My Little Pony: Friendship has a Dark Side.

Twilight had just woken up. She was up pretty late in the day, and it was far from any reasons of her being lazy. Ever since that red...thing had appeared in Ponyville, she was constantly thinking about where it might have come from, and she couldn't sleep for most of the night. She's been visiting it in the hospital on a daily basis, hoping that it might wake up. She was giddy with the excitement that it might one day wake up. She had so many questions that she always had to say them to herself out loud, much to her assistant Spike's annoyance. She had also sent a message to Princess Celestia regarding the incident, and Twilight imagined that her mentor would want to see this...whatever it was.

Twilight couldn't wait any longer. She quickly combed her mane and rushed downstairs. She decided to take a flower with her to leave by the creature. She read somewhere that it was customary to do that whenever somepony was in the hospital. Once she was sure she had done everything, Twilight ran out.

Moments later, the ground shook.

Raiden wished he could be impressed.

That sounds so odd to say, but it's true. This cyan Pegasus he was fighting was incredibly tenacious. Raiden could tell that she was nothing like a superhuman. Pony. GAH! He didn't know what to say! But the pony could break the sound barrier and was quite strong...actually, she was very strong. Raiden had barely dodged that dive attack, and it still rattled the land. In his current state, the pony called Rainbow Dash was actually faster than him. Not only that, but she possessed incredible combat prowess, using some form of pony karate pretty masterfully. Again, Raiden wanted to be impressed.

And he would be...if Rainbow Dash wasn't basically trying to kill him!

He didn't have time to be impressed when a freaking rabid Pegasus was out for his head. And to make things worse, the wound he had received was still giving him pain and was a fairly vulnerable spot, eating away at his stamina. He was to focused on not dying to be impressed.

So he decided to focus on not being impressed and being in battle.

Rainbow Dash had immediately recovered from her diving attack and dashed towards Raiden, who was struggling to dodge her attacks. Raiden was always too slow to move in for a counter attack(again, wound and all), and he was pretty sure blocking her attacks while they were still each in the states they were in would hurt more than help. At one point Rainbow Dash did a mid-air flip and tried to bring her hoof down upon Raiden's skull, but raiden backed away in time to dodge that. But then Rainbow Dash recovered from her flip, planted her front hooves into the ground, and spunaround so that her backside was facing Raiden. Rainbow Dash than reared her hind legs back before delivering a devastating buck to Raiden's chin, which caused him to fly back several yards.

Raiden slowly got up. As he was rising from the ground he had enough tome to think about something.

"It probably would have been easier to ask her for the information. Than we wouldn't be having this fight."

Raiden mentally face-palmed himself. Because if that face-palm was physical, his head would have flown right off his shoulders. There was nothing he could do now. In a way, his carelessness is what started, and now a weak Raiden stood no chance against one very angry Rainbow Dash...Although, he had an ace up his sleeve. something that was guaranteed to scare her s***less.

Raiden got back up to his feet and spoke. "Let's try that again, shall we?"

"Stop it..."

That was what Rainbow Dash was saying in her head. She was angry, but she didn't want to be. She was definitely surprised that the creature didn't know anything about the Wonderbolts, her life long heroes, and undoubtedly a bit angry that he insulted one of her idols, but this was something that she could easily get over in a few minutes. But once Rainbow Dash was feeling the slightest trickle of anger, it began to consume her, eat at her better judgement. That's never happened before. She felt powerful, and that felt good. The rage gave her power that made her feel like she could take on all of Equestria and then some. And this creature made her angry, so why not start with him?

"Stop it..."

At the same time, she wanted to stop. Rainbow Dash knew that she wasn't in control of herself, and that her anger was controlling her. Who knows what she could do in this state? She could cause harm. Somepony could get hurt. This angry side of her wanted to take its anger out on everything and everypony. She knew she needed to stop, and she was desperately trying to retake control of herself.

"Stop it..."

But the rage was too much for her. She could not fight it. It was several times more powerful than her, and to many-a-pony, that spoke volumes. She could only watch as her rage controlled body suddenly dashed towards the creature. Rainbow Dash gasped in horror.

"No! Please, stop!"

Rainbow Dash was practically begging at this point, but her pleas fell on deaf ears. She rammed into the creature, but it gripped Rainbow Dash's body and only slid back a few feet, standing its ground. Rainbow Dash was relieved at this, but her moment of respite ended as soon as it began. Rainbow Dash's body reared a hoof back, getting ready to throw a punch as powerful as she could make possible. The creature was already hurt badly and was recovering from his weakened state. It may not survive Rainbow Dash's most powerful punch! Rainbow Dash began to cry

"STOP IT!!!"

But as she was about to deliver the final blow, Rainbow Dash's body did something that stopped her dead in her tracks, and saw something that she would live to never forget.

She looked into the creature's eyes...

...And saw a living hell.

Twilight had her assistant Spike gather her friends and meet up in front of her library. She had a bad feeling about this, and her instincts told her that she would need help from all the Elements of Harmony. A tremor doesn't simply happen, after all, and she knew what direction it was coming from. A living being caused it. That was the only logical explanation, so whatever it was must have been strong. It was something that she could not take care of on her own.

As her patience began to wear thin, she heard Spike's voice yell "Twilight!"

She turned her head to the right and saw Spike, a very small dragon with purple scales along most of his body. His back and the top of his head was aligned with dull green spikes, and his belly was a very, very light shade of green, almost yellow. Lastly, he had two green feathery ears.

Behind Spike were four of Twilight's best friends. The first was Applejack, an orange earth-pony with white freckles and large emerald eyes, as well as bearer of the Element of Honesty and co-owner of Sweet Apple Acres. She wore a light brown cowboy hat and kept her blonde mane and tail tied back at the end. She bore a cutie-mark of three red apples on her flank.

The second, bouncing alongside Applejack, was the Element of Laughter, Pinkie Pie. Her name matched her looks; she was a bright pink earth-pony with a puffy, dark pink mane, tail, and blue eyes. Her cutie-mark consisted of two blue balloons with yellow strings, surrounding a yellow balloon with a blue string. Plus, she had an almost permanent smile on her face.

Third was the beautiful Element of Generosity, Rarity, owner of the Carousel Boutique. A white unicorn with light blue eye-shadow and sapphire eyes, she wore her purple mane and tail in a stylized curled fashion. Her cutie-mark was simply three blue gems. Spike had a massive crush on her.

Lastly was the animal caretaker and the adorable bearer of the Element of Kindness, Fluttershy, a yellow Pegasus with a long, flowing, bright pink mane and tail and ocean-blue eyes. Her cutie-mark consisted of three butterflies with wings as pink as her mane and tail.

Spike ran up to Twilight and said "Here we are, Twilight. I gathered them as fast as I could."

Applejack had a questioning but serious expression on her face. She spoke. "Ah heard the crash from th' barn, Twi. What do ya think it was?"

"What ever it was, it had to have been a powerful creature," Twilight replied. "No tremor is that sudden."

Rarity joined in on the conversation. "Oh, I'm sure it's nothing threatening, dear. It was most likely Rainbow Dash performing one of her reckless stunts."

"I'm not so sure..." Twilight trailed off before coming to a late realization. "Hey, where is Rainbow Dash, anyway?"

Pinkie bounced in. "Oh, I heard she had weather duty today. Had to move some clouds out of the way, since today was supposed to be sunny."

Twilight raised an eyebrow. "Is that the whole story? If so, she should have been done with that by now." Twilight was a bit worried.

Then, as if on cue, a blood curdling scream could be heard from the area of the crash. Everypony turned towards the noise. It sounded like...

"Rainbow Dash!" Everypony cried out before galloping towards the noise.

Rainbow Dash's head was resting in the palm of Raiden's right hand, and Raiden's left was over her heart. Raiden sighed. He felt sorry for the poor girl. She was still fairly young, and should not have witnessed what she did. He never liked using 'that' on people, but it was the only way to stop her from going on a rampage - and for that matter, killing him.

What made him feel all the more guilty was Rainbow Dash's eyes; they were still open, and they were cold, tear stained, and devoid of much emotion except for one thing. One thing that everyone hated experiencing, and brought everyone to the near breaking point:

Fear.

Raiden dreaded what he had done to the cyan Pegasus, but his thoughts were interrupted by a familiar feminine voice. "Rainbow Dash!" it screamed.

Raiden turned around to see the purple unicorn she remembered seeing when he had woken up in that town, along with four other multi-colored ponies and a purple...whatever the little guy was. "They must be friends of her's", he thought, looking down at Rainbow Dash again.

They all ran up to Raiden and Rainbow Dash. The purple unicorn's eyes widened at the sight of Raiden. "Hey, you're-"

Raiden cut her off. "No time for that. This girl is hurt."

One of the other ponies, a pink one with a puffed-up mane and a mark of balloons on her flank, walked up to Rainbow Dash especially with an worried look in her face. "What happened to her?" she asked, almost sobbing.

Raiden opened his mouth, but hesitated. He saw what had happened with Rainbow Dash, and he wasn't ready to fight four angry ponies at the same time. Who knows how strong they might be? "I...found her like this", he said. "She's in a state of serious shock, but she'll live."

Raiden got up with Rainbow Dash in arms. The purple unicorn asked "Hey. Where are you going?"

"Back to the hospital", Raiden replied. "I can probably get there faster than any of you, and she needs help. If only she knew", he thought before continuing. "Besides, there's some things that I need there."

The purple unicorn's expression looked reluctant. Raiden could understand; she was Rainbow Dash's friend, and she just met Raiden. She had no idea if he was trustworthy.

Heck, even if they did know each other, she might not trust him.

But her expression softened and she slowly stated "All right. Get her there safely."

Raiden nodded and, without warning, dashed off. He could hear the unicorn yell "Hey, wait a minute!" But he was already gone.

He didn't know this world, and he didn't know anyone here, but one thing was for certain: The creatures here were powerful when angry. They seemed to have a lot of built up rage within them so he had to be extra careful with his rings.

If he wasn't, it could mean certain destruction.