Silence in Equestria

The Sector II - Episode XVIII:

Bass vs. Class

"Thank you for helping me with these new Cupcakes." thanked Pinkie as she skipped down the street in excitement.

"You're welcome." answered Silence and Twilight completely at the same time for some reason, making the two friends look at each other in surprise then burst out in chuckles.

"Seems like we're in the same soundwave." noted the gray pegasus as soon as she stopped laughing. Despite she didn't say it, the way she looked at Twilight already added the final word in the unicorn's mind: "…darling."

"These cupcakes will the biggest hit-" added Pinkie but she suddenly stopped hopping as her tail started to act strangely

"Twitchy tail, twitchy tail!" she warned her friends making Twilight and her look up to the sky. In before Silence could ask what is the big deal, a noise of glass breaking interfered with the peaceful sounds of Ponyville. Everypony looked there in an instant. The noise came from a house on the other side of the street as a giant loudspeaker was thrown out of it from the first floor breaking into parts as it hit the ground. Through the now "open" window even more noises sounded as a horde of bulls would fight inside. Suddenly the sounds stopped, and a messy maned gray earth pony left the building via the door on the left shutting it behind with all her might. She also carried a cello attached to her side. The instrument was broken however, the lower part broke off only being carried by the strings while giant cracks covering all it's parts. The pony didn't seem to mind it though, just level-headedly went on her way.

Suddenly a voice screamed at her from inside "Hey Octopus, you forgot this!". A blue maned white pegasus appeared from the window with rage filling her eyes as she threw the casing of the cello at the other pony, but missed.

"How kind of you Vandal Scratch, now fetch your pills back." answered the earth pony in a calm voice as she put the broken cello in the casing and moved on.

The three ponies just stood there with eyes wide open. After some moments of silence, Twilight spoke the first word "Oh my… Vinyl and Octavia must have had a terrible breach. Such a break between such two good friends could be extremely hard to get over it. I must help them."

"I don't think it's a good idea Twilight, it's not really our business you know." suggested Silence.

"Maybe, but better a friend now then an unknown therapist later." replied Twilight. "Would you like to help? It would be much easier to handle this sitaution with a helping hoof." she asked her pegasus friend.

Silence took a look at the grey pony then with a heavy sigh she accepted it "Okay, mine is the cellist.".

"Thank you so much. Her name is Octavia by the way, a high-class cello player from Canterlot with an unique taste. I'm sure you'll come along fine with her, she is… quite similar to you. I'll try to help Vinyl then." the unicorn said and before Silence could move to catch up on her Twilight stopped her and added "One more thing: Tavia and Vinyl weren't only just friends… if you know what I mean.". Silence got surprised a little bit, but nodded and ran to catch up on Octavia while Twilight headed to Vinyl.

"Hey! What about the cupcakes?" shouted Pinkie after shuttling her attention back and forth between her two friends, but her question was left unanswered. With a sigh she added "Okay, next time then." and with a bit sad face she began walking home.

Twilight knocked on the door of their house.

"What the hay ar-? Oh, uh, hi Twilight!" said Vinyl after her small rage "How is it going?" asked awkwardly.

"That's what I'd like to ask. What was that?" asked the unicorn.

"Nothing, we just had a little fight with Tavia." the DJ replied.

"A little?! You just threw out a bunch of things through the window, you could easily kill somepony." shouted at her Twilight. However she decreased her volume a second later "Look, there is a clear problem between you two. As a good friend I'm here to help.".

"How?" asked Vinyl full of doubt.

"First I need to find the source of the problem. May I continue that inside? It would be much more comfortable for both of us." suggested the lavender unicorn.

"Yeah, yeah, sure, come in." accepted the other as she let Twilight walk in while she was picking up the scattered pieces of her bass from a distance using magic. After she was done with that, Vinyl followed her inside.

Meanwhile Silence followed the cellist gray mare to the Ponyville park where said pony sat down on a bench, opened her cello case and stared at her broken instrument. Her peaceful remember however was interrupted by the pegasus.

"Excuse me? You must be Octavia, correct me if I'm wrong." said Silence, carefully watching out to her way of speaking with her as an almost hi-class mare with a hi-class mare. She had a strange feeling, like if they'd met once already.

"Yes, I am. Can I help you?" answered Octavia. She had a strange yet charming accent and a voice as soft as her beautiful mane.

"Twilight sent me, she asked me to help you about the recent... events you have just went through." said the pegasus.

Octavia looked at the sky, sighed, then aimed her eyes back to the pegasus "I'd prefer to refuse, despite I appreciate her kind offer, but Twilight Sparkle is a stubborn mare so she wouldn't give up just like that. But in what way could you help?" she asked.

"Well I am no therapist, but I own a handful experience when it comes to solving problems and I'm more than happy to use it to its fullest. However I need to find the source of the issue first. I'd love to invite you to my house in order to do so." explained Silence.

"I'm humbled, thank you." Octavia nodded and followed the pegasus who led her to her home.

"So Vinyl, why don't you tell me all your problems with Octavia?" asked Twilight for co-operation as she made her friend lay down on the sofa in the living room, making her easier to relax.

"I had enough of her, that's all." Vinyl said in grumpy tone.

"And why is that exactly?" asked Twilight as she lured a quill and a paper from a distance and began to write.

"Because nothing is good for her. She's a picky, spoiled jerk. Whatever I do that girl always find something she can pick on." shouted madly the unicorn.

"For example..." asked her therapist friend.

"Like... there was that one when I went out with a bunch of guys after a party cause they wanted their stuff to be signed, and she was all defensive, saying I could have been attacked or something. What's wrong? They were just fans." she explained.

"I think she just tries to defend you." said Twilight.

"But she does that all the time, saying what I should and should not do. And why this better than that, and if it's that not this she refuses to do that. I swear she'd even drink the apple juice from a wine glass." raged out the unicorn.

"I see... how about the one a few minutes ago?" asked Twilight.

Vinyl sat up to let out a sigh that was pushing against her heart so much, then began to confess "You know, music is a strange business, it changes from time to time and artists need to obey some trends at times in order to keep up their fame. Nowadays this new genre has rapidly taken over, it's called dubtrot, you've probably heard of it. I started practicing this style, I keep listening to my songs over and over to find mistakes and she just can't deal with it, saying it's too noisy and hurt her sensitive, princess ears.".

Twilight just nodded as she kept writing her notes on the paper, and as she finished she asked her final question: "Do you think you can come along once again?".

This wasn't her smartest idea, it triggered something in Vinyl, something furious making the unicorn shout "No! It's over." but that wasn't all. Suddenly an evil aura started to emerge from the musician. She was planning something really wicked and cruel inside to take revenge on her ex. "Hey, Twilight? Would you like to hang out in the spa?" she asked.

"Sure thing" smiled back the purple pony "nothing is better to beat the stress than relaxing a little." The two unicorns left the house and took their way to spend the afternoon in the spa.

"Come in. Feel yourself at home." said Silence as she opened the door to Octavia once they arrived at her house.

"I might be wrong but is this the house where Blossomforth used to live?" noted the cellist.

"Yes, it is. It's quite empty right now, apologies."

"No problem, mind if I take the sofa?"

"No, sure thing." answered the pegasus as she laid down on the other sofa in the living room. "So what is this issue you had with your friend before?" she questioned.

Octavia sighed "Vinyl can be extremely annoying at sometimes. The insecure, phlegmatic way she lives really started to get on my nerves, especially nowadays." She changed her pose to a more comfortable and slightly more charming one "I'm fed up she always gets drunk and I'm the one who needs to carry her home most of the times, and then this dubtrot thing...."

Silence knew this type of music already "...oh god, no." she said as she smacked her face with her hoof.

"Indeed, it has no rhythm and these noises and wobbling sound, it's just painful to hear. What the worst is that she listens to it on full volume and I can't hear even my own thoughts. The last straw was when she set those noises as an alarm today morning and I jumped out from my bed." the refined musician said as she looked away when she came to pause. After a few seconds she continued, her eyes staring at the window "At times like these I think she wants to make me deaf or something.".

She took her attention back to Silence with now a more fierce expression "But this ended today, and Vinyl wear dearly pay for what she have done."

Silence was a little surprised hearing these words. She didn't really except a girl with so much class to take revenge, she wanted to see how it turns out so instead of replying with words, she just nodded with her eyes shut.

However Tavia had something different to do before taking the first step in her plan. "I'm having a time for a massage in the spa however, I guess Vinyl can wait. Mind if I leave my cello, well what left of it in your house meanwhile?"

Silence got shocked "A spa a Ponyville? How come I didn't even know about that? Mind if I go with you, Octavia?" she asked.

"Not at all, be my guest. And please call me Tavia." she replied. Silence nodded again and after putting down her instrument Tavia led her newfound partner to the local spa.

The two pairs went for a sweet relaxation, not suspecting that they both are on the same wavelength. They noticed each other from quite a distance already. Twilight and Silence smiled and waved despite they both knew something is going on, the two ex-friends however were shooting each other with the searing hot lasers of their eyes.

Tavia put her back on Silence when they got close enough to hear each other without shouting. Both parties stopped for a moment, but Tavia was the first who broke the silence "Follow me Silence, I know a place she can practice." she said and raising her head with shut eyes she led her partner away from the enemy.

"Come Twilight, let me show you a song I just wrote about you." responded Vinyl as she put her hoof around her fellow's neck and led her to the opposite way. Both Twilight and Silence knew now what the two ponies' plan is: make the other envious. But Twilight and Silence looked back at each other and with a little excuse they ran back to meet again and discuss.

"This didn't work the way I planned." noted Twilight.

"Indeed. Quite a strange way to take revenge." added Silence "Plan B?" she asked.

"I... don't really have. But we can't give up just yet." encouraged Twilight despite the unfortunate situation.

"I'll spend some more time with her then. Time heals wounds they say. Let's take it slowly." suggested the pegasus.

"Yeah, why not."

Bidding farewell they decided to spend a little more time with their parter from time to time. Silence on the way already had an idea on how to make Tavia fall back in love with Vinyl: She decided to show her the magic of the music.