EQG2 · 5:36am February 13th
So, thisis just sitting on my google drive. I was originally going to add this into Man in a Pony’s World as a bonus chapter, but maybe i’ll tack it on as a sequel? i just haven’t finished it, and started not wanting to when i realized how unimportant this is to the rest of the story as a whole. would y’all like to see this completed and added on as a sequel or a bonus chapter?
“Man,” Bob sighed as he sat down next to Twilight. It’s been a solid two weeks since the appearance of Lord Tirek, who was promptly defeated by his older sibling after a long, hard fought battle. Twilight’s old home, the library, got blown up during the battle. Luckily Owlicious, Twilight’s pet owl, made it out safely thanks to his owner. The owl was given a room, with a whole tree in it, that was now his home. Fortunately, once Bob received news of what was happening across the country, he immediately took to the wilderness to go into hiding.
It was a contingency plan that Bob had developed with Twilight, they had a rendezvous point. Should a national threat, such as Tirek, show up, Bob goes hide in the woods and survives on provisions for a while. Then, after a week, Bob goes to the rendezvous point and waits for Twilight. If she doesn’t show up after a week, Bob would go seek out Luna or Celestia, or just straight up flee the country depending on what happens. This plan kept Bob safe, but he couldn’t take much more than food during his self-imposed exile.
The only things Bob took was the laptop that Twilight had enchanted so it wouldn’t lose a charge, and his original acoustic guitar, the one he got from Apple Jack when he was working off a ‘debt’ to Equestrian society. The human’s bits were moved into a bank account at some point in the last year, so that was kept safe. The rest of Bob’s instruments were blown up, along with the original print of his first concert’s album. The original print of his and Luna’s first concert was luckily kept in the Princess’s private chambers in Canterlot.
“This kinda sucks,” Bob sighed as he looked around the ruins of the tree house. Despite being told that he was allowed to live in Twilight’s castle, as he had lived in the library, it felt wrong. Amongst the rubble was the remains of the drum machine that was nothing more than a black, burnt box with a piece of bark jutting out of it. The human sighed, before looking around again. “It’s not surprising,” he mumbled to himself. “That even in ‘paradise’, that some people just wanna watch the world burn.” The human shrugged, before getting up to go to the, now, towering tree-like castle that stood on the edge of Ponyville.
A delivery of books, an unsurprising thing given Celestia was helping Twilight fill up the library in her new castle, had just arrived. For some reason, one of the books was vibrating and glowing.
Bob ran ahead of the delivery pony and opened the door for him. “Such a fine gentlecolt!” The delivery pony complimented the human before walking in. The human soon followed. The throne room was something that Bob had seen many times before. Six thrones surrounded a circular dias with a star, matching the biggest one on Twilight’s cutie mark. There were two doors off to the side, almost hidden from the entrance by their crystal frames. Truly, it was a sight to behold, but Bob was never one for royalty, so he never particularly cared for it.
He skidded to a stop at Rainbow’s throne, where she and Zippy were snuggled up. “You know,” Bob said, patting both the pegasus and the unicorn on their heads. “Ever since you and Zippy started dating, you’ve been holding still a lot,” Bob chuckled as Rainbow leaned into the hand more. Meanwhile, the delivery pony was talking to Twilight and even pointed out the glowing, vibrating book on top of the stack of books she was receiving.
“Well, I would rather fly, but I get that itch to do so before I meet up with you and Zippy for the day. That way I’ve had my flying itch itched, and then you can scratch my wings, or use Zippy as a pillow.”
“...You know ZIppy’s lying on you, right?”
“So?”
“She’s wearing the pants in this relationship; it’s great since she’s the shortest of the three of us.”
“Well, somepony has to keep you two numbskulls in line.” Zippy argued before she leaned forward and planted a kiss on Bob’s nose. “So, did you find anything?”
“Other than my old drum machine?” Bob shook his head. “Nah. I’m basically back to square one where the only things to my name are my guitar and my laptop… though given that my laptop is usually how I produce music nowadays… It's not too bad.”
“You also got like… a few hundred thousand bits in the bank.”
“That is true. I could re-buy everything I lost, but that stuff I had had a lot of memories attached to them.” Bob shook his head. “Meh, ‘nough about me. What are you two planning today?”
“We were hoping to wait until you got here, and then drag you to your room and just snuggle up with you,” Zippy said. “Well, I was. Rainbow just agreed.”
“She said ‘no ear nuzzles’ for a week if I disagreed. This is cruel and unfair.”
“Zippy, stop bullying Rainbow, or no ear scritches…”
“B-but…” Zippy gave him puppy eyes…
“And this, Rainbow Dash, is why she’s wearing the pants in this relationship. I can’t say no to that.” Both Man and Pegasus sighed before chuckling. They both kissed the unicorn, before Zippy and Rainbow got out of the chair to let Bob sit in it, so that they could lay in his lap. Meanwhile, Twilight levitated the book down from the pile, cracking it open and looking it over before her eyes widened.
Apparently it was a message from her friends beyond the Mirror World, since the Crystal Empire had long since sent the Crystal Mirror to Twilight given her connections in the world behind its reflective surface. Soon, Twilight told everyone what was happening on the other side, before explaining the big baddies of the day, and then promptly using the book to make a magical device to forcibly open up the portal.
“I’m coming along, too,” Bob said, stepping forward along with Spike, who came up with a good reason to come along. “I wanna check in on how Sunset’s doing, mostly. Plus, a chance at getting more human technology would be pretty handy; an electric violin sounds fucking awesome, but y’all don’t have those here.”
“Well, you still have a better grasp on humans than I do,” Twilight admits. “The portal will remain open until the device is turned off, so we can take care of the sirens, and then get whatever you want to get from the human world.”
“Bet.” The human walked forward, before a mischievous grin came to his face. “Hey Twi, look up.” The alicorn did as asked, before promptly being picked up and gently tossed into the mirror. Bob received a very nice, drawn out, never ending ‘fuck you’ from his sister as Spike ran after her. Bob quickly dashed over to Rainbow’s throne, before reaching in the hidden compartment; his bits and laptop bag were in there. He grabbed those before running back to where the mirror was and running through.
Twilight had just gotten back up, and was in a group hug with her friends. Meanwhile, Sunset just awkwardly hung to the side, so the human figured he should go greet her.
“Howdy Sunny, how’s life going?”
“...Well, everyone here is still scared of me… and I have some new friends at least,” Sunset gestured to the human counterparts of the Element Bearers.
“Darn. Well, everyone’s bound to come around; you did only almost enslave all of them and stuff.”
“I know. I know.” Sunset face palmed, only to ‘eep’ when Bob rested a hand on her shoulder.
“Hey, don’t beat yourself down for that shitshow that you were the last time I was here. Not everyone’s gonna be proud of who they once were, ashamed even. However, you still got plenty of time to make right on your wrongs, so why not go ahead and make right on them? Improve yourself and become who you wanna be.” Sunset gave him a small smile. “Now keep smiling, bud. You ain’t gonna get anywhere by being sad; I learnt that a hot minute ago.”
The group quickly made their way to an ice cream parlor where Twilight was filled in on everything. From the usual, day to day stuff that high schoolers have, to the fact that Equestrian magical residue is still in the world. Bob got bored, so he grabbed Sunset Glimmer and ran off to a nearby pawn shop.
“What are you doing, Bob?” Sunset asked. “This is serious!”
“I know. I’m getting a few things done before I end up helping Rainbow’s band in the incoming ‘Battle of the Bands’ as you would call it.” Bob said, before haggling a good price for his bits, and trading a portion of them for various instruments. The two went through various pawn shops, with the help of Sunset’s knowledge of the area. Their haul came to a trumpet and tuba, a cello and violin, and even an electric guitar that had an amp with it. And then a wagon to carry them all in.
“Why are you buying so many instruments? There’s no way you could play all of these!”
“I can. I have, and I’d like to think I’m somewhat proficient with each of them. I can sing too, so I can be a swiss army knife.” Bob pulled a flute, that he had just bought, out of the wagon. “I’m not happy about it because of the special treatment I get sometimes, but I am actually pretty renowned throughout all of Equestria when it comes to my musical prowess. Namely because of me being a multi-instrumentalist, which is pretty rare for some reason, but I’d like to think I know a thing or two about music.”
“...And you can play every one of those?”
“Not as well as I wish I could, admittedly. I’m only really good with the guitar and singing, but…” Bob stopped and quickly played the Mario Theme with it… only to mess up on the last note. “I can be competent with most of these… most of the time.” When the two walked up to Canterlot High, where Twilight and her friends were sitting on the steps looking sullen. They were quickly filled in on what was happening… Sunset actually made a good idea, which was to counter the Dazzlings with the same type of magic.
“If you’re gonna write a magical spell,” Bob started, sitting on a nearby bench. “Then you shouldn’t write it like you need to save the world, Twilight.” Bob said his two cents. “Remember how much fun we had while rewriting Hallelujah?” He asked.
“That was for a silly little play, not for saving the world. And you helped write it!”
“But you had fun writing it, right?” Twilight nodded. “Music only comes out good, and feels magical, if you enjoy what you’re doing. Pony Hallelujah came out amazing, and we had fun writing it even if I was stressed out over writing it…” Bob leaned back and crossed his arms. “If you need help writing the counterspell, I bet I can help. Not in the magic part, but rather the ‘fun’ aspect of it. Since that whole ear and tails thing only happens…”
“When we play,” Rainbow said.
“Y’all have fun doing it?” Rainbow nodded. “Simply have fun with it then. ‘
“What do you know about writing musical counterspells, anyway, dude? You don’t even have a band or know magic!” Rainbow snapped. Bob simply sat on the bench, kicking his feet up, before resting his head on his arms. “So why are you even here? It seems like you’re only here because you wanted to grab a wagon full of… instruments for some reason. What? Does Equestria not have those instruments? I bet they won’t even help you since you’ll have hooves!” Twilight and Spike just sat, jaws slacked as Earth’s version of Rainbow Dash kept going and going until she eventually stopped. Bob didn’t care; he had no reason to.
“Oh. Oh man, that kinda stings,” Bob chuckled. “I”m dating Equestria’s version of you, so hearing her voice call me shit at music kinda smarts, y’know?” Bob kept his composure though. “In Equestria, I am still human. Dunno how, dunno why. I don’t even plan on keeping all these instruments when I’m done here,” Bob leaned forward. “I wanted to lend a hand out, y’know. I don’t even need to be a part of your band. I wanna help Twilight write a counter spell, which happens to be a song. Song writing is fucking fun, and it’ll help Twilight make the task feel less daunting.”
“Yet you have a bunch of random instruments-”
“In Equestria, I basically invented symphonic rock music, Rainbow. It’s my main genre even if I can play other genres. The only thing I’m missing is a piano and a drum kit; everything in this wagon is exactly what I used on stage or recorded in order to play on stage.” Bob cocked his head forward and raised an eyebrow. “Want me to prove it?’
“...Rainbow, just let Bob help us,” Twilight started. “There is one thing that Bob dedicates most, if not all his time to, and it’s getting better at what he does. Some of the things he produced on his own are incredible.” Twilight walked over to her younger brother and snagged his laptop bag. She proceeded to, poorly, type in the password and opened up one of the tracks he kept on it. Specifically about Rainbow Dash. Bob actually started blushing; that was only meant to be something his marefriends saw.
“Twi!” Bob groaned.
“What? You wrote this for your marefriend. You should be proud since you did it on a whim!” Everyone slowly turned to Bob.
“How long did it take you to write that?” Rainbow asked.
“It… was improv. I came up with a very simple chord progression and sang what came to mind. I wrote it down, fixed up some of the lines, and was going to show the revised version to Dashie on her birthday, dammit!”
“Dashie?” AJ asked.
“Yeah, I’m dating Rainbow Dash from Equestria, not Rainbow Dash from Earth. She mellowed out a lot after we started dating.” Bob got off the bench. “So, where are we crashing this time around?” The human asked, he wanted to move on from this conversation already.
“Oh! We can have a sleepover at my place!” Pinkie Pie immediately said.
“Sick. I’m down,” Bob got up. “Lead the way, Pinks.”
“Oh! You gave me a nickname. Wooo!” Pinkie proceeded to do a cartwheel, flawlessly backflipped and proceeded to start skipping down the sidewalk. “I’ve got a new best friend!” Bob slowly turned to Twilight, stole a glance from Sunset, and then face palmed before the group started following the hyperactive, pink human. Bob slowly found himself at the back of the line while the rest of the group, namely so they wouldn’t bump into his wagon and break off his newly acquired instruments. Sunset hung back with him.
“So…” Sunset started. “Twilight found a way to keep the portal open?” She asked.
“Eeyup.”
“And… you’re dating two ponies already,” she sighed. “I was going to ask you out on a date.”
“Oh?” Bob raised an eyebrow. “What brought that on?”
“I figured I would try and spend some more time with you! When you came over to my place and tutored me, it felt… nice, weirdly enough. I don’t even know what it is with you! You look so plainly ordinary!”
“He does have some nice biceps, dear!” Rarity chimed.
“I’m… a twig with some muscle mass.” Bob whispered, before shrugging. “So, you wanna… drag me to a McDonalds or something, hope their ice cream machine is working, and then joke and stuff?” Bob asked.
“...Yeah.”
“Hmm… I dunno, Sunny. As tempting as it is, and I did think you were really pretty at one point, I’d have to ask Dashie and Zippy. Mostly Zippy. My world’s Rainbow Dash is surprisingly submissive.”
“I can see that,” Sunset admits, looking back at the Mirror’s version. “She didn’t actually hurt your feelings when she called you a bad musician, did it?”
“It hurts to hear my girlfriend’s voice, that usually belongs to a person that loves what I do, saying it sucked. However, I’m not too saddened by people not liking my work. Not everyone’s gonna like you, not everyone’s gonna be nice to you. If I couldn’t handle being told I suck at doing something, I wouldn’t be making music. Yeah, it stings, but the feeling I get when I see even just a few people loving said music… It keeps me going.” Bob chuckled. “Oh, I am so gonna play in the competition now.”
“...Why? I thought you were helping Twilight with the counterspell,” Sunset asked.
“I am. When I get to the Rainbooms, I am just gonna give up. I’m going to compete to try my hand at any genre. Whatever my opponent’s doing, I’ll do it and try to do it well. If I lose, oh well, nothing’s lost. If I win though? Hey, it’s all in good fun. Who knows? I might do some rock ballet for the fun of it if I somehow get past the Dazzlings. It won’t happen, I don’t see myself winning anyways, but it sounds fun.”
Later that night, Bob was sitting next to Twilight on Pinkie’s bed. He and Twilight had apparently shown up on a Friday, so they had all weekend to figure out a counterspell. “Twilight,” Bob said plainly, ignoring Rainbow and Apple Jack yelling at each other. “You’re stressing out again,” Bob pointed at the lyrics. “We’re gonna clap our hands, stomp our feet?” Bob sighed. “This doesn’t sound like a song, Twilight, it sounds like a spell. A really shitty spell. Does this sound like something you’d happily play on stage?”
“...No.”
“Okay, take a deep breath, think of a pony without fur.” Twilight nodded, before giggling. “Oh, that trick words so well. Why does it work?”
“Bald ponies are funny looking…” Bob cleared his throat. “So, what do you want this song to be?”
‘You mean the counters-”
“No, song. What do you want it to be?” Bob asked. “Don’t think of it as a spell. It’s not a spell. You know music theory better than I do, if you write down the exact key and bpm of all those christmas carols I sing is anything to go by. You do that shit on a dime; I can’t even do that half the time. You have the capacity to write something better than I ever could. So make your perfect song.” Bob then glanced at Sunset. “Give her a part too; magic of friendship and all, yeah?”
“...You’re right Bob. Can you play some of the notes and chords so I can tell if it's something I’ll like?”
“Of course I will.” Bob reached- “WHOA!” Bob flinched when an acoustic guitar was shoved into his arms. “The fuck, Pinkie?”
“You needed something to play on, and your electric guitar would be too loud!” She promptly went back to downing cans of whipped cream.
“So Twilight, how’s that counterspell coming along?” Rainbow Dash asked, before gawking. Bob was playing the guitar, damn near flawlessly, in a percussive style, before nodding after stopping.
“Eeyessir!” Bob grinned. “You got yourself a really nice chord progression for the chorus,” Bob ruffled Twilight’s hair.
“And the lyrics?” Bob started replaying what he had just played, singing the lyrics as well. Twilight squealed, before Bob started replaying the chorus and the two started harmonizing. As the two started playing together, the human could feel something running through him. A glance at Twilight told him that they were onto a winner; she had pony ears. “Oh, this is so fun!” Twilight clapped as the ears disappeared.
“Hell yeah it does!” Bob ‘wooed’. He chuckled. “Ah fuck, if I sprout pony wars and a ponytail that goes down to my arse, I am going to gut you.”
“That would be pretty funny to see. I bet Rainbow and Zippy would love to see you with a ponytail.” Twilight teased.
“...If they love it, I will consider growing my hair out.”
“Bob,” Rainbow Dash started.
“Huh?”
“What the fuck?”
“I don’t know why you’re saying that.”
“You sound awesome, duh! I could use you in my band.”
“Performing with Twilight does sound fun. I’ve done it before during karaoke at Sugarcube Corner before.”
“No, as a guitar player; I don’t have an acoustic guitar player in my band. Your voice is too deep to fit into the rest of us.”
“It’s not my fault that my voice is three octaves deeper than Twilight’s.”
“We harmonized perfectly despite that, though,” Twilight pointed out. “Whenever you end up collaborating with the Ponytones, you add some ‘oompf’ to their stuff too by simply hitting really, really low notes.”
“Well…” Bob let his voice drop to as low as it can go. “Dashie really likes when my voice gets deep like this.” He raised his voice back to its usual octave. “Since she and Zippy always get VIP tickets to any concert I’m playing, I do a song where I can go that low for fun. Usually with Luna, it sounds really fucking cool.”
“Bob,” AJ got the human’s attention. She looked genuinely impressed. “Your voice got so deep it sounded like there were two people talking.” She nodded. “What was that, playing with Principal Luna?”
“Oh no. Back home, we have our own version of Luna. She’s a Princess like Twilight is,” Bob chuckled. “Sweet as a sugar once you get to know her. Before Twilight even grew wings, I met Luna one night, and we ended up performing in a concert together. Whenever Luna’s able, we plan out a concert and perform together in a two man band. I handle a lot of the instrumental and production side of things, Luna handles the vocals and effects if we feel like using them. Then after a hard night of blowing our vocal cords out, we snuggle up and cuddle for a nice, long day of just sleeping.”
“Huh…” Rainbow leaned back.
“Fuck, tonight Luna was gonna kidnap me and demand snuggles.” Bob chuckled. “I am in so much trouble.”
“I’m sure she’ll understand.” Twilight chuckled.
“Well Twi,” Bob and Twilight had moved onto the floor, so Bob was the first to get up; Twilight still wasn’t used to her human form. He then picked her up, bridle style before laying her on the bed. He set the book on the nightstand on the side. “Get some rest. We can go over the song again, see how we feel about it, and rewrite it if need be, and then continue writing it.”
“So about joining my band,” Rainbow started.
“Twilight and I talked it over,” the human chuckled. “I’m going to, out of spite of what you said, compete on my own in the competition, but throw it as soon as I go against you. Luckily, I’m on the opposite side of the bracket from your band. I’m going to match my opponents’ genres and see where that gets me…” Bob looked at the bracket that was given out to everyone to look over. “I’m up against Snips and Snails; I think they’re doing hip hop or rap.”
“...Why are you going against us?” Rainbow asked.
“I figured it would be fun. I dunno about you, but I never got to finish up highschool; I got dropped in Equestria during my freshman year, and that was it. My school was ass, so it would never have something like this being a thing. Twilight’s cool with it, since I don’t plan on making the finals… and I get a chance to kick her boyfriend’s butt.”
“Flash Sentry is not my boyfriend.”
“...Yeah, you’ve got a crush on him.”
“...No.”
“This is bullshit,” Rainbow grumbled.
“Let my brother have some fun,” Twilight said sternly. “He already said he wasn’t going to try and win the whole competition, since it might ruin our chances at winning against the dazzlings.”
“The Dazzlings’ gonna kick my ass if I get the chance to go up against them anyways. They’re an acapella group, as far as I can tell. They got three of them, are magically, and biologically, meant to sing incredibly, and unironically, some of their songs are pretty good if what I heard during the auditions were anything to go by…”
“What?” Rainbow Dash growled.
“Hey, I’m not affected by ‘harmony music’, which is causing this whole bullshit. The sirens have good music, and I can appreciate that shit… seriously, I can’t one man acapella my way through magical entities that will have me beat on the vocal front. So it’s not like I can get to theinals anyways.”
“...That’s a pessimistic way of thinking,” Twilight pointed out.
“Yeah. But there’s somebody in this school that’s bound to be more musically talented than I am… Fuck it, if I get to the Dazzlings, I’m going to bust out my main genre and try and beat them. They can’t take over the world if I kick their asses in a high school comp, can they?”
The weekend blasted by. The counterspell song that Twilight had written, with the help of her younger brother, turned out to be really good, and even got the whole ‘pony ears and tails’ going. Obviously they were going to save it until the finals of the concert when they went against the Dazzlings. Bob, however, started educating himself on every competitor in the Battle of the Bands and started working out which genres he should work with.
So now they were all sitting in the bleachers as the Dazzlings were up first, of course.
“You know,” Bob said, leaning back against the wall, since they were sitting closer to the top of the bleachers. “I kinda feel bad for everyone in the bracket that has the Dazzlings in it,” he admits. “There isn’t a shot in hell that anyone’s gonna win against them. What with mind control and whatnot. It’s pretty hard to sway the judges with that.” The room started filling with green smoke as the Dazzlings started singing their song. “...That’s not good either,” he pointed out.
Bob looked at the brackets before blinking a couple of times. “Oi, I thought I was going up against Snips and Snails’ band first,” Bob pointed out.
“Maybe it got changed at the last minute. What? Don’t think you can win against Flash Sentry?” Rainbow asked with a smug smile.
“Pfft, no. I’m a rock musician first and foremost, Dash.” Bob said while bobbing his head to what the Dazzlings were singing; it was about mind control, but it still slapped.
Unsurprisingly, the Dazzlings won. Snips and Snails, unsurprisingly, were terrible at rapping and got absolutely beaten out by a human Buff Biceps, who was playing the violin surprisingly. That was a shocker to Bob, since Buff wasn’t much better than himself when Bob first came to Equestria.
“Ey, Twi, you and the girls are up against human Octavia Melody.”
“Huh… maybe she’ll be just as good-”
“Nah, Tavi’s skills with a cello are damn near divine. I doubt the high school equivalent of her will even come close to Tavi.” The human chuckled. “Ah fuck, trying to out solo her at a concert was a horrible idea; I just got embarrassed.” Bob let out a deep breath before getting up from his seat. “Aight, I’m gonna go kick your boyfriend’s ass, see ya!” Bob got up and snickered his way to the stage while his sister just sat there and blushed. While Twilight and her friends were practicing their counterspell, Bob had actually run off and found a loop pedal and had connected it to some speakers he found for a few dollars at a random thrift store.
It was set up perfectly, as far as he could tell, after giving it another look over. He nodded, the instrument mic he had bought was working as well. It seemed like one band at a time would be playing throughout the competition; a chance for both bands to play without drowning their opponents out. Because chivalry in a competition full of mindfucked people is a thing that is first and foremost apparently.
He had to admit, Flash and his band weren’t too bad. However, now it was Bob’s turn. He walked out behind the stage, and after a few minutes, looped the drums and the keyboard. He grabbed his guitar and quickly dashed towards the center of the stage, picking up his guitar. Bob slowly looked offstage, where Flash and his band was. On the way to the gym, Flash had yelled at Twilight, so Bob gave the kid a grin before performing a metal song. Admittedly, it was a bit risky, since it wasn’t one of the songs that he had actually practices, especially with him having to use another piece of equipment to try and change the guitar sound several times during the solo.
However, Principal Celestia and Vice Principal Luna were just impressed at what Bob had done; played the drums, looped it, played the bass, looped that, and then played the keyboard for a few moments before looping that. Just to then play an electric guitar, play it well, and quickly use another device to change how the guitar sounded throughout the solo.
Bob was just happy to be playing pirate metal; pirate metal is love, pirate metal is life.
“Get dunked on!” Bob whispered at the end of his song. The human took a seat up in the bleachers, having just cleanly destroyed Flash Drive, Flash’s band. Flash himself stomped away from the board. The Rainbooms and Sunset were just staring at him, while Twilight didn’t seem too surprised by what she had just witnessed.
“That was mean, Bob.”
“Well, I kinda had to do that, Twi. I don’t want to show off, but I’m a one man band; I have to resort to some more… technical stuff in order to edge out against two or three more people than I.”
“That’s fair,” Twilight admitted. “But did you have to show off that hard? Everypon-one here is a bit… amateurish, apparently. Then you come out, do all of that, and then walk off stage like nothing happened?”
“I couldn’t record or remix everything during the weekend for that specific song. If I wanted to show off, I literally could’ve done a seven minute long metal song that’s renowned for being hard to sing… and then lose the competition after I blow my lungs and throat out.” He turned to the rest of the girls, before raising an eyebrow. “What?”
“The fuck?” Rainbow asked.
“How the hell?” AJ asked.
The other five proceeded to voice their shock and surprise. Namely only Sunset stood out.
“Bob, how the hay did you do that? You did…”
“Looped some instruments after playing them for a bit. I did that a fair amount, namely as a dare from Octavia and Vinyl during a concert I did with them… I lost a bet with them, and I had to do it at least once every concert I had. Since I got booked with concerts right after, for some bizarre, unknown reason.” Bob shrugged. “It’s actually pretty simple once you figure out how I did it.”
“...I take back everything I said yesterday,” Rainbow Dash admits. “You don’t need a band, apparently! How is anyone supposed to follow that up? Especially us? We have to go after you!”
The rest of the tournament had gone smoothly for Bob and the Rainbooms. Despite the odds, and a major fuck up that Trixie had framed Sunset Shimmer for, they had gotten to the finals. Unfortunately for Bob, he had the daunting task of competing against the Dazzlings in the semi-finals… Bob simply sat in the back of the stage, with the Rainbooms while holding his head in his hands. “Oh fuck… this is going to go so poorly.”
“Why? You did well in every other round, and decided to show off and match everyone genre for genre,” Sunset pointed out.
“I’m horrible at acapella,” Bob groaned. “I’m gonna have to loop my voice so many times, and I’m still gonna lose, no matter how hard I try.” The human looked up at the rest of them. “While it was unfair for everyone else, this whole tournament thing just isn’t fun. Admittedly, it was in the first round because I got to play my favorite song, but… Music is meant for enjoyment, it’s something beautiful. Because of mind control, something that was made to celebrate music, was turned into this.
“Nothing anyone has played here has any passion in it, besides you, and the Dazzlings. And those bitches are only doing this because they’re trying to take over the world. So what if I won? I won against people that are being mind controlled. People that, because of said mind control, show no passion for this shit.” Bob turned to the Dazzlings, who were on stage and performing, green smoke accompanied it like every other time that they started singing. “I just hate this. I thought I was gonna have fun, and I’m not.”
i had human dash act like a bitch, since in this particular movie, she was a whole bitch.
It's was fun to read this and I am looking forward to reading the rest of it.
This is amazing! You have to let read the whole thing!
I would love to see this as a sequel!
do a sequel and ill eat a taco.
Well now that got me hyped for a sequel. Really hope we’ll see one!
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good news! I decided to release a 'side stories' saga recently. this is the final product of this is actually the first chapter!
on top of that, i have another two chapters planned out, one of which is an alternative to the introduction chapter, and the next is literally just Bob and Luna having a sleepover in onsies.