The Return of the Dark Lightning Menace

The night of the Grand Galloping Gala has finally arrived. The boys had put on their suits getting ready for the big night. Eternal Flames was wearing a red long sleeve tux jacket over his black vest, covering his white undershirt. Around his neck was his white cravat. His brother Heat Wave wore a fancy black and white tux with a hankerchief in his chest pocket. Hurricane Blitz wore a vest that was red in the front and black in the back over his white undershirt that had a teal neck tie wrapped around it. Spark Wave whore a nice white tuxedo with a black trim at the end of his sleeves and the bottom of his shirt. Ground Dasher was already wearing his tux he got from Rarity. Shadow Force partially had the same type of tux as Ground Dasher, but neck tie was white and his undershirt was teal colored. Tidal Wave had on a blue suite with a white undershirt and red neck tie and to make it more interesting, he combed his hair back and made it a bit spikey. With all the guys dressed up and ready to go, they headed out of their house and off to Canterlot. There was still 2 hours before the party as about to start so they had plenty of time to drop off Hurricane Blitz to prepare the food.

2 hours later, the castle was packed with ponies, mostly from Canterlot, and a few honored guests from Ponyville. The gang all showed their tickets to the guards and proceeded to enjoy the party. All too quickly, some of the gang paired up with their dates. Rainbow Dash with Spark Wave, Ground Dasher with Applejack, Heat Wave with Twilight, Spike with Rarity (obviously), Hurrricane Blitz with Fluttershy, and Eternal Flames with Sunset Shimmer. Pinkie Pie proceeded to head over to the ballroom, and to her surprise she saw a familiar face...the same stallion with fur that was brownish gold, and poofy brown mane.

"CHEESE SANDWICH!!!" Pinkie shouted, dashing towards him.

"Well if it isn't Pinki-" Cheese then gets cut off by Pinkie as she tackles him to the ground, smothering his face rapidly with kisses.

"Did Princess Celestia invite you here to do a show to entertain the crowd?" Pinkie asked.

"You betcha! She needed an opening act before they could proceed to start the main event." Cheese explained. "But believe me, THIS opening act is going to last for quite a while and I have loads of fun stuff for the wonderful audience."

"OOH, can I join you in your show? Huh? Can I?" Pinkie asks, widening her smile.

"How can I say no to a cute pony such as yourself?" Cheese replies, but then covers his mouth and blushes after what he just said, hoping Pinkie didn't hear it. But to no avail.

"Aww, you are so sweet!" Pinkie says. Then Pinkie gave Cheese Sandwich one last kiss, this time, he kept her lips pressed against his and soon she thrusted her tongue in his mouth. It lasted for a minute until she broke the kiss. "So when does the show start?" Cheese, not saying a word after having being french kissed, shook his head rapidly to snap out of his love trance.

"Well, the show starts in about 30 minutes. So we got plenty of time." Cheese replies.

"Okie dokie lokie!" Pinkie replies, happily.

In the main hall, Shadow was looking around to see if he could try to do anything fun. But to no avail. He grew bored and decided to head on outside to the balcony, and stare at the night sky. There wasn't much to do after he arrived...until HIS mom arrived next to him.

"My son. You look so down. Why the long face?" Luna asked.

"I'm just bored." Shadow simply says. "the others are having their romantic dates with each other while I'm stuck on my own with my dates to join me."

"Your dates? Who might they be?" Luna asks.

"Lyra and Bon Bon." Shadow replies.

"Ah, I see. Well I think you shouldn't have to worry yourself because they're already here." Luna says.

"Wait, are you saying the girls are here right now? How'd they get so lucky as to come to the Gala?" Shadow asks.

"Celestia knows about all of her subjects and how they live their lives. So she decided to invite them in order to help ease your boredom and make you smile a bit." Luna explains.

"Well thank you aunt Celestia and thanks for telling me, mom. I owe you both." Shadow says, smiling at his mom

"Think nothing of it son. Seeing you smile is enough to make me happy." Luna says, hugging her son.

" *gasp* Princess Luna is your mom?" said another female voice. Shadow tilted his head, only to see his girls, Lyra and Bon Bon. Lyra was wearing a beautiful white dress with a gold trim while Bon Bon was wearing a beautiful dark blue dress with pink trims. "Talk about lucky times three" Lyra said.

"So are you going to dance with us or are you up for some "real action?" Bon Bon asks, but her last two words were said more lustfully, making her and Lyra giggle.

Shadow Force was let go by his mom and he walked towards his beloved girls. When he got close enough, they all wrapped each other in a three-way hug.

"All in good time, girls, the night is still young. So how about we dance the night away and THEN we can get our real groove on later on, what do you girls say?" Shadow asks.

"Deal" the girls say in unison.

30 minutes have gone by since the Gala had started and Cheese Sandwich and Pinkie Pie were performing on stage performing magic tricks that leaves the entire audience speechless. Cheese Sandwich was able to pull Pinkie Pie out of a hat and even performed a behind the curtain disappearing act. Then came a magic trick that left the audience quaking on their hooves: The sawing-in-half trick.

"Okay, for this to work, we'll need a volunteer from the audience!" Cheese says enthusiastically. "Do I we have anypony available in the audience to perform this amazing trick?"

"ME!" Shouted Eternal. The entire audience was caught in a group gasp as they wondered why Eternal Flames, the son of Princess Celestia, would want to be a part of such a dangerous trick. As he stood up, he felt Sunset peck him on the cheek, wishing him luck. Eternal Flames winked at her and proceeded up onto the stage. Cheese Sandwich signaled Eternal to come closer. He walked towards Cheese and leaned in close and had Cheese whisper into his ear. "Hmm, sounds interesting. Let's do it." Eternal said with a grin on his face.

"EXCELLENT, just step into this box, and we'll do the rest!" Cheese says. Eternal then climbed into the box lying flat on his back and had Cheese Sandwich closing it tight. Eternal then looked at the audience and saw that some of them were wide eyed while the others were covering their eyes. He then turned to face the ceiling. "Now watch closely fillies and gentlecolts as I saw our volunteer in half!"

Pinkie Pie gave Cheese Sandwich a giant saw, which she pulled out of his hat.

'I'll never understand how she does that? She and Cheese do make a pretty cute couple, though.' Eternal thought to himself. Cheese walked up to Eternal and placed the saw over the box and proceeded to saw Eternal in half. Then came a horrific sight that left the audience screaming in fear. There was blood dripping from the saw as Cheese was moving it back and forth, still sawing Eternal in half. After the sawing was complete, the audience was shrieking in fear and disgust. But it was soon brought to a grinding halt by Cheese.

"PONIES!!! There's no need to panic. Have a look for yourselves." Cheese says, opening the sawed box to reveal Eternal Flames perfectly unharmed and also revealed a can of red paint leaking from the sawed crack. Finally the audience calmed down and gave the three ponies a round of applause. Eternal stepped out of the box and walked towards Cheese and Pinkie and bowed to the audience. He then shook Cheese's and Pinkie's hoof before stepping off the stage.

After half an hour of the opening act. The audience stepped out of the castle to watch the wonderbolts perform their aerial tricks. Rainbow Dash looked at them with jealousy and happiness while she was leaning next to Spark Wave, who was enjoying the performance as much as she was. Finally, it came time for the dance and everypony had paired up with their dance partners. Octavia and her band had begun to play their beautiful melodies and everypony in the ball room began to dance.

"Ground Dasher, if I hadn't met you, Ah'd have been outside, tryin' to sell apples, and trust me, partner, it did not go so well the first time I tried this, sugar cube." Applejack said, holding her coltfriend as they began to slow dance.

"If it weren't for you, I'd be stuffing my face silly until I passed out. With you by my side, I feel more complete than I ever did in my whole entire life." Ground Dasher replies, looking directly into his lover's eyes. Soon, he and AJ leaned in and shared a short, passionate kiss with each other.

"You sure you're okay with these fancy slow dances, Dashie?" Spark asked.

"Yeah, but only because I got you with me, babe." Rainbow replies with a wink. "If I was still single, I'd probably try to hang out with the Wonderbolts, which did NOT go so well when I first came here."

"Maybe they just didn't know what they're missing out on, Rainbow Dash." Spark said. "It's their loss knowing that they missed out on hanging with the most awesome mare who's 20% cooler than ANY of the Wonderbolts."

"Aww, thanks babe." Rainbow says, slightly blushing and then leaning in to kiss Spark Wave.

Tidal Wave was sitting on a chair, reading a book he brought with him to keep him occupied while he was drinking some tea. He didn't dance with the others since Nurse Red Heart got called in for an emergency. He wasn't too upset since he knows his marefriend had a tight and busy schedule that could easily tucker her out.

"Hurricane, I've never felt such so happy in my life. I don't know where I'd be if I hadn't met you." Fluttershy said, leaning onto her coltfriend, slow dancing. "How can I ever thank you for making me feel so complete?"

"Fluttershy, as long as I have you in my life, and seeing your beautiful smile, I will always feel thankful knowing that I have the most amazing, beautiful, and cutest mare who stole my heart." Hurricane said with a warm smile.

"Shadow are you sure you're okay with dating the both of us?" Lyra asked as she had her hooves wrapped around both Bon Bon and Shadow Force as they did with each other. "I mean, I wouldn't want to put so much stress on you."

"Yeah, you're one of the most kindest stallions we've ever met and you care so much about us. You must feel pretty uneasy having to choose between the two of us." Bon Bon said, looking down, sadly. But then both of the girls are pulled in by Shadow Force in a warm hug as he kept smiling to himself and his mares.

"Hey, don't feel so down about it. I'm at all in the least bit stressed. In fact, I'm overjoyed." Shadow says, making them both smile with tears in their eyes. "It's true I can never choose between the two of you, because you BOTH make me feel like a complete and happy stallion and I will always hold you both dearly."

Shadow then gave both of his girls a passionate kiss on the lips each and proceeded to slow dance with them.

"Twilight?" Heat Wave asked.

"Yes Heat Wave?" Twilight asked back, softly.

"I just want to say thank you for giving me a chance at finding and experienciing true love in my entire life. I'd probably have grown up a helpless little stallion without anypony to care about me but the guys." Heat Wave says, holding Twilight close to him, slow dancing with her ever so gracefullly.

"Heat Wave, I should say the same thing to you. I'd probably end up living thousands of years never experience true love if I hadn't even met you in the first place." Twilight explains. "You've given me so much and I want to make sure I do the same to you." Twilight looks up at Heat Wave staring directly at his beautiful magenta eyes.

"I love you, Twilight." Heat Wave says

"I love you, too, Heat Wave." Twilight replies as they both lean in and kiss each other on the lips.

"Oh, Spikey. You dance so gracefully. I would've made a foolish mistake not choosing you. Thank you so much for making me the happiest mare in all of Equestria." Rarity said to Spike, as they danced slowly and beautifully.

"I should be thanking you, too, Rarity. You've made me the happiest dragon in all of Equestria knowing that I finally have you by my side to love and care for." Spike replies.

"Sunset, words cannot begin to describe how much you've made my life so much more meaningful." Eternal says.

"Thank you, Eternal. I could actually say the same to you." Sunset replies warmly, leaning against the young prince while they slow dance the night away. "I feel like I'm the luckiest mare ever knowing that I fell in love with a stallion who's not only the kindest, bravest, and loyalest pony ever, but is also a handsome prince."

"Well I can't believe I met and fell in love with a mare who is not only the cutest, kindest, honest, and most beautiful pony, but is also a former pupil of my mom who's worthy enough to treated AS a princess." Eternal says. "I love you so much, Sunset Shimmer."

"I love you, too, Eternal Flames. With all my heart." Sunset replies as she leans in and lays a smooch on her lover.

The dance was going beautifully...until a blast of lightning and darkness shot from outside the castle, landing near the crowd. Everyone inside stopped dead in their tracks, unharmed, but shooken up. Eternal and the guys then ran outside and saw a stallion floating in the air in lightning covered black mass.

"THUNDER DRUM!" Eternal Flames shouted in anger igniting his hooves on fire.

"Relax, Prince! I only come to deliver a message to you!" Thunder shouts from above.

"What message?!" Eternal asked.

"I challenge you to a fight! Tomorrow! In the desert terrain! Go ahead and bring your lackeys with you, but I'm settling this fight between you and me!" Thunder explains.

"Why are you asking for this all of a sudden?" Eternal asks, feeling skeptic towards Thunder's behaviors.

"HEY!" shouted another voice. Eternal turned back to see that it was his father, Royal Blaze. "Leave this party at once, or face the dire consequences of your actions!"

"Shut up! I'm talking to your son, not you!" Thunder shouts back and then turns to Eternal Flames. "Do you accept the challenge, young prince, because if you don't, I won't hesitate to start ridding the ponies' of their innocent lives!"

"I hardly even call that a question!" Eternal replies. "Thunder Drum...I ACCEPT YOUR CHALLENGE!" Not long after that, Thunder Drum tosses a piece of paper at him, which Eternal catches with his teeth. He looks at it and sees that it's a map.

"That'll show you where to find me! Come anytime by either the rising of the sun, or the rising of the moon. YOU CHOOSE!!!" Thunder shouts before flying off at sonic speed.

Eternal Flames immediately growled at the sight of Thunder Drum as he left. He then ignited his body on fire as he hunched backwards getting ready to fly.

"Eternal, what are you doing?" Sunset asks as she runs towards him.

"I'm going back home, I'm gonna finish what I started with that bastard ONCE and for all!" Eternal replied.

"No you can't! You could end up getting killed if you fight him again! Don't you remember the last time you both fought? You BOTH barely escaped with your lives!" Sunset says.

"It's going to be different this time. I'm not the same as I was last time. I've been preparing myself. Now that he's back, I'm going to finish what I started last time." Eternal replies, before flying off in a ball of fire. All Sunset could do was watch as her lover went back to town to ready himself for a fight that could end up costing him his life. She began to kneel down and cry to herself. Twilight walked towards Sunset and gave her a gentle hug to comfort her.

"Don't you remember what he said. Even though the battle is between him and Eternal, we can still be there for him when he needs our support, and by the looks of things, he's going to need a lot of it." Twilight explains to the sobbing mane with a fiery mane.

"Sunset, I'm just as worried about my brother as you are. But I'm not about to stay here and let my brother walk out in that terrain and fight without his friends, family, AND his beautiful lover there to give him the support he needs. Now pick yourself up, and let's go." Heat Wave says with a determined look on his face. Sunset then picked herself up and wiped away her tears and got more serious.

"You're right, Heat Wave. I guess I wasn't thinking straight. But now I am. I'm gonna head back to Ponyville to at least comfort Eternal before he goes out there." Sunset says. Her horn then starts to glow and she instantly vanishes in the blink of an eye.

"We'd all best be gettin' back home, too. This is a serious matter." Applejack implies.

"Yeah, any pal of Sparkster's ain't gonna be left alone!" Rainbow shouts, floating above the air.

"Then what are we waiting for, darlings? Let's head back to Ponyville and rest up!" Rarity implies.

After that, the gang all got together and held hooves as Twilight's horn began to glow, teleporting them all back to Ponyville.

--

Meanwhile, Sunset had already arrived at Eternal's house and knocked on the door. Seconds later, Eternal opened it and let her inside before closing the door and locking it. They walked upstairs and entered his room. Sunset locked his door behind her as Eternal sat on his bed looking at Sunset who later joined him.

"I'm sorry, Sunset. But I have to do this. I know you must hate me for accepting this challenge, but I--" Eternal gets cut off by Sunset who places her hoof over his mouth.

"Eternal, please...I know why you're doing this." Sunset says. "You're fighting for Equestria, your family, your friends, and me. I'm just worried that you'll end up getting hurt worse than before."

"I know. But I don't have any other choice. If I let him walk, he's going to destroy so many innocent lives." Eternal says. "I wouldn't even call myself the strongest guardian of Equestria, or Prince of Equestria, or even a stallion if I fail to even try."

"I've been in situations similar to yours, Eternal." Sunset says. "I've had my fair share of fights in the human dimension. But in one of those fights...I was blinded by anger and jealousy."

"Don't think about what happened in the past. What matters is what's happening now: Thunder Drum is back, and I'm going to put everything I've got into this fight." Eternal says, wrapping his hoof around Sunset.

"Eternal..." she says softly, with her eyes lidded.

"Yes, Sunset?" he replies back softly.

"Before you fight him tomorrow...I..."

"You what?"

"I...I want a child."

After hearing that, Eternal's eyes widened.

"Y-You want to bare a child?" Eternal asks, surprisingly

"I do, Eternal."

"But we've only been dating for a week and we see each other every 2 weeks ever since you arrived."

"I don't care about that! All I want is to bare YOUR child! Because...if you die..." Sunset then gets cut off by Eternal's lips as he presses his against hers.

"Don't ever think like that, Sunset. I won't die. But if you truly want to bare my children, then I shouldn't neglect this one request." Eternal says, before he lays Sunset on her back flat on his bed. Eternal then gently and slowly laid on top of her. "Would you like me to help get you started, or shall we proceed to mate?" he asks softly.

"I'm fully aroused right now, but should I help you feel aroused?" She asks, placing her hoof around Eternal's member.

"Hmm...sure, I'll leave it up to you." Eternal says with a smile as he lays down next to Sunset who then gets in between his legs. She grabs his member, slowly stroking it. Eternal let out a slight groan, grinding his teeth together as he started to feel good. Slowly afterwards, Sunset began to take his member and place it in her mouth with her tongue dancing around it. Sunset then took the entire thing into her mouth and slowly bobbed her head. She could feel him becoming rock solid. Eternal couldn't help but groan from this amazing feeling. Sunset then began to bob her head up and down on Eternal's member as if she was trying to milk him for all he had.

"Sunset..." Eternal grunted. "I feel like I'm gonna explode at any minute!" Sunset then pulled his fully erect member out of her mouth and positioned Eternal over her as she laid flat on her back on Eternal's pillow.

"Then let's do this the right way, babe." Sunset says. She then spreaded her legs and Eternal then positioned his member until it made contact with her marehood. Sunset then let out a pleasured sigh.

"Here, I come, my sunshine." Eternal said, as he thrusted all the way inside Sunset, causing her to moan in ecstasy. Eternal then began going in and out of her, slowly picking up speed. They both moaned from the heavenly feeling. Eternal then added more force to his thrust and began grunting and growling like a wild predator rutting its prey. The feeling made Sunset moan louder and she soon wrapped her hinde legs around Eternal bringing him lower as he kept going with his thrusts.

"ETERNAL!!!...I..I CAN'T...I CAN'T HOLD BACK MUCH LONGER!" Sunset moaned.

"NEITHER CAN I!" Eternal grunted.

"Then lets do it together." Sunset whispers in Eternals ear.

Finally, after a while, Eternal thrusted into Sunset one last time with so much force and exploded his seed into her love cave while Sunset's hot juices gushed out of her. Both of them shouted in ecstacy from the feeling until finally, Eternal pulled his limp member out of her and collapsed next to Sunset with both of them panting all exhausted.

"I...I'm finally going to be a mother." Sunset says between pants.

"I promise to be a great father." Eternal says softly.

The two lovers then covered themselves under the blankets getting ready for a good nights rest.

--

Meanwhile, deep in the desert terrain, Thunder Drum stood at the top of a rocky pillar looking at the night sky.

"The time for my revenge is almost upon me. But...if I want to settle the score with that upstart of a prince, I'll do so as an honorable rogue with my own four hooves. No hostages, no bullshit, just him and me." Thunder says to himself.