Author's note: A huge thank you to cloudedguardian, whose affection and care help me time and time again through my toughest hours. You are my inspiration, and I cannot express how grateful I am for it. Also, this first scene of this fic won't come off as very understandable to you if you cannot click on the link and watch the video.
"Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and life to everything."
-Plato
Set the stage.
The silence from the crowd was nerve shattering. They all numbered in the thousands and were ready for what they had paid for. Everybody had their glow sticks and some of them had cameras, taking pictures of the band that was preparing on stage. The stage itself seemed very well lit and a bit plain, aside from the huge metal rafters that held several stage lights. Children, grown men and women, and many, many teenagers flocked to the stage as if it was their calling. They had all gathered for one reason, and one reason alone.
Tsh...Tsh...Tsh...Tsh
And that reason appeared to them in all of her beauty, levitating up from the ground by a platform and being marked by four clicks on the drummer's hi-hat.
The lights quickly dimmed themselves and the crowd roared as the image of perfection opened her digitally projected mouth.
"Sekai de, ichiban ohime sama." her words rang out through the hundreds of speakers that just barely managed to cover the screaming cheers from the unimaginably large audience. "Sou iu, atsukai. Kokoro eteeeeeee..." she held that last note out and the crowd started to crescendo their cheers as the moment was building.
Time seemed to stop.
"Yo ne," she spoke. As soon as those words left the speakers, the concert exploded with ferocity and pure excitement as the ear-busting musical breakdown kicked in. This incredible animated girl before them who sang on stage stood at a mere five feet and two inches tall, and she had long, aqua-green pigtails that stretched down past her sides and nearly touched the ground. She had on what looked to be a skirted schoolgirl uniform with stockings and separated sleeves. She also wore a tie that perfectly matched her hair, and had a 01 tattooed on her left arm, just below her shoulder.
This animated portrayal of beauty and graceful cuteness, was non-other than the famous Hatsune Miku.
She began to sway her hips along from side to side, dancing as the crowd pumped all of their glow-stick grasping hands in the air to the beat of the music. It built up to the verse and Miku began to continue her song as the crowd sang along with her,
"Sono ichi, itsumo tochigau kamigata ni. Ki ga tsuku koto." she sang the first line of the first verse along with her audience. The now flashy, glow-stick covered concert could have been considered a minor riot from all those cheering Miku on as she performed onstage. They continued to sing with her throughout every catchy upbeat of the verse and pre-chorus, all while Miku danced onstage, letting her music guide her hips and the rest of her body in a manner true to all Himedere's. Some of them were even throwing leeks on the stage at Miku's feet as she sang and danced. The chorus quickly found itself approaching, and the entire crowd along reared along with Miku once more,
"Sekaaaai de, ichiban ohime sama. Ki ga tsuite nee nee, mataseru nante rongai yo. Wataaaashi wo, dare dato omotteru no? Mou nanda ka amai mono ga tabetai!" Miku's voice sang to the high heavens and echoed throughout the walls of the stage and out and into the ears of the majority of Otaku in Japan. With four words and no music playing, she ended the first chorus,
"Ima sugu ni yo!"
The guitarist let his fingers slide across the higher frets of his Stratocaster, providing a nice vibrato and letting his strings squeal with several pinch harmonics and the high gain being provided through his rig. Just as he finished his solo, the cute holographic beauty began to sing in accentuated vocal patterns while crossing her heeled feet back and forth and twisting her legs left to right in a manner of adorable shuffling.
"Ichigo no notta SHOOTOKEEKI! Kodawari tamago no torokeru PUDDING! Minna, Minna, gaman shimasu." She began to put her hands in front of her and shake them towards the audience as she continued to do a Cosplay version of The Twist while remaining the pinnacle of cute. "Wagamama na ko dato, omowanai de. Watashi datte yareba dekiru mon." She pointed towards the crowd and winked her large left eye while pushing her rump outwards. "Ato de koukai suru wa yo."
The violins kicked in as the music began to build once more and come around to the pre-chorus.
"Sekaaaai de, ichiban ohime sama." the Japanese Vocaloid idol sang the chorus once more. Every single fanatical fan continued to sing along with Mikuchan. The music cut off after the last line of the chorus.
"Kocchi no ga abunai wa yo." she concluded, before the breakdown kicked back in. She let out a high pitched squeak in between the first and second measure, before speaking, "Check; One, Two." The breakdown began to slow in conclusion of the song and as it drew out, the diva twirled around and faced away from the crowd. She threw her hand in the air, and let out a pitch-perfect C# that would make even a Descant jealous.
"Aaaaaaaaaah!" her voice soared across the heavens and at the end of the song, there wasn't a single voice not cheering for her.
The world was hers, and that's just how Hatsune Miku liked it.
"Wow," spoke a young teenager at his HP desktop computer. "That was one of the coolest things I've ever seen. They actually projected a holographic image for an entire concert like that? That's just..." his eyes widened. "I should leave a comment!"
He quickly drew his fingers across the desk to his mouse and moved the arrow over to the comment box of the YouTube video. He clicked the box and began to type while speaking out loud.
"Er...mah...gerd...Best concert...evuh! Like, 5evuh, which is...one more than four. It's that...AWESOME!" he concluded happily as he finished typing the comment that a child in fourth grade would post. He smiled happily and clicked the 'Post' button. He then brought up a window for The Pirate Bay and browsed Vocaloid torrents for a few minutes. He then went back to the tab that had the concert video. He looked for his comment.
Twitch
"Flagged as spam?! That's bullshit!" he screamed while shaking his hand at his computer screen.
"Dakota! Watch your mouth!" yelled his mother, who heard him perfectly from the hallway. The boy rolled his eyes.
"Yeah, sure," Dakota replied to her before going back to his computer screen. "I wonder how long this torrent will take."
His eyes scanned the computer screen, and the BitTorrent window he had up. The file size was around two and a half gigabytes. He smiled when he saw the estimated time of arrival being two hours and forty five minutes.
"Awesome! With my fast bitrate, this shouldn't take long."
The boy decided to use this time to multitask and do something very productive.
"Time to look at ponies!" he spoke happily.
In mere seconds, there were fifteen tabs opened to just about every pony site possible and one extra for looking at the instructions for using the Hatsune Miku Vocaloid application. It seemed fairly simple to him, it would just be difficult to learn memorize the method of syncing the audio and the custom lyrics together. After about several hours of looking at pony artwork and browsing Memebase, a notification appeared at the bottom of his taskbar.
'Hatsune Miku, Vocaloid 2.0-completed.' it read. He brought the window back up and clicked on the complete section of BitTorrent, and quickly deleted the completed torrent from his Queue. He didn't see any reason to seed what with having so many people seeding already. He quickly made his way to the Downloads folder and ran the Setup.exe that he had downloaded.
"Suweeeeet! Now I can get this thing started," he spoke excitedly. Clicking on the setup file, he ran through all of the traditional steps for installing the software, including instantly checking the box that read I accept the terms and conditions of this product's use.
"Nobody reads these anyway." he said. As the software finished downloading, he clicked the box to create a desktop icon and open the application once it finished. The window opened and popped up the software. It was fairly simple for most musicians. It had several tools including an on-board equalizer and an effect modulator, consisting of choruses, flanges, reverb, and many other digitally modulated effects that were to be used when he synced up a song and ran the lyric program.
Dakota, was not a musician.
"I have no idea what I'm doing..." he spoke with a frown. "Well, might as well try to load a song first."
He went to his music library.
"Okay, let's see here; Black Eyed Peas? No. Lady Gaga? Hell no. Twilight soundtrack?...Shoot me in the face. Repeatedly. How did all this garbage even get on here?!" he yelled to himself.
Then he had an idea. Dakota smirked.
"I know. Let's do something...manly," he said as he opened the most Chuck Norris-esque music he could find in his library. He clicked on it to run it through iTunes first, just to check if the file wasn't corrupted. And iTunes window popped up.
"My Little Pooony. My Little Pooony. Aaaaaaaah," his speakers sang.
He smiled as wide as he could.
"WIN!" the teenage boy yelled.
He quickly brought up the Vocaloid software for Miku and clicked the button to upload new audio. He once again searched through his library and found the Friendship is Magic theme song. He clicked on the file.
"This is gunna be so. Awesome!"
He waited as the progress bar began to run itself. Then, something happened that was very odd. He looked at his screen with curiosity.
"That's odd. There for a minute, I thought I saw a rain-"
BOOM!
His desktop monitor exploded in multi-colored flames.
"Eeeeaaaaghhh!" Dakota let out a scream that sounded roughly Ninety-Eight percent feminine, before falling back on the ground in his computer chair, panting while looking at his charred desktop.
"Dakota?!" his mother yelled frantically as she threw his door open to check if her son was safe. She found him staring in shock at his now demolished computer. He screamed through his pants,
"What the...*pant*...hell was that?!"
Warm.
Why did it feel so warm? Was it the heat from light?...No.
Sunlight. She felt the warmth of sunlight.
She slowly opened her eyes.
It was bright. Incredibly bright. She immediately closed her eyes on instinct.
"Dairega raitoon...ni natte?" she asked, annoyed. She slowly opened her eyes once more and they adjusted to the light. She blinked several times, lazily, at the image of the sun and several clouds. Her vision was suddenly obscured by the face of a little, yellow filly with a red mane and matching bow in her hair.
"Are y'all alright?" the little filly asked her with concerned confusion.
She blinked.
"Desu ka...ponii?" Miku asked herself, not believing what was in front of her and asking her of her condition.
"Umm, Ah don't really understand what yer sayin'? What's...day-sew ka?" Apple Boom asked.
Miku's eyes kept getting wider and wider, as she came to realize one fact about the little filly speaking to her. That fact Miku noticed being; She. Was. Adorable.
"AAAAAHHHHH!" Miku squealed like a fangirl as she wrapped her arms around the adorable filly and squezed her tight.
"Poniichan! Poniichan! Poniichan node kawaii!" Miku yelled in utter admiration at the cute pony.
"Ah...can't...breathe," Apple Bloom managed to speak through the near-crushing hug.
Miku then noticed something about her arms; they weren't arms. They were slender, white hooves. Her right eye twitched and she curled the side of her mouth up in a comical fashion, as if she was about to have a nervous breakdown.
"Er...Watashiha, ponii?" she asked herself in disbelief. She let go of Apple Bloom, who quickly took in as much air as she could into her lungs. Miku's eyes began to water.
"Watashiwa ponii desu," she spoke quietly to herself. She then burst out into tears and fell on the ground, slamming and kicking her hooves into the soft grass.
"Waaaaahahahaaaaa!" she cried like a newborn foal. "Watashiwa ponii desu! Watashiwa poniichan!" she spoke over and over again through her wailing cries.
Apple Bloom scratched the back of her mane at the odd scene coming from the white pegasus with long, green pigtails.
'Oh Celestia,' Apple Bloom thought to herself. 'Ah'm worried about how my sister's gunna react to this and as if that weren't enough, now this mare's speakin' in tongues.'
