(Welcome back to another installment. Here Cody and his team will be practicing for their first gig, and may end up getting a workout in the process.)

The three humans, Twilight, and Spike after receiving the three instruments from Vinyl Scratch, hauled them off over to the park where there would be enough space for them to practice, and not be in too big a way of others, "So this place will do?" Cody asked.

"Well you can't do it in the library now can you?" Twilight asked rhetorically.

"I suppose not." Cody admitted.

"Come on guys, let's tune up." Sabrina declared, as she set up her keyboard.

Cody and Jeremy nodded, as they hooked their guitars up to some amps, before tuning their guitars a bit. As they did so, the rest of the girls came trotting over, "Hey, what's going on over here?" Rainbow asked Twilight.

"The guys are tuning their instruments for a gig they got at a new club in Ponyville." Twilight explained.

"Oh my, you three play?" Rarity asked in amusement.

"Oh yeah, but we're more on the amateur level." Jeremy explained.

"The performance you performed was not amateurish." Spike noted.

"Well thanks, but the people in our world can be a bit more critical than you all." Cody explained.

"Can ya play for us, huh can you, can you?" Pinkie asked, while jumping up and down.

"Well we're just trying to get some practice in." Sabrina admitted.

"But if you wanna listen you're welcomed to." Jeremy offered.

So the ponies and Spike took a seat before them, as the three started off playing slowly until they started getting into it. As they played Rainbow spoke to the girls, "Wow, they're good."

"Such talent." Rarity admired.

"It really makes ya move to it." Pinkie said, while rocking her head from side to side to the rhythm.

"Yes it certainly does." a male voice spoke up. Pinkie, the girls, and Spike look the side seeing Discord the spirit of chaos.

"Discord?!" the group gasped, causing the three to cease their practice.

"Well good afternoon my friends." Discord greeted them with a smile.

"What in tarnation are you doing here?" Applejack asked suspiciously.

"Well I was just floating around minding my own business," Discord began, as he was floating all around, "When suddenly my ear picks up a very alluring sound." he pulled his ear right off his body.

Sabrina looked in repulse at the new creature pulling his ear off literally, "That's disgusting."

Discord continued, "And so I come down here, and see you all listening in as well. I must know who was playing such a wonderful tune?"

"That would be us." Jeremy answered, as Discord looked over seeing the three humans.

"Well-well," Discord slithered over to them, "And who might you three be?"

"I'm Cody Harrison, this is Jeremy Price, and Sabrina Taylor." Cody introduced them.

Discord upon seeing Sabrina gasped, as hearts filled his eyes. He suddenly poofed himself over to her and took her hand, "You are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen in Equestria. Your beauty rivals that of the princesses of Equestria themselves." he spoke in a faux French accent, and began kissing Sabrina's hand constantly.

Sabrina was disturbed by what he was doing, until she managed to pull her hand away from him, "Well thanks." she said, as she wiped her hand on her shorts.

"And who're you, dude?" Jeremy asked him.

"I am Discord, the master of chaos!" he cackled like a mad man, until he saw the girls watching him with glares. He chuckled sheepishly, "At least the good kind of chaos." the girls rolled their eyes.

"And what're you supposed to be, some chimera?" Cody asked.

Discord looked over at Cody, while feeling insulted, "Chimera? I'll have you know I am draconequus." he said proudly.

"A what?" Jeremy asked.

"Don't you three have any education?" Discord asked, while rolling his eyes.

"They're not from around here, Discord," Twilight began, "So you can't blame them for not knowing what you are."

"Well I suppose not," Discord admitted, "So you three were playing that sound?"

"Actually yes." Cody nodded.

"Wonderful!" he cheered, "That was one of the best sounds I've ever heard throughout me life. You three are very talented."

"Why thank you." Jeremy replied.

"Are you having auditions?" Discord asked hopefully, "Because I'd like to try out."

"Well we're not exactly holding try outs." Cody admitted, noticing Discord looking down, "But if you think you can play something we'd be willing to listen."

"Oh thank you!" Discord cheered.

"Whoa-whoa," Rainbow spoke up, "Discord, you play an instrument?"

"Why yes. I happen to be a skillful drum player." he boasted, before poofing up a drum set with his magic.

"You play drums?" Fluttershy asked.

"In my spare time." Discord replied.

"I'll believe when I see it." Applejack said in skepticism.

"You'll be surprised." Discord said, as he took a seat behind the drum set, and poofed drumsticks in his paw and talon. So he started playing the drums, banging on one of them to start up, before switching to another. The group watched as Discord started playing better and better, while Cody, Jeremy, and Sabrina watched him with agape jaws. Discord finally banged a cymbal for a finale, and Pinkie and Fluttershy clapped in excitement with the humans, while the rest of the ponies were in shock.

"That was very good." Rarity admitted.

"Dude, that was off the hook!" Jeremy called ,as he went to Discord.

"Where'd you learn to play like that?" Sabrina asked in shock.

"Lot's of practice." he answered, while twirling his drumsticks.

Cody smiled, "Discord, I think we can make a member out of you. If you're willing to play along side us."

"A chance to be in a band would be an honor for me," Discord smiled, and bowed his head, "Consider me your drum player."

"Then welcome aboard." Cody said, as he extended his hand out.

Discord smiled, as he shook Cody's hand and asked, "So what's this band called, might I ask?"

"We're called Summer Fun." Cody answered.

"Summer Fun?" Discord raised a brow.

"That's right," Jeremy nodded, "Where we make it feels like Summer time's all the time."

"Hm," Discord rubbed his talons under his chin, "Catchy slogan."

"Well come on you guys, we got practicing to do." Sabrina reminded them.

"Right, let's get to work." Cody said, as he and Jeremy picked up their guitars, and Sabrina got to her keyboard.

"Ok let's try it slow, just so we can work in a good sync." Sabrina suggested as they started playing a slow melody.

Rainbow whispered to Twi, "You sure it's wise to let Discord perform with them? They don't know him like we do."

"I admit it does seem risky, Rainbow. But Discord really looks like he wants this, and they seem impressed by him." Twilight admitted.

"Right, so let's let him have a bit of fun." Fluttershy agreed.

Meanwhile deep in the Everfree Forest, the hooded figure and his shadow minion Crawl were looking through the archive the figure unintentionally used to bring Cody, Sabrina, and Jeremy to Equestria. The figure spoke, "Yes, I've finally translated this summoning passage. And it'll allow me to summon up some real nasty creatures." he snickered.

"What master, what?" Crowl the shadow asked.

"Stand back." the figure said as he pulled his hood down slightly revealing his unicorn horn, that began glowing with a black magical aura. He started chanting in a native tongue as the writing in the archive began glowing red. The unicorn's horn then emitted a beam onto the ground, and rising up was a squadron of goblins carrying spiked clubs.

"Wow." Crowl gasped.

"Welcome my minions. I have a special job for you," he began, as the goblins stood ready, "I want you to go to Ponyville and take it in the name of me... Stygian Desolate!" he moved his hood down, revealing to have red eyes, a gray coat, black mane and tail, and his cutie mark was pentagram of a five pointed star.

The goblins nodded with grunts before storming out of Stygian's cave, and onward to Ponyville. Stygian turned to Crowl, "Crowl!" the shadow creature turned to him, "Follow them, and keep an eye on their work."

"Yes master."

"I don't care if anypony knows they're there, but I don't want them to know of your existence." Stygian added.

"Understood."

"Then get going." his boss ordered, as Crowl sunk into the ground and traveled along the ground like a shadow do.

Meanwhile back in Ponyville Park, Cody, Sabrina, Jeremy, and Discord were finally in perfect sync with their instruments and were jamming it up. As they played they started attracting the attention of several ponies in the park. The six and Spike looked around seeing how much they were all enjoying the band play. When they finished, Jeremy and Cody posed with their guitars, and Discord held his drumsticks up above his head.

The crowd cheered, applauded, and whistled on their magnificent performance, "Not bad. Not bad at all." Cody admitted.

"They really like us." Sabrina smiled.

"And if we can get a good reaction out of this crowd, imagine the kind we'll get at the club." Jeremy added.

"Oh, this is so exciting!" Discord cheered.

Suddenly there were screams coming from around, "What the?" Spike asked, as they looked and saw some ponies were running away in fear.

"What's got everypony so frightened?" Applejack asked, as she looked around hoping to find an answer.

Fluttershy eeped in fright, "One good reason, and there it is!" she motioned over to the goblins who started swarming the park.

"Goblins, in Ponyville?" Twilight asked in surprise.

"I thought goblins barely left underground?" Spike asked.

"I don't get it either." Twilight replied.

"What do we do now?" Pinkie asked.

"I think it's time we kick some goblin butt." Rainbow smirked, as she took off and started darting around some goblins confusing them.

"I reckon she's right." Applejack agreed, as she charged in and bucked one.

"Yippee!" Pinkie cheered, as she jumped in and joined in.

"We better help too," Twilight motioned to Fluttershy and Rarity, before looking over at Cody, "Cody, you and your friends take cover!"

"Uh, right." Cody agreed.

The three took cover under a bench and watched as their friends started defending their town from the goblins, "This is insane." Jeremy told his friends.

"Actually it's wild," Discord said, as he was sitting in a beach fold out chair, "A match of the day, and we got ring side seats." he chuckled.

The three got up and Sabrina spoke to him, "Aren't you going to get in there and help them?"

"Hm, not worth it." he answered.

"What do you mean not worth it?" Cody asked in shock of his answer.

"I mean it doesn't look like the kind of battle I should waste my magic on," Discord answered as he poofed up a bag of popcorn and ate from it, "Besides they seem to be handling it well."

The three looked over, seeing Twilight and Rarity using their magic to repel some goblins, while Applejack was bucking them around, and Rainbow flying around them causing one to accidentally club another ones head. Sabrina spoke up, "Maybe, but for how long?"

"Maybe we should help?" Cody suggested.

"We?" Jeremy asked.

"Why not?" Cody asked him.

"Take on those goblins, how can we do that?" Jeremy asked.

"We're not even suited for such a task." Sabrina added.

"Maybe not now, but if we had some help." Cody turned to Discord, who raised a brow.

"What?" he asked.

"Discord, you're the master of chaos," Cody began, "With your magic can't you poof us up something to fight those things?"

"Why would I do that?" he asked with a scowl.

"Because they need us, and I mean all of us." Cody answered, with a scowl as well.

"Why does that include me?" Discord asked, while crossing his arms.

"Because you're part of this band, and being part of this band is like being part of a team. And if you wanna be part of this team you have to act like a team player. And if not... Then you don't deserve to be part of our band." Cody explained wisely.

Discord looked to Cody and his pony friends right from left before sighing, "You remind me of Fluttershy, Cody," the humans looked concerned, as Discord continued, "You both have a way with words to make me see what's really important." he smiled, and snapped his paw digits.

Suddenly Cody, Jeremy, and Sabrina found themselves dressed as gladiators, while wielding swords and shields, "Holy shit!" Jeremy gasped.

"We look like something out of 300." Cody said, admiring his gladiator garb.

"Guys, how does this look?" Sabrina asked, as the boys, and Discord salivated over her gorgeous form in her female gladiator duds, especially the breastplate.

"Sabrina, you look like Wonder woman." Cody gasped.

"Only hotter." Jeremy added.

Sabrina blushed, but got herself together, "Come on!" she called, as the three rushed in and let out war cries.

The ponies looked and saw the three charging in while swinging their swords at the goblins, forcing them to back off. When they tried to strike the three with their clubs, the humans used their shields to block the attacks, "Thanks for the help guys." Twilight stated as she and Rarity caught their breath.

"Where did you get such garments?" Rarity asked them.

"We had help from a friend." Cody smiled.

"Well come on, we gotta do something about these goblins." Twilight stated, until they heard the sound of something breaking.

They looked over and saw some of the goblins got to their instruments, and started breaking them, by using them as weapons to swat Rainbow Dash, and Applejack, "NO!" the three cried seeing what the goblins did, before they started frowning and turned red.

Cody declared, "Sic semper tyrannis!" he and Jeremy led out war cries before running to the goblins like crazy men, which scared the goblins into running away from them.

The ponies approached Sabrina, as Twilight asked, "What did he say?"

"Sic semper tyrannis." the girl answered.

"And what does that mean?" Applejack asked.

"Death to tyrants," Sabrina answered, "And they got the right idea!" she charged in, helping the boys attack the goblins.

Rainbow smirked, "Can't let them have all the fun!" she zoomed around rounding up the goblins in a little twister before dropping them into a pile, while Cody, Jeremy, and Sabrina threw one each into the pile, leaving all the goblins accounted for.

"Remember this," Jeremy began, to the goblins, "You trash a man's instrument, and he'll trash you back."

The group was suddenly taken by surprise when the goblins started glowing with dark magic before they suddenly vanished, "Where'd they go?" Fluttershy gasped.

"I don't know," Twilight answered, "But something tells me those weren't your average goblins."

Crowl who was watching from behind a bush, bolted back to Everfree. Cody, Jeremy, and Sabrina looked back at their instruments that were busted, and looked devastated, "Our instruments." Sabrina said on the verge of crying.

"How're we gonna perform now?" Jeremy asked.

Suddenly they saw the broken instruments glowed with a magic aura before they were completely restored to good as new, "Whoa." they gasped.

"How?" Twilight asked, until the group saw Discord smiling.

"Discord." Cody gasped.

"Never say I'm not a team player." Discord stood proudly.

Cody smiled, "Thanks Disc, couldn't have done all this without ya."

"Well that's what friends are for..." Discord chuckled, before looking back at the three in concern, "We are friends aren't we?"

"Of course." Sabrina answered.

"The best." Jeremy added.

Discord smiled, and used his talon digits to poof the three out of their gladiator armors, and their weapons vanished. Cody spoke up, "Come on you guys, we got a lot of practicing to do."

"Then let's get back to it." Jeremy said, as the four went back to their instruments to practice.

Back in Everfree, Crowl returned to Stygian and explained what had happened. Needless to say Stygian was most displeased, "How could they have failed, how?"

"I don't know sir, but those three creatures you first summoned aided them with some help from Discord." Crowl explained.

Stygian growled, but calmed down, "It seems those three have potential if they were able to intimidate the goblins, even with a power up form the spirit of chaos. Maybe I could make use of them, if I can win them over to my side."

"I don't think that'll be easy if they're hanging out with those six ponies who represent the elements of harmony." Crowl warned his master.

"Maybe you're right," Stygian agreed, "I'll have to look into this further so I can get to know more about them." he walked off into his cave lair.

The very next night at the club Pop n' Lock, many ponies were there having a good time, as Vinyl was bust scratching away at her turntable. Twilight, Spike, and the girls were enjoying themselves as well, until Rainbow spoke up, "So when are they gonna perform?"

"Should be right after this beat." Twilight deduced.

"I can't wait to hear them!" Pinkie said in excitement.

"I just hope everypony here will like them." Fluttershy said in worry for her friends.

"I'm sure they'll be fine." Applejack said, to ease Fluttershy's worries.

As Vinyl ended her remix number, she went to the stage and spoke into a mike, "Thank you, everypony. Thank you. For this big number allow me to welcome a special guest band who have generously agreed to perform here tonight at Pop n' Lock's grand opening. Please give a warm welcome for the first time anywhere else, Summer Fun!"

The ponies cheered, as the curtain went up revealing it was dark. With a little smokescreen and light affects the group of ponies saw Cody, Jeremy, Sabrina, and Discord in their respective places with their instruments all ready to go, "Good evening, Ponyville!" Cody called out, "We hope you're ready, because we're Summer Fun!"

"Where we make it feels like Summer time's all the time!" Discord declared.

"A one, two. A one, two, three, four!" Jeremy called, as the four started playing.

As they jammed on, the ponies started enjoying the sound they were producing, and were rocking out to the beat as well. The girls and Spike who managed to get up front were rocking to their music, as Spike called to the girls, "They like them! They really like them!"

"I knew they would!" Twilight replied.

Soon the band wrapped it up, and struck a pose on stage as the ponies in the crowd cheered and applauded. Cody spoke into the mic, "Thank you Ponyville, and goodnight!" the ponies cheered.

Later on backstage, the four were relaxing, while drinking bottles of water, "I can't believe it, they loved us!" Cody cheered in amaze.

"We really pulled it off, guys." Sabrina said, feeling impressed.

"It was a team effort." Jeremy smiled.

"That's right." Discord agreed.

"Guys, you did it!" Twilight cheered, as she, the girls, Spike, and Vinyl approached.

"You were all awesome!" Rainbow cheered.

"Well of course we did, they had me." Discord gloated, only for Cody, Sabrina, and Jeremy to scowl, before he continued, "I'm joking, guys. Have a sense of humor." he chuckled.

"You were all amazing!" Vinyl cheered, "And the club owners found you to be a hit too. In fact they wanted me to personally ask you if you'd consider playing here again?"

The four looked to each other, as Jeremy, Sabrina, and Discord nodded to Cody, who smiled and answered, "We'd be more than delighted, Vinyl."

"Sweet! I'll be sure to tell them personally." she replied.

Cody turned to his friends, "Well guys, we found ourselves something to really do while we're stuck here."

"Yeah, and I can't wait to do it again." Jeremy said, while feeling overjoyed.

"Come on gang, put them in." Sabrina put her hand in, followed by Jeremy, and Cody.

The three looked over to Discord, as he looked at them confusingly, before Cody spoke, "Come on Disc you're part of them team now."

Discord smiled before placing his lion paw on top. They threw their arms up, "Summer Fun!"

(And that's the chapter. The guys were a hit, and made a new friend and member of their band. But now the unicorn known as Stygian is prepared to strike again, and will be looking to persuade the trio of humans to join him. Don't miss next time guys.)