We arrived at the station without much further trouble, although I'm pretty sure the young couple in the next cabin were going at it like a pair of march hares from the sounds that filtered through the wood paneling. Tossing on my trenchcoat and hat, I gathered my cello and then we were on our way into the madness that was the streets of Manehattan. We were just waiting for a taxi carriage when i heard a oh too familiar voice to my right.
"Evening Miss Philharmonica." The voice that I had heard from the other side of the glass in the laboratory said. I spun to the right to look at the pony. "How are the modifications?"
"You're lucky this is a public place or I'd eviscerate you right now." I said to Shining Steel. Her fur was a silver that did shine like the metal she was named after and her eyes were an icy blue. Her cuitie mark was a few gears grinding against each other. "Then again, it is still very tempting after what you did to me." I could see Vinyl figuring out the situation out of the corner of my eye.
"Oh come now, a little bit of cybernetics never killed the user." She said with a grin, "Although It's so nice of the nobility to pay my bail, and thanks to that Celestia can't even touch me." She said with a chuckle, "After all, my research is funded by them and they like to keep getting new toys after all."
"I'll believe that when I hear it from Celestia herself." I replied.
"Here's the papers if you want, ta ta for now." She said tossing a manilla envelope at my hooves. Vinyl quickly levitated it off of the pavement and opened it up.
"By order of Judge Gavel of the Canterlot Criminal Court Shining Steel is hereby pardoned of any past crimes..." she read aloud.
I glared at Shining Steel. "I suggest you leave. Right now. Otherwise things may get very, very messy." I growled. "And if I hear of any more cases like mine... well you should start praying to Faust, because neither Celestia or Luna will be able to help you."
Shining just laughed. "Here in front of all these other ponies? I doubt you would do an-" she was cut off as my hoof shot out and connected hard with her jaw, sending her spinning to the ground with a nasty crack.
"Right now it's taking every ounce of restraint I have not to continue that particular course of action. Let's go Vinyl, before I do something that will make her regret ever deciding to experiment on me." I said as I turned and started off towards our home, leaving Shining Steel to nurse what was probably a broken jaw.
"Holy horseshit 'Tavi... What side of whose bed did you wake up on this morning?" Vinyl said as we entered our apartment. "Also, I see you've been practicing your hoof to hoof."
"I don't know if you picked up on it or not Vinyl but that was the pony that attached this thing to me." I said with a sigh as I removed my trenchcoat and hung it on a hook on the back of the door. Looking back Vinyl's face had frozen with that 'oh...' expression on it that one tends to make when they realize that they had missed something rather important. "And that' judge's note basically means that any legal prosecution that I try won't have any effect..." I trotted over to where I had placed my Cello as I walked in and flipped open the clasps. "I'll be in my room, give me an hour or two okay?"
"W... will do 'Tavi." Vinyl said as she turned and headed for our kitchen. "Damn bitch should be glad I hadn't realized who she was or else she would be wishing for 'Tavi to be the one delivering the beatdown..." I heard her mutter as I took out my cello and went off to my room.
I pulled out a small boombox and loaded in a tape, on it was a recording Vinyl had made of her practicing on her keyboard, I had liked the melancholy tune of the piano exercise at the time and it seemed fitting for how I was feeling right now.
I began to play as the track began on the CD, getting lost in the music.
I dropped the pitch down into a lower register as the song progressed, allowing my cello's notes to intertwine with that of the piano as my hoof traveled to the various notes on the neck of the instrument. I closed my eyes as my vision started to blur, sobbing as I played out my emotions, the strings of the cello singing as I cried, the wood of the instrument reverberating the sweet sorrow of the tune.
The tears ran freely as I played out my sadness at the sheer injustice of it all. My anger was drowned in the tears as the song finished. I laid my Cello down gently and slumped onto my bed, sobbing as I allowed myself to drift off to sleep.
Also first!
And new chapter!
Nice to see an update on this story.
Can't wait for more!
What, really? The judge can just pardon her like that? How does he have that authority? How can he get away with that? How can he do it so quickly? It hasn't even been a day. This is ridiculous.
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a court system run by the nobles who also run the military.
...How did you make that box? The author's notes one.
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it's a new feature.
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Cooool. I'm slowly liking this update more and more. Could still fix the grey, though.
Final-fuckin'-lee!
nice update, althought I am still wondering if any-more ponies will become more Marvel characters emulators:
Vynil would be Cy-clops (althought Derpy becoming Cyclops would be awesome as well, she would be shooting energy beams from her eyes at diferent directions and enemies at the same time!)
Zecora would be Storm
Spitfire would be Rouge (She has never been seen without her full-bodysuit in canon ever)
Twilight would be Marvel Mare (Jean Grey equivalent)
Applebloom wouldbe Black Cat
Sweetie Belle would be Shadowcat
Scootaloo as jubilee (either that or The Silver Surfrer)
Big Mac would be Wolverine
Applejack would be Captain Equestria
Fluttershy could be SHE-HULK
Rarity would be Black Widow, with Spike as Hawkeye
Rainbow Dash being secretly being related to Thor and being the goddess of the Rainbow while Pinkie being related to Loki(althought using her powers for good and parties...) and fighting evil and boredoom under the name of PINKIEPOOL
Shining Armor becoming IRON-MANE, and Cadance as WAR-MACHINE
Princess Celestia would be training them under the guise of Profesor C along with Luna who would be Nightmagneto
Will Lyra be Spider-Mane, and also will Bon-Bon be a Spider-Mare as well?
will it be there an Agent Coltson and Colonel Nick Fury from S.H.I.E.L.D.?
will it be a Fantastic Four (The Doctor as Mr.Fantastic, Derpy as The Invisible Mare, Snowflake as The Thing, and Dinky as The Pony Torch)?
Will Octavia accidentally become Spider-Mane Arch-Villian or an ally?
Dang. Stupid legal files.
Yes!
If you're taking suggestions...
One way you could up the word count for the latest chapter would be to have Vinyl read out the formal wording of the pardon; this would both add words to the chapter, and the likely broad, non-specific, "Get out of jail free" nature of the way it was worded would underline the corruption in the system, that failed to either protect Octavia or punish the wrongdoer, which, (judging from the story description) is part of the reason she'll choose to take justice into the hands she lacked just days ago.
Short, but sweet and sad. I like it. I eagerly anticipate Octavia's encounter with the next pony that gets augmented.
1780479 WOAH! HOLD IT! The Doctor would not be affected by the radiation. He woulda died and regenerated. So there. Also. Pony Link is best pony.
1853325 Hmmm, you're probably right, then again Mr. Fantastic could be that doctor of Ponyville hospital though, that or Caramel
1853440 Agreed.
1853451 indeed. BTW: Merry Cristmass
This is pretty amazing dude lol all of your stories are but this is a twist ive literally never seen ummmmm more please???
Hold on a mo....
IS it Shining Steel or Shining Silver?
You keep swapping between the two in that first scene here.
Writer! Some consistancy please! This is too good to fall to such piddling niggles!
Before you keep writing, complete this sentence from Octavia's point of view:
"I don't want awesome robot arms because..."
Even if Octavia doesn't realize it, there should be some reason behind her breakdown that the readers can discern (or at least guess at).
I want no Demand some one magic this into a Manga that would be so cool and I could see this getting flushed out by the writer once they get a good idea where they want this to go and if they ever get stuck on other work