F.A.T.E

Chapter 8: Meeting Vanish

Rainbow Dash was standing in front of Clayton's door waiting for him to open it.

"Clayton please come out!" there was no response.

"Please. You can't believe what your sister said about you. It's not true. Your awesome and successful in your own way. Please come out." she said knocking on his door, there was still no response.

Everyone came upstairs to see how Clayton was doing.

Twilight looked at Rainbow, "Hey. How is he doing?"

Rainbow sighed, "I can't get him to come out of his room."

She laid her head on the door and tried to listen if she could hear him on the other side of the door. She listened for about 2 minutes and didn't hear anything.

Fluttershy looked at Dillon, "Oh my....I hope that Clayton is alright."

Dillon held her hand and she looked at Dillon who turned to her, "He'll be fine. He just needs to cool off for a bit. I just hope that my cousin doesn't do anything stupid in there."

Max walked up to the door and looked at Rainbow.

"Rainbow Dash. Maybe you should let me try to see if I could give it a try." he said.

She nodded at him as she backed away from the door. As Max knocked on the door.

"Come on Clayton. Please open the door. Were really worried about you!" Max said.

He also didn't get a response from the other side of the door. Applejack tapped on Max's shoulder as he turned to her.

"Yes Applejack?"

"Um. I reckon I might have an idea how to get the door open so we can talk to him."

"How?"

What she had said made Corey, Jack, Sam, and Dillon eyes widen as Jack stood in front of her.

"Applejack, no way are you kicking down this door!" he said making her frowned at him.

"Why in the hay not? We need to talk to him. We can't have him feeling sad just because of what his older sister said about him. Were his family and family must stick together." she said.

What she said was true; they needed to comfort Clayton, and they all wanted to help him no matter what. Jack sighed and stepped aside from her. Applejack took off her bracelet transforming her back into her pony form. Rarity took away the clothing that was surrounding the pony and kept it with her.

She turned over facing her flank at the door, lifted her back hoofs up and bucked the door open. As soon as the door swung open, they all poked there heads into the room. They were all shocked to see that Clayton wasn't in his room.

Rainbow ran inside and looked all over the room for him, but couldn't find one trace of him anywhere. She then fell to her knees and started to cry. The girls walked over to her side to comfort there friend as the boys looked around the room to see if they could find their brony brother.

Sam turned and looked at the open window.

"Um. guys" he said making everyone look at him.

He pointed to the window, "I think I know were he went".

Soon everyone realized that Clayton's window was opened and that he ran away. They all freaked out and ran downstairs to Clayton's parents and Luna who was now in pony form who were all cleaning up the table.

Corey shouted, "We got a problem!"

Both of Clayton's parents and Luna looked at him. Luna placed the plates down with her magic.

"What's the problem?" Luna asked Corey.

Max spoke "It's Clayton! He's gone!"

Hearing this made Luna's eyes widen.

"What!? He's gone! But how?"

"We think that he might have got out through his window."

Clayton's mother fainted as the words left his mouth. Her husband picked her up in his arms and turned to the group.

"This is not good. He hasn't done this in a long time." he said.

Twilight stood in front of the group, "Do you think you might know where he might have went?"

Dillon nodded and sighed, "Yes I do. When ever his sister always made him cry he would always go out to the forest at hunter avenue. He always went there to blow off steam."

"How far is it from the house?"

"46 miles from here."

Everyone looked at each other as Rainbow spoke up, "I'm gonna go find him."

Fluttershy placed her hand on her shoulder, "No! We will all go with you. Remember he is our family and won't let you do it alone."

Rainbow dash closes her eyes in thought. It was true what Fluttershy said; they were a family, and no matter what nobody leaves anyone behind. She opened her eyes and nodded at her.

Everyone walked over to the door and went to there cars except Rainbow who took off her bracelet and changed into her pony form. Rarity looked at her as she got inside Corey's car.

"Darling whatever are you doing?"

Rainbow started doing wing push ups as she turned to her.

"I'm gonna go find Clayton."

"Darling you don't know your way around this world. How are you going to find him?"

Rainbow stopped what she was doing and froze. It was true she didn't know her way around earth, nor would she be able to find which way the forest was at. She lowered her head as her ears flopped down.

Dillon walked over to her as he finished helping Fluttershy into her seat. He keeled down to her as she looked up at him with her sad red eyes. He placed his hand on her head and messed up her hair. She moved his hand off her head chuckling a bit as he smiled at her.

"Don't worry Rainbow were gonna find him. That we promise you." he said.

She smiled a bit more at him. Dillon got to his feet and waved his hand for her to get into his ford mustang. She flew over to the car as he opened the back door for her. She got inside and he closed the door. He got into the drivers seat and turned the car on. Dillon drove from the sidewalk in front of Sam.

He poked his head out to face them, "OK guys just follow me I know were the forest is. Just make sure to keep following me alright."

The other boys gave him a thumbs up as they all drove out of the small area and headed towards the highway.

THE FOREST

Clayton was sitting next to a tree with his Katana next to his side. He was looking at the sky deep in thought as the words of his sister started to come up:

'No your worse then that! Your a disgrace to this family! A virus to our Aunt! A disappointment to me! Why can't you act more like an eighteen year old! Why can't you get any good grades in your classes when you were in community collage! Why can't you get a job! Why can't you quit wasting your life sitting around on your ass! Why can't you stop hanging out with these poor people and get some real friends! Why can't you do anything right for once! Why can't you be more like me!'

Hearing those words again made him get mad. He tried to shake the words out of his head, but they only kept coming back. Clayton held his head down in sadness. As he looked at the ground; he then heard footsteps in the grass. He still was looking down at the grass as he then glanced up at what the noise was. He saw a man who looked like he was in his teens, as the man then stood over him a bit.

"Well, well, well, What a wuss" he said in a dark tone.

Clayton looked up at the person, "You are?"

The boy smirked, "The name's Vanish and I'm here to deliver a message to you."

Clayton raised an eyebrow at him, "What kind of message?"

"Hmmm... Let me see here. Oh! Yes, here it is." he pulled out a machete which was the same length as his Katana.

"I'm here to send you the message of death!" he shouted.

Vanish raised his weapon and swung down at Clayton. He dodged his attack and rolled behind Vanish. Clayton dropped kicked Vanish making him face over face first into the ground.

As he started to get up, Vanish looked over at Clayton who had his eyes closed at him.

Vanish grinned at him, "You know, I'm gonna beat you in a few seconds."

Clayton pulled his Katana off of his back and held it in front of his face. He opened his eyes and he slowly started to pull out his weapon from it's sheath.

As Clayton slowly pulled out his weapon and he grinned at Vanish, "Just who the hay do you think I am?"

He had his Katana at his side at the ready.

Vanish responded to his words, "I think your a fool for trying to take me on!"

He charged towards him and Clayton showed off his cocky grin and then charged at him.

"Well the one thing that you should know about me is. I never run from my enemies!" he shouted.

The sound of two blades clashed together. Vanish and Clayton glared at each other, smiling darkly.

THE HIGHWAY

"Wow! This is so fun!" Pinkie Pie said.

She was bouncing in her seat, in her pony form. Jack looked at her.

"Yes Pinkie it is, but remember that were here to find Clayton." he said to her as she bounced into his lap.

"Okie Dokie" she said.

Pinkie hugged him and she started to move her hoofs on his chest a bit. Jack blushed at what she was doing and glanced down at her and up at the road. This was really not the time while he was driving.

"Uh.. P-Pinkie Pie?" Jack said, "What... Are you doing?"

Pinkie pie still kept moving her hoofs on his chest and moved one of her hoofs down to his pants. She looked down at his pants and poked at his groin with her hoof. Jack started to blush even more as he started to let his manhood grow. Pinkie titled her head a bit at this, but remembered Twilight telling her about the human body in a book of myths. She never really paid any real attention to it. She leaned down and used her teeth to open the zipper on jack's pants, while Jack was still driving, he was now bright red as he heard his zipper go down. Jack realized that mating season was starting for Pinkie.

"Pinkie, I really don't think that it's a good idea for you to be in the mood while I'm dri-" he stopped his sentence.

He felt Pinkie's mouth over his cock; she started to bob her head up and down as Jack was moaning a bit.

"Pinkie...." he said as he saw the others get off on exit 99.

He followed them as he was gritting his teeth trying not to pull over and let his lust take over. He glanced at Pinkie who was still sucking him off, he leaned back a bit in the drivers seat. 'Oh man. I really hope that we find Clayton soon." he thought.

THE FOREST

Clayton and Vanish were still clashing their swords at each other, gritting there teeth in the process. Vanish slashed at Clayton's chest making a large scar, but he ignored the wound as he slashed Vanish's arm, ripping off a piece of his skin. Vanish growled at him as he kept clashing with Clayton making his swings harder as hit as his Katana with his machete. 'This is not possible! It's been over 3 hours and I still haven't killed him yet. Is he really that strong?' he thought.

Vanish was caught off guard for a minute Clayton took that as his opportunity to attack him. He slashed upward at him making a large gash onto his leg. Vanish groaned in pain as he knelt down. He looked up at Clayton; he saw a small smile on his face.

"Never underestimate your enemies. No matter what they look like." he said.

Vanish only chuckled at this, "True, your right about that, but you just got lucky this one time."

"Oh? Really now?"

"Yeah, really."

Clayton held his bloody Katana to his side, "Then consider this as me being lucky Vanish."

He swung his Katana at the side of his face, cutting his left cheek open. Vanish fell to the ground writhing in pain as Clayton put his Katana back into it's sheath on his back.

Vanish looked at him glaring, "Ah! You brat! I will get you for that!"

Clayton picked up his machete and turned to Vanish who was still on the ground holding his cheek. His eyes started to widen as Clayton raised up his left arm. Vanish closed his eyes waiting for his death and heard the blade come down. He didn't fell any impact on his body and he slowly opened his eyes. He saw that his machete was stuck into the ground next to his side.

He looked at his blade and looked up at Clayton who had his back turned with his arms crossed.

"Why.... Why didn't you finish me off?" he asked him.

Clayton turned to him with his arms still crossed, "Why? I don't know, maybe because I know that you can do better."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that I know that you can do better the next time we meet."

Vanish snickered at his words, "The next time that we meet you'll be dead."

Clayton only smiled, "That is something that I will be looking forward to that day with you."

Vanish got to his feet, "Well it doesn't matter really. We are already going after the one thing that you all left behind."

Clayton tilted his head at him, "What are you getting at!"

"You will see soon enough."

Before he could respond to his comment; they both heard the sound of cars pulling up. Clayton turned to see his friends get out of there car doors and run to him, Rainbow Dash flew straight at him knocking him down as she hugged and kissed him.

"Clayton! Oh I'm so happy your alright!" she said as she kissed his cheek.

His friends all stood near him as he got up holding his favorite cyan pony. As he turned to face to Vanish, but he was gone.

"What the? Where is he?"

Rarity looked at him puzzled "Where is who darling?"

He turned to her, "Vanish. He was right there a minute a ago."

Applejack stepped forward, "Ah think you were probably just imagining things."

Fluttershy gasped at him as she covered her mouth.

"Clayton... What happened to you?" she asked pointing at his shirt with the huge scar.

Everyone looked at him and gasped. Rainbow looked at his chest as her eyes started to widen in horror, she looked up at him.

"What happened? Are you hurt? Who did this to you?" she asked as she held her hoofs around him tightly crying into his chest.

Clayton petted her head, "It's alright Dashie, I'm fine. It's just a.... Well a big scratch that's all, but don't worry I'm fine. I'm not going anywhere."

Rainbow wipes her tears away and looks up at him, "You promise?"

"I promise."

She leaned up and kissed him deeply, as her hoofs wrapped around his neck. Everyone sighed happily at the two embracing. They stopped kissing as they both looked into each others eyes. Max cleared his throat as he spoke.

"Well now that were all together now. How about we go home. Come on guys let's get going." The brony family nodded in agreement.

Clayton walked over to his chopper and got on it, as he started it up he felt rainbow dash's hoofs around his waist.

She leaned up and whispered to him, "When we get home, I need your help with something."

She nuzzled her head on his shoulder. Clayton knew what was coming and he just blushed and revved up his motorcycle driving home.

GOVERNMENT HQ- BASEMENT

Back in the underground basement, Night Shadow was watching the main twelve all go to there homes. He looked over to his left and saw Vanish walk into the dim light in his Alicorn form with a large scar on his left cheek.

Black haze saw his large wound and laughed at him, "Ha! How sad! The mighty vanish has been wounded by a human!

Vanish was enraged, "He got lucky! I swear the next time that he and I meet he won't be so lucky!"

Night shadow then sighed and raised his hoof, "SILENCE VANISH!!!"

That was Night's Royal Canterlot voice, Vanish backed away in fear, he hadn't heard him use it in years. Night Shadow lowered his hoof.

"It seems that the human that you fought with is going to be a real problem. It seems that we can't wait for Discord to make his move with Lucy. So I vote that we switch to plan B instead." he said.

Black Haze looked at him, "That would be?"

Night Shadow grinned, "To capture princess Luna!"