Over the next few years I couldn’t help but feel that I was missing something by not being able to go to school. But I can’t fix the past so I better live in the present and focus on the future.

I had begun to learn where the source of my newfound power had come from; it turns out it may have happened the day of The Computers first boot up. It must’ve come from the energy that arced around the room when the rainbow energy entered the battery; I’m thinking the pure radiating energy may have altered my being as well as my cutie mark making it the epicenter for the entire change, explaining why the cutie mark began to change and alter the rest of me during my dangerous, emotion filled situation.

I had been endowed with power by an inventor’s incident, I thought it was only in comic books but there wasn’t any other solution. I thought I had been truly blessed; powers that no pony else had and no downside to it at all! I should’ve known it was too good to be true.

It was very early morning; I had left the tree house to do what had fast become my favorite thing to do, watch the sunrise over the hills. I flew over to my favorite spot, a hill at the top of a valley filled with the apple orchard, and got comfortable waiting for the beautiful painting to rise over the hills and grace Equestria with its beauty.

I hadn’t heard the Applejack approach, “Whatcha do’n sugarcube?”

I was deathly startled and wing jumped higher than the clouds. I realized it was AJ and rejoined her on the ground.

“You startled me.”

She laughed lightly and apologized, “So what are yah always doing up here on this hill every morn’n?”

I got comfortable and looked out over the orchard and kept waiting for the sun, “I always come out here to see the sun rise, it is too pretty to miss.”

She seemed to be puzzling over what I’d just said, “Huh, never thought of it like that. Well would ya mind if I watched it with ya?”

I was happy to see somepony else wanted to enjoy in my favorite thing. “Be my guest, I’d love having someone else out here.”

She sat next to me and we both sat waiting for the sun to put on a show. “Hey Digi I have been meaning to tell ya someth’n.”

I wondered what she could need to tell me, she hasn’t been this serious for a long while. “I found you livin in mah tree house when we were both little foals, and now it has been so many years later and we both have grown right up.”

Where was she going with this? “You were always there for me when I needed you and even when I didn’t, you were just like another brother to mah.”

I continued listening with much curiosity, what was she trying to say? “I just wanted to thank ya for everything ya’ve done for me, and I wanted to just say that ya are a part of the apple family in my mind.”

Wow… had I really affected AJ that much? “Wow AJ…. That means a lot to me, I haven’t really had a family since I was really little. I-I just don’t know what to…”

She cut me off, so much for the touching moment, “Look the suns rising!” We both looked out as the golden waves of color began to spread from the hill top all around the orchard, casting shadows and making the area seem to sparkle with beauty. That is when it all went wrong; I felt a stinging pain hit my heart that proceeded to spread through my body.

AJ realized I was in pain, “Somethi’n wrong sugar cube?”

I didn’t really know if something was wrong, “There is a shocking pain going through me!”

My voice had turned mechanical and robotic.

“Digi; what’s happening!?” She looked extremely worried now, she went to touch me but was shocked! She recoiled her hoof slightly burned from the shock; I knew I had to get away, If I didn’t something bad would happen to everything near me.

I took off as fast as I could and dashed for the nearest unpopulated area, which just happened to be where a bunch of clouds were waiting to be moved. I couldn’t keep the energy pent up anymore! I discharged all the energy I had built up over time, it was brighter than a solar flare from 3 ft away, and had more power than the combined energy of 200 nuclear reactors. The blast decimated any of the life on the field below me, and the clouds ended up absorbing a lot of electrical energy causing a major storm to brew, the storm of the century!

I blacked out after the incident and awoke inside the Apple Homestead; surrounded by my friends as well as AJ’s friends, they were quite well known around Equestria so I was surprised they would come to see me.

“What happened?” They all looked at me with a look of fear, probably to tell me what in Equestria had happened.

Applejack was first to speak, “Something happened that had to do with you power.”

I was dumbfounded, “How did you find out about it?”

She gave me a warm smile, “Your friend Trippy over here told us about it.”

I glanced over in the direction she indicated and saw him trying to put a smile on, probably not easy to do when your friend pretty much just exploded.

A boom of thunder and flash of lightning drown out AJ’s next words.

“What!?” She gave the storm outside a good stink eye and repeated what she said, “I said, your power overloaded and you discharged it.”

That made sense; too much power gotta let it go. Another thunder boom and lightning flash; “That is a strong storm out there, it wasn’t storming when the incident happened.” The truth hit me, “How long was I out for?”

Everyone flinched at my question, they really didn’t want to answer it; Twilight answered me, “A whole week.”

I was distraught with disbelief; “WHAT; how have I been out for a week!?”

She gave me a look almost as if I had asked a stupid question, “You discharged power greater than anything we’ve seen so far, you caught yourself in the discharge knocking your systems out and you with it. You finally are back to normal which is why you woke up.”

The hardness of her voice kind of shocked me, “Well now it seems so obvious!” I was apparently well enough for sarcasm.

“Look we got bigger problems than just you right now! The storm raging outside, yeah it’s been this strong ever since you discharged!”

Another shocker, “W-What?”

She was beginning to seem almost angry with me. “When you discharged those clouds around you were affected causing them to grow and grow. Now Equestria is in trouble with all the flooding and lightning incidents!”

A whole week of this storm; No wonder she was unhappy, this is probably stressing her out beyond belief.

“The weather teams have tried stopping the storm but they can’t get close enough without getting struck with lightning! Even the royal sisters can’t stop it!”

I thought this over and realized that there was someone who could stop it. “I can…”

She must’ve thought she heard wrong. “Come again…?”

I told her again very determined, “I can stop it!”

She seemed to doubt that I was right, “How will you stop it?”

She challenged me, something I don’t take lightly.

“Just watch me.” Challenge accepted, I sprung from my bed and flew out the door; they all shouted “Nooo!” then turned to Twilight.

“Why did ya do that Twi?” AJ seemed to be the most unhappy out of the bunch.

“He was the one to make this mess so he’s going to fix it.” She seemed pretty certain of that fact.

While they were squabbling I was busy flying towards the sight of where the incident happened; the Eye of the Storm. As I approached it I noticed the lightning became much more frequent, as well as the number of strikes passing near me. Eventually I reached the eye without being obliterated by lightning; it was ominous having rain to my side but no rain where I was flying. As I marveled at the sheer power of the storm I happened to miss the bolt that had just emerged and was heading straight towards me.

It hit me but I didn’t go down, I merely began to absorb the power from the storm! Soon another bolt began feeding into me, and then another! The storm was losing power fast and was beginning to dissipate!

Back on the homestead everyone was still quarreling; “You may have just sent him off to die Twi! He was a like a brother to me!”

Twilight wasn’t listening anymore; she was paying attention to the storm outside, “Listen!”

Everypony stopped to listen to what she was talking about, “I don’t hear anything Twilight.” Rainbow was right there wasn’t anything to hear.

“Exactly; The Rain has stopped!” A collective gasp led to everypony dashing for the window, Rainbow was there first since she is the fastest.

“Ohmigosh!” It isn’t often Rainbow Dash says ohmigosh, so she must’ve had a very good reason to and she sure did! She saw me up in the center of the storm being shocked and absorbing the storm! Eventually I absorbed enough energy to kill the storms lightning making it be officially over!

Unfortunately I was now filled with all the energy I had previously released a week ago. Overwhelmed with the energy and attempting not to let it go I began to plummet towards the ground. As I fell I noticed a road nearby, I wonder how I missed it, but better was the fact that there was a metal sign post on that road! This was my chance, I had to get to that pole to release the energy into the ground just like my lightning pole!

In a last ditch effort I unfurled my wings and glided towards the pole; I finally made it to the pole and may have over shot the landing a bit since I smacked right into it. Without a moment to spare I released the lightning into the pole and fainted without knowing if I’d saved everyone.

Everyone in the homestead had seen what had happened but couldn’t see if I’d landed safely or hit the ground in a blaze of glory. “I hope he’s okay.” Applejack was distraught with worry and paced around the room whispering harshly to herself, “Please don’t be dead; You crazy mechanical idiot! … I like you too much for you to die.” Just then the door flew open and somepony walked in with me on his back.

“Who the hay are you! And what have you done to Digital!”

The stallion turned towards AJ and said, “I’m Cloud Crasher, and I’m saving my friend.”

Author's Note

I know, a little cliche that the OC can stop it. But I was having trouble thinking of another way to do it. :/ Also, add metal sound effect here, cause I love that sound effect. :D