You turn the tap on the tub until it ceases and stand up. "Vinyl!" you cry out for the filly unicorn.
A minute goes by before you slap your head in realization of where she was. You exit the bathroom and make your way through the house, searching for the right room. At the end of the hallway you finally come to a door painted black and with a Fillex poster on it. You knock on the door and enter, not bothering to wait for the answer that wouldn't come.
On one side of the room lays a white unicorn with a two-shaded blue mane on a twin bed, with bulky headphones over her ears. Her head is slightly rocking in tempo to a song you could hear almost fine. The filly was wearing her signature purple shades and smiling her usual smile. You walk over to the deejay and remove her Cleats by Dr Hay, causing the filly to look up at you and raise an eyebrow.
"You aughta turn your music down," you warn her. "You'll go deaf."
Vinyl continues staring at you, not showing the slightest bit of caring.
You roll your eyes slightly at her apathy. "It's time for your bath, anyways," you inform her while putting away her Epod. Vinyl starts to reach for her device with a look of refusal. You sigh in defeat and create a compromise. "Alright, I'll hook it up to the Ehome and you can listen while you bathe." Vinyl nods at your proposal and hops off the bed, ready to follow.
Carrying the wondrous devices called an Epod and Ehome, which you found in Vinyl's bedroom, you guide the little unicorn over to the bathroom, with you entering first. You plug in the Ehome and attach the Epod to it. You then inspect the small gadget and search for an appropriate song (good luck with that you muse to yourself). You spend two minutes scrolling through the hundreds of titles, not finding anything that convinces you to play it.
Among the seemingly endless playlist (who payed for these?) you find titles such as Egotistical Cannibal, I Am Fillyex, Fustercluck (you hope you read that right), and so on, making you start to question the parenting of her parents. Nonetheless, you choose from almost nowhere a "song" from the list, figuring it sounded safe enough.
The music begins to play and Vinyl cheers up instantly, showing you that she was very fond of this one. With both parties satisfied (one more than the other, you figure it out), you pick up Vinyl and place her in the tub full of warm water. She starts nodding her head to the beat of the dubstep, causing you to chuckle a bit. You listen to the rhythm and find it to be not of your taste. Then, after you remove Vinyl's shades, the music stops and stays silent for a few seconds.
Confused as to how anything could be that short, you stand up and check on the Epod. Sure enough, the song hadn't changed, and in fact was still in the beginning. You look at Vinyl, who had her eyes closed and her right hoof in the air. Somehow more confused than before, you turn up the music slightly to see if it was having a quiet moment. This was where you made your mistake, and before you realized it the bass dropped.
BOOOOOOOOM! BUM BUM BUM BUH WUB WUB!
"SWEET MERCIFUL CELESTIA!" Your ears have never in your entire life heard something so loud and so ear-bleedingly techno in your entire life. You clasp onto your ears in an attempt to salvage your ear drums. Vinyl, however, you saw continue nodding (no, banging) her head to the horrid tempo, her hoof following its controller. You get up off the floor, which was hard to land on, and quickly attempt to pause the music. Instead, you suffice for unplugging the Ehome and swiftly turning off the Epod before it started again.
Vinyl looks disappointed when you return to her, sad that she couldn't finish her little moment. You, however, look at her with shock. "How are you not deaf?" you ask the filly while rubbing your ear to stop the irritation. Vinyl shrugs and points to the shampoo impatiently, wanting to get this over with. "No problem," you sigh to her, also eager to get her bath over. You kneel down and begin the quick task.
Grabbing the shampoo with one slightly shaky hand (the drop not only affected your ears), you squeeze the bottle and begin to lather the unicorn's neon and dark blue mane. You scrub thoroughly for about twenty seconds, both of you thankful for her short yet pretty mane.
You quickly go from lathering to rinsing, cupping the clear water in your hand and pouring it over her head. Again, because of her short mane, this takes less than usual for other ponies. Half a minute later, it's time for her tail.
Reading your mind before you could ask, Vinyl lifts her flank so you could clean the tail. You thank her and apply more shampoo to your palm and lather the slightly longer tail. Taking not too much longer, the tail was fully lathered in forty seconds.
Rinsing was automatic for you, because before you knew it the tail was half done. Overall, the tail only took a minute to rinse. Thankful for everything to be done, you unplug the tub and pick Vinyl out of the tub.
Grabbing the black towel across from you, you shake the cloth first over the unicorn's head, then torso, and finally tail and hooves. Vinyl remains content with a hint of impatience throughout the entire bath, showing that she really wanted to get back to her music. To the filly's amusement, you unplug the Ehome and Epod and hand her the latter along with her Cleats. She smiles and puts on the device, dismissing herself from the room.
You put your hands on your hips as you watch the white filly leave.
"Note to self: stick with rock."
AN:
Couldn't find a dubstep song with an appropriate name that also had a big bass drop. Sorry, I just REALLY hate techno and dubstep.
Next, sorry if the bath seemed rushed and/or too short. I just wanted to post this up so I could finally get on Sweetie Belle.
Finally, next up is... Well, I just told you. She has a co-op, with, well, you know who.
-Derps out!
Sure the music wasn't the best, but you gotta cut a break for Vinyl
Vinyl Scratch bathtime is fun for the whole fandom.
Aw, Best Pony Vinyl Scratch is so cute when she causes unintentional hearing damage.
I WILL TAKE THIS GRAND OPPORTUNITY, I SHALL NOT PASS IT UP!
I too have made this mistake.
This was the best chapter, by far!!!
You must clean her, with Wubs!
1689427 She's the only one who is!
Hahaha, I love you for finally writing this. Vinyl is just the cutest, by far
Now if Vinyl was into Daft Punk, this would be an awesome experience!
1689381 Sweetie Belle's next?!
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I love you.
Yay! Sweetie! Will we be seeing Apple Bloom and Scootaloo too?
1690008 Yes, but Scoots will unfortunately be delayed for a bit due to her having an episode soon. This is entirely for research purposes. I personally love her, but I am still delaying.
1690335 So I take it next will be Sweetie Belle in a co-op with Rarity, then Applebloom in a co-op with Applejack, and then you'll likely move on to some background ponies while you wait for "Sleepless in Ponyvillie" before doing Scootaloo.
Ha! Typical Vinyl...
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I agree with you, the large majority of techno and dubstep makes me want to rip my ears off. My friend thought it would be funny to put his earbud in my ear while it was at max volume right before a bass drop. Then a different friend decided to do the same thing with a screamo song. I hate both. Rock from the 70's is my favorite. I swear every student in high school wants to blow their own eardrums out. Idiots.
Vinyl seemed a bit older than the other, uh, victims.
Today, you have made a Vinyl and dubstep fan very, VERY happy.
I have a huge smile on my face and I feel ready and happy for the day ahead.
1690628 Exactly! Finally someone sees what I'm saying!
1691305 I feel ya. I love classic rock as well, like Van Halen, Ozzy Osbourne, Bon Jovi, Journey, etc. For that, I brohoof you /) (Although, to each his own I suppose)
1692792 Yeah, I wasn't really trying to get at that. She can't talk like the others, nor can she bathe alone obviously. She just got into dubstep at a young age.
This is the chapter that finally convinced me to upvote. Filly Vinyl and the bass drop was my favorite scene.
1693458 How about how old will Sweetie Belle be, show age or a little younger?
1694406 Younger, about one or two like the rest. Rarity will be in her teens, like AJ will be with AB. The reason BM was so young during AJ was because the gap between them is smaller than the gap between AJ and AB.
1695156 I never really thought BM was that young, I figured he was probably in his tweens possibly teens.
1680626 The part with BLU Solider, Scout, and Heavy fits with the improved description of "Sleepless in Ponyvillie" with Rainbow Dash as the Solider, Scootaloo as the Scout, and possibly Sweetie Belle and Applebloom as the Heavy.
Also that whole thing was priceless and yay for Spongebob Jokes.
1695199 Yeah, he was around like eight in my mind.
1696297 Speaking of when are we going to do him, and when do we do SA?
And also perhaps before you move on to background ponies after AB why not do Cheerilee, perhaps the young teacher to be will cooperate or maybe she'll be just as michevious as any of her future students.
1701855 Y'know, they might be between SB and Scoots during that uber long wait. Cheerilee is a maybe for now.
1702037 Are you perhaps worried that because Cheerilee doesn't have a disctint personality that her bath will be rather uneventful, cause if so then you can give her a personality (like for instance make a young Cheerilee mischievous, a pony who loves to get into trouble).
"Note to self: stick with rock."
Have to agree on that one. Rock (and metal) beats dubstep by a mile IMO.
Seriously epic stuf you are writing here. Short, cute and a DAWWW factor high enough to be categorised as "weapon of mass destruction" if weaponised
Keep them comming
1702401 Funny story, my brony friend joked that Cheerilee seemed to be a troll-ish type character who trolls with a smile. Like, she's a real bitch but acts as such while being nice to you. I thought that was some nice head canon, so I pretty much made that part of mine as well. So, I guess she may be a bit mischievous, either that or very motherly (which is more likely).
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What are you talking about?
I got two great pieces right here!
(jk, three)
You have not heard dubstep until you check these out.
So, SO sorry everypony! I've been a major lazy ass and I haven't even started Sweetie Belle yet! I promise I'll have it up tomorrow, Saturday the absolute LATEST! Again, really sorry to disappoint you CMC fans, I'll try not to procrastinate this hard for Apple Bloom or Scootaloo.
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Be careful who you poke. Poking makes ponies pregnant dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Colgate_bedroomeyes.png
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THE HORROR! THE HORROR!
Pony-Related jokes aside, this is a running gag between a couple of my college friends.
Omg, so freaking adorable! How are you so great at writing these?
Where is Octavia? dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Octavia.png dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Octavia2.png dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Octavia_O_O.png dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Octavia_cake.png dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Octavia_chair.png dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Octavia_plot.png
Seriously though, not having Octavia take a bath makes Vinyl sad... dl.dropbox.com/u/31471793/FiMFiction/emoticons/misc_Vinyl_sad.png
i wake up every morning, go upstairs...
she's washing vinyl.she's great right?
a room mate that (attempts to) washes vinyl
only one problem....she cleans her with.....wub's...
Oh come now... you cant hate ALL dubstep...Seven loins remix of cosmic love says otherwise. It doesn't all sound the same you know... if you hate that song, then you can officially hate all dubstep. However, it feels good to like music of every genre and age...Ecxept country.
but other than the inaccuracy of my distaste for dubstep, i give this an B...For BASS!
Bass drop for the win.
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That makes two of us!
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"If you hate Johnny Cash, then you can hate all country. If you like Taylor Swift, you can hate only yourself."
-Black Dynomite
I'll stick with metal.
Egoistic Cannibal=Narcissistic Cannibal?
1808833 make it 2.5! I like techno but I hate hAtE HaTe HATE dubstep.(see what I did thar?)
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wow I wish she were my daughter