Shine like the Day and Night

Soon enough, the end of the school day was approaching. After everyone was done with class, everyone did their routines and made sure to pack up their things or do some extra studying before going home. But in the gymnasium, everyone was focused there. They were all setting up to audition so that they could be in a proper band or just to hear their music play.

At the same time, Silverbolt had gone back to his RV to fetch his favorite guitar and amps. He figured that if he was going to play, he needed to rock out in ways he had never done before. Once he was able to load them out, he realized that he was going to have some trouble trying to move it to the gymnasium. He noticed another guy coming by.

He was wearing a Canterlot High sports outfit, nearly resembling Rainbow’s outfit, but in a dark navy blue jacket instead.

“Hey there,” said Silverbolt, gaining the guy’s attention “You mind helping me out with this please?”

The guy came over and helped him lift the amp until they were inside. Once they were, they were able to set it down on a small wagon in order for them to pull it and take it to the gym, which will be easier for them to do so.

“Hey, thanks for the help, man.” said Silverbolt as he offered a fist bump.

“Hey, no problem, man.” said the teen as he offered one in return. But when he noticed Silverbolt’s amp, his eyes widened in surprise and said “Whoa, no way. Is that Marshall JCM 800 series?!! That’s incredible, they discontinued those almost ten years ago.”

“It sure is.” said Silverbolt “I was able to find this that some guy was selling. It looked in really bad condition, so after giving it some tune-ups and some tweaks and upgrades, I was able to restore them to their former glory.”

“That’s incredible!!” said the teen as he was impressed by Silverbolt’s talent “And it even looks brand new.”

“Nope, it’s better than new.” said Silverbolt with pride. He extended his hand and said “The name’s Silverbolt, but you can just call me Bolt.”

“Nice to meet you,” said the young man “Name’s Fast Track.”

“Fast Track huh?” said Silverbolt “I guess you’re really talented with a guitar, huh?”

“Sure am,” said Fast Track “Never miss a note and I play my guitar the fastest in school.”

“Sweet,” said Silverbolt “I’d like to hear it sometime.”

“Oh, heck yeah.” said Fast Track as he was looking forward to it.

Once they arrived at the gym, Silverbolt and Fast Track had already set up things on stage. “Hey, thanks again for the help.” said Silverbolt.

“No problem, man.” said Fast Track “Can’t wait to hear you play.”

“Sure, no problem.” said Silverbolt as they shook hands.

Their eyes suddenly began to glow out of nowhere, as if something had possessed them. After a few seconds, they quickly let go as their eyes stopped glowing.

“Uh, see ya.” said Silverbolt as he wasn’t sure what just happened.

“Uh, yeah, sure.” said Fast Track as he felt the same whilst they walked away. Unknown to him and many others, he suddenly gained wings like a Pegasus and he was glowing blue, whilst saying “What was that about?”

As the glow, wings, tail and ears faded, Fast Track bumped into a certain rainbow haired girl. To his surprise, it was Rainbow Dash.

“Oh, uh,” said Fast Track, for he was surprised to see Rainbow and blushed when he saw her “H-hey Rainbow.”

“Oh uh,” said Rainbow as she blushed a bit “Hey Fast.”

(Now for those who don’t know, Rainbow and Fast Track were friends with one another since preschool. But by the time they hit freshman year, both had secretly developed a crush for one another. Then after the whole memory stone incident, Fast had asked her out. They didn’t want to say anything but they kept their relationship a secret. So far it worked and no one has noticed a thing.)

“So, what brings you out here?” asked Fast.

“Oh, we came here to see any of the music players auditioning.” said Rainbow.

“You are?”

“Yeah, even the new kid is going to perform.”

“Oh yeah, I bumped into him.” said Fast “He seems like a cool guy.”

“Heck yeah, he is.” said Rainbow.

“Rainbow, come on,” Sunset called out “We don’t wanna be late for watching the audition.”

“Coming!” said Rainbow. As she was about to walk past, she stopped and looked at Fast, but blushed again as she said “So uh…we still good tonight?”

“Sure are.” said Fast “Our usual spot.”

“Great, see you then.” said Rainbow before she gave a quick kiss and quickly ran off.

Fast Track couldn’t help but blush as he held the side of his face and kept that goofy smile. “I love that woman.” said Fast as he walked away like a loved dazed doofus.

Sure enough, everyone began to audition for those who wants to join future bands. Silverbolt had to go through a dozen people, all who would audition for the bands. Silverbolt began to adjust his guitar, getting ready for the performance.

“Okay,” said Silverbolt after he was done adjusting his guitar “That should do it.”

“Hey, Bolt.” said Sunset, gaining Silverbolt’s attention. He saw the rest of the Rainbooms coming up to greet him.

“Oh, hey guys, what’s up?” asked Silverbolt after he stood up.

“Well duh,” said Rainbow “We wanna see you play.”

“Really?” said Silverbolt.

“Of course, darling,” said Rarity “Sunset told us you were skilled with a guitar, so we came to see how well you perform.”

“Whoa,” said Rainbow as she saw his Gibson Les Paul “So that’s your guitar. Looks awesome.”

“Thanks.” said Silverbolt.

“Oooh,” said Pinkie as she darted over to the JCM 800 series “I like this.”

“You should,” said Silverbolt “It’s one of the best Amps ever made in the country. Though they may have discontinued those, I was able to put it back together.”

“Mighty impressive.” said Applejack when she noticed how skilled he was.

“Where’d you get all this stuff?” said Rainbow as she was clearly impressed.

“Well,” said Silverbolt as he rubbed the back of his head. He couldn’t let them know so he had to cover it up ““I bought most of this at a garage sale and the Amps from a store that no longer sold them when they placed it on stock. So, I got them at a fair price and restored them myself.”

“Wow,” said Sunset as she looked over them again “You must’ve gotten some good deals out of it.”

“Goodness darling,” said Rarity as she looked over at the tolex of his amplifier. “The Tolex of your amplifier appears to be falling off. If you want, I could fix that for you if you want darling.”

“Really?” said Silverbolt “Are you sure about that. I don’t want you to go through all that trouble.”

“Oh, nonsense darling.” said Rarity “It’s the least I can do.”

He thought about it and said “Alright, you convinced me. I’ll take you up on that offer. But…only if you have free time. Any other time I do not wish to intrude. As a gentleman would say; a lady should not be burdened with such weight on one’s shoulder when they already have so much on their plate already.”

Rarity couldn’t help but blush and giggle. Fluttershy whispered to Sunset and said “You’re right. He’s so nice.”

“Told you.” whispered Sunset back.

“Alright then,” said one of the Judges out loud “The auditioning is about to begin.”

“Alright then, we’d better get back our seats.” said Twilight as she pointed at the seats.

“And we’d better be quick.” said Pinkie “Otherwise the good seats will be gone.”

They soon went to their seats with them waving to Silverbolt, with him doing the same.

Sure enough, the auditioning went underway. He noticed that a large muscular guy was playing violin with a girl with a cello. “Wow,” said Silverbolt when he noticed the muscular one “Who’d thunk that a guy with all that muscle can play such a gentle note.”

Next up was a blond girl with cross eyes, which Silverbolt couldn’t help but smile, for she was really cute. However, he was baffled when he saw her play on a piece of metal and a bow. “Okay wow,” said Silverbolt “You really can play any kind of instrument if you just put your mind into it.”

Next up were two idiots (Aka Snips and Snails from what he heard), tried their best to rap, but they both were terrible. Deciding to have a little fun, he used his magic to throw his voice out in the crowd and yelled “Aw, come on, I’ve seen a burrito who could wrap better than that!!”

Within a split second, everyone began to laugh out loud, even the Judges couldn’t help themselves. Feeling insulted, both Snips and Snails stormed off of the stage, having enough and no longer decided to perform in the musical.

After an hour, Silverbolt was the last one left. After Fast Track helped him load up the amp on the stage, Silverbolt plugged his guitar in whilst he attuned the string. Once the string was just right, he smiled, for he was ready. Soon he stepped in the middle of the stage, ready to show his music.

“Knock em dead Bolt!!” shouted a familiar voice.

When he looked ahead, he saw the Rainbooms, all of them eagerly wanting to cheer him on as they were curious of how the plays his music. He smiled, for all of them were in for a real treat. He walked over to a girl, which he learned was Vinyl Scratch, or DJPON3 when he recognized her from her online music playing alongside her bestie Octavia. He showed her what to do in order to wire his laptop on the PA. After he was ready on stage, the judges were ready.

“Are you ready?” asked the first Judge.

“Hold on,” said Silverbolt “Gotta tunes it up first.”

Once he was done, he was ready. He looked at the crowd and said “First of all, I’m gonna do a three part. The first part, a solo guitar playing from a boy from Korea who played it so well. The second and third is one of my favorites from the bands called Motorhead and Dragonforce.”

Some were now curious of how he was going to play. He signaled Vinyl to hit play, which she did.

As he played, he was lost in an epic guitar solo. He wasn’t even looking at the crowd, for his eyes were closed as he was so focused on the guitar itself, he played the notes perfectly with such precision and speed, even Rainbow had a hard time catching up on how he played. But at the same time, the teachers overheard it and they saw him play, which they thought was impressive.

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Up next, he decided to play another song. "Up next, a very old but very awesome classic. Lemmy Kilmister, this one’s for you."

Everyone heard him play an old song from Motorhead, and all of them admired of how he decided to dedicate playing for the Motorhead legend, Lemmy Kilmister

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At the end, he was done playing, then he looked at the crowd and said "And now, for the ultimate finale. Dedicate to the band Dragonforce."

As he began to play, he began to sing too, but again his eyes were closed, focusing on the song and the song alone. Everyone stared in awe when they saw him play, even Rainbow couldn’t believe her eyes. For he was so into the solo, he barely noticed what was going on around him. And his voice, wow, his voice was so amazing, even most couldn’t help but record that they were lucky enough to do since the beginning.

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After he was done, he panted for a bit, for the playing took a lot out of him, but he was glad he was able to finish. But as he looked at the crowd, he noticed how everyone was staring at him. Feeling nervous, he spoke to them through the microphone.

“So uh,” said Silverbolt as he wasn’t sure how they would react “How was that?”

For the next few seconds, the room was silent. But before he knew it, the entire room was filled with the biggest applause Silverbolt had ever heard. They were cheering, screaming like fan girls, loud whistles and whoops. Silverbolt smiled whilst he was wiping the sweat from his brow whilst he sat near the edge of the stage. Everyone soon began to ask him to join their bands. The Rainbooms on the other hand, had watched from the Bleachers and they were amazed and had their mouths agape when they heard him play and widened eyes. They too began to cheer in their own way.

“THAT WAS AWESOME!!!” shouted Rainbow Dash whilst she pumped her fist in the air.

“Whoa!!” said Pinkie as she stood up whilst she was holding her face with the biggest grin she had “That was even better than the biggest drum solo ever!!”

“Oh my,” said Rarity as she fanned herself, for though she may not be interested in music like the others, Silverbolt had greatly surprised her “That was most impressive.”

“Whoa,” said Twilight as she adjusted her glasses “He was playing as if he was some sort of Rock and Roll guitar god!!”

“It was really loud,” said Fluttershy, but her mood changed as she smiled “But it was amazing.”

“That there boy’s hands were faster than any living animal on the planet.” said Applejack as she adjusted her hat, but was just as impressed.

Sunset kept staring at him in awe. She kept staring at him whilst Silverbolt smiled and waved at the crowd. She herself couldn’t help but smile and blush slightly, whilst thinking “He’s amazing.”

After the cheering died down, Silverbolt spoke to them and said “Okay now, thanks a lot for your attention. I know what I played was amazing, but we’ll let the judges decide to see who I’m more qualified to play in which band. Whoever it is, I’d be honored to play. Until then, let me take a quick break. We’ll continue afterwards.”

Silverbolt soon stepped off of the stage in order to find himself some water. Sunset stood up and said “Sorry girls, be right back.”

As Sunset left, Rainbow then said “We should totally have him play with us.”

“Ya’ll sure ya can handle the competition?” said Applejack with a smirk.

At the same time, Sunset continued to search for Silverbolt, but she couldn’t find him. That was, until she noticed something glowing down the hall around the corner. But the moment she took a peek and to her shock, she saw Silverbolt glowing, and he had pony ears and wings like Princess Twilight’s, but they were grey, whilst he was glowing grey too whilst he was drinking water. She quickly hid behind the lockers in order not to be seen.

After he was done, Silverbolt splashed some water on his face. He looked up in the air and smiled to himself, saying “Man it feels good to be performing again.”

He soon walked away in order to have some thoughts to himself. But Sunset on the other hand, she was shocked to say the least. For the glow Silverbolt had on him, it was Equestrian Magic, for she recognized it anywhere.

“That’s Equestrian Magic.” she said to herself “Pinkie Pie was right, maybe he is some sort of monster, coming here to take over our school. I gotta warn the others.”

She soon ran down the halls, trying to find a way to her friends. By the time she arrived, her friends were at their lockers, digging through their stuff.

“You guys!!” shouted Sunset, gaining their attention as they saw her frantically ran up towards them.

“Whoa there Sally,” said Applejack as she was able to catch Sunset in order to calm her down “What’s goin on?”

Sunset looked up and said “Bolt has Equestrian Magic!!”

“WHAT?!!” shouted the Rainbooms as they quickly got together.

“Darling, are you sure?” said Rarity as she approached Sunset.

“Positive,” said Sunset “When I followed him, he was down at the hall and…he was glowing grey.”

“Oh no!!” shouted Pinkie Pie “It’s the Sirens all over again!!”

“What’ll we do?!” asked Fluttershy.

“We have to find a way to stop him before it’s too late!!” said Sunset.

“Then what are we waiting for, let’s go!” said Rainbow.

Soon, the Rainbooms ran down the hall to find Silverbolt and stop him.