Chapter 1: Booting Up (Revised)
Ponyville is known to be a strange place, its closest neighbor being the Everfree Forest didn’t help change that. Sometimes monsters roam to far from their homes and wind up in town. Sometimes out of control storms roll out and into Ponyville’s skies. But that just made each day a new surprise for the town and all its residence, and some even look forward to seeing what the town would offer the next day.
But even then, everypony needed sleep, which left the town in peaceful silence even as the dawn of a new day flowed across the skies. However, one house in particular on the outskirts of town has never stuck to silence, and probably never will.
This noisy two story house looked like it had originally been two seperate buildings that had been cut in half, then glued together. One side has pale purple walls with dark purple support beams and a blue tinted window. The other side is brown with dark brown support beams and a chimney that looked like the top of a pipe organ.
The deafening beats were mainly originating from the pale purple side of the building, the owner of that side definitely known for playing loud music. That pony was currently practicing over her turntables for her next time D.J.ing at a club.
Her mane and tail were an electric blue which heavily stuck out against her snow white fur. Her eyes were shielded from view behind a pair of large purple shades, and her cutie mark was easy to spot due to it being a black slanted beamed eighth note.
Vinyl Scratch, Ponyville’s very own disc jockey, had a smile upon her face as her magenta colored magical aura fiddled with a few slides while her forehooves helped control the sound. She had grown used to loud music ever since she was a filly, so her ears were completely unharmed as the large speakers behind her continued to boom.
Somepony else on the other hoof, was still getting used to it. That other pony had a large frown across their face as she tried to tune out the roaring noises. It all proved to be in vein, eventually forcing the grey furred earth pony out of her comfortable bed and over to the door of her room.
Octavia practically bucked open the door, her usually well kept dark grey mane and tail completely frazzled from her slumber. Her purple colored irises locked onto Vinyl right as a massive blast of music rang from her instruments speakers.
"VINYL!!! IT IS TO EARLY IN THE MORNING TO BE PLAYING THIS LOUD!!!" Octavia shouted, trying to speak louder than the speakers that were pumping out the wubs.
Vinyl of course didn't hear her roommate, but she did see the mare glaring at her and lowered the volume a little.
"What?"
"You’re gonna wake up the entire neighborhood again if you keep doing this, and you know that they can get grumpy in the morning," Octavia exclaimed. "And I’m one of them!"
"Oh come on Tavi, you know I can't contain the wubs once they get started. I just guide them down the coolest roads!" Vinyl proclaimed, levitating her purple shades up to expose her dark magenta irises.
"Well could you guide them down the quieter road? It's five thirty in the bloody morning for Celestia's sake!" Octavia stated with annoyance.
"Five thirty? That's gotta be a record!" Vinyl stated, not remembering her ever waking up before eight.
Octavia trudged her way over to the kitchen and began putting together some breakfast. "Maybe to celebrate that you should grab the mail."
"Aw, but that's your job!" Vinyl said.
"My job is performing with my cello at consorts and practice, and since you woke me up so early, I might not be in the best condition when it's time to work." Octavia pointed out.
"Fine... " Vinyl muttered, switching off her turntables and setting her shades back over her eyes.
Vinyl hopped down from her spot behind the equipment and trotted over to the front door, which creaked slightly as she opened it. A strong wave of morning dew from last night's storm quickly flooded through the doorway, clearing away any sort of drowsiness that the D.J. might have somehow still had.
Vinyl trotted down the path that led to the house and over to where a small wooden mailbox stood in the yard, its red handle sticking straight up to signal that it was full. She opened the mailbox with her magic and pulled out a set of envelopes, most being bills while a few others were advertisements and one package addressed to Octavia.
She levitated them out of the mailbox and was about to head back inside, but a flash of white light that flickered in the corner of her vision made her halt. She quickly turned around just in time to see a strange white portal surrounded by white flames vanish into thin air, but that wasn't what had caught her attention. That would be the strange purple machine that was now resting in the front yard.
The shock at seeing a strange machine appear out of nowhere was enough for Vinyl's concentration on her levitation spell to vanish, causing the envelopes and package to fall onto the dirt path that led away from their house. But the mail was the last thing on Vinyl's mind right now.
The unicorn cautiously approached the machine, ready to take off if it did something suspicious. But the thing stayed completely still as Vinyl cautiously circled it a few times, taking in the sight of it from each angle.
The machine was almost completely purple besides a single black stripe that went from the highest point on the machine to what she assumed was the front. The front seemed to have a strange barrier that separated what looked somewhat like a speaker from the outside. A long stretch of glass spread across the higher area of the machine, exposing a faint outline of an interior behind it. The machine was also resting on four wheels, but they looked more like the wheels on one of her mobile speakers then simple wooden wagon wheels.
Vinyl slowly extended a hoof out and touched the machine, her hoof making contact with what felt like metal alongside the side of it. She slowly made her way to the back, spotting a strange small pipe extending out from underneath.
"What in Equestria is this thing?" Vinyl wondered out loud, taking another look through the glass at the interior. Well if it had an interior, then surely it must have a way to get inside.
She circled the machine a few more times in search for a door, but she couldn't find a single outline for anything that could grant her access. That was, until she noticed a few indented lines around the roof of it.
Vinyl carefully climbed up onto the machine and went over to the highest part of it, noticing that the whole top didn't seemed to be solidly connected with the rest of the roof. This was enough to trigger Vinyl's curiosity and she ignited her horn.
A magenta colored aura surrounded the roof, tugging at it slightly. This caused the entire roof to raise up a little and fly backwards, illuminating the interior in Celestia’s sunlight.
Vinyl hopped down from the roof and into the machine, landing right on a comfy olive green and dew brown colored seat. She looked around the interior, a smile beginning to form on her face as she noticed the amount of speakers around the walls and in the chairs.
Vinyl spotted what looked like rectangular grey buttons and started pressing them, but nothing happened. Vinyl tried pressing them again in a different order, only to get the same disappointing result. That was, until she hit a small red button on what looked like half of a wheel in front of her. A sudden loud BEEP rang out of the machine, startling Vinyl enough to fall back into the seat.
Once the initial shock of the sudden loud noise drained from the unicorn, she sat back up in the chair and stared at the button. She pressed it again, earning another loud BEEP which rang through her ears. Vinyl continued to press the button, making a makeshift beat with the beeping out of instinct.
"Not bad," Vinyl claimed, not hearing the frantic hoofsteps from Octavia who had rushed out of the house due to the noise.
"Vinyl? Was that you making that-" Octavia trailed off when she spotted the machine.
The grey earth pony stared in shock, her jaw hanging and eyes widening. Where in the world did that thing come from? What the hay could it do? And most importantly, what was Vinyl doing with it!?
Inside the machine, Vinyl had stopped pressing the button, now eyeing a strange looking switch. She surrounded the switch in question with her magic and tried to flip it, only for it to turn to the right and send a clicking noise from the front. Vinyl rose an eyebrow, repeating the process but keeping the switch turned to the right. This time, the clicking noise led up to a loud roar, causing the entire machine to rumble a little.
Vinyl gazed in awe as the interior lit up, showering the area in electric blue light. Speakers were outlined with the light along with several chunks of the interior which were now booming with invisible beats, the bars going up and down with a built in flow. Several buttons lit up on the console, followed by the steering wheel which had a grid like circle in the middle.
Vinyl anxiously pressed a button, waiting for something to happen. The sound of machinery filled her ears, but nothing seemed to change. Little did Vinyl know that a speaker had opened up on the right side of the machine, right in front of Octavia, who looked it for a few seconds before realizing what it was.
"C'mon this thing's gotta do something!" Vinyl stated, pressing another button. This time, she heard the sound of what seemed like a massive wub.
Octavia's eyes widened even more when she noticed the speaker's lights glow brighter, before a massive wave of purple blasted from it with a loud BOOM! The blast sent the cellest flying backwards right into a bush that had been cut into the shape of a music note.
Vinyl had heard the wub, but didn't hear Octavia's crash, so she pressed the button again, hearing the same booming wub. Her eyes lit up at the discovery, her hooves rapidly twisting dials and flipping switches. Once she was sure she had done something, she pressed the button again, this time hearing a solid beat booming out of the machine.
"Awesome..."
