The Masked Mare of Mystery

Lightning Dust POV

The world seemed to be coming down on me when Spitfire ripped of my leadpony badge and pointed her hoof to dismiss me. The guards escorted me to my room.

"Pack your things, you're done here." one said.

That was it. I would never become a Wonderbolt. As I packed my things, Spitfire walked in with a disgusted look on her face.

She glared at me before speaking. "Your behavior was unacceptable. No Wonderbolt ever puts another pony at risk just for their own gain."

"Yes ma'am." I replied.

"Just count yourself lucky it happened now rather when your on the team. You'd make us look bad if you did and gotten yourself kicked out."

I nodded.

"She's not allowed on the premises for the rest of the week." Spitfire said as adjusted her shades and walked out.

That hurt alot. I finished packing my saddlebags and was escorted out of the school. I turned back for one last look. I could see Rainbow Dash and the other cadets doing drills. Rainbow Dash. Doing drills. Getting closer to becoming a Wonderbolt. Closer to living my dream. Her, living MY DREAM. Why should that rat live my dream? Sure that twister had nearly killed those other ponies, but nearly was the key word there. Besides Dash's rescued them in the end.

"Buck, I never meant to hurt anypony. Yet I'm antagonized over one incident." I thought to myself. "If anyone is the villain here, it's Rainbow Dash."

Yes, Rainbow Dash. She'll pay for what she did to me. It'll be worth waiting a week for vengeance.

One week later

After a week of plotting, I was ready to make Rainbow Dash pay for her crime. Shame given that the time I had, my plan came out so simple, but it should be very effective. Rainbow Dash had told me she lived in Ponyville, so I made my way there.

"Where is Rainbow Dash?" I asked a brown stallion  with an hour glass cutie mark impatiently.

"Sleeping on a cloud somewhere in the sky most likely." he replied, and hurried off.

Looking around, I found my target doing just that.

"Good, now for my plan." I thought to myself.

I looked around and saw a white unicorn with purple hair. I recognized her as one of Dash's friends, so I followed her to a carousel like building. I walked up to the front door, saw an hours sign and walked in.

"Hello, welcome to the Carousel Boutique. Can I help you?" She greeted as I walked in.

"Yes, you can." I said, then uppercut her, knocking the unicorn out.

I wrote a note and taped it to the front door. Then I scooped up her body and carried her towards a gorge I saw on the way over. After an uneventful flight, we arrived at the gorge.

"Hmm, what's going on?" the unicorn asked as she woke up. She looked down and gasped. "What's going on? Why are we at

Ghastly Gorge?" She demanded.

"Well miss.."

"My name is Rarity!"

"Rarity, I kidnapped you. It's nothing personal, I just need something to get to Rainbow Dash. Speaking of which, here she comes now."

Sure enough, Rainbow Dash came speeding towards us.

"One flap closer and she's eel food!" I called, pointing to the quarry eels below.

Rainbow stopped and scowled at me. "Let her go."

"Only if you meet my demand."

"Which is?"

"We race, loser has to do what the winner wants, no questions asked."

"Let her go first."

Looking back, it was a pretty cliche villain moment. Maybe then I should have realized that was when I was destine to be a super villain. I threw the unicorn over to her. Rarity screamed loudly as she sailed through the air until Rainbow caught her and took her to safety.

"Where do we race?" Rainbow asked.

"Across the town and back." I replied.

We went to a large apple farm. By now, Dash's other friends had come to support her. They had a quick conversation before we lined up. A lavender unicorn got in front of us.

"Okay, on three. One, Two, Three!"

We took off at blinding speed. For the most part, we were neck and neck. We came to the edge of town where a forest began. Turning in perfect sync, we headed back in the same fashion. Since it look like Dash and I were evenly match, I decided to break the supposed tie. I rammed my side into Dash's, causing her to lose control and fall to the ground.

"Victory is mine!" I thought.

Just then, I heard a loud BOOM! behind me, and a rainbow shot past, knocking me out of the sky. I crashed into the ground suffering just a few scrapes thankfully. I recovered quickly and raced back to the barn. Of course Dash was there first.

"Wha..How did you do that?"

"Sonic Rainboom."

"A what?"

"Doesn't matter, got out of town and NEVER put any of my friends in harms way again, got that?"

"Fine, but this isn't over Rainbow Dash, not by a long shot!" I promised, and flew away.

***

I found myself in a hospital as my eyes flicked open. Looking to my right, I was hooked up to some machine.

"Doctor, she's waking up!" a female voice called.

A yellow unicorn stallion with brown hair ran into the room.

"What happened? Why am I here?" I asked.

"You fell into a spectra pool. It would have killed you if it weren't for that suit you were wearing." the doctor replied.

I looked at my body. The HEV suit seemed to have melted into my body, becoming one with it.

"I need a mirror." I said bluntly.

The doctor nervously levitated a hoof mirror to my face. A half pony half robot face stated back at me. So this is what became of me. Doomed to be a cyborg for the rest of my life. There was only one way I could live with myself like this.

"Lightning Dust, what are you doing?" the doctor asked as I got out of the bed.

I turned around and uppercut him. The doctors cry attracted attention of some other ponies, presumably nurses based on the hats they were wearing and a filly also wearing a nurse cap for some reason.

No problem, really.