friends. Theyvare in a band they made called the Rainbooms.” That name sounds super gay. The girl with the pink puffy hair and on the drum set spoke up first.

“Hi I’m Pinkie Pie! I am the superie duperie dummer for the Rainbooms !” Is it me, or has this girl way too hopped on Mountain Dew. The girl with the stetson hat and the one holding the bass guitar spoke up next.

“I’m Applejack. Pleasure to meet you three.” Southern accent, and I’ll bet she isn’t even from the south. The girl with the rainbow colored hair and the the electric guitar spoke next.

“I’m Rainbow Dash, captain of most of the sports teams and great at being awesome!” I already don’t like this chick. I usually have problems with people having egos bigger than their heads. The girl with the Keytar and curly purple hair spoke next.

“My name is Rarity. I say those instruments you two have look fantastic. The curves on them look so sleek and smooth. May I ask what type of guitar and bass you two have?

“This guitar is an Ibanez Js2480. It sounds absolutely amazing when I play. Money well spent if you ask me.” I said.

“My bass is also an Ibanez instrument. Its an SR1300E. The wodden finish just, calls to me for some reason. I guess you you can say....... knock on wood.” Mike then started to play the sienfield theme song when at me and liam just face palmed way too hard. Im glad the caffeine girl found it funny.

“What’s this ‘Ibanez’ you keep talking about?” Rarity asked.

“It’s a guitar company from where we come from.” Mike said. What about you? What’s your name?”

“Oh, my name is Fluttershy. I’m really good with animals.” She seemed timid and shy. I can understand, I went through a phase a couple years ago just like that.

“Alright enough with the introductions, why don’t you show us what you got on those things. Not like you’ll be any better than me on that guitar.” Rainbow Dash said with confidence.

“Alright, Pinkie Pie may I borrow your drum set for the time being?”

“Okie dokie loki.”

“Alright guys, let’s do something that really gets the adrenaline pumping. How ‘bout AC/DC’s Who Made Who?

“I’m down”

“Me too”

“Alright then get your equipment set up guys.” We proceeded to plug our instruments while mike got a feel for the drum set. “Ok guys, 1, 2, 3, 4”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PiZHNw1MtzI

When we finished, we were greeted with Pinkie Pie jumping up and down cheering us on. Quite a few of them from what I could see were impressed. I was even more surprised by how we gathered a crowd of people in the doorway.

“Again , again encore!” Pinkie said.

“Alright alright. What should we do next guys?” Liam asked.

“How about Snow by Red Hot Chilli Peppers?” I suggested.

“Are you sure? I know that song puts a lot of strain on your hands.” Mike said. It was true. The song consisted of continuously playing this one chord for about 3/4s of the song. No wonder it’s in the top 10 for hardest songs to play on the guitar.

“I’ll be fine, lets just start.” As soon as I started sto do the cord, I knew it was going to be a long 5 and a half minutes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KvlqclaxyP4

This time Rainbow Dash was pissed. She didn’t like how she was being outshined by some ‘newbie’ had never seen before.

“Alright bub, lets do this. Right now. Guitar battle. Winner is the best of the 2 of us.” This was very sudden. I wasn’t expecting something so sudden. Although this wasn’t the first time I’ve been challenged to a guitar battle. And all of them I’ve come out on top so I wasn’t stressed that much.

“Alright Dash, I accept your challenge.”

“Alright, you take that amp and I’ll take this one.” I then explained the rules to the girls because they seemed puzzled on how this was going to go down. “The rules of this are simple. We each play the same song switching off between chords. One of you guys will be keeping score. The person with the lead amount of mess ups wins. Although, an opponent can also be kicked off the stage by the crowd for messing up too many notes and chords. Applejack, how ‘bout you be the judge because of you knowledge on string instruments like guitars.”

“Sure thing.” I hadn’t noticed it beforehand, but a lot mire students had heard our band and came to watch. The all seemed to be the on the edge of their shoes for this battle. “Guitar battle starts.... NOW!”

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jF9We7dIGfo

Rainbow dash stuttered to put out words after loosing to me. She was also panting heavily so that was also a problem “How did you beat me? I can’t believe it. Your like some strange guitar god.” Sunset then came up to me. And asked me a question that I still ask myself to this day.

“How are you so good at guitar?”

“To be honest, I really don’t know.”