The ponies of Ponyville waited patiently, or, in Pinkie's case, impatiently for the one talented singer their town had to begin his concert. The unicorn, Vinyl Scratch was preparing the playlist he was to sing that night when he walked over to her. "Hey, Vinyl, I was wondering if we could do this one again," he said, pointing a hoof at a title she had scratched off the list. "Absolutely not, you remember what-""Yeah, I remember, we released Discord and he almost sent Equestria into everlasting chaos," he began, "But! The Elements and I took care of him AND he's reformed now, there's no way he'll try something again!" She thought about it, and finally said, "Alright, fine, you can sing it again," He began to bounce around like Pinkie Pie on a sugar high. "BUT!" She continued, a smile on her face, "YOU have to sit through Octavia's next boring lecture about music instead of me." "AWWww, come on!" he replied, already bored just thinking about it. "That's the deal, sing the song and sit through a lecture from Octavia, or no song." She said, smiling. "That's nowhere near a fair trade," he complained, "at least; it's not fair 'til you go on a date with me later as well." "Fine, but only because I agree that the lecture deserves two rewards." she said, punching him playfully in the shoulder. "Alright!" he said, doing a little victory dance. "Yeah, yeah, now, get back to the stage, it's almost time!" she scolded.
The white mare watched the pure white, pegasus stallion dash towards his place on the stage, leaving his signature thunderclap trail in his path. She liked him, she finally had somepony to share her feelings with, somepony who she could be herself around, and who she trusted no matter what, well, other than Octavia, like she cared anyway. "Focus, Vinyl, get the playlist ready and start the show." she told herself. She looked through the list, and glanced at his request. She looked at it worriedly, before asking herself, "Why do I have a feeling this won't end well?" "Oh well," she figured and added it to the list. "Okay, lets check my controls, lights?" she pushed a button and the lights went out, "check, music?" she moved some sliders and heard the music changing, "check, shades? Of course, alright then. You ready BT?" "As always, Ms. Scratch." "Well," she sighed, "here goes nothing."
Booming Thunder was prepared for this song, he always was humming it, and Vinyl always smacked him upside the head for it, but finally, he got her, not only to let him sing it, but tricked her into going out with him. It was like a dream come true, he had had feelings for her since he could remember, and, sure, they lived together, but only because he wouldn't buy his own house. They were great friends as well, but it was never enough for him, he wanted Vinyl more than Rainbow Dash wanted to be a Wonderbolt. But, now wasn't the time to gush over his date with Vinyl, it was time to remind everypony why he was called "Booming Thunder".
Twilight, Applejack, Fluttershy, and Discord were walking through town and saw the stage with Booming Thunder's speaker and cross-mics cutie-mark across the curtains. "Well I'll be, I thought he'da stopped singin' after he blew a hole in the town hall." Applejack said. "Oh, you know him," Fluttershy said quietly. "It'll take more than that to get him to quit." Twilight added, "Much, MUCH more." Discord looked excited as he walked over to an empty seat, "I've never actually heard him other than when he freed, then helped defeat and reform me, and I'd just LOOOVE to hear him! Especially since his voice won't be directed at me." The girls decided they could spare a couple minutes to listen.
The music began and Booming Thunder stood in the center of the stage like always, with Vinyl at her table behind him, his cue approached and he shot his large blue eyes open and took in a huge breath, when he released it, his voice blew the curtains open, and almost launched them across town.
I'm not a fan of puppeteers, but I've a nagging fear, someone else is pulling at the strings.
Discord knew the song, and tried to escape it, but by the end of the first verse, he'd lost it. He snapped his fingers and appeared behind Vinyl, which caused BT to turn, and ask, "Hey, Discord, want to be a part of the show? No problem!" "Go ahead, Discord, sing with him, its fine." Vinyl said, but when she saw the look in his eyes, she immediately froze with fear. "You told me to take my tyranny away? I'll take something else," he looked down at the mare and picked her up by the horn, "Something precious, to you at least," he said with an evil smile. Booming Thunder's expression went from confused to angry and he screamed at Discord "Discord! RELEASE HER AT ONCE!" Discord simply put out his claw, looking at the talons, "Hmm, no, I don't think I will, I need the Melody. Thanks for reminding me how much fun it is causing chaos!" he said as he ran into the EverfreeForest. Booming Thunder flew after him, "DISCORD! DISCORD, YOU COWARD STOP RUNNING FROM ME!" he shouted, but only got Discord's chuckle in response. "Boom, help me!" he heard Vinyl call, and he flew faster after them. Rainbow Dash caught up to him and begged, "BT, you gotta slow down!" He looked at her and as loud as he could, yelled, "I WILL CATCH HIM IF IT KILLS ME!" sending her smashing into a tree.
Booming Thunder followed Discord to an old ruin and saw him turn the corner, so he turned the corner as well, and flew through pure white for a moment, then shouted as the white light faded, "DISCORD!" His voice created a blast that knocked over the building in front of him. He looked around to get his bearings but everything looked, different. Not colorful like Ponyville, but grey and dark, he looked up and saw the buildings around him towered into the sky. He started to walk out to the street, but fell on his face, when he looked to see why he fell; he saw he only had two legs, and no hooves, but hands instead. And he was wearing some strange clothes too, a pure white shirt with a large picture of his cutie-mark on the front, and cartoonish-blue jeans, and had no shoes.
After staggering out of the alley, he looked to see that nopony was around, and that he was in an empty park, with one other pony. Or whatever they were, he felt like they were called, "humans" for some reason, so that's what he called them. The other person had turned around and spotted him, was it, smiling?
"Tyler?" it asked, "Tyler! Is that really you?" it said as it ran over to him. "No, my names Booming Thunder and I'm searching for a being called Discord. Now move so I can find him," he said as he walked past it and stopped, "Wait, Levi?" he asked, how did he know that? "So you do remember me! Where have you been for these past few years? Everyone thought you had died in that car wreck." BT simply stared at Levi, "What are you talking about? I've never been here before. What's a car? Whatever, this is a waste of my time, I should be looking for Discord," he said as he started walking away, but then fell over again, still not used to two legs. Levi ran over to him and with a straight face asked, "Dude, are you drunk?" BT started to reply but stopped and stared across the street at a human girl with unnaturally red eyes and black and blue hair wearing a white tank-top with Vinyl's cutie-mark on it and jeans to match her hair. She looked at him and mouthed, "Help me" before a human guy wearing a grey hoodie and regular blue jeans placed his hand on her shoulder and pulled her to him as they turned to walk away, before they turned around, the guy looked directly at BT with his shades down revealing his yellow eyes.
Levi had started to look at the pair as they turned away, and suddenly, went flying to the ground as BT shouted with a force Levi had never thought possible from a person, "DISCORD!" The guy across the street just snapped his fingers and the pair vanished before the destructive sound reached them, as debris and chunks of concrete flew past. "DISCOOOOOOOOORD!" he shouted again before passing out.
BT woke up in a strange bedroom and remembered seeing Discord, and, trying to find him as soon as possible, tried to fly out the window. He jumped through the glass and hit the fire escape ladder. Levi ran in, and saw BT half way out the shattered window and a dent in the fire escape. When he pulled Booming Thunder in, he saw a big red mark across his face and his nose bleeding. "Dude, what are you doing!?" Levi asked, worried. "I tried to fly out the window, but it seems my wings are missing." "Alright, come on." Levi said pulling BT to his feet, "You need to rest," Levi said as he laid BT on the bed, but not without difficulty. "You passed out after that sonic shout thing you did in the park and then I brought you here to my apartment." Levi explained. "I need to find…" "You Need to rest" Levi interrupted, "Also, what kind of pony puts a staircase on the other side of a window?!" BT said, sitting on the bed, rubbing his face and plugging his nose with tissues. Levi pulled up a chair, "Okay, explain."
"Explain what?" BT asked, annoyed that he couldn't look for Discord. "Why you're talking like that, how no one's seen you in years, and what in the hell that shout thing was." Levi stated. "And why should I? As far as I can tell, you're working with Discord so that I can't catch him and save Vinyl," BT accused, looking at him angrily. "I don't know anyone called 'Discord', but, how's this for a reason, if you don't explain, I'll not let you leave at all." BT's jaw dropped, "You can not keep me here, I have to find Vinyl before," "And I have to have a good reason to let you look," Levi interrupted. BT glared at him a minute, then finally, sighed in defeat, "Fine. I can't remember much, almost nothing actually, from before a few years ago…"