So with the guys over here for another day I asked them to get their instruments and set up in my basement. Luke and Bogeden were tuning up their Guitar and Bass in that respective order and Jackal asked. "Why do we have these here for?"

"Mickey has an idea." Luke said.

"Uh-oh." Jackal said.

"You guys just keep warming up." I said to them. "I've got to go meet someone."

"Yeah yeah." Bogeden said while I left.

Zecora joined me on my escapades in town. Well when I say that I really mean that there was just a few things that I needed to do and Zecora joined me because she needed to gather some herbs for the pregnant ones. More specifically Rainbow Dash, she may be tough but she just cannot handle the kicks of little Firefly. She kept saying that the baby inside of her was going to be able to kick some serious ass. Then she apologized to Cranky Doodle who was standing behind us in the check-out line. I digress, while my zebra wife was looking at the herbs I went to the music store to find a certain white mare with electric blue two toned hair. I entered the record store with Octavia standing at the counter. "Hello Mickey nice to see you again. My apologies for not being able to make the wedding. Vinyl just wasn't up to it."

"No that's fine, how's she doing by the way?" I asked the gray cellist.

"Much better, she up in the recording studio right now helping an up and coming band with their first album." She smiled. "I'm glad she decided to make the jump from DJ to Record Studio. Not only is it much more stable but it keeps her out of danger."

"Yeah what happened about that?" I asked.

"Rabid fan snuck a knife into one of her concerts, they got close and stabbed her. She was in the hospital for a few months." Octavia shriveled. "I thought I was going to lose her, after she recovered she listened to me and stopped being a DJ, she still does stuff locally because it's Ponyville and the closest thing we have to being that crazy is Screwloose, Pinkie Pie, and Discord."

"That's true." I agreed with her. "Do you think that Vinyl would be able to set up a sound system for something special?"

"Why don't you just ask me yourself?" I heard the voice of the mare I was talking about.

I turned to greet Vinyl and hugged her. "Hey Pon-3."

Vinyl socked me in the arm after she returned the hug. "Douche."

I rubbed my arm. "Yeah that's me." I smiled as three teenage colts walked out of the store in black clothing. I looked at them and noticed the details and smirked.

"What's so funny?" Vinyl asked.

"What was the name of the band that you were recording for?"

"What? I don't know, something to do with a color or something."

So there's a pony version of the band Green Day. I better not use any of their songs then. I thought to myself. "I need you to hook me up with your signature speakers." I told Vinyl.

"Where at?" The Mare asked.

"The clock tower. I'm gonna convert it into an epic stage for a concert me and my friends are going to perform at."

"That might be the dumbest or most genius thing you've ever done."

"The dumbest thing I've ever done is open that can of whoop-ass. It started to punch me in the face immediately." I told her and she started to laugh.

"I'll get you hooked up. But you gotta get the okay from the Mayor."

"Thanks. I appreciate it." I said and left the store heading to the Mayor's office, a.k.a. my place of work. I walked up to my boss and looked at her.

"What do you want Mickey?" She asked.

"How did you know I wanted something?"

"Zecora told me that you get a stupid grin on your face when you want something."

"Shit now I gotta rethink my strategy. How do you know Zecora?"

"She is on the council board, she brings diversity and snickerdoodles every friday night." The Mayor said. "Now what do you want?"

"I wanna turn the clock tower into a concert stage, but I need ownership of the place." I put bluntly.

"Well I actually have been considering taking it down." The Mayor said.

"We could turn the base of the clock into a rec hall and the clock tower into a stage." I said. "That way we can get more public flow in and out of it. Plus it will give bands a place to perform."

"It is the highest point in Ponyville besides the top of town hall." The Mayor put her fist underneath her chin.

"I'll sweeten the deal, I'll personally fund the remodeling and anything that the utilities cost as well."

"You don't make that much though."

"In this job? No, with my inventions I make billions." I said.

"Then why do you keep working?" She asked.

"I can't just sit around and do nothing with my life. Even if I push papers, I'm not ready to retire just yet." I told her.

"That makes sense in a round-a-bout way."

"So do we have a deal?" I asked my boss while holding out my hand.

"Deal." She shook my hand, I went to leave when she pulled me back. "If it's fine with your wives, I'd like to see what exactly you're packing under those pants of yours. My daughter just moved out and I've been feeling a bit lonely." She winked at me. I grew flush with a red color in my face.

"I'll see you two weeks from now." I said. "I'm taking a mini-vacation." I damn near flew out of there.

When I got back to my house and down in the basement the guys looked at me. "Are you alright?" Luke asked.

"Yeah just fine, which song are we doing first?"

"Machine Head by Bush."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEEroKKsVHk

We finished up the song practice and the guys were fading. Luke looked at me. "You asshole, you knew this would happen."

I rolled my eyes. "Next month is not that far away." I held my microphone. "So screw you."

Luke flipped me off as they faded away. "We'll be back."

"Sure thing Terminator."