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Insane Cafe 4: The Insane Frontier

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Vinyl looked to Spike as they walked "Just help with taking notes and all that sort of stuff.  It's getting a bit much for myself was all....and quite frankly, I'm starting to get worried I wont even get to finish this piece of music anytime soon.  After all, trying to make it an epic one" she told him as they walked up to her house and entered.

It was dark in a sense, except what did seem to be a computer of sorts on and her turntable beside it.  On the floor though, it was a real mess as she stepped over bits and bobs that were laying about "I've been at it for....a while at least" she spoke again, actually unsure as to how long she was at it for "And I haven't even gotten all that far with it"

And that's when it dawned on her as she could not help but grin as she looked at Spike "New plan now Sparky" she continued to grin a rather unsettling grin for that matter.


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"I can take notes.  Twilight has me do that, and do lots of to do lists."  Spike said looking around at everything around.  "Neat place & stuff." He said then looked back at Vinyl Scratch, "I can play the piano also." He said.


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"Yes, yes, yes, that's fine and all....buuut...." Vinyl continued to grin away stillto Spike as her horn glew, picking Spike up and pulling him close to herself "Since this project of mine will take some time to finish and all, we are going to get some other music samples from another pony, and when I mean we,I mean you, and when I mean get, I mean steal, and when I mean steal, I mean, just borrow it for a while"

Again, Vinyl grinned still "I'm sure Octavia wont mind if we....borrow a few of her classical music tracks to whicj I can remix into my own as part of my project" she then shrugged "I'm sure she wont mind....and besides, if something goes wrong, you can take the fall for me.  The plan is just perfect....now, let's go" she spoke, as if to not even let Spike talk or back out if he wanted to.


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Spike's eyes opened wider then usual.  "Steal, stealing is wrong."  Spike said,  "Why don't you just ask her to work with you or to borrow her song?" He asked.   "I'm sure she'd be willing to work with you if you just ask her." Spike said trying to talk her out of her crazy plan.


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Vinyl sighed "I didn't want to have to do this, but you've left me no choice...." her horn started to glow as she levitated another pair of sunglasses over to Spike, placing them over his eyes for him "Those are for you if you'll help me out....besides, I'm not going to ask her for help....her and her pompus attitude, after all, I've tried once and she just seems to hate my music, so instead of asking her again, we'll...."borrow" her music instead"

Vinyl again, grinned away "And besides, if you help me out, other than those sunglassess, I'll give you....whatever else you want"


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"Cool glasses." Spike said distracted for a moment as he admired his glasses, "if she doesn't like your music forget her.  Maybe ask Rarity for help.  She has great taste." Spike said.


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Vinyl groaned at Spike "No!" she snapped at him "Rarity is a fashion unicorn, I need somepony that has tastes in music and so far, Octavia fits the bill perfecty.  And that's why we're going to go and steal it instead, since she hates my music....I'll show her" she then laughed a bit creepily as well "And....you're going to help me"

It was a rather evident that this project of Vinyl's was indeed, messing with her head quite a bit as it was.  Unhinging her sanity in the process too.


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"Why not ask Princess Celestia or Princess Luna.  I'm sure they know about music." Spike said.  


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"Does anyone know where this Rainbowdash usually hangs out.  Maybe she can be found and told someone here wants to talk to her." Gnash said.


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Vinyl groaned even more "No! You're not getting at what I need!" she snapped again pressing her face to his, as if to try and knock him down onto his back "You're suppose to be real good at assisting and all that sort of jazz! And now, I need you to assist me in getting what I need! And what I need is Octavia's music! It's classical music, not the best kind...but not until I remix it that is!" she continued to snap at Spike still.

"Look, I gave you sunglassess! What more do you want from me to get you to help me get what I'm after!?" Vinyl added in, still with a raised tone to Spike before she was heard just breathing heavily, as if she wasn't even all that calm right now.


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The ODIN trooper crawled on his stomach into Sugarcube Corner in an attempt to distribute her weight so he didn't fall through the floor. "Excuse me, will this floor hold my weight?"

The other soldier entered behind the armored soldier. He was wearing his light powered armor. "So what's going on here?" he asked.

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(Twilight's House)

"Well, you can just call me Ms. Swimmer," the Sauropholus said. Feeling more at ease, she disabled the electrical field surrounding her.

Twilight came up the stairs with a flask of pale blue liquid hovering in front of her. "The healing potion."

"Thank you," Ms. Swimmer said as she picked up the potion from mid air and gulped it down. Almost immediately, she felt her burns healing.

"So tell us more about this incident," Twilight said.

Ms. Swimmer sighed and told the two Unicorns everything, starting with the science expedition in the Everfree Forest, to the ambush of the poachers, to how the group fought back and her escape."

When she was done, Twilight had a look of horror on her face. "We must alert Princess Celestia and your ambassadors of this incident first thing in the morning."

Ms. Swimmer got up and headed for the door.

"Ms. Swimmer, if Trixie doesn't mind, you can stay here."

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(Rainbow Dash's House)

"Not sure why you can't stand the aliens. They're generally nice and the coolest part is how fast some of them are!"

Her stomach growled as she stood on the cloud. "Well, I'm heading to Sugarcube Corner for a snack. Wanna join me?"

She spread her wings and prepared to leap off her cloud and fly.

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"ok, ok." Spike said, scared of Vinyl Scratch and wanting to just get away from her, as he cringed.  



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(Twilight's House)

Trixie shook her head "Trixie does not mind, after all, it is Twilight's house" she answered back with as she looked to Twilight smiling to her before giving her a nuzzle and whispered into her ear "Can Trixie stay with Twilight in her bed? Trixie feels....happy when she's with Twilight"

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(Rainbow Dash's House)

Gilda just rolled her eyes at Rainbow Dash's statement before answering her question "Nah, honestly, I don't feel like any sort of pony food, besides, I already ate not that long ago, so I guess go...have fun or whatever" she shrugged.

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(Sugercube Corner)

Pinkie Pie gasped as she bounded over to the shoulder, ignoring his question in general and instead....shoved a few cupcakes into his mouth "Here, cause you look hungry!"

Spitfire on the other hand, just chuckled lightly at that "Listen, I'd love to stay and chat, but I've gotta getgoing, perhaps on my way back I'll stop by again" she told the group and headed out the door and extended her wings, taking off.  Though she didn't get that far when she did run into Rainbow Dash "Oh, hey Dash....glad I could catch you before I headed off, wanted to ask you something.  Listen, I'm heading to Cloudsdale to get something done and was wondering if you did want to hang out? It'll at least make up for what had happened at the Gala"

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(Vinyl's Place)

"So....you. are. going. to. HELP. ME!" Vinyl finally seemed to snap "I will not let this music project of mine be a failure because of YOU!" she sneered a bit.  It was defeintly getting to her by that point too as her horn started to glow "So, we're going to go to Octavia's, take her music, bring it back here, and we are going to make my greatest remix so far and you will help me!"


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(Twilight's house)

Twilight smiled and walked up to her room.

"Twilight do you have anything I can eat?" she asked.

"Look in the fridge!" Twilight called.

Ms. Swimmer headed to the kitchen and opened the fridge. She ignored the gems and helped herself to a prepackaged vegetarian sandwich. She sat on the chair - surprised it would hold her weight - and slowly ate the sandwich.

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(Sugarcube Corner)

Rainbow Dash practically swooned as Spitfire spoke to her. "Would I? Yes!" she cried.

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The "normal" soldier coughed as Pinkie forced the cupcakes into his mouth. "Water," he rasped out.

The female ODIN trooper walked in.

"No wait-"

The armored soldier didn't hear her comrade's call as she stepped into the bakery. The floor creaked underneath her 3/4 ton of armor. Before she could do move, she fell through the floor.

"Joan, is everything okay?" the normal soldier asked. He shone a flashlight through the hole in the floor. The armored soldier was ten feet below them and standing inside a small crater in the concrete floor amid debris of wrecked crates. Not surprisingly, the soldier appeared to be unhurt.

"Yeah, I'd like to be able to get back out without destroying the floor!" Joan shouted back.

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"Trixie will take that as a yes then" Trixie spoke up happily and trotted off after Twilight.  She glanced around Twilight's room before she practically jumped into Twilight's bed, pulling the covers over herself, yet, leaving enough room for Twilight as well.

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(Sugercube Corner)

"Thought you might like to" Spitfire told Rainbow Dash "So, come on then....and let's make it a bit interesting too, a race.  I know you're fast, after all, being able to preform the Sonic Rainboom that did save my life back in Cloudsdale" she smiled to her and pulled her goggles down over her eyes before she simply took off first, heading for Cloudsdale.

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Pinkie Pie just watched, her mouth agape a little as the soldier fell through the floor "Uh oh....Mr. and Mrs. Cake's not going to like that...." was all the hyperactive pink pony could say.


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Jason walked over to the edge of the hole and looked down.  "I think a simple levitation spell, or antigravity ray will help." Jason said.

"Maybe also with a temporary weight reduction spell to reduce the overall weight for a certain amount of time." Sara said.  

"Or I can nip over to the earth where Danny Dunn lives and get some of his Antigravity paint if you'd rather have that used." Jason said.  "My motherbox can also change the gravitational constant of an area, temporarily at least." Jason said.  "Lots of solutions to this problem."

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"Yes, Yes, anything." Spike said, still cringing from Vinyl Scratch in fear.


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Vinyl just grinned away again with her unsettling grin "Good boy" she then turned around "Now follow me and we shall get the plan underway, it's going to be a flawless plan" she again, laughed that unerving laugh of hers as she trotted out of her house.


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Spike got up to follow her, still scared of her and thinking how Vinyl Scratch was more crazy then twilight Sparkle had ever been.   He still had the look of fear on his face as he followed her.


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It wasn't all that long until Vinyl approached the house and looked to Spike "And here we are, now, what you're going to do is jump in through that open window right there" she motioned towards the only open window right now that incidently, led to Octavia's room "Sneak past the sleeping Octavia and unlock the front door for me, and then we can go about grabbing a few CDs, records or whatever it is she records her music onto"

"Now go" Vinyl added in, nudging at Spike to push him along before he could reject.


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Rainbow and Lt. Martin decided to go for a late night flight. Luckily, the ship's engineers had seen it fit to modify the fueling lines and doors so they could be operated with the living planes' manipulator claws.

"Nothing beats a night flight for relaxation;" Rainbow said. Both of them were cruising at 20,000 feet. Above them lay the moons and stars.

Lt. Martin simply sighed and let the air swirl around her body.

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Rainbow Dash took off after Spitfire, leaving a luminiscent rainbow trail behind her.

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The flash of light got the attention of the two planes. Thinking it was something they should look into and since they were over open country, they decided to light their afterburners and pursue the light. Unfortunately, two fighter jets running on full afterburners is nowhere near quiet. It would be a miracle if Spitfire and Rainbow Dash didn't hear them.

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(Sugarcube Corner)

"How about reducing the weight of my armor!" the ODIN trooper called.

"Sara, I would like that same spell used on my armor as well," the male ODIN trooper said as he exited the building and stood up.





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Spitfire slowed down a bit as she allowed for Rainbow Dash to pass her for now, watching the other pegasus for a few moments before she again, took off once again in order to be able to at least fly beside her "Hey, when we get to Cloudsdale, I will need you to just wait around at first, just while I do what I need to do there.  But after that, we can hang out for sure, perhaps you could even show me any moves of yours that you think could impress me"

Her eyes gazed back at the noise at the engines roaring as she smiled a bit as well "And it seems like we have some company as well....wait her" she then veered off course and towards the noise.  She approached Rainbow and Lt. Martin.

"Listen, Rainbow Dash and myself are heading to Cloudsdale.  You're welcome to join us, but until I sort things out first, I'll need you two to be on the downlow.....I suppose you could say"

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Trixie just lay in the bed, eyes still wide open as she shuffled around to be able to face Twilight, speaking up to her "Is Twilight going to be going to bed as well? Cause Trixie....well, she has something she does want to do for Twilight....she wanted to do it before, but was...interupted by the alien...and Trixie was wondering if Twilight would still want Trixie to do what she wanted to do to Twilight...." she trailled off a little, looking at Twilight and waited for an answer from her.

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(Sugercube Corner)

Pinkie Pie just watched on, a bit worried now about the destruction of the floor "Yeah, and I don't want the floor to be destroyed....or anything else! Cause Mr. and Mrs. Cake trusts me with the shop and I'll get in trouble if it keeps on getting destroyed!" she flailed her front hoofs around as well.