Luna the Miracle Boy: Rainbow Rocks (animated short stories)

—Official warning

Coinciding with the release of the Luna the Miracle Boy: Rainbow Rocks story episode, Kronos Project also releases the **animated short stories** after the story episode. They are not part of the story, but the first eight short stories are "tied into it" and the last three short stories are "related to" it, according to the crew, each of the later three shorts appears to correspond to a different element featured by the significant characters.

## Short story information

### Involving characters

Dmitry Una (main focus)

**Music to My Ears** is the first segment of the LMB Rainbow Rocks. The original ending of this short story involved Princess Finlandia putting on the headphones and rocking out to the music. The animation primarily focuses on DJ Una.

#### Summary

As DJ Una is crossing the street, he puts his headphones on and turns on some dubstep music. He starts walking to the music's rhythm, and everything around his moves and is synchronized with the beat, from a crossing guard to the chirping of baby birds to the barking of a dog. During his walk, he passes by the Cutie Mark Crusaders and other Canterlot Presidential civilians. As DJ Una enters Primavera Cafe, everything briefly slows down, and he passes by the Petrovburg Heroes. At the counter, he buys a cupcake from Mrs. Cake before heading out.

Upon reaching Canterlot Presidentials, DJ Una struts through the hallway. A number of students join him, but Principal Frederick motions for them to enter his classroom. The presidential bell rings and every student except DJ Una are in class. He's stopped by Princess Finlandia who confiscates his headphones and gestures for him to get to class. As the presidential secretary walks away, DJ Una puts on a spare pair of earbuds, and the music resumes.

## Short story information

### Involving characters

Jason Esofita (main focus)
Cecil Lulamoon (main focus)
Luna Vernadsky
Rest of the Petrovburg Heroes

**Guitar Centered** is the second segment of the LMB Rainbow Rocks. The animation primarily focuses on Jason Esofita and Cecil Lulamoon.

#### Summary

Jason visits a music shop with the Petrovburg Heroes to replace his broken electric guitar with one that "looks as awesome as he's gonna make it sound." A double-necked guitar catches his eye, but Cecil grabs it at the same time she does, and the two begin to fight over it. At Dennis' suggestion, Jason challenges Cecil to a "rap battle" to determine who will own the guitar.

Jason and Cecil are fighting to outperform each other with their solo guitar riffs. As Cecil begins to gain the upper hand, Jason's entire body levitates into the air and surges with an electrical aura, transforming him into his pony-like form and changing his guitar's appearance. Jason hits the ground and creates a sonic rainboom-like shockwave that blows Cecil aside.

The Frihetens applaud Jason's performance, but as DJ Una hands him the double-necked guitar, Jason decides to let Cecil have it, saying the transformed guitar is the one that "really speaks to her". Cecil gloats over her self-supposed victory as Jason leaves with another guitar. Only to read its price tag and realize that the prize costs IDR120,000, she swears revenge on Jason.

## Short story information

### Involving characters

Tobias Ratnasari (main focus)
Polina Fluttershy (main focus)

**Hamstocalypse Now** is the third segment of the LMB Rainbow Rocks. The animation primarily focuses on Tobias Ratnasari and Polina Fluttershy.

#### Summary

Tobias helps Polina volunteer at the Fluttershy Animal Rescue Center to clean the hamster habitat. Polina lets all the hamsters out with Tobias so she can clean out the tubes. When Polina finishes, she finds that the hamsters have gone out of control during Tobias' attempts to accessorize them. Unable to calm the hamsters down, the two girls reach for their backpacks to catch them. A tambourine (looks like Celestia's one) drops out of Polina's bag, hypnotizing the hamsters with its sound. Polina shakes Celestia's tambourine to lure the hamsters back into the habitat, gaining her pony ears, wings, and tail in the process.

## Short story information

### Involving characters

Vincent Cadance (main focus)
Jason Esofita
Rest of the Petrovburg Heroes

**Vincent on the One** is the fourth segment of the LMB Rainbow Rocks. The animation primarily focuses on Vincent Cadance.

#### Summary

Vincent is being instructed by Mrs. Maria Applejack in making cookies in a home economics classroom. Jason reminds Vincent that he's supposed to help find a drummer for his band. Jason states that it's difficult to find someone who can use both hands as drummers do. Vincent decides to make the cookies faster by folding another bowl of cookie batter with their free hand, but he folds the batter too fast, splattering the two bowls all over himself and Jason.

Later, Vincent helps Jason make a banner by the soccer pitch, and is told to use as much glitter as he likes. Jason comments that a drummer needs the right instincts, which can't be just anyone. As a result of his rhythmic tapping on the giant glitter jar, Vincent sprinkles too much glitter and gets it all over himself and Jason.

At lunchtime, Vincent does some wild rhythms on the glasses, bowls, lunch trays, and heads of him and his friends with his silverware and slamming his fists on the table. During all this, Jason says that the person must have a lot of energy, enthusiasm and be able to carry the whole band on their shoulders while getting annoyed with Vincent's antics (look like Celestia's ones). Tobias suggests finding an outlet for her energy, which gives Jason an idea.

Vincent is then seen behind a drum set doing a wild solo in the band room, and he transforms into his half-pony form. Tobias asks Jason what she gave him the idea of putting Vincent on the drums, and guesses that he just has "a sense for these things", and Vincent closes the short story by doing a rimshot.

## Short story information

### Involving characters

Tobias Ratnasari (main focus)
Rest of the Petrovburg Heroes

**Player Piano** is the fifth segment of the LMB Rainbow Rocks. The animation primarily focuses on Tobias Ratnasari.

#### Summary

Tobias struggles to push a weighty grand piano across campus in time for band practice with her friends, filthing her hair and clothes. She spots three personnel of the Diamond Dog Girls digging near the palace building and attracts their attention with her dazzling allure. Those three girls are then shown carrying the piano through the presidential halls with Tobias riding on top, barging through a crowd of students blocking their path.

In the band room, the Petrovburg Heroes are impatiently waiting for her, with Dennis figuring she's planning to make a "grand entrance". Tobias finally arrives atop her piano, and is questioned by Jason about her cumbersome choice of instrument, to which she argues the piano's elegance befitting of her "full musicality". Before she can begin playing, the band's reserved time in the room runs out, and they must relocate their rehearsal to the gym. Tobias moans over her ill fortune of having to move the piano again when Celestia suggests she use the more portable keytar – an instrument that's part-guitar, part-keyboard.

Tobias is taken by the instrument after playing a few notes and transforms into her half-pony form before her amazed friends. She is convinced to bring the keytar to their next rehearsal space and asks the Diamond Dog Girls to carry her there on the grand piano, to which they eagerly oblige.

## Short story information

### Involving characters

Dennis Idmayanti (main focus)
Flim Flam Brothers (main focus)
Maria Applejack
Rest of the Petrovburg Heroes

**A Bad Case of Déjà Vu** is the sixth segment of the LMB Rainbow Rocks. The animation primarily focuses on Dennis Idmayanti and the Flim Flam Brothers.

#### Summary

At a garage sale in front of the Applejack House, Dennis asks her mother – Mrs. Maria Applejack, to whom she accidentally sold her bass guitar. Mrs. Maria replies that she sold it to the owners of a new pawnshop.

Dennis and the Petrovburg Heroes enter the pawnshop – the Flim Flam Brothers' Everything-Under-the-Sun Emporium and meet its fast-talking owners: Flim and Flam. Before the two can talk the Frihetens into a sale, Dennis inquires about the bass guitar in the far corner. Flim and Flam agree to sell the bass to Dennis for the "non-negotiable" price of IDR150,000. Tobias points out that the two bought it from Mrs. Maria for only a hundred thousand rupiahs, but Flim explains that they need to cover "overhead and transportation costs".

Dennis offers to pay back the two-hundred thousand rupiahs they initially paid for the guitar, but the brothers are skeptical that the bass actually belongs to Dennis; not even the monogrammed initials of "DI" on the guitar strap are enough to convince them. When they go so far as to question Dennis' playing ability, Dennis takes the guitar and plays a skillful bass solo, causing her to transform into her half-pony form.

Flim and Flam are convinced of Dennis' rightful ownership but remind her of the costs of overhead and transportation, as well as stocking fees. Dennis' friends grow weary of the brothers' swindling, pressuring the brothers to agree to a trade. As part of the arrangement, Dennis promotes Flim and Flam's pawn shop on the sidewalk while dressed in a banana suit. Mrs. Maria walks by, commenting that she didn't know her daughter played the bass, and Dennis becomes annoyed.

### Friendship Through the Ages

*Main article: Friendship Through the Ages.*

## Quotes

*For more quotes, see the episode's transcript.*

## Gallery

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## References

1. **Main course**
	* https://mlp.fandom.com/wiki/My\_Little\_Pony\_Equestria\_Girls:\_Rainbow\_Rocks/Animated\_shorts