Howdy partners! This is Toxic Wastenote with another chapter of 'My Little Pony: Friendship is Toxic'! This chapter is being written while I listen to Katy Perry and watch Bob's Burgers. That has nothing to do with the story actually, I just wanted to mention it. Plus I just had a crap shower because our freakin' shower head is broken and it is leaking and spraying because of all the cracks. So for some reason that all motivated me to get tah' work on the next chapter. Previously in the last issue…
"Whach' you talkin' bout' Celestia?"
"Um… can I get a mirror… or an explanation?"
"Well, I don't mind being an alicorn, but is this a problem or something?"
"Oh, no problem Toxic, but this is rather odd. I still do believe that this changes nothing though."
"You're not a princess, not without a coronation or a title, but I do believe this is a sign, you are destined for something great."
"I'm a pony now."
"You don't have to call me Vanessa anymore, I'm not her anymore."
"Hello everypony! My name's Toxic Wastenote!"
"H-hello Toxic Wastenote."
"Hi!I'mPinkiePieandI'msogladtomeetyouToxic!Ilikeparties!Infactthat'smytalent!Doyoulikeparties?What'syourfavoritecupcake?Oh!Ihavetothrowyoua'WelcometoEquestria'party!Withlotsofnewponiesofryoutomeet!"
"My great grandfather on my mother's side was Italian, so I learned a little Italian for him as a birthday present one year!"
"I rise to greet the day, despite the monsters underneath my bed."
"Self-approval!"
"HAY! WE"RE HERE!"
"Way to slow!"
"Um, where did Pinkie Pie go?"
"W-what? Why is it so dark? Girls-"
"SURPRISE!"
"And I just freaked-the-fudge-out."
And the people who guessed the correct name of the song from last chapter are:
Cinnamon Spice (::)
Randall Boggs (::)
The song was 'Note to Self' by Skye Sweetnam. I like love all her songs so there will be a lot of them. Now…
Its chapter time baby! Go my pretties! Go! Read what I have written for your entertainment!
Chapter 5: Karaoke? Karao-YES! That's my special talent!
(Toxic's Pov)
"SWEET!" I yelled. "You really got me! Esilarante(1)!"
We all laughed. Then pink once again became the only thing I could see as Pinkie was right up in my face. She smiled, threw rainbow confetti all over me, and then blew a party horn right into my ear. "WELCOME TO PONYVILLE TOXIC!" Her voice once again made my head and ears ring.
"Thanks Pinkie, but if you keep yelling… I think I might need a hearing aid!" I laughed and she laughed, but I'm pretty sure she just laughed because I did.
"Ah ha, ok seriously, how did you get such a big party together in such a short time? This place is like totally decked and we've barely been separated for fifteen minutes!"
That really big smile came back, "I had a little help!"
"Oh," I said still wondering who could get this whole party done so quickly "who helped?"
"Nice to see you again Toxic."
Ohhhhhh, that's who.
"Discord! My favorite animal mash up!" There he was, floating in the air holding a glass of chocolate milk in one hand- Err paw and a… rubber chicken in his talon.
"Dare I ask what the chicken is for?"
"No you do not," he chuckled.
"Still a nut," I said and laughed "so you helped set this up? How did that happen?"
He drank the… glass around the chocolate milk, tossed the milk behind him, which in fact exploded, and picked up Pinkie by her tail. Said pink pony swung herself back and forth in the air upside down. "Well it's fascinating really…"
"Goodbye Toxic!"
"Safe travels our friends!"
"Goodbye! I'll write and visit! Thank you both! And try not to bring anymore humans to Equestria Discord!"
"No promises!"
Unknown to the group of traveling ponies and baby dragon, Pinkie Pie had slipped away and was now talking to Discord secretly.
"Ok Dissy, so you understand the plan?"
"Yeah, yeah, yeah… the copy of you disappears once they get to Ponyville and I flash myself to Sugar Cube Corner and start the party prep. It's not that complicated."
"Oh is it now?"
Both pony and chaos god froze before slowly turning back behind them to see Celestia and Luna.
"Pinkie… How do they not notice you're gone?" Celestia asked while shaking her head.
"Ah hahaha, Dissy might have made a copy of me to keep the others distracted."
"And I might have linked her and the copy's memories so she learns everything Toxic says while she's here."
Celestia and Luna shared a look before sighing in unison. "Just please refrain from destroying any businesses this time."
The two grinned manically before disappearing in a flash with a 'No promises!'
"And that's what happened!" Discord exclaimed and tossed Pinkie in the air with her cheering.
"Weeee! OOF!" Pinkie landed on the ground with a thump and sprung right back to her hooves a second later. Hun… I can't help but wonder what happened after those two left.
Celestia frowned and looked back at Luna worryingly. "Are you truly that worried sister?"
Celestia sighed, "Not about them Luna. I'm worried for Toxic."
Luna looked puzzled, "Why worry about her?"
"Luna, she has had a rough time in life. But when I held her in my wings and she openly sobbed… I felt a connection. Like I'm supposed to care for and protect her."
Luna rested a hoof on her sister's side, "Does thou mean…"
Celestia nodded to her younger sister. "Luna… I believe I see Toxic… as my own daughter."
"Well let's introduce you!" Pinkie said and pulled my hoof to meet new ponies.
I got to meet all the different ponies in town and even the Cakes, whom Pinkie works for. And their twins were just soooooo adorable! But how do two regular ponies end up with a unicorn and a Pegasus?
So all in all I was introduced to Derpy Hooves, Lyra Heartstrings, Bon Bon, Berry Punch, Big Macintosh who is Applejack's brother, Sweetie Belle, Scootaloo, Applebloom, Carrot Top (Oh it is so tempting to make a joke but none of them will get it!), Golden Harvest, Roseluck, Lily, Octavia, the DJ Vinyl Scratch or her stage name DJ PON3, and I sortta lost track after that but I can remember faces pretty well considering not many of these ponies look alike.
"Oh! And there's still so many more ponies for you to meet! And games to play! And you're gonna be living here now! 'Gasp'! I have to throw you a House Warming party too! 'Gasp'! You still need a house! Oh! You could stay with me! Right here in my room! It would be like a never ending sleepover! This is the sleepover that never ends~! Cause' it goes on and on my friend~!"
"PINKIE!" I shouted.
"Yup Toxic?" She was completely oblivious to that fact I had yelled out of slight annoyance.
"This is a great party and thank you so much! But I don't want to mooch off of you and besides this place is already filled with you, the Cakes, and those twins."
She looked bummed, her smile faded for a second before she shook her head and the big and wide smile I hardly have seen her drop the whole party was back again. "Okie-doki-loki! But we still get to have the House Warming party when you get your own house right?!"
I stifled my laugh and smiled as I bit my lip, "Of course Pinkie. When I get my own place you can throw a big House Warming for me."
She cheered, like loudly, and right in my face again, before she hugged me, tightly, and jumped up and down. "Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!"
"It's fine Pinkie really! Just stop bouncing me!" Let's just say, I had never felt so relieved to be able to stand on solid unmoving ground then when Pinkie put me down. "Thank you, so this is a party right? Are there games?"
"Duh! Of course! What party has no games?!"
"Well lots where I'm from actually. But kids can't go to those parties." I quietly snickered at my own joke and Pinkie showed me to a big-ish sort of open barrel with water and floating apples. "Huh, yuh actually have that game here. Cool I guess."
"And I put super special secret prizes at the bottom. If you get one you win it!" Pinkie told me.
"Well, apples away!" I dunked my head and bobbed for something or some-apple. My new snout made things a bit hard but after a couples tries I felt something in my mouth… before it wriggled away. What? Then something gasped my snout, and it was all soft and goy and numb.
I came back up for air and gasped. The thing was still attached to my muzzle, but due to my eyes I couldn't get a good enough look at what it was. So I did the most logically thing… and panicked.
"Ah! What's on my face! Please tell me it's not a goose! Please no goose! No goose! I hate geese!"
"That's no goose silly filly! That's Gummy!"
Pinkie reached out to my face and whatever had been grasping me had released. When it came into view, I saw a- a- baby alligator. There had been a baby alligator in the barrel. Yup, makes about as much sense as the rest of this world so far.
"Toxic, this is Gummy. Gummy, this is my new friend Toxic!" Pinkie was introducing the alligator, Gummy apparently, to me.
"Uh Pinkie, isn't having a pet alligator a bit dangerous?"
"What nooooooo! Gummy can't hurt anypony! He's still a baby and doesn't have any teeth." She lifted Gummy's upper lip to show that his mouth was indeed devoid of teeth.
"Hun, well at least it's not a goose. Man I hate geese!"
"Why?"
"Something in my childhood, I'll tell you all some other time. Hey, any chance there's karaoke here?"
She gasped with that smile again, "YES! I mean, your special talent is singing, so what kind of party would not have singing? And you know you're really good, so that's why I had the DJ set it all up because you know it's what you do and you just do it so like super spectacularly amazingly WOW yes! What friend would I be I there was no karaoke at your own 'Welcome to Ponyville' party when what you love doing is the mostly most most is singy sing sin so beautifully?"
"Uuuuuuuh, so there is karaoke?"
I had my hoof yanked and was once again dragged with her quickly to the stage this time, where I saw Vinyl scratch the DJ.
"VINYL!" Pinkie shouted even though we were barely a few feet away from her "Toxic wants to do the karaoke! Did you get it?!"
Vinyl wore tinted glasses and was a white unicorn with a two shaded crazy blue mane and tail and a music note cutie mark, but I wasn't sure what that note was called. It was two stick and the dots and connected at the top…. Oh you get what I'm saying, her talent had to do with music!
"Pinkie! This the guest 'O' honor? Hay yeah, I got it all set up! Do you have a favorite song there….?"
We shook hooves, "Toxic Wastenote. It's cool to meet you Vinyl Scratch, or is it DJ PON3?"
"PON3 is my stage name, but we're cool Toxic. Do you have a request?"
"Actually… mind if I hooked up my own stuff? I think I know how from my uncle but I'll need some help and you wouldn't have my songs actually."
Vinyl smiled and we got to the short task of hooking up my iPhone to her equipment which actually wasn't as hard as you'd think (Tech classes actually paying off people) and soon enough I had a microphone in front of me on a stand and was scrolling with my new hoof to pick an absolute perfect song for my introduction into this world.
'Come on Toxic. Come on. Which song is perfect to impress these ponies? No. No. No. No! NO! Wait. Wait almost there. YES! Yes that song! Perfect! And none of them will get on my case about it! Granted none of them will understand but… eh! PERFECT!'
I tapped the mic and a small screech echoed around the room and got everypony's attention. And one dragon and chaos god.
"Heeello Ponyville! It's real nice to be here and moving here. But since I'm going to be a new neighbor to all of you, I figure I should introduce myself properly. My name is Toxic Wastenote, and I love singing!"
The music started and I smiled at all the confusion and interest in what I was doing, then I sang.
'Furihajimeta yuki wa ashiato keshite
masshiro na sekai ni hitori no watashi '
They were all watching me, not even sure if they knew what language I was speaking, but they watched as I sang slowly. Oh… you have NO idea what I'm singing most likely. Ever heard of the movie Frozen? Well this is 'Let it go' in Japanese. I just think the song feels so much more emotional in Japanese. Plus the translated English lyrics fit my situation a lot better.
'Kaze ga kokoro ni sasayaku no
kono mama ja dame nan da to'
I saw my new friends smiling at me and enjoying the music, even if they couldn't understand. Others all seemed impressed as well. Of course I couldn't really tell if the grin on Discord's face was sincere or mocking, but I loved what I was doing and had no intention of stopping until the song was over.
'Tomadoi kizutsuki
dare nimo uchiakezu ni
nayandeta sore mo mou
Yameyou!'
I strengthened my voice for the next line. Really I hadn't even realized that my brand new horn was starting to surge blood red. But the others noticed, the ponies who saw me just become one of them, and it sure confused them.
'Ari no mama no sugata miseru no yo!
ari no mama no jibun ni naru no!
nanimo kowahunai
Kaze yofu uke sukoshi mo samukunai wa'
My horn lit up brighter and a bunch of pink and blue balloons all blew up and then popped, but in each ones place was a yellow, neon green, or black balloon. I had my eyes closed and was too 'in the zone' to notice the balloons or the sounds of shock and confusion from the party guests and my friends.
'Nayandeta koto ga
uso mitai ne
date mou jiyuu yo
nandemo dekiru
dokomade yareru ka
jibun wo tameshitai no
Sou yo kawaruno yo watashi!'
My horn was still bright red without me noticing and next the streamers all burst into green flames and when the pink burned away the streamers were green and yellow. The room all stared in awe at my performance in both magic and singing. I had no idea that I was causing any of this and kept my chin up and sang with my heart. This was my fresh start. A new town, a new country, a new world! This was where I would make my mark.
'Ari no mama de sora he kaze ni notte!
Ari no mama de tobidashitemiru no!
Nidoto namida wa nagasanai wa!'
My wings spread out. I didn't unfurl them but they opened up anyway. The music spoke to me and I sang the music. This was my bliss.
'Tsumetaku daichi wo tsutsumikomi
takaku maiagaru omoi egaite
hanasaku kori no kesshou no youni
Kagayaiteitai mou kimeta no!'
I couldn't help but lift into the air. I was hovering above the stage in an aerial dance that astounded all watching, both the ponies that knew I had only recently gotten these wings and the ones who had no clue. This was the best feeling. The- best- feeling! I felt air under me and my voice filled the room. I couldn't remember the last time I had ever been so happy. It had been so long…
'Kore de ii no jibun wo suki ni natte!
Kore de ii no jibun shinjite!
Hikari abinagara!
Aruki dasou!
Sukoshi mo samukunai wa.'
My music stopped and I lowered back to the stage and my eyes opened and my smile disappeared. I noticed that all the decorations were now colored to my body design and it was silent. All faces, even Pinkie and Discord, had jaws opend wide in shock. What had I done?
I was scared I had messed up my opportunity at a new start. I started to shift my weight nervously.
Then the applause. It was loud and hoof stomping and cheers and Pinkie whistled loudly. I couldn't help but blush at the attention. I might have over done it a little bit.
I bowed and got off that stage as fast as possible. When I got down, my new friends were all waiting to congratulate and compliment me.
"That! Was! Awesome!" Rainbow Dash yelled.
"Amazing!" Rarity said.
"How? How did you do all that?!" Twilight yelled.
I blushed deeper, my face must have looked like a cherry to them. "I uh- don't really know. I just really got into the song I guess."
"BUT HOW!" she shouted again.
"Well," I tried thinking of any explanation "maybe my powers and new abilities are connected to my emotions?"
"But that's not how magic works! You can't perform transformation spells like that an hour after having magic!"
"Well, maybe I don't have normal magic."
"I can vouch for that!"
Yup. Of course he can.
Twilight swiveled around to stare Discord down, even though she had to look up at him. "What do you mean, Discord?"
"I mean she wasn't using boring old harmonic magic."
"I wasn't using what?" I was a little lost. So there are different kinds of magic now?
"Didn't you ponies ever wonder how I could have anything I wanted with a snap of my fingers?"
Pinkie popped up behind me, scaring me might I add, and said, "Yeah. Doesn't that defy the laws of physics?" SHE'S talking about the laws of physics?!
"Well its simple really my dear Pinkie. Your average unicorn uses harmonic magic, balanced, bland- Ack!- orderly. Then such much more interesting beings such as myself or our dearest Toxic here," he grabbed my shoulders and squished his face against mine and I blushed (has he never heard of personal space) "use the much more unstable force of chaos magic!"
"What in tarnation does that mean?" Applejack asked.
"It means, that only two beings alive can handle this power. Your's truly!" he picked me up and held me in his arms and I blushed again (AGAIN!) "And this special little mare here!"
I growled, "If you want to keep your arms I suggest putting me down now pazzo (2)."
And I was carelessly dropped to the floor in pain. I groaned and picked myself back up from the floor. "So- ow by the way- you're saying I have magic that bends space and time to get me whatever I want?"
"In a nutshell… yes."
"Meraviglioso (3)," I said sarcastically.
"Well, wonderful performance either way dear," Rarity told me.
"Awww thanks. But I really don't like getting praised much. It's not like I wrote that song. It's just one I like in Japanese."
"Do you mean Japonies?" Fluttershy asked.
"Is that what it is here? Then yeah I guess," I took a deep breathe "but grazie (4)."
We shared a laugh, and went back to partying.
(1) Hilarious
(2) lunatic, madman
(3) wonderful
(4) thank you
So this is chapter five. It's really just to explain how Toxic's powers are going to work. She'll have the same magical abilities as Discord basically because she has 'chaos magic' instead of 'harmonic magic' like Celestia or Luna or Twilight, so that magic is unbalanced and the wielder themselves have to bend reality to use it.
SCREW YOU LOGIC!
And the numbered words are in Italian since Toxic is originally Italian and she knows a little. Sometimes she'll be saying things in Italian and she likes being multicultural to express herself. Just like me.
The song I actually found on YouTube. The Japanese karaoke version of 'Let it Go' from Disney's Frozen. If you can find it and get the translated lyrics correct I'll give you a shout out in the next chapter and a cookie! (::) COOKIES!
Man when I look at this it just seems shorter than I wanted it but I'm already at like 3,000 words and it's getting harder to type so maybe it will be updated later but for now it's done. I hope you enjoyed.
