Vintavia Scralody Season 3

Vinyl, Octavia, and their friends were at school having lunch together.

“Alright, everypony. Let’s commence the daily lunch swap.” Said Vinyl taking out her lunch.

“Agreed. Hey Lyra, would you be interested in my hand-cut sushi? It's Yellowtail.” Octavia offered.

“You know I am. Hey, you want my deviled eggs? They're farm-to-table.” Lyra offered.

“Vinyl, is that chocolate pudding?” Said Quibble.

“It is. What are you offering?”

“One bologna sandwich, fridge-to-table.”

“Throw in your buffalo chips, and we've got a deal.”

“So, no takers on my tuna kit?” Said Frederic looking sad.

“You still have those don’t you?” Said Quibble with concern as the pianist sadly nods.

Vinyl notices something. “Guys, here comes the new girl! The one I met on the bus earlier.”

The gang all look and see Starlight Glimmer with a lunch bag walking their way.

“Ooo-wee, She sure is easy on the eyes.” Lyra grinned.

“Oh yeah. And I hear she speaks three languages.” Said Frederic.

“Have you guys heard her laugh? It's so…contagious.” Said Octavia.

“I like the way her hair smells.” Sighed Quibble as the other mare gawk at him. “What? Too far?”

Vinyl gasps. “Here she comes! Be cool! Be cool!”

“Hey, guys. Anybody wanna trade for my carrots?” Said Starlight.

The gang try to act cool. Quibble is drooling spit, Frederic is nibbling on a straw from a milk carton, Lyra is nervously staring, Vinyl is drinking but coughs out and chokes, and Octavia swallows a deviled egg, but coughs it out.

Starlight notices this and leaves immediately so this doesn’t get anymore awkward.

“Wonder what that was all about?” Said the DJ questionly.

“I don't know, but I'm glad we played it so cool.” Said Frederic.

Later in gym class, the guys are playing dodgeball.

“Okay, guys, snake formation!” Said Quibble with determination.

Frederic, Vinyl, Octavia, and Lyra hide behind Quibble, imitating snake sounds.

“Keep an eye out for Golden Harvest. Last time, she blindsided us.” Said Frederic.

Enter Starlight.

“Hey, guys, what do you have going on here? Some kind of defensive maneuver? Can I get in on this?” Said the unicorn. But the gang are frozen in place, just awkwardly staring. “Okay...well, good luck.” She leaves.

“Seriously. Why does she keep coming over to us?” Vinyl said with frustration, but she pelted by a dodgeball.

“Aw, come on, Golden! Iron Will didn't even blow the whistle yet!” Exclaimed Octavia disapproved by it.

Later on, the gang are in their science class, Frederic picks up a beaker.

“I think we can all agree I should handle the Bunsen Burner after what happened last time.” Said Octavia unamused by the event from the past.

“Yeah. Quibble and his aftershave.” Frederic complained.

Quibble scoffs.

Suddenly, Starlight enters again.

“Hey, guys, need another lab partner? Otherwise, I have to be with our teacher. Not that he doesn't seem cool, but you know what I mean.” Said the unicorn.

The gang try to act cool once again until Frederic drops the beaker, which explodes. Starlight just leaves.

Later, they are waiting outside the nurse's office.

“You burned off my mustache, Frederic!” Snarled Quibble.

“It was like, two hairs, Quibble.” Frederic snarled back.

“I still don't get it. Why does Starlight keep coming over to talk to us?” Vinyl complained.

“That's three times in one day.” Octavia agreed.

“Maybe she's trying to sell us a time-share.” Lyra thought. “Or maybe she's spying on us for the CIA.”

“Guys, what you don't know about different mares could fill a library. She obviously wants to be friends with one of us.” Quibble thought.

Octavia, Frederic, and Lyra grow surprised to hear that.

“Now that you mention it, I was picking up some vibes.” Vinyl agreed.

“Man! I wonder who she likes?” Lyra asked.

“I guess we'll just have to wait till she makes her next move.” Octavia suggested.

Later, the gang are at their lockers, preparing themselves. Vinyl flosses her teeth, Octavia puts a tissue in her bag, Lyra combs her hair up, Frederic cleans his bow tie, and Quibble applies breath spray.

“Anyone want some breath spray? Sour green apple, it's a total killer.” Said Quibble as he closes his locker.

“I'll take some. That tuna kit didn't do much for my breath.” Said Frederic putting his bow tie back on.

“Here she comes.” Said Vinyl.

“Play it cool.” Said Octavia.

“Hey guys.” Starlight stops when she sees the gang just staring at her again. “Vinyl, do you wanna go to the Hayburger after school?”

“Yes! I knew it was me!” Vinyl realizes what she just did. “I mean, sure, I think I'm free.”

“Great, my family's on a health kick and I'm really craving some fries. Meet you by the busses.” The pink unicorn leaves.

Vinyl gets pulled in by the rest of her friends.

“Aw, Lucky!” Said Frederic impressed.

“You dog!” Said Lyra impressed.

“Congratulations, sweetie.” Said Octavia impressed.

Quibble groans. “Ugh, it’s always Vinyl.”

“What can I say? I mean, I am having a really good hair week.” Vinyl smirked.

********

The next day, Vinyl is bragging to the others about her time with Starlight.

“You should have seen her on that claw machine, she was a boss.” Said the DJ.

“Man! She's cool.” Said Frederic.

“And get this, we both prefer curly fries to regular.” Said Vinyl.

“Well, everyone prefers curly fries.” Scoffed Quibble rolling his eyes while still jealous.

Octavia looks out the classroom. “Oh! Here she comes.”

Starlight walks into the classroom, waves at the gang, and walks over.

“Probably gonna ask about date number two. Eh? Eh?” Said Frederic elbowing Vinyl playfully.

The DJ smiles, and plays it cool, only for Starlight to walk right past her like she wasn't even there.

“Hey, Quibble.” Said Starlight as Quibble accidentally slams his desktop onto his hoof, and yelps in pain. “Do you want to go to the market with me later?”

The other four mares stare in disbelief.

“Totally, totally.” Said the brown mare, still in pain.

“Cool.” Added the Pink unicorn walking off.

Now Vinyl is the one who is jealous. “What was that, man?! Starlight and I are hanging out!”

“What do you want me to say?” Quibble smirked as he strokes his hair. “I guess she decided she prefers barbecue sauce over messy ice cream.” He points to, the extremely angry, Vinyl’s hair.

********

The next day, the gang are on the basketball court, Quibble now has the bragging rights.

“And then we went out for ice cream and it turns out we both like waffle cones.” Quibble grinned.

Vinyl is still jealous. “Well, everyone likes waffle cones.”

Frederic looks over. “Hey, check it out, Quibble.”

Starlight is walking over to the gang, waving.

“Probably wants to lock me down for the whole weekend.” Quibble smirked.

“Hey, Lyra.” Said Starlight as the others are surprised. “You wanna go to the mall after school? I know this sounds weird, but I really like trying on wigs at the wig store.”

The mint unicorn is so amazed that she stutters for a bit. “Doesn’t sound weird to me, I'm in.”

Starlight winks at her and leaves.

Now Quibble is the one who’s jealous. “What the heck Lyra?”

Vinyl gets smug. “Tough break, barbecue sauce, I guess she's more into mints and vitamins.”

The next day, the gang are in the classroom, Lyra showing them the photos she and Starlight took, suddenly, Starlight taps Octavia’s shoulder, waves, and makes pistol gestures, as she is asking Octavia to go laser tagging, Octavia gasps happily, and Lyra bangs on her desk with jealousy. The next, next day, Octavia is showing the gang the video of she and Starlight laser tagging, Starlight then taps Frederic’s shoulder, waves, and does a little dance, as she is asking Frederic to the arcade to play Dance Dance Revolution, Frederic's eyes turn to hearts, and Octavia, out of jealousy, punches the drinking fountain, and drops to the floor, clutching her injured hoof. The next, next, next day, Frederic shows the gang the photo, and they all rage with jealousy.

After school, Vinyl and Octavia are walking home, talking to each other.

“Ugh! I'm so confused, why does Starlight keep asking all of us?” Vinyl complained.

“Yeah, what is her deal?” Octavia agreed.

The two mares make it back to their house and decided to watch TV in their living room, they flick the channels until they reach The Dreamboat. They shrugged and decided to watch it, but then they hear one of the characters talking.

“I'm really torn, they're all great mares, but I'm still not sure who I want to be my mate. Guess I'll just wait 'til one of them blows me out of the water.”

Vinyl and Octavia look at each other surprised.

“Oh, so that's what Starlight’s doing.” Said Vinyl.

“We have to keep watching more.” Said Octavia.

“Agreed.”

And thus, they keep watching the show.

********

The next day, Vinyl is at school with her date khakis on, and his hair done up. She walks up to her locker and is surprised at what he sees, Quibble is wearing a white suit, Frederic had his teeth whitened, Octavia is not wearing her contact lenses, and Lyra is spraying on cologne, which goes in her eyes.

Frederic notices Vinyl. “Well, well, well, look at you Mrs. Date khakis.” He snarled.

“It's laundry day, I couldn't find my black suit. What about you guys?” Vinyl said sternly.

“What? I happened to have a coupon for teeth whitening.” Said the pianist as he smiles a smile so shiny it blinds the other mares.

“And I always wear this much cologne.” Said Lyra.

“And, I've been meaning to ditch my contact lenses.” Said Octavia facing the wrong way, but Lyra turns the cellist around to face the group.

“Okay guys, let's be real, we all watched the Dream Boat last night, we know Starlight hasn't decided who she likes, and were all trying to blow her out of the water. Said Quibble out loud what they're all thinking.

The gang all ramble in agreement.

“Well, uh... this is awkward.” Said Frederic.

“It doesn't have to be. We can be mature about this.” Octavia suggested.

They all ramble in agreement, again.

********

At lunch, Starlight sits at a table, alone, puts her headphones on, and starts eating, the gang walk in and see this. At first, they smile and casually walk to her, but they soon grow determined looks and start hurrying.

“STARLIGHT!” Octavia shouted pulling the lead, but due to not having her contacts, she runs right into Iron Will.

Lyra jumps over Octavia and pulls ahead, but Frederic slides over a table and cuts Lyra off, he then blinds Lyra with his smile again.

“Gah, too bright!” Exclaimed the mint unicorn

Lyra stumbles backwards and lands in a recycling bin. Quibble chases after Frederic, and grabs a bottle of mustard off a table, he squeezes it onto the floor and Frederic slips out of control and falls.

“Yeah!” Quibble cheered.

Quibble takes the lead, with Vinyl in hot pursuit. Suddenly, Vinyl gets an idea, she sees that Golden Harvest is eating spaghetti and meatballs. She quickly takes out a pudding cup and calls to her.

“Golden, I'll trade you my pudding for a meatball.” Said Vinyl as she whizzes right past Golden, taking the meatball right off her fork, and leaving her pudding before she even knows what happened. “Thanks.” She just looks at her, now empty, fork, wondering what had happened to her meatball. Meanwhile, Vinyl lines up her shot, and throws the meatball, which hits Quibble in the back so hard that he falls over. “What? You said she likes barbecue sauce.” She smirked.

“Low blow, man. This is dry clean only.” Quibble complained as Vinyl runs off.

Vinyl sees that Starlight is ripe for the picking, the last mare standing does a quick victory dance, and goes over. But right at that moment, Starlight, completely unaware of what just happened right behind her, gets up and leaves, just as Vinyl suavely sits. Vinyl sees that Starlight's gone and is now bummed out.

********

Later in gym class, the gang have miffed looks on their faces, crossing their arms, not even looking at each other.

“In case anyone's interested, I'm out of the snake formation.” Frederic snarled.

“Well, I actually left it earlier than you. I just didn't tell you.” Lyra huffed.

“The snake formation is officially dead.” Quibble scoffed.

“Fine by me!” Vinyl said sternly.

“Me to!” Octavia agreed.

Just then, the whistle blows. They look down at the dodgeballs, then each other. Vinyl picks one up and is about to throw it, but gets pelted by Quibble.

“That's for the meatball!” Quibble snarled before getting pelted by Frederic. “Ow!”

“That's for the mustard!” Frederic snarled before getting pelted by Lyra. “Oof!”

“That's for blinding me!” Lyra snarled.

Octavia tried to throw one at Lyra but hits Vinyl instead. “Take that!” She then realizes something. “Oh, sorry Vinyl!”

And just like that, they immediately start beating each other up. Iron Will blows his whistle and goes over there to break them up while the other students, including Starlight, who looks on.

********

Later, they are outside the nurse's office again with ice packs covering where they got hit. Nurse Redheart gives the last one to Octavia.

“Now how did this happen? I thought you all had a snake formation.” Said Redheart questionably.

“Those days are over.” Said Quibble shaking his hoof in anger.

“Well, that's a shame. I always thought it was so nice the way you all looked out for each other.” Said the nurse before heading back to her office.

Vinyl then realizes what they’ve done. “She's right. What are we doing? Are we really gonna throw away our friendship over a girl?”

“Well, that isn’t what I want.” Lyra agreed.

“Me neither. You all are my supporters, especially you, Vinyl.” Said the gray mare still looking the wrong way before Vinyl turns her around.

“I honestly don't think I can make new friends at this point.” Said Frederic looking down.

“I can't believe we ever let things get this far.” Said Vinyl.

“Yeah, and the crazy thing is, none of this is even our fault! It's Starlight's! For pitting us against each other!” Said Quibble with realization.

The rest of the mares clamour in agreement.

“I say we go give her the what for right now! Snake formation?” Said Lyra confidently.

The gang all get up and walk in a line while imitating snake sounds.

********

Starlight is at her locker when the group approach her.

“Starlight, we need to talk to you.” Said Vinyl with disappointment.

“Oh, hey guys. What's up?” Starlight grinned.

“Oh, I think you know. We're through with your mind games.” Said Octavia facing the wrong way for the third time until Frederic turns her around. “Thanks Vinyl.” She said mistaking the stallion.

“My what?” Said Starlight confused.

“Don't act all innocent. You nearly broke up our friendship.” Lyra scolded.

“Asking us all to hang with you, then making us compete to see who would blow you out of the water.” Quibble added.

“Blow me out of the water? What are you talking about?” Said the pink unicorn raising an eyebrow.

“Doesn't matter. We're done. You couldn't choose one of us for a bestie, so now you don't get any of us.” Vinyl huffed.

“YEAH!” They all shouted agreeing with Vinyl.

Starlight stars bursting out laughter.

“Oh, we’re glad you think this is funny!” Octavia said sarcastically.

The unicorn continues laughing until she stops. “I'm sorry for laughing, it's just... you guys are so off base. I don't want a bestie, I just wanted to be friends with all of you.”

“Well, why didn't you just say that in the first place?” Frederic said confusingly.

“Uh, you may recall that every time I walked up to you guys as a group, you acted like total weirdos. That's why I was trying to get to know you one on one, or what you call: hangouts.” Starlight replied.

“Ah.” Said the Gang.

“You know, maybe this was a bad idea. It seems like you guys just can't handle being friends with someone different. I'm gonna go hang out with my lab partner.” She sighed and left sadly.

“Oh, man. We really messed up.” Vinyl said looking guilty.

“I agree, It's too bad 'cause Starlight’s really fun. I was hoping she'd teach me how to master the claw machine.” Octavia agreed.

“Yeah, and I was hoping she'd help me pick out a wig for my mom.” Said Lyra.

“And she would've made a great addition to our snake formation. She could've been the rattle.” Frederic added.

“Well, maybe if we go tell her how sorry we are, she'll give us another chance.” Vinyl suggested.

“Hmm, that could work.” Octavia accepted.

********

At lunch, Starlight is eating her sandwich, alone.

“Hey Starlight.” Vinyl began as Starlight looks at the gang. “We just wanna apologize for how we acted.”

“Yeah, you were right. We shouldn’t have blamed you for our friendship tearing apart.” Octavia added.

“What we don't know about different mares, could fill a library.” Quibble added.

We just hope you can forgive us, because we all really liked hanging out with you, as a friend.” Said Vinyl. A brief moment, and Starlight returns to her sandwich. Which Vinyl can only assume is a no. “Um, okay, well, that's cool. I guess we'll just, uh, see you around.”

Starlight looks at them as they sadly leave, when suddenly…

“Hang on.” Said Starlight as the gang stop and listen. “Vinyl, what's in that thermos?”

“Tomato soup.” The DJ answered.

Starlight thinks about it. “I'll trade you my fruit salad for it.”

“Deal!” Vinyl accepted as she walks over to Starlight, followed by the others.

“Hey, uh, how about swapping some rice cakes for some hush puppies?” Lyra offered.

“Definitely.” Starlight accepted.

“Any chance you'd trade your juice box for a tuna kit?” Frederic offered.

“Sorry, pal. That's where I draw the line.” Starlight declined.

The gang laugh, except for Frederic who is rather bummed out. Starlight gestures for the group to sit with her, and they happily do so.

“After lunch, we can work out our new snake formation.” Octavia suggested.

“Just wanna throw it out there: have you guys ever considered a scorpion formation?” Starlight requested as she pulls out a diagram of said formation. “It's 22% more effective.”

“Sweet.” Said Vinyl.

“We’re listening.” Said Octavia.